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Bison farms stand to be counted Canada’s bison producers are taking a snapshot of their industry with a recently released census BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

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Manitoba putting points system out to pasture Producers will have to bid for forage and grazing Crown lands as of next fall rather than the current points-based system

he Canadian Bison Association is counting heads for the first time in five years. The group has released its 2018 bison census survey, available until Jan. 15. Terry Kremeniuk, Canadian Bison Association executive director, says the census will provide much-needed information on herd distribution, animal numbers, age groups, gender and size of the breeding herd. Results will help direct association policy and programming. “We want a little better understanding of what the makeup of the bison (herd) is, because then it can assist us in planning growth in the industry,” he said. “If we see more heifers coming on board, that demonstrates growth in the herd and that is a good thing for the supply side of the bison business.” The census has been an every-five-years tradition since 1996. Results will update herd numbers, bull totals and numSee grading system on page 6 »

Manitoba’s new Crown land leasing system for grazing is getting a cautious endorsement from the province’s beef industry.

Industry support BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

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anitobans will have to jump through different hoops to access Crown lands for haying or grazing this year. The province announced an end to the old points-based system in December, to be replaced by a tendering system similar to how cropped Crown lands were already leased. Changes will be in place for the next round of Crown land leases. The new regulation came into force Jan. 1, although Manitoba Agriculture says it is still consulting stakeholders on what policies will be needed to support the new framework. The province plans to have everything in place when the next list of available Crown lands is released in fall 2018.

Ma n i t o b a B e e f Pr o d u c e r s, p r o ducer voice for one of the industries expected to feel the most impact, generally welcomed the change. The province has promised a more open system under tendering, something MBP president Ben Fox says will solve a standing concern for farmers. “The biggest cause of frustration right now is the points system and, basically, the overall inability to really see how lands are allocated,” Fox said. “As far as MBP’s concerned, having an increased transparency in that process is a big win.” Under the points system, producers were given credit for forage and land management, herd size, non-farm income, age, first-time applicants, proximity and distance to the Crown lands applied for. Applicants with

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the highest points were awarded the lease. According to the Crown Lands and Property Agency, however, those points might be ignored if the highestpoints applicant was not “the logical user.” Under cropping leases, the system that forage and pasture Crown lands will now mirror, the names of all bidders and their tenders can be reviewed. But while Manitoba Beef Producers has lauded the change, producers themselves are still waiting to gauge the final impact. “Nobody seems to know what is actually going to happen yet,” Kim Crandall, a beef producer from Winnipegosis and former MBP director, said. See grazing Crown land on page 6 »

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INSIDE

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LIVESTOCK Cervid surprise

No rest for weary canola plants

The game ranching industry is unhappy with CFIA

You’re not the only one who can’t get any ‘sleep’ during those sweltering summer nights

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CROPS Better than best

Canada can’t rest on its grain quality laurels

CROSSROADS Luring fishers Roblin aims to build its winter fishing reputation

FEATURE Stand by your ban Arkansas board says application limits warranted

urns out your canola plants just need to get a little rest. When high temperatures, especially at night, prevent them from “sleeping” properly productivity takes a hit, and now researchers from Kansas State University are trying to figure out why. What exactly is the plant doing at night? It’s not sleeping like humans do, but it is carrying out important processes. During the night, the plant performs maintenance at the cellular level, allowing it to grow new cells and repair damaged ones. In the case of canola, it must also flower, produce pollen, be pollinated, generate a pod, and fill it with seeds. All of these impor tant steps are limited when the temperature increases, including during nighttime. “High night temperature s t re s s c h a n g e s d i f f e re n t physiological processes that ultimately lead to decreased s e e d - s e t , g ra i n n u m b e r, grain filling duration, grain filling rate, and final grain

Comparing canola flowers opening under control and high nighttime temperature allows researchers to understand the different impacts of stress on yield. PHOTO: MEGHNATH POKHAREL

w e i g h t i n c a n o l a ,” s a i d Meghnath Pokharel, a doctoral student in agronomy. In their research, the scientists studied many different aspects of canola. For example, they looked at what time of day the plants flower under normal conditions compared to high nighttime temperatures and quality of seed produced. “The temperatures caused the flowering to shift to earlier hours of the morning,”

Pokharel said. “The timing of flower opening is important for the plant, as it determines aspects related to fertilization and ultimately seed-set.” The researchers say the higher nighttime temperatures will have a long-term impact due to global climate change. Ultimately they hope to explore how to breed canola that isn’t as severely affected.

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Mentorship program sought: DFM Direct Farm Manitoba will explore developing a program to transfer knowledge in 2018 BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff

irect Farm Manitoba will look at developing a mentoring program for its membership this year. The need for a formal program that links new and existing farmers was raised when members met before Christmas to discuss priorities needs and direction for the organization in 2018. T h e y ’v e a s k e d t h e D F M board to place organizing a formal program high on its to-do list for 2018, said DFM spokesman Phil Veldhuis. Informal mentoring is already happening to a certain extent but not all members have access to those opportunities and their members say they also want more than informal arrangements. “We need to take that informal success and make it more accessible to people,” said Veldhuis. “Clearly it isn’t something that everyone is benefiting from.” DFM’s membership, which hovers around 150 at this time, is looking for places to learn more about all aspects of running farm businesses from production to marketing, he said. “Few people have all those abilities and skills right from the start,” he said.

MacAulay takes case for NAFTA to U.S. farmers He’s the first Canadian minister to speak to the nearly 100-year-old organization BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

Starting such a program could be a significant undertaking, he added. Until members raised the need this wasn’t something the board had spent much time thinking about so this may take some time and effort. They’ll look at what else is already offered in Manitoba including the Young Farmer p r o g r a m o f f e re d t h r o u g h Keystone Agricultural producers and a newer program that began last fall in University of Manitoba’s faculty of agricultural and food science department, pairing female students with female professionals. “There’s stuff happening out there. We don’t want to replicate that but to collaborate with what’s already happening.” Another shorter-lived farm mentorship program supported through the Organic Food Council of Manitoba started up in 2009, pairing new entrants with existing farmers for some knowledge and skills transfer. That program also offered a ‘land link’ opportunity where landowners with parcels of land were matched with those looking for some land to get started. There was significant uptake for the opportunities the program supported but it ended in 2012 due to lack of operating funds, carrying on informally after that. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

awrence MacAulay’s speech in support of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was well received by an estimated 5,000 people attending the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee Jan. 7. The bureau, the United States’ largest farm organization, also supports NAFTA. “My message to you this morning is the Government of Canada is committed to working with you to strengthen Canada-U.S. relationship for the good of our people, our businesses and our economy,” said MacAulay, the first Canadian agriculture minister to address the 99-year-old farm organization. “The fact of the matter is we’re friends whether we like it or not. We’ve worked together too long. “No two nations depend on each other more for their prosperity and for their security than Canada and the United States. And today that is even more vital than ever.” M a c Au l a y e m p h a s i z e d NAFTA and trade are important for Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Since NAFTA came into force 23 years ago NAFTA partners’ agricultural trade with each other tripled, while U.S. ag trade to Canada and Mexico quadrupled. “Last year more than $47 billion worth of agricultural products passed over our borders,” he said. “That includes more than $600 million right here in Tennessee.”

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DFM’s Phil Veldhuis says a mentorship program will make mentorship more accessible than informal arrangements. PHOTO: Lorraine Stevenson

MacAulay said the U.S. has an $8-billion goods and services trade surplus with Canada; Canada is the top export market for two-thirds of U.S. states and trade with Canada supports nine million jobs — 170,000 in Tennessee alone. “Any barriers to a huge volume of trade and investment between us, and any attempt to disrupt and dismantle the cross-border supply chain on the continent, would hurt our economies and our livelihoods as citizens,” MacAulay said.

Lawrence MacAulay, the federal agriculture minister, recently spoke to U.S. farm groups in support of NAFTA. PHOTO: USDA

“You know as well that neither of our countries can afford to bring about policy changes that roll back about a quartercentury of predictability, openness and collaboration in North America.” MacAulay’s speech wasn’t all facts and figures. He employed some ‘down east’ charm delivered in a warm Prince Edward Island lilt that garnered laughter and applause. “I think you are fortunate to have Sonny Purdue as your secretary of agriculture in Washington,” MacAulay said. “And he’s a good friend of mine. And he’s a farmer and I am. And he knows what we think.” Earlier MacAulay spoke about their first meeting after he heard Purdue wanted to meet. “I can tell you if the secretary of agriculture for the United States of America wants to see me he’s going to see me,” MacAulay said. “That’s the way this works.” Noting trade was a two-way street, MacAulay said Canada has exported “pretty important stuff” to Nashville “like Shania Twain.” And with the Nashville Predators looking like they could be in the Stanley Cup playoffs thanks to former Montreal Canadiens player P.K. Subban, MacAulay said: “I can tell you I want the Predators to help me on any trade deal...”

Supply management supported Later at a news conference in Nashville MacAulay said Canada will not forsake Canada’s supply-managed dairy sector, noting all coun-

tries have sensitive areas, especially in agriculture, including the U.S., which protects sugar production. Former Canadian agricultural trade negotiator Mike Gifford, noting Canadian dairy production is rising, has suggested a Canadian compromise would be to allow more American milk to enter Canada by increasing tariff-rate quotas. When asked about the idea by Canadian reporters Jan. 8 MacAulay said: “It has been made very clear to myself and our government that we are going to fully support the supply management system because it has been, without a question, a model for the world. “We see absolutely no reason to change our system. All counties have certain things that they wish to protect. “The fact is, why would you dismantle a system that is so efficient?” he said in response to another reporter’s question. U.S. President Donald Trump, who is skeptical about trade deals and who has threatened to tear up NAFTA, was scheduled to speak to the farm bureau Jan. 8. MacAulay said that was an important move because the president will be in the same room as several thousand NAFTA supporters. “Farmers are business people,” he said. “They fully understand what this has done for them over the last 23 years and they do not want anybody to do something in order to cripple that movement because it affects the GDP in whatever country you’re in.” MacAulay also told reporters in Nashville, Canada continues to negotiate on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. “We are a trading nation and we intend to proceed in seeking trade with any country around the world in an appropriate fashion,” he said. “That’s simply where TPP is.” Some issues are unresolved, “... but are we going ahead? Yes.” Asked by a Canadian reporter if Canada will sign on to TPP MacAulay said: “Any deal we make has to be a good deal for Canadians. It has to be a good deal for everybody and I think the NAFTA deal is a model for that.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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OPINION/EDITORIAL

Future farms

hat will the farm of tomorrow look like? There’s certainly no end of opinions on offer when that question gets asked. Will the average Prairie farm become a massive undertaking, measured in tens of thousands of acres, wired in every corner to harness the power of big data? That’s certainly one possibility, and if hisGord Gilmour tory is any guide, many contend, it’s the Editor likely outcome. After all, farms have been getting bigger since the land was first broken, a trend that really picked up speed with the postwar era of mechanization, fertilization and chemistry. In that world, which has been the dominant paradigm for North American agriculture for decades, bigger really has been better. It allows spreading fixed costs over more acres, lowering the overall cost structure and partially dodging the perennial challenge of finding enough labour by increasing equipment size. Others contend there may be a better way, and just recently there’s been an inkling of what those future farms may look like. First, there’s been the runaway success of the organic sector, and other similar sustainability-branded efforts, which reveals a substantial public appetite for something different when it comes to food. You don’t have to agree with the folks making these purchase decisions, but it would be a mistake to not at least try to understand them. After all, they’re pretty interesting creatures, no matter how you slice it. In a cheap-as-possible, lowest-common-denominator era, they’ve proven willing to open their wallets and pay more for a product that is, based on most analysis, near identical in functionality. Secondly, there are the farmers who are trying something a bit different. This group includes, but is in no way limited to, organic producers. A helpful way to characterize them might be the farmers looking for a better way of growing crops that’s less on a wartime footing, mobilized against Mother Nature. Examples of this include farmers sowing cover crops, intercropping and incorporating livestock into grain operations. In the case of the latter, that doesn’t necessarily mean a return to the classic mixed farm, but may take the form of an operational arrangement with a nearby livestock producer. Proponents of these strategies say they’re able to increase diversity, thus lowering their susceptibility to diseases and pests. In the case of intercropping, they say they’re able to harvest other benefits by also making better ‘spatial’ use of the land by planting crops that benefit each other, increasing yields and lowering costs. Another interesting wrinkle is the explosion of high technology that’s starting to sweep across the agriculture sector. As one article in this issue notes, it’s now possible to plant, tend and harvest a crop without a single human foot setting in the field, as proven by researchers in the U.K. The story does go on to note the experiment was exactly that — an experiment to see if it was possible. Farm-scale applications of this sort of approach are probably a few years away, but it’s on the horizon. Closer to home SeedMaster inventor and entrepreneur Norbert Beaujot is touting his DOT system that does away with the tractor — and tractor operator — in a similar manner. Both of these approaches share one common facet — they’re centred around smaller, lighter, more energy-efficient machinery. They’re the most radical departure in how to grow crops since horse teams were retired for tractors and raise the question whether, eventually, the big tractors we’re all so used to will be just as rare. When it comes to agriculture innovation, it can be tough to pick winners and losers. Something that initially seems promising may not pan out over time, in real-world conditions. One good example of this is winter-sown canola on the Prairies. A few years ago everyone was pretty excited about it and a few early trials were promising. Over time however, our harsh winters proved too much to reliably overwinter the plants, and it’s all but forgotten now. This means anyone who claims, with any degree of certainty, that they know what the future farm will look like is likely blindly optimistic in their ability to predict. Designing a new and better production system will take a lot of time and effort, and no single individual or organization is going to make it happen. Instead, it’s going to be a process of building on the work of others. It’s going to involve many parties, public and private. In the end, it’s probably going to look a lot like the early years of zero till where government and university researchers and extension personnel, farmers and farm equipment developers all played a role. One can only hope Manitoba again is front and centre in this evolution, as it was with zero till. That would truly be a made-in-Manitoba solution we could all be proud of. gord.gilmour@fbcpublishing.com

The anti-science of ‘sound science’ By Alan Guebert Farm & Food

or more than 20 years, farm and ranch groups, Congress, and Big Agbiz have used the phrase “sound science” like a sharp shovel to bury or undermine agricultural policy. Ask them to define “sound science,” however, and you’ll get no clear explanation. That’s because “sound science” is a political weapon, not a branch of knowledge. As such, sound science really is science that sounds good to them. This savoury device has an unsavoury history, writes Christie Aschwanden, the lead science writer for the website FiveThirtyEight. “The phrase was adopted by the tobacco industry in the 1990s to counteract mounting evidence linking second-hand smoke to cancer,” she reports. The strategy, Aschwanden explains in her Dec. 6 post, arose after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed the link in a 1992 report. Phillip Morris, a big player in Big Tobacco, responded with an initiative it called “sound science,” a program meant to “discredit the EPA report,” she writes. The linchpin, Aschwanden continues, was that the “sound science tactic exploits a fundamental feature of the scientific process: Science does not produce absolute certainty.” In fact, it can’t because science is a “process” that “can rarely answer more than one question at a time, and each new study usually raises a bunch of new questions in the process of answering old ones.” That basic truth of good science — that “every answer is provisional and subject to change in the face of new evidence,” one scientist tells Aschwanden — became the “tobacco industry’s brilliant tactic... to turn this baked-in uncertainty against the scientific enterprise itself.” Brilliant, indeed, because “while insisting that they merely wanted to ensure that public policy was based on sound science, tobacco companies defined the term in a way that ensured that no science could ever be sound enough.”

OUR HISTORY: The front page of our January 18, 1962 issue reported on an address to the Dairy Farmers of Canada convention by University of Manitoba head of dairy science Jack Nesbitt, who said there was room for only 86,000 profitable dairy farms in Canada and that some producers should be encouraged to leave the business. The Canadian Dairy Information Centre reports that in 2017, there were 10,951 farms shipping milk in Canada. Also in that issue was news of the death of J.G. (Jimmy) Gardner, who had been federal agriculture minister for 22 years, initially in 1935 at the height of the Great Depression. He had previously served two terms as Saskatchewan premier. Gardiner developed conservation projects under the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act, introduced the Prairie Farm Assistance Act to provide funds in

Or put more succinctly, “Doubt is our product,” wrote one Big Tobacco executive way back in 1969. That clever move — creating doubt because the “impossible standard” of certain science is unattainable — is a political tactic that Stanford University historian Robert Proctor calls, interestingly, “agnogenesis,” reports Aschwanden, or “the intentional manufacture of ignorance... deliberately created by agents who don’t want you to know.” The goal, as one “merchant of doubt” tells FiveThirtyEight, is elegantly cynical: “We’re the negative force. We’re just trying to stop stuff.” That confession reveals an even more basic truth about the public fight between “open science” and “sound science.” “These controversies are really about values, not scientific facts,” writes Aschwanden, “and acknowledging that would allow us to have more truthful and public debates.” But don’t hold your breath for such debates any time soon because the lawmakers are busy taking sound science to never-explored heights. For example, on March 29, 2017 the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed what it calls the HONEST Act. A more honest name for it would be the Dishonest Act because it institutionalizes Big Tobacco’s ignorance-inspiring, doubt-producing sound science standard as the law of the land. More specifically, the central part of the bill prevents EPA from developing rules, wrote Ed Yong for The Atlantic, unless all the information it used to write any rule was “publicly available online in a manner that is sufficient for independent analysis...” That’s a standard that Congress, your seed company, machinery company or farm group has never and will never meet. And that’s the point. The Farm and Food File is published weekly through the U.S. and Canada. www.farmandfoodfile.com.

January 1962

the event of crop failure, and was responsible for arrangements to supply Britain during the Second World War. Following what had been the driest year on record in 1961, there were shortages of seed grain and Manitoba Agriculture Minister George Hutton said that a drought committee was studying ways to obtain supplies, including freight subsidies from Alberta. Federal Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton announced that in the “spirit of Commonwealth co-operation,” New Zealand had agreed to limit shipments of lamb during the Canadian marketing season. Another story said that a British farmer had developed a new cattle breed called Beevbilde, a hybrid of Lincoln Red, Shorthorn and Aberdeen Angus. He said it would be “one of

the biggest things of the century in cattle breeding.” An internet search reveals no record of the animals.

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COMMENT/FEEDBACK

OmniTrax not only ones that derailed Churchill There’s plenty of other culprits in this sad story BY IAN ROBSON National Farmers Union

or over 100 years, the Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay was the gateway to northern Manitoba and communities in Nunavut. Served by 820 kilometres of railway line from The Pas, it shipped western grain to European markets until the port was stranded, then closed, and the hundreds of remote northern communities along the railway line were left isolated as the port and railway’s private owner, OmniTrax, failed to repair the tracks after flooding in early 2016. Despite the strategic import a n c e o f C h u rc h i l l , No r t h America’s only Arctic deepwater port, the rail line from The Pas was never easy to operate. However, the severe problems of today are predictable results s t e m m i n g f ro m t w o c a t a strophic blunders made by the Canadian government. While opinions vary on railway privatization, it is unforgivable that Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s government allowed CN, a Class

I railway, to sell the Churchill line to OmniTrax in 1997 without requiring the new owner to uphold the statutory common carrier obligation to move duly loaded cars to their destination in a timely fashion. At the same time, the federal government upgraded Churchill’s port facilities, and then gave them to OmniTrax. The second catastrophic blow to Churchill occurred w h e n Co n s e r v a t i v e Pr i m e Minister Stephen Harper dismantled the farmer-elected b o a rd o f Ca n a d i a n W h e a t Board (CWB) in 2011, ended its single-desk selling authority and later gave its assets to G3, a partnership of U.S.based Bunge and the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company. Under the CWB’s single-desk selling and aggregation advantage, all four western ports — Churchill, Vancouver, Prince Rupert and Thunder Bay — were utilized strategically. Grain grown in the Hudson Bay route catchment was predominantly marketed at vessel volumes through the Port of Churchill by the CWB. This lowered handling and trans-

portation costs to farmers and in years of bumper crops it alleviated congestion to the West Coast. Anticipating Churchill would be in trouble without the CWB’s orderly marketing powers, the Harper government threw private grain companies up to $25 million with a fiveyear, $9.20-per-tonne freight subsidy to help OmniTrax and camouflage the fallout from destroying the CWB. It isn’t surprising that once the subsidy ended, the grain companies quit using Churchill, as private companies cannot be expected to act beyond their own self-interest. The single-desk CWB served f a r m e r s w i t h t r a n s p a re n t higher net prices and lower transportation costs. At the same time, the CWB served all of Canada by strategically utilizing our geographical resources, which was possible as a result of being the marketing agency for the whole western wheat crop and having strong relationships with international buyers. The dominoes have fallen: the tracks need two decades’ worth of proper maintenance,

far mers are paying higher freight rates, other routes are more congested, there are more greenhouse gas emissions, Churchill is suffering economic losses, and northern communities are cut off from essential services. Dominoes will continue to fall as private grain companies avoid Thunder Bay, the next most expensive shipping route, further congesting the overutilized West Coast corridor. One can only guess at the nightmare scenario if an earthquake hits Vancouver. Canada has lost a third of its railway track miles in the last three decades. Abandonment has definitely increased profitability for CN and CP, but their gains should not be seen as an increase in overall efficiency of the transportation system. Farmers pick up the cost of trucking farther to main line terminals, with triple the greenhouse gas emissions per mile compared with rail transport. In the 1880s, the public gave pr ivate railway companies millions of acres of land — including the mineral rights — in return for agreeing

to move freight at regulated rates. CN and CP have become very profitable businesses as a result. Thus abandonment of railway lines cannot be simply a rail company’s decision without the public being compensated somehow. Governments have been far too lax in upholding the public interest in this matter. It is time they sharpened the pencil. As for Churchill, the solution lies not in suing OmniTrax for its very predictable failures, but in working with northern Manitoba First Nations and nationalizing both the line and the port facilities to restore the Port of Churchill as an essential fourth western grain-shipping route. Climate change will likely make it an even more strategic and commercially attractive port and, an active port will revitalize the town as a base for government services to support new tasks that will be needed in the North. Ian Robson farms grain and cattle with his family at Deleau, Manitoba. He is on the National Farmers Union board of directors.

Loblaw, Weston bake the numbers, burn consumers

As shocking as it was, most of us will eventually forget Loblaw’s admission of price-fixing. Let’s hope the industry doesn’t BY SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS Dalhousie University

ost Canadians were stunned and dismayed to learn that the country’s leading grocer was caught up in a price-fixing scheme with bread maker George Weston Ltd., which is owned by the same company. The scheme lasted from 2001 to 2015. As a result, Loblaw Companies fired several people and gave $25 gift certificates to millions of Canadians who may have been affected. Then Loblaw applied for immunity from Competition Bureau prosecution. That’s a precious gift for a company for whom image and brand — think the trusted President’s Choice products — is everything. Any supply chain-related issue is complicated. But in layman’s terms, what happened between Loblaw and Weston was inexcusable. For 14 years, Weston’s bakery products pricing gave Loblaw an unfair advantage, while disadvantaging other food retailers. The strategy was not so much about getting more money out of consumers — at least not recently — as about managing margins. Bread is often a loss leader, an item sold at a loss to increase

traffic in a store. In fact, according to Statistics Canada, a standard loaf of bread is cheaper today than it was in 2013. A decade ago, the price of some bakery items doubled in just a few months. In 2007 and 2008, commodity prices were driven up by the growth in ethanol production. The price of a bushel of wheat reached unprecedented levels. Higher input costs were blamed for the enormous price hikes. Many countries were affected. But the market cooled and bread prices remained high. Loblaw did the right thing by coming forward but questions have cropped up as details emerged. For 14 long years, two of the largest players in the business altered market conditions, just because they could. Many wonder why it took so long for the company to realize it had a problem. In the grocery industry, a week is an eternity, let alone 14 years. Most food businesses are a recall away from closing. Quality assurance and ethics are central to most businesses, including Loblaw. So it’s difficult for Canadians to believe the company had only just become aware of the issue. The case for plausible deniability at Loblaw is weak at best.

It’s likely that over several years, more than just a few employees were a part of this. Numerous employees have come and gone, moving on to other positions, probably in the food industry. So there’s a possibility that the culture of collusion and price-fixing may have spread. The movement of human capital, over time, may have created an industry-wide problem. That’s scary. So we can conclude that Loblaw’s coming out is just the beginning. The Competition Bureau is also investigating Sobeys, Metro, Walmart, Giant Tiger and even bread producer Canada Bread. It’s quite conceivable that similar schemes could exist in other parts of the gro cery store. This matters to all Canadians. The $25 gift card is just window dressing. What’s at stake is consumer trust and how the industry can maintain its social licence. Without this, growing revenues, supporting communities, innovating, partnerships, loyalty programs all become more challenging. Independent grocers have the most to win out of this mess. They just can’t do what Loblaw and Weston admitted to doing for 14 years. They don’t have the market power.

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B u t i t ’s d o u b t f u l t h a t Canadians have the stamina or the discernment to punish the company by withholding their shopping dollars. Habits are hard to break, especially with food. As surprising as Loblaw’s admission may be, the market is cruelly fickle. Despite breaking the law, most will have forgotten about Loblaw’s mea culpa within weeks — perhaps even days, given the time of year. These cases are inherently complicated. For example, most people have forgotten that Hershey admitted doing the same thing just a few years ago. And for Loblaw, this incident won’t be as damaging as

the Joe Fresh facility disaster in Bangladesh in 2013, when more than 1,100 people were killed. Not even close. Now Canadians have reason to doubt the grocery industry. Nevertheless, the fact that a main food staple like bread was targeted by the bureau gives hope for change. However complicated the situation may be, phrases like ‘price-fixing’ bring some clarity. Canadians understand that’s wrong, plain and simple. Let’s hope the industry understands, too. Sylvain Charlebois is senior fellow with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, dean of the faculty of management and a professor in the faculty of agriculture at Dalhousie University.

The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

FROM PAGE ONE GRADING SYSTEM Continued from page 1

ber of heifers, but will also break down number of breeding cows, breeding bulls, feeder animals and replacement heifers. Questions will also give a snapshot on Canada’s preferred breeds. Ranchers are asked to report how many plains and wood buffalo they own, as well as any genetic crosses. Farm practices also earn a quick mention, with questions on feeder versus finishing farms and whether ranchers plan to expand their operation in upcoming years. Questions also delve into last year’s herd breakdown to measure growth. The Canadian Bison Association has asked producers to report herds as they stood on Jan. 1, 2018.

“We want a little better understanding of what the makeup of the bison (herd) is, because then it can assist us in planning growth in the industry.” Terry Kremeniuk Canadian Bison Association executive director

Canada’s bison industry is in the midst of its quinquennial producer survey. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

Manitoba bison Manitoba Bison Association president Nolan Miller echoed Kremeniuk. Survey results will help predict herd breakdown and determine if there has been growth in the herd, something Miller said is critical to meet current demand. The Canadian Bison Association is working with both its U.S. counterpart and local conservation groups in a bid to grow bison’s share of the meat market and capitalize on interest in sustainably sourced food. First Nations communities have, like-

grazing Crown land Continued from page 1

Trade tie-in The province has tied the overhaul to Manitoba’s obligations under the New West Trade Partnership, a free trade agreement spanning British Columbia through the Prairies. Canadians from other provinces must be eligible to lease Manitoba Crown lands as part of the deal, according to a Manitoba Agriculture spokesperson. “This change has created an opportunity to modernize the existing regulations, creating more clear and consistent requirements for all agricultural Crown lands – haying, grazing, or cropping via lease or permit,” they said. Premier Brian Pallister made the New West Trade Partnership a talking point leading up to his 2016 electoral win. His new majority government checked the trade deal off its list of campaign promises that fall. Manitoba officially signed on to the deal in November 2016, with membership starting Jan. 1, 2017. With all Crown lands administered under the same system, the province has also tied lease changes to red-tape reduction, another main point of their term thus far. The trade deal adds another layer to MBP’s support. The group has been a vocal supporter of Manitoba joining the New West Trade Partnership. “I think any time that we can open up borders, be it internationally or interprovincially, it’s going to be a boon for the industry and being able to trade with our other Prairie provinces is going to help out the ranchers’ bottom line, most definitely,” Fox said.

Addressing criticism Critics have argued that removing the points system also removes needed supports for new producers.

wise, been drawn into the industry in an effort to bolster producer numbers. Miller expects herd numbers will be up across the province once surveys are tallied. The provincial group has noted an influx of producers and slow growth of the herd. “We’re seeing new people starting up in the industry in the last couple of years mainly and some herds, existing herds, are growing,” he said. “I think there would be more herds growing. It’s just that people are kind of landlocked. They don’t have more acres for it.”

The province has generally been responsive to the national bison census in the past, Miller said, adding that he, himself, has already submitted his data. “It might have taken me five to 10 minutes to fill it out,” he said. “We keep it fairly simple to try and encourage people to fill it out.”

Fewer producers Na t i o n a l l y, t h e C a n a d i a n B i s o n Association expects fewer responses than five years ago, largely due to an overall decline in producers.

In December, NDP Leader Wab Kinew said tendering Crown lands might drive up price and put young farmers at a disadvantage. The points system gave more weight to young producers or producers with fewer cattle, Fox said, but added that he sees no problem with opening the process up to tender. Likewise, he dismissed concer ns that a tender ing process might make land prices unaffordable. “I think the best, simplest, most open and transparent system is using the free market system and I think that it’s something that people will be able to recognize and see what land is valued at and hopefully bid accordingly,” he said. Fox p re v i o u s l y t a g g e d affordable land access as a topic MBP hoped to bring up with government. Manitoba Agriculture says new farmers will still enter into the discussion as the system is laid out. “Young farmers are a key component in farm succession and successful industry,” the department said over email. “As part of our discussions with stakeholders, we will be considering what policies might support and encourage young producers to use Manitoba’s agricultural Crown lands.”

Wish list MBP will consult with the province as the new system goes forward, Fox said. The group would like to see informed access added to the list of changes, something Fox says would give producers more biosecurity control. Fox added that he would also like to see more assurances on land use to make sure land slated for livestock remains grazed. astockford@farmmedia.com 57793-1 DAS_SimplicityMatters_Black_EB_13-1667x9_v1.indd 1

Canadian farms in general have become fewer and larger, according to the 2016 federal census of agriculture and Kremeniuk says bison ranches have followed that trend. Between 2011 and 2016, the number of bison farms in Canada dropped from 1,200 to 975, although herd numbers remained largely the same. “The bison industry is certainly not unlike other sectors where there’s been some consolidation and, although the number of producers is smaller, the average (farm) size is larger,” Kremeniuk said. In 2013, between 340-360 farmers filled in and returned surveys. Surveys are available online through the Canadian Bison Association and can be submitted by fax, email or regular mail to the association’s office in Regina. astockford@farmmedia.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

Monastery passes on cheese-making method A Winnipeg couple has been entrusted with a rare Trappist cheese recipe set for extinction BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff/Warren

ustin Peltier and Rachel Isaak had no idea they’d one day carry on a centuries-old cheese-making method when they paid their first visit to the Trappist Monestery at Holland. That was two years ago, when the Winnipeg chefs and life partners went out to meet the monk there making a delicious cheese they’d served to clientele with their catering company Loaf and Honey. Brother Albéric, 83, is the Trappist monk there who has devoted his life to making the monastery’s famous paleorange washed-rind cheese made with unpasteurized milk. He’s also the last person in North America making it, at least until now. He’d put word out in 2015 that he’d show others how, says the couple. Initially, this was just about lear ning as much as they could about a beautiful cheese they loved, says Isaak. “We’d heard he was teaching people and we just thought it

would be really cool to learn from him,” she said. But it soon became clear Brother Albéric was looking for a successor. No one among the few remaining monks at the monastery were offering to keep making the cheese. Some outside the monastery had also expressed interest but eventually declined. “ We hung out with him awhile and talked and realized if we don’t do this it’s dead,” said Peltier. After some serious soulsearching, they committed. The elderly monk told them he could only teach Peltier directly since monastery rules did not permit Rachel from entering the area where the cheese was made. Peltier was told to instruct her himself. So began their apprenticeship, and a transfer of knowledge beyond the monastery’s walls. It would have been unimaginable in another time.

Long history Monks in Europe have made this cheese for centuries and the Manitoba monks carried on the tradition, as part of the pace of life at Holland, since relocating here in the early 1970s.

Big challenge

Rachel Isaak and Dustin Peltier are taking over production of the traditional Trappist cheese made at the Holland monastery. The couple, who operates a catering company in Winnipeg, now possesses the last four wheels of cheese to be made there. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

The method is said to have been a Christmas gift to the Manitoba monks in 1918 when the monastery was still located in St. Norbert at Winnipeg. If all goes as Peltier and Isaak expect, 2018 will see this cheese become a signature product of their own making. They know it’s a monumental undertaking. For starters, it’s no small feat learning a procedure others spent a lifetime

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mastering. Nor is transferring a traditional method and recipe from old to new facilities. Adding to the complexity of it all is that this is cheese made with unpasteurized milk, which poses a higher risk for causing foodborne illness and that has everyone being extra cautious about how it will be done. Provincial food inspectors are working with them as they construct and equip a small-scale specialized cheese plant, which will be located on Peltier’s parents’ r ural property at Woodlands. The couple, in the meantime, is familiarizing with all the regulations they must abide by, including sourcing and transporting unpasteurized milk for the product. A dairy farmer is lined up to supply it but they cannot take delivery of any milk until they’re in approved dairy-processing facilities. In early January the couple was awaiting confir mation from provincial authorities to temporarily use inspected facilities in a community kitchen at Warren to start cheese production.

If it all sounds incredibly daunting, that’s because it is. “It’s a mix. Excited. Nervous. Sometimes over whelmed,” says Isaak of how they’re feeling about what they’ve taken on. “There’s a lot of frustrations and highs and lows,” adds Peltier. “It’s rewarding knowing that Brother Albéric has entrusted us with this and has a lot of faith in us, but there’s a lot of pressure. When we make that first wheel of cheese I think we’ll be able to take a little more of a breath.” Citing privacy reasons, no one from Manitoba Agriculture or the Office of the Chief Veterinarian could speak to what Peltier and Isaak are doing, but Peltier says provincial staff tell them they’re good candidates for this given their extensive understanding of food safety regulation from operating their catering company. Everyone involved knows they have to get this right, he continued. “We’re breaking ground on an industry that isn’t there in Manitoba,” Peltier said. “We’re going to be the example.” The couple hopes to launch their first cheese later this year. They haven’t chosen a name for their own product yet. That won’t be easy either. They aren’t allowed to call it fromage de la frappe. They wanted to name it after Brother Albéric but he’s told them they can’t do that either. “So we’re still kind of narrowing it down,” said Peltier. “We’re trying to find a name that will keep it close to the church and its history and where it came from, but won’t get us in trouble with the Vatican.” lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

WHAT’S UP Please forward your agricultural events to daveb@fbcpublishing.com or call 204-944-5762. Jan. 16-18: Manitoba Ag Days, Keystone Centre, 1175-18th St., Brandon. For more info visit www. AgDays.com. Jan. 24-25: Keystone Agricultural Producers annual general meeting, Delta Winnipeg, 350 St. Mary Ave., Winnipeg. For more info call 204697-1140 or visit kap.mb.ca/meeting. cfm. Jan. 25-26: Manitoba Young Farmers Conference, Delta Winnipeg, 350 St. Mary Ave., Winnipeg. For more info visit www. kap.ca.

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Feb. 22-24: Canadian Aerial Applicators Association conference and trade show, Fairmont Winnipeg, 2 Lombard Place, Winnipeg. For more info call 780-413-0078 or visit www.canadianaerialapplicators. com. Feb. 23-24: Prairie Organics: Think Whole Farm, Keystone Centre, 117518th St., Brandon. For conference and trade show info or to register, visit www.prairieorganics.org or call 204-871-6600. Feb. 27 - March 1: Western Canadian Wheat Growers annual convention, Kimpton Hotel Palomar, 2121 P St. NW, Washington, D.C. For more info visit wheatgrowers.ca/events/ annual-convention. March 2: Farm Credit Canada (FCC) Forum, 12:45-4:30 p.m., Keystone Centre, 1185-18th St., Brandon. For more info visit fcc-fac.ca/en/agknowledge/events/fcc-forum.html. March 21-23: Canadian Cattlemen’s Association annual general meeting, Ottawa Marriott, 100 Kent St., Ottawa. For more info visit www.cat tle.ca or email jenkinsp@cattle.ca.

The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

LIVESTOCK MARKETS (Friday to Thursday) Winnipeg Slaughter Cattle Steers — Heifers — D1, 2 Cows — D3 Cows — Bulls — Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.) — (801-900 lbs.) — (701-800 lbs.) — (601-700 lbs.) — (501-600 lbs.) — (401-500 lbs.) — Heifers (901+ lbs.) — (801-900 lbs.) — (701-800 lbs.) — (601-700 lbs.) — (501-600 lbs.) — (401-500 lbs.) —

Heifers

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

Alberta South 167.25 - 167.25 163.75 - 168.00 — — — $ — — — — — — $ — — — — — — $

(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 (January 5, 2018) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change February 2018 122.25 0.00 April 2018 123.83 1.08 June 2018 114.85 1.02 August 2018 111.73 1.30 October 2018 112.95 1.73 December 2018 115.08 1.45

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

Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

January 5, 2018

Fed cattle markets are expected to show strength Manitoba’s major auction markets closed for the week

Previous Year 37,599 8,993 28,606 NA 515,000

CNSC Ontario — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

Close 149.03 145.55 145.83 145.48 148.48 148.05

Change 3.43 3.33 3.15 3.30 2.40 2.18

Week Ending Dec 30, 2017 690 18,046 8,209 249 353 7,600 203

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Previous Year 700 17,598 10,119 606 415 7,608 234

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

“I wouldn’t suggest a feed shortage per se, but certainly the consumption will be up.”

DAVE SIMS

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending Dec 30, 2017 35,973 8,574 27,399 NA 502,000

$1 Cdn: $0.8062 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.2403 Cdn.

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Cattle Prices

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

EXCHANGES: January 5, 2018

Source: Manitoba Agriculture Current Week 163E 152E 142.26

Last Week 159.65 148.11 144.10

Last Year (Index 100) 151.98 143.73 138.43

144.40

144.81

143.24

t was a slow start to the new year for Manitoba auction marts, as major outlets stayed quiet during the week ended Jan. 5. However, it may have been a good time for participants to stay home, due to the cold weather. Feed usage is likely on the minds of some ranchers, though, as they wonder whether they will need additional supplies to get their animals through the winter if it stays cold. “I wouldn’t suggest a feed shortage per se, but certainly the consumption will be up,” said Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Marketing. Cattle tend to put on fewer pounds during the last few days of finishing when it’s cold, she noted. It’s an issue that may be felt more acutely this year, too, as forage growth was curtailed in certain parts of the Prairies due to the weather. Wasko expects the fed cattle market to show strength in January. “Cattle feeders will be standing their ground pretty stoutly given the cold snap and the slowdown in weight gain on the cattle will slow everything down a wee bit,” she said. Shortly before Christmas, Wasko noticed a $5-$7 jump in most classes, so she’s hoping that will continue. “My guess is, though, as we get into 2018, through the first quarter, we’re going to find marketing not as urgent as we saw in the first quarter of 2017,” she said.

Anne Wasko Gateway Livestock Marketing

Packers are helping keep prices supported though as they scour the market for more inventory. That sector of the cattle industry is definitely showing profitability, which should keep the market elevated, Wasko said. “The packers have definitely been a driver for the fed cattle,” she said. One thing that would bolster the market in 2018, she noted, would be if both the domestic and export markets saw the same level of demand as 2017. At the same time, she said, higher volumes could make that difficult to achieve. “We know there’s going to be more beef around in North America, that’s a given — more cattle going on feed.” In the near term, cattle prices could face pressure this week after a sell-off in the U.S. on Jan. 5. Packers surprised sellers by offering lighter bids for slaughter-ready animals, which put pressure on dressed sales as well. Editor’s Note: Our weekly table of auction market activity will return when sales resume. Dave Sims writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

Futures (January 5, 2018) in U.S. Hogs

February 2018

71.38

Change -0.17

April 2018

76.10

0.40

May 2018

80.13

0.05

June 2018 July 2018

84.98 84.70

0.77 0.70

Other Market Prices

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Sheep and Lambs $/cwt Ewes Lambs

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

Thomson Reuters Foundation 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 157.05 - 187.46 198.63 - 226.74 224.71 - 245.99 260.32 - 304.90 150.00 - 374.85 —

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

Vampire bats that swoop down after dark to bite cattle in the Peruvian Andes are helping trap farmers in poverty by infecting their animals with fatal rabies. Comprehensive vaccinations of livestock would stop animal deaths hitting farmers as rabies spreads into new areas, said Julio Benavides, a researcher at Scotland’s University of Glasgow. “Livestock are considered like bank accounts. So losing even one animal keeps (farmers) under the poverty line,” said Benavides, who led

a study into the effects of the disease. Dog rabies has almost been eliminated in most countries, but vampire bat rabies is an emerging problem, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Some farmers in southern Peru are reportedly abandoning livestock farming due to deaths of their animals from the infectious disease, he said by phone from Santiago, Chile. In a paper published recently in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Benavides and other researchers charted livestock deaths from vampire bat rabies in farming communities in Peru’s Cusco, Apurimac and Ayacucho regions where it is prevalent.

About 70 per cent of farmers reported nightly attacks that left their cows bleeding, also raising the risk of other infections, weight loss and lower milk production. Rabies cases were underreported, the research showed. More than 700 cows died from rabies in 2014, costing farmers a total of about $170,000. Each cow lost was roughly equal to a farmer’s monthly income. Healthy animals have a price tag of about $240, and are often sold to pay for school and other household expenses, the study noted. At about $12 for an average herd of 10 cows, an annual rabies vaccine is unaffordable for some poor farmers, said Benavides.

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Winnipeg ( Hd Fats) — — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 145.27 - 354.70 — 125.07 - 263.82

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

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Toronto ($/cwt) — 57.50 - 57.50

There will be no market reports from livestock auctions this week. They will return next issue.

The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

GRAIN MARKETS column

Manitoba Elevator Prices Average quotes as of January 5, 2018 ($/tonne)

Canola futures improve despite bearish outlook Very early forecasts point to another big canola crop Phil Franz-Warkentin CNSC

CE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the first trading week of 2018, as speculators covered short positions and the market saw a modest recovery off late-December lows. Bitterly cold temperatures across much of Western Canada and the resulting slowdown in country movement were also supportive, although the latest grain-handling numbers still show ample supplies in the commercial pipeline. The general outlook remains relatively bearish for canola, despite the early-2018 pop higher, with the narrowing old/new-crop spread worth keeping an eye on. As recently as November 2017, the July 2018 canola contract routinely traded at a premium of $30 to the November 2018 contract. That was before Statistics Canada raised its production estimates and concerns over tight supplies by next summer started to fade. The old/new-crop spread hit a session low of $2.50 over at one point during the week, but eventually settled with the July contract trading at a premium of $7.90 per tonne to new-crop November. In addition to expectations that canola supplies wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be that tight by the end of the crop year, the narrowing old/new-crop spread also ties into ideas that farmers will likely seed a big canola crop again this spring. While prices

Future

Basis

Cash

E. Manitoba wheat

230.29

17.03

247.32

W. Manitoba wheat

230.29

0.72

231.01

E. Manitoba canola

498.20

-16.01

482.20

W. Manitoba canola

498.20

-25.22

472.98 Source: pdqinfo.ca

may not be that great, the alternatives are worse in many cases and early forecasts suggest another large canola crop in 2018. All that should keep canola under pressure in the near term, barring activity in outside markets. Movement in the Canadian dollar could be another bearish influence, if the first trading week of 2018 is any indication. The currency climbed well above the 80 U.S. cents mark on some favourable jobs data, and could be due for some more strength if improving economic indicators also result in an increase in interest rates from the Bank of Canada. In Chicago, excitement these days is all weather related. Argentina is either too dry or seeing just enough water, depending on the day and the forecast. South American soybeans are still being planted in some areas, and day-to-day shifting weather outlooks which sway the futures could lead to longerterm trends once the outlook from the continent gets a bit clearer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture releases a slew of reports on Jan. 12, including quarterly stocks, winter wheat acres and updated production estimates, which could provide some nearby direction for grains and oilseeds. Wheat futures were also keeping an eye on weather forecasts, with cold temperatures across the U.S. Plains raising concerns over winterkill. However, world wheat supplies remain large and all three U.S. wheat contracts ran into resistance and drifted lower in the latter half of the week. Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

Port Prices As of Friday, January 5, 2018 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

223.19

n/a

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

n/a

Canola Thunder Bay

508.20

3.20

Canola Vancouver

524.20

4.20

Closing Futures Prices

As of Thursday, January 4, 2018 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

492.10

-2.90

ICE milling wheat

n/a

ICE barley

n/a

ICE canola

Mpls. HRS wheat

230.29

2.48

Chicago SRW wheat

158.27

4.59

Kansas City HRW wheat

160.76

7.35

Corn

138.28

1.48

Oats

161.13

6.32

Soybeans

353.29

2.11

Soymeal

350.33

-2.98

Soyoil

741.98

10.80

Cash Prices Winnipeg As of Friday, January 5, 2018 ($/tonne) Last Week

For three-times-daily market reports and more from Commodity News Service Canada, visit the Markets section at www.manitobacooperator.ca.

Weekly Change

Feed wheat

n/a

Feed barley

169.48

4.13

Rye

n/a

466.51

7.48

n/a

Oats

183.50

-3.24

Soybeans

363.03

15.07

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

17.65

0.00

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

Ask

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Prairie wheat bids follow U.S. futures higher The Canadian dollar rose almost one U.S. cent on the week BY ASHLEY ROBINSON CNS Canada

ard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada rose over the past week, following the lead of U.S. futures markets, despite gains in the Canadian dollar. 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 $231 per tonne in western Manitoba to as high as $252 in parts of Alberta. Quoted basis levels varied from location to location, but fell slightly, to range from about $1 to $22 per

Average (CWRS) prices ranged from about $231 per tonne in western Manitoba to as high as $252 in parts of 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$186 to US$203 per tonne, which were down on a U.S. dollar basis on the week. That would put the currency adjusted

basis levels at about US$27-$44 below the futures. Looking at it the other way around, if Minneapolis futures are converted to Canadian dollars, CWRS basis levels across Western Canada range from $33 to $54 below the futures. Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) wheat bids were up by $3-$4. Prices across the Prairies ranged from $175 per tonne in southwestern Saskatchewan to $195 per tonne in parts of Alberta.

Average durum prices were up 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 in Canada are based, was quoted Jan. 5 at US$6.2675 per bushel, up 12 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$4.375 per bushel on Jan. 5, up 10.25 U.S. cents compared to the previous week. T h e Ma rc h C h i c a g o B o a rd o f Trade soft wheat contract settled at US$4.3075 on Jan. 5, up 3.75 U.S. cents on the week. The Canadian dollar continued its rally, settling Jan. 5 at 80.63 U.S. cents, up by almost a whole cent compared to the previous week.

The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

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Cervid producers call foul on CFIA participation requirement They say a new move to require participation in a ‘voluntary’ program if farmers want support isn’t helpful for areas without CWD BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff

anitoba elk and deer producers are less than impressed with incoming federal rules over chronic wasting disease (CWD). As of April 1, producers who want federal help with CWD are going to have to be part of the CFIA’s Voluntary Herd Certification Program. They’ll only be compensated for destroyed animals if they are registered with the program. The agency says rules need to be tightened after years of effort have failed to eliminate the disease from Alberta and Saskatchewan. The two provinces are the only places in Canada to test positive for the disease and new cases continue to be found in both wild and farmed herds. Four herds tested positive in 2017, all in Saskatchewan. With several cases inching close to the border with Manitoba, this province has been on guard against the CWD for years. Manitoba Sustainable Development has set aside a CWD surveillance zone along the provincial border and parts of western Manitoba. Any deer or elk hunted in this region must be submitted for testing each hunting season and there are limits to transporting harvested game, the use of some hunting aids, and importing cervids to the province.

Volunteer The CFIA’s Dr. Alex McIsaac says disease tracking will happen for every case, regardless of whether the farmer is registered. The agency will not, however, order animals destroyed or pay out the farmer for any loss unless they are part of the Voluntary Herd Certification Program. Response for unregistered farms will depend on the farmer or, in some cases, provincial rules, McIsaac said. Farmers with CWD will still be able to ship animals for slaughter. McIsaac says those positive, unregistered animals are unlikely to spur an outbreak even without CFIA response. “The animals are off the property and they’ll get disposed of properly at slaughter and that’s the end of it,” he said, adding that the CFIA has a protocol for CWD-positive animals to go to slaughter. Producers looking for program details will have to look further than the CFIA’s main CWD website. Standards are published under the Accredited Veterinarian’s Manual, also available online, McIsaac stressed. Producers will need at least five years to rise through the program and become fully certified. Each

Ian Thorleifson’s elk operation will feel the effect when the CFIA tightens chronic wasting disease regulations this year. Photo: Ian Thorleifson

year will come with a new level of certification. New animals or embryos must come from a farm with an equal rating, or the entire farm gets moved down to match the new arrivals. The program covers deadstock testing for all animals older than a year. Animals cannot be tested live for the disease, although both industry and government are working to develop a live test. Manitoba already requires all mature elk and farmed deer to be tested after death. The program, however, will add a mandatory third-party inventory for the first two years, plus every three years afterward. An accredited veterinarian will administer the program, as well as submit a yearly inventory report, including identified animals, which animals entered or left the farm, destinations, certification status of any farm the producer got animals from, deaths and escapes and CWB lab results. “The report must account for every cervid over 12 months of age that has died, and must state that all the records that the owner is required to keep have been examined and found satisfactory,” the CFIA says. Regular herd veterinarians can get accredited through the CFIA district offices, McIsaac said. The veterinarian plays a larger role in the new system and will be needed for more time on farm, something McIsaac admits will raise costs for producers.

“The biggest thing is the biosecurity measures,” McIsaac said. “That is the biggest change in all this.”

Producers displeased The new policy has been met with dismay from Manitoba’s elk industry. Ian Thorleifson, president of the Manitoba Elk Growers Association, says they support a robust monitoring system, but called the CFIA changes, “poorly conceived.” “We consulted with CFIA for many years looking for improvements to the program and were not able to come up with significant improvements beyond what we were doing at the time,” he said. “We had the herd certification program in place. I think that we’re very supportive of the herd certification program, but they have made it extremely difficult, and especially difficult for people who are in areas where CWD has never been diagnosed.” Thorleifson said program requirements make it difficult to get and remain certified. He has also taken exception to the rule that a producer must be part of the program if the CFIA is to intervene or compensate the farmer. The result, he fears, might create a foothold for the disease in provinces like Manitoba, should a farm not be registered, contract CWD and then continue to operate. “You have a farm that is not participating in the herd certification program. Then, it comes

“I think that we’re very supportive of the herd certification program, but they have made it extremely difficult, and especially difficult for people who are in areas where CWD has never been diagnosed.” Ian Thorleifson president of the Manitoba Elk Growers Association

down with a CWD positive for whatever reason, there could be a variety of reasons, and CFIA says, ‘No, (we’re) not going to do anything about it.’ Then you’ve got a naive province with a disease on a farm, no evidence of where it came from and the possibility of it spreading to elsewhere, and we really don’t think that’s good management,” he said.

Too rigid John Eisner of Swan Valley Elk Ranch also argued that producers may lose certification, not due to negligence, but from chance, if an animal is lost. The program exempts producers from submitting heads if an animal is lost to fire, theft, predation where the head is

gone or “any other reason or circumstance over which the owner could not reasonably be expected to have control, resulting in the destruction or disappearance of the body, such as a flood.” Those may not cover all scenarios, Eisner said. He, himself, has had animals go missing without explanation. He has not decided whether to join the certification program. “I really agree with a good solid program and I think Manitoba has it,” he said. The Manitoba Elk Growers Association says April is still too soon for regulations to be put in play. Thorleifson also pointed to research looking for a viable live test. Thorleifson would like to see those tests in place before changes like the ones proposed by the CFIA. “For them to impose those changes and drop CWD management, to a certain extent, into the lap of the province, we think is inappropriate and unfair and, again, poorly considered,” he said. “I think there should have been a lot more discussion between the provinces and various stakeholders with CFIA about these particular changes.” CFIA consulted with stakeholders through 2016. Thorleifson admits that his organization has been in discussion with the CFIA for years, but says they saw little interaction after changes were proposed. alexisstockford@farmmedia.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

Landals named 2017 Carl Block Award recipient The honour is to acknowledge a long career advancing animal health in Canada STAFF

A n A l b e r t a ve t e r i n a rian has been named the recipient of a national award for outstanding contributions to animal health. Dr. Duane Landals, of Onoway, Alta., has been given the 2017 Carl Block Award by the Canadian Animal Health Coalition. The award is in memory of Carl Block, who was chair of the CAHC when he passed away as the result of a small plane crash in May 2002. For more than 37 years Landals has “contr ibuted significantly” to veterinar y medicine, both in Canada and internationally. Hi s l e a d e r s h i p a n d organizational skills saw him serve as Canadian Ve t e r i n a r y M e d i c a l Association president, executive member and council member for Alberta, as well as CVMA’s representative with CAHC for a number of years. He i s c u r re n t l y o n the board of directors of Veter inar ians Without Bo rd e r s, c h a i r m a n o f the Registry of Approved Continuing Education (RACE) Committee of the American Association of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB), a member of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Veterinary Pharmaceutical St e w a rd s h i p Ad v i s o r y Group ( VPSAG) and the National Farmed Animal H e a l t h a n d We l f a r e Council antimicrobial resistance working group and past chair of the Canadian working group on compounding of drugs and the Canadian ad hoc antimicrobial stewardship committee. On the international level he served two terms as vice-president of the World Veterinary Association (2008-14), and the chair of the 29th World Veterinary Association C o n g re s s ( Va n c o u v e r 2008). Within Alberta, he spent over 15 years as the registrar, CEO and treasurer of the Alberta Veterinary Me d i c a l A s s o c i a t i o n , was a board member of the Alberta Farm Animal Care Association for 10 years and chaired t h e A l b e r t a St r a t e g i c Action Committee on A n t i m i c r o b i a l Us e i n Animal Health. Landals was also the owner and operator of two multi-species veterinary practices for 35 years and owned a rural veterinary practice and a beef cattle and horse ranch for 25 years.

New technique can quickly detect impurities in ground beef The system would help fight food fraud and ensure food safety STAFF

f you’re worried about just what your ground meat or sausage may contain, help may be on the way. Researchers at the University of Br itish Columbia have found a better way to identify unwanted animal products in ground beef. Food science students led by professor Xiaonan Lu used a laser-equipped spectrometer and statistical analysis to determine with 99 per cent accuracy whether ground beef samples included other animal parts. They were able to say with 80 per cent accuracy which animal parts were used, and in what concentration. Their new method can accomplish all of this in less than five minutes, which makes it a potentially transformative

food inspection tool for government and industry. “By using this innovative technique, the detection of food fraud can be simpler, faster and easier,” said the study’s lead author Yaxi Hu, a PhD candidate in UBC’s faculty of land and food systems. Food fraud is the intentional misrepresentation of food products for economic gain. When producers hold an excess supply of meat or byproducts for which there is relatively little market demand, the potential exists for unscrupulous operators to try to pass those products off as something else. In the past five years, high-profile scandals in the U.K., Ireland, and Russia have seen lamb, chicken and even rat meat substituted for higher-quality meat products. DNA testing has proven efficient and accurate in identifying

“By using this innovative technique, the detection of food fraud can be simpler, faster and easier.”

Yaxi Hu UBC

foreign species in meat products, but what DNA testing cannot do is identify offal mixed in with meat of the same species. To establish their method, the UBC researchers aimed a spectrometer at meat samples they had prepared by grinding together beef and offal from local supermarkets at various concentrations. Because animal products all have different chemical compositions, their molecules absorb and scatter

energy from the spectrometer’s laser in different ways. The spectrometer captures these signals — or spectra — to produce an “image” of each substance. These spectral images can serve as a library for comparison with other samples. Whether a meat sample is authentic or adulterated with offal can be determined by comparing its spectral image with the pre-established library, to see if there’s a match.

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BeefTalk: Keeping more heifers turned out well Hanging on to your heifers in tough times can help preserve a herd’s genetics and increase management flexibility BY KRIS RINGWALL NDSU beef specialist

ow do you cut cow numbers in half and maintain the same number of cows calving? That seems like a strange question, but the question surfaced as the Dickinson Research Extension Center (DREC) prepped for the current drought on this year’s feed supply. The answer is to develop all the heifers as future brood cows. The answer may seem as strange as the question, but keep in mind one of the focuses of the centre is to maintain calves longer in their life cycle, utilizing lower inputs and more forage. The bottom line: more pounds of beef. T h e c e n t re s u m m e re d 262 mixed-age cows in 2017. Because of the feed situation, the centre cut the cow herd to 143 coming three- and fouryear-old cows this past fall, plus 18 embryo-transfer cows that are treated as a separate herd. As a background note, starting in 2014, the centre began a study to evaluate frame

score and longevity in cattle. The centre kept all the heifers, bred them and placed them in the cow herd. The unexpected result allowed for a more rapid changeover in the cow herd as 117 older cows were sold to spare winter feed. Fortunately, the centre has 86 pregnant heifers from last year’s calf crop, so the current bred female inventory is 229. This is not a traditional approach, but one factor stood out very clearly: The younger cows are lighter and require less feed, and bred heifers have more flexibility to seek outside locations to feed. The bred heifers were transferred from the North Dakota State University Beef Cattle Research Complex in Fargo, where they were developed and bred, to the Central Grasslands Research Extension Center near Streeter for winter feeding. The DREC took advantage of the feed resources in eastern North Dakota and saved hay-shipping costs. Interestingly, cow numbers can vary tremendously within a given time period for a given cattle operation. And, depending on what the makeup of the inventory is, the reduction in

cow numbers will have varying impacts on the cow age distribution. One point that stood out in the centre’s favour was the large inventory of younger, lighter cows. That was a good thing this year. Heifer retention at the centre means keeping all the heifers. The requirements: The heifer had to be alive with no obvious health issues, no heifers born twin to a bull (freemartins), no obvious structural issues and at least 500 pounds at a year of age. Heifers that met these requirements were retained for development. Interestingly, during the past three years, following a lowinput winter backgrounding period, no heifers had health, structural or weight issues, and only an occasional freemartin was put with the steer calves. So essentially, if a heifer was weaned, she was sent to the NDSU Heifer Development Center at NDSU in Fargo. The DREC has sent 303 heifers to the NDSU Heifer Development Center in the past three years. Heifers not adjusting to a confined feeding system were sold as yearlings because the lack of adjustment

capacity was assumed to be an indication of adaptation issues. The remaining heifers were developed and bred with the expectation they would return to the DREC. To date, 229 developed females, or just less than 76 per cent, are pregnant. Of the initial set of 100 heifers born in 2014, 77 coming four-year-old cows, or 77 per cent, remain. Of the second set of 93 heifers born in 2015, 66 coming three-year-old cows, or 71 per cent, remain. Of this year’s 110 heifers born in 2016, 86 coming two-year-old heifers, or 78 per cent, remain. The essence of the project is to follow the cows throughout their lifetime and evaluate the effect of frame size on the lifetime production of the cow and birth weight of her calf. That will be another story at a later date. The point today is simple: If a producer keeps all the heifers and exposes them to the bull, approximately 20 per cent, or one heifer out of five, may not become established as a mature cow in the breeding herd. In this particular study, a cow needs to be open two consecutive years to be culled.

Time will tell. Producers may have a hidden opportunity to consider keeping more heifers and exposing them to the bull. During droughts, preserving a herd’s genetics can be accomplished by keeping more heifers, which also increases flexibility within managerial options. Essentially, finding a location to park bred heifers for the winter months is easier than trying to purchase and transport hay. Like most, we learn as we go, and in preparation for future droughts, producers should start thinking of how to aggressively maintain more heifers and let Mother Nature select out the less adapted heifers. The bottom line is to explore more options on keeping a higher percentage of the annual calf crop as yearlings and taking advantage of the yearlings’ ability to grow. Heifers may be a good option, and keeping a younger cow herd allows a producer to manage the mature weight of the cow herd. Kris Ringwall is a beef cattle extension specialist with North Dakota State University.

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Make sure your calves get off to a proper start Calves need adequate amounts of high-quality colostrum after birth and substitutes are a good option

Beware of the very cheap colostrum supplements, or should I say those touting themselves as a colostrum substitute.

ROY LEWIS DVM Beef 911

here have been many articles written over the years on the value of calves receiving adequate amounts of good-quality colostrum. Also over the years, colostrum substitutes have come into greater and greater usage. Several things have led to this change. Colostrum substitutes have become higher quality and are more convenient than using frozen colostrum. As well, with fewer cows needing help during calving and more producers calving later on grass, heavy producing cows are not around to save colostrum from. (It was always considered best to have colostrum from your own cows, which are on your nutritional and vaccination program.) The colostrum we get from t h e Sa s k a t o o n Co l o s t r u m Company (with such names as Headstart and Calf’s Choice Total) are pasteurized in a spray dry process, mainly to ensure diseases such as Johne’s are not passed on. All batches are also tested in calves as well as in the lab before being released on the market. All the other products sold in Canada are imported from the U.S. These other companies take out some of the fat, as well as some of the antimicrobial and immune factors. There is a big market for these other factors in the human health supplement field. Our local company here in Western Canada does not do that, so all the more reason to shop locally. Heat treatment makes this commercial supplement safer than getting colostrum from, for example, a dairy where you don’t know the health status. There is nothing wrong with getting colostrum from the first milk of a productive cow in your herd and freezing it for another day. Hopefully she doesn’t have Johne’s disease. When you collect the colostrum, do it carefully to prevent any manure contamination. Use it during the current year or hold over until you can secure more the next year if it goes unused. I find with today’s busy farmers and the reasons cited above, colostrum is not as convenient to get anymore. You can easily save lots of time by being able to rehydrate the colostrum replacers quickly in warm water versus thawing out the frozen colostrum carefully. One of the keys to using them involves recognizing how many grams of immunoglobulin are in the product. We have always preached getting at least 100 grams (100 IgG) of immunoglobulin into the calf — ideally four to six hours after birth and, really, the sooner the better. If using a product such as Headstart (60g IgG), it is critical that the calf receive extra colostrum from the cow as this product is designed as an immediate feeding and the calf should still be encouraged to suckle the cow in the first few hours of life. (Calf’s Choice Total provides

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the 100g IgG.) These products may seem expensive but the old adage, you get what you pay for, holds true. The better-quality colostrum supplements — that is, those with higher levels of immunoglobulin — are generally more expensive. Beware of the very cheap colostrum supplements, or should I say those touting themselves as a colostrum substitute. I have often cited the example of colostrix boluses, which were touted as a colostrum source years ago. Each bolus contained 0.3 gram of immunoglobulin, meaning in order to get the full 100 grams the dose would be 300 boluses. Somehow I don’t think that was ever done. Inexpensive colostrum sources may also not absorb as well into the calf as they have a lower percentage IgG compared to the high-quality complete colostrum product. Look at the label first — the only ingredient should be colostrum. Buy the good substitutes and store them well and follow the mixing directions closely. Producers can also think of using colostrum supplements more as partial substitutes. An example of this is twins from an average cow where both calves have sucked somewhat. Splitting a 100-gram package between the two calves ensures they both have had enough colostrum. With calves born to poorer milking heifers, make the decision as to how much supplemental colostrum to give. It never hurts to give colostrum if in any doubt even if they have sucked (such as a weak calf, a wild mother, calf from a hard pull, or a calf whose mother has very big teats). Give the whole package (100 grams of immunoglobulin) to ensure their entire colostrum needs have been met. Colostrum substitutes made from actual colostrum from western Canadian dairy cows seems like a good idea to me. The more local, the better prevention from diseases you are

more likely to have show up in your own calves. At our clinic, we used to acquire frozen colostrum from reputable dairies, which had vaccinated their cows. Now most of these dairies contract to the Saskatoon Colostrum Company because its products offer convenience to the farmer with a product that can be kept at room temperature and can be easily rehydrated and fed when needed.

New research is revealing how taking in colostrum sets the calf up for the long term in terms of how fat is metabolized and how this improves the productivity of the animal. In that critical first few hours of life, colostrum uptake has been proven time and time again to benefit the calf for the rest of its life. Let’s ensure our newborn calves get that vital amount of colostrum in the first four to six hours of life. If there is any doubt on whether

the amount was adequate or the quality high enough, don’t hesitate to give the colostrum replacer. It is an investment worth making and will produce many benefits down the line both for that particular calf and for the herd in general (if for instance a herd outbreak of scours could be avoided). This spring have a supply of colostrum replacer on hand because when you need it, you need it now and I mean right now (within the first four to six hours of life). You should always have some on hand and it is available at most veterinary clinics, feed mills, or farm supply stores. Make sure and clean and disinfect where appropriate the nipple bottles or esophageal feeders between usages. Keep one feeding device exclusively for newborn calves. Have a great calving season everybody. 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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WEATHER VANE “Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.” Mark Twain, 1897

Cold weather moves back in Issued: Monday, January 8, 2018 · Covering: January 13 – January 20, 2018 Daniel Bezte Weather Vane

he weather models have been doing a fairly good job of predicting the big picture, but are struggling a little with the details. We saw this over the weekend as air much warmer than anticipated moved in on Sunday and ended up sticking around for an extra day or two before the arctic air returned. For this forecast period, we will be dealing with a second area of low pressure forecast to track through central and northern regions on Wednesday. Most of the snow from this system should stay to our north, but the northern parts of agricultural Manitoba could see a few centimetres from this system. This low will help to keep southern regions nice and mild with highs expected to be around -4 C on Wednesday before colder temperatures move back in on Thursday. This cold air will be ushered in by an area of arctic high pressure sliding southward behind Wednesday’s low. Expect daytime highs to drop back down to around -20 C with overnight lows in the -26 to -30 C range. We will

see another reinforcing shot of cold air as a second arctic high pushes through over the weekend. A third arctic high is then forecast to drop southeastward early next week, helping to keep temperatures near the low end of the usual temperature range. The one positive is that it doesn’t look like there will be much in the way of winds during this period. This third area of high pressure is expected to move quickly to our southeast by Wednesday of next week. The clockwise circulation around this high will help to boost temperatures a little bit, but it looks like we’ll see one more area of arctic high pressure move in late next week to keep the midJanuary cold snap going. Looking further ahead, there is some indication that the weather pattern will switch to a more westerly to southwesterly flow. This could mean milder temperatures along with better chances for some snow. Usual temperature range for this period: Highs, -23 to -6 C; lows, -34 to -15 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

This map from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine shows global temperature anomalies during the peak of the holiday cold snap across parts of North America. Note that our region was one of the only cold spots on Earth at that time.

A year of heat, hurricanes and wildfires Closer to home, enjoying the outdoors last month was difficult at best BY DANIEL BEZTE Co-operator contributor

t’s time for our annual look back at the top weather stories of 2017, beginning this week with a look at the top global weather stories, then zooming in later on the top Canadian, Prairie and Manitoba weather stories. Before we dive in we’ll need to take a quick look back at December’s weather across southern and central Manitoba. After a very warm start to the month, temperatures took a nose-dive just before Christmas and never really recovered. I won’t call it the worst cold snap we have seen (you just have to think back to the winter of 2013-14), but it certainly was an annoying one. I think the biggest reason this cold snap hit so high on the annoying factor was due to its timing, just over the Christmas holidays when a number of us like to get out and visit or just enjoy the outdoors. Due to the cold temperatures and wind, getting outside and enjoying it for any length of time was nearly impossible. When the numbers were added up, it turned out that the Winnipeg region was the cold spot, with a mean monthly temperature for December of -14.8 C, just over 1.5 C below the long-

After a very warm start to the month, temperatures took a nose-dive just before Christmas and never really recovered.

term average. Dauphin had a mean monthly temperature of -13.4 C, just 0.3 C below average. Brandon was the hot spot, at least compared to average, with a mean monthly temperature of -13.7 C, 0.3 C above its longterm average. Looking at precipitation, our region avoided any major storms during the month of December, which resulted in all three locations reporting wellbelow-average amounts of snow. To summarize, December was cold and dry in the east with near-average temperatures and dry conditions in the western and central regions. Looking back at the forecasts it would appear none successfully predicted the below-average amounts of snow, but the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac, the CFS model, NOAA, the Weather Network and my forecast all called for near- to slightly belowaverage temperatures. Looking ahead to the rest of January, the Canadian Farmers’

Almanac and NOAA call for below-average temperatures in January, so despite the cold start to the month, there is still hope for milder temperatures to move back in (check out the forecast). The only forecaster I found calling for above-average snowfall in January is the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac. The rest call for near- to below-average amounts.

Fastest winds on Earth Now, on to the world’s top weather stories of 2017. No. 1 on the list is actually a series of weather events: the hurricanes that devastated parts of the Caribbean and the southern U.S. from August to October. Near-record-warm sea surface temperatures, combined with favourable upper-level winds, allowed for several intense hurricanes to develop. Hurricane Maria inflicted over US$100 billion in damages across Dominica, the Virgin Islands

and Puerto Rico and it is estimated over 1,000 lives were lost. Hurricane Harvey was the next big one, estimated to be a one-in-2,000-year event, bringing record-smashing rainfall to southern Texas. Lastly, Hurricane Irma had a peak wind speed of nearly 300 km/h — the highest recorded wind speeds on Earth in 2017. Next on the list was the global heat. Despite a La Niña weather pattern, which usually results in cooler global temperatures, the Earth continued to run a temperature in 2017. Final numbers are not all in yet, but it looks like 2017 will be the thirdwarmest year on record. This would have the top four warmest years on record all occurring over the last four years. Despite these numbers, it appears that it still only takes a two-week cold snap over a small portion of the Earth (Eastern Canada and the U.S) to make people argue there is no global warming going on. Tied into the warm global temperatures is the next weather story: global sea ice extent. After a record-breaking start to the year for monthly low levels of Arctic sea ice, the summer melt season turned out to be cool and stormy, resulting in less-thanoptimal melt conditions. This resulted in 2017 coming in as

the eighth-lowest level for Arctic sea ice over the satellite records. Combine this with lower-thanaverage ice thickness and lowerthan-average Antarctic sea ice extent and it adds up to recordor near-record-low global ice volumes. I have room for one more big weather story of 2017 and that would have to be the wildfires caused by warm and dry conditions in several different parts of the world. Here in Canada we saw several large fires this summer across parts of British Columbia. Farther south, after a wet winter, which provided good moisture for rapid growth of vegetation, very dry conditions moved in across much of California creating the perfect conditions for wildfires. From October into December dry weather and high winds resulted in several wildfires that consumed over 5,000 structures and killed at least 44 people. Elsewhere, dry conditions in Portugal and Spain helped to fuel two wildfire outbreaks: one in June where 64 people were killed and one in October when thousands of small fires flared up under strong winds coming out of the Sahara Desert, resulting in 49 reported deaths. Next week we’ll look at some weather events that occurred a little closer to home in 2017.

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recent trade mission to promote Canadian wheat went around the world in 14 days — or at least that’s how it felt to Greg Porozni. “We had a very successful mission,” the Mundare, Alta. farmer said of his travels to Indonesia, Dubai, Nigeria, and Ghana last month. “These are growth markets, and that’s a really good-news story for Canadian wheat producers.” Porozni joined a cohort of farmers and reps from Cereals Canada, Cigi (Canadian International Grains Institute), and the Canadian Grain Commission on the two-week trip to these markets. And in those regions, sustainability was “the big theme — clean air, clean water, clean land.” “In Canada, we have all that, but when you land in these cities and see nothing but smog and polluted rivers and people everywhere, it starts to resonate that we take it for granted,” said Porozni, who sits on the Alberta Wheat Commission and Cereals Canada boards. Across the globe in another emerging wheat market, Kevin Auch had a similar experience. “Sustainability is not just a North American thing — it’s something that’s becoming important around the world,” said Auch, who visited Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico City in mid-November. “People want to make sure we’re taking care of the planet as we produce food in our production systems. There’s a real desire for sustainability in the world right now and for farmers and agriculture to consider the environment when we’re producing our food.” And that was the message the Alberta Wheat chair stressed when talking with South American millers and bakers. “I was sitting beside guys who are buying a quarter of a million tonnes of Canadian wheat at a time,” said Auch, who also sits on Cereals Canada’s board.

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“I wanted to tell them our goodnews story about how we are sustainable and how we’re producing a very nutritious and healthy crop in a very sustainable manner. “I think we got that point across.”

Keen interest Auch was “amazed” that 80 to 90 per cent of the buyers in those countries attended the information seminars hosted by the Canadian mission. “We weren’t just talking to a couple of people. We were talking to the vast majority of buyers and mills and processors in those countries,” he said. “It’s a little bit intimidating in a way. Here I am as a farmer from Carmangay, Alberta, and I’m an ambassador for something that’s a lot bigger than me.” In fact, one man drove eight hours to attend a seminar in Ecuador, which started at 8 a.m. “He wanted to get to that meeting so much that he sacrificed a night’s sleep to get there,” said Auch. “I was quite impressed with the dedication that these buyers have — they want to come and hear about Canadian wheat and they’re interested in it. “It’s their livelihood, and they

want to make sure that they understand where their wheat is coming from and how it’s being produced.” It’s no surprise that Canadian wheat — and wheat producers — are a hot commodity in these emerging markets. Buyers want Canada’s high-quality, high-protein wheat, and they want to hear about this year’s crop directly from the source. “That’s why I think it’s so important for farmers to go on these trips, especially into Third World countries that don’t know what we do as producers in Western Canada,” said Porozni. He shared an example of an ongoing concern in countries close to the equator — moisture content of wheat. “I just showed them where I farm and explained that we struggle with moisture year after year,” said Porozni. “I explained that we would love to give them 13 per cent moisture consistently, but we just can’t. “When you talk about it and give examples about how you struggle on your farm, instead of a scientist saying we have different climatic zones, it resonates a bit better. They’re talking about theory. I’m talking about practice.”

Consistent quality kept coming up with the millers and bakers they talked to. “We’re known as a provider of consistent quality, and that’s quite important,” said Auch. “Bakers want to be able to have the same thing on the shelf for their customers every day. And they know that when they buy Canadian quality, what we’re telling them is actually what we’re selling them.” By and large, Canadian hard red spring wheat is the best seller. “In every country, there is a demand for our high-quality CWRS,” said Auch. “We’re starting to see some CPS and durum sales into these areas as well, but by far, the vast majority of what we sell into those countries is CWRS.” In one country he visited, they actually labelled their high-quality bin as CWRS. But for developing countries like the ones Porozni visited, Canadian wheat serves a different purpose — it’s blended with cheap wheat from the Black Sea region, which sells for about $50 a tonne less. “If you’re… importing a million tonnes, that’s $50 million,” said Porozni. “Yeah, we’d like to sell 100 per cent wheat to these countries, but these are developing countries. They’re quite poor. Frankly, they can’t afford it. “I’d rather send a 50 per cent blend to them than nothing.” Every country he visited was importing Black Sea wheat and that makes building relationships more important that ever, he added. “We need to get out there to our customers because everybody else is beating down the doors and talking about their wheat.” Auch agrees that having the best quality isn’t, by itself, enough. “We’re not the only country in the world that sells wheat. If we’re not there, our competitors will be. And they’ll gladly eat our lunch for us. I don’t want to see that happen.”

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Monsanto highlights research pipeline Xtend soybeans with added glufosinate tolerance isn’t far off, but glyphosate- and dicamba-tolerant canola is still five or six years out BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

icamba-tolerant canola is coming and so is a triple-threat soybean, resistant to glyphosate, dicamba and glufosinate. That’s just some of what’s in Monsanto’s crop and weed-control pipeline, Robb Fraley, the seed and pesticide giant’s executive vice-president and chief technology officer told reporters during a conference call Jan. 4. Fraley sees great things coming from new gene editing techniques, innovations from Monsanto’s precision farming platform, The Climate Corporation, and Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto, a US$66billion deal, yet to be approved by the European Union.

Soybeans first Triple-stacked soybeans will hit fields sooner than dicamba-tolerant canola, Fraley said. “Depending on the final regulatory approvals we should launch in the next two to three years,” he said about the new soybeans resistant to three herbicides — glyphosate, dicamba and glufosinate. “We are now going through the advanced regulatory approval. Testing has been very strong for the product in terms of weed control and developing the herbicide formulation and we’re in the final phases of global regulatory approval and starting seed production.” The soybeans, referred to as “HT3” (herbicide tolerant), was approved by Canada in November 2016, Monsanto Canada spokeswoman Trish Jordan said in an email Jan. 5. “I expect we are still waiting on regulatory approvals in other key markets,” she wrote. Dicamba-tolerant canola won’t be available in Canada for “roughly five or six years,” Fraley said. “But we’re moving it forward in the pipeline. It’s going through some of the initial agronomic testing.

“I think it’s a key technology and one that will be important for canola production in Canada.”

Resistance battle Making crops resistant to several herbicides with different modes of action for killing weeds is critical in the battle against herbicide-resistant weeds, he added. “We are also developing new formulations of dicamba... to bring new combinations of new modes of action so that farmers have more enduring tools for weed control,” Fraley said. “We see the dicamba trait being a very strong partner trait with these other technologies for years to come.” Fraley said the company’s ultimate goal is to ensure farmers have two or three different modes of action in all their crops, enabling them to continue controlling grassy and broadleaf weeds for the future. “I think that lets them get ahead of some of the challenges that they’ve seen historically with weed resistance,” Fraley said. Xtend soybeans, which are tolerant to the herbicides glyphosate and dicamba, were a big success in the United States in 2017, Fraley said. Mo n s a n t o t r i a l s s h owe d Xtend soybeans yielded 5.7 bushels an acre more than Liberty Link soybeans, he said. Fraley expects Xtend plantings to double to 40 million acres in the U.S. this year. Despite headlines to the contrary, the weed control, the yield performance and the adoption of the technology has been outstanding,” he said. News reports estimated 3.1 million acres of U.S. soybeans were damaged by dicamba last year, prompting the U.S. E n v i r o n m e n t a l Pr o t e c t i o n Agency to adjust dicamba’s label in an effort to reduce drift. “ We’v e w o r k e d h a r d t o e n s u re t h a t g rowe r s h a ve

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a clear understanding of the label,” Fraley said. There were only a few drift c o m p l a i n t s f ro m d i c a m b a used on Xtend soybeans in Manitoba last year, Manitoba Agriculture said.

Canadian challenges Meanwhile, Monsanto continues to work on Chinese regulators to approve TruFlex canola. Canadian regulators approved it in 2012. TruFlex withstands higher doses of glyphosate for better weed control and more application flexibility. “That technology, in my mind, should’ve been in the Canadian market three or four years ago,” Fraley said. Monsanto is also making headway developing earliermaturing varieties of corn and soybeans for Western Canada, Fraley said. “We’re seeing corn yields of 120 to 150 bushels per acre,” he said. “We’re seeing soybean varieties literally perform at 40 to 50 bushels (an acre), which I think, provides an exciting new option for Canadian farmers.” New, precise, gene editing techniques can increase crop yields and research efficiency, Fraley said. CRISPR is one that has m a d e h e a d l i n e s, b u t n e w editing tools are being developed almost weekly, he said. Monsanto has been making deals with some of the developers, including the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., to get access to them. “We think the CRISPR Cpf1 technology has a number of benefits and advantages,” he said. “We’ve been using these

tools across a broad breeding program and used it to develop a number of new products that can range from diseaseresistant traits to traits that can improve the nutritional or quality aspects of fresh fruits and vegetables.” Gene edited plants should go through the regulatory process faster than those with foreign genes, but they’re still going to require six or seven years of plant breeding and seed production, Fraley said. “I think those first-generation products really will represent a combination of breeding traits, biotech traits, gene edited traits, because that’s what’s going to give farmers the benefits and features that are important in their operation,” he said.

Going digital M o n s a n t o’s Climate Corporation is taking a growing volume of digital data and turning it into information

farmers can use to increase yields more sustainably, said its chief science officer Sam Eathington. Climate expects to have 50 million paid acres this year. About a million of those are in Ontario. Climate has been working on adapting its FieldView platform for wheat and canola in Western Canada. The company is also making progress with a new smartphone-based cor n disease diagnosis app. “You can get a real-time diagnosis right there in the field and go ahead and decide what action you want to take,” Eathington said. The current prototype is 90 per cent accurate and getting better, he added. Fraley said he is excited about the prospect of Bayer and Monsanto teaming up. “I see that as allowing our two companies to really accelerate the pace of innovation through our complementary skills and a shared vision for agriculture,” he said. “Our R&D team is excited and energized by some of the new areas of scientific advancement that we think we’ll be able to unlock by combining with Bayer. That’s going to allow us to bring new and more products to farmers and do it faster.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

Monsanto earnings disappoint by Allan Dawson Co-operator staff

Robb Fraley’s comments came shortly after Monsanto announced weakerthan-expected quarterly earnings. Low crop prices hurt farmers’ incomes, reducing sales of Monsanto seeds and pesticides, the firm said. In the fiscal first quarter ended Nov. 30, net profit attributable to Monsanto rose to US$169 million,

or 38 U.S. cents per share, from US$29 million, or seven U.S. cents per share, a year earlier. Analysts had expected earnings of 42 U.S. cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Monsanto’s total net sales were nearly flat at US$2.658 billion, below analysts’ expectations for US$2.77 billion. allan@fbcpublishing.com With files from Reuters

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The automated future has arrived, says robotic farming expert British researcher showcases the ‘Hands-Free Hectare’ project at Farming Smarter conference

arming using only robots may sound like something out of the year 2050 — but the producers of a barley crop in the United Kingdom argue it’s here now. Researchers at Harper Adams Un i v e r s i t y i n Sh r o p s h i re, England, along with a U.K. precision ag company successfully grew a crop using only automated machines as their farmhands. The “Hands-Free Hectare” project produced a 74-bushelper-acre spring barley crop without ever having a human step foot on the field. Everything from planting, fertilizing, spraying, and harvesting was accomplished using small and simple machinery modified with automated technology. Autonomous farming on a commercial scale isn’t far away, according to Jonathan Gill, a drone pilot and robotics engineer on the project. “The adoption of automated systems is going to come a lot quicker than we anticipate,” Gill said at the Farming Smarter conference here last month, adding he expects to see farmers using the technology in five to seven years. “Everybody thinks it’s way off into the future. I really wanted to show that the capabilities were there now.” All of the programming on the equipment was done using software codes readily available through open-sourced communities on the internet. Within the hectare, several drones and a ground scout rover performed duties as agronomists. The drones whizzed around taking aerial imaging of the field, relaying valuable crop information back to the researchers. “I’ve learned so much about how a drone system can work with agriculture,” said Gill. “It’s great because you can always go back to that imagery and data to quantify what you’ve seen.” Drone imager y not only allowed the researchers to evaluate the growth of the crop and how the autonomous machines were doing, but also highlighted areas needing further inspection. That job was given to the ground scout rover, which could take close-up photos and also scoop up soil samples. A “real-life” agronomist would then get to work analyzing soil, weed, and plant

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root information along with the number of tillers found on the barley, said Gill. “I think the agronomist in the future will be using more ground-based rover systems and drones to capture more data that they can analyze in a bunch, in comparison to just doing it by themselves,” he said. Growing a small one-hectare crop autonomously certainly does not compare to how growers produce largescale crops today, but Gill said he believes producers need to shift their mindset from big to small. Using fleets of smaller machines working together in swarms has advantages over today’s super-sized tractors, combines, and implements, he said. “This has some amazing benefits. You’ve got reduced compaction and improved resolution that actually allows us to have a margin gain.” He pointed to the autonomous tractor system, which set them back about $60,000. “Now I can buy a few good tractors — probably about nine — for the same price as one large system,” said Gill. “If I can run those together in a fleet, maybe I can actually start doing some interesting things around that.” One of the biggest challenges for autonomous farming is communication capacity. Many rural areas lack the necessary Wi-Fi coverage that enables the autonomous equipment to communicate effectively. “As soon as you’ve got that, we’ve got things nailed,” he said. Although the adoption of autonomous farming will require a major shift in thinking in the agricultural industry, change is necessary because per-acre productivity must increase to feed a rapidly expanding global population, he said. “The only way we can actually create the step change of increasing productivity within our farmland is by doing something different,” said Gill. The Hands-Free Hectare researchers have now moved on to their next project (a winter wheat crop) and will be fine tuning their methods by collecting even more in-depth crop info to determine the best ways to increase yield. To keep up to date on their progress, see www.handsfreehectare.com or follow them on Facebook (HandsFreeHectare) or Twitter (@FreeHectare). Produced by: SeCan Product/Campaign Name: SeCan Wheat and Beans Date Produced: December 2017

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Soy Canada charts ambitious growth plan The industry organization wants to see Canadian soybean production double in a decade BY ALEX BINKLEY

“Working together, we can leverage these opportunities to grow our industry and make an even greater contribution to Canada’s economic growth.”

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oy Canada has unveiled a plan to encourage soybean production to nearly double to 10 million acres by 2027 and set in motion growth in the crushing sector rather than exporting raw beans. S o y C a n a d a’s d i r e c t o r s have endorsed a comprehensive strategic market readiness plan that is the first “to involve the entire soybean value chain, including plant breeders, growers, exporters, processors and other value chain partners.” The plan is intended to serve as a discussion paper during the next few months with all segments of the soybean sector in Canada. Last year, 7.7 million tonnes of soybeans were harvested nationally. Ontario at 3.7 million tonnes and Manitoba at 2.2 million tonnes dominate the sector followed by Quebec and Saskatchewan. Alberta is expected to become a bigger player in the future. Under the plan, seeded acreage in Eastern Canada will reach four million acres in a decade up from the current 3.6 million acres while Western Canada should see six million acres in soybeans in 2027 compared to 1.9 million acres seeded in 2017.

Building on a base The sector has a solid foundation for increased production in its skilled growers, a natural environment, a strong value chain “heavily invested” in seed, food and feed research a n d i n n ov a t i o n , a s t r o n g processing sector and a good international reputation, Soy Canada said. “Working together, we can leverage these opportunities to grow our industry and make an even greater contribution to Canada’s economic growth,” Soy Canada said in the paper. It wants the amount of food grade tonnes to reach 1.8 million in 2027 from the 1.25 million tonnes last year and processing capacity increased to the point where it can han-

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Soy b e a n s h a v e a s t r o n g future, Soy Canada said, noting in Asian markets, demand is growing for specialty products such as tofu, miso, tempe, natto and their end-use products. Demand has also been increasing in the U.S. and Europe, and will continue to grow in the years ahead, fuelled by consumer interest in high-quality soybean foods, vegetable protein sources, organic foods and functional foods. “In Canada, value will be further kindled by the recently approved health claim for soyfoods,” the report said. Among the objectives is increasing “both the production and exports of food grade, non-GMO soybeans by 25 per cent during the next 10 years.

Not easy Soy Canada wants to see soybean acres grow quickly over the next decade. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

dle 2.5 million tonnes annually with the rest being exported. Plant breeding is “dramatically changing the boundaries of where soybeans can be profitably cultivated in Canada,” it said. “New short-season varieties have expanded soybean acreage to new regions of Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Ca n a d a , a n d s i g n i f i c a n t l y across Western Canada. “O v e r t h e n e x t d e c a d e, Soy Canada has set a yield growth target of five bu./acre. To achieve this target, growers will need the right yieldboosting tools, including new varieties with improved genetics, new plant protection prod-

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Better practices The increase in production can come while respecting the need to protect the environment, Soy Canada said. “In the last 35 years, C a n a d i a n s oy b e a n g r ow ers have made substantial improvements in their environmental practices. Since 1981, their energy use has

decreased by 26 per cent and the net greenhouse gas footprint per unit of soybean output has decreased by 17 per c e n t ,” t h e i n d u s t r y p a p e r reads. To improve on that record, Soy Ca n a d a “w i l l i d e n t i f y meaningful metrics and best practices for responsible environmental stewardship, as well as a plan to demonstrate that our industry is meeting these expectations. We will also explore opportunities to co-operate with other commodity groups on an approach that could extend across t h e Ca n a d i a n a g r i c u l t u ra l economy.”

How e v e r, t h e re a re s o m e tough issues to deal with. Crop protection options are more limited and quality standards are rigorous. Another is to ensure that the value of food grade soybeans remains high so that these specialty crops continue to be an attractive choice for growers. Global impor ts of whole s oy b e a n s a l m o s t d o u b l e d between 2006 and 2015. The world soybean trade is projected to rise by 25 per cent during the next decade, climbing to 179 million tonnes. “The value of Canadian soybean and soybean product exports doubled between 2009 and 2015 and has grown more than fourfold since 2006,” Soy Canada said.

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espite being gripped by freezing temperatures, one weather expert says he thinks the Canadian Prairies will see a weakening of the La Niña weather phenomena in the coming months, which will mean more moisture come springtime. “Most likely we’ll have neutral conditions with a slight La Niña bias during the spring,” said Drew Lerner of World Weather in Kansas City. “What that will translate into is a wetter scenario.” That doesn’t mean Western Canada is out of the woods though. Multiple areas of southern Saskatchewan are still con-

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sidered to be in a drought while southern Alberta also has low moisture levels. Typically, areas that are drought stressed do better with a warmer winter because it allows snow to seep into the ground before the spring run-off. Lerner expects many areas that have notable moisture defi-

cits to see better moisture levels than if La Niña hung around in full force. “If for some reason La Niña stays then probably there would be a tendency for a bit of moisture early on and then drying down later in the spring and early summer,” he explained. On the other hand, if La Niña totally disappears in the next few months there will probably be a wetter end to the spring, according to Lerner. He notes La Niña may also partially explain some of the frigid temperatures in Western Canada right now but most of it is due to the polar vortex. “I think that the cold has been more significant than advertised,” he said. “It could hurt us down the road if we don’t get into the wetter bias.”

The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

CME Group expands private trades in grain markets, raising worries The latest trend is a far cry from the quickly disappearing open-outcry trading of yore BY TOM POLANSEK Reuters

xchange-operator CME Group will allow a type of privately negotiated transaction in all its agricultural markets for the first time Jan. 8, splitting traders who predict the move will either improve or hurt transparency. The company, which owns the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, will expand the use of transactions called block trades in its grain and livestock futures and options, such as corn. It already permits the trades in other markets ranging from Black Sea wheat to Eurodollars. Block trades are large, privately negotiated deals struck away from the broader market by phone or otherwise and

cleared by the exchange. They must exceed exchange-set size limits and be reported publicly after completion. The transactions help traders execute large-lot orders at a “fair and reasonable” single price and avoid disrupting prices in markets with lower liquidity, such as deferred-contract months, according to CME Group. The company has lost liquidity in deferred futures spreads as the rise of computerized algorithmic trading has driven activity to front-month contracts, said Gary Sandlund, president of brokerage Futures International. “The exchange is doing a very good thing here in attempting to try to bring that back into the exchange and create a bit more transparency on some of these back-end spreads,” he said. Block trading is the latest evo-

lution of the agricultural markets, which trace their origins to grain merchants who formed the CBOT in 1848. The closure of open-outcry futures pits, in which traders shouted out orders to buy and sell, marked the end of an era in 2015, after most transactions went online. CME Group talked with agricultural traders to gauge support for block trades, the company said in a letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The transactions should account for a small percentage of overall trading and not reduce liquidity, it said. Cargill, a major U.S. grain trader, told Reuters it will evaluate block trades for its business. “We are encouraged that the exchange continues to look for ways the commercial trade can manage price risk exposures further out the curve,” spokeswoman Antonella Bellman said.

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However, the National Grain and Feed Association, a trade group, told CME Group and the CFTC in letters that the change threatens transparency by removing business from the public marketplace.

“It i s o u r o p i n i o n t h a t when large trades in deferred months are negotiated between parties ‘off exchange’ that price discovery is very likely compromised,” the association said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

Fungi and tillage don’t mix well Short-term gain will lead to long-term pain when it comes to tillage “When we till we make more food available and we get this burst in CO2 because the soil food web goes on a feeding frenzy.”

BY SHANNON VANRAES Co-operator staff

illage might result in some sort-term gains, but soil scientist Jay Fuhrer warns that the practice causes long-term damage to healthy soil’s best friend — fungi. “One of the big components in there is the fungi, the fungi and its hyphae,” said Fuhrer, a conser vationist with the United States Department of Agriculture. “What breaks up a hyphae? Well, if we pull something made up out of steel through the soil or the compost, it breaks up the hyphae and the fungi numbers get real low.” While some might be tempted to champion bacteria as the lead decomposer of crop residue, Fuhrer told dairy farmers gathered at a recent conference in Winnipeg that without the mighty fungi, bacteria would never make it to the buffet. “The principle decomposer in the world is saprophytic fungi... if we didn’t have saprophytic fungi your cornstalks would last year, after year, after year, on the soil surface and the only way you could probably get rid of them is if they blew off the field or you baled them off,” he said. “The bacteria cannot decompose that cornstalk until the fungi bring it down to a simpler chain, then bacteria can step in, take over and make it happen quicker.” Despite its prominent role in soil health, the long hyphae of fungi are also delicate and particularly susceptible to soil disturbance. “One of my jobs as a young man in the ’60s was to sit on

Jay Fuhrer

Tillage reduction isn’t just about stopping wind and water erosion — it also keeps soil fungi at their most productive. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

a tractor with a cultivator and work the summerfallow... and if your dad happened to have a little German heritage in him, all the neighbours worked it four or five times and it pretty much meant you were going to work it six times,” said Fuhrer, whose father’s farm straddled the border of North and South Dakota.

“It’s important for us to connect with those who aren’t involved in ag and explain what agriculture today really looks like.”

“So when it was all done, was there any fungi left in there? Probably not.” Initially, he said, yields were strong because tillage allowed f o r t h e m i n e ra l i z a t i o n o f nutrients. “We were harvesting off the nutrients with crops every other year. That went along pretty good for 30 years and

then, all of a sudden, you’ve built a br ick, because all organic matter is pretty much gone,” he said. “When we till we make more food available and we get this burst in CO2 because the soil food web goes on a feeding frenzy... the protozoa and the nematodes, the big guys that couldn’t get at all of the bacteria because it was locked up into little pore spaces, now they can because you’ve tilled it and opened it up.” Ultimately, the frenzy is unsustainable and after releasing a burst of CO2 into the atmosphere, the soil is left dead and deprived of organic material. But that’s not the only change that soil experi-

ences with tillage, said the soil specialist. Tillage also leaves fields open to water erosion, which transports topsoil, nutrients and water to off-site locations, said Fuhrer, who advocates for the use of cover crops. Wind erosion, standing water and crusting can also be side-effects of tillage. “Minimizing soil disturbance is a good start to rebuilding soil aggregates, pore spaces, soil glue, and soil organic matter,” he said. “This is an essential step for long-term soil productivity.” Fuhrer said that typical soil is composed of about 45 per cent minerals — like sand, silt and clay — five per cent organic matter, 25 per cent water and 25 per cent air. “ The water and air portions exist in the pore spaces between the soil aggregates,” h e s a i d . “O v e r t i m e, t i l l age implements reduce and remove the pore spaces from our soils, restricting infiltration and destroying the biological glues which hold our soils together.” But shor t-ter m interests often outweigh concerns for the long-term health of our soil, he added. “Short-term economics at the expense of the resource is one of the things that I’ve never been able to compete with, because I’m not taking that carbon out, I’m putting carbon back,” he said. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

Vancouver port space secured for pulse processor AGT Bulk pulses, grains to be loaded at new terminal alongside wood chips, pellets Staff

n need of ready access to West Coast tidewater, Prairie pulse crop processor AGT Food and Ingredients is set to work with the B.C. forestry sector to get it. Re g i n a - b a s e d , p u b l i c l y traded AGT says it has reached a long-term terminal services agreement with Fibreco Export Inc., a wood fibre and canola meal exporter majority owned by forest products firm Tolko Industries. The 20-year agreement calls for Fibreco to add a new agriproducts export terminal at its own bulk handling and loading facility on the north shore of Burrard Inlet at Port Metro Vancouver. The deal also calls for Fibreco to provide “terminal services and additional services” to AGT, for the “guaranteed throughput of agricultural commodities.” Financial terms of the terminal services agreement deal won’t be released, said an AGT representative. Fibreco, on its project website, has described its terminal enhancement project as providing a “$20-million direct injection” into the Vancouver economy, along with “anticipated annual indirect contributions” of $60 million.

Fibreco’s terminal at Port Metro Vancouver. PHOTO: Fibreco.com

Port access is “an essential infrastructure piece” for AGT, “particularly on the West Coast of Canada where access to port facilities is in limited supply to reach key markets in Asia,” AGT CEO Murad Al-Katib said in a news release. AGT’s deal with Fibreco, he said, “complements our short line rail system and works in concert with our recent investment in CanEst in Montreal.”

In July, AGT locked in a deal for a minority stake and 16-year terminal agreement with CanEst Transit, giving it access to that company’s bulk export terminal at the Port of Montreal. Since 2015, AGT has had a direct stake in railway operation through its investment in West Central Road and Rail, and in logistics through its purchase of Mobil Capital Holdings, which includes subsidiaries such as Mobil Grain,

Big Sky Rail, Mobilex Terminal and Mobil Transloading. The new agri-products facility Fibreco has committed to build at Vancouver is expected to include about 43,000 tonnes of dry bulk storage capacity, a rail spot for full unit trains, and a new ship loader and expanded berth capable of loading Panamax vessels, AGT said. Fibreco is no stranger to bulk export, having moved wood chips and wood pellets

from its Vancouver terminal to pulp and paper manufacturers worldwide on behalf of its stakeholders in the B.C. forestry sector since 1979. The company more recently also began shipping canola meal pellets. Its terminal upgrades, it said, are meant to allow “product diversification” at the site, including handling food ingredients for the international ag trade. The planned terminal will handle pulses, oilseeds and grains railed in on standard grain hopper cars, rather than in bulk bags moved via rail containers. Fibreco already has a permit in hand from the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority for the project and is still waiting on development permit approval from the District of North Vancouver, AGT said. The Fibreco port terminal agreement “allows us to target increased volumes to our key markets for pulses as well as diversified products such as durum wheat and other agricommodities,” AGT executive chairman Huseyin Arslanis said. “The fact that Fibreco owns the land at the port was attractive to us and the major shareholder of Fibreco is a Tolko affiliate, which is a strong partner for us for the long term.”

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Flax Council of Canada closing office Jan. 31

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The council will continue to promote flax but the details have yet to be worked out BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

The Flax Council of Canada is closing its downtown Winnipeg office Jan. 31, but will continue to exist and promote flaxseed, council chair Brian Johnson said in an interview at press time Monday. “We had to do it because our funding was quite dramatically cut,” Johnson said. “We’re still in a fairly good financial position, but we had to cut overhead. A lot of this (flax promotion) can be done off the premise.” Funding for the council, created 32 years ago, has declined with a drop in Canadian flax production and sales, Johnson said. The council is funded through a voluntary levy on flax sales remitted by Canadian flax sellers, he said, adding that not all sellers contribute. The Manitoba Flax Growers Association and Saskatchewan Flax Development Commission, which represents flax farmers in both provinces, also contribute to specific council projects aimed at boosting flax sales. The council has succeeded in helping to get the word out on the health benefits of flax consumption and that will continue, as will the council’s website, Johnson said, pointing to increased flax in breads, power bars and omega-3 eggs. “Over the course of the past year, the formation of a combined oilseed council was thoroughly discussed at the request of some of our members who contribute significant levy dollars to the council,” Johnson said in a news release. “Through these discussions, it became apparent that the formation of an oilseed council would not materialize in the foreseeable future. The result of this is a significant loss of funding to the council, necessitating cost reduction measures.” Details on how the council will continue to operate are still being discussed, Johnson said. The council played a key role in managing the aftermath following the detection of CDC Triffid seed in shipments to the EU, providing financial support to significant testing protocols in an effort to remove Triffid from the seed supply in Canada, the release said. Since 2013, the council has managed more than $6.2 million in research and market development programs with the support of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Manitoba Agriculture, Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture and the Saskatchewan Flax Development Commission and Manitoba Flax Growers Association.

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Agriculture can go green Farmers should think globally, act locally on climate change Own interest BY ALEX BINKLEY Co-operator contributor

hen it comes to grappling with environmental issues, agriculture isn’t all that different. The old environmental mantra of think globally, act locally is the best way to approach the impact o f a g r i c u l t u re o n c l i m a t e change, say two experts from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). A g r i c u l t u re i s p r o j e c t e d to be the second most economically damaged sector by climate change while at the same time being a significant contributor to it, Guillaume Gruere, senior policy analyst with the OECD’s Trade and Agriculture Directorate, told the Senate agriculture committee recently.

Governments should require climate change adaptation measures by farmers but they should account for local conditions, he said. “Existing evidence shows there is a need for agriculture to undertake climate change adaptation actions, if only to reduce projected damages,” he said. “Changes in temperature, precipitation patterns and m u l t i p l i c a t i o n o f e x t re m e weather events are expected to impact agriculture productivity globally, but these impacts are also expected to vary significantly across locations.” For example, the impact of climate change on wheat production is expected to be small but negative in North America as a whole; negative but more important in Europe, on average again; and much smaller and even positive in

“Farmers already are taking actions to adapt to climate change. Government’s role is necessary in the presence of market failures or where the condition for adaptation accesses the public good.” Guillaume Gruere OECD

some scenarios in countries like Korea and Japan, Gruere said. He also recommended that gover nment policy should complement far mers’ own adaptation actions. “Farmers already are taking actions to adapt to clim a t e c h a n g e ,” h e s a i d . “Government’s role is necessary in the presence of market failures or where the condition for adaptation accesses the public good.”

Policy important G ove r n m e n t s s h o u l d h e l p educate farmers about research into ways to cope with climate change and assess the risks producers face, he said. They should also eliminate income support and other policies that discourage climate change adaptation. Agriculture is one of the major greenhouse gas emitting sectors, he said. “Direct emissions from the sector present about 10

to 12 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions,” he said. “It is the largest emitter of methane, mostly from ruminants, and nitrous oxide, mainly from manure and fertilizers, two gases with significantly higher global warming potential than CO2.” Ben Henderson, an OECD Trade Policy Analyst, said recent research shows there are many cost-effective solutions for agriculture to lower its greenhouse gas emissions. “However, the costs and benefits of these solutions vary a lot, making it difficult to identify practices that make economic sense everywhere,” Henderson said. Ca r b o n p r i c i n g p o l i c i e s can help steer farmers to the most cost-effective actions to reduce emissions and encourage innovation and investment toward lower carbon technologies for the future, he said. “The broader the number of sectors and greenhouse gases covered by a carbon pricing instrument, the more cost effective it will be, which means lower costs to the economy, government and households in reaching any particular emission reduction target,” he told senators. “The most desirable and direct carbon pr icing approach is either tax emissions or to use an emission trading scheme with auction permits,” he said. “However, there are presently challenges associated with the measurement of agriculture emissions, but ongoing development of protocols for the measurement of these emissions could and should eventually ease these constraints, allowing greater participation by agriculture.”

Reduce risk Countries might hesitate to introduce climate change mitigation because it could reduce their economic competitiveness, he said. “However, if momentum from the Paris Agreement for the inclusion of agriculture in national plans to lower greenhouse gas emissions spreads among countries, these risks will fade,” he said. In the meantime, it’s possible to implement carbon pricing in ways that reduce or eliminate competitive risks. “One approach is to include agriculture as a voluntary auction or offset market, which government and other sectors that are required to pay for emissions can purchase emission reductions from agriculture,” he said. The OECD intends to release a report this year “that aims to address all of these issues on carbon pricing.” It will include an assessment of Canadian policies. There are two broad strate g i e s a g r i c u l t u re c a n f o l low in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Henderson said. “One is to improve the productive efficiency of the livestock sector. The other is to look for ways to reduce emissions, absorb emissions from the atmosphere through sequestration opportunities, such as building up soil carbon.” 2017-12-14 6:26 PM

The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

Can agriculture fix its troubled relationship with climate? Reducing agriculture, forestry and other land use-related activities is key to meeting the climate challenge BY THIN LEI WIN Thomson Reuters Foundation

Farmers in developing countries, like these Zimbabweans, will be key to the agriculture and climate question. PHOTO: REUTERS

Many hope it will lead to the development of farming systems that are more resilient to weather extremes and can feed a growing population whose diets are shifting to more meat and dairy, without corresponding increases in emissions. Andy Jarvis, research director at the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT ), descr ibes the relationship between climate and agriculture as an “unhappy marriage.” “(They) are absolutely intertwined and completely connected to each other but actually pretty antagonistic,” he said, pointing to how crops are battered by climate extremes while farming emissions exacerbate global warming.

‘Off the rails’ Scientists have warned that world temperatures are likely to rise by 2 to 4.9 C this cent u r y c o m p a re d w i t h p re industrial times. This could lead to dangerous weather patterns — including

“People vote three times a day for a food system they want, in terms of the food they buy. There is enormous power there.” Olav KjørveN EAT Foundation

more frequent and powerful droughts, floods and storms — upping the pressure on agriculture. Cu r b i n g c l i m a t e c h a n g e will require over hauling t h e w o r l d’s f o o d p r o d u c tion and distribution system, which is “off the rails,” said Olav Kjørven, chief strategy officer at the Oslo-based EAT Foundation. Hunger is on the rise, biodiversity is being lost and poor diets now pose a bigger threat to human health than alcohol and tobacco, said Kjørven, a former senior UN official. Educating consumers will be key to changing that, espe-

cially in developed economies where there is high consumption of red meat, responsible for more emissions than other types of food, he said. “People vote three times a day for a food system they want, in terms of the food they buy. There is enormous power there,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. EAT has commissioned scientists to produce a report next spring about what constitutes a healthy diet in a sustainable food system. FAO’s Castro said making water usage more efficient — 70 per cent of the world’s freshwater goes into agriculture — and rehabilitating two billion hectares of degraded land could deliver quick wins. Livestock, meanwhile, account for nearly two-thirds of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, but combining trees, crops and animals in “silvopastoral” systems can offset some of those emissions and boost the quality of pasture, he added. In B r a z i l , a m a j o r b e e f exporter, state agricultural research agency Embrapa is testing this practice, he added.

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fter René Castro-Salazar attended the first UN-led climate talks in Berlin in 1985 as Costa Rica’s environment and energy minister, he tried to talk about agriculture and climate change — but few wanted to join the conversation. “There was always opposition — and we couldn’t understand why,” said Castro, now assistant director general at the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). To him, the need to tackle the topic was clear. Agriculture, forestry and other land uses together account for nearly a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions heating up the planet, according to the FAO. Cutting these is essential if the world is to keep global temperature rise to a manageable level, said Castro. Farms and forests can also store large amounts of carbon, and simple actions by all countries could result in immediate environmental benefits, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In the early years, the climate negotiations focused on reducing emissions from the energy sector — the largest emitter — while the relationship between agriculture and climate change was not fully understood. Later on, poor states feared discussing the linkage would result in obligations for them to curb emissions from farming. Rich nations worried they would have to pay for poor farmers to adapt to a changing climate. At November’s climate talks in Bonn, the stalemate was finally broken, with nations agreeing to move forward on issues related to agriculture and climate change. “There is now clearly the political will to see this resolved,” said Margarita Astralaga, director of environment and climate at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

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Another challenge is to boost food production without damaging forests, said IFAD’s Astralaga. Agriculture is responsible for more than three-quarters of global deforestation, and if the trend continues, about 10 million square km of land will likely be cleared by 2050, she noted. A 2016 report from the FAO said it would be possible to increase food security while maintaining or increasing forest cover, identifying 22 countries — including Gambia, Chile, Tunisia and Vietnam — that have managed to do so.

In the know? To duplicate such practices, especially in the developing world, will require sharing of knowledge, experts say. Yet many nations still lack meteorological information that can improve crop and livestock production, said FAO’s Castro. “They don’t know if the rain is coming... if a drought is coming. They’re blind in terms of agricultural planning,” he said. Much of the information they need is available, said Jarvis. CIAT and the International Food Policy Research Institute are leading a push to use “big data” in agriculture, and get it into the hands of poor farmers in places like Colombia and Honduras. “As a result of that information, (you can) make much more strategic decisions in terms of when to plant, how to plant, what variety to plant,” he said. Another pilot run by Microsoft and the International Crop Research Institute for the SemiArid Tropics sends text messages and automated calls to tell Indian farmers when to sow their seeds or warn them of a pest attack. But more investment and political will are needed to expand such projects, Jarvis said. EAT Foundation’s Kjørven said the world has “barely started to fight this battle” to make agriculture greener — and the coming few years will be decisive. “The real test is whether we start to see countries passing different legislation, businesses and industries coming up with different ways of doing business in the food sector, and changes in consumer preferences and choices,” he said.

The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

Model stomach arrives at U of M Stomach simulation to assist scientists with digestion evaluation BY SHANNON VANRAES Co-operator staff

Can you stomach it? Researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada sure hope so, but just to be sure, they’re going to put it to the test. An artificial stomach has been installed at the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University of Manitoba. “It’s a system that’s based on the physiology of a human or animal gastrological tract. We put a food product or diet into the system and it simulates what happens in the stomach,” said James House, head of human nutritional sciences at the university. “We’ll be able to look at the factors that absorb and digest foods, including functional foods, and how they are absorbed and digested.” The gutsy piece of equipment is comprised of tubes and pumps, standing a little taller than your average human. Enzymes are pumped in at appropriate junctures to mimic the digestion process. “Basically, you would be loading the food samples from here,” said Agriculture and AgriFood Canada researcher, Sijo Joseph, pointing to a section near the top of the device. “The pH is controlled and also the temperature will be controlled at 37°, as in the human body... all the enzyme recreations, saliva secretions and different types of enzymes and bio-acids will be secreted from the back of the system.”

tive effect on health and could potentially save in health-care expenses.” Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researcher Nancy Ames is one of those creating procedures for the model stomach that will change the way new crop varieties are tested for health benefits. “What we’re doing with it, is really trying to investigate a number of different agri-food products that we’re working on that are made out of cereal grains or made out of pulses,” said Ames. “We’re trying to look at potential differences in glycemic response. We’re looking at differences in protein quality in some of these agri-food products.” The artificial stomach at the University of Manitoba is one of only two such devices in Canada. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com With files from Ed White

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researcher, Sijo Joseph, goes over the finer points of a recently installed model stomach. } Photo: Courtesy Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Versatile But the system isn’t limited to human digestion; it can also be used to study animal digestion. The effects of specific factors — like age and whether the stomach is full or fasting — can also be researched using the model stomach. “Based on the computer profile you give, the digestion happens,” Joseph said, adding that the instrument also emulates the movements that accompany the digestive process. Samples can be taken at different stages throughout the digestive process. The equipment, which cost about $600,000, will primarily be used by the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and the University of Manitoba. The research tool was funded, in part, by the Growing Innovation program. “The results that come from these groups are consistently very positive and encouraging,” said Daryl Domitruk, of Manitoba Agriculture. “I’m positive that this equipment will enable them to achieve more great results.”

Research draw The model stomach could also draw researchers from around the world to the University of Manitoba, he said. “This opens the doors for people who, we believe, are very capable of doing very critical and world-class research,” Domitruk said. “This equipment will be able to show how the foods we produce in Manitoba can have a posi-

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S

Recreational fishery at Roblin luring visitors year round Tourism doesn’t stop in the Parklands when the temperature drops, and now aeration upgrades to a series of local lakes will enhance fishing in all seasons

The town of Roblin has recently installed new cost-saving aeration systems at a series of local lakes as part of its ongoing investment in the region’s recreational fishery. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff

t’s not just the wind biting in this wintry corner of the Parklands these days. So are the fish. Fly-fishers across Canada and the U.S. have long known some of the best fly-fishing is to be found here. The town is designated “Fly Fishing Ca p i t a l o f Ma n i t o b a” a n d has regularly hosted national championships since 2003. But with lakes plentiful with trophy trout, char, bass, perch, pike and giant walleye year round, enjoyment of their fishery is expanding to all seasons, say local economic development officials. Roblin is now counting on the rise of popularity in winter ice fishing to draw even more visitors to their region. “Roblin has been actively trying to open its doors to everyone who likes to fish and in all seasons,” said Ben Brodeur, Roblin’s economic development officer. The most recent investment in its recreational fishery has

been this past year when it replaced aeration systems on West and East Goose lakes at Roblin, and Persse, Twin and Tees lakes near San Clara. Each of these lakes is stocked with trophy trout, including rainbow, brown and brook. Twin Lakes is one of the few locations in Manitoba with tiger trout while Tees Lake also offers albino rainbow trout.

Lower cost The new aeration systems will ensure the continuation of this world-class recreational fishery’s long-term success, said Adam Kerkowich, manager of the Lake of the Prairies Conservation District The town has faced some exorbitant hydro bills and other expenses keeping the old aeration systems operating, he said. Operating the old systems o n e a c h l a k e w a s a ro u n d $3,500 annually per unit, making them increasingly unaffordable to keep operating. But replacements installed this past year significantly reduce that cost, bringing it

down to about $336 per unit for a total yearly cost reduction of nearly 90 per cent. They’re also much more effective at cleaning the lakes and far less labour intensive to maintain, said Kerkowich, who described the upgrade in a talk at last month’s MCDA annual convention. The project was undertaken in a partnership between the conservation district, Roblin and the Manitoba company Clean Water Pro specializing in lake and pond remediation. The total cost for the new a e ra t i o n s y s t e m s, i n c l u d ing installation, was $80,000 with a grant from the Fish and Wildlife Enhancement Fund helping to offset the amount.

Economic benefit Roblin has been convinced of the value of investing in its fishery since at least the 1980s but a study on the economic impact of lake aeration done five years ago really showed what return on investment it’s getting for it. In 2013 the town commissioned environmental consultants with the Headingley-

based firm AAE Tech to do an economic impact analysis of the region’s recreational fishery. The firm’s work showed for every dollar invested in lake aeration, the return to the local economy was $23 to $37. Aerated lakes offer enhanced fishing experiences and word gets around bringing in more visitors with cash to drop into the local economy. That impact analysis also showed respondents in a survey post very high satisfaction with their angling experiences on aerated lakes. “What I gathered from that is that people who fish our lakes actually know about our lakes... angling visits are not just random fishing trips,” Brodeur said. It also showed most fishing visitors — 66 per cent — coming in spring and fall for openwater fishing. But ice fishing in November and December and March and April also made up 10 per cent of visits and it’s a sport that’s increasing in popularity meaning there’s more to potentially come at the time of year as time goes by, said Brodeur.

Businesses boosted Meanwhile, gains from Roblin’s recreational fishery are already self-evident in terms of economic development. New businesses have started up including a new bait and tackle shop opened in 2014. The area has an outfitter renting and delivering small johnboats to area lakes and two other retailers have expanded their fishing product lines. Those offering accommodations to visitors also see a steady stream of customers. The impact analysis showed visitors to the region’s aerated lakes can leave anywhere from just under $500,000 to $750,000 behind them every year. “You get a spread of impacts over a diverse sector of busin e s s e s a n d ove r a l o n g e r period,” he said. “People will stay a couple of weeks as opposed to coming just for a weekend. “And you’re seeing that over more than one season. Most sports are for one season. But when you invest in a fishery it’s done four seasons a year.” lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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Prairie fare Do microwave ovens zap nutrients in foods? Actually, cooking in a microwave can help you preserve the nutrients in your food BY JULIE GARDEN-ROBINSON NDSU Extension Service

he other day, I received a message when I returned to my desk after a meeting. Someone had called to ask about microwave ovens and nutrition. As I listened to the question, I decided that I was settling a bet. When people are making wagers about nutrition, I don’t mind being involved. The gentleman caller’s friend had said that microwaving food destroyed the nutrients. He didn’t agree, but he wanted proof in writing. My first option was to go online to see what people were finding. Sure enough, lots of articles are out there that say that microwave ovens zap nutrients. I pictured all the folate (a B vitamin) flying out of broccoli and being caught in a nutrient trap hidden in a microwave. No, a nutrient trap doesn’t exist on your microwave. I just made that up. I found even scarier, unproven things about microwave ovens in my search, but I also found good information. As we know, we can’t believe everything we read. Unfortunately, the amount of misinformation is escalating. Then I consulted the “gold star” reference of truthful information: peer-reviewed journal articles. These articles provide factual, science-based information that we can trust. Our job as extension staff is to translate the science so you can put it to use in your daily life. In one study, a group of scientists in China studied the effect of various cooking methods on the nutrients in broccoli, including vitamin C and glucosinolates (the compounds linked to many health benefits in broccoli, including reducing the risk for cancer). The scientists cooked broccoli by steaming, boiling, stir-frying or microwaving, then they determined the methods that preserved the most nutrients by testing the nutrient content in their laboratories. Microwaving wasn’t the “best” method, but it wasn’t the worst. Steaming (cooking in a

Microwave ovens are a convenient way to cook and don’t destroy nutrients at all. PHOTOs: THINKSTOCK

small amount of water) preserved the most nutrients in broccoli, while boiling in water and stir-frying caused the greatest nutrient losses. Other scientists have shown that microwave ovens have minimal effects on protein, fat and minerals in foods. Cornell University scientists reported that spinach cooked in a microwave oven retained almost all of its folate, but spinach lost nearly 80 per cent of the folate when boiled in water on a stove. Bottom line: To preserve the most nutrients, including vitamins, use as little liquid as possible and heat for the shortest amount of time. A microwave oven can fill that prescription for healthful cooking. Be sure to cut vegetables into uniform-size, larger pieces. Cutting into small pieces means that more surface area is exposed to heat, which can result in more nutrients lost. Peel thinly, if at all, because many nutrients are right under the peeling. However, remember that vegetables and fruits prepared in any way provide health benefits. On average, we adults need at least 4-1/2 cups of fruits and vegetables (total) per day. Also, keep in mind food safety when cooking food in the microwave. Foodborne illness

Microwave Oatmeal 2 c. rolled oats (quick or old-fashioned) 4 c. low-fat milk (or water) 1/8 tsp. salt

Mix together oats, milk (or water) and salt in a large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for five to six minutes, stirring every two minutes, until oats are soft and most of the liquid has been absorbed. Spoon into bowls and serve while hot. Top with brown sugar and milk if desired.

Try these variations:

Oatmeal is a simple but healthy microwaveable dish.

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal: Add two unpeeled apples, chopped, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon to the oats and milk.

outbreaks have occurred when people haven’t cooked protein foods properly in microwave ovens. To be sure that your food cooks evenly in a microwave oven, follow these steps: • Rotate food in the microwave as it is cooking. • Interrupt the cooking halfway through the heating time and stir or turn food. • Arrange food items evenly in a covered dish. • Cover the dish with a microwave-safe lid or plastic wrap to help distribute the heat evenly inside the container. Allow enough space between the food and the top of the dish so that plastic wrap does not touch the food. Loosen or vent the lid or wrap to allow steam to escape. • Always allow standing time at room temperature, which completes the cooking, before checking the internal temperature with a food thermometer. For more information about microwave ovens in a fun, interactive format, see https://tinyurl.com/MicrowavingTips, which is an online publication with videos. I had fun working on the project with my colleagues at the University of Nebraska. Here’s one of the easy microwaveable recipes included in the publication.

Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal: Add 1/2 cup pumpkin purée, 1/4 cup raisins, 3 tablespoons brown sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla flavouring, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice. Banana Walnut Oatmeal: Add one large mashed banana, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon to the oats, water or milk and salt. Cook according to directions. Stir in 1/2 cup toasted chopped walnuts and serve. Makes five servings. Each serving of the original recipe has 206 calories, 4 grams (g) fat, 11 g protein, 32 g carbohydrate, 3 g fibre and 150 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.

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Fairholme Colony hosts quilting retreat One-day event produces many different projects displayed at the show-and-tell By Dora Maendel Freelance contributor

n an overcast morning last autumn, several dozen women from area towns — toting sewing machines and bags of quilting fabric — arrived at Fairholme Colony School and assembled in both upper classrooms for a day of quilting hosted by the three Fairholme members of the St. Claude Quilters Guild, “The Material Girls,” Serena, Andrea and Anna Maendel (www.fairholmequilting.com) with the goal of a late-afternoon show-and-tell. Arriving in groups and pairs, they found a table, placed it near an electrical outlet, arranged their materials and set to work. “Welcome to the first quilting retreat here in Fairholme!” greeted Anna Maendel. “Unfortunately, I cannot join you, because I have long-arm quilting machine orders at home. When you need a break, you are welcome to walk over and watch it in action,” she said, adding, “I’m completing a traditional Aboriginal Star Quilt for a Winnipeg customer, Robert Menow who learned to quilt from his grandmother.” “My grandmother inspired me to begin quilting also,” said Sandra Single, a quilter from Holland. There is a fascinating array of sewing machines from small,

Women came from area towns to the Fairholme Colony quilting retreat. PHOTO: COURTESY ANNETTE LYENHORST

shiny-black 1947 Singer models to state-of-the-art Berninas and Pfaffs. In minutes the rooms fill with the sounds of scissors snipping, ironing boards creaking, sewing machines humming and women conversing. Camaraderie and focused work prevail. Retreat attendees, including several non-guild members, enjoyed morning snacks, a noon lunch of traditional Hutterite cabbage borscht with Knödel, and a turkey-cutlet supper. Seeing the variety of projects, it’s clear that quilting has moved beyond the traditional community or church women’s group gathered in one woman’s home for a day to complete her daughter’s trousseau. Why do they quilt? “Because it’s relaxing and so enjoyable to create each one!” said quilter Janice de Rocquigny. “And when I finish one, it’s just as

Andrea Maendel shows a snowflake table runner while Anna Maendel looks on. PHOTO: COURTESY SERENA MAENDEL

Seeing the variety of projects, it’s clear that quilting has moved beyond the traditional community or church women’s group gathered in one woman’s home for a day to complete her daughter’s trousseau.

much pleasure to give it to someone — a unique gift made special by my personal touch.” Another woman adds, “I’m not very ambitious today. With no time to prepare a major project, I’m making quilted covers for purse-size tissue packets. I’ve made so many and each one is gratefully accepted.” Spread out beside one sewing machine, pencil box covers fea-

ture kaleidoscopic designs. “This way, I can include each grandchild’s favourite shapes and colours,” the quilter said. Pat Metcalfe, with her trio of single bed quilts with rows of appliquéd dinosaurs for her grandsons said, “It’s just a whole lot of fun!” Kathy Webster is making a “Memory Quilt,” that features fabric only from familiar pieces

of clothing. She is using her husband’s overalls. A heavy equipment operator, Roy Webster was still working at 92 and lived to be almost 96. “It’s therapy,” she says simply. “I miss him terribly.” At the end of the day the showand-tell session begins, to which the Fairholme women and girls have been invited to attend — all being seamstresses and some also quilt. A community of quilters, these women have discovered that “Creativity is letting yourself make mistakes and art is knowing which ones to keep.” The women are at their most enthusiastic, however, when they describe group work on various volunteer projects, including charity quilts for fundraisers, special sessions to supply local seniors’ homes and annual blitzes for Winnipeg’s Siloam Mission. “They never have enough,” Sandra Single said. Single also said, “Autistic children find a weighted quilt soothing; therapeutic. It can be daunting when you’re asked for a specific number of quilts; you worry about having enough of the right fabric, but you don’t want to disappoint people, so you work with what you have.” Quilters truly are generous, resourceful donors, displaying the spirit of our pioneers and the Prairies. Dora Maendel writes from the Portage la Prairie, Manitoba area

Landscaping a farmyard Now is the time to plan out your ideas for the spring By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

he big job of landscaping a farm property or doing a makeover of a farmyard requires some serious planning before the project is undertaken. Winter is a good time to plan so that in the spring you will be ready to start. Using pencil and paper or a computer, a folder of plans, drawings and plant choices can be kept organized and in one place. When planning a farm landscape, first consider how each area of the yard is to be used and how each area can be designed for minimum maintenance. During the growing season all members of a farm family are very busy, so acknowledging how much time can be spent on maintaining the landscape is key to it looking its best.

Perhaps a large boulder can be found on the farm that could be featured in the landscape.

Revitalizing existing shelterbelts or establishing new ones is one of the first tasks. Shelterbelts define the farm site so make sure that the trees enclose a suitably sized space — making it somewhat larger than is initially thought necessary will allow for the growth and spread of the trees and also for future expansion. Establishing access routes into the farm site will keep farmrelated traffic away from the house area, both for esthetic reasons and for safety concerns. The landscaped area around the house will be developed using standard design methods, including foundation plantings, flower borders, shrub beds, and specimen trees. The house yard might be separated from the rest of the yard by a fence or hedge. The rest of the yard will be less groomed than this landscaped area so it needs to be defined in some way. Sight lines to allow views into other parts of the property might be important if the farmers in residence want to be able to see what is going on in the barnyard or grain storage area, or other area of the yard. The amount of plantings and the design of the house yard will greatly depend on whether someone can maintaining a lot of flower beds and shrub borders. If not — keep

the landscape simple and easy to maintain. Similarly, a vegetable garden and/or orchard area can be included, and this area will be adjacent to the house area. Such “utility areas,” although not necessarily unattractive, are not always looking their best so they might be separated from the more decorative areas of the landscape by hedging or fencing. An outdoor living area will be developed beside the house, taking into account exposure, protection from sun and accessibility. The lifestyle and time the family spends here will dictate the type of space needed. Will it include a pool? A covered sitting area? How the area is to be used will determine its design. Generally, a lawn area surrounds a farmhouse; how large it should be will depend on time available for mowing and whether the farmyard plan includes other large grassed areas that will be available for play while allowing for a smaller lawn area around the house. The work areas of the farm — the barns, the grain storage buildings, machine shops, feed storage enclosures and cattle pens — all need to be worked into the plan carefully so that traffic routes are safe and easy to manoeuvre, and work areas and build-

Some people like an open vista while others prefer an enclosed yard; this is just one decision that must be made when designing a farm landscape. PHOTOS: ALBERT PARSONS

ings are well spaced and easily accessed. Unsightly areas might be screened from view from the house yard by fences, tall hedges or rows of trees. Often these areas of the farmyard have different access points than the farmhouse does. Work areas that produce odour, such as cattle pens, should be located as far away as possible, and downwind from the house so unpleasant odours don’t prevent enjoyment of the outdoor living areas. However, accessibility from the house is necessary, for both convenience and efficiency — half-hour walks to the barn several times a night in the winter to check on calving will not be welcome. There is always a balance to consider between esthetics and practicality so compromises may be necessary to get a plan that works for everyone. The size of the entire farm site will be extensive and probably include large expanses of grass

that will have to be mowed. The areas of grass can be reduced by using hardscape material, such as using crushed limestone roadways wherever vehicles and machinery are driven. These areas should be designed so that mowing adjacent grass areas is not made more difficult; the mower should be able to pass over them without any problems. Also use hardscape material to avoid mowing and time-consuming tr imming along buildings and fences. As a final touch, consider adding a feature at the end of the lane that includes a sign with the farm or family name and perhaps incorporating a tree or shrub, a flower planter or perhaps a large rock. After the complete plan is developed all that is left is to find the time to put the plan into action in the spring and actually create your farm landscape! Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

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Try a winter holiday at Riding Mountain National Park There are many activities available, beautiful sights and a chance to spot some wildlife By Donna Gamache Freelance contributor

inter is here in full force, but that doesn’t m e a n M a n i t o b a’s parks are closed — far from it! If you’re looking for some place new to visit in winter, try Riding Mountain National Park (RMNP). It offers a wide variety of winter activities. Many are geared to active visitors, but even those who are not inclined to sports activities can enjoy a drive through the park. Spruce trees laden with snow have a beauty all their own, and it’s not uncommon to see wildlife as you drive on highways No. 10 or No. 19. Besides small animals such as squirrels and rabbits, visitors can often catch sight of white-tailed deer, moose, foxes and coyotes along the roads. Really lucky visitors have occasionally seen a lynx or elk, too. There are a variety of cross-countr y ski trails in the park — some now maintained by “Friends of Riding Mountain” volunteers, since cuts in federal funding about five years ago. Trails vary in length and difficulty, with the Wa s a g a m i n g c a m p g r o u n d trails among the most popular for family groups. Before choosing which ones to try, check on the Friends website to see which trails have been recently tracked. A more challenging ski is the trail to Cairns Cabin. This rustic cabin has a wood stove and sleeping loft, and can be reserved at reser vation.pc.gc.ca or 1-877-737-3783. I f s n ow s h o e i n g i s y o u r

The oTENTiks are a mix of cabin and tent that are available for renting. PHOTOS: DONNA GAMACHE

spor t, there are trails for that, too. You can snowshoe a t Wa s a g a m i n g — a ro u n d the campground, on Ominik Marsh or on Clear Lake itself. For trails a little more off the beaten track, try the Brulé Trail to Kinosao Lake, the Arrowhead Trail, or the Bead Lake Trail. If you don’t have your own snowshoes, rentals are available at the Friends centre. Take some time to check out the variety of items for sale there, and learn about all their organized activities, many for children. See the website at: http://www. friendsofridingmountain.ca/. Other sports include skating behind the Parks Canada Visitor Centre, where there is a picnic shelter nearby so

Snowshoes are available to rent if you don’t have your own.

you could light a fire to heat up a lunch. Something else to try is riding the “fat bikes” w h i c h c a n a l s o b e re n t e d at the Friends of RM. Cycle around town, or on the Burls

and Bittersweet Trail on the east side of the park. If ice fishing is your sport, re m e m b e r t h a t f i s h i n g i n the park requires a special l i c e n c e. W i n t e r f i s h i n g i s

allowed on Clear Lake (walleye, pike, perch, whitefish and lake trout) and Lake Audy (pike and perch). RMNP is planning a “Winter Adventure Weekend,” February 9-11 with a variety of activities, such as quinzee building, tobogganing, a shinny tournament, a barbecue, a hockey tournament in nearby Onanole and a special version of winter Olympics. Snowshoeing to a bear den is another adventure you might enjoy. Visit the Friends of RM website for upto-date information on this big weekend. If you’re really into outdoor activities, you could even rent one of the park’s oTENTiks (canvas A-frame cabins). They are labelled as “the perfect mix of cabin meets tent,” and RMNP has five available for winter camping. They include electric heat, interior lighting, a wood stove, and USB outlets. These have become quite popular, so be sure to reserve ahead, especially for weekends. Although 2017 is over, and with it the free entry for everyone to our national parks, don’t let that stop you from visiting RMNP. Stop at the Visitor centre in Wasagaming to buy a day pass for adults, or better yet one that will last the whole year. A recent announcement states that entry for anyone 17 and under will still be free. Fo r f u r t h e r i n f o r m a t i o n about RMNP activities or accommodations, call 2048 4 8 - 7 2 7 5 o r e m a i l r m n p. info@pc.gc.ca. Donna Gamache writes from MacGregor, 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 30,000-bushel grain elevator at Vista, on Highway 45 east of Rossburn, was built by Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1940 for a local cooperative association. Two steel tanks were built beside it in 1964 and, in July 1968, the facility was closed then, a few months later, sold to United Grain Growers, becoming UGG’s second elevator at the site. UGG also bought the residence used by the Pool managers. Both elevators have since been removed from the site. Photo source: University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections

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Arkansas board stands by proposed herbicide limits

The measures are aimed at preventing a recurrence of last season, when millions of acres were said to be damaged

Monsanto wins state support in California cancer dispute Eleven other U.S. states are lining up to support the Roundup manufacturer BY TOM POLANSEK Reuters

Farmer John Weiss looks over his crop of soybeans, which he had reported to the state board for showing signs of damage due to the drifting of the pesticide dicamba, at his farm in Dell, Arkansas, U.S. July 25, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS/KAREN PULFER FOCHT

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rkansas agricultural regulators stuck with a proposal on Jan. 3 to prohibit sprayings of a controversial weed killer after mid-April, despite a lawsuit over the plan by manufacturer Monsanto. T h e s t a t e’s p l a n t b o a rd decided to move forward with a ban on the use of dicambabased herbicides from April 16 to Oct. 31, after state lawmakers recommended last month that the panel review its recommendation. The ban threatens to hurt demand for the products made by Monsanto and rival BASF because the chemicals are designed to be sprayed on dicamba-resistant crops during the summer growing season. The United States faced an agricultural crisis last year caused by new versions of the herbicides, which farmers and weed experts said evaporated and drifted away from where they were applied, damaging millions of acres of crops that could not tolerate dicamba. Mo n s a n t o a n d B A S F s a y the products are safe when used properly. They oppose the proposed ban in Arkansas and say it would hurt growers there by removing a tool to fight stubborn weeds.

Monsanto and BASF say the products are safe when used properly.

Monsanto is banking on its dicamba-based herbicide and soybean seeds engineered to resist it, called Xtend, to dominate soybean production in the United States, the world’s second-largest exporter. Last month, an Arkansas legislative subcommittee advised the plant board to review its proposed restrictions to consider scientificbased evidence and other factors, in a win for the agrichemical companies. The panel is set to consider the proposal again on Jan. 16. “They feel like having looked back over the revisions suggested, that the rule change is based on scientific evidence and is the lowestr isk option,” said Adr iane Barnes, a spokeswoman for the plant board. Other farm states, including Minnesota, Missouri and North Dakota, have imposed new limits on dicamba sprayings for 2018 in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the crop damage last year.

onsanto has won support from 11 U.S. states in its attempt to stop California from requiring cancer warnings on products containing glyphosate, ratcheting up a legal fight over the company’s popular weed killer. Missouri, home to Monsanto’s headquarters, along with other farm states including Iowa and Indiana, said in court documents on Jan. 2 that the warnings would be misleading because there is no definite link between glyphosate and cancer. Midwest businesses would need to include warnings on glyphosate products if California requires them or stop selling such goods because they may end up in the Golden State, according to the states’ filing. California added glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, to its list of cancer-causing chemicals in July 2017 and will require products containing the chemical to carry warnings by July 2018. The state acted after the World Health Organization’s International Agency f o r Re s e a rc h o n Ca n c e r concluded in 2015 that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic.”

“The mandate imposes confusing and potentially inconsistent obligations on non-resident businesses, creating a strong incentive to abandon glyphosate markets altogether.” State legal filing

“ The mandate imposes confusing and potentially inconsistent obligations on non-resident businesses, creating a strong incentive to abandon glyphosate markets altogether,” the states’ filing said. For more than 40 years, farmers have applied glyphosate to crops, most recently on soybeans that Monsanto genetically engineered to resist the herbicide. Roundup is also sprayed on residential lawns and golf courses. The controversy in California is a headache for the company as it faces a crisis around another herbicide based on a chemical known as dicamba that has been linked to U.S. crop damage. Monsanto, which is being acquired by Bayer AG for US$63.5 billion, developed the dicamba-based product following an increase in weeds resistant to glyphosate. The 11 states are supporting a federal lawsuit Mo n s a n t o, t h e Na t i o n a l

Association of Wheat Growers and other agr icultural groups filed in November to stop the state from requiring glyphosate warnings. Monsanto said Jan. 3 it had discussed California’s mandate with officials in agricultural states as it proceeded with the lawsuit. C a l i f o r n i a’s O f f i c e o f Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), which is named in the lawsuit, declined to comment. The office previously said it stands by the decision to include glyphosate on the state’s list of products known to cause cancer, as required under a rule known as Proposition 65. “Proposition 65 is 30 years old and for ever y one of those years there have been strenuous attempts to kill it on the ground that it’s different from other states,” said David Roe, the rule’s primary author. “They’ve always failed.”

Farm states are jumping on board for Monsanto’s lawsuit against California labelling requirements. PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS/MIKE MOZART

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PotashCorp and Agrium merger now a reality A key U.S. regulator was the final hurdle the deal had left to clear

Fertilizer merger effects muted for now One producer group says so far there aren’t any red flags popping up By Ashley Robinson

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a r m e r s s h o u l d n’t b e too concerned yet that the recent AgriumPotashCorp merger will cause an increase in the price of fertilizer, at least according to the president of one provincial producer group. “( The merger is) a hard one to find a whole bunch of negatives or positives about it. A year from now it might be a different story,” said Todd Lewis, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS). Initially announced in 2016, the merger between the two Canadian-based international c o m p a n i e s re c e i v e d f i n a l regulatory approval from the United States Federal Trade Commission the last week of December. The new company, Nutrien, was officially formed as of Jan. 1. In order for the merger to go through, the companies had to receive clearance from Canada, India and China, as well as the U.S. There were concerns for producers before the merger, according to Lewis but now with the new company being final, thoughts are mixed. APAS was concerned there would be a lessening of competition as there have been numerous mergers in the agriculture industry lately, however, it is pleased to see two Canadian companies merging. Dan Mazier, president of t h e Ke y s t o n e A g r i c u l t u ra l Producers (KAP), echoes Lewis’s sentiment, stating if at the end of the day it makes the companies stronger it is good for Canada as a whole. “I understand that they don’t plan on shutting down any mines or shutting down any nitrogen manufacturers. It’s

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actually letting (PotashCorp) “I understand that they don’t plan on into the network of Agrium and vice versa. So probably at the shutting down any mines or shutting down end of the day it’ll be a much any nitrogen manufacturers.” more robust company,” he said. Before the merger the comDan Mazier panies said they expected to KAP see an annual operation synergy of up to US$500 million from the deal. Nutrien is now ple (get the) products (from)... acquisitions that we’ve seen Canada’s third-largest natural I’m still thinking the Canadian and the recent merger, there’s resource company, at a value of way though... if I’m going to a number of safeguards that support anything we definitely have been put in place that approximately US$36 billion. Mazier is concerned the new support the Canadian compa- help to protect consumer prices,” he said. company could have an effect nies,” he said. Things could change but as According to Craig Klemmer, on independent retailers who sell Nutrien’s products. Nutrien principal agricultural econo- of right now, both APAS and has its own retail division, Crop mist with Farm Credit Canada, KAP aren’t concerned there will Production Services, which the merger had to undergo be an immediate effect. “(It’s) yet to be seen as far as rigorous scrutinization before was previously part of Agrium. the pricing. But it’ll be the sup“It’s more where people get being approved. “When we think about spe- ply and making sure that they their supplies from and if this is actually cutting out retail- cifically the nutrient mar- stay viable at the end of the SEC_WAB17_MB_WheatCity_SEC_WAB17_MB_WheatCity.qxd 2018-01-03 1:30 PM Page mergers and1 day,” Mazier said. ers or cutting out where peo- ket and these

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

Australia’s digital agriculture dream stymied Government scrimping on broadband infrastructure is blamed for the lag BY COLIN PACKHAM AND SONIA FENG Reuters

o o d a C re e k Fa r m , located just outside Australia’s capital city of Canberra, exemplifies the country’s agricultural ambitions — a boutique producer that sells more than 2,000 kilograms a week of prized shiitake mushrooms to domestic and Asian consumers. But when the farm suffered an internet outage in August, business owner Ivy Liu was unable to send invoices for more than two weeks, hampering business in a technical hindrance that has become common for many farmers, the government admits. Au s t r a l i a’s A $ 5 0 - b i l l i o n National Broadband Network (NBN) was supposed to be the catalyst that transformed the country’s agriculture, connecting farms with the global economy and improving internet services for rural communities in one of the world’s most sparsely populated nations. The digitalization of agriculture has revolutionized farming in many parts of Europe and the Americas with precision equipment and access to real-time market data boosting productivity and helping farmers better allocate resources. In Australia, however, government cost cutting, technological downgrades and reduced geographic rollouts of the broadband network have left a missing economic link for many farmers with internet services unreliable, slow and expensive. “Digital agriculture really is the next revolution for farming,” said Mark Harvey-Sutton, manager of rural affairs at Australia’s National Farmers Federation, a lobby group. “For many producers though, the NBN does not have the potential for digital agriculture — there is so much untapped potential across the sector.” The NBN was designed to bring faster optic fibres closer to the home than older ADSL connections, which are more reliant on the slower copper wires of legacy telephone connections. While this in theory should provide faster data speeds, the operator of the NBN earlier this year said the majority of customers are getting internet speeds that are no better than their older ADSL connections. Agricultural production has hit a record A$63 billion this year, however, productivity growth across the sector has slowed in the last decade, data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences shows. Precision agriculture, the use of sensors and robots to autonomously optimize the use of expensive inputs such as fertilizer to maximize production, offer the best hope of arresting the slide, farmers and analysts say. But for many farmers who have managed to connect to the NBN, bandwidth remains woefully inadequate to meet the data requirements of technologically sophisticated producers. Will Bignell, a livestock and irrigation farmer from Bothwell in Tasmania, uses technology ranging from soil moisture

probes through to web cameras so he can remotely monitor the watering of his crops. However, his NBN connections fail to deal with the most basic of demands, he says. “If we r u n a c o u p l e o f webcams and shift some data about, and then someone is at home and wants to watch Netflix... you run out of space to do anything,” said Bignell. The lack of decent connectivity also means newly developed robots, sophisticated enough to pick only ripe fruit, have failed to materialize. Farmers say without the supporting data infrastructure, such equipment is not worth the investment. Academics believe such technology offers the best shot at curbing a labour shortage across Australia’s farms, which are highly dependent on itinerant “backpacker” labour. Government data shows the number of backpackers, tourists who have working visas, willing to take on the three-month rural work in 2016 fell 10 per

cent from the previous season to hit a six-year low. Despite the introduction of special visas that allow tourists to stay for a second year if they do three months of work in rural Australia, farmers are still struggling to attract the labour they need to harvest their crops. While a tax increase last year and difficult working conditions are among major factors behind the decline in willing workers, farmers say a lack of decent Wi-Fi connections is also a major turnoff for many travellers looking for short-term work. Andrew Sevil, a livestock and crop farmer in Dirranbandi, 600 kilometres west of Brisbane, was so frustrated by unreliable internet speeds, he built a 53-metre internet tower in a bid to make life on his farm more attractive for workers. “They tend to ask these days whether they can access the internet before they even ask how much they’re being paid — it’s that important,” said Sevil.

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Plant and Animal Health Strategy pegged to proceed in 2018 A spring launch is planned, but there’s plenty of work to be done between now and then

BY ALEX BINKLEY Co-operator contributor

fter two years of talk, 2018 may be the year where there’s s o m e c o n c re t e a c t i o n o n the federal government’s Plant and Animal Health Strategy. Officials have spent two years discussing the matter at the ministerial level, with farm groups and other organizations. Now they’re hoping for a launch date this April. Before that step, a co-ordinating body needs to be selected to guide the implementation, Debbie Barr, d i re c t o r o f t h e A n i m a l He a l t h , Welfare and Biosecurity Division of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency told the recent conference of the National Far med Animal Health and Welfare Council. The strategy will be fleshed out with advice from governments and other stakeholders as the co-ordinating body takes full control.

Co-ordinated While there will be separate structures to oversee the plant and animal plans, they will be expected to work together, she said. The overall goal will be to advance disease preparedness and biosecurity measures to the same level across the country. “ We expect to see some early a c t i o n s,” s h e s a i d . On e a re a i s improving biosecurity measures and rules on truck transport and onfarm food safety. Jaspinder Komal, the acting chief veterinary officer, said the focus of the strategy will be on preventing the spread of animal and plant disease. “We also want to see more emphasis on collaboration among those involved in the sectors.” It’s in Canada’s economic interest to have the strategy succeed because it will improve the agrif o o d s e c t o r’s e x p o r t p ro s p e c t s.

“Good work on plant and animal health will pay off for Canada,” he said. In m a n y w a y s, t h e s t ra t e g y ’s goal of building public trust in the Canadian system matches the work of the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity.

Ongoing development The strategy is still a work in progress in terms of facing potential and real threats to animal and plant health. It received a lot of emphasis at the 2016 and 2017 annual summer meetings of the federal and provincial agriculture ministers and from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the 2016 inaugural CCFI Public Trust Summit in Ottawa. Last year, CFIA cautioned that it could take until 2021 to complete the strategy, in an update issued by the Canadian Food Inspection A g e n c y. It “ i s a s h a re d v i s i o n between partners across governments, industry, academia and others, and charts a path forward for collectively addressing evolving risks to plant and animal health.” CFIA said the risks to plant and animal health include plant pests and animal diseases that can have significant, devastating and longlasting impacts on Canadian agriculture. The agri-food sector needs “to anticipate and prepare for future challenges and opportunities. With increasingly complex and continuously changing risks, a collaborative approach is needed so that Canada can continue to safeguard plant and animal health.”

Complex The pillars of the strategy are partnerships, prevention, collection, analysis and sharing of information enabling desired behaviours, CFIA said. “Economic growth in the agricultural sector relies upon continued public trust in Canada’s ability to safeguard

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plant and animal health.” Currently partnership activities “are not fully integrated and expected results are not fully realized.” The strategy aims to help co-ordinate efforts to improve the effectiveness of measures to protect plant and animal health so groups “can make the most efficient use of their limited resources,” CFIA said. “Building partners’ collective awareness of best practices and lessons learned from past experiences enhances their ability to deliver effective interventions. “Maintaining and enhancing inter-

national relationships can improve sharing of information and resources for addressing outbreaks and for training, and can also enable joint and/or international efforts on risk mitigation to reduce risks on a global scale,” CFIA said. “Recognizing equivalent international systems for safeguarding plant and animal health and encouraging greater co-ordination and harmonization of related strategic approaches and standards among international partners, when feasible, can also lead to a more predictable trading environment.”

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Vet services get top marks in review An international organization has found Canada stacks up well against anyone when it comes to animal health BY ALEX BINKLEY Co-operator contributor

n international review o f t h e p r ov i s i o n o f veterinary services in Canada during 2017 found the system in good shape, says Jaspinder Komal, acting national chief veterinary officer. A team of veterinary experts assembled by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) checked documentation on veterinary training and operations and conducted on-site visits across the country, he told the recent annual conference of the National Farmed Animal Health and Welfare Council. “The assessment found Canadian veterinary services operate at the highest level with no major weaknesses,” Komal said. “The results are very favourable, with most scores being five out of five. A few areas scored four out of five or three out of five.” The low scores came in areas of known weaknesses that will be addressed, he said. One example was traceability of animals and their products. Another was on the implementation of a plan to curb antimicrobial resistance, which Health Canada has addressed with the release last fall of major steps in the Pan Canadian Framework on AMR. A final report on the review is expected to be released soon by the OIE, he said. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency “will develop an action plan with stakeholders to address all recommendations in the report.” The results of the veterinary assessment will also be used in an evaluation of Canada’s implementation during 2018 of the International Health Regulations being developed by the World Health Organization. Komal also reported on the 2nd OIE Global Conference on Biological Threat Reduction that brought high-level animal health experts from more than 100 countries to Ottawa. It produced 12 recommendations for member countries to increase international co-operation in preventing the accidental or deliberate spread of animal diseases around the world. They included closer col-

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

Veterinarians won’t be dealing doggy dope any time soon Vets are being asked about giving cannabis products to pets — but there’s no research, it’s not legal, and it could be dangerous BY JENNIFER BLAIR Staff

igh-strung heeler hounding you day and night? Crazy old barn cat climbing up the walls? You might be tempted to put on some Pink Floyd, dim the lights, and give them a little something to mellow them out. All of the attention on the pending legalization of marijuana has pet owners asking their vets about whether edible cannabis products are suitable for dogs or cats with behavioural problems or medical issues. But before dealing doggy dope or carrying kitty cannabis, think again, says the Alberta Veterinary Medical Association. “There is a real lack of evidence and information about cannabis use in animals,” said veterinarian Dr. Phil Buote, the association’s complaints director. “Veterinarians are in a situation where they’re being asked for a product that really doesn’t have sufficient research behind it to be able to safely make the recommendation to administer to pets.” His association has been fielding calls from vets across the province about the safety and effectiveness of administering cannabis to companion animals, said Buote. “If an animal owner has exhausted other treatment options, they may look for alternatives, as they might do for themselves in human medicine,” he said. “The issue is whether or not there’s sufficient information that a veterinarian can comfortably and confidently oversee the treatment of an animal with a cannabisbased product.” And the answer is a definite no can do doggy dude. “The research is not there to ensure that those products are safe or effective for the treatment of any kind of condition,” he said. The benefits of administering cannabis to animals are still theoretical as there is a “gross lack of randomized clinical trials and evidence that they are safe and beneficial,” the association said in a recent statement to its members. Moreover, the pending legalization of cannabis only applies to people, not pets, and there’s been no approval from Health Canada’s veterinary drug directorate — which is typically required for any drug given to pets or livestock. Veterinarians not only want to see solid research on the safety and efficacy of cannabis products, they also need information such as how to administer it, what dosage to prescribe, and how long the animal should be treated, said Buote. He also advises against pet owners going on the internet to find products containing cannabis for their animals. There’s no evidence those products actually work and they might be dangerous.

“There’s nothing on the market that’s approved by Health Canada to treat pets,” said Buote. “There are some products that might barely be described as ‘natural’ health products, though none are approved through natural health product regulations. “They could be administered to pets, but there’s still no data on the safety or efficacy of those products.” And the potential sideeffects go beyond a case of the munchies. There has been “a significant increase in the number of incidences of marijuana toxicity” in jurisdictions where cannabis has been decriminalized or legalized, he said. The biggest concern is for dogs, as cats are less likely to eat something that

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Mechanization will fix the country’s environment more quickly, but with some short-term pain BY BOUREIMA BALIMA Thomson Reuters Foundation

adjara Ali watched with displeasure as a tractor dug trenches through the parched earth in her remote Niger village, preparing ground for planting where grass has not grown in years. She was not unhappy with the results, however. Land projects such as this one have turned large tracts of Niger from brown to green in recent years and made parts of the hot, dry West African nation productive again. But 45-year-old Ali and the other women in Doumba village used to do the digging themselves, earning a few hardearned dollars a day for each half-moon-shaped trench they made, until the tractor was brought in a few months ago to replace them. “ We w o r k e d i n p a i r s . Sometimes we would dig six (trenches) a day, which earned us 2,600 CFA francs (US$4.50),” she said. “I know it’s not much, but it allowed me to be a bit independent.” In a push to combat desertification, the UN Food and

Agriculture Organization (FAO) is investing in tractors and plows to speed up land restoration in Africa’s Sahel, a semiarid belt below the Sahara that stretches from Senegal to Sudan. Intensive farming, overgrazing and changing rainfall patterns driven by climate change have made much of the land barren in recent decades, experts say. But the damage can be reversed with simple practices to retain soil moisture. Digging half-moon trenches is a traditional technique that aid agencies have encouraged throughout the region, often paying farmers or herders in food or cash for their labour. By using machines, women will no longer be obliged to do the back-breaking work left by men who leave their villages to herd livestock or look for jobs, say the FAO and local officials. But women of the Tillaberi region are far from pleased. “We will certainly rest but we will have a loss to make up,” said Salamatou Idrissa, another Doumba resident.

Great Green Wall With the use of machines, FAO

hopes to restore 18,000 hectares (180 sq. km) of degraded land in the region next year, three times the territory restored this year, said Moctar Sacande, international co-ordinator of the agency’s program Action Against Desertification. In a project dubbed Africa’s Great Green Wall, areas of the Sahel three times the size of France or Kenya that decades ago were covered with forests, crops and grasslands have been identified for restoration. The mechanized approach is already used in Senegal and will be expanded to Burkina Faso, Sudan and Nigeria in 2018, Sacande said. “ We a l re a d y h a v e s o m e results, that’s why we want to scale it up now,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. FAO foresaw that villagers would lose wages due to the mechanization and planned for them to earn money instead by collecting seeds for planting, said Sacande. In the long run, this will be more profitable than digging, said Arouna Compaore, an environmental technician in the local mayor’s office. But the women in Doumba

Women seen at the site of a land restoration project in Doumba, Niger, November 15, 2017. PHOTO: THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/BOUREIMA BALIMA

said that they had not yet been paid for the seeds they collected and were unsure when they would be. An official in the Environment Ministry said that his forestry unit planned to purchase the seedlings at the start of the rainy season, which is not until mid-May. “The women are struggling to get by. They have to wait several months to have money,” said Hamidou Beidari, a municipal councillor. Ali used to spend the money she earned from digging on essential items for her children,

including school-related fees, she said. Meanwhile, the difference made by tractors is plain to see. It used to take about 100 people one day to dig a hectare of land, which is about the size of a football pitch, said Sacande. Now, a single tractor can cover up to 15 hectares a day. To halt and reverse the impact of decades of overgrazing and deforestation, and meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal of reversing land degradation by 2030, around 10 million hectares will need to be restored each year, according to the FAO.

Brazil fights land violence

Digital monitoring tool will address landownership issues BY KARLA MENDES Thomson Reuters Foundation

Brazil — the world’s fifth-largest country — has launched a digital tool to monitor changes in land use, amid simmering violence over landownership, corruption and evictions. The government’s Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) said the interactive platform is the first to map the entire country, not just special areas like the Amazon. “The main purpose is to indicate where things are happening, at what speed and what is happening... if there was deforestation or if pasture or agriculture has entered (an area),” said the IBGE’s Maurício Zacarias Moreira. “We can analyse the past, see the present and do (data) modelling for the future,” the natural resource manager told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. Rising violence between Indigenous people and other land users, combined with often hazy property ownership and what activists consider high levels of impunity, have made Brazil the world’s deadliest country for land rights campaigners. London-based campaign group Global Witness said in July that 49 of 200 land activists killed last year were from Brazil. Farming plays a key role in Brazil’s economy, pitting the g ove r n m e n t , which wants to boost foreign investment in agricultural land to rekindle growth amid biting recession, against opponents

A member of an Indigenous Munduruku tribe is seen near a placard as they occupy the construction site of the hydropower plant of Sao Manoel, near the Teles Pires river, in the Alta Floresta city, in the north of the state of Mato Grosso in the Amazon, Brazil July 16, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS/LUNAE PARRACHO

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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 11, 2018

Foodies forsake beef for bugs Insects are now finding their way onto western tables BY LEE MANNION Thomson Reuters Foundation

fter watching locals in Malawi snacking on flying termites, British charity worker Shami Radia opened a pop-up restaurant in London with a seven-course menu dedicated to insects. With 400 satisfied customers in five days, Radia and his friend Neil Whippey took the plunge in 2014 and set up Eat Grub, a business selling insect-based foods to major online retailers and supermarkets, including Ocado, Amazon and Planet Organic. “We are trying to make people think about what they are doing,” 35-year-old Whippey, a former television sound mixer, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “If a family of four were to eat one meal with insects per week for a year, it would save 500,000 litres of water,” he said, referring to the vast amounts of water needed to produce beef in an increasingly water-stressed world.

Eat Grub is among a wave of social enterprises, with an eye on a global looming protein shortage and climate change, that are tempting people to eat insects instead of meat. The edible bug business is booming, with a global market of US$33 million in 2015, according to the research firm Global Market Insights, which expects it to grow 40 per cent by 2023. “There’s a certain age group now that really considers sustainability as a factor in their choices,” Whippey said. “There are many people who keep fit and are concerned about looking after the planet.” Methane from cows contributes to greenhouse gas emissions while clearance of land for cattle pasture also drives destruction of the Amazon, often described as the lungs of the planet. Other industr y leaders include Aspire Food Group, founded by five MBA students at Montreal’s McGill University who teamed up in 2013 to win the US$1-million Hult Prize,

The U.K.’s Eat Grub says insects are fast becoming part of the western diet. PHOTO: REUTERS

the world’s largest student competition for social good. “We believe that insects are the protein of the future,” its website says, describing the company as a global leader in the “edible insect movement.” Aspire is doubling production on its Texas farm after toasted grasshoppers sold out in April among fans watching Seattle Mariners baseball games, its business development manager, Vincent Vitale, said. Across the globe, another social enterprise, Cricket One, is boosting the earnings

of impoverished Vietnamese farmers by paying them to grow crickets in shipping containers to meet rising local demand for edible insects. The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says eating insects could help keep global malnutrition at bay, as the world’s population swells to nine billion by 2050. People have been eating insects for centuries, and up to 80 per cent of the world outside Europe and North America still rely on insects for some part of their diet, it says.

“Insects are one important solution as they offer a rich source of protein, amino acids, fatty acids and micronutrients,” said Giulia Muir, an FAO expert on edible insects. Eat Grub’s most popular retail products are energy bars made with ground-up crickets, sold by Ocado — Britain’s first national grocer to stock an insect-based food product. It also sells cricket flour for pasta and protein drinks and whole crickets, grasshoppers and mealworms, which come with suggested recipes. The c o m p a n y p l a n s t o launch a range of piri piri, smoky barbecue and sweet chili-flavoured crickets — a nod to the inspirational Malawians who were “knocking them back with beer, after having fried them with chili and lime,” Whippey said. “What we can do is change the mindsets of people around food,” he said. “It can be something that tastes great, is great for us but is also great for the planet at the same time.”

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BASF’s citral manufacturing plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany. Photo: BASF

lations of feeds to reduce levels of vitamins A and E is “not expected to cause any undue safety or welfare risks to livestock,” the agency said. However, to show that a given domestic or imported feed product is effective for its intended purpose, CFIA requires the product label to carry guarantees of certain nutrient levels. Normally, changing a product’s label guarantee for vitamins A and E would require an administrative amendment, but CFIA announced an interim measure given the “temporary nature of the situation.” Processors who have to reformulate feeds, with the aim of conserving inventories of vitamins A and E, may instead provide CFIA with a notification of reformulation, and attest that their labelling accurately reflects nutrient guarantees. The revised guarantees will be allowed until supplies of vitamins A and E have stabilized, after which processors’ guarantees for these vitamins will return to the levels as approved in their registrations, CFIA said. The cleanup, followup inspection, repair and restart for BASF’s citral plant — and the restart for affected downstream plants — are expected to take “several weeks,” the company said in mid-November.

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1981 NEIL’S 61’ double drop flat deck, snap-off neck, 36’ working deck, $7000; 1998 Trailtech tandem 12’ sprayer trailer, $8000. Call 780-221-3980, Leduc, AB. 2004 IH 7600 tandem truck, 670,000 kms, 13 spd., 425/65R22.5 front (20,000 lbs.), 11R22.5 rear (46,000 lbs.), $55,000. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. 2015 VOLVO 630, D13 500 HP, I-Shift, 2015 FORD F250 XLT, Super Duty 4x4 335,000 kms, 2016 Doepker Super B grain crew cab, 6.7L Diesel, auto., trailer tow hoppers, Air Max, like new, $191,000 unit. package, backup camera, tailgate steps, Will separate. 204-761-6695, Brandon, MB bronze fire exterior, tan cloth interior. 6 1/2’ box with cover and chrome tube rails. 23,900 kms, balance of all factory warranties, $47,500 firm plus GST. Call Bill 306-726-7977, Southey, SK.

2009 DODGE 3500 diesel, 1 ton, 4WD, with 5th wheel deck, 196,000 kms., new clutch, tires & glass, recent front suspension upgrade, $29,500; Double A 5th wheel trailer w/elec. winch, rear loading ramps, $12,500. Lamont Farm Centre Ltd, Lamont, AB. 780-895-7338, 780-940-6372.

1994 WESTERN STAR 4964F Crane truck, 584,000 kms., T/A, Cat 3406, Eaton 18 spd., Ferrari 8300 Kg crane, fresh safety, $19,800. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit: www.combineworld.com 1999 JOHNSTON STREET Sweeper, 16,126 miles/3037 hrs., Cummins 4 cyl., hyd. pump, $12,900. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

FREIGHTLINER CASCADIA, 530 HP Detroit deleted eng., 46,000 lb. diff., 18 spd., full fenders, new tires and beacon, $80,000. SPECIAL PURCHASE OF new and near new 2014-2015 Crosstrek XVs. Save up to 306-642-8551, Assiniboia, SK. $5000. Come in quickly!! 1-877-373-2662. www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

HEATED SNOWMOBILE TRAILERS, starting at $14,995! Call 1-866-346-3148 or shop online 24/7 at: allandale.com

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

2013 KENWORTH T660, 550 Cummins ISX, 18 spd., Super 40’s, 804,630 kms.; 2016 Lode King Super B grain trailers, 205,301 kms. $145,000 for both. Will sell separate. 306-741-6297, Swift Current, SK 2008 PETERBILT 386, yellow, daycab, 18 spd., 850,000 kms., 46k rears full locks, vg cond., $24,900. 780-206-1234, Barrhead.

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.

SMALL BUSINESSES FOR SALE: $50,000 to $500,000. Land and buildings not included. SUITE Business Services. Ph/txt Bert 306-664-BERT(2378). SUITE Business Services: Helping small businesses to grow, start and sell their 2011 FREIGHTLINER DAY-CAB, Detroit business. Ph/txt Bert 306-664-BERT(2378) DD15, 455 HP, 13 spd., 12 front, 40 rear, BUSINESS FOR SALE, $120,000. Offers 175” WB, 715,800 kms., $44,900. DL# great growth opportunity in consumer and 1679. Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. pet industry. Saskatoon, SK. Call 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.

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, 2004 F-150 HERITAGE, 5.4 auto., 2WD, 2012 MACK CXU613 day-cab, Mack MP8, 306-266-2016, Wood Mountain, SK. Email only 80,000 kms., uses clean burning natu- 455HP, Eaton 13 spd., $39,900. DL#1679. ral gas, economical to run! $3900. Cam- Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. gm93@sasktel.net Don Motors Ltd, 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK 2002-2003 FLD 120/60 series trucks; 2007 W900, only 690 km, 2009 T800 single turbo CAT; 2009 Cascadia, only 309,000 km; T800 550 Cummins; 2011 Pro Star 1979 MACK TANDEM, R600 21' grain box, 2011 Cummins. All units no emissions, 300 HP, 10 speed, 3rd axle air lift, safetied, rebuilt Very good shape. Call 306-752-4909, cell $20,000. 204-324-9300 or 204-324-7622, 306-921-7721, Melfort, SK. Altona, MB. E-mail: gpwiebe@sdnet.ca 2013 PROSTAR MAX FORCE 13, 18 spd., 2018 SUNDOWNER RS 8’x30’ GN, triple 7K AUTOSHIFT TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Boxed 4-way lockers, 46 rears, new rubber, 52” axles, spare tire, 8/11/11 compartments, tandems and tractor units. Contact David high rise bunk, fresh safety, white colour, #J1KB6153, $34,500. 1-866-346-3148 or 306-887-2094, 306-864-7055, Kinistino, v. clean, Wabasco heater, 800,000 kms., shop online 24/7 at: allandale.com SK. DL #327784. www.davidstrucks.com $40,000 OBO. 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK

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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

NEUFELD ENT. CORRAL CLEANING, payloader, Bobcat with rubber tracks and vertical beater spreaders. Phone 306-220-5013, 306-467-5013, Hague, 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

BRUSH MULCHING. The fast, effective way to clear land. Four season service, competitive rates, 275 HP unit, also avail. trackhoe with thumb, multiple bucket attachments. Bury rock and brush piles and fence line clearing. Borysiuk Contracting 2010 CAT D7R 2 LGP crawler tractor, PackInc., www.bcisk.ca Prince Albert, SK., ard winch, AC, cab, canopy, sweeps, A306-960-3804. dozer 16.6”, 36” pads, UC as new, 6282 hrs., very clean, $285,000; 2008 JD 850J MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. WLT crawler dozer, c/w ROP’S, 12’ 6-way Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: blade, SBG pads, 8700 hrs., $95,000. www.maverickconstruction.ca 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. REGULATION DUGOUTS: 120x60x14’, $2000; 160x60x14’, $2950; 180x60x14’, $3450; 200x60x14’, $3950. Larger sizes avail. Travel incl. in SK. See us on FB at saskdugouts. 306-222-8054, Saskatoon SK

FARMING OPERATING LOSSES For Sale: A longstanding farm that has now ceased its operations has substantial operating losses in a #'d company available for purchase and utilization by another farming operation. These losses can be used to offset farm income and/or farming capital gains. $97,500. 250-999-4777, Vancouver, BC. just.p@shaw.ca DEBTS, BILLS AND charge accounts too high? Need to resolve prior to spring? Call us to develop a professional mediation plan, resolution plan or restructuring plan. Call toll free 1-888-577-2020. FARM/CORPORATE PROJECTS. Call A.L. Management Group for all your borrowing and lease requirements. 306-790-2020, Regina, SK.

SASKATOON FARM TOY and Collectible Show at the German Culture Center, Jan. 12th, 13th & 14th 2018. Fri. 5 PM - 9 PM; Sat. 10 AM- 5 PM; Sun. 10 AM- 4 PM. Special features: Farm Toys and Scenes; Construction Equipment; Vintage toys and much more! 306-237-4747, Saskatoon, SK.

2015 JOHN DEERE 130G track hoe, w/quick attach bucket, hyd thumb, c/w 50” ditching bucket, excellent shape, 600 hrs. $122,250. Lawrence 204-586-9176 or Micheal shop, 204-871-6483, Austin, MB. JCB 550-17 EXTENDED boom forklift, very good condition, $85,000. 204-243-2453, High Bluff, MB.

BEAVER CONTAINER SYSTEMS, new and used sea containers, all sizes. 306-220-1278, Saskatoon and Regina, SK.

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WINTER SPECIAL: All post & stud frame farm buildings. Choose sliding doors, overhead doors or bi-fold doors. New-Tech Construction Ltd 306-220-2749, Hague, SK BEHLEN STEEL BUILDINGS, quonsets, convex and rigid frame straight walls, grain tanks, metal cladding, farm- commercial. Construction and concrete crews. Guaranteed workmanship. Call your Saskatoon and Northwest Behlen Distributor, Janzen Steel Buildings, 306-242-7767, Osler, SK. WOOD POST BUILDING packages or built on site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com

MOVE YOUR DIRT real cheap! Low prices! (3) Cat 641 motor 28 yard scrapers; Cat 235 excavator w/digging bucket, not used in 5 yrs.; Cat D9-G hyd. dozer w/tow winch; (2) Cat 980B loaders w/bucket; Cat 977-K loader. Equipment of all types. New & used parts. 2 yards over 50 acres. Cambrian Equipment Sales, Winnipeg, MB. (Ph) 204-667-2867 or (Fax) 204-667-2932.

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., INTERNATIONAL CLOSED DOOR baler, 306-231-7318, 306-682-4520 Muenster SK model NA1450; 2 hydraulic pin presses; 1 portable hydraulic track press; 3 Goodman 2014 L10 TAKEUCHI Skid Steer, 3500 hrs., battery locomotive carts w/hundreds of good condition, comes with tooth bucket. feet of track. Cambrian Equipment Sales, 306-441-1684, Cut Knife, SK. Winnipeg, MB. (Ph) 204-667-2867 or (Fax) 2002 JCB 214 SLP backhoe; Case 2870 204-667-2932. w/Degelman dozer; Fassi hyd. arm & 10’ 1-ton steel deck. Call 306-240-8086.

STRAIGHT WALL BUILDING packages or built on site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com STRAIGHT WALL BUILDING packages or built on site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com INSULATED FARM SHOP packages or built on site, for early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com

INSULATED FARM SHOP packages or built on site, for early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: 1980 D6D DOZER, wide pad, winch; 1993 www.warmanhomecentre.com D37 P6 6-way dozer, cab. 306-304-1959. WOOD POST BUILDING packages or built Goodsoil, SK. on site. For early booking call 1980 CAT D6D, PS, hyd. angle dozer 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: w/tilt, wide pad, & winch, very low hrs. www.warmanhomecentre.com Call Scott, 306-533-6397, Regina, SK.

LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom hay hauling. 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK.

1997 CAT D6R crawler, enclosed cab w/air, heat, canopy, front sweeps, rear screen, side covers, H.S. dozer, twin tilts, Cat. genuine UC at 70%, diff. steering. Priced well below retail at $ 44,500! Call Robert Harris, Gimli, MB. toll free: 1-877-614-4203, or cell: 204-470-5493. Visit: robertharrisequipment.com for complete details & pics of all our equipment.

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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. Call 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

2008 G940 TANDEM drive articulated, Volvo D7E eng., net 165 HP, HTE 1160, shuttle auto shift trans. (11 fwd, 6 rvs), 14’ board, 5688 hrs., $74,800. DL#1679. JIM’S TUB GRINDING, H-1100 Haybuster mold with 400 HP, serving Saskatchewan. Call Norm 204-761-7797, Brandon, MB. 306-334-2232, 306-332-7332, Balcarres. 1998 D6RLGP TWIN TILT angle dozer, winch, full cab canopy, would trade for D6N. 306-278-7740, Porcupine Plain, SK.

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GREAT PRICES ON new, used and remanufactured engines, parts and accessories for diesel pickups. Large inventory, engines can be shipped or installed. Give us a call or check: www.thickettenginerebuilding.ca Thickett Engine Rebuilding. 204-532-2187, Russell, MB.

TIM’S CUSTOM BIN MOVING and Hauling Inc. Up to 22’ diameter. 204-362-7103 binmover50@gmail.com GRAIN BIN INSTALLATION. Large diameter bin setup, concrete, and repairs. Now booking Spring 2018. Quadra Development Corp., 1-800-249-2708.

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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

POLY GRAIN BINS, 40 to 150 bu. for grain cleaning, feed, fertilizer and left over treated seed. 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.

FEED BLOWER SYSTEMS, Sales and Service. Piping, blower and airlock repairs. John Beukema 204-497-0029, Carman, MB 2011 BRANDT 5200EX grain vacuum, 1000 PTO, new flighting, good condition, $14,900. Phone 1-800-667-4515 or visit: www.combineworld.com

BALE SPEARS, high quality imported from Italy, 27” and 49”, free shipping, excellent pricing. Call now toll free 1-866-443-7444, Stonewall, MB.

2013 JOHN DEERE 569, net wrap & twine, Mega Wide plus pick-up, only 5500 bales, variable core, kicker, 1000 PTO, exc. cond., $41,000. 306-834-7204, Kerrobert, SK.

2010 TERRAGATOR 8204 w/AirMax PreciBROCK (BUTLER) GRAIN BIN PARTS sion 2 bed (2 bin), 4400 hrs., $93,500 and accessories available at Rosler Con- USD; 2014 Rogator 1300 AirMax, 60’ struction. 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK. booms, 3220 hrs., $127,000; 2012 AgChem Rogator 1300, 2000 hrs., 120’ booms, $152,000. Call 406-576-3402 or 406-466-5356, Choteau, MT. www.fertiliCONTAINERS FOR SALE OR RENT: All zerequipment.net sizes. Now in stock: 53’ steel and insulated TORO-MASTER NH3 CADDY w/twin 2000 stainless steel. 306-861-1102 Radville, SK. tanks, high flotation tires and big plumbSHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR SALE. 20’- ing, like new condition, $65,000 OBO. 53’, delivery/ rental/ storage available. For 204-648-7085, Grandview, MB. inventory and prices call: 306-262-2899, Saskatoon, SK. www.thecontainerguy.ca USED FERTILIZER SPREADERS: 4-8T; New Loftness 8T; used Wilmar 16T tender. Call 1-866-938-8537, Portage, MB.

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CONT. FLOW BEHLEN M700, propane, single phase, good cond., Canola screens, $10,500. 306-690-8105, Moose Jaw, SK.

BALE SPEAR ATTACHMENTS for all loaders and skidsteers, excellent pricing. Call now 1-866-443-7444.

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2012 CASE 4530, 3-bin, 70’ booms, 2000 hrs., ext. warranty, $152,000; 2011 4520 1-bin, 70’ booms, $145,000; 2010 Case 3520, 3-bin, 2670 hrs., $115,000; SPECIAL: 2010 4520 1- bin, 70’ booms, 1800 hrs., $125,000; 2010 Case 4520, 1-bin, 70’ booms, 1920 hrs., AutoSteer, $138,000; 2006 Case 4510, AutoSteer, FlexAir 70’ booms, 7400 hrs., $77,000; 2005 Case 4520 w/70’ FlexAir, 4000 hrs., $78,000; 2004 Case 4010, 80’ SPRAYER, 7000 hrs., $58,000; 2002 Loral AirMax 1000, 70’ SAVE FREIGHT! U-weld hopper cones for boom, $63,000; 2009 AgChem 3 wheeler, all brands of bins up to 24’. Middle Lake 4000 hrs., G-force spinner bed, $88,000; Steel, 306-367-4306 or 306-367-2408. 2004 KBH Semi tender, self-contained, $32,500; 2009 and 2012 Merritt semi belt www.middlelakesteel.com tender, self-contained, $33,500 and $44,000; 24 ton Wilmar tender beds, $18,500 ea; 2010 Wilmar Wrangler 4560, loader, 1600 hrs., $25,500; 2009 Wrangler, 2400 hrs., $23,500; 18,000 gal. NH3 holding tank, $34,500. All USD prices. 406-576-3402 or 406-466-5356, Choteau, MT. Visit online: www.fertilizerequipment.net

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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.

NEVER CLIMB A BIN AGAIN! Full-bin Super Sensor, reliable hardwired with 2 year warranty; Magnetic Camera Pkg. - One man positioning of auger (even at night); For allyour Keho, Hopper Dropper - Unload your hopper bins G rain G uard,Aeration & without any mess; Wireless Magnetic LED Light - Position your swing auger at night Storm ax/ OPIProducts from the comfort of your truck. Safety and convenience are the name of the game. KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD/ OPI STORMAX. www.brownlees.ca Brownlees Trucking Inc For sales and service east central SK. and Unity, SK., 306-228-2971, 1-877-228-5598 MB., call Gerald Shymko, Calder, SK., 306-742-4445 or toll free 1-888-674-5346. REMOTE CONTROL SWING AUGER movers, trailer chute openers, endgate KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD Aeration Sales and hoist systems, wireless full bin alarms, and Service. R.J. Electric, Avonlea, SK. Call swing belt movers, wireless TractorCams, 306-868-2199 or cell 306-868-7738. motorized utility carts. All shipped directly to you. Safety, convenience, reliability. Kramble Industries at 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or www.kramble.net 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 GRAVITY WAGONS: New 400 bu, $7,400; Inc. www.masterindustries.ca Phone 600 bu., $12,500; 750 bu., $18,250. Large 1-866-567-3101, Loreburn, SK. selection of used gravity wagons, 250-750 bu. Used grain carts, 450 to 1110 bushel. RM45 MERIDIAN, $35,000; RM55 Me- View at: www.zettlerfarmequipment.com ridian, $36,500; 1645 TL Convey-All, 1-866-938-8537, Portage la Prairie, MB. $29,500. Call 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg. 2012 BRENT 882 Grain Cart, 850 bu., 2008 WALINGA TRIDEM live bottom, 1000 PTO, hydraulic spout, 500 bu./min., 107,493 kms, alum., 12 comp., hydraulic very good condition, $37,800 control, very good condition, $44,800. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

FOR ALL YOUR grain storage, hopper 3406B, N14, SERIES 60, running engines and steel floor requirements contact: SKIDSTEER ATTACHMENTS: Buckets, rock and parts. Call Yellowhead Traders, cone Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll buckets, grapples, weld-on plates, hyd. au- 306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK. free: 1-888-304-2837. gers, brush cutters and more large stock. Top quality equipment, quality welding WANTED DIESEL CORES: ISX and N14 BOOK NOW, TAKE DELIVERY, DON’T and sales. Call Darcy at 306-731-3009, Cummins, C15 Cats, Detroits Ddec 3, 4, PAY UNTIL NOVEMBER, 2018. Top 306-731-8195, Craven, SK. DD15. Can-Am Truck 1-800-938-3323. quality MERIDIAN bins. Price includes: skid, ladders to ground, manhole, set-up PULL TYPE ROAD GRADER, conversion by 290 CUMMINS, 350 Detroit, 671 Detroit, and delivery within set radius. Meridian CWK Enterprises, Humboldt, SK. 16’ blade, Hopper Combo SPECIAL: 5000 bu., used 1 day, new condition, $35,000. Series 60 cores. 306-539-4642, Regina, SK $14,990. We manufacture superior quality 306-476-7728, Fife Lake, SK. hoppers and steel floors for all makes and sizes. Know what you are investing in. Call 2007 CAT D6N LGP Dozer, new undercarriage, 34” pads, diff. steer, 6-way blade, FARM AND INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL and find out why our product quality and 16,131 hrs., $94,900. 1-800-667-4515, motor sales, service and parts. Also sale price well exceeds the competition. We also stock replacement lids for all makes & www.combineworld.com of, and repairs to, all makes and sizes of models of bins. Leasing available. Hoffart pumps and phase converters, etc. Tisdale Services Inc., 306-957-2033, Odessa, SK. 1978 CHAMPION 740 motor grader, De- Motor Rewinding 1984 Ltd., troit 6 cylinder, showing 2568 hours, 14’ 306-873-2881, fax 306-873-4788, 1005Amoldboard, scarifier, cab, new rear tires, 111th Ave., Tisdale, SK. tmr@sasktel.net BIN MOVING, all sizes up to 19’ diameter, w/wo floors; Also move liquid fert. tanks. $16,900. Call 1-800-667-4515, or visit: Website: www.tismtrrewind.com 306-629-3324, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK. www.combineworld.com

EXCAVATOR BUCKETS, various shapes and sizes for different excavators. Call 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. ROAD GRADERS CONVERTED to pull behind large 4 WD tractors, 14’ and 16’ 1986 CASE 450C dozer crawler, 6-way blade widths avail. 306-682-3367, CWK blade $9500. www.waltersequipment.com Ent. Humboldt, SK. www.cwenterprises.ca 204-525-4521. Minitonas, MB. HYDRAULIC SCRAPERS: LEVER 60, 70, Round up the cash! Advertise your unwant- 80, and 435, 4 to 30 yd. available. Rebuilt ed equipment in the Manitoba Co-operator for years of trouble-free service. Lever Holdings Inc. 306-682-3332 Muenster, SK. classifieds.

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BUILDING FOR SALE, 100’x125’, to be taken down, $40,000. 204-997-9689, Winnipeg, MB. AFAB INDUSTRIES POST frame buildings. For the customer that prefers quality. 1-888-816-AFAB (2322), Rocanville, SK. 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. canada’s ag-only listings giant

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.

2013 MACDON A30-D 18’, double knife drive, steel crimpers, 1000 PTO, $19,900. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

2009 CHALLENGER SP115C, 30’, Outback AutoSteer, PUR, roto-shears, gauge wheels, 2356 hrs., $39,900. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 2010 JD A400, 1132 hrs., AutoSteer, 36’, HB header, UII PUP, new knife & guards, $53,400. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit www.combineworld.com

MERIDIAN GRAIN AUGERS available with self-propelled mover kits and bin sweeps. Call Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipaw- 2012 CASE 8120, 3016 table, 1106 sep. hrs., duals, lat. tilt, Pro 700, 262 AutoSteer, in, SK. Toll free 1-888-304-2837. power fold top, exc.cond., $195,000 OBO. YEAR END CLEARANCE: New SLMD 403-340-9484, Trochu, AB. 1272 and HD10-53. Used augers: 2013 Sakundiak SLMD 1272, loaded, $14,800; BOOKING NORCAN SOYBEAN Common SLMD 10x66, loaded, $11,500; Farm King #1. Put the new big red in your shed, not 10x70 S/A, $6900; HD 8x39 w/20 HP Koh- the seed dealers! Buy a bigger Case/IH ler and mover $6950. Also a dealer for combine! Early discounts. Call Norcan Convey-All Conveyors. Leasing available! Seeds, 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch, MB. Call Dale at Mainway Farm Equipment, 306-567-3285 or 306-567-7299, Davidson. 2000 CIH 2388 w/1015 header, $55,000; www.mainwayfarmequipment.ca 2004 2388 w/2015 PU header, $95,000; 2006 2388 w/2015 PU header, $110,000; MERIDIAN AUGERS IN STOCK: swings, 2002 2388 w/2015 PU header, $80,000; truck loading, Meridian SP movers. Call 2008 2588 w/2015 PU header, $135,000. Hoffart Services Inc., Odessa, SK., A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-957-2033. 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

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2004 CASE/IH 2388, AFX rotor, lateral tilt feeder house, HHC, chopper, rock trap, grain tanks extension w/roll tarp, DMC II moisture tester, exc. cond, very good tires, $65,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK.

SWATHMASTER AND RAKE-UP Belt 2014 NH SP 240F-XP, 275 HP, 120’, 1200 Rollers available brand new! Save vs. stainless, fully loaded incl. AIM Command, OEM prices. Call us now! 1-800-667-4515, both sets tires, $209,000. 306-948-7223. www.combineworld.com 2015 CASE/IH 4440 120’, AIM, AutoBoom, AccuBoom, Pro 700 Stk: 023153 $475,000. 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, PRICE REDUCED! 2002 CIH 2388, low hrs., SK. www.redheadequipment.ca chopper, very good PU, always shedded. 306-654-7772, Saskatoon, SK. 2013 JD 4940 120’, BoomTrac, sect. control, AutoSteer, 2630 monitor, Stk: 02415, $240,000. 1-888-905-7010, Prince Albert, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 1-800-667-9871 •• Regina 1-800-667-9871 Regina 2012 760TT, Terra Trac, 3000/1500 hrs., 1998 CASE/IH SPX3185 90’, 2 sets tires 1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon new tracks, $40,000 w/o, nice, $159,000 1-800-667-3095 Saskatoon Stk: 017817, $79,000. 1-888-905-7010, 1-800-387-2768 •• Winnipeg Cdn. OBO. 218-779-1710. Delivery avail. Saskatoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton 1-800-667-3095 • Manitoba PRICED TO SELL! Multiple Lexion 700 & 2010 JD 4830, 100’ booms, 1000 gal. “For All Your Farm Parts” 500 series combines. All in excellent contank, AutoSteer, Swath Pro, AutoBoom St: dition. 218-779-1710. Delivery available. www.fyfeparts.com 021520, $215,000. 1-888-905-7010, Saskatoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2006 LEXION 590R, 1850 sep. hrs., 2900 eng. hrs., 4x4, loaded, $99,500 CAD OBO. Delivery available. 218-779-1710.

ALLIS CHALMERS 8010 4WD tractor w/FEL & 3PTH., $6500 OBO. Call 306-862-8460, 306-277-4503, Gronlid, SK.

2012 CLAAS/LEXION 740, 400 sep./700 eng. hrs., 4x4, loaded, exc. cond, $219,000 CAD OBO. Delivery avail. 218-779-1710.

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2- 2009 LEXION 585R Track Combines, 1700 sep./2400 eng. hrs., 4x4, loaded, always shedded, exc. condition, $169,000 CAD OBO. Delivery avail. 218-779-1710.

LIKE NEW CR9090, CR9080 and CR8090, all very low hours. Discounted prices, save $$$. Call 218-779-1710. Delivery available. 2012 NH CR9090 Elevation, 1200 hrs., AutoSteer, 650R42 duals, European-built, MacDon/CNH pickups and headers available. $198,000. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 2003 NH CR940, 2588 hrs., chopper, spreader, unload auger ext., 900/ 60R32 fronts, headers/PU’s available, $49,800. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

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2009 SEED HAWK 66-12 66’, 12” sp., sin- 2015 CASE 580 QT, 1029 hrs., full load, gle knife, pneum. pkrs, 30.8 rear tires, Stk: ext. warranty, PTO, eng. break, $430,000 021475, $205,000. 888-905-7010, Prince OBO. 403-575-5491, Coronation, AB. Albert, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2016 CASE/IH STX 420, 4 wheel drive, 2010 CASE/IH ATX700 70’, rubber pack- 710/R42 Firestone tires, full AutoSteer, ers, high float tires, double shoot, Stk: PTO, high capacity pump, 4 remotes, full 020407, $94,000. 1-888-905-7010, Swift LED light package and deluxe cab. Field ready, 410 hrs., $350,000. 403-901-5390, Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca Strathmore, AB. 2010 JOHN DEERE 1830 61’, 10” sp, DS dry, Poirier openers, Alpine liquid kit Stk: 023964, $67,500. 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca STEIGER TRACTOR PARTS. New and used, from radiator to drawpin, 1969 to 2006 BOURGAULT 5710 40’ 9.8” spacing, 1999. Give us a call 1-800-982-1769 or steel packers, 6200 Stk: 020500, Cart www.bigtractorparts.com $60,000. www.redheadequipment.ca or 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. 1986 PANTHER 1000, with 3406 CAT engine, PowerShift transmission (no PTO), 2012 BOURGAULT 3320 QDA 66’, 10” sp., 20.8x38 rubber, 9800 hrs., 335 HP, 40 c/w L6550 tank, MRB, NH3 kit, duals Stk: GPM hydraulic, new batteries, and tires are 02317, $295,000. Call 1-888-905-7010, decent. 306-594-7716, Norquay, SK. FLOATER TIRES: Factory rims & tires: JD Saskatoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 4045, 710/60R46, $20,500; 800/55R46, $22,500; JD 4038, Case 4420, 650/65R38 2010 CASE/IH ATX700 70’, rubber packMichelin tires and rims. Sprayer duals ers, high float tires, double shoot, Stk: 2014 MT965C, 800’s, 5 hyds., GPS, 1025 020407, $94,000. 1-888-905-7010, Swift hrs., 525 HP, loaded, $329,900; 2013 MT available. 306-697-2856, Grenfell, SK. Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 545D, loader & grapple, 24 spd., dual PTO, 1512 hrs., cab susp., 155 HP, $129,900; FLEXI-COIL 5000 51’, 9”, w/2320, 4” rub- 2012 MT955C, 2400 hrs., 800’s, PTO, ber packers, in-row liquid phos. $18,500. $279,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK. 306-690-8105, Moose Jaw, SK.

WANTED: 40’ SEEDMASTER, 10” spac2002 JOHN DEERE 1820 air drill, 54', 10" ing, with on board seed and fertilizer 2 JOHN DEERE 8970’s: 5400 hrs., powerspacing, auto rate, 2012 Agtron primary tanks. Call 780-518-2816, Hythe, AB. shift, $79,000 Cdn OBO; 6800 hrs., 24 blockage system, Bourgault 3" carbide spd., $69,000 Cdn. OBO. Both have PTO 2009 SEED HAWK 66’, 12” spacing, single knock on spoons, JD structural reinforcement kit on drill and cart, 1900 JD 350 bu. knife, 600 bu. TBH tank, 30.8 rear tires, al- and 3PTH. 218-779-1710. Delivery avail. cart, $27,000 OBO. Call 306-268-4350, ways shedded, field ready, $160,000. 1964 JD 4020: New top end, sleeves, pis780-812-4471, Bonnyville, AB. 306-268-7858, Bengough, SK. tons, batteries, oils, & fluids. $9500 OBO. 204-739-3392, Fisher Branch, MB. 2010 BOURGAULT 3310, 74', MRB's with granular and liquid kits., 2" carbide tips, 4" BOOK NORCAN SOYBEANS Common #1 round air filled packers. No frame cracks, 54’ 2008 BOURGAULT 5710, good shape, so you keep more green. Buy a bigger JD $75,000 OBO. 204-526-0575, Regina, SK. new points, c/w 2013 6550 tank, X30 with the savings! Early discounts. Norcan marcelrejean@hotmail.com monitor, $125,000 OBO. 306-567-7703 or Seeds at 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch MB. 306-567-7184, Davidson, SK. 2014 55' K-HART drill, Paralink 4612 open1990 JOHN DEERE 8560 4WD, 230 HP, ers, Quick depth changing, Bg MRB, high PTO, new rubber, always shedded, with JD floatation, 3" V-packers, great shape. AutoSteer, $43,500 OBO. Phone/text Awesome for high speed fertilizer banding 204-242-4332, Manitou, MB or seeding. Seed in tall stubble, $70,000 OBO. Del. possible. 204-526-0575, Swift STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specialGAUGE WHEEL Current, SK. marcelrejean@hotmail.com izing in rebuilding JD tractors. Want Series & GAUGE 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 7000s to rebuild or for FLEXI-COIL 5000, 57.5’, 7.5” spacing, 4” WHEEL KIT parts. pay top $$. Now selling JD parts. 3” & 4” OPTIONS rubber press, 2320 tank, deluxe monitor, 204-466-2927, 204-871-5170, Austin, MB. $14,000. 204-476-6907, Neepawa, MB. UTILITY TRACTORS: John Deere 6200, 2 CIH ATX700, 60’, 12” sp., 5.5” rubber packWD, open station with loader; JD 5085 E, ers, Raven NH3, closers and single bar harMFWD w/loader. 204-522-6333, Melita. REPLACEMENT row. $28,000. 204-648-7085, Grandview.

GOODS USED TRACTOR parts (always buying tractors). David or Curtis, Roblin, 2011 BOURGAULT 3310, 74’, 12” spacings, MB., 204-564-2528, 1-877-564-8734. MRS, 6550 tank, X20 monitor, duals, bag 2004 JD 7300, 1497 cutter head hrs., G.S. TRACTOR SALVAGE, JD tractors lift, 2 fans, 1 high capacity fan, cameras, Capstan NH3 kit, sectional control, always stored in heated shop, owned for only. Call 306-497-3535, Blaine Lake, SK. $177,000. 204-748-8156, Elkhorn, MB. 10+ yrs., many new parts over last two years, c/w KP and 2004 JD 686 corn head and 2011 JD 630C grass head, excellent SMITH’S TRACTOR WRECKING. Huge 2008 SEEDMASTER 8012, 2004 NH 430 cond., $195,000 OBO. For details call inventory new and used tractor parts. tank, 3 compartments with 5 rollers, Raven NH3, $89,000 OBO. 306-272-7225, 1-888-676-4847. 604-819-8870, Chilliwack, BC. Foam Lake, SK. COMB-TRAC SALVAGE. We sell new and 2010 NH/FLEXI-COIL 5500, 70’, 10” spacMULTIPLE 9870 & 9770 JD combines, field ready with very low hours (700-900 sep. used parts for most makes of tractors, ing, 3” paired row carbide atom jet knives, hrs.), various options in excellent condi- combines, balers, mixmills and swathers. DS, full blockage; 2010 Flexi-Coil 430 bu. 306-997-2209, 1-877-318-2221, Borden, TBT cart, 3 tanks, var. rate metering, 20.8x tion. Delivery available. Ph 218-779-1710. SK. We buy machinery. 38 duals, 10” deluxe load-in auger. Both 2005 JD 9860STS, GS yield and moisunits shedded since new and in excellent ture, AHHC, F/A, 3106 hrs., JD/MacDon LOEFFELHOLZ TRACTOR AND COMBINE cond., $85,000. 306-675-6136, Kelliher, SK pickups and headers available. $59,800. Salvage, Cudworth, SK., 306-256-7107. We sell new, used and remanufactured JD 1830/1910, 61’, 10” spacing, 4” SP, 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com dutch paired row, DS if wanted. TBH 430 parts for most farm tractors and combines. bu. cart, variable rate conveyor, power cal. 2014 JD S690, 753 hrs., Contour Master, 2630 monitor, Prodrive, premium cab, AGRA PARTS PLUS, parting older trac- Will separate, negotiable, $65,000 OBO. JD/MacDon pickup & headers available. tors, tillage, seeding, haying, along w/oth- 306-743-7622, Langenburg, SK. $289,900. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit er Ag equipment. 3 miles NW of Battle- 2011 SEED HAWK 50’ toolbar, 12” spacwww.combineworld.com ford, SK. off #16 Hwy. Ph: 306-445-6769. ing, w/600 cart, dual wheels, auger and bag lift, $225,000; 2010 Seed Hawk 66’ JD STS WIDESPREAD TAILBOARD: TRIPLE B WRECKING, wrecking tractors, toolbar, 12” spacing, w/400+ Seed Hawk Don’t like your current powercast set-up? combines, cults., drills, swathers, mixmills. seed cart, 2 fans, seed and fertilizer kit, We sell brand new widespread kits for all etc. We buy equipment. 306-246-4260, also NH kit, $175,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm STS models for $1495 or free with the 306-441-0655, Richard, SK. Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. trade-in of your old powercast! 2010 SEED HAWK 60’ Toolbar, 12” sp., 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com w/Seed Hawk 400 cart, 2 fans, seed & fertilizer distributing kit auger. Also NH kit & 2013 JD S670, w/615 pickup, full GPS, winch $175,000. 306-449-2255, A.E. Chiloaded up nice, 1200 sep., $199,000; 2010 coine Farm Equipment Ltd., Storthoaks SK. JD 9870 STS, 1500 sep., no pickup head, $125,000. 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK. 2010 BOURGAULT 3310 65’, Paralink, 12” spacing, mid row shank banding, double shoot, rear hitch, tandem axles, low acres, $135,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 2009 MF 9795, 1723 hrs., duals, Fieldstar III, Redekop MAV chopper, pick2012 SEEDHAWK 50’ toolbar, 10” spacings, ups/headers available, $97,800. 500 SeedHawk tank, sec. control, shedded, 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com vg cond. 306-865-6603, Hudson Bay, SK. 2008 SEEDMASTER TXB 66-12, 66’, 12” spacing, dual wheels, double shoot, all new manifold and new hoses, mint cond., $78,000, or $125,000 with JD 1910 air tank. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. 2010 JD 1830 drill, 61’ 10” spacing, w/430 bu. 1910 grain cart, duals, double shoot, $69,000 OBO. 306-552-4905, Eyebrow, SK. 2010 BOURGAULT 3310 66’ 12” spacing DI-ACRO HAND SHEAR 36”x16 gauge, mild W/MRB, 6550 cart w/liquid kit. $165,000 steel and 24’’ BerkRoy finger break com- OBO. 306-552-4905, Eyebrow, SK. plete with heavy duty cabinet on castors, WANTED: JOHN DEERE 1910 air cart, in $2,300. 204-800-1859, Winnipeg, MB. decent shape. Call 306-862-8518, Choiceland, SK. DEGELMAN SIGNATURE 7200 rockpicker, completely redone. All new hard faced fingers, hydronic drive, new paint, tires 95%, field ready, in mint condition!! 2 to chose from $24,500. Can deliver. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. 2014 & 2016 MacDon FD75 headers, 40' models, dbl. knife, spare knife, cross auger, all options, exc. cond. 2014: $69,000; 2016: $79,000. 306-533-4891, Gray, SK. 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. 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 30’; 8000 25’ - 30’; 8200 35’. After season specials including free delivery in spring 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. STOP GRAIN LOSS and annoying buildup on your feederhouse with the Combine World Crop Curtain! Fits most headers, quick install. Pays for itself! $595. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com MACDON PEA AUGERS: Brand new, 35’ $5450, or 40’ - $5950. Honeybee also available! Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit www.combineworld.com 2003 NH/HB 94C 30’ rigid draper, pea auger, hyd. fore/aft., transport, PUR, for CR/CX/AFX, other kits avail. $23,800. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 2013 MACDON FD75 35’ flex draper, transport, pea auger, AHHC, tilt. For JD, CNH, Agro, Claas available. $69,900. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 2008 MACDON PW7 16’, good belts, nice cond., for JD STS combines, $16,900. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com RECONDITIONED rigid and flex, most makes and sizes; also header transports. Ed Lorenz, 306-344-4811, Paradise Hill, SK www.straightcutheaders.com

RUBBERS & BEARINGS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR DISK DRILLS

1997 JD 9400 4WD, 425 HP, 8562 hrs., 12 spd., diff. lock, 4 hyds., 20.8x42 triples new 400 hrs. ago, does light duty work, mint condition, always shedded, $100,000. 306-675-6136, Kelliher, SK.

2014 CHALLENGER MT765D, 620 hrs., 3502 HP, Trimble Autopilot, 18” tracks, PTO, 3 PTH, $219,800. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

CAT DOZER BLADE: Ideal for making a pull dozer, 12’x3’, good shape, cutting edge never turned, good bolts, C-frame for blade, $1200. 306-722-7770, Osage, SK. 12’ DEGELMAN 46/5700 4-Way dozer blade, QA, $15,000; HLA snow wing dozer blade, trip cutting edge, $15,000. Wandering River AB 780-771-2155, 780-404-1212

5 BUILDING JACKS, 15 ton mechanical lift; 605A Vermeer baler, good belts, $600; Portable fuel tank fits in half ton or bigger, $125. 204-825-2784, Pilot Mound, MB. FEED MIX CARTS w/scales: Knight 280 bu., $5000; Gehl 500 bu.,$10,000; Kelly Ryan feeder cart, $2000; JD 785 spreader, $11,000; New Idea 362 spreader, $6500; International 7’ snowblower, $1000. 1-866-938-8537, Portage la Prairie, MB.

GOOD USED FARM EQUIPMENT, selling because I’m retiring. 9530 JD 4WD tractor; 1870 JD Conserva Pak 56’; 1910 JD Air Cart TBH; 7720 JD FWA tractor w/loader; 13x85 Farm King Auger; 9400 IHC tandem. 306-452-7515, Redvers, SK. ODESSA ROCKPICKER SALES: New Degelman equipment, land rollers, Strawmaster, rockpickers, protill, dozer blades. 306-957-4403, 306-536-5097, Odessa, SK. 2005 JD 6420 tractor w/JD loader, 3000 hrs.; 2009 JD 568 baler w/net wrap, 8500 bales on it; 1998 NH 1475 14’ haybine; Morris 881 8-bale carrier. Southey, SK. Text 306-535-5908, or call 306-524-4551.

NH 273 SQUARE baler with hydraulic tension, $1000; 546 Rock-O-Matic rock pick2000 JD 9400, 425 HP, 12 spd. powershift, er, $3800; MF88 diesel tractor, w/FEL, 4 hyd. outlets, plus return line, new hyd. good rubber, $2200 OBO. 306-395-2668 or 204-866-3558 pump (48 GPM), 8 new tires, 710/70R38, 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. ridgemetal@hotmail.com • www.ridgelandmanufacturing.ca mint cond., $105,000. 306-861-4592, Fill42’ BOURGAULT 9800 chisel plow, HD dou- more, SK. ble spring, w/4-bar heavy harrow, $29,500 2011 JD 9530T, 18 spd. PS, 36” tracks, 4 Cdn OBO. 218-779-1710 Delivery available hyds. plus return line, front weights, end VERSATILE 800 or 835 in good condiidler weights, AutoTrac ready, mint cond., tion wanted! 204-247-0211, Roblin, MB. BREAKING DISCS: KEWANEE, 15’ and $195,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. WANTED: Older and newer tractors, in 12’; Rome 12’; Towner 16-18’; Wishek 18’ and 30’. 1-866-938-8537. 2011 JD 7230 Premium, MFWD 3 PTH, 3 running condition or for parts. Goods Used hyds., auto quad trans., w/JD 741 FEL Tractor Parts, 1-877-564-8734. bucket & grapple, shedded, yard work /small cattle farm. 4960 hrs., VG, $95,000. 306-697-3545, 306-730-8792, Grenfell, SK 2010 FENDT 820, CVT, loader and grapple, 710’s, 4 hyds., dual PTO, 200 HP, DUALS & TRACK SOLUTIONS for com- MF #36 DISCERS. Will pay top dollar $137,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK. bines, tractors, sprayers, carts - almost and pick from anywhere. Phone Mike anything! Call us now! 1-800-667-4515 or 306-723-4875, Cupar, SK. visit www.combineworld.com WANTED: USED, BURNT, old or ugly tractors. Newer models too! Smith’s Tractor DEUTZ 72-06, engine shot, good tires; 2015 6140R, MFWD, 150 HP, 1870 hrs, Wrecking, 1-888-676-4847. WANTED: A/C 7010, 7030, 7040 for parts. 20 spd, FEL, 3PTH, 540/1000 PTO, diff. lock, front axle susp., 50 KPH+, $149,000. 306-395-2668, 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. LOOKING FOR CASE Magnum 7230, 7240, 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com or 7250 with FWA. Call 306-463-7627, 2011 7430 PREMIUM, loader and grapple, Wilkie, SK. 6X4 trans. 4500 hrs., 20.8x38 rears, LOOKING FOR DIKA root rake. Call $124,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK. 780-305-6931, Barrhead, AB. 2008 JOHN DEERE 9530 4WD, 2700 hrs., 800 metrics, powershift, good condition throughout, $198,000 OBO. Call Neil 306-231-8300, Humboldt, SK. SOLIDLOCK AND TREE ISLAND game wire and all accessories for installation. Heights REDUCED PRICE! 1983 JD 4450 MFWD from 26” to 120”. Ideal for elk, deer, bison, w/Ezee-On FEL 2130 grapple, 15 spd. PS, sheep, swine, cattle, etc. Tom Jensen 3 hyds., 7925 hrs. showing, 14.9-26F, ph/fax: 306-426-2305, Smeaton, SK. 20.8R32, duals available. 306-283-4747, 306-291-9395. Langham, SK. 2012 CIH STEIGER 550 Quadtrac 1995H, 30" tracks, dual hyd. pumps, leather, shedded, $289,000 OBO. Call 780-204-0391, Mayerthorpe, AB. jekfarm@gmail.com www.buymyfarmequipment.com

2012 JD 6150R, MFWD, 380 FEL and grapple, bought new in April 2013, 1775 hrs., shedded. Call 306-297-6404, Simmie, SK.

JOHN DEERE 7810, FWA, only 4500 hrs., loaded with duals, shedded. Phone 2016 CIH FARMALL 75A, MFWD, 20 hrs., 8 780-990-8412, Edmonton, AB. forward gears/2 reverse, 3PTH, 540 PTO, 1992 JD 4255, 2WD, w/265 loader, 3800 $29,000 OBO. 204-648-7085, Grandview hrs., great shape, $52,000 OBO. Medicine 16’ PEELED RAILS, 2-3” $4.50/ea., 125 per 2001 MX120 w/loader; 2000 MX135; and Hat, AB. 403-581-8269 or 306-628-7380. bundle; 3-4” $9.50/ea, 100 per bundle; 2001 MX170 w/loader. Call 204-522-6333, 4-5” $11.50/ea, 75 per bundle. Vermette Melita, MB. Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK., 2012 M135X, loader and grapple, 3PTH, 1-800-667-0094, email: info@vwpltd.com 16x16 PS trans., 2400 hrs., 20.8x38, 135 website: www.vwpltd.com HP, $73,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK GUARANTEED PRESSURE TREATED fence posts, lumber slabs and rails. Call Lehner Wood Preservers Ltd., ask for Ron 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK. 2014 MF 7616, deluxe cab, cab susp., loader & grapple, CVT, 150 HP, 2510 hrs., MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. $139,900. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: www.maverickconstruction.ca

ATOM JET OPENERS: Buy now at preSCHULTE 9600 3PTH, used very little, season discounts. We take your trades! $3900. 306-752-4909, cell 306-921-7721, 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com Melfort, SK. 2015 SEED HAWK 84-12 84’ 12” spacing, seed and fertilizer knives, Stk: 2016 DEGELMAN speed blade, top screens steel $352,000. 1-888-905-7010, Sasc/w skid steer bracket, only used 10 hrs., 022334, katoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca $11,500. 306-495-7721, Kipling, SK. 2009 SEED HAWK 66-12 66’, 12” sp., sinFARM-KING MODELS: 96”, $3900; 84”, gle knife, pneum. pkrs, 30.8 rear tires, Stk: $3450; 74”, $3200; 50”, $1900. 021475, $205,000. 888-905-7010, Prince 2012 CIH 500HD, 1915 hrs., 4 remotes, 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK. Albert, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca tow cable, luxury cab, red leather heated 2010 SEEDMASTER 72-12 72’, 12” space, seats, 16 spd. PS, 57 GPM hyd. pump, 710 JD 1910 air cart, 3-tank metering, Stk: tires, buddy seat, gd cond., $228,000 OBO. 020958, $132,000. 1-888-905-7010, Swift Ph/tx Brandon 306-577-5678, Carlyle, SK. Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2003 CASE/IH STX 450, quad track, 7065 2009 SEED HAWK 72-12 72’, 12” sp., twin hrs., Cummins, 16 spd. PS, 4 hyd. outlets, wing, pneum. packers, 600 TBT cart, stk: plus return line, 30” tracks, exc. cond. 2014 NH SP240F 120’, 1200 gal. SS tank, 021477, $205,000. 888-905-7010, Prince $125,000. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. IntelliView IV , AccuBoom, AutoBoom, Stk Albert, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 024111, $299,000. 1-888-905-7010, 2012 BOURGAULT 3320 QDA 66’, 10” sp., WANTED: 1370 or 1570 Case, blown eng or in running condition. 306-395-2668 or Lloydminster. www.redheadequipment.ca c/w L6550 tank, MRB, NH3 kit, duals Stk: 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. 02317, $295,000. Call 1-888-905-7010, Saskatoon, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca 2015 CIH PUMA 185 MFWD, 1490 hrs., 2006 BOURGAULT 5710 40’ 9.8” spacing, 185 HP, CVT, 540/100 PTO, 3PTH, duals, 2011 ROGATOR 1396, 132’ alum. recir- steel packers, 6200 Stk: 020500, Cart fact. warranty, $149,800. culating boom, 1300 SS tank, Raven Viper $60,000. www.redheadequipment.ca or 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com Pro, Raven SmarTrax steering w/slingshot, 1-888-905-7010, Swift Current, SK. AccuBoom sec. control, AutoBoom height 2016 CIH MAXXUM 115 MFWD, 692 control, HID lighting, DeKoning air lift crop 2013 SEED HAWK 60-12 60’, twin wing, hours, 115 HP, FEL, 540/1000 PTO, 3PTH, dividers, both sets of Michelin tires, one semi pneumatic packers, DD, SH 800 TBH, excellent condition, $99,800. owner. Call 204-937-3429, 204-937-7047. Stk 017840, $335,000. Prince Albert, SK., 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 1-888-905-7010. redheadequipment.ca Roblin, MB. 2010 JOHN DEERE 1830 61’, 10” sp, DS TRACK UNDERCARRIAGE PARTS for 1994 PATRIOT 150XL, 3438 hrs., 750 dry, Poirier openers, Alpine liquid kit Stk: JD, CIH, and Challenger track machines in gal., 70’, JD 4.5L, decent affordable spray- 023964, $67,500. 1-888-905-7010, Swift stock. Bogeys, idlers, bearings, seals, er! $24,800. Call 1-800-667-4515 or visit Current, SK. www.redheadequipment.ca tracks, factory direct. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com www.combineworld.com 2013 SEED HAWK 60-12 60’, twin wing, 2013 JD 4940, 120’, 1500 eng, 380 tires & semi pneumatic packers, DD, SH 800 TBH, 2015 220 PUMA, 4300 hours, deluxe cab, 3 duals on rear, 1200 gal. stainless, all op- Stk 017840, $335,000. Prince Albert, SK., point, Trimble GPS, $162,500. Please call tions, $219,000. 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK 306-682-0738, Humboldt , SK. 1-888-905-7010. redheadequipment.ca

2012 NEW HOLLAND T9.450, 2985 hrs., powershift, $150,000. 204-921-0233, Rosenort, MB. www.equipmentpeople.com

1991 FORD/VERSATILE 1156, 8900 hrs., 20.8x42 triples, 470 HP, $69,000 CAD OBO. Delivery available. 218-779-1710. 1992 FORD/VERSATILE 946, JD AutoSteer, 6000 hrs., very nice, $44,500 Cdn. OBO. Delivery available. 218-779-1710. WANTED TRANSMISSION FOR 835 Versatile, 12 speed. Please leave a message 204-822-1343, Thornhill, MB. 1984 VERS. 875 4WD, w/Atom Jet hyd. BLOCKED & SEASONED PINE FIREWOOD: kit, $27,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equip- Bags $90. Delivery available. Vermette Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK. ment Ltd., 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 1-800-667-0094, email: info@vwpltd.com Website: www.vwpltd.com SEASONED SPRUCE SLAB firewood, one MULTIPLE HIGH HP track & 4WD tractors. cord bundles, $99, half cord bundles, $65. Various options, various hours. All are in Volume discounts. Call V&R Sawing, excellent condition and priced to sell! 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK. Delivery available. Call 218-779-1710. BLOCKED SEASONED JACK Pine firewood 2006 MCCORMICK MTX 150 and 2004 and wood chips for sale. Lehner Wood PreMTX 140 with loader. Both low hours. Call servers Ltd., 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. SK. Will deliver. Self-unloading trailer.

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NEW AND USED generators, all sizes from 5 kw to 3000 kw, gas, LPG or diesel. Phone for availability and prices. Many used in stock. 204-643-5441, Fraserwood, MB.

WANTED: FB SIMMENTAL commercial cows, big red and white ones, no Angus cross, must be young. Call 306-734-2970, cell: 306-734-7335, Chamberlain, SK. Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519 GRUNTHAL, MB. AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING

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BLACK 2 YEAR OLD’s; Also Red, Black and fullblood yearling bulls. Moderate birth weights, excellent temperaments. All bulls sold private treaty. Call Bill or Virginia Peters, 306-237-9506, Perdue, SK.

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6 BLACK SIMMENTAL/ANGUS bulls, out of Angus cows and a score black Simmental sire, $3500. Call LV Ranch, Forestburg, AB. 780-582-2254.

Saturday Jan. 20th at 10:00am Bred Cow Sale Monday Jan 29th at 12:00am Sheep and Goat with Small Animals & Holstein Calves Sale

SIMMENTAL COWS FOR SALE: Offering your pick of 110. 10 head calving March & April; Feeder bull calves, polled FB semen, universe breeding. Dale at Silver Swiss Simmental, 780-853-2223, Vermilion, AB.

For on farm appraisal of livestock or for marketing information please call Brad Kehler (Manager) Cell 204-346-2440 Auction Mart (204) 434-6519 MB. Livestock Dealer #1436

HOME RAISED TOP Quality Bred Heifers, vaccinated, Ivomec, bred to calving ease Black Angus bulls. Start calving mid March. 66 Black Angus; 13 Red Angus X; 12 Hereford (SOLD). Winston Hougham, Please call 306-344-4913, 306-821-2751, Frenchman Butte, SK. magnumranching@gmail.com

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DRILL STEM FOR SALE: 300 2-7/8”. 100 BLACK ANGUS heifers, bred to regis306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK. tered Black Angus bulls. Can winter and calve out. 306-322-7905, Archerwill, SK. 8” to 6” MAINLINE; 6 - 5”x5” wheelines; Bauer 1160’ w/4.5” hard hose reel; Also Reinke 985’ pivot, refurbished. Call for pricing, 306-858-7351, Lucky Lake, SK.

BLACK ANGUS BULLS YEARLINGS & Long Yearlings, some Heifer Bulls, semen tested & performance records avail. Please Call Don Guilford, Hereford Ranch 204-873-2430, Clearwater, MB.

649 Allis diesel motors with pump, all siz- (10) 2 YEAR OLD BLACK ANGUS bulls, sees of alum. pipe. Call Dennis to discuss men tested, guaranteed breeders. High your needs! 403-308-1400, Taber, AB. quality. Reasonably priced. B/B Duncan, Cromer, MB. 204-556-2342, 204-556-2348 DAVIDSON GELBVIEH/ LONESOME or 204-851-0306. DOVE RANCH 29th Annual Bull Sale, SOUTH VIEW RANCH has Black and Red Saturday, March 3, 2018, 1:00 PM at their Angus coming 2-year-old bulls for sale. bull yards, Ponteix, SK. Complimentary Good selection. Call Shane 306-869-8074 lunch at 11:00 AM. Pre-sale viewing and hospitality, Friday, March 2nd. Selling or Keith 306-454-2730. Ceylon, SK. 100+ purebred Gelbvieh yearling bulls, 20 YOUNG PUREBRED Black and Red An- Red or Black. Performance and semen gus cows, $46,000. 1 Black Angus bull, tested. Vernon and Eileen 306-625-3755, $4000. $50,000 takes all. 306-865-4168, Ross and Tara 306-625-3513, Ponteix, SK. Bidding in person or on-line: BISON CALVES WANTED. Harmony Hudson Bay, SK. www.dlms.com View catalog and video on Natural bison. Call or text 306-736-3454, SE Sask. NORDAL LIMOUSIN & ANGUS 2018 Bull our websites: www.davidsongelbvieh.com Sale, Feb. 15th, Saskatoon Livestock Sales and www.lonesomedoveranch.ca BRED BISON HEIFERS for sale. 85 pas- Saskatoon, SK. Offering 60 Black & Red ture raised, top cut. Ready to go Dec. 15. Angus 2 year old bulls, low birth weights, Call or text 306-495-8800, SE Sask. performance & maternal combinations available. Contact Rob Garner BISON WANTED - Canadian Prairie Bison 306-946-7946, Simpson, SK. Catalogue & PUREBRED HEREFORD FEMALES: Bred heifers and 2 & 3 year olds, bred Hereford, is looking to contract grain finished bison, information at: nordallimousin.com to calve Feb./Mar. Call 204-759-2188, as well as calves and yearlings for growing markets. Contact Roger Provencher at SELLING: BLACK ANGUS BULLS. Wayside 204-365-7426 or 431-282-3030, Strath306-468-2316, roger@cdnbison.com Angus, Henry and Bernie Jungwirth, clair, MB. 306-256-3607, Cudworth, SK. FOR SALE: POLLED HEREFORD Bulls 50-2016 BISON FEMALES, weight on Nov.30/2017 was 815 lbs. $4000, please BLACK ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, se- Yearlings & Long Yearlings, semen tested call 306-342-4253, donjanzen@gmail.com men tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery & performance records avail. Call Don Glenbush, SK. available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Guilford, Hereford Ranch, 204-873-2430, Clearwater, MB. Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for BRED HEIFERS due to calve in April, bred BANNERLANE HORNED HEREFORDS over 15 years, is looking for finished Bison, grain or grass fed. “If you have them, we to easy calving Angus bulls, preg checked. Annual Sale, Tuesday, Feb. 6th, 2018, 2:00 want them.” Make your final call with 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, PM CST (1:00 PM MST) at the farm, Livelong, SK. 30 coming 2 year old bulls, seNorthfork for pricing! Guaranteed prompt SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca men tested; 35 bred heifers, preg. payment! 514-643-4447, Winnipeg, MB. PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS long yearling checked; 3 registered heifers. Dinner at bulls, replacement heifers, AI service. noon. Central point free delivery. Email: WANT TO PURCHASE cull bison bulls and cows, $5/lb. HHW. Finished beef steers Meadow Ridge Enterprises, 306-373-9140 bannerlane@littleloon.ca or phone Rob or 306-270-6628, Saskatoon, SK. Bannerman, 306-845-2764, 306-248-1214. and heifers for slaughter. We are also buyCatalogue online at: www.hereford.ca ing compromised cattle that can’t make a long trip. Oak Ridge Meats, McCreary, Go public with an ad in the Manitoba Cooperator classifieds. Phone 1-800-667-7770. 204-835-2365, 204-476-0147. MISTY VALLEY FARMS 42nd Annual Production Sale of Horned Herefords, BUYING BISON for processing. Call for Wednesday, February 7th, 2018 at the options and prices, Ian 204-848-2498 or ranch, 1:00 PM MST. On offer: 60 long 204-867-0085. NORDAL LIMOUSIN & ANGUS 2018 Bull yearling bulls including Lanni Bristow’s Sale, Feb. 15th, Saskatoon Livestock Sales sale group; 50 bred registered heifers; 65 QUILL CREEK BISON is looking for fin- Saskatoon, SK. Offering 60 Black & Red bred commercial Hereford heifers; 15 ished, and all other types of bison. COD, Angus 2 year old bulls, low birth weights, open heifer calves from Mark Law. Bulls paying market prices. “Producers working performance & maternal combinations semen tested. Heifers pregnancy tested. with Producers.” Delivery points in SK. and available. Contact Rob Garner Misty Valley Farms, RR #1, Maidstone, SK. MB. Call 306-231-9110, Quill Lake, SK. at 306-946-7946, Simpson, SK. Catalogue & S0M 1M0. Call Harold Oddan 306-893-2783 or Maurice Oddan at information at: nordallimousin.com NILSSON BROS INC. buying finished bison 306-893-2737; or Lanni Bristow at on the rail, also cull cows at Lacombe, AB. RED ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, se- 780-943-2236; Mark Law 204-743-2049. For winter delivery and beyond. Smaller men tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery groups welcome. Fair, competitive and as- available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, sured payment. Contact Richard Bintner Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca 306-873-3184. BRED HEIFERS due to calve in April, bred LOOKING FOR ALL classes of bison from to easy calving Angus bulls, preg checked. calves, yearlings, cows and herd bulls. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, Phone Kevin at 306-539-4090 (cell) or SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca 306-429-2029, Glenavon, SK. BRED, REGISTERED RED Angus heifers for 20 - 2016 PLAINS Bison females. Average sale. RSL Red Angus, Battleford, SK. weight December 13th, 749 lbs. $3750 306-937-2880, 306-441-5010. each. Call 306-441-1408, Meota, SK. REG. RED ANGUS bulls, calving ease, good COMPLETE BISON COW herd dispersal weaning weights, no creep feed. Little de Productive herd, culled annually, 125 Ranch, 306-845-2406, Turtleford, SK. cows, 50 yearling heifers. Royal Black Bison Ranch Inc. 306-441-7128, Paynton, SK BRAUN RANCH Horned Hereford Bull Sale. March 9, 1:00PM at the ranch, Simmie, SK. 20 two year olds bulls, 30 yearling bulls, 5 SUNDANCE BUFFALO RANCH 2016 yearling Bison heifers: Top quality framey 2016 born HERD DISPERSAL SALE: Bred cows 96 FB purebred open heifers, 25 commercial M Line bison heifers for sale. Ready to registered Braunvieh cows, bred to FB open heifers. View catalogue and sale breed in 2018. 403-502-2486, Irvine, AB. Braunvieh bulls; PB black Braunvieh (homo videos on-line at: www.braunranch.com polled & hetero black bulls). Exposed June Contact Craig Braun at 306-297-2132. rick@porterandmacleanlivestock.com 17th to Sept. 1st, $3200 OBO. Please call us at 403-816-1246, Huxley, AB., or e-mail: KEEP JOBS IN CANADA. Elk Valley calvin@fieldstonebraunvieh.com Website: Ranches a Canadian Co. finishes bison in www.fieldstonebraunvieh.com Canada. We are now buying cull cows, cull FRESH AND SPRINGING heifers for sale. bulls, yearlings and calves. Paying top $$ Cows and quota needed. We buy all classwith prompt payment. Kitscoty, AB, Frank es of slaughter cattle-beef and dairy. R&F at 780-846-2980. elkvalley@xplornet.com Livestock Inc. Bryce Fisher, Warman, SK. www.elkvalleyranches.com REGISTERED PUREBRED CHAROLAIS Phone 306-239-2298, cell 306-221-2620. bulls: 40+ yearling and 5 coming 2 year 100 BISON COWS, $5000 each. Call olds, for sale by private treaty. Belmont, 250-263-3152, Melville, SK. MB. Brad 204-537-2367 or 204-523-0062 www.clinecattlecompany.ca It doesn’t get any better than this. Prepay LIMOUSIN & ANGUS 2018 Bull your ad for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free! CATTLEMAN! JUST IN TIME for your fall NORDAL Sale, Feb. 15th, Saskatoon Livestock Sales Call today! 1-800-667-7770. breeding needs. We have an exc. selection Saskatoon, SK. Offering 25 polled Red & of long yearling bulls. Both red and white, Black 2 year old Limousin bulls. Contact all polled, some suitable for heifers. Call Rob Garner 306-946-7946, Simpson, SK. Defoort Stock Farm, Cypress River, MB., Catalogue & info at: nordallimousin.com 204-743-2109.

WANT THE ORGANIC ADVANTAGE? Contact an organic Agrologist at Pro-Cert for information on organic farming: prospects, transition, barriers, benefits, certification and marketing. Call 306-382-1299, Saskatoon, SK. or info@pro-cert.org

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ORGANIC BORAGE PRODUCERS: DSC is looking for organic Borage producers for the 2018 harvest season. 306-697-3152, Grenfell, SK. dandilee.colby@outlook.com 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.

ARE YOU SINGLE and would rather be in love? Camelot Introductions has been successfully matching people for over 23 years. In-person interviews by Intuitive SUPREME 700TMR w/scale, 6’ unloading Matchmaker in MB and SK. Call 306-978conveyor, dry hay recutter at back, dual LOVE (5683), 204-257-LOVE (5683) wheels, always shedded, excellent cond., www.camelotintroductions.com $36,000. 204-758-3374, St. Jean, MB.

COMPLETE HERD DISPERSAL, 38 Simmental/Angus Red, Red Blaze and a few Black bred cows. Cows are aged from 3-5 years old. Bred Red Simmental to start calving March 20th. Cows have been preg. checked and given Ivomec. $2300 OBO. Call or text 306-452-7905. Redvers, SK.

2000 HIGHLINE 6800 bale processor, 1000 PTO. 204-525-4521, Minitonas, MB. Website: www.waltersequipment.com

ALTERNATIVE POWER BY KELLN SOLAR, portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind generators, aeration. Service and repair on all makes/models. Driedger, 204-556-2346 or 14 RED ANGUS bred heifers, to start calv- Carl ing March 25th. Ivomec’d and vaccinated. 204-851-0145, Virden, MB. Call evenings, Garry Yeo, 306-873-9078 or 306-873-3788, Tisdale, SK. NH 358 MIX MILL with PBF, very nice cond. Still on first corner of hammers, ex50 SIMMENTAL & SIMMENTAL Cross bred tra screens, $9000, hard to find. Call cows and heifers, bred Simmental, start Randy at 204-729-5162, Brandon, MB. calving March 1st. 306-762-4723, Odessa. SVEN-APOLLO ROLLERMILLS, NEW and used, electric and PTO, all sizes, can deliver. Manitoba distributor direct. Call Randy 204-729-5162, Brandon, MB.

IRISH WOLFHOUND PUPPIES, 3 females, have shots, $1200. 780-954-2415, Jarvie, AB. Email: michellelovin36@gmail.com COZY CAPS! Ear protection for newborn calves! 306-739-0020, Wawota, SK. Email cozycaps@outlook.com GREG’S WELDING: Freestanding 24’ & 30’ corral panels and windbreaks; Also grain 60 BLACK BRED heifers, bred Black Angus, and silage troughs; as well as calf shelters. easy calving bulls, bulls out 60 days, start Call for pricing, 306-768-8555, delivery calving May 1st, all vaccinations & Ivomec, available. Carrot River, SK. $2300. 306-283-4388, Saskatoon, SK. FOR A FREE DEMONSTRATION without ob25 BLACK BRED heifers, bred Black Angus, ligation, of a Luther Cattle Brush and Oiler, easy calving bulls, bulls out 60 days, start give Cliff a call at 306-734-2997, Aylesbucalving May 1st, all vaccinations & Ivomec, ry, SK. It’s the one they love to use! $2300. 306-283-4105, Saskatoon, SK. FREESTANDING PANELS: 30’ windbreak 60-80 RED & BLACK ANGUS cross, Red An- panels; 6-bar 24’ and 30’ panels; 10’, 20’ gus bulls went out on July 6th. Leave a and 30’ feed troughs; Bale shredder bunks; Silage bunks; Feeder panels; HD bale feedmessage, 306-834-5156, Kerrobert, SK. ers; All metal 16’ and 24’ calf shelters. Will 20 BLACK COWS, will feed until March; custom build. 306-424-2094, Kendal, SK. Also 4 black bull calves. 306-441-6608, North Battleford, SK. FFS- FUCHS FARM SUPPLY is your partner in agriculture. Stocking mixer, cutter, 100 BLACK ANGUS 3rd and 4th calvers; feed wagons and bale shredders. We are 250 Black & Red Angus 2nd calvers. Swift industry leaders in Rol-Oyl cattle oilers. 306-762-2125, Vibank, SK. www.fuchs.ca Current, SK. 306-773-1049, 306-741-6513. CATTLEMENS FINANCIAL CORP. Programs for cow/calf operators and feedlots, proceeds as you sell and equity draws. 780-448-0033 or www.cattlefinance.com

LOOKING FOR an investor to purchase cow/calf pairs (up to 400) or looking to finance directly from the farmer. Prefer Red or Black Angus. Pay back over 8 years with a 30% return on your principal. Call 204-848-2205, ianarnold10@hotmail.com WANTED: CULL COWS and bulls. For bookings call Kelly at Drake Meat Processors, 306-363-2117 ext. 111, Drake, SK.

2 YR. OLD Salers bulls, 18 Red and Black bulls, mostly polled. Excellent dispositions. Bulls for cows and heifers. See Facebook, 403-872-1549, www.skywestsalers.com Red Deer County, AB. Please email: COMING 2 YR. old polled PB Charolais travisdepalme@outlook.com 2 - 2017 PB Quarter Horse chestnut fillies, bulls, some red factor. Call Kings Polled $750 each. Will consider young bred cow Charolais, 306-435-7116, Rocanville, SK. on trade. 306-865-4168, Hudson Bay, SK.

NEW DATE! LAZY S RANCH 49th Annual Bull Power Sale, January 26th, at the ranch, Mayerthorpe, AB. 200 polled red & black Simmental, Angus and Beefmaker (Simm Angus) bulls. 780-785-3136. Video online: www.lazysranch.ca

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.

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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! Guaranteed prompt payment! 514-643-4447, SIMMENTAL/ANGUS BRED HEIFERS, 45 Winnipeg, MB. home bred and raised, Reds and Blacks. Quality functional group of heifers that will BUYING ELK for Meat, Hunting and get out and work. Bred to calving ease Breeding. Call for options and prices, Ian MRL Black Simmental. Bulls were put out 204-848-2498 or 204-867-0085. on June 1st. Heifers have been preg. checked and received Ivomec as well as first shot of Scourbos. $2600 OBO. Call or text 306-452-7905, Redvers, SK. KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WATERING System, provides water in remote areas, improves water quality, increases pasture productivity, extends dugout life. St. Claude/Portage, MB. 204-379-2763.

PUREBRED CHAROLAIS BULLS for sale. Polled and horned. Some red. 40+ bulls to choose from. Over 30 yrs. in the Charolais business. Wilf Neilson, Cougar Hill Ranch, 204-732-2663, Toutes Aides, MB. (North of Ste Rose).

POLLED PB YEARLING Charolais Bulls, performance and semen tested. Can keep until May, $3000-$4000. Charrow Charolais, Call Bill 306-387-8011, 780-872-1966, Marshall, SK.

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REGISTERED SHORTHORN OPEN heifers for sale, 3 early 2017 open heifers, 2 Roans and 1 Red, weighing 800-900 lbs. Please BUY & SELL: Horses, saddles and tack. call 204-748-3136, gwtough@rfnow.com Also horse and stock trailers. Call Skip Arntsen, 306-221-9251, Delisle, SK. Hargrave, MB.

PAYSEN LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT INC. We manufacture an extensive line of cattle handling and feeding equipment including squeeze chutes, adj. width alleys, crowding tubs, calf tip tables, maternity pens, gates and panels, bale feeders, Bison equipment, Texas gates, steel water troughs, rodeo equipment and garbage incinerators. Distributors for El-Toro electric branders and twine cutters. Our squeeze chutes and headgates are now avail. with a neck extender. Ph 306-796-4508, email: ple@sasktel.net Web: www.paysen.com

RED BLUE HEELER PUPS: From good working and good natured parents, ready to go, $300. 306-725-4510, Bulyea, SK. GREAT PYRENEES PUPS born to working parents. Vet checked, first shots, ready January 15th, $300/each. 403-308-4781, E-mail: heathernelsonfarm@gmail.com

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.

WWW.MEDALLION-HOMES.CA modular 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 CATTLE SHELTER PACKAGES or built on interest. 204-564-2540, Shellmouth, MB. site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: RTMS AND SITE built homes. Call www.warmanhomecentre.com 1-866-933-9595, or go online for pictures CATTLE SHELTER PACKAGES or built on and pricing at: www.warmanhomes.ca site. For early booking call 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: RTMS AND SITE built homes. Call www.warmanhomecentre.com 1-866-933-9595, or go online for pictures and pricing at: www.warmanhomes.ca STEEL VIEW MFG. Self-standing panels, windbreaks, silage/hay bunks, feeder pan- J&H HOMES: Western Canada’s most els, sucker rod fence posts. Custom or- trusted RTM Home Builder since 1969. ders. Call Shane 306-493-2300, Delisle, View at: www.jhhomes.com 306-652-5322 SK. www.steelviewmfg.com HOME HARDWARE RTM Homes and CotHIGHLINE BAIL PRO 6600, LH discharge, tages. Phone 1-800-663-3350 or go onaverage condition, $2400 OBO. Whitkow, line for floor plans and specs at: SK. 306-445-9833, cell 306-445-9814. www.northbattlefordhomehardware.com

COMING YEAR OLD Charolais bulls for SVEN ROLLER MILLS. Built for over 40 sale, wintering available. Call LVV Ranch years. PTO/elec. drive, 40 to 1000 bu./hr. Forestburg, AB. 780-582-2254. Example: 300 bu./hr. unit costs $1/hr. to We know that farming is enough of a gamble run. Rolls peas and all grains. We regroove so if you want to sell it fast place your ad in the Stretch your advertising dollars! Place an ad Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. It’s a Sure BOBSLEIGH, BUCKBOARD, BUGGY, and and repair all makes of mills. Call Apollo in the classifieds. Our friendly staff is waiting Thing. Call our toll-free number today. We have wagon for small ponies. All excellent con- Machine 306-242-9884, 1-877-255-0187. dition. 306-536-9210, Belle Plaine, SK. for your call. 1-800-667-7770. www.apollomachineandproducts.com friendly staff ready to help. 1-800-667-7770.

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

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CONDO IN BEAUTIFUL Palm Springs area (Rancho Mirage): 2 bdrm, 1 bath, 1016 sq.ft. Open beam cathedral ceilings, mountain views, 55 plus gated community. Fully furn., $115,000 USD. Gym, tennis court, lg heated pool, spa and clubhouse. For info and pics, evezpalmsprings@kwrealty.com or call 306-725-7707, Govan, SK.

ORGANIC LAND in MD of Mackenzie, north of Peace River: 1200 seeded ac., 1800 sq.ft house w/garage, 6800 sq.ft. shop, 60x120 cold storage, 100,000+ bu. grain storage, power, phone, natural gas, dugout, on school bus route. 780-928-2538 or 780-841-1180.

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CERT. CDC PRECISION & AAC SPITFIRE Exceptional yield potential and 4 WHEEL BOMBARDIER Rotex, 250 hrs, standability. Printz Family Seeds, Gravellike new, $4000; Wanted: 14’ bumper hitch bourg, SK., 306-648-3511, 306-380-7769. dump trailer. 306-304-1959, Goodsoil, SK. CERTIFIED TRANSCEND. Proven variety. CERTIFIED CDC Blackstrap, earliest black Printz Family Seeds, Gravelbourg, SK., bean, direct harvest, high yield, excellent 306-648-3511, 306-380-7769. disease pkg.; CDC Super Jet & CDC Jet CERTIFIED CDC ALLOY. Good disease also available. Martens Charolais & Seed, package. Printz Family Seeds, Gravelbourg 204-534-8370, Boissevain, MB. SK., 306-648-3511, 306-380-7769. CERTIFIED Snowbird fababeans & AmarilHOME FOR RENT: Furnished, 2 bed + den, AAC SPITFIRE, TRANSCEND, top lo Peas. Call Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, 2 bath, close to U of S, Saskatoon, SK. quality. Wiens Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca $1300/mo. + utilities. Call 306-270-4323. Herschel, SK.

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4 QUARTERS FARMLAND for sale, 40 miles SE Weyburn. Grains, canola, legumes. 9 oil well leases. House, electricity, water, $998,500. 604-971-2870, Benson, SK. rickzimmerman6@gmail.com 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.

GRAIN LAND TO RENT, 35 mile radius of Rouleau, SK. Call 306-776-2600 or email: kraussacres@sasktel.net 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. WOOD RIVER RM #74. By tender S1/2 12-8-6-W3; N1/2 12-8-6-W3; N1/2 7-8-5-W3. Please bid on each half section separately. Tenders must be received by 1:00 pm, Feb. 8, 2018. Mark tenders “Filson Brothers Tender”. Highest or any tender may not necessarily be accepted. Send tenders to Duane Filson, Box 340, Lafleche, SK., S0H 2K0, or by email to duane.filson@sasktel.net For info call 306-472-7772. Woodrow, SK. 8500 ACRE RANCH in RM of Reno, all grass, lots of water. $474 per acre. 306-299-4445, www.ranch-for-sale-sk.ca RM #68 OF BROKENSHELL, 1/4 section SW- 1-7-16-W2, approximately 160 cultivated organic acres. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted. Submit tenders to Box 661, Weyburn, SK., S4H 2K8. Tenders will close Feb. 1st, 2018. For more information call 306-842-5771, or 306-861-7072. Weyburn, SK. FOR RENT BY TENDER: RM of Nipawin, SK. #487, NE-14-49-15W2, NW-14-49-15W2, & SW-14-49-15W2, comprising of 472 cult. ac. There are no buildings on the land other than a house and barns on the 5 acre yard site. All of the land is currently farmed. Tenders are to be submitted in envelopes marked “Nipawin Tender”, to Dezarae Senft at Miller Thomson LLP, 600-2103 11th Ave., Regina, SK., S4P 3Z8, on or before noon on Fri., Feb. 23, 2018, and shall include: tender price, length of rental term, any other terms you are prepared to offer and a certified cheque/bank draft payable to “Miller Thomson LLP in trust” for 10% of the tender price (being 10% of the annual rent pmt. you are tendering). No conditional tenders will be accepted and the highest, or any tender, will not necessarily be accepted. Tenders will not be opened in public. The deposit of all unsuccessful tenderers will be returned by mail. The successful tenderer shall enter into a lease agreement on or before Mar. 16, 2018. The 10% deposit will constitute a deposit towards the first years rental payment. For further information, please contact Dezarae Senft, 306-347-8309. 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.

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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:

RM OF BLUCHER 343: 2 quarters. SW-29-35-01-W3M, NW-29-35-01-W3M, 305 acres cult. 3 hopper bins totaling 16,000 bu. Call Bob at 306-717-1987.

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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. Will be sold by February 20th. Call 403-866-2214.

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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. WANTED: 1000 ACRE grain farm w/yard in northwest Saskatchewan. Call anytime: 780-205-4296 or email 3star@telus.net

ALso: AAC Lacombe Yellow Pea CDC Precision Durum Guttino and KWs Daniello Hybrid Fall Ryes and so much more! Phone: 403-715-9771

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CERTIFIED CDC MARBLE, dark speckled; REGISTERED/CERTIFIED #1: Summit Certified CDC 4371-4, red. Call Grant, SeLeggett, CDC Haymaker (Forage). Ardell mans, SK. 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, 306-746-8070. Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK.

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.

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.

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Ruffian, AC Leggett & CDC Orrin. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

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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.

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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

CERTIFIED Camden, Morgan, Baler and Haymaker. Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca

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CERTIFIED CDC HAYMAKER. Hickseeds 306-354-7998 (Barry) or 306-229-9517 (Dale), Mossbank, SK.

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

EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1 CS Camden, Summit, CDC Minstrel, CDC Ruffian, CDC Orrin. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK.

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Impala (small red) Clearfield. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, CERTIFIED AAC BRANDON, AAC Jatharia. Tisdale, SK. Call Grant, 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, CDC IMPULSE, CDC PROCLAIM, CDC 306-746-8070, Semans, SK. MAXIM(small reds), top quality. Wiens CERT. # 1, high germ: CDC Landmark VB, Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK. AAC Cameron VB, AAC Jatharia VB, CDC Utmost VB, AAC Brandon. Seed Source CERT. CDC PROCLAIM CL Reds, high Archerwill, SK. 306-323-4402. germ. & 0% disease. Fast Seed Farm Ltd., CERTIFIED CDC Landmark, AAC Cameron, 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. Jatharia, Brandon CWRS wheat. Contact Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. CERT. CDC IMPULSE, CDC Proclaim, CDC Maxim, CDC Redmoon, CDC Greenstar. www.trawinseeds.ca 98% germ, 0% disease. Fraser Farms, PamCERTIFIED #1 CDC Landmark VB, CDC brun, SK. 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net Plentiful, Cardale, Elgin ND, Goodeve VB, Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

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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.

CERT. FDN, REG. Precision; CDC Alloy; AAC Spitfire; Transcend, all exc. germ., 0% fusarium. Fraser Farms 306-741-0475, Pambrun, SK. foc@sasktel.net

PRIME FARMLAND SALE: Manitoba crop, Farming is enough of a gamble, advertise in beef or mixed-use farm with a history of the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. excellent production. A great start-up, It’s a sure thing. 1-800-667-7770. expansion or investment opportunity! 204-945-0891 Email: bwords@mymts.net www.greenfarmforsale.com

238 ACRE FARM on Drifting River. 200 workable ac., 100 yr. old shelter belt, w/ older useable house, and 11 out buildings. New wiring to out buildings, new 200A panel in house, new base boards, and very NOW IS THE TIME to list, give your farm good well. 431-738-1888, Dauphin, MB. 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 204-253-7373, Delta Real Estate. www.manitobafarms.ca

CHATFIELD/POPLARFIELD: Opportunity to run your own cattle & grain farm. 1240 sq. ft. bungalow. 800 ac. owned, 1920 leased. 200 acres cult. balance hay & fenced pasture. Many outbuildings, $799,000. Call Claudette: 1-888-629-6700. LJBaron.com

CERT. & REG. CDC Precision; AAC Spitfire. High germ. & 0% F.G., Fast Seed Farm Ltd., 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK.

SUN BEACH MOTEL, 1 bdrm suite, $695, Lakefront 2 bdrm, $850. 250-495-7766, CERTIFIED #1, high germ: CS Camden, Osoyoos, BC. www.sunbeachmotel.net CDC Ruffian, CDC Morrison. Seed Source, Archerwill, SK., 306-323-4402.

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SECLUDED RIVER RETREAT: 80 acres on west bank, pt of 01-46-04 W3. Summer road and river access, $167,500. Phone 306-382-1299 or 306-382-9024.

RIVER RETREAT: Saskatoon South - 177 acres forested, organic river front land. 50 acres cultivated. $6500 per acre. Phone 306-382-1299 or 306-382-9024.

OSOYOOS SNOWBIRD SUITE rental Jan Apr., 2 bdrm, 1 bath, full kitchen, furnished, indoor pool. Please call 250-495-7223. www.hiosoyoos.com Osoyoos, BC. Email: guestservices@pallasgroup.net

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 .

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CDC GLAS, Reg., Cert., top quality seed. High yield, exc. standability, easy to harvest. Great reviews from customers. Inquiries welcome. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd., North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net

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CERTIFIED #1 AAC Brandon: 99% germ., 99% vigor, 38.58 TKW. Sandercock Seed CERTIFIED CDC INCA, CDC Greenwater, Farm, 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK. CDC Mosaic. Call Grant, 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, 306-746-8070, Semans, SK CERTIFIED # 1 AAC Jatharia VB wheat, new. Midge tolerant. Shewchuk Seeds, CERTIFIED #1 CDC Spectrum, CDC Acer 306-290-7816, Blaine Lake, SK. (Maple), CDC Amarillo and CDC Meadow. EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1: Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. AC Andrew, SY Rowyn, Faller, Penhold & AAC Sadash. Call Frederick Seeds, CERTIFIED AAC ARDILL yellow peas. Call Hickseeds 306-354-7998 (Barry) or 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. 306-229-9517 (Dale), Mossbank, SK. EXCELLENT QUALITY Cert. #1, CWRS: CDC Landmark VB, AAC Viewfield, AAC FDN. & CERT. CDC Spectrum; CDC AmarilBrandon, AAC Cameron VB, AAC Elie, Car- lo. High germ. & 0% disease. Fast Seed dale, CDC Utmost VB, AAC Connery & AAC Farm Ltd., 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. Redberry. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. REGISTERED/CERTIFIED #1: AAC Ardill, CDC LANDMARK VB, AAC BRANDON, CDC Inca, CDC Spectrum, CDC Limerick AAC PREVAIL VB, top quality. Wiens (green), CDC Proclaim Lentil (red). Ardell Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK. Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK.

REGISTERED/CERTIFIED #1: CDC Land- CERT. CDC INCA; CDC Greenwater, exc. mark, AAC Brandon, AAC Jatharia, Cardale, germ. and disease. Fraser Farms, PamCDC Utmost. Ardell Seeds, 306-668-4415, brun, SK, 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net Vanscoy, SK. GREEN PEAS, yellow pea prices down, try matt@seed-ex.com SY ROWYN CPSR, Cert. top quality seed, new green pea varieties! CDC Limerick, high yielder with vg protein. All inquires CDC Greenwater & CDC Spruce. Select, Best pricing, Best option, welcome. Volume discounts. Gregoire Fdn., Reg. and Cert. Ask about CDC Forest. Best Service Seed Farms Ltd., North Battleford, SK., cell Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. Email SK., cell 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. CERT. AC METCALFE, 99% germ., 96% vig- gregfarms@sasktel.net gregfarms@sasktel.net or, 0% smut, 0% fus., 49.4 kernel weight, will be cleaning late Jan. $8.25/bu. Oly- AAC BRANDON CWRS, Cert. top quality seed, very high yielder and protein. Highly nick Seeds, 306-338-8078, Quill Lake, SK. recommended by growers. All inquiries CERTIFIED # 1, high germ: AC Metcalfe, welcome. Volume discounts. Gregoire CDC Copeland. Seed Source, Archerwill, Seed Farms Ltd., North Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516 or email: SK., 306-323-4402. gregfarms@sasktel.net CERTIFIED CDC Copeland & AC Metcalf. AAC ELIE, CWRS, CERT. top quality seed, REG. & CERTIFIED CDC Calvi (itchless), Call Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, sister wheat to AAC Brandon. Very high high yielder. Fast Seed Farm Ltd., 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. SK. www.trawinseeds.ca yielder with high protein. Positive reviews from growers. All inquires welcome. VolCERTIFIED CDC Austenson & Maverick feed barley. Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, ume discounts. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851, Melfort, SK. www.trawinseeds.ca 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net BESCO GRAIN LTD. Buying all varieties of CERTIFIED #1 Metcalf(2R) & Legacy(6R). SELECT CDC GO seed, hand picked from mustard. Also canary and some other specialty crops. 204-745-3662, Brunkild, MB Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. breeder seed. Contact: mastinseed.com Call or text 403-994-2609, Olds, AB. Looking for off grade mustard, lentils or CERT. #1 Copeland: 94% germ., 95% vigchickpeas. Custom color sorting of all or, 48.3 TKW, 100% Copeland. Sandercock types of crops. Ackerman Ag Services, Seed Farm, 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK. 306-631-9577, Chamberlain, SK. CERTIFIED CDC MAVERICK. Hickseeds 306-354-7998 (Barry) or 306-229-9517 (Dale), Mossbank, SK. TOP QUALITY CERTIFIED alfalfa and grass TOP QUALITY CERT. #1 CDC Copeland, seed. Call Gary or Janice Waterhouse CDC CIBO, CDC CALVI, top quality. Wiens Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, AC Metcalfe, Newdale. Frederick Seeds, 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK. SK. 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. Farm Pick up Available

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AC METCALFE, CDC COPELAND, CDC POLAR STAR, top quality. Wiens Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK. CERTIFIED #1: CDC Copeland, AAC Synergy, CDC Maverick, CDC Austenson, AC HYBRID AND OPEN-POLLINATED canola Ranger. Ardell Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, varieties. Certified #1 Synergy (Polish), Dekalb & Rugby. Phone Fenton Seeds, Vanscoy, SK. 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. AAC SYNERGY, Cert. top quality seed. Very high yielder, gaining acceptance with maltsters. Contracts available. Inquiries welcome. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North CERTIFIED GLAS and CDC Sorrel flax. Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851 or Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net www.trawinseeds.ca CDC COPELAND, Fdn., Reg., Cert. top quality seed. Widely accepted malt variety. Inquiries welcome. Volume discounts. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, SK., cell 306-441-7851 or 306-445-5516. gregfarms@sasktel.net 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!

JAMES FARMS FOR QUALITY SEED. Brandon, Cardale, Faller and Penhold Wheat. Summit and Souris oats, Haymaker Forage Oats. Tradition Barley, Glas flax, McLeod RR2 and Barker R2xtend Soybeans. Forage and Grass Seeds, Various Canola and other Cereal Seed Varieties available upon request. Custom Processing, seed treating, inoculating. Delivery is available. Early payment discounts. Call 204-222-8785 or 1-866-283-8785 Winnipeg, MB. email djames@jamesfarms.com

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Sorrel, AAC Bravo. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. CERTIFIED #1 CDC Sorrel, AAC Bravo. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK. CERT. #1 BETHUNE, 98% germ., 95% vig- SEED BARLEY FOR SALE, 99% germ, phone or. Sandercock Seed Farm, Balcarres SK., 306-435-9122, Rocanville, SK. 306-334-2958. CERTIFIED # 1 CDC GLAS - The variety to TREATED OAT SEED for sale: Souris and grow! Top yield, excellent lodging resis- Morgan, treated with Raxil Pro. Call Justin tance. 306-290-7816, Blaine Lake, SK. 306-469-0105, Big River, SK.

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TOP QUALITY ALFALFA, variety of grasses and custom blends, farmer to farmer. Gary Waterhouse 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK.

LOOKING FOR OLD and new crop soybeans FOB Western Canada. Licence and bonded grain company. Call, email, text Now for competitive pricing at the farm! Market Place Commodities Ltd, accurate real time marketing. 403-394-1711, 403-315-3930. info@marketplacecommodities.com

GROW SOYBEANS? If you grow 1000 acres earn a free new pickup truck every year and give last year’s away. Free report at www.profitfromthebean.com or call 204-856-3396. TIRED OF HAULING 20-40% of your soybean crop to market only to pay the soybean seed bill? There’s an alternative! Visit: www.profitfromthebean.com or phone 204-856-3396. GLYPHOSATE 1 SOYBEANS: Top yields, delivered. Common #1. Keep your own seed! Call Norcan Seeds, 204-372-6552, 204-739-3519. Fisher Branch, MB. LARGE KABULI CHICKPEA seed, 94% germ. 0% disease. Fraser Farms, Pambrun, SK., 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net

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A Season to Grow… Only Days to Pay! WANTED: FEED GRAIN, barley, wheat, peas, green or damaged canola. Phone Gary 306-823-4493, Neilburg, SK. 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

WANTED: ALFALFA 3x3 and 3x4 bales. TARPCO, SHUR-LOK, MICHEL’S sales, Will arrange for pickup at farm/field. service, installations, repairs. Canadian Phone Chris 204-746-0462, Brunkild, MB. company. We carry aeration socks and grain bags. Also electric chute openers for LARGE ROUND BALES, hard core, 5x6, afal- grain trailer hoppers. 1-866-663-0000. fa/grass mix and alfalfa 1st and 2nd cut, no rain; also grass bales of mature hay and alfalfa grass w/some rain. 204-749-2194, 204-526-0733, Rathwell, MB. 20.8x42 CLAMP-ON DUALS with rods and 300 ROUND TAME HAY bales, 1200 lbs., spacers, for triples, taken off 9370 Case no rain, $45 ea; 200 canary grass bales tractor, $8000. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm w/Alsike clover, 1200 lbs., no rain, $35 ea; Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 150- 2016 tame canary hay bales w/Alsike clover, $25 ea.; 150 wild hay bales, $25 ea.; Farmking 3 PTH 7’ snowblower, $1150 MR. TIRE CORP. For all your tire needs, OBO. 204-767-2208, Silver Ridge, MB. call Mylo at 306-921-6555 or Jeremy at 306-921-0068. Serving all Saskatchewan. ROUND HAY BALES: First & second cut, approx. 1550 lbs., grass/alfalfa, no rain, $60/bale. 204-539-2453, Swan River, MB. TIRES, TIRES, TIRES, Radial, Bias, New, Used. 20.8x42, 18.4x42, 20.8x38, 18.4x38, SMALL SQUARE OAT straw bales, 20.8R34, 18.4x34, 900/60R32, $2.50/ea. 204-371-6404, Ste. Anne, MB. 800/65R32, 24.5x32, 18.4x30, 23.1x30, 16.9x28, 28Lx26, 18.4x26, 19.5Lx24, FIRST AND SECOND cut Alfalfa, 5x6 round 16.5x16.1, 18.4x16.1, and more! Semis, bales, no rain, excellent quality. skid steers. Best price & value guaranteed! 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 306-865-6603, Hudson Bay, SK.

WANTED: FEED BARLEY Buffalo Plains Cattle Company is looking to purchase barley. For pricing and delivery dates, call Kristen 306-624-2381, Bethune, SK.

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: Available in 1 yard bulk bags for $115, delivery avail. Vermette Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK.. 1-800-667-0094. Email: info@vwpltd.com Visit: www.vwpltd.com

HORSE QUALITY SMALL square bales for WANTED: OFF-GRADE PULSES, oil seeds sale. Call 306-290-8806, Dundurn, SK. and cereals. All organic cereals and specialty crops. Prairie Wide Grain, Saskatoon, NEW HAY FOR SALE; Round bale picking and hauling, small or large loads. Travel SK., 306-230-8101, 306-716-2297. anywhere. 306-291-9658, Vanscoy, SK. WHY NOT KEEP MARKETING SIMPLE? You are selling feed grains. We are 150 BROME/ALFALFA BALES, 1500 lbs., buying feed grains. Also buying chick- $52; Also 2016 hay and greenfeed for sale. peas, lentils and golden flax. Fast pay- 306-845-2630, Turtleford, SK. ment, with prompt pickup, true price discovery. Call Jim Beusekom, Allen Pirness, HAY FOR SALE - DELIVERED! Also custom David Lea, Vera Buziak or Matt Beusekom hauling. V-V Trucking Ltd., 306-631-8544, at Market Place Commodities Ltd., Leth- Moose Jaw, SK. bridge, AB. Phone 1-866-512-1711. Email WANTED HEATED CANOLA. No broker info@marketplacecommodities.com or FOR SALE, 200 large round mixed hay involved. Sell direct to crushing plant. bales, 780-826-0883, Cold Lake, AB. Cash on delivery or pickup. 306-228-7306 or 306-228-7325, no texts. Unity, SK.

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ROUND ALFALFA/ALFALFA GRASS solid core greenfeed 5x6 JD hay bales for sale. Call 306-237-4582, Perdue, SK. 1ST & 2ND CUT large round alfalfa bales. Straight alfalfa & grass blend available. Call 306-594-4027, Norquay, SK. 2017 SMALL SQUARE straw bales, about 600 small square straw bales. Good solid bales. Shedded, $3 each. Delivery available, 306-862-1998, 306-609-0244, Codette, SK.

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3X4 SQ. BALES: Alfalfa, Orchard, Timothy. Exc. beef/dairy, 150 RFV, 24% pro., 1600 LACKAWANNA PRODUCTS CORP. Buy- 1700 lbs., 7-9¢. 204-270-0115, Lorette, MB. ers and sellers of all types of feed grain and grain by-products. Contact Bill Hajt or EXCELLENT BEEF ALFALFA, 18.5% protein, Christopher Lent at 306-862-2723. 20% orchard grass, square bales, inside. BUYING WILD FUR, whole frozen carcass, Can deliver. 204-371-5744, Landmark, MB. cash paid. Must have fur license. clent@lpctrade.com bhajt@lpctrade.com DL#6168, call 306-852-8802, Tisdale, SK. GOOD QUALITY 1st CUT small square Email: madtrapper@hotmail.ca Alfalfa bales, $3.75/bale. Can deliver. 204-326-3109, Steinbach, MB.

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NUVISION COMMODITIES is currently 100 MEDIUM SQUARE wheat straw purchasing feed barley, wheat, peas and bales, 3x3x8, baled dry & clean with a conmilling oats. 204-758-3401, St. Jean, MB. ventional combine, stored in hay shed, $20/bale; Some small square also avail. WANTED: FEED BARLEY, 48 lbs. plus. Delivery available. Phone 204-755-3416, Phone 306-345-2523, Stony Beach, SK. Hazelridge, MB.

POLY TANKS: 15 to 10,000 gal.; Bladder tanks from 220 to 88,000 gallon; Water and liquid fertilizer; Fuel tanks, single and double wall; Truck and storage, gas or dsl. Wilke Sales, 306-586-5711, Regina, SK.

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

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

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. FARM HAND REQUIRED for a cow/calf feed lot. Must be able to operate equipment. Main duties will include feeding and care of cattle. Wage will depend on experience. On farm housing available. Call 780-524-9322. FARM LABOURERS WANTED. Lincoln Gardens is a seasonal vegetable farm located at Lumsden, SK. Seeking 8 seasonal field labourers, starting April 15, 2018. Duties include: Planting, weeding and harvesting vegetable crops. Sort, wash, weigh vegetables. Hand move irrigation pipes. 50 to 60 hrs./week. Must be available weekends. Starting wage is $11.00/hr. Send resume with references to: Lincoln Gardens, Box 750, Lumsden, SK., S0G 3C0. FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER: Year round employment with house, including off farm acreage supplied. Year round salary dependent on experience and level of involvement in operation. We run a family run cow/calf operation, backgrounder feedlot, and grain farm. Non-smoking environment. Class 1A license required. Families are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact Raymond to leave a message 204-937-7371 MECHANIC/FARM WORKER WANTED for PT(or FT) work on modern mixed farm from Apr.-Nov. near Calgary, Must have good mechanical ability for operating seeder, combine and tractors, along with shop maintenance. Preferably Class 1. Housing negotiable, start now, good fit for semiretired with flex. hrs. Send resume to: lscattleco@xplornet.com fax 403-335-0086 or call between 9AM-4PM 403-335-3694. DAIRY HERD MANAGER wanted on a progressive dairy farm. Milking 240 cows in a new facility with an automated milking system in SE Manitoba. Management responsibilities include herd health, breeding program and some barn equipment maintenance. Be part of a management team that includes the owners, a veterinarian, a nutritionist and equipment specialists. For more info. contact Charles at 204-371-0711 or David at 204-371-6081. DUFFERIN MARKET GARDENS is accepting 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., Please send resume with references to fax: 204-745-6193. Or mail to: Box 1051, Carman, MB., R0G 0J0. RIVER VALLEY SPECIALTY FARMS: Seeking seasonal workers for 2018. Position will be seasonal full-time, 40+ hrs/week. Wage $11.18/hour. Period of employment anticipated to be from April 2018 until August 2018. Duties include: Harvesting and packing of asparagus, planting and weeding of pumpkins, squash and onions as well as weeding of organic fields. Must be willing to work long hours and do repetitive tasks as well as bending and some heavy lifting. Applicants must be able to work in a variety of conditions in outdoor environments and must be able to work well with others. Education requirements not applicable, experience an asset. Location of work is MacGregor and area, Manitoba. Please apply by e-mail to: admin@rivervalleyfarms.ca or in writing to: Box 33, Bagot, MB. R0H 0E0. FARM LABOURER REQUIRED for livestock operation. Duties include: operating, maintaining seeding & harvesting equip. Smoke free enviro., $17/hr. Housing avail. Lyle Lumax, 204-525-2263, Swan River, MB. 2 SEASONAL FARM Machinery Operators required. Must be able to operate grain cart, tandem grain truck, FWA tractor w/rockpicker, 4 WD tractor for harrowing. Also manual labour for upkeep of leafcutter bees and general servicing of equip. May 1 to Nov. 15. $15-$18/hr. 101008187 SK Ltd., 303 Frontier Trail, Box 372, Wadena, SK., S0A 4J0. Fax: 306-338-3733, ph 306-338-7561 or cfehr9860@hotmail.com HELPER WANTED ON mixed farm. Steady job for right person. Room and board avail. 403-631-2373, 403-994-0581, Olds, AB.

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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, Email: althousehoney@sasktel.net PASTURE RIDER REQUIRED for 2018 season. Monet Pastures Ltd., Elrose, SK., requires a full-time seasonal pasture rider to help care for 1950 cow/calf pairs May 1st to November 1st. Must supply own horses and tack. Experience with cattle disease is mandatory. Valid driver’s license required. Must be able to rope and treat cattle in open pasture. Housing available. Wages $23 to $30/hour based on experience. For more information contact: Luke Ellingson 306-378-7451, Tim Calwell 306-378-7554, or email calseeds@sasktel.net LOOKING FOR PEOPLE interested in riding feedlot pens in Strathmore or Lethbridge, AB. area, w/above average horsemanship skills, willing to train. 2 positions available. Wages depending on qualifications. 403-701-1548, Strathmore, AB. CARETAKER WANTED FOR small ranch near Lac la Hache, BC. Home provided in exchange for chores. 250-315-0238.

CUSTOM HARVEST HELP: Carlson Harvesting, Inc. is looking for combine, truck and tractor drivers for 2018. Must have clean driving record and ability to obtain a CDL. Apply online at www.carlsonharvesting.com or call with questions, 218-686-9189. FARM LABOURER REQUIRED: Seeking an experienced farm labourer to perform a variety of tasks on an irrigated crop farm in S. Alberta. Applicants should have experience and/or knowledge of seeding, spraying, harvesting and farm equipment maintenance. Experience and understanding of irrigation equipment and GPS technology is preferred. Offering great wages plus full benefits. Housings available! Coaldale, AB. 403-332-1602, email: peterjr@bossod.ca FULL-TIME POSITION ON a cow/calf operation. Must have knowledge of calving, AI, general farm work, working with a show herd of Angus and Simmental cattle. One bedroom apartment available. The RK farm is located in Central Ontario. Contact Sandy Reid at rkanimalsupplies@xplornet.com or call 519-588-7560.

NORTHLAND LOGISTICS CORP is hiring Class 1 Drivers for its Grande Prairie, AB. locations. On-site accommodations available for out-of-town workers. We offer competitive wages, & benefits. Contact Cindy @ 780-957-3334 or email your resume safety@northlandtank.ca

KNUDSEN’S HONEY INC. is looking for 4 apiary workers for April-October 2018. Work includes: building equipment, supering beehives, extracting honey, moving and feeding hives, 1 year of exp. Wage starts at $15/hour, workers comp. Farm is located: SW 9-41-9 W2 in RM of Porcupine, SK. Please apply online before March 1, 2018 to: AnnaBolvin@hotmail.com SEEKING FULL-TIME WORK: Experienced with cattle & calving, and most farm machinery. Clean Class 5. Ph. 204-731-1781.

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