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urns out it wasn’t aliens, cultists, or a drive-by shooter. The killer of three calves north of Treherne has been determined to have been blackleg. Owners Chelsea and Gene Hacault reported the sudden and suspicious deaths of the two red Simmental steers and one heifer last week. “It turned out to be blackleg,” she said on Monday. “It’s still suspicious, because there were parts of them missing, but they did die from blackleg.”

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atoru Koyajima likes the quality of the Canadian durum, but wonders if it will be there in the future. “We are a little bit concerned now that the Canadian Wheat Board is not operating as it used to,” he said through a translator. But the research and development leader with Japan’s largest pasta producer has come to Winnipeg to be convinced that he can still rely on Canada. “I’m hoping I can gather some information,” said Koyajima. That hope is shared by the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi), which hosted 15 millers and pasta makers from Japan last week for a program focused on Canadian durum. “I think the role that Cigi plays, especially in the transition period, is that of assuring customers that Canada is still producing the best wheat and durum in the world, and that Canada can still deliver the best wheat in the world,” said Earl Geddes, the institute’s executive director. Founded in 1972, Cigi’s aim is to create profitable opportunities for Canadian field crops by sharing technical expertise, as well as offering training and support. But since April, the organization has run programs like this without the direction of the Canadian Wheat Board, which used to be its main source of funds. Previously, the board would look at its customers and decide where a program would be most beneficial before inviting a group to participate. Now Cigi is relying on its farmer and industry advisory committees for direction. See JAPANESE WHEAT on page 6 »

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

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ow manure will be used to power skiers to the top of a Vermont resort this winter as part of a growing effort to generate electricity from a byproduct of the state’s iconic dairy farms. Killington, one of the largest ski resorts in New England, will use 300,000 kilowatt hours of electricity made from manure generated on 13 farms this year to run its K-1 Express Gondola to the top of the resort’s namesake 4,241-foot peak. The manure-generated electr icity is distr ibuted through a renewable energy program at Green Mountain Power, the state’s largest utility. The “cow power” program now generates five megawatts using manure from 10,000 of the state’s 270,000 cattle, and con-

Manure from 13 farms will power Killington’s ski lifts this winter.

sumes 300,000 gallons of manure per day. “We’re always looking at ways to be environmentally efficient and we’re always looking forward to ways to help farmers,” said Sarah Thorson, a spokeswoman for the ski resort. Vermont power customers

including Long Trail Brewing C o m p a n y, M i d d l e b u r y Co l l e g e a n d Wo o d c h u c k Hard Cider pay a premium of $.04 per kilowatt hour to offset additional costs of the renewable energy scheme. Killington is the first ski resort in Vermont to use manure power.

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Industry surprised grain act amendments don’t go further The NFU is pleased the grain commission’s mandate remains intact for now By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

ost of the amendments to the Canada Grain Act tabled in the House of Commons last week were expected. W h a t w a s n’t i s t h a t the changes cutting the 100-year-old Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) role in the grain industry were buried in the controversial 457-page omnibus budget implementation bill. T h e l e g i s l a tion doesn’t change the CGC’s mandate or governance, which also surprised and disappointed some. “We view this as a missed opportunity to properly adjust to deeper changes we’ve seen in farm operations and grain handling and marketing and exporting in the global marketplace,” Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association, said in an interview Oct. 18. “I would say this is only the first step,” said Richard Phillips, executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada. “There needs to be something a little more sweeping than what’s happened so far.” National Farmers Union president Terry Boehm is pleased the CGC’s mandate to regulate Canada’s grain industry “in the interests of the grain producers,” is untouched for now. The grain act and CGC were created to help farmers counter grain and railway company power and is needed as much today as in 1912, he said. The federal government s h o u l d c ov e r t h e C G C ’s $83-million annual costs because of the grain industry’s economic value to Canada, Boehm said. Gra i n a c t a m e n d m e n t s won’t undermine Canada’s grain quality, CGC spokesman Remi Gosselin said. “We’re going to continue to set standards and grain grades and that’s going to continue to be the standard for all of industry,” he said. “We don’t feel this is going to have an impact on Canada’s

grain-quality assurance system or our reputation internationally.” The single biggest change — ending mandatory CGC i n w a rd g ra i n i n s p e c t i o n (weighing and grading) at terminal elevators — has been discussed for 20 years and included in previous failed Conservative bills. Grain shippers, including producer car shippers, can request inward inspection, but they’ll have to pay an independent third party authorized by the CGC and chosen by the terminal operator. “These amendments will streamline and modernize the operations of the CGC, reduce the regulatory burden for grain producers and eliminate about $20 million annually in unnecessary costs from the grain-handling system — costs that are ultimately borne by farmers,” the federal government said in a news release.

Higher fees

The Public Service Alliance of Canada estimates 250 CGC jobs will be cut, said Fabian Murphy, first national vice-president of the Agriculture Union, which is part of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. The CGC is supposed to be self-sufficient but typically has a $30-million deficit that Ottawa covers. Cutting CGC costs by $20 million means another $10 million needs to be earned to cover all its costs. T h e G r a i n G r ow e r s o f Canada expects higher fees, including for outward inspection, which includes the CGC’s “Certificate Final,” guaranteeing the grade of exported grain. “If our outward fees have to go up substantially then that makes us less competitive in the world market,” Phillips said. The WGEA, GGC and the Keystone Agricultural Producers support ending mandatory inward inspection. Since most grain coming to port terminals is owned by the same company, CGC inspection is an unnecessary expense, they say. But according to Boehm mandatory inspection makes 9/29/12

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grain grading more transparent, encouraging companies to share blending benefits with farmers.

Producer security

The Grain Appeal Tribunal is being scrapped. If a disagreement arises from a requested inward inspection, Canada’s chief grain inspector will settle it. Other amendments include: • No official CGC inspection and weighing of laker shipments. • On e c l a s s o f l i c e n c e for terminal and transfer elevators. • No regular primary, terminal and transfer weigh-overs. The CGC will also revamp its producer security program, replacing the bonding system to cover money owed farmers with an insurance scheme, paid for by companies, not farmers, Gosselin said. Defaults would be 100 per cent covered. Insurance will be cheaper for companies and less costly for the CGC to oversee. The CGC will release its revised service changes in the coming weeks and seek feedback, he said.

These amendments focus on reducing costs to the grain industry, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said in an email. “Ma k i n g t h e s e s p e c i f i c changes now will not in any way prevent the CGC from continuing their modernization and consultations on future changes,” Ritz wrote. The WGEA’s Sobkowich isn’t so sure. “This is our shot to modernize the Canada Grain Act,” he said. “Who knows how long it will be before we have the opportunity to address these important things?” Sobkowich said more changes are needed. “Because they have been able to carve out one of the higher-cost component pieces, we wonder also if the same desire is going to be there down the road to make these further amendments.” The WGEA wants optional outward inspection, Sobkowich said. The KVD (kernel visual distinguishability) system, used to visually segregate wheat classes until Ottawa ended it in 2008, still hasn’t been replaced in the grain act, he added. The WGEA wants the

“There needs to be something a little more sweeping than what’s happened so far.” Richard Phillips

act to include penalties for misrepresenting varieties on delivery. The WGEA also wants the federal government to pay for CGC’s “public good” services such as grain research and monitoring grain for pesticides and toxins — something not included in the current amendments. The GGC wants that too, but the government can add it later, Phillips said. It’s up to the grain industry to keep the pressure on the government to bring in additional amendments to the grain act, he said. “That comes down to us having effective lobbying and having their ear and keeping the pressure on to getting it done.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

OPINION/EDITORIAL

Trees are just too boring

t was 12 years ago now, back when civil servants could still express an opinion without having their comments vetted through the prime minister’s office. The government of the time, through some now-forgotten body called the Canadian Agri-Food Marketing Council, had for some reason decided that Canada needed to set a goal of increasing Canada’s share of world agri-food trade to four per cent by 2005. John Morriss The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation AdminEditorial Director istration (PFRA), one of the finest organizations, public or private, in this country’s history (it arguably saved Western Canada from becoming a desert) decided to analyze whether such a goal was possible and sustainable. It assembled a group of civil servants, farmers and academics to produce the Prairie Agricultural Landscapes (PAL) report. It produced an extensive analysis of the health of Prairie soil and water, much of which remains relevant today. The quality of its research was enhanced by something which is all too rare in reports from government and academia — good writing, editing and layout. In other words, it was written in plain English, a fitting complement to the PFRA’s style of delivering applied research that actually worked on the farm. The PAL report suggested that reaching that export goal might not be quite so sustainable. Perhaps its conclusions were the last straw, as the PFRA was not long after absorbed into Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, merged with other departments and given the soulless name of “Agri-Environment Services Branch.” The PAL report came to mind when noting the last-ditch petition to request Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz to reverse the decision to terminate the 110-year-old tree program at Indian Head. It would have been one thing had he said something like, “In these times of fiscal restraint, government has to make hard decisions and…” But no. As he had done with the wheat board, Ritz simply dismissed the tree program as a relic of the past, saying farmers don’t farm like they did 100 years ago and they don’t need shelterbelts to prevent erosion anymore. Not so fast, said the PAL report. “Universal adoption of reduced-tillage and low-disturbance seeding systems will not eliminate soil erosion. Soils will still be exposed to high erosion risk after low-residue crops (such as the three-million-acre-plus increase in lentils and soybeans since the PAL report?) drought, disease or excessive straw harvesting. Permanent soil-conservation practices are required to supplement crop-residue management systems. Further work is needed to identify areas which are unsuitable for annual crop production and those areas that should be protected with perennial forages or windbreaks.” And should we need more evidence of the benefits, we need only check out what’s still on the AAFC website. “Studies from Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and North and South Dakota reveal that fields protected by mature shelterbelts develop an average yield increase of 3-1/2 per cent for wheat and up to 6-1/2 per cent for alfalfa. These figures include land taken out of production for shelterbelt planting and the competition of the shelterbelt with the crop, two factors which can partially offset gains in yield.” As for livestock, “When planted as shelterbelts, trees can reduce wind velocity, greatly diminishing the effect of cold temperatures on livestock. This can significantly lower stress on animals and, consequently, reduce feed energy requirements. “As for feeding them, “A 20 per cent increase in yields for alfalfa can be expected with the use of shelterbelts.” And according to the website, the four million trees planted in 2008 will: • Sequester 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 by 2058. • Protect the equivalent of 1,136 farmyards. • Protect 24,000 hectares of cropland. • Provide at least $2 million worth of crop benefits. • Protect over 265 hectares of wildlife lands. • Prevent soil erosion and conserve 4.35 million tonnes of topsoil valued at over $21 million. That’s pretty impressive, but perhaps planting trees to capture carbon and do all those other things is just not sexy enough these days. Despite claims of fiscal tightening, the Harper government is not shy about issuing press releases about funding new projects. Mr. Ritz has released 19 so far this month, nine of which involve a total of $3.7 million in funding for projects such as hemp processing, tilapia farming, trucking, floraculture and producing plant extracts. And speaking of capturing carbon, that’s one of the benefits claimed in an Oct. 12 announcement of $820,000 to a Calgary company to grow a “useful high-value crop” — algae from engine exhaust. Interesting idea, but can it capture as much carbon as one year’s planting of boring old trees? By the way, one of the company’s partners is energy giant Encana. It had $8.5 billion in revenue last year. johnmorriss@fbcpublishing.com

Bureaucratic shuffle may mean continued delay of rail bill Transport deputy minister active on rail file switched to Treasury Board By Alex Binkley CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR | OTTAWA

shuffle at the top rank of Transport Canada has shippers worried that longpromised legislation to balance the market power of the railways and their customers will be delayed. Louis Levesque will move from deputy minister for international trade to the same post at Transport Canada Nov. 12, replacing Yaprak Baltacioglu, who will become secretary of the Treasury Board. Levesque joined the federal government in 1991 but from the resume supplied by the government, he has no experience in transportation issues. In Ottawa, that appointment of an outsider to deputy minister usually means any major initiative goes on hold until the newcomer is up to speed on the department’s files. Shippers worry that the legislation, already delayed until this fall, will get pushed back until next year. And then it could put off even longer while the Canadian Transport Agency conducts a rail-costing review already scheduled for 2013. Baltacioglu, who came to Transport from Agriculture, was well versed in the details

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behind the efforts by resource industry shippers to convince the government to pass legislation based on the findings of Rail Service Freight Review launched in 2008. Its report advocated service guarantees for the shippers with financial penalties for failures. The railways have been fighting the legislation as an unnecessary regulatory burden, which has helped delay its introduction. In fact, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is the only minister who keeps talking up the legislation. Transport Minister Denis Lebel rarely speaks about it and has shown little interest in the issue. He insisted last spring the government still planned to introduce a bill this fall. Last month, shipper organizations representing the major resource sectors such as forestry, fertilizers, mining and agriculture called again on the government “to address inefficient and inadequate rail freight service.” They met ministers and MPs, but came away no wiser about the government’s plans. The shippers want legislation that will enable them to establish more balanced commercial relationships with the railways. This would include the right to a service agreement between a rail company and a customer, backed up by a dispute settlement mechanism. Western farm groups have been among the most vocal supporters of rail freight service legislation because they export about 80 per cent of their grains and oilseeds and need rail transport to deliver it to the United States or ports for loading on ships.

October 23, 1975

o combat high inflation during the 1970s, the federal government had introduced wage and price controls. While they did not apply to farm products directly, Wage and Price Control Board chair Jean-Luc Pepin and vicechair Beryl Plumptre had indicated they would have a look at the operation of farm marketing boards. Pepin said he “had a hunch” that something was wrong with their operation. In our Oct. 23 issue, Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan, “obviously disturbed” by the comments, said he was going to discuss the matter with them. Speaking of inflation, the first full-blooded Salers sale in North America was held in Calgary, bringing $348,000 for two bulls and six heifers. The top bull drew $146,000. A commission to examine the viability of Prairie branch lines was underway, headed by former Supreme Court justice Emmett Hall. CN president Robert Bandeen used the occasion to blast the Crow freight rate. Meanwhile CN vice-president A.R. Williams said it would be unrealistic to abandon all the lines into Swan River. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, probably still smarting from the 1972 “Great Grain Robbery” in which the Soviet Union had cleaned out U.S. wheat supplies, had signed a long-term agreement to sell it six million tonnes. However there was an escape clause if domestic supplies fell below 225 million tonnes.

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

One per cent checkoff recommended for developing new varieties Canada well behind competition in variety research The Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry is currently holding hearings on agricultural research. These are excerpts from a presentation Oct. 18 by Richard S. Gray, professor, Bioresource Policy, Business and Economics at the University of Saskatchewan. He has visited Australia, France and the U.K. to study their system for funding research

y first point is that research has fundamentally changed agriculture. Western Canadian farmers produce roughly three times the amount of output per unit of input that they did in 1940, due to research. Second, literally hundreds of studies have shown high rates of return for agricultural research. One study compiled 292 different studies, and those showed an internal rate of return of 65 per cent per year. Third, in Canada intellectual property rights (IPRs) are very weak for non-genetically modified crops — open-pollinated crops — and need to be strengthened to attract private investment. Plant breeders do have the right to charge royalties on the sale of seed, but farmers have the right to replant saved seed. This means that breeders have a limited ability to collect royalties and very little monetary incentive for research in some important crops, like wheat. In the U.K. farmers must pay a royalty on farmsaved seed equal to 53 per cent of the last year’s average royalty rate. While these intellectual property rights are an improvement over our system, the system in the U.K. has only generated enough revenue to support a small private-breeding industry. The Australian system of end-point royalties is far stronger and has far greater long-run potential for revenue generation, but notably, even this system with strong IPRs took 15 years before they got to the point that they could support a private industry. Fourth, end-point royalties, which are used in

At a time when we are trying to find investments generally with any positive rate of return, agriculture investment has a proven high rate of return.

Australia and France, have several advantages over seed-based royalty collection systems. The advantages include reduced producer risk, accommodation of farm-saved seed and low administration costs. The application of uniform end-point royalties to all varieties can generate immediate cash flow for breeders. Fifth, in the absence of strong intellectual property rights and non-refundable checkoffs, the funding for wheat in Western Canada is very low relative to the competition. The funding for wheat in Australia is at approximately $80 million a year and the funding for canola in Canada, at approximately $80 million a year, is four times the level of the funding for wheat research, about $20 million a year in Canada. Sixth, strong IPRs are not the complete solution to fund agricultural research. While they do stimulate research, and private investment is very important, they are less than perfect for a number of reasons.

Industry concentration

First, given the fixed costs of research and that once you have invested in research it can be used over and over again, the industry cannot be fully competitive. Industry will be naturally concentrated, which can lead to very high seed prices. Corn and canola producers pay about 10 per cent of their gross income for seed, but only about 10 per cent of seed company revenue is reinvested in research.

Second, with strong intellectual property rights, knowledge sharing is often limited. This fragments research, and duplicates effort. Third, just across the border, or in crops where patents prevail, there is a problem of a “patent thicket,” meaning that there are a lot of legal requirements to determine whether you have the right to use a particular technology, and this increases the cost of research because lawyers do not breed wheat. It is just part of the system. Finally, many types of knowledge, such as agronomic research, will never fit intellectual property rights. It will be impossible to use intellectual property rights to protect some types of knowledge and, as a result, they will continue to be underfunded in a fully private system.

Recommendations

• Government should work with industry to pass legislation that would create a one per cent levy on the sale of all crops that would be paid to variety owners regardless of whether they are private producers or public organizations. This would immediately provide more adequate funding and create an incentive for all breeders to develop better varieties. • The federal government should use its research mandate to create a non-refundable industrycontrolled checkoff corporation similar to Australia’s. These corporations would give industry a means to undertake substantial research investments of specific value to the industry. Given the ability of governments to free ride on this industry initiative, both federal and provincial government matching would be desirable. • Government should publicly support basic scientific research. This is a foundation for ongoing applied research, especially in this century of biology. My final words of advice are that Canada needs to think big and bold. At a time when we are trying to find investments generally with any positive rate of return, agriculture investment has a proven high rate of return.

Soy in the wheat flour? Soy what? Advances in analysis cause headaches for food regulators By Ronald Doering food lawyer

ost wheat and wheat-derived food products sold in Canadian grocery stores today contain soy that is undeclared on the label. Yes, you read that right. Because of farming operations with common storage facilities, and shared harvesting and transportation equipment, most wheat products contain detectable levels of soy. This contamination is adventitious and largely unavoidable with today’s agricultural systems. In the article‚ Assessment of Soy Commodity Contamination in Wheat Flour, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in February 2011, researchers at Dr. Steve Taylor’s outstanding Food Allergy Research and Resource Program (FARRP) reported finding that 63 per cent of retail samples of wheat flour contained detectable soy at levels ranging from 12 to 1,770 parts per million soy protein isolate (four to 590 ppm soy). The FARRP study included all-purpose, whole wheat, white wheat, bread and pastry flours. This raises a number of interesting questions. Should soyallergic individuals avoid wheat-based

products? FARRP says no, stating: “Probabilistic risk assessment shows that the risk of an allergic reaction from soy-contaminated wheat is very low; we do not advise soy-allergic consumers to avoid wheat-based products.” Essentially, while analytical chemistry can find these trace amounts, they occur at levels that are well below the threshold at which they would ordinarily cause an allergic reaction. Should the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) order a recall when its routine testing finds these trace amounts? No. If the science is clear that at these typical levels the food is not a health risk to consumers, then, in my opinion, the CFIA has no authority to order a product withdrawal (recall). What about the much-vaunted public’s “right to know?” Shouldn’t the presence of soy be declared on the label? In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expressly indicated in a guidance document that further processed foods such as milled wheat products do not need to be labelled if the residues arise from raw agricultural commodity crops.

As a practical matter, if the presence of soy contamination in wheat were to be labelled, most food products containing wheat would have to bear such labels due to the widespread nature of low-level contamination of wheat with soybeans. Labelling would confer no consumer benefit and could unnecessarily restrict the diets of soybeanallergic individuals. FARRP agrees: “These results suggest that no changes should be considered to labelling laws regarding soybean commodity contamination in wheat.” Adventitious presence does not meet the definition of an ingredient in our regulations. Moreover, Health Canada has been clear that it would not favour a “contains” or “may contain” statement for these kinds of situations. This is yet another case in which the advances in analytical chemistry continue to create major problems for food regulators around the world. Countries have zero tolerance standards that were set at a time when the detectable level was one ppm. But zero keeps getting smaller and smaller. We now have inexpensive tests that can detect parts per trillion (just as a reminder for those who cannot

quite conceive of these little bits — one part per trillion is the equivalent of one second in 32,000 years. More often than the public realizes, regulators are confronted with finding such trace amounts of foreign material or of a microbial hazard where there is no standard set other than zero (no maximum residue limit, for example). With no clear science to support setting a safe level and no expert opinion available to the food company to rebut the presumption of “unsafe,” regulators have recalled vast amounts of safe food. Think of StarLink, Belgium Dioxin and Sudan Red Dye. Fortunately, in the case of the widespread adventitious contamination of wheat with soy, we have FARRP to thank for providing a workable, interim, scientific guidance that companies can use to persuade regulators not to create unnecessary havoc for consumers and the food industry when they “discover” soy in wheat flour. Ronald L. Doering, a past president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, practises food law in the Ottawa offices of Gowling Lafleur Henderson. Contact him at Ronald.doering@ gowlings.com.

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

FROM PAGE ONE BLACKLEG Continued from page 1

The calves were found dead on Sunday, Oct. 14, and last seen alive when they were fed the previous Monday. “They were fat and happy. We were feeding them because the grass was low. It took us two days to catch them because they weren’t hungry, starving or dying,” said Hacault last week. The animals were found close beside each other within sight of No. 2 Hwy. That three calves would drop dead simultaneously, so close together, with no indication of illness, made her suspect foul play. Hacault said investigators from the Office of the Chief Provincial Veterinarian had examined the animals and had reported back to her over the weekend that the cause of death was blackleg, a disease that can cause sudden, multiple deaths in otherwise healthy cattle. The Hacaults, who run about 100 head, had three more calves drop dead over the weekend, possibly due to the same disease. They had vaccinated the calf herd in spring with an eight-way vaccine, but like most ranchers, didn’t give the recommended booster shots in the summer. “You’re not going to herd them all up and booster them on pasture,” she said. The diagnosis, however, doesn’t explain the fact that reproductive parts, ears and tongues were missing from the three that she estimated had been dead about four days.

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The way the organs were missing appeared unusual. For example, the ears — not the tastiest parts of a calf, even to coyotes — looked like they had been sliced off with a knife. “They want to say it was predators because they did die of blackleg, but nobody will ever know,” she said. “I’ve never seen an ear taken off that clean by predators.” The latest suspicious cattle deaths came after two red Simmental calves were found dead southeast of Carberry on Saturday, Oct. 6, leading some to suspect that cattle were being shot at random by vandals. In an earlier interview, owner Allan Reynolds said that he believed that they were killed on Thursday, Oct 4. One appeared to have a bullet hole in its head just above the eye, and the other was left with a partially skinned face and the tongue was missing, he added. On Monday, RCMP Staff Sgt. Mike Zens confirmed that the Office of the Chief Provincial Veterinarian had been unable to pinpoint the exact cause of death from the two heads that had been removed and sent in for X-ray examination on Oct. 10. What was certain, however, was that there were no bullets found in either one. “They weren’t able to find any evidence that the animals had been shot,” said Zens. daniel.winters@fbcpublishing.com

“So this is the first time we’ve done it just as Cigi, with advice from our industry partners, so it’s new to us in that regard,” said Geddes.

Specific requirements

The Cigi-Japan Durum Wheat Program has also been changed to reflect changes in the Japanese market. “Japan’s durum millers and pasta processors have very significant and specific quality requirements,” said Esey Assefaw, head of Asian products and extrusion technology at Cigi. “The Japanese pasta market is going through considerable changes brought about by economic factors and changes in consumer preferences.” Koyajima said more people are now reheating noodles, making the texture even more important for consumers. “In Japan, consumers are going frequently to convenience stores and they are looking for pasta lunch boxes, and also frozen pasta,” he said. “But still, (they) are looking for a very high-quality pasta.” Those consumers are also looking for lower prices. “Therefore, Japanese manufacturers are trying to bring the costs down,” said Koyajima. Cigi wants to understand these market changes better, and also work to help Japanese manufacturers meet these new demands, said Geddes.

Satoru Koyajima leads research and development at Japan’s largest pasta manufacturer. He was at the Canadian International Grains Institute to learn more about Canadian durum. PHOTO: SHANNON VANRAES

The Japanese market relies on nearly 100 per cent Canadian durum, the equivalent of about 240,000 tonnes each year. They also buy the highest quality, often at the highest price, adds the executive director. But even as the institute works with countries like Japan, as well as many others — it was just finishing a program with Germans and Americans — Geddes said other

organizations are working at a cross-purpose. Marketing agencies, such as U.S. Wheat Associates, have worked to convince some clients that Canada can’t deliver in post-single-desk system,” he said. “Of course that is just wrong,” said Geddes. “And we have to spend some time dispelling that myth.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Manitoba oat prices near historic highs

FALL AND WINTER COMBO

Strong export and domestic demand supports local prices By Terryn Shiells COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA

ash bids for oats in Manitoba have soared to a level near historic highs, industry officials said. Some Manitoba oat farmers were receiving up to $4 per bushel as of Oct. 22, Warren Alexander, a commodity trader with Emerson Milling, in Emerson said. “This price level, historically, seems to be the high,” he said. “Prices have really never gone a whole lot higher than this, so we’ll see what happens.” Much of the price strength was linked to spillover support from the advances seen in oat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). CBOT oat values moved higher throughout mid-October, boosted by a post-harvest rally and concerns about tight supplies because of a drought in the U.S., Alexander said. Strong demand, from both domestic and export sectors, also helped to lift Manitoba oat prices. Because of the tight supply situation, Alexander thinks prices will manage to stay strong in the near term. “With all the drought in the U.S., there’s not an overabundance of grain,” he said. “So, I don’t see a reason for prices to come down anytime soon.” The strong prices also influenced farmer selling across the Prairies. Alexander said some farmers were “certainly” selling, while others were still holding out to see if prices move any higher. If prices stay strong, farmers across the province will probably be enticed to plant the same number of acres, if not more, than they did for the 2012-13 crop year, Alexander said. Manitoba producers planted 550,000 acres of oats in the 2012-13 (Aug./Jul.) crop year, according to the Statistics Canada production report released on Oct. 4.

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WHAT’S UP Please forward your agricultural events to daveb@fbcpublish ing.com or call 204-944-5762. Oct. 25: Keystone Agricultural Producers general council, 9:30 a.m., PCU Centre, 245 Royal Rd. S., Portage la Prairie. Farmers and guests welcome. For more info call 204-697-1140. Oct. 25: Manitoba Sheep Association district meeting, 7 p.m., Veva’s Diner, 465 Mill Rd., Boissevain. For more info call 204-421-9434 or email mb@ mbsheep.ca. Oct. 30: Harvest Gala fundraiser benefiting Red River Exhibition Association scholarships and Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame, Viscount Gort Hotel, 1670 Portage Ave., Winnipeg. For tickets call 204-888-6990. Oct. 30: Manitoba Turkey Producers semi-annual meeting, Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. For more info call 204489-4635. Oct. 31: H@ms Marketing Services fall marketing meeting, noon, Royal Oak Inn, 3130 Victoria Ave., Brandon. Lunch included. For more info call 1-800-899-7675.

USDA hears earful about corn estimates at annual meeting Several of the agency’s quarterly figures have fallen outside trade expectations By Tom Polansek Reuters

op U.S. agriculture officials Monday were to face questions about quarterly estimates for corn inventories that have frustrated traders and roiled markets for the past two years. Traders said they would raise their concerns about supply estimates at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual meeting in Chicago for users of agricultural data. The USDA is widely regarded as the world’s best source of information on U.S. and global crop supplies, offering an unmatched wealth of public data. But over the last two years, several of the agency’s quarterly

figures for U.S. corn stocks have fallen outside trade expectations, causing sharp swings in futures on the Chicago Board of Trade. On Sept. 28, the USDA pegged corn inventories as of Sept. 1 at 988 million bushels based on a survey of farmers and grain elevators. The estimate, which was not supposed to include corn harvested this year, was 11 per cent below the average trade estimate in a Reuters poll. Analysts were surprised because the USDA, in a separate supply-demand report on Sept. 12, estimated corn inventories left over from previous harvests at 1.181 billion bushels. The USDA needs to “rectify the issue of why they could be so far off within 15 days of time,”

said Mike Zuzolo, president of Global Commodity Analytics & Consulting. “That’s the pressing issue in the trade’s mind at this point in time,” he said.

Early alert

The USDA said prior to the quarterly report that it must rely on the co-operation from farmers and grain elevators to report accurate quarterly stocks data. At last year’s data meeting, the department noted that robust growth in the ethanol sector during the past few years had altered the structure of the U.S. corn market, complicating government efforts to gauge the use of corn for animal feed and to estimate inventories.

This year, USDA alerted traders in the Sept. 12 supplydemand report that early use of newly harvested, or new-crop, corn was expected to displace use of old-crop 2011 corn and to boost inventories of corn left over from previous harvests. The USDA noted Sept. 12 that nearly 1.2 billion bushels of new-crop corn were available for use before the end of the old-crop 2011-12 marketing year on Sept. 1, up more than 700 million bushels from a year earlier. Traders and analysts “are going to want more insight into how USDA incorporates early-harvested corn into oldcrop feeding,” said Rich Feltes, vice-president of research for RJ O’Brien.

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Nov. 1: Manitoba Beef Producers District 4 meeting, 6 p.m., Ukrainian Home, 209 Main St. N., Vita. For more info call 1-800-7720458 or email info@mbbeef.ca. Nov. 1: H@ms Marketing Services fall marketing meeting, 1 p.m., Community Hall, 25 Main St., Starbuck. Pork on a bun included. For more info call 1-800-899-7675. Nov. 1-4: Manitoba Livestock Expo, Brandon. For more info call 204726-3590 or visit brandonfairs.com. Nov. 2: Manitoba Beef Producers District 3 meeting, 6 p.m., Memorial Hall, 12 Second Ave. SW, Carman. For more info call 1-800-772-0458 or email info@ mbbeef.ca. Nov. 2: H@ms Marketing Services fall marketing meeting, noon, Village Green Restaurant, 350 Park Rd. E., Steinbach. Lunch included. For more info call 1-800-899-7675. Nov. 2-3: Organic Connections conference and trade show, Conexus Arts Centre, 200 Lakeshore Dr., Regina. For more info call 306-543-8732 or email info@organicconnections.ca. Nov. 3: Manitoba Sheep Association district meeting, 1 p.m., Parkland Crossing, 229 Whitmore, Dauphin. For more info call 204-421-9434 or email mb@ mbsheep.ca. Nov. 7: Manitoba Pork Council fall producer meeting, location and time TBA, Portage la Prairie. Nov. 8: Manitoba Pork Council fall producer meeting, location and time TBA, Niverville. Nov. 8: Manitoba Beef Producers District 5 meeting, 6 p.m., Community Memorial Hall, 224 Second Ave., Carberry. For more info call 1-800-772-0458 or email info@mbbeef.ca. Nov. 8: Manitoba Sheep Association district meeting, 7 p.m., Golden Age Club, Notre Dame de Lourdes. For more info call 204-421-9434 or email mb@ mbsheep.ca. Nov. 9: Fields on Wheels Conference: Agribusiness Logistics in Turbulent Times, Radisson Hotel, 288 Portage Ave., Winnipeg. For more info call 204-474-9097 or visit http://umanitoba.ca/facul ties/management/ti.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

XL takeover latest in a series by global meat giant JBS Aggressive acquisitions carry Brazilian processor to the top of global meat industry By Daniel Winters co-operator staff

ews that XL Foods, one of the two major cattleslaughtering plants in Canada, is cashing in its chips after a devastating beef recall raises an important question.

“It’s natural that everyone thinks about growing. But back then, it was another world, nobody would dream about this.” Wesley Batista, son of JBS founder Jose Batista Sobrinho, became president and CEO after his brother Joesley became chairman in 2011. photo: REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker

Jose Batista Sobrinho JBS founder

Just who is JBS, the company taking it over? Founded in 1953 by Jose Batista Sobrinho, it began as a tiny, five-head-per-day abattoir in Anapolis, Brazil. Today, according to a report on KPMG’s ConsumerCurrents website, it’s Brazil’s most successful food multinational and the world’s largest meat processor, with 10 per cent of global slaughter capacity. It has 140 production units and more than 120,000 employees worldwide. In 2011, it raked in US$33.6 bln. revenue from its 90,000-head-perday beef-slaughter capacity. After becoming a listed company in 2007, the Sao-Pauloheadquartered giant swallowed up Colorado-headquartered Swift & Co., for US$1.4 bln., and later bought a controlling stake in Pil-

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Even after decades of stunning growth, JBS continues to be run by the founder and six family scions. Wesley Batista, the founder’s son, became president and CEO after his brother Joesley became chairman in 2011. KPMG quoted Wesley Batista as saying that Asia accounts for onethird of the company’s exports, and that the company’s present focus was on expanding production in Brazil to meet growing demand from the South American economic powerhouse’s growing middle class. However, in the interview, Batista did not rule out acquisitions overseas. “The first thing we ask is if it fits with our strategy to expand our business in the protein and food sector. Second, is it the right country to operate in? And third, is it the right asset? This is a broad set of criteria but a target has to fit them,” he said. A Reuters report in 2009 said that in contrast to other groups, JBS often bought plants — many of which were in a fragile financial situation — instead of building them, which made the growth process faster. The company, whose website carries the slogan, “Trust in God, and respect nature,” has seen a few missteps, however. A Wikipedia entry on the company, citing an article in the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, states that major U.K. supermarket chain Tesco had cancelled its contract with JBS due to a claim by Greenpeace that JBS could have supplied meat from farms in deforested areas of the Amazon. In the Reuters report, former agriculture minister Marcus Pratini de Moraes, who sits on JBS’s board, said another reason for the group’s success was giving attention and support to cattle suppliers and clients. “They are always available to talk. There’s always a big effort to do so, despite being a company with 124,000 employees,” he said. The company was the first in Brazil to allow ranchers to use their own weigh scales to determine the price of cattle. While Wesley Batista has often spoken to media and at industry events, brother Joesley and father Jose Batista Sobrinho — like the Nilsson brothers whose operation they are taking over — are notoriously camera shy. According to the Reuters report, the father gave only one interview to a Brazilian newspaper two years earlier. “Things happened, nothing is programmed in life,” Jose Batista Sobrinho told the newspaper. “It’s natural that everyone thinks about growing. But back then, it was another world, nobody would dream about this.” T:10”

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grim’s Pride, one of the world’s largest chicken producers. In 2008, it bought Smithfield Food’s beef business, renaming it JBS Packerland. JBS exports to 110 countries. It operates in the U.S., Australia, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina, in addition to its home nation, and derives 75 per cent of its income from foreign operations.

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

LIVESTOCK MARKETS Cattle Prices Winnipeg

October 19, 2012

Manitoba marts see fall cattle walk, not run

Steers & Heifers 96.00 - 98.00 D1, 2 Cows 56.00 - 62.00 D3 Cows 48.00 - 58.00 Bulls 70.00 - 78.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.) 100.00 - 122.00 (801-900 lbs.) 115.00 - 128.00 (701-800 lbs.) 120.00 - 140.00 (601-700 lbs.) 128.00 - 148.00 (501-600 lbs.) 136.00 - 158.00 (401-500 lbs.) 140.00 - 175.00 Heifers (901+ lbs.) 100.00 - 114.00 (801-900 lbs.) 110.00 - 118.00 (701-800 lbs.) 110.00 - 127.00 (601-700 lbs.) 115.00 - 132.00 (501-600 lbs.) 120.00 - 148.00 (401-500 lbs.) 128.00 - 155.00

Heifers

Alberta South $ 106.00 - 108.00 107.40 - 108.00 58.00 - 69.00 50.00 - 62.00 76.96 - 76.96 $ 116.00 - 128.00 122.00 - 134.00 128.00 - 141.00 134.00 - 148.00 145.00 - 167.00 162.00 - 187.00 $ 108.00 - 119.00 113.00 - 124.00 118.00 - 130.00 124.00 - 137.00 130.00 - 148.00 142.00 - 167.00

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

(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 (October 19, 2012) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change October 2012 126.22 1.62 December 2012 128.05 2.13 February 2013 131.42 1.72 April 2013 135.27 1.55 June 2013 131.65 1.05 August 2013 131.52 0.92 Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

Feeder Cattle October 2012 November 2012 January 2013 March 2013 April 2013 May 2013

XL closure has mainly affected cow prices so far Phil Franz-Warkentin CNSC

Ontario $ 94.21 - 120.46 96.79 - 114.06 51.74 - 70.31 51.74 - 70.31 70.41 - 89.92 $ 126.77 - 138.65 119.77 - 139.12 126.58 - 144.60 120.76 - 157.01 132.29 - 170.22 135.61 - 184.42 $ 109.66 - 119.98 118.73 - 132.58 120.55 - 135.80 110.33 - 141.30 119.23 - 152.90 119.99 - 166.52

Close 146.85 149.12 150.65 152.77 154.35 155.47

Change 4.10 5.32 4.28 3.47 3.85 3.65

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending October 13, 2012 40,866 11,896 28,970 NA 628,000

Previous Year 55,164 13,976 41,188 NA 650,000

Week Ending October 13, 2012 387 19,649 13,817 729 703 4,856 129

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Previous Year 503 23,633 19,011 1,355 930 6,597 394

Hog Prices Source: Manitoba Agriculture

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

$1 Cdn: $ 1.007 U.S. $1 U.S: $0.9932 Cdn.

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(Friday to Thursday) Slaughter Cattle

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

EXCHANGES: October 19, 2012

Current Week 161.00E 148.00E 148.20 151.62

Futures (October 19, 2012) in U.S. Hogs December 2012 February 2013 April 2013 May 2013 June 2013

Last Week 157.18 144.87 145.01 147.37

Close 78.85 85.32 90.85 97.80 100.55

Last Year (Index 100) 181.96 167.03 172.20 176.75

Change 1.35 1.20 0.73 -0.45 -0.70

Other Market Prices

he middle of October might normally be the height of the fall run, but the numbers just aren’t there to the same extent as years’ past, according to participants. With fewer cattle making their way to market, prices in the feeder market have held up and even strengthened in some cases during the week ended October 19. “I called all the classes of cattle up four to five cents (per pound) this week,” said Buddy Bergner of the Ashern Auction Mart. He said age-verified cows in particular saw some strength, while calves and yearlings also saw good demand. However, it was more a function of supply, than demand, as far as the firm prices were concerned. “The numbers just aren’t there this year,” said Bergner. However, were it not for the lack of numbers, “this market could be a lot worse off,” he said. The Ashern yard had just under 1,900 animals on offer at the Oct. 17 sale, but Bergner said this time of year would usually see 2,500 to 3,000 head at the weekly sales. Overall, he estimated that numbers for the fall run were down by about 6,600 cattle from the same time in 2011. The situation was similar at most other auction yards across the province. Brandon did have over 3,000 head of cattle more through its yard, during the week, but most of that activity was a result of its pre-sort sale. Of the animals that are moving, most of the calves are heading to the East, while yearlings are heading both west and east. Local buyers were also stepping forward to a larger extent, said Bergner. “Many guys who used to have 250 cows, are now down to 150,” said Bergner, adding that many of the smaller producers have simply left completely. “Cattle numbers are low across the globe, so the outlook for people who are raising calves is positive,” said Ryder Lee, manager of federal/provincial relations with the Canadian

“The effects of XL have really been on cows so far, but on calves and yearlings producers are still getting paid for quality.” Ryder Lee

Manager of federal/provincial relations with the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association

Cattlemen’s Association. He said the drought in the U.S. was cutting into profit margins for cattle feeders, as feed costs are higher than year-ago levels. “If barley is way up, they’ll pay less for calves,” he said. However, the inventory numbers are such that it is allowing for the market to grow. Improving market access for Canadian beef internationally was also helping underpin domestic cattle values, said Lee. He was optimistic that expanded access to Japan and Europe would come about soon, while an increased appetite for beef from the growing middle class around the world was supportive for prices in general. However, closer to home the ongoing uncertainty at the XL p lant in Alberta was leading to some uncertainty in the Manitoba cattle markets as well. The plant remained closed due to E. coli issues during the week, but could be back running in the near future if a takeover plan announced during the week goes through. “The effects of XL have really been on cows so far, but on calves and yearlings producers are still getting paid for quality,” said Lee. If the plant remains closed, the lack of that major cattle processor would be negative for the feeder sector as well. Lee said many plants that have gone through similar situations in the past were shut down completely, so anything that could get it running again would be beneficial overall. “There are other packers that could take those cattle, but it would be at a discount,” said Lee. Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

Sheep and Lambs $/cwt Ewes Lambs (110+ lb.) (95 - 109 lb.) (80 - 94 lb.) (Under 80 lb.) (New crop)

Winnipeg 75.00 - 85.00 120.00 - 133.00 125.00 - 145.00 128.00 - 148.00 130.00 - 150.00 —

Chickens Minimum broiler prices as of May 23, 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 October 21, 2012 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $2.070 Undergrade .............................. $1.980 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $2.065 Undergrade .............................. $1.965 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $2.065 Undergrade .............................. $1.965 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................... $2.030 Undergrade............................... $1.945 Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.

Toronto 78.36 - 120.58 138.00 - 161.61 152.97 - 166.95 158.49 - 179.71 135.71 - 217.83 —

SunGold Specialty Meats 40.00 - 60.00

Low cattle placements buoy cattle futures early this week

Eggs Minimum prices to producers for ungraded eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board effective June 12, 2011. New Previous A Extra Large $1.8500 $1.8200 A Large 1.8500 1.8200 A Medium 1.6700 1.6400 A Small 1.2500 1.2200 A Pee Wee 0.3675 0.3675 Nest Run 24 + 1.7490 1.7210 B 0.45 0.45 C 0.15 0.15

Goats Winnipeg ($/cwt) Kids 85.00 - 130.00 Billys 130.00 - 200.00 Mature —

Toronto ($/cwt) 92.31 - 234.06 — 86.16 - 234.27

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

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

news

Toronto ($/cwt) 16.00 - 30.00 23.03 - 39.61

By Sam Nelson Reuters

.S. live cattle futures closed higher on Monday following Friday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) cattle-on-feed report that showed cattle placed in feedlots in September at a 16-year low, analysts and traders said. Feeder cattle futures were lower on waning demand for young cattle due to the lack of profit in the feeding business and on firmer Chicago Board of Trade corn prices. Traders said the worst drought in more than

50 years in the United States over the summer and the resulting high corn prices were affecting the cattle-feeding industry. Friday’s government report showed cattle placed on feed, at just over 2.0 million, were below expectations and the smallest for the month of September since the USDA began keeping track of the data in 1996. “The back months found support from the placements number while gains were capped in the front months by the disappointing marketings,” said Dennis Smith, a broker for Archer Financial. Also, “cattle are still going to market at record heavy weights,” Smith said. The average weight of cattle slaughtered last week was estimated by USDA at 1,320 lbs., compared with 1,316 the prior week, and 1,293 a year earlier.

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GRAIN MARKETS Export and International Prices

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Reports confirm expectations of tight canola supplies Ukraine export ban could mean more action for U.S. wheat sellers Dwayne Klassen CNSC

he threat of tighter-than-anticipated supplies kept canola futures on the ICE Canada platform on a firm note during the week ended Oc. 19. Talk of fresh export demand and the general firmness of CBOT soybean futures also encouraged the price advances in canola. Domestic processors also continued to be good buyers of canola during the week as they continue to stock up on supplies in order to meet sales commitments already on the books. The weakening of the Canadian dollar was also seen as conducive to stimulating some fresh end-user demand. The upside in canola was restricted by the improved weather for the planting of the soybean crops in Argentina and Brazil. Cash bids on the Canadian Prairies have also seen some improvement which attracted farmer deliveries and in turn further tempered the upward price potential. The larger-than-anticipated soybean harvest in the U.S. also prevented canola from posting significant advances. The market analysis branch of Agriculture Canada during the week confirmed that supplies of canola in Canada at the end of the 2012-13 (Aug.-Jul.) crop year will indeed be extremely tight. Canola carry-over at the end of the current season was forecast at

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450,000 tonnes. In September the government agency had been forecasting canola carry-over at 675,000 tonnes, but that was also based on ideas that production of the commodity would be in the 15.41-milliontonne range. Canola carry-over in Canada at the end of the 2011-12 season totalled 788,000 tonnes. However, with Statistics Canada saying that canola output was only 13.359 million tonnes this summer the scramble to cover export and domestic commitments is on. With the tight ending stocks picture for canola comes a downgrading in those estimates. Ag Canada had been anticipating that canola exports from Canada would be a record 8.8 million tonnes back in September, which would compare with the year-ago level when a record 8.7 million tonnes were shipped offshore. But with the lower output, Canada was only seen exporting 7.2 million tonnes of canola in 2012-13. The domestic usage forecast didn’t take as large a hit as the export projection, but it was also adjusted downwards. Ag Canada is now expecting that 6.623 million tonnes of canola will be processed domestically, down from the 6.847 million estimated back in September and well below the record 7.315 million processed in 2011-12. With the lower Canadian canola production forecast, market participants definitely

had visions of strong values moving forward. However, while canola should be able to hold some kind of premium, the upside continues to be limited by the fact alternative oilseeds, that can be purchased cheaper, remain readily available.

Wheat contracts languish

Year Ago

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

325.52

231.74

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

347.84

337.09

Coarse Grains US corn Gulf ($US)

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US barley (PNW) ($US)

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

304.43

255.71

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

251.91

218.52

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

Winnipeg Futures

Ukraine ban expected

Dwayne Klassen writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

Week Ago

Wheat

Very little activity occurred in the milling wheat, durum and barley contracts on the ICE Canada platform during the week. Much of the price movement seen in milling wheat came at the hands of the exchange arbitraging values in order to keep pace with the U.S. wheat markets. The new barley contract has not seen any actual trades since September. Soybean futures at the CBOT pushed higher during the week with continued strong demand from the domestic and export sectors behind some of the strength. Ongoing concerns that supplies of the commodity continue to be on the tight side, also influenced some of the price strength. The U.S. soybean harvest pace also slowed somewhat, which in turn provided an opportunity for values to move up. Chart-related speculative and commodity fund demand also provided some support. The upturn in soybean futures was restricted by the improved weather for the anticipated record area that will be planted in South America in the near future. Corn futures on the CBOT managed to post minor gains during the reporting period. Concerns about the tight supply outlook provided some minimal support with spillover strength from the advances seen in wheat and soybeans helping to fuel some of the upward price action. The complete absence of fresh demand from end-users limited the ability of the commodity to move to higher ground. Wheat futures on the CBOT, MGEX and KCBT experienced a push to the upside during the latest week, with some of that upward price action linked to values correcting after a series of declines. Some of the upward price action in U.S. wheat values also came from reports that Ukraine was running out of exportable wheat supplies and may have to institute a ban on movement offshore in the near future. There were ideas that the ban could occur as early as November. If that does happen, industry participants are anticipating that demand for U.S. wheat will perk up and result in some muchneeded sales being put on the books. Wheat exports from the Black Sea region generally have been made at a huge discount to U.S. wheat values, and with the export pace from that corner of the world slowing, there are ideas that prices have room to move to the upside. Industry news out of Chicago this week was the fact that the CBOT was considering reducing its grain-trading hours. While the consideration is still very preliminary, market participants in Canada and the U.S. have already indicated a preference for a shorter workday. The CBOT, which is owned by CME Group Inc., was expected to conduct a survey of market users regarding the trading hours in the very near future. The CBOT expanded its electronic trading cycle to 21 hours a session from in May in reaction to a threat from rival IntercontinentalExchange Inc., which launched look‑alike corn, soy and wheat contracts.

Last Week

All prices close of business October 18, 2012

568.92

450.07

1,121.90

1,133.15

ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business October 19, 2012 Western barley

Last Week

Week Ago

December 2012

250.00

March 2013

253.00

May 2013

254.00

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Canola

Last Week

Week Ago

November 2012

611.90

606.70

January 2013

610.60

605.60

March 2013

609.10

602.80

Special Crops Report for October 22, 2012 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan Spot Market

Spot Market

Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)

Other ( Cdn. cents per pound unless otherwise specified)

Large Green 15/64

21.00 - 23.85

Canaryseed

Laird No. 1

20.00 - 23.85

Oil Sunflower Seed

Eston No. 2

18.00 - 22.00

23.50 - 26.00 —

Desi Chickpeas

27.00 - 32.75

Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)

Green No. 1

Fababeans, large

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Medium Yellow No. 1

10.50 - 12.00

Feed beans

—

Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

7.75 - 8.75

No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans

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Feed Pea (Rail)

No. 1 Great Northern

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Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)

No. 1 Cranberry Beans

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Yellow No. 1

34.90 - 36.75

No. 1 Light Red Kidney

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Brown No. 1

30.20 - 31.75

No. 1 Dark Red Kidney

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Oriental No. 1

—

No. 1 Black Beans

—

No. 1 Pinto Beans

—

5.00 - 8.10

Source: Stat Publishing SUNFLOWERS

No. 1 Small Red

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No. 1 Pink

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Fargo, ND

Goodlands, KS

25.25

26.65

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Report for October 19, 2012 in US$ cwt NuSun (oilseed) Confection Source: National Sunflower Association

U.S. opposes strategic grain stocks Rome/Reuters

The United States does not support the idea of creating strategic grains stocks to tame volatile food prices, a U.S. representative told a ministerial meeting on the food market situation at the United Nations’ food agency Oct. 16. “The United States generally opposes the creation of regional or global food reserve systems to manage price volatility,” U.S. ambassador to the United Nations agencies in Rome, David Lane, told the meeting at the Romebased Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). “The fiscal, logistical and governance costs of regional reserves are considerable and could divert limited and

valuable resources away from sustainable solutions, such as targeted support to producers, safety nets for poor consumers and increased investment in transportation and distribution infrastructure,” he said. He warned that stocks can also encourage hoarding and corruption in the food system and can create uncertainty in markets due to the unpredictable timing and size of the release of stocks. France’s agriculture minister had told Reuters in an interview on Monday he did not expect to reach a deal in the short term on France’s strategic stocks proposal due to scant international support but said that he would keep pushing for the idea.

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Swine dysentery is back and in a new strain University of Saskatchewan researchers will soon begin inoculation trials

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“I think a lot of people were surprised to see this. With improved biosecurity it was not expected.” JANET HILL

“We haven’t quite got our nomenclature down yet,” said Rubin, but the term brachyspira 30446 is being used in the interim. The new strain of the pathogen doesn’t appear to cause symptoms as severe as brachyspira hydosenteriae, but both the old and new strains have emerged in hog barns.

Emerging problem

In 2003 cases of swine dysentery reappeared in American hog barns, while the first cases in Western Canada appeared in 2009. In 2010 four cases were reported in Quebec. “We have a clearly emerging problem in North America,” Dr. Doug MacDougald of South West Ontario Veterinary Service told attendees. He added that communication between producers, industry and researchers is crucial to addressing the disease as it emerges. “I think that we are in the same stage in the U.S. as in Canada, we’re trying to keep it controlled and come up with a good method of detection,” said Eric Burrough of Iowa State University, who spoke about the American experience with the disease. But Rubin points out a lot of basic biology still needs to be done on this new species of brachyspira affecting herds. “Where did it come from? We don’t really know a lot about where these organisms hang out when they’re not in pigs,” he said. Suggestions have been made that rodents or wild birds are responsible for the re-emergence, but so far no studies have been conclusive. Rubin notes studies looking at birds living on hog farms have found them to contain the bacteria, but the question then becomes a chicken or egg discussion. “Did the birds bring it with them to the farm? Or did they pick it up while living near the hog barn? We just don’t know,” he said. Other preliminary discussions have led to the suggestion that contaminated surface water may be playing a role in the spread, but no formal research studies have tested that hypothesis. Janet Hill of the University of Saskatchewan is leading that school’s brachyspira research program and said they will soon begin inoculation trials with brachyspira 30446. “It’s a really important step when studying potential pathogens,” she said. “Just because you can isolate and detect an organism in association with disease, doesn’t necessarily mean the organism is the cause.” Once causation is firmly established, the next step is to look at the epidemiology of the disease and determine its origin. “I think a lot of people were surprised to see this,” she said. “With improved biosecurity it was not expected.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

NDSU reports on feeding trials with peas, hulless barley and DDGS Peas did not affect feeding performance but had no effect on meat quality

orth Dakota State University researchers have reported on beef cattle feeding trials with field peas, hulless barley and distillers grains over the past year. Some results include: • Dried distillers grains plus solubles (DDGS) can be used to supplement growing steers fed medium-quality hay. • Feeding DDGS on alternate days may be an option when forage availability is limited. • Field peas make an excellent feedstuff for finishing diets for feedlot cattle. • Hulless barley is a viable grain for finishing feedlot cattle. The objectives of the first DDGS study were to determine the effect of increasing supplementation of corn DDGS on forage intake, average daily gain, gain efficiency and feeding behaviour in growing cattle fed medium-quality hay. Previous research suggested that ethanol byproducts, such as distillers grains, can be an effective supplement for forage-based diets. However, less is known about the effects of supplementation on feeding behaviour and behavioural factors contributing to differences in animals’ responses to supplements. The recent study that NDSU Animal Sciences Department researchers conducted indicates supplementation with DDGS increased growth performance and total dry-matter intake in growing steers fed mediumquality hay and reduced their hay intake and the time they spent consuming the hay. In another DDGS study, NDSU Animal Sciences Department researchers evaluated the effects of feeding foragefed steers DDGS on alternate days as a way to reduce feed costs. Researchers discovered that feeding only hay and only distillers grains on alternating days resulted in changes in forage intake and concentrations of volatile fatty acids produced in the rumen without affecting digestibility. These results indicate that the reduction in forage intake and limited metabolic consequences warrant further investigation of alternate-day feeding schedules as an option when forage availability is limited.

The researchers lear ned that field peas do not have any adverse effects on performance or meat quality. However, including field peas in the cattle’s diet did not increase beef tenderness, which was contrary to the researchers’ expectations. In the barley study, researchers substituted hulless barley for corn at varying levels in a finishing study with 158 crossbred steers. The researchers found that feed intake decreased as the proportion of hulless barley increased, but overall gains were not affected, resulting in an improvement in feed efficiency. For more information on these studies and other recent N D S U b e e f c a t t l e - re l a t e d research, visit the “2012 North Dakota Beef Report,” which is available at www.ag.ndsu.edu/ cattledocs/research-reports.

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The field pea finding resulted from a feedlot finishing study researchers at NDSU’s Carrington Research Extension Center and the Animal Sciences Department conducted to evaluate how including field peas in yearling beef heifer diets affected feedlot performance, carcass traits and palatability in different muscles in the carcass.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Study says pesticide combinations put bumblebee colonies at risk Bumblebees exposed to a combination of pesticides were about half as successful at gathering pollen By Alister Doyle OSLO/REUTERS

esticides used in farming are also killing worker bumblebees and damaging their ability to gather food, meaning colonies that are vital for plant pollination are more likely to fail when they are used, says a study released Oct. 22. The United Nations has estimated that a third of all plant-based foods eaten by people depend on bee pollination and scientists have been baffled by plummeting numbers of bees, mainly in North America and Europe, in recent years. British scientists said they exposed colonies of 40 bumblebees, which are bigger than the more common honeybee, to the pesticides neonicotinoid and pyrethroid over four weeks at levels similar to those in fields. Neonicotinoids are nicotine-like chemicals used to protect various crops from locusts, aphids and other pests. “Chronic exposure... impairs

natural foraging behaviour and increases worker mortality, leading to significant reductions in brood development and colony success,” the scientists wrote in the report in the journal Nature. Exposure to a combination of the two pesticides “increases the propensity of colonies to fail,” according to the researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London. A 2011 UN report estimated that bees and other pollinators such as butterflies, beetles or birds do work worth $200 billion a year to the human economy and are in decline in many nations. The findings underscored the importance of wider testing of pesticides to ensure they do not also target bees, it said. France banned a neonicotinoid pesticide made by Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta in June, citing evidence of a threat to the country’s bees. A report last month, however, said that the original research was flawed. “My guess is that the decline

of bees is like a jigsaw — there are probably a lot of pieces to put into place. This is probably a very important piece of that jigsaw,” lead author Richard Gill told Reuters of the findings about pesticides.

Parasites

In a separate commentary in Nature, Juliet Osborne of the University of Exeter in England said the study underscored the need to understand all factors that may contribute to harm bees and to “Colony Collapse Disorder.” “For example, we have as yet no convincing demonstration of the relative effects of pesticides on bee colonies compared to the effects of parasites, pathogens and foraging resources,” she wrote. Gill endorsed recommendations by the European Food Safety Authority for longer testing on adult bees and larvae, new ways of assessing cumulative exposure to toxins and separate assessments for different bee species. He said previous studies had mostly examined the impact of pesticides on individual

The bumblebees were exposed to neonicotinoid and pyrethroid over four weeks at levels similar to those in fields. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK.COM

bees, rather than colonies. Bumblebees form colonies of a few dozen bees, while honeybees can number up to tens of thousands. “Effects at the individual level can have a major knockon effect at the colony level. That’s the novelty of the study,” he said. The average number of bees lost in the experiment — both dead in the nesting box and failing to return — was about two-thirds of the total for bees exposed to a combination of the two pesticides against a

third for a control, exposed to neither. Bumblebees exposed to a combination of pesticides were about half as successful at gathering pollen, used as food, compared to a control. They also devoted more workers to collecting food, meaning fewer were raising larvae. Other experts said more research was needed. “It certainly wouldn’t be fair to say that this research spells doom for wild bees,” said James Cresswell of the University of Exeter.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Dry to December, then Alberta Clippers: AccuWeather Near-normal snow overall forecast for Manitoba and Saskatchewan STAFF

ccuWeather.com forecasts that following the third-warmest winter on record in Canada last year, snow and cold will make a comeback across much of the nation this winter. In a forecast issued Oct. 17, the U.S.-based firm said slightly colder-than-normal weather with near-normal snow is predicted for most of the Prairie region, which was the warmest spot last winter. Southern Ontario and Quebec should have a return of winter with near-normal temperatures and snow, especially during January and February. Atlantic Canada and the Maritime provinces will be one exception to colder weather, but long-range forecasters expect major winter storms to affect the region. The AccuWeather forecast for Saskatchewan and Manitoba said that following a very dry fall, drier-than-normal weather will persist through December. That should change during January and February as some quick-hitting storms may have an impact. “For Regina and Winnipeg, I think we are going to see an increase in Alberta Clipper systems, especially the second half of winter, which should bring quick shots of snowfall to both those cities during that time,” senior meteorologist Brett Anderson said in the forecast.

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“For Regina and Winnipeg, I think we are going to see an increase in Alberta Clipper systems, especially the second half of winter, which should bring quick shots of snowfall to both those cities during that time.”

BRETT ANDERSON Senior meteorologist

It said that while Alberta Clipper systems are fast moving and do not have much m o i s t u re a s s o c i a t e d w i t h them, a moderate amount

of snow is predicted for this winter. Regina, Saskatoon and Winnipeg are expected to have near-normal snowfall this winter.

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

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Active weather pattern; a little taste of winter Issued: Monday, October 22, 2012 · Covering: October 24 – October 31, 2012 Daniel Bezte Co-operator contributor

t definitely seems like we’re in a new weather pattern as the cool, wet weather looks to continue for pretty much this entire forecast period. The weather models have been having a heck of a time coming to a consensus on how the weather will play out during the first half of this forecast period. At first they were showing a very strong area of low pressure moving into our region, bringing plenty of rain and then snow, but lately the models have begun changing their tune. It looks like the main area of low pressure forecast to move through our region this week will break into two pieces. The first will move through central Manitoba on Wednesday, with the second low moving through Minnesota and into Ontario on Thursday and Friday. The result will be an overall weaker system, mean-

ing less rain during the middle of the week and then only a slight chance of snow later in the week. Temperatures will also be a little slower to cool down, but by the time the second low moves off into Ontario over the weekend, we’ll see highs drop to around the freezing mark. These cold temperatures look like they’ll stick around for at least the start of next week. We can expect daytime highs to only make it to around freezing mark, with overnight lows in the -8 C range. The good news is that the medium-range weather models are showing a return to milder conditions by the middle of next week. Usual temperature range for this period: Highs: 1 to 13 C; Lows: -8 to 2 C. Probability of precipitation falling as snow: 50 per cent. 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.

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Percent of Average Precipitation (Prairie Region) September 1, 2012 to October 17, 2012

< 40% 40 - 60% 60 - 85% 85 - 115% 115 - 150% 150 - 200% > 200% Extent of Agricultural Land Lakes and Rivers

Produced using near real-time data that has undergone initial quality control. The map may not be accurate for all regions due to data availability and data errors. Copyright © 2012 Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Prepared by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Service (NAIS). Data provided through partnership with Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and many Provincial agencies.

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This issue’s weather map shows the total precipitation so far this fall compared to the long-term average. It has been a relatively dry fall across the Prairies, with only the extreme northern parts of the agricultural areas seeing average to slightly above-average amounts.

The secrets behind making a long-range forecast for winter You could take a scientific look at pressures, or you could also just throw a dart By Daniel Bezte CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR

ith winter just around the corner the various weather-forecasting companies and organizations are starting to come out with their winter forecasts. I will do a complete examination of all the different forecasts in next week’s article, as not all the forecasts are available yet. For this week I thought I would take some time to look at some of the factors or thoughts that go into making a long-range forecast. The first realization that we have to come to when looking at long-range forecasts is that pretty much anyone can make one. What I mean by this is that we just don’t have enough of an understanding of how to forecast the weather beyond about 10 days, let alone several months in advance. So for the most part, long-range weather forecasting is pretty much guesswork. For some, it is an educated guess, but a guess nonetheless! If we break down long-range forecasting into two parts, temperature and precipitation, and we look at each of these individually, a long-range forecast can have three possibilities, either above-, below-, or near-average conditions. So, if you simply guess

at the forecast you have about a 33 per cent chance of getting the temperature or precipitation forecast correct. Compare this to our educated guessers and you are not doing too badly. Apart from the almanacs, which have claimed 80 per cent accuracy in their long-range forecasts, all the other forecasters’ accuracy usually falls in the 40 to 50 per cent range. That means more often than not their longrange forecasts are not correct, and as I pointed out, you would probably be better off making your own forecast.

not always, brings milder- and drier-than-average conditions, while La Niña will often bring colder- and wetter-than-average conditions. Going into this fall an El Niño phase appeared to be developing, but over the last month it has weakened and is now considered to be neutral. Forecasts for the upcoming months continue to show either a very weak El Niño or neutral conditions to continue. This means the Pacific Ocean is likely not going to have any definitive influence on this winter’s weather.

The problem

AO and NAO

Now on to the big question — why is it that long-range forecasts are so hard to do? To understand this let’s look at some of the main controlling factors that help drive our weather. The first and probably most well-known factor is El Niño or the El Niño/La Niña southern oscillation (ENSO). This is a periodic warming and cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean. El Niño is the warm phase while La Niña is the cool phase of this oscillation. Both of these phases affect the atmospheric pressure patterns over the Pacific which in turn influence the weather we experience over North America. For us, an El Niño winter often, but

How about the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the larger associated Arctic Oscillation (AO)? We talked about these two connected oscillations of pressure patterns over the Arctic and North Atlantic in fairly good detail late last winter. The NAO controls the strength and direction of westerly winds and storm tracks across the North Atlantic. If there is a large difference in the pressure between Iceland and the Azores the NAO is said to be in the positive phase. This often leads to increased westerly winds and a stronger southwesterly flow of air over eastern North America. This can prevent Arctic air from plunging

southward, resulting in milder winters. If the difference in sealevel pressure between Iceland and the Azores is small, the NAO is said to be in the negative phase. Westerly winds tend to be weaker allowing Arctic air to spill southwards into North America more easily. With the Arctic Oscillation in a positive phase we usually see the upper-level pressure pattern over North America in a zonal configuration, while the negative phase tends to have a much more meridional pattern. Last winter we saw a very negative AO and we can all remember back to last March when we experienced a very meridional flow, with much of North America recording record-shattering heat.

Sea ice factor

So far we have three different factors that influence our weather. Each is hard to predict and each one will have some kind of impact on our weather, it all depends on which will be the more dominant one and how long it will remain dominant. Now, to make things even more difficult, we have recordbreaking Arctic sea ice loss to add to the mix. The extra heat being absorbed by the open Arctic Ocean gets released back into the atmosphere in the fall, and

Going into this fall an El Niño phase appeared to be developing, but over the last month it has weakened and is now considered to be neutral.

new research is showing that this appears to be influencing largescale weather patterns. We now have another complicating factor. We are also moving toward the next peak in the sunspot cycle (expected next summer). Research shows that this cycle may have an effect on the Arctic Oscillation and with us now in a very active phase this could also impact the winter weather patterns. As you can now see, even if you have a background in weather, trying to make heads or tails out of all of these factors is tough. When you feel like taking a shot at coming up with a winter forecast, close your eyes, take out the darts, give them a throw — you just never know what you might come up with!

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

CROPS

By Allan Dawson

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olf Trax Innovative Micronutrients is one of those overnight successes 14 or more years in the making. The Winnipeg-based firm and recent recipient of the Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation Innovation Award, has been quietly building sales of its patented Dry Dispersible Powder (DDP) micronutrient fertilizer coating in 75 regulatory regions, including the U.S., Mexico and northern Europe. Now the privately held firm, founded by company president Geoffrey Gyles and managing director Kerry Green, is gaining attention and sales in Western Canada. Wolf Trax is also selling a new seednutrition product called Protinus that promises quicker seedling emergence, especially in cold, wet soils. “Every single time the farmer gets a bigger, healthier crop and that bigger, healthier crop… fights disease better, it ends up yielding better, it ends up doing better for the farmer all the way through,” Gyles said. However, unlike some micronutrient sellers, he stresses not every field needs micronutrients. “Our basic philosophy is if you don’t need micronutrients don’t use them,” he said. University of Manitoba soil science professor, Don Flaten says most Manitoba and Western Canada soils don’t need micronutrients (see sidebar), but where they are needed and not provided, yields can suffer. Soil and plant tissue tests are good ways to measure whether micronutrients are needed or not. Not only have some sellers pushed micronutrients on farmers who don’t need them, but some formulations aren’t readily available to the crop. Moreover, where micronutrients are needed, they’re only needed in small quantities, making distribution difficult. Gyles says Wolf Trax’s process addresses that by ensuring micronutrients are spread evenly, because they’re stuck on every prill of nitro-

Geoffrey Gyles (l) and Kerry Green are the founders and majority shareholders in Wolf Trax Innovative Micronutrients, which recently won the Ernest C. Manning Innovation Award for its patented Dry Dispersible Powder (DDP) micronutrient fertilizer coating. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

gen, phosphorus and potassium being applied. Wolf Trax’s micronutrients are also immediately available to crops and continue to be over the whole growing season, Gyles said. Bo t h i n n ova t i o n s a re w h a t prompted the Manning Award.

Guarantee

Wolf Trax is so confident about its micronutrients it guarantees when applied properly they will eliminate the deficiency. Both Wolf Trax’s DDP products and Protinus were registered in Canada by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency when companies still had to prove their products worked. (The federal government recently dropped that regulation. Now new fertilizer products can now be registered without proving they are efficacious.) Wolf Trax’s micronutrients can also be mixed with water for foliar applications.

Local deficiencies

There are regions in the West where micronutrients deficiencies are more common. For example copper is frequently short in fields on ether side of Alberta’s Highway 2 between Edmonton and Calgary, Gyles said. There’s also growing demand among high-input farmers pushing yields, especially in crops like corn

and soybeans where zinc and manganese are important, respectively. “As you push the soil harder and harder the deficiencies start to show up,” Gyles said. Protinus, Wolf Trax’s seed-applied fertilizer, includes zinc and manganese. It “spoon feeds” nutrients to seedlings for a fast start, said Jennifer Bailes, director of seed innovations. It also changes the pH around the seed making it easier for the seedlings to absorb nutrients. Replicated trials show Protinus boosts crop yields even where soil tests show adequate nutrients, Bailes said. “Seventy per cent of the time we see a positive yield response,” she said. Protinus-treated wheat, corn, soybean and canola yields are five, four, three and one per cent higher than the untreated crops, respectively, Bailes said. Recommended application rate is six ounces per 100 pounds of seed. (The suggested retail price is $49.75 a kilogram or almost $24.90 a pound.) The cost per acre for wheat, soybeans, corn and canola is around $7.63, $5.08, $1.40 and 42 cents, respectively. In the first 28 days after emergence plants grown with Protinus-treated seed are typically 15 to 20 per cent larger than non-treated plants and have up to 30 per cent more root development, according to Bailes.

Some Manitoba soils need micronutrients but “they are very rare,” says Don Flaten, a soil scientist at the University of Manitoba. “We tend to have some of the most fertile soils in North America here (in Western Canada) partly because they’re young,” he said in an interview. “They’re recently glaciated and mixed up and they have nice, fresh supplies of all sort of nutrients, including the micronutrients. In older, more weathered soils with lots of leaching down in the southern United States for example, it’s a completely different situation.” The indiscriminate application of micronutrients can create toxicities and imbalances, he said. “For example boron has been used more frequently as a soil sterilant than as fertilizer in Western Canada. Even a couple of pounds of boron per acre can hurt crop yield. So we have to be careful with that.” In one study Flaten said adding copper without zinc to a field induced a zinc deficiency and adding zinc without copper caused a copper deficiency. “It’s a delicate issue,” he said. “As the Wolf Trax people have pointed out, demonstrating the availability of fertilizer product is just one step in the whole successful management system for micronutrients.” Now that fertilizer companies don’t have to prove to the federal government their products work, farmers need to be more diligent, Flaten said. “Using a product that doesn’t work is simply a tax on ignorance,” he said. “Some people will market crap that doesn’t dissolve properly and release the micronutrient for plant uptake.”

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Africa can easily grow wheat to ease hunger, price shocks CIMMYT says production now at only 10 to 25 per cent of what is possible By Alister Doyle Reuters

heat production in sub-Saharan Africa is at only 10 to 25 per cent of its potential and nations can easily grow more to limit hunger, price shocks and political instability, says a new study. The report, examining environmental conditions of 12 nations from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe, said that farmers south of the Sahara grew only 44 per cent of the wheat consumed l o c a l l y, m e a n i n g d e p e n d ence on international markets prone to price spikes. “Sub-Saharan Afr ica has extensive areas of land that are suitable for profitably producing wheat under rain-fed conditions,” according to the study by the non-profit International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT). It s a i d c o u n t r i e s i n t h e region were producing only between 10 and 25 per cent of the amounts that the centre’s research suggested was “biologically possible and economically profitable” with a net return of $200 per hectare. The 89-page study, issued at a wheat conference in Ethiopia, said it aimed to identify ways to raise wheat production as “a hedge against food insecurity, political instability and price shocks.” “Wheat is not an African crop, it is not a tropical crop ( b u t ) m a n y g ov e r n m e n t s want to produce wheat locally instead of paying for imports,” Hans-Joachim Braun, director of the centre’s global wheat program, told Reuters by telephone. The report estimated that African nations would spend about $12 billion to import 40 million tonnes of wheat in 2012, particularly for fastgrowing cities. More wheat should not be grown at the expense of other more viable crops, Braun said.

“The big issue is the road infrastructure. It doesn’t help very much if the farm is far from the cities.” Hans-Joachim Braun CIMMYT

Zimbabwe were least suited to wheat in rain-fed areas, it said. Zimbabwe, however, is one of the most productive of the wheat-growing nations in Africa but depends heavily on irrigation. “If Africa does not push for wheat self-sufficiency, it could face more hunger, instability and even political violence, as bread riots in North Africa showed in recent years,”

Bekele Shiferaw, a lead author of the study, said in a statement. Braun said it was hard to say when African nations might reach self-sufficiency in wheat if they tried. “The biological potential is there. But you also need access to markets. The big issue is the road infrastructure. It doesn’t help very much if the farm is far from the cities,” he said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Egypt to boost wheat storage, crack down on smuggling

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gypt wants to double the capacity of its wheat silos in the n e x t t h re e o r f o u r ye a r s and is considering changing a bread-subsidy mechanism to prevent smuggling or illegal trade in subsidized grain. Egypt’s new government has been looking at ways to better target subsidies and reduce waste as it seeks to plug a ballooning budget deficit. However, while the government is seeking to cut back on at least some energy subsidies, there is no talk of cutting supplies of sub-

sidized bread, a politically sensitive issue, even if the mechanism for keeping loaves cheap could be changed. Egypt now has 25 wheat silos each with capacity for 30,000 tonnes and aims to double that number, said Nomani Nomani, vicechair man of the G eneral

Authority for Supply Commodities. “We are... concerned with storage especially as local wheat supplies increased this year,” he said. Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, bought 3.7 million tonnes of wheat from local farmers this year, Nomani said.

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He also said the authorities were considering changing how the subsidy was applied to halt smuggling of wheat from Egypt to neighbours like Sudan and Libya, or leakage of subsidized wheat on to the local market where illegal traders pocketed the difference in price. Many Egyptians depend on the subsidized saucer-sized flat loaves selling for just five piastres (less than one cent). Nomani said that instead of selling subsidized wheat, the subsidy would be applied at the final stage of the process when it was sold as loaves, which would curb smuggling.

vienna / reuters / Austria’s minister for agriculture and the environment is calling on the European Commission to review its approval process for genetically modified food after a controversial French study linked GM corn to higher health risks in rats. The study — repudiated by many scientists — found rats fed on Monsanto’s GM corn or exposed to Roundup saw a higher incidence of tumours and organ damage and died earlier than those on a standard diet. “One thing is clear: Given this study the European Commission has to rethink its verification practices and the approval process must get an in-depth review,” said Austrian Ag Minister Niki Berlakovich. Austria has banned all the genetically modified plants allowed by the EU, Berlakovich noted, adding: “We want to decide for ourselves in the future as well and keep the ban on plantings to protect our environment and our consumers.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

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LONDON / REUTERS / An international consortium of scientists has published a high resolution draft of the barley genome in a move that could not only improve yields and disease resistance, but may also hold the key to better beer. “This research will streamline efforts to improve barley production through breeding for improved varieties,” said Prof. Robbie Waugh, of Scotland’s James Hutton Institute, who led the research. “This could be varieties better able to withstand pests and disease, deal with adverse environmental conditions, or even provide grain better suited for beer and brewing.” Barley is the world’s fourth most important cereal crop, trailing only maize, rice and wheat. Its genome is almost twice the size of that of humans. “It will accelerate research in barley, and its close relative, wheat,” Waugh said. “Armed with this information, breeders and scientists will be much better placed to deal with the challenge of effectively addressing the food security agenda under the constraints of a rapidly changing environment.”

Potash Corporation to temporarily idle mines REUTERS / Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, the world’s largest producer of its namesake soil nutrient, said it will shut down two of its mines for eight weeks to match supply to demand. The company’s biggest mine, at Lanigan, Sask., will close between Nov. 18 and Jan. 12, while the Rocanville, Sask. mine will be shut from Dec. 2 to Jan. 26.

U.K. wheat yields lowest in a quarter-century LONDON / REUTERS / Wheat yields in Britain this year have been the lowest since the late 1980s. The National Farmers Union estimates the U.K. wheat harvest at 13.25 million tonnes, with a yield of 6.7 tonnes per hectare, down from the five-year averages of 14.92 million and 7.8 tonnes respectively. “This is something not seen in the U.K. since the late 1980s,” said NFU crops adviser Guy Gagen. High levels of disease and a lack of sunshine during the key grain fill period are being blamed for the drop. The NFU forecast the U.K. rapeseed crop would total 2.8 million tonnes, 25 per cent higher than the five-year average.

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

CME Group buys Kansas City exchange, heading off rival ICE Some traders predict Minneapolis Grain Exchange might be in play By Ann Saphir and Carey Gillam CHICAGO / KANSAS CITY / REUTERS

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And at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX), which shut its futures floor four years ago, dealers speculated that it was only a matter of time before ICE made a bid for the last independently owned U.S. agricultural marketplace. “The CME is taking an aggressive stance to firmly establish itself as the world leader in exchange-traded products, so this isn’t a surprise,” said Ken Smithmier, market analyst for The Hightower Report, a Chicago-based research and advisory firm.

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would be the first to be gobbled up.” The deal will bolster volume in both CME’s and KCBT’s wheat contracts and provide new trading opportunities, said CME executive chairman Terrence Duffy. Kansas City’s wheat contract is for “hard red winter” wheat, a variety that is grown on twice as much U.S. farmland as Chicago’s “soft red winter” brand — but which has long lagged behind its more liquid rival in terms of volume. News of the acquisition sparked speculation that the Minneapolis Grain Exchange could now be in line for a bid. Some traders said a deal seemed inevitable.

“You would think that MGEX would look like a ripe target for some type of merger or acquisition, if nothing else because we are essentially a North American spring wheat contract, and the combined North American spring wheat is huge, even bigger than the U.S. hard red winter wheat crop,” said Austin Damiani, an analyst at Frontier Futures in Minneapolis, referring to combined U.S. and Canadian wheat production. Asked about the possibility of a bid for MGEX, a CME spokesman said: “We remain focused on completing this transaction, as we believe it will create significant value for customers and shareholders of both companies.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Farmers square off against animal lovers over badger cull Local police barred from taking leave in case of trouble between the two sides By Alessandra Rizzo Coaley Peak, England | Reuters

enseless massacre to some, a necessary evil to others, a plan to cull thousands of wild badgers to stem the spread of tuberculosis in cattle is sharply dividing rural England. Marksmen could start the cull any day but details are being kept secret for fear of clashes between farmers determined to protect their livestock and livelihoods and activists who have pledged to foil the plan by scaring away the badgers. Passions are running so high that police leave has been cancelled until the new year in Gloucestershire, one of two areas in southwestern England where the cull is being piloted, in case violence breaks out. At issue is how to stem the spread of bovine tuberculosis, which many farmers blame on roaming badgers, while saving a creature that holds a special place in English hearts. The disease in England has cost the taxpayer some 500 million pounds (C$795 million) over the past decade, as farmers were forced to destroy herds made unfit for human consumption. The debate is a sensitive one in Britain, where the mass slaughter of cattle to control disease in livestock has left deep scars in the farming community and government following mad cow and footand-mouth outbreaks in the past two decades. Scientists have found that badgers help spread the disease. Cull supporters say vaccinating the nocturnal creatures is difficult and costly, although some tr ials are underway. They argue that shooting badgers is the most efficient way to slow the spread of the disease, which is so acute some farmers have given up rearing cattle altogether. Critics, however, argue the science is far from conclusive. Some of the more militant animal rights activists say they will vandalize supermarkets selling products from farms involved in the cull, and the

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National Farmers’ Union says some of its members have received threatening letters and phone calls. Retired policeman Tony Dean, who has been watching badgers for 30 years, is among those appalled by the prospect of the killing. “They call it a cull. I call it a slaughter,” said the 79-yearold, pointing towards one area where the animals will be lured from underground after dark and shot. “For every badger they kill, I’m absolutely certain there’s going to be nine or 10 badly injured that will die a long, lingering death,” he said.

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using boundaries like rivers and motorways. Animal rights activists say the same trials showed badgers had a marginal role at most. They point to a 2007 study at the end of the trials that said culling made no meaningful contribution to eradicating cattle TB. Celebrities have joined the debate on saving the badger in Britain, where the popular image of the wise if curmudgeonly Mr. Badger from the classic children’s book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, lives on. Brian May, guitarist of the rock band Queen, has started an anti-cull petition that has gathered about 150,000 signatures. He said he was sure there would be clashes but urged parties to refrain from any intimidating behaviour. “There are a lot of people in Gloucestershire and Somerset who have this on their doorsteps and they don’t want it, so they have every right to protest in a lawful way,” May said, speaking at an event at the European Parliament in Brussels.

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from the pyres used to burn infected herds during outbreaks of disease in the last 20 years. Mad cow disease in the mid-1990s led to the slaughter of millions of animals and prompted foreign bans on British beef, devastating the farming sector. In 2001, footand-mouth cost agriculture and tourism an estimated 8.5 billion pounds (C$13.5 billion), with more than six million animals slaughtered. Rabbetts, the farmers’ union adviser, argued that farmers are unfairly tagged as heartless because they produce animals for meat. “But actually you don’t want to kill an animal early,” he said. “It can be really heartbreaking.” Culling the badgers can eventually reduce TB by 16 per cent, he says. In 2010, one-quarter of cattle farms in southwestern England recorded cases of TB, prompting the slaughter a year later of about 26,000 of the animals, according to the government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Gavin Grant, head of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said culls are ineffective. “There is no good reason

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why this cull is taking place and there is every good reason to oppose it. At best, it’s a distraction; at worst, it’s a disaster,” he said.

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Grant said the cull diverted attention from the need to press the European Union to approve a vaccine for cattle, and in the meantime vaccinate badgers and introduce better measures to prevent cow-to-cow transmission. He has urged supermarkets to adopt badger-friendly labels so customers know which products come from farms that have culled badgers. In the market town of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, graffiti sprayed beside a canal feature the black-and-white face of a badger and, in bloodred paint, its plea: “Don’t Kill Me.” But at the weekly farmers’ market, packed with stalls selling fresh farmhouse cheeses and locally raised meat, Stan Jones of Hinton Marsh Farm said bovine TB had forced him to slaughter about 10 cows in recent years. “They’ve got to do something about it because there’s so many cows being killed,” said Jones, 69.

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Ukraine to up winter wheat acreage Traders speed exports for fear of government restrictions kiev / reuters

kraine may increase the winter grain-sowing area for the 2013 harvest to 8.4 million hectares from the originally planned 8.2 million hectares should favourable weather continue. Wet and warm weather has dominated almost all Ukrainian regions in October and only southern regions lack soil moisture. Meteorologists say Ukraine is experiencing the warmest autumn on record. Ukrainian farms sowed a total of 8.4 million hectares of winter grains, mostly winter wheat last year, but seeds on 1.2 million hectares did not sprout due to a severe drought from July to November. Meanwhile, grain traders are speeding up shipments of Ukrainian wheat to take advantage of high global prices and

because they fear export curbs are just around the corner. Ukraine, whose wheat harvest this year was down by a third because of bad weather, has exported more than three million tonnes of wheat so far this season and traders have collected a further 540,000 tonnes for immediate shipment, ProAgro consultancy said. Foreign markets were paying US$335 per tonne f.o.b. for Ukrainian milling wheat as of mid-October, up from $305 in September and $295 in August. Ukraine exports more than 60 per cent of its grain to the Middle East and North Africa, its biggest clients being Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. The government says Ukraine plans no curbs on wheat exports for now, but will consider imposing limits if the high level of exports threaten to push up the price of bread at home. Keeping the price of bread stable is a key plank of the ruling Party of Regions’ campaign for the Oct. 28 parliamentary election.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Crop-insurance tab for U.S. drought could top $15 billion

Although privately run, Washington picks up most of the tab for premiums as well as other costs By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON / REUTERS

.S. taxpayers could pay a record $15 billion to subsidize the privately run crop insurance program in the wake of this year’s devastating drought. The program’s runaway costs are in focus as Congress looks for ways to cut government spending, making crop insurance a bigger target for reforms. Pre c i s e e s t i m a t e s w o n’t be available until late fall, when harvest is over, but the cost to taxpayers will be huge. Although crop insurance is sold by 15 private companies — the best known is Wells Fargo — Washington contributes in several ways. It not only pays roughly 62 cents of every $1 in crop insurance premiums, but also covers part of industry overhead and defrays the impact of severe losses on insurers. Agricultural economist Vince Smith of Montana State University has done the math and come up with an estimate that taxpayers will shell out $15 billion — $7 billion in premium subsidies, $1.3 billion in overhead costs for insurers plus about $7 billion from underwriting losses. That number will grab the attention of lawmakers when they return to Washington next month to tackle both the Farm Bill, which includes crop insurance, and broad spending cuts required to rein in the U.S. deficit. “I think the rising cost of crop insurance will bring even more attention to crop insurance than has been paid so far,” said Craig Cox of the Environmental Working Group, which says crop insurance favours big farmers unduly and needs reform.

The easy way to reduce costs would be to cut subsidy for premiums, perhaps to 52 per cent, and also impose even larger cuts on big farmers. Cuts are not guaranteed, however, as both major U.S. farmer and banker groups have joined the insurance industry in opposing them. National Crop Insurance Services, an industry trade group, argues the program reduces taxpayers’ costs even in a disaster like this year by preventing calls for bailouts. The program is a financial safeguard against ruinous weather, it says. “It’s necessary this year, especially with the drought,” said Pam Johnson of Iowa, a farmer and president of the National Corn Growers Association. “We feel like we can’t afford to be without it.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

U.S. corn harvest on record pace, soy lagging Rains were expected to slow the final harvest push this week By Mark Weinrau REUTERS

.S. corn harvest was a record 87 per cent complete and farmers had finished 80 per cent of soybean harvest as of Sunday, Oct. 21 according to a U.S. Agr iculture Department report issued on Monday, but the tail end of their combining efforts was expected to be slow due to rain. Analysts had been expecting the corn harvest to be 89 per cent finished and soybean harvest 82 per cent complete, according to the average of estimates in a Reuters survey of 13 crop watchers. Occasional showers over the next week to 10 days will cause minor delays in harvesting the remaining U.S.

corn and soybean crops, said John Dee, meteorologist for Global Weather Monitoring. Farmers were in no rush to finish up their harvest tasks as few faced pressure to deliver crops straight from the fields to elevators and processors. Most growers had already booked enough sales to satisfy their immediate cash needs. Soybean harvest was lagging behind the record pace set in 2010. That year, farmers had har vested 91 per cent of their crop by the end of the third week in October. A year ago at this time, soybean harvest was 77 per cent finished and corn harvest was 60 per cent complete. The five-year averages for late October are 69 per cent for soybeans and 49 per cent for corn. Harvest of both commodi-

ties was virtually done in many areas west of the Mississippi River, analysts said. “Eastern Corn Belt remains slower,” said Don Ro o s e, a n a l y s t w i t h U . S . Commodities in West Des Moines, Iowa. “There was just too much rain this fall.” In Ohio, just 50 per cent of the corn crop and 63 per cent of soybeans had been harvested, compared with 93 per cent of corn and 96 per cent of soybeans in Iowa, the top producer of both commodities. “Eve n w i t h o u t a w h o l e week to operate in fields, soybean harvest in northwest and north-central Iowa were virtually complete,” the Iowa field office of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service said in a report. “Producers who are done with harvest have been till-

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Ukraine to ban wheat exports KIEV / REUTERS / Traders expect Ukraine’s Agriculture Ministry to ban exports of wheat from Nov. 15, although the ministry is expected to stick to its promise to allow exports of five million tonnes in the current season. It was unclear whether the Nov. 15 cut-off point would apply to the signing of export contracts or would mean an immediate halt to physical shipments of wheat. The wheat harvest was down by a third this year because of bad weather, and grain traders, suspecting an imminent curb on exports, have been rushing to speed up shipments abroad. “This comes as no surprise. The ban was inevitable. Everybody knew and everybody has understood,” said one major foreign trader. The ministry issued a statement stating the high pace of wheat exports would exhaust stocks of Ukrainian wheat available for shipping abroad by Nov. 15 to 20, and it urged traders to be cautious in concluding new contracts.

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Climate change brings far-reaching changes in northern climes Researchers study 10,000-year-old spruce in hopes of finding ways to deal with a warming planet By Alister Doyle FULUFJALLET, SWEDEN / REUTERS

n a windswept Swedish mountain, a 10,000-year-old spruce with a claim to be the world’s oldest tree is getting a new lease on life thanks to global warming, even as many plants are struggling. Scientists are finding the drift of growing areas for many plants out toward the poles is moving not in a smooth progression but in fits and starts, causing problems for farmers aiming to adapt and invest in cash crops that are more sensitive to climate than is this ancient conifer known as “Old Tjikko.”

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At a range of latitudes, but especially in the far north, climate change is bringing biggerthan-expected swings, putting billions of dollars at stake in a push to develop varieties with resilience to frost and heatwaves, drought or flood. Understanding those plants which are thriving in such environments — like this ragged Christmas tree on a marshy plateau 900 metres above sea level — may yield clues. “It seems to be growing quite well,” said researcher Leif Kullman. “That’s a result of warming in the past 100 years.” Old Tjikko stands above dead roots that Kullman says date from 9,550 years ago, just as the Ice Age ended. The spruce regenerates clones when low branches sprout new roots so that, unlike California’s Methuselah bristlecone pine whose trunk bears over 4,800 annual growth rings, today’s five-metretall trunk only began growing about 1940. Yet the tree’s survival may offer lessons for pioneers trying to take advantage of global warming to push the frontiers for crops farther north but finding most plants to be far more sensitive. Climate unpredictability is especially true farther north, in the Arctic, where the extent of ice on the Arctic Ocean shrank to a record low this summer. Less attention has been paid to how the thaw affects growing conditions on land. “That’s been a surprise in the last years. Everyone thought it would be warmer and nice weather. But suddenly it’s wetter and colder in some regions,” said Lars-Otto Reiersen, head of an Arctic monitoring program. Many studies show that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the main greenhouse gas, will initially lead to more growth of plants worldwide. But, Reiersen said, not enough study has been made of the downside of increased unpredictability. Part of the problem is warmer air doesn’t compensate for limited daylight and extreme weather means a greater chance of unseasonable frosts. Plant breeders and genetic experts are looking for novel solutions, such as working with a frost-resistant clover recently found on a northerly chain of islands. And they’re looking at a type of antifreeze in spruces that allow them to survive -50 C temperatures. But for many crops, the expansion of potential growing areas due to climate change may not add to overall production. For example, gains in cropping area in countries like Canada and Russia are likely to be offset by losses in developing nations that now produce wheat will lose out as it gets too hot. Meanwhile, Old Tjikko faces a new threat — sightseers coming to gaze at the “world’s oldest tree” are tramping down lichen at its base, which could damage its roots. Authorities are considering putting up a fence.

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

U.S. winter likely to continue hot weather trend An elusive El Niño challenges government predictions By Deborah Zabarenko and Ayesha Rascoe REUTERS

Less certain upper Midwest

The densely populated East Coast, along with the southern tier of states from Texas to Florida and the upper Midwest also have an equal chance of colder,

normal or warmer weather this winter, according to the forecasters. Still, there is enough data to predict a warm winter overall, said Deke Arndt, chief of climate monitoring at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. The first nine months of 2012 were the warmest of any year on record in the contiguous United States, and this has been the third-hottest summer since record-keeping began. “The main issues facing the U.S. going into this (winter) outlook period stem from persistent heat and drought,” Arndt said at a telephone briefing. “It is likely that 2012 will be the warmest of the 118year record for the contiguous United States.”

An El Niño pattern — a recurring patch of warmer-thanusual water in the equatorial Pacific that can have a potent effect on U.S. weather — gave hints of developing in September but then subsided, the first time this has happened in approximately 60 years of record-keeping on this phenomenon, Halpert said. “This is one of the most challenging outlooks we’ve produced in recent years because El Niño decided not to show up as expected,” he said. A record-warm winter would be in line with NOAA’s latest report on global temperatures, which found September 2012 tied for the hottest September in world records going back to 1880.

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fter a hot spring and a scorching summer, this winter is likely to continue a U.S. warming trend that could make 2012 the hottest year since modern record-keeping began, U.S. weather experts said Oct. 18. Drought that ravaged much of the United States this year may spread in the coming months, said Mike Halpert at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center. “The large majority of that drought we expect to persist,” Halpert said. “We even see drought expanding westward... into Montana, Idaho and part of Oregon and Washington.” Dr i e r- t h a n - u s u a l w i n t e r weather is expected in much of the Pacific Northwest, with higher-than-normal precipitation predicted for the Gulf Coast, according to NOAA forecasts. For much of the country, a three-month (December-February) winter forecast is hard to pin down. The vast majority of states have what the experts said was an equal chance of b e l ow - n o r m a l , n o r m a l o r above-normal precipitation.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Hedge fund continues to push for Agrium breakup Shareholder says price could rise by nearly 50 per cent REUTERS

edge fund Jana Partners LLC, the largest shareholder in Agrium Inc., is calling for the company to be more open to discussing ways to boost shareholder value. Jana, which has been pushing for a split of the Canadian fertilizer company’s wholesale and retail division, says Agrium’s responses to the issues it has raised have been “incomplete” and “misleading.” “Agrium has tried everything but making a compelling argument for the status quo,” said Jana managing partner Barry Rosenstein. “While the company may dis-

pute narrow elements of our analysis, nothing they have said refutes the overall picture of undervaluation and underperformance.” Jana, which owns about four per cent of the Calgary company, also wants Agrium to improve disclosure, reduce operating costs and working capital, and address some corporate costs. It says Agrium’s share price could rise by about $50, or nearly 50 per cent, if the company took steps to improve its business. Jana said Agrium has not given a substantive response, for example, to its key concern that the retail and wholesale businesses are a poor combination.

Fund wants Agrium to spin off its Crop Production Services retail division.

Company spokesman Richard Downey countered that Agrium is confident a majority of shareholders sees greater value with the company’s integrated strategy, and that it has met extensively with Jana about its ideas. “There are major flaws in

Jana’s analysis and conclusions and, as a result, its ideas lack both merit and investor support,” said Downey. “There is overwhelming support by shareholders and analysts for a continuation of Agrium’s highly successful strategy and structure.”

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ADM swoops on Australia’s GrainCorp in Asian push SYDNEY / REUTERS / Archer Daniels Midland has bought a 10 per cent stake in GrainCorp and is seeking talks on a takeover that would give the U.S. agribusiness a stronger platform to supply Asia. The purchase comes at a time of global consolidation in the agricultural sector amid intense competition to feed fast-developing countries seeking food security like China. “GrainCorp is a wellmanaged company, and together with ADM would be better positioned to connect Australia’s farmers with growing global demand for crops and food, particularly in Asia and the Middle East,” said ADM chief executive Patricia Woertz. ADM’s move comes after a wave of industry consolidation and could attract rival interest from other major players, also seeking a bigger role in the global agricultural supply chain beyond the United States and Canada. “Australia has an opportunity to be a good source as a food basket for Asia as Asia’s appetite for quality produce increases,” said industry analyst Akshay Chopra. GrainCorp handles as much as 60 per cent of eastern Australia’s grain crop and has about 20 million tonnes of storage at more than 280 inland grain-handling sites. The ADM offer values the company at $2.8 billion.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

France says no need to revisit Monsanto maize approval The EU has also just approved import of a new GM variety from Syngenta Paris/Reuters

study last month pointing to health risks from a type of genetically modified maize and a related pesticide did not provide grounds for questioning previous safety approvals, the French government said Oct. 22. The study by researchers at the University of Caen said rats fed on Monsanto’s NK603 GM maize (corn) or exposed to the company’s top-selling Roundup herbicide were at higher risk of suffering tumours, multiple organ damage and premature death. The research reignited controversy over GM food in France, where the biotechnology is unpopular and growing of GM crops is banned, and led the government to raise the possibility of a freeze on EU imports of the NK603 corn.

The government requested the opinion of health agency ANSES and biotechnology advisory council HCB, and in their conclusions released on Monday both bodies said the University of Caen study did not demonstrate the toxicity of the Monsanto products. “On this basis, there is therefore no need to go back on the

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authorizations issued for the NK603 maize and the Roundup weed killer,” the French Farm, Environment and Health ministries said in a joint statement. The scientific opinions of the French experts went along with those of EU food safety watchdog EFSA and a number of scientists in France and elsewhere who said the University of Caen paper was flawed and provided insufficient evidence. However, ANSES said the Caen study had raised the issue of longer-term risks linked to GM food and called for more publicly funded research into the question. The Caen researchers argued that their lifetime testing of rats was more pertinent than the 90-day feeding trials that form the basis of GM crop approvals, since three months is only the

equivalent of early adulthood in rats. The French government reiterated a call for an overhaul of EU procedures for approving GM varieties and pesticides, and also reaffirmed its ban on growing GM crops. The unpopularity of GM food in Europe has repeatedly held up their approval at EU level and only one GM crop, Monsanto’s MON 810 maize, is currently grown on a commercial scale in Europe. However, the bloc imports millions of tonnes of GM corn and soybeans each year from major growers including the United States, Argentina and Brazil to help feed the EU’s livestock. In the latest example, the EU’s executive has just authorized the import of Syngenta’s MIR 162 maize.

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U.S. futures regulator targets commodity speculation WASHINGTON / CHICAGO / REUTERS The top U.S. futures regulator says he would support appealing a court ruling last month that struck down his agency’s attempt to place limits on speculation in commodity markets. Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said his agency drafted the original rule at the direction of U.S. Congress. The rule, which was to have taken effect this month, limited the number of contracts traders can hold in 28 commodities, including oil, coffee and gold. However, critics, including Wall Street banks and Republican lawmakers, said the law did not clearly order the CFTC to impose those limits. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins threw out the tough new rules last month, saying the CFTC needed to prove the curbs were necessary to rein in excessive speculation. “Congress mandated us to do this,” said Gensler. “I’m looking with my fellow commissioners and the lawyers at all of our options of appeal.” But four leading Republican lawmakers say the court’s decision raised serious questions about the agency’s rule-writing process.

Province and co-ops fund chair The Government of Manitoba in partnership with Manitoba co-operatives and credit unions have announced funding to create a chair in cooperative enterprises to support a co-operative business program at the University of Winnipeg. Housing and Community Development Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross, minister responsible for co-operative development, announced the funding during Co-op Week Oct. 18. The budget includes the province’s contribution of $250,000, with the co-operative sector contributing $75,000 per year over five years. Cooperative sector partners include Federated Cooperatives Ltd., The Cooperators Group, Credit Union Central of Manitoba, Assiniboine Credit Union, Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. and Red River Co-operative Ltd. The University of Winnipeg will also provide $25,000 annually for five years to cover the expense of developing and delivering the academic program.

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

CASA director says safety needs to be incorporated as a cost/benefit in the farm’s bottom line By Helen McMenamin FBC CONTRIBUTOR | LETHBRIDGE

he death and injury statistics tell the tale — agriculture remains one of Canada’s most dangerous professions. All the industry’s efforts to improve the situation haven’t made any difference. In Alberta 16 people were killed in farm accidents in 2011 and three of them were under 18. Just as a comparison, among all the workers covered by Workers Compensation in Alberta, 43 people died in workplace accidents in 2010, the most recent year with figures available. The Canadian Agr icult u ra l Sa f e t y A s s o c i a t i o n (CASA) took new approaches and looked at new issues at their annual conference this month. Around 70 farmers, safety professionals, trainers, manufacturers and researchers participated. CASA is a non-profit association dedicated to improving the health and safety of farmers, their families and workers across the country. It works with provincial groups and others, in some ways acting as an umbrella group for other agencies with an interest in farm safety. It also has the FarmSafe Foundation, a new charity arm to help finance new and ongoing farm safety activities. Emerging farm safety issues were one part of the conference, including autonomous equipment such as auto-steer and driverless vehicles, and nanotechnology, which may be great advances for agriculture, but may also bring new hazards. “We need to make sure that we understand the safety implications of these new technologies so we can control the hazards along the way,” said Marcel Hacault, executive director of CASA. “This conference is a great way for participants to get a snapshot of the future through the lens of a safetyfirst attitude.”

Nanotechnology concerns

Nanotechnology involves using microscopic particles for a huge variety of uses from stain-resistant clothes, to antimicrobial socks and tightly targeted anti-cancer therapies and pesticides. Over 1,000 nanotech products are already on the market and the number is expected to be four times that very soon.

Tractor rollovers remain one of the leading causes of farm accidents in Canada. PHOTO: U.S. NATIONAL AG SAFETY DATABASE

“Accidents are a failure of planning. When something goes wrong, farmers, who are used to being in charge, tend to act impulsively — and that’s when things can really go wrong.” JOHN MCNAMARA

Irish Health and Safety Authority

Conference participants got a first look at the potential hazards of using some of these products. The fact that asbestos fibres, the cause of mesothelioma, a particularly nasty lung cancer, are considered nano-particles is a grim reminder that the new technology might come at a high cost unless their risk is managed. The keynote speaker at the CASA conference was John McNamara, from the I r i s h He a l t h a n d Sa f e t y Author ity. In joining the European Union, Ireland has accepted regulations that apply to all workers, i n c l u d i n g p ro h i b i t i o n o f children under 16 operating or riding on farm equipment. “It was difficult for people to accept at first,” says McNamara. “But, we have made huge progress, the number of children who die in farm accidents is now very low. We’ve also seen a reduction in accidents a m o n g yo u n g e r f a r m e r s, those under 55. But a rise among those over 55.”

National strategy

The conference also gave the farm safety community its first look at CASA’s new National Farm Safety St r a t e g y. T h e d o c u m e n t starts with goals and mission statements then ident i f i e s k e y p r i o r i t y a re a s

for improving farm safety across Canada. The strategic plan aims to change the culture of farm safety, the way farmers plan their operations and the way they act when something unexpected happens. “Our goal is farms that are safe places to work and to live,” says Hacault. “We want to help farmers see the risks in their operations and manage that risk so that no one in Canada is hurt farming.” The plan is based on the notion that linking safety risks to other farm risks is part and parcel of managing the overall business risk of the agricultural operation. The strategy proposes that a farm must manage safety risks like any other business, but with the added challenge of recognizing that for those living on a farm, they are in a workplace as soon as they step outside. “We need a culture shift, a change in behaviour, but in thinking as well,” says Hacault. McNamara agrees. “A safe farm is one where work is well organized,” he says. “Accidents are a failure of planning. When something goes wrong, farmers, who are used to being in charge, tend to act impulsively — and that’s when things can really go wrong.”

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a t t l e p r o d u c e r s n ow using 10 federally operated community pastures in Saskatchewan will need to be ready to run them in 2014, while a community pasture in southern Alberta will leave ranching to join the army. The federal government on Oct. 19 listed the first 10 Saskatchewan community pastures to be transferred to the provincial government at the end of the 2013 grazing season in November next year, then to “patron-controlled” operation in 2014. Listed for transfer are the Excel, Keywest and EstevanCambria pastures in the Weyburn district; the Wolverine and McCraney pastures in the Watrous district; the Fairview and Newcombe pastures in the Rosetown district; the Park pasture (North Battleford district); Lone Tree pasture (Swift Current); and Ituna Bon Accord pasture (Foam Lake district). The initial list of 10 stems from the federal government’s plans, in its April 2012 budget, to divest all 87 of its community pasture sites (61 in Saskatchewan, 24 in Manitoba, two in Alberta) by 2018. The government also announced the community pasture on Canadian Forces Base Suffield, about 45 km northwest of Medicine Hat, Alta., will be closed in 2014. The Suffield pasture’s land then reverts back to the control of the Department of National Defence, “which will determine its future usage,” the government said. The pastures’ patrons will have the opportunity to own or lease the pastures, the province said in a separate release Friday. The province added it will work with Farm Credit Canada “to develop workable financing options for patron groups interested in purchasing their pasture.” “Patrons have had cattle grazing these pastures for years; they know this land better than anyone else; they are our best environmental stewards; and they will continue to have access to these lands which are important to their businesses,” provincial Ag Minister Lyle Stewart said. The province’s recommended principles for transfer call for each pasture to be maintained as a complete block. Any sales would be based on market value and any sale of native prairie land would be subject to no-break and no-drain conservation easements. “In addition, the federal Species At Risk Act is enforced on both privately and publicly owned land and will continue to be in effect on these pastures,” the province noted.

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Yearlings wolf down a finishing ration of organic oats, peas and screenings in the broad expanse of an open-field feedlot on Gaston Boulanger’s farm near Grand Clairiere. Photo: Daniel Winters

Bad news for XL Foods is good news for organic beef Smaller, independently operated production, slaughter and marketing channels paying off in higher prices and increased consumer confidence By Daniel Winters co-operator staff / Grand Clairiere

ome Manitoba ranchers aren’t losing any sleep over the problems faced by the XL Foods beef recall. That’s because their beef is certified organic, and marketed through channels that operate totally independent of the big players. “I think we are definitely starting to see demand perk up, not that it wasn’t hot already,” said Allan McKenzie, a Nesbitt-area rancher who runs a 150-head operation and belongs to a 14-member organic beef-marketing group based in Manitoba. Fallout from the scandal, which has seen the Brooks, Alta., plant delisted for exports to the United States, and millions of pounds of beef taken off store shelves across the country, may have “tainted” beef’s image as a safe food in the minds of consumers, he added. That’s not good news for the cattle industry in general, said McKenzie, but on the other hand, it may encourage beef consumers — especially those buying ground beef products — to reach for organic burgers the next time they go shopping. That’s because there are big differences between conventional and organic beef production. While the XL Foods plant operated on a massive scale, slaughtering upwards of 4,000

cattle per day, the marketing group that McKenzie belongs to ships about 1,000 head per year, mainly to small, organic-certified abattoirs that kill fewer than 50 head per day. “Some of the plants only kill 25 head a day, so it’s a very different sort of world,” he said. While XL operated a massive 75,000-head feedlot near the plant, the marketing group’s cattle are finished in small-scale organic feedlots like the one on Gaston Boulanger’s farm near Grand Clairiere. Gaston, who farms with his sons Marc and Daniel, has been raising organic beef since 2005, and currently fattens 175 head a year.

High feed prices

The steers and heifers are fed a diet of organic grains, mainly oats and peas as well as wheat and barley screenings in portable steel feed bunks along with free-choice hay. The price of organic feed grains has gone “through the roof,” he said, noting that due to the drought in the U.S., organic grain buyers have been coming up to Canada and buying all the feed barley and wheat that they can find. But using oats helps keep costs down, even though the animals take about a month longer to finish. Another upside is a reduced risk of bloat on the lower-energy ration. This year, they were able to grow most of their feed grains on the farm, and

bought some more organic oats at $6 per bushel. “You can’t make it work on $12 barley,” he said. Keeping the animals healthy is critical, because organic protocols don’t allow antibiotics. “We don’t have a lot of health issues. We make sure the cattle have lots of room — that’s the key,” said Boulanger. The steel bunks and round-bale feeders are moved regularly to clean areas in a wide-open field, and ample bush cover on the periphery allows them to take shelter from the cold winter wind. In the rare event that an animal gets sick, it is separated from the rest, given a different ear tag, needled and later shipped through conventional channels via the local auction mart. The marketing group has five companies vying for their production, two in the U.S., two in Ontario, and one in Alberta. The meat generally ends up on store shelves in major cities such as Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. “Demand has been really increasing now for a little over a year. Right now, we cannot supply everyone,” said Gaston, adding that that wasn’t the case two years ago. When the North American economy took a turn for the worse in 2008, many predicted that organic products would be hit hardest due to their higher prices. However, apart from a temporary dip, the

“You’d be surprised. Most of the people who purchase organic are young parents with young kids who want to make sure that their children eat only the best, safest food.” Gaston Boulanger

industry has bounced back stronger than ever. On a recent trip to Ottawa to visit his daughter, Boulanger used the opportunity to investigate the organic retail market. What he discovered there shattered the myth that only rich people buy organic products. “You’d be surprised. Most of the people who purchase organic are young parents with young kids who want to make sure that their children eat the best, safest food,” he said. At present, the marketing group’s beef sells for $3 per pound hot, hanging weight. “I think there’s room for a few more, but if too many guys come in, we’ll end up with the same problem of too much supply,” said McKenzie. daniel.winters@fbcpublishing.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

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First-lactation teat usage affects milk production Danish producers allow gilts to suckle 14 piglets and that’s boosted weight gain Bernie Peet Peet on Pigs

efore the advent of highly prolific breeding stock, it was common practice to let first-litter sows suckle a maximum of 10 piglets in order to minimize their weight loss during lactation. With a lower feed intake compared to older sows, gilts are vulnerable to excessive weight loss, leading to an extended wean-to-estrus period and lower litter size in the second parity. However, as litter size has become larger due to genetic advances, not only has this strategy become impractical, but it has been shown to be counterproductive. In Denmark, where average litter size is well over 14 pigs born alive, it is normal to let gilts suckle 14 piglets. The reasoning is that if teats are suckled in the first lactation, they will be more productive in the second and subsequent lactations. Recently published Canadian research not only supports the Danish practice, but has shown that piglets prefer to suckle a teat that was suckled in a previous lactation. A research project carried out by Chantal Farmer and Nicolas Devillers at the Dairy and Swine Research and Development Centre in Sherbrooke, Que., involved two groups of gilts which suckled their piglets in different ways. In one group, piglets suckled the same teats in both first and second lactations and in the other group they suckled different teats. This was

achieved by taping over some of the teats to make them nonfunctional. For the gilts’ first litter, all but six teats were taped over and piglets in both treatments suckled exactly the same exposed teats on their own mother. In the second lactation, one group had the same teats taped over, while the other group had the teats that were suckled in the first lactation taped over. In addition to regular weighing of the piglets, video recording was used to observe piglet suckling behaviour and establish the piglets’ degree of hunger. Piglets were weaned at 17 days and continued to be weighed until 56 days of age. “The results of the trial showed that while birth weights were identical, piglets suckling the same teats in the first two lactations were 1.12 kg heavier at 56 days,” noted Farmer. “A difference in piglet weight gain was observed as early as days two to four of lactation, which suggests that colostrum yield, and not only milk yield, might also differ between the two groups.” The researchers found that functional mammary glands suckled for two lactations contained more milk-secreting tissue than those which were not suckled in the first lactation. This tissue also had more cells with a greater metabolic activity. “Sows with the same teats used in both lactations consumed more feed during lactation in parity two than sows with different teats being used, which is in agreement with their greater milk yield,” said Farmer. “Behavioural measures also indicated a greater degree of hunger on day three for pig-

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lets using teats that were not previously suckled, which corroborates the lower weight gain in these litters.” More specifically, she said, piglets from litters with different teats used in the two lactations massaged the teat longer after milk let-down and had a greater incidence of fights so that they missed more nursings. The trial results led to the question as to whether piglets can differentiate between a teat that was suckled in the previous lactation and a teat which was not used previously. In a second project, teats were sealed in first lacta-

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tion as described earlier, but in the second lactation none of the teats were sealed and eight piglets were left with the sow, so that eight piglets were present with only six previously used teats. “Amazingly, piglets could tell the difference between previously used and unused teats,” said Farmer. “There was a greater incidence of fights which lasted longer at teats which were previously used. There was also a greater incidence of these teats being suckled by the piglets.” The magnitude of the difference in 56-day weight between the two treatments indicates this research cannot be ignored by producers. With litter size continuing to increase each year, the gilt’s suckling capacity is valuable and should not be underutilized by limiting the number of piglets she suckles. Being able to maximize the number of piglets on the gilt and get the benefit of higher

milk production in subsequent parities is a useful bonus. However, it still leaves the challenge of getting enough feed into first-parity sows to avoid a detrimental loss in weight. Increasing the lysine level in the lactation diet to about 1.2 per cent total lysine is one strategy that has worked well on some farms. The Danish technique of using gilts as foster mothers is also worth considering as it helps to reduce the metabolic load during the lactation period. The gilt’s own litter is weaned early — in Denmark about 20 days — and a litter of seven-day old piglets placed on her. The demand for milk drops sharply, while the gilt continues to eat the same amount of feed, which allows her to recover any weight loss by the time she is weaned after a total lactation length of about 35 days. Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Feeder Steers

Oct. 17

Oct. 16

Oct. 18

Oct. 17

Oct. 15

Oct. 18

Oct. 19

No. on offer

1,750

1,181

1,097

3,663

3,207

979

1,329

882

Over 1,000 lbs.

n/a

110.00-117.00

900-1,000

115.00-129.00

105.00-121.00

105.00-118.00

110.00-126.75

115.00-123.00

n/a

110.00-125.00

117.00-122.75

800-900

110.00-131.75

110.00-135.00

117.00-128.50

122.00-133.75

122.00-132.75

n/a

120.00-132.00

115.00-128.00

700-800

125.00-139.00

120.00-137.75

124.00-134.75

127.00-147.50

133.00-143.50

130.00-140.00

130.00-141.00

125.00-137.00

600-700

140.00-161.00

135.00-144.00

130.00-145.00

138.00-154.00

139.00-151.00

137.00-150.50

135.00-160.00

135.00-153.00

500-600

150.00-167.00

150.00-168.00

140.00-155.30

150.00-178.50

143.00-164.50

145.00-171.50

140.00-175.00

155.00-176.00

400-500

160.00-177.00

160.00-184.00

149.00-180.00

165.00-200.00

158.00-185.00

160.00-186.50

155.00-190.00

165.00-183.00

300-400

170.00-198.00

160.00-197.00

155.00-188.00

175.00-212.00

170.00-207.00

175.00-205.00

150.00-190.00

175.00-200.00

900-1,000 lbs.

107.00-118.25

86.00-109.25

n/a

105.00-114.50

110.00-117.00

n/a

110.00-119.00

108.00-117.00

800-900

110.00-127.50

110.00-122.50

110.00-124.00

108.00-118.00

112.00-120.00

n/a

110.00-123.00

115.00-122.50

700-800

125.00-134.50

105.00-123.50

115.00-124.50

110.00-125.00

117.00-126.50

n/a

119.00-125.00

117.00-128.00

600-700

119.00-133.75

110.00-135.00

120.00-130.00

120.00-135.00

123.00-135.50

122.00-131.50

117.00-136.00

120.00-130.00

500-600

120.00-150.00

130.00-147.00

130.00-150.00

130.00-148.00

128.00-143.00

130.00-154.00

123.00-155.00

130.00-150.00

400-500

135.00-159.00

145.00-164.50

140.00-176.00

135.00-165.00

139.00-164.00

138.00-160.50

130.00-168.00

135.00-158.00

300-400

140.00-163.00

150.00-170.00

145.00-170.00

140.00-172.50

n/a

150.00-173.00

130.00-160.00

150.00-170.00

Feeder heifers

Slaughter Market No. on offer

131

n/a

132

n/a

125

D1-D2 Cows

55.00-61.00

30.00-70.00

n/a

62.00-69.00

54.00-60.00

48.00-55.00

35.00-52.00

56.00-64.00

D3-D5 Cows

45.00-55.00

n/a

45.00-50.00

54.00-61.00

44.00-54.00

40.00-48.00

25.00-38.00

52.00-58.00

Age Verified

n/a

58.00-65.75

57.00-66.00

55.00-66.00

62.00-68.00

Good Bulls

80.00-85.50

60.00-79.50

70.00-75.25

80.00-84.50

70.00-77.00

73.00-77.00

75.00-84.00

70.00-78.00

Butcher Steers

n/a

94.00-98.00

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

92.00-96.50

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

60.00-68.00

69.00-75.00

58.00-68.00

n/a

70.00-77.00

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

57.00-63.00

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

50.00-56.00

n/a

* includes slaughter market

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

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Flu season is here again — and not just for humans Producers are urged to protect themselves and their swine herds by getting a flu shot By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

C Claude Vielfaure receives a flu shot during a clinic held at the Canadian Swine Health Forum in Winnipeg, hosted by the Canadian Swine Health Board (CSHB). PHOTO: SHANNON VANRAES

laude Vielfaure is rolling up his sleeves, but he’s not heading into the barn, he’s getting his flu shot. “I think it is important to protect yourself against the flu and we like all of our employees to get the shot,” said the La Broquerie hog producer. He was one of dozens to line up for a flu shot during a clinic held at the Canadian Swine Health Forum in Winnipeg, hosted by the Canadian Swine Health Board (CSHB). “It’s something we should be

doing on a yearly basis, it’s good for people and it’s good for the animals,” said the CSHB member and HyLife representative with the Manitoba Pork Council. The CSHB began recommending all hog producers and barn workers get the shot in 2009. “In 2009 we had the H1N1, that was a pandemic that went around the world, and as it turns out it wasn’t pigs carrying it, it was us humans,” said Robert Harding, CSHB executive director. First dubbed the “swine flu,” Harding notes that moniker was inaccurate. Although it was

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“It’s something we should be doing on a yearly basis, it’s good for people and it’s good for the animals.” CLAUDE VIELFAURE

originally detected in Canadian swine herds, it had been spread to the hogs via infected humans. The United Nation’s World He a l t h O rg a n i z a t i o n l a t e r emphasized the pandemic strain be called H1N1 and not linked to hogs, but damage was done to the Canadian pork industry in the meantime, Harding said. “Now the animals recovered and so on, but the reality in Canada is that we lost some export markets because some countries overreacted,” he said, adding it was Canada’s tight regulations and effective biosecurity measures that caught the disease in the first place. But human diseases can be transferred to swine, making vaccination an important part of maintaining a healthy barn, said Harding. The decision to include a flu clinic in the forum was aimed at making the shot more accessible to producers who may not always have time for an extra trip into town. “When we interviewed producers, we found the main reason they don’t get the flu shot is because they don’t have time,” said the executive director. “We’re finding our producers appreciate this opportunity because their lives are busy enough as it is, especially right now with the extreme challenges being faced by our producers from a cost perspective.” Manitoba Health recommends that everyone gets a flu shot, but says it is particularly important for those over 65, as well as for those who work with the elderly. “Every year thousands of Canadians, mostly seniors, die from complications relating to the flu,” said Arlene Wilgosh, CEO of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. “Contracting influenza is much more severe than just suffering through a bout of the common cold and immunization can help prevent influenza and reduce the risk of serious complications or even death.” Vaccines change yearly to protect against the three most common strains of flu expected to circulate during the coming season. In Manitoba, the flu shot is offered free of charge to everyone and is available through QuickCare clinics, family doctors and public health clinics. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | October 25, 2012

Vet says don’t let your four-legged employees suffer from fleas Vet says flea control isn’t expensive, and is simple to administer and allows working dogs to focus on their job By Alexis Kienlen FBC STAFF | PONOKA

our working dog won’t be at its best if he or she is itching from a flea infestation. “Flea prevention has b e c o m e r e a l l y e a s y, a n d there’s really no reason not to have that as part of your dog-managing program,” said Lynne Copeland a Red Deerbased veterinarian who specializes in herding, guardian and working dogs. M a n y p r o d u c e r s d o n’t bother with parasite control in their working animals — and that’s a mistake, Copeland said at the recent Alberta Goat Breeders Association annual conference. “Farm working animals are at the front line of encounter ing parasites and picking up parasites,” she said. “Un l i k e m a n y c o m p a n i o n dogs around town, they’re earning a living and making a valuable contribution to your farm. They deserve to be well looked after. If you look after your working dogs, they will look after you.” Because fleas live primarily on coyotes and foxes, they’re more prevalent in the country. They are often found in grass, where they wait and then hop on anything that walks by. “You tend to see fleas on dogs that are in close contact with coyotes and foxes, or that are regularly roaming through fields where coyotes and foxes make their rounds,” Copeland said. Fleas are one to 2.5 millimetres in length, fast moving and a red-brown colour. They often burrow down by the skin and move by jumping long distances. Fleas are not host specific and can live on dogs and cats, and will even try living on non-host species, including humans. “If you look at your dog and you see something darting in and out of its hair, there’s a pretty good chance it’s going to be a flea,” Copeland said. Owners should maintain their dog’s coat and occasionally part the dog’s hair to look for fleas, she said. Flea bites, which look like mosquito bites, can cause rashes and inflammation. Hair loss is another sign, as dogs may pull out their own hair when biting or scratching themselves. The flea life cycle makes them difficult to get rid of. The pests live on an animal and the females produce eggs, which fall off the animal, and pupate in the environment. “If you’ve got a dog that sleeps in the barn or the doghouse, you can get quite a load of eggs and larvae living all around where the dog sleeps,” said Copeland. Flea eggs can survive freezing and can live for weeks before hatching and reinfesting the animal. “That’s why it can be tough and why you need ongoing prevention,” said Copeland. “It’s not enough to realize your dog has fleas and give him a good flea bath.” Start with a flea spray or

“You tend to see fleas on dogs that are in close contact with coyotes and foxes, or that are regularly roaming through fields where coyotes and foxes make their rounds.”

LYNNE COPELAND

shampoo to provide immediate relief. “Once you’ve got the majority of the load out of the way, s t a r t o n a m o n t h l y t re a t ment,” Copeland said. There are a number of good medications available. They can be administered topically or orally and work for up to 30 days. Doghouses and the bedding inside them can be cleaned

with a shop vac or premise insecticide spray. Dogs with major skin rashes caused by fleas should be taken to the vet for antibiotics. “F l e a p re v e n t i o n i s n o t expensive and it’s very simple,” said Copeland. “Your dog is not going to perform well if he’s itching and scratching and he’s miserable with hot spots. He or she will not be focused on the job.”

Lynne Copeland, a Red Deer-based veterinarian who specializes in working, herding and guardian dogs. PHOTO: ALEXIS KIENLEN

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The Manitoba Co-Operator | October 25, 2012

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Small towns’ older citizens need new forms of transport The growing number of mobility scooters in Morris is a glimpse of a future that will see Manitoba’s senior population triple in the next two decades

Town of Morris councillor, Bruce Third (l), and Bill Howie, resident are two of at least 40 Morris citizens who ride mobility scooters in the southern Manitoba town. Morris recently completed construction of wide new sidewalks on its Main Street in an effort to make the town more accessible and age friendly. photo: lorraine stevenson

By Lorraine Stevenson co-operator staff / morris

orris is becoming something of a year-round Sturgis, that granddaddy of U.S. motorcycle rallies — except it’s power chairs and medical scooters, not Harleys, that everyone’s riding. And now it’s got proper sidewalks for those who use the devices. “We’ve got a lot of people riding them in town, probably anywhere from 40 to 50,” said town councillor, Bruce Third, who rides a mobility scooter himself. “We wanted to improve the accessibility of the town.” As part of the project upgrading Highway 75, the municipality reconstructed its sidewalks, making curb cuts and levelling rough patches not just along the main drag but also walkways on side streets in the older part of town. The new six-foot-wide and smooth sidewalks will be a boon when the community hosts the 55-Plus Games next June. Although mobility-scooter racing won’t be an event in the games, which include everything from track-andswim competitions to horseshoe and darts contests, better sidewalks were greatly needed, said Third. Many residents, including Third, had harrowing experiences when they took their motorized chairs on the busy highway. “It was scary and it was dangerous,” he said. “Now we’ve got a safe area that people can drive.” The town is also adding more walking paths, all part of an effort to make the

community more accessible for older residents, as well as children and other pedestrians.

Aging in Manitoba

Accessibility is a hot topic at forums and symposiums on aging being held in the province this month. Accommodating the needs of older persons who are no longer able, or who don’t wish, to drive is part of an inescapable and not-so-distant future as Manitoba’s population ages. Today, those over age 65 make up about 14 per cent of the total population, but that number is expected to triple over the next two decades. Smaller towns and villages, which already have higher percentages of older adults, will be even more in need of appropriate housing and other infrastructure that meets their needs. The question of how to create these more “age-friendly” environments was front and centre at an international symposium on aging in rural and remote communities held in Winnipeg last week.

Transportation needs

Transportation and housing are critical issues in Manitoba right now, said

Verena Menec, director for the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba and one of the presenters at the forum. Older Manitobans desperately need more alternatives for getting around, both within their communities and region, she said. “Communities are far apart,” said Menec. “How do people get around so they can access services?” Innovative things are happening to provide transportation options, but much more is needed, experts say. “ We a re n o t l i v i n g i n a n a g e friendly environment,” said Norma Drosdowech, a Winnipeg senior and a panel speaker at a public forum that opened last week’s symposium, which was attended by aging experts from around the world. Manitoba is viewed as a global leader thanks to its Age-Friendly Manitoba Initiative, said Drosdowech. The initiative, launched four years ago, now encompasses 85 towns, villages, cities and rural municipalities. Most have advisory committees and are working with local government to set priorities. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Drosdowech. “But I see it from a personal point of view.” Many older adults remain exceedingly

“We’ve got a lot of people riding scooters in town, probably anywhere from 40 to 50.” Bruce Third

vulnerable and isolated in this province, lacking services or access to services, she said. The problem is especially acute in smaller and more distant towns, said Gina Sylvestre, a University of Winnipeg geography professor, who has studied the links between social exclusion and a lack of public transportation in rural Manitoba. “Those communities that are closer to Winnipeg and those that are larger and have economic vibrancy have more opportunities,” she said. “But when we talk about the capacity to promote an age-friendly approach, it becomes less and less the smaller the communities are.” Manitoba badly needs better policies to address transportation needs of older adults in rural areas, Sylvestre said. For example, handivan ser vices are only licensed to serve those aged 55 and older, as well as persons with disabilities. “In a rural community, you can’t just provide service for one segment of the population when you’re dealing with a small population,” said Sylvestre. As well, Manitoba’s move this past summer to deregulate transportation services so private-sector carriers can enter the market is likely to decrease services to more thinly populated areas, said Sylvestre. “So we’re now into an era where bus service is not being mandated anymore. That carries a lot of implications with it,” she said.

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How we cook(ed) in Canada Lorraine Stevenson Crossroads Recipe Swap

nless we keep journals or blog, few of us ever write our own story — our mothers and grandmothers certainly didn’t have much time to do so. So written records of their life’s experiences can be hard to find. But often their cookbooks have tales to tell. In the late 1990s, Ontario librarian and archivist Elizabeth Driver became so intrigued by the stories and history she found in Canadian cookbooks, she started a search for all of them. In 2008 she published Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825-1949, a book as big as its aim was ambitious — to cite the earliest known published-in-Canada cookbook, then document every printed-in-Canada cookbook she could find to 1950. She found a total of 2,275 cookbooks from every province. Many came from food companies and ingredient suppliers — think Oglivie’s Book for a Cook (1905) and Five Roses Cook Book (1913) from Lake of the Woods Milling Co. Ltd. Many titles were the creations of women themselves. What all these cookbooks collectively represent, writes Driver in her introduction, is a contribution to our understanding of Canadian history, regional or national. Out of all the provinces, Manitoba had the largest variety of cookbooks from immigrant groups — cookbooks reflecting the foods of Ukrainian, Scottish, German, Icelandic and Jewish communities. There was one exception. No Frenchlanguage cookbooks written specifically for the Franco-Manitoba population ever surfaced.

A cookbook published in 1913 by a group of women (no affiliation cited) in Dauphin, included alongside its equivalent weights for measure, a “schedule of infectious diseases,” including information on diphtheria, German measles, typhoid and scarlet fever. Many thousands of the Blue Ribbon Cook Book, the cookbook of three Winnipeg-based companies making their own brand of teas, extracts and baking ingredients, were printed between 1905 and 1970. The Manitoba Agricultural College’s influence was huge. Many households used the titles from the Manitoba Farmers’ Library, which beginning in 1916, included Cookery Recipes, Canning by the Cold Pack Method, The Potato, Cheese-making on the Farm, The Beef Ring and others. As for cookbooks of women’s groups, more than half of all the titles Driver found in Manitoba were community fundraisers for hospitals, churches and schools. We’ve begun to give our old cookbooks — and those who created them — the recognition they’re due. We now see them for the historical records that they are. I came across another wonderful mention of them recently in a University of Guelph professor’s blog. Ian Mosby, author of Speak, Recipe: Reading Cookbooks as Life Stories, writes of cookbooks as “an important component of celebrating and affording respect to the lives and work of ordinary women.” October is Women’s History Month. Do you have a cookbook or story from one you’d like to share? I’d love to hear it. So would Ian Mosby. You can email to him at imosby@uoguelph.ca. Keep sending us your recipes too. We love hearing from you.

Here’s a couple of chili recipes to take the chill off a wet, late-October day.

Slow Cooker Turkey Chili with Apples This recipe was submitted by Fiona Odlum to Granny’s Poultry and Manitoba Turkey Producers’ Turkey Chili Throwdown 2012 in August. It’s a first-place winner. 1 c. onion, diced 1/2 c. carrot, diced 1/4 c. celery stalk, diced 2 c. apples, peeled, cored and chopped 2 c. butternut squash, peeled and chopped 2 tbsp. garlic, diced 1 lb. (454 g) cooked ground turkey, sautéed in oil 2 tbsp. chili powder 1 tbsp. ground cumin 1 tsp. dried oregano 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. freshly ground pepper 1 10-oz. (284-ml) can chicken broth (undiluted) 1 14-oz. (400-ml) can light coconut milk 2 tbsp. tomato paste 1 c. canned black beans, drained and rinsed Cilantro for garnish (optional)

Combine everything in your slow cooker and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours. Garnish with fresh cilantro if you like. Source: Manitoba Turkey Producers

PHOTO: PORK MARKETING CANADA

Canada’s earliest cookbooks

Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, by Elizabeth Driver.

The first two cookbooks published in Lower and Upper Canada were editions of foreign works. Canada’s earliest cookbook was a famous 18th century book from France La cuisiniere bourgeoise, published in 1825 in Quebec City. The Cook Not Mad, was published in Kingston, Upper Canada in 1831 was an edition from a recent American work from just across the border in Watertown, New York. The first French-language and English-language cookbooks to be compiled in Canada were La cuisiniere canadienne and The Frugal Housewife’s Manual. They were published in 1840. The first Canadian fundraiser cookbook was The Home Cook first published in 1877 and issued in a Winnipeg edition around 1901. Source: Culinary Landmarks

Manitoba’s earliest cookbook Home and Health was issued in 1884 two years after the arrival of the railway, by the Winnipeg publishers of the monthly periodical Nor’Wester. The first cookbook to be written in Manitoba was The Souvenir Cook Book published in 1896 by the Ladies Aid Society of Grace Church in Winnipeg. Source: Culinary Landmarks

20 Minute Chili 1 lb. lean ground Canadian pork or hot Italian pork sausage, casing removed 1 28-fl.-oz (796-ml) can diced tomatoes with Italian spices 3 tbsp. chili powder 1 19-oz. (540-ml) can kidney or black beans, rinsed and drained 1-1/2 c. corn, frozen

In a large skillet or Dutch oven, cook ground pork or crumbled pork sausage over mediumhigh heat; stirring occasionally. When pork is thoroughly cooked, drain excess fat. Add canned tomatoes (with juice) and chili powder. Bring to a boil, reduce to medium heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add beans and corn. Simmer for another 5 minutes. Serve with whole wheat crusty rolls. Top with sour cream and grated cheese if desired. Yield: Serves 8. Cooking time: 15-20 minutes. Preparation time: 5 minutes. Source: Pork Marketing Canada

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The Manitoba Co-Operator | October 25, 2012

COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Step back in time and visit a one-room school Experience Manitoba’s past and see what it was like to be a pupil years ago

By Donna Gamache FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR

f you’re interested in Manitoba’s history, and enjoy short daytrips around our province, a visit to a couple of oneroom schools might make for an interesting fall tour, through one of Manitoba’s scenic regions. Over the last couple of years, my husband and I have visited two such schools in the Parkland region south of Riding Mountain National Park. This fall we enjoyed a visit to Marconi School, a nicely restored school north of Oakburn, in the RM of Rossburn. It’s a rare example of an intact school site, with schoolyard, flagpole and an outhouse. Built in 1922, it is a designated municipal heritage site, Site #43. It was named for Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor of the radio — a rather surprising name choice in a primarily Ukrainian district. Marconi School, #2085, originally cost $3,201 to build. It opened with 69 pupils (and closed after 1958 with 11 students, at the time when many schools were consolidating). As a former teacher, I find the idea of dealing with 69 pupils mind boggling! Even more so is the fact that about three miles away we discovered a cairn for another school, Ruska Rawa School, #1260, built in 1904 and in operation during the same period. Considering the small number of children from farms today, it’s amazing to think that a school could have 69 pupils from surrounding

farms with another one such a short distance away. Inside Marconi School, a framed writeup lists all the pupils, most of whom appear to be of Ukrainian background. The first teacher was Mr. Stephan H. Bellinsky, with a monthly salary of $100. The double desks attached to the floor, and each with an inkwell, are a feature that might particularly interest young

visitors, as will the cloakroom and the tiny library — stocked with old textbooks and reference books — some of which we recognized from our own countryschool days. Another interesting feature is the teacherage attached to the back of the school. It is actually fairly roomy, adequate for a single teacher. The surrounding schoolyard is large and neatly maintained.

Top: Marconi School, north of Oakburn, is nicely restored. Above: A large stove dominates the room at Horod School. PHOTOS: DONNA GAMACHE

Directions in miles are: To reach Marconi School from Rossburn, drive about three miles north on PR 264 and then 10 miles east on PR 577. Watch for a sign to turn left, at Road 134W, and drive north about one mile on a singlelane road. Or, from Oakburn: follow PR 277 north about 11 miles and then, still on 577, go two miles west, turning right (north) at Road 134W. A second restored school in the south Parkland area is the one-room school at Horod, a village established in 1899 by people from the West Ukraine. This schoolhouse, #1364, is also a heritage site, as well as a museum. Located in the RM of Park, it was built in 1909, somewhat earlier than the Marconi School, but closed about the same time, in 1960, after consolidation with Elphinstone School. Over the years, 325 pupils and 36 teachers attended Horod School. By 1978, the former school was being used for casual storage but in 1989 it was designated a municipal historic site (#34) and repairs were made both inside and out. Four rows of students’ desks are set up in the Horod School — but not the double kind like Marconi’s. The teacher’s desk at the front holds schoolbooks and lessons plans, while a large stove dominates the centre of the room — complete with a tea kettle ready to boil water. In the surrounding school ground is the original teacherage, shaded by a tall spruce, as well as privies. A commemorative stone cairn stands nearby. To reach the village of Horod, drive north from Elphinstone, on PR 354, about nine miles; or if you’ve visited Marconi School first, from there drive back east and south on PR 577 until you reach Road 114N. Then drive three miles east, two miles south and then about eight miles east. For driving through Manitoba’s rural areas, I suggest using Backroad Mapbook (Manitoba version.) We find our copy invaluable for this. All the mile roads are shown, as well as lakes, rivers and creeks. Donna Gamache writes from MacGregor, Manitoba

Cooking from…“speed scratch?” When prep time is short and your family is hungry, here’s some ways to speed up a meal By Julie Garden-Robinson NDSU EXTENSION SERVICE

ome days you can’t get the food on the table fast enough. On those days, consider “speed scratch” cooking methods when time is short and your family members are sitting at the table with their knives and forks in hand. Speed scratch is a term used when you combine ready-to-use fresh foods (such as salad in a bag) with packaged foods (such as taco kits). Some foods such as pasta

and couscous cook in minutes. All you need to do is add some spaghetti sauce, a side salad and some fruit, and you have a healthful meal in short order. If you are in a rush, shop the salad bar vegetables for presliced mushrooms, broccoli and cauliflower florets or chopped onions to be used in stir-fry or soup. Or open a jar of salsa and use it as an instant cooking sauce with chicken, ground beef or pork chops. Here are some other ingredient ideas to get food on the table fast, but be sure to

read and compare the nutrition labels. Some ready-made foods can be much higher in sodium than their homemade counterparts.

breasts or presliced stir-fry meats • Frozen bread dough • Pizza crust mix or ready-touse crusts

• Prewashed, precut vegetables • Prepackaged stir-fry veggies • Frozen pasta with vegetables • Pasta salad mixes, which require oil or mayonnaise to be added • Prepared spaghetti sauce in jars or cans • Prechopped garlic in jars • Boneless, skinless chicken

Cost is a major factor in food selection for many people. Even if you choose “speed scratch” foods, which can cost a little more, you still will spend less money than if you ate at a restaurant. Shared meals don’t have to be elaborate. If your day leaves you frazzled, simplify your cooking style. Make half your plate fruits

and vegetables by serving salad or fruit on the side to round out your quick meals. Tr y s o m e s p e e d s c ra t c h items, use your leftovers as the basis of new meals, divide up the kitchen duties and ring the dinner bell. For more meal ideas, visit http://www.ndsu. edu/eatsmart. Julie Garden-Robinson, PhD, R.D., L.R.D., is a North Dakota State University Extension Service food and nutrition specialist and professor in the department of health, nutrition and exercise sciences.

The Manitoba Co-Operator | October 25, 2012

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A good year for pumpkins Our hot, sunny summer made for good growing conditions By Albert Parsons

Minnedosa named “Rodeo of the Year” Second time for local community attraction

Freelance contributor

By Darrell Nesbitt

Freelance contributor

t this time of year, we see piles of pumpkins at market gardens that have been picked off the frozen vines and are ready for purchase. Huge orange giants, paler varieties that grow even bigger — the ones used in pumpkin-growing contests, ghostly white pumpkins, and miniatures; they are all there in vast array. Of course, it is no accident that these displays are present just before Halloween since most children (and some adults) want to be able to carve a jack-o’-lantern. Growing pumpkins is sometimes a bit of a challenge during a cool summer because they demand a high number of heat units but this year was hot and sunny and many pumpkins ripened right on the vine. Immature pumpkins will stop growing once the vines are frozen and they do not store well and may rot instead of turning orange. Mature pumpkins that are still green when harvested, however, will ripen and turn orange, but the best pumpkins are those that have turned bright orange on the vine, have a hard skin and are fully ripened. There are many, many varieties of pumpkins, and when choosing seed in the spring, the choice can be a bit overwhelming. One category is often called pie pumpkins because they have a fine texture to their flesh. They make good pie filling because the flesh is not stringy or tough — it purées into a smooth filling. Pie pumpkins are not too large, and they ripen relatively early on the vine. Another type of pumpkin is the large exhibition type — the huge giants that are grown for competition to see who can grow the largest one. They can weigh hundreds of kilograms and often appear lumpy and misshapen because they grow so large and so quickly that

It is no accident that these displays are present just before Halloween since most children (and some adults) want to be able to carve a jack-o’-lantern.

Pumpkins come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

their size causes them to sag and change shape under their own weight. Competitors often feed these pumpkins special food, water the plants several times a day and shelter them from the elements with some kind of cover. They are often placed on a bed of straw or other material to keep them clean and to protect their shells from being marked; these giants take more effort to grow than the average gardener is willing to expend. Another category of pumpkins is called jack-o’-lantern pumpkins. Slightly larger than many of the pie pumpkins, these have the classic pumpkin shape, with a bright-orange colour and smooth ribs all the way around. Unique decorative and specialty pumpkins have gained in popularity over the last few years so that now you can grow pure-white pumpkins, “blue pumpkins” or even multi-coloured pumpkins. These can contribute colour and interest to autumn displays. Mini-pumpkins are used to create displays for both the interior of the home and for the outdoors. My favourites are a miniature orange ribbed pumpkin called Jack Be Little and a white version called Baby Boo. Pumpkins need lots of sun, water and rich soil. They also take up a lot of space in the garden. Minimize the space taken up by planting them next to the corn and let the vines ramble through the corn while at the same time keeping the coons at bay.

Others agree that the Minnedosa Valley is a great place to watch the sport of rodeo, as the Minnedosa Rodeo Committee takes pride in seeing the event named the Rodeo of the Year for 2012 by the Heartland Rodeo Association. The local community attraction held this past summer also earned the title in 2009. “This is a pretty prestigious award to receive and something we, as a committee, strive for every year to uphold the title,” said president Greg Woychyshyn in the Minnedosa Tribune. Many of the competitors, who voted, commented how our committee put in extra hours to make the grounds dry and safe after a morning rainfall this year. The awards were presented at the Heartland Rodeo Finals in Carman last month. During the awards’ banquet, attended by Minnedosa Rodeo secretary Amanda Kirkpatrick and Woychyshyn, awards and honours were presented in 22 categories. Onanole’s Justine Cornelsen was recognized

as runner-up in both the Ladies Barrel Racing and Goat Tying event categories. Since a group of dedicated volunteers banded together nine years ago to bring rodeo back to the town of Minnedosa, the dream became a reality in 2005. An estimated 1,000 people, including competitors and spectators took part in that first year of the revamped Minnedosa Rodeo. Over the years, the local committee has continued to build on its dream growing the local rodeo with more sponsorships, greater attendance and more attractions. The partnership between the Minnedosa Rodeo Committee and the Heartland Rodeo Association has been a successful endeavour with many young cowboys and cowgirls saddling up or settling down on a bucking bull or bronc. There is also muttin’ busting, a petting farm and other children’s activities. Woychyshyn said the committee is already looking ahead to 2013 and hopes to uphold the title by making the Minnedosa Rodeo bigger and better. Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake, Manitoba

Chloe Potvin was among the young cowgirls competing at Minnedosa. PHOTO: DARRELL NESBITT

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

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Frightening scene from “The Birds?” No — a large flock of red-winged blackbirds in the Erickson, Man. area. PHOTO: CINDY MURRAY

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AUCTION DISTRICTS

AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions

ANNOUNCEMENTS Don't Miss Harvest Consignment Sale Parkland – North of Hwy 1; west of PR 242, following the west shore of Lake Manitoba and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis. Westman – South of Hwy 1; west of PR 242. Interlake – North of Hwy 1; east of PR 242, following the west shore of Lake Manitoba and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis. Red River – South ofHwy 1; east of PR 242.

HARVEST CONSIGNMENT SALE at FRASER AUCTION BARN BRANDON, MB. SATURDAY AUGUST 18, 2012 9:00am ANTIQUES

LESSE GILBERT & COLLEEN Soucy of Laurier MB, intend to sell Private Land (SW 13-22-16W) to Collin Gamache, who intends to acquire the following Crown Land (NW 16-22-16W) 1/2 subject to resv. for water spreading purposes by unit transfer. If you wish to comment on or object to this transfer write directly to: MAFRI Agricultural Crown Lands PO Box 1286 Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0. Phone (204)867-6550, fax (204)867-6578.

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DIRECTIONS: Sale will be held at Fraser Auction Dauphin Service Ltd. sales yard ¼ mile north of theANTIQUES junction of highways #1 & #10 on Wheatbelt Road. Brandon, MB Roblin

Grandview

Ashern

Gilbert Plains

Fisher Branch

Ste. Rose du Lac

Antiques For Sale

Russell

Parkland

Riverton

Eriksdale

McCreary

Arborg

Lundar Gimli

THIS SALE Interlake CANADIAN PACIFIC DEPOT BAGGAGE wagonWILL FEATURE: w/steel *Farm wheels &Equipment roller bearings. Always storedEquipment un*Industrial *Trucks & Trailers *Livestock Portage Winnipeg der cover, in excellent condition. $450 OBO. Phone 1 Brandon Handling Equipment *Vehicles *Lawn & Leisure *Shop Equipment & Tools (204)764-2015. 1 Westman *3pt hitch & Acreage Equipment *Government Surplus *Plus misc. Pallet Lots 242 Red River & more *Note: Collector Toys - complete DISPERSAL for ESTATE OF STAN LAWSON (Killarney, MB) Birtle

Shoal Lake

Erickson

Langruth

Minnedosa

Neepawa

Hamiota

Lac du Bonnet

Gladstone

Stonewall Selkirk

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Virden

Carberry

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Killarney

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Carman

Mariapolis

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Melita

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Beausejour

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bieNfait,SK Sale to be held iN PiPeStoNe CommuNity hall, PiPeStoNe,mb Sale featureS: *Huge amount of John Deere collector toys (800 plus), John Deere Memorabilia, Nascar, IH, MH, MF, Caterpillar *Stationary engines *Snowmachine *Glassware (Ruby Glass, Crystal, Kings Crown) *Much Much more for information call ron 306-634-0022 Pl # 909917

Steinbach

Morris

Pilot Mound

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Saturday November 3rd,2012 at 10 am

Winkler

Morden

Altona

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UNRESERVED WELDING SHOP CLOSE-OUT for LAWRIE WELDING & REPAIR ONANOLE, MB. SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 10:00am

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THIS SALE FEATURES SHOP AND METAL WORKING TOOLS: *(2) metal lathes *metal workers veryWELDING well attended consignment auction. *shop equipment *shop tools *hand tools *shop manuals *repair manuals *huge selection of new parts *plus large 1-800-483-5856 or*check E-Mail assortment of other miscellaneous goods. website office@fraserauction.com for more info and complete list

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MEYERS AUCTION 10:00am Sun., Nov 4th, 2012 at Bowes Mobile Homes east of Portage, MB. Antiques & Collectables; Shop Tools; Furniture; 19585-1C CPSClassified_4x4.indd 1 Meyers Auctions & Household; Full list on the web. Appraisals, Arden, MB. Bradley Meyers Auctioneer (204)368-2333 or (204)476-6262 cell. Detailed List & Pictures at meyersauctions.com Do you want to target Manitoba farmers? Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator. Manitoba’s best-read farm publication.

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NEW TRACTOR PARTS and engine rebuild kits, specializing in hard to find parts for older tractors, tractor seats, service and owners manuals, decals and much more, our 38th year! 1 800-481-1353, www.diamondfarmtractorparts.com

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FARM RETIREMENT AUCTION LOCATION: From I-94 Exit 288 (west of Valley City, ND), follow County Hwy. 22 north then west 3-1/2 miles to 109th Ave SE, then 1/2 mile south.

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MCSHERRY AUCTION SERVICE LTD Auction Sale Bill Kochie Sun., Oct. 28th 10:30am Faulkner, MB. 1/2-mi East on Hwy #239 then 1/8-mi North on Ford Lane Rd. Contact: (204)449-2117. Crawlers, Tractors Equip: Int TD6 Crawler w/FEL; Ford 9N gas 3PH; Farmall C Row Crop; Vers 400 15-ft. Swather; Rem 151 RD Baler; NH 850 RD Baler; 3 Sq Baler 1) NH 65 1) Case 200 1) Case 300; JD 38 3PH 7-ft. Sickle Mower; New Idea 404 5 Wheel Rake; Ferguson 3PH 2B Plow; Shaver 3PH Post Hole Auger 9-in. & 12-in. Bits; AC Model 10 12-ft. Chisel Plow; 3PH Saw Mandrel; Trailer hyd Wood Splitter; 4 Wheel Farm Wagon; Vehicles: 02 Oldsmobile Aurora 4D 230,000-km Sft; 91 GMC SLE Sierra 4x4 229,000-km; 60s Int A160 Truck w/15-ft. B&H 4D; HM Pintle Hitch 18-ft. Flat Dec Triple Axle Trailer w/Ramps; HM Pintle 10-ft. Flat Deck Trailer w/Ramps; 2) Utility Trailers; Yard: CRT 6.5-HP Rear Tine Tiller; Viking 8-HP Snowblower; Yard Sprayer; Grass Sweep; Blade for Quad; Camping Items; Bldings, Misc & Tools: 45-ft. Mobile Trailer Ruff Cond; 10x12-ft. Insulated Sheet Metal Blding; 8x14-ft. Insulated Blding; Meat Grinder; Metal Gun Cabinet; 2) Western Saddles; Show Bridles; Halters; gas 3-HP Water Pump; JD Cab; Metal Band Saw; Mig 105 Welder; Port Air Comp; Chain Saws; Radial Arm Saw; Wood Lathe; Air Tools; Power Tools; Hand Tools; Antiques: 4) Atlas Cabinets; Bow’s Tire Cabinet; Tractor Manuals; Snow Shoes; Cedar Shakes; Wood Heater; Tools; Household: Maytag Washer; Propane Stove; Freezer; Medi Lift Recliner; Port Sewing Machine; Port Surger Sewing Machine; Wall Mt Grandfather Clock; Elec Fireplace Heater; K Items; Glassware; Appliances; Musical: Snare Drum; Fronteline Accordion; Various Household. Stuart McSherry (204)467-1858 or (204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com 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 1-800-782-0794 today!

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FULL LISTING AT www.pennerauctions.com Sale Conducted by: PENNER AUCTION SALES LTD. 218 Brandt St, Steinbach, MB Toll Free 1-866-512-8992 www.pennerauctions.com

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1980 CESSNA 172 RGLL, Cutless 180-HP, 1,631-hr TTSN, Mode C, Horton stall kit, Transponder, ADF, DME, ELT, Appollo equipped, Plane hangered since new, clean, well maintained unit, (Hanger also for Sale). To be sold at Auction at Oak Lake Hall, Oak Lake, MB. On Sun., Nov. 18th 2:00pm. “SOLD SUBJECT TO OWNERS ACCEPTANCE OF HIGH BID”. Plane & Hanger located at Virden, MB. For more info call Miller Auctions (204)649-2366, Coulter, MB. Lic # 911465 www.globalauctionguide.com

RESTAURANT CLOSEOUT AUCTION

MAJORITY OF EQUIPMENT APPROX 2 YEARS OLD

Not responsible for errors in description. Subject to additions or deletions. Property owner and Fraser Auction Service not responsible for any accidents occurring. GST & PST where applicable. TERMS: Cash or cheque. NOTE: cheques of $50,000 or more must be accompanied by bank letter of credit.

40 DEERE CRAWLER, NEW paint, pins, bushings, PTO, AR, nice condition overall; Fairbanks Model2, kero on steel skids w/firewood swing table mandiel; 1928 5pass ModelA sedan, older resto, very nice, good runner.Phone:(204)447-2240.

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ANTIQUES Antique Equipment

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Red River

TRACTORS 2001 JD 9400, 24 spd., 4 hyd., return flow, 7 pin connector, diff lock, wired for ATU, rear wheel weights, Goodyear 800/70R38 duals w/hub extensions, inside front weights, 5,608 hrs., injectors updated at 3,500 hrs., S/N041172 2001 JD 9400, 24 spd., 4 hyd., return flow, 7 pin connector, diff lock, Field Office, wired for ATU, front & rear wheel weights, Firestone 710/70R42 duals, 5,111 hrs., injectors updated at 3,500 hrs., S/N030926 1993 JD 4955, MFWD, powershift, 3 hyd., power beyond, 3 pt., 1000 PTO, 60 Series step, fenders, (20) front weights, New Goodyear 18.4-46 hub duals, 16.9-30 fronts, 9,282 hrs., S/N6590 1976 JD 4430, quad range, 3 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, front fuel tank, new swivel seat, BF Goodrich 18.4-38s & hub duals not matched, 11,600 hrs., S/N74593 NAVIGATION EQUIPMENT JD 2600 display (3) Brown boxes, (3) universal wheels, (3) receivers (2) Key cards Brown box display HARVEST EQUIPMENT 2010 JD 9770, STS, Custom Cutter pkg., Contourmaster, deluxe controls, Touchset, integrated AutoTrac, small wire & round bar concave, high cap. unload, Crary bin ext., Goodyear Ultratorque 28L-26 rears, 520/85R42 duals, 630 sep./763 eng.hrs., S/N1H09770SLA0738819 JD 912 pickup head, 6-belt pickup, S/NH00912B640207 JD 635F flex head, Crary wind bar, S/N737950 1995 JD 590 pull-type swather, 25', finger reel, 540 PTO JD 580 pull-type swather, 21', finger reel, 540 PTO 2001 JD 590 pull-type swather, 25', finger reel,1000 PTO GRAIN CART 1993 J&M 525 grain cart, roll tarp, corner auger, big 1000 PTO, 23.1-26 bar tires, green AIR DRILL 2010 JD 1890 air drill, 42-1/2', 2-rank, 7-1/2" or 15" space, JD 1910 tow between commodity cart, twin compartment 120/270 bu. tank, hopper ext., SeedStar variable rate, full run monitor, fill auger, (2) meters, DT820 singles, 9,600 acres on drill, 13,500 acres on cart, drill S/N732510, cart S/N35200 TILLAGE EQUIPMENT 2009 Gates Magnum culti/disc harrow vertical tillage tool, 42', adj. pitch, heavy duty 2-bar rear harrow, straight coulter fronts, rear notched blades (slight pitch), dual carrier wheels, rear hitch 2009 Unverferth UM rolling packer, 42', tandem serrated pitched baskets with expandable pole 2006 Summers land roller, 45', front-fold Wishek 842T heavy duty tandem disc, 26', 11" space, Gates 2-bar heavy duty harrow, S/N2799824

TILLAGE EQUIPMENT CONTINUED 1999 JD 980 field cultivator, 45', 4-bar harrow, wing stabilizer wheels, rear hitch & hyd. 1990 JD 1010 field cultivator, 42', 4-bar harrow 1995 JD 610 chisel plow, 41', single pt. depth, NH3, Summers heavy duty 3-bar harrow 1994 JD 610 chisel plow, 41', single pt. depth, NH3 hitch, Summers 3-bar harrow, S/N4377 1990 Flexi-Coil coil packer, 45' Bush Hog tandem disc, 28’ 1996 Herman SuperHarrow, 70', 5-bar 1986 Herman harrow, 70', 5-bar adj. & tank Alloway 2020 cultivator, 8 row, 3 pt. SEMI TRACTORS & TRUCKS 1997 Volvo, 60 Series 11.1 liter Detroit, 10 spd., air ride, A/C, 153" WB, half fenders, twin aluminum fuel tanks, 22.5 tires on steel Budds, 435,827 miles 1996 Volvo WG64T, 350 hp M11 Cummins, 10 spd., air ride, air slide 5th, A/C, 158" WB, 2:93 rears, half fenders, twin aluminum fuel tanks, block heater, new 22.5 tires on steel Budds, 430,637 miles 1981 Chevrolet 70 twin screw, 3-1/2 ton, 6.0 liter gas, Eaton 10 spd., Bostrom air seat, 19-1/2' Buffalo box, roll tarp, 3 pc. endgate, diff lock, 10:00-20 tires 1979 Chevrolet C70 lift tag tandem, 366, 5&2 spd., Frontier box, hoist, roll tarp, 10:00-20 tires, 85,291 miles 1978 Ford 800 Louisville twin screw, 534 V8, Eaton 10 spd., 20' Dakotah box, hoist, roll tarp, 3 pc. endgate, 2 ladders, air brakes, 9:00 tires SERVICE TRUCK & PICKUPS 1994 Ford F350 dually pickup, XL pkg., 7.5 liter gas, 5 spd., 4WD, lockouts, 9' steel diamond plate bed, 5th wheel hitch, rear plate hitch, running boards, 60,550 mi 1993 Ford 1 ton dually service truck, diesel, 5 spd., 2WD, 7-1/2'x14' dia. steel bed, 5th wheel & ClassIII hitch 1992 Dodge Power Ram 250 pickup, 3/4 ton, 235,900 mi TRAILERS 2007 Jet hopper bottom trailer, 34', roll tarps, spring ride 2004 Jet hopper bottom trailer, 34', roll tarp, spring ride Lorak implement trailer, converted for hauling w/ramps Johnson single pole header trailer, 35', w/2-whl front dolly ROGATOR & CHEMICAL/NH3 EQUIPMENT 1999 AgChem Rogator 854, Cummins diesel, 90' triple nozzle booms, 800 SS bottom fill tank, foam marker, 661 Raven with mapping & Satloc GPS light bar, hyd. axles, fenders, 300/95R46 tires, 3,704 hrs. (4) Kleber 230/95R48 radials on 8-bolt rims 1999 Chemical caddy, 1,000 gal. (3) Mix cones (2) Transfer pumps  NH3 trailer on P&H gear,1,000gal. (2) John Blue NH3 meter kits Liquid seed treater ALSO TO INCLUDE: HOPPER BIN & GRAIN HANDLING EQUIP, ROCKPICKERS, CAR & ATV, OTHER EQUIP, TANKS & SHOP EQUIP!

SKOGEN FARMS Allan & Janelle Skogen (701) 490-2093 Steffes Auctioneers Inc. 2000 Main Avenue East, West Fargo, ND 58078

(701) 237-9173  Scott Steffes ND81 www.steffesauctioneers.com TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed.

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*NEW Leslie & Kim Just DATE! Bruno, SK • november 3, 2012 • 10 am unreServeD farM auction

2002 Case IH stx325

1997 Case IH 4230

1990 JoHn deere 9600

Harness

auction Location:

From BrUno, sK go 8 km (5 miles) North, 3.2 km (2 miles) East, 1.6 km (1 mile) South or From HUMBoLdt, sK go 26 km (16.2 mile) West on Hwy 5, 14 km (8.8 miles) North, 3.2 km (2 miles) East, 1.6 km (1 mile) South.

a PartiaL eQuiPMent LiSt incLuDeS:

2002 Case IH STX325 4WD • 1997 Case IH 4230 MFWD • International 966 2WD • 1990 John Deere 9600 Combine • 1997 John Deere 930R 30 Ft Rigid Header • 1999 Westward 9200 30 Ft Swather • 1969 GMC 9500 S/A Grain Truck • 1978 GMC 6500 S/A Grain Truck • 1979 International S2500 T/A Grain Truck • 1997 GMC 2500 Extended Cab 4x4 • Bourgault 8800 40 Ft Air Seeder • Morris 70 Ft Heavy Harrows • Brandt QF1000 90 Ft Field Sprayer • Barney Boy 2000 Gallon T/A Liquid Manure Tank • John Deere Manure Spreader • 2- Grain Vault 16 Ft x 6 Ring Hopper Bin • Pax 300± Bushel Hopper Feed Bin • Harness & Buggies...and mucH more!

For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: Leslie Just: 306.369.2803 (h) for More inforMation: kljust@sasktel.net

ritchie Bros. territory Manager – dan steen: 306.361.6154 or 800.491.4494

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FARM MACHINERY Grain Dryers

MCSHERRY AUCTION SERVICE LTD Estate Auction Garnet Woodcox Sat., Oct. 27th 10:00am Lundar, MB. 20-mi East on 419 or 8-mi West of Chatfield on 419. Auction Note: More Items than Listed. Everything Sells to the Highest Bidder! Contact: (204)664-5350. Tractors: MF 6270 MFWA Cab Shuttle w/Left Hand Rev 3PH 540/1000 PTO Dual Hyd Sold w/FEL w/Grapple 4,467-hrs; Case 2090 Power Shift Cab 3PH 540/1000 Dual Hyd w/Leon 707 FEL; Case 930; Equip: Haybuster 2650 Bale Processor New Cond; New Idea 3639 Tandem Dual Beats Poly Floor; Manure Spreader New Cond; NH 116 14-ft. hyd Swing Mower Cond; MF 835 RD Baler; HutchMaster 14-ft. Offset Disc; Champion 14 DSL Mower Cond NR; Vicon 6 Wheel Rake; 2) 26-ft. Hay Trailer; 3PH Post Pounder; 4 Wheel Farm Wagon; 3PH FEL Bale Forks; JD 12-ft. One Way; Vers 6-in. 28-ft. Auger; Case 4B Plow; Livestock Equip: 93 WW B&Hitch 16-ft. Stock Trailer; 2) H Qual Maternity Pens; 20) New 30-ft. Self Standing Panels; Birch Creek Squeeze Chute w/Palp Cage; 7L Calf Squeeze; Self Locking Head Gate; Reyden 230 Bus Creep Self Feeders; Over 300) Metal Corral Panels 10-ft. to 16-ft. Some Walk Thru Gates; 12) RD Bale Feeders; 6) Metal 10-ft. Bunk Feeders; Tire Water Tough; 2) Sheet Metal Calf Shelters; Poly Calf Hot Box; Farmking Stationary Rolling Mill; 3) Saddles Western & English; Vet Equip; Dehorners; Semen Nitrogen Tank; 200 Straws Red Angus Semen; Yard, Rec & Vehicles: Husq 2348 R Mower 88-hrs; Crafts 17-HP R Mower; Polaris 250cc 2x4 Quad; HM Quad Trailer; Guns: Winchester, LA, Cal 30-30; 90 VW Jetta 4D; 74 Lincoln Town Car, showing 53,000 kept inside, 60 GMC 950 w/Box & Hoist; Tools & Misc: Metal Band Saw; Drill Press; Port Air Comp 5-HP 20-gal; Booster/ Charger; Coleman 10-HP Generator; Power Tools; Air Tools; Hand Tools; 200-gal Water Tank Trailer; 200-gal Poly Tank; 2) 300-gal Fuel Tanks; Roll Game Wire; Treated Fence & Corral Posts; Elec Fences; Lumber; Plywood; Hyd Hose; OH Hydro; Antiques & Household: Wood Cook Stove; Torche Lamp; Chrome Ashtray Stand; Swag Lamp; Cream Cans; Copper Boiler; WashBoard; Cedar Shakes; 9) Local History Book; 2) Deep Freeze; Stove; Fridge; Washer; Dryer; Some Furniture; Various Household Items. Stuart McSherry (204)4671858 or (204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com

SELLING NEVIN SEEDS, a well established bird seed company, included in sale are all bagging & packaging equip, bins, etc. as well as business contacts. Reason for selling: semi-retiring. Phone:(204)763-4470 or (204)761-3931.

FARM MACHINERY Fertilizer Equipment

Combines

AUTO & TRANSPORT

FERTILIZER SPREADERS, 4-9-TONNE, $2500 up; Large selection 8T tender, $2500; 16T, $5900. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com (204)857-8403.

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Case/IH

FARM MACHINERY Grain Augers

2005 CASE IH 8010 combine, 4-WD, front tire size is 1250-45-32, means they are 45-in wide, rear tires 28L-26, means 28-in wide. Apparently will go as far as a track machine. 4-Spd, hyd trans, straw chopper & spreaders, pro-600 monitor, bin extensions w/2052-30-ft dripper header, $165,000. Phone:(204)871-0925.

AUTO & TRANSPORT Auto & Truck Parts REMANUFACTURED DSL ENGINES: GM 6.5L $4,750 installed; Ford/IH 7.3L $4950 installed; GM Duramax/Ford 6.0L, $8,500 installed; new 6.5L engines $6500; 24V 5.9L Cummins, $7,500 installed; other new/used & reman. engines available, can ship or install. Thickett Engine Rebuilding, 204-532-2187, Binscarth. 8:00am-5:30pm Mon.-Fri.

AUTO & TRANSPORT Trucks 1979 GMC C7000, ALMOST new 16-ft box & hoist, good roll tarp, new rad, starter & clutch, very little rust, stored inside, willing to safety, asking $10,000 OBO; 1975 Chev C6000, 31,000 original miles, good steel 14-ft box & hoist, good roll tarp, very little rust, stored inside, will safety, asking $8000 OBO. Phone:(204)825-2799 or cell (204)825-8340, Pilot Mound. 2005 GMC Sierra 2500HD Diesel Crew Cab, Allison Auto, 4WD. One owner, no accidents, never towed, well maintained. Safetied. Excellent condition. $24,995 OBO (204)248-2208 or (204)723-0057

AUTO & TRANSPORT Vehicles Various OVER 200 VEHICLES LOTS OF DIESELS www.thoens.com Chrysler Dodge (800)667-4414 Wynyard, Sk.

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS

BUSINESS SERVICES BUSINESS SERVICES Crop Consulting

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

FOR SALE: BUCKET OFF a loader, 4430 JD, like new. Phone (204)526-2169. WHEELED EXCAVATOR CASE 1085B, extend-ahoe, wrist-o-twist, 2 digging buckets, $17,500; Hitachi 300 Track excavator, $35,000. Phone:(204)871-2708 or (204)685-2124.

FARM MACHINERY

9-IN. WHEATHEART HYD DRIVE transfer auger w/flow control poly tube, new, never been used, $1,100. Phone (204)476-2445, Neepawa.

FARM MACHINERY Grain Bins BIG BINS & FLOORS at old prices, 20,000-56,000bu. bins holding prices until spring. NEW MOISTURE CABLES! Call Wall Grain for details (204)269-7616 or (306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662. CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks. Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103 or E-mail Requests binmovers@hotmail.com SUKUP GRAIN BINS Heavy Duty, hopper or flat bottom, setup available. Early order discount pricing now in effect. Call for more info (204)998-9915

Two 19’ Bins - 4700 bushels per bin Four 21’ Bins - 5900 bushels per bin (with .094 aeration floors).

ONLY $1500 A PIECE!

Located in the Oakville area come and get ‘em! Contact Dave, Blaine or Ron at Wall Grain at 204-269-7616 for more information.

Ask your CPS retailer about the PrePay program and earn 5% toward your crop input purchases. BUILT RIGHT. ON TIME. FARM MACHINERY Haying & Harvesting – Swathers

2008 CASE-IH 2588 combine w/2015 PU, 476 sep hrs, 594 engine hrs, Pro 600 monitor, y/m, rice tires, hopper topper, shedded, heavy soil machine, $180,000 open to offers. (204)735-2886, (204)981-5366.

FARM MACHINERY Combine – John Deere 2 JD 224 STRAIGHT cut headers, $1,100 each $2,000 for both. Phone (204)476-2445, Neepawa.

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Massey Ferguson 860 MF COMBINE 1983 Silver Cab, shedded, $5,500 OBO. Phone (204)966-3857. FOR SALE: 510 DIESEL. Runs well, but needs a bearing or two; some 750 parts, no engine; 2 tires on 8-bolt rims, fits 7720 etc. Firestone special Sure Grip 20.8x38 10p.r. Phone:(204)746-8428 or (204)746-0126.

Combine ACCessories FARM MACHINERY Combine – Accessories

Combine Corn Heads in Stock. 1998 JD 893 Poly Points, 8 Row, 30-in., Immaculate, Field Ready, $18,900; 1997 JD 893 Poly Points, 8 Row, 30-in., Sharp Head, Field Ready, $17,900; CIH 1083 8 Row, 30-in., Field Ready, $12,900; JD 843 8 Row, 30-in., Gone Through The Shop, Field Ready, $12,900. Other Makes Available. Call Gary at (204)326-7000 or www.reimerfarmequipment.com

Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.2

BUILT RIGHT. ON TIME. FARM MACHINERY Grain Dryers

FOUILLARD STEEL SUPPLIES LTD.

NEW SUKUP GRAIN DRYERS w/canola screens, 1 or 3PH, LP or NG. Efficient & easy to operate. Early Order discount pricing now in effect. (204)998-9915

BUILDINGS

NEW MC DRYERS IN STOCK w/canola screens 300-2,000 BPH units. Why buy used, when you get new fuel efficient & better quality & control w/MC. Call Wall Grain for details (204)269-7616 or (306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.

AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post frame building company. For estimates and information call 1-888-816-AFAB(2322). Website: www.postframebuilding.com

FLEX PLATFORMS IN STOCK. All makes, models, sizes. Have over 30 in stock at most times. 2 1998 JD 925 Rigid Platforms w/PU Reels, $9,900; 1998 JD 930 Flex Platform w/Crary Air Reel, Reconditioned, $14,900; 1995 CIH 1020, 30-ft. Flex Platform w/Crary Air Reel, $12,900; 2005 CIH 2020 Flex Platform 30-ft., $21,900; 94 JD 925 good poly, PU teeth, new sickle $5,950; 97 JD 930 new poly, PU fingers, sickle $11,900; 98 JD 930 new poly, sickle, PU fingers, full finger auger $13,500; 97 JD 930 good poly, PU teeth, auger, air reel $13,900; 01 JD 930 new poly, PU teeth, sickle, full finger auger $16,900; 03 930 good poly, PU teeth, new sickle, full finger auger $15,900; 07 JD 630 like new, reduced to $22,900; 06 JD 635 AWS air bar, real nice head $24,900; 96-’04 CIH 1020 25-30 ft. models in stock w/ or w/o air reel; 07 CIH 2020 35-ft., good teeth, auger, poly, ready to go $22,900; 09 CIH 2020 35-ft. like new, paint still on auger $24,900. We deliver anywhere in Western Canada, right to your farm. Call Gary at (204)326-7000 or www.reimerfarmequipment.com 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 1-800-782-0794 today!

CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place & finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any floor design. References available. Alexander, MB. 204-752-2069.

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FARM MACHINERY

400 VERS SWATHER 18-FT. good running order, Parts & Accessories 19585-2C CPSClassified_4x4.indd 1 shedded, $1,500 OBO. Phone (204)966-3857.

1998 JD 930F FLEX-HEAD, hyd 4 & aft, poly skids, JD conversion to single point hook up for 60 series or newer combines, VGC, trailer avail. $14,900. Phone (204)736-4270, Domain.

B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2

BUILDINGS

$36,000 OBO

Earn

CASE 450 CRAWLER DOZER, 3-way blade, $10,000. Phone:(204)344-5016 or (204)669-1561.

PRICE TO CLEAR!!

ST. LAZARE, MB. 1-800-510-3303

GREAT FOR CORN!

Includes 8 x 3700 bushel bins with canola floors and unload augers with u-trough auger on top of bins. Contact Dave, Blaine or Ron at Wall Grain at 204-269-7616 for more information.

1988 CASE 580 BACKHOE w/front end loader. Phone:(204)952-9793.

75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard 100,000PSI high tensile roofing & siding. 16 colours to choose from.

Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for archrib buildings BEAT THE PRICE INCREASES CALL NOW

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Accessories

24’ Continuous Flow NECO Grain Dryer with 25 HP fan and gen set (needs some work).

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Roofing

Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft.2

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Accessories

BUILDINGS

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

Tractors Combines Swathers

FYFE PARTS

1-800-667-9871 • Regina 1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon 1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg 1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton “For All Your Farm Parts”

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

WATROUS SALVAGE WaTRoUs, sK. Fax: 306-946-2444

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

STEINBACH, MB. Ph. 326-2443 Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727 Fax (204) 326-5878 Web site: farmparts.ca E-mail: roy@farmparts.ca FARM MACHINERY Salvage FARM MACHINERY FOR PARTS: COMBINES IHC 1682, 1482, 1480, 1460, 915, 914, 715, 403, 402, 150, MF 860, 760, 850, 751, 750, 550, 510, 410, 405; JD 7701, 7700,6601, 6600, 630, 96, 65; WHITE 8900, 8800, 8600, 8650, 7800, 5542, 545, 542, 431; NH TR95, TR85, TR70, 1500, 990, 980; Coop 9600, 960; Gleaner L2, N6, F, C2; VERS 2000, 42; Case 1600, 1060; FORD 642 BELARUS 1500 Don; SWATHERS VERS 4400, 400, 330, 103, 10; IHC 4000, 230, 210, 175, 201, 75; COOP 550, 500, 601; MF 655, 36, 35; JD 800, 290; NH 1090; WHITE 6200; COCKSHUTT 503 HESSTON 300. We also have parts for tractors, square & round balers, press drills, cultivators, sprayers, haybines, & misc machinery. We handle new & rebuilt parts for tractors & combines. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727, toll free 1-877-858-2728.

FARM MACHINERY Snowblowers, Plows

STRONGEST POSTS INDUSTRY-WIDE Toll Free:1-877-239-0730 www.mcdiarmid.com/farm

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FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Air Drills

1998 CONCORD 4010, RED, 5-fold, comes w/2009 Case 3430 variable rate tank, mid-row banders, Dickey John NH3 kit, hyd. winch on tank, blockage monitors, openers, field ready, excellent cond., always shedded, $80,000. Phone:(204)791-3130 or (204)467-8547.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Tillage 16-FT. HUTCHMASTER OFFSET DISC, new tires, all new bearings, new front gang discs, 24-in. notched disc blades, VGC, $9,500. (204)762-5448. 38-FT. IH VIBRA SHANK, 3 bar harrows, $1,800; Phone: (204)529-2046 or (204)529-2091, Cartwright, MB. CCIL MODEL 204, 28-FT. deep tiller, tandem axles, mounted harrows, $4,500; Morris Model TD-81, 14-ft. tandem disc w/updated 5/16x24 new front discs & bearings, $8,500; JD Model 215 tandem discer, Duracushion, 16-ft., 22-in. blades, $8,500. www. waltersequipment.com (204)525-4521, Minitonas, MB. FOR SALE: 5-FT. 3 row HD 3-PTH cultivator, $150. Al Hein (204)489-7879 e-mail ahein@mts.net Winnipeg.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Various FOR SALE: 45-FT FLEXI-COIL 5000 air drill w/2320 tank, 9-in spacing, rubber packers, & liquid fertilizer kit, always shedded; 41-ft JD 610 floating hitch cultivator, 12-in spacing & 777 air tank. Phone (204)827-2354, cell (204)526-5307.

TracTors FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Case/IH 1976 INTERNATIONAL 1066, (204)825-3867, Pilot Mound.

$8000.

Call

1996 CASE 7210 MFWD factory duals, new loader, 5200-hrs, excellent cond. Phone (204)567-3720 FOR SALE: 2290 CASE 1982 3,300 original hours, very good shape. Phone:(204)768-9090.

GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528 or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.

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

Tillage & Seeding

ALLIED SNOWBLOWER 7-FT. WIDE 3-PTH, 540 PTO, hyd swing spout, good shape, $1,250 OBO. Phone (204)669-9626.

FOR SALE: 9170 CASEIH, 6,750-hrs, 855A Cummings, Big Cam, 12-spd powershift trans., 4 remote hyd., radials tires, in excellent condition. $61,000. Darlingford, MB. Phone:(204)246-2219. FOR SALE: 9370 CASEIH, 6,211-hrs, N14 Cummings, 24-spd standard trans., 4 remote hyd., Trelleborg tires, plumbed for GPS, in excellent condition, $71,500. Darlingford, MB. Phone: (204)246-2219.

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Steiger 1986 PANTHER 1000, CUMMINS 855, set 360-hp, 12-spd PS, auto-steer, 900/50R42 hub duals, 70%, clean tractor. $40,000 OBO. Phone:(204)373-2502.

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – John Deere 1979 JD 4440, W/148 FEL w/joystick, $19,500. www.waltersequipment.com (204)525-4521, Minitonas, MB. FOR SALE: 7810 MFWD, PQ, LHR, 3-pt, new tires; 2, 7710 MFWD, PQ, LHR, 3-pt, new tires; 2, 4650 MFWD, 15-SPD, 3-pt, fact duals; 2, 4455 MFWD, 15-SPD, 3-pt; 2, 4450 MFWD, 15-SPD, 3 pt; 4250 MFWD, 15-SPD, 3-pt; 4055 MFWD, 15-SPD, 3-pt; 2555 MFWD, 3-pt w/245 FEL. All tractors can be sold w/new or used loaders. MITCH’S TRACTOR SALES LTD (Formerly known as Ben Peters JD Tractors, same owner, new location) Box 418 St. Claude, MB R0G 1Z0 Phone: (204)750-2459 FOR SALE: JD 4960 MFWD tractor, 14.9 x 46 tires, hub duals, weights, 9,380-hrs. Nice, clean tractor. Hamilton, North Dakota. Phone: (701)265-2221. JD 7320 MFWD, Power Quad, 3-pt., 741 Loader, 7ft. bucket, grapple, 6,500-hrs $69,900; JD 8560 18.4x38 duals, 7,500-hrs, $37,900; 08 JD 5225 w/542 loader, MFWD, 3-PTH, CAH, Radio, Joystick, 200-hrs, like new, $47,900. JD 2140 2WD, 3-pt., 245 Loader, 7-ft. bucket, 7,500-hrs $16,900; Call Gary at (204)326-7000 or www.reimerfarmequipment.com

Spraying EquipmEnt

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – 2 Wheel Drive

FARM MACHINERY Sprayers

JD 4320 115-HP, dual hyds, 540/1000 PTO, crank bearings done, clutch also done, runs nice, good appearance, quit farming. Don’t miss this one! $7,500. (204)365-0368

1994 WILLMAR 765HT high clearance sprayer, 600-gal tank, 80-ft. boom, rinse tank, 9.5-48 & 18.4-38 tires, Micro-Trak Spraymate 2 auto rate controller, 2,993-hrs, good condition, $34,000. (204)436-2534.

STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.

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FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Various

HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING

Big Tractor Parts, Inc. Geared For The Future

STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST

RED OR GREEN 1. 10-25% savings on new replacement parts for your Steiger drive train. 2. We rebuild axles, transmissions and dropboxes with ONE YEAR WARRANTY. 3. 50% savings on used parts.

1-800-982-1769 www.bigtractorparts.com

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

1998 FORD LX 4X4 DRIVE, 143,982-km, V6, 4.2 engine, safetied, $5,490; Equinox tanks: 1 New LR 171 915-gal tank, retail $824, special $400; New HD LR 177 1,250-gal tank, yellow, retail $878 special $525; New Black LR 175 1,250-gal, retail $578 special $425; Used 1993 Buick Century car, safetied, retail $2,190 special $1,850. (204)822-1354 cell (204)823-1559. 31X7 FARM KING AUGER w/new 5-HP electric motor, $500; 2 wheeled 3-PTH hay rake, $300; Wind power PTO 540 generator, 120 240 volts, $1000; 18-ft IHC cultivator w/harrows & packers, $700; 16-ft Ford deep tiller, $500; Case 516 bottom plow, $500; IHC 620 20-ft press drill, $200. Phone (204)745-2851. 560 INTERNATIONAL MANURE SPREADER, stored inside; Farmall H narrow front tractor; Antique wood-beam plow. Phone (204)324-8080. 853 JD ALL CROP header, 8 row x 30-in, high sides & back for sunflowers, PTO drives, lots of new parts, good shape, $8000. Gerald Friesen (204)822-3633 or (204)362-0678, Morden. FOR SALE: 1978 1630 JD 145 loader, always shedded; sold w/7-ft. snowblower, $12,500. Phone: (204)471-0571 evening (204)338-9081. INTERNATIONAL 810 SUNFLOWER HEADER w/trailer 20-ft, $3000; 820 Flexhead, $2000; 1020 30-ft, $8000; JD 925, $6500; JD 930, $7500; Large selection used grain carts, 450-1050-bu also Gravity wagons, 250-750-bu; new 400-bu w/12T wagon, $7100; 600-bu, $12,000; tarps available; grain screeners, hutch #1500, $1500; #1600, $2000; DMI 48-in, $2500; Kwik Kleen 5 tube, $4500; 7 tube, $6500; Hutchmaster rock cushion disc 25-ft, $9500; JD 331 30-ft, $9500; Bushog 21ft, $7000; DMI ripper 7 shank, $11,900; Valmar applicator, $850. Phone (204)857-8403. UH

ROTARY MOWERS: JD 709, $3000; Woods 7-ft, $3000; Woods 10-ft Batwing, $3500; 15-ft Batwing, $4500; IH 9-ft Sicle mower, $1650; NH 9-ft, $2200; Balers: JD 535, $5900; JD 530, $3900; JD 510, $1500; Scrapers: 440, $3900; 640, $5000; New Box Scrapers: 10-ft, $2250; 12-ft, $2450; 9-ft 3-PH blade, $900; JD 780 spreader, $7000; New Idea #3634, $4000; H-S 400-bu, $2500; Meyers 550, $11,900; Summers 70-ft heavy harrow, $14,000; Degelman 70-ft Strawmaster, $22,000; Leon 12-ft blade, $3000; 10-ft, $2500. Phone (204)857-8403 WHITE 31-FT TANDEM DISC & Suzuki 4-wheeler. Call Jack Bullied (204)526-2857.

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IRON & STEEL FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS, Feeders & Alley ways, 30ft or order to size. Oil Field Pipe: 1.3, 1.6, 1.9, 1 7/8, 2-in, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2. Sucker Rod: 3/4, 7/8, 1. Casing Pipes: 4-9inch. Sold by the piece or semi load lots. For special pricing call Art (204)685-2628 or cell (204)856-3440. FULL LINE OF COLORED & galvanized roofing, siding & accessories, structural steel, tubing, plate, angles, flats, rounds etc. Phone:1-800-510-3303, Fouillard Steel Supplies Ltd, St Lazare.

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WIRELESS DRIVEWAY ALARMS, calving/foaling barn cameras, video surveillance, rear view cameras for RV’s, trucks, combines, seeders, sprayers and augers. Mounted on magnet. Calgary, Ab. (403)616-6610. www.FAAsecurity.com

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Wanted 20-24-FT MEDIUM DUTY TANDEM disc, prefer Ezee-on, others considered also 1037 NH bale wagon. Phone: (306)876-4707. WANTED: HD HEADER DRIVE pulley assembly for Westward 7000 swather. Also Cub Cadet i1046 or i1050. Phone:(204)746-8428 or (204)746-0126. WANTED: PT 12-FT. 1150 Heston Crimper as a whole unit or for parts. Phone (204)234-5391. WANTED: STONE PICKER & Rock Rake. Phone (204)352-4306

LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

FEEDER/SLAUGHTER SALES Every Friday 9AM

Special Holstein Feeder Sale - Oct. 26 Special Bred Cow Sale - Oct. 29 featuring small dispersal of 35 charolais cows and 20 bred black hfrs

Receiving open until 10PM Thursdays NEXT SHEEP & GOAT SALE Wednesday, November 7 Gates Open Mon.-Wed. 8AM-4PM Thurs. 8AM-10PM Friday 8AM-6PM Sat. 8AM-4PM We Will Buy Cattle Direct On Farm For more information call: 204-694-8328 or Jim Christie 204-771-0753

www.winnipeglivestocksales.com Licence #1122

GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK AUCTION MART. LTD. GRUNTHAL, MB. Agent for T.E.A.M. Marketing Regular cattle sales with Holstein Calves every Tuesday @ 9 am

Saturday, October 27th Horse and Tack Sale Tack @ 10 am/ Horses @ 1 pm Monday, October 29th Sheep and Goat sale with small animals @ 12 Noon

Sales Agent for HIQUAL INDUSTRIES

Livestock Handling Equipment for info regarding products or pricing, please call our office. We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural products for your livestock needs. (protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc)

For on farm appraisal of livestock or for marketing information please call Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250 Auction Mart (204) 434-6519

www.grunthallivestock.com MB. Livestock Dealer #1111

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Black Angus OSSAWA ANGUS AT MARQUETTE, MB has for sale 1-5yr old herd sire & 6-20mo old bulls, ready for fall breeding. Phone:(204)375-6658.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Red Angus FOR SALE: 3-YR OLD purebred Red Angus bull, will take other cattle on trade or cash. Phone: (204)526-2169.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Charolais 50 PB REG CHAROLAIS cows, 3-7-yrs of age. Bred Feb-April to leading herd sires. Starting at $1650. Available now for viewing. Steppler Farms (204)435-2463, (204)750-1951. Hit our readers where it counts… in the classifieds. Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifed section. 1-800-782-0794.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

PERSONAL

FOR SALE: TOP QUALITY bred heifers, mainly Char cross, but some Red & Blacks, 60 day calving period starting March 1,2013, Bred to proven, easy calving bulls, fully vaccinated & ready to go. Asking $1675, volume discounts, delivery may be available. Phone Cell:(204)724-6093 or Home:(204)466-2939.

LOOKING, HOPING? ...For a best friend, a romantic happy relationship. CANDLELIGHT MATCHMAKERS can help make it all happen! Confidential, Photos & Profiles to selected matches, affordable, local. Serving MB, SK, NW Ontario. Call/Write for info: Box 212, Roland, MB, R0G 1T0, (204)343-2475.

QUALITY BLACK ANGUS HEIFERS bred to easy calving bulls, started late January 1200-1400-lbs. Phone (204)728-7308.

PETS

LIVESTOCK Cattle Wanted

PETS & SUPPLIES

WANTED: ALL CLASSES OF feeder cattle, yearlings & calves. Dealer Licence# 1353. Also wanted, light feed grains: wheat, barley & oats. Phone:(204)325-2416. Manitou, MB.

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35 RED & BLACK Angus X cows, bred to Black Angus bulls, to start calving January 15th. $1,500 each. Phone: (204)822-3789 or (204)362-6403. BRED COWS FOR SALE, having second calf, also bred heifers February & March calving, Black & Red Angus. Call Doug (204)447-2382, Ste Rose. FOR SALE: 12 SIMMENTAL & Simmental-cross Black Angus cows, 5 Simmental-cross Black Angus bred heifers. Bred to registered Black Angus bull. Phone:(204)375-6658. HERD DISPERSAL 115 COWS Charolais, Charolais Angus X bred Charolais. Red & Black Angus bred Black Angus. Bulls also for sale. (204)732-2664 Please leave msg.

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6 PB SHORTHORN BRED heifers for sale. Due early to mid Feb. For more info phone Greg Tough (204)748-3136.

30 COWS WITH CALVES at foot, calves are 400lbs down to new born, cows in good condition. Phone (204)685-2899.

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REGISTERED BORDER COLLIE PUPS of top imported breeding. Parents working cattle & sheep, ready to go Oct 1st, $300. Phone Martin Penfold (204)722-2036 (Virden/Moosomin area)

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Maine-Anjou For Sale: 60 (+/-) Maine/Maine cross bred cows. Some with papers. Full health program. Start calving mid Feb. Reds & Blacks. (204)825-7449 mmt.lees@hotmail.com

4 SIMMENTAL CALVES & 4 Simmental heifers, calving Apr-Early May, 6 Simmental heifers calving Feb-Early Mar. Phone:(204)748-1366.

FOR SALE: BORDER COLLIE pups 8 wks old, some tri colours, males & females, out of working parents, $150. Call (204)873-2430.

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CENTRAL MANITOBA FARM LAND for sale by tender, 366.5-acres of prime farm land 2-mi west of Portage La Prairie, approx 3200-ft of Trans Canada Hwy & Railway frontage, close to water for irrigation, this land has grown all types of cereals/oil seeds & potatoes. Please contact Carl Burch Law Office for tender packages. Tender packages close at 2:00pm, Dec 07. Call (204)728-1818 or email burchlaw@mymts.net FARM SPECIALIST: COUNT ON GRANT TWEED, informed, professional assistance for sellers & buyers. www.granttweed.com Call (204)761-6884 anytime. Service with integrity. ORGANIC FARMLAND W/HOUSE. BEAUTIFUL treed large front yard, 1320-sq-ft house w/attached garage. Farm yard has 2 sheds & 7 granaries, includes all farm equipment, always shedded, hay, grasses, forage, cereals, oil seeds as produced. 240-acres owned, w/rental property is 500-acre operation, all land is certified organic. Call Norm, cell (204)990-8752 or home (204)755-3333.

REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Wanted GOOD QUALITY GRAIN & Cattle Farms wanted for Canadian & Overseas Clients. For a confidential meeting to discuss the possible sale of your farm or to talk about what is involved, telephone Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511 www.homelifepro.com or Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753, www.homelifepro.com Home Professional Realty Inc. WANTED: GRAIN & LIVESTOCK farms for both foreign & domestic buyers. Receiving calls weekly from buyers looking to farm & invest. Considering selling? Now is the time to discuss all options. Professional service & confidentiality guaranteed. Contact Rick Taylor:(204)867-7551, Homelife Home Professional Realty. www.homelifepro.com

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FARM LAND FOR SALE: 317.2-acs located just outside the town of Morris, MB (NW 27-04-01E & NW 30-04-01E) Property subject to lease ending Nov 2013. Interested parties to submit offer to Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvaldson LLP, Attn: Bryan Klein/ John Martens, 30-360 Main St, Wpg, MB R3C 4G1. On or Before 4:30pm on Nov 5, 2012. Offers must remain open for acceptance until 12:00pm on Nov 13th, 2012. No Commission will be paid by Vendors.

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PROPERTY: Parcel 1: SW¼ 26-4-8 WPM, in Manitoba, exc. M. and M. (being 160 cult. acres). Parcel 2: SE¼ 27-4-8 WPM, in Manitoba, exc. firstly: the Nly 1240’ of the Ely 875’ exc. secondly: M. and M. (being 137 cult. acres). Parcel 3: Nly. 1240’ of the Ely 875’of the SE ¼ 27-4-8 WPM, in Manitoba, exc. M. and M. (being 24.9 acre yardsite including buildings).

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