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Farmer complains about oil spills

Reston’s loonie lot offer A small town dreams of new residents

By Lorraine Stevenson

Carlyle Jorgensen wants the Manitoba government to do a better job regulating the oilpatch

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With about four million website hits and its phone ringing off the hook, the RM of Pipestone is reasonably assured of making a quick $24.

Posting 24 residential lots for sale at the price of one loonie apiece, with the dream of small-town living in Reston thrown in has hit a chord across the continent and even overseas, said Reeve Ross Tycoles.

Cheap lots is the door crasher, but the safety and serenity of a smaller town life is also part of the lure, he said. This region has jobs in its booming oil sector too.

“We’ve had a lot of interest out of Calgary and from larger centres like Toronto,” he said. “We’ve had calls out of the country, from the U.S and from overseas.”

Every one of the 24 serviced lots on offer was spoken for as of last week.

They’ll know later this month whether people are serious, the reeve said.

This isn’t the first time a Manitoba town has had See RESTON on page 6 »

Cromer farmer Carlyle Jorgensen wants the Manitoba government’s Petroleum Branch to do a better job forcing oil companies to clean up their spills like this one Jorgensen photographed in the RM of Wallace March 16. photo: carlyle jorgensen

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff /portage la prairie

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he provincial government is turning a blind eye to southwestern Manitoba oil-drilling companies dumping saltwater and oil in municipal ditches, a Cromer-area farmer says.

Carlyle Jorgensen, who farms near Cromer, told the Keystone Agricultural Producers meeting here last week the government is fearful of discouraging oil well development in the province.

“From December (2011) until now I have reported three spills myself to the Petroleum Branch,” Jorgensen told reporters Oct. 25 on the sidelines of the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ General Council meeting.

At least one spill earlier this year along a gravel road in the RM of Wallace, was intentional, Jorgensen said.

“The pictures (taken March 16) show no way was this an accident,” he said. “You can see where the valve was cracked and where it pooled up quite a bit and then where they drove along the edge of the ditch and you can see where the oil ran.”

Jorgensen alleges the driver of a tanker hauling 20 to 30 barrels of saltwater and oil deliberately dumped it in the ditch to avoid paying to dispose of it properly in a nearby disposal well.

Jorgensen said he reported the spill to the Manitoba government’s Petroleum Branch Feb. 29. The branch did nothing, See OIL SPILL on page 6 »

According to Carlyle Jorgensen the Manitoba government’s Petroleum Branch isn’t doing enough to get oil companies to clean up spills. photo: allan dawson

CRISIS: Can the independent hog farmer survive? » PAGE 3

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on the lighter side

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Headless ladybug surfaces in Montana

Dogs or Donkeys?

Producers weigh in on guardian animals

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New genus can pull its head into its throat Reuters

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CROPS Too hot for canola Less seed, lower oil content in 2012 crop

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WORLD British bakers on the prowl Local wheat fails to meet minimum standards

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leepy Hollow has its headless horseman and now Montana has a headless ladybug.

T h e n e w l y d i s c ov e re d insect tucks its head into its throat — making it not only a new species but an entirely new genus, or larger classification of plants and animals.

Ross Winton captured the insect in 2009 in traps he set in a sand dune while an entomology graduate student at Montana State University.

Wi n t o n , n ow a w i l d l i f e technician in Idaho, at first thought he had parts of an ant but then discovered the bug can hide its head, much like a turtle ducking into its shell.

Winton sent his discovery to scientists in Australia working on this group of insects and the headless ladybug was formally described in a recent issue of the peerreviewed journal Systemic Entomology.

Just two specimens of the tan, pinhead-sized ladybugs,

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also known as ladybird beetles, have ever been collected, a male in Montana and a female in Idaho, scientists said, making it the rarest species in the United States.

The insect, with the proposed common name “Winton’s Ladybird Beetle,” may prey on aphids and other plant pests.

Montana State University entomologist Michael Ivie said it was rare to discover a new beetle in the United

States and rarer still to uncover a completely new genus. The discovery is no small accomplishment considering the bug is the size and colour of a grain of sand, he added.

He said it was unclear why the beetle slips its head into a tube in its midsection.

“It’s a whole new kind of ladybug. Whatever this does, it is very specialized. It’s quite the exciting little beast,” Ivie said.

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Province urges caution to avoid exposure to hantavirus The virus has recently claimed another victim MANITOBA GOVERNMENT RELEASE

Manitoba Public Health is urging Manitobans to use caution when working around or cleaning out areas where it appears that mice are living.

Hantavirus infection, also known as hanta virus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), is a very rare viral disease which can be fatal. The virus is found in urine, feces and saliva of infected deer mice.

There have been four lab-confirmed cases of HPS in Manitoba since 1999 when record-keeping began in the province. Manitoba Health has confirmed a recent death from complications due to HPS. This is the first recorded death in Manitoba from HPS since 2000.

Hantavirus infection usually occurs when people are working in an enclosed space and breathe in the airborne virus. Early symptoms of hantavirus infection include fever and muscle aches, possibly with chills, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and cough, which progresses to respiratory illness. These symptoms develop within one to six weeks after exposure to deer mouse excreta.

Although there is no specific treatment for HPS, chances for recovery are better if medical attention is sought early.

People are advised to be very careful when they are involved in activities which may put them in contact with rodents or their droppings. The best defence against hantavirus is to avoid disturbing areas of rodent infestation including nests and droppings. Other recommended precautions include: • Sealing up homes and cabins so mice can’t enter; • Airing out enclosed areas or closedup buildings as much as possible before entering; • Wearing gloves and appropriate masks when cleaning up nests, droppings and areas that may be contaminated with the virus; • Dampening areas contaminated with mouse droppings with bleach disinfectant and removing droppings with a damp mop or cloth to reduce the chance the virus may become airborne (not vacuuming or sweeping); • Ensuring handwashing takes place after cleanup is complete; • Putting hay, wood and compost piles as far as possible from homes; • Cleaning up trash and junk piles; and • Not leaving pet food and water where mice can get to it.

Manitoba’s independent hog farmers will disappear Producer George Matheson says they need $10 more a hog from processors otherwise only vertical integrators will survive

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF / PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE

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anitoba’s independent hog farmers, including the Hutterite Brethren, won’t survive unless Canadian processors boost prices $10 a hog, says George Matheson, a Stonewall hog producer.

“To be quite frank, I think the independent (hog) producer in this country is dying a slow death,” he told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ General Council meeting Oct. 25.

Matheson, who is also a Manitoba Pork Council director, stressed his comments reflected his own opinion and not necessarily the council’s.

“What I think will happen is (losses) will slowly grind the independent producer in Western Canada to the point of non-existence,” he told reporters later.

Only vertically integrated operations, such as HyLife, which raise and process their own hogs will survive, Matheson said. In the meantime, Maple Leaf in Brandon, which only owns 20 per cent of the hogs it kills, will have to look further afield for its supply or raise more hogs itself. Producers in Saskatchewan and Alberta are going out of business too, he said.

He’s not holding out for government support.

“I think the government is going to look at this industry and say ‘you’ve got to fix yourselves,’” Matheson said. “My solution for that would be the processors and the producers getting together and making sure this value chain works for everyone.”

Farmers are rejecting short-term fixes such as cash advances or new loans because they have enough debt, Matheson said.

He said he was dismayed to hear no long-term solutions presented at the annual Canadian Pork Council meeting and “no effort to think outside the box.”

Matheson suggested slapping a levy on imported U.S. pork, which accounts for 25 per cent of Canadian consumption.

“Maybe we could slow that flow down to allow our own processors to have a little more profitability and hopefully they’d dig into their pockets and pass that on to the producer so that we have a value chain that works,” he said.

He noted the U.S. levies Canadian pork so it should work both ways, Matheson said.

A combination of factors, including the high Canadian dollar, high grain

Stonewall hog farmer George Matheson told KAP’s General Council meeting last week Manitoba’s independent hog producers won’t survive unless processors pay them $10 a head more. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

prices, low hog prices and U.S. countryof-origin labelling laws, are why hog producers are losing money.

American producers are losing money too, but not as much, Matheson said.

“They will recover sooner,” he said.

“Ultimately we sell to the same markets and it will slowly squeeze us out of business.”

Matheson said when he started producing hogs in 1982 there was more local competition. His hogs were sold through a single-desk marketing board on a Dutch auction.

“The bidders were six small processors on Marion (Street in Winnipeg) and it was a made-in-Manitoba price,” he said. “Because we have such a limit of processors in this country we take the U.S. national price, less the freight to get it down there.”

But is the issue a lack of local competition or that the U.S. has a competitive advantage? Notwithstanding COOL, the North American market is largely integrated with hog and grain prices arbitraging.

Perhaps Manitobans shouldn’t be producing hogs? “Well there are a lot of producers who felt that way and they are out of business,” Matheson said.

Would prohibiting processors from owning hogs and restoring the single desk help? One would think so, Matheson said, but he noted Ontario had single-desk selling until a couple of years ago and far fewer integrators and its producers are struggling too.

“I think the independent (hog) producer in this country is dying a slow death.”

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Quebec farmers are doing better thanks to a $28-a-pig subsidy program, Matheson said. Since Quebec doesn’t export pork to the United States, the Quebec subsidy hasn’t triggered trade action, he said.

Supply management isn’t an option either, he said. Many pork parts must be exported because they aren’t consumed domestically. Supply managed would increase retail pork prices and consumers would eat beef, Matheson said.

Although Matheson runs a small farrow-to-finish, straw-based hog operation, he is vertically integrated. Since 2005 he has been selling his pork processed at nearby St. Laurent directly to about 200 customers.

“It’s the only reason I’m still producing hogs today,” Matheson said.

“We’re only a half hour drive from downtown Winnipeg.

“It works for us but it won’t work for everyone.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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OPINION/EDITORIAL

A new plan is needed

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he description of Big Sky Farms Inc. circulated by the receiver trying to find a buyer for the failing hog production company’s assets is appropriately labelled a “teaser.”

The Humboldt, Sask. business is the second-largest hog-producing company in Canada with capacity to produce up to one million hogs annually. We are told it is one of the “most efficient and cost-effective hog Laura Rance producers” on a global basis, it has strong Editor operations relative to its industry peers, it has loyal employees (who are being paid bonuses of up to $150,000 as an incentive to remain with the company until its future is decided), it has dependent customer relationships, is strategically located near to feed grain supplies and it offers a vertically integrated infrastructure encompassing genetics, feed milling, transportation and production.

Sounds like a winner. The company’s EBIDTA since 2007, the last time it was restructured, has ranged from 16.6 per cent (2007) to minus 6.1 per cent (2010) for a five-year average of 6.2 per cent. Even in 2012, the year of its demise, Big Sky was expected to pull in EBIDTA of 6.9 per cent.

So why was it pushed into receivership?

“During the summer of 2012 extraordinary market forces caused a sudden and severe downturn in North American hog prices and a significant increase in feed grain prices due to severe drought conditions in the U.S. and these events severely strained the liquidity of hog producers. Big Sky was not immune from these market forces,” the receiver’s documents say.

Put simply, it ran out of cash.

The story behind Puratone’s collapse in Manitoba along with dozens of other Manitoba hog producers who have liquidated their herds and closed their barns, probably for good, is similar.

Yet we continue to hear how this industry is efficient and cost effective, ironically, often in the same sentence as a request for government to prop it up once again, so it can continue to careen from one crisis to the next — being efficient and cost effective.

It is time to set the record straight. The hog production model we use in this country is capable of producing a lot of pigs, it employs a lot of people, it is even capable of producing large cash flow, but it cannot be described as efficient and cost effective.

Not when it can’t afford to buy feed due to disruptions caused by a relatively common occurrence in agriculture, such as a drought. Not when it fails to meet modern animal welfare concerns and not when the full environmental costs are factored in.

It was refreshing to see one of the industry’s own acknowledge last week there are structural problems weighing on the sector that must be fixed if Canada is to continue to have independent hog producers.

Stonewall farmer George Matheson isn’t the first to observe the industry needs a new plan, but up until now, the ones making those observations were from outside the sector.

Judging from their unwillingness to meet the industry’s requests for more aid, the federal and provincial governments have come to the same conclusion.

The industry needs to go back to the drawing board and come up with a long-term strategy that lays to rest the assumptions — a low Canadian dollar, cheap feed and lax environmental rules, and an endless supply of cheap labour — that led it into the mess it is in today. It needs to incorporate the new realities such as animal welfare and unfriendly policy environments, such as the Manitoba government’s moratorium on new hog barn construction.

We have never defended that edict as good policy. At best, it was a cop-out, pandering to the poorly informed urban voter. But that said, if and when new hog barns are built in this province, there is an opportunity to incorporate the new thinking around barn and system design.

If George Matheson is correct, this new model needs to find at least $10 a hog more for producers, either from processors or in production costs, if the Canadian sector is to remain competitive globally.

Throwing a levy on to pork imports is a non-starter. A better approach is to encourage consumers to read their labels of origin and support local producers. The record shows they will.

The current model is pushing processors into the hog production business and that fully integrated model may emerge as the dominant force for exports. But if things keep going the way they are, it will be only a few years before they too are swallowed up by competitors with deeper pockets and better ability to withstand volatile market swings.

Domestically, there may still be room for independent producers willing to think differently about systems that require a lower capital cost and higher levels of management.

It’s worth remembering that hogs were once known as the mortgage breakers on Manitoba farms, not the mortgage makers. laura@fbcpublishing.com

The view from the hog barn The hog value chain is broken and there is no plan to fix it George Matheson, Stonewall pork producer who sells directly to consumers gave his view of the hog sector at the KAP General Council meeting in Portage Oct. 25.

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he futures say that it’s going to be deep into 2013 that we’re going to remain in the red. Short term there is very little relief for us. Very few producers are interested in any type of advance payment. They’ve got enough debt. They’re probably going to leave rather than take on something like that. The government has told us that there will be absolutely no ad hoc payments whatsoever.

So for the next 12 months things don’t look very good at all.

Long term I’m disappointed to say... there’s no plan whatsoever for the industry long term.

I’m going to give you my view on what I think needs to be done long term.

And Butch (Harder) I appreciate your comments earlier today about this industry and how broken it is. It is absolutely broken, and to me the biggest problem is the value chain is not working. It hasn’t worked for quite a while.

We are at a definite disadvantage to the U.S. producer.

I would say we’re at a $10-a-hog deficit to the U.S. producer. That doesn’t sound like very much. But if you take even a modest farm today producing 10,000 hogs times by 10 is $100,000 you’re behind your U.S. counterpart in one year. The exchange rate has been behind quite awhile. So if this sort of thing goes on for five years as a producer you’re down a half-million (dollars) and

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really you are out of the game. You’re not going to compete with your American competitor at all.

As far as the exchange rates there doesn’t look to be any relief in the near future. The buck is going to stay about even. If it was in the ’90s that would probably make up the difference because we are paid in American bucks.

What I feel needs to happen is the processor, if he wants an independent producer in this country, he’s got to sit down with reps from the producers and they’ve got to come up with a way this $10 can be paid to the producer so they can continue to exist. I don’t know if that can be done at all or not.

There’s 25 per cent of Canadian consumption coming in from the U.S. If we could put a levy against that pork, slow it down perhaps, that would give the processors an opportunity to pay the producer more.

I’ll tell you, to be quite honest, I think the processor can dig a little deeper into his pockets and pay the producer and hopefully between different things we can make up that $10 difference.

Otherwise, to be quite frank, I think the independent producer in this country is dying a slow death. They are halfway finished. If we cannot be competitive with the U.S. we’re finished, other than vertical integrators — the HyLifes, the Maple Leafs, because nobody (independent) is going to see pigs produced in this country. Olymel is interested in Big Sky. They’re going to ensure their production.

People want to know how I’m staying in.

In a way I’m a vertical integrator — a flea on the back of a dog really, the dog being HyLife or Maple Leaf. That’s how I am continuing to be a pork producer in this country. As an independent producer, things do not look very good until there are changes to that value chain.

October 28, 1954 What’s taken for granted on farms today was still a novelty for many in the early 1950s. Our Oct. 28, 1954 issue carried this ad from the Manitoba Power Commission, celebrating the 100,000th electrical meter installed on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. A. Weerts at Ochre River.

“Just nine years ago, only one Manitoba farm in every 50 was served by electricity; today, 90 per cent of all Manitoba farms are able to take advantage of modern electrical service,” said Premier D.L. Campbell at the ceremony on the Weerts farm.

The issue also noted the last steam engine to leave Vancouver on the run to Montreal, the fleet having been fully replaced by diesels.

Another story noted that “while high-level antibiotic feeding has become the wonder care for control of disease in poultry flocks,” in general “it is only good practice where disease has to be dealt with.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

Sharing business can foster local shopping Gift cards, local currencies and “disloyalty” cards can all be used to build businesses and jobs where you live

By Bruce Stewart Columnist | Troy Media

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here’s a wave of business building going on around the developed world, and it doesn’t require a government program to make it happen.

It just requires the businesses in a community to get together and agree on one thing: to jointly sponsor a community gift card, a local currency, or both.

The community gift card is the easiest to institute. Any financial institution can run it for the community.

Why not use it, and put the money to develop a local system into something else?

Unlike a stored value card or gift card for a single store, the community gift cards are good with all participating merchants. Making them reloadable — with some benefit associated with their use (perhaps a program like, “we’ll add five cents for every $1 you put on the card,”) gets people shopping locally with the participants.

For the merchants, these look like cash-type transactions — certainly no worse than accepting debit cards.

A local gift card program strengthens every business that takes part, because it makes shopping in the neighbourhood worthwhile. It also makes new business ventures in the neighbourhood pick up an immediate audience, simply by being part of the program from the day they open their doors.

Chattanooga, Tennessee, has used this to revitalize its downtown, which had seen most businesses close due to competition from the highway strips on the outskirts of that city. Dane County, Wisconsin (whose main centre is the state capital, Madison) has a countywide program open to local businesses — those that are owned and operated by locals — and a “Buy Dane” card system.

Both have the same idea: money that flows into the till of a locally owned business stays in the community and is used to build other businesses (through pur-

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Expense to farmers considered inconsequential Regarding the opinion piece by Ronald Doering in the Oct. 25 Manitoba Co-operator, the statement “Adventitious presence does not meet the definition of an (adulterating) ingredient (and therefore)... Health Canada... would not favour a “contains” or “may contain” (food label) statement,” this is a corporate-friendly, citizenunfriendly, double-standard con job!

Note how the soy in wheat admixture is justified. “Because of farm-

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chases) locally rather than flowing into the till of a major retail chain that ends up leaving the community.

But it’s not just gift cards or pre-loaded debit card technology, or smartphone applications, that are delivering results – which can be dramatic.

Brixton has been a poverty-stricken, down-at-the-heels borough of London, England for years. Few Londoners chose to go to Brixton if they could avoid it.

Many of Brixton’s more successful citizens — who included former British prime minister Sir John Major (1990-97) — made their fortunes elsewhere, as opposed to within the community.

Brixton decided a few years ago to fight back, and created a local currency, called the Brixton pound.

Today, people who work in Brixton often get their choice of being paid in Brixton pounds or Bank of England pounds. (A majority now choose Brixton pounds.) The two can be exchanged at banks in Brixton. Most

businesses in Brixton accept both kinds of currency.

Savings in Brixton pounds are being used to make loans to build and expand enterprises located in Brixton. This has formed a vital pool of capital for startups in a poor area. As with gift cards, businesses accepting Brixton pounds tend to find suppliers for their needs which are also in Brixton — and are unabashed about letting the Brixton council know their needs.

Today, Londoners flock to Brixton, spending money in its interesting shops on cleaned-up streets. Yet many of the businesses that were formed are aimed at serving local residents.

Bristol, also in the U.K., has recently copied the Brixton pound with its Bristol pound — and the city government has made it clear that the Bristol pound is welcomed for paying local civic fees and taxes.

Communities looking to develop local businesses might couple one

other proven idea to the idea of local payment systems: the “disloyalty” card.

This idea came from seven independent coffee shops in Toronto, trying to compete with the big chains. The disloyalty card required a patron to have one cup of coffee at each of the seven, deliberately giving each of them business. At the end, the shop that they got their card from originally gave them a free cup — and they could then start again.

All seven coffee shops have added either additional outlets or major expansions and renovations since starting the program. It has built everyone’s business — by sharing.

If stores are going dark on a neighbourhood shopping street, try local spending power with one of these ideas to revitalize it — and create jobs in the community as well.

ing operations with common storage facilities, and shared harvesting and transportation equipment, most wheat products contain detectable levels of soy... and largely unavoidable with today’s agricultural systems.”

Whoa! “Wheat products” are finished goods, not farmer production.

Truthfully, what proportion of the commingling arises prior to the farm gate compared to after, when such a slam-the-farmer statement is allowed in this farmer-focused paper? Moreover, whose inefficiencies are externalized here?

Remember, who was first fingered regarding GMO Triffid flax contamination? Conversely, who is protected when small-scale farmers with loose housing, grass-fed beef or small-scale abattoirs that do not carry the contamination risks of large processors, but all must meet the regulations of large ones? Or urban dwellers may not keep a few chickens while a list of exotic corporate-imported species are OK? Before strict contamination standards such as with Triffid flax existed, before organic canola was known to be “adventitiously” adulterated with GMO canola and before GMO wheat was even on the public’s radar, the Rosser Pool local advanced a resolution asking the Pool to start segregating canola in order for non-GMO farmers to collect the non-GMO canola premium.

During debate, MPE CEO Gord Cummins stated quite emphatically segregation was not commercially feasable within the Pool’s commercial system.

Then, when Monsanto’s GMO wheat was met with resistence, many a corporate stooge, with a straight face as if the cat was still in the bag, claimed segregation was possible. Expense to farmers, not unlike the Triffid situation, was inconsequential.

Please, would greater diligence be practised before farmers are so thoughtlessly swept under the table?

1,333 head of cattle were wasted, and some of those wasted animals could have been ones that I raised.

As a rancher I have a social contract with my animals. I provide feed, water and shelter to them and in turn, they provide their young to feed Canadians. As part of the contract I am to be humane to them, not to abuse them or mistreat them, to care for them if they are ill, to provide assistance if they need it during birth and above all, to ensure their young are cared for and that their short lives are not wasted.

Now through an act of man’s greed these some 1,333 lives were wasted.

These were living beings that gave their lives to nurture us — not to be dumped as garbage into landfills.

We have a moral responsibility to ensure we do not mistreat or waste these animals. They deserve better.

Canadians must get involved and demand accountability for this wanton waste and demand our food system be restructured so that no more XLs occur. Write your MLA, MPP, MP and county and city councillors and demand change — and demand to be part of that change. And yes, please light a candle and place it in your window for those 1,333 wasted lives.

Sincerely, Eduard Hiebert St. Francois, Man.

Wasted meat means wasted lives On the morning of October 22, I woke up, made coffee and turned on the TV to my favourite news channel.

The first thing I saw was the story on the landfill at Brooks, Alberta and the truckloads of meat being dumped and buried there.

My first reaction was shock as to what a million pounds of beef is in terms of volume. Then it brought a tear to my eyes as I realized what it really meant. It meant that nearly

Troy Media columnist Bruce Stewart is a management consultant located in Toronto.

Neil Peacock NFU board member Sexsmith, Alta.

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a publicity coup for selling $1 lots. Rossburn did the same thing in 1993, when it placed an ad in the Toronto Sun. Even in those pre-digital days, word spread like wildfire and they had tens of thousands of inquiries, recalls Rossburn Mayor Shirley Kalyniuk.

“It was a very exciting time for us,” she recalls. Nearly 200 families visited Rossburn and they actually had 16 families move in for a while. Today six families who were part of that micromigration still live there.

But they never had any takers on nine lots available for a buck.

Rossburn couldn’t afford the costs to extend Hydro and water and sewer to them in those days, said Kalyniuk.

They’ve since forked over about $100,000 to service them. But the lots remain unsold to this day.

“It didn’t work for us,” she said, adding that they’re still trying to figure new ways to market the properties. Even if they do sell them, however, it will take years to recoup the investment they’ve made to service them.

That’s her caution to other municipalities considering the cheap lot tactic, she added.

“It takes a long time to recoup that money if you’re selling your lots that cheaply. ” But the RM of Pipestone is in a different position financially, said Tycoles.

“We’re fortunate to have oil royalties and we’ve put them back into doing this,” he said.

“We’ve paid for it and taxation will cover the services that these people want.”

The plan is to develop and service 13 additional lots that will become available in nearby Cromer next spring, he added.

Those wanting to qualify for the $1 lot deal must submit a

written offer and a $1,000 deposit. They then have 90 days to build a foundation and 12 months to complete construction of their home. If they can do that, they’ll get a $990 refund on their $1,000 deposit.

That’s to keep the speculators out, said Tycoles. “We’re clear up front on what this is and what you’ve got to do,” he said.

Tycoles said the RM wants something to show after the oil boom, which is running in high gear on top of some of the largest oil reserves in the province, comes to its inevitable end. The region badly needs long-term population stabilization and growth, he said.

“Our long-term plan is to attract more people. The longterm hope is that when the oil industry leaves we will have a good municipality with a good solid base.” lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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Chambers, who farmed certified seed and beef cattle in the Interlake but later retired to his birthplace near Belmont, Man., was active in producer organizations, municipal politics and cooperatives. He also served as a consultant for government and non-government organizations, including AAFC, Ducks Unlimited, as an international development specialist in Sudan, an agricultural representative for Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, and assistant director of the Agricultural Diploma program at the University of Manitoba. Chambers has been a contributing editor to Grainews and was frequently called upon as a guest speaker.

“Throughout his entire life, Allan was an enthusiastic leader who cared deeply and worked hard for the well-being of his community and the agricultural industry,” said Don Flaten, a soil scientist with the University of Manitoba.

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he said, so two or three weeks later Jorgensen reported it to Wallace Reeve Don Neufeld.

Eventually a provincial environmental officer inspected the scene and samples confirmed a saltwater and oil spill, Jorgensen said. According to Jorgensen the officer said he’d report the incident but remedial action was up to the Petroleum Branch.

“The last time the inspector was out he said, ‘you’re right it was saltwater because the grass isn’t growing in the ditch,” Jorgensen said. “But he says, ‘you know, it looks like Mother Nature is taking care of it so we’ll just leave it like that.’”

Last December Jorgensen said he reported a smaller spill, which was likely accidental. The Petroleum Branch dispatched a vacuum truck to clean it up and planned to bill the suspected offending firm. But the company refused saying there was no proof it was responsible, he said.

“There needs to be a separate department policing this because the Petroleum Branch is for oil... The fear is the oil companies will go somewhere else.”

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“The Petroleum Branch was stuck with that bill so our tax dollars went to clean (the company’s) spill up,” he said.

According to Jorgensen, oil companies are also failing to clean up spills on agricultural land. Oil was spilled from a well on land he rents from his mother, he said.

“The company took a couple of buckets of black dirt and threw it on top and said it’s cleaned up,” Jorgensen said.

“The Petroleum Branch signed off on it. Good enough. So here I am out there this fall subsoiling it trying to get it to produce and hoping the snow will carry the salts and oil down and I’ll get some land producing again.”

Jorgensen said he knows of land in the area contaminated with saltwater and oil in the 1950s that’s still infertile.

“There needs to be a separate department policing this because the Petroleum Branch is for oil... ,” he said. “The fear is the oil companies will go somewhere else.”

Jo r g e n s e n s u g g e s t s t h e Petroleum Branch not issue new oil well licences until a spill is cleaned up. That would put more pressure on companies collectively to police themselves, he said.

Companies, not taxpayers, should pay for cleanups, he added.

“There should be a checkoff for the oil companies just like KAP has,” Jorgensen said. “Let’s put a dollar from every barrel into a fund and that fund goes to clean up the oil.”

A response from the Manitoba government wasn’t available by press time. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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No new funding for hog producers The province and Ottawa urge hog farmers to use AgriInvest and AgriStability

By Shannon Vanraes co-operator staff

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og producers won’t be getting any additional government help.

We e k s o f t a l k s b e t w e e n Ottawa, the provinces, and producer representatives have ended with producers being told to make use of existing support programs.

“I was pretty disappointed to see that,” said Karl Kynoch, Manitoba Pork Council chairman. “This shows us that government is not taking the hog industry seriously.”

Producer organizations were asking for as much as $150 million in bridge financing to cope after the drought in the U.S. Midwest sent feed prices soaring. That caused prices to plunge as producers on both sides of the bord e r e m p t i e d t h e i r b a r n s.

Manitoba, a major producer of weanlings was hit especially

City charged for releasing sewage into Red River over seven-week period They’re not blaming farmers for this one The provincial government has charged the City of Winnipeg for releasing “a large amount” of partially treated sewage into the Red River a year ago.

The release of the effluent, which had high levels of fecal coliform and E. coli, began on Oct. 7, 2011 and lasted for seven weeks. The Winnipeg Free Press reported that for four of those weeks, the facility was releasing 50 million to 60 million litres of partly treated sewage each day.

The problems began when a biological sewage treatment process at the South End Water Pollution Control Centre failed for reasons that have not been determined. However, city engineers failed to notify the province until Nov. 1. The tardy reporting prompted one of the charges laid under the Environment Act, along with two others for “releasing or allowing a pollutant to be released.”

Each charge carries a potential fine of up to $500,000, the Free Press reported.

An independent review of the incident found “a variety of deficiencies, or gaps, in city systems, protocols and infrastructure,” and has recommended numerous technical changes.

Earlier this year, the province amended the city’s Environment Act licence, requiring the South End Water Pollution Control Centre be replaced with a new stateof-the-art sewage treatment facility.

hard, as American demand for piglets dried up.

Market conditions are expected to improve in the spring, but that will be too late for many, said Kynoch. Both the province and Ottawa are urging hog farmers to tap their AgriInvest accounts for immediate assistance and request an AgriStability interim payment.

That doesn’t cut it, according to Kynoch.

“A couple of dollars a pig when you’re losing $30 to $50 really doesn’t do much,” he said, adding successive poor years mean some producers don’t have adequate reference margins to make use of the programs at all.

T h a t’s e x a c t l y w h a t h o g farmers are telling Keystone Agricultural Producers.

“Producers that have been contacting us at KAP are saying these programs are not going to be adequate,” said KAP president Doug Chorney.

Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Ron Kostyshyn said he will continue to work to find ways to support pork producers in the short term.

“We are in consultation with the Manitoba Pork Council and obviously with the financial institutions that are a part of this as well,” he said.

“Somehow the partnership needs to develop and shed new light as we move forward.”

While acknowledging not every producer is in the same “breadbasket” when it comes to existing programs, Kostyshyn said farmers must look to them first.

“This is the opportunity for them to... harness these dollars,” he said.

Government is working with producer groups that deliver cash advances under the Advance Payments Program to ensure that applications are processed quickly, and

Agr iculture and Agr i-Food Canada will adjust the Hog Industry Loan Loss Reserve Program to ensure greater flexibility in dealing with the current liquidity crisis.

Program terms have been adjusted, allowing lenders to extend interest-only payment periods. As well, a Hog Industry Task Team, which includes the Canadian Pork Council, pork processors and producers, will attempt to ensure producers are making “full use of existing programs.”

But unless the financial needs of distressed producers are met, many will exit the industry, said the head of the Canadian Pork Council. “ We need to have shortterm actions now to maintain a critical mass of the industry and to continue to make a significant contribution to Canada’s economy,” said JeanGuy Vincent.

If there is any silver lining to

“A couple of dollars a pig when you’re losing $30 to $50 really doesn’t do much.”

Karl Kynoch

the decision, Kynoch said it’s that producers now know what to expect from government.

“That does allow a producer to make a decision... whether t o s h u t d ow n t h e i r b a r n , or to carry on and try to get through,” he said.

In 2011, Canada exported $3.6 billion worth of pork products and hogs to 140 different countries. In Manitoba, 13,000 jobs are tied to the pork industry. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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WHAT’S UP

THE PRAIRIE SKY AT ITS BEST

Please forward your agricultural events to daveb@fbcpublish ing.com or call 204-944-5762.

Nov. 1: Manitoba Beef Producers District 4 meeting, 6 p.m., Ukrainian Home, 209 Main St. N., Vita. For more info call 1-800-772-0458 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.

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Nov. 3: Manitoba Sheep Association district meeting, 1 p.m., Parkland Crossing, 229 Whitmore, Dauphin. For more info call 204421-9434 or email mb@mbsheep. ca.

Nov. 6: Beef nutrition workshop, 7 p.m., SunGro Centre, 360 Community Lane, Beausejour. For more info call MAFRI at 204-2686094.

Nov. 6: Beef nutrition workshop, 7 p.m., SunGro Centre, 360 Community Lane, Beausejour. For more info call MAFRI at 204-2686094.

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 204-4219434 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/faculties/ management/ti.

Nov. 12: Manitoba Beef Producers District 6 meeting, 6 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion, 291 Assiniboine St. W., Oak Lake. For more info call 1-800-772-0458 or email info@ mbbeef.ca.

Nov. 12-15: Canadian Weed Science Society annual meeting, Fairmont Hotel, 2 Lombard Place, Winnipeg. For more info call 204-753-2915 or visit www.weedscience.ca.

Nov. 13: Manitoba Beef Producers District 1 meeting, 6 p.m., Community Hall, Medora.

Nov. 13: Manitoba Sheep Association district meeting, 7:30 p.m., Superstore, 130 Hwy. 12 N., Steinbach. For more info call 204-421-9434 or email mb@ mbsheep.ca.

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Farmers complain about problems delivering grain to CWB

CWB vice-president of grain procurement Gord Flaten says it’s mostly just growing pains and the system will work

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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ome grain handlers are refusing to accept CWB grain deliveries and promising better grades to farmers who bypass the new voluntary board, farmers said during a recent conference call with CWB officials Oct. 17.

During the conference-call meeting with more than 3,200 farmers, an Alberta producer (who identified himself only as John) said elevator employees in Medicine Hat, Stettler and Oyen, Alta., told him they would not be accepting CWB grain.

“I’d like to deliver my grain through the Canadian Wheat Board but if I can’t deliver it, I don’t have any choice,” said John.

“They’re all saying the same

“I’d like to deliver my grain through the Canadian Wheat Board but if I can’t deliver it I don’t have any choice you know.”

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JOHN FROM ALBERTA

thing: ‘We’ve got lots of sales for our own grain so why would we take wheat board grain in when we don’t have rail cars for it right now?’”

Dual-market skeptics predicted these kinds of issues would surface when the new company relies on competitors to handle its grain.

A Saskatchewan farmer named Carl said be went to a Viterra and Pioneer elevator and was told they couldn’t accept CWB

it out of proportion either,” he said. “There are lots of farmers getting their contracts signed and they’re making their deliveries, and things are going to work well.”

grain because the CWB hadn’t set a basis. Gord Flaten, the CWB’s vice-president of grain procurement, responded that grain companies, not the CWB, set elevation and freight charges.

In a later interview, Flaten said he has previously heard similar complaints, and acknowledged that, in some cases, companies are favouring their own grain.

“We recognize there’s an issue out there at a number of elevators, but I also don’t want to blow

In another example, a farmer from Wawanesa, Man., said an elevator manager told him he’d get a better grade and price if he sold to him instead of the CWB. Flaten noted farmers can still get an official grade from the Canadian Grain Commission. He also stressed that farmers can shop their CWB pooled grain around to different companies to get the best deal on grades, freight and elevation.

The basis between different elevators handling CWB grain has varied by as much as $8 a tonne, but farmers can get help

with this issue by contacting the new CWB, said Flaten.

“In fact we really want farmers to phone us so we can share that information,” he said. “That’s one of the helpful roles we can play — being a good source of information on things like that, that’s going to help farmers get a better deal.”

Sometimes grain companies won’t want to handle CWB grain, but another company will because it makes them money, Flaten said.

“It worked well for decades (under the monopoly) for handling companies to handle CWB tonnes,” he said. “It can still work well.”

Nevertheless, the CWB is thinking about buying some of its own handling facilities. “But it’s not likely something we’ll do this winter,” Flaten said.

More than 1,000 early CWB pool contracts have been delivered and 25 per cent of that grain has been moved, he added.

“We have a really good sales book right now all the way through Christmas and beyond so we are going to be moving a lot of grain,” he said. “There are going to be delivery opportunities coming up for sure.”

Some of farmers’ concerns stem from not being able to get a firm commitment on when they’ll be able to deliver, Flaten said. In the past, farmers signing a CWB contract knew when they’d deliver during a three- to four-month period. But as was the case during the monopoly, the CWB will supply grain to its customers throughout the crop year and that means some farmers will be delivering grain later.

But Flaten stressed that anyone in the pool will be able to deliver their grain before the end of the crop year. Farmers will also be paid storage of 3.3 cents per tonne per day starting Feb. 1.

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Later this crop year the CWB will explore marketing pulse crops, president and CEO Ian White said.

The CWB already has a canola pool, and 45 elevators across the West have agreed to take delivery of canola for the company. But more would be welcome, Flaten added.

“I think Year 1 is a bit of a test to see what level of interest is out there,” he said. “The other thing with canola, the yields are lower than what farmers expected. So they may have pre-sold a greater portion of their crop than they realized.”

The CWB has no immediate plans to sell itself to another grain company, White said.

“Our plan is to find ways of having farmers as shareholders and maybe some other companies as shareholders as well and looking for sources of capital,” he said.

“We aren’t out there necessarily just to make profits from marketing grain, we’re out there to make sure farmers have the best contracting options they possibly can and provide some additional competition in this marketplace, which has been changed now and will be forever.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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LIVESTOCK MARKETS Cattle Prices Winnipeg

October 26, 2012

Fall calf run finally in full swing

Steers & Heifers — D1, 2 Cows 56.00 - 64.00 D3 Cows 52.00 - 58.00 Bulls 70.00 - 78.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.)

117.00 - 122.75 (801-900 lbs.)

115.00 - 128.00 (701-800 lbs.)

125.00 - 137.00 (601-700 lbs.)

135.00 - 150.00 (501-600 lbs.)

155.00 - 172.00 (401-500 lbs.)

165.00 - 183.00 Heifers (901+ lbs.)

108.00 - 177.00 (801-900 lbs.)

115.00 - 122.50 (701-800 lbs.)

117.00 - 128.00 (601-700 lbs.)

120.00 - 130.00 (501-600 lbs.)

130.00 - 150.00 (401-500 lbs.)

135.00 - 158.00

Heifers

Alberta South $ 110.00 - 110.00 — 60.00 - 71.00 50.00 - 64.00 — $ 119.00 - 131.00 125.00 - 137.00 130.00 - 145.00 137.00 - 152.00 145.00 - 171.00 164.00 - 192.00 $ 110.00 - 123.00 116.00 - 127.00 120.00 - 131.00 125.00 - 141.00 131.00 - 149.00 141.00 - 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 26, 2012) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change October 2012 125.75 -0.47 December 2012 125.65 -2.40 February 2013 129.58 -1.84 April 2013 133.73 -1.54 June 2013 130.43 -1.22 August 2013 130.38 -1.14 Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

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

After a slow start it could continue into November

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Ontario $ 94.08 - 117.68 101.21 - 115.98 50.99 - 69.29 50.99 - 69.29 — $ 119.09 - 133.20 114.95 - 140.26 123.21 - 147.01 138.89 - 159.64 143.63 - 175.14 151.11 - 187.16 $ 108.48 - 124.08 115.83 - 129.88 118.95 - 134.55 121.12 - 144.71 131.55 - 154.23 134.23 - 166.72

Close 145.30 146.05 147.98 150.43 152.00 153.30

Change -1.55 -3.07 -2.67 -2.34 -2.35 -2.17

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending October 20, 2012 34,922 13,873 21,049 21,049 634,000

Previous Year­ 57,223 15,441 41,782 21,049 655,000

Week Ending October 20, 2012 395 16,431 11,607 624 674 4,539 9

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Previous Year 471 22,547 20,053 1,638 1,033 7,424 549

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: $ 1.006 U.S. $1 U.S: $0.9938 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 26, 2012

Current Week 166.00E 152.00E 153.96 156.22

Futures (October 26, 2012) in U.S. Hogs October 2012 December 2012 February 2013 April 2013 May 2013

Last Week 161.24 148.82 148.20 151.62

Close 78.13 84.28 89.90 97.83 100.58

Last Year (Index 100) 179.17 164.56 169.04 176.36

Change -0.72 -1.04 -0.95 0.03 0.03

Other Market Prices

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he fall calf run was finally in full swing at cattle auction yards across Manitoba during the week ended October 26.

“The calf run was slow to come,” Rick Wright, a buyer with Heartland Order Buying Company said. “Up until this week, we were probably running at about 70 per cent of the calves that normally come.”

There are two reasons why Manitoba’s calf run got a late start this year, one being the plain and simple fact that there are less cows in the country to sell, Wright said.

The calf run was also slow going this year because more Manitoba farmers are calving later in the spring. “ W h e n p ro d u c e r s c a l ve l a t e r i n t h e spring, it means that most of them have to switch their marketing to the late fall or early spring,” Wright said. “So, it just shifts the momentum of the cattle later into the year.”

Wright said the calf run in Manitoba should continue through to the end of November, as it normally does. Then, activity will slow down around Christmas and pick up again in mid-January.

Feeder cattle prices during the week were able to stay steady to stronger compared to the week prior despite a lack of trucks to transport cattle to the East.

“There was a big shortage of trucks to go to the East, and the East was a big buyer of the Manitoba calves, so everybody expected this week prices would be considerably lower, but the market did not break,” Wright said.

Prices only managed to stay steady at some of Manitoba’s auction yards during the week, but in general, they were stronger than anticipated, Wright said. Some calves even managed to yield higher values than they did at the same time in 2011.

Strong demand from both eastern and western buyers was the catalyst in keeping prices from taking a downward turn, Wright said.

Many market participants expected that high feed prices, caused by a drought in the U.S.,

would have a negative impact on feeder cattle prices this fall.

Wright said if feeder prices manage to avoid breaking again during the last week of October, they’ll probably stay strong through to the end of November.

Demand from local buyers was “spotty” during the week. U.S. buyers were also active in the market, but didn’t purchase any feeder cattle.

“A n y t i m e t h a t we’ve g o t a p a r p l u s Canadian dollar it’s very hard for people from the U.S. to buy feeder cattle,” Wright said.

U.S. residents were the main buyers of ageverified butcher cattle during the week, and were also a “major contender” on the butcher cattle out west, Wright said.

Activity at Manitoba’s cattle auction yards was comparable to what went on at auction yards in Alberta and southern Saskatchewan during the week, Wright said. Though, Alberta won’t see its calf run at full capacity until November.

However, activity seen at auction yards in northern Saskatchewan was a completely different story, as they have seen very little volume this fall, Wright said.

“In the northern half of Saskatchewan they’ve had quite a bit more moisture over the summer, and they’ve got more pasture and feed,” he said. “So, they have not been in a hurry to market their calves.”

Buyers in Alberta and Saskatchewan were more confident about purchasing slaughter cattle inventory because of news that XL Foods was allowed to process the meat that’s already in the plant under the watchful eye of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Wright said.

But, the news didn’t provide much support for slaughter cattle prices because XL Foods still has a lot of inventory and doesn’t need to buy anything new yet, Wright said.

Slaughter cattle prices will only start to see some relief if, and when, XL Foods reopens and is able to operate at full capacity again, Wright said.

Terryn Shiells 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 — — — — — —

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 73.32 - 113.02 126.59 - 154.47 151.67 - 167.85 153.47 - 183.97 128.78 - 200.91 —

SunGold Specialty Meats 40.00 - 60.00

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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 Kids Billys Mature

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 166.97 - 232.40 — 131.41 - 240.24

Horses <1,000 lbs.

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Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

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Reuters

ABC News wants a Federal Court to deal with a meat processor’s defamation lawsuit over reports about lean finely textured beef, a product that critics have labelled “pink slime.”

Lawyers for the network filed to transfer the case, brought last month by Beef Products Inc., the leading producer of the product, from of a state court in South Dakota to a Federal Court.

BPI is seeking $400 million in damages for lost profits it says was caused by ABC’s

reports. BPI is also suing ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer and two reporters who covered the story. Other defendants include Gerald Zirnstein, a former USDA microbiologist credited with coining the term “pink slime” in a 2002 email to colleagues later obtained by The New York Times.

In March and April, ABC aired a series of television reports on BPI’s product, raising questions about its quality and sparking a public relations furor that roiled social media, consumer advocates and the nation’s beef industry.

A number of fast-food restaurants and grocery retailers — including Walmart, Safeway and Supervalu — also stopped selling ground beef containing the product, even though the USDA and industry experts say it is safe to eat.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

GRAIN MARKETS Export and International Prices

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Short canola supplies force buyers to be creative There has been little uptake in new milling wheat, durum and barley contracts, which puts their futures in doubt

Dwayne Klassen CNSC

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teady demand provided canola futures on the ICE Canada platform with plenty of support during the week ended Oct.

26.

Much of the demand was associated with the emergence of fresh Chinese buying interest, with at least three cargoes of Canadian canola purchased by the country.

There were hints that additional sales were made, but export outlets were unwilling to confirm the extra business. Much of the export interest was said to be tied to the downswing in the value of the Canadian dollar, which was pushing back towards parity with the U.S. currency late on October 26. The weaker Canadian unit makes it more attractive for importers to purchase canola. Domestic processors also continued to be fairly steady buyers of canola, even though crush margins deteriorated during the reporting period. A lot of the demand for canola from the domestic and export sectors has been front-loaded, meaning sales on the books have been aggressive likely through to the new year at least.

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As a result, there has been a bit of an upward push in canola futures as the commercials try to cover those sales. The problem of course with that is that canola production in Canada was not able to meet those expectations, falling well short in the latest Statistics Canada production survey. This in turn has sparked some creative efforts by elevators to attract deliveries.

Farmers have been sellers of the tight canola supplies, but on a scale-up basis and only when the cash bids become attractive. However, market participants are warning that while canola has been able to regain a premium to soybeans, the upside may be limited.

They point out that while there is a seasonal rally in U.S. soybeans and subsequently canola dur ing late October through to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday in late November, the limiting factor is the record soybean acreage that is going in the ground in Brazil and Argentina.

Granted, there is much debate about the condition of the soils those soybeans are being planted into, but the key factor to remember is that those crops will go a long way to replenishing the global oilseed supplies.

The fact that those soybeans are normally priced well below canola and the

U.S. soybean market, means that buyers will be attracted to those supplies.

There was finally some action seen in the milling wheat contract on the ICE Canada platform during the week. A whole two contracts were traded between commercials which brought open interest in the commodity to 74 contracts (December and March combined). Durum and barley contracts in Winnipeg again failed to draw any attention.

With the absence of activity in the milling wheat, durum and barley contracts, there the longevity of those futures is in doubt. Market participants are quick to point out that the commercial sector has failed to support those futures. They also believe the contract size of 100 tonnes for wheat and durum works against the smaller speculators and encourages the use of the futures on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.

The removal of the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on the sale of western Canadian wheat, durum and barley has also failed to attract participants to the commodities offered on ICE Canada. The liquidity issues in dealing with ICE Canada contracts, with the exception of canola, also favour the MGEX. Soybean futures at the CBOT also posted advances despite late-week profit-taking.

Strength in soybeans continued to be linked to strong demand from the domestic and export sectors as well as to the tight supply outlook.

The upside in soybeans was again tempered by the threat of a record-size soybean har vest in Brazil and Argentina.

There are a number of analysts who are more than willing to point out that they have never seen better conditions for the planting of the crops in those countries.

However on the flip side of that coin, t h e re a re o t h e r s w h o a re i n d i c a t i n g that conditions are less than prime in a number of key growing areas and that the crop is still far from being harvested.

Corn futures on the CBOT eased during the reporting period with the total absence of demand for the commodity from the domestic or export sectors stimulating the declines.

The drop-off in demand has been pretty wide and has included the U.S. livestock sector, the ethanol groups, importers, exporters and a whole list of others.

They continue to look at the price of corn in the U.S. and then look at the cheaper alternatives.

The nearby wheat futures on the CBOT, MGEX and KCBT experienced some minor weakness while the more deferred months were able to post advances. The sell-off in CBOT corn and the absence of demand allowed the nearby months to weaken.

Much of the support in the deferred values, meanwhile, was linked to news this week that Ukraine will halt sales of its cheap wheat beginning November 15.

The decision by that government to halt wheat exports was tied to the fact, the well has finally run dry. Of course this sparked ideas that importers will look to the U.S. to cover those requirements. The sentiment among market participants is that if the wheat supply in Ukraine is running dry, that all the wheat stocks in the Black Sea region may be short in supply. This in turn has helped to spark demand for the more deferred wheat contracts.

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

Last Week

All prices close of business October 25, 2012

Week Ago

Year Ago

Wheat

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

320.65

325.52

236.61

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

347.28

347.84

339.11

Coarse Grains US corn Gulf ($US)

—

—

—

US barley (PNW) ($US)

—

—

—

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

292.13

304.43

256.50

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

251.42

251.91

216.25

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

574.61

568.92

453.74

1,134.47

1,121.90

1,149.03

Winnipeg Futures ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business October 26, 2012 Western barley

Last Week

Week Ago

December 2012

250.00

250.00

March 2013

253.00

253.00

May 2013

254.00

254.00

Canola

Last Week

Week Ago

November 2012

618.90

611.90

January 2013

619.90

610.60

March 2013

617.70

609.10

Special Crops Report for October 29, 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

—

Medium Yellow No. 1

10.50 - 12.00

Feed beans

—

Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

7.75 - 8.75

No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans

—

Feed Pea (Rail)

No. 1 Great Northern

—

5.00 - 8.10

Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)

No. 1 Cranberry Beans

—

Yellow No. 1

34.90 - 36.75

No. 1 Light Red Kidney

—

Brown No. 1

30.20 - 31.75

No. 1 Dark Red Kidney

—

Oriental No. 1

—

No. 1 Black Beans

—

No. 1 Pinto Beans

—

Source: Stat Publishing SUNFLOWERS

No. 1 Small Red

—

No. 1 Pink

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Fargo, ND

Goodlands, KS

24.50

26.20

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EU may extend zero import duties

extend the zero duties is likely to be approved.

The European Union’s cereals management committee will vote Nov. 8 on whether to extend the suspension of the bloc’s import duties on feed wheat and barley until the end of June 2013, a draft regulation showed.

In June, the European Union suspended its import duties of 12 euros per tonne for low- and medium-quality wheat and 16 euros a tonne for feed barley until the end of this calendar year, in response to high grain prices.

With poor grain harvests this year in the United States and parts of Europe keeping prices high, sources close to the committee said the proposal from the European Commission to

Complaints spur resumption of USDA soyoil forecasts

brussels / Reuters

washington / reuters

The USDA will resume monthly forecasts this month of soybean oil used for biodiesel production.

Budget cuts halted the forecasts six months ago, sparking complaints from traders.

Soyoil is the largest feedstock for biodiesel, accounting for half of production.

One-fifth of U.S. soyoil went to biodiesel refining in the marketing year that ended on Sept. 30.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

COLUMN

Analyzing the loonie’s move to below par Chart patterns provide clues on when to convert the greenback to the loonie David Drozd Market Outlook

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he Canadian dollar has been trending lower, since it penetrated the lower boundary of the uptrending channel.

I have found that chart analysis is a valuable resource for determining the price trend and where support and resistance to the trend may be anticipated.

Trendlines

During the course of a trend and all the fluctuations which compose it, prices tend to follow a sloping straight line path.

During a period of rising prices, this path is determined by a line drawn across the lows of the reactions.

These price reactions, illustrated as (A) and (B) in the accompanying chart must bottom at progressively higher levels. When an emerging trend can be identified and followed to its conclusion, it translates into opportunity. I find drawing trendlines is a valuable tool for accomplishing this.

As a market begins to turn up,

In the late stages of a dynamic bull move, prices are likely to have accelerated up and away from the trendline (C), taking on a very steep slope.

an uptrend line may be constructed after two reaction lows have formed (A) and (B), the second at a higher level than the first.

In the late stages of a dynamic bull move, prices are likely to have accelerated up and away from the trendline (C), taking on a very steep slope.

Once a trend begins in earnest, it has a high tendency to persist. The longer a trendline continues, the more significant becomes its eventual penetration as an indicator of a trend change.

After a valid penetration (G), prices will move with an initial thrust in that direction, but will often bounce back to approach the trendline (D). This proves to be a point of resistance, in which the 1.0200 — 1.0220 area provided a good opportunity to convert Canadian currency to U.S. funds.

In fact, a harami (sell signal on a candlestick chart) materialized at the point of resistance and was followed by another sell signal called a two-day reversal just before prices dropped down below par.

Uptrending channel

After a trend is established and a trendline constructed, a line may be drawn that is parallel to the trendline depicting the corridor within which prices will fluctuate as the trend proceeds.

This is called the trend channel.

In an uptrend, the uptrend line (E) is the channel’s lower boundary and it is drawn first.

The upper boundary (F) is the return line. It is parallel to the lower boundary and drawn across the highs of each progressively higher advance. The

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Market psychology

Price activity that lends itself to trendline and channel construction reflects a particular sequence of behavior. As a new uptrend begins to emerge, buy orders materialize, but many are at a limit price under the market. In the normal ebb and flow of the market some of this buying is satisfied on price declines.

However, not all of the demand is satisfied and when prices again begin to move up, some of these buyers jump in for fear of missing the move.

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When the price finally turns down for real, trendlines will be quickly broken as the demand has either been totally satisfied or the volume of selling simply

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he federal government is supporting the marketing efforts of two organic trade associations.

The Canada Organic Trade Association (COTA) will receive $180,000 from the AgriMarketing Program to help it participate in international trade shows, develop promotional materials, and build a longterm international strategy for the organic sector.

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Since then the organic market has continued to grow, reaching more than $2.6 billion in 2010.

Specifically, exports of agri-food products reached $390 million in 2010.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

Huge crop losses in southern Haiti from storm Hurricane Sandy is the worst late-season storm seen in two decades

By Susana Ferreira PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI / REUTERS

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s Hurricane Sandy barrelled toward the U.S. East Coast Oct. 29, the full extent of the storm’s havoc on Haiti was just beginning to emerge.

Extensive damage to crops throughout the southern third of the country, as well as the high potential for a spike in cases of cholera and other water-borne diseases, could mean Haiti will see the deadliest effects of Sandy in the coming days and weeks.

Haiti reported the highest death toll in the Caribbean, as swollen rivers and landslides claimed at least 52 lives, according to the countr y’s Civil Protection office. More than three days of constant rain left roads and bridges heavily damaged, cutting off access to several towns and a key border crossing with the Dominican Republic.

“The economy took a huge hit,” Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe told Reuters. He also said Sandy’s impact was devastating, “even by international standards,” adding that Haiti was planning an appeal for emergency aid.

“Most of the agricultural crops that were left from Hurricane Isaac were destroyed during Sandy,” he said, “so food security will be an issue.”

Sandy also destroyed banana crops in eastern Jamaica as well as decimating the coffee crop in eastern Cuba.

But the widespread loss of crops and supplies in the south, both for commercial growers and subsistence farmers, is what Haitian authorities and aid organizations had worried about most.

The past several months have seen a series of nationwide protests and general strikes over the rising cost of living. Even before Hurricane Sandy hit, residents complained that food prices were too high.

Alonso of the Pan American Health Organization. Many communities are still cut off and only accessible by helicopter, he said, so the broader rise in cholera was “still too early to tell.”

Both the Haitian state and international aid organizations distributed food, water and other items to affected camps and communities throughout the weekend, including personal distributions by President Michel Martelly.

“These stocks are running dangerously low,” said George Ngwa, spokesman for OCHA, a humanitarian co-ordinating body in Haiti. “After Tropical Storm Isaac in August, these stocks have not been replenished. What we’re doing is scraping the bottom.”

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Jean Debalio Jean-Jacques, the Ministry of Agriculture’s director for the southern department, said he worried that the massive crop loss “could aggravate the situation.”

“The storm took everything a w a y,” s a i d Je a n - Ja c q u e s.

“Everything the peasants had in reserve — corn, tubers — all of it was devastated. Some people had already prepared their fields for winter crops and those were devastated.”

In the capital, Port-au-Prince, Sandy destroyed concrete homes and tent camps alike, where 370,000 victims of the 2010 earthquake are still living.

Haitian authorities said 18,000 families were left homeless in the disaster.

Aid organizations began reporting a sharp rise in suspected cholera cases in several departments, with at least 86 new cases alone coming from Port-au-Prince’s earthquake survivor camps, according to Dr. Juan Carlos Gustavo

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Exodus feared with new EU pig welfare rules in force Jan. 1 Farmer groups fear exodus from industry

By Sybille de La Hamaide paris / reuters

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urope’s pregnant pigs will be happier next year but pork eaters will pay more and some breeders will go out of business as new porcine welfare rules compound the spiralling cost of the cereals for animal feed.

Sow stalls, the metal cages used to hem in pregnant pigs and make them easier to control, are to be banned from Jan. 1 across the 27-nation European Union, 11 years after the ban was first voted in by the bloc’s lawmakers.

While animal rights groups welcome the move, the cost of applying the ban is expected to force more farmers out of the sector, leading to lower output and higher prices for Europe’s wurst, chorizo and prosciutto.

“We are at the beginning of a shock wave,” Jean-Michel Serres, chairman of the French pig producers’ group FNP, said.

“It will have a significant impact on pork prices and pose problems for the industry,” he warned of a ban which in France he estimates will add 650 euros per pig to costs in a sector where many farmers are already at break-even or loss making.

Significant impact

EU farmers produced a record 22.7 million tonnes of pork in 2010, or more than 20 per cent of the world’s total production. That was twice the volume of the United States, but still far behind China’s output of 51 million, EU and U.S. data showed.

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Pregnant pigs can be seen in their pens at a farm near Brussels October 16, 2012. Europe’s pregnant pigs will be happier next year but pork eaters will pay more and some breeders will go out of business as new porcine welfare rules compound the spiralling cost of the cereals for animal feed. Photo: REUTERS/Yves Herman

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ransport Minister Denis Lebel says long-promised legislation to balance the market power of the railways and their customers will be introduced this fall.

Shippers have expressed concern that a deputy minister shuffle will delay the legislation until next year, when it could be sidelined by a rail costing review already scheduled for 2013. They’re pushing for legislation based on the findings of a rail service freight review launched in 2008 that advocated service guarantees, a dispute-settlement mechanism, and financial penalties if the railways failed to meet performance standards. The railways said that would be an unnecessary regulatory burden.

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 a b o u t t h e g o v e r n m e n t ’s plans.

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» Continued from previous page

A new EU ban on layers’ cages already led to a doubling of egg prices in some countries earlier this year.

The rise in pork prices is unlikely to be so steep because the sector has more capacity to absorb cost increases through its processing chain, and consumers can easily turn to other cheap meats such as poultry.

But industry players contacted by Reuters said they would seek to secure at least some of the 10 per cent rise in prices they estimate would preserve their existing shaky margins.

Ear biting

Fa r m e r s u s e s ow s t a l l s i n intensive pig farming to help with often fraught feeding times and deal with aggression such as ear biting. But animal welfare campaigners say sows suffer psychologically from being separated from other animals, and are hit by ailments such as lameness.

At a meeting of farm and

industry officials last week, the European Commission forecast between three and four per cent of pig breeders would halt production next year, two sources at the talks said.

“All consumers say they want improvement of animal welfare, when they go to the supermarket they buy the cheapest meat.”

Daniel Somers

Manager, University of Wageningen Hog Research Farm

EU pig production would in turn fall five per cent over the next three years because of the sow stall ban — one per cent this year, three per cent in 2013 and one per cent in 2014, they said.

The commission declined to comment on estimates and data given at the meeting.

Some farmers have already been forced out of the sector because of this year’s surge

in the price of grains, which account for 30 per cent of total costs, after severe droughts in the United States and the Black Sea regions.

The impact of the ban will differ widely by country. Britain, Sweden and Luxembourg have already banned the stalls.

Britain, which put its ban in place in 1999, saw a 40 per cent fall in its herd over the last decade as its farmers were unable to compete with countries which did not use such stalls. Production this year is finally recovering.

Output down

But output is seen hit hard in Germany, the EU’s largest pig meat producer with a market share of 25 per cent in 2010.

“It is still unclear how many will give in but a double-digit percentage fall in German production cannot be ruled out,” Michael Lohse of the German farmers’ association DBV said.

In France, FNP expects one in 10 breeders to quit the sector.

In the run-up to the ban, EU breeders have been hurrying to adapt their farms but the commission expects only 17

out of the 27 member states to fully comply by year-end, leaving more than a third of the bloc behind schedule despite the 11-year notice.

Farmers in Germany and Spain are nearly ready but in France, they are well off track, farmers’ groups and officials said, even if there has been a huge boost in recent months.

Only 50 per cent of French farmers complied by the summer, FNP said.

Some breeders will not even try to comply.

The additional costs — pegged at around 650 euros ($840) per sow in France — come at a difficult time for many of them, already struggling with higher feed costs.

Pig’s toilets next?

While the impact will be felt across the full range of Europe’s food products, quantifying the exact effect is hard.

The full extent of the sow stall ban will only be felt a few months after implemented when all the piglets bor n before the move have been slaughtered.

“We are bound to raise our pr ices... Today we already

need a 10 per cent increase just to keep our margins, and it will be worse next year, but we need to convince retailers,” said Robert Volut, head of EU meat-processing industry body CLITRAVI. Further down the road new animal welfare regulations will come up, with measures such as those tested in a Dutch farm run by the University of Wageningen.

Fa t t e n i n g p i g s a re k e p t in an open space with dedicated areas — one for playing, one for eating, one for sleeping and the fourth one which serves as a toilet.

Such measures will inevitably add further costs to the production process — but even those involved in such projects acknowledged there is a limit to how much of a premium consumers are prepared to pay for animal welfare.

“Animal welfare costs,” said Daniel Somers, manager of the Dutch farm being used for the tests.

“All consumers say they want improvement of animal welfare, when they go to the supermarket they buy the cheapest meat.”

Chorney seeking re-election at KAP

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff /portage la prairie

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In an interview following KAP’s General Council meeting Oct. 25, Chorney, an East Selkirk-area farmer first elected president in 2011 and then in 2012, said he would let his name stand.

Chorney served as one of KAP’s two vice-presidents in 2010.

No others have formally been nominated for the post. The deadline is early December.

KAP’s annual meeting is Jan. 23 to 25 at the Winnipeg Delta.

Two vice-presidential nominations will be taken Jan. 24 during KAP’s annual meeting.

Vice-president Dan Mazier, a grain and livestock farmer from Justice, said he will see re-election. However, Neepawa farmer Weldon Newton said he is stepping down due to changes in his farming operation.

The Neepawa-area farmer has been involved with KAP for years starting as the director for District 9 in 1997. The following year he was elected second vice-president. Newton served as first vicepresident in 1999, 2000 and 2001 and president in 2002 and 2003. allan@fbcpublishing.com

KAP president Doug Chorney (l) will run again in 2013, but vicepresident Weldon Newton isn’t. photo: allan dawson

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n interesting note to start off this forecast is that if the weather models are correct, areas as close to us as Thunder Bay will be feeling the effects of the remnants of Hurricane Sandy, as the system stalls out over Eastern Canada this week.

For us here in Manitoba, this will block a ridge of high pressure over central North America from moving eastw a rd s, m e a n i n g re l a t i ve l y dry and mild weather until at least next weekend. We’ll likely see a mix of sun and clouds on most days, with more sun than cloud, and high temperatures in the 5 C to 8 C range. Over the weeke n d t h e e a s t e r n l ow w i l l weaken and slide off to the northeast. This will allow for a weak area of arctic high pressure to slide south, bringing with it slightly cooler conditions for the weekend.

The weather models have been fairly consistent in bringing an area of low pres-

sure through our region late Su n d a y a n d i n t o Mo n d a y.

Currently, it looks like we’ll probably only see some light rain or showers from this system as conditions look to be too warm for snow. Behind this system we should see slightly cooler conditions, with highs only making it to around zero. We could see some flurries too, as the low departs and the cooler air moves in.

Looking further ahead, the weather models are hinting that we might see some snow move in late next weekend but that is a long way off so confidence in us seeing snow is not that high.

WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA

Usual temperature range for this period: Highs: -2 to 10 C Lows: -11 to 0 C Probability of precipitation falling as snow: 65 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.

This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that has fallen across the Prairies over the 30-day period ending Oct. 24. This map nicely shows the two different systems that have brought rain and snow to much of central and eastern regions of Manitoba over the last month. For most of this area this is the first above-average month of precipitation since last May.

Problems trying to create winter forecast

Forecasters can say what they like, but the winter forecast is still simply a guess

By Daniel Bezte

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ast issue we took a quick look at the different factors that must be taken into account when trying to create a long-range winter weather forecast. For those of you who missed the article, I think it’s easy to summarize it by saying — trying to make a long-range forecast is so complicated that you are almost better off throwing a dart and creating a randomly generated forecast!

Actually, when you come to think about it, the longrange forecasts that are most remembered are the ones that usually make some kind of outrageous claim which then comes true. We like to think that the forecaster had some special power that allowed them to see into the weather future, but in reality, they took a risk and it paid off.

That said, here are some of the current long-range forecasts for this winter.

Old Farmer’s Almanac:

It is calling for a warmerthan-average November with

n e a r- a v e r a g e a m o u n t s o f precipitation. It’s hard to say whether we will see nearaverage amounts of snow in Nov e m b e r, s i n c e w a r m e rthan-average conditions will usually result in precipitation falling as rain instead of snow.

December will be colder and snowier than average, followed by average conditions in January to start the new year. It is then calling for slightly aboveaverage conditions to end the winter, along with near-average amounts of snow. All in all, not a bad winter forecast!

Canadian Farmers’ Almanac:

This one is always a little tough since it doesn’t ever directly spell out whether it will be warmer or colder than average, or wetter or drier than average. I have to i n t e r p re t t h e s e m i - we e k l y forecasting descriptions and try to turn it into above- and below-average amounts.

It kind of reminds me of when I was reconstructing t e m p e ra t u re re c o rd s f ro m the mid-1800s from Hudson Bay Company archives, but I digress. According to these

good folks, this winter will be cold and snowy, except for December, which will see average temperatures, but will still be snowy. So, I guess if you are hoping for a good old-fashioned winter, or at least what everyone seems to believe is an old-fashioned winter, then this is the forecast for you.

Environment Canada:

Sh o r t a n d r i g h t d ow n t h e middle is Environment Canada’s latest winter forecast. It is currently calling for near-average temperatures and snowfall amounts right through to March.

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration):

This is the American equivalent of Environment Canada.

While its forecast is only for the U.S., since we live near the border we can extrapolate its forecast northwards to get a pretty good idea of what it is predicting for our region. Well, according to this group we’ll see near-average temperatures over easter n regions, becoming warmer

the farther west you go. Precipitation also looks to be around average, with eastern regions being a little drier.

AccuWeather:

I have to admit that I have not been able to look too deeply into how AccuWeather makes its long-range forecasts, nonetheless, here it is.

It is predicting slightly coolerthan-average temperatures this winter, along with nearaverage amounts of precipitation. If you are into outdoor winter weather activities this sounds like a pretty good forecast.

Co-operator:

I guess this leaves me and my forecast. Like I pointed out in last week’s article, longrange forecasting, even with a strong weather background, is still simply guesswork, or as some would like to say, intuition or gut feeling.

So, I will have to rely on exactly that, my gut feeling.

Well, it seems that every year around this time the kid in me reignites and I hope for lots of snow — even though

I’m the one who has to blow snow and shovel. This means my gut feeling every October-November is that we are going to see lots of snow this winter, but then my logical, weather side kicks in.

It would take me another article or two to go through all of the thoughts going through my head about the factors that might affect this year’s winter weather. Are we actually seeing a fundamental switch in our long-term weather pattern that has been br inging us war merand drier-than-average conditions? What effect will the record loss of sea ice have on our weather?

Aw, the heck with it. I’m going to go with two dreams I had last week. Both of them took place during the winter and both of them had record amounts of snow, so I’ll go with above-average snowfall this winter. One dream had average temperatures while in the other dream the snow was melting. It could have been spring but I’ll go with near to slightly above-average temperatures. Talk about taking a risk!

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

CROPS Heat-damaged canola crop creates supply shortages In addition to lower yields, the crop contains less oil

By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG / REUTERS

“It poses a problem for exporters and crushers… If you lose a per cent of oil, you lose a significant amount of money.”

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upply worries about Canada’s disappointingly small canola harvest this year are compounded by the oilseed’s reduced oil content, crimping profits for crushers and leaving food companies to scramble for other vegetable oils.

Expectations were high early in the crop year that a record-large canola crop in Canada would compensate for some of the damage the drought did to U.S. soybeans. However, midsummer heat in Western Canada during canola’s vulnerable flowering period reduced yields.

The crop came in smaller than expected at an estimated 13.4 million tonnes and contains a lower percentage of oil than usual, government data shows, hitting crushers’ profit margins by an estimated $8 per tonne for every percentage point lower than last year.

“It poses a problem for exporters and crushers,” said Tracy Lussier, manager of canola trading for Louis Dreyfus Canada, which acts in both roles. “If you lose a per cent of oil, you lose a significant amount of money.”

Shorter supplies of canola oil come as projected stocks of U.S. soyoil, a competitor in the global vegetable oil market, for the juststarted 2012-13 crop year look to be the smallest in nine years at 576 million tonnes.

The world’s stocks-to-use ratio for vegetable oils, a measure of supply to demand, will reach its tightest level in 2012-13 since the mid-1970s, due to relentless demand growth, especially in China, Rabobank said in a report this month.

About three-quarters of the world’s vegetable oil production is used for food purposes like cooking oils, margarine and spreads, with biodiesel also a major use.

Oil yield lower

Top-grade canola has a mean oil content of 43.5 per cent, down from last year’s 45.2 per cent and slightly off the 10-year average of 43.8 per cent, according to a sam-

TRACY LUSSIER

Manager of Canola Trading, Dreyfus Canada

oil content is, and it is all over the place,” he said.

Potentially, cr ushers could slow processing if margins are weak enough, Lussier said. So far in 2012-13, however, they have crushed 16 per cent more volume than during the comparable period in record-setting 2011-12.

Last year, crushers produced 3.1 million tonnes of oil and four million tonnes of meal, which is used mainly as a protein source for animals. The United States and China were the biggest importers of Canadian canola oil in 2011-12, with the U.S. also the biggest meal importer.

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Lower oil content hits crush margins and also hurts exporters who may have guaranteed a percentage of oil content in the canola seed they ship, Lussier said. Crush margins are already one-fifth lower than a year ago at around C$72 per tonne for the ICE January canola futures contract.

Along with Dreyfus, major Canadian canola crushers and

exporters include Cargill Ltd., Richardson International Ltd., Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Bunge Ltd. The oil content may improve as farmers sell later-harvested canola to crushers, said one oilseed industry source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Typically, higher oil content is found in northern and western parts of Western Canada.

“We’re still in the early stages of trying to figure out what the real

With less canola oil available, food companies are looking to alternatives.

Global importers are likely to turn to relatively cheap palm oil — the most abundantly produced vegetable oil — as an alternative to more expensive products, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World said this week. At least in the short term, palm oil is inexpensive and available, thanks to record-high stocks in Malaysia as of September.

Ontario-based Saporito Foods, which buys canola oil from crushers and bottles it to sell to restaurants and on store shelves in Eastern Canada, has seen prices “drastically increase” compared to soyoil.

“We’re trying to push our customers to soya, but some need canola for sure in their recipes,” said Saporito’s president, Bill Tserpes.

“If our customers want canola, they’ll have to pay extra for it.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

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Novozymes and Syngenta team up on product registration Biological manufacturer Novozymes and chemical/seed giant Syngenta, have announced a global marketing and distribution agreement for Novozymes’s microbialbased biofungicide Taegro, a microbial-based fungicide based on the naturally occurring Bacillus subtilis bacterium.

Novozymes says Taegro targets fungal diseases such as rhizoctonia and fusarium on fruit and vegetables, and its application is expected to be expanded to a wider portfolio of crops such as wheat, soy and corn.

The two companies will work together to bring Taegro to market.

Syngenta will be responsible for sales, marketing and distribution, while Novozymes will be responsible for production and registration.

In a release, Novozymes said trials are planned to secure data to continue to build on the current U.S. registration in other regions, following which the two companies aim for a global rollout.

U.S. ethanol production inches up U.S. ethanol production continues to rise, albeit slightly.

Production of the biofuel was pegged at 801,000 barrels a day for the week ended on Oct. 19, up from 797,000 bpd the prior week, government data showed.

However, stockpiles, at 18.8 million barrels as of Oct. 19, are at the lowest level in seven weeks, the government reported.

Meanwhile, Brazil has reversed a temporary lowering of ethanol requirement in gas, imposed last month due to a shortage of the biofuel. The country will once again require a 25 per cent ethanol blend.

California’s GMO labelling proposal in tight race Passage would make it first U.S. GMO labelling requirement

By Lisa Baertlein and Carey Gillam REUTERS

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eavy advertising spending by Monsanto Co. and others opposed to a California ballot proposal to require labels on grocery products containing genetically modified organisms is paying off, according to a new poll that shows the measure has slipped into a virtual tie.

Forty-four per cent of California voters now support the measure, while 42 per cent oppose it and 13 per cent are undecided, according to the latest University of Southern California (USC) Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll released Oct. 25.

Those numbers have dropped sharply since September, when 61 per cent of voters responding to the poll supported the measure, 25 per cent opposed and 13 per cent were undecided.

The stakes are high for both sides and with 10 days to go before the election, the state’s biggest food fight this year is bound to intensify.

If California voters approve the measure on Nov. 6, it would be the first time U.S. food makers have to label products that contain genetically modified crops such as corn, soybeans and sugar beets. Scientists have spliced the DNA of those crops, and others, with DNA from different species in ways that make the crops tolerant of chemical sprays or toxic to certain insects.

Risks

The risk to companies such as Monsanto is that food companies might be more likely to stop using GMOs than to label them. That could disrupt U.S. food production because ingredients such as GM corn, soybeans and canola have for years been staples in virtually every type of packaged food, from soup and tofu to breakfast cereals and chips.

Monsanto and DuPont, which lead global sales of genetically modified seeds, are the top contributors to the effort to defeat California’s

A group of demonstrators holds signs during a rally in support of the state’s upcoming Proposition 37 ballot measure outside the Ferry Building in San Francisco, California October 6, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS/STEPHEN LAM

“Right to Know” ballot initiative, known as Proposition 37.

The “No on 37” side, which also includes companies such as soda and snack seller PepsiCo Inc., has collected more than $40 million for the effort and out raised the “Yes on 37” camp by a significant margin, and has been blanketing the airwaves with ads criticizing the proposal.

“When voters hear a message so much more strongly from one side than the other, it’s not surprising to see the poll numbers move like this,” said Dan Schnur, director of the USC Dornsife/L.A. Times Poll and director of the Unruh Institute of Politics at USC. The latest numbers suggest that supporters of the measure face slim odds of success.

“You never say never, but it’s relatively rare for an initiative to climb above 50 per cent once it has fallen below that threshold,” Schnur said.

Stacy Malkin, media director of Yes on 37 California Right to Know campaign, said her side is up against “nearly $1 million per day of negative deceptive

“When voters hear a message so much more strongly from one side than the other, it’s not surprising to see the poll numbers move like this.”

DAN SCHNUR

Director of the USC Dornsife/L.A. Times Poll and director of the Unruh Institute of Politics at USC.

advertising from the pesticide and junk food industries,” and that opponents have failed to pull ahead, despite constantly hammering California voters with ads.

“No on 37” would not disclose its advertising spending.

Spokeswoman Kathy Fairbanks repeatedly has said that the group — which among other things was forced to change an ad after it misidentified its star as a Stanford University doctor — is simply underscoring flaws in the labelling proposal.

Not required

The United States does not require independent safety testing for GM crops before they go to market.

The American Medical Association has come out in support of mandatory pre-market safety assessment for GMOs and the World Health Organization has clearly stated that labelling is perfectly valid, said Michael Hansen, senior scientist at the Consumers Union.

Industry says GMOs are safe, but a range of academic scientists, consumer and environmental and health advocates say many studies have indicated health and environmental harm tied to them. Specific health concerns include fears that the GMOs can increase the allergenicity of certain foods and possibly increase the risk of cancer or other diseases.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

Global grains stocks fall

LATE SEASON HARVEST

Grains demand will fall for first time since 1998-99

By Nigel Hunt LONDON | REUTERS

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A severe drought in the U.S. has contributed to a sharp fall in global maize production this season from the record 876 million tonnes harvested in 2011-12.

The U.S. maize crop was seen at 272 million tonnes, down from a previous estimate of 275 million and well below the prior season’s 313.9 million.

The IGC also cut its forecast for the maize crop in Ukraine to 19 million tonnes from 20 million.

“Northern Hemisphere production prospects have mostly worsened. Although sowing is slightly delayed, the outlook for South American crops remain mostly favourable,” the IGC said.

The IGC’s forecast for Argentina’s maize crop was raised by one million tonnes to 26 million while the projection for Brazil was kept at 72 million.

Global maize consumption in 2012-13 was downwardly revised by one million tonnes to 848 million, down from the prior season’s 872 million.

“Despite a forecast three per cent contraction in demand, the stocks outlook has tightened further; end-season inventories in the major exporters could shrink by almost one-quarter,” the report said.

The IGC also cut its forecast for the global wheat crop in 2012-13 by two million tonnes to 655 million.

“Lower yields in the EU and Kazakhstan, as well as deteriorating prospects in Argentina and Australia, reduced the forecast for world (wheat) production,” the IGC said.

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“Inventories (of grain) for the major exporters will be even tighter and the smallest for 17 years,” the IGC said in a monthly market report.

The IGC cut its forecast for total grain stocks at the end of the 2012-13 season by four million tonnes to 328 million, now representing a fall of 44 million or 12 per cent from year-earlier levels.

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AAFC lowers Maple Leaf has contingency plans No dark horses in the race for Big Sky Farms yet, but offers can be made until Nov. 9 pulse and special crop “We don’t expect any short-term impact forecasts on our hog supply

By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

Exports have been adjusted lower too

By Terryn Shiells

commodity news service canada

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roduction estimates for Ca n a d a’s major pulse and special crops were mostly lower compared to the previous month, according to updated supply-demand tables released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Market Analysis Division on Oct. 18.

Dry pea, dry bean, mustard seed and canaryseed production numbers for the 201213 crop year were all lowered from the Sept. 18 report. The government agency did however, up production numbers slightly for both lentils and s u n f l ow e r s e e d . C h i c k p e a p ro d u c t i o n n u m b e r s we re unchanged.

Total production was lower for the 2012-13 crop year, at 4.778 million tonnes, from 5.046 million in September.

The seven major specialty and pulse crops are dry peas, lentils, dry beans, chickpeas, mustard seed, canaryseed and sunflower seed.

To t a l p r o j e c t e d e n d i n g stocks were lower compared to the previous repor t, at 965,000 tonnes from 1.110 million in September.

Ending stocks projections for dry peas, dry beans, must a rd s e e d a n d c a n a r y s e e d were all lowered, while sunflower seed’s ending stock estimate was slightly higher.

Ending stock projections for lentils and chickpeas were unchanged from the previous report.

Projected ending stocks for all seven major specialty and pulse crops for the 2011-12 crop year were reported as 1.188 million tonnes, down from 1.192 million in the September report.

Exports for 2012-13 were mostly unchanged. Only canaryseed and dry pea exports were revised, with canar yseed slightly higher and dry peas slightly lower.

Total exports for 2012-13 were 4.180 million tonnes, slightly lower compared to the 4.280 million estimate made in September.

Total exports of the seven major speciality and pulse crops for the 2011-12 year were revised lower. The government agency pegged exports for the year at 3.779 million tonnes, compared to the reported 3.907 million in September.

Domestic usage in 2012-13 was expected to come in at 941,000 tonnes, which was lower compared to September’s 968,000-tonne estimate.

Domestic usage estimates for lentils and mustard seed were revised higher, while dry peas, canar yseed and sunflower were lower. Estimates for dry beans and chickpeas remained unchanged.

To t a l d o m e s t i c u s a g e i n 2011-12 was estimated at 1.217 million tonnes, up from the September figure of 1.183 million.

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a p l e L e a f Fo o d s i s examining its options after competitor Ol y m e l p l a c e d a “s t a l k i n g horse” bid on Big Sky Farms of Saskatchewan.

Big Sky is a supplier for Maple Leaf ’s Brandon facility, but went into receivership earlier this fall.

“We don’t expect any shortterm impact on our hog supply and we have several contingency plans in place that would expand or add to our existing hog sources,” said Maple Leaf spokesman Dave Bauer.

The company will continue to monitor the situation at Big Sky Farms as it develops, he said, but didn’t indicate if Maple Leaf planned to make its own offer to purchase.

Just over two weeks ago, the Quebec-based Olymel made a bid for the Saskatchewan operation, which already sup-

and we have several contingency plans in place that would expand or add to our existing hog sources.”

Dave Bauer

plies its plant in Red Deer, Alberta with hogs.

“This is a strategic potential acquisition, and that’s why we have put $65 million on the table,” said Olymel spokesman Richard Vigneault.

A “stalking horse” bid is an offer made in a bankruptcy proceeding that allows the receiver to seek other bidders before making a decision.

Currently, Big Sky Farms’ Humboldt-based operations prod u c e ro u g h l y o n e m i llion hogs each year, making it Canada’s second-largest hog producer.

But debts totalling nearly $70 million, coupled with a spike in feed costs, left the company in a position from which it could not recover.

If Olymel’s purchase bid is successful, this will be the company’s first foray into hog production.

Maintaining a secure supply of hogs is important, said Vigneault.

“We know it is a tough time in the pork industry in the West as well as the rest of the country,” he added.

As one of the country’s largest pork and poultry processors, Olymel has operations in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick employing a total of 10,000 people.

In 2011, it was responsible for $2.3 billion in exports to more than 60 countries. Canada as

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When asked if Big Sky would continue to supply Maple Leaf with hogs, should Olymel’s bid be successful, Vigneault said he couldn’t comment.

“We are entering a process with the receiver... and we will see how it unfolds,” he said.

Interested companies have until November 9 to make bids on Big Sky via its courtappointed receiver, Ernst & Young Inc. Currently, only one bid has been received, but other bids are possible.

Ernst & Young Inc., tout Big Sky as a “vertically integrated infrastructure encompassing genetics, feed milling, transportation and production,” on its website.

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Consumers, farmers squeezed as grain giants tighten grip Farmers face less choice as grain majors bulk up; importers fear higher prices

By Nigel Hunt london / reuters

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global race for grain trading power is putting more of the world’s vital cereals in the hands of fewer companies, with a string of recent acquisitions raising fears that consumers will pay even more for their food, while farmers are squeezed.

Archer Daniels Midland last week bid for Australia’s last independent grain handler GrainCorp, the latest in a series of moves by grain trading heavyweights to grab a larger slice of a booming market as developing economies seek food security.

The four “ABCD” firms — ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus — dominate global grain trading along with top global commodities trader Glencore and Japan’s Marubeni, both of

which have made major acquisitions in the last few months.

“The increasing concentration of power in the global grain market is not healthy. This will lead to grain prices being controlled by top trading companies,” said Rusman Heriawan, deputy agriculture minister of Indonesia, Asia’s top wheat importer.

The United Nations sounded alarm bells on market volatility this summer as corn alone surged around 40 per cent in less than a month. Soybeans hit record highs, while wheat also shot up dramatically, reviving memories of the 2007-08 food crisis.

“So - c a l l e d g ra i n m a j o r s account for about 75 per cent of the global grain market. If they keep on merging with other grain companies, there is the possibility of a monopolistic situation,” said Han Sukho of

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the grains division at the Korea Rural Economic Institute.

“This will make things difficult for importing countries like South Korea. We might have to pay more than what things actually cost,” the assistant director of the state-run thinktank added.

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After a doubling in quarterly profits helped by the impact of drought on the grain trade, Bunge chairman and chief executive officer Alberto Weisser said on Oct. 25 that he expected industry consolidation to continue.

“I do believe that we will have more consolidation because the market has shown that it is necessary to have large companies” with geographically diverse assets and strong balance sheets “to operate and serve the

market in these volatile times,” he said. “We are part of it.”

Lee Gaus, vice-president of International Futures Group, said there were some benefits from the consolidation for the grain trading companies, who will have more flexibility from expanded networks.

“There are efficiencies that are gained when you have this kind of consolidation. But, on the other hand, there’s a danger in a situation where you have more and more controlled by fewer and fewer,” he said.

“Ultimately this hurts the consumer. I don’t know any time that you can concentrate so much leverage in so few hands that it doesn’t eventually impact the consumer,” Gaus added.

Gaus also saw the consolidation as a threat to producers who are faced with fewer potential buyers for their crops.

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yngenta plans to broaden its canola portfolio beyond chemicals and launch its own new canola seed varieties on the Prairies starting next fall.

“This is an exceptional time to be in the canola seed market, given the extent of breeding and varietal development activities going on across the country,” Dave Sippell, Syngenta’s head of diverse field crops for North America, said in a release Oct. 25.

Syngenta Canada’s first entry in the canola seed market will be SY4135, for which it says commercial quantities will be available in the fall of 2013 to seed in 2014.

The company noted its glyphosate-based Touchdown Total herbicide can be used on SY4135.

“Based on grower and market needs, Syngenta will continue to increase its number of canola seed offerings over the coming years,” the company said.

“Future varieties will also be developed using leading technologies growers desire, offering strong yield and optimal weed control. Efforts in 2013 will focus on strategic trialing of new canola varieties at the field level with commercial growers.”

Syngenta’s canola portfolio in the West already features crop protection and pesticide products such as its Helix Vibrance seed treatment, Astound fungicide and Matador insecticide.

Syngenta Canada said it will rely on the “experience and expertise gained from these products” as well as its previous work overseas, where the parent company already markets a number of “canola-quality oilseed rape varieties.”

Its experience, the company said, “facilitates the delivery of a new seed portfolio for western Canadian growers.”

“Our approach is to take advantage of the best that these (breeding) activities have to offer — allowing us to collaborate with a variety of canola providers and breeders to select the germplasm and traits that will deliver the greatest benefit to growers, and commercialize the resulting varieties,” Sippell said.

Wheat

The company has previously sold wheat seed on the Prairies in a distribution deal with Viterra’s Proven Seed, but Syngenta Seeds’ own branded seed business in Canada has so far been limited to its corn, soybean and sunflower varieties.

The first Syngenta-branded wheat for the Prairie cereals market was its herbicide-tolerant Canada western red spring (CWRS) wheat variety, WR859 CL, sold through Richardson International starting in 2010.

Syngenta added to its Prairie wheat portfolio earlier this month with the launch of SY985, a Canada Prairie spring red (CPSR) variety approved for the Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba markets.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

Western seed industry worried about Roundup Ready alfalfa Efforts are underway to find ways GM alfalfa can coexist with non-GM alfalfa in Eastern Canada. But will it spread to the West?

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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fforts to commercialize genetically modified (GM) Roundup Ready alfalfa in Eastern Canada can’t be done without harming forage seed exports from Western Canada, according to Manitoba forage seed officials.

“I’m very concerned because I do not believe there’s any way to restrict the seed to Eastern Canada,” Kurt Shmon, president of Winnipeg-based Imperial Seed, said in an interview Oct 26. “There’s just no way to do it.”

Kelvin Einarson, a forage seed farmer near Hnausa, Man., agrees.

Both made their case Oct. 24 at a workshop in Kitchener, Ont., hosted by the Canadian Seed Trade Association looking for ways to allow Roundup Ready alfalfa production in Eastern Canada to coexist with organic and conventional production.

Although Roundup Ready is approved in Canada, Forage Genetics International, the firm licensed by Monsanto to sell the seed, has agreed to consult with the industry before commercialization.

“The meeting was about (introducing Roundup Ready alfalfa in) Eastern Canada and it’s very clear the West is different so this was a meeting about the East,” Canadian Seed Grower Association president Stephen Denys said in an interview. “When either the participants in the western business or the commercializing companies want to talk about the West, either way, the West will have to be tackled on its own.”

Opposed to commercialization

Einarson, who is a member of the Manitoba Forage Seed Association, was there representing Forage Seed Canada, an umbrella group that speaks for provincial forage

seed associations. Western forage seed farmers and processors oppose commercializing Roundup Ready alfalfa, even if restricted to the East, he said.

“Once it’s introduced into Canada it’s eventually going to make its way into the forage seed-producing areas,” Einarson said.

If it is kept out of Canada, there are opportunities to expand exports to markets such as Europe and Japan that want GM-free seed. The U.S. is unable to assure customers of nonGM supplies.

The risks to Canada’s alfalfa export markets aren’t justified by the benefits, Shmon said. “When Canada is such an exporting nation I do not understand why we want to paint ourselves into a corner,” he said. “It’s not worth the risk.”

Denys said some of the risk is mitigated by restricting GM alfalfa production to the East,

“I’m very concerned because I do not believe there’s any way to restrict the seed to Eastern Canada.”

Kurt Shmon

which is far away from western alfalfa seed fields. Most of the alfalfa grown in the East is farm fed.

Strict contracts would discourage eastern farmers from selling the seed to western farmers, he said.

As well, cutting GM alfalfa before it flowers prevents its genes from spreading to nonGM fields, Denys said. Feral alfalfa isn’t as widespread in the East as it is in the West.

The next step is for the workshop’s consultants to work on “best management” practices to avoid the spread of Roundup Ready alfalfa if it’s introduced in Eastern Canada.

It’s important for the industry to develop a coexistence protocol for future GM crops, Denys said.

“Ultimately it’s up to the commercializing company,” he said. “It’s not the decision of the seed association or the stakeholders. The commercializing companies have indicated very strongly that they will not bring it into the market here until the coexistence plan is in place.”

Risks too high

breaking the yield barrier

It will be nearly impossible to prevent Roundup Ready alfalfa from spreading, Einarson said. Alfalfa is a perennial crop and, at least in the West, grows feral almost everywhere. And while farmers might intend on cutting their alfalfa before it blooms weather can easily delay it, he said.

Volunteering Roundup Ready alfalfa is another concern as is

the increase in Roundup Ready resistance weeds, Einarson said.

Most farmers include grasses when they seed alfalfa for hay.

The means they won’t grow Roundup Ready because spraying a field with glyphosate would kill those grasses, he said.

“If we can keep our (alfalfa) seed (GM) free until such time as our markets accept the Roundup Ready gene, then fine, we can start producing it here, but until that time I’d like to see us keep it out.”

Denys noted Roundup alfalfa being produced now in the western U.S. already closer than production in Eastern Canada would be.

In 2011 a field of Roundup Ready alfalfa was discovered on a Saskatchewan Hutterite Colony. Although Roundup Ready alfalfa is approved in Canada, the colony didn’t have a licence to grow it, since it’s not available for commercial sale in Canada, Monsanto spokesperson Trish Jordan said.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency oversaw the crop’s destruction, which was less than 20 acres in size, she said.

The field was monitored in 2012 for volunteer alfalfa.

Since the farmer co-operated fully, Monsanto didn’t sue the colony for unlicensed and unauthorized use of its technology, Jordan said. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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“I am deeply disappointed to see this announcement.

It will add unnecessary tension to international agricultural markets, and those that will suffer most will be the world’s poorest,” said EU agr iculture commis sioner Dacian Ciolos.

Leading wheat importer Egypt says Ukraine is damaging its credibility on international grain markets.

However, Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk says the ban is necessary to keep a lid on domestic bread prices.

“We are not playing games

here. We do not have any other option,” he said.

The wheat harvest was down by a third this year because of bad weather.

Ukraine’s decision to halt wheat exports as of Nov. 15 after bad weather lowered 2012 production could drive world prices higher.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

Water cycles on the great plains have changed Water expert says more floods coming, and they could “easily bankrupt Manitoba”

By Shannon Vanraes Co-operator Staff

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water crisis isn’t coming.

It’s already here.

And unless action is taken, Robert Sandford says the hydrological changes the Lake Winnipeg Basin is experiencing will bankrupt the province.

“Mo re e x t re m e w e a t h e r events are clearly already a reality,” said the author and adviser to the United Nations Water for Life Decade.

Rising global temperatures have increased the amount of water in the atmosphere, so much so, that atmospheric rivers “are overflowing their cloud banks,” resulting in violent storms and overwhelming downpours, Sandford said during a presentation at the University of Winnipeg.

And while we’ve seen the results of devastating rains in Pakistan and the southern United States, we fail to recognize the

impact this weather is having in our own backyard, he said.

“Spring flooding has been increasing over the last decade,” said Sandford, adding the Great Plains may have crossed over into a new hydrological state.

Flooding in Manitoba cost the province $1 billion in 2011, and another $1 billion in North Dakota and Saskatchewan, he said, adding more such events are likely.

“The risk economically is that people of the region will not be able to afford both things — dealing with reoccurring disasters and addressing their causes,” Sandford said. “Parts of this region are not going to be habitable and the costs of ongoing flood damage may reach a magnitude that could easily bankrupt Manitoba.”

But it’s not just the weather.

“Draining up to 90 per cent of our wetlands has caused a big problem... there is no storage for the water and no filtration,” said Sandford.

The results have been dev-

astating to Lake Winnipeg with algae blooms covering as many as 15,000 square kilometres, and eutrophication and cyanotoxins thousands of times higher than in 1990 because nutrients are rushing off farmland and city streets directly into waterways, he said.

The cost of restoring the lake is yet another price tag associated with ecological change, as is the price for fixing bridges, roads and water treatment plants damaged by severe weather, he said.

But there is still hope, if action is taken now, he added.

“We need to bring the Lake Winnipeg Basin back under control before it is no longer possible to do so,” said Sandford.

That includes protecting remaining wetlands, reforming drainage rules, and compensating farmers to the ecological services they provide, he said.

“I can’t see any other way.”

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Robert Sandford (far right) speaks about the water crisis Canadians are facing at a Canadian Literary Review event at the University of Winnipeg.

Photo: Shannon VanRaes

Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh said he agrees.

“We have to move to a new level of collaboration,” he said.

“If (farmers) are going to provide greater wetlands, they have to be compensated rightly for that.”

Although work to restore wetlands is ongoing, they are being

destroyed at 10 times the rate of restoration, according to research done by Ducks Unlimited.

“It dispels the illusion that we in Canada are careful stewards of our water,” said University of Winnipeg president Lloyd Axworthy. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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by North American producers dropped by one-quarter to 1.9 million tonnes in the period. China accounted for just 12 per cent of sales and India five per cent.

“The weakness obviously is in China and India, but that shouldn’t be a surpr ise to anyone,” said analyst Spenc e r C h u rc h i l l o f Paradigm Capital.

PotashCorp, Agrium, and Mosaic conduct offshore potash sales from their mines in Western Canada through the marketing agency Canpotex.

Analysts had expected it to renew supply contracts with China and India in late summer, but now they say it may take until late 2012 or early 2013.

China is seen as being well supplied with the crop nutrient, while a reduction i n In d i a n s u b s i d i e s a n d a weaker rupee have made potash more expensive for that nation’s farmers.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

U.S. food movement seeks election-year vault to political force Food activists are seeking ballot-box power in the Nov. 6 presidential elections

By Charles Abbott washington / reuters

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he U.S. food movement, which groups a kaleidoscope of causes from inner-city gardens to hunger prevention and no-biotech crops, plans to link the farmers’ market to the ballot box as it challenges large-scale agriculture this year.

It is the first attempt to turn a largely unorganized social movement into a political force.

The most impor tant initiative for the movement is a Nov. 6 referendum in California to require labels on genetically engineered food sold in grocery stores. Under a new umbrella group, Food Policy Action, the movement issued its first voter scorecard

for congressional races this week.

“We’re coming to it about 40 years after the environmental movement did,” said activist Ken Cook, one of the dozen founders of Food Policy Action. “There aren’t a lot of politically oriented organizations in the food movement.

This is the first one.”

Beginning of something important Au t h o r M i c h a e l Po l l a n , a chronicler of the food movement, said the group’s scorecard showed the growth in the food movement.

“All in all, I think this marks the beginning of something important,” Pollan said Oct. 25.

Earlier this month, Pollan wrote in an essay that the

Nov. 6 general election will test whether the food movement is an organized political force.

Food and agriculture writer Tom Philpott of Mother Jones magazine said the movement is diverse, but seeks healthier food, better pay for workers, less pollution and “non-corporate-owned food networks.”

“I think adding a political pressure wing represents an important asset for the food movement and is potentially part of the food movement’s maturation into a more potent political force,” said Philpott.

Food Policy Action is starting on a financial shoestring with none of the accoutrements, such as a political action committee, of large advocacy groups.

Its scorecard, similar to one the League of Conservation Voters has put out for years, graded senators and representatives on 32 votes involving funding for food safety and public nutrition, cutting farm subsidies and limiting ethanol. Democrats tended to score higher than Republicans.

Low scores for policy-makers

Lawmakers from the Farm Belt rated poorly on the “food policy scorecard,” reflecting sharp disagreements between m a i n s t re a m f a r m e r s, w h o produce the bulk of U.S. food and fibre, and the food movement, which glories in small, local producers as the source of tasty, healthy and highquality food.

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senators who voted to require farmers to practise soil conservation to qualify for federally subsidized crop insurance. The major U.S. farm groups, who lost the vote in June, say the idea cuts a hole in their safety net.

“Foodies” criticize largescale mechanized farming, a profitable model since the 1950s, for using biotech seeds and synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and for confinement feeding of livestock. “ P r o d u c t i o n a g r i c u l t u r e” regards foodies as dilettantes in love with outmoded, highlabour methods common when farmers were the perennial poor cousins of city dwellers.

Large segments of the food movement work on nutr ition issues, whether it is a “soda tax” to prevent obesi t y, h u n g e r p re v e n t i o n o r food safety regulations. Others say fair wages for workers and humane treatment of livestock are vital links in the food chain. Stereotypically, foodies prize hand-prepared food, heirloom plants, a good restaurant or a time-proven recipe.

For years, farmers’ markets and organic food were the best-known symbols of the food movement. There are 7,900 farmers’ markets now, compared with 3,100 a decade ago. Organic sales were strong through the recession and grew by nearly eight per cent in 2010. They were four per cent of U.S. food and beverage sales.

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EU may extend zero import duties brussels / reuters / The European Union’s cereals management committee will vote Nov. 8 on whether to extend the suspension of the bloc’s import duties on feed wheat and barley until the end of June 2013, a draft regulation showed.

In June, the European Union suspended its import duties of 12 euros per tonne for low- and medium-quality wheat and 16 euros a tonne for feed barley until the end of this calendar year, in response to high grain prices.

With poor grain harvests this year in the United States and parts of Europe keeping prices high, sources close to the committee said the proposal from the European Commission to extend the zero duties is likely to be approved.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

Baytril use expanded to hogs and dairy heifers The antimicrobial already used against BRD in beef feedlots STAFF

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n antimicrobial weapon against respiratory illness in feedlot cattle can now also be used against pneumonias in hogs and non-lactating dairy cattle.

Bayer HealthCare’s Canadian animal health division announced Oct. 24 it has approvals to sell its injectable enrofloxacin solution, Baytril 100, to treat swine respiratory disease (SRD) in hogs, and to treat bovine respiratory disease (BRD) in non-lactating dairy cattle under 20 months of age.

“Left untreated, respiratory disease in pigs causes lung damage and increases mortality, impacting the bottom line,” Dr. Bruce Kilmer, director of technical services and regulatory affairs for Bayer HealthCare’s animal health arm, said in a release.

Researchers have found SRD can increase hog feed costs by adding up to six additional days to market.

Pneumonia can also reduce pig growth rates by as much as eight per cent, the company added.

Si m i l a r l y, t h e l o n g term costs of BRD in dairy re p l a c e m e n t s i n c l u d e decreased growth, delayed age to first calving, premature culling from the herd and, as a result, reduced profitability.

L e f t u n t re a t e d B R D “ i m p e d e s g r ow t h a n d increases morbidity.” The cost of replacing dairy heifers in Canada is estimated at $2,200 each.

The product has been available to veterinarians since 2004 to treat recurring respiratory disease in “highrisk” feedlot cattle, the company said.

In hogs, Baytril 100 is administered as a singledose therapy and “should not be used as a mass medication.” For non-lactating dairy cattle, it can be administered as a single-dose therapy or as a multiple-day therapy, but again shouldn’t be used as an enmasse medication, the company said.

In all cases, it should be used “after first choice treatment has failed.”

In hogs, Bayer said, Baytril’s bactericidal effects work against Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, Pasteurella multocida and Haemophilus parasuis, the “major culprits” in swine SRD. In young cattle, Bayer added, Baytril 100 kills Pasteurella multocida and Mannheimia haemolytica, the chief causes of BRD. The product is “concentration dependent, not time dependent,” the company said.

Fort Ellice site sold to Nature Conservancy of Canada Deal includes 3,500 acres of sandhills, bush, and pasture along Assiniboine River

By Daniel Winters

Under NCC rules, the land will continue to be available to leaseholders for grazing and haying uses via an agricultural use agreement.

Citing vendor privacy, Teneycke would not disclose the amount paid for the farm.

The deal means that the Fort Ellice site, which was for years the focus of a bitter expropriation battle between the landowners and the local town and rural municipal councils, may now be open for development.

“NCC was of course aware of the interest by the municipality,” he said. “We’ve had a number of discussions with the RM and we’re working with it to explore options on how we can do that.”

The purchase decision was driven mainly by the biodiversity of the land, but he added that the private charitable organization recognizes the

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The historic Fort Ellice site and 3,500 acres of farmland owned by Arthur and Christine Fouillard of St. Lazare has been sold to the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC).

Kevin Teneycke, Brandonbased director of conservation for NCC, said that property was acquired in late June.

Now known as the HBC Reserve, the parcel near St. Lazare is described on the group’s website as a “true treasure” of upland prairie, wooded habitat and riparian areas overlooking the Assiniboine River and Beaver Creek.

“It’s a property with high biodiversity value that has been recognized for some time as an important piece of natural habitat,” said Teneycke.

“We’re looking at working with partners on how we might make it more available to the public.”

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“historical significance” of the Fort Ellice site.

“We’re looking at working with partners on how we might make it more available to the public,” said Teneycke.

Marcel Fouillard, who speaks on behalf of his aging parents, said that his father agreed to the deal with NCC because it

would allow the farm to be kept together as a single block and managed in a way that would preserve it for future generations.

“Nature Conservancy does good work, and they gave us a fair price,” said Fouillard.

He did not want to discuss the implications of the deal for the contentious 288-acre Fort Ellice site, citing “wounds in the community that are still healing.”

NCC derives its budget from donations and government grants, as well as revenue from leasing the properties it owns to agricultural users. It owns some two million acres of land across Canada, including roughly 40,000 in Manitoba.

It also recently acquired a quarter section of sandhills west of Oak Lake owned by Tim Mowez. daniel.winters@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

New study says productivity gains reshaping agriculture

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by BMO Bank of Montreal.

“With the quantity of land devoted to farming relatively stable and reliance on government support generally in decline, the industry is truly doing more with less,” said David Rinneard, the bank’s national manager of agriculture.

Agricultural output has jumped 30 per cent even while employment in the sector has declined 26 per cent, he noted.

“This represents a remarkable productivity gain, particularly as real capital input increased by only three per cent over the same time frame,” he said.

The average farm is now 28 per cent larger than in 1997 and the rising age of operators (54 years old), means “there should be an ongoing opportunity for further consolidation as new retirees exit the industry,” said Rinneard.

The study says improved seed and livestock genetics, along with better management, have greatly boosted productivity. It also gives credit to farmers for moving away from traditional crops, such as wheat, to higherprofit ones and for “ramping up production of higher valueadded products including organics, non-genetically modified products, and locally produced foods.”

All of this has been good for the bottom line, the study says. It says farm debt “r e m a i n s l ow r e l a t i v e t o equity” and “only four per cent of industry revenue is required to service debt.”

However, the report notes, that while grain producers are benefiting from high commodity prices, the picture is less rosy for livestock sectors.

The high value of the loonie is also a concern, said Rinneard.

Food imports have risen by 64 per cent since 2002 because of the dollar’s appreciation in value while exports have only risen by 14 per cent. The report said European demand for Canadian food products has dropped while competition from other countries, especially in Latin America and Asia, has increased.

In the past, producers in developing countries were not equipped to compete with capital-intensive agricultural producers in developed economies, but this is changing with the adoption of more modern agricultural practices, the report states.

But emerging markets offer a great opportunity for Canadian agriculture and will account for nearly 60 per cent of new wheat demand and nearly 70 per cent of new demand for oilseeds.

“The situation is even more pronounced for meat products, which are constituting a greater part of diets in emerging markets as incomes grow,” the report states.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

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ritain has delayed a plan to shoot thousands of badgers to stop the spread of tuberculosis in cattle in the face of overwhelming public opposition to the cull.

Critics of the cull, which was supported by farmers, said it would be ineffective, not least because fleeing badgers would simply spread the disease beyond the pilot areas in southwest England where it had been due to begin shortly.

The debate is a sensitive one in Britain, where the mass slaughter of cattle to control disease in livestock has left deep scars in farming communities following outbreaks of other diseases over the past two decades.

Last year, 26,000 affected cattle were slaughtered and the disease cost taxpayers 90 million

pounds ($145 million), including compensation to farmers.

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said Oct. 23 the delay had been due to surveys showing a higher number of badgers than thought in the afflicted areas. The opposition Labour party branded it a further example of government ineptitude after several blunders this month.

“The farmers delivering this (culling) have concluded that they cannot be confident that it will be possible to remove enough badgers based on these higher numbers,” Paterson told parliament.

“It would be wrong to go ahead if those on the ground cannot be confident of removing at least 70 per cent of the badger populations.”

Public opposition to the cull has been widespread, with

Environmental groups, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have voiced their opposition to plans by Britain’s government to begin culling wild badgers in order to combat bovine tuberculosis in England’s cattle herds.

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more than 150,000 people signing an online protest petition initiated by former Queen guitarist Brian May. Prime Minister David Cam-

eron’s Conservatives have fallen further behind Labour in the polls and critics say they are increasingly seen as both incompetent and out of touch with ordinary voters.

“Labour has warned the government for two years that a cull was bad for farmers, bad for taxpayers and bad for wildlife, and it is right that it has been delayed,” opposition environment spokeswoman Mary Creagh said.

Paterson said that while the government remained committed to vaccinating cattle against TB, the vaccine was not yet fully developed, and so the shooting would start next summer.

Animal rights activists had threatened to disrupt the nighttime shooting and police leave had been cancelled until the new year in one of the areas for fear of violence.

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The move, announced as the Calgary company completed a $900-million share buyback, comes amid pressure from its largest shareholder, Jana Partners LLC, which wants Agrium to explore options to boost shareholder value.

Jana has been pushing for a split of the fertilizer company’s wholesale and retail divisions, but Agrium has stood its ground, arguing that its integrated business model benefits shareholders.

“It’s definitely a positive,” Lazard Capital Markets analyst Edlain Rodriguez said of the dividend increase. “I think Agrium recognized that it has to return more cash to shareholders, and to us this is just the beginning of it.”

Agrium is a major producer of nitrogen fertilizers. It also produces potash- and phosphatebased nutrients used to boost crop yields. In addition, the company owns the biggest network of farm retail stores in the U.S. that sell seed, chemicals and fertilizer.

The Jana hedge fund, which owns about four per cent of Agrium, also wants the company to improve disclosure, reduce operating costs and working capital and address some corporate costs.

“The increased dividend and $900-million substantial issuer bid are an indication of our confidence that our integrated business model will continue to deliver strong results for the benefit of shareholders,” Agrium CEO Mike Wilson said in a statement.

A spokesman for Jana could not immediately be reached.

Agrium said it intends to double its dividend to $2 a share on an annualized basis and move to a quarterly payment schedule from a semi-annual payout, as of the next scheduled dividend in January.

The move gives Agrium a dividend yield of 1.9 per cent, comparing its annual dividend against its closing stock price on Friday, just behind that of rival PotashCorp but ahead of other North American fertilizer peers, said Ben Isaacson, analyst at Scotia Capital, in a note to clients.

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The Prairie Wide Web:

Virtual communities of pioneer women Social media was alive and well a century ago in the pages of Prairie farm publications

By Barb Galbraith CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR/OAKVILLE

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efore the World Wide Web, women living on isolated homesteads belonged to virtual communities with much in common with today’s social media. These communities involved more than one physical location. They offered an exchange of ideas, opinions and information, and provided networking, education and problem-solving opportunities.

Instead of Facebook or Twitter, they had names such as “Circle of Good Company” and “Home Loving Hearts.” Found in agricultural publications and newspapers, they were known collectively as the “women’s pages.”

Conversations flowed in letters between editor and subscriber, but it was expected and understood that this correspondence was also read and responded to by a community of women, plus a few men. Unlike today, published letters to the editor didn’t require actual names and were the only form of regular contact with the outside world for many early homesteaders. A letter in a 1900 Family Herald and Weekly Star’s “Good Company” pages asked readers to “Imagine being 60 miles from a post office for over a year!”

Prior to the 1880s, newspapers enjoyed financial support from political party contributions. Reporting was anything but balanced and impartial. The advent of the “new journalism” and its trend toward objectivity meant revenue sources went from partisan to business based. Papers needed increased readership to attract advertising dollars. This resulted in the creation of a section aimed specifically at women, the chief purchasers of items for the home.

“Who assigned ‘church work and temperance work to women as their only righteous fields for her away-from-home endeavours?’ Will a day spent away from home in church work be shorter than one spent away in politics?”

GRAIN GROWERS GUIDE Editorial, 1910

Noms de plume

Previously, few women had written for newspapers, but those who did wrote from home under male, female or ambiguous (initials only) pseudonyms to protect their identity. That respectable women would want a career in journalism went against public opinion.

Items on these pages were not hard news, so men refused to write them.

Opportunities opened up for females as reporters and editors, and for a feminine world view. Male reporters considered these columns mere fluff, but in reality they were rich in diversity of topics and sometimes subversive.

Activism requires a public means of communication. Through the printed page, feminists lobbied for change.

Recipes and domestic advice ran side by side with articles on Canadian homestead law, the Dower Act and suffrage.

“Bu t t e r a n d E g g s,” D i s t r i c t o f Assiniboia, wrote in 1905 to the Prim Rose at Home editor: “Will you, through your helpful columns, suggest the best means of acquiring land by a single woman... where is the benefit of opening up the agricultural colleges if a woman must, after gaining theoretical knowledge of the subject — take up some other calling in order to provide herself with means to purchase land? Is it not a rather useless concession? Could you not get up a petition for some small holdings for women…?”

In the women’s pages of The Grain Growers Guide in 1910, “A Manitoba Woman Pioneer” wrote, “It’s a pity to see women shutting their eyes to the misery of their sisters, who are at the mercy of some mean men, who can will away everything and leave wife and children homeless and penniless; or of a drunkard who can, when in his cups, sell house and all and leave them in the same bad state.”

Regarding a Dundurn farmer’s comments on Dower law, “Just a Woman” countered: “To say he has a nerve is putting it mildly… He says the subject is worn threadbare. If it is distasteful to him there are 22 other pages in The Guide he might read.”

An editorial in the same publication responded to letter writer Mrs. Ted: “Who assigned ‘church work and temperance work to women as their only righteous fields for her away-from-home endeavours?’ Will a day spent away from home in church work be shorter than one spent away in politics?”

Charity by mail

Women networked within these communities to provide what are now government-mandated services. Several letters mentioned looking for permanent or temporary homes for children and babies. In an early form of recycling, used clothing, reading material and sewing patterns were sent directly to a recipient once an address was secured or to the paper and forwarded to a subscriber.

In 1900, “E.M.T. of the Northwest Territories” (then including Alberta, Saskatchewan and a good part of Manitoba) wrote the “Hostess” of Circle of Good Company: “Will you kindly send me two or three addresses of people living in either Manitoba, Assiniboia, or Alberta, to whom we could send partly worn clothing or stockings. We have a quantity of such articles which could be cut down and made over for children.

If the people whose addresses you send are too poor to pay carriage, please let me know, also the number of persons in the families.”

Women who would never meet physically, yet held similar values, shared information ranging from domestic to feminist issues.

The women’s pages might not have been digital, but they provided virtual communities which continuously grew as settlers pushed farther west.

The “Around the Fireside” pages for women in an April, 1910 issue of the Grain Growers Guide. One letter reads in part: We have in our district a homesteader whose wife furnished the money that brought them from the Old Country. She lives at home all the time with her five children — one of whom is consumptive — while her husband is every day in town and drinks incessantly.

He will “prove up” this next summer. I wonder if Miss Johnson and Miss Baily (previous writers who opposed the dower law — marital property rights for women) will be glad to know this poor woman and her helpless children will be compelled to give up the only place they could ever call home, and it is sure to be their last.

Yes, a dower law by all means.

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RecipeSwap

Send your recipes or recipe request to: Manitoba Co-operator Recipe Swap Box 1794, Carman, Man. ROG OJO or email: lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

Meat recall is a wake-up call for cooked, such as putting cooked meat on the same plate that held the raw.

Lorraine Stevenson Crossroads Recipe Swap

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ust days after the Food and Agriculture Organization’s report how one-third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted every year, the XL Foods scandal began.

Now we’re hearing that at least two million pounds of beef, the equivalent of about 6,000 to 7,000 cattle, is heading to Alberta landfills. It’s the largest E. coli-related meat recall in history.

It’s also the biggest “when in doubt, throw it out” debacle we’ve ever seen.

Even as inspectors and company managers scramble to make the system safer, a lot of consumers are pretty lax insofar as what we could do to avoid this waste.

Here’s some of our most common cooking errors which, as pointed out by the Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education, is what we’re doing to increase a food safety risk.

• Only about half of cooks wash their hands before or after handling food.

• Many take meat out of the fridge and bring it to room temperature — a habit apparently picked up from watching television cooking shows.

• Only about 15 per cent of people use a food thermometer to test for doneness. Many simply eye the meat’s colour to decide if it is cooked.

• Cooks use the same equipment for raw meat as

XL’s problems began when, despite its own monitoring and that of dozens of Canadian Food Inspection Agency inspectors, a large number of cattle reportedly entered the plant carrying E. coli. The problem continues at the other end when the rest of us neither seem to know nor practise even the basics of safe food handling.

This meat recall, and the appalling waste resulting from it, is a wake up-call. We all have a role to play in ensuring food is safe to eat.

That means consistently following certain safe food-handling practices.

• Washing hands before and during cooking, with soap and water and using the 20-second rule (hum two choruses of Happy Birthday.)

• Keeping foods chilled in the fridge at 4 C until ready to cook — and that includes marinating too.

• Using a digital food thermometer to test for doneness. (See the chart below for proper temperatures.)

• Wash the barbecue tongs after flipping steaks, burgers, chicken, kabobs during cooking, and before you use them to take food off the grill to serve. Or better yet, have two pairs of tongs — one for raw and one for cooked. The same goes for cutting boards.

For more information and tips on how to keep your home food safe, visit www.befoodsafe.ca and www.canfightbac.org.

Safe cooking temperatures as measured with a food thermometer GROUND MEAT AND MEAT MIXTURES Beef, Pork, Veal and Lamb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 C (160 F) Turkey, Chicken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 C (165 F)

HAM Fresh (raw). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 C (160 F) Pre-cooked (to reheat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 C (165 F)

FRESH BEEF, VEAL, LAMB Medium Rare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 C (145 F) Medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 C (160 F) Well Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 C (170 F)

EGG and EGG DISHES Egg dishes and casseroles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 C (165 F)

. 85 C (185 F) . 74 C (165 F) . 74 C (165 F) . 74 C (165 F)

SEAFOOD Fin Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 C (158 F) For one minute. Flesh is opaque Shrimp, Lobster and Crabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 C (165 F) Flesh is pearly and opaque Clams, Oysters and Mussels Shells open during cooking Scallops Milky white or opaque and firm

FRESH PORK Medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 C (160 F)

LEFTOVERS and CASSEROLES . . . . . . . . . . . 74 C (165 F) Source: www.befoodsafe.ca

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his transition into winter can often be the busiest time of year for families as all our commitments to volunteering and extracurricular activities gear up. Here are two delicious recipes to pull together hearty, nightly meals in no time.

Slow-Cooker Southwestern Pulled Beef Don’t let the “eight hours cooking” deter you from trying this delicious recipe. The leftovers become several next-day dinner options listed below, or it can be frozen for other future fast meals too.

2 tbsp. vegetable oil 4 lb. beef cross rib or boneless blade pot roast 1 c. beef broth 28-oz. (796-ml) can, EACH crushed tomatoes and whole tomatoes 1 pouch onion soup mix 2 tbsp. EACH tomato paste, chili powder and ground cumin 1/4 tsp. EACH black and cayenne pepper 2 tbsp. all-purpose flour

Heat oil in Dutch oven or heavy deep skillet over medium-high heat; brown beef all over, turning with tongs. Transfer to slow cooker. Drain fat.

Reduce heat to medium. Add broth, tomatoes, onion soup mix, tomato paste, chili powder, cumin, black pepper and cayenne to Dutch oven.

Bring to boil over medium-high heat, stirring up any brown bits. Pour over beef. Cover and cook on low setting for eight to 10 hours until beef is fork tender. Skim fat from liquid. Leave meat in sauce, remove twine. Whisk flour into 1/4 cup cold water; whisk into sauce in slow cooker.

Cover and cook on high, stirring once, until thickened, about 15 minutes. Use two forks to pull the beef into shreds.

HOT BEEF SANDWICHES: Heat some pulled beef in microwave or saucepan. Spoon over split sub buns and top with ready-made coleslaw or panfried onions and sliced pickled jalapeno peppers.

Serve with green salad or raw veggies and dip.

QUICK QUESADILLAS: Spoon 1/2 cup pulled beef on half of one large flour tortilla; top beef with some shredded cheddar cheese and sliced pickled jalapeno peppers. Fold tortilla over filling; repeat with three more tortillas. Bake on parchment paper-lined baking sheet in 400 F (200 C) oven, turning once, until golden, about eight minutes per side. Makes four servings.

TACO TIME: Heat some pulled beef in microwave or

saucepan; spoon into warmed taco shells or flour tortillas with your favourite taco fixings.

MEXICAN SHEPHERD’S PIE: In 9 x 13-inch baking

Simple Skillet Ground Beef Stroganoff A big batch ground beef recipe like this one lets you pull other meals together in just minutes — great for those busy nights when you need supper fast. If you want to skip making the big batch beef, substitute one lb. fresh ground beef, browned with one EACH large onion and clove garlic, minced.

2 c. curly broad egg noodles 2 c. sliced mushrooms 1 small sweet red pepper, thinly sliced 2-1/2 c. frozen Big Batch Ground Beef* 1 can (10 oz./284 ml) condensed fat-reduced cream of mushroom soup 3/4 c. light sour cream 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce or Dijon mustard Chopped fresh parsley and paprika

Cook noodles according to package directions; drain and set aside. Meanwhile, stir-fry mushrooms and sweet pepper with a splash of vegetable oil in a deep non-stick skillet over medium-high heat, until softened and any

liquid from the mushrooms has evaporated, (about 10 minutes). Stir in Big Batch Beef, soup, sour cream and Worcestershire sauce; simmer over medium heat 10 minutes. Serve over hot egg noodles; garnish with minced fresh parsley and paprika. *BIG BATCH GROUND BEEF: Cook four lbs. extra-lean ground beef in Dutch oven over medium-high heat for 10 minutes, breaking into small chunks with back of spoon, until browned. Drain and return to pot. Add four EACH onion and cloves of garlic, minced, simmer for 15 minutes until vegetables are softened. Spread in a single layer on several foil or parchment paper-lined baking trays; freeze until meat is firm, about 1 hour. Loosen into chunks, scoop meal-sized portions into freezer bags. Freeze for up to three months.

dish, combine four cups pulled beef, one can (19 oz./540 ml) EACH chili-style stewed tomatoes and kidney beans (drained and rinsed) and two cups frozen corn. Top with four cups mashed potatoes (homemade or 1 pkg/907 g readymade). Bake in 350 F (180 C) oven until heated through, about 30 minutes.

Difficulty: Easy. Preparation: 10 minutes.

Cooking: 8 hours. Makes: 13 cup servings.

Best suited for: Potluck/buffet, cook once eat twice.

Source: Canadabeef Inc www.canadabeef.ca

Recipe Swap…

I’m always happy to hear from readers with your recipes and suggestions for columns! Write to:

Difficulty: Easy. Preparation: 5 minutes.

Cooking: 20 minutes. Makes: 6 servings.

Best suited for: Lots of kids.

Manitoba Co-operator Recipe Swap Box 1794, Carman, Man. ROG OJO

Source: Canadabeef Inc www.canadabeef.ca

Or email: lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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ou seem out of sorts Dad.” Randy Jackson leaned back in his chair as he spoke, and pushed his empty plate away. The other people at the table, Randy’s wife Jackie, his sister Jennifer and his mother and father, Rose and Andrew, kept eating, although it was clear they were nearly through as well. A few slabs of roast beef still lay on the serving platter and a few scoops of mashed potatoes could have been had yet from the potato dish, but other than that there wasn’t much left on the table except for a mess of dirty dishes.

“Your father is just cranky, Randy,” said Rose, “because there’s nothing on TV.” Randy looked at his father quizzically “Is this true?” he asked.

“Dang straight,” said Andrew. “There is nothing on tonight and there’ll be nothing on again tomorrow, and the day after that there’ll be repeats of tonight’s and tomorrow’s nothing.”

“And by nothing,” said Jennifer, “Dad means hockey.”

Randy looked surprised. “I thought you didn’t watch hockey, Dad,” he said.

“I didn’t,” said Andrew. “Not for 15 years. I quit when the Jets left town. Who wants to watch hockey when the only game on is the Carolina Hurricanes and the Atlanta Thrashers, and you know that at least half of the fans in the stands couldn’t even spell the word hockey if their lives depended on it. Not me, that’s who. But I started watching again when the Jets came back.”

“Wow,” said Randy. “So you’re one of those Jets fans they keep writing about in the newspaper, who feel cheated and abused because the Jets finally came back and now they’re locked out?”

“I wouldn’t say cheated and abused,” said Andrew. “More like aggravated and annoyed.”

“So why don’t you watch the American presidential debates instead?” said Jackie. “There’s almost as many of those on as there would be hockey games.”

Andrew gave her his best incredulous look.

“You’re suggesting that I make up for the lack of hockey on TV by watching American democracy wither and die on national television?” he said.

“How cheerful.”

“Well, that seems a little overly pessimistic, even for you,” said Rose. “American democracy may not be the shining beacon of hope that it

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used to be but that doesn’t mean it’s withering and dying.”

“Oh it’s a shining beacon all right,” said Andrew, “but that’s just because it’s going down in flames.”

“Seriously?” said Jennifer. “Do you really think so?”

Andrew paused, realizing that Jennifer was indeed serious.

“Well,” he said, softening his tone a little, “it may not actually be crashing and burning yet, but if the middle class doesn’t figure out a way to dig itself out of the hole that the government

and the bankers have put them in, then I expect the system will break down in a hurry. Because if there’s one thing history should have taught us, it’s that there are few systems that work worse than having an upper class and a lower class with nothing in the middle. Just ask the former monarchs of Russia or France or Spain. ” “But the United States doesn’t have any monarchs,” said Jennifer.

“Try telling Donald Trump that,” said Randy.

“Exactly,” said Andrew.

“I don’t get it,” said Jennifer. “What happens if there’s no middle class?”

“Eventually the lower class gets fed up,” said Andrew, “and then they figure out some way to depose the upper class. It’s not generally pretty.

And the fact that everybody in America has guns isn’t going to make it any prettier if it comes to that.”

Jennifer looked worried. “How soon do you think all of that is going to happen?” she wanted to know.

Andrew thought about that for a moment.

“Probably a couple of hundred years,” he said.

Jennifer looked relieved. “Geez,” she said. “I thought it’d be like, next week.”

“Oh heck no,” said Andrew. “Watching democracy wither and die is like watching a very, very, slow car crash. It’s a long, drawn-out agony.”

“So it’s like watching the Bombers play football,” said Jennifer.

“Very much like that,” said Andrew. “Which is another thing that makes me cranky.”

“You need to get some perspective, Pops,” said Randy. “The death of democracy would be worth getting cranky about I suppose, but hockey and football not so much. And if you have to be cranky for 200 years while democracy slowly crumbles, that hardly seems like time well spent.

Maybe you’d be better off trying to do something to help democracy survive.”

Andrew raised an eyebrow. “Like what?”

“Ooh, you could run for parliament Dad!” said Jennifer. “We could move to Ottawa.”

“There’s just one major flaw in that plan darling,” said Rose.

“What?” asked Jennifer.

“Moving to Ottawa,” said Rose, “would make ME more than cranky.”

“Case closed,” said Andrew.

Letter to a young farmer…

By Alma Barkman FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR

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he farm is old and needs a lot of work, you say.

I hope you realize that 50 years from now your son will likely say the very same as he views your own weathered dreams, because farms, like people, never reach perfection. Yet every generation has a vision all its own, but sometimes in the eagerness to improve upon the past there is a danger of tearing down more than is built. At the risk of sounding like a sentimental old fool, I caution you not to be too quick in eliminating the eyesores of yesteryear — the sagging barn, the patched wooden granaries, a rickety henhouse. To you they may be crude emblems of crop failures and poor quotas, but to some of us they represent the joy of a good yield, the warning crack of a wooden granary about to burst, the props and braces hammered on amid the haste of bringing in a bumper crop.

To you they are a poor excuse for carpentry, but to the men who farmed these acres before you they symbolize success — at last! In the never-ending battle to fill the breadbaskets of the world, that old granary was an arsenal of ammunition. When the day finally comes to tear it down, do so with respect to its historic value. In a world that is racked with hun-

PHOTO: ALMA BARKMAN

ger pains, that granary represents your heritage of plenty.

Farm buildings are strange that way.

Time depreciates their value but appreciates their meaning. You say you plan to level that sagging old barn, that diversified farming is not for you. Should the day ever come when you find yourself staring at nothing but broken eggs in the bottom of your solitary basket, however, you may begin to see things from a different perspective. That quaint old barn leaning into the wind may suddenly represent the practical wisdom of bygone

days. Bulldoze it to the ground and the gaunt spectre of bankruptcy may rise to meet you from the ruins. Give fair consideration to that for which it stands and you may be the richer for it.

But you think I am exaggerating, that “it doesn’t pay” to raise your own meat, to butcher your own hogs, gather your own eggs, milk a cow or two. That dilapidated old henhouse down by the clump of willows bears mute evidence to the contrary, a visible reminder of the days when egg crates and cream cans were shuttled back and forth between supply and demand in

a concerted bid to keep the family farm afloat. Faced by the prospect of a mortgage foreclosure, “it doesn’t pay” was not a favourite phrase of your forefathers and today you have the family farm to prove it.

Even though by comparison the economy may have treated you kindly, there is the present-day danger of being squeezed out by things until there is too little time for family relationships. In striving to build that new house, for instance, I hope you don’t forget the degree of love and co-operation and caring that emanated from the old home place. What started out as a big old rambling house with nine-foot ceilings and drafty floors eventually boasted that rarest of all rural luxuries, indoor plumbing. So maybe the water was hard and sometimes in short supply, but convenience in farming has always carried with it a certain measure of sacrifice.

Even though the new house you plan to build will not have sagging floors nor a dusty old furnace hogging most of the cellar, remember that for those of us whose roots are buried within its walls, the prospect of seeing precious memories torn from the landscape is painfully near, the price tag on progress unbearably high. In deference to our tired dreams, please swing your wrecking bar with care.

Alma Barkman writes from Winnipeg

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BIRDBATHS:

Important in winter and summer Using a heated one will give birds water access all year

By Donna Gamache Freelance contributor

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Top: Sparrows bathing in a heated birdbath. Bottom: Jays having a drink on a cold day. PHOTOS: DONNA GAMACHE

They don’t bathe as often during the winter but they use it for drinking and to help wash down their food.

f you’re trying to attract birds to your yard, one of the most useful items is a birdbath. Both winter and summer, a source of water near your feeders will attract songbirds to feed and bathe. My husband and I found this particularly true when there has been a long dry spell, such as we’ve had this summer and fall.

Bathing, even occasionally in winter, helps keep a bird’s feathers in good condition. This will help with body insulation when it’s cold. But weather isn’t the only factor to consider; size matters, too. Water loss in the small birds we usually attract is relatively higher than in larger birds and, of course, how much flying they do will also influence how much water they lose.

If you’re lucky enough to have a pond or an artificial water feature with moving water in your yard, you’ll know how the birds love this, but these can be expensive. If you don’t, then you can settle for a simple birdbath. In our yard, we’ve been careful to keep fresh water in the bath and it has become a popular spot for all sorts of songbirds.

Often the birds seem to come in bunches, especially in the morning and late afternoon. One early-October morning we watched as a dozen robins took turns having a bath or a drink. A single catbird appeared, a pair of mourning doves, a northern flicker, numerous goldfinches and purple finches in their muted fall colours, three blue jays, a couple of juncos and, of course, house sparrows.

One birdbath didn’t seem enough, so we moved our imitation Grecian urn from our back deck to a spot near the birdbath. This urn is the type we plug in to create a tiny trickling waterfall, and the birds loved that, especially the robins. One robin even tried to take a bath there in the confined area.

My husband also put out another shallow pan with water to create more space.

Then he found directions on the Internet for making a homemade bird-

bath dripper. To make one, punch two pinholes in a recycled plastic jug (one in the bottom, and the other near the top for airflow). Fill the jug with water and hang it above a birdbath. Check the directions at: http://www.dannylipford.com/how-tomake-a-homemade-birdbath-dripper-foryour-yard/.

Lately I have heard birders talk about a product called a “Water Wiggler.” It doesn’t need wiring or plumbing but uses a couple of D batteries — which may last up to two months — and is set in a simple flat, saucer-shaped bowl or a birdbath where it will create continuous ripples. I’m thinking about buying one of these, though I wonder if this might mean not enough room for birds to bathe in a small bath like ours. Apparently the motion of the water also helps keep the water cleaner and deter mosquitoes from laying eggs in the summer. The newest kind now has a solar version, too, instead of batteries. I’ve also seen advertisements for something called a Drip-or-Mist, but I haven’t talked to anyone who has used one.

A couple of years ago we bought a heated birdbath to use during the winter, and it’s one of the best buys for birds that we’ve made. They don’t bathe as often during the winter but they use it for drinking and to help wash down their food — especially since winter diets are usually drier than summer diets.

A water source is particularly valuable in late October and November when there may be very little snow and all the natural water sources are frozen. We have ours placed not far from the suet, sunflower seeds and niger seed we regularly feed the birds in winter.

If you want to attract birds to your feeders, perhaps you might consider buying a birdbath and/or a Water Wiggler. (They make a great birthday or Christmas gift for a bird lover! Hint! Hint!) And remember to put in fresh water frequently, and to clean the bath regularly.

Donna Gamache writes from MacGregor, Manitoba

Continued care of your chrysanthemum Under the right conditions you may be able to enjoy your plant for a while longer

By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

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aybe it was because of the lovely warm, sunny autumn that we enjoyed, but for whatever reason, retail shops and garden centres were filled with potted chrysanthemums in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. Even after Thanksgiving, there was an abundance of potted mums available for people to use in their autumn décor. The colours include bright yellow, vibrant red, deep maroon, shimmering copper and pure white. When in full bloom a potted mum is a sight to behold.

Many people place their potted mums in an outdoor display around the time of Thanksgiving but by now the plants have long since been moved indoors to protect them from the cold.

They might yet contribute a few weeks

of colour to the indoor landscape if they are cared for appropriately. Particularly if the potted mum was in bud — as many of the ones that I saw were — instead of in full bloom, the plant might bloom well into November.

Mums like bright light so the best location indoors would be close to a sunny window, but perhaps with the pot set aside a bit to protect it from the full rays of the strongest afternoon sun.

Full, direct sun will cause the blooms to go past more quickly. The potted plant should be watered regularly as the soil will be full of roots, which will suck up moisture from the soil in no time; do not allow the planting medium to dry out. The best way to water the pot is to place it in the sink and add water until it comes out the drainage holes in the bottom of the pot. Let the pot drain well.

There is no need to fertilize the plant;

residual fertilizer applied in the greenhouse will carry it through until it is finished blooming. Fertilizer would only be added if the plant is wintered over, which few people attempt as it is difficult to accomplish. Be sure to snip off spent blooms and discoloured leaves to keep the plant attractive and keep a close watch for insects. Spider mites will attack chrysanthemums, especially in the warm, dry environment of our homes at this time of year. Giving the plant a quick shower, being careful not to damage the blooms, will help to avoid an infestation.

Enjoy your potted mum as long as it continues to bloom and then consign it to the compost bin. It will have earned its keep by supplying you with brilliant fall colour, probably right up until the snow flies.

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

When in full bloom a chrysanthemum puts on a colourful display. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

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By Daniel Winters CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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heep producers Lorna Wall and Rozanne Nevakshonoff are Interlake neighbours who disagree over whether guardian dogs or donkeys do the best job of protecting their herds.

But they do agree on one thing: guardian animals are their best defence against the coyotes, wolves, bears and cougars roaming their sparsely populated farms near Poplarfield.

Both say their preferred guardians have virtually eliminated predation losses.

Before Lorna and Pete Wall brought in a pair of Akbash dogs to protect their flock, lambs would regularly disappear without a trace.

“Pete has watched it happen,” she said.

At about 11 a.m., when the flock was far enough away from the house to be out of rifle range, a coyote would skulk out of the bush and grab a lamb as casually as a shopper lifts a package of meat off a supermarket shelf.

“As long as the coyote comes out nice and quiet, they can just pick that lamb up and nobody pays any

Whether you prefer canines or equines, guardian animals do their job

attention at all,” said Wall. “Now, they’ve figured out how to get a free dinner.”

In 2007, Pete brought home a pair of dogs that looked like “a ball of Kleenex with short, stubby legs.”

They put the pups in with the ewes to bond them to the flock. When a ewe got too aggressive, they would roll onto their backs and “scream like a banshee.”

The first pair grew up into a formidable protection team, and they’ve since begun bonding more pups as replacements and for sale at $500 per dog.

Even though the area is thick with wildlife and bush cover, regular patrols by the Akbash dogs, which stand six feet tall on their hind legs and weigh over 200 pounds, have kept the flock safe from four-legged terrorists, even bears, which they once chased up a tree.

Last winter, however, one of the big male Akbash dogs had to be put down after it got an infection from a “big gash” received after fighting off what they figure was a cougar.

Having at least a pair of dogs — or one for every 50 animals — is the secret to successful flock protection, she said, because the Akbash dogs “hunt” attackers swiftly and silently

as a team. Often, while one is lying down in the middle of the flock, the other circles the perimeter.

Try and sneak up on the flock, and within seconds, you’ll feel a silent, formidable furry presence “right on your butt,” said Wall.

That means two-legged predators intent on stealing sheep are also kept at bay.

Once, a visitor ignored warnings to avoid touching the lambs, and Wall said that one of the dogs promptly “knocked his hat off” as a warning.

Like any species, human or otherwise, there are good performers and poor performers. Mixing guardian dog breeds makes the results harder to predict, said Wall.

When the Walls lived in Alberta, they tried donkeys as guardian animals, but found that they attacked the lambs too much.

But Rozanne Nevakshonoff, who uses small standard donkeys as guardian animals to protect her flock of 90 sheep about three miles away from the Walls’ farm, swears by them.

“We live in coyote country, but I’ve never lost a sheep to predators. Not in seven years,” said Nevakshonoff.

She runs two jennies with her flock, and keeps a jack for breed-

ing. The donkeys, which she plans to sell for about $400 per head, offer significantly lower costs than dogs because they eat grass. She believes they are more effective than guardian dogs.

“They’ll attack a coyote or a bear,” she said. “I’ve seen mine come over the fence to chase off a wolf.”

Nevakshonoff, who once had a Great Pyrenees guardian dog but got rid of it after it killed a few of her sheep, said that donkeys are more trustworthy, cheaper to feed, and easier to manage.

“I tried both and I found that I prefer the donkeys,” she said, adding that she’s had no problems with them behaving too aggressively with the flock.

Different farms have different needs, she said, adding that she knows shepherds who have had good success with llamas and alpacas.

She added guard dogs can be unpredictable, especially when visitors come knocking.

“I don’t need anybody getting bit by a dog,” she said. “How do you get somebody to come onto your property to do chores?” daniel.winters@fbcpublishing.com

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Sheep shearers in Good selection of heavy and feeder lambs short supply Quality of feeders good; little difference in price between wool and hair breeds SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN

Earn $500-$600 a day shearing sheep

By Daniel Winters CO-OPERATOR STAFF

The Manitoba Sheep Association is calling on the province to help address a looming shortage of top-notch sheep shearers.

“A professional sheep shearer can do 200 head a day,” said Lucien Lesage, president of the provincial association.

“I don’t want to insult the ones here, but a lot of them do only 50 to 60 a day. For bigger producers that’s really not viable. You don’t want to spend 30 days doing a 2,000-head flock.”

Lesage said that there are only two top-notch shearers capable of handling high volumes, but they live in Saskatchewan and are approaching their 60s.

The appeal to the province is still in its initial stages, but Lesage said that ideally, a professional shearer would be hired to show students the tricks of the trade in a 20-day program, possibly in a format similar to existing farrier courses offered at technical colleges.

The training should be in depth, with instruction in how to handle, evaluate, and bag fleece, as well as stitching up and treating cuts to the animals’ hides.

However, if the training was offered with permanent, annual intakes, there would be a risk of churning out more shearers than needed, he added.

“It’s got to be a little smaller scale than the plumbing or electrician apprenticeship program,” said Lesage.

With the Manitoba sheep flock increasing, top shearers could earn $500 to $600 per day at $3 per head for shearing larger flocks, or $5/head for smaller operations with less volume. daniel.winters@fbcpublishing.com

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here were 1,000 sheep and goats for the Winnipeg Livestock Sales auction on Oct. 17, with the auctioneer making comments on the quality of the animals throughout the sale. The audience was entertained by three alpacas that sold as well.

There appeared to be no differences on the bidding for the wool and hair ewes, based upon weight and age. The price ranged from $0.64 to $0.85 per pound. The supply of ewes was plentiful, so buyers could be selective in their bidding. The bidding on the cull ewes was severely lower compared to the last sale (Oct. 3); creating a much lower price range. There were a few occasions where the prices were much lower due to ewe disabilities.

The ram selection was slightly better than the last sale. The price range was similar, ranging from $0.86 to $1 per pound. A group of two 143-pound ram lambs brought $184.47 ($1.29 per pound).

The price range of $1.06 to $1.30 per pound for heavy lambs was higher than the last sale. The exception was one 165-pound Rideau-cross lamb which brought $146.85 ($0.89 per pound).

The wool lambs dominated the market lamb classification. The price ranged from $1.30 to $1.48 per pound with no apparent differences between wool and hair lambs.

The weight ranged from 94 to 110 pounds.

The quality and quantity of the feeder lambs was good, creating a good selection.

Again, there appeared to be no price differences between the wool and the hair lambs.

The weight ranged from 80 to 97 pounds, with a price range from $1.27 to $1.50 per

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$52.46 - 78.10

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$127.40 - 149.04

$113.05 - 144.72

80 - 94

$111.76 - 130.66

$99.60 - 117.80

71 - 79

$100.62 - 109.81

$89.46 - 95.48

60 - 68

$81.60 - 98.34

$61.50 - 84.87

50 - 59

$67.50 - 83.52

$67.50 (50 lbs.)

42 - 49

$60.06 - 70.88

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tion was a 45-pound Rideaucross lamb which brought $52.88 ($1.175 per pound).

audience taking notice of his fine structure, and brought $150 ($1.15 per pound).

The demand for lightweight goats (kids) created some strong bidding by the various buyers. Fifteen 67-pound Boer-cross kids brought $118 ($1.76 per pound). Seventeen 64-pound Boer-cross kids brought $110 ($1.72 per pound).

Five 50-pound Alpine-cross kids brought $111 ($1.91 per pound). Six 50-pound Boercross kids brought $106 ($2.12 per pound).

Two 45-pound Boer-cross kids brought $87.50 ($1.94 per pound). Seventeen 49-pound Boer-cross kids brought $75 ($1.53 per pound).

A 30-pound Alpine-cross kid brought $55 ($1.83 per pound). Two 33-pound Boercross bucklings brought $55 ($1.67 per pound). A group of five 37-pound Boer-cross, La Mancha-cross and Nubiancross kids brought $57 ($1.54 per pound).

A 25-pound spotted buckling brought $50 ($2 per pound).

T h e O n t a r i o St o c k y a r d Report states the sheep and well-fed lambs sold in a higherprice market. Goats of good structure and health sold for higher prices at last week’s sale.

LAMBS (LBS.)

Under 80

pound. The bidding on two g ro u p s o f Ka t a h d i n - c ro s s lambs maintained a lower price due to the clearly visible disabilities, plus, a couple other groups of feeder lambs received lower bidding due to physical disabilities.

The lightweight lambs that were only a few pounds lower than the feeder lamb classification attracted good bids.

The wool-variety lambs dominated this weight class. The weight ranged from 71 to 79 pounds, with a price range from $1.21 to $1.47 per pound.

The bidding on the wool lambs in the 60- to 68-pound range was higher than the hair lambs. The price ranged from $1.21 to $1.32 per pound for the hair lambs and from $1.36 to $1.49 per pound for the wool lambs.

There was a strong demand for lambs in the 50- to 59-pound range. The bidding kept this strong price range from $1.33 to $1.51 per pound. However, there was a group of eight 51-pound Katahdin-cross lambs that sold for much lower, due to a visible disability.

The wool lambs dominated the 42- to 49-pound class. The price ranged from $1.43 to $1.575 per pound. An excep-

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There were dairy and meat goats at this sale. A group of 10 109-pound Alpine-cross and Boer-cross does exposed to a buck brought $122 ($1.12 per pound). A heavier group of five 126-pound Alpine-cross and Boer-cross does brought $112.50 ($0.89 per pound). A similar pattern was shown based upon weight. The heavier Boer-cross does brought a lower price. Eight 114-pound Boer-cross does brought $130 ($1.14 per pound). Two 125pound Boer-cross does brought $91 ($0.73 per pound).

The selection of bucks was more than the last sale. The demand was stronger by the various buyers, shown by the bidding on the heavier bucks.

The price ranged from $1.50 to $2.07 per pound. The Boercross bucks dominated the classification, with even a 110pound purebred Boer buck with papers. An impressive 108-pound Nubian-cross buck brought $170 ($1.57 per pound).

A 105-pound Alpine-cross buck brought $175 ($1.67 per pound).

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Building nitrogen on the range through better grazing management You can’t do much about rainfall, but you can manage nitrogen, which is just as important ndsu release

“Most of the nitrogen in grassland soils is in organic form, but plants cannot use organic nitrogen.

The organic nitrogen must be mineralized by soil microorganisms. Soil organism biomass is limited by access to a simple carbon chain energy.”

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ow rainfall during the growing season is the m o s t o bv i o u s f a c t o r causing reduced grass production. However, low available mineral nitrogen at less than 100 pounds per acre is responsible for greater than half of the reduction in herbage production.

“Most grassland pastures managed with traditional practices have mineral nitrogen available at 60 to 75 pounds per acre,” says Lee Manske, North Dakota State University Dickinson Research Extension Center range scientist. “Long-term u s e o f a d e f e r re d g ra z i n g practice reduces mineral nitrogen to 31 pounds per acre. Because of these chronic nitrogen deficiencies, these pastures have reduced grass production, even during growing seasons with no water deficiencies.”

Growing seasons with water deficiencies are normal conditions on the northern Plains. In western North Dakota, 79 per cent of the p a s t 1 1 8 g row i n g s e a s o n s have had an average of two months with water deficiencies.

Growing seasons with moderate drought conditions have occurred during 12 per cent of the years. Severe drought conditions, such as in 1919, 1934, 1936 and 1988, have occurred during three per cent of the years, or about one in every 29 years.

Lee Manske NDSU

Growing seasons with water deficiencies are normal conditions on prairie rangeland.

G r ow i n g s e a s o n s w i t h out water deficiencies are an abnormal phenomenon and have occurred during six per cent of the growing seasons, or about one in every 17 years.

Some level of water deficiency has occurred during 94 per cent of the past growing seasons.

Grass production is reduced during growing seasons with water deficiencies because of low water and low mineral nitrogen.

“However, grassland pastures are not low in nitrogen,” Manske says. “Most of the nitrogen in grassland soils is in

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Alfalfa hays: merging myth and reality The additional protein in alfalfa can cause problems, especially in young horses Carol Shwetz, DVM Horse Health

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ne of the most misunderstood feedstuffs in the horse industry today is alfalfa hay. Its position in the feeding program of horses is both revered and spurned.

To unravel its benefits and the harms it is necessary to understand the nutrient-rich profile of this hay. When understood, it is the overfeeding of alfalfa hay, not the feeding of alfalfa hay, that becomes detrimental to horses.

It is important to recognize “overfeeding” may occur with a surprisingly small amount of alfalfa hay. Ten to 20 per cent of

alfalfa hay in a horse’s diet, like small amounts of grain, can be supplementary, adding specific nutrients. Remember this flux in percentage reflects dietary needs of horses during different stages of life and their varying lifestyles. Horses that are “easykeepers” or struggle with metabolic dysfunctions, such as insulin resistance, Cushing’s or hypothyroidism, do best with no alfalfa at all in their diet.

Good-quality alfalfa hay contains more energy, protein, and calcium, pound for pound, than most grass hays, up to 50 per cent more. These values are readily accessible through a routine forage analysis. In general horses do not need this many calories, nor this much protein or calcium. Furthermore when fed

in excess, alfalfa hay becomes a metabolic liability to the horse that suffers ill consequences over time.

Alfalfa hays, depending upon when they are harvested, generally run 18-20 per cent protein content. A mature horse requires eight to 10 per cent protein. When the extra protein is used as an energy source the process produces acidic byproducts. As a consequence the body must call upon its buffering mechanisms to maintain homeostasis. The body will retain water to dilute the acidic byproducts. It will also pull alkalizing minerals from the musculoskeletal system to buffer the acids. Over time, supporting skeletal tissues become demineralized and weakened.

Since this process is rarely life threatening, and it takes time for structural unsoundness to become apparent, the connection between unsoundness and diet is rarely made.

The nutrient-rich profile of alfalfa hays, especially second-cut alfalfa such as this field, serve the horse better as a supplement to its diet than a dietary mainstay.

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ances presented in alfalfa hays. Alfalfa has a high calcium-to-phosphor us ratio, often 4:1 and higher. The ratio in a healthy horse’s diet is 1.5 to 2:1. Whilst it may appear that more calcium is available to the horse, the unbalanced ratio interferes with the body’s abilities to assimilate and process not only calcium but companion minerals such as magnesium.

Magnesium influences how calcium is transported out of the gastrointestinal tract and formed into bone. It also helps control hundreds of enzymatic reactions in cells that influence bone density. As magnesium levels decrease in bone, bone crystals become large and brittle. Inadequate magnesium levels in the blood serum impairs the action of hormones. Magnesium is the relaxation-inducing mineral for both the body and the mind, so deficient horses become tight, sore, and anxious. Calcium imbalances in the diet can lead to thumps, muscle cramps, or tying up.

It can also interfere with the absorption of iodine, a mineral necessary for healthy thyroid gland function.

The high energy and protein levels found in alfalfa-based diets of young horses spurs rapid growth of body mass, overburdening an immature skeletal frame. Its calcium imbalance interferes with the levels of phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, zinc, and copper that are biologically available to the growing horse.

Bone quality suffers lacking the building blocks for density and substance. Like concrete lacking the strength of rebar, so is for the young horse that is unsound at five or six years of age ailing with various degenerative bone diseases. Structural soundness may not be readily apparent to the naked eye in a young horse, yet becomes apparent over time.

Quality mixed grasses and grass hays are the mainstay of a horse’s diet, supporting health, performance and longevity. These hays closely approximate the horse’s needs.

Exercise caution if incorporating alfalfa hays into your horse’s diet being mindful of its nutrient-rich profile.

Carol Shwetz is a veterinarian specializing in equine practice at Westlock, Alberta.

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Ritz regrets XL Foods wasn’t pushed harder

By Alex Binkley CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA

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he Canadian Food Inspection Agency should have been “m o re vo c i f e ro u s” i n demanding inspection data from XL Foods during the early stages of the contaminated beef crisis, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz admits.

“The CFIA could have been more hard nosed,” Ritz said at Commons agriculture committee hearings on legislation that will overhaul the agency.

But he also defended federal health officials, saying inspectors weren’t finding a spike in E. coli cases that would have indicated a major outbreak of food illness. So far, 16 cases of E. coli poisoning have been linked to the plant, which forced the largest meat recall in Canadian history.

XL Foods not only failed to provide all the information on the results of its food safety testing until it was formally requested, but instead of supplying it electronically, delivered 12 boxes of paperwork that took time to sort through.

It was eventually discovered the data did not support the assurances the company had given federal officials, Ritz said.

“The company didn’t grasp the significance of what it was finding,” the minister stated.

An advisory committee — comprised of experts from the private sector and academia supported by federal experts — will review the affair for CFIA, but Liberal Agriculture Critic Frank Valeriote said a more independent review is required. The results of the review will be made public once completed, CFIA said.

The agency has approved a plan to resume operations at the Brooks, Alta., plant. It will slowly ramp up to full production, which will likely happen by early November.

The agency will also add more inspectors to the 46 already at the plant, so it can ensure “strengthened food safety controls are being effectively integrated into daily plant practices.”

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Canadian dairy farms follow similar trends to main rivals George Morris report says number of dairy farms has fallen by 90 per cent since the late 1960s and the cow herd has shrunk from 3.5 million to one million today

By Alex Binkley CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA

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anada’s dairy herd, as well as the number of farms and processors, has contracted at about the same pace as its counterparts in the U.S., Australia, and Europe, says a new report from the George Morris Centre.

The main difference is that Canada hasn’t increased milk production as much as other countries have, and due mainly to regulated pricing, hasn’t seen the volatile swings in consumer prices for milk and other dairy products, says the Guelph-based agriculture think-tank.

Raw milk prices are considerably higher here than in the U.S., but because Canadian dairy farm-

ers don’t require government subsidies, there hasn’t been the same fiscal pressure to change the system as was the case in New Zealand or other countries.

The report was commissioned by the Conference Board of Canada, a vociferous critic of supply management. It shows supply management “has contributed to stagnating production, reduced Canada’s ability to negotiate for freer trade for all Canadian goods and services, and created incentives for individuals to allegedly smuggle cheese from the United States and resell at a massive profit in Canada,” said Danielle Goldfarb, an associate director of the conference board.

But the George Morris report paints a more balanced picture of the dairy industry.

“Industry adjustment has occurred in Canada, but without the market growth seen elsewhere,” it states. “Overall, the evolution of Canadian dairy policy is consistent with that of its peers.”

Often overlooked by critics, the report states, is how much more efficient dairy farms have become under the system.

“In the late 1960s, there were over 135,000 dairy farms in Canada, more than half of which were in Ontario and Quebec. In 2010, there were just under 14,000 dairy farms, with the dominant proportion remaining in Ontario and Quebec… In 1940, there were just over 3.5 million dairy cows in Canada; today there are just under one million.”

Technology, has made the

sector much more efficient, the report states. ”Since the early 1970s, overall milk production has been stable, while the cow herd declined by about one-half, implying major productivity improvements at the producer level.”

The number of dairy-processing plants has followed a similar trend, falling by half since the mid-1970s and by 90 per cent since the early 1960s.

Still, supply management is expected to come under pressure during trade negotiations with Europe and in Trans-Pacific Partnership. The system was introduced in the late 1960s to deal with chronic surplus production that pushed prices down for farmers and prompted government to create costly support programs.

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Feeder Steers

Oct-24

Oct-23

Oct-23

Oct-26

Oct-24

Oct-22

Oct-25

Oct-26

No. on offer

1,530

1,103

729

3,172

3,261

1,037

2,310

1,029

Over 1,000 lbs.

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

100.00-114.00

900-1000

104.00-127.00

105.00-123.25

n/a

115.00-125.00

116.00-123.00

n/a

110.00-127.00

107.00-119.00

800-900

119.00-132.00

110.00-129.75

115.00-127.50

122.00-132.50

122.00-132.00

n/a

120.00-134.00

117.00-129.00

700-800

120.00-139.00

126.00-147.50

125.00-133.50

127.00-143.00

132.00-143.50

132.00-142.00

130.00-142.00

120.00-142.00

600-700

130.00-157.00

135.00-149.50

130.00-145.00

138.00-150.50

137.00-150.00

139.00-150.00

135.00-160.00

127.00-153.00

500-600

150.00-167.00

150.00-163.00

140.00-163.50

145.00-163.00

141.00-165.00

150.00-166.50

140.00-175.00

138.00-169.00

400-500

160.00-177.00

160.00-184.00

160.00-176.00

160.00-182.00

160.00-190.00

163.00-180.00

155.00-195.00

155.00-185.00

300-400

170.00-190.00

160.00-194.00

175.00-220.00

180.00-209.50

170.00-211.00

180.00-205.00

150.00-195.00

165.00-207.00

900-1,000 lbs.

104.00-119.00

n/a

n/a

105.00-114.50

110.00-117.50

n/a

n/a

100.00-114.00

800-900

117.00-126.00

97.00-121.00

108.00-120.00

108.00-120.00

112.00-122.00

n/a

n/a

107.00-121.00

700-800

120.00-133.00

110.00-125.50

115.00-123.50

112.00-124.50

117.00-126.50

n/a

119.00-127.00

112.00-127.00

600-700

115.00-140.00

115.00-136.00

120.00-130.00

120.00-136.00

124.00-138.00

125.00-135.00

117.00-140.00

117.00-131.00

500-600

120.00-148.00

125.00-144.50

130.00-147.00

130.00-150.00

129.00-144.00

135.00-147.00

123.00-151.00

125.00-148.00

400-500

132.00-156.00

140.00-171.00

140.00-165.00

135.00-163.00

139.00-168.00

144.00-165.00

130.00-164.00

135.00-163.00

300-400

140.00-162.00

150.00-172.50

160.00-175.00

142.00-177.00

n/a

153.00-174.00

130.00-170.00

145.00-180.00

No. on offer

70

n/a

90

140

n/a

n/a

n/a

135

D1-D2 Cows

52.00-60.00

n/a

n/a

62.00-69.50

55.00-62.00

48.00-55.00

35.00-51.00

56.00-62.00

D3-D5 Cows

45.00 + up

40.00-67.00

49.00-55.00

54.00-61.00

42.00-55.00

40.00-48.00

25.00-38.00

52.00-58.00

Age Verified

62.00-69.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

60.00-69.00

57.00-66.00

55.00-67.00

62.00-68.00

Good Bulls

Feeder heifers

Slaughter Market

75.00-82.50

60.00-79.00

70.00-74.24

77.00-81.00

74.00-80.75

73.00-78.00

75.00-84.00

68.00-77.00

Butcher Steers

n/a

n/a

n/a

95.00-101.00

95.00-99.50

n/a

n/a

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

n/a

92.00-97.00

94.00-99.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

60.00-69.00

69.00-87.00

60.00-72.00

n/a

n/a

65.00-75.00

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

n/a

56.00-61.75

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

n/a

49.00-55.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

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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AUCTION DISTRICTS 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.

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AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman

Birch River

Swan River Minitonas Durban

Winnipegosis

Roblin

Dauphin

Grandview

Ashern

Gilbert Plains

Fisher Branch

Ste. Rose du Lac Russell

Parkland

Birtle

Riverton Eriksdale

McCreary

Gimli

Shoal Lake

Langruth

Neepawa

Hamiota

Gladstone

Rapid City

1

Melita

Carberry

Boissevain

Killarney

Crystal City

Elm Creek

Beausejour

Sanford

Ste. Anne

Carman

Mariapolis

Pilot Mound

Lac du Bonnet

Winnipeg

Austin Treherne

Westman

Waskada

Stonewall Selkirk

Portage

Brandon Souris

Reston

Interlake

Erickson Minnedosa

Virden

Arborg

Lundar

St. Pierre

242

Morris Winkler Morden

Altona

Steinbach

1

Red River

ANNOUNCEMENTS 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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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

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake MCSHERRY AUCTION SERVICE LTD Estate & Moving Auction Sat., Nov. 3rd 10:30am Stonewall. #12 Patterson Dr. Auction Note: More Items than Listed. 45-ft. Semi Freight w/Side Door; Antiques: Oak Triple Curved Glass China Cabinet; Drop Leaf Table; Dressers; Parlor Table; Stand; Hall Stand; Settee; Edison Table Top Cyl. Gramophone; Wooden Telephone; Mantle Clock; Oil Lamp; Vintage Auto Lights; Scales; Cast Base Store Rack; Pabst Neon Sign; Five Roses Push Bar; Marx Truck & Trailer; Fire Truck; Pedal Car; Butter Churn; 1-gal Red Wing Crock; Crockery; Beaver Sealer; Along w/Good Household; Yard; Tools. Stuart McSherry (204)4671858 or (204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com MCSHERRY AUCTION SERVICE LTD Vintage Service Station & Collectibles Sat., Nov. 10th 10:00am Stonewall #12 Patterson Dr. More Items than Listed. 1927 Ford Mack “T” Truck; 1961 Polaris Snowmobile; 1953 Schwinn Pedal Bike; Wurlitzer Working Stereo Juke Box; 1930’s English Phone Booth; Oak Phone Booth; 1977 Pinball Game Coca Cola Chest Cooler; Pepsi Cooler; 30’s Working 5 cent Slot Machine; Lollipop Style Penny Scale; Red Indian Electric Gas Bowser; Clock Style Air Meter; OVER 40 Service Station Signs; Porc.

Dodge De Soto Service; B/A; Texaco; Red Indian; White Rose; North Star; Seiberling Tire; Castrol; Gulf Sign; Husky; Oil Cans; Over 50 Store Product Signs; Clocks; Push Bars. Stuart McSherry (204)467 CLOSING: Monday, Nov 12 1858 or (204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com

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TRACTORS COMBINES CONTINUED 1990 Ford Versatile 946, 4WD, 12 spd., 4 hyd., 2010 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 946 sep. new cab kit, lights, 6,396 hrs., S/ND451628 hrs./1,261 eng hrs., S/N1H09770SEA0738080 OPENING: Thursday, Nov. 1  CLOSING: Monday, Nov 12 IH Farmall H, narrow front w/Woods 72" 2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,246 sep.

AUCTION NOTE: This is a condensed listing.

See engine complete and photos belly-mount mower, S/N149731 hrs., 1,824 hrs., list S/NH09770S731521 online at www.iqbid.com or www.steffesautioneers.com.

IHC/McCormick Deering 10-20, wide front, on 2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,441 sep. steel, stored inside for 16 yrs., S/NKCI86842 hrs., 2,140 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731536 IHC/McCormick Deering 15-30, wide front, on 2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,530 sep. steel, stored inside for 16 yrs., S/NIG79818 hrs., 2,139 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731525 IHC/McCormick Deering W30, wide front, 13-28 2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,393 sep. rears, stored inside for 16 yrs., S/NWB28006PT hrs., 1,944 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731635 IHC/McCormick Deering W40, WF, stored 2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,472 sep. inside for 16 yrs., motor is loose, S/NWKC3500 hrs., 2,097 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731396 2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, TRACTORS COMBINES CONTINUED1,489 sep.

TRACTORS COMBINES CONTINUED SKID STEER LOADERS & ATTACHMENTS hrs.,JD 2,056 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731549 1990 Ford Versatile 946, 4WD, 12 spd., 4 hyd.,new 2010 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 946 sep.

1990 Ford Versatile 946, 4WD, 12 spd., 4 hyd., 2010 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 946 sep.

2009 2 spd., quick tach, 6' cabBobcat kit, lights,S250 6,396Turbo, hrs., S/ND451628 hrs./1,261 engSTS, hrs., S/N1H09770SEA0738080 2009 JD 9770 Contourmaster, 1,519 sep. new cab1,915 kit,narrow lights, 6,396 hrs., S/ND451628 hrs./1,261 S/N1H09770SEA0738080 IHbucket, Farmall H, w/Woods 72” belly-mount 2009 JD 9770eng STS,hrs., Contourmaster, 1,246 sep. hrs., hrs.,front S/N222565 hrs., 2,025 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731394 mower, S/N149731 1,824 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731521 IH Farmall H, narrow front w/Woods 72" 2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,246 sep.

2007 JD 325 skid steer loader, Performance M2 2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,441 sep. hrs., IHC/McCormick Deering 10-20, wide front, on steel, 2009 JD 9770engine STS, Contourmaster, 1,587 sep. belly-mount mower, S/N149731 hrs., 1,824 hrs., S/NH09770S731521 pkg., 2 spd., S/NT00325B156158 stored inside for 16 yrs., S/NKCI86842 2,140 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731536 hrs.,JD 2,118 hrs., S/NH09770S731677 IHC/McCormick Deering 15-30, wide front, on steel, 2009 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,5301,441 sep. hrs., IHC/McCormick Deering 10-20, wide front, on 2009 JD 9770eng.

STS, Contourmaster, sep.

2003 Bobcat T190 Turbo, track skid steer, CAH, 2009 JD 9770engine STS,S/NH09770S731525 Contourmaster, rears, 1,592 stored inside for 16 yrs., S/NIG79818 2,139 engine hrs., steel,hyd., stored inside forS/N5270H049 16 yrs., S/NKCI86842 hrs., 2,140 hrs., S/NH09770S731536 aux.

3,000 hrs., IHC/McCormick Deering W30, wide front, 13-28 2009 JD2,215 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,393 sep. hrs., sep./ hrs., S/NH09770S731638 IHC/McCormick Deering 15-30, wide front, on 2009 JDengine 9770engine STS,S/NH09770S731635 Contourmaster, 1,530 sep. rears, stored inside for 1668" yrs., S/NWB28006PT 1,944 hrs., Gehl skid steer bucket, IHC/McCormick Deering W40, WF, stored inside for 16 2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,472 sep. hrs., steel, storedInternational inside for 16 yrs., S/NIG79818 hrs., 2,139 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731525 Attachments snow bucket, 84", SEMI TRACTORS 2,097 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731396 yrs., motor is loose, S/NWKC3500 IHC/McCormick Deering W30, wide front,edge 13-28 2009 JD9770 9770STS, STS, Contourmaster, sep. quick tach, HD bolt on reversible cutting 2009 JD 1,4891,393 sep. hrs., 2008 Peterbilt 386Contourmaster, flat top sleeper SKID STEER LOADERS & ATTACHMENTS 2,0561,944 engineengine hrs., S/NH09770S731549 rears, stored inside 16 yrs., S/NWB28006PT hrs., hrs., S/NH09770S731635 Bobcat grader, 84",for laser controls & sensors, 2008 Kenworth twin screw1,519 day sep. cab 2009 Bobcat S250 Turbo, 2 spd., quick tach, 6’ 2009 JD 9770 STS,T660 Contourmaster, IHC/McCormick Deering stored 2009 JDengine 9770 hrs., STS, Contourmaster, 1,472hrs., sep. requires 14 pinhrs., skid steerW40, wiringWF, harness bucket, 1,915 S/N222565 2,025 S/NH09770S731394 2002 Volvo VNL660 66” stand up integral inside 16 yrs., motor is loose, hrs.,JD2,097 hrs., S/NH09770S731396 2007 JD for 325 skid steer loader, Performance pkg., 9770 engine STS, Contourmaster, 1,587 sep. hrs., Grapple bucket, 84", skeleton style,S/NWKC3500 dualM2 cyl., all 2009 sleeper 2 spd., S/NT00325B156158 2,118 hrs., S/NH09770S731677 2009 JDeng.

9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,489 sep. greasable pivots, new track&skid 2003 Bobcat T190LOADERS Turbo, steer, CAH, aux.

2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, rears, 1,592 sep./ SKID STEER ATTACHMENTS hrs., engine hrs.,EQUIPMENT S/NH09770S731549 STRIP TILL hyd., 3,000 hrs., 74", S/N5270H049 2,2152,056 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731638 Grapple bucket, skeleton style, dual cyl., all 2009 Bobcat Turbo, Gehl skid steerS250 bucket, 68” 2 spd., quick tach, 6' 2009 JD6000 9770New STS, Contourmaster, Hiniker strip tiller, 12x301,519 sep. greasable pivots SEMI TRACTORS bucket, 1,915 hrs., S/N222565 Attachments International snow bucket, 84”, quick 2008 386 flattiller, top sleeper hrs.,Peterbilt 2,025 hrs., S/NH09770S731394 Redball 2000engine strip 4-row, 3 pt. tach,JD HD325 boltskid on reversible cutting Performance edge 2007 steer loader, M2 2008 Kenworth T660 twin screw day cab COMBINES Bobcat grader, 84”, laser controls & sensors, requires 2009 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,587 sep.

2002 Volvo VNL660 66” stand up integral sleeper ALSO TO INCLUDE: pkg., 2 spd., S/NT00325B156158 14 JD pin skid wiring harness 2010 9870steer STS, Contourmaster, 1,002 sep. hrs., 2,118 eng. hrs., S/NH09770S731677 STRIP TILL EQUIPMENT Grapple bucket, 84”, skeleton style, dual cyl., all 2003 Bobcat track skid steer, CAH, 2007 Rogator 1286C SP sprayer, 2006 /1,511 engineT190 hrs.,Turbo, SN1H09870SAA0735818 2009 9770 STS, rears, 1,592 HinikerJD6000 New stripContourmaster, tiller, 12x30 greasable pivots, new aux.JD hyd., 3,000 S/N5270H049 Geringhoff 830B corn head, 2006 Bourgault 2010 9870 STS, Contourmaster, Grapple bucket, 74”,hrs., skeleton style, dual1,441 cyl., allsep.

Redball 2000 strip tiller, 4-row, 3 pt. sep./ 2,215 engine hrs., S/NH09770S731638 pivotshrs., L6450 cart, 2004 JD 1890 42’ air drill, JD 2 pt.

Gehl skidengine steer bucket, 68" / greasable 2,140 S/N1H09870SVA0735851 planter, JD 1770 planter, plus tool bars, tillage Attachments snow bucket, 84", ALSO TO INCLUDE: 2010 JD 9770 International STS,COMBINES Contourmaster, 957 sep.

SEMI TRACTORS 2010 JDtach, 9870 HD STS,bolt Contourmaster, 1,002 sep. /1,511 2007 Rogator 1286C SP sprayer, 2006trailers Geringhoff equipment, trucks, pickups, step deck quick on reversible cutting edge /1,259 engine hrs., S/N1H09770SCA0736483 2008 Peterbilt 386 flat top sleeper engine hrs., SN1H09870SAA0735818 830B corn head, 2006 Bourgault L6450 cart, 2004 JD & other trailers, fertilizer equipment, 2007 Bobcat grader, 84", laser controls & sensors, 2010 JD 9870 STS, Contourmaster, 1,441 sep. / 2,140 1890 Kenworth 42’ air drill,T660 JD 2 twin pt. planter, JD 1770 planter, 2010 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,542 sep.

2008 screw day cab Meyer engine hrs., S/N1H09870SVA0735851 plus tool bars, tillage equipment, trucks, pickups, step 3954 manure spreader, V-type, & other livestock requires 14eng pinhrs., skid S/N1H09770SJA0736384 steer wiring harness hrs./1,998 2002 Volvo VNL660 66” stand up integral 2010 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 957 sep. /1,259 deck trailers & other trailers, fertilizer equipment, 2007 and forage equipment, augers, conveyors, grain Grapple bucket, 84", skeleton style, dual cyl., all 2010 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 880 sep. engine hrs., S/N1H09770SCA0736483 Meyer 3954 manure spreader, V-type, & other livestock sleeper rings, construction equipment, forklift, skid 2010 JD 9770eng STS,hrs., Contourmaster, 1,542 sep. and forage equipment, augers, conveyors, grainsteer rings, greasable pivots, new hrs./1,188 S/N1H09770SLA0737962 hrs./1,998 eng hrs., S/N1H09770SJA0736384 construction equipment, skid steer loaders & STRIP TILLforklift, EQUIPMENT loaders & attachments, 2009 Arctic Cat Prowler Grapple bucket, 74", skeleton style, dual cyl., all 2010 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 880 sep. attachments, 2009 Arctic Cat Prowler UTV, plus tanks, Hiniker 6000 New striptires tiller, 12x30more UTV, plus parts, & much greasable pivots hrs./1,188 eng hrs., S/N1H09770SLA0737962 parts, tires &tanks, much more Redball 2000 strip tiller, 4-row, 3 pt.

CONSIGNCOMBINES NOW FOR THE IQBID DECEMBER AUCTION! ALSO TO INCLUDE: 2010 JD 9870 STS, Contourmaster, 1,002 sep.Territory Manager Contact an IQBID Today: 2007 Rogator 1286C SP sprayer, 2006 /1,511 engine hrs., SN1H09870SAA0735818 Dave Krostue, Grand Forks, ND ……..(218) 779-6865 Tom Kosir, Farmington, MN…....(651) 307-4242 Geringhoff 830B corn head, 2006 Bourgault LynnJD Sather, …………….…(218) Chris Bair, Sioux Falls, SD….….(605) 271-7730 2010 9870Fargo, STS, ND Contourmaster, 1,441 779-9308 sep. cart, 2004 JD 1890 air drill, JD 2 pt.

Dale Jorissen, ND…...…….....(605) 228-8721 L6450 Phil Kappen, Sioux Falls, 42’ SD......(605) 201-1017 / 2,140 engineRogers, hrs., S/N1H09870SVA0735851 Eric Gabrielson, Ashley Huhn or Randy Kath, Litchfield, MN..……(320) 693-9371 planter, JD 1770 planter, plus tool bars, tillage 2010 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 957 sep.

Clark Sather, General Manager (701)trucks, 361-5048 equipment, pickups, step deck trailers /1,259 engine hrs., S/N1H09770SCA0736483 & other trailers, fertilizer & equipment, Meyer For consignor information, terms, complete listing photos2007 visit 2010 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 1,542 sep.

3954 manure spreader, V-type, & other livestock www.IQBID.com hrs./1,998 eng hrs., S/N1H09770SJA0736384 and forage equipment, augers, conveyors, grain 2010 JD 9770 STS, Contourmaster, 880 sep.

IQBIDrings, is aconstruction division of Steffesforklift, Auctioneers equipment, skid steer hrs./1,188 eng hrs., S/N1H09770SLA07379622000 Main Avenue E., West ND loaders & attachments, 2009 ArcticFargo Cat Prowler (701) 237-9173 Scott ND81 UTV, plus tanks, parts, tires Steffes & much more

www.steffesauctioneers.com

CONSIGN NOW FOR THE IQBID DECEMBER AUCTION! Contact an IQBID Territory Manager Today:

Dave Krostue, Grand Forks, ND ……..(218) 779-6865 Tom Kosir, Farmington, MN…....(651) 307-4242 Lynn Sather, Fargo, ND …………….…(218) 779-9308 Chris Bair, Sioux Falls, SD….….(605) 271-7730 Dale Jorissen, Rogers, ND…...…….....(605) 228-8721 Phil Kappen, Sioux Falls, SD......(605) 201-1017 Eric Gabrielson, Ashley Huhn or Randy Kath, Litchfield, MN..……(320) 693-9371 Clark Sather, General Manager (701) 361-5048

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake MEYERS AUCTION 9:30am Sun., Nov. 4th, 2012.

Antiques, Collectables, Coins & Household. Indoors At Bowes Polar- King Homes Sales Lot. 3-mi East of Portage on the Trans Canada Hwy. This is a very interesting auction. Too many items to list. Check the pics out for unlisted items. We will be unpacking more boxes the week of Oct. 29th so check back for updated pics. Coins will start the auction at 9:30am. IHC Stationary Engine, 3 to 5-HP, Type LB, Runs; Belt Drive Grain Crusher; C.T.R. National Electric Coffee Mill Model 225; Master Climax Wood Stove w/reservoir, good cond, fire grates are good; Canadian Calvary Saddle, Brass Horn, w/M. J W & S Solid Nickel Stirrups, 1912, marked w/Canadian Broad Arrow; Meat Cutting Band Saw; 250gal Truck Turtle Tank; Collector Bicycle; 6) Aluminum & Glass Mobile Display Cabinets. ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES: Snowshoes- Village Huron Que.- 14x48 & 14x42 Sizes; Stoneware, labelledThe Stevens Companies Hot Water Bottle & Bed Warmer; Stoneware Crocks; Cream Cans; 24-in.

Painted Saw Blade; Tin Pails; Singer Radio; Acme Brass Beam Scale; Hand Scythes; Cow Bells; Humbugs; Barrel Taps; Glass Oil Bottle; Tin Oil Can; Tin Toys; Die Cast Toys; Wood Toys; Dinky, Match Box & Hot Wheels Cars; Coal Oil Lanterns; Cast Horse & Ice Cart; Plastic Decoy Ducks; Glassware; Sealers; Sad Irons & Trivets; Metal & Stoneware Bed Pans; Egg Crates; Canteens; Service Station Oil Jugs; Wood Levels; Figurines; Parlour Heaters; Cast Monarch Stove; Ornate Yard Gates; Games; Miniature Horse & Wagons Collection; Cistern & Well Hand Pumps; Collector Lunch Boxes; Wash Boards; Framed Pictures; Covered Hens; Lg Collection of Brass Ornaments; Dolls; Granite Wear; Garden Cultivator; Gurney Threshing Machine Scale marked- Waterloo Grain Weigher; 2) Beam Scales- T.Eaton & BS&MCo; Enamel Ware Pots & Pans; Cow Pokes; Forge & Blower ; Forge Tools; Kid’s Sleighs & Wood Wagons; Perfection Warehouse Wood Cart; Post Drill; Traps; Cow Kickers; hay Knives; Horse Hames; Grain Scoop; Meat & Vegetable Grinders; Bee Smoker; Collector Tractor & Implement Books; Smoker Stands; 2) Copper Boilers; Collector Plates; Collector Bottles; La Banque Imperiale Du Canada- Glass Bank Sign; Ruffled Art Glass Bowl; Tin Seats; 50-Cal Ammo Box; HORSE: Horse Shoes; Nose Guards; Bits; Stirrups; Harness Hangers; Hoof Trimmers; TOOLS: New 50-Ton Shop Press; Miller Thunder Bolt 225 Welder; Weldmate 75 Welder; Cement Mixer w/Elect Motor; Marquette Bat Charger; Bench Grinder; 1/2 Socket Set; Pipe Wrenches; Files; Hatchets; Grease Guns; Floor Jack; Jack all Jack; Pliers; Skil Saw; 8 pc Cresant Wrench Set; Pipe Clamps; Mini Scroll Saw; Cement Bull Float; Neon Open Sign; Live Animal Traps; Camp Stoves; SM Appliances; Column Sump Pumps; Chicken Waterer; De Horners; Cook Books; Cow Motif Mail Boxes; FURNITURE: Queen, Double & Single Beds; Upholstered Chairs; Sofa; Dressers; Stoves & Fridges; Dishwashers. This is a very interesting auction.

Too many items to list. Check the pics out for unlisted items. We will be unpacking more boxes the week of Oct 29th so check back for updated pics.

We will have heaters on but the building is a bit on the cool side. DRESS WARMLY! ALL ITEMS SOLD AS IS WHERE IS. LISTING IS A GUIDE ONLY SUBJECT TO CHANGE & ERRORS. SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS. Meyers Auctions & Appraisals, Arden, MB. Bradley Meyers Auctioneer (204)368-2333 or (204)476-6262 cell. Detailed List & Pictures at meyersauctions.com

UNRESERVED BANK AUCTION SALE of Cat D6H Western Storage at 1300 Dugald Road, Winnipeg for viewing at 11:00 am

Tues., November 13 at 1:00 PM

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INVENTORY REDUCTION AUCTION LOCATION: High Plains Equipment, 1 mile east of Devils Lake, ND on Highway 2 (8373 US Hwy 2).

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7

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TIME: 10:00AM

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: No small items. Major equipment begins at 10:00 AM. Live online bidding on major equipment.

Registration, terms & details at www.steffesauctioneers.com.

TRACTORS 1994 NH 9880, Cummins NTA-855, 400 hp., 12 spd., 4 hyd., 6,229 hrs., S/ND101274 1996 Case-IH 9370, Cummins 855, 360 hp., 12 spd., 4 hyd., 5,700 hrs., S/NJEE0035614 1996 JD 8870, 350 hp., 12 spd. sync., 4 hyd., return flow, 5,350 hrs., S/NH005508 1983 JD 8450, 186 hp., 16 spd. quad, 3 hyd., 1000 PTO, no duals, 8,500 hrs., S/N2096 JD 8440, 180 hp., 3 hyd., PTO, 18.4-38 duals 2007 Case-IH Puma 180, MFWD, LH reverser, 18 spd. powershift, 150 hp., 2225 hrs., Case-IH 770 self-leveling loader w/quick tach, joystick & grapple S/NZ7BH01105 IHC 706, wide front, gas, PTO, loader w/grapple NH & JD COMBINES 2007 NH CX8070, LL, rock trap, chopper, Y&M, 2, 867 sep./1,100 eng.hrs., S/N301564008 2004 NH CX880, LL, rock trap, chopper, spreader, 1,748 sep./2,254 engine hrs., S/N3121364006 2002 JD 9750 STS, LL, deluxe controls, Greenstar yield monitor, 1,719 sep. hrs., 3,010 eng. hrs., S/NH09750S696139 2001 JD 9650, Walker, LL, Yield/Moisture, fore/ aft, AHH, DAS, chopper, hopper ext., 1,863 sep. / 2,848 eng. hrs., S/NH09650W690427 1998 NH TR98, LL, rock trap, chopper, 30.5-32 fronts, S/N563921 1993 NH TR96, LL, rock trap, hopper ext., chopper, spreader, 1,265 hrs., S/N553889 CASE-IH COMBINES 2001 Case-IH 2388, LL, hyd. reverser, rock trap, 1,831 sep. / 2,565 engine hrs., S/NJJC0269368 2001 Case-IH 2388, LL, hyd. reverser, rock trap, 2,337 sep./2,911 engine hrs., S/NJJC0269020 2001 Case-IH 2388, LL, rock trap, hyd. reverser, 2,000 sep./2,552 engine hrs., S/NJJC0269268 2000 Case-IH 2388, LL, rock trap, AHH, AFS, 1,781 sep./2,263 engine hrs., S/NJJC0268340 2000 Case-IH 2388, LL, rock trap, hyd. reverser, 1,688 sep. hrs., 2,346 eng. hrs., S/NJJC0267489 1998 Case-IH 2388, LL, 2,859 sep./ 3,700 engine hrs., S/NJJC0199634

CASE-IH COMBINES 1997 Case-IH 2188, LL, S/NJJC0194755 1996 Case-IH 2188, LL, 3,264 sep. hrs., 4,311 engine hrs., S/NJJC0192777 1995 Case-IH 2188, LL, 2,850 sep. hrs., 3,740 engine hrs., S/NJJC0189476 1992 Case-IH 1680, LL, S/NJJC0117245 1991 Case-IH 1680, LL, 5,077 hrs.,S/NJJC0115513 DRAPER, FLEX & RIGID HEADS 2004 Case-IH 2062 flex draper, 36',S/NCCC0015067 2001 Case-IH 1042 rigid draper,30',S/NCCC0009593 2001 Case-IH 1042 rigid draper,30',S/NCCC0009463 2002 MacDon 972 floating draper,30',S/N148475-02 2000 Honeybee 994 flex draper, 30', S/N43000047 Honeybee 94C rigid draper, 42', S/N439030457 2000 JD 930F flex head, 30', S/N687542 1997 MacDon 960 rigid draper, 36',S/N112654-97 1993 MacDon 960 rigid draper,36',S/N84354-93 1995 MacDon 960 rigid draper,30',S/N94194-95 1994 MacDon 960 rigid draper,30',S/N87841-94 2000 JD 930F flex head, 30’,S/NH00930F687542 2004 Case-IH 1020 flex head, 30',S/NJJC0350101 2002 Case-IH 1020 flex head, 30',S/NJJC0329848 1997 Case-IH 1020 flex head, 30',S/NJJC0223768 1995 Case-IH 1020 flex head, 30',S/NJJC0218857 1995 Case-IH 1020 flex head, 30',S/NJJC0215279 1991 Case-IH 1010 rigid head,25',S/NJJC01240591991 Case-IH 1010 rigid head, 30', S/NJJC0124712 1980 Case-IH 810 sunflower head, 20',S/N33248 PICKUP HEADS JD 914P, 7-belt pickup, wind guard 1996 Case-IH 1015, 7-belt pickup, S/NJJC0210724 1995 Case-IH 1015,Swathmaster p/u,S/NJJC0210421 1995 Case-IH 1015,Westward 395 p/u,S/NJJC0210660 Case-IH 1015, Melroe Rake-up pickup, S/N1164 1992 Case-IH 1015,Rake-up pickup,S/NJJC0052821 1991 Case-IH 1015, 7-belt p/u, S/NJJC0053222 1991 Case-IH 1015, S/NJJC0053266 1990 Case-IH 1015,Rake-up pickup, S/NJJC0052727 Case-IH 1015, 7-belt pickup, S/N1214 NH 971, off NH TR96,Swathmaster p/u, S/N544539 ALSO TO INCLUDE: PLANTERS, TILLAGE, SPRAYERS, SWATHERS & HAY EQUIP, OTHER EQUIP & IMPLEMENT TRAILER

HIGH PLAINS EQUIPMENT Contact Ryan Schemionek (701) 662-7522 Steffes Auctioneers Inc. 2000 Main Avenue East, West Fargo ND (701) 237-9173 Scott Steffes ND81, Brad Olstad ND319 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.

(Viewing after 11:00 AM Same Day of Sale Only)

AUCTIONEERS NOTE*

Be on time ONLY 1 Item For Sale Having Received instructions for the CREDIT UNION we will sell the following asset:

Cat D6H

w/single tilt straight blade

Runs Good TERMS: Cash, Visa, Mastercard or

Debit paid in Full Same Day of Sale.

SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS “Everything Sold As Is, Where Is” with no warranties implied or expressed.

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

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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. Do you want to target Manitoba farmers? Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator. Manitoba’s best-read farm publication.

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.

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

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

Website: www.postframebuilding.com 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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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.

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For more information Please call 1-866-882-4779

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT 1988 CASE 580 BACKHOE w/front end loader.

Phone:(204)952-9793.

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

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

FARM MACHINERY Grain Augers 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.

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Accessories

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Various

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

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

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.

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.

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

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Case/IH

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

2-2 ROLL 245 CARTER Day graters w/aspirators.

2-2 roll 245 Carter Day graters wo/aspirators. Many Shelves for the above machines. Magic box w/4 Canola spirals. Phone:Ed Bergen, Sanford, MB. (204)736-2278 or Cell (204)782-3234.

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

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Walinga agri-Vac! Fergus, On: (519) 787-8227 carman, MB: (204) 745-2951 Davidson, SK: (306) 567-3031 FARM MACHINERY Haying & Harvesting – Swathers 400 VERS SWATHER 18-FT. good running order, shedded, $1,500 OBO. Phone (204)966-3857.

Combines FARM MACHINERY Combine – Case/IH 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.

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

NEW WOBBLE BOXES for Macdon, JD, NH, IH, headers. Made in Europe, factory quality. Get it direct from Western Canda’s sole distributor starting at $995. 1-800-667-4515 www.combineworld.com

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

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1-800-667-9871 • Regina 1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon 1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg 1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Accessories 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.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Air Drills

2009 JOHN DEERE 1830 Airseeder, 50-ft, 7.5-in SS, Rubber Packers, Atom Jet Openers, 350 TBH, Conveyor, DS. $124,000; 2004 John Deere 1890 Airseeder, 42-ft, 7.5-in Spacing, Rubber Gauge Wheels, All Run Black, 270 TBH Tank, 8-in Auger. $85,000. Call Ray at (204)825-8121.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Tillage

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – 2 Wheel Drive 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 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.

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Various

OLIVER 88’ STANDARD PTO & hydraulic, side curtains, excellent tires, runs good, asking $2500.

Phone:(306)898-2343 lvg msg, Bredenbury SK.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

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.

10-FT 3-PH (204)347-5995.

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.

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.

Stretch your advertising dollars! Place an ad in the classifieds. Our friendly staff is waiting for your call.

1-800-782-0794.

560 INTERNATIONAL MANURE SPREADER, stored inside; Farmall H narrow front tractor; Antique wood-beam plow. Phone (204)324-8080.

$250.

WHITE 31-FT TANDEM DISC & Suzuki 4-wheeler. Call Jack Bullied (204)526-2857.

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: PT 12-FT. 1150 Heston Crimper as a whole unit or for parts. Phone (204)234-5391.

Phone

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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

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.

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

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WANTED: STONE PICKER & Rock Rake. Phone (204)352-4306

MAGNETO FOR OLIVER TRACTOR for sale or trade for a Case Mag. Phone (204)436-2140.

D/TILLER,

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

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.

FARM MACHINERY Salvage

Combine ACCessories

Tillage & Seeding

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

LOW HRS; KOMATSU WA 320-1 3yd loader; 122 trackhoe; (306)236-8023

“For All Your Farm Parts”

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

COMBINE WORLD located 20 min, E of Saskatoon, SK on Hwy. #16. 1 year warranty on all new, used and rebuilt parts. Canada’s largest inventory of late model combines & swathers.

1-800-667-4515 www.combineworld.com

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.

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

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.

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2 JD 224 STRAIGHT cut headers, $1,100 each $2,000 for both. Phone (204)476-2445, Neepawa.

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Various

1998 JOHN DEERE 9200 4WD Tractor, 20.8 x 42 Firestones, 12-Spd, Greenstar Ready, 4 SCV’s, Very Clean with 5700-hrs.

Call Ray at (204)825-8121.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Air Seeders

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.

WALINGA GRAIN VACS

1979 JD 4440, W/148 FEL w/joystick, $19,500. www.waltersequipment.com (204)525-4521, Minitonas, MB.

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.

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

FARM MACHINERY Grain Handling

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – John Deere

FARM MACHINERY Sprayers

FOR SALE: 1978 1630 JD 145 loader, always shedded; sold w/7-ft. snowblower, $12,500. Phone: (204)471-0571 evening (204)338-9081.

FOR SALE: VARIOUS PARTS for Intl crawlers T.D.6 & T.D.9. Also parts for JD 1010 crawler & complete 7-ft. angle dozer. Phone (204)376-5082.

FOR SALE: 2290 CASE 1982 3,300 original hours, very good shape. Phone:(204)768-9090.

Spraying EquipmEnt

CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.

Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103 or E-mail Requests binmovers@hotmail.com

FARM MACHINERY Grain Cleaners

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Early Deadline for the November 15 issue will be Wednesday, November 7th at Noon

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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.

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FOR SALE: 35 BRED Black Angus cows, bred to registered black angus bull, cows have been preg checked & vaccinated.

Please call Jeff (204)612-1734.

For more information call: 204-694-8328 or Jim Christie 204-771-0753

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Everview Charolais Complete Dispersal Sale Saturday, November 17th, Heartland Livestock, Virden, MB. 65 cows, 29 bull calves, 32 heifer calves, 22 bred heifers and a herdsire. Kevin Boucher; (204)532-2357, Helge By; (306)536-4261 View catalogue at www.bylivestock.com

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

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Phone (204)526-2857.

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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.

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LIVESTOCK Livestock Equipment

REAL ESTATE Motels & Hotels

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QUALITY BLACK ANGUS HEIFERS bred to easy calving bulls, started late January 1200-1400-lbs.

Phone (204)728-7308.

PORTABLE WINDBREAKS, CALF SHELTERS, free standing rod & pipe panels, fence line & field silage bunks. Also sell Speed-Rite & 7L Livestock fence equipment, drill pipe & sucker rod. Phone (204)827-2104 or (204)827-2551, Glenboro.

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LIVESTOCK Cattle – Holstein HOLSTEIN & AYRSHIRE HEIFERS, freshening soon. Phone (204)859-2028.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Limousin TRIPLE R LIMOUSIN, HAS bulls for sale for Fall breeding. Also pick out your 2013 Herdsire now.

Take delivery next Spring. Red or Black 40+ to pick from. Plus bred Heifers & 4H projects, steers & heifers. Your source for quality Limousin genetics. Call Art (204)685-2628 or (204)856-3440.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Maine-Anjou 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

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

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

LIVESTOCK Cattle Various 20 BRED HEIFERS MOST Blacks, some Red Bred to Black Angus bull. To start calving mid March, asking, $1,650. Phone (204)379-2408, St Claude.

25 COW/CALF PAIRS, STARTED calving mid August, would like to sell as a group.(204)523-6698 cell phone, Killarney.

30 COWS WITH CALVES at foot, calves are 400lbs down to new born, cows in good condition.

Phone (204)685-2899.

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.

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.

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.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Wanted 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.

TIRED OF THE HIGH COST OF MARKETING YOUR CALVES??

TANDEM AXLE 55-BUSHEL FEED cart for filling feed bunks or feeding on the ground, hydraulic unloading auger, $825; 4 750x17-in truck tires, $50; 86 parts car. Phone:(204)522-8938 or cell (204)522-5762.

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MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

300-700 LBS. Steers & Heifers Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400 Ben: 721-3400 800-1000 LBS. Steers & Heifers Don: 528-3477, 729-7240

Contact: D.J. (Don) MacDonald Livestock Ltd. License #1110 LIVESTOCK Sheep For Sale CLUN FOREST RAM LAMBS. Easy lambing, excellent maternal characteristics, works well on ewe lambs, $300. Martin Penfold (204)722-2036, Elkhorn/Moosomin area or check out Cluns www.oakwoodgrange.ca

We BUY used oil & filters

NEW ARRIVALS MARSHALL AMPS, Behrinter Products, Wireless Mics, Casio keyboards, assorted Banjos, Mandolins, Violins, Guitars, Amps, P.A, Harmonicas, Strings, Cases, Accessories. Hildebrand Music Portage La Prairie Mall (204)857-3172.

I AM A SINGLE white male, 5’8” 155-lbs w/good sense of humour, financially secure, honest, trustworthy. Looking for Filipino lady between 50-60 yrs of age to love & be loved by. Reply to Ad# 1019, c/o MB Co-operator, Box 9800, Station Main, Winnipeg, MB R3C 3K7

LIVESTOCK Livestock Equipment 400-BU. CATTLELAC MIXER WAGON, like new condition. Call (204)855-2897 or (204)748-7442.

APOLLO ROLLER MILLS ELECTRIC & TTO, all sizes. Very cost efficient for both grain & cattle prices. 50 years experience to suit your application.

“Certainly Worth A Call!” Farmers Premium Equipment. Phone:(204)724-4529.

FARM-AID 430 MIXER WAGON, shedded, flotation tires. Phone (204)859-2028.

Winter & Summer windshield washer fluid Peak Performance anti-freeze ( available in bulk or drums )

MUSICAL

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

Specialty

Specialized waste removal

Trux-N-Parts Salvage Inc.

PERSONAL

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123

Glycol recovery services

Call Ken 204-794-8383 #2 Mountain View Rd Winnipeg, MB

Swine

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

Collection of plastic oil jugs

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PB BLUE & RED Heeler puppies for sale, excellent farm & cattle dogs. Call (204)447-2756 or (204)447-0184.

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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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

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.

Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based in Saskatoon, are looking to contract Borage acres for the upcoming 2013 growing season.

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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.

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WANTED: GRAIN & LIVESTOCK farms for both foreign & domestic buyers. Receiving calls weekly from buyers looking to farm & invest. Considering selling?

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SEED / FEED / GRAIN SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Feed Grain

REAL ESTATE Land For Sale LAND FOR SALE by Tender N1/2 36-14-23W Hamiota approx 305 cult; NE1/4 6-15-22W Blanshard approx 135 cult; N1/2 2-15-22W Blanshard approx 250 cult. Highest or any tender not neces-sarily accepted.

Tenders must be received by Nov. 30th, 2012. Mail written sealed tenders to R & K Haggarty Box 93 Cardale, MB R0K 0J0 For more info call (204)566-2188.

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TAMMY GREER Thurs., Dec. 6th, 2012 7:00pm TAYLORTON ROOM, DAYS INN, ESTEVAN, SK. 3 Quarters of Land Located in the RM of Benson No. 35 SW 4-5-8 W2 (C/W Surface Oil Lease); NE 28-4-8 W2; NW 10-5-8 W2. Call (306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 www.mackacutioncompany.com Mack Auction Co. Pl311962

SALE BY TENDER 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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Toll Free: 888-974-7246 SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Hay & Straw 3RD CUT ALFALFA in small square bales. Also Oat Straw in small square bales. Phone (204)371-6404, Ste Anne.

DAIRY, BEEF & HORSE hay for sale, large squares.

Phone: (204)526-7139 (day) or (204)827-2629 (evenings).

FOR SALE: APPROX 240 bales of oat straw, net wrapped, will load. Phone:(204)799-8130 or (204)837-9750.

FOR SALE: APPROX 3,000 good small square wheat straw bales, excellent for livestock truckers, calving barns, horse barns, etc. $1.50 each firm.

Call (204)483-3045.

FOR SALE: SMALL SQUARE horse quality, timothy or mixed bales, shedded. Phone (204)866-2253 (204)422-8123.

LARGE ROUND WHEAT, OATS & straw, $15; small square oats, $2. Nice tight bales, baled w/no rain.

Call Sam (204)266-1119 or Chad (204)266-2071.

MEDIUM SQUARE WHEAT STRAW 3x3 bales, $15 per bale. (204)781-8664, Rosser, MB. WANTED: HAY, WILL PICK up. (204)746-5095.

WHEAT & OAT STRAW bales for sale, 3 x 3 x 8.

Phone (204)343-2144 or cell (204)745-0085.

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SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Hay & Feed Wanted

SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Grain Wanted

WANTED: DAIRY, BEEF, GRASS & Straw bales in large square bales. Phone Mark 1-800-371-7928, Winnipeg.

We are buyers of farm grains.

SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Grain Wanted

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

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

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Heavy rains in southern Brazil hurt wheat production The top wheat state could see output fall 33 per cent from 2011 SAO PAULO / REUTERS Heavy rains in southern Brazil are threatening wheat output, and top-producing state Rio Grande do Sul could lose around a third of its crop just before harvest, a local official said Oct. 26.

Brazil’s government crop supply agency Conab earlier this month forecast five million tonnes of wheat from Brazil’s 2012-13 crop, down from 5.8 million tonnes a year ago.

Exports were forecast to fall by 34 per cent to 1.25 million tonnes.

But rains have hurt the quality of the crop that is being harvested in the far south, said Emater, the government’s technical assistance agency in Rio Grande do Sul. “We had very intense rains in a short period of time... this caused problems with the crop,” said Luiz Ataides Jacobsen, an agronomist for Emater.

Rio Grande do Sul may harvest only two million tonnes of wheat this season, down from 2.7 million tonnes a year earlier, Ataides said, even though Emater’s official forecast is for 2.3 million tonnes. He said 22 per cent of the state’s crop had been harvested and yields were lower than expected.

Parts of Rio Grande do Sul and Parana states have seen rainfall well above average in October, as has much of Argentina, but warmer Atlantic Ocean waters have kept the storms from pushing into the southern half of top soy-producing state Mato Grosso.

The state needs rain soon to ensure the planting of its next soy crop is a success.

Though Brazil is among the world’s top exporters of corn and soybeans, it is a comparatively small wheat exporter, producing mainly soft-variety wheat often better suited to sweet foods. The country imports much of the wheat it consumes domestically.

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British wheat imports to soar as crop quality fails Britain is on the hunt for high-quality bread wheat after domestic production and quality come up short

Bread is displayed for sale at a bakery in central London. High-quality bread wheat is expected to be in short supply this year.

By Nigel Hunt LONDON / REUTERS

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ritain will be a net importer of wheat for the first time in a decade this year, turning customer to its traditional export rivals after a diseaseravaged harvest, much of which fails to meet the quality required for bread.

Traders and analysts said diseases fuelled by the wettest June since records began more than a century ago have left Britain, the European Union’s third-biggest producer, with a lot of wheat which fails to meet minimum quality standards required by industries such as flour milling.

“The expectation is we will import quite a lot more wheat in the current year, probably about double the normal level, and that is because the quality of what is available in the U.K. is much lower than normal,” said Alex Waugh, director general of the National Association of British and Irish Millers.

Britain normally imports about one million tonnes of high-quality wheat for the milling sector while exporting up to 2.5 million tonnes of lower-grade supplies, much of which is used in animal feed rations.

This season, imports look set to soar while there appears to be little interest from overseas buyers in Britain’s often substandard supplies.

Trader estimates for U.K. wheat imports this season range from about 1.8 million to 2.5 million tonnes.

“We’ve got an incredibly bizarre quality that has been produced in the U.K. which is causing a lot of problems for a lot of people,” one trader said.

Britain’s Farm Ministry earlier this

month estimated that U.K. wheat yields have fallen to a 23-year low, citing high levels of disease and a lack of sunshine in the key grain-fill period.

The U.K. crop was estimated at 13.31 million tonnes, down 13 per cent from the prior season and well below the record 17.23 million harvested in 2008.

The low level of yields has been compounded by poor quality with specific weights, a measure of the density of wheat, particularly low.

“There is simply not the same amount of flour in the U.K. wheat as there would be in a normal year.”

ALEX WAUGH

Director general of the National Association of British and Irish Millers

“There is simply not the same amount of flour in the U.K. wheat as there would be in a normal year. So that is part of the reason for having to look overseas,” Waugh said.

Strategie Grains estimates that only about 10 per cent of this year’s British wheat crop is of milling standard against 27 per cent in 2011.

Looking far afield

Germany, France, the United States and Canada are the U.K.’s traditional suppliers but this year the net has been cast wider to include Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden and Poland, traders said.

“Initially there has been a bit of a hunt around to find what works best but the

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main sources are going to be Germany, France, Canada and the U.S.,” Waugh said, noting they had all supplied the U.K. market for years, though not in the quantities that will be needed this season.

Traders in Germany said British buyers have been in their market seeking both standard and higher protein grades.

“We have seen some purchases in the last month or so of several shiploads of between 1,500 to 3,000 tonnes from German Baltic Sea ports,” one German trader said.

“These are relatively small volumes but are probably being used as test blendings to see how the flour turns out. Talk is they were successful and I think we will see more substantial business in coming months,” the trader added.

The final level of imports will depend on the extent to which domestic consumers make use of the poor-quality U.K. wheat.

Some British traders noted biofuels producer Ensus has been willing to buy wheat with specific weights as low as 60 kilos per hectolitre, which probably only excludes the bottom five per cent of the crop.

“Ensus appears to be a friendly home for low specific weight wheat,” said Jack Watts, senior analyst with Britain’s HomeGrown Cereals Authority.

Traders said bioethanol producers outside Britain may also take a look if the price was right.

“No one (overseas) is interested in low-grade wheat at the moment because there is plenty of corn that is cheap but we’ve got nine or 10 months to go (until next year’s harvest),” one British trader said.

“It is going to be fascinating how it unfolds. This is a particularly unusual year,” the trader said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

Goat producers urged to provide input into a new national traceability program Some dairy goat producers want leg bands instead of ear tags and there are different methods for reporting and recording of animal movement, and retiring tags

By Alexis Kienlen FBC STAFF | PONOKA

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traceability program for goats is coming, and now is the time for producers to give their input on how the system should operate, says the general manager o f t h e Ca n a d i a n Na t i o n a l Goat Federation. “ Traceability and animal identification are almost nonnegotiable right now,” Jennifer MacTavish said at the recent Alberta Goat Breeders Association conference.

“Our role is to get a traceability and an animal identification program that will work for the goat industry.”

The sector is one of the last groups to get a traceability system, and the current voluntary tag program operated by the federation will eventually become mandatory, said MacTavish. The federation is working with Ketchum Manufacturing to test three different types of tags. All three types come with a tag assessment form, she noted.

“Now is your chance to get yourself heard and give feedback to us,” MacTavish said. “I really encourage you to start tagging your goats.”

Traceability ensures animals can be accounted for in case of an emergency, including fire, a natural disaster, or an animal disease outbreak.

“If t h e p ro c e s s i n g p l a n t needs to do a recall or there’s another issue and we need to know where animals are, it will benefit the chain,” she said.

Traceability will boost consumer confidence in the goat

Trait Stewardship Responsibilities

Traceability ensures animals can be accounted for in case of an emergency, including fire, a natural disaster, or an animal disease outbreak.

sector, and other livestock groups have used animal identification and recordk e e p i n g t o i m p r ov e m a n agement decisions and herd productivity, she said.

But there are different ways to create a system, she added.

For example, some dairy goat producers would like leg bands instead of ear tags to identify their animals and the federation is currently evaluating this option. This sort of feedback is critical as the

federal government will soon be drafting traceability regulations for the goat industry, she said.

“We’re going to need producers to comment on these regulations so we can build a traceability program that w o r k s f o r y o u ,” M a c Ta v ish said. “We really need you around the table, we need your input and we need to know what’s going to work on the farm for you so that we can do our jobs better.”

Other issues that need to be considered are the reporting and recording of animal movement, and how tags are retired when an animal dies.

Goat producers who want m o re i n f o r m a t i o n o r w h o want to join the voluntary tag program can find more information at www.cangoats.com.

“Traceability and animal identification are almost non-negotiable right now.”

JENNIFER MACTAVISH

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PARDON ME! DEMOCRACY IS NOT FREE. • No slaughter plants = Corporate Control • No hog marketing board = Corporate barns • No single desk (CWB) = What do you think will happen?

• Our class action lawsuit is moving forward.

Registration, certification and legal proceedings are underway.

Estimated time frame: 16–22 months.

• Support the FCWB and be part of the solution.

Peak of the Market has received an offer from a registered table potato grower pursuant to the “Retirement and Annual Table Potato Quota Reallocation Program”. Should you be interested in diversifying your farming operation by getting into table potatoes, now might be the time. Eligible persons who meet Peak of the Market’s eligibility requirements pursuant to the “Potato Quota Order” are eligible to submit bids for 6,686 Red table potato 75 lb quota units offered for retirement at the Effective Retirement Payment of $ 26.00 per quota unit.

Bids must be for the total 6,686 quota units offered.

Deadline for submitting bids is November 30, 2012 by 4:00 p.m.

Time to invest in your business is now. Donate generously.

For further information regarding Bid submissions and/or eligibility requirement details, please call Ron Hemmersbach, Vice President Finance, at (204) 633-5636 or by e-mail at RonH@PeakMarket.com.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

Goat producers sought for national scrapie study

LAST SEASON PASTURE

Scrapie Canada is asking goat producers to voluntarily submit samples for scrapie testing

By Alexis Kienlen FBC STAFF | PONOKA

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oat producers are being urged to participate in a scrapie prevalence study, part of an effort to rid the country of the disease.

“What we’re trying to do is establish a strategic plan to get producers involved with scrapie eradication in a way that works for producers,” Corlena Patterson, project co-ordinator of Scrapie Canada, said at the recent Alberta Goat Breeders Association conference.

Scrapie affects sheep and goats, and is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), also know as prion disease. Other TSEs include BSE in cattle and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk.

Part of the challenge in eradicating scrapie in the goat sector is a lack of good statistics on goat operations in Canada and the numbers and types of goats on farms. Scrapie Canada has had a survey done and is now asking goat producers to voluntarily submit obex samples (a portion of the brain) or frozen head samples for the prevalence study.

If scrapie is found, international regulations mean “we have to tell the whole world about it,” said Patterson. But it’s far better to find out this way than have scrapie discovered in an abattoir because there is currently no way to trace the animal back to the farm it came from, she added.

“If you collect a sample from a goat that doesn’t have identification and can’t be traced back to its farm of origin, we have to tell people we found it, but couldn’t do anything about it,” Patterson said.

“This is not a position that the livestock industry as a whole wants to be in.”

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency also has an eradication plan, surveillance program and disease control action, which is not affiliated with Scrapie Canada’s.

Eradicating scrapie in Canada will prevent the destruction of herds, and also import bans.

Two-hirds of the countries in the world have a scrapie control program which includes imposing import restrictions to prevent importing scrapie from trading partners, Patterson noted.

Scrapie Canada will cover the cost of obex testing and will offer reimbursements to producers to offset the cost of harvesting samples as long as funds are available. Samples can be sent to the University of Guelph’s animal health lab, the Prairie Diagnostic services lab in Saskatoon or Alberta Agriculture’s TSE lab. Anyone who needs a sample submission form or specifics for submitting samples can contact Patterson at Scrapie Canada at 1-866-5341302.

Cattle grazing near Rathwell.

PHOTO: JEANNETTE GREAVES

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

Nigeria president says floods won’t cause hunger But vast stretches of cropland are under water as major rivers overflow abuja / reuters

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igerian President Goodluck Jonathan sought to allay fears Oct. 26 that the nation’s worst floods in at least five decades would trigger a food crisis because of damage to crops.

Jonathan, who this month toured some parts of Africa’s most populous nation that have been submerged by floods he has described as a “national disaster,” spoke to journalists and other visitors to the presidential villa.

“People should not be afraid that there will be hunger in the land... We have enough grains in our reserves,” he said, when asked about the impact of the floods on food production.

“Some selfish people are already hoarding grains... but they are doing that to their disadvantage,” he said.

At least 140 people have been killed, hundreds of thousands displaced and tens of thousands of hectares of farmland have been submerged since the start of July,

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emergency officials say, after several major rivers burst their banks.

Flooding in the oil-rich Niger Delta, where Africa’s third-longest river flows into the Atlantic Ocean, has disrupted oil production to the tune of around 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) — more than a fifth of Nigeria’s output — according to the Department of Petroleum Resources.

French oil firm Total says it stopped oil and gas production on its onshore OML 58 block due to floods, declaring force majeure on supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Nigeria, which gets heavy tropical rains from May to September, often suffers seasonal flash floods. But the sheer scale of the devastation this year has shocked people. Local TV stations have beamed images of towns and cities under water.

A cocoa industry body said last month that cocoa output would fall far short of a 300,000-tonne target for last season because of excessive rains.

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U.S. meat producers may pare back output U.S. meat shipments hit a record in 2011 and look to be on course to better that total for 2012

By Gavin Maguire ChiCAGo / REUtERS

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espite nearly recordhigh feed prices, U.S. meat production has continued to trend higher in recent months, and the latest monthly statistics show that beef, pork and chicken output all remain above the five-year average.

Brisk meat exports combined with strong domestic wholesale and retail prices have encouraged these high production levels, but a seasonal downturn in exports may lead to a glut of domestic inventories towards year-end unless meat manufacturers dial down their current output pace.

So far, 2012 has been one of the toughest years on record for animal feeders as the price of key feed ingredients such as corn, soymeal and distillers grains have sharply outperformed cattle and hog prices.

Hog and feeder cattle prices have actually traded in negative territory in recent months as high input costs and anemic meat demand stamp out profit potential.

Even so, meat makers have been able to pass on some portion of their higher costs on to consumers, as retail and wholesale meat prices pushed toward record heights in 2012.

This rising retail price environment in turn encouraged meat producers to maintain their output levels even in the face of soaring input costs in 2012.

More trade could end African food shortages World Bank blames cross-border restrictions for food scarcity

By Lesley Wroughton WAShinGton / REUtERS

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frica could avoid food shortages if it reduces the tangled web of rules, fees and high costs strangling regional food trade and by putting large swathes of uncultivated land to productive use, according to a World Bank report.

Just five per cent of Africa’s cereal imports are now provided by African farmers, according to the report.

“Too often borders get in the way of getting food to homes and communities which are struggling with too little to eat,” said Makhtar Diop, World Bank vice-president for Africa.

The bank estimates that 19

million people are in danger of hunger and malnutrition in West Africa’s Sahel region. Yet, removing cross-border restrictions could help avoid food crises if farmers were allowed to trade more easily with each other and get food to communities facing shortages.

In addition, the World Bank estimated that fewer restrictions on food trade could generate an estimated $20 billion in annual earnings for African governments.

Food trade barriers also increase the cost to the consumer and the farmer, the World Bank said.

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For example, farmers on holdings in Africa who sell surplus

harvest typically receive less than 20 per cent of the consumer price of their produce, with the rest being eaten up by various transaction costs and post-harvest losses.

“This clearly limits the incentive to produce for the market,” the World Bank said.

Soaring global food prices in 2008, which triggered social unrest in several African countries, highlighted the problem of decades of underinvestment in agriculture in Africa.

It also stimulated interest among investors in Europe, the Middle East and Asia in Africa’s untapped farming potential. Fears of land grabbing also increased.

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One of the bright spots for the U.S. meat production industry over the last few years has been the steady climb in overseas consumption of American meat products. Indeed, U.S. meat shipments hit a record in 2011 and look to be on course to better that total for 2012.

Demand growth appears to be widespread across beef, pork and chicken, although the prominence of Asian nations is clear in the beef and pork markets in particular.

Nonetheless, there is a clear tendency for meat shipments to taper off towards the end of the year, especially in beef and chicken. Any pronounced dip in overseas demand could quickly result in a build in domestic supplies, which in turn could weigh on domestic meat prices and thus undermine one of the few supportive factors working for the U.S. meat manufacturers at the present time.

So while the recent brisk pace of meat exports may give the impression of sustained robust off-take of American m e a t p ro d u c t s — e ve n i n the face of historically high prices — U.S. meat producers should be wary. Now may be a better time for proactive cutbacks in production.

impediment to more food trade across Africa, especially for small farmers. While poor roads and lack of infrastructure are a problem in Africa, transport cartels are also common with little incentive for investment in modern trucks.

Countries in West Africa could halve their transport costs within 10 years if governments undertook policy reforms, and took action on roadblocks and bribes at border posts that also add to the cost of getting food to markets.

More food trade in Africa could help raise yields, spread new technology and create jobs, it added. In some countries it takes two to three years for new seed varieties to be released.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

Flooding delays Argentine soy planting bean exporter has been pelted by unusually strong rains since August — a sharp contrast to a year ago when dryness was the main problem.

Flooding in the country’s Pampas Grains Belt has also allowed fungus-based diseases to attack the emerging wheat crop.

although with severe and continuous interruptions,” t h e Bu e n o s A i re s Gra i n s Exchange said in its weekly crop report.

Only two per cent of Argentina’s projected soy area was planted as of last week and farmers fear more rain will further delay seeding. The world’s No. 3 soy-

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To halt or reverse a $22-billion European biofuel industry requires a sound justification.

The problem with biofuels is that calculation of the full environmental impact of their production involves incredibly complicated, tortuous calculations using so-called life cycle assessment.

Probably the best course is to halt growth in the conventional biofuel industry, which produces fuel from food crops, pending better understanding of their full environmental and food price impacts.

That is broadly what the European Commission recently proposed, halving its target for crop-based biofuels to five per cent of road fuel in 2020, equivalent to present production levels.

But problems lurk.

The commission now says some biodiesel is as polluting as Canadian tarsands, which could lead to legislation banning those types of biodiesel.

The commission wants to drive a switch to non-food sources for advanced biofuels, but kickstarting this fledgling, alternative industry risks repeating the original errors in supporting conventional biofuels.

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Nigel Mortimer, an LCA practitioner who leads the British consultancy North Energy Associates, says he considers the commission’s latest proposed indirect land use change (ILUC) estimates to be premature.

“Despite many valiant attempts, no such model has yet gained universal acceptance,” he stated.

Even the experts used by the commission acknowledge the complexity of such analyses.

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Hiking incentives for non-food biofuels also rely on complex accounting.

For example, the commission would allow straw to count four times the equivalent cropbased biofuels.

The justification is that straw is a waste product (or “agricultural residue”) which therefore requires no land in its production and so causes no indirect emissions. But straw is not waste, instead a byproduct of cereal production which has an economic value as animal bedding.

Energy crops such as miscanthus grass count twice, even though it uses land and so potentially displaces food crops in exactly the same way as conventional biofuels.

The result is inconsistent, an attempt both to be science based and at the same time to support advanced biofuels.

That juggling may be the best the commission can do to put the biofuel industry on a sounder footing, but it creates uncertainty, will scare investors and risks repeating mistakes.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | November 1, 2012

Iowa farmland sale hits new record high at $21,900 an acre Neighbouring farmers are bidding up the price for land parcels

By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO / REUTERS

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s the Midwest struggles with the ripple effects of this year’s devastating drought, farmland prices in Iowa hit a new record high Oct. 25 when an 80.47-acre parcel sold for $21,900 an acre, the auction firm that handled the sale said Oct. 26.

The parcel is located in Sioux County near Boyden, Iowa, about 42 miles southeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

The sale soared past last year’s record price tag of $20,000 per acre which was set in an auction for a 74-acre parcel held in the same county in northwest Iowa.

The buyers were neighbouring farmers, said a spokesman for Vander Werff and Associates Inc. which ran the auction.

$4 to $9,” Duffy said. “If we get moisture this winter and spring, the prices will fall back for land. If we don’t, they’ll stay up.”

Iowa farmland prices have risen steadily in recent years.

The value of tillable land jumped an average of 7.7 per cent in the state over the past six months, according to a recent farmland survey released by the Iowa Farm & Land Chapter #2 Realtors Land Institute.

The value of Iowa cropland for potential corn production increased nearly 21.9 per cent over the 12 months ended in September, according to the survey.

The Oct. 25 sale was far from an anomaly in Iowa in recent weeks. Earlier this week, a different piece of farm prop-

The sky-high prices underscore how demand for Iowa farmland has remained strong, given that commodity crop yields fared far better in the Hawkeye State than in other parts of the nation’s Corn Belt this summer.

Given that crop prices hit historical highs this summer, these somewhat larger yields gave some Iowa farmers an economic boost and added to the record income levels they enjoyed in 2011, said Michael D. Duffy, professor of economics at Iowa State University.

Whether Iowa’s land values will continue to rise, though, will depend on the weather, he said.

“If you look at what the prognosticators are saying that I look at, the predictions for corn prices range from

Despite a crippling drought in 2012, prices for land in Iowa’s farming counties continue to set new records. PHOTO: REUTERS/ADREES LATIF

erty sold for $19,100 in Sioux County, home to dairies, swine farms and livestock feedlots that need land to disperse the

manure. Earlier this month, a tract near Carroll, Iowa, reportedly sold for $16,000 per acre.

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HP Billiton says it won’t decide soon on whether to build the world’s biggest potash mine in Western Canada, a project some say would exacerbate a global glut of the fertilizer.

In late August, BHP pushed back to at least June 2013 a decision on building an eightmillion-tonne mine at Jansen, Sask., but emphasized it would still proceed with construction and was planning to double the first phase of production. The Anglo-Australian mining giant has been aiming to start production in 2015.

But now chief executive Marius Kloppers has suggested there’s little urgency to proceed.

“The guys still have their lease agreements to complete, they have a substantial amount of engineering to complete,” he said. “We do have quite some time ahead of us before we need to consider additional approvals.”

BHP continues to dig two shafts and build surface facilities at the mine site. Analysts estimate the mine could cost up to $14 billion to complete, and some analysts say buying U.S. potash producer Mosaic makes more sense.

The world’s potash capacity surplus looks to climb as high as 19.3 million tonnes by 2020 from 11.3 million tonnes in 2012 due to expansions and potential new mines, including Jansen.

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