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Customer complaints about Canadian wheat performance colour quality, brand debate They come at a time when some question Canada’s emphasis on wheat quality assurance and the registration system

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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f there is good news in a recent wire service story that told the world some customers are complaining about Canadian wheat that wimped out in the bakery, it’s that complaints over quality are so rare they become news.

Chinese officials complained this past winter, suggesting that a lack of processing consistency in the CWRS class might prompt them to switch to buying Dark Northern Spring (DNS) wheats from the United States, Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) executive director Earl Geddes told the Canada Grain Council’s annual meeting April 2 in Winnipeg.

Geddes said the complaint itself is manageable. The bigger question is how well prepared the industry is to collectively fill the customer service and brand maintenance role once played by the Canadian Wheat Board.

See WHEAT QUALITY on page 6 »

Employees prepare bread products in a small roadside bakery in Beijing. Wheat performance in baking can be influenced by a number of factors ranging from variety, environment, agronomic to time in storage. Photo: REUTERS/Reinhard Krause

Another hog stabilization program rejected Pork producers must turn to AgriStability and AgriInvest: Kostyshyn

By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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he provincial government has refused to back a hog stabilization program proposed by the Manitoba Pork Council to help producers through ongoing financial turbulence.

“While the province continues to work with the Manitoba Pork Council on possible solutions, their recent proposal is too much of a financial risk during these uncertain economic times,” the minister said in an emailed statement.

“With another flood on the

way, any request for support above the programs already offered must be cr itically reviewed.”

Pork Council chairman Karl Kynoch said the decision is disappointing and he anticipates more hog producers will exit the pork industry as a result.

The Manitoba Pork Council first pitched the stabilization program to the government last winter.

“Our numbers have been dropping so fast, some producers have been closing down, but then there are also producers who have been losing their independence,” said Kynoch.

“Those producers can’t operate anymore, they’re out of money to continue owing the pigs and feeding them, so the packing plants have in turn been forced to actually take ownership of the pigs and then the producers basically become contract feeders.”

The now-rejected program would have seen the province act as a guarantor for cash loans provided by financial institutions and administered by Manitoba Pork Council Corporation.

Low risk

Kynoch said the province wouldn’t have had to pay out

any funds unless a sizable number of operations went bankrupt, defaulting on their loans.

The loans were to be repaid by a mandatory $5 levy applied to all hogs sold in the province.

The chairman said the council had gone through nearly a dozen options before presenting this plan to the government.

The proposal was also assessed by an accounting firm for viability before government was approached.

“Basically at the end of the day, this is what we came up See HOG PROGRAM on page 6 »

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INSIDE

Did you know?

LIVESTOCK Butt out; so is pork chop

Fruit flies fed organic diets are healthier

U.S. makes big changes meat-speak

Fruit flies raised on diets based on organic foods performed better on a variety of health tests, including fertility and longevity

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CROPS Ottawa wants a solo, not a choir Grains industry urged to consolidate its voice

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FEATURE Making the most of Churchill Climate change may expand northern port’s season

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CROSSROADS Hooked on Prairie icons Rug display of elevators makes the rounds

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Editorials Comments What’s Up Livestock Markets

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Grain Markets Weather Vane Classifieds Sudoku

esearchers aren’t sure why, but fruit flies fed organic fruits and vegetables in a laboratory study lived longer and produced more offspring than flies fed a non-organic diet.

The study from the lab of SMU biologist Johannes H. Bauer, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, found that fruit flies raised on diets of organic foods performed better on several tests for general health.

“While these findings are certainly intriguing, what we now need to determine is why the flies on the organic diets did better, especially since not all the organic diets we tested provided the same positive health outcomes,” said Bauer, principal investigator for the study in an SMU release.

The release said fruit flies on organic diets showed improvements on the most significant measures of health, namely fertility and longevity.

“We don’t know why the flies on the organic diet did better. That will require further research.

But this is a start toward understanding potential health benefits,” said student Ria Chhabra, a student at Clark High School in Plano, Texas, who led the experiment.

Bauer, an assistant professor in SMU’s department of biological sciences, mentored Chhabra by helping guide and design her research experiments. The research focus of Bauer’s fruit fly lab is nutrition and its relationship to longevity, health and diabetes.

Because of the low costs associated with fly research and the fly’s short life cycle, researchers use fruit flies to study human diseases, from dia-

Tiny fruit fly sitting on an apple. photo: thinkstock.com

betes to heart function to Alzheimer’s disease, the release said.

The findings, “Organically grown food provides health benefits to Drosophila melanogaster,” have been published in the openaccess journal PLOS One. Bauer and Chhabra co-authored the paper with Santharam Kolli, a research associate at SMU. The article is available from PLOS One online at http://bit.ly/ RGB8LJ.

correction

Correction to variety identity A subhead in the front-page April 4 story “First fusarium-resistant spring wheat in pipeline” wrongly identifies the variety as HY1610. The fusarium-resistant CPS variety is HY1615.

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Co-operator staff win writing awards The paper placed in three categories in the annual North American Agricultural Journalists awards Staff

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everal Manitoba C o - o p e ra t o r s t a f f a n d contributors were winners in the North American Agricultural Journalists’ (NAAJ) 2013 writing contest.

The awards, in seven categories, were presented at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. April 8.

Co-operator editor Laura Rance placed first in the columns and analysis category.

Rance, along with Co-operator reporters Allan Dawson and Shannon VanRaes, were second in spot news and Co-operator contributors Ron Friesen and Val Ominski placed second in the series category.

Rance won with an editorial that compared the response to the U.S. beef slime issue to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture response to a rule change in meat animal slaughter.

“The three ‘Cs’ of good writing — clarity, conciseness and content — are all strong in this opinion,” wrote judge Beth Pratt, a retired religion editor of the Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal.

“This highly skilled writer sheds light rather than heat on a high-interest, sometimes abused, topic — food safety.”

Wr i t e r s f r o m T h o m s o n Reuters and DTN/The Progressive Farmer, placed second and third.

The spot news category is for stories written on tight deadlines, which is more often the case for wire services than weekly newspapers. The story Dawson, VanRaes and Rance broke was about the controversial euthanizing of wean-

ling pigs near Austin last summer.

“A great piece of spot news journalism, with colour from the scene combined with solid reporting and context from the office,” wrote judge and former Winnipeg Free Press editor Margo Goodhand.

“With two hours to deadline, an anonymous tipster claims 1,300 baby pigs have been shot and killed at a hog barn. One reporter drives an hour out of town to confirm the tip, another reporter and editor jump on the phones to plumb industry and government sources.”

Reporters from DTN/ The Progressive Farmer and Bloomberg News and Thomson Reuters (tied) placed first and third, respectively.

Three other Thomson Reuters reporters received honourable mentions.

Judge Mary Kay Quinlan, associate professor of journalism at the University of NebraskaLincoln, had high praise for Friesen and Ominski’s “special projects” entry on the Canadian Grain Commission’s centennial.

“I knew nothing about this organization and found myself drawn in to the historical perspective the articles explored,” Quinlan wrote. “The reporting and writing was straightforward, detailed and engaging. But it was not cloying and laudatory the way you might expect a commemorative project to be.”

Reporters with Investigate West and EarthFix placed first, while a reporter from the Lexington Herald-Leader took third.

Reporters from the Western Producer, DTN/The Progressive, Better Farming and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette received honourable mentions.

Co-operator staff (l-r, Laura, Allan and Shannon) did well in the North American Agricultural Journalists’ (NAAJ) 2013 writing contest.

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Flood review makes recommendations but assigns no blame Lake Manitoba flooding might have occurred without the use of the Portage Diversion, according to the authors of a report on the 2011 flood

By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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hose looking for a clear answer on what caused flooding around Lake Manitoba in 2011 won’t find it in the newly released Manitoba 2011 Flood Review.

Completed in conjunction with a regulation review of Lake St. Martin and Lake Manitoba, the report makes 126 recommendations, including the construction of a second permanent outlet structure for Lake Manitoba.

But the question of artificial flooding on the lake was not part of the regulation review committee’s mandate, said chairman Harold Westdal.

“We did not study that, however, it was one of those top-of-mind issues that came up at every public meeting,” he said. “I think for the people around Lake Manitoba the answer is pretty simple. As far as they’re concerned there were measures that were taken that knowingly led to flooding on Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin.”

Experts consulted by the review committee indicated that it was possible excess water would have found its way into Lake Manitoba even if the Portage Diversion had not been used, following natural channels to the lake once the Assiniboine River overflowed or breached its dikes.

“There was approximately 53,000 cfs (cubic feet per second) coming down the system, the Assiniboine River could safely handle 18,000 cfs downstream of Portage la Prairie the other 35,000 had to go somewhere, and rather than trying to push it down the Assiniboine and having a catastrophic failure, the safe choice was to run it through the Portage Diversion,” said Flood Task Force chairman, David Farlinger.

During normal conditions, the diversion removes a maximum of 25,000 cubic feet of water per second.

Harold Westdal, chairman of the Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin Regulation Review Committee, speaks to media following the release of the 2011 Flood Review. Photos: Shannon VanRaes

During the flood of 2011, the diversion’s capacity was temporarily increased to 33,000 cubic feet of water per second, resulting in the emergency fortification of the diversion. Unlike years past, the diversion also ran for 100 days, rather than the roughly two weeks it usually operates.

Since 2011, $6 million of repair work has been done at the site.

“If that water had not been diverted through the Portage Diversion, there would have been, certainly, a catastrophic failure of the Assiniboine River dikes, some of that water would have found its way through natural channels into Lake Manitoba, but where the water would have gone is a bit of a moot point,” said Westdal.

“For the people who live around Lake Manitoba this is not a technical issue, this is a very emotional issue, they feel it very strongly, and they feel they have taken a significant hit for other people in the province.”

Steve Ashton, minister of infrastructure and transportation, said the province did everything it could with the tools available to minimize damage across Manitoba.

“I want to stress one thing; at no time was there any trade-off of protecting the City of Winnipeg versus rural Manitoba,” he said, adding

David Farlinger, chairman of the Manitoba 2011 Flood Review Task Force, speaks to media following the release of the 2011 Flood Review.

that he could not say in technical terms whether the use of the diversion caused artificial flooding.

However, he noted overland flooding in 1892 caused significant flooding on Lake Manitoba without diversion structures.

The authors of the Regulation review of Lake Manitoba and Lake St. Martin describe the debate around flooding as, “partially technical (hydrologic analysis), partially semantics and partially perspective.”

A $260-million class-action lawsuit has been launched against the province in relation to the flooding of Lake Manitoba.

One thing all parties agreed on was that the flooding experienced in 2011 was unprecedented and unlikely to be repeated. Damage along some areas of Lake Manitoba was also linked to high winds that coincided with high water levels.

The report recommended lowering water levels on Lake Manitoba for the next five years to allow for the restoration of natural vegetation, as well as better forecasting technology, better communication, new water control structures, updated zoning regulations and new forecasting models. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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OPINION/EDITORIAL

The need for speed

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hen the Harper government gutted Canada’s environmental review legislation as part of the 2012 omnibus budget, the public was told it was because the process was inefficient, slow and standing in the way of economic development.

But as researchers at the University of Toronto noted, federal officials “provided no evidence apart from the testimony of a Laura Rance handful of representatives of the resource Editor extraction and energy sectors.”

So they took a look at the time it took to process environmental reviews undertaken between 2001 to 2011.

“They found no evidence that regulatory review in Canada was inefficient, even when regulators had an ongoing load of over 600 projects for review at any given time,” according to a release from NRC Research Press.

On the contrary, researchers Dak de Kerckhove, Ken Minns and Brian Shuter with the university’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology found that most environmental regulatory reviews were already being completed within the arbitrary new time frames laid out in the 2012 legislation restricting the scope of reviews.

“Arbitrary changes would therefore not expedite the review of the majority of projects, and may instead rubber-stamp those few projects that actually merit more in-depth reviews because of their potential to cause greater environmental damages,” said lead researcher de Kerckhove.

“Governments should recognize that environmental oversight is a necessary and valuable component of the approval process for development projects, and that alternate options exist for managing the submission load aside from weakening environmental protection,” says de Kerckhove.

There are striking similarities between this scenario and the proposition currently before the Canadian grain and oilseeds industry to reduce or eliminate merit assessments before new crop varieties can be introduced into the Canadian marketplace. Only instead of the environment, this is about compromising quality and farmers’ bottom line.

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has instructed the variety recommending committees to undertake their own reviews to remove what he calls “barriers that unnecessarily encumber innovation in the crop sector.”

The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association has already outlined its wish list, which we suspect will become Ritz’s road map for change.

Currently, varieties developed for Canadian producers must meet merit criteria in three areas, quality suited to a specific wheat class, disease and agronomic traits. These characteristics are evaluated by an industry committee after three years of co-op trials. Those committees vote as to whether the variety should be recommended for registration by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

The wheat growers want to adopt the Australian model for wheat varieties, which includes a body to determine the parameters of Canada’s wheat classes and a technical committee to decide where new varieties would fit. Merit testing for quality, disease resistance or agronomic traits would not be required but could be voluntarily conducted following its introduction.

“While Western Canada has an excellent reputation for producing high-quality wheat, we have fallen behind other countries in terms of our access to higher-yielding varieties,” says WCWGA president Levi Wood in a letter to Ritz.

“The wheat growers believe this new model will give farmers greater and faster access to an array of varieties that better meet the diverse growing conditions and market opportunities that face farmers across the Prairies.

Before this goes too much further, we’d like to see the scientific evidence backing up these claims. Looking across the border, and indeed across the globe, we note that most of the new varieties are coming out of publicly funded breeding programs, or through public-private partnerships, which suggest return on investment is the issue, not the registration system.

Nor would the evidence suggest that American spring wheat varieties necessarily yield better. Manitoba’s 10-year average wheat yield (2003-12) is 45 bushels an acre compared to 40 in North Dakota, according to a presentation to the Manitoba Agronomists Conference last December.

“New” and “more” is not always “better.” Farmers need to remember that one’s perspective on disease resistance differs based on whether you are a grower or a seed developer who also happens to be in the business of selling fungicides.

We would suggest that Canada’s competitive disadvantage lies not in the haste with which we introduce new varieties, but rather with our relatively shorter growing season, cool climate, and distance to market. It is these disadvantages that producing quality — and more importantly — consistent quality can overcome. laura@fbcpublishing.com

Farmers leery of offending grain buyers The CGC doesn’t want to be Big Brother The following is an exchange between farm marketing consultant Brenda Tjaden-Lepp of FarmLink Marketing Solutions and Elwin Hermanson, chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission at the recent Canada Grains Council meeting in Winnipeg over how farmer and grain buyers determine fair value.

Tjaden-Lepp: “It boils down to this party wants to sell high and this party wants to buy low.

There’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s a hesitancy to talk about that on the driveway.

You’re not getting a lot of people asking for recheck samples because they know if they submit it, they’re never going to get another trucking premium or grade upgrade from that guy. That’s a regularly reported issue from the growers we’re working with.

“We’re running into a lot of challenges in just understanding what the contracts mean — what they look like and getting performance.

And there’s nobody to go to for dispute resolution. So on your list on 10 things under the grain act, there’s nothing about markets there, nothing about contracts, nothing about price transparency. Is that simply a reflection of today’s government’s attitude about this industry — that markets are working fine and everybody does great business together?… It seems to me the grain commission is in a perfect position to apply some muscle or oversight.

Is there any acknowledgment of that coming out of Ottawa when you have your discussions about how to reorganize for the future?”

Hermanson: “The way the act is constructed and will be constructed, we are focused on the grain quality assurance side, not the commer-

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cial contacts. And I guess if you want your government involved in the commercial contract side for grain, you could do that, but then you start to wonder if they should be involved in all sorts of contracts for all kinds of things. Not only the current government but previous governments have not thought that’s the direction they want to go — Big Brother...

So at the current time, when commercial contracts are in dispute the Canadian Grain Commission does not get involved because it is not a breach of the Canada Grain Act. Where there is a breach of the Canada Grain Act we will involve ourselves and will move heaven and earth to resolve an issue.

On the point about producers being reluctant to use the ‘subject to grade and dockage’ provision in the act we hear that quite a bit.

And that’s the producer’s call. But it’s a competitive world and if the industry decides because a producer wants to use that instrument to make sure they get a fair price... I think there is a commercial risk for those entities that is equal to or greater than the risk of the producer using that particular instrument.

When I think back to when I was farming, it was not a bad thing to say to a grain buyer — and oftentime the grain buyer would raise it — ‘you know this durum has some colour in it and I just don’t know how to grade this, why don’t we send a sample off to the grain commission?’

That happened a few times in our operation. It wasn’t a dispute. It was a way to assess proper value on that grain. The more we can have that frame of mind — and maybe with your customers, you can encourage that and perhaps we can encourage that approach to the issue (and) I think we’ll all be better off.

It shouldn’t be a negative — ‘if you’re not going to trust me I’m not going to buy your grain anymore type of a response.’ That’s unfortunate if that happens.”

April 14, 1966

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outhern Manitoba farmers in April 1966 had other things on their mind than purchasing this all-weather tractor cab. The largest flood since 1950 (imagine a whole 16 years between floods!) was covering the Red River Valley. The Red had crested at 789.25 feet at Emerson on Apr. 11 and large areas of the Red River Valley were under water.

One photo showed some of the 12 children of the Robert family from Aubigny, who were said to pose a special problem for relief workers in trying to find temporary accommodation for the whole group. “The problem was solved when officials decided to vacate the schoolhouse at Carey, three miles to the east, where the family settled until such time as the threat is over,” we reported.

The Red River Floodway was still under construction, but dikes in Winnipeg were said to be holding.

Meanwhile, outside the valley, spring field work was said to be underway.

An outbreak of salmonellosis in cattle was reported in the Interlake, Westlake and Boissevain areas, with some 50 head in 20 herds. Bone meal in feed was a suspected cause.

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COMMENT/FEEDBACK

COOL: Some are for it, some are not Consumers have a right to know where their meat was born, raised and slaughtered

By Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer

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Letters

ore than a decade after mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) was first included in the Farm Bill, the debate continues.

We’ve examined a legal opinion by the legal firm Stewart and Stewart (S&S) — paid for by the National Farmers Union, the United States Cattleman’s Association, the Food and Water Watch, and Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch — that analyzed the ruling of the World Trade Organization ( WTO) Appellate Body in the case that Canada and Mexico brought against the U.S. COOL law.

S&S said that the U.S. could come into compliance with the appellate body ruling through rewriting portions of the COOL regulations.

Specifically, they opined that the information collected by the producers and packers concerning where an animal was born, raised, and slaughtered needed to be conveyed to the consumer in order to fulfil a legitimate regulatory objective.

We’ve also examined the proposed United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) rule that eliminated the mixed origin label for muscle cuts — primarily used for beef and pork — and required that all retail labels specify the country for each step in the production process. The changes in the proposed rule appear to us to be consistent with the legal analysis of S&S. L a s t Nov e m b e r, w e l l b e f o r e the USDA issued the proposed r ule, a Kansas State University study by Glynn Tonsor and others—“Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling MCOOL: Consumer Demand Impact” — found that 1) demand for covered meat products

We welcome readers’ comments on issues that have been covered in the Manitoba Co-operator. In most cases we cannot accept “open” letters or copies of letters which have been sent to several publications. Letters are subject to editing for length or taste.

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One super farm group needed?

Danny Penner has been advocating for one “super” farm group to speak with one voice. That idea has been around for as long as there have been farmers.

It’s easy to feel disassociated with the groups that are left, such as the commodity groups and the astroturf wheat-barley growers, Grain Growers of Canada and the Canada

has not been impacted by MCOOL implementation; 2) typical U.S. residents are unaware of MCOOL and do not look for meat origin information; 3) consumers regularly indicate they prefer meat products carrying origin information but reveal similar valuations of alternative origin labels, and 4) their conclusions hold across the species and products evaluated (www. agmanager.info).

As a result of their study that was based on scan and interview data from the few years immediately following COOL’s implementation in 2009, they concluded that “given the costs of compliance introduced by MCOOL and no evidence of increased demand for covered products, their results suggest an aggregate economic loss for the U.S. meat and livestock supply chain spanning from producers to consumers.”

Some of those opposed to COOL have characterized the proposed USDA rule to bring the U.S. into compliance with the Appellate Body ruling as doubling down on a faulty law, thus leaving the U.S. still in violation of its WTO trade obligations.

That sentiment is consistent with a statement by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) that says, “In the CCA’s view, the USDA’s proposed rule, if adopted, will in fact increase the discrimination against imported cattle by adding labelling requirements and eliminating some of the existing mitigating flexibility, thereby significantly increasing the costs of compliance. The net result is a rule that not only does not comply with the WTO Appellate Body’s findings but will also violate WTO provisions not previously ruled upon.”

In a similar vein, J. Patrick Boyle, president, American Meat Insti-

Grains Council, all of whom have a long record of being lapdogs of the industry and the present Conservative government. They cannot speak against Ottawa and industry for fear of losing funding or their place in the prime minister’s sunshine.

Penner states, “While it is widely agreed that changes in an open market will continue to benefit producers” it seems ironic he also contends a supergroup is needed in an open market. He can’t have it both ways.

He also states, “If Canadian farmers want to maintain control of the agriculture industry, they need to work to form a unified voice.”

What he has missed is that Canadian farmers presently do not control the agriculture industry.

Groups like his have ensured that the industry is firmly in control of agriculture in Canada, not farmers.

Many of the present groups are ineffective as farmer voices as they have been infiltrated by the industry. In some cases, industry representatives even sit on the executives of these groups.

Groups such as the National Farmers Union, who actually believe in farmer control, and do not have any corporate sponsor-

When we go into the hardware store to purchase a hammer, we can look at the package and determine where the hammer was made.

tute said, “Only the government could take a costly, cumbersome rule like mandatory country-oforigin labelling (COOL) and make it worse, even as it claims to ‘fix it.’ That’s exactly what they are doing with a new proposed rule that purportedly aims to bring the law into compliance with U.S. obligations under the World Trade Organization… The bottom line: mandatory country-of-origin labelling is conceptually flawed, in our view and in the eyes of our trading partners.”

In introducing the proposed rule, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said, “USDA expects that these changes will improve the overall operation of the program and also bring the current mandatory COOL requirements into compliance with U.S. international trade obligations.”

National Farmers Union (NFU) p re s i d e n t Ro g e r Jo h n s o n s a i d , “The proposed rule changes released by OMB are an excellent response to decisions by the World Trade Organization that called for changes to our COOL implementation. By requiring further clarity in labels and stronger record-keeping, the set of rules… are a win-win for farmers, ranchers and consumers.” In discussing COOL the NFU website says the “NFU has always fought for farmers’ right to differentiate their product in the marketplace, and consumers’ right to

make educated decisions about the origin of their food.”

The largest national farm organization, the American Farm Bureau Federation, has not posted a press release on its website on the proposed COOL rule. Over time and in contrast to the national Farm Bureau, some of the state Farm Bureaus have been less reticent in making known their positions on COOL. One of the fundamental principles of economics is symmetry of information between the buyers of a product and the sellers. When we go into the hardware store to purchase a hammer, we can look at the package and determine where the hammer was made. In the produce section of the grocery store, it is easy to determine where our purchase was grown.

In a time when consumers are paying more attention to the food that they eat, it makes sense to us that they should be able to go over to the meats case and read where the meat was born, raised and slaughtered. We understand that providing information is not costless, but then it seldom is.

ship membership are seen as “old fade.”

It was people like Penner who naively believed industry propaganda and helped to undermine our independent institutions.

Industry and farmers will never have the same vision or voice.

Farmers certainly need an independent voice to balance industry power, but we will not find that in the current crippled commodity and astroturf groups Penner seems to favour.

last May for a week of press conferences, declaring that Canada has a “food security” problem. An overeating problem maybe?

We can be proud of Canadian progress in the perfection of zerotillage equipment and technology “... which has done so much to preserve Prairie soil.” Some Former Soviet Union countries can use this technology because their agronomic conditions and farming methods have similarities with our own. But once you get into parts of the world where most of the population is found, most of the food is produced, and much of the water scarcity and drought problem occur, you find that there is no place for 400-horsepower tractors and equipment designed for farming huge dryland fields.

As was noted, there is a market for such equipment in parts of the Former Soviet Union so it can be said without exaggeration that this Canadian technology is presently helping other parts of the world.

Parts of Africa may have some potential in the not distant future.

These markets develop largely on their own through market forces.

Eric Sagan Melville, Sask.

Canadian role in fighting deserts Regarding the April 4 editorial by John Morriss “Fighting more deserts,” it was probably a bad idea for the Harper government to drop its modest annual contribution to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, regardless of how little the committee seems to achieve. Similarly, it was almost certainly a bad idea for the UN to send its representative to Canada

Daryll E. Ray holds the Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy, Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, and is the director of UT’s Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC). Harwood D. Schaffer is a research assistant professor at APAC. http://www.agpolicy.org.

Bill Anderson Forrest, Man.

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FROM PAGE ONE WHEAT QUalITY Continued from page 1

The concerns over Canada Western Red Spring wheat lacking dough strength have come to the forefront just as pressure is increasing from some quarters of the industry to further deregulate the quality control system.

“If we address it properly... I don’t think that this is insurmountable in any way to the point that the Canadian wheat brand will lose its position,” Geddes said, noting that when customers report an issue, it’s often a matter of assisting them with adjustments in the baking processes to get the performance they need.

At the same time, he noted Canadian exporters aren’t accustomed to addressing this side of the wheat-selling business.

Some industry officials say CWRS dough strength has weakened in recent years because some of the most widely grown varieties such as Unity, Lillian and Harvest, have weaker gluten strength. All three have strong agronomic benefits such as midge resistance or higher yields making them popular with farmers and now dominate the CWRS class.

One hypothesis is wetter-than-normal growing conditions the past two growing seasons reduced gluten strength even more. Another is that larger volumes of wheat from specific locations are loaded directly on ships rather than blended at export terminals. As well, protein strength in wheat typically becomes stronger in storage and the wheat in question hadn’t been stored for as long as is typical.

“It could be a variety problem, it could be a collection issue — that we’re not collecting the way we used to,” said Elwin Hermanson, chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission. “There are all kinds of things it could be but we need together as an industry to find the right solution — if there is a problem.”

“I don’t think there’s an irreparable problem, but I think we’re hearing some concerns expressed that we should take seriously,” chief commissioner Elwin Hermanson told reporters at the same meeting.

Bakers want flour that bakes the same every batch. Inconsistency increases cost. Part of the Canadian wheat brand has been consistency.

Dough strength issues come and go, but there haven’t been any lately at Canada Bread, president Barry McLean told reporters.

Some unexplained variability is showing up this crop year’s CWRS wheat, Canadian National Millers Association president Gordon Harrison said in an interview on the meeting’s sidelines.

He said the inconsistency is showing up in water absorption, which affects dough strength.

There are ways to adjust the milling and baking processes to compensate when problems arise, but it’s better if wheat meets the customer’s needs in the first place, Geddes said.

Canada’s reputation for having the best wheat in the world is the result of its variety development and registration system, overseen by the CGC, he said. Farmers and grain companies contribute by delivering varieties to the right class.

CGC chief defends wheat registration, quality control process Elwin Hermanson says the commission is open to changes, but he rejects suggestions that it isn’t working

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

Canadian wheat is branded as the world’s best. It’s up to Canada’s grain industry if it wants to continue the brand, says Earl Geddes, executive director of the Canadian International Grains Institute. If it does the industry has to deliver what it’s promising. photo: allan dawson

“If you want to have that brand image that wheat has... as the best in the world, then you have to work at it and you have to commit to it,” Geddes said.

When the Canadian Wheat Board had a monopoly on wheat exports it played a key role in promoting and maintaining the Canadian wheat brand.

If the grain industry wants to keep the brand it must co-operate, said Geddes. Each provincial wheat association has to be on the same page.

“The industry needs to decide which markets it wants to be in and which ones make the most sense,” he said.

Some say Canada should focus on mediumquality wheat. Those markets are as far away as those who buy higher-quality milling wheat, Geddes said. When prices are comparable most customers will buy CWRS wheat over DNS. “It’s first off the shelf,” he said.

Canada can capture other wheat markets because of its wheat classes. Each class has a specific end use, Hermanson said. In the new open market, other classes will now get more attention, he added.

“If you have a low-protein wheat that does the job, it’s high quality, just lower protein,” Hermanson said.

Quality is supplying the right wheat to meet a customer’s needs whether it’s for bread, livestock feed or ethanol, he noted.

The wheat registration system combined with Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) oversight is the foundation for Canada’s wheat quality assurance system, says chief commissioner Elwin Hermanson.

“We think that our system is a cornerstone to ensure consistent quality,” he told the Canada Grains Council’s annual meeting in Winnipeg April 2. “It’s important to our customers that the wheat that comes out of the Canadian spout in their country is consistent year after year. In other words, it’s always going to perform the same.

Whether they blend it with other products they want Canadian wheat to be a reliable product.”

That helps farmers by maintaining markets and avoiding trial and error when assessing new varieties, Hermanson added later in an interview.

“We’re not stuck on the status quo,” he said. “They need to be reasoned changes with broad industry support.

That’s the way we’ve made changes in the past and it works for us.

“We’re concerned if someone just wants to throw it all out and think that a good grain quality assurance system is not necessary. We think it is very important.”

Some say quality control blocks innovation. In February, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz asked the chairs of the committees that recommend whether new varieties should be registered or not to consider ways to streamline the process to give farmers faster access to improved varieties.

The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) proposes seed developers alone decide which new varieties to register and commercialize, dropping the current requirement that new wheats meet certain agronomic, disease tolerance and end-use standards.

New wheats would still be tested for quality and placed in the appropriate class, while agronomy and disease tolerance would be tested on a voluntary basis.

When first appointed to the CGC,

Hermanson said some suggested Canada should follow the United States and sell wheat based only on protein content and falling number.

“Well, it’s not true,” he said. “They have grades and grading factors very similar to ours and they have some we don’t have.”

The U.S. has a wheat quality control system, he said. The United States Department of Agriculture accesses 8,000 samples from wheat breeders a year for quality at one of its laboratories, he said. Only one in 1,000 goes on to be grown commercially because they fail to perform well enough, Hermanson said.

“So if somebody says the Americans don’t do anything to maintain a grain quality assurance system and we’re playing in a game that no one else is competing with us, that’s not the truth,” he said. “Other countries that export are spending a great deal of effort and resources to maintain a grain quality system.”

Australia has a wheat class system similar to Canada’s. New wheats are placed in the appropriate class based on its end-use quality.

“Exactly the same system we have here in Canada,” Hermanson said.

The Canadian National Millers Association (CNMA) also defends the current system.

“CNMA holds the current variety evaluation and registration system in high regard, “ its president Gordon Harrison wrote in an op-ed last year.

It’s largely because the process, which association members participate in, results in commercializing wheat and other cereals Canadian millers want.

“Let us ensure that new varieties continue to respond to market demand and let us be clear, that CNMA in no way wishes to stand in the way of Canadian producer efforts to respond to global demand and opportunities,” Harrison wrote. “Canada’s current variety evaluation and registration system has ample scope for adaptation, and we look forward to being part of this evolution.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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HOG PROGRAM Continued from page 1

with, so I don’t know where we will go from here,” said Kynoch.

The need for another stabilization plan came after feed corn prices skyrocketed last year before the industry had recovered from a 2009 collapse due to H1N1 concerns and country-oforigin labelling.

Kostyshyn said producers have to use AgriStability and AgriInvest to deal with market fluctuations.

“Hog producers have benefited from these programs since they were first introduced under Growing Forward and they will continue to benefit from them under Growing Forward 2,” said Kostyshyn. “Despite what some in the industry say, these programs have already provided hundreds of millions of dollars in support to the industry.”

Support

Kostyshyn indicated the province has also assisted the pork industry by supporting

upgraded waste-water treatment facilities in Brandon and Neepawa to help with the expansion of the Maple Leaf and HyLife hog-processing facilities.

“We all know the hog industry has had a tough time recently — high feed prices and countryof-origin labelling are having an impact. That is why, in partnership with the federal government, we have put programs in place that help the farm industry, including hog producers,” he said, adding Manitoba will continue raising the issue of COOL with American counterparts.

Pork producers might also be driven out of business due to increasing pressure on production practices, the Canadian Pork Council said last week.

“Hog farmers are working hard every day to provide Canadian consumers with a nutritious, safe and affordable food supply,” said Jean-Guy Vincent, chairman of the Canadian Pork Council. “At the same time, we have seen

recent announcements by foodservice operations and grocery stores outlining new purchasing and sourcing requirements that will have repercussions at a farm level.”

Quit stalling

A growing number of major customers in the food-processing and food-service industry — most recently Tim Hortons and Olymel — have announced they want their pork suppliers to stop using sow gestation crates. The Manitoba council estimates that will cost producers $600 per sow to move to group-housing systems.

“These forced changes on Canadian pork producers may end up putting farms that have been passed down from generation to generation in many parts of rural Canada out of business,” the Canadian Pork Council says in a release. “Producers’ livelihoods depend on the viability of the farm and they have concerns

Industry officials predict more producers will go out of business. file photo

about the lack of discussions on the economic implications for farmers of these demands.”

Vincent said the entire value chain needs to share in the cost of making such adjustments. “Any decision to substantially change

production practices, and particularly those that require considerable infrastructure changes and significant investment, need full value-chain support.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | April 15, 2013

Some farm leaders want the new plant to include feed mills

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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new program to protect farmers when licensed grain companies fail to pay them could be implemented Aug. 1, says Elwin Hermanson, chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission.

“I’m not betting my life we’ll be ready by Aug. 1 but that’s still our goal and it’s still possible,” he said during an interview April 2 during the Canada Grains Council’s annual meeting in Winnipeg. “If we don’t, it’s not the end of the world. Our existing program will continue. There’s not going to be a gap.”

The CGC has asked companies to submit proposals for the new program.

The CGC has said it wants to replace its current security program with an insurance scheme, which it says will protect farmers better and cost less.

The CGC has said grain

company participation in an insurance program would be mandatory.

Late last year CGC commissioner Murdoch MacKay didn’t rule out the possibility the new scheme could include grain selling to feed mills. That’s something the Keystone Agricultural Producers have asked for in the wake of Puratone going into creditor protection owing a number of farmers hundreds of thousand of dollars for grain they delivered.

The current CGC security program only applies to licensed grain buyers. Feed mills are exempt. Grain companies must post security to cover what they owe farmers. It ties up working capital and the CGC says it’s hard to stay on top of what companies owe.

Sometimes in the past when companies ran into financial trouble or went under, their security failed to cover all the money owed to farmers.

Province sued over 2011 flooding

Residents say province’s bid to protect Winnipeg by diverting water into Lake Manitoba greatly increased the damage they suffered

By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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The fourth annual event takes place Sept. 15

group of frustrated Lake Manitoba residents is suing the province for $260 million for what they say was the artificial flooding of their homes, cottages and property in 2011.

“That was a man-made flood, and it was a government decision that caused it,” said Fred Pisclevich, one of the plaintiffs hoping the lawsuit will be certified as a class action by Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench.

The Twin Lakes Beach resident saw his house destroyed in the spring of 2011 as lake levels rose to record heights and said the offer the province made him wouldn’t even begin to rebuild his home of 10 years.

Now the 69-year-old and his wife are searching for homes in Winnipeg’s North End, where listings are in their price range.

“I don’t want to go back and live in an apartment, I don’t want to start over again,” Pisclevich said. “This isn’t how I envisioned my retirement.”

MANITOBA GOVERNMENT RELEASE

Retirement disappointment

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Register now to be an Open Farm Day host

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anitoba’s farm families have until April 30 to register as hosts for the fourth annual Open Farm Day Sept. 15.

Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Ron Kostyshyn says the event gives a chance to interact with non-farmers in ways that foster a better understanding of food origins and agriculture.

“Farming is an important contributor to our province’s success and we want to show Manitobans how our farmers bring fresh produce, primary crops and a variety of livestock and other foods to consumers across the province and around the world,” said Kostyshyn in a release. “By opening the farm gates to the public, we can showcase Manitoba agriculture and give farmers an opportunity to directly market their products.”

Last year, 51 farms participated in Open Farm Day, attracting over 4,600 visitors. Farm sites can include fruit and vegetable producers along with crop and livestock farms. Agri-tourism, horticultural operations and agribusinesses related to farming are also invited to take part. Many farm families provide demonstrations, recreational activities, tours and commentaries on farm life.

Host farms will be provided with farm gate signs, posters and map brochures giving directions to the participating farms. In addition, the host farms will have an opportunity to be featured in videos that can be used for additional marketing purposes.

Farmers wishing to participate in Open Farm Day can call Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives at 204-821-5322.

Pisclevich and his fellow plaintiffs — John Howden, Stephen and Shaun Moran, and Keith and Alex McDermid — say the damage they suffered was the result of the province’s decision to increase the flow of water through the Portage Diversion.

In order to protect Winnipeg and properties along the Assiniboine River, the province temporarily allowed 33,000 cubic feet of

water per second — well above the normal maximum of 25,000 — in the spring of 2011.

“What happened with the Portage Diversion, was they sent too much water into the lake, so much that it overflowed and flooded,” said Alex McDermid.

Prior to 2011, McDermid and his two sons operated the Sunshine Resort campground near St. Laurent. Now he sees nothing but flat, barren land where his home and business used to be.

Initially reluctant to join the lawsuit, he said his treatment by the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) changed his mind.

“We thought we were going to get more from MASC, the people that were supposed to be looking after us as far as financing goes, but they didn’t come up with the figure I thought they would,” said McDermid.

Now he hopes that flooding this spring doesn’t delay the building of his new home, which will be four to eight feet off the ground.

Diversion

The pending lawsuit will have no impact on the operation of the diversion this spring, said the minister of infrastructure and transportation.

“I think everyone on our flood fight team respects those views and if people wish to undertake legal action that’s fine,” said Steve Ashton.

“But I want to stress when it comes to the Portage Diversion, the kind of operation we’re looking at this year is very similar

“I don’t want to go back and live in an apartment, I don’t want to start over again.”

FRED PISCLEVICH

to the operation we’ve had on a regular basis.”

However, the province has taken steps to avoid a repeat of the 2011 flood.

The Fairford water control structure has remained wide open since 2010, even when the Portage Diversion was closed, and the province is also prepared to reopen the emergency outflow channel from Lake St. Martin to Big Buffalo Lake if need be, said Ashton, adding lake levels fell by five feet before it was closed.

At a recent meeting of floodaffected residents, many agreed it didn’t make sense to spare them and inundate Winnipeg, but said they deserved full compensation for their sacrifice.

The lawsuit is also a way to bring the issue of drainage and water management back into the spotlight, said Pisclevich, who is currently residing in accommodations provided by the province.

“The amount of water that comes into our tributaries is coming too fast, we need to slow it down and have wetlands again,” he said. “We need to have a way to store it.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

WHAT’S UP Please forward your agricultural events to daveb@fbcpublishing.com or call 204-944-5762.

April 16: Prairies East Sustainable Agriculture Initiative annual general meeting, 5 p.m., Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, 196 Innovation Dr., Smart Park, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. For more info or to register (deadline April 12) visit www.pesai.ca or call 204376-3300.

June 16-19: BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology, Palais des congres de Montreal, 1001 place Jean-Paul-Riopelle. For more info visit www.bio.org or call 202-962-9200.

April 25: Agriculture in the Classroom - Manitoba annual general meeting, 5 to 9 p.m., Western Canadian Aviation Museum, 958 Ferry Rd., Winnipeg. For more info visit www.aitc.mb.ca or call 1-866-487-4029.

July 9-12, 15-19: Manitoba Crop Diagnostic School daily workshops, Ian N. Morrison Research Farm, Carman. For more info visit www. cropdiagnostic.ca or call 204-7455663.

May 28-June 1: 4-H Canada annual general meeting, Fairmont Winnipeg, 2 Lombard Place. For more info call 613-234-4448.

July 23-24: Dairy Farmers of Canada annual general meeting, Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front St. W., Toronto.

For more info call 613-236-9997 or visit www.dairyfarmers.ca.

June 19-21: Canada’s Farm Progress Show, Evraz Place, Regina. For more info visit www.myfarmshow.com or call 306-781-9200.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | April 11, 2013

SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN

Dairy farmers ask for delay of GM alfalfa registration

Slight decrease in lamb prices at April 3 sale The goats on offer were mostly Pygmy-crosses

Critics say the Canadian Seed Trade Association’s plan to protect organic crops won’t work

By Mark Elliot

March 20, 2013

co-operator contributor

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roducers delivered 200 sheep and goats to the Winnipeg Livestock Auction April 3 sale.

Buyers showed limited interest in ewes. The price ranged from $0.42 to $0.54 per pound, compared to the price range from last sale of $0.51 to $0.90 per pound. The ewes placed in the lower class ranged from $0.20 to $0.35 per pound. These ewes were in the weight range from 83 to 93 pounds.

Rams continued a constant and steady price bidding, as the demand has remained by the buyers. Two 190-pound Katahdin-cross rams brought $142.50 ($0.75 per pound). Two 193pound rams brought $123.52 ($0.64 per pound).

There were two price groupings for heavyweight lambs.

The higher-price lambs had a weight range from 120 to 130 pounds, which had a price range from $0.675 to $1 per pound. A group of four 113pound lambs and two groups of 140-pound lambs formed the lower price range by the buyers. The price ranged from $0.32 to $0.41 per pound.

Prices for market lambs w e r e d ow n s l i g h t l y. T h e weight ranged from 99 to 105 pounds that brought a price range from $1.02 to $1.17 per pound. One exception was a 105-pound Dorset-cross lamb which brought $28.35 ($0.27 per pound).

Feeder lamb prices were d ow n s l i g h t l y b u t b u y e r s showed interest. The weight ranged from 80 to 92 pounds with a price ranging from $1.20 to $1.02 per pound.

Nine 73-pound lambs brought $78.84 ($1.08 per pound). The 70-pound Suffolkcross lamb brought $81.20 ($1.16 per pound). An exception

Ewes

$52 - $487.71

$67.50 - $110

$18.60 - $29.05

$40.50 - $57.83

$99 - $128

$118.45 - $149.80

Lambs (lbs.)

110+

$44.80 - $56 95 - 110

$100.98 - $117

$110.20 - $129.47

80 - 94

$90.78 - $100.80

$98.31 - $124.60

70 / 73

$81.20 / $78.84

$87.13 - $95.94 (70 - 78 lbs.)

65 / 66

$76.38 / $70.62

$60 - $79.50 (60 - 66 lbs.)

55

$63.25

$59.80 - $87.50 (52 - 58 lbs.)

44

$35.64

Under 80

was a more mature 75-pound Su f f o l k - c ro s s l a m b w h i c h brought $54.38 ($0.725 per pound).

Prices showed some slight decrease in the much lighter lamb classification following the other lamb classes.

A group of 65-pound lambs brought $76.38 ($1.175 per pound). A group of nine 66-pound lambs brought $70.62 ($1.07 per pound).

An exception was a group of seven 68-pound more mature lambs that brought $51.68 ($0.76 per pound).

A 55-pound Cheviot-cross lamb brought $63.25 ($1.15 per pound).

Four 44-pound Savy-cross lambs brought $35.64 ($0.81 per pound).

No new-crop lambs were delivered for this sale.

Goats

The selection of goats delivered was much lower than the past sale. The Pygmy-cross goats dominated the total number of goats. A 65-pound Pygmy-cross doe brought $42.50 ($0.65 per pound).

n/a The selection of goat bucks dominated the various goat classes. Demand for large bucks was low. The 120-pound A n g o ra - c r o s s g o a t ( b u c k ) brought $75 ($0.63 per pound).

The well-developed 160-pound Alpine-cross buck brought $142.50 ($0.89 per pound). A 40-pound Pygmy-cross buck brought $41 ($1.03 per pound).

A 25-pound Pygmy-cross buck brought $30 ($1.20 per pound).

Two 40-pound Pygmy-cross bucks brought $37 ($0.93 per pound).

Two 65-pound Alpine-cross wethers brought $90 ($1.39 per pound). A 90-pound Boer-cross wether brought $87.50 ($0.97 per pound).

A group of four 33-pound Pygmy goats brought $32.50 ($0.99 per pound).

The Ontario Stockyard Report indicated that the demand for all classes of lambs was lower and causing the prices to be lower. The bidding prices of the sheep have stabilized compared to the constant declining prices from the past sales. The goats continue the strong and steady prices as the past sales.

By Alex Binkley co-operator contributor / ottawa

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egistration of genetically modified alfalfa should be delayed until next year so a “coexistence” plan can be completed, says Dairy Farmers of Canada.

Roundup Ready alfalfa has become a cause célèbre for anti-GM groups, which say its cultivation will make it impossible for growers of organic alfalfa to stay in business because their crops will be contaminated by the GM variety.

The Canadian Seed Trade Association is tr ying to address such concerns, and until its work is complete, registration should be held back, Dairy Farmers president Wally Smith stated in a recent letter to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

But the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network contends contamination is inevitable.

“While the conditions for contamination in Eastern Canada differ from those in Western Canada where alfalfa seed is produced, contamination in Ontario is assured, as are the economic costs to farmers,” said Lucy Sharratt, a spokeswoman for the organization.

“The only question is how long it will take and which will be the first or primary means of gene escape.”

Roundup Ready alfalfa, already approved in the U.S., has only been approved for test plots in Canada so far. The developer of the GM variety, Monsanto, has not yet decided on when it might start selling it in Canada, said spokeswoman Trish Jordan.

“The priority and focus for 2013 remains the U.S. market,” she said.

The main market here would be in Ontario and Quebec, because those province’s account for 70 per cent of dairy production and that sector is the primary buyer of alfalfa hay.

The Canadian Seed Trade Association says the plan being drafted by its experts “does not advocate for or against the commercialization of GM alfalfa. Nor does it favour one production system over another. This plan strives to anticipate the future.

Its purpose is to identify clear practices that will allow all alfalfa hay production systems to be successful in Eastern Canada.”

The plan would include using buffer zones or other physical barriers to prevent contamination of non-GM varieties. Organic alfalfa is estimated to be 2.4 per cent of total Canadian alfalfa production, and is mainly sold to organic milk producers.

Alfalfa hay is pollinated by insects and not wind-borne pollen, a report from the seed trade association notes.

Volunteer alfalfa plants in successive crops will have to be dealt with through the development of appropriate best management practices, the report states.

“In Eastern Canada, few alfalfa plants are found outside of the field, and feral alfalfa is not expected to be a major risk for GM gene flow.”

In addition to Roundup Ready alfalfa, a GM variety with reduced lignin — which increases fibre digestibility — has been developed by Forage Genetics International.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | April 11, 2013

Helping Hooves hits the trail to aid cancer fight A three-week ride across Manitoba is planned to raise money for breast cancer patients Staff

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here’s nothing quite like a long trail ride for a good cause.

The cancer-support group Helping Hooves is staging a three-week-long trail ride across Manitoba in August, attempting to meet or beat last year’s effort in which 41 riders raised $35,000.

Participants can ride for a

day, a week, or join the whole ride, which starts in Kleefeld August 10, loops around north of Winnipeg and winds up at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum in Austin Aug. 31.

Non-riders can get involved by attending one of the kick-off or windup events or contributing as a sponsor.

The organization supports breast cancer patients with

out-of-pocket expenses such as gas money for appointments, day care and wig costs not covered by the province.

Fo r m o re i n f o r m a t i o n , contact Pam Glover at pam@ h e l p i n g h o ov e s m a n i t o b a . com.

Yo u c a n f o l l ow He l p ing Hooves on Facebook, or check out the website ww.helpinghoovesmanitoba. com.

Last year, 41 riders participated in the Helping Hooves trail ride in support of cancer patients raising $35,000.

Another one is planned for August. supplied photo

Abused dogs’ owners plead guilty Of the 64 dogs seized from the property, 34 had to be euthanized Staff

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couple from Gull Lake has pleaded guilty to animal abuse following an investigation by the Office of the Chief Veterinarian and seizure of 64 dogs from their property in July 2010.

Judith and Peter Chernecki pleaded guilty April 4 to seven counts of animal abuse under the Animal Care Act for failing to provide adequate medical attention to wounded animals, failure to provide adequate lighting and confinement of animals in a

manner that impaired their wellbeing.

The seized dogs were assessed by the Winnipeg Humane Society (WHS) and 34 were euthanized due to physical injuries or behavioural impairment. Seven dogs were sent to a rescue ranch in the U.S. and the remaining ones were given to shelters in Manitoba for adoption.

A Manitoba government release credits the WHS with providing “invaluable assistance” with the initial intake and assessment as well as helping

to co-ordinate rehoming for the animals.

The charges against the Cherneckis were laid prior to amendments to the province’s animal care legislation to increase fines and penalties for cases of animal neglect. Under the applicable provisions, the maximum penalties are up to six months imprisonment, a fine of up to $5,000 per count and up to five years prohibition of animal ownership.

The revised maximum penalties are up to $10,000 per count and/or six months imprisonment and up to lifetime prohibition of animal ownership for a first offence.

The couple will be sentenced Sept. 17.

Impact of Russian red meat ban uncertain The country will no longer accept meat from plants that process animals fed ractopamine

By Alex Binkley co-operator contributor / with files from reuters

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ussia plans to ban meat imports from most Canadian and Mexican suppliers from April 8 over concerns about the use of the feed additive ractopamine, Russia’s veterinary and phytosanitary service (VPSS) said.

But it is not yet clear what the overall impact on the Canadian meat sector will be.

VPSS, Russia’s veterinary and phytosanitary service, estimates about half of the Canadian companies that export meat to Russia, will be blocked from sending product. But it has yet to release a list of the plants from which product will be accepted.

However, John Masswohl, vicepresident of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, has said every exporter could be affected.

At the same time, Canadian Pork International thinks 12 member plants will be able to keep shipping. The Canadian Meat Council, which represents packers and processors, had no comment.

Meanwhile Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said the Russian decision was disappointing because Canada had been trying to assuage Russian concerns about the safety of ractopamine.

Health Canada approved its use after doing a health impact study.

“Despite our collaborative efforts, the Russian government is moving forward with this measure not rooted in science,” Ritz said. “We continue to work aggressively with Canadian industry to restore their access into the important Russian market.”

Canada has been the largest pork supplier to Russia and accounted for 25 per cent of its imports in 2012. The pork sales were worth $500 million last year

while the sale of Canadian beef products in 2011 amounted to about $15 million.

Canada’s two biggest pork processors, Olymel and Maple Leaf Foods, have some facilities that should be eligible.

“We’re working very hard to meet Russia’s expectations,” said Olymel spokesman Richard Vigneault. “It’s a very important market for us.”

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association says the levels of ractopamine being fed to Canadian cattle are well below the internationally set limit. The additive enables the animals to digest more of their feed and this helps farmers be more efficient and reduce production costs.

In addition to Russia, South Korea and Taiwan have banned it over concerns that residues could remain in the meat and cause health problems even though scientific evidence indicates it is safe.

In December, Russia required all imported meat to have never been treated with ractopamine, which severely reduced beef shipments. Now it will only take product from plants that don’t handle animals fed the stimulant.

Russia had banned U.S. beef, pork and turkey because of ractopamine even though the additive isn’t used in turkey production. The U.S. has said it suspects the ban had more to do with American criticism of Moscow’s human rights’ record.

Russia imported 1.32 million tonnes of red meat, excluding offal, worth $5.12 billion from countries outside the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2012.

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LIVESTOCK MARKETS Cattle Prices Winnipeg

April 5, 2013

Wave from grains’ dive lifts feeder cattle market

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

— (801-900 lbs.)

— (701-800 lbs.)

— (601-700 lbs.)

— (501-600 lbs.)

— (401-500 lbs.)

— Heifers (901+ lbs.)

— (801-900 lbs.)

— (701-800 lbs.)

— (601-700 lbs.)

— (501-600 lbs.)

— (401-500 lbs.)

—

Heifers

Alberta South 113.25 113.25 72.00 - 83.00 62.00 - 75.00 — $ 115.00 - 123.00 120.00 - 130.00 125.00 - 138.00 135.00 - 151.00 145.00 - 163.00 148.00 - 170.00 $ 104.00 - 113.00 110.00 - 121.00 115.00 - 125.00 120.00 - 132.00 127.00 - 142.00 131.00 - 148.00

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

(850+ lbs.)

Futures (April 5, 2013) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change Feeder Cattle April 2013 127.25 -1.65 April 2013 June 2013 122.35 -2.02 May 2013 August 2013 123.20 -2.00 August 2013 October 2013 127.47 -2.05 September 2013 December 2013 129.05 -1.65 October 2013 February 2014 130.20 -0.95 November 2013 Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

One last big push of cattle is expected before seeding Terryn Shiells

Ontario 97.02 - 120.65 103.01 - 120.67 57.07 - 76.20 57.07 - 76.20 73.47 - 92.33 $ 118.61 - 133.40 113.55 - 129.78 114.38 - 137.20 116.45 - 150.23 124.02 - 158.79 127.67 - 164.14 $ 107.57 - 116.91 106.19 - 118.88 106.66 - 123.72 108.05 - 130.00 112.14 - 138.60 112.08 - 140.33

$

(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.)

Close 143.90 145.95 152.82 154.40 155.62 156.25

Change 0.50 0.88 0.57 0.25 0.12 -0.05

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending March 30, 2013 39,905 9,988 29,917 NA 599,000

Previous Year­ 54,403 14,474 39,929 NA 602,000

Week Ending March 30, 2013 717 22,398 10,842 369 634 4,463 50

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Previous Year 686 28,527 13,344 517 724 7,691 364

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.)

Futures (April 5, 2013) in U.S. Hogs April 2013 May 2013 June 2013 July 2013 August 2013

Current Week 156.00 E 144.00 E 141.25 144.39

Last Week 151.08 139.97 137.31 142.05

Close 81.42 89.15 92.02 91.75 91.40

Last Year (Index 100) 170.03 155.45 148.42 153.95

Change 0.82 -0.40 0.95 0.70 0.68

Other Market Prices Sheep and Lambs $/cwt Ewes Lambs (110+ lb.)

(95 - 109 lb.)

(80 - 94 lb.)

(Under 80 lb.)

(New crop)

$1 Cdn: $ .9813 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.0191 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: April 5, 2013

Winnipeg (180 head) 40.00 - 50.00 100.00 - 105.00 102.00 - 117.00 106.00 - 117.00 100.00 - 120.00 —

Chickens Minimum broiler prices as of May 23, 2010 Under 1.2 kg................................... $1.5130 1.2 - 1.65 kg.................................... $1.3230 1.65 - 2.1 kg.................................... $1.3830 2.1 - 2.6 kg...................................... $1.3230

Turkeys Minimum prices as of April 7, 2013 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $2.035 Undergrade .............................. $1.945 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $2.010 Undergrade .............................. $1.910 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $2.010 Undergrade .............................. $1.910 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................... $1.955 Undergrade............................... $1.870 Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.

Toronto 53.75 - 81.36 95.79 - 112.73 139.24 - 163.06 146.82 - 170.83 164.07 - 198.25 —

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eeder cattle prices at auction yards a c r o s s M a n i t o b a w e re s t e a d y t o slightly stronger dur ing the week ended April 5, underpinned by a crash in U.S. grain futures.

Robin Hill, manager of Hear tland Livestock Services at Virden, said prices for feeder cattle that weighed 800 pounds or less were about one to two cents per pound higher, which is “a little increase.”

On March 28, the U.S. Department of A g r i c u l t u re re l e a s e d i t s f i r s t p l a n t i n g intentions report for the 2013-14 crop year, as well as its report on stocks as of March 1, 2013.

The planting intentions report was neutral for the market, but the stocks report was extremely bearish, as it showed much more of a corn supply in the U.S. than most people thought. The bearish report caused the corn market to see significant losses.

The lower grain prices brought increased demand, which supported cattle values.

Feeder cattle that were on the heavier side, weighing more than 800 lbs., managed to keep steady, with the majority of the strength linked to the downswing in U.S. corn futures as well.

Good demand from multiple areas also helped keep a firm floor under the market. Hill noted buyers from Eastern and Western Canada were in the mix, as were U.S. buyers.

The easter n market is ver y picky on quality, and will pay good prices for what it wants, which also helped underpin values, according to Hill.

There wasn’t a lot of local demand for grass cattle dur ing the week, but that could start to change if it continues to look like there will be good grass production this year.

“The local interest may start picking up as the weeks progress here,” said Hill.

Even though feeder cattle prices were

“The local interest may start picking up as the weeks progress here.”

Robin Hill

Manager of Heartland Livestock Services at Virden

steady to stronger, the market still isn’t where producers in Manitoba want it to be. Prices could move higher on a certain day, but in the grand scheme of things high feed costs will continue to pressure the market.

“Very, very quiet”

There were still strong volumes at most auction yards in the province during the we e k , t h o u g h t h e y s t a r t e d t o d e c l i n e.

Farmers are starting to become busy with other projects.

Some auction yards will change their schedules soon, if they haven’t already.

For example, Heartland Livestock Services at Brandon reported it will now only hold one sale per week until fall.

Once spring seeding starts, the markets will become “very, very quiet,” because farmers will be too busy to market their cattle, said Hill.

There will be one last push of cattle before seeding starts this spring, which is expected to star t later than nor mal because of excessive snow and belownormal temperatures.

Spring road bans in the province may s l ow m a r k e t i n g d ow n , b e c a u s e s o m e roads will be closed to heavier trucks, including those carrying cattle.

Slaughter cattle continued to come in strong numbers during the week. Prices on the slaughter side of the market were firm, underpinned by a slight increase in demand for less expensive beef choices.

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

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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

U.S. hog herd expands slightly

By Theopolis Waters reuters

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he U.S. hog herd in the latest quarter had modest growth from yearago levels, a U.S. government report showed March 28, as producers increased

production in hope for less-costly feed.

USDA’s data showed the U.S. hog herd as of March 1 at 101 per cent of a year ago, or 65.911 million head.

The U.S. breeding herd was 100 per cent of a year earlier at 5.834 million head.

The March 1 supply of market-ready hogs was 102 per cent of year earlier at 60.077 million head.

Goats Kids Billys Mature

Winnipeg (15 head) — 130.00 - 130.00 —

Toronto ($/cwt) 39.15 - 249.93 — 65.02 - 172.03

Horses <1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 15.00 - 30.00 31.79 - 46.17

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GRAIN MARKETS Export and International Prices

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Last Week

Week Ago

Year Ago

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

255.89

—

234.58

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

290.80

—

310.82

All prices close of business April 4, 2013

Unexpected stocks of U.S. soybeans pressure canola The risk of delayed spring seeding adds some support Dwayne Klassen CNSC

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anola values on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform moved lower during the week ended April 5, with declines a function of chart-related speculative liquidation orders as well as the downward price action experienced in the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean complex.

The continued declines seen in Malaysian palm oil and European rapeseed futures during the reporting period also added to the bearish sentiment in canola. The advancing harvest of a recordsize soybean crop in South America also didn’t do canola any favours. Added pressure came from ideas that the port congestion which had been preventing soybeans from leaving Brazil has started to clear up.

Underlying support in canola came from a major drop-off in farmer selling to the commercial pipeline on the Canadian Prairies. The turning off the taps, so to speak, by farmers came in view of the uncertainty facing the planting and development of new-crop canola.

Weather has helped to keep a bit of a floor under values, as there are already concerns that excess moisture and cold temperatures could delay seeding operations this spring across Western Canada.

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Se a s o n a l s p r i n g s e e d i n g c o n c e r n s should help to keep that firm price floor under canola, with steady demand from the commercial sector also likely to generate some strength.

There were ideas circulating in the oilseed sector that canola processors will be crushing nothing but vapour based on the rate of usage. Normally that would be considered supportive for values, but some participants feel a lesson can be learned from the recent U.S. Department of Agriculture stocks report. U.S. analysts had predicted that old-crop stocks of soybeans in the U.S. would be extremely tight and the March 28 USDA report would even show tighter-than-anticipated supplies. The report instead showed much higher-than-expected stockpiles of U.S. soybeans.

So m e p a r t i c i p a n t s a s a re s u l t f e e l Statistics Canada may also pull the same stunt and come up with extra supplies of old-crop canola in its May 3 grain stocks in all positions report.

The reasoning for a jump in old-crop canola comes by way of the fact that Canada’s canola export and domestic crush pace doesn’t seem to be slowing

by much. If stocks were believed to be as tight as the industry expects, exports would be the first to see a decline.

Canada’s canola crush pace continues to be running at a strong, if not record, pace with exports also not that far behind.

Adding to the bearish price scenario in canola were ideas that with speculators holding a large long position in the May canola future, a flush of those contracts has begun. With open interest in the May canola future sitting around 80,000 contracts, the speculative sector was believed to be holding roughly 35,000 of those.

Non-existent activity was once again the feature in the milling wheat, durum and barley markets on the ICE Futures Canada platform. No open interest exists in any of those contracts.

CBOT soybean futures exper ienced declines during the week, with old-crop months leading the downward price slide.

Much of the selling in old-crop was attributed to USDA’s larger-than-anticipated stockpile of soybeans. The downward price push in CBOT soybeans also came on news of a bird-flu problem in China’s poultry sector. The concern was that as China takes measures to control the situation, demand for animal feed, particularly U.S. soymeal, will drop significantly and help add to the domestic supply base.

Increased availability of cheap soybeans from Brazil and Argentina on the global market only contributed to the depressed oilseed price situation.

Uncertainty heading into spring seeding in the U.S. was also expected to help slow any further downward movement in values, but that didn’t stop some participants from speculating that should weather and yields for soybeans remain favourable, values for the crop could easily drop into the US$9- to $10-per-bushel area at harvest time.

That’s certainly not what any farmer in the U.S., or Canada, wants to hear, but the fact the industry is already having those thoughts should be taken as a cautionary note.

Corn futures on the CBOT also continued their downward price trek, with nearby months again suffering most of the downward price push. The larger-thananticipated supply of old-crop corn in U.S. stockpiles, as USDA reported March 28, maintained its bearish impact on values. The absence of export and domestic demand for U.S. corn added to the price weakness.

Firmness in the U.S. dollar further undermined values. Some support, however, was derived from the fact that values had reached oversold levels and were in need of a correction to the upside.

W h e a t f u t u r e s o n t h e C B O T, Minneapolis and Kansas City exchanges managed to post small to modest advances during the week, with concerns about the drought-plagued U.S. Winter Wheat Belt behind some of the price strength. Sentiment that values were oversold and in need of an upward correction also influenced some of the gain.

Positioning ahead of some new USDA supply/demand tables on April 10 was also evident.

The lack of precipitation in the U.S. Wi n t e r W h e a t Be l t a n d i t s p o t e n t i a l impact on production will likely continue to be a feature in the wheat market at least in the near term.

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

Wheat

Coarse Grains US corn Gulf ($US)

—

—

—

US barley (PNW) ($US)

—

—

—

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

252.56

—

259.15

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

234.73

—

218.52

507.10

—

526.85

1,083.76

—

1,248.91

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

Winnipeg Futures ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business April 5, 2013 barley

Last Week

Week Ago

May 2013

243.50

—

July 2013

244.00

—

October 2013

244.00

—

Canola

Last Week

Week Ago

May 2013

611.20

—

July 2013

597.90

—

November 2013

548.70

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Spot Market

Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)

Other ( Cdn. cents per pound unless otherwise specified)

Large Green 15/64

21.75 - 22.75

Canaryseed

Laird No. 1

20.75 - 22.75

Oil Sunflower Seed

Eston No. 2

19.00 - 20.00

Desi Chickpeas

25.25 - 28.00 — 27.00 - 28.75

Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)

Green No. 1

Fababeans, large

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Feed beans

—

Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans

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Feed Pea (Rail)

No. 1 Great Northern

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Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)

No. 1 Cranberry Beans

—

Yellow No. 1

38.70 - 40.75

No. 1 Light Red Kidney

—

Brown No. 1

34.75 - 36.75

No. 1 Dark Red Kidney

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Oriental No. 1

27.30 - 28.75

Medium Yellow No. 1

15.30 - 16.50 8.50 - 9.25

5.00 - 8.10

Source: Stat Publishing SUNFLOWERS

No. 1 Black Beans

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No. 1 Pinto Beans

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No. 1 Small Red

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No. 1 Pink

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Goodlands, KS

22.40

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Japan to import 4.91 million tonnes of food wheat in 2013-14 tokyo / reuters / Japan plans to buy 4.91 million tonnes of foreign wheat for milling use in the year through March 2014 to supplement locally grown grain, the Ministry of Agriculture said March 28.

Japan, the world’s sixthbiggest wheat importer, sets an import target annually to protect local farmers and keeps a tight grip on imports to stabilize domestic prices. The ministry set an import target of 4.78 million tonnes for 2012-13.

Wheat is the second most important grain after rice for Japan’s 128 million people, but the countr y grows only about 10 per cent of its needs.

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The language of meat is changing in the U.S. There are new names being applied to more than 350 cuts of beef, pork

By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO / REUTERS

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BQ fans, brace yourselves: “Pork butt” will soon be a thing of the past.

In an effort to boost sales just ahead of the U.S. grilling season, and make shopping at the meat counter a bit easier, the pork and beef industries are retooling more than 350 names of meat cuts to give them more sizzle and consumer appeal.

T h e re v i s e d n o m e n c l a t u re emerged after two years of consumer research, which found that the labels on packages of fresh cuts of pork and beef are confusing to shoppers, said Patrick Fleming, director of retail marketing for trade group National Pork Board.

A stroll down the meat aisle had become baffling for shoppers looking for a steak. When they would see packages of “butler steak” or “beef shoulder top blade steak, boneless, flatiron” — they would walk away with an empty cart, said Trevor Amen, director of market intelligence for the Beef Checkoff Program.

So recently, the National Pork Board and the Beef Checkoff Program, with the blessing of officials with USDA, got the nod to update the Uniform Retail Meat Identification Standards, or URMIS. Though the URMIS system is voluntary, a majority of U.S. food retailers use it.

New names

So pork and beef industry officials say they hope the new names will show up in stores nationwide by this summer’s grilling season.

If it does, the lowly “pork chop” will be gone. Instead, grocery retailers could be stocking stacks of “porterhouse chops,” “rib-eye chops” and “New York chops.” The pork butt — which actually comes from shoulder meat — will be called a Boston roast.

“One of our biggest challenges has been the general belief among consumers that a pork chop is a pork chop,” said Fleming. “But not all pork chops are equal, and not all pork chops are priced equally.”

So much for pork being known as the other white meat — a label the pork industry used for years to lure consumers away from chicken.

In the beef aisle, a boneless shoulder top blade steak will become a flatiron steak, a beef under blade boneless steak will become a Denver steak. Not all names in the meat counter will change — ground beef will still be ground beef.

The new retail names will also

Under new U.S. meat identification standards, the lowly pork chop is no longer. It is now a porterhouse chop, rib-eye chop or New York chop.

come with new labels for retail packages, which will tell consumers what part of the animal’s body the cut comes from, as well as include suggested cooking instructions.

Challenging times

This marketing move comes at a challenging time for the nation’s livestock sector, which has wrestled with historic high grain prices and devastating droughts.

Overseas demand for U.S. meat has cooled as both Russia and China have concerns about possible traces of the feed additive ractopamine, which is used to make meat leaner. That has protein clogging the nation’s supply chain and the supply pork and beef in commercial freezers hit a record high

“One of our biggest challenges has been the general belief among consumers that a pork chop is a pork chop.”

PATRICK FLEMING

for the month of February, according to Agriculture Department data.

Also domestic sales have been slow as the relatively cool spring has quashed consumer interest in breaking out the backyard grill.

While fresh beef and pork cuts have official names that are approved by USDA, compliance with using those naming conventions is voluntary for the industry, said Sam Jones-Ellard, spokesman for USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service.

“There won’t be any changes to our naming conventions, but we’re supportive of this,” Jones-Ellard said. “Anything that simplifies the names of cuts of meat is a good thing for consumers.”

At least one section of the meat department will stay the same: A spokesman for the National Chicken Council said that no such plans are in place to change the names of chicken cuts. A chicken breast, the official said, will remain a breast.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | April 11, 2013

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Research project pinpoints cause of bison deaths A specific type of pneumonia has been identified as the cause of high losses in some herds Roy Lewis, DVM Beef 911

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he preliminary results are in from a bison research project examining the post-mortem findings and pathogenic agents causing bison deaths in Alberta herds.

Four veterinarians have examined the causes of 100 bison deaths in herds across the province. The research group is composed of four veterinarians — Drs. Burrage, Clark, Lewis, and Tremblay. Although only the preliminary results are in, the results have a considerable impact on the bison industry.

As far as we know this is the first time many bison deaths have been followed up with lab diagnosis to determine the exact cause of death. By knowing the cause it can help us determine preventive measures.

What shocked the researchers was the main cause of death in this study. In the past, respiratory agents, parasitism and injuries were the main causes. Although the study is not fully complete and the population in the study is not huge, last year at least the cause of death in most cases was respiratory, and a specific type of pneumonia at that.

The researchers found increasing causes of death, within some instances high mortality upwards of 20-30 per cent from pneumonia — more specifically Mycoplasma Bovis pneumonia. This organism is not a virus and not really a bacteria — it fits between the two groups. It is not overly responsive to antibiotics. Over time it causes pyogranulomas — a sort of drier pus pocket throughout the lungs, which over time destroys them. In bison, especially mature ones, we primarily have seen weight loss,

Bid to furlough U.S. meat inspectors squashed

some respiratory embarrassment and coughing, eventually leading to death. The organism’s actions and the lesions it causes can resemble tuberculosis. It can also get into the joints, causing lameness because of the arthritis as well as causing abortions in pregnant cows or occasionally mastitis.

If we look in the literature, we find this organism is not new to the bison industry. Several outbreaks have been documented in large herds in the U.S. as well as in Saskatchewan, dating back to the mid- to late 1990s. The disease seemed to cause high death losses in all ages of bison and then disappear. Feeder bison, cows, bulls and in a few cases young calves still nursing are also susceptible.

Whether your bison are in a feedlot or on the open range, once introduced it runs its course and in most cases the next year pretty much disappears. Treatments were tried by most producers and this i n v o l v e d s e p a ra t i o n f r o m the herd where possible and treatment, in most cases with Draxxin under the supervision of the veterinarian. There are almost no products approved for bison so the use of Draxxin has to be under the direction and with a prescription from your veterinarian.

Currently a study is in the planning stages for developing a known withdrawal for Draxxin in bison. Some herds in the study were also vaccinated for the common respiratory organisms in cattle but in most cases it only marginally improved the situation. There is no current vaccination for mycoplasma in bison, or cattle for that matter, as according to the vaccine manufacturers it is a very hard organism to produce a vaccine from.

In the study on the under-30month bison, half the deaths

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were from mycoplasma and in the over-30-month bison most died or were put down because of chronic mycoplasma. It causes a severe pneumonia where almost all of the lungs is destroyed. When we see them at necropsy, it is no wonder antibiotics or any form of treatment is ineffective.

Whenever your veterinarian autopsies any dead bison, make sure he or she checks the tonsillar area and larynx as this can be the starting place for the mycoplasma infection. The organism has a predilection for the tonsillar area.

Introduced carriers?

In most of the herds infected with mycoplasma last year, the common denominator was introduction of new bison into the herd, or two

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ongress approved $55 million to prevent the furlough of all U.S. meat inspectors this summer, a step that could have driven up meat prices and created spot shortages in grocery stores and restaurants.

The USDA was planning the furloughs to deal with a $1.9-billion cut in funding. But in a special step, lawmakers shifted $55 million in funding so to keep its 8,400 inspectors on the job. Livestock futures prices in Chicago rose following the House vote.

The threat of one-day-a-week furloughs beginning in mid-July has weighed on cattle and hog prices for weeks. Meat packers and processors are barred from operating their 6,300 plants without USDA inspectors.

In most of the herds infected with mycoplasma last year, the common denominator was introduction of new bison into the herd, or two herds purchased and mixed together or individual animals bought and introduced to a breeding herd.

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herds purchased and mixed together or individual animals bought and introduced to a breeding herd. All these scenarios are making researchers ponder several questions about how and why the mycoplasma organism is spread and if there are carrier animals. The length of the incubation period, whether there is any predisposing stressor and what makes a population so susceptible are questions the researchers are trying to find answers to.

Because mycoplasma is both north and south of the border, an international team of investigators from the two veterinary schools in Canada as well as several veterinarians in the U.S. have teamed together with the or iginal four veterinarians to try and

This organism is not a virus and not really a bacteria — it fits between the two groups.

decipher the answers to these and other questions about mycoplasma, which to my mind is the single most significant disease affecting the North American bison industry today.

Roy Lewis is a large-animal veterinarian practising at the Westlock, Alta. Veterinary Centre. His main interests are bovine reproduction and herd health.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | April 11, 2013

Industry representatives give go-ahead to keep developing a strategy for Canadian beef Trio of leaders in beef sector gives first look at skeletal framework, gets input from summit attendees

By Victoria Paterson af staff / calgary

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he broad outlines of a plan to revitalize the Canadian beef industry received a welcome reception at a recent industry summit in Calgary.

After stinging critique of their sector by the Canadian AgriFood Policy Institute last fall, Kim McConnell, Dave Andrews and John Kolk were asked in November to consult with industry players and create a framework for a comprehensive strategy.

“One of the big things we have learned is that increasingly, the world of beef is changing, it’s changing fast and it’s changing big time,” McConnell said at the meeting, which drew representatives appearing from producers, processors, retailers and other industry players.

That was also the conclusion of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, which accused the Canadian beef sector of being complacent and lacking a strategy to succeed. In its report last September, the institute highlighted a number of troubling issues, including that in 2001, Canada received $3.74 for each kilogram of beef it sold in the U.S., while Americans sold us their beef, often from Canadian-raised cattle, at an average of $6.55 a kilogram. Even then, American beef was displacing Canadian beef in this country. It also noted American global beef exports had, on a value basis, increased 280 per cent since 2005, while Canada’s only grew by 45 per cent during that time.

“Canada’s beef industry is falling behind and opportunities are being eroded by a failure to work together,” said David McInnes, the

Dave Andrews (l), Kim McConnell (centre) and John Kolk (r) presented their straw-man framework for a cohesive beef industry strategy. photo: Victoria Paterson

institute’s president and CEO, following the report’s release.

But the Calgary summit suggested that’s changing, with attendees giving a strong endorsement to a five-point plan put forward by McConnell, Andrews and Kolk.

“I’m stunned at the consensus,” said Andrews in a post-summit interview.

Kolk added the goodwill was surprising, but it suggests there has been an attitude shift and the realization that industry has to win together.

Throughout the day-long meeting, McConnell outlined the framework the trio put together, with industry stakeholders offering input via table discussions and electronic voting. He said the perceived value in our beef is the “Canadian beef advantage,” namely high-quality, safe, grainfinished beef raised in the Canadian environment by committed

“One of the big things we have learned is that increasingly the world of beef is changing, it’s changing fast and it’s changing big time.”

Kim McConnell

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producers and processors as part of an agile system that provides transparency, traceability and respects the desires of customers and consumers.

To capitalize on that, the trio said five things are needed: • An information sharing sys-

tem, accessible to all and with the full backing of major industry players; • A clear set of goals, with a simple way to measure progress in achieving them; • Twice-yearly meetings to bring the entire industry together;

• Industry-wide financial support of the promotional efforts of Canada Beef Inc., which currently relies on producer checkoffs and government funding; • And a commitment to have the industry speak with a single voice.

The trio said a task force needs to be struck to flesh out the framework, but emphasized the entire sector needs to get involved and move the effort forward.

“Now it’s about process and deadlines,” Kolk said.

McConnell was hopeful that would happen.

“There was a lot of harmony here today and this is an industry that is not used to a lot of harmony,” he said.

The trio will continue their work, which includes further development on the strategy, forming various teams, and arranging the first meeting to bring the industry together.

They said many people volunteered to work on the various task force teams which will be set up. victoria.paterson@fbcpublishing.com

JBS boosting animal welfare practices at Brooks plant Video cameras part of JBS’s efforts to ensure animal-handling practices meet company standards

By Victoria Paterson staff / calgary

F

ood safety put the former XL Foods beef plant in the news, but new owners JBS USA will also be bolstering animal welfare oversight at the Brooks facility.

“Animal welfare is a school zone — you don’t speed through school zones,” Lily Edwards-Callaway, who oversees the company’s animal welfare systems for pork and beef, told attendees at the recent Livestock Care Conference in Calgary.

“It’s a top priority for JBS.” In addition to having staff on the plant floor monitoring workers and watching for signs of animals in distress — something the company calls biased audits, video cameras are used for two other types of audits.

Unbiased audits are conducted by staff observing through the cameras while remote video audits are conducted by a thirdparty company, Arrowsight. The audits are key to ensure company standards are being met when it comes to things such as unloading cattle or using prods, said Edwards-Callaway. Those doing the audits also watch for slips and falls, and other signs of problems in animals.

Audits are conducted daily and Edwards-Callaway checks on the numbers, figuring out differences between the three different kinds of audits and checking in with the plants on a weekly basis. She showed examples of plants’ auditing numbers and how they shifted over time, thanks to influences such as new staff members,

Lily Edwards-Callaway speaks about animal welfare processes at JBS USA’s beef and pork plants. photo: Victoria Paterson

training or other factors. The numbers do show people forget occasionally that the cameras are there, she said, but putting focus on the audits helps to address any issues.

The effort is not only a way to combat criticism of slaughter plants, but makes workers feel good about their jobs, said Edwards-Callaway, adding JBS’s animal-handling standards are set above those of the American Meat Institute.

Pork plants typically have about 27 cameras and there are about a dozen in beef plants.

Edwards-Callaway can get live camera access via the Internet, and a viewing screen in the corporate office shows scenes from cameras in the various plants.

The monitoring is also key to improving standards because employees, and sometimes individuals, are given feedback on things flagged by the daily audits.

It’s become part of their everyday operation, Edwards-Callaway said.

“If something’s not working, stop and tell someone,” is the message given to employees, she said.

In a followup interview, Edwards-Callaway said cameras will be installed in the Brooks plants.

“We don’t have a timeline for it yet, but we’re working with the vendors to figure out next steps,” she said.

“We’re on the same program in terms of what we’re auditing, how many head we’re auditing.

They just don’t have the cameras yet.”

She said she expects the move will be well received by the Brooks employees.

“It’s a real pleasure working with them. They’re willing to change, adapt,” she said. victoria.paterson@fbcpublishing.com

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

n/a

Apr-04

n/a

Feeder Steers

Apr-03

Apr-02

Apr-02

Apr-02

Apr-03

No. on offer

1,390

*630

641

1,740

1,338*

n/a

*1,805

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Over 1,000 lbs.

900-1,000 800-900

n/a

n/a

n/a

105.00-117.00

107.00-116.25

n/a

105.00-114.00

n/a

105.00-123.75

110.00-123.00

112.00-120.00

115.00-127.00

114.00-126.00

n/a

114.00-132.00

n/a

700-800

110.00-130.00

110.00-129.50

120.00-132.25

120.00-131.00

121.00-134.00

n/a

125.00-143.00

n/a

600-700

128.00-153.00

120.00-144.50

125.00-146.00

129.00-144.00

134.00-149.00

n/a

130.00-154.00

n/a

500-600

130.00-151.50

125.00-157.00

130.00-153.00

135.00-155.00

139.00-155.00

n/a

145.00-159.00

n/a

400-500

n/a

140.00-173.00

140.00-168.00

155.00-173.00

145.00-165.00

n/a

140.00-165.00

n/a

300-400

n/a

145.00-163.00

145.00-176.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder heifers 900-1,000 lbs.

n/a

85.00-109.00

n/a

95.00-107.00

98.00-108.50

n/a

105.00-111.00

n/a

800-900

95.00-114.50

95.00-116.50

100.00-110.00

100.00-114.00

104.00-112.50

n/a

105.00-115.00

n/a

700-800

101.00-122.50

100.00-116.50

108.00-119.00

112.00-120.00

109.00-118.50

n/a

110.00-122.00

n/a

600-700

99.00-128.00

105.00-129.00

115.00-126.00

115.00-130.00

114.00-127.75

n/a

118.00-136.00

n/a

500-600

100.00-135.50

120.00-135.50

122.00-140.00

127.00-143.00

119.00-134.00

n/a

120.00-135.00

n/a

400-500

n/a

120.00-145.00

135.00-150.00

130.00-147.00

127.00-141.00

n/a

120.00-143.00

n/a

300-400

n/a

130.00-149.00

135.00-158.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

130.00-147.00

n/a

Slaughter Market No. on offer

250

n/a

78

89

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

D1-D2 Cows

60.00-70.00

60.00-74.00

n/a

68.00-78.00

67.00-73.00

n/a

70.00-78.00

n/a

D3-D5 Cows

52.00 and up

n/a

58.00-66.00

60.00-67.00

48.00-67.00

n/a

40.00-69.00

n/a

Age Verified

70.00-79.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

68.00-77.25

n/a

n/a

n/a

Good Bulls

75.00-90.50

65.00-84.00

82.00-90.00

78.00-84.50

79.00-86.00

n/a

70.00-91.50

n/a

Butcher Steers

n/a

n/a

n/a

100.00-106.00

99.00-104.50

n/a

n/a

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

n/a

99.00-104.00

97.00-102.75

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

65.00-78.00

n/a

70.00-80.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

n/a

66.00-72.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

n/a

59.00-65.00

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.)

Heritage chickens help raise funds with eggs

By Victoria Paterson

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Light Sussex hens are part of the “adopt a heritage hen” program providing eggs to donors to help raise funds for the flock. PHOTO: PROVIDED

immunity systems of the heritage breeds to commercial lines, he said.

“So the significance of our lines is we have not selected against immune response in these lines, so if an emerging disease occurs and commercial birds become susceptible… the birds we’re preserving may have a better immune response and may be a resource that is required to regenerate commercial stocks,” he said.

The birds in the university’s flocks come from a variety of sources. The egg layers for the program were acquired from the University of Saskatchewan about 20 years ago, and represent breeds that would have been common on farms 50 to 100 years ago, Zuidhof said. Two lines of chickens come from Don Shaver, of Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms.

There’s also three lines from Agriculture Canada that were received in about 1989.

“Those are really interesting lines,” Zuidhof said, noting there’s a 1957 breed and two broiler lines from 1977.

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he University of Alberta has gotten into the egg business in a bid to maintain its flocks of heritage chickens.

“We’ll raise the chicken for you and you get eggs every two weeks,” said Agnes Kulinski, business director of the university’s Poultry Research Centre.

The centre, which has about 1,500 heritage-breed chickens, has an “adopt-a-heritage-hen” program in which people who contributed $75 receive the eggs of their hen. The current program, which runs until November, is sold out, but Kulinski said a bigger one may be launched in November.

Among the centre’s breeds are light Sussex, white leghorn, darkbrown leghorn, barred Plymouth Rock, and New Hampshire. Kulinski said the chickens cost about $75,000 a year and as the centre faces cuts, the future of the flocks is being considered.

“We haven’t seen any return on them. That’s why the committee is questioning the value of keeping them,” she said.

But genetic conservation is important because the breeds have important traits that may have been lost in commercial chicken breeds, where the focus is on efficiency and productivity, said Martin Zuidhof, an associate professor of poultry systems at the university.

“Preserving their genetics is an important part of preserving the heritage of chicken lines,” Zuidhof said.

For example, researchers at the university are comparing the

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Well-below-average temperatures to continue Issued: Monday, April 8, 2013 · Covering: April 10 – April 17, 2013 Daniel Bezte Co-operator contributor

T

his is probably one of the toughest forecasts I have had to write in a long time. First of all, it’s tough because the weather is not looking that great over the next seven to 10 days; secondly, because the weather models have been all over the place with each model run!

This forecast period starts off on the cold side and looks like it will end on the cool side.

Cold arctic high pressure will be firmly in place across all of southern and central Manitoba this week, keeping any precipitation well to our south. We’ll start off pretty darned cold, with highs struggling to make it to the freezing mark. Under the strong spring sunshine each day will get a little warmer, with highs finally making it above 0 C on Thursday or Friday. Overnight lows will continue to be quite cold.

Over the weekend an area of low pressure is forecast to come in from the Pacific over northern B.C. This low is then

expected to move southeastward and cross central Manitoba on Sunday and Monday.

Central regions will likely see some light snow with this system while southern regions should see a mixed bag of light snow, showers and maybe even some freezing rain.

Clouds and the odd shower or flurry look to linger into n e x t Tu e s d a y a s t h i s l ow slowly moves off to the East.

There does not appear to be any strong push of cold air behind this system, but don’t expect any big warm-ups either. Highs are expected to be around +5 C for much of next week, with a +10 C reading possible by next weekend.

With all the snow around I think we might have to wait a little longer for those springlike temperatures.

Usual temperature range for this period: Highs, 2 to 16 C; lows, -8 to 2 C. Probability of precipitation falling as snow: 50 per cent.

Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He operates a computerized weather station near Birds Hill Park.

Contact him with your questions and comments at daniel@bezte.ca.

WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA

Never thought we’d be looking at a snow cover map a week into April, but with deep snow cover still present across much of the Prairies I figured it was worth one more look. This map was originally created by Environment Canada and then I worked on it to make it easier to read. In this process some of the finer details are lost, so the map is intended to give you a general idea of how much snow cover there is. I didn’t include central and western Alberta as the snow cover in those regions is so variable it made it almost impossible to map properly. There is still a lot of snow cover, with large portions of Manitoba and Saskatchewan still having over 25 cm on the ground.

Opposite pattern to last year Our snow cover would have to linger through to early May to beat the record

By Daniel Bezte CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR

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wouldn’t go as far as to say that panic is setting in over the weather, but from some of the conversations I am hearing, it’s not too far off. Personally, I think it’s a little too early to hit the panic button.

As I pointed out in an article a couple of weeks a g o, t h e a ve ra g e d a t e f o r t h e s n ow t o b e g o n e across southern Manitoba is between April 5 and 12, a few days earlier over southwestern regions and a few days later over central regions. What we need to remember about averages is just that: they are averages.

In the world of climate and weather we rarely see average conditions; something is usually above average or below average. It only makes s e n s e : i f we h a ve a ye a r when the snow melts two weeks early, there is usually going to be a year when it will melt two weeks later.

The interesting thing, at least for our part of the world, is how often an extreme a b ove - o r b e l ow - a ve ra g e

The average date for the snow to be gone across southern Manitoba is between April 5 and 12.

event is closely followed by the opposite event. For example, the coldest average maximum monthly temperature for April recorded in Winnipeg occurred in 1950 (+2.1 C).

The warmest average maximum monthly temperature for April recorded in Winnipeg occurred just two years later, in 1952 (+16.8 C). So it should not seem that unusual for us to see a recordearly spring followed by a late spring. Will it be a record-late spring? You need to read on.

Whither global warming?

When we see cold weather like this, the talk naturally turns to climate change and global warming and the critics start coming out to stir the pot, asking, Where is the global warming now?

Shouldn’t we always be see-

ing war mer spr ings? The answer is, No, we shouldn’t.

As I already pointed out, we look at weather or climate using averages and these averages are made up of above-average and belowaverage temperatures. We always have seen and will continue to see temperatures that are above and below the average. When we discuss global warming what we are looking at are the numbers of times temperatures are above average compared to below average.

We are also looking at how much above or below the average we are seeing.

Gl o b a l l y we a re s e e i n g more temperatures coming in above average than below a v e ra g e a n d t h e a m o u n t these temperatures are above average is exceeding

the range of below-average temperatures. Just looking at my own weather station data, which is in a rural setting and routinely records temperatures much colder than the closest city, Winnipeg, over the last 14 years I’ve recorded 105 months above the Winnipeg average and 63 months below the Winnipeg average.

So, let’s look at this April so far. We’ve been well below average in temperature and these conditions look to last for at least a couple more weeks; check out the forecast for more information. These cold temperatures, combined with a deep snow pack, mean we will have a late spring melt this year. Will it be a recordlate melt? I doubt it, unless we see a record-big snowstorm move in sometime in the next couple of weeks. Does this late melt mean there is no such thing as global warming? No. If we want to play the average game again, last year we saw a record-early snow melt and start to spring. To even this out, we need to see a record-late year. For that to happen, the snow would have to stick around until May 1

or so. That doesn’t mean the snow melts, disappears, and then we see snow again. That doesn’t count. We have seen May snowstorms more often than we care to admit. To beat the record, our current snow cover has to stick around right through to the start of May. The other big question regarding the weather is, Why? Why are we seeing this early spring cold snap? In a nutshell, back in March, the atmospheric pattern across North America started to block up with a very strong area of high pressure forming over Greenland. This allowed, or helped to form, a large trough of low pressure across much of North America. This is almost the exact opposite pattern to what occurred last year, so it makes sense that instead of bringing warm, dry conditions we are seeing cold, wet ones. Last year’s early-spring blocking pattern waxed and waned in strength for about t w o m o n t h s b e f o re f a d ing away. While this year’s block formed a little earlier than last year, let’s hope that it doesn’t last quite as long!

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CROPS Ottawa urges Canadian grain industry to pull together AAFC’s Greg Meredith says the sector needs to act fast or risk being overtaken by competitors

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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anny Penner, the iconoclast who wants Canada’s farmers to get their voices together, has a fan in high places.

“I read your blog. I think it’s great,” Greg Meredith, an assistant deputy minister with Agriculture and AgriFood Canada told Penner during a question period April 2 during the Canada Grains Council’s annual meeting in Winnipeg.

Penner, who farms at Halbstadt, has issued several documents recently advocating western Canadian farmers consolidate their checkoff-funded commodity groups into a single, national farmer-run organization.

Meredith’s message was similar.

The federal government needs a strong representative voice from the grains sector giving it direction, he said.

“And I know that there are some cynics who believe that bureaucrats actually love this balkanization so we can pick and choose what opinions we hear and amplify the ones that

we like and try to ignore the ones that we don’t,” Meredith said.

“I don’t think we’re strategic enough to actually do that. So it would be much better if we had a dialogue with the sector that allowed us to make choices between grains in terms of investment and within grains.”

With the change to the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly last Aug. 1, who now speaks for wheat?

“Who do we talk to, to understand where we should be investing dollars or where we should be changing policy or what kind of regulatory environment needs to be adjusted to improve the sector’s prospects?” he said.

Meredith said the industry must act fast to capitalize on the opportunities created by rising population and wealth.

Canada’s grain competitors are moving ahead with higher yields and more investment in research and food processing, he said. Meanwhile, in Canada private-sector investment in both has plateaued, he said.

Canada needs to attract invest-

ment by having regulations rewarding it.

“I think government private-sector collaboration is going to be quite critical to Canada succeeding in the future space,” Meredith said. “The opportunity is enormous.”

To that end Canada is considering signing UPOV 91 (International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants), he said. The agreement can be implemented in a way that farmers are allowed to save seed, he added.

“The government is looking actively at these issues and I think the industry is very, very anxious at this particular time to encourage us,” Meredith said later in an interview.

The government is also looking at setting up a system to collect royalties on grain when it’s sold and then investing the money into varietal research, Meredith said.

While the government has also asked the grain industry to review the variety registration system to ensure “that it’s efficient, that it’s transparent and that it rewards breeders with quick approvals (and) quick registrations for new varieties,” Meredith

said it’s unclear whether the present system acts as an impediment.

“I’m not sure that it is an impediment and that’s one of the reasons why we want to talk to those in the industry about it. I think we need to balance very carefully the quality assurance dimensions of the variety registration system and what that means to end-use customers and therefore what it means in terms of returns to producers.

“In a post-wheat board world where the wheat board and our own scientists were the dominant players, particularly on the wheat, rye and triticale committee, we’re just asking the members of the committee, ‘is this the best?’”

The current registration system has a lot of flexibility. Changes should be industry driven, reflecting the needs of both farmers and end-users, Meredith said.

Getting farmers and the rest of the grain sector to co-operate should be easier now that the polarized debate over the marketing monopoly is over, Meredith said.

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Move grain out before water moves in Province will consider lifting spring weight restrictions on Manitoba roads if producers need to move grain or livestock out of flood-affected areas

By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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hen the flood waters come, grain stops moving — and that means farmers better hurry if they want to empty some bins and recharge their bank account this spring, industry officials say.

And unlike past floods, the Canadian Wheat Board won’t be overseeing grain movement to ensure there’s plenty of elevator space for those needing to make last-minute deliveries.

In fact, the new CWB has already moved out most of the grain it has contracted in the Red River Valley, an area that provincial flood forecasters predict will see plenty of road closures during the spring melt.

“For us it is different, we have less tonnes than in the past so this is actually happening on a smaller scale for us than previously,” said Mark Dyck, CWB’s logistics director.

“But if farmers do still have grain on contract with us that hasn’t moved and it’s at risk of flood damage, they should contact their local farm business representative and we’ll work with them and the grain company to try and get it delivered as soon as possible.”

That’s the advice of other grain company reps: If you need to move grain and haven’t made arrangements, get on the phone to your elevator right away.

Floods are a challenge to everyone in the system, said Gerald Bryson, Richardson International’s

area business manager for southern Manitoba.

“On the producer side and getting grain into the elevator, flooding can affect access to yards, make roads soft, and routes can be affected by bridges being out,” said Bryson.

“The outbound rail is definitely at risk in certain areas, and there are certain lines that will go out of service with excessive flooding.”

For example, previous floods have closed rail lines through Brunkild and Carman, and Canadian Pacific tracks servicing Killarney were shut down in 2011.

But most producers know the flood drill by now, he said.

“You try to move your grain in advance,” said Bryson. “Producers deal quite well with flooding, they’ve either got their storage in

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Richardson will focus on locations predicted to be out of service for extended periods he said, adding if producers have concerns they should check with their local elevator.

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U.S. courts helpless to stop biotech crops while being reviewed The provision tucked into a larger bill alters court powers during biotech lawsuits WASHINGTON / REUTERS

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number of U.S. farm groups wants to extend a law that allows farmers to grow a genetically modified crop while regulatory approval of the variety is still being challenged in court.

No one in Congress claims ownership of Section 735 of a recent spending bill, but the 22-line provision has blown up a storm of opposition to what is being dubbed by critics as the “Monsanto Protection Act.” The legislation is lauded by some farm groups, who have vowed to try to extend the life of the statute beyond its Sept.

30 expiration at the end of the fiscal year.

Food safety advocacy groups frequently ask for a temporary injunction against sale of

seeds when they challenge U.S. approval of genetically modified crops. So Section 735 would benefit biotech seed companies such as Monsanto Co. and Dow Chemical Co. “We’ll certainly try to get that language put into the Farm Bill,” Mississippi farmer Danny Murphy, president of the American Soybean Association, told Reuters.

He said lawsuits have delayed farmer access to profitable biotech varieties for years at a time.

“We think it’s important farmers have the certainty once they plant a crop they would be able to harvest it.”

Lawmakers aim to pass a new farm policy law by this fall.

Only one variety, a genetically modified alfalfa developed

by Monsanto, is under court review at present.

Biotech foe Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, called Section 735 a back room deal that muzzles the power of federal judges to prevent the cultivation of inadequately reviewed biotech crops.

Opponents range from organic food advocates and small-farm activists to environmentalists, consumer groups and the American Civil Liberties Union.

The language was tucked into the 240-page government funding bill in the Senate with no indication of its author. Even the groups who support the provision say they do not know who got it into the sure-to-pass bill. No one claimed credit during debate.

The bill was passed on March 22 and signed by President

Barack Obama on March 28 — even after thousands signed petition opposing the so-called biotech rider.

Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, is often a focal point for opposition by those who oppose genetically engineered crops or want more labelling of genetically modified foods. The company on April 3 announced a 22 per cent rise in quarterly earnings.

A pro-labelling/anti-Monsanto demonstration is planned for Monday at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration offices in College Park, Maryland.

Se n i o r m e m b e r s o f t h e Appropriations Committees in the House and Senate pointed at each other when asked who was behind Section 735. Two senators said the House panel was responsible because it

backed the idea last year, albeit in a bill that failed to advance.

A spokesman for Representative Jack Kingston of Georgia, tabbed as the 2012 sponsor, said Kingston had no role this year.

Speculation has since centred on Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, Monsanto’s home state.

His aides did not respond to queries.

Senate Appropriations chairwoman Barbara Mikulski “didn’t put the language in the bill and doesn’t support it either,” said spokeswoman Rachel MacKnight. She said Section 735 was an unavoidable carry-over from House-Senate negotiations last fall.

Mikulski has supported labelling of genetically modified foods and will fight for “valuable priorities, including food safety,” said MacKnight.

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Canadian corn is flowing to U.S. ethanol plants and feed suppliers in largerthan-usual volumes, with up to one million tonnes expected in 2012-13, as a large Ontario crop backfills demand after last year’s severe U.S. drought.

Canada is normally a net importer of corn, feeding Eastern Canada’s pigs and poultry and supplying Ontario ethanol plants.

But the worst U.S. drought in more than 50 years has forced corn buyers to look north.

“Ontario had not a lot of rain last year, but it was timed almost perfectly so we had the biggest corn crop in history,” said Steve Kell, grain merchant at Parrish & Heimbecker. “It’s just a natural redistribution. And it’s moving.”

Ontario accounted for about two-thirds of Canada’s 13.1-million-tonne corn harvest.

Kell predicted more than one million tonnes of Ontario corn will move south this crop year, and maybe more if there are U.S. corn planting delays.

That would be the second-biggest Canadian corn export program on record, after nearly 1.7 million tonnes were shipped two years earlier following a poor coarse grain harvest in Europe.

Canadian exporters say most of the corn is feed or destined for ethanol plants in the northeast U.S.

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Multi-toxin biotech crops not silver bullets New study helps explain why one major pest is evolving resistance faster than predicted Staff

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hen pests developed resistance to Bt crops such as corn, potatoes and cotton, seed companies had an answer: twotoxin varieties.

But new research suggests it may be the wrong one.

Bioengineered crops with genes taken from bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis have been widely grown since 1996. The genes produce Bt toxins, reducing the need for pesticide use. When pests began developing resistance, seed companies adopted a “pyramid” strategy: each plant produces two or more toxins that kill the same pest.

The idea was simple — if the first toxin doesn’t kill the pest, the second one will.

The pyramid strategy has been adopted extensively, with two-toxin Bt cotton completely replacing its onetoxin cousin since 2011 in the U.S. But “in the real world, things are a bit more complicated,” states a press release from University of Arizona outlining the results of a new study conducted by a team of its entomologists.

“The pyramid strategy has been touted mostly on the basis of (computer) simulation models,” said Yves Carrière, the professor of entomology who led the study.

“We tested the underlying assumptions of the models in lab experiments with a major pest of corn and cotton.”

The researchers used cotton boll-

worm — also known as corn earworm — a species of moth that is a major agricultural pest, and selected it for resistance against one of the Bt toxins, Cry1Ac. As expected, the resistant caterpillars survived after munching on cotton plants producing only that toxin.

The surprise came when Carrière’s team put them on pyramided Bt cotton containing Cry2Ab in addition to Cry1Ac. “On the two-toxin plants, the caterpillars selected for resistance to one toxin survived significantly better than caterpillars from a susceptible strain,” said Carrière.

In total, the researchers carried out 21 such experiments and used eight different pest species. In 19 of them they found some degree of crossresistance between Cry1 and Cry2 toxins. Moreover, populations of cotton bollworm are starting to show up in fields.

So what’s the flaw in the pyramid strategy?

The authors concluded even low levels of cross-resistance can reduce redundant killing and undermine the pyramid strategy, and that crossresistance is fairly common in cotton bollworm and some other pests not highly susceptible to Bt toxins to begin with.

The Arizona researchers also examined another technique for combating resistance — crop refuges — and found it may not work as well as hoped either.

They looked at insects that carry

A major agricultural pest, the moth Helicoverpa zea and its caterpillar go by many common names, depending on the crop they feed on: shown here is a “corn earworm.” Photo: Jose Roberto Peruca

two forms of the same gene for resistance to Bt — one confers susceptibility and the other resistance. When resistance to a toxin is recessive, one resistance allele is not sufficient to increase survival. In other words, offspring that inherit one allele of each type will not be resistant, while offspring that inherit two resistance alleles will be resistant.

Refuges are based on this idea.

They consist of regular plants that don’t produce Bt toxins. This allows susceptible pests to survive and mate with resistant ones — and thus continually reduce the resistant population.

But if inheritance of resistance is dominant instead of recessive, as seen with cotton bollworm, matings between a resistant moth and a susceptible moth can produce resistant

The same pest is called cotton bollworm when plaguing cotton plants. photo: Thierry Brevault/CIRAD

offspring, which hastens resistance.

However, the size of the refuge area makes a difference.

“Our simulations tell us that with 10 per cent of acreage set aside for refuges, resistance evolves quite fast, but if you put 30 or 40 per cent aside, you can substantially delay it,” said Carrière.

According to study co-author Bruce Tabashnik, overly optimistic assumptions have led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to greatly reduce size requirements for refuges.

The new results are a wake-up call, said Carrière.

“We need more empirical data to refine our simulation models, optimize our strategies and really know how much refuge area is required,” he said. “Meanwhile, let’s not assume that the pyramid strategy is a silver bullet.”

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U.S. encourages South Korea to join Trans-Pacific trade talks

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Seoul is seen as a natural ally in helping shape the TPP agreement

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he United States would welcome South Korea joining negotiations on an Asia-Pacific free trade a g re e m e n t , a s e n i o r U . S . trade official said on April 3, as Washington continues to weigh Japan’s bid to enter the same set of talks. “ We d o t h i n k i t’s n a t u ral and logical for Korea to j o i n t h i s n e g o t i a t i o n . We think they would have a lot to offer,” Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Wendy Cutler said in a speech at the Wilson Center, a foreign policy thinktank.

T h e Un i t e d S t a t e s a n d South Korea are already free

trade partners under a oneyear-old agreement.

Cutler, who was the lead negotiator on that pact, said Washington sees Seoul as a natural ally in helping shape the Trans-Pacific Partnership ( TPP) agreement, a proposed regional agreement that Japan has asked to join.

The TPP negotiations include the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei.

B r i n g i n g i n Ja p a n , t h e world’s third-largest economy, into the negotiation would set the stage for a final agreement covering the nearly 40 per cent of world economic output.

New models predict drastically greener Arctic in coming decades A boom in trees, shrubs is expected to lead to net increase in climate warming AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY RELEASE

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The researchers also show that this dramatic greening will accelerate climate warming at a rate greater than previously expected.

“Such widespread redistribution of Arctic vegetation would have impacts that reverberate through the global ecosystem,” said Richard Pearson, lead author on the paper and a research scientist at the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

Plant growth in Arctic ecosystems has increased over the past few decades, a trend that coincides with increases in temperatures, which are rising at about twice the global rate.

The research team — which includes scientists from the museum, AT&T Labs-Research, Woods Hole Research Center, Colgate University, Cornell University, and the University of York — used climate scenarios for the 2050s to explore how this trend is likely to continue in the future.

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the types of plants that could grow under certain temperatures and precipitation. Although it comes with some uncertainty, this type of modelling is a robust way to study the Arctic because the harsh climate limits the range of plants that can grow, making this system simpler to model compared to other regions such as the tropics.

The models reveal the potential for massive redistribu-

tion of vegetation across the Arctic under future climate, with about half of all vegetation switching to a different class and a massive increase in tree cover. What might this look like? In Siberia, for instance, trees could grow hundreds of miles north of the present treeline.

“These impacts would extend far beyond the Arctic region,” Pearson said. “For example, some species of birds seasonally migrate from lower latitudes and rely on finding particular polar habitats, such as open space for ground nesting.”

In addition, the researchers investigated the multiple climate change feedbacks that greening would produce.

They found that a phenomenon called the albedo effect, based on the reflectivity of the Earth’s surface, would have the greatest impact on the Arctic’s climate. When the sun hits snow, most of the radiation is reflected back to space.

But when it hits an area that’s “dark,” or covered in trees or shrubs, more sunlight is absorbed in the area and temperature increases. This has a positive feedback to climate warming: the more vegetation there is, the more warming will occur.

“By incorporating observed relationships between plants and albedo, we show that vegetation distribution shifts will result in an overall positive feedback to climate that is likely to cause greater warming than has previously been predicted,” said co-author Scott Goetz, of the Woods Hole Research Center.

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A sample options strategy for soybeans

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Results under three price scenarios — up, down and sideways

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e recently had the privilege of co-presenting with the CME Group at their CBOT Grain Op t i o n s Wo rk s h o p d u r i n g the annual Wild Oats Grainworld conference in Winnipeg. Here’s an overview of that event including what is risk, what is risk management and a straightforward strategy you can use to protect yourself against falling grain prices.

Risk, like energy, cannot be destroyed but it can be altered, redirected or transferred. Risk management is not about not losing any money, it’s about balancing risks and balancing gains and losses.

Risk management doesn’t just necessarily manage the risks of the markets; it manages the risk of the behaviour of the individuals who make up the markets.

This gets into the realm of psychology, or the new fancy term “behavioural economics,” also known as human nature.

What is risk?

What is risk management?

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“It’s an active storm system leaving 0.2 to 0.6 inch of rain Monday and 1.0 to 2.0 inches or more Tuesday through Thursday in most of the Midwest,” said John Dee, meteorologist for Global Weather Monitoring.

This week marks the first official days farmers can begin planting corn in many spots across the upper Midwest, according to crop insurance policies.

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We like to work with clients to define internal benchmarks and levels that take into account their exposure, revenues, costs, break-even and even their worst-case scenario.

We are all learning every day in the markets and we want clients to learn more about their money so they can earn more on their money. A riskmanagement strategy needs to start with learning and education. Once you are comfortable and confident with the basics, a proactive, disciplined, straightforward risk-management strategy can be developed.

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• Proactive: As Benjamin Franklin said: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

We want to plan ahead while remaining flexible, ready to act and adjust strategies over time as markets develop and opportunities present themselves.

• Disciplined: I find the best methods don’t attempt to guess where prices are going but rather consistently apply predefined risk-management techniques. The aim is not that it works perfectly every time, but rather consistently over time.

• Straightforward: Simple, straightforward strategies provide the greatest results since you are more likely to use them.

There’s no point building a more complex mousetrap if no one is going to use it.

Protecting the downside

A protective put option strategy is very straightforward. It’s just like buying price insurance on future production

Three scenarios

From now until November, soybeans can move either up, down or sideways. Let’s look at each scenario: • Up: Soybeans reach $15 for Oct./Nov. Since that is above $12.40, the put options expire with no value, but the farmer can sell grain into the cash market at $15. He’s lost the put cost of $0.60, but still nets $14.40, less local basis.

• Down: Soybeans drop to $10 for Oct./Nov. The options purchased at $0.60 are now worth $2.40 — the difference between the $12.40 put strike price and the current price of November soybeans at $10 — for a net gain of $1.80. The farmer sells into the cash market at $10, or a net price of $11.80 minus the basis.

• Sideways: Soybeans are at $12.65 for Oct./Nov. The $0.60 options expire with no value, but the farmer sells in the cash market at $12.65 for a net of $12.05 minus the basis.

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This protective put strategy offers: • Downside protection below $11.80/bu. less basis.

(Put strike price of $12.40 minus premium of $0.60 = $11.80.)

• Upside potential above $11.80/bu. (Put strike price of $12.40 minus premium of $0.60 = $11.80.)

Overall, for the cost of the insurance premium to protect the downside, you can also participate in upside of higher prices.

The bottom line, like everything in the markets, is that you have to balance risk and reward. Some strategies cost very little so offer less protection and with little upside.

Others are more expensive but give full protection and more upside.

It’s important to remember that this is just one of many strategies. You shouldn’t hedge everything with one strategy at one time. Instead give yourself some flexibility to diversify your hedges. While you won’t be right every time with your market direction or strategy, what is plausible is a consiste n t , d i s c i p l i n e d a p p ro a c h year in, year out to help you manage your risks before they manage you. dderwin@pifinancial.com

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Manitoba farmer continues push for merger of commodity groups Danny Penner suggests there be three commodity groups and one “New Farm Organization” at the top

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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Halbstadt farmer says his call to create three big Prairie-wide commodity groups is getting positive reviews — but no organizations have officially embraced the idea so far.

Last month, Danny Penner issued a discussion document calling for the merger of existing commodity groups to make them more efficient and effective.

“In person, I have not yet had one board member... that has said, ‘This is crazy and we can’t get it done,’” said Penner. “They’ve all said it makes sense.”

However, no group is officially endorsing his plan, and that’s not surprising, he said.

“I understand there is turf protection and things like that,” said Penner, a former president of the Manitoba Pulse Growers. “It’s very comfortable to do what you’ve always been doing.”

In h i s d i s c u s sion paper, Penner proposes checkofffunded commodity groups also funnel money into what he’s calling the “New Farm Organization,” which would focus on issues common to all the groups.

“The core concept of One New Farm Organization has proven success in the case of Grain Farmers of Ontario,” the paper states. “It’s our hope to build on what they’ve created and eventually end up with just one, fully national farm organization.”

Improving efficiency

The current system is neither efficient nor as effective as a single group would be, the paper argues.

“You can’t count how many different organizations speak on behalf of farmers these days, let alone get a quick, clear answer,” he wrote. “( T ) h e r e’s u n n e c e s s a r y ov e r lap in administration... Just think what one organization could accomplish by taking the best of what every individual group is doing today and combining resources.”

The paper proposes rolling all commodity groups in Western Canada into three entities representing cereals, oilseeds, and pulse-special crops.

Each group would collect and administer the checkoff from their own crops, spending some of the money on their specific interests and giving a portion to fund the New Farm Organization.

“One hundred per cent producer governance is core to this idea, but the process of identifying specific farmers to sit on each board will be a matter for discussion,” he wrote.

Penner proposes each of the three commodity groups and the New Farm Organization have their own boards of directors, and that Western Canada be divided into

six districts — northern and southern Alberta; north, central and southern Saskatchewan; and Manitoba. ( Two additional districts could be included later from Eastern Canada.)

The number of votes for each farmer would be tied to the amount of checkoff contributed.

Election process

Six farmers would be elected to each of the boards, which would also have its own chief executive officer. In addition to six elected farmers, the New Farm Organization’s board would include the presidents of the cereals, oilseeds and pulse/special crops commodity groups.

“Just think what one organization could accomplish by taking the best of what every individual group is doing today and combining resources.”

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E a c h re g i o n w o u l d h a ve four farmer representatives in total — one on each of the commodity groups and one on the New Farm Organization.

“The work of the commissions (commodity groups) and the New Farm Organization would fall under direc-

t o r a t e s s u c h a s re s e a rc h , policy, markets, education, environment and logistics, w i t h a f o c u s o n b ra n d i n g and advocacy of Canadian crop farming systems, guiding investment in agriculture to its best possible use, and communicating key messages from other stakeholders back

to primary producers,” Penner wrote.

Farm organizations funded directly by members, such as the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association, or the Keystone Agricultural Producers, which has a checkoff, would continue to operate independently, Penner said i n a n i n t e r v i e w. Bu t t h e y could also contribute to policy development within the New Farm Organization, he added.

Penner was to present his proposal to Canadian Federation of Agriculture vice-president Humphrey Banack and the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ executive on April 1. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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Commodity groups may band together to hold mega-meeting The plan is to pool resources and get more farmers to attend association annual meetings

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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nnual meetings of commodity groups could soon be more convenient and worthwhile for Manitoba farmers if a proposal for a joint meeting is accepted.

“I’m really excited about this,” said Ernie Sirski, a director with the Manitoba Canola Growers Association.

The idea would be to have one large event held over several days. Groups would pool their money to attract topquality keynote speakers, but also have separate breakout sessions, including their annual meetings, said Sirski, who farms near Dauphin.

The Manitoba Pulse Growers Assoc i a t i o n , Ma n i t o b a Co r n Growe r s Association, and National Sunflower Association of Canada already do just that during their annual Special Crops Symposium.

The sunflower and pulse associations expressed interest in including other

commodity groups when the idea was broached at a recent meeting organized by the canola growers which attracted reps from sunflower, pulse, canola, winter cereals, flax, hemp and new cereal groups, Sirski said. There was no oats representative there, but their association wants to participate, said Sirski, adding he hopes corn growers will also join in.

A working committee has been set up to explore the idea and will meet April 9 in Carman, with an eye to making it happen as soon as next year.

“We want to get a good feel about making this go or not before spring seeding,” Sirski said.

In addition to having more money for top speakers, a large event would attract more farmers and be a great networking opportunity, he said.

“My pitch is it would be beneficial for all commodity group members in Manitoba,” he said.

It can be a struggle to get farmers out to annual meetings. For example, aside

from directors, the recent Winter Cereals Manitoba annual meeting in Portage la Prairie drew fewer than 20 farmers.

But the Manitoba Canola Growers Association has attracted a larger crowd by adding events such as a combine clinic or this year’s canolaLab. Part of the problem is there are fewer farmers and more organizations, and even Sirski said he just doesn’t have time to attend all their annual meetings.

Alberta’s annual FarmTech conference could serve as a model, he said.

This year, 1,700 farmers attended that meeting in Edmonton jointly held by Alberta’s canola, barley, pulse, wheat and seed grower associations.

FarmTech is similar to Manito ba’s annual Ag Days meeting in that it includes a large agricultural trade show, as well as keynote speakers and seminars. In fact, some of the same keynote speakers presented at both events.

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Manitoba Canola Growers Association director Ernie Sirski hopes Manitoba commodity groups can hold a joint meeting to pool resources and boost farmer attendance at their annual meetings. photo: allan dawson

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A series of winter storms, which have continued into March, are positive for spring seeding from the Plains to the East Coast, AccuWeather said in its 2013 U.S. spring weather outlook.

“Compared to last year, for the season as a whole, more moisture will be available for agriculture due to lower temperatures and lower evaporation rates from the Mississippi Valley to much of the Atlantic coastal plain,” said the Pennsylvania firm.

With the USDA predicting record-large U.S. corn and soybean crops this year, assuming normal growing conditions, new-crop futures at the CBOT are trading well below old-crop levels.

Parts of California and the Florida peninsula could experience drought or at least drierthan-normal conditions into the first part of the summer. But overall, the severe drought that extended over much of the United States in 2012, and hammered U.S. corn, soybean and wheat growers, is not expected to be repeated.

Winter storms have added up to near-normal snowfall for major cropping areas of the lower Plains through the Midwest and in parts of the Northwest.

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Parrish & Heimbecker has a Faller wheat contract for 2013 There’s lots of interest among millers in the American wheat

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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This boreal owl has found itself a prime spot near a bird feeder at Winnipeg Beach, where it sits in wait for the mice which come for the seed the birds have spilled on the ground. Photo: Ann Hoogstraten

arrish & Heimbecker will contract around 10,000 acres of Faller, an unregistered American wheat, under an identity-preserved program with farmers in Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan this spring, says John Devos, the company’s manager of seed and chemical.

P & H is the second grain company to offer such a program and there could be more, John Smith, president and CEO of Seed Depot, said in an interview April 4. Seed Depot has the exclusive Canadian distribution rights for Faller, which was developed at North Dakota State University.

“Mills like it,” Devos said of Faller, a dark northern spring wheat. “It has good stability. We have a home for it in our mills.”

Parrish & Heimbecker will pay farmers the going hard red wheat price for Faller delivered under the contract, he said. Normally unregistered wheats sell at a discount.

Faller, which yields about 20 per cent more than Glenn, will be grown in co-op tests this spring providing the data required to

assess whether it should be recommended for registration in the Canada Prairie Spring (red) class.

Smith said it’s unlikely the variety would be recommended for registration in Canada’s premier milling wheat class, Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS), because its protein content is too low.

Canadian seed regulations allow Faller to be contracted under IP contracts for test marketing.

Farmers must deliver all their Faller production to the contractor and not keep any seed for future propagation. They must also purchase the seed through the contractor.

It’s illegal to import an unregistered wheat for the purposes of growing it in Western Canada. It’s also illegal for American farmers to sell Faller, for seed, for export to Canada because Seed Depot holds the rights to the variety.

Richardson Pioneer confirmed its Faller IP program in February.

Its Faller wheat will go to British baker Warburtons.

Parrish & Heimbecker, in addition to being an elevator company, operates seven flour mills across the country, making it Canada’s largest Canadian-owned flour miller.

Devos said growing Faller, as well as a more traditional CWRS variety, is good hedge against price volatility related to protein content. Some years, such as this one, buyers aren’t paying protein premiums so a higher-yielding variety, with a little less protein, can return farmers more money.

“It’s a phenomenal yielder. It has a good disease package. R (rating) for leaf rust, R-MR to stem rust.

Mid-range for fusarium,” he said.

But when high-protein wheat supplies are tight, higher-protein wheat can earn farmers more, Smith said.

“As one farmer to another farmer I want producers to realize Faller has lower protein,” Smith said. “It’s also a couple of days later maturing than some of our CWRS wheats so you better get it in early.”

Smith said he’s gratified his efforts to get Faller into the registration trials and get grain buyers on board with test marketing are paying off.

The Faller programs demonstrate the current wheat registration system is more flexible than some of its critics claim, he added. allan@fbcpublishing.com

U.S. corn quality concerns linger despite better test results Domestic users have run into problems with toxins because the best-quality corn is going for export

By Tom Polansek and Julie Ingwersen chicago / reuters

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he quality of last year’s drought-hit U.S. corn harvest remains under scrutiny because of worries about toxins that flourish in dry weather, despite improved test results for export shipments.

The U.S. Grains Council, which works to promote exports, said in a report on Wednesday that 77.8 per cent of corn samples tested at export markets from October 2012 to February 2013 had no detectable levels of aflatoxin, a byproduct of a mould that can sicken humans and animals if ingested.

A year earlier, 75.2 per cent of samples at export markets had no detectable levels of aflatoxin, according to the council.

The report was based on 397 corn samples collected from export shipments as they underwent a federal inspection process performed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Corn must be tested for aflatoxin before being shipped overseas.

“The 2012 crop was superior in quality across a number of key variables to the U.S. 2011 harvest, which was itself a high-quality crop,” the council said.

Still, concerns persist about the quality of corn from the autumn harvest, which is still being used domestically and abroad.

Last year’s historic drought in the U.S. Midwest put everyone from farmers to grain handlers and food industry officials on high alert for aflatoxin because it is usually more prevalent in dry conditions.

Grain dealers typically send the best corn to export markets because importers have strict standards for grain quality. Corn also typically deteriorates during the shipping process.

Exporters have “a great deal of incentive not to offer” corn that tests high for aflatoxin because it cannot be shipped, said Charles Hurburgh, an agricultural engineering professor at Iowa State University.

Of the corn tested for the report, 22.2 per cent contained aflatoxin in levels greater than or equal to five parts per billion but less than the 20-parts-per-billion level at which corn can usually not be exported.

A year earlier, 24.8 per cent of the samples were above five ppb and below 20 ppb, according to the report.

Domestic users of corn have already experienced problems due to elevated levels of aflatoxin.

The Hy-Vee Inc. grocery chain in February recalled five different product lines of its privately branded dog food across eight Midwestern states due to elevated levels of aflatoxin in corn used to make the pet food.

Aflatoxin contamination also prompted a series of pet food and livestock food recalls in 2011.

According to crop insurance data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, payouts for mycotoxins, of which aflatoxin is the most common, totalled nearly $75 million as of February, triple the level of a year ago.

“There are places where buyers need to test every load” of corn for aflatoxin, Hurburgh said. “There is aflatoxin out there.”

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Changing climate and oil markets good for Churchill Churchill port sees new opportunities for shipping in a melting — and rapidly developing — Arctic

By Daniel Winters

“As with other things, there’s a good side and a bad side.”

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he thawing of the Arctic is a chilling environm e n t a l p rospect, but Port of Churchill proponents say it heralds a new era for Canada’s long-neglected and underutilized northern deepwater port.

Since the port was built 70 years ago, the focus has been on grain shipments, but it’s now shifting to supplying the fastgrowing communities in Nunavut as well as gigantic mine projects being planned for the far north.

However, the most exciting development is the potential for shipping oil, OmniTRAX Canada president Brad Chase said at the recent Hudson Bay Route Association annual general meeting.

“This is our most significant activity right now without question,” said Chase, whose Denver-based parent company owns the Hudson Bay Railway and the Port of Churchill.

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Brad Chase, president of OmniTRAX, discusses potential opportunities for the Port of Churchill at the recent Hudson Bay Route Association’s annual general meeting. photo: Daniel Winters

The North Sea oilfields — which produces the benchmark Brent crude and supplies European refineries — are in steep decline even as the spread between Brent and West Texas Intermediate grows. In addition, light sweet crude from Alberta and the North Dakota

Bakken formation faces a further discount off the W TI benchmark due to a lack of pipeline capacity to get it to foreign markets, said Chase.

“Right now it’s about $12, but it has been as high as over $20,” he said.

That’s prompted the port to

upgrade its existing Cold War era, 216,000-barrel tank farm to include a short pipeline for loading crude onto tankers, he said. Along with Europe, refineries along Canadian and American eastern coast would be target markets.

So far the end of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk hasn’t been felt yet, said Chase, who noted that last year’s shipping season saw 432,000 tonnes of wheat move through the port.

Other opportunities for Churchill include shipping potash from new mines being proposed in Saskatchewan that unlike Canpotex, don’t already have coastal facilities, and a rail car fleet for moving the dry, bulk commodity to foreign markets.

Supplying liquified natural gas (LNG) as a substitute for northern communities that rely on diesel generators for their power needs is also being looked at.

“The hamlets in Nunavut are using over $250 million in diesel. LNG could replace that,” said Chase, adding northern mines are also in need of a cleaner energy source.

Chase has pitched the port’s potential to investors in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, and has hosted two delegations from China as well as Normandy and France, in the past year.

And while the melting of the Arctic ice cap has extended the Hudson Bay shipping season by an extra month, port officials

still need to convince shipping insurers such as Lloyd’s of London to cover vessels using the port and Transport Canada to provide additional coast guard support as well as port upgrades.

The evidence is there, said University of Manitoba research scientist David Barber, who recently submitted a proposal to the federal government for a study that would collect data proving the shipping season is growing longer.

“We can produce a scientific case for what is actually happening in Hudson Bay,” said Barber.

During the past 30 years, the average temperature in the region has increased 1.5 C and it’s likely to rise a further 8° to 12° by the end of this century, he said.

While this would extend the shipping season even further, it would not be good news for the planet, said Barber, who also spoke about “polar amplification.” The Arctic permafrost contains vast quantities of methane — a greenhouse gas 100 times more potent than carbon dioxide — and its release could see the rate of global warming increase exponentially in as little as a decade, he said.

“This is an experiment that we should not be conducting because the consequences for our habitat — for us — would be enormous,” said Barber.

“We’re playing with the climate of our entire planet.” daniel.winters@fbcpublishing.com

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Spring seeding is in full flow in western Europe with a sharp rise in area expected in Britain after wet weather wrecked autumn plantings, but a significant drop is anticipated in Germany due to much more favourable conditions.

In France, the EU’s top grain producer, conditions were generally satisfactory, with mild, dry weather in early March helping spring barley sowing accelerate and providing relief for winter crops after a very wet February.

Britain is expected to see a major shift towards

spring cropping as many farmers were unable to plant crops last autumn due to extremely wet conditions.

Barley, Britain’s most important spring-sown crop, is expected to rise by about one-third with the area of winter wheat down sharply.

In Germany the outlook for winter crops is much more favourable, with a low level of frost damage which should limit spring plantings.

Spring grain sowings are expected to be sharply reduced this year based on seed sales and the low level of frost damage to winter grains so far — a reversal of what happened last year when frost damage caused the replanting of large areas sown to winter grains.

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Winemakers seek tax changes to boost their sales

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Seed-applied nutrients – also called “nutritional seed treatments” – coat the seed with a nutritional package, giving crops a vigorous start and their best chance at a strong yield.

“We are excited to be able to provide cereal growers with an innovative tool to help enhance the early plant growth of their crops,” says Eric Gregory, product manager for Loveland Products Canada. Gregory and his team launched the first liquid seed-applied nutrient to be registered in Canada.

Awaken ST was available to growers for the first time last year with great results reported in wheat, oat and barley fields across the prairies.

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The result is increased emergence, stand uniformity, stress tolerance, and root and shoot growth as well as reduced time to maturity, which can all boost yield potential.

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inemakers in this country are looking for some government help in their battle to gain market share.

In countries such as Australia and the U.S., domestic wines capture the lion’s share of the market — but winemakers here have only a 30 per cent share, industry officials told the House of Commons agriculture committee.

The government could help make domestic wines more competitive through an excise tax exemption for the Canadian grape content in international and Canadian blended wines, said Murray Marshall, of Diamond Estate Wines & Spirits and a board member of the Winery and Grower Alliance of Ontario.

“This is the largest segment of the wine sales in the marketplace, representing 73 per cent of all Ontario wines sales,” said Marshall.

“Trust me, even a one per cent or two per cent change in market share has real significance in terms of the growth of our industry,” added Patrick Gedge, the alliance’s president and CEO. Marshall also called for “a specific initiative or allocation that supports the domestic marketing and new product development of Canadian wines.

“Wineries make significant investments in the development and launching of new products each year in order to be competitive,” he argued.

“This should be encouraged through government programming so that constant private-sector innovation is recognized.

Together we can leverage the economic ability of our industry to produce new jobs and new revenue to government.”

He also said Ottawa shouldn’t undermine the industry’s struggle to remain competitive through deregulation of container sizes, which it controversially proposed in the 2012 budget.

Removing standard container size regulations would allow foreign suppliers to flood the Canadian market, Marshall said.

“Our biggest vulnerability with such a change is our bag-in-a-box products,” he said. “Today, that represents 31 million litres of sales each year.

The economic impact of these sales is some $688 million to the Canadian economy.”

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Spraying off label reduces yield and costs farmers money A survey is showing the prevalence of off-label use is increasing year over year monsanto release

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ur vey work conducted in 2012 by Stratus AgriMarketing Inc. for Mons a n t o C a n a d a s h ow s t h e farmer practice of spraying off label is becoming more common.

The Stratus research results — compiled from online surveys with over 1,700 farmers — confirm 45 per cent of farmers sprayed above label rates, up eight percentage points from 2011. The survey findings also showed that 30 per cent of farmers sprayed after the six-leaf stage, as well as spraying above label rates, up four percentage points from 2011 results.

After reviewing all the information, Monsanto Canada’s technology development team conducted field trials to test potential crop injury from spraying Genuity Roundup Ready canola off label. The results provide valuable information for farmers about the negative impact this practice has on their yields.

“Over a two-year period and 53 data points, our research confirmed that farmers are losing three bu./acre or more in yield by spraying Genuity Roundup Ready canola above recommended rates or outside the application window,(2)” said David Kelner, canola technical lead with Monsanto Canada based in Winnipeg. “ The symptoms of injury are very subtle and not easy to diagnose so most farmers probably don’t even realize there is a significant financial impact because their crop doesn’t show any obvious signs of injury.”

Over the past several years, the retail price of glyphosate has dropped significantly.

While most farmers will agree that’s a good thing, the price decrease is actually making it more affordable for farmers to spray higher rates of glyphosate on their Genuity Roundup Ready canola in an attempt to enhance weed control on their farms.

T h e re c o m m e n d e d l a b e l r a t e o f a Ro u n d u p b ra n d agricultural herbicide over the top of Genuity Roundup Ready canola is either two applications of 0.33 litres/ acre or one application of 0.5 litres/acre applied at the zeroto six-leaf stage.

Jesse Hamonic, canola t ra i t m a r k e t i n g l e a d w i t h Monsanto Canada, acknowledges that farmers encounter stressful weather conditions and tough-to-control weeds every year, making the decisions around spraying difficult. By sharing the Stratus survey results and the Monsanto field trial research, he’s hoping to help farmers make better spraying decisions that will put more dollars in their pockets.

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Strong flax prices may not encourage acres this spring Flax prices must maintain a premium over canola in order to attract production

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alues for new-crop flax across Western Canada are strong, but that may not result in more acres this spring.

According to Prairie Ag Ho t w i re, n e w - c r o p v a l u e s ra n g e d f ro m $13.75 to $14.50 per bushel as of April 4, 2013. Old-crop prices across Western Canada were reported as being around $14 to $16.50 per bushel.

“A lot of guys will tell you that $14 to $15 per bushel on flax is still a good price, but the yield was so terrible last year that they have gotten discouraged,” said Paul Martens, of Prairie Flax Products in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

Martens noted that the decision to grow flax this spring will also be dependent on what other commodity prices are doing at planting time.

“Typically most producers like to see at least a $1-perbushel premium on flax over canola,” he said.

Flax is less expensive to grow than canola is, but the premium is needed to make up for poorer flax yields.

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As of April 4, flax prices didn’t hold a strong enough premium over canola to encourage acres, but if canola prices crash, some additional flax interest could be created.

Flax is also seeing big competition from soybeans in parts of eastern Manitoba, because soybeans hold up better in adverse weather conditions.

Excessive snow cover and below-normal temperatures could mean delayed planting this spring because of the wet weather, and though flax is one of the crops that can be

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planted later, seasoned growers like to get it in early to avoid frost problems in the fall.

“A lot of guys are dropping their flax acres in favour of the soybeans,” said Martens.

“Soy b e a n s a re o n e o f t h e crops that will suck it up if there’s a lot of moisture, and if it starts to get dry, they’ll still be OK.” Another determining factor will be what kind of crops are planted in the U.S. and other parts of the world this year, as well as weather in the U.S. — as that will drive commodity prices.

he Avery 12-horsepower tractor was nothing if not versatile.

The combination truck/ tractor could carry 3,000 p o u n d s i n t r u c k m o d e, and pull a three-bottom plow in the field. When fitted with a belt pulley on its front, it could power a 22-inch cylinder threshing machine, a circular saw, or water pump.

But with a price tag of $2,500 — a fortune a century ago — not many farmers could afford the m u l t i - t a s k i n g m a c h i n e.

But they attracted a lot of interest and one of them was awarded a gold medal in its class in the motor

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The accompanying picture shows the Avery being put through its paces via t h e d e P r o n y B r a k e, a belt-driven dynamometer which measured horsepower and variations in belt pulley speed. The solid rubber tires on the machine were perforated and studded with replaceable hardwood plugs.

While the Manitoba Agr icultural Museum d o e s n’t h a v e a n Av e r y 12-horsepower tractor, it is home to a number of rare machines. For more information, visit ag-museum. mb.ca.

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

Rugs elevate bygone Prairie symbol An exhibit of exquisite hooked art rugs by the Heritage Rug Hookers of Saskatoon on six-community tour of Manitoba

Brenda Major, director of the Golden Prairie Arts Council at Carman (l) and Debbie Watt, a board member with GPAC, look at the newly hung display of art rugs in the Heritage Rug Hookers’ exhibit Vanishing Prairie Landmarks. photos: lorraine stevenson

By Lorraine Stevenson co-operator staff

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n art exhibit of the gonebut-not-forgotten Prairie grain elevator is helping revive a once common craft of Prairie homemakers, too.

A collection of 40 hooked rugs, each depicting a grain elevator, is now on display in Carman.

The collection — which has been displayed at about 20 galleries in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and, most recently Virden since 2010 — is the brainchild of Rita Smith of the Heritage Rug Hookers of Saskatoon.

Although most of the iconic e l e va t o r s t h a t d o t t e d t h e Prairies are gone, they continue to hold a special place in the hearts and minds of westerners,

Smith said from her home in Borden, Sask.

“Every town had one. We were on this big, flat, old Prairie, but looming in the distance you’d see an elevator and it told you that there would be people and food and home and those wonderful, comforting things,” she said.

Likewise, every farmhouse once had hooked rugs. To make one was once “a craft of necessity,” says Smith, whereby frugal homemakers used remnants of no-longer-wearable clothes and other fabric to create these things of beauty and comfort for their homes.

Rug hooking might have gone the way of wooden grain elevators but is enjoying a revival as an art form, she said.

“There is a renewed interest. I think it has gone the same

This work of art by Judy Trefry of Manitoba depicts the former Manitoba Pool Elevator at Beausejour. It was still standing when Trefry was creating her rug.

It was demolished in September 2012.

route as quilts,” said Smith.

“Quilts were beautiful and functional, but then they became art quilts.”

Almost all the rugs on display were made expressly for the exhibit by contributors from the Prairie provinces as well as Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and B.C. Many live nowhere near the sites of the elevators they depict, yet included warm and personal recollections of them.

Two of the rugs in the exhibit are on loan from the family of the late Velma Daws whose rugs depict elevators at Oberon and Ingelow in the RM of North Cypress.

A rug depicting the former Manitoba Pool Elevator at Beausejour, was created by another Manitoban, Judy Trefry.

It was still standing when Trefry was making her rug, describing how the Beausejour elevator was “visible miles away” and “in the evening you can see the sun gleaming off the silver walls.”

The elevator, demolished in the fall of 2012, is one of thousands that have disappeared in the past two decades.

They may be gone but they’re not forgotten by visitors to the exhibit, said Brenda Major, director of the Golden Prairie Arts Council in Carman.

“People say, ‘I recognize that elevator,’ or, ‘I used to live in that town,’” said Major.

Another council board member, Carman-area artist Debbie Watt, said she appreciates not just the beauty of the rugs but the effort it took to create them.

Watt said she’s hooking a rug right now, but joked that “I don’t know if I’ll ever finish it.”

Their makers also designed the rugs.

“Some are adapted from photographs, but are original designs,” said Smith.

Hooked rugs of yesteryear were made from feedbags, scraps of clothing not good enough for quilting and burlap sacks. The rugs in this exhibit are made from mostly handdyed wool flannel, but rug hookers still use recycled materials, said Smith.

It’s an inexpensive hobby because all you need is a hook, material for backing, and virtually any type of fibre, she said.

“If you can cut it, you can use it,” she said, noting rugs are now made from strips of T-shirts, pantyhose and polar fleece.

The Rug Hookers of Saskatoon hosts an annual fall rug hooking school, and attendance is not only growing but attracting a wide range of ages — although only one gender.

“We’re a group of women.

Unfortunately, no men,” said Smith.

“Grain Elevators: Vanishing Prairie Landmarks” will be on exhibit at the Carman Art Gallery until the end of April.

In May, it will move to the Tiger Hills Arts Association Gallery at Holland, followed by visits to Neepawa in June (the Manawaka Galler y in the Viscount Cultural Centre for the Arts), McCreary in August (hosted by the Burrows

Trail Arts Council at the local library), and in Boissevain (from November to January at the 1894 Arts Centre).

They thought the exhibit might wrap up after that, said Smith, but the Royal Alberta Ga l l e r y i n Ed m o n t o n h a s requested it for display in the spring and summer of 2014.

The Rug Hookers have compiled a list of comments from those who have seen it and they’ve been really touched by them, said Smith.

“It means as much to men as it does to women,” she said. “It’s had a wonderful reception.” lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

Grain Elevators: Vanishing Prairie Landmarks “They are to the Prairies what pyramids are to Egypt, what windmills are to the Netherlands and what lighthouses are to coastal regions.

Their mystique goes far beyond their sole function as a grain storage building. Grain elevators are a metaphor for a way of life.

They symbolize our agricultural heritage, which is the lifeblood of the Prairies.”

Source: Heritage Rug Hookers of Saskatoon

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Sugaring season begins in Manitoba Corn And Butternut Squash Soup With Maple Syrup Lorraine Stevenson

3 tbsp. vegetable oil 1 medium butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cubed 1 onion, sliced thin 2 celery stalks, cubed 3 garlic cloves 3 tbsp. fresh ginger, chopped 1/2 c. maple syrup 4 c. chicken stock (or vegetable stock) 2 c. frozen corn Salt and pepper to taste 1/2 c. sour cream Chives, to taste

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t’s still a snowy, ice-clad world out there, but have you noticed how bright the days are getting? The glare off the snow is dazzling. The trees notice it too.

Gnarly Manitoba maple trees are gurgling and gushing with sap as they wake up to increasing warmth and sunlight of an ever-so-slowly advancing spring.

I’m actually quite surprised how many still don’t know our native maple tree (Acer negundo) is a prolific sugar-maker, much like its eastern cousin, the sugar maple (Acer saccharum).

In fact, many Manitobans tap their trees in spring for their abundant sap, which produces one of the sweetest syrups going. Many do it as a hobby. A few produce enough that they sell their maple syrup products.

Maple tapping is so popular around McCreary that an emerging cottage industry has developed, complete with a spring festival to celebrate the sugaring season.

On Saturday, April 13 McCreary hopes visitors will drop in to learn more about their early-spring harvest in full swing, and the delicious, locally made sweet treats being produced from it. If you go, you can take a wagon ride tour through a maple bush and learn more about syrupproducing woodlots from producers such as Bob Gas and Albert Thompson.

There are treasure hunts and taffy on snow to enjoy, and you can learn to dance a traditional Métis dance form in a workshop with the Manitoba dance troupe, the Asham Stompers. There’s even a maple-themed art exhibit hosted by the Burrows Trail Arts Council. If you’d like more information please call ahead to the McCreary Recreation Office (204 835-2673).

McCreary’s festival is actually a second regional festival built around the delectable maple sugar in Manitoba.

For years, St. Pierre-Jolys has also celebrated local production of maple syrup with its own ‘Sugaring Off’ festival.

Theirs flows over two days April 13 and 14. You can learn more about it online at www.museestpierrejolys.ca/sugaringoff. html.

You can visit a sugar shack at both locations to see how sap is boiled down to syrup.

So, if you’re wondering — does Manitoba maple syrup taste different, or sweeter, or better than syrup of Ontario or Quebec? You be the judge. I’ll just say, as a sign that spring, at last, is surely arriving, that first lick of Manitoba maple syrup is a very sweet treat indeed.

Here are three recipes courtesy of Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec. You can find many more recipes from the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers at http://ilovem aple.ca/recipes/types-of-dishes.

In a large saucepan over high heat, sauté the squash, onion, celery, garlic, ginger and maple syrup for about six minutes. Add the chicken broth, bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and simmer five minutes. Purée the soup in a blender until creamy. (If the mixture is too thick, add some broth or water.) Return to the pot. Add the corn, salt and pepper and cook over medium heat five minutes.

To serve, garnish with sour cream and chives.

While most people associate maple syrup with Quebec, the Manitoba maple is a sugar producer too. PHOTO: REUTERS

Maple Energy Squares These squares make an excellent snack, whether in the afternoon in preparation for an end-of-day workout, after you’ve finished your workout, or to pack for a long hike or bike ride.

They provide complex carbohydrates, protein, fibre, vitamins and minerals — all vital nutrients for an active person!

1/2 c. quick-cooking oatmeal 1/2 c. skim milk powder 1/2 c. roasted sunflower seeds 1/3 c. all-purpose flour 2/3 c. pure maple syrup 2 large eggs 1/2 c. dried cranberries 1/2 c. dried apricots, chopped 1/2 c. sliced almonds 1/2 c. coconut flakes

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Spray a 9x9-inch baking pan with cooking spray or brush with vegetable oil. In a food processor, combine the oatmeal, skim milk, sunflower seeds, flour, maple syrup and eggs. Process until the mixture is almost smooth, about 10 seconds. Stir in cranberries, apricots and almonds. Pour into the prepared dish. Sprinkle with coconut.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until the edges are golden and the centre is set.

Makes 16 squares.

Source: Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec

Source: Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec

Green Salad With Maple Vinaigrette 2 endives 1 lettuce (loose leaf or romaine) 1 apple 1 red onion, sliced in rings 1 or 2 mandarin oranges 1/2 c. yellow or red pepper, chopped 1/4 c. cashew nuts, whole 3 tbsp. raisins 2 tbsp. lemon juice

Vinaigrette: 4 tsp. cider vinegar 3 tbsp. vegetable oil 2 tbsp. maple syrup 1/2 tsp. Dijon mustard Salt and pepper, to taste

Wash and dry lettuce. Removes endive leaves and set aside. Halve the apple, remove the core and slice. Mix the apple slices with raisins and lemon juice. Add segments of the peeled mandarin oranges, lettuce, endive leaves, onion rings, yellow or red pepper and cashew nuts.

Sprinkle with the maple vinaigrette and serve.

To make Vinaigrette: Mix salt, pepper and mustard. Add vinegar and mix well to dissolve the salt. Add oil and maple syrup. Store in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Serves 4.

Source: Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec

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ose Jackson placed a bookmark carefully between the pages of her book, then laid the book down on the end table as she curled her legs underneath herself on the couch and leaned up against Andrew, who was stretched out, legs resting on the old tapestry-covered ottoman, reading a section of the Saturday paper. A rare, quiet Sunday afternoon. Rose gazed out of the window across the room where she could just see a pair of Canada geese struggling to make headway against a strong, cold north wind, the lead goose flapping in determined silence while the other followed noisily, its incessant honking audible right through the glass.

Rose snuggled up against her husband. “I know exactly what that goose is saying,” she said.

Andrew looked up. “Huh?” he said. “What goose?” He looked out of the window just as the geese finally disappeared from sight. “Oh,” he said. “Really? You speak goose?”

Rose chuckled. “Apparently I do,” she said. “I could tell by the tone of the honking. She was not a happy goose. ‘I told you it was too early to go north,’ she was saying, ‘but did you listen? Oh no, of course not. You just followed your infernal gander instincts instead of looking at the fact that EVERYTHING WAS STILL FROZEN and away you went and now here we are in the middle of a bloody snowstorm, and the only open water we’ve seen in two weeks was a water main break in Fargo, North Dakota! And God only knows where we are, because there’s no way to tell when the rivers are all still COVERED WITH SNOW!’” Rose shifted to look up at Andrew.

“That’s what she was saying,” she said, “and you know it’s true.”

Andrew pondered that for moment. “Well, I know what the gander was thinking,” he said.

“Do you now?” said Rose. “You have EGSP, do you?”

“EGSP?” said Andrew. “What’s that?”

“Extra goose-sensory perception, obviously,” said Rose.

“I don’t need EGSP to know what he was thinking,” said Andrew. “He was thinking, ‘seriously?

The

Jacksons

BY ROLLIN PENNER

We geese mate for life? Well thank God it’s not a very long life. Maybe if I just keep flapping into this blizzard I can shorten it even more.

And I am NOT LOST. At least I don’t think so. I mean you can’t be sure you’re lost if you don’t know where you are. And I have no idea where we are.’” Andrew folded his paper. “That’s what that gander was thinking,” he said, “and you know it’s true.”

“It IS true,” said Rose. She was silent for a moment. “Do you think we might be descended from geese?” she said.

Andrew raised an eyebrow. “That would explain the urge I get every October to flap my

arms like a maniac and run off as fast as I can in a southerly direction. An urge I might add, that I feel less inclined to fight every year that goes by.”

“Exactly what I was thinking,” said Rose, “although I was thinking more about the whole ‘how do you know you’re lost if you don’t know where you are’ thing. Because that’s just an eerily human thing to say, don’t you think?”

“You mean eerily man-like,” said Andrew.

“Well, yeah,” said Rose.

“It is very man-like,” said Andrew. “But on the other hand, we could be getting the whole thing all wrong. I mean we don’t even know which was actually leading. Maybe it was the goose that was leading and the gander was shouting encouragement from the rear. Maybe he was saying ‘you GO girl! Keep flapping baby! A little blizzard never hurt anyone and I trust your instincts implicitly my dear even though it’s a little hard to see where we’re going! Because your instincts have never let us down! Except for that one time when we crashed into the CanWest building because you thought it was a lake… but I’m not counting that honey because with all the windows and whatnot, it DID look a little like a lake… so let’s just keep heading north baby because you are ALWAYS right!’”

Rose thought about that for a second. “You could be right,” she said. “Birds crash into the CanWest building all the time.”

There was a long pause while the two of them continued to gaze out the window.

“It’s ridiculous,” said Andrew.

“I would like to know who’s to blame,” said Rose.

“I blame our ancestors,” said Andrew. “They could have gone anywhere in the world and they chose to come here.”

Rose sighed. “We do this every year,” said Rose. “We revile our ancestors in April and then we forgive them in June.”

“Will we ever worship them, do you think?” said Andrew.

“It’ll be a hot day in January if we do,” said Rose. “So, no. Not a chance.”

Starting slips and cuttings A quick and inexpensive way to propagate plants

By Albert Parsons FREELANCE CONTIBUTOR

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ost plants used in our outdoor gardens are grown from seed, and in many cases, these seeds are planted indoors in early spring to produce good-size seedlings by planting-out time. There are many plants, however, which are grown from cuttings (or what some gardeners refer to as slips) rather than seeds. It may be that the plants are hybrids, which will not come true from seed, or they may indeed be sterile.

For the home gardener, slips are often a quick and inexpensive way to propagate favourite plants.

The parent plants that have been sitting on the windowsill throughout the winter are, by late winter, becoming tall and overgrown.

They need to be cut back so that the plants will not be overly tall and floppy when the time comes to plant them outdoors. From the process of cutting back these plants, a pile of plant pieces (slips) results, and many gardeners cannot bear to throw them out so they become cuttings used for propagation.

Whether it is geraniums, ivies of all types, streptocarpella, fibrous begonias, tradescantia, or

some of the various members of the Swedish ivy family, these cuttings can be planted to produce new plants for the outdoor garden. The best cuttings are terminal shoots that are about 15 cm long, although this recommendation can vary depending on the plant. Most slips will benefit from being left exposed to the air for a few hours to allow the cuts to callous over somewhat before they are planted. Be careful doing this, however, as you don’t want the slips to wilt and collapse. If you see them beginning to wilt, plant them immediately.

Prevent pathogens from attacking the slips while they are rooting by using a sterile planting medium and sanitized tools, and be careful not to cross-contaminate. After the slips are planted in the sterile planting mix, provide the container with warm temperatures and bright, indirect light. Don’t place the container in direct sun as the slips will not be able to withstand its strong rays.

Enclosing the container inside a plastic bag reduces dehydration but increases the possibility of rot by increasing the humidity levels around the slips. Keep the planting medium damp but not overly wet and do not fertilize.

A light garden is an ideal loca-

tion for the container of slips as the fluorescent tubes provide both bright light and adequate heat. A windowsill might not be the best location since the planting medium may become chilled in such a cool location. The rooting process takes anywhere from a couple of weeks to over a month, depending on the plant.

Some plants, such as coleus, German ivy and tradescantia, will root readily in water and need not be planted in a planting medium.

Some people have success rooting other plants, such as geraniums, in water, but I have better luck using a soilless mix.

To determine if roots have formed, slip the whole root ball out of the container to see if roots are visible. Generally, if you tug gently on a slip and it won’t budge, then it is rooted. The rooted cuttings can then be potted individually and grown on until you are ready to use them.

Feed and water the plants regularly and give each kind of plant the appropriate amount of light.

The slips you took earlier will have provided you with a wealth of new plants to use in your outdoor garden.

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba.

Slips of streptocarpella and tradescantia, taken from parent plants (at top), wait to be planted in pots of soilless mix. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

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Hamiota woman rides in India Sole representative from Canada participates in endurance ride

By Darrell Nesbitt Freelance contributor

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xcited to be the sole rider to represent Canada, Prue Critchley shared her passion for endurance riding on India soil this year.

Critchley, who lives between Ha m i o t a a n d S h o a l L a k e with her husband Andrew, received an official invitation to participate in the Himalayan Endurance Ride competition from the Equestrian Federation of India. “Despite being at very short notice, I made the trip,” said Critchley. “We (myself and crew/groom member, Candace Oakes of Lyalta, Alta.) frantically collected donations for our flights to India, as based on the time frame we didn’t have time to save up.”

Cr i t c h l e y s a i d w h i l e a l l expenses between Jan. 31

and Feb. 3 were kindly covered by the Indian Equestrian Federation — which in itself was a huge bonus to participants — flights weren’t included.

Since becoming involved in endurance riding in 1989, Critchley has competed in a number of events of varying distances. The international championship in India is a 60-km competition — taking in account the loops are a distance of 3x20 km.

Endurance riding is an equestrian sport based on controlled long-distance races and the terrain can be varied and challenging. In India, all international riders rode leased horses supplied by the Assam Equestrian Federation.

“The ride was very exciting,” said Critchley. “It was held in the northeast part of the coun-

try with a backdrop of the Himalayas! The r ide went through tea plantations and along the Brahmaputra River.”

The first edition of the Eastern Himalayan Ride, an International Endurance meet, was flagged off by Dr. T.R. Barbora, pr incipal of Assam Medical College in 2010. Assam is under the aegis of Equestrian Federation of India, with participation from five nations — U.S., Argentina, Switzerland, U.K. and India.

The ride was developed to promote equestrian sports in general and endurance riding in particular in the northeast or the eastern Himalayan subregion of India.

Critchley was one of seven international riders.

Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake, Manitoba

Prue Critchley of Hamiota began endurance riding in 1989, and competition has included the Canadian National Championships and Pan Am Games.

PHOTO: COURTESY

Try rosemary to boost flavour Add flavour without adding calories or sodium

By Julie Garden-Robinson NDSU Extension Service

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osemary has been used widely in Mediterranean cuisine, but it can be added to a variety of foods, including various meats, fish, eggs, breads, soups and vegetables such as potatoes. Herbs such as rosemary add flavour without adding calories or sodium. It can be used fresh or dried, and in general, use about one-half as much dried as fresh.

Rosemary has been used in weddings, funerals and other

ceremonies throughout the ages, and its lemony, pine-like aroma has been used to add fragrance to lotions. Although little research is available to prove its effectiveness, rosemary has a long history of use in complementary medicine.

For example, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center, rosemary extracts have been used in complementary medicine to ease muscle and joint aches and treat alopecia (patchy baldness). The leaves have been used to treat indigestion.

M o r e r e c e n t l y, s o m e

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research has been conducted to explore the role of the rosemary scent in memory. The participants in the study didn’t eat the rosemary; they simply smelled the aroma of rosemary oil in various concentrations as they worked.

One group of researchers identified a chemical compound in rosemary that may enter the bloodstream through the lining of the nasal passages or lungs. They noted improvements in overall mental performance. The researchers proposed that a rosemary compound may prevent the

breakdown of a chemical in our nervous system needed for brain function.

However, intriguing as these results are, a study or two doesn’t prove that rosemary aroma helps our memory.

Scientists note some precautions with the medicinal use of rosemary. Although rosemary supplements are available, their safety and effectiveness have not been well studied, and they may have interactions with prescription medications. Some people may have allergic reactions to rosemary, and high

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doses of rosemary supplements are linked to miscarriage. Be sure to visit with a medical professional before taking supplements.

Try some rosemary in your cooking, though. You can create some memorable meals with a delicious aroma by adding some rosemary and other herbs to your recipes.

Julie Garden-Robinson, PhD, R.D., L.R.D., is a North Dakota State University Extension Service food and nutrition specialist and professor in the department of health, nutrition and exercise sciences.

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By Eva Krawchuk Freelance contributor

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he colours, textures and designs of fabric allow you to get creative, and even the smaller pieces are useful. Recently, a friend brought me a large bagful of remnants of the most delightful designs, one being plastic bandages! I was

able to make three bags in different sizes from the piece.

Now the first sick friend or relative will get a little gift “wrapped” in one of these.

All the really small remnants are passed along to a friend with a passion for quilting.

Eva Krawchuk writes from Winnipeg

I’d love to hear from you.

Please remember we can no longer return material, articles, poems or pictures.

– Sue

A male wild grey partridge in the Belmont, Manitoba area. PHOTO: LILLIAN DEEDMAN

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Foreign demand for beef, soybeans adds pressure on Amazon forest A study links consumers to environmental impact on Brazil, saying foreign demand accounts for 30 per cent of deforestation

By Alister Doyle oslo / reuters

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ising foreign demand for beef and soybeans will tempt Brazil to clear more of the Amazon rainforest, in a reversal of recent success in slowing forest losses, a study said April 4.

About 30 per cent of defore s t a t i o n i n Brazil in the decade to 2010 was due to farmers and ranchers seeking land to expand export production of beef and soybeans, against about 20 per cent in the 1990s, the report said.

“Trade is emerging as a key driver of deforestation in Brazil,” according to experts at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo (Cicero).

“This may indirectly contribute to loss of the forests that industr ialized countr ies are seeking to protect through international agreements,” they wrote in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

Exports of beef and soybeans accounted for 2.7 b i l l i o n t o n n es of carbon emissions caused by Brazil’s deforestation in the decade to 2010, the report said.

That exceeds greenhouse gas emissions of a nation such as Egypt over the same period.

Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon region fell 27 per cent to 4,656 square kilometres (1,798 square miles) between August 2011 and July 2012 from the same period a year earlier, the Brazilian Environment Ministry said in November.

An aerial photograph shows the construction site of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam at Pimental, near Altamira in Para State. After years of gains against destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil appears to be suffering from an increase in deforestation as farmers, loggers, miners and builders move into previously untouched woodland, according to newly compiled data. Photo: REUTERS/Stian Bergeland/Rainforest Foundation Norway

That was the lowest since monitoring began in 1988.

Brazil’s so-called Legal Amazon covers 5.2 million square kilometres.

But growing foreign demand and the Brazilian government’s eagerness for economic growth meant continued falls in the rate of forest loss were unlikely without new measures to safeguard forests, the report said.

Worldwide, deforestation accounts for up to a fifth

o f g re e n h o u s e g a s e m i ssions from human sources, according to UN estimates.

Trees soak up carbon dioxide as they grow and release it when they burn or rot.

Under UN climate change rules, greenhouse gas emissions count as those within national boundaries. Suggestions of shifting responsibility to consumers, for instance foreign buyers of Brazil’s beef, are often dismissed as too complicated.

“It’s been a bugbear in the forest sector,” said Duncan Macqueen, a forest researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development in Edinburgh. “Consumers ask, ‘Why should we suffer the cost of reforming the system?’” he said.

So m e s c h e m e s s e e k t o certify forest production as coming from a source that does not involve illegal logging. But these have drawbacks since the costs of

audits can be prohibitive for small producers, he said.

The Cicero study suggested better labelling or information about imports to guide consumers.

The study did not try to compare the environmental impact of Brazil’s beef or soybean production with that of other nations to see where production was least damaging. “Similar analyses still have to be done,” lead author Jonas Karstensen told Reuters.

Horsemeat scandal buoys U.K. organic sales after 2012 dip Consumers are turning to organic products as a guarantee of integrity after meat products were mislabelled london / reuters

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ales of organic products in Britain continued to decline last year in contrast to continental Europe but the horsemeat scandal has sparked a revival, the country’s main organic certification body, the Soil Association, said March 20.

“In the worst economic downturn in living memory, it’s not surprising to find subdued sales of a wide variety of goods and services — and the U.K. organic sector is not immune to these,” business development director Jim Twine said.

Sales dipped 1.5 per cent in 2012 to 1.64 billion pounds ($2.48 billion), continuing a downward

trend linked to Britain’s prolonged economic downturn. Sales fell 3.7 per cent in 2011.

The Soil Association, in its annual report, said European sales of organic products had, in contrast, risen 25 per cent since the start of the global economic downturn in 2008.

“Our government has much to learn from its European counterparts who back the organic sector strongly through a combination of environmentally based producer support, firm targets for publicsector procurement of organic and investment in promoting organic products,” the report said.

The Soil Association said, however, the horsemeat scandal had a positive impact with recent fig-

ures from market research firm Kantar Worldpanel showing total supermarket organic sales rose 8.4 per cent in February versus January.

“Total supermarket organic sales increased to their highest level in nine months indicating consumers choosing to buy organic as a guarantee of integrity,” the association said.

Europe’s horsemeat scandal erupted in January, when testing in Ireland revealed that some beef products also contained equine DNA. It has since spread across the continent, ensnaring numerous well-known brands, prompting product withdrawals, consumer concerns and government investigations into the

region’s complex food-processing chains.

The report said U.K. organic farmers had a challenging year, in common with their non-organic counterparts, with high feed and fuel prices compounding the impact of the worst weather conditions for many years.

In July 2012, the U.K.’s organic land was reported to be 656,000 hectares, down 8.7 per cent from a year earlier and now representing 3.8 per cent of the country’s agricultural area.

“There is a real risk that if retailers do not work with U.K. organic farmers and growers, the market could become restricted due to supply shortages,” Twine said.

“There is a real risk that if retailers do not work with U.K. organic farmers and growers, the market could become restricted due to supply shortages.”

Jim Twine

Soil Association

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China readies to fight new bird flu As the death toll rises, countries are stepping up vigilance to keep the virus from spreading SHANGHAI/HONG KONG / REUTERS

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hinese authorities slaughtered over 20,000 birds at a poultry market in Shanghai April 5 as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mounted to six, spreading concern overseas and sparking a sell-off in airline shares in Europe and Hong Kong.

The local government in Shanghai said the Huhuai market for live birds had been shut down and 20,536 birds had been culled after authorities detected the H7N9 virus from samples of pigeons in the market. Other live poultry markets in the city have also been closed.

The total number of reported infections nationwide was reported to be 18 as of April 7.

At least four of the dead are in Shanghai, a city of 23 million people and the showpiece of China’s vibrant economy.

Shanghai authorities stressed the H7N9 vir us remained responsive to the drug Tamiflu and those who were diagnosed early could be cured.

“We currently have enough reserves of Tamiflu to meet with the current outbreak,” Wu Fan, director of the Shanghai Center for Disease Control & Prevention, told a news conference.

Tamiflu is made by Roche Holding AG. Airline shares tumbled in European markets on fears the outbreak could become widespread.

In Shanghai, the rising death toll prompted some residents to stay away from markets with live chickens and ducks.

“I’m only getting my groceries

at the large supermarkets now because I don’t think it is safe to visit the wet markets anymore,” said 38-year-old Shao Linxia, adding she had also stopped buying poultry since news of the bird flu surfaced.

Shadow of SARS

The 2002-03 epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) started in China and killed about one-tenth of the 8,000 it infected.

Still, there were few signs of panic in Shanghai with shops remaining open, and the strain does not appear to be transmitted from human to human.

“We have 14 cases in a large geographical area, we have no sign of any epidemiological linkage between the confirmed cases and we have no sign of sustained human-to-human transmission,” said World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl before the two new cases were confirmed.

But Hong Kong authorities were taking extra precautions.

Additional staff would be deployed at immigration points to make random temperature checks of visitors in addition to the infrared full-body scanners already in place, Ko Wing-man, Hong Kong’s food and health secretary, told reporters.

Vietnam banned imports of Chinese poultry.

In Japan, airports have put up posters at entry points warning all passengers from China to seek medical attention if they have flu-like symptoms.

In the United States, the White House said it was monitoring the situation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

A market vendor places poultry into a plastic bag at a poultry market in Hefei, Anhui province. Chinese authorities reported a strain of bird flu previously unknown in humans that has already killed five. PHOTO: REUTERS/STRINGER

said it had started work on a vaccine if it was needed. It would take five to six months to begin commercial production.

Analyzing samples

The virus has been shared with WHO collaborating centres in Atlanta, Beijing, London, Melbourne and Tokyo, and these groups are analyzing samples to identify the best candidate to be used for the manufacture of vaccine — if it becomes necessary.

Any decision to mass produce vaccines against H7N9 flu will not be taken lightly, since it will mean sacrificing production of seasonal shots.

That could mean shortages of vaccine against the normal seasonal flu which, while not serious for most people, still costs thousands of lives.

Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s largest flu vaccine manufacturer, said it was in continuous contact with the WHO through the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), but it was too soon to know the significance of the Chinese cases.

Other leading flu vaccine makers include GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis.

Pre l i m i n a r y t e s t re s u l t s suggest the new flu strain

responds to treatment with Roche’s Tamiflu and GSK’s Relenza, according to the WHO. Experts said more needed to be done to determine the level of risk from the bird flu strain.

“H7s are viruses that mutate often so it could disappear as a result of mutation or it could become much more aggressive, so it is important to study every one of the viruses that we isolate in humans and in animals,” Alex Thiermann, special adviser to the World Animal Health Organization’s (OIE) director general, told Reuters.

German farmers balk at free trade with U.S. A deal with the U.S. would not open the way for hormone-treated meat or genetically modified foods

By Hans-Edzard Busemann BERLIN / REUTERS

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planned free trade agreement between the European Union and United States should not completely liberalize agricultural trade, the president of the association of German farmers’ association DBV said March 26.

Trade talks must involve upper limits to exports to prevent market

disruption, Joachim Rukwied told Reuters.

Brussels and Washington hope to start negotiations in June on a transatlantic free trade agreement which would encompass almost half the world’s economy, and are seeking as broad a deal as possible to deliver strong economic growth.

The negotiating mandate proposed by the European Commission, which has kept its contents secret, must be

approved by EU governments before the talks can start and agricultural trade is seen as a contentious issue.

Rukwied said he did not expect free trade to open the way for hormonetreated U.S. meat or genetically modified (GM) foods into Europe.

Germany has an agricultural trade deficit with the United States, the association calculates. Germany exported 1.5 billion euros ($1.93 billion) of agricultural products to the

U.S. in 2011 but in the same year imported 1.7 billion worth from the United States, the association said.

Rukwied said he sees export opportunities for German food such as dairy products and sausages to the United States.

The EU currently imports large volumes of feed grains from South America; whether these could be replaced by U.S.-origin cereals after the free trade agreement would depend on market price, he said.

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New line of genetically altered pigs improves phytase uptake The Enviropig produces less phosphorus in its waste

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research team at the University of Guelph has developed a new line of transgenic “Enviropigs.”

The new line of pigs is called the Cassie line, and it is known for passing genes on more reliably. The results of this project were published ahead of print in the Journal of Animal Science.

Enviropigs have genetically modified salivary glands, which help them digest phosphorus in feedstuffs and reduce phosphorus pollution in the environment. After developing the initial line of Enviropigs, researchers found that the line had certain genes that could be unstable during reproduction or impractical in commercial use.

Scientists at the University of Guelph created the Cassie line to address these problems. In their paper for the Journal of Animal Science, they explain that the Cassie line has the same ability to digest high levels of phosphorus in plant matter.

Phosphorus is crucial for healthy growth in pigs. Unfortunately, 50 to 70 per cent of the phosphorus in grain is in the form of phytic acid, a

compound indigestible by pigs. Because of this, many farmers have to supplement pig diets with an enzyme called phytase. Phytase breaks down phytic acid and helps pigs digest more of the nutrient. The phytase enzyme has a hefty price tag for farmers, and the enzyme can be accidentally damaged or destroyed when farmers mix feed.

The Enviropig was created to solve this problem. By digesting more phosphorus, the Enviropig also produces less phosphorus in its waste.

“The enzyme is secreted in the saliva and functions in a similar fashion to that of phytase included in the diet,” said Dr. Cecil Forsberg, professor emeritus, department of molecular and cell biology at the University of Guelph and co-author of the study.

Though no studies indicate a food safety risk from genetically modified Enviropig pork, meat from the Enviropig is not yet available for human c o n s u m p t i o n . Fo r s b e rg said using Enviropigs could improve food production and the environment.

“When transgenic food animals are accepted by consum-

The inspections were triggered by the ongoing horsemeat scandal COPENHAGEN / REUTERS

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The transgenic pig named the Enviropig synthesizes phytase in its salivary glands, eliminating the need for additional supplements or enzymes in the feed. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK.COM

ers, the Enviropig perhaps would be one of the first innovations to be introduced into swine production,” said Forsberg. “We have demonstrated that the gene can be transferred by breeding through many generations in a stable

fashion. Furthermore, the pigs are healthy.”

Research on the Cassie line stopped in June 2012, but researchers collected semen from the pigs, and they have the option to breed new Enviropigs.

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Polish entrepreneur offloads agricultural holdings WARSAW / REUTERS / Zbigniew Komorowski, one of Poland’s richest men who built a fortune from grain and dairy markets after Poland’s democratic transition in 1989, is selling

Danish inspectors find pork in beef kebabs

most of his agricultural holdings in a disposal that could be worth up to 1.1 billion zlotys ($337 million), people familiar with the plans said.

Komorowski wants to cash out of the country’s biggest rapeseed oil producer Komagra, flour maker Polskie Mlyny and biofuel firm Bioagra Oil, the sources said.

Potential buyers of the assets, which some of the sources said could be sold separately, include foreign rivals, such as Glencore.

Komorowski will hold on to his dair y product maker Bakoma, which competes with much bigger international rivals such as Danone.

anish authorities said March 26 they discovered traces of pork in some meat sold as beef for kebabs during an inspection triggered by the recent horsemeat scandal, prompting demands by the country’s Muslim community for stricter inspection.

A spokesman for the Danish veterinary and food administration said pork traces were found in beef sold by supplier Anadolu Kod. “They told us meat was from some of their counterparts in Poland,” said Erik Jepsen, a spokesman for the Danish veterinary and food administration.

“It was part of an investigation that we made due to the horsemeat scandal. Meat from close to 100 companies was analyzed.”

The company was not immediately available for comment.

On its website, Anadolu Kod describes itself as a leading producer of Doner kebab meat in Denmark and Poland.

Danish newspaper Politiken, which earlier reported the discovery, said the Danish Halal Federation was now demanding more stringent controls.

The federation called for inspections to ensure meat labelled halal comes from animals slaughtered following religious rules and does not come into contact with pork.

Europe’s horsemeat scandal erupted in January, when testing in Ireland revealed some beef products also contained equine DNA. It has since spread across the continent, ensnaring numerous well-known brands, prompting product withdrawals, consumer concerns and government investigations into the region’s complex food-processing chains.

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Christodoulos A. Floudas, Xin Xiao and colleagues describe four scenarios for duckweed refineries that use proven existing technology to produce gasoline, diesel and kerosene. Those technologies include conversion of biomass to a gas; conversion of the gas to methanol and conversion of methanol to gasoline and other fuels. The results show that small-scale duckweed refineries could produce costcompetitive fuel when the price of oil reaches $100 per barrel. Oil would have to cost only about $72 per barrel for larger duckweed refiners to be cost competitive.

The authors say duckweed grows fast, thrives in waste water that has no other use, does not impact the food supply and can be harvested more easily than algae and other aquatic plants.

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moscow / reuters / Russia has found foot-and-mouth disease in the East Siberian region of Zabaikalsk, according to the country’s Veterinary and PhytoSanitary Surveillance Service.

The virus affected cattle and pigs at private farms, said spokesman Alexei Alekseenko.

“It was an Asian type of virus.

Now we are checking on how it got into Russia,” said Alekseenko.

The Zabaikalsk region borders China and Mongolia.

Foot-and-mouth disease was last discovered a year ago in the Primorsk region some 45 kilometres from the border with China.

The highly infectious and sometimes fatal disease cost South Korea $2.8 billion in 2010-11 when a nationwide outbreak forced the slaughter of 3.5 million animals, mostly hogs.

U.S. farmland stays hot - Illinois farm fetches $15,375 an acre chicago / reuters Demand for U.S. farmland remains strong this winter, with a central Illinois farm selling for $15,375 an acre, a record high for the area.

The 173-acre farm was auctioned last week in Champaign County — a top-yielding corn and soybean region in the centre of the U.S. Corn Belt.

“This is the first time in Champaign County we’ve seen a sale top $15,000 that didn’t have some development component associated with it,” said Joe Bubon, an official with a farm auction and real estate company.

“This was just a farm.”

The high bidder was a farmer, who ultimately sold part of the property to another farmer, part to an investor and kept the rest for himself, Bubon said.

“A lot of farmers have money in their pockets to spend,” he said. “Couple that with a historically low supply of farmland available — that drives the market up.”

Ritz fights COOL in Washington The U.S. proposal to address COOL is expected to make things worse for Canadians

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griculture Minister Gerry Ritz and representatives of the pork and beef sector were in Washington April 8 trying once more to convince the Obama administration to comply with a trade ruling against a protectionist U.S. labelling rule.

The World Trade Organization gave the U.S. until May 23 to end its discrimination against Canadian and Mexican livestock and meat or face retaliatory actions by its neighbours. The measure has cost Canadian beef and pork producers more than $5 billion in lost sales and lower prices since it was enacted in 2008.

The U.S. Agriculture Department has proposed a reworking of its country-of-origin labelling (COOL) scheme that neither Canada nor Mexico find acceptable.

Neither do mainstream U.S. farm or food industry groups.

However, a hodgepodge coalition of American agriculture, consumer and religious organizations has endorsed the proposal to make COOL more stringent in response to the WTO ruling.

“The only acceptable way to respond to the WTO challenge is to make labels more informative for consumers, not water them down,” the coalition says. The best-known member to Canadian farmers is R-Calf, a vociferous outfit that essentially wants to bar all imports.

The coalition says COOL allows “farmers and ranchers to take pride in their products and allow the American public to know the origins of their food and make more informed food-purchasing decisions.”

John Masswohl, vice-president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, says the coalition’s position “confirms our expectation that the protectionist groups who want to maintain the discrimination on imported livestock are not going to give up easily and it confirms our expectation that to overcome this opposition, Canada will have to prepare a solid retaliation strategy that includes tariffs on U.S. exports to Canada produced by groups like this or in areas represented by them.

“The USDA proposal is absurd in its claim to bring the U.S. into compliance with WTO obligations

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by making the labelling requirements even more onerous,” he added. “It will increase the discrimination that the WTO found was the root of the U.S. WTO violation.”

The U.S. proposal would move beyond saying whether meat was the product of Canada or the United States to where it was raised and slaughtered. That would do nothing to reduce the discrimination against imports and would saddle farmers and processors with ever-more administrative costs, which

would further increase the price discounts on imported meat and animals.

Comments on the proposed rule are due by April 11, and the deadline to comply with the WTO case is May 23. In theory, if the U.S. isn’t in compliance by that date, Canada and Mexico can impose retaliatory tariffs on any American imports.

Ritz says Canada is looking at products other than meat shipments because most U.S. farmers and processors have opposed COOL.

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Livestock origin a sticking point in Canada-EU trade talks The EU wants to know whether livestock slaughtered in Canada originated in Canada WINNIPEG / REUTERS

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ules on recognizing the origin of cattle and pigs slaughtered in Canada are one of the sticking points in free trade talks with the European Union, Canada’s chief agriculture negotiator said April 3.

Canada hopes to win greater access for its beef and pork in Europe, while the EU wants a foothold in Canada’s protected agriculture sectors, especially dairy.

Talks on a comprehensive deal are expected to finish this year, but one outstanding issue is on rules of origin, said Frederic Seppey, chief negotiator for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

The issue is whether the EU will give preferential access to all meat processed in Canada, given the strong integration of the North American livestock market. Canadian and U.S. farmers freely move livestock across the border to take advantage of the lowest feeding costs and highest slaughter prices.

The EU has not agreed that a l l m e a t s l a u g h t e re d a n d processed in Canada is considered of Canadian origin. It takes into consideration where the livestock was born and raised.

Canada’s position is that slaughtering and cutting up a cow or pig is a significant enough step that the end product should be recognized as Canadian, even if the animal was born or fattened to market weight in the United States, Seppey said.

once the United States and EU negotiate their own trade deal, but those talks are just beginning, nearly four years behind Canada-EU negotiations.

“We are within reach of an agreement, the final stages. It would be such a shame to not conclude,” Seppey said, adding that he expects the two sides to eventually find a solution on the livestock origin issue.

Other outstanding issues include access for pharmaceuticals and automobiles, he said.

Canada is the third-biggest pork shipper after the United States and European Union, and also the No. 6 exporter of

beef and veal. European Union countries are collectively the world’s third-biggest beef and veal producer and the secondlargest pork producer.

Canada is seeking to diversify its trade away from the United States, which currently takes 75 per cent of all Canadian exports, and the EU just over 10 per cent. Under an FTA, Canada-EU trade could increase by 20 per cent, Canada has said.

Total trade of agriculture and food products between Canada and the EU currently amounts to about $6.6 billion annually.

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U.S. forecasters wary of drought after missing 2012 surprise Meteorologists ignored atmospheric data that might have tipped them to the impending drought

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he U.S. drought of 2012, the worst since the dust bowl years of the 1930s, sent world food prices to record highs. The long, dry summer cost the government a record $16 billion in crop insurance payments. The Mississippi River shrank in the heat, and barge traffic slowed to a trickle.

And U.S. weather forecasters never saw it coming.

That’s why this year, as spring planting begins, meteorologists are adjusting forecasting techniques, trying to learn from what went wrong last summer and using 2012 weather data for what they hope will be an improved early alert system.

“The drought of 2012 was such a singularity, only repeated a few times in a century,” said Harvey Freese, a top private weather forecaster. “The temperature and precipitation departures were two standard deviations from normal. The year 1934 did begin to show up in our analog comparisons of past years, but we probably only dared to think about the possibility.”

Both forecasters and their customers say improvement is needed over what happened during the first half of 2012.

“People are calling it a ‘flash drought’ because it developed so suddenly,” Siegfried Schubert, a senior research scientist for NASA said, recalling the dry season that started last winter, persisted through the spring and summer, and now continues in the western Corn Belt and southern U.S. Plains. “I don’t think there were any models that predicted that.”

Well-established agricultural forecasting services like MDA EarthSat Weather, Commodity Weather Group, World Weather, Freese-Notis and others were caught by surprise. Commodity traders and grain analysts pay richly for forecasts that can be reliable as far as three months in advance, but none of the firms gave advance notice of last year’s drought during the winter or early spring.

Meteorologists rely on esoteric weather conditions to forecast long-term U.S. weather trends, such as the La Niña and El Niño phenomena tied to changes in southern Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures. A year ago, weather forecasters said the second-strongest La Niña in history

An underdeveloped cob of corn sits in a field at Wisconsin dairy farm in Sept. 2012. Forecasters now admit they didn’t see one of the most devastating droughts to hit the U.S. coming. PHOTO: REUTERS/DARREN HAUCK

faded in the winter of 2012 when sea surface temperatures began to warm.

Ignored data

Meteorologists took that as a sign that the U.S. Crop Belt should experience a fairly normal growing season. But they ignored atmospheric data that might have tipped them to the impending drought.

“Even though the oceans were acting like they were not in La Niña anymore, the atmosphere was acting like we were,” said Joel Widenor, agricultural director for Commodity Weather Group. “Unfortunately, we didn’t pay attention to that soon enough to adjust our forecast last spring. It’s something we’re watching this year. We think it was a pretty big factor last year.”

Widenor calls it the “GLAAM” factor. He has tweaked his forecasting techniques for this season using the global atmospheric angular momentum (GLAAM), an atmospheric index that measures the spinning of the Earth and its effect on weather.

Hoping to catch signs of a drought earlier, he also is watching the weekly U.S. D r o u g h t M o n i t o r, w h i c h tracks soil moisture, as well as water temperatures in the north Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Baja, California, and the northwest Atlantic Ocean.

EarthSat’s senior meteorologist Don Keeney said his firm is studying previous big drought years and comparing them with current patterns, looking for any sign that drought-prone conditions will continue.

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But meteorologists as well as climatologists who study climate — the interaction of the sun, the atmosphere and the earth — readily admit 2013 will be another tricky year to predict. La Niña and El Niño patterns this winter have been “neutral.”

It boils down to educated guesswork, forecasters say.

Or hunches based on years of experience. Iowa State University climatologist Elwynn

Taylor in March 2012 looked at the La Niña trends and updated his prediction for a major drought to a 50-50 probability from 30-50.

This year, Taylor says, the wester n Midwest is set up for another hot, dry summer, citing La Niña history.

He says rock-hard soils several feet below the surface are another flag the droughty conditions could continue this season.

Ta y l o r ’s o u t l o o k a l i g n s with recent comments from Ne b ra s k a s t a t e c l i m a t o l o gist Al Dutcher, who says the c o r n h u s k e r s t a t e’s 1 0 - m i l lion-acre corn crop stands or falls on irrigation as well as rain.

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ANTIQUES ANTIQUES Antique Equipment HORSE HARNESS & EQUIPMENT. 1 complete set of single harness w/23-in collar, steel hames & leather tugs, $300; 1 complete set of single harness w/flat hames, new tugs & new back pads, $350; 2 sets of good chore harness, bridles & lines $475 each OBO; Good selection of steel eveners, good selection of wooden neck yokes for cutters or buggies. Several pieces of good horse machinery ready to go to the field. Phone:(204)242-2809, Box 592 Manitou.

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UPCOMING APRIL SALES See our other ad in this issue of Manitoba Co-operator for full listings.

UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for ROBERT & BEVERLEY HALL GOODLANDS, MB. - FRIDAY, APRIL 12th - 12:00 noon

UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for NELSON HULME MACGREGOR, MB - SATURDAY, APRIL 13th - 11:00 AM

UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for GREG GRANT (STAND FAST FARMS) MINNEDOSA, MB - MONDAY, APRIL 15th - 11:00 AM

UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for LORIE M. HOWE SOURIS, MB. - TUESDAY, APRIL 16th - 11:00 AM

UNRESERVED AUCTION for WESTEEL HOLDFAST, SK. - THURSDAY APRIL 18TH - 11:00 AM

FARM AUCTION FOR REINER BROS FARMS LTD SAT., APR. 27TH 12:00PM NOON. 1-mi East of Plumas MB on PTH 260 & 1.5-mi North. Website www.nickelauctions.com. Tractors: 2001 MX120 Case IH MFWD L655 Case IH self leveling ldr grapple fact 3-PTH PTO 2 hyds 7,200-hrs; 1992 5240 Case IH MFWD fact 3-PTH 2 hyds; 520 Case IH ldr grapple PTO 10,700-hrs; Truck & Trailers: 1973 GMC C70 15-ft. stl box & hoist RT 5-SPD trans; 2000 Real Industries 21-ft.x6.5-ft Gooseneck stock trailer; 1992 M&B Welding 18-ft.x6.5-ft Gooseneck stock Trailer; 2007 Precision Gooseneck 26-ft. flatdeck Trailer w/beaver tails; 1,000-gal Fuel Tank w/elect pump; Haying & Tillage Equip: 2006 RBX5630 Case IH Rd Baler shedded (bought new in 08); 2011 MF Hesston 1372 Discbine w/drawbar hitch kit shedded (used 1 season); M&B 23 Rd Bale Trailer; 2 stl RD Bale racks for farm Wagons; model 180 Farm King 18-in. Grain Roller; 28-ft. Case IH 6200 rubber Press Drill Fact Trans; 15-ft. IHC offset Tandem Disc; 18-ft. Morris Deep Tiller w/mulchers; 24-ft. IHC Vibra Shank Cult; 60-ft. Blanchard Tine Harrows; 36-ft. Hyd fold back shop bilt Packer Bar; 3 PTH RD Bale Fork; 7x46-ft. Westfield auger w/13-HP Honda; Cattle Equip: Highline Pro 7000 Bale Shreader; North Star 42-ft. portable Squeeze/alley & crowding Tub; Hi Hog Squeeze chute w/palpation cage; 2 Hi Qual maternity Pens walk thru gates; 250-bu Miami Creep Feeder; 75-bu Creep Feeder; 4, 16-ft. Calf Shelters; 2 Calf Hot Boxes; 2 Head Gates; approx 23 Rd Bale Feeders; approx 30, 24-ft. Free Standing Panels; 5, 24-ft.

Free Standing Panels w/10-ft. swing gates; 35, 10-12 & 16-ft. Corral Panels; Panel carrier; 2 Calf Catchers carts; Lewis Cattle Oiler; 400-gal Water Tub; 150-gal Water Tub; Solar water pump; 3-in.

Honda water Pump; approx 1,500-ft. of 3-in. Hose; approx 500, 2 to 8-in. fence posts; 2 submersible pumps; stock tank heaters; Pill switches; M1800 Gallagher elect Fencer; elect Fencers; 6 ground rods for elect fences; 3 pails of Gallagher insulators; 3 Gallagher wire Reels; under ground cable; misc Fencing supplies; Baler twine; 15-ft. 2-in. tow Rope; misc. Auctioneers note: Be on time there is about 3/4 hr of small selling. Murray & Richard Reiner have rented out their farm & have pursued other interests. Terms Cash or Cheque w/photo I.D Lunch served. Subject to additions & deletions Not responsible for any errors in description. GST & PST will be charged where applicable Everything Sells As Is Where Is All Sales Final Owners & auction company are not responsible for accidents on sale site. Contact Murray Reiner (204)386-2066.

Sale conducted by Nickel Auctions Ltd Dave Nickel & Marv Buhler auctioneers Ph (204)637-3393 cell (204)856-6900.

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman FARMYARD EQUIPMENT & TOOL AUCTION for Denise & the late Kevin Major on Tues., Apr 23rd 10:30am at the farm 3.25-mi east of Glenora, MB. We are able to sell small items in a heated shop if necessary. Shop Tools & Equip at 10:30: Sanborn Air Comp 5-HP 60-gal, Lincoln 225 AC Welder; Lincoln SP 100 Mig Welder; 4x6 Metal Band Saw; 2-Ton Cherry Picker; Floor Drill Press; JD Airhose Reel, St. Steel Shop Bench 14-ft.x30-in.; Welding Bench 48-in.x66-in.; St. Steel Parts Table 4-ft.x30-in.; Metal Parts Bin 72 Compartments; 2 Angle Grinders; 2 Bat Chargers; 3 Air Impacts; Air Ratchet; 110V Impact; Die Grinder; 2 Sanders; 2 Sprayers; 2 Circ Saws; Drills; 110V Recip Saw; Good Hand Tools at 10:30: Snap-on 2 tier Tool Box; Beach Tool Box; Snap-on Pry Bar Set; Jet 3/4in socket Set; Impact sockets; Westward & other wrench sets; Pullers; Chisels; Punches; Gauges; Callipers. Yard & Outdoor Equipment at 2:00: JD #318 Tractor, Attachments to fit the 318 54-in.

Mower, 42-in. Tiller, 48-in. Mower; MF #2722 Riding Mower 22-HP 48-in. cut 6 yrs of use; Rainbow 1999 Car Hauler 16-ft. w/2, 3,500-lb axles, 2 wheel Utility Trailer; Quad Trailer; ATV Yd Sprayer; Arctic Cat Cutter w/skies & Wheels; 350-gal Turtle Tank; 2 Chain Saws; Farm Equipment at 2:00: JD #115 9-ft. 3-PTH Angle Blade; IHC Vibra Shank 14-ft.

Cult, Old JD Baler 14T or 24T, 3 Bottom Plow on Steel; 20-ft. Drill Carrier; Westfield 36x 7 Auger w/16-HP Engine; John Blue NH3 Kit w/manifold & Hitch; 3 Keho Aeration Fans; Laurier 500-gal Poly Tank; 100-gal Slip Tank; 4 Fuel Tanks w/stands & hoses 1,000-gal, 500-gal, 2x 300-gal; Livestock Equipment at 2:00: Farmatic 7.5-HP Feed Mill; 2 Bale Forks; 3 Delair Exchangers; 18-in. Barn Fans; 8 Pencil Augers; 12 Hog feeders; Cattle Waterers; Cattle Oiler; Corral Panels; Mineral Feeder; Hopper Bins at 2:30: 2, Westeel 2,500 Bush w/aeration; 1 NRW 1500 Bush w/epoxy; 1, 300 Bush Feed Bin; 2x 100 Bush Feed Bins; Household at Noon: 2 Desks; Bar Stools; Computer; Ent Unit; Stereo; 27in. TV; Trampoline; BBQ; Patio Set; 3 Bikes; Picture Window 68-in. Hx74-in. W; Collectible Farm Toys at Noon: There will be 30 or 40 pieces of a lifetime collection, mostly IH, some JD, also implements, vehicles & parts, see website for detailed list. Misc: Lumber; Plywood; Welding Iron; Parts; fittings; Vers Seat; Barn Paint; Electric Wire; Tires; 10-ft. OH Door; Fire Hose; 6 & 8-in Sewer Pipe & lots more.

For inquiries call Denise Major at (204)825-2339 or cell (204)825-7219. Visit website for details & lots of pics. Sierens Auction Service (Rick) (204)744-2364 or (204)526-5047 www.sierensauction.com

UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for RUSTY & LIZ SOUCH BINSCARTH, MB - FRIDAY, APRIL 19th - 11:00 AM

UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for MELVYN AND AUDREY EYOLFSON ARBORG, MB. - TUESDAY, APRIL 23rd - 11:00 AM

UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for EINARSON FARMS Riverton, MB. - WEDNESDAY APRIL 24th - 11:00 AM

CONSIGNMENT SALES 5th ANNAUL KILLARNEY and DISTRICT SPRING CONSIGNMENT SALE

HEWSONS ENTERPRISES INC FARM EQUIPMENT AUCTION

Killarney, MB SATURDAY, APRIL 20th - 9:00 AM

Angusville, MB MONDAY, APRIL 22ND - 9:00 AM

STILL ACCEPTING EQUIPMENT FOR THESE CONSIGNMENT SALES

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Licensed and bonded. P.L. License #918093. Member of M.A.A., S.A.A., A.A.A., A.A.C.PHONE: (204) 727-2001 FAX: (204) 729-9912 www.fraserauction.com EMAIL: office@fraserauction.com Auctioneer: Scott Campbell

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake BUILDING SUPPLY AUCTION Sat., Apr 13th 10:00am Stonewall, MB. #12 Patterson Dr. Featuring; LUMBER; Trusses; Metal; Tools; Trailers; Bldg Supplies; Many Power & Hand Tools; Office Bldg; BOOK Your Consignments in! Stuart McSherry (204)467-1858 or (204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com

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Clarence & Verna Kozie

Sat April 20 @ 10:00am Tyndall, Mb 1 Mile East on Hwy # 44 then South 5 Miles on Hwy #12 then East 1/2 Mile on Rd 8 Everything Shedded & Well Kept Contact: (204) 755-3360 Email: mcsherry@mts.net Tractor & Truck: 98 JD 7210 MFWA Cab A/C Quad Shift w/ Left Hand Rev 3PH 540/1000 Triple Hyd 16.,9 26 18.4 38 3016 hrs, Exc Cond * 75 Dodge 600 gas 5spd x2 w/ 14’ B&H Roll Tarp 18,000 mil Sft * Combine & Swather: 80 JD 6620 A/C STD Chopper, 3022 hrs * 80 Vers 4400 Swather w/ 18’ P/U Reel * 18’ Bat Reel Swather * Equip & Granary: Eversman Model 250 hyd Scraper * JD 100 16’ Deep Tiller w/ Degleman Mulchers * Int 770 5B Plow Auto KickBack * Int 4500 20’ Cult * PowerMetic 60’ Diamond Harrows * JD 220 20’ Tandem Disc * Rockomatic 57 Stone Picker * Int 300 16’ Discer Seeder Box Ext SAFA * Vers 580 68’ Tandem Sprayer w/ Foam Markers * Rem 552 540 PTO Grain Vac * Westfield 7” 31’ Auger w/ 10HP B&S * 200 bus Grain Hopper Wagon * Fanning Mill * Pencil Auger * Hyd Drill Fill * 3) Westeel Bins 2) 1350 bus 1) 1650 bus on wood floor * Snowmobile, Misc: 96 Polaris Indy 500 Liquid Cool * Grain Moisture Tester * Hyd Cylinder * Hyd Hose * Implement Parts * Steel Wheels * Wood Saw * Along w/ Farm Misc * Some Tools * Antiques

Stuart McSherry (204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Red River

Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433

Fre-MAr FArM Auction DirecTiOns TO THe FarM, FrOM rOsenOrT 3 Miles WesT, FOllOW #205 Till iT Turns nOrTH, Take rOaD 31 nOrTH One Mile WesT anD 1/2 nOrTH On 2 WesT

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Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433

CRAIG STORY FARM AUCTION THURSDAY APRIL 18, 2013 10 AM

1 MILE SOUTH OF DARLINGFORD AND 5 NORTH ON ROAD 39 OWNERS: 204-246-2219 CELL 204-362-8342

SAturDAY, April 13, 10 AM

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Red River

Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433

NEIL & JEFF FRIESEN, Wawanesa, MB. Farm Retirement Auction Sale Tues., Apr. 23rd, 12:00pm noon, 2-mi North of Wawanesa on PR 340, 3/4-mi East. 1979 JD 4240 DSL w/3-pt., dual hyd., quad range, 540/1000 PTO., complete engine o/haul @ 10,000-hrs; JD 3130 DSL w/Leon FEL w/bucket & bale fork; 1997 Kenworth T600 hwy tractor, Detroit 60 series engine, sleeper cab, 13-SPD trans; 1967 Chev C65 full tandem grain truck, 20-ft. steel box w/roll-over tarp; Great Dane 48-ft. step deck trailer; 40-ft. logging trailer w/steel uprights, tandem axle; 1982 JD 7720 SP combine, DSL, hydrostatic, JD PU, 3,700 engine hrs., shedded; 1982 Vers 4400 SP swather, 22-ft., new knife, guards & canvas; 1978 JD 7721 PT combine, JD PU; MF 751 PT combine; 2000 JD 13.5-ft. discbine 946 MoCo impeller hay conditioner; JD 1600A 16-ft. mower conditioner w/new pump; Hesston 4755 square baler, medium square 33x31-in.; PMI RP1411 round baler; Neimier rotary hay rake; Westfield 7-in.x41-ft. auger w/near new Honda 13-HP engine; Edwards 28-ft. HD Cultivator w/air seeder package & Morris 7130 tow behind tank w/fill auger; JD 15-ft. Model 310 tandem disc; JD 16 ft. 9350 DD press drill, pan press & shop made transport; Haul-All 12-ft. dual hopper tank drill fill; Morris 21-ft. CP719 deep tiller; Morris 29-ft. CP625 deep tiller; Herman 61-ft. tine harrowbar; 1,000-gal. Stainless water tank on 4 wheel trailer; Toledo {Techmaster} 3,000-lb. scale; Good roller mill 5-HP 220V motor; 10x15-ft. truck axle scale; Speeder band saw 7x12-in.; Wheatheart hyd bin sweep w/hoses; 2 mower decks for JD garden tractor 30-in. & 47-in.; 2 furrow JD 3-PT plough.

3-pt. Hitch blade; Extension for JD bucket; 2011 Husqvarna RZ30-16 0 turn lawn mower, like new.

Mr. Neil Friesen is retiring from farming & Jeff has also decided to sell his equipment. For info contact: Neil (204)824-2339 or cell (204)761-8635. Check websites www.mrankinauctions.com & www.rosstaylorauction.com Murray Rankin Auctions Murray (204)534-7401 Killarney, MB. Ross Taylor Auction Service Ross (204)522-5356 Brock (204)522-6396 Reston, MB.

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake

Ed And LAurA FriEsEn Morris, MAnitoBA rEtirEMEnt FArM Auction LocAtion from morriS two miLeS weSt on 23 And two miLeS north on roAd 2e, YArd #25155 or 7 miLeS South from Pr 205 eASt of roSenort.

FridAY, ApriL 12, 5 pM

· 1979 Case 2390, power shift, duals, 1000 pto 6052 hrs, 165 HP. engine and transmission overhauled, in 08 complete with Trimble auto steer serial #7895012 · 1975 Case 970 Diesel standard shift, duals and trimble harness, 93 hp serial #8787414 · 1960 Massey Ferguson 65 with 3 pth pto and loader. 42 hp. serial #SGM 663189 · Simplicity 7790 with Lambordinie diesel Garden tractor 889 hrs Hydrostatic drive, mower and tiller · 1983 Massey Ferguson 860 Combine, AT6-354 Perkins engine gear drive, 9001 head with melroe Pickup, Field ready, 3305 hrs. serial #1746-18149 · John Deere 7700 Turbo Diesel combine.

6 belt JD Pickup on 212, head, Chopper, all in very good condition from Neighbor Art Friesen 204-746-8611

See our website for photos and listings www.billklassen.com or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230 Bill Klassen Auctioneers bill@billklassen.com For more information please contact Ed and Laura Friesen (204) 746-8596 Supper Available Go public with an ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. Phone 1-800-782-0794.

tractors • 2002 John Deere 9520T, 36 in belt tracks, rubber block air ride, 4 remotes, front and side weight package, beacon light, power shift, wired for John Deere star fire auto steer, green lighted in Spring of 2012 at Enns Bros. Morris. 3903 hours at listing, serial #901062 • 2005 John Deere 8520 MFWD 480/ 80 R 50 duals, front 480/85/ R34. Power shift, 3pth, w/cat 3 quick hitch, front weight package, 4 remotes, 4143 hours at listing serial #033734 • 2008 John Deere 6430 MFWD tractor with cab, IVT transmission, 3pth, dual pto, dual hydraulic, complete with JD 673 self level loader and bucket joystick control. 1419 one owner hours • John Deere quick tach pallet forks. Sells after 6430 • 2008 John Deere 2520 yard Tractor, HST, with roll bar, 200 CX loader. Industrial tires, fwa. 62D drive over belly mount mower. Total hours 400 showing • 1983 Case 2390 pto, power shift, front weights, 4868 one owner hours • 1997 IH 9300 Eagle tandem grain truck, air ride suspension, 244 WB, automatic Chassis greaser 425, hp Cummins, 13 speed Cancade unibody 20ft x 8.5 x 66’’, Michelle’s roll tarp.

Remote tail gate and hoist control, 11 x 24.5 aluminum buds. Pintle hook up, serial #2HSFBRE7UC036339, MB saftied.

• 2004 Mack tandem grain truck, 480 hp mack.13 sp, maxitorque Fuller. 20 x 8.5 x 66’’ Loadline box with remote tail gate and hoist control and Michelle’s roll tarp, air ride suspension, Pintle hook up, 11 x 24.5 albumin buds, serial # 1M1AEO7Y141NO19117 4MR21084 MB saftied.

• 2010 Loadline full tandem all around 30 ft dual hopper grain trailer pup, 66 in sides, sight glasses, air gauges, fenders 11 x 24.5 aluminum buds. Micheles roll tarp • 1976 Ford F-700 V8 gas, 5 & 2 transmission, 23000 Gvw. Tag with lift and brakes, 18 ft midland, box with head lift hoist, roll tarp. Good 10 x 20 rubber, good farm runner sells with out safety, VIN #N70EVW85945 • New set of Dual tandem chrome fenders, for truck or trailer • 1989 IH Eagle tandem cab and chassis, runs but needs engine work, 855 Cummins, 13 speed.

Sells as is • 2008 Polaris Quad 850 cc etc, loaded machine • Concord 3400 air cart with 47 ft Concord seeder 10’’ space dutch knife openers, single chute, have set of 10’’ shovels for concord seeder • Summers 54 ft super C chisel plow with mounted harrows, and NH3 Kit. hyd winch on rear hitch • Bourgault 7200 super harrows 5/8 x 24in teeth, excellent condition • 27ft IHC Model 5500 chisel plow with mulchers • Collector cars and trucks and Tractors, etc.

This is a partial listing please check our website www.billklassen.com for listing and photos or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230 Bill Klassen Auctioneers bill@billklassen.com For information call Owner Bernie Friesen (204 ) 746-2045 or 5014 Owner Herman Martens 204 326 154 Our spring catalog coming to your farm mail box mid-March

• 1990 – CASE IH- 9170, 4X4, 6750 hours, 855 A cummins / BIG CAM, 12 speed powershift trans.

• 1997- CASE IH- 9370, 4X4, 6211 hours, N14 cummins, 24 speed • 1992 - CASEIH - 1680 combine, 2687 hours, cummins engine, 1015 P/U • MF - 220, S/P swather, 1633 hours, 25ft., UII-Pick-up Reel, • Bourgault Air Seeder - 8800 cult., 36ft., floating hitch • 2011 Fusion, 70ft., Heavy Harrow Bar, 9/16” X 24” tines • 1980 HC - 2575, Semi-Truck-Day Cab, 3406 CAT Engine, this truck is Safetied • 1992 - Load King Lode Handler 40ft, Grain trailer, this trailer is also Safetied

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INTERNET BIDDING BEGINNING AT 11:30 AM

See our website www.billklassen.com or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230 Bill Klassen Auctioneers bill@billklassen.com

AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions JOHN & GAYLA HEDSTROM AUCTION Dubuc, SK. Sun., Apr 21st, 2013 11:00am. 8 S, 2 E, 1/2 SOUTH OF DUBUC. DUBUC, SK. CONTACT: (306)877-4706. TRACTORS: 1977 Vers 700 Series II 4WD cummings V8, cab, air, clamp on 18.4x38 duels, good inside tires, 2,000-hrs on major showing 7,000-hrs; MF 1105 DSL cab, air, good rubber, FEL; MF 150 Gas 3-PTH, like new rubber, FEL, good. EXCAVATING: *1999 Case 590 Super L Series II Backhoe ride control, 1-yd FEL bucket, extend-a-hoe, 24-in. bucket, AWD, delux seat, power shuttle, cummings DSL, Real nice* Fifth Wheel Heavy homebuilt 16-ft. tandem axle trailer on converter; BUCYRUS ERIE 8.5-yd pull scraper. COMBINE: 1981 MF 860 SP Combine cab, PU, chopper, chaff spreader, air foil sieves, hydro. SEEDING: JD 1610 33-ft. cultivator, air package, granular package, liquid fert package, car bide tip knives w/packers, JD 655 air tanks; HAYING & CATTLE: 2 NH 855 round balers; NH SD rake; Flexicoil trailer post pounder w/motor & hyd. SWATHERS: Vers 20-ft.

SP Swather cab, bat reel, PU reel, MF #35 20-ft.

PTO Swather; Swather mover. TILLAGE: JD 16-ft. offset disc; Case 30-ft. deep tillage; Morris 731 33ft. deep tillage, harrows; AUGERS: Secundiak 50x8 swing-a-way Auger; Secundiak 7x41 Auger ES; Secundiak 6x37 Auger Honda engine; TRUCKS: 1978 GMC 6500 Tandem 3-ton box, hoist, new motor, windshield, V8 5-SPD, air brakes; 1972 Ford 600 15-ft. box & hoist; 1996 Chev 6.5 DSL 1/2-ton extend-a-cab, auto; YARD & RECREATION: Club cadette RZT zero turn 50-in. mower; Bush hog 3615 10-ft. heavy duty PTO mower; 60-in. rotary 3-PTH mower; Starcraft 18-ft. boat w/140-HP motor, trailer. Plus misc equipment & shop items.

NOTE: John & Gayle are retiring from farming. Not many small items. Online bidding 1:00pm. Visit www.ukrainezauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851.

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AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Westman

APRIL CONSIGNMENT SALES 5th ANNUAL KILLARNEY & DISTRICT EQUIPMENT CONSIGNMENT AUCTION of KILLARNEY, MB - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20th at 9:00 AM

DIRECTIONS: Sale will be held at the farm of Del & Gert Smith, ½ mile west of the Jct of #3 & #18 Hwys. (Just off #3 hwy across from water tower) ORDER OF SALE: 9:00am – 12:00pm (misc, tools, palleted lots) 12:00pm – (livestock related items followed by Grain Bins & major equipment)

THIS IS A VERY EARLY LIST AND CONTAINS ONLY THE ITEMS CONSIGNED AT TIME OF PRINTING. THIS WILL BE A VERY LARGE AUCTION BY SALE DAY!!!

GRAIN BINS: (MUST BE MOVED by AUGUST 1st 2013): Yard 1 - NW 4-3-19: *Bin #3 - Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, Slide down door, Half-round aeration, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000

Bushels *Bin #4 - Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, New style door, Half-round aeration, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000 Bushels *Bin #5 – Westeel, Ladder, New style door, large lid, Half-round aeration, 18’ Diameter 7 Tier, 5900 Bushels Yard 2-SE 9-3-19: *Bin #E1 – Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, Slide down door, 19’, 6 Tier, 4000 Bushels *Bin #E2– Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, Slide down door, 19’, 6 Tier, 4000 Bushels *Bin #E3 – Brock, Ladder, 5000 Bushels *Bin #E4– Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, Slide down door, 19’, 6 Tier, 4000 Bushels Yard 3-NW 28-2-19: *Bin #S1 – Westeel-Rosco, OPI Temperature Cable, Ladder, slide down door, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000 Bushels *Bin #S2 – Westeel-Rosco, OPI Temperature Cable, No Ladder, slide down door, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000 Bushels Yard 4 –SE 16-3-19 *Bin #F1 – Chief Westland, Ladder, 4600 Bushels *Bin #F2 – Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, New style door, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000 Bushels *Bin #F4- Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, Slide down door, 14’ Diameter, 6 Tier, 1950 Bushels Yard 5- NE 31-2-20: *Bin #V1 – Butler, Ladder, 18’ Diameter, 5000 Bushels *Bin #V2 – Westeel, OPI Temperature Cable, Ladder, New Style door, Halfround aeration, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000 BushelsBins will be sold by picture and buyers are welcome to pre-inspect bins in the yards they are located. All the bins are sold to be moved and must be removed by August 1st 2013. Click on the link below for a Google Map with directions to bin yards. Any questions on these bins please call Del Smith 1-204-534-7783 Link to map of bins: https://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?msid=212560892911293326367.0004d0ee59e65792a79fe&msa=0 - Information on bin moving companies will be posted soon.

HARVEST & HAYING EQUIPMENT: *JD 7720 Turbo sp combine *JD straight cut header w/batt reel *White 8650 pt combine (always shedded) *21’ IH #75 pt swather (black reel) *JD 330 Rd Baler *NH 65 Baler *NH 1033 sq bale wagon *JD 1600A moco *14’ JD 1424 moco *9’ NH 479 haybine *side delivery hay rake *Massey Hay Rake TRACTORS: *JD 4020 2wd tractor w/Leon loader *WD Allis Chalmers Tractor, 3 PT, Hitch, Pulley, Good Rubber, Mag., Starts Good AUGERS & GRAIN HANDLING: *7”x37’ Sakundiak auger w/18hp B+S engine SEED & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: *14’ JD 360 off set disc *(NEW) 8’ 2422 off set disc w/24” blades *Morris #MH-310 Hoe Drill (2-10’) SPRAYER: *95’ Flexi Coil Sprayer #62, 800 gal tank, regular monitor, hydraulic pumps, single nozzle TRUCKS & TRAILERS: *2007 Kenworth T2000 t/a w/New 20’ grain box, 13 spd Trans, 475hp Cummins, Safetied *1982 Chev 350 Truck with 12’ Deck, Automatic, Hitch Back, very clean *1978 Ford F600 s/a grain truck w/15’ B+H, 5+2 Trans *2005 26’ Rainbow flat deck Pintle hitch trailer w/dual wheel tandem axels (2-10,000lbs) *NEW 7’ x 16’ Sure-Trac Utility Trailer, Steel Mesh Folding Gate, 2 x 3500 lb Axles *NEW 6’ x 12’ Friesen Utility Trailer, Steel Mesh Folding Rear Gate *2000 Bergen 24’ T/A Gooseneck Stock Trailer *t/a utility wagon w/ball hitch *s/a utility wagon w/ball hitch NEW TRUCK BOXES: *(2) New 20’x8 ½ ‘x58” grain boxes *(2) New 15’ gravel boxes *(1) New 28’ gravel box (made for trailer running gear) OTHER EQUIPMENT: *NEW 12’ box blade scraper *NEW 3pt harrow *Leon 425 Hyd Push –Off Manure Spreader *(3) large hose reels loaded with 6” water hose LIVESTOCK RELATED ITEMS: *round bale feeders *Aprrox 700 treated fence posts ATVS & LAWN and GARDEN: *2005 Arctic Cat 250cc quad w/4wd, good rubber, hi/low Trans *JD F525 front deck mower w/48” deck *JD 205 Scrub Cutter (Gyra Mower) never been used NEW TIRES & TIRE TUBES: *New 12-16.5 skid steer tires *New 10-16.5 skid steer tires *New 12.5-18 backhoe tires *New 18.4-38 tire tubes *New 14.9-28 tire tubes NEW GOODS: *Selection of New seats (tractor, skid steer, lawn tractor, gator, ECT.) *New 16’ transport grade chains *New 5/16 load binders (ratchet and over center style) *New 2” ratchet straps *New 1” impact wrench *New lock boxes and tool boxes *New flexible ratchet combination wrench sets *New top links *Paint JD green (1 gallon) *Paint CaseIH red (1 gallon) INDUSTRIAL: *CAT Fork Lift, 8’8” Lift Height, 2 Stage, 5000 lb, Propane eng. TOOLS & SHOP EQUIPMENT: *Metal Cutting Band Saw *3/4 drive socket set *Tap & Die set *Large flat wrench set *4800watt construction heaters *Air Operated Tire changer *Gas Engine Powered Generator/Welder (Briggs & Stratton Engine/Lincoln Welder) TANKS & PUMPS: *2000gal poly water tank (green) *(2) 1250gal poly water tanks *3” water pump w/7hp gas engine (only one season old) *110 gallon skid tank w/12 volt pump, auto shut off nozzle *2003 Polywest Bandit 3400 US Gallon Liquid Fertilizer Caddy w/ Honda Pump (2 x 1700 US Gallon Cone Bottom Tanks) OTHER ITEMS & MISCELANEOUS: *concrete stairs & landings w/railings *Assortment of electric motors (various sizes) *3ph electric motors *hyd cylinders *Hydraulic Driven Reel Roller * 2 Rolls of 2 ½ “ Air Seeder Hose (Approx) 75’ long – each) *2 ½” HD Tow Rope (Approx – 75’ long) *(69) USED Dutch NH3 Fertilizer Knives *Propane Burner

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL Del Smith 204-534-7783

1st ANNUAL HEWSON’S ENTERPRISES EQUIPMENT CONSIGNMENT AUCTION of ANGUSVILLE, MB - MONDAY APRIL 22nd at 9:00 AM

DIRECTIONS: Sale will be held on the Hewson’s Enterprises lot in the North West corner of the town of Angusville, MB. just off highway #45. (Look for the elevator) Watch for signs

THIS IS A VERY EARLY LIST AND CONTAINS ONLY THE ITEMS CONSIGNED AT TIME OF PRINTING. THIS WILL BE A VERY LARGE AUCTION BY SALE DAY!!!

TRACTORS: 1989 Case IH 7120 2WD Tractor, 155HP, 7400 hrs showing, duals, good shape, always shedded 1975 JD 4430 2wd tractor w/9800hrs showing, new clutch, dual PTO (good runner), s/ n034431R JD 4020 2wd tractor w/2 remote hyd, dual pto, 12 volt conversion, 12519hrs showing, s/n1223R187514R HARVEST EQUIPMENT: NH TX 36 sp combine w/3000hrs showing 25’ MacDon 970 header w/Bi-Directional adapter 18’ Versatile 400 sp swather 8’ FarmKing metal swath roller SPRAYER: 70’ Flexi Coil 55 Sprayer, Foam Marker, 650 Gallon tank w/ Front mixing tank, Serviced & Field Ready, Auto Rate, Auro Fold HAYING & SILAGE EQUIPMENT: JD 566 rd baler w/approx 14000 bales, twine tie, new top rollers, s/nX129878 (hasn’t been used in 2 years) NH Rd Baler 851, Auto Wrap Fox sp forage harvester Fox pt forage harvester High dump silage wagon Massey side Delivery Hay Rake SEED & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: Valmar 500 granular applicator w/canola gears 1995 47’ CaseIH 5600 chisel plow w/mounted harrows 1989 61’ Herman harrow 70’ Herman hyd harrows (good tines) GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT: Toxowick 570 Grain Dryer 52’ Westfield Grain Auger 12” x 36’ U Trough – HD Drag Auger 6” X 16’ Farm King Pencil Auger 6” x 10 Pencil auger FEED PROCESSING EQUIPMENT: NH 357 Mix Mill w/ Bale Feeder (Good condition) TRAILERS: s/a 5th wheel stock trailer 1984 Camper Trailer VEHICLES: 2002 Pontiac Bonneville w/168000kms showing, s/n1G2HX54K224179973, good runner, (Pre safety will be done) 2001 Ford F-150 Lariat 4x4 Ext Cab w/246000kms showing (87000kms on new engine), Safetied, 2FTRX18W2YCB04866 1995 Chev Blazer s/n1GNDT13W2SK155131 1995 Buick Le Sabre LDT s/n1G4HR52L5SH415683 1986 Chrysler K-Car w/150,000kms showing (Good Cond) 1970’s International Grain Truck, S/N226611005339 Pontiac 6000 car LAWN & GARDEN, ATV’s: 2001 Honda 450 4x4 quad (1 owner unit) s/n222014200940 2007 Honda 250R dirt bike s/nCRF250R Komelite Chainsaw OTHER ITEMS: Diesel Generator 5000 KW Commercial electrical panel boxes Various used tires (singles/pairs/full sets) 9’ fuel tank stand (hold 1000 gal tank) Westward ½ hp drill press Assorted tools 16hp Kohler auger engine Renn Post Pounder JD 6 Ton 4 Wheel Wagon 3PT HD Bale Prong Fuel Tank Stand – 2 x 300 Gal Tanks & 2 x 500 Gal Tanks Welder Miller 200 amp, set on Gooseneck Trailer (10,000 lb axles) (3) 32” Color TV’s (2) Electric Drill 12” x 18” Spruce & Fir Beams – Various Lengths 12” x 12” Spruce & Fir Beams – Various Lengths Inland Hydraulic Bale Unwinder Brake Pads Baseboard Heaters (1) Box – Picture Frames Dumbbell weights Box – Jars Stencil Machine Hoe Twine Telescope Welding Helmet Saw Blade Tack Ice Hook Box – Tupperware Rake Tooth Filters BBQ Grinder Disks Speakers Tool Box Tools B.B. Motor Chicken Plucker Truck Tool Box Chestwader Xmas Lights Boxing Gloves TV for Camper Trailer Dog Kennel Box – Board Games & Jig Saw Puzzles Storm Door 17” Tires Vacuum Cleaner Pump Wicker Basket DVD’s Router Electric Motor Metal Cut Off Saw Box – Misc items 32” Color TV TV/Media Cabinet 16 HP Briggs & Stratton Auger Motor, Electric Start, s/n 1-138112 Brass Coffee Table – Glass Top Magazine Rack – wicker Pierrade Tefal Cooker (6) Boxes Misc – Kitchen Ware Wicker Basket Air Mattress & Pump Heat Blanket Car Speakers and Amp – 500 Amp & box

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO CONSIGN CONTACT Hewson’s Enterprises 204-773-3025 E-Mail hewsoncaroline1@gmail.com

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Ken & Darlene Laycock Of Saltcoats, SK

Fri. April 26th @ 10:30am

Directions: From Yorkton go 19 Kms East on Hwy 16 to Atwater Grid # 629, then 16 1/2 Kms South & 1.2 Kms East

TRACTORS: CASE 9330 4wd • CASE 2096 2wd • CASE 2390 • DOZER BLADE: LEON 9ft. • COMBINES: Two INTERNATIONAL 914’s • SWATHERS: VERSTILE 400 SP • INTERNATIONAL 75 • SWATH ROLLERS: FLEXICOIL 6FT. • GRAIN TRUCKS: GMC 6500 • AIR SEEDER: BOURGAULT 8800 32ft. c/w 2115 Air Cart • CULTIVATORS: MORRIS CP 631 35 Ft. Chisel Plow w/ MTH • MORRIS 25 Ft. Chisel Plow w/ MTH • TANDEM DISK: EZEE ON 20ft. •SPRAYER: FLEXICOIL 65 w/3800L Tank • HARROWBAR: MORRIS 68ft.

• HARROWPACKER BAR: RITEWAY RHP446 •ROCK PICKER: Two SCHULTES • AUGERS: BUHLER 10” X 70 Ft • WESTFIELD W80-51 • SAKUNDIAK HD7-37 • TANKS • ANTIQUE TRUCKS & TRACTORS • BINS & BUILDINGS: Two TWISTERS • Four WESTEELS • Two BEHLENS • LAWN & GARDEN EQUIP. • MISC. & HOUSEHOLD ITEMS For More info Visit our website or Call Toll Free

1-800-667-2075 hodginsauctioneers.com SK PL # 915407 • AB PL # 180827

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L. LARSON TRUCKING KAMSACK, SK

MON APRIL 29TH @ 9:30am SHARP! Directions: 605 Park Street West, Kamsack SK

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CRAWLER TRACTOR: CAT D7G-92V Series • WHEEL LOADERS: 2004 JOHN DEERE644J W/ 4YD. Bucket • CASE W14 w/ 15d. Bucket • MOTORGRADER: CAT 16 w/ P/S Trans., Ripper • HYDRAULIC EXCAVATOR: FIAT ALLIS FL200LC • SKID STEER LOADER: 2007 JOHN DEERE 317 w/60” Bucket • AGGREGATE EQUIPMENT: • 40ft. Radial Stacker w/lister • TRUCK TRACTORS: KENWORTH W900L •1999 FREIGHTLINER • MACK CH613 • GRAVEL TRUCKS: MACK R600 • • SERVICE TRUCK: FORD F250 4wd, D. Eng. • GRAVEL TRAILERS: Two ARNES • MIDLAND • LOWBOY TRAILER: FRUEHAUF • ATTACHMENTS • DISKER: CCIL • Two IH 100 Press Drills • SPRAYER: BRANDT •SHOP EQUIPMENT: WELDER •CUTTING TORCH • AIR COMP. • HYD. JACKS REAL ESTATE: 605 & 613 Park Street West (Insulated Work Shop & Quonset Shop) For More info visit the website or call Toll Free

AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions ALLEN FAYE AUCTION Bankend, SK. Thurs., Apr 18th, 2013 10:30am. Directions: 4 S TO GILBERT ROAD ON HWY 35, 4 E, 1/2 NORTH, BANKEND SK. CONTACT: (306)272-7274 OR (306)543-3102.

TRACTORS: 2002 2310 Buhler Vers Tractor 12-SPD PS, 20.8x38 factory duels, 330-HP, 4 hyd, differential lock, 2,304-hrs, MINT; 1994 Vers 846 Tractor 4WD, 4 hyd, 18,4x38 factory duels, 3,964-hrs, Excellent; 1999 Case IH CX100 DSL, 3-PTH, 2 PTO’s, 3 hyd, differential lock, 18.4x34 tires, 2,800-hrs; 1979 Deutz 130-06 cab, air, protector II delux cab, Leons 767 FEL, duels, 6,489-hrs, Real Nice; 1967 Case 730 square fenders, gas, 707 FEL, P steering (306)675-4588. COMBINES: 1999 2388 Case IH SP Combine hydro, 2566 engine, 2127 rotor hrs, hopper extensions, long augers, rake up PU, chopper, spreader, auto header excellent (25% down, interest free balance on or before Aug. 15th, 2013); 1992 Case IH 1680 SP Combine Chopper, headers, long auger, hopper extensions, hydro, 2,400-hrs, recent new rotor, Nice (25% down, interest free balance on or before Aug. 15th, 2013). SWATHER: 1997 #2930 30-ft. Premier Turbo SP Swather Macdon 960 header, 3 way swath, PU reel, leveling wheels, large rear wheels, 2-SPD hi/low, 1,500-hrs, Real nice (25% down, interest free balance on or before Aug. 15th, 2013).

TRUCKS: 1985 GMC General DSL 20-ft. box, hoist, tarp, tandem, 13-SPD Fuller Detroit silver 92, 385-HP Engine, Good SER: 1GDT9E4J3FV625969 1973 GMC 3-Ton C-65 16-ft. steel box, hoist, tarp, V8 5x2, 46,000-mi SERIAL: CCE673V141007; 1973 Chev 3-Ton 16-ft. steel box, hoist, tarp, 633, 5x2 trans (306)675-4588. SEEDING: Bourgault #8800 48-ft. cultivator w/air package, harrows, spoons, & 2003 Bourgault 5250 tank, 250-bu, 3 compartment, Excellent; TILLAGE: Morris #8900 35-ft. Cultivator, harrows, floating pitch, w/anhydrous package, Real Nice; Morris 32-ft. Vibrashank, good harrows; Leons 36-ft. rodweeder, multiplex, harrows; HARROWS: Morris Wrangler II Harrow packer bar, real nice; Flexicoil system 82, 70-ft. harrow bar, good harrows; AUGERS: 2007 Wheatheart 8x46 Auger Robin 25-HP ES Motor w/Wheatheart bin sweep on self propelled mover, Mint; Secundiak HD 7-1600 51-ft. Auger, electric motor; Secundiak 7x45 auger w/bin sweep, like new Kohler 15-HP motor; Westfield MK-100-61 10x60 mechanical swing-a-way, excellent; Malco PTO auger. STONE PICKERS: Degelman 3 bat stonepicker; Degelman 3 bat chain stonepicker; Degleman 14-ft. stone rake; SCRAPER: Leons #900 9.5-yd Push scraper (upgraded to large front tires), Excellent; SPRAYER: Brandt QF1000 80-ft. sprayer autofold, foam markers, wind cones, chemical mixer, Real Nice.

Plus misc equipment, vehicles, shop. NOTE: Allan is retiring. Machinery is above average to excellent shape & shedded. All major equipment is one owner & low houred. This is one of the best sales in the area. Internet Bidding 1:00pm. Visit www.ukrainezauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851.

HOME QUARTER, FARM & INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT AUCTION ROSS (DAVID) & JOYCE KING 101115037 Saskatchewan Ltd. CHOICELAND, SK. LOCATION: 6.4-km West of Choiceland on Hwy #55 & 4.8-km North. DATE: WED., APR. 24, 2013 10:00am PROPERTY TO BE SOLD AT 1:00pm, Apr 24th. VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT. PHONE (306)428-2700. LAND: NW27-52-18 W2. Approx 159-acs large mature very well kept yard site. 1981 Nelson bungalow, over 1,900-sq.ft. QUONSET: 46x100; 5 Westeel; 1, 4,750-bu.; 4 Westeel 3,300bu bins. Excellent opportunity to purchase a very well maintained, mature yard w/an excellent shelterbelt that is close to hunting, fishing or an excellent farm base. TERMS & CONDITIONS: Sold AS IS, WHERE IS, CONDITION. A minimum of 10% Non-refundable deposit. Subject to seller’s approval of high bid. Balance of terms available on our web site or call Balicki Auctions. TRACTORS: JD 4960 FWA, 1993, 5,899-hrs, LPTO, all new rubber; JD 8440 FWD, shows 8,616-hrs (10-hrs on new motor), LPTO; JD 4630, 1976; MF 90 LPTO. DOZER: JD 544 HD; GPS EZ STEER: Trimble w/light bar; COMBINES: JD 9600 SP, 1997; JD 7720; HEADERS: JD 922 flex 22-ft.; JD 222, 22-ft. flex; SWATHER: JD 2420, 25-ft., cab, 4 cyl DSL; INDUSTRIAL LOADERS: Cat 966A, 1967, FWD; MF 470 4WD; 2 Wilco log grapples; SAWMILL: P.A. Foundry #2 portable mill on 56-ft.x14-in. I-Beams w/head & edger saws, PTO; PLANER: Beaver 49 No. 8 PTO; TRUCKS: 1976 IHC 1600 14-ft. B&H; 1965 Ford Tandem, WI 8.5x18-ft.; 1973 Ford Louisville 8000 tandem; 1982 Renn 14-ft. Gravel box; 1969 Ford stepside; DRYER: Drymor Hum, nbird 1982 fully automatic 90-bu.; AIR SEEDER: JD 665 air seeder, 40-ft. on JD 610; DISC: Ford 242, 33-ft., tandem disc. Farm equipment, shop equipment, tools & many items to numerous to mention. SEE OUR Web site or call for details. TERMS- To persons unknown to our company- cash, bank draft, or cheque w/irrevocable letter of credit from bank.

CONDUCTED BY: BALICKI AUCTIONS PRINCE ALBERT, SK. PL #915694 PHONE (306)922-6171 or (306)961-7553 www.balickiauctions.com

MACK AUCTION CO. presents a farm equipment auction for Brian Dreger (306)464-4919 Mon., Apr 22, 2013, 10:00a.m. Direction from Hwy 39 at Lang, SK. Go 1-mi North & 7-mi East. Watch for signs!

Live internet bidding www.bidspotter.com. 2002 Case IH STX 375 Quad Trac 4-WD tractor w/Trimble 750 Autosteer; 2009 NH TV 6070 bidirectional tractor w/FEL & 965-hrs; Case IH 2188 SP combine w/2315 rotor hrs; 36-ft Macdon 960 Draper harvest header; 25-ft Macdon draper harvest header; Macdon header adapters for Case IH; Macdon header adapter for NH; 1983 IH S1900 tandem grain truck w/466 DSL & on board grain vac; shop built header trailer; steel drum swath roller; 39-ft Flexi-coil 5000 air drill w/tow between Flexi-coil 3850 air tank; 40-ft Co-op 204 cultivator; Case 4490 4-WD custom built SP 80-ft sprayer w/Trimble GPS & 1000-gal., poly tank; Wheatheart BH 8-36 auger w/25-HP Kohler & mover, Brandt 10-60 hyd swing auger; Sakundiak 8-60 swing auger; Sakundiak 6-20 auger w/electric motor; Demco 300-bu hopper wagon w/unload augers; Haul All tote tank mounted on shop built trailer; DMC #44 high capacity grain cleaner; Good Will Fanning Mill; Carter Disc; NH pallet forks; JD 10-ft land leveller; shop built 14-ft pull scraper; 3-PTH 12-ft cultivator; 3-PTH 5 bottom disc plow; tandem axle utility trailer; 1250-gal. poly tank; steel waste oil tank; antique JD auger; antique stove & washing machine; IH stationery engines; 2010 Kubota 26-HP DSL F2680 front mount lawn mower w/122-hrs; 2010 4-WD Yamaha Rhino Special Edition 700 EFI side by side; Yamaha 225 Tri Moto.

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MACK AUCTION CO. presents a clean well maintained farm equipment auction for Garth & Marla Hurford (306)332-7900. Sat., April 20, 2013 10:00am. Directions from Balcarres, SK go 5-mi North of Balcarres on Hwy 310. Watch for Signs!

Live internet bidding at www.Bispotter.com. 2009 Kubota M108X FWA tractor w/Kubota M45 FEL w/only 710-hrs; Case IH 7130 2WD tractor w/Auto Steer GPS & duals; JD 322 lawn tractor w/50-in mower; 1999 JD 9610 SP combine w/2362 sep hrs; 30-ft 2005 Honey Bee NH94C straight cut header w/UII PU reel w/pea cross auger & flex finger lifters; 30-ft Westward 3000 PT swather w/PU reel & Roto Shear, Douglas poly drum swath roller; 1993 GMC Topkick tandem axle grain truck w/3116 Cat DSL engine & 96,900-kms; 1980 Western Star tandem axle grain truck w/automatic trans & Cummins engine; 1974 Dodge 600 3-ton grain truck; 33-ft Case IH 5600 seeding tool & JD 787 air tank w/Atom Jet Side Bank liquid openers; Pattison CB 1300-gal. liquid fertilizer caddy w/Honda engine; 60-ft Flexi-Coil tine harrows; Graham Hamey 14-ft cultivator w/Morris Harrows; Rolo Flex 14-ft cultivator w/tine harrows; 60-ft Jetstream 20th Anniversary computer sprayer; Sakundiak HD 10-2000 swing auger; Sakundiak 8-1600 auger w/25-HP Subuaru engine & Wheatheart mover; Sakundiak 7-45 grain auger w/Kohler engine; 29-ft tandem axle tow compartment grain trailer w/roll tarp; 100-bu hopper grain wagon; Schulte hyd drive rock picker; Buhler Farm King 720 3-PTH mover; 3-PTH angle blade; 1000gal. water tank; Honda 11-HP pressure washer; Forney welder; Dewalt chop saw; Honda generator; plus much more!! Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter. (306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962.

MACK AUCTION CO. presents a farm equipment auction for the Estate of Warren Domres, Fri., Apr 19, 2013 10:00am. Directions from Lemberg, SK. 3-mi West on Hwy 22 turn South on Gardiner Road & go 5-mi South, 1-mi West, 1-mi South, 1-mi West, & 3/4-miles South. Live internet bidding at www.bidspotter.com. Case 4490 4-WD tractor w/PTO; Case 2390 2-WD tractor; Case 1270 2-WD tractor; Case 1070 2-WD tractor; David Brown 990 DSL 2-WD tractor; IH 1066 2-WD tractor; Case 830 DSL 2-WD tractor w/FEL & round fenders; Ford 8N 2-WD tractor; 1984 Ford 9000 LTL tandem grain truck w/13-spd Cummins & 2 seed compartment box; 27ft Flexi-coil 5000 double shoot air drill w/JD 787 air tank; JD 8820 Titan II SP combine; 30-ft JD 230 Rigid straight cut combine header; 2006 4-WD Duramax Chev auto Silverado crew cab truck w/leather & sunroof; 1974 GMC 6000 3-ton grain truck w/wood box & roll tarp; 1966 IH 1500 grain truck w/steel box & hoist; 1987 Ford Lariat F-150 4-WD extended cab truck; 1976 GMC half ton truck; 2006 Ski-Doo Rotax 550F w/725-mi; Polaris Sportsman 800 quad w/winch & heated handle bars; Parker 400-bu grain cart; JD 7721 PT combine; Farm King steel drum swath roller; 30-ft Case 730 PT swather w/UII PU reel; 24-ft Vers PT swather; 29-ft IH 75 PT swather w/batt reel; 3, 3 wheeled header transports; 2, Goebel 4,400-bu bins on steel floors; Twister 4,000-bu bins on steel floor; Westeel 4,000bu bin on steel floor; Westeel 2,700-bu bin on steel floor; Westeel 1,950-bu bin on steel floor; Westeel 1,850-bu hopper bottom bin; Friesen 2,000-bu hopper bottom bin; Flaman & Caldwell aeration fans; OPI bin monitor system; Walinga 510 grain vac; Brandt MD 10-50 swing auger; Brandt 8-52 Supercharged PTO auger; Sakundiak 7-37 auger w/Kohler; Sakundiak 6-41 auger w/electric motor; Hart Uniflow 3 roller grain cleaner; Labtronics 919 grain moisture tester; Load Trail tandem axle car trailer; 2 steel 110-bu hopper wagons; 3-hyd dump wagons; 500-gal. poly tank on walking axles; 100-ft Brandt QF 1500 field sprayer; 85-ft Brandt field sprayer; 20-ft 3-PTH sprayer; 2, 1200-gal. poly water tanks; Chem Handler I mixer; banjo pumps & hoses, shopbuilt flax straw buncher; hyd. log splitter; front mount snow blower; 3-PTH 3 bottom plow; 3-PTH road scraper blade; 3-PTH 7-ft cultivator; 3-PTH Riteway mower; Charge Air 60-gal. air compressor; ATV floor jack; 20-ton air bottle jack; hyd porta power; plus a large complete line of shop tools. Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter. (306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962.

MACK AUCTION CO. presents a farm equipment auction for Stan & Carol Doughty (306)442-4785.

Wed., Apr 17, 2013 10:00am. Pangman, SK. Directions from the Junction of Hwy 6 & Hwy 13 go 6-mi North on Hwy 6 & 1.5-mi East. Watch for signs!

Live internet bidding www.Bidspotter.com. NH 9682 4-WD tractor; 2008 NH TV6070 bidirectional tractor & NH 82LB FEL w/only 750-hrs; JD 425 yard tractor w/PTO & 3-PTH; Case 195 lawn tractor w/mower & tiller; NH TR98 SP combine w/2,502-hrs; 30-ft Honey Bee 994 straight cut draper header; 30-ft MacDon 960 harvest draper header; MacDon header adapter for NH 6070 bidirectional tractor; straight cut header trailer; 1995 Willmar 785 Air Trak SP 85-ft sprayer w/2,896-hrs & 5.9 Cummins engine; Titan 12.4-42 set of four tires & rims; 1981 IH S1900 DSL tandem axle grain truck w/auto trans; 2003 Chev 2500 HD gas extended cab PU truck; 1972 GMC 5500 2-ton grain truck w/22,000-mi; 2007 18-ft Precision tandem axle flat deck bumper pull trailer w/7000 axles; Quick Way 16-ft triple axle grain trailer w/hyd dump; 43ft Harmon 4480 air drill & Harmon 3100 air tank w/double shoot; 70-ft Degelman Straw Master heavy harrow; 47-ft Morris Magnum II CP-743 DT cultivator; 32-ft JD 332 off set disc; Co-op 39-ft cultivator; Sakundiak HD8-1600 auger w/Wheatheart mover; Westfield 10-51 swing auger; Sakundiak 7-37 auger w/Kohler engine, Big Chief batch grain dryer; Sakundiak 4,300-bu hopper bottom bin; Friesen 60-Ton hopper bottom bin; Behlin 3,500-bu hopper bottom bin; temporary 6,500-bu hopper bottom ring; Rockomatic 12-ft rock rake; Speed Spred 1-ton fertilizer spreader; 1,000-gal., fuel tank w/electric pump; Chem Handler I; Floating slough pump w/1/2-mi of lay flat hose; Honda 3-in water pump; Briggs engine w/2-in banjo pump; 850-gal. oval water tank; NH pallet forks; JD disc parts; Generac 5500XL generator; Simonz 2900 PSI gas powered pressure washer; Trojan metal band saw; Sanborn upright air compressor, plus much more!

Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on Facebook and Twitter.

(306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962.

RODNEY & ADELIA FLUNDER AUCTION Churchbridge, SK. Sat., Apr 20th, 2013 11:00am Directions: 12 N ON #80 OF CHURCHBRIDGE OR 9-MI SOUTH OF WROXTON ON #80 CHURCHBRIDGE, SK. CONTACT: (306)896-2917. MACHINERY TRACTORS: 1979 JD 4640 DSL, cab, air, good inside rubber, 20.8x38 duels, quad shift, 3 hyd, rebuilt motor, hyd pump, 3,200-hrs ago, showing 10,000-hrs; JD 4020 cab, DSL, quad, 23.1x30 tires like new, recent clutch & PTO; AC 7045 DSL cab, air, PTO, (306)742-4744. COMBINES: 1979 MF #750 SP Combine (grey cab) cab, PU, chopper; 1976 MF #750 SP Combine cab, PU, chopper.

TRUCKS: 1976 Dodge 600 3-ton V8, 2-SPD, 8.25x20 tires, 15-ft. box, hoist, new clutch, good rubber; 1969 IH 3-ton box, hoist, power steering; *2003 Ford F150 XTR-4x4 4.6L V8 auto, loaded, 87,000-kms, real nice* 1997 Ford Truck, needs motor. TILLAGE: Morris 27-ft. deep tillage & harrows; Morris 24-ft. Challenger & harrows; Morris L320 32ft. cultivator & harrows. DISC: MF #40 18-ft. offset new front 24-in. blades & bearings, real good; SEEDING: IHC 24-ft. #620 press drills, rubber press. AUGERS: Westfield 8x51 PTO Auger hyd drive; Westfield 8x36 PTO Auger; Secundiak 7x41 ES motor. HAYING EQUIPMENT: (306)742-4744 NH 2003 HS 1475 18-ft. Haybine new pump, new auger, real good; JD 2003 567 Silage Special round baler moisture tester, megawide PU, 5000 bales, real nice; NH 404 Trailer hay conditioner; portable chute w/self locking headgate. CONSIGNMENT: 8x50 Brandt Swing-a-way; Rock-o-Matic PTO Stone Picker; 8-ft. Swath roller; Valmeer applicator 36 run & hoses (306)742-4744. JD 5 belt 3 roller PU (306)742-4744. Plus misc equipment, hopper & steel bins, yd, recreation, shop. Visit www.ukrainezauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851.

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MACK AUCTION CO. presents a large multi farm equipment auction for Eugene Fradette & the Estate of Dennis Cherpin Mon., Apr 15th, 2013 10:00am. Directions from Radville, SK. 4-mi South of Radville on Hwy 28 & 2-mi West. Watch for Signs! Live internet bidding at www.Bidspotter.co Vers 836 Designation 6 4WD tractor; JD 8430 4WD tractor w/PTO & 12-ft. dozer blade; JD 7520 4WD tractor w/PTO; Case 2394 tractor w/duals; JD 4440 2WD tractor w/4,343-hrs; JD 4010 2WD tractor w/JD 46 FEL & approx 800-hrs on overhaul; JD 180 lawn tractor; JD 7720 Titan II combine w/JD 212 PU header; 30-ft. JD 930 straight cut header; 29-ft.

Morris Maxim Air Drill w/Morris 7180 air cart & Atom Jet Side Band openers; JD 7721 PT combine; MF 760 SP combine; 30-ft. MF straight cut header; 24ft. MF straight cut header; 20-ft. Vers 400 SP swather; 24-ft. Vers PTO swather; 18-ft. Vers PTO swather; 1983 Chev C-70 grain truck; 1976 Dodge 600 grain truck w/39,100-mi; 1976 GMC 6500 grain truck w/34,215-mi; 1966 Dodge 500 grain truck w/steel box & roll tarp; 1966 Fargo 500 grain truck w/steel box & hoist; 1970 IH Loadstar 1600 grain truck w/wood box & 36,200-mi; 1980 Chev Cheyenne 1500 PU; 1980 GMC Scotsdale 1500 PU; 28ft. IH 150 hoe drills; 60-ft. Riteway harrows; 24-ft.

AC tandem disc; 37-ft. DT cultivator w/1655 Valmar & harrows; Morris CP-725 cultivator w/tine harrows; Morris B3-36 rod weeder; 32-ft. Massey cultivator, CCIL 18-ft. discers; Rolo Flex 16-ft. cultivator; JD steel wheel drill w/PWR lift; Leon 550 earth scraper; Riteway hyd 2 batt rock picker; Crown fork type rock picker; Varuna 6-in. PTO irrigation pump & pipe; Comet drill transport; Vers 1,000-gal tank trailer & pump; Vers poly tank on tandem trailer; Sakundiak HD 7-47 auger w/Kohler 16-HP engine; Sakundiak 7-47 auger w/16-HP engine; Sakundiak 7-45 auger w/16-HP Briggs engine; Farm King 7-40 auger w/Kohler engine; 2, Behlin 3,100-bu bins wood floors; 2, Westeel 2,000-bu bins steel floors; Westeel 4,000-bu bin steel floor; Westeel Twin Air 2,000-bu hopper bottom bin; Bader 2,000-bu hopper; Butler 2,700-bu bin wood floor; Twister 2,200bu wood floor; Metal Ind. 1,400-bu hopper bottom; Westeel 2,700-bu wood floor; Butler 2,700-bu bin wood floor, 3, Rosco 1,300-bu bins wood floors; Metal Ind. 3,300-bu bin wood; Rosco 1,650-bu on wood. Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter.

(306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962 We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if you want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba Cooperator classifieds. It’s a Sure Thing. Call our toll-free number today. We have friendly staff ready to help.

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FARM EQUIPMENT

Tuesday April 16th 8:30 a.m. C.S.T. Hwy # 3 East Tisdale Sask

ANNUAL SPRING EQUIPMENT AUCTION

8 Farm Dispersals to Date Be early misc 8:30 am C.S.T. machinery sells @ 9:30 C.S.T sharp Internet Bidding Starts 9:30 am C.S.T. on Machinery Check Website for Complete Listings

Darrel & Olga Rieder Of Yorkton SK

Wed. April 24th @ 11:00am

Ed & Darlene Antonio - The Pas Owners Phone 204-623-5919 or Cell 204-620-0505

Directions: FromYorkton go 8 Miles East on HWY 10 to Tonkin, then 2 Miles North

TRACTORS: 2008 NEW HOLLAND TJ330 4WD • DUETZ DX160 FWA • COMBINES: 2002 NEW HOLLAND TR99 • NEW HOLLAND TR96 • SWATHERS: 2009 MASSEY FERGUSON 9220 • CASE 6000 • SWATH ROLLERS: ROENDERS 10ft. • BLANCHARD 7ft. • GRAIN TRUCKS: INTERNATIONAL S2500 • CHEV C70 • AIR SEEDER: BOURGAULT 8800 - 40ft. w/ 8” Spacing • LIGHT TRUCK: 2002 FORD Ranger • CULTIVATORS: FLEXICOIL 800 - 35 ft. JOHN DEERE 1600 - 27ft. • HEAVY HARROW: RITE WAY 7100 - 50 ft. • HARROWPACKER BAR: FLEXICOIL System 92, 60ft. • SCRAPER: Three Yard Earth Mover w/hyds. • AUGERS: WHEATHEART 10”X71ft. • Two SAKUNDIAK 7” X 33ft. • 3 PT HITCH EQUIP • OTHER FARM, LAWN & GARDEN, & SHOP EQUIPMENT • Many Household & Misc. Items • GUEST CONSIGNERS: HAROLD DICKIE & PERRY FROEHLICH: Versatile 835 4WD • Wheatheart, Westfield & Sakundiak Augers • Flexicoil 5 Bar Harrow Bar For More Information, Visit our website or Call Hodgins Auctioneers

1-800-667-2075

TRACTORS* 2008 Case/IH 435 w/825 HRS, *86 JD 4450 COMBINE* 2009 Case/IH 7120 AFS, HEADER* 05 Case/IH 2062, 30ft SWATHER* 2006 MF 9220 25ft w/502 HRS AIR DRILL*04 JD 1820, 52ft update done HEAVYHARROW BAR *03 Bourg 7200, 60ft GRAIN TRUCKS* 92 Kenworth w/ 20ft box, *1977 Mack w/19ft Box, *75 Chev 3 ton GRAIN DRYER* Farmfan AB-180 CULTIVATOR* Flexicoil 300 B, 39ft TANDEM DISK* JD 32ft SPRAYER* Brandt 70ft GRAIN VAC* Conveyair 140,* Qty of Augers plus more. PARTIAL LISTING ONLY OF OTHER DISPERSALS: TRACTORS* JD 9400 & 9100,* JD 4650,*JD 8200 MFWDw/loader, JD 8650,*JD 8450,* JD 4630,* JD 4450,* 08 Steiger/Case/IH 435 *Case/IH 7120 M.F.W.D,*Case/IH 4494,*IHC 2388,* Case 2590,*Versatile 946,* NH-TM 130 M.F.W.D,* 2-1991 Deutz Allis 9150 M.F.W.D, COMBINES * 09 Case/ih 7120,*Case/IH 2188,*05 JD 9660 STS,*09 JD 9870,* 05 JD 9860,* PLUS MORE. SWATHERS* 2012 Premier M015 w/124hrs,* Premier 2940, 30ft,* MF 9220, 25ft,*Plus Air Drills,*Grain Trucks,* Heavy Harrowbars,*Sprayers.

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100% Family Owned & Operated Ph: 306-873-5488

Drayton, ND.

Saturday, April 20

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• Tractors • Trucks • Tillage • Sprayers • Row Crop • Headers • Recreational • Lawn & Garden.

Full listing after March 23rd on midwestauctions.com, Agweek, or Farm & Ranch. online bidding on major items.

hodginsauctioneers.com BUILDINGS AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post frame building company. For estimates and information call 1-888-816-AFAB(2322).

Website: www.postframebuilding.com

rudy & bev lekach Ituna, SK | Friday, April 19, 2013 · 10 am

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

AUTO & TRANSPORT 2009 VeRSAtiLe 2375

2002 WeStWARD 9352 30 Ft

2011 BouRgAuLt 8810 50 Ft

AUTO & TRANSPORT Auto & Truck Parts

Auction LocAtion: From ITUNA, SK, go 5 km (3.1 miles) North to the Jct of Hwy 15 & Hwy 52. First yard on West side OR From East side of LEROSS, SK, at the Jct of Hwy 35 & 15, go 27.3 km (17 miles) East to Jct Hwy 15 & 52. Yard on west side.

GPS: 51.2103139, -103.5050472

FOR SALE: 7.3L DSL engine w/rebuilt trans, taken from 1993 F350, engine runs well, approx 250,000-km, $1,200 OBO. Phone (204)745-7445.

A PARtiAL equiPment LiSt incLuDeS: 2009 Versatile 2375 4WD · 1996 John Deere 8200 2WD Tractor · Farmall M Utility Tractor · 2006 John Deere 9660STS Combine · 2002 Westward 9352 30 Ft Swather · 1986 Ford F800 S/A Grain Truck · 1994 Volvo T/A Grain Truck · 2011 Bourgault 8810 50 Ft Air Seeder · 2003 Ezee-On 2210 Tow-Behind Air Tank · John Deere 14 Ft Cultivator · 48 Ft Q/A Harrows · 1999 Degelman 7000 Strawmaster 50 Ft

NEW TRUCK ENGINE REBUILD kits, high quality Cummins, B&C series engines 3.9, 5.9, and 8.3, also IH trucks, great savings, our 39th year!

1-800-481-1353 www.diamondfarmtractorparts.com

Heavy Harrows · Morris 55 Ft Harrows · 1998 Flexi-Coil 65 80 Ft Field Sprayer · New Holland 273 Square Baler · 225± Bushel Gravity Grain Wagon · Moridge 8440 400± Bushel Batch LPG Grain Dryer · Sakundiak HD10-1800 10 In. x 60 Ft Mechanical Swing Grain Auger · Sakundiak HD8-1200 8 In. x 40 Ft Grain Auger · Sakundiak HD7-33 7 In. x 33 Ft Grain Auger · Sakundiak HD7-1400 7 In. x 47 Ft Grain Auger...AnD much moRe!

For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com Rudy Lekach: 306.795.2788

PARTING OUT TRUCKS: FORD CL9000, L800, L880, F350 Dually, also complete for restoration IHCB170. (204)685-2124, cell (204)871-2708

AUTO & TRANSPORT Trucks

Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager – Dan Steen: 306.361.6154 800.491.4494

2005 TMC SLE NEVADA edition Z71, 4 door crew cab, short box, 4WD, towing package, 97,000-km, very nice condition, safetied, asking $18,000.

Phone Dave (204)526-5298 or evenings (204)743-2145.

UNRESERVED PUBLIC FARM AUCTION

Robert & Carole Atkinson

Dysart, SK | Thursday, April 18, 2013 · 10am

1995 JOHN DEERE 8970

1997 JOHN DEERE 9600

AUCTION LOCATION: From DYSART, SK, go 9 km (5.6 miles) North on Grid 639. Yard on East side.

GPS: 51.0323056, -104.0306833 A PARTIAL EQUIPMENT LIST INCLUDES: 1995 John Deere 8970 4WD Tractor · 1997 John Deere 6400 MFWD Tractor · 1996 John Deere 9600 · 1999 John Deere 930 30 Ft Flex · 1996 Premier 2920

30 Ft Swather · 1986 Ford F150 · 1999 Doepker T/A Grain Trailer · 1996 Bourgault 8810 30 Ft Air Seeder · 1999 Apache 760 90 Ft Sprayer · Qty of Hopper Bins ...AND MUCH MORE!

For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com Rob Atkinson: 306.331.6990 (c), 306.432.2114 (h)

FARM MACHINERY Fertilizer Equipment

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

FERTILIZER SPREADERS 4-9 TON, large selection, $2000 up; 10 Ton tender, $2500. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com (204)857-8403, Portage La Prairie.

BEEKEEPING

FARM MACHINERY Grain Augers

BEEKEEPING Bee Equipment BEE HIVES FOR SALE, Nucs, frames of brood.

Phone (204)434-6918 or (204)392-0410, Grunthal.

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS

PRICE TO CLEAR!!

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

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

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

Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft.2 Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for archrib buildings BEAT THE PRICE INCREASES CALL NOW

FOUILLARD STEEL SUPPLIES LTD. ST. LAZARE, MB. 1-800-510-3303

BUSINESS SERVICES BUSINESS SERVICES Crop Consulting

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

Licensed Agrologist on Staff.

For more information Please call 1-866-882-4779

FOR SALE: 04 CHEVY 2500 4x4, 4-dr, gas, new safety, new steer tires, flat deck w/tool boxes, $8500. Phone:(204)871-0925.

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

AUTO & TRANSPORT Semi Trucks & Trailers

2007 TOREQ 18000 SCRAPER 18-yd $30,000.

Phone (701)521-0581.

Cornerstone Charolais & Red Angus Bull Sale April 20th, 1:30pm, Whitewood (SK) Auction Market.

Offering 25 Charolais & 33 Red Angus Yearling Bulls.

Semen tested, guaranteed w/free board & delivery available. Contact Kelly Brimner (306)577-7698, Phil Birnie (306)577-7440, or view the catalogue online at www.bylivestock.com FOR SALE: 1980 WESTERN Star Highway tractor.

Cummins engine, 13-spd, w/wet kit, 46000 rears, safetied, good running condition.

Phone (204)348-2064, cell (204)345-3610.

BUILDINGS

2008 BOBCAT T250 1,200-HRS CAH HiFlow Excellent Tracks $29,000. Phone (701)521-0581.

ENGINES ENGINE REBUILD KITS FOR most makes and models of tractors, great selection, thousands of parts! Service manuals, super savings, Our 39th year, www.diamondfarmtractorparts.com.

1-800-481-1353

BUILDINGS

FARM KING 13X70 HYD. mover, hyd winch, low profile hopper, excellent condition. Notre Dame.

Phone:(204)248-2364 or (204)723-5000.

FARM MACHINERY Grain Bins 552 REM VAC COMPLETE w/hoses & pipes, all offers. Phone (204)436-2067 or cell (204)745-0424.

BIG BINS & FLOORS at old prices, 20,000-56,000bu. bins holding prices until spring. NEW MOISTURE CABLES! Call Wall Grain for details (204)269-7616 or (306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.

CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.

Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103 or E-mail Requests binmovers@hotmail.com CUSTOM GRAIN BIN MOVING, any kind of bin, up to 19-ft. diameter, reasonable rates. Phone (204)648-7129 or e-mail breckner@goinet.ca Grandview, MB. SUKUP GRAIN BINS Flatbottom or hopper, heavy duty, setup crews available, winter pricing now in effect. Call for more info Vince (204)998-9915 WESTEEL GRAIN BINS, EXTENSIONS & parts, 19-ft roof panels $35 each. 14-ft roof panels $20.

Steel & plastic culverts. Colorad & galvanized metal roofing & siding. 108 bin sheets $35. Galvanized flat steel sheets 4x8, 4x10. (204)257-3634.

FARM MACHINERY Grain Dryers NEW SUKUP GRAIN DRYERS w/Canola screens, LP/ NG, 1PH/3PH, Various sizes, Winter pricing now in effect. Call for more info Vince (204)998-9915 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.

FARM MACHINERY Grain Handling

AGRI-VACS

Tired of shovelling out your bins, unhealthy dust and awkward augers?

Walinga manufactures a complete line of grain vacs to suit your every need. With no filters to plug and less damage done to your product than an auger, you’re sure to find the right system to suit you. Call now for a free demonstration or trade in your old vac towards a new WALINGA AGRI-VACS Fergus, ON: (519) 787-8227 Carman, MB: (204) 745-2951 Davidson, SK: (306) 567-3031

FARM MACHINERY Haying & Harvesting – Baling 1999 NH MODEL 590 square baler. Med squares 35x32-in bales, only 7000 bales, always shedded.

Asking $26,000 OBO. Phone (204)967-2157, Kelwood.

FOR SALE: JD 567 Baler, silage special, megawide PU w/hyd lift, bale kicker, 1000 PTO, $15,500; JD 930 disc bine, 11.5-ft wide, 1000 PTO, $5500; 10-wheel V rake, 3-PTH, $2500. Call Don (204)873-2430.

NH BR750, 4X6 BALES, auto-wrap, bale monitor, wide p/u, always shedded, in excellent condition.

Phone (204)782-1336 or (204)269-5317.

Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager – Dan Steen: 306.361.6154 800.491.4494

Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds.

Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our friendly staff, and don’t forget to ask about our prepayment bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free!

1-800-782-0794.

AUTO & TRANSPORT Vehicles Various

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Roofing

SK PL # 915407 • AB PL # 180827

Unreserved pUblic farm aUction

Toll Free: 1-866-873-5488 Fax: 306-873-5492 Box 2199, Tisdale, SK S0E 1T0 Email: bruce@sasktel.net

9TH ANNUAL SPRING EQUIPMENT AUCTION

We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if you want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba Cooperator classifieds. It’s a Sure Thing. Call our toll-free number today. We have friendly staff ready to help.

1-800-782-0794.

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FARM MACHINERY Haying & Harvesting – Various

FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories

Rebuilt Concaves

NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS NEW COMBINE PARTS

Rebuild combine table augers Rebuild hydraulic cylinders Roller mills regrooved MFWD housings rebuilt Steel and aluminum welding Machine Shop Service Line boreing and welding

Large Inventory of new and remanufactured parts

SEED CLEANING

Check out A & I online parts store www.pennosmachining.com

Heads Up

STEINBACH, MB. Ph. 326-2443

Combines

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

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Case/IH

FARM MACHINERY Salvage

1985 CASE IH 1480, 3,950 engine hrs, new front tires, 2 sets concaves, chopper, rock trap, specialty rotor, 12-ft. PU header w/large auger, always stored inside, must see, $26,000 OBO. Call Clint (204)822-9861.

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

FOR SALE: 2005 CASE IH 8010 combine, AWD, 45-32 front tires, means 45-in wide, 28Lx26 rear tires, approx 1950-separator hrs w/spreader & chopper, 30-ft draper header, $150,000; 2008 Case IH 8010, AWD, 45-32 front tires, 28Lx26 rear tires, spreader & chopper, approx 800-separator hrs, w/30-ft flex draper header, $250,000.

Phone:(204)871-0925.

FARM MACHINERY Combine – John Deere 1997 JD 9600, COMPLETE w/Trelleborg tires, always shedded, field ready, $65,000 OBO. Phone:(204)745-8333.

Combine ACCessories FARM MACHINERY Combine – Accessories CIH FLEX: 2010 CIH 2020 35-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A, like new $28,500; 2007 CIH 2020 30-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $24,500; 2001 CIH 1020 30-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $14,900; 1999 CIH 1020 30-ft., Crary Air Reel, PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $16,500; 1995 CIH 1020 30-ft., Crary Air Reel, PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $12,500; 2000 CIH 1020 25-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $11,900; 1993 CIH 1020 25-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids $7,500. Most of the above flex platforms are reconditioned. Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB www.reimerfarmequipment.com JD FLEX: 2004 JD 635 Hydra Flex 35-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/, $18,900; 2011 JD 635 Hydra Flex 35-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A, Low Acs, $33,500; 2003 JD 930F 30-ft. Crary Air Reel, FF Auger, PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $19,500; 2001 JD930F 30-ft., FF Auger, PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $15,900; 1996 JD 930 30-ft, Crary Air Reel, PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A, $14,500; 2001 JD 925F 25-ft., FF Auger, PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $14,500; 1996 JD 925 25-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $11,500; 1992 JD 925 25ft., Steel Points, PU Reel, Poly Skids, $6,900. Most of the above flex platforms are reconditioned.

Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB www.reimerfarmequipment.com

PARTING OUT TRACTORS: CASE 930, 1270, Cockshutt 30, MM-U, also cultivators, harrows, seed drills, some older trucks, misc hyd cyl., some combine parts, older swathers, etc. (204)685-2124 cell (204)871-2708.

TRACTORS FOR PARTS: IHC 1486, 1086, 886, 1066, 966, 1256, 656, 844, 806, 706, 660, 650, 560, 460, 624, 606, 504, 434, 340, 275, 240-4, W9, WD6, W6, W4, H, 340, B-414; CASE 4890, 4690, 2096, 2394, 2390, 2290, 2090, 2470, 1370, 1270, 1175, 1070, 970, 870, 1030, 930, 830, 730, 900, 800, 700, 600, 400, DC4, SC; MF 2745, 1805, 1155, 1135, 1105, 1100, 2675, 1500, 1085, 1080, 65, Super 90, 88, 202, 44, 30; JD 8640, 3140, 6400, 5020, 4020, 3020, 4010, 3010, 710; Cockshutt 1900, 1855, 1850, 1800, 1655, 1650, 560, 80, 40, 30; Oliver 66; White 4-150, 2-105; AC 7060, 7045, 7040, 190XT, 190, 170, WF; Deutz DX130, DX85, 100-06, 90-06, 80-05, 70-06; Volvo 800, 650; Universal 651, 640; Ford 7600, 6000, 5000, Super Major, Major; Belarus 5170, 952, 825, 425, MM 602, U, M5; Vers 700, 555, 145, 118; Steiger 210 Wildcat; Hesston 780. Also have parts for combines, swathers, square & round balers, tillage, press drills, & other misc machinery. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free 1-877-858-2728 .

FARM MACHINERY Potato & Row Crop Equipment DAHLMAN 6-ROW, CUP STYLE potato planter; Better Built potato seed cutter. Also assorted potato equipment. Ph (204)757-2887, spudway@mts.net

Spraying EquipmEnt FARM MACHINERY Sprayers 1990 ALL CROP SPRAYER, mounted on 1982 Ford 700 Truck 4x4, 13.6x24 tractor tires, 66,800-km, 96-ft. boom, 1000 US gal tank, MicroTrak spray controller, Raven guidance, good condition, $15,500. Phone (204)736-2840, Brunkild.

Willmar Explorer 6400, 2,900-hrs Midtech autorate, Outback mapping, autosteer & autoboom shutoff (5 sections), 2 sets of tires, skinny & floater tires each w/factory rims, 3 way nozzle body’s, 80-ft boom. Good shape. Asking $35,000 OBO. If you have any questions please contact (204)874-2279, leave a message.

FARM MACHINERY Spray Various HIGH CLEARANCE AJSHIELD SPRAYER 1500 US gallons, w/JD 90-ft suspended boom, 3 sets of nozzles, variable auto-rate controller. Asking $7500 OBO; JD 24-ft rubber press drill, $600.

(204)373-2502.

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

FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories

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

Tractors Combines Swathers

FYFE PARTS

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

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

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

Tillage & Seeding FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Air Drills 36-FT & 44-FT JD 730’s w/787 carts, $18,000$19,000; 787 carts $12,000- $14,000. 57-ft. Flexicoil 5000 w/2320 cart, 1-in. knife, 3-in. rubber, $23,500. Can deliver. Brian (204)856-6119 or (204)685-2896, MacGregor, MB.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Air Seeders BOURGAULT 8800 36-FT. 3/4-IN Bourgault knock on carbide knives, packers, 4 bar harrows, 3165 tank, 8-in. spacing, new manifolds & hoses 2012.

(204)378-0030, (204)364-2337, Arborg, MB.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Seeding 06 JD 1770 NT 16-30in planter. 2x2 liquid fertilizer w/Yetter all wheel steer caddie. 3-bu hoppers, Esets, row cleaners. Excellent condition, always shedded. $76,000US. Phone:(218)773-8160 or (701)741-7957. Grand Forks, MN. JD 7000 8 ROW, 30-in., Finger PU, Dry Fert. Att., Markers, Monitor, $10,000; JD 7200 Vacuum, 16 Row, 30-in., Front Fold, Markers, 3-bu, Insecticide, Markers, Yetter Row Cleaners, $23,500; JD 7200 Vacuum, 16 Row, 30-in., Front Fold, Liquid Fert.

Att., Markers, Monitor, $26,500. Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB www.reimerfarmequipment.com YELLOW BLOSSOM CLOVER, a yard full of bales & a field full of Nitrogen as a bonus. Flat & Y.B. excel on breaking, & can save 3-yrs of costly “N”. Also starts, clean new pastures w/hiq Nitrogen Boost.

Perk up old perennial pastures by overseeding w/clover, packaging w/bags & totes April. D WHITE SEEDS Ph (204)822-3649, Morden.

SEED CLEANING

Treat your Soybean Seed for White Mold

Penno’s Machining & Mfg. Ltd. Eden, MB 204-966-3221 Fax: 204-966-3248

SEED CLEANING

Heads Up® Seed Treatment EPA Reg. 81853-1 Soybean Alert: Seed treatment product now available for the suppression of White Mold in Soybeans.

Proven results with over 7 years of testing at Iowa State University by Dr. XB Yang White Mold Seed Treatment. Heads Up® seed treatment (by Heads Up Plant Protectants Inc.) OMRI approved for Organic Use. Economical and effective.

EPA Registered seed treatment for Soybeans Can be mixed in with other products or applied over top of seed already treated.

Call Toll free Heads Up Plant 866-368-9306 or Visit www.rightonseed.com FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Tillage

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – John Deere

FLEXICOIL 49-FT MODEL 800 chisel plow. 650-lb trips, 19-in spacing, harrows, Raven NH3 & distribution kit, Atom-Jet non-freezing blades. $35,000.

Phone:(204)842-5251 or Cell:(204)847-0188. Birtle, MB.

FOR SALE: 7130 MFWD, PQ, LHR, 3pt, 3hyd; 6400 MFWD, PQ, RHS, 3pt, 2,00-hrs; 7410 MFWD, PQ RHS, 3pt w/740 loader; (2) 4650 MWFD, 15 spd, 3pt, factory duals; (2) 4455 MFWD, 3pt, 15 spd; 3155 MWFD, 3pt, w/loader; 2955 MWFD, 3pt, w/wo loader; 4430 Quad, 3pt, painted; 8760 7,800-hrs, quad, 4 hyd, couplers, quad range trans., 16 spd; JD 725 FEL. All tractors can be sold w/new or used loaders. MITCH’S TRACTOR SALES LTD Box 418 St. Claude, MB R0G 1Z0 Phone:(204)750-2459.

WANTED: SUNFLOWER-MORRIS EXPRESS DISC Airdrill, 40-45-ft in width, in good shape.

Phone Days Cell:(204)526-5298 or Evenings (204)743-2145.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Various 2004 JD 2410 CHISEL Plow 43-ft. Single Point Depth JD Harrows $32,000. Phone (701)521-0581.

2008 BOURGAULT 7200 HEAVY Harrow 84-ft. $38,000. Phone (701)521-0581.

80 USED 4-IN. PAIRED ROW DUTCH openers (bodies & tips) VGC, $80. Phone (204)648-4945.

FLEXI-COIL 33-FT 5000 AIR drill, 7.2-in spacing, rubber packers, factory markers, recent 3/4-in Atom Jet openers, 1720 TBH air tank, 3-metre rollers, good shape.

Phone:(204)836-2406, cell (204)825-7260.

JD 1610 DEEP TILLER 25-ft. Walking axles all around, 3 row Degelman harrows, rear hitch, good shape. $4,850 OBO. Clint (204)362-4532 or (204)822-9861.

JD 9350 40-FT. PRESS drill, factory transport, markers, rubber & bearings on packer wheels refurbished in 2012. (204)378-0030, (204)364-2337, Arborg, MB. RETIRED, HAVE FOR SALE: Green-lighted JD7800 MFWD tractor w/GPS; 36-ft Continental Anhydrous applicator on Morris cultivator frame w/mounted harrows; 54-ft Morris 4-bar harrows; 18ft Ezee-On model 400 heavy disc; 30-ft JD 9450 press hoe drill. Wilmot Milne (204)385-2486, cell (204)212-0531, Gladstone MB.

TracTors FARM MACHINERY Tractors – White FOR SALE: 2-105 WHITE tractor, complete new engine & frame 10-hrs ago, rear tires approx 80%, LPTO, the high-low shift, nice tractor, $9500.

Phone:(204)871-0925.

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Case/IH 1995 CIH 4240 OS, MFWD, 3-PT, Dual PTO, 85-HP, Allied 595 Loader, 2,215-hrs., $24,500. Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB www.reimerfarmequipment.com

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – John Deere 1982 JD 4040 2-WD tractor. 90 PTO hp, cab, air, heat, factory 3-PTH, triple hyd., power shift transmission, 5200-hrs, in excellent cond.

(204)886-7009, (204)886-2245, Teulon.

1991 JD 8560 4WD, 20.8x38 duals, 24-SPD trans., diff. lock, 4 hyd., 7,567-hrs. $39,900. Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB www.reimerfarmequipment.com

JD 8650 Tractor 4 hyd. outlets, 1000 PTO, rubber vg: Firestone 7000 radials 20.8x38 duals, new radiator, very good condition. Call Daniel (204)526-2746 home or (204)526-5257 cell katvd13@hotmail.com JD TRACTORS, SPECIALIZING IN quality engine rebuild kits, great selection, thousands of parts, super savings, Our 39th year, 1-800-481-1353 www.diamondfarmtractorparts.com

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – New Holland 1995 NH 6640SLE CAB, air, 3-pt, MFWD, dual PTO, Allied 694 Loader, joystick, grapple, 4,531-hrs, $28,900.

Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB www.reimerfarmequipment.com

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Versatile

MATEYCHUK FARM SALES

Tractors (4wd)

• 1983 steiger st280 • 1990 versatile 900

Haying

• jd 2004-2009 discbines • nh 2000-2009 discbines • nh 688,780a,7090 balers • case,vermeer,challenger balers • jd&nh moco • 3pt & trailer v rakes

Construction

• cat 922b loader • jd 644b loader • jd 325 skidsteer

2wd & mfwd

• ihc 5288 • ihc 986 w loader • ihc 784 w loader • ihc b414

2wd & mfwd

• jd 4555 mfwd • ford tw135 mfwd • jd MT restored

Skid attatchments • brushmower, snowblower, buckets,palle t& hay forks

Misc.

• aloe 790 loader w mounts • nh manure spreader • meyer vertical manure spreader • new 20’ cattle trailer

Tillage

• jd 3100&3600 plows • jd 331 30’ disc •jd 16’deep tiller • farm king 70’hyd harrows

Dealer for Diamond C Trailers All types of trailers ( dump,carhaulers,utility,gooseneck )

1982 855 VERS. 9,042-HRS showing, 20.8x38 tires, w/approx 60% rubber left.

Phone: (204)763-8846 or Cell: (204)721-0940

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – 2 Wheel Drive 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 – 4 Wheel Drive

BEST PRICES IN CANADA 204-425-3518 204-381-9044 For Full Listings Visit Our Website

www.sites.google.com/site/mateychukbrothers/home

40-FT JD 1050 FIELD cultivator, 3-row mulchers, like-new shovels, $3500; 90-ft Powermatic, diamond harrows, $2200; 80-ft Powermatic, tine harrows, heavy coil, $3200; 24-ft JD press drill, rubber packers, plus 16-ft JD drill for parts, grass seeders; 18-ft Drill-fill, $500; All items in good cond. & ready to use. Phone:(204)373-2502, pls lv msg.

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Various

DEGELMAN 70-FT. HEAVY HARROW, $20,000; Summers 70-ft, $14,000; Phoenix 42-ft, $9,500; 52ft, $12,000; Kewannee breaking disc 12-ft, $18,000; JD 330 22-ft. $9500; Bushog 21-ft, $7,000; Krause 16-ft., $5000; John Deere 15-ft, $5,000; Scrapers JD 12-yd, $12,000; Crown 6-yd, $5,000; Soilmover 7.5-yd, $7500; Ashland 4.5-yd, $4,500; New Landlevellers 10-ft, $2,250; 12-ft, $2,450; 3-PH rotary ditcher, $1250; Haybuster 256 shredder, $6000.

Phone (204)857-8403.

NEW TRACTOR PARTS AND specializing in engine rebuild kits, great selection, super savings! Not all parts online, service manuals and decals, Our 39th year, www.diamondfarmtractorparts.com 1-800-481-1353

GOOD QUALITY UPRIGHT PIANO & MISC HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE; Pull-type sprayer, 67ft, good condition, always shedded; 24-ft pull-type swather, good condition. Always shedded. Phone (204)837-4970.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

2011 VERS. 435 TRACTOR. 300-hrs, 800x38 Firestone tires, 4 hyd, deluxe cab, like new, w/complete JD auto-steer. $196,000US. Phone:(701)741-7957 or (218)773-8160. Grand Forks, MN.

SITTLER

®

Compost Turners, Spreaders, Screeners, Baggers

1993 JD MODEL 6300 MFWD, open station, c/w 640 self levelling JD loader, good rubber, excellent condition, $22,500 OBO. Phone (204)967-2157, Kelwood.

Brent Hansen Environmental

1995 JD 7200 MWFA, 740 loader & bucket, 3-PTH, 12,355-hrs, 13.6x28 front, 18.4x38 rear, tractor excellent condition, $29,800. Phone (204)448-2348.

204-726-3335 www.globalrepair.ca

83 JD 4650 JD 4650 MFWD, POWER SHIFT, 7,562HRS., 18.4-42 DUALS, 16.9-28 FRONT TIRES, 3 PT QUICK HITCH, CLEAN TRACTOR, $29,900. Phone (204)324-7781 or (204)324-5194.

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FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Angus

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Salers

SKIDSTEERS GEHL #4510 $7,000; NH865 $12,900; Gehl #6625 $12,900; Snowblowers: JD 7-ft $1,500, International 7-ft $1,500: Schweiss 8-ft single auger $800; Scrapers Crown 6-yd $5,000; Fieldmaster 4-yd $3,900; New 10-ft Land Levellers $2,250, 12-ft $2,450; 3PH 9-ft blade $900; Used 7-ft 3PH blade $600; 11-ft 3PH rotary ditcher $1,250; Woods 6-ft pull-type mower $1,600, JD 5-ft $1,000, NH 9-ft sicle mower $2,200 IH Mirmill $1,500; Henke 36-in rollermill $5,000; 20-in rollermill $2,000. Phone:(204)857-8403

ANGUS PINE FARM HAS yearling Black & Red Angus bulls for sale. Semen tested & delivered, we also have 4 bulls at the MB Bull Test Station, Sale April 6th.

Check them out at www.manitobabulltest.com , Also yearling purebred heifers for sale, call Peter or Florence Petrash (204)425-7765, Sun-down.

YEARLING & 2-YR OLD polled Salers bulls for sale. Sons of the top performing sires in Canada.

Red or Black, hand fed & quiet, birth weights from 79lbs. www.sweetlandsalers.com or Phone:(204)762-5512

GRAVITY WAGONS NEW 400B, $7,100; 600B, $12,000; Used wagons 250-750 Bu, tarps available; Used grain carts 450-1050 Bu; Ez475 Bu, $7900; JM 875 Bu, $20,000; Kwik Kleen grain screeners 5 tube, $3500; 7 tube, $6500; Dual stage screeners, $1500 up; Rem 552 grain vac, $3500; Rem 2500 vac, $9500; Valmar applicator, $850. Phone (204)857-8403.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Wanted LOOKING FOR SMALL SQUARE balers & pulltype swathers, end-wheel drills. Phone (204)325-4526, ask for Corny.

WANTED: 1960-1966 CHEVROLET TRUCKS or parts; Old steel wheel seed drill; WALLIS tractor parts & Massey Harris U frame tractor parts pacemaker & 25. Phone:(204)826-2554.

WANTED: DEUTZ 100-06 TRACTOR for parts & round bale tubulater; Also wanted, hopper for 14-ft steel bin.

Phone (204)278-3438, Inwood.

WANTED: NH 8500 ROUND bale wagon. Phone (406)883-2118

HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING

The Icynene Insulation System® • Sprayed foam insulation • Ideal for shops, barns or homes • Healthier, Quieter, More Energy Efficient®

RED & BLACK ANGUS bulls, 2 yr old, semen tested & guaranteed. Triple V Ranch Dan at (204)665-2448 cell (204)522-0092, Matt at (204)264-0706.

ROHAN ANGUS HAS ON offer Black & Red 2-yr old bulls, no seconds all 2-yr olds. Phone (204)467-5093 after 7 pm. Stonewall, MB.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Black Angus 3 2-YR OLD BLACK Angus bulls w/experience. Also, Yearling Black Angus bulls. Holloway Angus.

Souris, Manitoba. Phone: (204)741-0070 or (204)483-3622.

BLACK ANGUS BULL, 3-YR old, used on cows & heifers, $2,200. Also 1 Goodyear tire 20.8Rx38 & two 16.9Rx28. Good tires, just taken off. $150/each. Phone:(204)886-2083.

BOTANY ANGUS FARM & Leaning Spruce Stock Farm have for sale yearling & 2 yr old Black Angus bulls. Come early, a deposit will hold your purchase until Spring. For more info & prices contact Ryan Shearer (204)824-2151 or (204)761-5232.

CRANBERRY CREEK ANGUS BULLS for sale on the farm. Bulls are registered, will be semen tested.

Choose now, we will deliver at the end of April.

Hand fed for longevity, not pushed, these bulls have a great disposition. A.I. sired by Pioneer, Final Answer, Coalition, Mohnen Dynamite, Game Day, natural sires are S Square Tiger & Cranberry Creek Networth. All EPD’s & weights available. For more info please call David & Jeanette Neufeld (204)534-2380, Boissevain.

FORAGE BASED BLACK ANGUS Bulls. Virgin 2-yr olds & herd sires available. Phone: (204)564-2540. www.nerbasbrosangus.com

www.penta.ca

1-800-587-4711

IRON & STEEL FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS, Feeders & Alley ways, 30ft or order to size. Oil Field Pipe: 1.3, 1.6, 1.9, 1 7/8, 2-in, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2. Sucker Rod: 3/4, 7/8, 1. Casing Pipes: 4-9inch. Sold by the piece or semi load lots. For special pricing call Art (204)685-2628 or cell (204)856-3440.

FULL LINE OF COLORED & galvanized roofing, siding & accessories, structural steel, tubing, plate, angles, flats, rounds etc. Phone:1-800-510-3303, Fouillard Steel Supplies Ltd, St Lazare.

LIVESTOCK LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

REGULAR SALE

FOR SALE: POLLED BLACK Angus & Hereford bulls. Good selection of yearlings & 2-yr olds, semen tested & delivery available. Call Don: (204)873-2430.

FOR SALE: REGISTERED BLACK Angus yearling bulls. Moderate framed w/good dispositions, EPD’s avail., will be semen tested & delivered. Blood lines include Kodiak, KMK Alliance, Peacemaker, Aberdeen, Pioneer, Final Product, Dynamite. Also registered open heifers. Phone Colin at Kembar Angus (204)725-3597, Brandon MB. GOOD SELECTION OF 2 yr old & yearling Black Angus bulls; Also Black X Simm hybrid bulls. Guaranteed breeders. Semen tested. B/B Duncan (204)556-2348 (204)556-2342, Cromer.

GREENBUSH ANGUS HAS YOUR next herd sire ready to go. Top AI sired offspring by SAV density, SAV Providence, S Chism, Harb Windy, Nichols Quiet Lad & TC Aberdeen. All bulls are semen tested & ready to go, delivery available. Cal Tim Baker:(204)966-3320 or Cell:(204)476-6040.

N7 STOCK FARM HAVE 30 top quality yearling Black Angus bulls for sale by private treaty. Sired by some of the Breed’s leading AI sires, bulls are developed on a homemade oat ration & free choice hay. Performance records available, will be semen tested, delivery available. Contact Gerald & Wendy Nykoliation (204)562-3530 or Allan’s cell (204)748-5128.

NEXT SHEEP & GOAT SALE

WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD PB Black Angus bulls for sale. Check out our bull catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. Phone Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.

BRED COW SALE

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Red Angus

Every Friday 9AM

Wednesday, April 17 @ 1:00 pm

Monday, April 22 Gates Open: Mon.-Wed. 8AM-4PM Thurs. 8AM-10PM Friday 8AM-6PM Sat. 8AM-4PM We Will Buy Cattle Direct On Farm For more information call: 204-694-8328 Jim Christie 204-771-0753 Scott Anderson 204-782-6222 Mike Nernberg 204-841-0747

www.winnipeglivestocksales.com Licence #1122

GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK AUCTION MART. LTD. Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519

GRUNTHAL, MB.

AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING

REGULAR CATTLE SALES with Holstein Calves every TUESDAY at 9 am

Saturday, April 13th Wilkinridge Stock Farm Bull Sale at 1:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 20th Bred Cow & Heifer Sale at 10:00 a.m.

Saturday, April 27th Horse & Tack Sale at 10:00 a.m.

Monday, April 29th Sheep and Goat Sale with Small Animals at 12:00 Noon

Sales Agent for

HIQUAL INDUSTRIES

We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural products for your livestock needs. (protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc) For on farm appraisal of livestock or for marketing information please call

Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250 Auction Mart (204) 434-6519 MB. Livestock Dealer #1111

WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM

2 YR OLD BULLS PB not papered, $1,800 each.

Phone (204)371-6404, Ste Anne.

2-YR OLD RED ANGUS bulls, performance & calving ease. Bulls will be semen tested, delivery available. Ph (204)278-3372 or (204)485-1490, Inwood.

Cornerstone Red Angus & Charolais Bull Sale April 20th, 1:30pm, Whitewood (SK) Auction Market.

Offering 33 Red Angus & 25 Charolais Yearling Bulls.

Semen tested, guaranteed w/free board & delivery available. Contact Phil Birnie (306)577-7440, Kelly Brimner (306)577-7698 or view the catalogue online at www.bylivestock.com REG RED ANGUS BULLS for sale. 7, 2 yr olds; 1, 3 yr old; 1, 4 yr old. Proven breeders, 250 heifers can’t be wrong. Jim Abbott (204)745-3884 or cell (204)750-1157, Carman.

REG RED ANGUS BULLS for sale both yearlings & 2 yr olds. Also have bred cows & cow/calf pairs for sale. Phone (204)641-5725, Arborg, MB. WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM ANNUAL Bull Sale Sat., Apr 13th, 1:00pm at Grunthal Auction Mart.

Featuring 10 Red yearling Maine-Anjou bulls; 1 Black 2 yr old Maine bull; 7 Black yearling Maine bulls; 19 yearling Red Angus bulls. All bulls are polled, performance tested & will have passed breeding evaluation. Bulls are selected for growth, breeding soundness, calving ability & structural correctness. Bulls can be viewed online at www.wilkinridge.blogspot.ca For more info or sale catalogue Contact Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631 WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD PB Red Angus bulls for sale. Check out our bull catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. Phone Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Charolais CLINE CATTLE COMPANY has for sale purebred yearling Charolais bulls. Quiet, good feet, will be semen tested & guaranteed.

Call Brad (204)537-2367 or Cell (204)523-0062.

Cornerstone Charolais & Red Angus Bull Sale April 20th, 1:30pm, Whitewood (SK) Auction Market.

Offering 25 Charolais & 33 Red Angus Yearling Bulls.

Semen tested, guaranteed w/free board & delivery available. Contact Kelly Brimner (306)577-7698, Phil Birnie (306)577-7440, or view the catalogue online at www.bylivestock.com DEFOORT STOCK FARM HAS an excellent group of registered Charolais bulls for sale by private treaty. Over 40 bulls on offer, 20 of them are Red. Choose your bull early for best selection. All bulls performace tested, semen tested & delivered. Visit us online at www.defoortstockfarm.com Celebrating 33-yrs in Charolais. Call us at (204)743-2109.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Charolais FOR SALE: 2-YR OLD Purebred Charolais bulls.

Polled, colored & white, quiet, $2,250 -$2,500.

Wayne Angus:(204)764-2737.

FOR SALE: PUREBRED CHAROLAIS bulls, 1-1/2 yr olds & yearlings, polled, some red factor, some good for heifers, semen tested, guaranteed & delivered, R & G McDonald Livestock, Sidney MB. Phone:(204)466-2883, cell (204)724-2811.

FOR SALE: PUREBRED YEARLING & 2-yr old Charlois bulls, semen tested & guaranteed. Wawanesa, MB. Phone:(204)824-2115.

FOR SALE: RED, POLLED, 2 yr old & yearling bulls. Developed on a growing ration. Birth weights as low as 63-lbs. We also have bulls at Douglas Test Station. Check out our website at www.poplarparkfarm.com (204)764-2382.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Simmental

Swine

CONRAY CATTLE CO. HAS for sale 2-yr old & yearling polled red factor bulls. These bulls are quiet, structurally sound & have great hair coats.

They are sired by a proven calving ease sire. They will be semen tested & delivered. Connor:(204)825-2140 or Gayle:(204)825-0163.

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

TRIPLE T DIAMOND SIMMENTALS has Fullblood Fleckvieh, Red & Black Simmental Bulls for sale on the farm. Bulls also consigned to Cattle Country Sale April 9th in Neepawa, MB view catalogue at www.transconlivestock.com, Lundar Bull Sale April 20th, view catalogue at www.buyagro.com, For more info, call Stewart (204)762-6156, cell (204)739-8301 Wade (204)762-5492 cell (204)739-3225 www.tripletdiamondsimmentals.com YEARLING & SEVERAL 2 yr old PB Simm bulls.

Reds & Blacks. Thick & Solid coloured w/moderate birth weights. Sired by A.I. Sires: IPU Revolution, In Due Time & Colossal. Semen tested & ready to go. $2,250-3,000. Valley Field Simm Larry Dyck, Morden. Phone evenings (204)822-3657.

For Sale: Red, Polled, Simmental Bulls

MARTENS CHAROLAIS EXCELLENT YEARLING & 2-yr old bulls for sale. Dateline sons for calving ease & performance. Specialist sons for consistent thickness. 3-yr old Red Mist son. Call Ben (204)534-8370.

FOR SALE: GALLOWAY BULLS. Purebred yearlings & 2-yr olds. Blacks & Duns now available. Willow-Mar Farms. Tom Morrish -Devlin, Ont. Phone:(807)486-3622.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Gelbvieh FOR SALE: PUREBRED RED yearling Gelbvieh bulls, quiet, semen tested & guaranteed. Phone (204)745-7718 or (204)745-7811.

POLLED RED & BLACK Gelbvieh bulls, yearling, 2-yr old. Semen tested & delivered. Also 10-15 commercial yearling heifers. Call Maple Grove Gelbvieh (204)278-3255.

SELIN’S GELBVIEH FARM, RED & Black Polled yearling bulls, semen tested & also selling bulls at PGA sale in Moosejaw. Call Wayne (306)793-4568.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Hereford 12 OPEN DE-HORNED YEARLING hereford heifers. Call (306)743-5105 or www.vcherefordfarm.com Langenburg, SK. FOR SALE: EXCELLENT SELECTION of yearling & 2-yr old purebred, polled Hereford bulls. Good performance, tie broke, quiet, up to date on vaccinations. Will deliver & winter until May 1st. Can be viewed online at www.rocknabh.com. Call Allan /Bonnie at (204)764-0364 or Kevin/Holly at (204)764-0331.

FOR SALE: POLLED HEREFORD & Black Angus bulls. Good selection of yearlings & 2-yr olds, semen tested & delivery available. Call Don: (204)873-2430.

FOR SALE: REGISTERED HORNED Hereford bulls, 2-yr old & yearlings. Semen tested & delivered. Phone M. Wilson:(204)246-2142.

FOR SALE: REGISTERED POLLED Hereford bulls, reasonably priced, pick your bulls now, will winter to end of April. Call Martin (204)425-3820 or Lenard (204)425-3809.

GOOD SELECTION OF POLLED hereford yearling bulls. Call Vern Kartanson (204)867-2627 or (204)867-7315.

QUALITY PUREBRED POLLED QUIET bulls. 2 5-yr old herd Sires. 1 herd Sire from Crittenden herd in SK. 1 from our Grand Champion Lacombe bull in AB. 1 2-yr old horned bull purebred no papers, extremely thick & deep, heavy quarters from our heavy milking polled cow. 3 yearling polled bulls sired by our reserved senior bull from Toronto Royal Fair. Thick beef, good round butts. All bulls from heavy-milking purebred no-papered dams. 53-yrs breeding Herefords. Phone Francis Poulsen (204)436-2284, cell (204)745-7894.

REG POLLED HEREFORD BULLS, good selection of coming 2 yr olds, naturally developed, quiet, broke to tie, guaranteed, delivery available. Catt Brothers (204)723-2831 Austin, MB.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Limousin AMAGLEN LIMOUSIN BULLS FOR sale. Red, black, performance or calving ease, polled, w/all weights recorded, Semen tested, delivery available when you want them. Phone:(204)246-2312.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Maine-Anjou SECTION 19 CATTLE CO. offers its first set of yearling Maine Anjou bulls originating from the reputation Cee Farms cow herd. Thick, deep & quiet. Blacks & Reds w/moderate birthweights. Call Cam at (204)239-1553 or e-mail section19cattleco@gmail.com WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM ANNUAL Bull Sale Sat., Apr 13th, 1:00pm at Grunthal Auction Mart.

Featuring 10 Red yearling Maine-Anjou bulls; 1 Black 2 yr old Maine bull; 7 Black yearling Maine bulls; 19 yearling Red Angus bulls. All bulls are polled, performance tested & will have passed breeding evaluation. Bulls are selected for growth, breeding soundness, calving ability & structural correctness. Bulls can be viewed online at www.wilkinridge.blogspot.ca For more info or sale catalogue Contact Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123 LIVESTOCK Poultry For Sale CLUCK & QUACK POULTRY Club’s Fourth Annual Spring Auction, Sat., May 4th, 2013, 12:00 noon.

South Barn of the CPTC/Rodeo Grounds off Hwy #302 in Beausejour. For more info, call Susan (204)268-1459 or e-mail pineoak@mymts.net EXOTIC BIRD & ANIMAL AUCTION, Apr. 21st, 2013. Skating Rink at Indian Head, SK. 11:00am.

Lunch available. To consign call Yvonne (306)347-1068. For info call Gord (306)695-2184.

WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD PB Polled Charolais bulls for sale. Check out our bull catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. Phone Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Galloway

CAREERS Help Wanted BRONSON DAIRY, NEAR LANDMARK, has a herdsperson position which includes performing general farm duties in a fast paced environment & working under pressure, tight deadlines, physically demanding. Work requires a combination of sitting, standing & walking. Position includes formulating feed programs, carrying out pen breeding programs & recognizing & treating livestock health problems.

Permanent F/T position w/some evening & weekend shifts. $14.05 hourly for 40 hrs per week. Medical & Dental benefits. To apply, e-mail resume to rsbraun@nlif.ca

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Shorthorn

F BAR & ASSOCIATES ANGUS bulls for sale.

Choose from 20, two yr old & yearling Red & Black Angus bulls. Great genetics, easy-handling, semen tested, delivery avail. Call for sales list. Inquiries & visitors are welcome. We are located in Eddystone, about 20-mi East of Ste Rose, or 25-mi West of Lake Manitoba Narrows, just off Hwy 68. Call Allen & Merilyn Staheli (204)448-2124, E-mail amstaheli@inethome.ca

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Specialty 1, 5 yr old herd sire (pictured) Also yearling bulls, deep, thick & semen tested.

Call Kelly @ Boynecrest Stock Farm (204)828-3483 or (204)745-7168

LIVESTOCK Cattle – South Devon BULLS FOR SALE: 2, 3 yr old Solid Red South Devon bulls, will semen test, $2,000 each. Phone (204)425-3362 or cell (204)371-6424.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Various 200 BRED HEIFERS, REDS, Blacks, Tans, full herd health program, bred to Black & Red Angus bulls, to start calving April 1st, 2013. All heifers were sourced out of reputation herds.

Phone:(204)325-2416.

FOR SALE: 20 BRED cows & cows w/calves. Red Angus cross Simmental. Phone (204)749-2033, Rathwell.

FOR SALE: 60 BLACK bred hfrs, $1,350 each.

Phone (204)937-7688, Roblin, MB.

LIVESTOCK Specialty – Bison/Buffalo FOR SALE: 6 BRED bison cows, $1,500 each OBO & 1 bull. Phone (807)548-4435 or (807)466-7610

LIVESTOCK Specialty – Various FOR SALE: REGISTERED BELTON Galloway bull, Mouflon sheep & yaks. Phone:(807)548-4435 or (807)466-7610.

LIVESTOCK Livestock Equipment ALTERNATIVE POWER BY SUNDOG SOLAR, portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind generators, aeration. Carl Driedger, (204)556-2346 or (204)851-0145, Virden.

KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WATERING System, provides water in remote areas, improves water quality, increases pasture productivity, extends dugout life.

St. Claude/Portage, 204-379-2763.

FOR SALE: ANGUS HEREFORD cross heifers, bred for calving ease, fertility & maternal traits, out of purebred cows & bulls. Guilford Hereford Ranch, Call Don (204)873-2430.

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.

HIGH QUALITY BLACK ANGUS & polled Hereford 2-yr old bulls for sale. Bar H Land & Cattle Co. Phone:(306)743-2840. Langenburg SK.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

SOUTHWEST BULL DEVELOPMENT SALE 50 Red & Black Angus, Hereford Bulls April 13, 2013 at 1:00pm. Video sale at Oak Lake Community Hall.

Bulls viewed at Batho Farms Ltd. Catalogue & Video online at Southwestbulldevelopmentcentre.com Contact Ron (204)855-2404 or cell (204)748-5208 Albert cell (204)748-7640.

NATURAL WOOD MULCH, PICKUP. $10/yrd, minimum 10-yrds, South Winnipeg pickup, call for directions. (204)257-5497.

SWATH GRAZING? BOOST THE YIELD & double the Protein & Calcium by adding Yellow Blossom Clover seed to the Millet. Other Plus’s: can be kept “year two” if a drought & leaves field “Nitrogen” rich.

Processing soon. Bags or totes. Also some top yielder Foxtail Millet & Oats off breaking! For prices & delivery call early D. White Seeds (204)822-3649, Morden.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Wanted HEALTHY HAY (SAINFOIN.EU) SAINFOIN seed for sale. Bloat-free perennial forage. Highly digestible, palatable & nutritious. www.primegrains.com/prime-sainfoin.htm (306)739-2900 jhusband@primegrains.com 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.

USED 1000X20 TIRES & RIMS $75 & up Call Ken (204)794-8383. #2 Mountain View Rd Winnipeg, MB

Trux-N-Parts Salvage Inc. ORGANIC Organic – Grains

Horses LIVESTOCK Horse Auctions ROCKING W SPRING HORSE SALE Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB. Huge Tack Sale: Fri., Apr 19th. Horse Sale: Sat., Apr 20th. Late entries accepted.

(204)325-7237 rockingw@xplornet.com www.rockingw.com Gladstone Auction Mart Ltd

Open Horse & Tack Gladstone, MB Thursday, April 18th at 5:00pm

All Classes of Horses Welcome Starting with tack at 5:00pm For more info phone Gerald at the Mart (204)385-2537 Will be receiving Thursday morning at 9:00am License #1108

Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based in Saskatoon, is actively buying Organic Flax from the 2012 crop year.

If interested, please send a 5lbs sample* to the following address: Attn: Sandy Jolicoeur Bioriginal Food & Science Corp.

102 Melville Street Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7J 0R1 *Please state the Variety & Quantity for Sale

For more information, please contact Sandy at:

306-975-9251 306-975-1166 sjolicoeur@bioriginal.com

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MUSICAL BANJOS, $229-898; MANDOLINS, $125-599; Electric Guitars, $98-569; Amplifiers, $29.95-1,200; Violins $69.95-1,295; Harmonicas, $8.98-220; Ukuleles $39.95-179; Student Guitars, $59.95-$149.95; Base Guitars, $129-299; Auto Harps, $299-500; Drums, $399; Trumpet, $199; Trombone, $299; P.A. Microphones, Strings, Cases, Music Books, Accessories. Hildebrand Music Portage La Prairie Mall (204)857-3172

WANTED: A MIXED FARM in Western MB or Eastern SK. 1/2-2 sections, consider livestock & equipment also. Contact Phil Schwarz (204)842-3491, Box 40 Birtle MB, R0M 0C0.

WANTED: GRAIN & LIVESTOCK farms for both foreign & domestic buyers. Receiving calls weekly from buyers looking to farm & invest. Considering selling? Now is the time to discuss all options. Professional service & confidentiality guaranteed. Contact Rick Taylor:(204)867-7551, Homelife Home Professional Realty. www.homelifepro.com

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LAND FOR SALE BY tender in the RM of Fisher: NW-25-23-2W 4-mi south of Fisher Branch on Hwy #17 & 1/2 mi west. Approx 100-acres open plus 60-acres wooded. Good perimeter fence & cross fence. Dugout & well. Terms: It is the bidder’s responsibility to inspect the parcel of land for accuracy and condition. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted. Submit bid by mail to: Wade Sobkowich, 114 Brentford Road Winnipeg, MB R2M 5B9. (204)452-7577. All Bids must be received by April 26, 2013.

ORGANIC PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION OF MANITOBA CO-OPERATIVE (OPAM). Non-profit member owned organic certification body, certifying producers, processors and brokers since 1988.

Phone: (204)567-3745, Miniota, Manitoba. Email: info@opam-mb.com

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REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Manitoba FARMLAND FOR SALE BY tender. RM of Riverside East 1/2 of 4-6-17W 320-acres, 200-acres valley land arable now in grass balance fenced pasture. Crop insurance F. Tenders close at 1:00pm on April 15th, 2013. For details or tender forms call Dave Mooney (204)824-2094 or dsmooney56@hotmail.com Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Countryland Realty.

FARM SPECIALIST: COUNT ON GRANT TWEED, informed, professional assistance for sellers & buyers. www.granttweed.com Call (204)761-6884 anytime. Service with integrity.

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FARMS FOR SALE RM of Minto - Minnedosa area mixed farm section of land with home, shop, quonset, calving barn, cattle sheds. Very scenic with river running through it.

Legal: 19-16-18w RM of Park - Half section with approximately 270 cultivated acres. Yard site with hydro and quonset. Legal: E 1/2 28-19-19w RM of Daly - Quarter section of scenic pasture land with Little Saskatchewan River running through. Hydro and drilled well on property. Legal: SE 9-12-21w RM of Clanwilliam - Four quarters with approximately 385 cultivatable acres. Good farmland! Legal: NE 1-17-18w, SE 1-17-18w, NW 1-1718w and SW 12-17-18w.

FOR SALE: POTATO SPECIAL CROPS LANDCARMEN. 470-acres potato & special crops land in 1 block in the Carmen area. Spring 2013 possession. Contact Melvin Toews at Golden Plains Realty Ltd. (204)745-3677.

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LAND FOR SALE. NW 1/4 30-16-12W. RM of Westbourne 2-mi NW of Plumas. Contact Ted Mauthe (204)386-2314.

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REAL ESTATE Land For Rent APPROX 320-ACS OF GRAINLAND w/storage on Section 31-12-18W RM of Elton for 2013 crop. Also 90-acs of Pasture on Section 31-12-18W for 2013 w/stocking rates to be determined. Grain & Pasture tenders accepted separately or as a combined package. Tenders to be received by April 19th at Box 1000A RR 3 Brandon, MB R7A 5Y3. For more info call Brad (204)868-5579 or Greg (204)826-2718. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

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FARMLAND FOR SALE RM OF GRANDVIEW 1) SW 34-23-24W 160-acs 135-acs Cultivated 2) NE 5-24-24W 160-acs 105-acs Cultivated 3) SW 8-24-24W 160-acs 150-acs Cultivated old yardsite w/municipal waterline & hydro 4) SW 12-24-25W 160-acs 155-acs Cultivated 5) NE 12-24-25W 145-acs 142 Cultivated 6) PT NE 12-24-25W 15-acs yardsite c/w 1,376-sq.ft. bungalow home. Built in 1998, 3 bdrm w/finished basement, deck & pool.

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PUGH SEEDS: CERT AC Barrie, Carberry, Kane, Somerset, HRS Wheat. Souris Oats, Conlon Barley, Sorrel Flax. Phone (204)274-2179 or (204)871-1467, Portage.

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OAT STRAW & BARLEY Straw for sale, medium square bales. Phone (204)483-2990.

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DON’T MISS OUR APRIL SALES UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for RUSTY & LIZ SOUCH of BINSCARTH, MB - FRIDAY, APRIL 19th at 11:00 AM

DIRECTIONS: From Binscarth, MB. (Jct #16 & #478) East on #478 3kms (To sign that reads Silver Creek R.M.) Turn South 3kms (to Sale site on East side of road) Watch for signs ORDER OF SALE:11:00 – 12:30: Misc, Tools, Parts, Shop Items, etc. 12:30 – 1:00: 3PT Equipment, Tanks, Pumps, etc. 1:00: (Internet Bidding Starts) Major Equipment Sells AUCTIONEER NOTES: Rusty & Liz are retiring from farming and are offering this premium line of equipment to the highest bidder. The Souchs are well known for being great caretakers and the equipment is in very nice condition. The tractors and the combine will have fresh oil and filters and ready to go to work for you. Plan to attend this great clean sale.

TERMS: Rusty has agreed to offer terms on the JD 9750 Combine and the Premier 2952 Swather. Terms are: 25% down sale day by way of none refundable deposit. Balance due on or before August 1, 2013 by certified cheque payable to Russell Souch. Units will stay in possession of Rusty & Liz until paid in full. Purchaser must insure units at time of sale.

TRACTORS: *1998 New Holland Versatile 9682 4WD 360hp Tractor w/ 3350 hrs showing, 20.8R42 duals, 4 Remote Hyd, Return line, Rear Weight Pkg, 12 Spd Standard Trans, Accu-Trac Auto Steer system, s/nD106777 *1990 CaseIH 9130 4WD 220hp Tractor w/5740hrs showing, 18.4R38 duals, 12 spd pwr shift, 4 remote hyd, return line, s/n0005319 *1997 JD 6400 MFWD 85hp Tractor w/JD SL640 Loader, Joystick Controls, Pwr Quad Trans, Shuttle Shift, 4834 hrs showing, 3PT, Dual PTO, 2 Remote Hyd, 18.4R38 Singles s/n201831 *1963 MF35 Gas 33hp Tractor w/3PT, 540 PTO, 5962 Hrs Showing, s/ nSGM237425 *JD 2 Prong Bale Fork (Off JD 640 Loader) WHEEL LOADER & ATTACHMENTS: *2012 CS920 wheel loader w/bucket, 100hp engine, quick attach, 10hrs showing *quick attach pallet forks *quick attach hyd angle blade *quick attach toothed bucket *quick attach smooth edge bucket *quick attach snow bucket HARVEST EQUIPMENT: *2003 JD 9750 STS SP Combine w/1574 Sep Hrs showing, 2000 Eng Hrs showing, Big Top Hopper Topper, Long auger, Dial-A-Height, Dial-A-Speed Header Controls, 800/65R32 rubber, s/nS701387 *1998 30’ Honey Bee SP30 Straight Cut Header w/pickup reel, Crop Lifters, JD Adapter, Self Transport s/n430981701 *2002 Premier 2952 SP Swather w/30’ MacDon 972 Header, hyd in throat Canola drum, pick up reel, 2 Spd Hydro, 810 Cutting hrs showing, 1024 Eng hrs showing, Header Tilt, fore and aft, s/n145265 *10’ Flaman Poly Swath Roller *30’ JD 590 PT Swather w/Bat Reel s/n002211 *Shop Built Swather Transport *Labtronics 919 Digital Moisture Tester w/Scale SEED & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: *2002 52’ Bourgault 8810 Air Seeder w/ 8” Spacing, 450 lbs Trips, Single Chute, Carbide Tip 3/4” Bourgault Openers, Poly Packers, s/n37369CU-02 *Bourgault 3225 Air Tank w/low profile hopper, s/n8036 (Sells separate from drill) *1997 52’ Bourgault 9200 Tillage w/Squibb Taylor Control flow NH3 Kit, Bourgault Granular Kit, 12” Spacing, 600 lbs Trips, Nickel Knock on Openers, 4 Bar Harrows, s/n824919 *47 1/2’ IH 4700 Vibra Tiller w/3 bar harrows *70’ Flexi Coil System 85 Heavy Harrows s/nU092614-00 *60’ Herman Hyd Harrow Bar *Melroe 903 7 Bottom Plow w/coulters, spring Reset *Mel-Cam Fork Type Rock Picker *Degelman 558 Rotary Stone Picker w/ hyd drive, Rock Apron, s/n1352 *Miskin M7000 Approx 7 Yd Hyd Scraper, s/n17248 *7’ Kirchner Ditch King V-Ditcher *Sections of Bourgault Harrows (for Parts) *24’ White 271 Tandem Disc (for Parts) SPRAYER: *2003 130’ Flexi Coil 67XL PT Sprayer w/1250 Gal Poly Tank, Chem Mix Tank, Eye Wash Stn., Triple Nozzle Bodies, Wind Screens, Hyd Pump, Micro Trak Spray Mate II GPS Rate Control, s/n113476 TRUCKS & TRAILER: *1986 Ford LTL 9000 T/A Grain Truck w/20’ B & H, Roll Tarp, 9 Spd. Fuller Trans, 3406B Cat 350 HP Engine, Rear Hoist controls, Remote tailgate controls, 621976Kms showing, Cancade Side Delivery Auger for filling Airseeder, Pintle Hitch, Bottom End done last season, New Head Gasket, SAFETIED, s/n1FDYA92X0GVA18635 *1975 Chev C60 S/A Truck w/2500 gal Metal Water Tank, 5 + 2 Trans, V8 Gas Engine, 6.5Hp, 2” water Pump, 9.00-20 Rubber, 95,313 Miles showing, s/n CCE615V134260 *2002 Advance 40’ T/A Double Hopper Metal Grain Trailer w/Aluminum Slopes, 11R24.5 Rubber, s/N2AESGXEE52S000133 ***NOTE: may be deleted from sale if Rusty is unable to get all his grain out by sale time. Call to confirm prior to Sale*** WAGONS: *15’ S/A Grain/Fert Wagon, Single Hopper, Side Delivery Air Seeder fill auger, Pintle Hitch *(2) 4 Wheel Farm Wagons GRAIN HANDLING: *Farm Fans AB-180A Propane Grain Dryer w/7” Wet - Dry Augers, Updated Circuit Board and timers, s/n186 *Grain Handler 5250 Grain Vac w/1000 PTO, s/n5254819 *2010 Westfield 13” x 61’, PTO Swing Hopper Auger w/Low pro Hopper, hyd Swing, 540 PTO, s/n223649 *2008 8” x 51’ Wheatheart Auger w/Self Propel Kit, 25HP Subaru Engine, s/n206776 *7” x 45’ Sakundiak Auger w/18HP B&S *7” x 38’ Sakundiak Auger w/18HP B&S *Wheat Heart Super Sweep Bin Sweep *Pencil Augers 3PT EQUIPMENT: *9’ Buhler/Farm King 3 PT Blade (5 Way Angle) *96” Farm King 3 PT Dbl Auger Snow Blower, 540 PTO, s/n20402693 *6’ Farm King 3PT Finishing Mower s/n9766864 *6’ 3PT Cultivator *Flexi Coil 3 PT Hitch Post Pounder SHOP ITEMS: *Assortment of Farm Shop items, Hand Tools, Impact Sockets, Flat Wrenches, Sockets, Hammers, Drills, Grinders *Smith Roles 16 Spd Drill Press w/Vise *Home Built Shop Press *500 lbs 3/4” Torque Wrench *Pipe threaders *7” Angle Grinder *JD 250 Amp Ac/Dc Welder *Jack-All Jacks *72 Compartment Metal Bolt Bin – Loaded *Bench Grinder on Stand *Oxy/Acct Torch Set w/Caddy *Schumacher Battery Charger/Booster *Posi Lock Pullers *Butterfield Tap & Die Set *Crowbars *220 Volt Extension Cord *50’ Aluminum Ext Ladder TANKS, PUMPS & MISC ITEMS: *1000 Gal Fuel Tank w/110 Volt Pump & Meter *300 Gal Fuel Tank on Metal Stand *Electrical Cord *New 2” Gas Water Pump *Assortment of Farm Related Smalls *Air Seeder Hose *NH3 Hose *Cultivator Shovels (Bourgault 11” knock on) *Dusk till Dawn Light *(4) UHF Radio’s, Antennas, Base Antenna, Power Supply *Banjo 2” Digital Flow Meter *Air Hose *Fill Rite 115 Volt Oil Transfer Pump *(2) Barrel Dollies *1/2 HP Submersible Pump *(24) Schumacher Crop Lifters *1500 lbs ATV Jack *Old Cattle Oiler (Roller Style)

ITEMS CONSIGNED by MOULSON’S WELDING of FOXWARREN, MB. For information on this consigned equipment call Dustin at Moulson’s Welding 1-204-847-2227

*IH 1566 2wd tractor w/7200hrs showing, head and injectors done 200hrs ago *1997 F-350 4x4 w/7.3l diesel, 5 spd std, 350,000km 1000km on rebuilt motor, newer tires, Safetied *2001 Southland 20’t/a flat deck trailer w/beaver tails 2- 7000lb axles, new deck *NEW 2011 7’x14’ aluminum t/a cargo trailer w/2-3500lb axles, barn doors *NEW 2011 2 place s/a snowmobile trailer *16’x42” land roller with folding hitch *10’x42” land roller *8’x42” land roller *3pt hitch 6’ box scraper *hopper bottom feeder tank *1992 Prowler 33.5’ fifth wheel travel trailer w/slide (water damage on slide out roof) *Flat deck for truck 8’ x 11’ new wood just installed

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL RUSTY & LIZ SOUCH 204-532-2180 OR CELL# 204-773-6120

UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for EYOLFSON FARMS LTD (MELVYN & AUDREY EYOLFSON) of ARBORG, MB - TUESDAY, APRIL 23rd at 11:00 AM

DIRECTIONS: From Arborg, MB (Jct #7 & #68) 5Km East on #68 Hwy to Road 13E (Asgeir Line Road) 2.5Km North on Road 13E (Asgeir Line road) to Sale Site on West side of Road. Driveway Marker #130094 TRACTORS: *1990 JD 8760 4WD 300HP w/5146Hrs showing, 12 Spd Quad Trans, 3 Remote Hyd, 20.8-38 Duals, Diff locks, Extra Light Pkg, Radar, rear wipers, Updated Audio System, s/n002517 *1984 JD 4450 MFWD 140HP w/6785Hrs showing, 3PT, 15 Spd Pwr Shift Trans, 2 Remote Hyd, dual PTO, 20.8-38 Duals, Diff Locks, updated audio system, s/n012555 *1969 White 1370 2WD w/Loader, 3 PT, single Hyd, 540 PTO, 7229Hrs Showing, s/n721635 HARVEST EQUIPMENT: *2001 CAT Lexion 465 SP Combine w/35” Tracks, Rear Wheel Assist, 2270 Sep Hrs, 3162 Eng Hrs Showing, fine Cut chopper, Chaff Spreaders, CAT Precision Header w/ Swath Master Pick Up, Auto Head Height, Long Auger, Cebis computer system with printer, Electronic sieve adjustments, Parts manual available, s/n3HZ00543 *2002 25’ MacDon 972 Draper Head w/ Cat Adapter, Pick Up Reel, s/n 148285 *2002 Westward 9352 SP DSL Swather w/25’ MacDon 972 Header, DBL Swath, Pick Up Reel, 2 Speed Hydro, Turbo High HP Engine, Roto Sheer, Hyd in throat roller, Mandako Mounted Concave Swath roller, 1906 Eng Hrs showing, 1365 Header Hrs showing, s/n145190 *Matt Track Conversion system for Westward/MacDon Swathers (All bearings & seals done in tracks fall 2012, 0 Hrs since track rebuilt) Model 175M1-A1 Suspension Track *8’ Metal concave Swath roller *Labtronics 919 Moisture Tester w/scale, canola and cereal sieves, canola roller and counter *Dimo Labtronics 919 Electronic Smart Charts *Simple Sampler Portable Combine *Farmex Hand Held Moisture Tester SEED & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: *40’ Flexi Coil 800 Air Seeder w/Flexi-Coil 1610 air Cart, 9” Spacings, 350 lbs trips, Single Chute Hyd Fan, New Fertilizer Manifolds, 2 Metering rolls, 3 bar Harrows, 10” Sweeps, SencTech Depth control system, s/nK036010 *1997 40’ Flexi Coil 340 Tillage w/Dickey John Auto Rate NH3 Kit, 3 Bar Harrows, 12” Spacing, 550 lbs Trips, Knock on shovels, s/nT075000 *50’ Flexi Coil System 95 Harrow Packer Bar w/P20 packers, 5 bar harrows, s/n1025530 *22’ EzeeOn Tandem Disc w/22” Notched Front & Smooth Rear Blades s/n11846 *Cockshutt 6 Bottom Plow w/Nitro resets SPRAYER & CHEMICAL HANDLING: *95’ Flexi Coil System 62 PT Field Sprayer w/800 Gal Poly Tank, Wind screens, Chem Mix Tank, Hyd Pump, Smucker Foam Markers, 15 Gal (8003) nozzles, s/n1027195 *Chem Handler “I” 2” Chemical Mix System *Sotera System Chemical Pump w/Meter *2” Honda Water Pump GUIDANCE SYSTEM: *Trimble GPS system w/Auto Steer *Light Bar Guidance System TRUCKS & GRAIN TRAILER: *2003 Volvo 420 Highway Tractor w/Bunk, 475 HP Volvo engine, 18 Spd Trans, 22.5 Rubber, 12,000 front Axle, 40,000 Rears, 698,000Kms Showing, s/n4V4NC9GH33N342437, SAFETIED *1989 Freightliner FLD 112 Highway Tractor w/Day Cab, 350 HP Cummins Eng, 15 Spd Trans, 24.5 Rubber, 12,000 Front Axle, 40,000 Rears, 529,072Kms Showing, s/n1FUPZCYB4KH442582, SAFETIED *1979 GMC Brigadier S/A Grain Truck w/16’ B&H, Roll Tarp, Detroit 6V53 DSL Engine, 5+2 Trans, Air Brakes, 244162Kms Showing, 11.00-20 Front, 22.5 Rear Rubber, s/nT18CV9V583761 *1967 IH Loadstar 1600 S/A Grain Truck w/14’ B&H, 392 IH Gas Engine, 4+2 Trans, Plumbed for drill fills, 024942 Miles showing, s/n416600C008988 *1988 Chev 1500 Ext Cab 4x4 Truck w/8’ Box, Color Matched Topper, shocker Hitch system, 350 Engine Auto trans, 280135Kms showing, s/n2GCEK19K4J1282045 *1993 Doepker Super B Grain Trailers w/24.5 Rubber, Spring Ride Suspension, Roll Tarps, LED Lights on Rear Trailer, (Newer Rubber) Lead s/n2D9GBSA34P1016918, Rear s/n2D9GBSZ27P1016919 *Tandem axle converter dolly w/22.5 rubber *Michaels’ 8” Hopper Augers for Grain Trailers, Hyd Driven w/Wireless Remote Controls WAGONS: *(2) 200 Bushel gravity Grain Tanks on Farm King 4 Wheel Wagons *T/A Farm Wagon GRAIN HANDLING: *Vertec VT6500 Propane Grain Dryer w/M2 Updated Control Panel, Top Extensions with Roll Tarp cover, PTO Fan, s/n6597134 *1000 Gallon Propane Tank *10” x 70’ Farm King PTO Swing Hopper Auger w/Full Bin Monitor, s/n9106147 *8” x 36’ Farm King Auger w/13HP Honda engine *8” x 51’ Westfield Auger w/Electric Motor, Wheel Pivot Kit (has pulleys to convert back to PTO) *10” Farm King transfer Auger w/Hyd Drive *Assorted 4” & 5” Augers w/Electric Motors BINS & AERATION FANS: *(2) 5000 Bus Stor-King Hopper Bottom Bins *(2) 5000 Bus Grain Max Hopper Bottom Bins *(2) 3200 Bus Stor-King Hopper Bottom Bins *(2) 1400 Bus Load King Hopper Bottom Bins *(2) 24” Grain Guard Aeration Fan (5HP) in-line centrifugal *(4) Grain Guard Aeration Fan (5HP) direct drive *(2) Keho Aeration Fan (2HP) *Aeration Transitions 3 PT & BUCKET: *8” Farm King 3PT DBL Auger Snow Blower *8’ Snow bucket (JD Brackets)

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL MELVYN & AUDREY EYOLFSON Cell 204-642-2721 or EMAIL melaude@arborg.com

UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for EINARSON FARMS LTD (KELVIN & KELLY EINARSON) of RIVERTON, MB - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24th at 11:00 AM

DIRECTIONS: From: Jct #8 & #68 (South of Riverton, MB) 1.3Kms East on #68 to Sale Site on South Side.

TRACTORS: *1998 Case IH 9390 425Hp 4WD Tractor w/20.8R42 Triples, 24 Spd Std Trans, 4670hrs Showing, Outback STS Auto Steer System, 4 Remote Hyd Return Line, s/n0072993 *2005 JD 7220 MFWD 95HP w/ JD741 SL Loader, 18.4R38Rear, 16.9R26 Front, 3PT, 2 Remote Hyd, Dual PTO, 2660hrs Showing, 24 Spd Trans, Left Hand Reverser, s/n037796 *1974 JD 7020 4WD Tractor 146HP w/ 18.4-34 Duals, 2 Remote Hyd, 1000 PTO, 16 Speed Std Trans, 1680hrs Showing, s/n003380 *1975 4230 2WD Tractor 100HP w/16.9-38 rubber, Quad Range Trans, 3 PT, Dual PTO, 2 Remote Hyd, 4143hrs showing, s/n023246 *1971 JD 3020 DSL 2WD Tractor 71HP w/18.4-30 rubber, Syncro Trans, 2 Remote Hyd, Dual PTO, 4869hrs showing, s/n150254 *JD 158 Loader w/Bucket HARVEST EQUIPMENT: *1992 JD 9600 SP Combine w/JD914 Pick Up , Rear Wheel Assist (New Rear Rubber), (only 400 Hrs on Sunny Brook Cylinder, Concave & Beater), Fine Cut Chopper, Chaff Spreader, Dual Spd Cylinder, Long auger, Harvest Trac Monitors, 2905sep hrs Showing, 4170eng hrs Showing, s/n646107 *1998 Westward 9300 SP DSL Swather w/25’ MacDon 972 Header, Pick Up Reel, Turbo Cummins Engine, 2002hrs Showing, 2 Spd Hydro, 21.5L-16.1 Rubber, s/n120369 *Brent 670 Grain Cart w/1000 PTO Drive, 14” Unload Auger, s/n671418 *2001 30’ JD 930F Straight Cut Flex Header w/Pick-Up Reel, Elmers Transport, s/n691267 *1996 30’ JD 930 Straight Cut Flex Header w/Pick-Up Reel, NEW Arc Fab ESB 30 Transport, s/n 666766 (New poly skid plates) *1994 25’ JD 925 Rigid Straight Cut Header w/Batt Reel, s/n655947 *22’ Batt Reel (off 4400 Versatile) *(2) 10’ Metal Concave Swath Rollers *Labtronics 919 Moisture Tester w/ Scale *Handheld Moisture testers SEED & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: *2008 47’ New Holland ST830 Tillage w/Raven control NH3 system, Knock on shovels, 12” Spacings, Light Kit, HD 3 Bar Harrows, s/n006529 *40’ CaseIH Concord 4010-4R Air Drill w/CaseIH 2300 Air Cart, Hyd Fan, 10” Spacings, 550 lbs Trips, Rubber Packer Wheels, Single Chute Carbide Tip Openers, Haukaus Side Arm Markers, 3 Rollers with tank (Set of 6” LS Sweeps w/Splitters Sells with Unit) Tillage s/nCKB0014928, Cart s/nCKB0011939 *GMC Big Wheels Floater w/12’ Wilmar Applicator, Dual Spinners, Mid-Tech Guidance system, 5+2 Trans, 366 Gas Engine, 47399 Miles Showing, 48/25.00-20 Front Rubber, 66/43.00-25 Rear Rubber, s/nT17DB9V600138 *70’ Flexi-Coil System 82 Hyd Harrows, s/nP061245 *45’ Wilrich Field Cultivator w/7” Spacings, 3 Bar Harrows *14’ Degelman Rock Rake w/540 PTO, s/n2203 *#57 Rock-o-Matic High Dump Rotary Stone Picker, PTO Drive (will dump into gravel truck) *16’ Load King Seed & Fert Tender w/Hyd Augers *IH 770 6 Bottom Plow w/ Auto Resets, s/n002378 *IH 770 5 Bottom Plow w/Auto Resets, s/n002218 SPRAYER & CHEMICAL HANDLING: *2008 CaseIH 3320 SP Sprayer w/100’ Booms, 5 Plex Nozzle Bodies, 1000 S/S Tank, Rinse Tank, Chemical Induction System, Foam Marker, S3 Outback Auto Steer, Outback Auto Mate Boom Controls, SCS 4600 Monitor Pkg, Wide Rubber 650/65R38, Narrow Rubber 320/90R46, 1104hrs Showing, 220HP Engine, s/nXY7P-022196 *Chem Handler III 2” Chemical system *Sotera Systems Series 400 Chemical Pump w/Meter *3” Water Pump *2” Suction Hose SCRAPER, LASER TRANSIT, LIGHT BAR SLOPE GUIDE & GUIDANCE SYSTEM: *Cat 435 Hyd Scraper (approx 18 yd cap) s/n45D532 *Spectra Precision Laser GL522 transit w/Tri-Pod *AGatec MR360R 7-9 channel Light Bar Grade Sensor system *Cultiva Guidance System TRUCKS & GRAIN TRAILER: *1994 Ford AeroMax L9000 Highway Tractor w/Cat 3176 Eng, 350HP, 13 Spd Trans, Wet Kit, 41” Bunk, 22.5 rubber, 4 Way Lock-Ups, 944876Kms Showing, s/n1FTYY95S2RVA12080, SAFETIED *1992 Mack T/A w/NEW 2012 Loadline 19 1/2 B&H, Roll Tarp, 400HP Engine, 18 Spd Trans, 24.5 Rubber, Rear Hoist Controls, 406,754Kms Showing, Pintle Hitch, Trailer Air Equipped s/n1M2AA14YXNW017217, SAFETIED *1975 Ford LN800 S/A w/17’ B&H, Roll Tarp, 5+2 Trans, 361 Gas Engine, 52967 Miles Showing, 10.00-20 Rubber, s/nN81EVX48282 *2007 GMC Sierra SLE 2500 HD 4x4 Ext Cab w/ 6 Liter gas, Auto Trans, Pwr Windows & Locks, Air, Cruise, Tilt, 239,669Kms Showing, s/n1GTHK29U97E139331, SAFETIED *2001 Ford F250 4x4 Reg Cab w/7.3 liter DSL, auto Trans, Air, Tilt, Cruise, Pwr Windows, Pwr Locks, 5th Wheel Hitch, 215805Kms Showing, s/n1FTNF21F51EC22427, SAFETIED *1993 24’ T/A Kan Dump End Dump Grain Trailer w/Roll Tarp, 22.5 Rubber, s/n2K9FD2429P1040050, SAFETIED *2003 Duncan 20’ T/A Flat Deck 5th Wheel Trailer w/Custom Removable Hoop & Tarp cover, Slide in Aluminum Snowmobile Ramp, s/n2D9EJA5B03R060984 WAGONS: *13’t/a Gravel Box converted to Wagon w/PTO Drive Hoist (pull with tractor) *Approx 200 Bus Galvanized Gravity Grain box on 4 Wheel Wagon *(2) four wheel farm wagons with 10’x24’ hay rack decks w/11L15 rubber HAYING: *NH 1069 Stack Cruiser SP Sq Bale Picker w/2435Hrs showing, 4+2 trans, 460 Ford Engine, s/n1639 (400 Hrs on rebuilt engine) *1992 JD 535 RD Baler w/540 PTO, Gandy Inoculator, Gathering Wheel, s/n924277 (approx 500 Bales on NEW Belts) *1995 Hesston 4590 In-Line Sq Baler w/540 PTO, 1/4 turn Chute, Hyd Tension, Light Kit, s/nB459-01129 *1994 Hesston 4590 In-Line Sq Baler w/540 PTO, 1/4 Turn Chute, Hyd Tension, Hyd Pick-Up, Light Pkg, Gandy Box Inoculator, s/nB459-00768 *NH 144 Swath Inverter, s/n845963 *18 Bale (Small Sq) Bale Grab *Several Hay Tarps *Hay Tarp for 48” Drop Deck Trailer *Vicon 5 Wheel Hay Rake *NH # 56 Side Delivery Rake *(2) 24’ Bale Elevators GRAIN HANDLING: *Vertec VT5500R Propane Grain Dryer, s/n5597220 *2006 13” x 71’ Buhler/Farm King PTO Swing Hopper Auger *10” x 60’ Brandt PTO Swing Hopper Auger *8” x 51’ Westfield PTO Auger *8” x 46’ Westfield PTO auger *8” x 36’ Buhler/Farm King Auger w/20HP Honda Engine *7” x 41’ Westfield Auger w/16HP B&S Engine *6” x 30’ Auger w/ 5HP Electric Motor *11’ x 4” Pencil Auger w/ 1/2 HP Electric Motor *Bin Drag Auger w/Electric Motor *(3) Keho 5HP Aeration Fans *Keho Aeration Fan, 2HP 3 PT & ATACHMENTS: *8’ Farm King 3 PT DBL Auger Snow Blower *7’ JD 709 Rotary Mower, s/n057675 *JD Pallet Forks (fits 40 Series Loader) *3PT Ball Hitch Adapter *Bale Forks *JD Bale Fork (FITS 40 Series Loader) *6’ JD Lg Sq Bale Fork LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT: *(2) Lewis Cattle Oilers w/Mineral Tubs *(2) 10’ x 24’ Deck 4 Wheel Farm Rack Wagons *Assortment of Treated Fence Posts

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