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Hundreds of jobs cut at Agriculture Canada Farmers question the federal government’s commitment to publicly funded agricultural research

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff

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lmost 700 Agriculture and Agri-Food (AAFC) employees across Canada, including 55 in Manitoba, have been notified their jobs are on the line.

Their unions say the notifications are part of a plan to eliminate an estimated 400 jobs as the federal government tries to cut spending.

The Brandon Research Station’s beef research will be moved to Lacombe, an AAFC communications official confirmed in an email last week.

But the official declined to provide specific details about what research will be affected citing “employee privacy.”

“We are consolidating our national science capacity in key locations in line with our efforts to concentrate expertise and use our resources more effectively to generate the science and knowledge needed to advance the industry,” the AAFC official wrote in an email.

“Consolidating activities will allow more financial resources to be directed at research and

Government says no new compensation for old flood The federal government is saying no to paying for the same flood twice but the province is continuing to seek a solution

See JOB CUTS on page 6 »

People concerned about future flooding on Lake Manitoba protest at the Manitoba legislature. Photo: Shannon VanRaes

By Shannon VanRaes CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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he federal government says it will not contribute to additional compensation for farmers around Lake Manitoba who continue to suffer losses from the 2011 flood.

“AgriRecovery is not intended to pay for the same event more than once. Agr iRecover y was never intended to provide long-term compensation for situations that have affected the production capacity of a region for extended periods,” an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

department official said in an emailed statement.

The statement last week reinforces previous comments by federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz that costs incurred in 2012 due to the previous year’s flooding will not be eligible under AgriRecovery, the program through which most compensation was provided in 2011.

T h e f e d e r a l g ov e r n m e n t s a y s Manitoba farmers have already received more than half a billion dollars through joint business risk management programs for 2011.

But producers, residents, cottage

owners and First Nations around Lake Manitoba have continued to experience losses, including high water levels.

“Minister Ritz may have said no, but we’re not taking no for an answer,” said Steve Ashton, Manitoba’s minister of infrastructure and transportation.

“We’ve pushed back... and we’re absolutely confident we can document some of the impacts on pasture land, and the impacts that have had a ripple effect on the livestock sector.”

Frustration over a lack of compensation for flooded, damaged and inactive See COMPENSATION on page 6 »

BALANCE: Need for feed versus pasture damage » PAGE 12

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 16, 2013

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Name your fish Manitoba

Threefold reason for low lamb prices Costly feed, oversupply and lower demand add up to a 20 per cent price drop

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The province wants to make it official Staff

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A groundtruthing survey A new weed survey will look for glyphosateresistant kochia

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FEATURE Longer horizon for new stacked traits Dicamba, 2,4-D and glyphosate products need more review: USDA

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ish aren’t just for catching and eating.

They’re for naming too.

The government is asking for help selecting a fish species to represent the province as Manitoba’s official fish.

Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh announced the contest May 10, a day before fishing season opened.

“Selecting a provincial fish recognizes the important role of fishing to our province, culturally and economically,” said Mackintosh.

“Manitobans have some of the best fishing opportunities in the world, with access to more than 30 species of sport fish in diverse habitats across the province and the opportunity to see more than 60 other species in their native habitats.

“I want Manitobans to consider the value of our conservation efforts by providing them an opportunity to make a case for the fish they believe best represents our fishing heritage.”

Manitobans can go online and nominate a fish at www.manitobafisheries.com.

Part of the nomination process involves sharing personal stories and offering a pitch for why their choice should be the one. A volunteer committee of passionate fishers will recommend two options to the government.

Manitoba has the third most diverse freshwater

Largemouth bass catching a bait. photo: thinkstock

fish population of all provinces. More than 80 of Manitoba’s native fish are eligible. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 1, 2014.

The committee will also award 20 complimentary fishing licences for next year’s season to those who submit the most compelling personal stories and the top three will also be posted online and in Manitoba’s angling guide.

Once selected, the provincial fish will join the prairie crocus (adopted in 1906), provincial bird — great grey owl (1987), provincial tree — white spruce (1991) and the provincial soil — Newdale soil (2010). The province unofficially recognizes the bison as its provincial animal.

Other jurisdictions have already claimed some of Manitoba’s most popular sport fish.

Saskatchewan and Minnesota have the walleye, and North Dakota has the northern pike.

Local possibilities include the channel catfish, freshwater drum, goldeye, the lake sturgeon, and lake trout.

The crocus blooms Arden’s festival ushers in the Manitoba spring

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 16, 2013

CFIA reviews what makes ‘local’ food local It’s part of a larger review of food labelling underway

By Dave Bedard staff

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ederal food inspectors will now allow a much broader geographic definition in food marketers’ use of the word “local” while the label claim undergoes regulatory review.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said May 10 it will include that particular label claim, a m o n g o t h e r s, i n i t s broader review of federal food labelling regulations, guidelines and policies.

Until now, CFIA has interpreted terms such as “local” and “locally grown” to mean a food that originated either within a 50-km radius of the place where it was sold, or within the same or an adjacent “local government unit” (for example, a town, county or municipality).

However, the agency said it now recognizes “this approach is outdated and does not reflect current food production practices or consumer needs and expectations.”

CFIA said its new interim policy recognizes “local” as food produced in the province or territory in which it’s sold — or as food sold across provincial borders but within 50 km of the originating province or territory.

The new interim policy will be implemented immediately, and will stay in effect until the agency’s labelling review is complete.

Meanwhile, food marketers’ use of the claim “local” is still subject to rules on false and misleading claims in both the Food and Drugs Act and Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act, the agency warned.

The agency emphasized that claims such as “local” are voluntary. The industry is also encouraged to add qualifiers, such as the name of a city, to provide consumers with additional information, CFIA said.

It’s also still the responsibility of the regulated party — that is, the food producer and/or marketer — to comply with applicable legislation and regulations, the agency said.

The word “local” has become a particularly popular marketing device for foods since about 2005, as the “locavore” trend has continued to evolve.

Annual surveys of chefs, published each April by the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, have found “locally produced and locally inspired” to be the top menu trend in each of the past four years.

Manitoba processing potato growers settle contracts Spud prices will be the same as last year, while acreage will be cut

By Allan Dawson

“In my opinion this should’ve been known a couple of months ago so people could make proper plans.”

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anitoba processing potato growers will be paid the same prices for their 2013 crop as they were for 2012 but they have agreed to cut acres by about 10 per cent, Gary Sloik, m a n a g e r o f t h e Ke y s t o n e Potato Producers Association, said in an interview May 10.

“The new contract doesn’t cover our cost increases and that’s something that concerns me,” he said.

Last year Manitoba farmers planted about 76,000 acres of processing potatoes, which are made into french fries. A 10 per cent cut translates into 6,000 to 7,000 fewer acres for 2013. But farmers might not cut the full 10 per cent because delayed planting could reduce yields, Sloik said. Farmers want to make sure they can fill their contracts.

Moreover, many far mers have already picked up their seed.

“It’s extremely late to be re d u c i n g a c re s ,” h e s a i d .

“Producers have had to make plans.

“In my opinion this should’ve been known a couple of months ago so people could make proper plans.”

Simplot, which has a potato-processing plant in Portage la Prairie, did give farmers earlier notice, Sloik s a i d , b u t Mc C a i n Fo o d s , which has plants in Portage and Carberry, didn’t finalize its acreage with growers until last week.

May 7 growers also voted to accept the same prices for potatoes from McCain as last year. McCain had sought a five per cent price cut, while Simplot had agreed earlier to a 2.5 per cent increase.

Gary Sloik

Manager of the Keystone Potato Producers Association

Manitoba processing potato growers have agreed to be paid the same price as last year for their spuds, plus produce fewer acres, says Gary Sloik, manager of the Keystone Potato Producers Association. photo: allan dawson

Because growers agreed to keep the price the same as last year for McCain, Simplot growers will receive the same prices as last year too.

Growers in New Brunswick, Maine and Pr ince Edward Island will also get last year’s price, while farmers in Idaho, Wa s h i n g t o n a n d No r t h Dakota will be paid more, Sloik said.

Some Manitoba potato growers also supply Cavendish Farms, a processing plant in Jamestown, North Dakota.

What far mers ultimately receive depends on the quality they deliver. Prices are discounted for lower-quality potatoes, while bonuses are paid for higher-quality spuds. “ We’re hoping this year’s quality will return them (farmers) what they were supposed to get last year,” Sloik said.

While some farmers envy the apparent prosperity of potato growers, appearance can be deceiving, Sloik said.

Potato growers have a lot of equipment and storage facilities, but they’ve also got a lot of capital tied up, and like all farmers, face huge risks from bad weather and pests.

“It’s not for the faint of heart,” he said.

About a third of the potato farms have changed hands since 2006, Sloik said. Some farmers were of retirement age, while others were dryland operators in areas where irrigation wasn’t practical.

Some next-generation farmers didn’t want to continue in potatoes despite having irrigation, because of the strain and risk, he said.

“You get a 1,000-acre potato farm and you take that capital and labour, it could run a fairsize grain operation.”

T h e d e m a n d f o r f re n c h fries has also stagnated and the relatively strong Canadian dollar also hurts Manitoba growers.

Manitoba is still Canada’s second-biggest potato producer behind P.E.I. Manitoba farmers are also getting more productive, averaging annual yield increases of two per cent, or about 800 hwt. — double the annual increase in the United States, Sloik said.

Howe ve r, Ma n i t o b a yields are half of those of Washington, which enjoys a much longer growing season.

“It concer ns me that we c o u l d p r i c e o u r s e l ve s o u t of the market,” Sloik said. “ We h a v e t o c o m p e t e o n North American pricing. Our minimum wages are higher (here)... “ I n o u r p r ov i n c e w e’v e had worker’s compensation, workplace health and safety brought in that our growers have to comply with. There’s also on-farm food safety, sustainability surveys, that are costs but there are no returns for these things.”

Manitoba growers use fewer inputs and therefore are “greener” thanks to cold winters and crop rotations, but it’s price that drives production, Sloik said. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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Melting lake ice has damaged shoreline properties Staff

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hile the risk of overland flooding continued to decline this week, the ice breakup on the province’s lakes combined with strong winds to cause significant damage to shoreline properties.

The province’s flood bulletin for May 12 continued to have flood warnings in effect for the Assiniboine River from St. Lazare to Brandon, and a flood watch in effect for the Souris River from the U.S. border to Melita.

It also warned of a risk of ice pileups on windward shores for Lake Manitoba, Dauphin Lake, Lake Winnipegosis, Lake St. Martin, Lake Winnipeg and Pelican Lake.

Several cottage owners at Ochre Beach on Lake Dauphin suffered major damage to their properties last week when lake ice was blown inland.

But the province said water flows are decreasing on major rivers and their tributaries, and the threat to communities continues to decline.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 16, 2013

OPINION/EDITORIAL

Making it right

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here were lots of big numbers floating around last week about how much, or how little, farmers surrounding Lake Manitoba received in compensation following the 2011 flood.

The federal government says Manitoba farmers were paid out more than $500 million through various cost-shared business risk management programs following the 2011 flooding combined with unseeded Laura Rance acres.

Editor The Manitoba government says it paid out a total of $700 million, $120 million of which went to farmers in the area around Lake Manitoba. It contends payments under all programs ranged from $33,000 to $570,000, averaging out to about $300,000 per producer.

While it’s true that an average of those two extremes is around $300,000, it’s disingenuous to suggest that’s what most producers received. Producers say their payments averaged around $65,000.

The numbers game is good for muddying the waters and makes for great politics. But it sheds little light on the real issues at hand, namely, whether affected farmers should be supported until their operations have fully recovered, and whether existing programs are capable of doing the job.

That it would take years to rebuild pasture and hayland capacity after a disaster such as 2011 is a no-brainer. Some lands were still under water as ranchers entered the 2012 production year. Once those waters receded there is the cleanup of debris, fenceline repair or replacement and reseeding of drowned forages to be done.

If those ranchers still had cattle herds, those cattle still had to eat, which means buying in feed to replace the lost production.

It’s been a bit confusing to see farmers complaining about the Manitoba government’s lack of response to their plight, when 60 per cent of program funding for agriculture comes from the federal government.

It is simply unacceptable for a funding partner, in this case the federal government, to fall back on bureaucratic definitions to rationalize its failure to step up.

The spirit, if not the letter, of AgriRecovery as described on the AAFC website is clear: “The aim of AgriRecovery is to provide affected producers with assistance to help them take action to mitigate the impacts of the disaster and/or resume business operations as quickly as possible following a disaster event.”

So are the caveats: “Events which are cyclical, such as pricing cycles, or part of a long-term trend, such as a change in markets, would not be considered for AgriRecovery.”

The federal government’s refusal to, as it says, pay for the same flood twice, implies that flooding in Manitoba is seen as part of a long-term trend, as opposed to an infrequent disaster.

We’ve pointed out before that in the face of increased climate and weather variability, governments may well run out of capacity to compensate everyone all the time. But in this case, farmers were told by both levels of government they are entitled to compensation. If existing programs can’t do the job, then find one that will.

Accountability or wonky accounting?

The Canadian Forage and Grassland Association recently wrote to Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz expressing concerns about the state of forage breeding within the federal department. (See the letter elsewhere on this page.)

If the word on the street is correct, those concerns are well founded. It appears that the Brandon Research Station, the home of beef, forage and nutrient management research for the eastern Prairies, will be hit hard by a new wave of unannounced cuts to the federal civil service put into motion last week.

It’s all hearsay at press time, because even as word leaked out and unions representing the people affected confirmed the numbers, the federal government was refusing to own up to anything.

Employees — both researchers and support staff whose programs are being gutted — are forbidden from talking to

anyone about what is going on, least of all journalists. Official spokespeople for the federal civil service and the minister’s office say they can’t comment due to privacy concerns. We suspect it has more to do with keeping bad news quiet.

Cultivated forages are Canada’s biggest crop by acreage.

Forage is a $5-billion industry in Canada and it provides the underpinnings to the $11-billion beef and dairy sectors. The public good it delivers through environmental benefits are immeasurable. Public investment in this kind of research is recouped many times over.

We recognize that responsible government is about making tough choices. But accountable government is about taking ownership of those decisions, not rolling them out in secrecy.

The public has a right to know what is taking place and why it is being done. laura@fbcpublishing.com

Forage growers write to Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz AAFC scientists should be allowed to attend industry meetings The following contains excerpts from a letter the Canadian Forage Growers Association sent to the federal government in April.

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he Canadian Forage and Grassland Association represents farmers and ranchers that produce, manage and utilize Canada’s largest acreage crop (National Forage and Grassland Assessment, June 2012).

Cultivated forages for pasture, feed, and seed production, account for 33.8 million acres or 39 per cent of the land in Canada devoted to crop production. In comparison, the next largest crop, wheat accounted for 20.4 million acres or 23 per cent of cropland. In addition, over 36 million acres of land are devoted to native or unimproved pastures and rangeland.

The economic value of the entire forage industry was $5.09 billion in 2011, following only wheat at $5.2 billion and canola at $7.3 billion. The forage industry is the foundation of the dairy and beef industries which together contribute $11 billion in direct value to Canadian farmers and generate over $50 billion in economic activity.

This value reflects the direct measurable benefits of forages.

The forage industry is a unique part of Canadian agriculture in that approximately 90 per cent of the production is fed to livestock on farm or ranch. In addition to direct economic value, perennial forages deliver significant environmental benefits including reducing soil erosion and increasing water infiltration, just to name a few.

Our national association is very concerned about the future of forage breeding, agronomy and management research within Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

As a result of severe cutbacks over the past 15 years there remain very few forage research scientists in the Science and Technology Branch.

We realize that federal budgets are very tight but we would encourage you and your department to re-evaluate the need to have

sufficient forage research scientists and supporting technicians at different ecoregion locations across Canada to meet the future research needs of not just the industry but the true beneficiaries, Canada and the world’s consumers.

It is important to note that the vast majority of forage research is in the public domain requiring public support. As an organization representing industry we see the need for and benefit from a long-term strategy including a commitment to supporting forage research capacity.

In addition, we would also encourage you and your department to develop a succession plan for scientists who are nearing retirement so that the next generation of researchers can continue to carry out the current research programs that would otherwise be lost through retirement.

Without a succession plan where younger and older scientists can work through the transition period, a significant amount of research information and momentum will be lost.

Our other concern is the very limited and restricted ability for research scientists to be able to attend producer and industry meetings/events at the provincial and national level as well as national and international scientific conferences.

It is extremely important for the future economic growth of Canada’s agriculture industry that research scientists be able to present their research findings and discuss future research needs with industry partners, stakeholders, producers and colleagues.

The participation of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada scientists in major provincial and federal producer meetings is critical to ensure the development and transfer of research results is achieved, and to ensure that the research questions under consideration by scientists are the most relevant and impactful questions, and stand the highest chance of impacting the resilience and vibrancy of the industry.

The Canadian Forage and Grassland Association is appreciative of the tremendous research effort that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has made in the past.

Forage management and agronomic information as well as new forage seed varieties have created economic growth and stability for Canada’s forage and grassland industry.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 16, 2013

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

When it comes to food, trust is as important as nutrition and taste Attempts to make it illegal for whistleblowers to make videos that document animal abuse could backfire on farmers and ranchers who care for their animals

By Darrell E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer

“Love. It’s what makes a Subaru a Subaru.”

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hat clever line helped Subaru leapfrog over 11 other carmakers to increase its share of the U.S. auto market over the last three years. Its creators understood that consumer emotion and perception is critical to the success of a commercial product.

The impor tance of consumer p e rc e p t i o n w a s re c e n t l y h i g h lighted in a story by National Public Radio on the buying habits of m i d d l e - c l a s s C h i n e s e f a m i l i e s.

Some families in China were asking relatives in the West to purchase baby formula and ship it to them — despite the high shipping costs and the fact the same product made by the same company is available in China.

The reason was the 2008 scandal in which a chemical thickener called melamine was mixed with baby formula. Six babies reportedly died and several hundred thousand got sick.

The NPR reporter concluded that when Chinese parents purchase baby food from the U.S. or Hong Kong, what they’re really doing is

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Gluten issue not new to marketing change Stewart Wells, NFU past president and former CWB director, claims c u s t o m e r c o n c e r n s a b o u t l ow gluten strength in our wheat are related to the return of an open market. He goes so far as to say that CWB directors “were never told about such problems” while he was there.

One can only speculate why this was the case. However, the problem did exist while he was at the board.

Both the CWB and Cigi confirm that complaints about the strength of our wheat have occurred over the past several years. The Canadian Grain Commission’s annual quality reports, readily available on its website, confirm that low gluten strength has been an issue in the Prairie wheat crop for five years

“buying a set of regulations and standards they trust.”

That leads us to ask, what happens to the trust that U.S. farmers have built up with consumers when state legislators around the country introduce bills that make it illegal for whistleblowers to make videos that document animal abuse or force the whistleblowers to turn such videos over to law enforcement before they can establish a pattern of abuse? Some legislative proposals go so far as to label the videographers as terrorists.

There is no doubt that some of the videos have cost some firms a lot of money and a number of individuals jail time. The horrific videos have ranged from downer cattle being put back on their feet with forklifts (the inability to stand and walk is one of the characteristics of BSE in cattle) to the burning of the ankles of horses in Tennessee (the injury causes the horses to lift their legs in a way similar to the gait of Tennessee Walking Horses) to the punching and kicking of piglets in Wyoming. It is clear the public finds such abuse morally unacceptable.

The question is not whether instances of abuse take place — no matter how rare they might be — but how consumers perceive of the way abuse problems are handled.

Local officials, left alone to deal with abuse, often do what it takes to stop it. But proponents of allowing videos claim that local officials may be unaware of abuse or, in some instances, be less than diligent in their enforcement of antiabuse statutes. Anti-gag legislation runs the risk of being perceived as protecting the abusers and thereby endangering the trust and goodwill that society feels toward farmers.

An alternative approach to making videos illegal is the one adopted by the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance with its Food Dialogues website (www.fooddialogues.com).

The website proclaims that farmers and ranchers “care deeply about the health and safety of their animals” but acknowledges consumers are concerned and “the system is not perfect.” “Unfortunately, there are on occasion, a few incompetent or uncaring people such as those seen in occasional undercover vid-

eos who abuse animals,” the website states. “Anyone who abuses animals should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

The alliance goes on to say that “while opinions regarding management techniques for animal safety and health greatly differ, it’s important that all farmers and ranchers work together with consumers to get a clearer understanding of why specific management styles work for one type of farm/ranch compared to another.”

We believe that it is also important for farmers and ranchers to get a clearer understanding of the changing expectations that consumers have for the food they eat.

now. A combination of weather and the genetic makeup of some popular varieties appear to be factors.

Wells and others may long for the good old days when they were blissfully unaware of issues like gluten strength and believe that somehow this ignorance was an advantage of the single desk. I disagree.

I think it’s far better that these quality problems are now out in the open, so that proper market signals are sent to farmers, and farmers, grain companies and breeders can now take the appropriate steps to restore our reputation as a consistent supplier of high-quality wheat.

have probably been accommodated into the operation.

With that kind of landscape in place, the benefits to wildlife and to soil and water conservation are significant. This is especially true when those operations are on fragile lands that are marginal for annual crop production, a reality for millions of acres of land across Western Canada.

The truth is that habitat conservation organizations in agro-Manitoba lament the decline in cattle operations that have been experienced over the last few years. And that is a view that is driven by environmental considerations.

Rolf Penner Manitoba vice-president Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association Morris, Man.

Tim Sopuck Chief Executive Officer The Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation

Bt pesticide gene (Bacillus thuringiensis), which renders the entire plant a pesticide factory.

All the inherent qualities of a seed that contribute to yield and nutritional enhancements are still being achieved by conventional breeding methods which can in no way be credited to genetic engineering.

Factor in the emergence of resistant super weeds that is forcing farmers to use more herbicides, including older toxic ones like dicamba and 2,4-D, and anyone can see the full scope of the GM scam.

The author’s assertion that coexistence of GM crops is possible also rings hollow. We only have to consider the example that has been set

by GM canola in Canada to see the future inevitability of contamination of all alfalfa seed stock if Roundup Ready varieties are let loose.

Drawing on the expertise of 400 scientists from 60 countries, the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), concluded that genetically modified crops will not address the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, hunger or poverty.

It urged the world’s governments to redirect funding and efforts away from the destructive chemicaldependent, one-size-fits-all model of agriculture and towards a system which embraces small-scale farmers and agro-ecological methods. I wonder if the author would regard the IAASTD as a special-interest group as well.

Cattle belong on the land Regarding the May 9 article “Coal and cattle worst environmental offenders, says new report,” I wish to provide a differing view about cattle on the land.

In our nor ther n great plains region, organizations that are interested in habitat conservation and biodiversity welcome the presence of cattle on the land. A cow-calf producer with a growing herd generally means that his or her operation includes large tracts of perennial cover where native grasslands, wetlands, grasslands and woodlands

The question is not whether instances of abuse take place — no matter how rare they might be — but how consumers perceive of the way abuse problems are handled.

GM promises ring hollow I found the May 2 propaganda article “Agricultural innovation in plant biotechnology necessar y” to be somewhat economical with the facts. Clearly, the purveyors of GM crops are feeling the heat from farmers and Canadians rising up in opposition to the registration of Roundup Ready alfalfa. This is rightly being viewed as an all-out attack against organic and other conventional farming systems.

In terms of the so-called ‘many benefits’ the author speaks of, GE crops can lay claim to really only two traits — the herbicide-tolerant gene, as in Roundup Ready, and the

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.

Alex Atamanenko, Member of Parliament B.C. Southern Interior

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FROM PAGE ONE COMPENSATION Continued from page 1

farmland in 2012 has spilled over into public protests twice in as many weeks.

In late April, protesting farmers blocked the opening of the Portage Diversion. A week later they took to the steps of the Manitoba legislature to voice their displeasure with the province’s handling of compensation in 2011 and 2012.

“I had a long-ter m forage business that has totally been wiped out, I can’t expect to rejuvenate it now,” said Joe Johnson. “Then I hear Mr. Ashton and Mr. Selinger talking about compensation, and I say wait a minute, the numbers don’t add up.”

Based on documents obtained through access to information in October of 2012, the Lake Manitoba-area producer estimates the average compensation payment for those affected by the 2011 flood to be about $65,000.

However, the province indicates that of the $700 million paid out to Manitobans after the 2011 flooding so far, more than $120 million has gone to producers around Lake Manitoba.

Ashton said payments ranged from $33,000 to $570,000, with the average producer receiving approximately $300,000 through a variety of programs covering costs such as home repair, debris removal, pasture and cropland restoration, cattle transport, fence repairs and income loss.

“It’s not correct to suggest that people haven’t received assistance,” the minister said.

“I think the real issue here is... what level and for what costs.

Really, as a province we’ve tried to be very proactive in our responses.”

Ashton acknowledged that multi-year compensation is still an issue, but he said addressing it requires federal support.

“Our approach is focused on getting the joint programs that do exist to provide extended coverage — extended in terms of years and I think we have to send a clear message to the federal government that this is the appropriate way to proceed,” Ashton said, while emphasizing that negotiations with Ottawa have remained amicable.

The Manitoba Co-operator requested an interview with Ritz last week, but that request was declined.

During a meeting for floodaffected Lake Manitoba residents last winter, federal officials urged the province to apply for funding through Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA), a program that reimburses up to 90 per cent of provincial disaster costs and is overseen by Manitoba’s lead federal minister, Vic Toews.

A request to speak to Toews was also declined, but in an emailed response, staff indicated a total of $100 million has been provided to Manitoba through DFAA in 2011 and 2012.

Provincial officials note Manitoba has spent a total of $1.2 billion fighting and compensating for the 2011 flood so far.

Public Safety Canada confirmed that a third request for DFA has been received from the province of Manitoba, but said that “audit findings are at a very preliminary level and do not provide detail with respect to the acceptance or rejection of elements of the provincial claims” at this time.

Ashton would not reveal what action the province will take if

Tory Leader Brian Pallister speaks to protesters about flood compensation at the Manitoba legislature.

Photos: Shannon VanRaes

“Our approach is focused on getting the joint programs that do exist to provide extended coverage — extended in terms of years and I think we have to send a clear message to the federal government that this is the appropriate way to proceed.”

Steve Ashton

the federal government does not come through with funding for flood damage that extended into 2012.

“They may have assumed that under normal circumstances you only pay out for flooding once, but if you have impacts that continue for more than one year and flooding that contin-

JOB CUTS Continued from page 1

development and less on maintaining herds.

We will continue beef-grazing systems research, with those activities moving from Brandon, Man. to Lacombe, Alta.

There’s no official word on how related manure management and environmental research at Brandon will be affected.

However, according to one unconfirmed report, there will be cuts in those programs too.

Calls to the head of Brandon Research Centre and AAFC’s regional director general were not returned.

“We’re very disappointed,” Manitoba Beef Producers’ general manager Cam Dahl said in an interview. “There’s no question about that. Of course research is a significant focus for us.”

The beef producers had funded beef research at the Brandon Centre, he said.

“We do place a great deal of importance on research and we will continue to do so,” Dahl said. “While we’re disappointed — and we are — that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop research in Manitoba.

We will look for other ways to do that, whether it be with the Government of Manitoba or the university or other partners we will continue to support that work.”

Because the cuts are part of

The axe is falling again at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Union officials predict 400 job losses following Workforce Adjustment notices issued to almost 700 staff May 9. Beef research at the Brandon Research Centre is one of the casualties. photo: allan dawson

the federal government’s budget, the beef association is resigned to them, Dahl said.

“We’ll just have to adapt.”

Doug Chorney, president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers, said cutting AAFC staff is inconsistent with the federal-provincial Growing Forward 2 agreement, which is supposed to promote agricultural research and competitiveness.

“I don’t understand this move,” he said in an interview. “We weren’t consulted. It’s news to everybody and seems contradictory to what the government has been saying.”

Under Growing Forward 2 governments cut spending on business risk management programs

for farmers to make research a priority, Chorney said.

All organizations change over time, but usually those changes are based on a plan. Farmers don’t know what the plan is, Chorney said.

AAFC says it’s improving service and saving money by reducing 28 programs to three. It’s also reducing layers of management and strengthening market access.

AAFC is focusing its scientific work on core priorities aligned with government priorities.

It could take months before the number of AAFC job cuts is known, union representatives said. Of the 350 AAFC staff who are members of the Professional

Joe Johnson speaks to protesters about flood compensation at the Manitoba legislature.

ues for more than one year... there needs to be that kind of coverage,” he said.

Tom Nevakshonoff, MLA for the Interlake, said he would like to see the federal government step in with programing similar to the Jobs and Economic Recovery Initiative brought in following the flood of 1997.

Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) and received Workforce Adjustment notices May 9, around 200 are expected to lose their jobs, said PIPSC president Gary Corbett. PIPSC represents AAFC scientists.

Of AAFC staff that are members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) 235 also received Workforce Adjustment notices. PSAC represents AAFC technicians and office staff.

Of the 22 PSAC members working for AAFC in Manitoba, 13 were notified they will lose their jobs, while nine will go through a selection process, said Bob Kingston, PSAC’s national agriculture union president.

“It’s a sad day,” Kingston said.

“It seems like anything to do with science or conservation is going to be hit by these guys.”

The cuts are concentrated in AAFC’s Science and Technology and Market and Industr y Services branches, PIPSC said in a news release. Affected employees include 144 commerce officers, 79 scientists, 76 information technology specialists, 29 engineers, 14 biologists, five research managers and three procurement officers.

Some of the affected staff are part of the Agricultural Environmental Services Branch, which was what became of PFRA (Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration) when it was rolled into AAFC several years ago.

“It’s incumbent upon us, and when I say us, I mean all of us, Manitobans, Canadians, provincial and federal governments to step up and do our utmost to repair the damage and get people back to the way their lives were before,” he said. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

“I hope the industry starts asking questions because if you look at how Canada got to where it is in agriculture, it’s exactly because of the kind of research that’s being destroyed,” Kingston said.

A year ago, AAFC announced it would close its Cereals Research Centre in Winnipeg mainly because it was too costly to refurbish. An estimated 41 positions were cut, although most of the cereal breeders and plant pathologists are being transferred to Brandon and Morden, respectively.

AAFC also announced a year ago it would sell community pastures and close or sell its shelterbelt tree nursery at Indian Head, Sask.

Ongoing cuts to AAFC have farmers questioning Ottawa’s support for publicly funded research, Chorney said.

“We are streamlining our program deliver y and our organization to make it easier for producers and processors to do business with government and deliver results for the sector,” an AFFC communications official wrote in an email.

To that end there has been a 43 and 45 per cent reduction in AAFC travel and conference costs over four years and a 70 per cent reduction in hospitality costs over five years. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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MAHRN strikes a deal with Minnesota health company The partnership is expected to speed up commercialization Staff

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he Manitoba AgriHealth Research Network, Inc. (MAHRN) has linked up with a Minnesota company to commercialize food therapies for chronic diseases.

MAHRN, a developer of f u n c t i o n a l a g r i - i n g re d i ents, and Minnesota-based TruhealthMD, the pioneer in food-based solutions for chronic disease, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will more rapidly advance the development and commercialization

of condition-specific food and nutrition therapies.

The deal was announced April 24 during a Manitobasponsored breakfast at the Biotechnology Industr y Organization (BIO) 2013 convention in Chicago.

The first health condition the new partnership has identified under the agreement is treating pre-diabetes.

“TruhealthMD has a proven marketplace model that supports the rapid advancement of innovative solutions for health while ensuring patient outcomes are positive,” Lee

Anne Murphy, MAHRN executive director said in a release.

The Manitoba Agri-Health Research Network cluster is partnered with the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research i n He a l t h a n d Me d i c i n e (CCARM), Food Development Centre (FDC) and Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals (RCFFN).

Tr u h e a l t h M D i s a Minnesota-based life science company that works with clinicians, health insurers, health systems and wellness companies to improve health through nutrition.

“ We are ver y for tunate to have a partner who is as passionate as we are about the role of foods and nutrition in preventing and treating chronic disease,” noted Elizabeth Klodas, cardiologist and founder of TruhealthMD. “MAHRN has been instrumental in making truly unique and nutritionally impactful ingredients for our products, allowing us not only to differentiate within the marketplace, but also to advance our cause more strategically.”

Young drivers need more instruction on country roads Manitoba Women’s Institute says beginning drivers should be given hands-on practice on unpaved roads

By Lorraine Stevenson CO-OPERATOR STAFF / WINKLER

D

o young dr ivers get enough instruction on how to safely drive country roads?

T h e M a n i t o b a Wo m e n’s Institute doesn’t think so, and wants hands-on practice on unpaved surfaces to be part of drivers’ education.

Beginning drivers should be required to spend a specified amount of time driving on gravel and other unpaved surfaces, said Justina Hop, a Vita-area farmer and institute member.

Instructors may talk about the dangers but you have to drive on loose gravel or ‘washboards’ to understand how treacherous they can be, she said.

Some country driving — with an experienced instructor at their side — would benefit all youth, not just rural ones, she added.

Sooner or later, many big-city drivers will find themselves on a gravel road with “absolutely no idea what to do,” she said.

Dr iving instr uctors take their students on gravel roads if they’re nearby and acces-

sible, said a spokesperson for Manitoba Public Insurance, but conceded that doesn’t happen for most city kids.

However, gravel roads aren’t inherently dangerous as long as motorists drive according to road conditions, and that is taught in drivers’ education, he added.

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

May 23-24: Sustainable Energy: From Conventional to Alternative and Back Again, Parks Canada National Historic Site, Neubergthal.

For more info call Bruce FriesenPankratz at 204-324-6416 or email pankratzb@borderland.ca.

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

June 8: Workshop: Making herbal teas & healing salves from the forest, Boreal Woods Nature Centre, Highway 59 across from Road 100N. For more info call Ken Fosty at 204-963-2209 or email kenfosty@shaw.ca.

June 11: Manitoba Hay and Silage Day and Field Demo, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., departing from Legion Hall, 425 Brown Ave., Neepawa. For more info call MAFRI at 204-648-3965; to pre-register (deadline June 3, $10 per person) call 204-622-2006.

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.

June 19-21: Canada’s Farm Progress Show, Evraz Place, Regina.

For more info visit www.myfarmshow.com or call 306-781-9200.

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 204-745-5663.

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LIVESTOCK MARKETS Cattle Prices Winnipeg

May 10, 2013

U.S. packers look north for bargain butcher cattle

Steers & Heifers 97.00 - 103.00 D1, 2 Cows 70.00 - 75.00 D3 Cows 60.00 - 68.00 Bulls 78.00 - 88.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.)

107.00 - 117.00 (801-900 lbs.)

117.00 - 129.00 (701-800 lbs.)

127.00 - 137.00 (601-700 lbs.)

135.00 - 146.00 (501-600 lbs.)

142.00 - 155.00 (401-500 lbs.)

150.00 - 165.00 Heifers (901+ lbs.)

95.00 - 112.00 (801-900 lbs.)

105.00 - 116.00 (701-800 lbs.)

112.00 - 125.25 (601-700 lbs.)

120.00 - 132.00 (501-600 lbs.)

123.00 - 135.00 (401-500 lbs.)

125.00 - 135.00

Heifers

Alberta South 120.50 120.00 74.00 - 85.00 65.00 - 75.00 89.05 $ 112.00 - 121.00 117.00 - 129.00 127.00 - 142.00 135.00 - 152.00 145.00 - 160.00 147.00 - 162.00 $ 103.00 - 112.00 108.00 - 119.00 112.00 - 126.00 119.00 - 132.00 125.00 - 138.00 130.00 - 143.00

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

(850+ lbs.)

Futures (May 10, 2013) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change Feeder Cattle June 2013 120.55 -3.32 May 2013 August 2013 120.52 -6.48 August 2013 October 2013 123.75 -4.72 September 2013 December 2013 125.30 -4.65 October 2013 February 2014 126.47 -4.10 November 2013 April 2014 127.50 1.25 January 2014 Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

Producers with field work on their minds are clearing out pens

CNSC

Close 135.75 145.97 147.85 149.77 151.00 150.90

Change -13.90 -5.28 -5.10 -4.50 -2.25 -2.10

Cattle Grades (Canada) Previous Year­ 60,517 14,250 46,267 NA 627,000

Week Ending May 4, 2013 1,480 28,004 13,209 692 823 7,948 136

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Previous Year 744 31,898 18,111 840 587 5,420 273

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 (May 10, 2013) in U.S. Hogs May 2013 June 2013 July 2013 August 2013 October 2013

Current Week 173.00 E 160.00 E 163.06 165.42

Last Week 168.00 E 155.00 E 155.42 156.57

Close 92.00 90.57 91.22 90.60 81.00

Last Year (Index 100) 163.34 149.20 143.86 148.60

Change -0.82 -2.45 -0.83 8.30 2.35

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

(95 - 109 lb.)

(80 - 94 lb.)

(Under 80 lb.)

(New crop)

Winnipeg (350 head wooled fats) — Next Sale May 15 — —

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 May 12, 2013 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $2.020 Undergrade .............................. $1.930 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $2.000 Undergrade .............................. $1.900 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $2.000 Undergrade .............................. $1.900 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................... $1.915 Undergrade............................... $1.830 Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.

Toronto 37.58 - 63.68 105.55 - 137.08 115.72 - 159.31 125.92 - 168.01 116.82 - 187.01 —

SunGold Specialty Meats 30.00

Eggs

Goats Kids Billys Mature

Toronto ($/cwt) 28.91 - 226.58 — 52.09 - 184.33

Horses <1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

T

here was unexpectedly good movement of cattle at auction yards in Manitoba during the week ended May 6 with values for most classes of cattle holding fully steady if not a bit better.

“We definitely saw some bigger numbers than what we expected, particularly in the southwest corner of the province,” said Rick Wright, a buyer with Heartland Buying Order Co. Much of that movement, he noted, was linked to farmers preparing to begin spring field work and, in some isolated cases, seeding operations.

“As a result, a lot of individuals were marketing cattle they had been holding on to and emptying out the pens,” Wright said. “This will allow them to concentrate on field work for the next couple of weeks rather than cattle.”

This cleaning out of pens resulted in marketings that were above seasonal averages, he said.

The jump in cattle marketings also included a fair share of cows for the butcher market.

“Usually we don’t see those kind of numbers at this time of year, but some of the movement was probably linked to the lack of feed available, as well as the high cost of buying feed,” Wright said.

Some butcher sales might have also been tied to the fact that calving season is over and individuals were culling some of the lower-end cows from the herd, he said.

Some of the movement may have also been associated with pastures not yet being ready to handle large herds.

Demand for feeder cattle under 800 pounds and ready for grass was extremely strong, with values in turn rising as a result, Wright said.

However, he noted, if feeder cattle broke the 800-lb. threshold and were on the fleshy side, the demand was limited and values were definitely discounted.

Demand for butcher cattle was also on the strong side, with western outlets in particular making their presence known this week, Wright said.

There was some demand for butcher cattle from firms south of the U.S. border this week, he added. However, much of that demand was for butcher cattle that were heavily discounted.

The purchase of lower-end animals helped to offset the Canadian dollar’s push toward parity with the U.S. greenback during the week, Wright said.

rick wright

“These U.S. firms are buying cattle that we would consider to be too fleshy and which may be not as popular to feed in Manitoba, but yet acceptable in the U.S.,” he said.

U.S. buyers are definitely not purchasing at the top end of the cattle chain, and in turn are not paying top price either, he said. “These U.S. buyers have a price point they work with and for some classes of cattle, it works for them.”

Wright estimated roughly 25 per cent of the cattle classified as “fleshy” go to the U.S. from Manitoba.

While there have been some signs of barbecue season picking up across the Canadian Prairies, Wright cautioned those signs still are not at the level the industry would like to see.

“We are in need of some serious warm and hot temperatures that will bring consumers outside and on to their decks to barbecue,” he said.

“Once that happens there should be a pickup in demand from the beef-slaughtering outlets.”

Right now, he acknowledged, other protein alternatives such as pork are attracting the attention of consumers due to the cheaper price.

Chicken, while not as cheap, is still a little more attractive than beef on the store shelf at present.

“Hopefully this will change soon enough with the change in weather,” Wright said.

A bit more information has surfaced from the Manitoba/Saskatchewan auctioneer championship held at Whitewood Livestock Sales in Saskatchewan on April 26.

The winner of the competition — Scott Campbell of Killarney Auction Sales, as we reported here last week — will now represent both provinces at the Canadian auctioneer championships to be held at the beginning of June at the Calgary Stockyards at Strathmore, Alta.

Coming in second was Tyler Slawinski, who works out of both the Gladstone and Ashern auction yards in Manitoba. Third place went to Ryan Hulbert, of Prince Albert, Sask.

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

news

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

Winnipeg (Fats) — — —

“… some of the movement was probably linked to the lack of feed available, as well as the high cost of buying feed.”

Dwayne Klassen

Ontario $ 95.39 - 124.55 106.37 - 124.64 56.48 - 77.07 56.48 - 77.07 75.70 - 89.36 $ 111.60 - 128.69 116.63 - 137.43 111.01 - 145.39 121.28 - 153.04 114.56 - 153.86 108.90 - 154.52 $ 103.64 - 115.78 99.14 - 121.98 102.19 - 131.24 107.41 - 133.68 113.29 - 142.20 110.23 - 145.72

$

(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.)

Week Ending May 4, 2013 52,955 12,319 40,636 NA 624,000

$1 Cdn: $ .9878 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.0124 Cdn.

COLUMN

(Friday to Thursday) Slaughter Cattle

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

EXCHANGES: May 10, 2013

Toronto ($/cwt) 14.56 - 39.00 27.89 - 56.23

Brazil poised to smash record for corn production sao paulo / reuters The second of Brazil’s two corn crops is developing well and could top last year’s 39 million tonnes, likely bringing the country’s overall corn production in the

2012-13 crop year to a second straight annual record.

Some estimates peg production at 40.6 million tonnes or more, which would give Brazil a total corn output of 76.9 million tonnes, surpassing last season’s 73 million tonnes.

“Rains in May would mean a record crop... but I wouldn’t necessarily bet on those rains,” said

agro-meteorologist Marco Antonio.

But even without record production, Brazil will likely be left with a huge amount of corn this season.

Brazil was a corn importer 10 years ago but has steadily increased its planted area to overtake Argentina as the world’s No. 2 exporter, shipping 24 million tonnes in 2012.

Looking for results? Check out the market reports from livestock auctions around the province. » PaGe 15

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GRAIN MARKETS Export and International Prices

column

Last Week

All prices close of business May 9, 2013

Seeding optimism steps on new-crop canola futures CNSC

S

pring finally came to the Canadian Prairies for at least a couple of days during the week ended May 10, and the improving weather led to some softening in new-crop canola futures.

Warmer and drier conditions helped ease some of the concerns circulating in the market over planting delays and unseeded acres.

However, it’s still very early goings and there are still months of potential weather scares to get through before this year’s crop is in the bin.

As far as the old crop is concerned, the July canola contract edged up for most of the week before jumping sharply Friday afternoon. Tight supplies and the need to ration demand were underpinning the contract.

However, the rationing is starting to become more evident, and the upside could be limited as the pace of disappearance slows down. From a chart standpoint, the July contract was all over the place during the week, but remains well within the $590-$625 range in which it’s been stuck for the past four months.

The export pace has been running behind the year-ago level for some time and the crush is backing away now as well. Domestic processors crushed 93,508 tonnes of canola during the week ended May 8, according to the latest report from the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association. That marks the first time the weekly crush has dipped below 100,000 tonnes since August.

While the crush may be declining, processors still offer good basis levels for delivery of old-crop canola into August.

Also of interest for old-crop canola are the tightening supplies in the commercial sys-

Year Ago

Wheat

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

263.15

264.07

218.51

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

315.14

310.36

268.20

Coarse Grains

Bearish USDA data has dragged U.S. futures downward Phil Franz-Warkentin

Week Ago

tem. As of May 5, visible canola stocks sat at only 891,300 tonnes. Of that total, only 324,000 tonnes were being held by primary elevators — a number which is considered very tight.

In the U.S., soybeans, corn and wheat were all mostly lower, aside from old-crop soybeans. Tight supplies underpinned the front month in beans, while improving U.S. weather conditions and a relatively bearish monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture supply/demand report weighed on most everything else.

Spring seeding — and the constantly shifting forecasts that go along with spring seeding — provided constant fodder for the futures markets during the week and should continue to do so as traders read what they will into the weather data.

Warmer and drier weather is needed to get corn and soybean crops planted in the U.S. Midwest, while the winter wheat on the U.S. Plains could still benefit from more moisture.

While the growing season is just getting started in Canada and the U.S., it’s nearing completion in the Southern Hemisphere.

Brazil’s Conab reported the country’s soybean harvest was in its final stages, with production pegged at a record 81.5 million tonnes, up from only 66.4 million the previous year. While there have been some logistical issues moving those beans out of the country, the movement is picking up and Brazilian soybean exports are forecast at a record 36.8 million tonnes. Some of those shipments are even destined for the U.S., and will help alleviate the tight U.S. supply situation ahead of the U.S. harvest.

Brazil’s corn crop is forecast at 78 million tonnes, which would also be a new record for the country.

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

For three-times-daily market reports from Commodity News Service Canada, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca.

US corn Gulf ($US)

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—

US barley (PNW) ($US)

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—

—

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

273.42

274.61

246.26

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

267.80

269.90

216.09

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

547.89

529.42

533.56

1,081.99

1,067.66

1,171.96

Winnipeg Futures ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business May 10, 2013 barley

Last Week

Week Ago

May 2013

243.50

243.50

July 2013

244.00

244.00

October 2013

194.00

194.00

Canola

Last Week

Week Ago

May 2013

648.50

630.40

July 2013

618.50

601.40

November 2013

535.60

541.30

Special Crops Report for May 13, 2013 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan Spot Market

Spot Market

Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)

Other ( Cdn. cents per pound unless otherwise specified)

Large Green 15/64

25.00 - 26.00

Canaryseed

Laird No. 1

22.50 - 26.00

Oil Sunflower Seed

Eston No. 2

19.00 - 21.00

Desi Chickpeas

26.00 - 27.75 — 25.70 - 27.00

Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)

Green No. 1

Fababeans, large

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Feed beans

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No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans

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Medium Yellow No. 1

15.30 - 17.50 8.65 - 9.25

Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel) Feed Pea (Rail)

No. 1 Great Northern

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Thai sacred oxen predict big rice crop Government stocks are already exceeding available space

By Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat bangkok / reuters

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acred white oxen at Thailand’s plowing ceremony May 13 predicted a big rice crop, an ominous sign for a government running out of space to store vast stocks after two years of buying at above market prices to help farmers.

Thailand’s Agriculture Ministry

forecasts paddy output of 27 million tonnes in the 2013-14 main crop in November, up from 26 million tonnes a year earlier, an official at the ceremony said.

By choosing maize and grass over other delicacies, the oxen also signalled large harvests for the MayNovember season.

A state policy of paying farmers some 50 per cent above market prices, and its unwillingness then

to sell the rice at a loss, has already eaten up available storage space, heaping pressure on the government to decide what to do.

A trial donation last month of 40 tonnes as humanitarian aid to poor villagers in Phitsanulok province, which a Commerce Ministry official said would be followed by a few millions of tonnes more, drew complaints it had been stored too long.

Milled rice stocks have risen to 17 million tonnes, almost half of global trade of around 38 million tonnes. A big harvest could add around 10 million tonnes to stockpiles this year.

Thai officials have suggested renting air force hangars for storage and the government is considering building more silos, although the cabinet would have to approve the extra spending.

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Prolonged drought sparks water wars in U.S. The courts are due to rule by June on whether a thirsty Texas can dip into Oklahoma water

By Lawrence Hurley washington / reuters

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.S. Supreme Court just i c e s w re s t l e d w i t h the sensitive issue of whether a thirsty Texas water district has the right to access water across the Oklahoma state line April 23.

The case arose under the Red River Compact, an agreement between Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma that apportioned water within the Red River basin. The compact was approved by Congress in 1980.

The Tarrant Regional Water District, which provides water in the fast-growing DallasFort Worth area, would like to access water in Oklahoma, but the Oklahoma Water Resources Board has refused. Oklahoma law restricts allocations of water out of state.

Texas as a whole has been facing a major drought.

The dry riverbed of the Trinity River near Dallas (background) during the summer of 2012. Prolonged drought conditions in Texas has sparked a fight over water access with neighbouring Oklahoma. photo: reuters

Under the compact, the states have equal rights to water in the area in question — in a basin that straddles the Texas-Oklahoma border — but the water

district and Oklahoma disagree over what exactly that means.

The water district says it means Texas can seek access to 25 per cent of the water in question,

irrespective of the state line, as stated in the compact. Oklahoma disputes that interpretation.

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intervened in the case in support of the Texas water district.

It was unclear based on the April 23 hour-long oral argument how the court would rule, although several of the nine justices voiced concerns about the water district’s argument.

One was Justice Samuel Alito, who told the water district’s lawyer, Charles Rothfeld, that the image of Texas having the right to “go into Oklahoma” was troubling.

“I m e a n , i t s o u n d s l i k e they are going to send in the National Guard or the Texas Rangers,” Alito said.

Chief Justice John Roberts appeared more sympathetic to the water district, noting that the “whole point” of the compact is that the states all ceded some rights.

“Each state has to give up a little here or a little there to solve a problem,” he said.

A decision is expected by the end of June.

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U.S. farmers warned to steer clear of loans

By Christine Stebbins chicago / reuters

U.S. grain farmers are being warned not to fall into the trap of borrowing against inflated land values.

A new report by the Kansas City Federal Reserve says farm incomes “could fall dramatically in 2014,” and that might tempt farmers to borrow against their land.

The report cautions “the stage is set for another wealth effect and leveraging cycle in U.S. agriculture.”

In past farm booms and busts, such as the 1910-20 and 1970-80 periods, U.S. farmers built debt even as incomes fell and interest rates rose. By contrast, U.S. grain farmers have used the latest boom to retire debt, even as land prices set new records. But that’s also a warning sign as farmers tend to accumulate more debt when wealth levels are high.

“Today, an increase in farm debt may signal the beginning of another turning point in farm debt and leverage,” the study says.

“After rising less than one per cent annually since 2008, farm debt outstanding at commercial banks rose roughly five per cent in the fourth quarter of 2012.”

The latest USDA forecast predicts net farm incomes to fall 20 to 25 per cent this year and remain near these levels over the next decade.

As well, many now expect interest rates to be two per cent higher by 2015.

“History has shown that a combination of falling profits and rising interest rates drive farmland prices lower,” the study states.

Current farm debt ratios remain near historical lows, and farmers should strive to keep it that way, it adds.

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Supply and demand part of global lamb price drop: experts After historic highs in 2011, lamb prices are 20 per cent below five-year average

By Victoria Paterson staff / calgary

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igh feed prices, oversupply and lower consumer demand are some of the factors believed to be causing the falling price of lamb, say industry analysts.

“I would suggest that it’s mostly a demand-and-supplytype of issue,” said Chris Panter, a provincial livestock market analyst with Alberta Agriculture.

He said since the historic 2011 peak, rail-grade prices for lamb have fallen about 45 per cent.

Live prices have fallen about the same. The prices are down about 20 per cent from the five-year average.

Over the last few years, producers were building up herds and the supply shrank, driving up prices. But then the U.S. drought hit, forcing many lambs on the market. U.S. prices dropped and Canada’s have followed suit.

Panter also said the global demand for lamb has dropped a bit, though in Canada consumption is still higher now than it was in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The price of feed is also high,

which raises the break-even point for producers, Panter said.

The big season for lamb — Easter — came early this year. Now consumers are in a transition between Easter and barbecue season, and Panter said it’s hard to predict what might happen for lamb when people go shopping for meat to grill.

The chair of Alberta Lamb Producers (ALP) also cited high feed prices and a glut of lamb on the markets.

“It’s not a Canadian thing. It’s a global thing,” said Ronald den Broeder. He said in 2012 producers took a wait-and-see approach as prices started dropping, but now that they’re into the second year of falling prices it’s going to be harder for producers to absorb the lower prices.

Producers have had mixed reactions to the lower prices, with some considering leaving the industry while others think it might be a good time to get in, said den Broeder.

“We’ve worked hard the last four or five years to make the sheep industry a notable industry and a serious industry and if these prices are going to stay the way they are, people have to pay

Lamb prices have been hit by a ‘perfect storm.’ file photo

bills and they might be forced to different things,” den Broeder said. The ALP has been communicating as much as it can about the price issue to its members and is taking their input and ideas, he said.

Dwayne Beaton, CEO of Sungold Specialty Meats, a large lamb processor based in Innisfail, also listed lessening global

demand, oversupply due to the U.S. drought and high feed prices as factors in the price drop.

“It’s kind of a perfect storm scenario where a number of things all happened at the same time to cause the price to go down,” Beaton said. “Especially in the United States there’s been a decrease in consumer demand for lamb products, so that com-

bined with the supply issue where ewe lambs are being sold by producers who don’t want to feed because it’s too expensive, the two of them together create a decrease in price,” Beaton said.

After prices hitting historic highs, “there ultimately had to be a correction,” he said. victoria.paterson@fbcpublishing.com

Hay short after long winter, dry summer Demand for Canadian hay south of the border has Manitoba farmers searching farther afield in order to feed their cattle this spring

By Shannon VanRaes co-operator staff

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late spring and growing demand for cattle feed has depleted hay stocks across the province, leaving many beef producers paying more and travelling farther to find what they need.

“We normally buy our hay locally, just 10 or 15 miles from home. But this year we’ve had to bring it in 250 miles from home,” said Jim Lintott, who raises grass-fed beef near Oakbank.

“We’ve been really short on hay all winter and started using treated straw in February and March.”

In previous years, Lintott had his cattle out on pasture by early April. This year he expects to be feeding them until early June. Some are selling off cattle in the face of high feed costs, but Lintott isn’t willing to part with a decade’s worth of improvements in his grass-fed genetics.

“We’d really be making a big mistake selling them now,” he said.

Cattle producer Jim Lintott has been feeding straw since February.

Hay is also in short supply on the west side of the province.

“This cold isn’t helping at all either, the cows are still eating just as much as they eat in the winter time,” said Dave Koslowsky, who ranches near Killarney. Many ranchers he knows are culling harder than normal because of feed costs, says the grass-fed beef producer.

“They got rid of their poorer cows, late cows, and their trouble cows, at least in our local area,” Koslowsky said.

But it’s not just the late spring in Manitoba that’s behind the hay shortage — last year’s drought south of the border is also to blame.

“I think the primary reason for this increase in hay prices is the draw from the U.S.,” said Glenn Friesen, a forage specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI).

“In the last two or three years, more and more round bales are going from your nontraditional hay marketers, just people selling their surplus, and that’s been a bit of a game changer on prices.”

Some hay is selling for double what it sold for last year.

“It’s a wide range of prices,” said Friesen. “Anecdotally, I’ve heard ranges of a nickel to 11 cents a pound for hay now,

where the old range would have been 2-1/2 cents to six cents a pound.”

MAFRI’s hay-listing webs i t e h a s b e e n e x t re m e l y active he said, but added farmers are finding creative solutions, including using sunflower screenings, beet pulp, distillers grain, and straw additives.

“I think producers are quite resourceful, they’ve learned over the last decade, after BSE, how to feed a range of things,” said Friesen. “They can figure out pretty quickly what they can afford to feed.”

His department also helps producers with feed rationing.

“You give us what you have for feed and we’ll put that into a calculator and kick out how many bales of this and that you should feed,” he said. “It’s helped people really sharpen their pencils and figure out down to the pound what they should be feeding.”

About 400 producers asked for rationing assistance between October and December. The situation is serious, but not “dangerous,” said Friesen.

“There are no alarm bells going off from the province’s perspective yet,” he said.

However, with reports of winterkill coming out of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, U.S. demand for hay could be high again this year.

“The pump is primed so to speak, and we may see more hay move south if prices support that,” said Friesen. Lintott noted that high grain prices have also taken some hay and pasture land out of production, as farmers try to take advantage of generous commodity returns.

“But it won’t stay out forever, it’s part of the cycle,” he said.

During some previous hay shortages there has been freight assistance provided to producers needing to ship feed significant distances, but not so this time.

“That never happened this year and that’s really a function of the financial situation in the province,” said Lintott. “In better times that would probably be available.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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Leaving? Well think again

Forced to graze early?

Some options for stemming the losses For every day too early you graze in the spring, count on losing three days of grazing in the fall

By Tod Wallace beef specialist, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives; and

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Surge in bee deaths has made colony collapse disorder a political issue Europe is banning neonicotinoid insecticides and some want Canada to do the same

By Alex Binkley co-operator contributor / ottawa

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he humble honeybee has Ottawa and Washington abuzz these days thanks to some controversial dust.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has released a protection protocol for honeybee populations, the Commons agriculture committee has launched a study of threats to bees, the Green Party and Sierra Club want an immediate ban of a controversial class of insecticides, and U.S. officials are trying to sort through a host of factors that might be contributing to colony collapse disorder.

Canadian beekeepers have been str uggling for more than a decade with mites and other problems devastating their hives. In the spring of 2012, they were pounded with what John Cowan, vice-president of Grain Farmers of Ontario, calls a perfect storm that decimated bee populations in major corn-growing areas.

It was linked to an unusually warm and dry spring, and the use of corn seed coated in neonicotinoid i n s e c t i c i d e. So m e o f t h e insecticide floats in the dust created when corn is planted, thereby reaching — and possibly — killing bees.

While most of the 2013 corn crop in Ontario and Quebec has been planted

this year under new government guidelines for reducing dust, it’s too soon to get much of a read on how the bee population has fared, Cowan says.

Iro n i c a l l y t h e n e o n i c otinoid insecticide replaced lindane, a really nasty product ordered off the market in Canada because of its devastating impact on bees, birds and other wildlife.

Cowan says there’s no silver bullet to fixing the bee health issue but farmers understand the importance the insects play in the development in their crops. Doing without them would cost the average Ontario corn grower $50,000 in lost income, he estimates.

While the Green Party and Sierra Club want Ottawa to follow Europe’s lead and ban neonicotinoid insecticides, Cowan argues farming practices in Europe and Ontario are so different that they can’t be compared.

Nor is it clear how much blame the insecticides deserve. Many in the U.S. honey sector say the varroa mite is the main culprit, and poor nutrition and exposure to other pesticides are factors.

Cowan told the MPs that more study is needed.

We need to “understand bee health, bee colony foraging, and all the interactions that exist with farmers and the environment that they work in,” he said.

ith previous flooding, drought and now a late spring, many producers will be faced with the question of what to do with pastures weakened by flooding and overgrazing.

No matter how you look at it, you may be forced to sacrifice the health of some of your pastures. Let’s take a look at the cost of going to pasture too early and some strategies to minimize the impact during this vulnerable period.

We will start by focusing on the cost to the forage plant. We all know that the plants in pastures and hayfields are perennial, which grow differently than annuals. The annual plant focuses on getting a small root system established, ripening a seed and then dying. The perennial plant focuses on establishing a large root system with a “savings account” of energy, so that it can survive winters, droughts and grazing. But perennials only tolerate these conditions if they can draw down on their stored energy when times are tough. Producers ultimately control the size of the savings account through their grazing management.

Yield losses

Grazing too early in the spring can cost you up to 45 per cent of that year’s forage yield. This is because perennials are never completely dormant; they use energy all winter long, just very slowly. After a long winter, a forage plant is weak and needs to replace root energy.

The plant’s first step is to use the last remaining root reserves to put up a few leaves to convert sunlight to energy. Continually stressing a forage plant — by early grazing or heavy frosts — can cost you the annual potential forage yield and ultimately the total loss of the

Producers ultimately control the size of the savings account through their grazing management.

stand. You have probably heard about this simple rule of thumb: for every day you graze too early in spring, you lose three days in fall.

Strategies

Here are two strategies to minimize the impact if you have no other choice but to use a pasture before it is ready. Consider skim grazing, or moving the cattle through the pasture quickly. This means they only graze off the very tips of the leaves. This allows the remaining leaves to keep building root reserves. How fast you move from pasture to pasture will depend on the size of your pastures and herd, but this could last from a few hours to a few days.

Another strategy is to utilize a sacrifice pasture. To do this, you keep the cattle on one pasture until other pastures are ready for grazing. Plan on bringing feed to supplement the poor pasture yields. The same pasture can be used each year but choosing a different pasture every year will minimize the stress on your pastures, thus minimizing the need to renovate any of them. Choose pastures that are high and dry to avoid punching up the soil and further injuring the forages. Rest your sacrifice pasture for a minimum of 60 days. Remember that it may need up to 100 days to recover.

There are also other options to prepare pastures for the future.

Consider a number of strategies this summer as you prepare for this fall or next spring.

Planning for the future

The first option is to fertilize your stand according to soil tests. Adding as little as $48 per acre (50 lbs.

Grazing too early can shorten a pasture’s carrying capacity. photo: jeannette greaves

per acre of N and 30 lbs. of P) can double your forage yields. At $110 per tonne for feed, all you need is another half-tonne of growth to cover your costs, or about three to four inches of growth.

Option two is to stockpile forage. You can leave the regrowth standing on one of your pastures for late-fall grazing, or for calving on next spring. This forage is a good source of roughage, and should be grazed with supplemental feed.

Another strategy is to use winter annuals. Plant fall rye or winter wheat this year for grazing next spring. You can graze it very hard if you do not plan on taking a cut of green feed next year, but it will regrow if you graze it carefully.

Your fourth option is to seed early varieties of grass. In drier areas, crested wheatgrass will tolerate heavy spring grazing.

Meadow or creeping foxtail are best for areas with higher moisture throughout the year. The foxtails are very-early-spring growers but they are not really suited to mid-season grazing. Consult with a local forage specialist for recommendations.

There are a few things you can do to get through the spring crunch. In some cases it can benefit your operation to market animals if you simply will not have enough hay or pasture. Selling those cattle early will save the forages for the rest of them, and put you ahead in the long run.

If you are facing challenging pasture conditions and need advice on how to improve the situation, please contact your local MAFRI GO office to speak with a forage specialist.

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Summer is time to be on the lookout for lungworm Most vet clinics can test manure samples to see if lungworms are present Roy Lewis, DVM Beef 911

The finding of even one larval lungworm is significant and necessitates deworming, so if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re worried, have several samples checked.

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very year in later summer we see a few outbreaks with lungworms on pasture. This is especially true in a wet year where the life cycle of the lungworm can be completed. But much like we see with anthrax outbreaks in drier years, where cattle can pasture low-lying areas we will see flareups of this parasitic disease as well.

The life cycle of the lungworm (dictyocaulus viviparous) starts with the animals picking up infective larvae off the grass. The larvae are then ingested and migrate through the intestine into the bloodstream and end up in the lungs as adults. They cause damage to the air sacs in the lungs and the adults live in the bronchial tubes.

The adults produce a tremendous number of eggs which are coughed up and s w a l l owe d w h e re t h e y, o n passage through the intestinal tract, change to larvae by the time they are passed in the manure. The entire cycle takes about one month.

T h e s e l a r va e a re o n e o f the ways veterinarians can diagnose the condition by examining a manure sample. It takes a different test than looking for the intestinal worm eggs. The baermann technique is done on a handful of fresh manure and takes a few hours to run. We have samples arrive in the morning so we can give you an answer the same day. Most clinics are set up to run this test in house. The finding of even one larval lungworm is significant and necessitates deworming, so if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re worried, have several samples checked.

Other than checking manure samples cattle can be checked clinically or autopsies can be done if any have died. Clinically we may see cattle doing poorly in spite of good grass conditions. There is often a number with very prominent coughing. Some may have varying degrees of diarrhea. With herd involvement there is always great variation with some doing very poorly, others just a bit rough haired and still others looking almost normal.

Generally the younger cattle (calves and yearlings) are most susceptible as any previous exposure yields some immunity.

If we listen to the lungs there is often evidence of emphysema caused by the lungworm larvae damaging the air sacs. We may even see a secondary bacterial or viral pneumonia from the stress the lungs are under. Some of these lung changes if severe enough will not reverse so even if treatment is successful, a poor-doing animal with reduced lung capacity is the result.

With autopsies an experienced vet will notice changes

to the lungs and actual adult lungworms can be found in the bronchial tubes and trachea.

It is very easy to see how lung capacity has been diminished.

Summer exposure

The lungworm can overwinter in our Canadian winters but most of the exposure comes from carrier cattle shedding the larvae on the pastures.

Generally then you will get

buildup by midsummer in areas that are affected. Endectocides and other drugs are available as part of the routine treatment in the fall or if a clinical diagnosis is made in the summer. Talk to your herd vet about which to use.

Some can either be mixed in grain and fed in feeders as a one-time treatment or fed in reduced amounts over three to six days. Another technique

we have found successful is scripting the drug into the trace minerals. This requires a veterinary prescription as it is not an approved method for administration.

When treating clinical cases the symptoms such as coughing or respiratory problems will actually increase for a few days. This is because all the dead worms need to be coughed up and swallowed.

The killing of all the adult w o r m s m a y c a u s e a re a c tion but the animal must be dewor med so you have to treat. Any pneumonia complications may need to be treated with antibiotics at this time. Pastures that have had previous problems are the ones we really concentrate on. Over a few years the treatment possibly can be phased

out but always be on the lookout for the clinical signs reappearing.

Bison are ver y susceptible to lungworms and the same safeguard can be used but under a veterinary prescription. The endectocides if given are used at the same rate as cattle.

Any time cattle are failing have them checked if at pasture in the summer lungworms are a real possibility which often get overlooked.

Bring several manure samples into your veterinarian if you suspect it and follow their recommendations for treatment if it is diagnosed.

Roy Lewis is a Westock, Alberta-based veterinarian specializing in large-animal practice. He is also a part-time technical services vet for Merck Animal Health.

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SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN

Ontario egg Orthodox Easter preparations farmers invest in led to stronger prices research using Demand was high and bidding strong for lightweight lambs and goat kids egg derivatives to fight depression

By Mark Elliot

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here were 300 sheep and goats delivered to the Winnipeg Livestock Auction on May 1, 2013. Buyers were purchasing to maintain and add to their supply for the coming Orthodox Easter. The next sale (May 15, 2013) will be the end of having two sales per month.

Thus starting in June — only the first Wednesday will be the sheep and goat sale.

Buyers showed little interest in ewes. This trend has continued from previous sales. There appeared to be no price difference between the wool and the hair ewes. The price ranged from $0.23 to $0.575 per pound. A group of six 158-pound Rideaucross ewes brought $67.94 ($0.43 per pound).

The bidding on the heavier rams from the buyers was not as exciting or strong, as the lighter rams, which are in higher demand. The 100pound ram brought $92.50 ($0.925 per pound) and the 125pound Savy-cross ram brought $81.25 ($0.65 per pound).

The 175-pound ram brought $86.50 ($0.46 per pound). The 220-pound Suffolk-cross ram brought $79.20 ($0.36 per pound).

Although, the selection was limited for the heavyweight lambs, there was limited bidding as well, at this sale. A group of 11 — 119-pound lambs brought $107.10 ($0.90 per pound).

A 120-pound Cheviot-cross lamb brought $63.60 ($0.53 per pound).

No market lambs were delivered for this sale.

Prices on feeder lambs were slightly lower than at the last sale. The hair lambs represented the feeder lambs. The weight ranged from 81 to 93 pounds, with a price ranging from $0.95 to $0.975 per pound.

The next sale (May 15, 2013) will be the end of having two sales per month. Thus starting in June — only the first Wednesday will be the sheep and goat sale.

The buyers were interested in the lighter-weight lambs. The producers delivered more of the lambs in the 60-plus pound range, which appeared to be popular with buyers. The weight ranged from 60 to 63 pounds and the price ranged from $0.97 to $1.25 per pound.

A 5 0 - p o u n d S a v y- c r o s s lamb brought $37.50 ($0.75 per pound). Three 52-pound lambs brought $49.40 ($0.95 per pound).

Two 48-pound lambs brought $44.40 ($0.925 per pound).

The heavier new-crop lambs attracted lower bidding. Ten 90-pound new-crop lambs brought $111.60 ($1.24 per pound). Thirteen 82-pound new-crop lambs brought $100.86 ($1.23 per pound).

Two 70-pound lambs brought $94.50 ($1.35 per pound).

Four 76-pound lambs brought $98.80 ($1.30 per pound). Fifteen 66-pound lambs brought $82.50 ($1.25 per pound).

Two 50-pound lambs brought $82.50 ($1.65 per pound). Two 55-pound lambs brought $85.25 ($1.55 per pound).

Goats

Both meat and dairy does were on offer. The Alpine-cross does represented the dairy goats.

The lighter-weight does created more interest and caused the higher bidding. A 105pound Alpine-cross doe brought $107.50 ($1.02 per pound). A 90-pound Alpine-cross doe brought $97.50 ($1.08 per pound). Two 83-pound Alpine-

cross does brought $97.50 ($1.18 per pound).

Two 143-pound Boer-cross does brought $87.50 ($0.61 per pound). A 130-pound Boer-cross doe brought $112.50 ($0.87 per pound). Seven 96-pound Boercross does brought $92.50 ($0.96 per pound).

There were a higher number of bucks on offer. The weight ranged from 195 to 85 pounds for the Boer-cross bucks, with a price range from $0.65 to $1.15 per pound. The weight ranged for the Alpine-cross bucks from 170 to 50 pounds, with a price ranging from $0.54 to $1.50 per pound.

The demand for the lightweight goats (kids) was extremely high, as for the preparation and celebration of the Orthodox Easter.

Five 72-pound Boer-cross goat kids brought $127.50 ($1.77 per pound). Six 60-pound goat kids brought $82 ($1.37 per pound).

Goat kids in the weight range of 55 to 58 lbs. brought prices ranging from $1.25 to $1.51 per pound.

A 40-pound Boer-cross kid brought $30 ($0.88 per pound).

Two 38-pound Boer-cross kids brought $27 ($0.72 per pound).

An exception was a 35-pound Boer-cross kid that brought $35 ($1 per pound).

The Ontario Stockyard Report reported that the bidding on the quality sheep and lambs, produced steady prices. However, with the large volume (over 4,000) of sheep and lambs delivered for the sale, the prices dropped.

Prices for goat kids held steady.

April 17, 2013

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An antidepressant made from eggs works better, quicker and with fewer side-effects than existing medications

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gg Farmers of Ontario (EFO) has announced an agreement to provide $1 million in research and development funding to United Paragon Associates (UPA) to fund clinical trials of a new antidepressant drug derived from eggs.

“Egg Farmers of Ontario believes there are enormous potential benefits of this research into Rellidep, an antidepressant drug, for individuals suffering from depression and for society as a whole,” said EFO chair Scott Graham in a release.

“The active ingredients of Rellidep are derived from eggs and that also means the research can stimulate, increase and improve the production and marketing of eggs in Ontario.”

The letter of intent for EFO funding that will partially fund Phase 2 clinical trials was announced during EFO’s 48th annual meeting.

Early trials of Rellidep suggest it offers advantages over existing treatments in three areas, said George Yeung, UPA’s president of research and development.

“Po t e n t i a l l y b e t t e r e f f i cacy, shorter time to clinical benefit and significantly f e w e r s i d e - e f f e c t s w e re o b s e r v e d . We a r e h o p ing to see similar results in the next phases of our research.”

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$67.90 - $73.80

$62.50 - $82.50

$31.05 - $56

$19 - $59.67

110+

$63.60/$107.10

$100 - $147

95 - 110

n/a

$88.35 - $98.98

80 - 94

$76.95 - $90.21

$80 - $94.60

70 - 79

n/a

$83.25/$84.75 (75 lbs.)

60 - 63

$59.17 -$75

$71.68/$78.20 (64/68 lbs.)

Horsemeat scandal prompts crackdown

50 / 52

$37.50/$49.40

n/a

brussels / reuters

48

$44.40

n/a

Lambs (lbs.)

Under 80

new-crop lambs 50

$82.50

($1.65/lb.)

$44.40

55

$85.25

($1.55 /lb.)

$44.40

66

$82.50

($1.25/lb.)

$44.40

70

$94.50

($1.35/lb.)

$93.60 (72 lbs.) $1.30/lb.

76

$98.80

($1.30 lb.)

$44.40

82

$100.86 ($1.23/lb.)

$44.40

90

$111.60 ($1.24/lb.)

$126.42 (98 lbs.) $1.29/lb.

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he European Commission is proposing more unannounced inspections of food companies and tougher fines for labelling in the wake of a scandal that saw millions of Europeans eat horsemeat labelled as beef.

Unidentified criminal gangs are believed to have made huge profits by substituting millions of tonnes of cheap horsemeat for more expensive beef in products including meatballs and lasagna.

EU governments have been reluctant to agree to minimum financial sanctions mandated by Brussels, but the scandal could swing the debate.

“Crime must not pay,” said EU consumer commissioner Tonio Borg. “But if the penalties are low it does pay.”

Current penalties for the type of labelling fraud used in the horsemeat scandal range from a jail term in Britain to a maximum fine of 187,000 euros ($245,000) in France.

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Feeder Steers No. on offer Over 1,000 lbs.

900-1,000

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

May-08

May-07

May-07

May-10

May-08

May-06

May-09

May-10

1,578

531

494

1,270

2,275

n/a

1,211

940

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

sale

n/a

100.00-111.50

n/a

90.00-110.00

n/a

100.00-115.00

107.00-116.25

cancelled

105.00-114.000

108.00-116.00

800-900

110.00-130.20

100.00-119.50

115.00-128.00

115.00-130.00

115.00-129.00

due to

114.00-131.00

112.00-125.00

700-800

120.00-143.00

110.00-146.00

122.00-141.00

125.00-140.00

126.00-143.00

too few

125.00-140.00

120.00-137.50

600-700

130.00-157.00

110.00-138.00

130.00-141.00

135.00-154.00

135.00-151.00

numbers

130.00-157.00

130.00-146.00

500-600

135.00-159.00

130.00-150.00

135.00-145.00

140.00-160.00

140.00-158.00

n/a

145.00-159.00

150.00-160.00

400-500

140.00-150.00

135.00-154.00

130.00-146.50

145.00-165.00

145.00-160.00

n/a

140.00-167.00

150.00-160.00

300-400

n/a

140.00-155.00

140.00-167.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

140.00-155.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

90.00-105.00

95.00-106.00

n/a

100.00-113.50

100.00-112.75

800-900

108.00-112.00

90.00-121.50

105.00-115.00

105.00-120.00

101.00-112.25

n/a

105.00-119.00

107.00-114.00

700-800

100.00-123.00

100.00-125.50

110.00-120.50

112.00-120.50

110.00-123.00

n/a

110.00-119.00

110.00-125.00

600-700

110.00-128.00

105.00-125.75

118.00-127.00

117.00-133.00

115.00-128.75

n/a

118.00-143.00

120.00-126.00

500-600

113.00-133.00

110.00-128.00

125.00-140.50

120.00-132.00

118.00-132.00

n/a

120.00-143.00

120.00-139.00

400-500

120.00-144.00

135.00-141.00

128.00-139.50

120.00-133.00

124.00-143.00

n/a

120.00-149.00

135.00-146.00

300-400

n/a

130.00-143.00

130.00-167.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

115.00-130.00

336

n/a

139

154

n/a

n/a

n/a

280

Feeder heifers 900-1,000 lbs.

Slaughter Market No. on offer D1-D2 Cows

60.00-71.00

50.00-75.00

n/a

72.00-78.00

69.00-77.00

n/a

70.00-77.00

72.00-77.00

D3-D5 Cows

48.00 and up

n/a

n/a

60.00-71.00

63.00-69.00

n/a

58.00-71.00

65.00-72.00

Age Verified

72.00-80.50

n/a

n/a

n/a

71.00-79.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Good Bulls

80.00-93.50

n/a

85.00-90.75

77.00-83.00

78.00-85.75

n/a

78.00-88.00

82.00-89.00

Butcher Steers

n/a

n/a

n/a

95.00-103.00

100.00-105.75

n/a

n/a

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

n/a

94.00-102.00

98.00-104.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

71.00-78.00

n/a

72.00-84.00

n/a

n/a

75.00-80.00

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

n/a

68.00-72.50

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.)

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Animal cruelty video prompts Australia to suspend cattle exports to Egypt SYDNEY / REUTERS /Australian livestock exporters are suspending live cattle exports to Egypt after a graphic video purportedly showing animal cruelty in Egyptian abattoirs.

The video, secretly shot at two abattoirs by animal rights group Animals Australia, showed “appalling practices during the slaughter process,” said Alison Penfold, chief executive officer of the Australian Livestock Exporters Council.

“We are very genuine about the suspension,” she said.

“There will be no animals going into those facilities until the standards are met.”

Australia’s live export industry is worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually, and much of the trade is with Muslim countries, where they are slaughtered in accordance with Islamic requirements.

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search for glyphosate-resistant kochia in Manitoba will be done this fall thanks to $17,000 in funding from the Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF).

WGRF executive director Garth Patterson confirmed the funding in an interview May 6.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Hugh Beckie, a world leader in herbicide-resistant weed surveys, will work with officials from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives on the project.

Although glyphosate-resistant kochia has not been scientifically documented in Manitoba, both farmers and Beckie believe it exists.

In a survey conducted by Stratus Agri-Marketing 202 Manitoba farmers said they believe 23,000 acres are infested with the weed.

The number might be even higher, Beckie said in a recent interview.

“Detection and grower awareness are the key prerequisites for effective resistant weed management.”

WGRF FUNDING PROPOSAL

“Since it’s so widespread in Saskatchewan and Alberta now why wouldn’t it be in Manitoba, especially in the southwest where kochia is such a prevalent weed,” he said.

Glyphosate-resistant kochia was discovered at multiple sites in southern Alberta in 2011 and in southern and central Saskatchewan in 2012.

“G R ( g l y p h o s a t e - re s i s t a n t ) kochia will spread rapidly,” the

project proposal states. “We have a brief monitoring period to support a proactive response to this pending problem in Manitoba. The proposed survey is an important component of that response.”

Troublesome

While all herbicide-resistant weeds are a concern to farmers, glyphosate-tolerant ones are even more troublesome because glyphosate is the most applied herbicide in the world and widely considered to be the most important. Glyphosate is key to zero- and minimum-tillage operations because it replaces cultivation as a means of weed control.

Farmers can delay the development of herbicide-tolerant weeds by rotating herbicides with different modes of action, applying more than one mode of action at the same time, and where possible, not applying a herbicide at all.

But once herbicide-resistant weeds show up early detection and eradication can prevent their spread.

“By alerting growers at an early stage to the presence of GR kochia, we can increase the adoption of preventive and control measures to reduce the evolution and spread of the resistant biotype,” the project proposal states. “Because GR kochia will generally be more costly to control than non-kochia, early detection is critical to mitigate cost of herbicidal control and slow its rapid spread via seed (tumbleweed) or pollen.”

Crops such as soybean, potato, sugar beet, bean, chickpea, or sunflower have no in-crop herbicide options to control glyphosateresistant kochia, the proposal says.

Other crops, including canola and field pea, have few herbicide options.

“Detection and grower awareness are the key prerequisites for effective resistant weed management,” the proposal says.

Search

The search for glyphosate-resistant weeds will be done in south-

Kochia is the only weed left standing in a North Dakota soybean field in 2012, a dead giveaway of resistance to glyphosate. PHOTO: INGRID KRISTJANSON, MAFRI

ern Manitoba over three weeks in the September to October period.

Kochia seeds will be collected and then tested. Results will be available to farmers by March 31, 2014.

Growers will be informed if herbicide-resistant kochia is identified, but exact locations and grower names will be kept confidential, the project proposal says.

Confirmed sites will be mapped and the information shared via websites and extension networks.

The WGRF is most associated with funding the development of new crop varieties through the checkoff it receives from western farmers’ wheat and barley sales and its endowment fund. While the WGRF is committed to continued varietal development, it

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USDA says more review needed for new Monsanto, Dow GMO crops

The companies say farmers need the new mixtures while critics say the environmental threat is too high

By Carey Gillam reuters

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he U.S. Department of Agriculture said May 10 it will extend its scrutiny of controversial proposed biotech crops developed by Dow AgroSciences, a unit of Dow Chemical, and Monsanto Co. after receiving an onslaught of opposition to the companies’ plans.

The news frustrated Dow officials who had hoped to have secured regulator y approval and have their new herbicide-tolerant corn called “Enlist” on the market by 2013 or 2014 at the latest. But 2015 is now likely the best hope for commercialization, said Dow AgroSciences spokeswoman Kenda Resler Friend. Farm-

“The U.S. regulatory system for biotech products remains unnecessarily burdensome and unpredictable, and American farmers are paying the price.”

Cathleen Enright

Executive vice-president at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

ers need the new technology to better manage weeds, she said. “This is something that farmers are going to lose from.”

USDA said it will conduct two separate environmental impact statements “to better inform decision-making” on the approvals sought by Dow and Monsanto. Critics applauded the move. Many

have warned that both the new crops planned by Dow and Monsanto, and the new herbicide use tied to the crops, will cause a range of problems for far mers and rural communities.

“USDA is taking the issue... seriously,” said Paul Towers, a spokesman for the Pesticide Action Network. “We’re hoping that a thorough review...

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Although the main health effects of Agent Orange were blamed on the other component of the mixture (2,4,5-T ) and dioxin contamination, critics say 2,4-D has significant health risks of its own.

The Center for Food Safety had threatened to sue the gover nment if it approved Enlist.

Monsanto’s dicamba-tolerant cropping system is of particular concern to farmers, said Steve Smith, chairman of the Save Our Crops farming interest coalition. The group petitioned USDA last month to prepare just such an EIS because of the concerns about dicamba’s potential to drift and damage other crops.

But Cathleen Enright, executive vice-president at t h e Bi o t e c h n o l o g y In d u s try Organization (BIO), said the USDA’s action sets a “bad precedent for future consideration of safe and beneficial genetically engineered plant products.”

“The U.S. regulatory system for biotech products remains unnecessarily burdensome and unpredictable, and American farmers are paying the price,” Enright said.

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The Enlist crops are genetically altered to tolerate treatments of the Enlist herbicide mixture. Dow says Enlist will help combat an explosion of crop-choking weeds around the United States that have become resistant to glyphosate, which is the chief ingredient in the popular Roundup herbicide.

Likewise, Monsanto, in conjunction with BASF, wants regulatory approval for new genetically altered soybeans and cotton that resist a new dicamba-based herbicide.

Both the Enlist system and the dicamba system are seen as replacements for the c o m b i n a t i o n o f Ro u n d u p herbicide used on Roundupresistant crops that now dominate U.S. agriculture.

T h e U S D A h a s re c e i v e d thousands of comments on both of the new cropping systems that laid out a variety of concerns. In addition to increasing weed resistance, many farmers fear increased use of the new herbicides that would come with the new crops would cause damage to fruits, vegetables and other crops as dicamba and 2,4-D have been known to travel on the wind far from t h e f i e l d s w h e re t h e y a re sprayed.

Many also worry that the new biotech crops will contaminate conventional and o rg a n i c c ro p s. A n d D ow ’s Enlist herbicide is also controversial because 2,4-D, or 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, was one of the ingredients in Agent Orange, the Vietnam War defoliant that was blamed for numerous health problems suffered during and after the war.

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CP Railway profit soars, sees record year-end results However, CN’s first-quarter revenues were down after a long, cold winter toronto / reuters

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anadian Pacific Railway Ltd. said an efficiency push coupled with revenue gains helped drive a 53 per cent jump in profit and its best first-quarter results since Canada’s No. 2 rail carrier was founded in 1881.

CP, overhauled in the last year by deep job cuts, new labour deals and a push for improved service, said April 24 it continued to make major changes to operations that will boost results in the future.

“With a very strong start to the year and momentum quickly building, I am now even more confident that we are on pace toward the best year-end financial and operating performance in CP’s history,” chief executive Hunter Harrison said in a statement.

Harrison, a railway industry veteran with a history of turning around struggling

A long, cold winter cut in CN Rail’s first-quarter revenues.

companies, took control of Calgary, Alberta-based CP last year after a proxy battle led by hedge fund investor Bill Ackman.

Net income rose to $217 million, or $1.24 per share, in

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the quarter ended March 31 from $142 million, or 82 Canadian cents per share a year earlier.

Revenue climbed nine per cent to $1.5 billion.

However, Canadian National

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Washington pushing ahead with biofuel targets

By Ayesha Rascoe washington / reuters

The Obama administration has renewed an interagency agreement that backs the development of biofuels for the aviation industry and reiterated its support for embattled federal renewable fuel targets.

The “Farm to Fly” program aims to support annual production of one billion gallons of aviation biofuels by 2018.

The program will focus on evaluating various sources of renewable alternatives to jet fuel, while also developing state and local partnerships with private companies.

Federal support for biofuels has come under increased scrutiny amid complaints from livestock producers hit by high corn prices and oil refiners concerned about the so-called “blend wall.”

Refiners say the targets are approaching a point where compliance would require the industry to blend more ethanol into gasoline than can physically be done at the 10 per cent level.

But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the government won’t change course.

“Now, is not the time to step back, now is the time to continue moving forward,” he said.

Supporters of ethanol argue the “blend wall” could be easily overcome if refiners drop their opposition to allowing gasoline with 15 per cent ethanol content.

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Railway Co. took a big winter weather hit, the country’s largest rail operator said April 22, as extreme cold and heavy snow in Wester n Canada slowed operations and nipped into profits.

CN said it has since turned t h e c o r n e r, re t u r n i n g t o more efficient operations, but will bump up its capital spending plan by $100 million to $2 billion, to make its network more resilient and productive.

The company performed relatively well during brutal winter weather, but more encouraging is its prospect for growth in the burgeoning cr ude-by-rail market, said Raymond James analyst Steve Hansen. “ T h e y ’re t r a c k i n g a t a 60,000-carload run rate now on the crude-by-rail side — that’s up quite significantly from the 30,000 carloads they did last year. And they’re just getting going on unit train volumes now,” he said.

Unit trains, those which have the same origin and destination, are more efficient.

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Middle Eastern favourite expected to boost chickpea production

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New North Dakota fertilizer plant to open in 2017

High carry-over was expected to weigh on chickpea acres this year, but rising demand for hummus could change that picture

By Phil Franz-Warkentin commodity news service canada

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rowing North American demand for hummus should benefit Canadian chickpea growers as the Middle Eastern dip finds its way onto more and more grocery shelves.

Chickpeas were highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal story titled “Hummus Is Conquering America.” It noted health-conscious consum ers are driving demand for hummus, with sales for the chickpea-based dip up 25 per cent or more in the past two years.

Most of the U.S. chickpea crop is grown in the Pacific Northwest, but production is increasing along the eastern

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seaboard. Sabra Dipping (50 per cent owned by PepsiCo) is a major producer of hummus and recently announced plans to expand its plant in Virginia.

“It’s a very interesting, highvalue opportunity for growers,” said Carl Potts, executive director of the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers.

The CDC Frontier variety of kabuli chickpea grown in Saskatchewan is used extensively in producing the dip, he said, adding companies purchasing chickpeas for hummus are also showing interest in improved varieties well suited to Saskatchewan.

Canada grew 158,000 tonnes of chickpeas on 200,000 acres last year, mostly i n Sa s k a t c h e w a n , a n d t h e U.S. had a similar-size crop,

p ro d u c i n g 1 5 0 , 0 0 0 t o n n e s on 206,000 acres. But while American producers are forecast to seed 214,300 acres this year, StatsCan expects Canadian seeding to decline to 155,000 acres.

Most Canadian chickpeas are still exported offshore, but that could change, said Potts.

“That is a market that is growing faster than the overall growth consumption in the export market,” he said.

Canada has more than enough chickpeas to work with for the time being.

Chickpea supplies in the country, as of March 31, came in at 111,000 tonnes, according to StatsCan data. That’s the largest stocks for that time of year since 2004.

However, while larger supplies have caused prices to slip from their highs of a year ago, chickpeas remain very attractive and pencil in very well in those areas best suited t o g row i n g t h e c ro p, s a i d Potts.

Bids for large-diameter kabuli chickpeas are currently as high as 41 cents per pound, according to the latest Prairie Ag Hotwire data, with desi varieties priced around 27 cents per pound.

Po t t s s a i d 2 0 0 , 0 0 0 a c re s could be planted this year if the weather co-operates — with 90 per cent likely to be kabuli varieties, used to make hummus, and the remainder in the smaller desi varieties, which are primarily sold to India.

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Construction of a new fertilizer plant at Grand Forks, N.D. will begin in 2015, company officials say.

The $1.5-billion Northern Plains Nitrogen facility is expected to be completed in time for the 2017 growing season and will produce 2,200 tons (2,000 tonnes) of ammonia daily.

It will also have urea and urea-ammonium-nitrate production facilities.

The facility will be built

by NPN, an organization supported by various farm groups in the U.S. and Canada, including the Manitoba Canola Growers and Keystone Agricultural Producers.

Once built and fully operational, the company expects to have about 135 full-time employees working in operations, maintenance, engineering, administration and marketing.

Ag minister pledges to fund Indian Head tree nursery in 2013 A non-profit group is being considered to take it over Staff / The Indian Head tree nursery has been given a stay of execution.

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the federal government will continue to operate the 112-yearold nursery this year, while it seeks a buyer.

Now called the Agroforestry Development Centre, the Saskatchewan nursery has distributed more than 610 million trees and shrubs to Prairie farmers, and continues to distribute three million to five million seedlings annually.

But the federal government announced in its 2012 budget that it planned to cut the $3 million in annual funding for the centre.

A coalition of farm groups and municipalities is mounting an effort to create a non-profit group to run the centre, which it hopes to fund with a $1-per-tree levy.

There are rumours of impending layoffs and the coalition will be watching to ensure Ritz lives up to his promise to maintain funding for 2013, Norm Hall, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, told the Regina LeaderPost.

Ritz said “two or three” groups have expressed interest in operating the nursery.

“There’s quite a demand for it,” he said.

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CFGB supports move to revamp foreign aid

IT’S ABOUT TIME

Officials say the focus is on the right issues

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he Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) says now that it has seen the details, it is suppor ting a merger of the Canadian International Development Agency with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. “ We a r e p l e a s e d t h a t reducing poverty in developing countries is clearly specified as a responsibility of the minister for international development, and that the legislation puts the minister on equal footing with the minister for international trade,” said CFGB executive director Jim Cornelius.

“We are also pleased that the department’s vital responsibility for providing humanitarian assistance during crises is specified.”

The legislation specifies that Canada’s contribution to international development and humanitarian assistance should be in line with Canadian values, he said.

“It is vital that Canada’s aid program makes the needs of the poor and suffering central to its mandate and activities,” he said.

When the move to create the new Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development was announced in this spr ing’s budget, it was feared the foreign aid budget would be used to promote Canada’s economic interests.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a partnership of 15 churches and church agencies that has provided more than one million tonnes of food assistance since 1983, has been receiving matching support from the Canadian International Development Agency.

Floods take heavy toll on Iraq’s wheat harvest BAGHDAD / REUTERS Iraq will lose between 25 to 30 per cent of its wheat harvest because of heavy rains and flooding, officials estimate.

Iraq produces only a portion of its actual need of wheat, and is one of the world’s largest importers of wheat, much of which goes to supply a national food ration program.

The estimated harvest loss is more than $200 million.

Iraq imports about two-thirds of its annual consumption.

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Import workers or food, U.S. farm bloc says of immigration debate

Thousands of U.S. farms could go out of business due to labour shortages WASHINGTON / REUTERS

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he United States will become more reliant than ever on imported food if it does not pass immigration reforms to assure there are enough workers to harvest fruit and vegetable crops and milk cows, a farm coalition told senators April 22.

The Agriculture Workforce Coalition pointed to estimates that thousands of U.S. farms could go out of business, slashing farm income by as much as $9 billion a year without an adequate labour supply.

Some 60 to 70 per cent of the estimated two million hired workers on U.S. farms are undocumented labourers.

Growers say they are unable to hire enough American workers or guest workers from overseas to perform what is often back-breaking work.

“Pro d u c t i o n will move offshore,” Charles Conner, co-chair of the workforce coalition, said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on border security. “We do have crops going unharvested.”

Conner said California has lost about 80,000 acres of land formerly devoted to fruit and vegetable production because of labour shortages. Those goods are now imported.

Field crews stoop in the green rows that stretch over the flat plain near Oxnard, California, plucking the red fruit with swift flicks of the wrist. In California, labourers from Mexico and Central America help make it the No. 1 farm state. PHOTO: REUTERS/GUS RUELAS

Fruit and vegetable imports are forecast by the Agriculture Department at $24.6 billion this fiscal year, compared with exports of $14 billion.

Fa r m s w i t h i m m i g ra n t workers produced about 60 per cent of the U.S. milk supply, Conner added.

Under the Immigration Bill pending in the Senate, illegal farm workers would be granted legal status, a socalled blue card, and could apply after five years for permanent U.S. residency. A new guest worker program would allow visas for up to 112,333 workers a year to work on U.S. farms and ranches.

Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions said the ready supply of undocumented workers drove down wage rates and displaced U.S. workers.

Several other Judiciar y Committee members spoke favourably of the bill.

“They (Americans) are not doing the job,” said Alyson Eastman, who runs BookEnds Associates, a company in Orwell, Vermont, that helps farmers hire foreign workers for seasonal work. She said the Labor Department, in charge of the current H-2A guest worker program, is slow to provide workers and sets wages too high.

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U.S. says trade talks on verge of failing again, WTO “hurtling towards irrelevance”

By Tom Miles GENEVA / REUTERS

Washington launched a blistering attack on fellow World Trade Organization member states for failing to do more to cut global barriers to trade, criticizing India in particular for trying to introduce a “massive new loophole.”

“The time has come to speak bluntly,” U.S. Ambassador Michael Punke told his counterparts at the Geneva-based body. “We must not sit idly by as the WTO’s negotiating function hurtles towards irrelevance.”

Ambassadors to the 159-member WTO were meeting to review progress towards a possible deal to be signed in Bali in December, which would cut red tape from customs procedures, adding as much as $1 trillion to global trade.

At the insistence of developing countries who objected to having to shoulder most of the burden of the red-tape reforms, a Bali agreement would also include limited reforms to rules on food and agriculture and special treatment for poor countries.

While such a deal would be a boost for the world economy, the scale of the negotiation has been massively cut back from the far more ambitious “Doha round” of trade talks, which dragged on for a decade before finally collapsing in 2011.

“The institution we care about is in crisis, and we need to act accordingly,” Punke said.

“While it is not my intention to throw bricks, I will be frank in our substantive assessment of where various issues stand.”

He said the mood had changed from hopeful to grim over the past three months, and called world governments to re-energize the negotiations before the end of April.

“If Bali fails, the signal that we will send, in a world full of fruitful trade negotiations, is that the WTO is the one place where trade negotiations don’t succeed.”

The disputed stockpiling proposal being championed

by India would let poor countries buy and store farm produce without worrying about the usual WTO rules on agricultural subsidies. Supporters say it would help poor farmers and food security, but critics say it would do just the opposite.

Punke calls it “a massive new loophole.”

“This new loophole, moreover, will be available only to a few emerging economies with the cash to use it. Other developing countries will accrue no benefit — and in fact will pay for the consequences.”

The policy that would lead to national surpluses later being dumped on world markets and hurting the interests of non-subsidized farmers elsewhere, he said.

European duties put squeeze on American ethanol

By Sybille de La Hamaide and David Brough PARIS / GENEVA / REUTERS

New anti-dumping duties against U.S. ethanol will reshape the European Union’s biofuel sector, creating opportunities for European producers and imports from Latin America.

But some EU ethanol producers are still likely to struggle due to a rise in wheat prices, the region’s weak demand for gasoline, and its large biofuel stocks.

In late February, the EU imposed an anti-dumping duty of 62.3 euros ($81.80) per tonne on imports of U.S. ethanol.

“It’s sure that the situation is better now than before the measures against the U.S. There is less pressure, so new capacities in Europe will want to come on to the market, but gasoline demand is falling,” said Sylvain Demoures of French ethanol producer SNPAA. “I would say market conditions are still challenging at the moment,” said Rick Taylor of U.K. biofuels producer Vivergo Fuels. “People are just not driving the miles at the moment.”

U.S. ethanol accounted for up to 20 per cent of EU consumption in 2011 — jumping to 1.17 billion litres in 2011 from 102 million in 2009. It’s now estimated U.S. ethanol imports have fallen by more than 75 per cent.

Even so, substantial stocks have put a lid on prices.

In Europe, ethanol is made from wheat and sugar beets.

Prices of sugar beets, which account for around 20 per cent of production, have fallen in the past year, but wheat prices have gained over 15 per cent.

The anti-dumping duties could pave the way for larger Latin American imports, although these also lost some competitiveness when the EU closed a tariff loophole last year.

Brazil’s harvest of sugar cane, its main ethanol feedstock, is expected to jump to a record level in 2013-14. Top Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Cosan expects to crush 10.3 per cent more cane this season than a year earlier.

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crop report

Seeding gets off to a cool start, but soil moisture is generally good Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives crop report for May 13, 2013 Weekly provincial summary

Seeding of spring wheat, barley, oats, canola, potatoes, and grain corn has occurred in various areas across Manitoba. There has been limited seeding completed to date.

Winter wheat and fall rye crops are being assessed for winter survival and establishment; winterkill and injury is being reported in some fields. In most cases, winter wheat stands that only germinated this spring are more variable. Fertilizer applications on fall cereal acres continued.

Pasture and hay growth continues to be slow due to the cooler weather conditions, and in some cases excess moisture. Pressure on feed supplies continues as producers wait to move cattle to pasture.

Fall rye and winter wheat have initiated spring growth with fertilizing now in progress. The fall rye continues to be in good to excellent condition and is in the two- to three-leaf stage. The condition of the winter wheat crop is more variable with very uneven emergence and survival being reported.

Pasture and hay growth continues to be delayed and has meant a delay in moving cattle out on spring pastures.

Hay shortages continue to be reported. Water levels in sloughs and dugouts are at 75 to 80 per cent capacity, depending upon local runoff. Some producers are pumping from adjacent sloughs into dugouts in order to fill to capacity.

Southwest Region

Northwest Region

In the southwest, the only traces of snow remaining are in treelines and headlands. Spring run-off is on the decline with water levels in sloughs and potholes also dropping.

Initial field work over this past week included anhydrous ammonia applications and general seed bed preparation. There was some initial seeding, primarily spring wheat, across much of the southwest region. The per cent seeded for all crops to date is below 10 per cent.

Mostly favourable weather conditions prevailed across the Northwest Region. Drying winds and warmer daytime temperatures, along with several nights with freezing temperatures, are improving field drying conditions.

In the areas east of the escarpment, which had recent heavy snowfall, the extent of water ponding in fields is subsiding.

Some spring wheat was seeded around Roblin. Elsewhere in the region, there has been very limited field work.

Winter wheat survival ranges from excellent to fair.

Freezing night temperatures have also delayed pasture and forage development. Dugout water levels are generally at 100 per cent.

Central Region

Fields range from saturated to adequate. In many areas where soil moisture levels were drier than normal going in to the winter, subsoil moisture is lower than in past years.

Seeding progress ranges five to 25 per cent complete. Cereals, corn, potatoes and canola are being seeded. Seeding of soybean acres will start this week. Seeding should be general within the region by mid-week.

Some winterkill is noted in winter wheat and fall rye crops; fieldby-field evaluation continues, especially as growth is slow. Crop injury is most evident in areas of poor snow catch and cover. Fertilizer applications are continuing on the fall cereal acres, with excellent progress.

Perennial weeds are just starting to grow. Some annual weeds are starting to germinate, but growth is minimal. As a result, essentially no pre-seed weed control is being done.

Some forage fields are just startB:10.25” ing to green up.

Hard frosts have stressed alfalfa growth. Pastures T:10.25”

are rated as very poor to fair.

Growth has been limited due to cold conditions, in some cases excess moisture, or from overgrazing last year. Heat would be welcomed to encourage growth.

Some pastures are short of moisture. Some cattle have been moved to pasture and are being supplemented with feed.

Dugouts are full or close to full in much of the region. There are some reports of water tables being lower than normal for this time of year.

Eastern Region

Soil surfaces are drying up quickly.

Annual crop land topsoil moisture levels in the northern and central areas of the region are rated as adequate.

Seeding began over the weekend with Hard Red Spring wheat, barley, oats and grain corn being seeded. Fertilizer spreading and banding started as early as May 9, especially in cases where fields were destined for corn. Most of the progress is noted around Beausejour and Steinbach areas.

Late-seeded winter wheat fields are still being assessed.

Earliest seeded fields are in the five leaf or more, while later seeded fields are in the one- to three-leaf stage. Fertilizer spreading is ongoing with progress at 50 per cent done. Spreading was

held up by strong winds if spin spreaders were used.

Hay conditions in the region are rated as 60 to 75 per cent good and 25 to 40 per cent fair. The condition of pasturelands in the northern areas are rated as 50 per cent good, 25 per cent fair and 25 per cent poor, while pasturelands in the southern areas are rated as 60 per cent fair and 40 per cent poor.

Livestock in the northern areas of the region continue to be supplemented either in confined feeding areas or on pasture. In southern regions producers are putting cattle on pasture as feed supplies are tight. Availability of livestock water (including dugouts) is rated as 90 to 100 per cent adequate in the region.

Interlake Region

Scattered showers were reported.

A very small amount of acres in the Warren, Stonewall, Grosse Isle regions were seeded, while north Interlake still deals with wet soil conditions, which are delaying seeding operations.

Winter wheat and forage fields seem to have survived with minimal winterkill. Fertilizer is being applied to winter wheat and forage crops as plants continue to break winter dormancy.

Pasture growth is slow. Dugout conditions are good.

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GLADSTONE AUCTION MART Sale Schedule for May, June & July May 14th Regular Cattle Sale May 21th Closed May 28th Regular Cattle Sale & Cow/Calf Sale June 4th Closed June 11th Regular Cattle Sale June 18th Closed June 25th Regular Cattle Sale July 2nd Closed July 9th Regular Cattle Sale Closed for Summer Break Check Website Online www.gladstoneauctionmart.com Phone (204)385-2537 License #1108

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Morris Winkler Morden

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Red River

ANTIQUES ANTIQUES Antiques For Sale RED BARN ANTIQUE SALE June 4th 5:00pm-9:00pm, June 5th & 6th, 11:00am-5:00pm, June 7th 11:00am-9:00pm, June 8th 11:00am-5:00pm. Hwy 59 South to Grande Pointe. www.theredbarnantiques.blogspot.com

ANTIQUES Antique Equipment JOHN & PHYLLIS MADSEN Farm Auction, Sat. May 25, Redvers, SK 10:00AM includes: 1939 BR JD; 1925 & 1926 D JD; 1949 R JD; D-4 Cat; 44 MH w/big K FEL; 102 MH; misc Model A & T Ford parts; misc JD parts & more KEY “M” AUCTION SERVICES Dellan Mohrbutter (306)452-3815, website keymauctions.com AL#324451 Stretch your advertising dollars! Place an ad in the classifieds. Our friendly staff is waiting for your call.

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Collectible Tractor Auction for Victor and Kathy Bellemore Ph: 204-966-7779

Saturday, June 8, 2013

at 11:00AM, (22 km North of) Neepawa, MB Directions: From Neepawa, travel 22 km north on Hwy #5 to Mountain Road hwy, then west 2 3/4 km, then turn north to yard. Watch for signs.

Please check website lamportanddowler.com for full listing.

John Lamport 204-476-2067 Tim Dowler 204-803-6915 www.lamportanddowler.com

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FARM AUCTION FOR CEE FARMS LTD & BARRY WALKER Sat., June 1st, 2013 12:00pm noon.

3.5-mi West of Plumas MB on PTH 265. Terms Cash or Cheque w/I.D lunch served. Equipment: 1984 4450 JD quad range 3 hyds PTO; fact duals 20.8x38 inside radials 9,375-hrs; 1976 C65 Chev tag axle truck 18-ft. stl box & hoist; 12,000-mi on new drop in 366 eng 5+2 SPD trans, new roll tarp saftied; 1993 Norbert 20-ft. Gooseneck stock Trailer; metal floor w/rubber matt new brakes/drums & bearings in 2011; Haying & Cattle Equip: 2008 1441 NH Discbine; frt swivel hitch extra high stubble wear shoes (one owner); 2007 3983 MF 12 wheel V Rake (one owner); 2001 688 NH Bale Command approx 12,000 bales; 1986 316 NH Baler Hyd tension & PU; 1033 NH Bale Wagon; 311 Cockshutt side Del Rake; 1065 JD Farm wagon w/17-ft. steel Bale Rack; 965 JD Farm wagon; 2002 Bale Pro 7000 HD Bale Shredder w/twine cutter (1 owner); 14 Rd Bale steel bale Trailer; 1996 358 Mixmill hyd unload & power bale feeder (1 owner); 2007 200-bu Easy Way Creep Feeder; Stampede steel crowding Tub w/scissor door; 3,000-lb HiQual cattle Scale; 4, 11x13-ft. maternity Pens; Easy 6-ft. walkway Cattle Oiler w/stand; 1 wood Self Feeder; 7-in. Peerless Grain Roller w/5-HP elct; Hopper feed meter system; 6 Rd bale Feeders; Seeding/Tillage & Harvest Equip: 1983 9600 COOP PT Combine (approx 800-hrs); 1979 400 Vers 18-ft. swather w/PU Reel & Cab; 20-ft. (2-10s) 6200 INT rubber Press Drill w/grass seed attach fact Trans & Trac eraser; 24-ft. 5000 IHC Vibra Chisel w/Degal mulchers; 16-ft. HutchMaster offset Tandem Disc; Spring loaded NH3 hitch for tillage; 24-ft.

Laurier P30 hyd fold back Packers; 18-ft. IHC 45 Cult w/Leon mulchers; 6-16 INT 770 auto set Plow w/new shears; 18-ft. Glencoe frame mole hill Leveler; 15-ft. MF Single Disc; 15 & 12 sections of Diamond Harrows; 150-bu Kendon hopper Tank trailer; 1992 Westfield 100-51 PTO auger w/mech swing out; 6x36-ft. Allied auger; 2, 24-ft.x3-in. utility augers w 3/4 elect motors; Swath Roller; Swather Transport; Misc Equip: JD Grapple; Shop built gooseneck Trailer w/12-ft. box & hoist; 2008 Cub Cadet Riding mower LT 69 org hrs; 2500psi gas Pressure washer; 2, 300-gal Fuel Tanks; 1, 500-gal Fuel Tank; 225amp Lincoln Welder; heavy 20-ft.

220amp ext cord; Complete Self contained AI unit w/12V Cito thaw unit; 4 H supplies; Trimmer chute; Oster elect Clippers; Leather Show halters; Cattle show box; assort of Tires; complete drive shaft for GMC 366 grain truck; Radiator; power steering gear box; 5+2 Trans w/clutch; rebuilt 4 barrel Holley carb; 2 electronic monitor boxes for 9600 Co-op Combines; Few pieces of misc. Auctioneer’s note: The Walkers have sold the farm & all merchandise has to be removed by June 8th, 2013. Unless prior arrangements have been made. Check website for updates. 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. Statements made on sale day will take precedent over all previous advertisements Owners & auction company are not responsible for any accidents on sale site. Sale conducted by Nickel Auctions Ltd Dave Nickel & Marv Buhler auctioneers Ph (204)637-3393 cell (204)856-6900 website www.nickelauctions.com email nickelauctions@mts.com contact Barry Walker (204)476-6447 e-mail ceefarms@gmail.com

EVENING HOBBY FARM AUCTION FOR RAY & MARILYN LUSK FRI., MAY 31ST 5:00PM South of Portage La Prairie on 240 till 331. 1.5-mi East to Rd 34W then 1/4-mi North to Yd # 63043. Tractors & Vehicles: 1954 WD45 AC restored 2-PTH PTO; 2-PTH Tool Bar 12-ft Cult; 2-PTH Allis 3 14 Plow; 1950 WF AC; b9 sect Diamond Harrows & Bar; 2000 KIA Sportage EX 2.0L auto Pwd/Pdl cruise/air 4x4 191,658-km saftied; 4, 205/75R15 winter tires (like new); Double Ski-doo Trailer drive on & off; 14ft. Lund Boat & Trailer; 8-ft. slide in pop up Starcraft Camper, Fridge & stove; Shop Tools: 10-in. Craftsman Radial Arm Saw; 8/26 Canadiana Snow Blower; 60-in. Click ‘N’ Go angle Blade for ATV; 48-in.

Lawn Sweep; Garden dump Trailer; Lawn Boy Lawn mower; Estate Sprayer; 5-HP upright Air Compressor; 225amp Miller Welder; Acetylene set & Cart; 150-gal fuel tank & stand; Stainless stl work Cabinet; Ignition Cabinet; Air over Hyd Floor Jack; 20-ton Hyd Jack; Jack-al; 50 Husqvarna Chain Saw; Air Tools; Power Tools; 13amp Side Grinder; HD Gear Puller; 3/4-in. Socket set; Champion Spark plug Cleaner; Digital Timing lite; Elect paint sprayer; HD Battery Charger; 12V winch; elect Chop Saw; Eliminator socket set; Puller set for power steering pumps & alternators; elect Pressure pump; 22-ft. alum ext Ladder; Lawn Fertilizer spreader; Garden Tools; Propane Burner; old Curling Rock Box; 4x6-ft. fold up Fishing shack; Fairbanks Magnito; Household; Misc. Website www.nickelauctions.com Terms Cash or Cheque 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 Auction company & owners are not responsible for any accidents on sale site. Sale conducted by Nickel Auctions Ltd Dave Nickel auctioneer Ph (204)637-3393 cell (204)856-6900 Owner (204)856-7975.

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake MEYERS AUCTION 10:00am Sat., May 25th Acreage & Construction Equipment for Lorrie Kleemola & the Late Ed Kleemola Rosser, MB. 2-km west on Hwy 221 watch for signs . Kubota BX 23 4WD Tractor, 16.7 PTO HP, hydrostatic trans, 3 cyl Kubota DSL Engine, 1,463-hrs Sells w/Kubota BX2750D Front Mount 2 Stage Snow Blower; Kubota BT600 Backhoe Attachment & LA210 FEL; 2007 Agassiz 5th Wheel 28-ft. Enclosed Cargo Trailer (20-ft. Deck); Tandem 7,000-lb Axels; Spring Assist Rear Ramp Door & Side Entry Door; Kubota 3-PTH Model B40C Tiller; Buhler/ Farm King 3-PTH 5-ft. Finishing Mower; 3-PTH Box Scraper; 3-PTH Spring Tine Rake/ Cultivator; Tow Behind Lawn Thatcher; Tractor & Trailer sell subject to confirmation of final bid. CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT: Construction Scaffolding Uprights, Decking & Planking; As New- CrankUp Adjustable Climbing Scaffolding; Dry Wall Lifter; Thermoheat 125,000btu Portable Kerosene Heater; DeWalt 6300W Generator w/18V Battery Start; DeWalt Emglo Portable Compressor; Husky 5-HP Portable Compressor; DeWalt DW077 Cordless Self-Levelling Rotary Laser; 3 pc Ryobi Portable 8.25 Saw w/Rotozip & 5-in. Saw; Rigid, DeWalt & Mastercraft Portable Table Saws; Aluminum & Fiberglass Extension & Step Ladders; Topcon RL-HC3 Self Leveling Laser; 2) Wild Heerbrugg Surveyors Levels: Models NA20 & T16-98706; Cansel Surveyors Tripod; Mastercraft 295amp Arc Welder; Metal Cutting Band Saw; 500 US Gal Propane Tank; 100# Propane Tank; Trash & Sump Pumps; Lg Qty Heavy Duty Extension Cords; Wheel Barrows; Yard Wagon; Hole Saw Kit; Plastic Totes; Moving Blankets; Rope & Safety Harness; Re Bar; Truck Cap; Hitches; 4) Cement Pads; 6 Bags Quikrete; SHOP & HAND TOOLS: Delta Band Saw; Power Fist Pressure Washer w/Honda 4.0 Engine; Portable Sandblasting Unit w/Hood; 1-HP Dust collector; Simoniz 3in1 Pressure Washer; Stihl TS 350 Concrete/ Cutoff Saw; DeWalt Radio; Rigid 16/60 Shop Vac; Hitachi 8.5-in. Slide Compound Saw; Floor Model Press Drill; Bench Mount Press Drill; Roller Stands; Saw Horses; Husqvarna 51 Chain Saw; Yard Magnet; Pipe Clamps; Gas Cans; Diamond Concrete Cutting Saw Blades; Chain Come a Long; Bottle Jacks; Welding Rod; DeWalt & Makita Saws; Mastercraft Chop Saw; Concrete Bits; 3) Paslode Impulse Nailers; DeWalt 14.4V Impact Drivers; Side Grinders; Bosch Work Tables; Socket & Wrench Sets; Drill Bit Sets; Dremel Multi Max; Sawzall; Tool Boxes; DeWalt Rotary Hammer; Quik Drive Auto Feed Screw Driving System; NEUMATIC: Bostitch Strap Shot Nailer; Mastercraft Flooring Stapler/ Nailer; Hitachi 3.5-in. Strip Nailer; Paslode Roofing Nailer; Hilti Cement Nailers; Levels; Hammers; Foam Floor Mats; Greenlee Multi Meter; Makita 18v 4pc Cordless Set; Halogen Work Lites; Waterloo Mechanic Tool Box; DeWalt 16 ga Cordless Finish Nailer. Quantity of Nails, Bolts, Screws etc. associated w/Construction; HOUSEHOLD & YARD & GARDEN: Bar Fridge; Dimplex Freestanding Fireplace Heater; Antique Double Bed Head & Foot Board; Dresser w/Mirror & Dresser; 2) Area Rugs; Box Spring & Mattress; 19-in. TV; Weedeater Push Mower; Homelite Weedeater; Shovels, Rakes, Hoes; Cement Donkey & Wheelbarrow Statues; Quantum 60 Surge Rod & Reel; New Retractable Screen Door. Meyers Auctions & Appraisals, Arden, MB Bradley Meyers Auctioneer (204)368-2333 or (204)476-6262 cell Detailed List & Pictures at meyersauctions.com

McSherry Auction Service Ltd

CLOSE OUT AUCTION Dawson Service Station

Sat., May 25 @ 10:00am St Andrews, MB

5265 Hwy # 9 at the Jct of #27 & 9 approx. 10 min North of 101 Perimeter Auction Note: Everything Sells to the Highest Bidder Contact: (204) 791-6839 | Email: mcsherry@mts.net

*Tow Truck, Trailers * Tractor & Equipment * Speciality Tools * Tools * Parts * Misc * Collectibles & Antiques * Office... PLUS MUCH MORE!

Stuart McSherry (204) 467-1858 | (204) 886-7027 For full listings visit

www.mcsherryauction.com

MCSHERRY AUCTION SERVICE LTD Estate & Moving Auction Wed., May 22nd 4:00pm Stonewall #12 Patterson Dr. More Items than Listed; email: mcsherry@mts.net Rec & Yard; Tools & Misc; Antiques; Advertising & Collectibles; Antique Glassware; Household. Stuart McSherry (204)467-1858 or (204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com

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McSherry Auction Service Ltd AUCTION SALE Ian & Judy Moar Sun., May 19 @ 11:00am Winnipeg Beach 3 Miles South on Hwy # 9 or

Contact: (204) 389-3509 | Email: mcsherry@mts.net Tractor & Equip: MF 255 Tractor DSL PS HL Range, 3PH 540 PTO Hyd, Turf Tires, 745 True hrs, Exc Cond * 3PH Buhler/Farm King 6’ Box Scraper * Farm King 6’ Rotary Finishing Mower *10’ Cultivator * 3PH 3B Plow * Howard 3PH 6’ Rotovator * 32’ Storage Trailer * JD LX 280 hyd R Mower w/Bagger * White10.5 HP 30” Snowblower * More Yard Tools * Tools & Misc: Honda Generator * 3HP 60 gal Air Comp * Floor Model Drill Press * Milwaukee Angle Drill * 2) Hilti Gun * Kango Electric Jack Hammer * Power Air & Hand Tools * Space Kap Fibreglass Truck Shell * 4 Sec Con Scaffolding Antiques & Household: Wardrobe * Dressers * Rocking Chairs * 12) Metal Beer Signs * Many Household Items Guns: Browning Auto 5, S/A, 12ga * Savage 99C, L/A, 243 Win * Traditions, 50 cal, Black Powder *

Stuart McSherry

(204) 467-1858 | (204) 886-7027 | www.mcsherryauction.com

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AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake

BERGNER AUCTION SERVICE FARM AUCTION SALE

FOR RUTH & THE LATE LARRIE ZAHORODNY Gypsumville, MB Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.

Sale site: From St.Martin Hotel, St.Martin, MB -2 mi. North, 10 mi.

West on Waterhen Road and 2 mi. South

TRACTORS & CATS: • 2005 J.D. 7320 FWA w/741 self-leveling loader, bucket, grapple fork, powershift, dual hyd, 3pt hitch, factory dual rear wheels 480/80R38 radials, power quad 24 spd transmission, 6479 hrs (ser RW7320R039756) • 2005 J.D. 6420 FWA w/640 self-leveling loader, bucket, grapple fork, 3pt hitch, dual hyd, 480/85R38 radial tires, power • Quad 24 spd transmission, 4557 hrs (ser #L6420k471949) • Fordson Super Major (n/r-parts) • Fordson Major (parts); • New Holland 9ft Haybine • (3) 3910 Ford Tractors, diesel, w/3pth • 12 ft Dozer blade for Cat • Dozer blade & 11ft A Frame • Forn 8N (n/r) • IH TD9 (n/r): N.H. HW305 self-propelled Swather, w/HS 16ft hay header, 1325 hrs (ser #Y6B430031) MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT: • 1992 CIH 8480 soft core Baler (ser #CFH0052237) • 1060 Case Combine • Inland model 2000 Bale Picker • 3 pth Bale Spear;(2) KelloBilt Model 210 10ft Offset Disc (can be hooked together) • (3) J.D. 450 Sickle Mowers • 3pth Scraper & Bale Fork • Laurier chain stack mover, pto drive • 858 N.H. Round Baler • New Idea 486 5’x6’ soft core Baler • 852 N.H. 5 ½ x5 ½ Round Baler • 85 Claas Rollant soft core Baler • Haybuster, model C10G Tub Grinder

• Allied 6” x 28’ Grain Auger w/ Briggs & Stratton generator • 12’x 4’ Land Roller • Bush Hog 5ft side shift, 3pth Brush Mower, self contained hyd • 9 wheel Inland Rake • 405 M.F. pull-type Combine • Schultz fork type Stone Picker • Vicon 6 & 9 wheel Rakes • Ajax chain stack mover • 546 Reel-o-matic Stone Picker • 1150 I.H. Hammer Mix mill • 1100 I.H. Mower • Golden Arrow Sprayer • Melroe 242 Grain Drill 14ft 28 run w/fert. attach.

• Shaver 3pth Post Pounder • Baler parts (new) • 755 Case 15ft pt Swather • Farm Hand manure & grapple fork • 2 bottom, 3pth Rolling Plow • 3 pth Bale Spinner • 450 J.D. Mower (parts) • Pitmans for sickle Mowers • (18) 28” & (40) 24” smooth disc blades, 3/16” thick,2 5/16” round centres • Vicon 6 wheel Rake (parts) • (18) 26” notched blades for KelloBilt Disc, 2 5/16” round centres • Hang-up harrow bar w/diamond harrows • Farmhand bucket & grapple Fork • (10) new teeth for J.D. Bucket • Endless Crusher belts CATTLE/HORSE/FENCING EQUIPMENT: • Koenders calf warmer • Calf shelter • Calf Puller • Cattle supplies & tools • (3) 22” Horse collars

• Dehorner • Lariat • Bridles & Halters • Horse (teeth) file & mouth piece • Hay knife • Rope • 15 rolls & 1 pt roll new double strand Barbwire • Step-in elec. fence posts (lge quant) • Elec.Fencers (battery, solar, AC) • (2) Calving Cameras VEHICLES/TRAILERS/ATV’S/ SNOWMOBILES: • 22ft 5th wheel flat deck Trailer • 53ft semi trailer Van • 1973 Sno Jet 440 Whisper Jet • Willard 2 door car (n/r) • 2009 Polaris wide track IQ snowmobile w/4 stroke motor, hi/ low reverse, 1285 km • Willys Jeep body • 4 wheel farm Trailer w/500 gal tank & pump • 4 wheel farm Trailer w/wagon steer • Ramps for ATV loading • Willys Jeep • Ford F250 Truck converted to track drive • 2009 Can Am 500 Outlander EFI (ATV) • ATV Trailer • Evinrude Fisherman 5hp outboard motor • 2006 Polaris Sportsman 500 6x6 (6774 mi) • 2004 Polaris 500 ATP 4x4 500HO (2063 mi) Check-out Global Auction Guide for full listing on Shop/ Tool/Yard/Miscellaneous & Antiques Too many items to list

Lorne (Buddy) Bergner, Auctioneer

Box 721, Ashern, MB R0C 0E0 • Ph: (204) 768-2669 Fax: (204) 768-3237 www.bergnerauction.com

Email: bergauct@mymts.net

www.globalauctionguide.com

All sales are Terms: Cash/Cheque.

We do not handle Interac/Credit Cards Neither the Owner nor Auctioneer is responsible for errors in description or condition. Sale listing is subject to additions or deletions and any comments made the day of the sale with respect to sale items takes precedence over previously reported listing.We are not responsible for accidents Items are sold “AS IS - WHERE IS”

McSherry Auction Service Ltd AUCTION SALE Adeline Johnson (Late Kris) Sat., May 18 @ 10:00am Arborg, MB Jct Hwy 7 & 68 East 2 Miles on Hwy #68

Contact: Mike (204) 378-5269

Tractors: Vers 875 Serious 3, 4wd Quad Hyd. 9915 hrs * JD 7020 4wd 1000 PTO Dual Hyd 8700hrs * Grain Equip: NH TR95 Combine Melroe P/U & 4WD 3485 hrs * Flexicoil 820 41’ Cult 9” Spacing * Floating Hitch 550 lb Trip w/ Flexcoil 1610 Air Cart w 20HP Honda * Coop 807 32’ Deep Tiller w/ Mulchers, Ext Hyd * Coop 807 Tandem 26’ Disc * MF 52 20’ Tandem Disc * MF 52 20’ Tandem Disc * Int 645 41’ Vibra Cult w/ Mulchers * INT 645 21’ Vibra Chisel * 36’ Coil Packers Bar * Brandt 800 gal 80’ Sprayer * 20’ Hyd Lift Grain Box Trailer * Grain Handler 5250 Grain Vac * Westfield 8” 36’ Auger w/ 16HP & Elec Start * Misc Equip: NH 195 Tandem Manure Spreader * Buhler/Farm King 3 PH 9’ 2 Way Hyd Blade * Howard P Type 80” Rotovator * Farm King 3PH 8’ 2 Stage Snowblower w/ Hyd Chute * Cement Mixer on Trailer * 4 Wheel Farm Trailer * Dalman Chain Stack Mover * Vehicle & Rec: 93 GMC ext cab dsl 4x4 * 96 Polaris Sportsman 4x4 Quad * 95 Polaris 425 mag 4x4 Quad * Honda XL 75 Mini Bike * Princess 50cc Mini Bike * Johnson 10 HP * Merc 11 HP * Gale 5 HP Outboards * Utility Trailer * JD SX95 RMower * Along w/ Tools & Farm Misc * Some Antiques *

Stuart McSherry

(204) 467-1858 | (204) 886-7027 | www.mcsherryauction.com AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions PAUL & IDA KLUK AUCTION Farm Auction Fri., May 24th, 2013 10:00am, 8-mi N on #8, 2E, 1/4 S Norquay. Norquay, SK. Contact: (306)594-2923.

MACHINERY TRACTORS: FORD TW-20 cab, air, 18.4x38 factory duals, dual hyd, front weights, approx 5,000-hrs, real nice; MM Jetstar Two Model 206L-4 w/ or w/o blade; COMBINE: JD 6600 SP cab, air, chopper, 3 roller PU, hopper extension, shedded, real nice. TRUCK: 1986 Ford F350 1-Ton 4-SPD standard, new paint, flat deck w/ or w/o 750gal poly water tank. DISC: MF 620 20-ft tandem disc knotched front blades; HARROWS: Flexi-coil 70-ft tine harrow packer bar, real nice; LOADERS: Farm King 8x46 Loader ES Motor, real nice; 6x28 auger & motor; SWATHERS: 2-CCIL 18-ft SP Swathers Wisconsin 995 engines, Brandt auger, no engine; MISC EQUIPMENT: CCIL 20-ft deep tillage; 60-ft Pool sprayer; 500-gal fuel tank & stand; Slip tanks, etc. RECREATION: 1988 25-ft 5th wheel camper, tandem axle, real nice; Honda 200 three wheeler; JD 325 riding lawn motor: 48-in deck & rotor tiller; Quad steel trailer. Plus shop & excellent household items. NOTE: Paul & Ida sold the farm.

Major equipment shedded & in nice shape. Visit www.ukrainezauction.com for updated listing & pics. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851.

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AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions

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AUTO & TRANSPORT Trucks

FARM MACHINERY Grain Bins

2005 CHEV LS 2500 HD Duramax, ext. cab, 4WD, bucket seats, Bose sound system, trailer brake controls, Raider box cap, 109,000-kms, safetied, silver birch metallic. Avail w/or w/o Reese 20K 5th wheel hitch. (204)736-2951, Domain.

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.

2005 GMC SLE NEVADA edition Z71, 4 door crew cab, short box, 4WD, towing package, 97,000-km, very nice condition, safetied, asking $16,500. Phone Days: (204)526-5298 or evenings (204)743-2145.

FOR SALE: 04 CHEVY 2500 4x4, 4-dr, gas, new safety, new steer tires, flat deck w/tool boxes, $8500. Phone:(204)871-0925.

MACK AUCTION CO. presents a farm & livestock equipment auction for Andy & Rita Verbeem Mon., June 17th, 2013 at 10:00am. Directions from Hwy. 13 at Forget, SK go 4-mi South & 1-m East. Watch for signs!

Contact Person Russel Fleck (306)487-7266 or Dale Grimes (306)461-5475. Live internet bidding at www.Bidspotter.com. 2002 Case 40 ST skidsteer w/grapple fork & only 160-hrs; Case IH 7110 Magnum FWA tractor w/Allied 894 FEL & grapple; Case IH 5240 Maxxum FWA tractor w/3-PTH & 3,440-hrs; Kubota M9580 FWA tractor w/Kubota M660 FEL grapple & 3-PTH; Deutz 160 2WD tractor w/3-PTH & duals; Case IH 2096 2WD tractor w/2,057-hrs; Case 430 2WD tractor; Kubota T1670 lawn tractor w/48-in. deck; JD 317 garden tractor w/tiller; Case IH 8825 SP Cummins DSL swather & 16-ft. Case 8820 hay header w/671 engine hrs; Case IH RS-561 round baler; 25-ft. Vers 4750 SP swather w/964-hrs; White 8920 SP combine; 2003 Jiffy 920 bale processor; New Idea 364 manure spreader; 2006 Ford F-250 4WD extended cab Power Stroke DSL w/only 21,625-km; 2006 Southland 20-ft. gooseneck stock trailer w/2 compartments; 2006 Ford Five Hundred SE 4 door car w/70,885-km; 2009 Polaris Ranger 700 XP UTV side by side quad w/229-hrs; 33-ft. Flexicoil 800 air seeder single shoot w/Flexicoil 1720 air tank; 40-ft.

Flexicoil 300B DT cultivator; 50-ft. Flexicoil System 95 harrow packers; IH 29-ft. cultivator; Schulte 3-PTH snow blower; 3 Westeel 2,000-bu hopper bottom bins; Westeel 1,600-bu hopper bottom bin; 3 Westeel 3,300-bu bins on wood & cement; Westeel 2,200-bu bin on wood floor; Buhler Farm King 10-60 swing auger; Sakundiak 7-45 auger w/gas engine; Sakundiak 7-45 PTO auger; Caldwell aeration fans; NH 510 manure spreader; shop built 48ft. Hi Boy 5th wheel trailer round bale trailer; Ranchers Welding 12x30 calf shed on skids; Ranchers welding portable creep feeder; Ranchers Welding 3 bale feeders; Ranchers Welding 30-ft. corral panels, portable panels & gates; shop built 18-ft. gooseneck stock trailer; poly liquid feed tanks; calf warming hut; vet supplies; Esso Bulk oil shed building for removal; upright air compressor; bolt bins; double sided enamel Esso sign; Eureka stoneware sanitary churn; numerous crocks & many other hidden treasures, 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 & livestock equipment auction for Dallas & Carol Piller (306)697-3286 Mon., June 10th, 2013 10:00am. Directions from Grenfell, SK. go 14-mi North on Hwy 47 and 1/2-mi West. Watch for Signs! JD 4440 2WD tractor w/duals; JD 2130 2WD tractor w/JD 145 FEL & 3-PTH; 1981 GMC 7000 grain truck; 1990 Mack single axle 10-SPD truck w/NH 195 manure spreader; NH 195 PT tandem axle manure spreader; 20-ft. gooseneck stock trailer; Jiffy 220 bunk feeder; 16-ft. Hesston 1170 Pivot tongue hay bine; NH 605F round baler w/recent new belts; MF 850 SP combine; JD 6601PT combine; 18-ft. JD 800 SP swather, Farm King swath roller, 25’ JD 580 PT swather; Degelman 6700 Super Picker; Degelman ground drive rock picker; 18-ft. Ezee On tandem disc; Morris 14-ft. tandem disc; Degelman 12ft. dozer blade; JD 3-PTH snow blower; JD 506 3-PTH gyro mower; JD 3-PTH spring tooth cultivator; Wilmar 500 granular spreader on tandem axle trailer w/roll tarp; Degelman 2520 cultivator; 33-ft.

IH vibra shank chisel cultivator w/1620 Valmar; IH 6200 press drills; Morris 32-ft. field cultivator; Hillcrest 24-ft. drill transport; 68-ft. Vers PT field sprayer; 50-ft. Melcam tine harrows w/sprayer tank; JD 400 mix mill for parts; JD 22 trailer mounted roller mill; Lewis 250-bu creep feeder; cattle squeeze chute & palpation cage; shop built 14 bale wagon; FEL & 3-PTH bale spear; new frost free nose pump; new rolls of barb wire; 30-ft. portable feed bunk; round bale feeders; tire feeders; corral panels & gates; solar & 100V electric fencers; semen tank; Goebel 3,660-bu bin on wood floor; 3 Twister 2,400-bu bins on steel floors; Sakundiak 7-41 auger w/Kohler engine & bins sweep; Sakundiak 7-33 auger w/Briggs engine; Clipper Model M-2B grain cleaner; 14-ft. Haul All Dual compartment grain fertilizer tote; 100-bu gravity grain wagons; plywood temporary grain wagons; hyd drill fills, 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

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.

MACK AUCTION CO. presents a farm & livestock equipment auction for Don & Warren Wilhelm (306)487-2601 Sat., June 15th, 2013 10:00am. Directions from Lampman, SK. 5-mi West of Lampman, SK on Hwy 361 & 1.5-mi South. Watch for Signs! Live Internet Bidding www.Bidspotter.com 2008 NH 6070 FWA tractor w/NH 840TL FEL & 3-PTH showing 1,250-hrs; JD 8570 4WD tractor w/4,729-hrs; JD 4440 2WD tractor w/less than 200-hrs on complete engine overhaul; JD 332 lawn tractor w/tiller; JD 125 lawn tractor; JD 9600 combine w/2,105 sep hrs; JD 9500 SP combine w/2,485 sep hrs (Kevin Schaff (306)421-0272); 36-ft. Macdon 962 straight cut split PU reel draper header; 30-ft. JD 230 straight cut header; 30-ft. JD 590 PT swather; 18-ft. 2008 NH 1475 PT haybine w/upgraded PTO shaft; 2010 Buhler Inland Harvestman 14 wheel V rake; Morris 881 hay hiker bale hauler; 16-ft. W-W tandem axle bumper pull stock trailer; NH 358 mix mill; Morand maternity pen; Koenders calf warmer; Hi Hog alley section & palpation cage, squeeze chute; quantity of panels & gates; 90-ft.

NH/Flexicoil SF115 suspended boom sprayer; 1989 White/Volvo/GMC highway tractor w/Cat engine; 36-ft. 1994 Doepker 2 compartment tandem axle grain trailer; 1980 GMC 7000 tandem axle grain truck w/87,950-km; 1976 Chev C-60 3-ton grain truck w/34,800-mi; 1997 GMC 1500 extended cab PU; 39-ft. Morris Maxim double shoot air drill w/Morris Maxim 6180 air tank; 49-ft. JD 1650 cultivator w/Valmar 2420; 60-ft. Flexicoil System 90 harrow packer bar; Allied 3-PTH snowblower; Rockomatic 546 rock picker; shopbuilt 8-ft. land leveller; Honda Big Red ATC; 130-gal slip tank w/electric pump; Chem Handler I mixer; New P-3 15-HP auger engine; Westeel Seedstor 3,000-bu hopper bottom bin; Stor King 74-ton hopper bottom bins; Metal Industries 40-ton hopper bottom bin; Westeel Rosco 2,000-bu hopper bottom bin; Edwards Grain Guard 3-HP aeration fans; Walinga 5614 grain vac; Sakundiak 10-70 swing auger; Sakundiak 10-60 swing auger; 7-47 auger w/Kohler engine; Sakundiak 7-47 auger w/Briggs engine; Sakundiak 6-33 auger w/Briggs; JD A150C construction heater plus a 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 large multi farm equipment auction for Ray & Ann Luhr & Scott Hewitt Sat., June 8th, 2013 10:00am. Directions from Arcola, SK. 14-km South on grid #604 & 1-km West. Watch for signs! Live internet bidding at www.Bidspotter.com JD 8560 4WD tractor w/GPS & recent work orders; JD 4760 FWA tractor; JD 4455 2WD tractor 2WD tractor; JD 4450 FWA tractor w/JD 740 loader; JD 4240 2WD tractor; JD 9750 STS combine & JD 914 PU header w/1,862 separator hrs; 35-ft. JD 635F straight cut header w/new knife & new guards; JD 7721 Titan II PT combine; 30-ft. Premier 1900 PT swather w/PU reel; Co-op SP swather, steel & poly swath rollers; 35-ft. JD 610 air seeder w/JD 777 air tank w/Degelman harrows; 20-ft. JD 355 offset disc; 31-ft. JD 610 cultivator; 63-ft. JD 1050 field cultivator; 59-ft. JD 1650 DT cultivator; JD 14-ft. cultivator; 2 Flexicoil System 92 60-ft. harrow packers; Melroe 8 bottom plow; JD 6 bottom plow; 2, 18-ft. spring tooth harrows; 1983 Chev C-60 single axle grain truck w/37,755-km; Sakundiak 10-60 HD swing auger; Sakundiak 7-33 auger; Walinga 510 grain vac; Brandt 7-35 auger; Bergen 10-54 auger; Westfield 6-36 auger w/Briggs engine; Comet 6-in. auger; 5 Westeel Rosco 2,000bu bins on cement; 2 Twister 5,000-bu bins on cement; 2, Westeel 2,000-bu hopper bottom bins; Metal Ind. 40-ton fertilizer hopper bottom bin; Bader 2,500-bu hopper bottom bin; Bader 1,200-bu hopper bottom bin; Variety of 3-HP aeration fans; 90-ft.

Flexi Coil System 62 PT field sprayer; 12-ft. JD dozer blade; Degelman 10-ft. dozer blade; JD 55 HD 3-PTH blade; Degelman 4 Batt PTO rock picker; Schulte 3020 Rotary mower; 10-ft. trailer type land leveller; Rockomatc TM-20 rock picker; Ezee-on FEL w/JD grapple fork; MF hay rake; bale elevator; 300 & 500 fuel tanks; JD snow machine; Vanguard 14-HP generator never used; garden tiller; lawn mower; complete set of shop tools & equipment, buffalo hide coat; buffalo hide blankets; stained glass window, 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 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.

Our offices will be closed Monday, May 20th for

Victoria Day

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

BEEKEEPING

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Roofing

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.

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

AUTO & TRANSPORT AUTO & TRANSPORT Trucks 1975 GMC 6500 FARM truck, 366 engine, 5x2 trans, box, hoist, tarp, drill fill, plumped, always shedded, only 42,000 plus miles, one-owner, safetied. Must be seen! Phone:(204)265-3302 Beausejour.

WESTEEL 1650-BU STEEL GRAIN bin. No floor, on skids ready to move. Located in La Salle area.

Call (204)955-5411 or leave message on voice mail.

FULL BIN ALARM STOP Climbing Bins!

THREE IN ONE

BEE HIVES FOR SALE, Nucs, frames of brood.

Phone (204)434-6918 or (204)392-0410, Grunthal.

MACK AUCTION CO. presents a very large Equipment-Vehicle-RV Auction Sat., June 22nd, 2013 9:00am at the Estevan Motor Speedway, Estevan, SK. Directions East of Estevan, SK on the Shand Access Road. Watch For Signs! 2 Quarters of Farmland in the Estevan area, Belarus 6100 FWA tractor w/3-PTH & FEL; MF D504-6 2WD tractor; Case 1070 2WD tractor; Oliver 88 2WD Row Crop tractor; Oliver 88 2WD Stnd tractor; 2010 4WD Crew Cab Dodge DSL 2500 Laramie 2500 PU w/only 24,000-km; 2004 GMC Sierra 1-ton dually crew cab DSL; 2000 Dodge Ram 2500 Extended Cab 4WD truck; 1995 Ford F 150 regular cab 4WD; 1951 L-160 Series grain truck; 2010 PJ 36-ft. gooseneck flat deck trailer w/tandem duals; 2008 PJ 36-ft. gooseneck flat deck trailer w/tandem duals & beaver tai; 1989 Fruehauf 53-ft. drop deck hay trailer; 16-ft. tandem axle car hauler; 2012 Trailer Tech truck deck w/LED lighting & hidden gooseneck hitch; RV 5th wheel hitch; JD LA 125 garden tractor w/48-hrs; Case 44 garden tractor w/attachments; Kingkutter 3-PTH disc; Kingkutter 3-PTH cultivator; 1995 27.5-ft. Sandpiper 5th wheel camper w/double slide; Baja 250 4x2 ATV quad; 1983 Honda Shadow 750 motorcycle; 1962 Ford Thunderbird 2 door hardtop w/390 engine w/25,140-mi showing, various keyhoe & airmaster aeration fans, quantity of aeration tubes & adaptors; 2 Westeel Rosco bins on hoppers; 1, 1650 Rosco bin on hopper; 2, 5000 Chief Westland bins on cement; 1, 4,400-bu Westeel Rosco on cement; 1, 3500 Chief Westland bin on cement, 1, 3,300 Westeel Rosco bin on cement; JD 9350 10-ft. grass drill; Lincoln ARC generator/stick welder w/9-HP Honda engine; Mastercraft tool cabinet; new Yard Works log splitter; tandem grain box trailer w/Kohler engine for lift; Farm King gravity screen cleaner; Wheatheart 8-in. transfer auger; NH 470 manure spreader. CHECK THIS AD EVERY WEEK FOR MANY EQUIPMENT ADDITIONS FOR THE NEXT 5 WEEKS!! 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

USED MERIDIAN HOPPER BINS, 4000-5000 Bus; used flat bottom bins. Check out our website www.valleyagro.com Phone Valley Agro Services Ltd (204)746-6783.

ALARM SOUNDS WHEN BIN IS FULL

BEEKEEPING Bee Equipment

AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions

CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.

Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103 or E-mail Requests binmovers@hotmail.com

1. COMPLETE AUGER SPOUT with “NO SNAG SPOUT” 2. FULL BIN ALARM 3. NIGHT LIGHT • Available for 10, 13 and 16” Augers • No Batteries needed • Enclosed Sensor • Proven Design since 2003 Value Priced from $515 to $560+ shipping 3 DAYS DELIVERY TO YOUR FARM IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT SEND IT BACK AFTER HARVEST FOR A REFUND

1-866-860-6086

John and Angelika Gehrer NEVER SPILL SPOUT Inc.

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

www.neverspillspout.com

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

FARM MACHINERY Grain Dryers

FOUILLARD STEEL SUPPLIES LTD. ST. LAZARE, MB. 1-800-510-3303

BUILDINGS AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post frame building company. For estimates and information call 1-888-816-AFAB(2322).

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

BUSINESS SERVICES BUSINESS SERVICES Crop Consulting

FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS

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 Haying & Harvesting – Baling 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.

NEW HOLLAND MODEL 847 round baler, $1700; New Holland model 479 haybine, $1600. East Selkirk MB (204)785-9036.

FARM MACHINERY Haying & Harvesting – Swathers SWATHER 9260 BIG CAB & Power unit Heston, same as challenger or Massey, Power unit 15/05 36-ft. Head is 2010 w/PU reel, very nice unit, $72,000. (204)871-0925

FARM MACHINERY Haying & Harvesting – Various

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

1979 NH 495 12-FT. haybine needs work, lots of new parts, i.e. bars bearings, rollers good condition.

New shaft for wobble box. (204)732-2734.

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

Combines

1985 CASE 450C CRAWLER Dozer, 6 way blade, 65% undercarriage, $18,500. www.waltersequipment.com (204)525-4521

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Case/IH

FARM MACHINERY FARM MACHINERY Fertilizer Equipment

Hit our readers where it counts… in the classifieds.

Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifed section. 1-800-782-0794.

FERTILIZER SPREADERS 4-9 TON, large selection, $2000 up; 10 Ton tender, $2500. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com (204)857-8403, Portage La Prairie.

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Doors & Windows

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Doors & Windows

CORN HEADER 2009 16X30 Cat Lexion, C15 16row low profile w/littel change or adaptor, it would fit Case IH or JD w/contour head, HYD deck plates & knife rolls, $60,000. Nice condition. (204)871-0925, Macgregor, MB FOR SALE: 60-FT MOLEHILL Leveler, excellent condition, field ready; mfg. by the Walker’s Kamsack SK. View online www.molehilldestroyer.com $20,000 OBO. Phone (204)522-3538.

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.

CORN HEADER 2009 16X30 Cat Lexion, C15 16row low profile w/littel change or adaptor, it would fit Case IH or JD w/contour head, HYD deck plates & knife rolls, $60,000. Nice condition. (204)871-0925, Macgregor, MB

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Various

Serving Manitoba, Saskatchewan, NW Ontario & Alberta....Since 1937 • Quality Commercial/Agricultural/Residential Overhead Doors & Operators.

• Aluminum Polycarbonate Doors Available.

• Non-Insulated and Insulated Sectional Doors Available.

• Liftmaster Heavy Duty Operators.

• Mullion Slide Away Centre Posts.

• Commercial/Agricultural Steel Man Doors and Frames.

• Your washbay door specialists. • Quality Installation & Service.

• 24 Hour Service. • Replacement Springs & Cables.

Phone: 204-326-4556 Fax: 204-326-5013 Toll Free: 1-855-326-4556 www.reimeroverheaddoors.com email: kurtis@reimeroverheaddoors.com

COMBINE WORLD located 20 min. E of Saskatoon, SK on Hwy. #16. 1 year warranty on all new, used, and rebuilt parts. Canada’s largest inventory of late model combines & swathers.

1-800-667-4515 www.combineworld.com

Combine ACCessories FARM MACHINERY Combine – Accessories 1997 JD 930 FLEXHEAD, very nice condition, asking $10,000 OBO. 1987 Co-op 742 swather, 30-ft & 42-ft headers, all in good working condition, clean, asking $18,500 OBO. NH 855 round baler, newer airbags, $1,200 OBO. JD Side Delivery Rake, $600 OBO. Phone:(204)373-2502.

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FARM MACHINERY Combine – Accessories

FARM MACHINERY Salvage

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Case/IH

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

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 25ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, $7,500. Most of the above flex platforms are reconditioned. Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

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 .

1370 CASE, NEW BATT, radiator, over $4,000 on repairs, 2 hyd, 7,000-hrs plus good shape, $8,000.

Phone (204)436-2572, Elm Creek.

2350 FRONT END LOADER w/grapple, fits 1086 etc.; 2001 Oldsmobile Alero, 2-dr, relatively low miles. Phone (204)825-8616.

1995 CIH 9270 3,845-hrs, front weights, 650/65 R42 Michelin at 85%, 24-SPD, $69,000 OBO. Phone (204)612-8379, Starbuck, MB.

565T HESSTON SOLID CORE baler, $4,000; Silverlake post pounder, $1,500; Westfield auger 7x46 PTO, $500; 2 Hopper drill fill 500-bu., $750; Water tanks 1,200-gal., $100; Used livestock panels, $35-50. Phone (204)834-2747, Carberry.

Spraying EquipmEnt

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – John Deere

FARM MACHINERY Sprayers

1982 JD 4640 7,200-HRS always shedded, nice shape, 3 hyd duals, 16-SPD quad trans. Phone (204)246-2095, Darlingford, MB.

2001 AGSHIELD HI CLEARANCE sprayer 90-ft. suspended boom, 1,500 US gal, low drift nozzle, 18.4x26 tires, variable rate, $7,000 OBO consider trade on 67 XL Flexicoil. (204)373-2502.

1984 JD 8450 4WD 16 SP Quad Range Trans., like new 18.4x38 BFG radial duals, interior excellent, one owner, 7,544-hrs., $39,500. Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

2011 JD 635 FLEX 35-ft. Hydra Flex, PU Reel, F/A, Poly Skids, Low Dam, Low Acreage, $33,500; 2004 JD 635 Flex 35-ft. Hydra Flex, PU Reel, F/A, Poly Skids, Reconditioned, $21,900; 2001 JD 930F Flex 30-ft., FF Auger, PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A, Reconditioned, $15,900; 1997 JD 925 Rigid 25-ft., Rigid, PU Reel, Excellent Cutterbar, PU Reel, Good Teeth, $9,900; 1992 JD 925 Flex 25-ft. Flex, PU Reel, Poly Skids, Steel Points, $6,900; 1992 JD 930 Rigid 24-ft. Rigid, Bat Reel, $2,900; 1986 JD 224 Rigid 30-ft. Rigid, Good Auger, Parts Machine, $500.

Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

1997 CASE IH 8930 MFWD, one owner, duals 3-PTH, 2 PTO, 3 hyd, CIH 890 self levelling loader, shedded, outback autosteer, 7,890-hrs, 180 PTO HP, Powershift 18F 4 Rev, $57,000. Call David (204)746-4779.

1997 CASE IH 9370 4WD 7,895-hrs, one owner, well maintained, good tires, outback autosteer, front & rear weights, always shedded, $57,500. Call David (204)746-4779.

2006 MXU130, FRONT WHEEL assist, w/LX156 loader, 3-PTH, triple-hyd, 1450-hrs, $55,000.

Phone (204)782-0807.

FOR SALE: FRONT WEIGHTS to fit a 1270-1370 Case tractor. $500 OBO. Phone:(204)648-7136.

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.

2004 JD 7220 CAB, MFWD, 24 sp. PQ, LH Rev., air seat, JD 740 loader 3,450-hrs., $69,500. Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

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

FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories FOR SALE: PARTS FOR IH TD40 track tractor, crankshaft & bearings, radiator, Diesel injector pump, All for $300. (403)729-2181

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

2001 NH SF550 SPRAYER - Equivalent to Rogator 554 - 2,300 hrs., 5.9 Cummins, 660-gal SS Tank, 90-ft Booms, Pressure Washer, Chem Inductor, EZ Steer, Mapping, 5 section EZ Boom. Triple nozzle bodies w/5 & 10-gal tips. 2 sets of tires: 23.1x26 & 9.5R44. Excellent Condition. $63,000 Minnedosa, MB. (204)763-8896.

BRANDT 84-FT. SPRAYER W/CHEMICAL fill tanks w/wind shields, operators manual, 2 sets of nozzles. Phone (204)825-8354 or (204)825-2784.

MELROE 116 SPRA-COUPE 51FT w/15” spacings for better chemical coverage, floatation tires, economical VW engine w/4spd. trans. shedded, $6,250. (403)666-2111 MODEL 216 MELROE SPRAY-COUPE 970-hrs, 51-ft., foam markers & Trimble light bar, always shedded. Phone (204)776-2326, Minto.

Tillage & Seeding FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Air Drills FLEXI-COIL 5000 AIR DRILL, 1999, 45-ft, 9-in spacing, 550-lb trips, rubber packers, updated manifolds, stored indoors, VGC. $29,000 OBO. Phone (204)746-5019.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Air Seeders BOURGAULT MODEL 2195 AIR seeder tank, Honda engine drive fan, plus monitors, good condition, no rust, stored inside, can e-mail pictures. Bob (204)745-2265.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Tillage 33-1/2FT MF 820 DISC, medium duty, notched FT, 19in. smooth rear pans 20in. no welds. Tandem wheels on center section, $14,500. (403)666-2111 FOR SALE: 47-FT INTERNATIONAL Model 4700 Vibra chisel, 5 flex, 10-in spacing, good shape. Asking $5,000.00 OBO. Phone:(204)535-2593. Baldur.

FOR SALE: HUTCHMASTER 30-FT. heavy tandem disc. Phone (204)858-2754 FOR SALE: JD 1060 Phone:(204)744-2762.

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FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Various 16-FT HUTCHMASTER OFFSET DISC, notchedblades, new bearings, front blades, tires, very goodcondition. $8,500 OBO. Phone:(204)762-5448. Lundar, MB.

NEW WOBBLE BOXES for JD, IH, MacDon headers. Made in Europe, factory quality. Get it direct from Western Canada’s sole distributor starting at $1,095. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

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

STEINBACH, MB. Ph. 326-2443 Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727 Fax (204) 326-5878 Web site: farmparts.ca E-mail: roy@farmparts.ca FARM MACHINERY Salvage GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528 or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.

20-FT. IHC 6200 wheels, markers.

(204)825-2784.

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48FT BOURGAULT PACKER BAR. series 4000 wing up model, heavy P30 packers. tandem wheels on centre section. very little use. like new condition. over $50,000 new. $17,500. (403)666-2111 48FT WILLRICH CHISEL PLOW, HD, 5plex w/mounted harrows. original harrow tines still measure 12in. walking tandems on centre section. heavy trip shanks on a very well built machine, no welds, $18,500. (403)666-2111 60-FT FARM KING DIAMOND harrows; 620 IHC Press Drill, 28-ft, rubber packers, hydraulic transport Loewen hydraulic markers; 24-ft Duplex CCIL discer, fertilizer, seed; 18-ft CCIL discer, seed, extension fertilizer; 18-ft Vibra Shank Cultivator, hitch.

(204)745-7740, (204)745-3878.

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. JD 7000 PLANTER 8 Row Narrow, Finger PU, Dry Fert. Att., Markers, Monitor, $7,500; JD 7200 Planter 16 Row Front Fold, 30-in. Narrow, Liquid Fert.

Att., Monitor, $20,500. Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com

TracTors FARM MACHINERY Tractors – White 2-105 W/COMPLETE ENGINE IN frame 10-hr ago LPTO plus LMH shift on the go, good rubber, $9000. (204)871-0925 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.

FOR SALE: 8760 QUAD, 4 hyd’s, 20.8x38, 7,800-hrs; 7720 MFWD, autoquad, LHR, 3-pt, 3 hyd’s, w/746 FEL, grapple, 4,000-hrs; 6420 MFWD, autoquad, LHR, 3-pt, 3 hyd’s, w/640 SL, FEL, grapple; 7410 MFWD, PQ, RHS, 3-pt w/740 loader; (2) 4650 MFWD, 15-spd, 3-pt, factory duals; 4455 MFWD, 3-pt, 15-spd, exc rubber, new paint, new interior, immaculate; 4250 15-spd, 3-pt, 2-hyd’s; 3155 MFWD, 3-pt, w/loader; 4430 Quad, 3-pt, painted; 3020, synchro, 2 hyd’s, w/148 FEL; JD 567 baler, monitor, mega wide pick-up, mega tooth, 1000 PTO, net wrap, bale kicker; Case 575 manure spreader, double beater, double chain. 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.

JD 4230P TRACTOR FOR sale. Power shift & 3-PTH. Has 16.9x38 rear tires w/duals. In good condition. Engine hrs 7,788. Asking $9,800. Call (204)856-3561, Portage.

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Versatile 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 – Various 1977 IHC 674 TRACTOR/LOADER DSL, 3-PTH, Allied 580 Loader, 5-ft. Bucket, Real Nice Unit. $11,900.

Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000 www.reimerfarmequipment.com 1990 FIAT-HESSTON 65-46, 58HP, single hydl, 3-PTH. $7250 www.waltersequipment.com (204)525-4521

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FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous 1000-GAL GALVANIZED WATER TANK; Round bale horse feeder; Bobsleigh w/seats. Call Reg (204)435-2219.

1995 AERO MAX FORD 9000, nice condition, but motor has slight knock, Asking $3,000 OBO. 2 18-ft decks w/hoist & front storage, tie down straps, Asking $3,000/each OBO. 45-ft Morris Deep-tillage, w/NH3 shanks, Asking $3,000. IHC 7200 hoe press, built in transport, markers, Asking $1,900 OBO. Phone:(204)728-1861.

1998 FORD LX reg cab, 4.2 engine, 4WD, 4-spd auto trans., 144,020-kms: Retail $4,490, Special $3,850; 2005 Chev Malibu V6, $3,875 OBO; New Equinox tank, black, 1 250-gal: Special $425; New Equinox yellow $1,250-gal tank: Retail $878, Special $560. 2,500-gal holding tanks available; New GX Honda, V-twin, 24hp, loaded, electric start, hour counter, oil alert: Retail $2,725, Special $2,075.

New GX 620, KQXF V-twin 20hp Honda, oil alert, electric start, hour counter: Retail $2,018, Special $1,635. Phone A&T Sales Ltd. (204)822-1354 or (204)823-1559. 2 year warranty on Honda motors & the liquid tanks.

2000 411 SENDT TRACTOR, FWA, w/front-end loader, 95-hwp, Asking $30,000. 2010 1841 MF Hesston baler, 16x18-in small square bales, like new, Asking $21,000. 2011 691A Pottinger Rotary twin hay rakes, Asking $20,000. 1320 Hesston disc bine, 9-ft. Phone:(204)738-4421.

2007 BALE SHREDDER JIFFY $7,000. Phone:(204)248-2685.

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28-FT. INTL 7200 HOE drill. Call (204)733-2324.

784 INTL TRACTOR 65-HP, loader & 3-pt.; 30-ft Hi-Boy trailer, tandem axle; 486 round baler, shedded. All in good condition. Phone (204)252-2266.

BALERS 2, JD 535, $5,900; JD 530, $3,500; JD 510, $1,250; New Idea 485, $3,500; JD 336, $3,000; Richardton Hi-Dumps, $3,000 & up; JD 3970 Harvester, $8,900; NH 890, $2,500; IH 781 $2,500; Several hay conditioners, $800 & Up; Haybines Gehl 2270, $3,900; JD 1209, $3,000; NH 116, $3,000; Case IH 8312 discbine, $6,900; Manure Spreaders, JD 780, $7,000; NH 800, $7,500; Meyers 550, $11,900; New Idea 3634, $4,000; Dual 340 loader, $2,000. (204)857-8403.

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.

FOR SALE: 200-BUS PORTABLE metal creep feeder; 27-ft IHC 4500 vibra shank cultivator; 358 NH Mixmill CW power bale feeder; 535 JD round baler; 5000 16-ft MacDon mower conditioner; 10 & 15-ft x 5-in hydraulic drill fill augers. All equipment well maintained. Evening (204)352-4489 FOR SALE: 7000 JD corn planter, 8-row, 30-in spacing w/liquid fert kit; 336 JD small square baler.

Phone (204)526-7963.

FOR SALE: 747 8-FT Leon Front end loader, w/new Peloquin grapple forks.

Phone (204)851-5549, Redvers SK. FOR SALE: TR70 Combine, chopper, Melroe 378, 7 belt rubber pickup, low hours; MF 410 combine w/pickup, chopper; Allied auger 6x36; 10hp motor; 12V Drill Fill; Cockshutt 225 12ft hyd disker w/seed box; Spring tooth harrow 10ft; Harrows; Metal V box; JD 5-16 hyd plow; Grain moisture tester.

Phone:(204)265-3302, Beausejour.

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.

MACHINERY FOR SALE from William Arnold’s Estate: 1975 3-ton truck 15-ft. cancade box & hoist $7,500 OBO new brake booster 4-SPD; JD 105 combine cab, air, 3 roller 6 belt PU chopper, gas, $3,500; AC HD6 crawler w/10-ft. angle dozer, good under carriage w/hyd for Implements w/extra clutch, $12,000; Wilrich 24-ft. cult hyd wings plus new shovels & tires, $2,000; 10.5-ft. Bush Hog offset disc notch blades front & back hyd, $5,000; Vermeer 605C round baler new belts top & bottom rubber rollers & rebuilt gear box, will part out; Inland 68-ft. sprayer w/800-gal plastic tank w/foam markers & monitor, hyd pump always shedded, $3,000; IHC 620 & 6200 rubber press wheels new hyd pump for sprayer; New #32 grinder w/1-HP motor & pulley, $200; set of 18.4x26 combine tires w/10-in. hole rims elec meat slicer, industrial Berkel set of 20.8x34 tires; Bus seats, $10 each; wood carved Duck decoys; JD fenders for 1830 tractor BO; GMC 1998 6.5 DSL 2500 4x4 truck reg cab, long box, toe passage 292,000-km new GM motor auto air, good shape, less than 1,000-km on motor; 8014 Morris hoe drill, $500; GMC 6000 4-SPD trans good; good used 11-in. shovels for borgall cult rock on; JD deep tiller shovels 16-in.; JD deep tiller 4-in. spikes; 41-ft. Vibra chisel, hyd wings & harrows, $3,000; New 14-ft. Morris 3 bar harrows, $600.

Phone (204)848-2205 Fax (204)848-2205.

SUITCASE WEIGHTS, FULL SET plus mounting bracket for 7200 series Case Magnum or MX series tractors. Phone Blaine (204)567-3720.

SUPER W6 W/F11 LOADER, older wire & diamond harrows, 21-ft 100 IHC drill, 70-ft IHC deep tiller cultivator. Phone (204)445-2220 morning or evenings.

VALMAR 240 W/HOSE, $1,500; Valmar PT Honda engine, $5,000; Rotary mowers JD 5-ft., $900; 6-ft.

3PH, $1,100; Woods 6-ft. PT $1,600; 10-ft. Batwing, $3,500; JD 709 PT, $3,000; Sickle Mowers JD 9-ft., $2,200; NH 9-ft., $2,200; IHC 9-ft., $1,750; Vermeer R23 Rake, $7,000; NH 144 swath turner, $3,000; 166 NH, $3,500; 14 Wheel rake, $6,500; Danuser Post auger, $1,200; New hyd post auger for skidsteer, $2,250; Bale spear, $400. Phone (204)857-8403.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Wanted INT HOE PRESS DRILLS, 28-ft, must be good condition, also hopper bottom bins, Phone: (204)268-5703.

JD OR INT. PRESS drill, 20 or 24-ft newer model, must be in good shape. Phone (204)379-2046.

LOOKING FOR SMALL SQUARE balers & pulltype swathers, end-wheel drills.

Phone (204)325-4526, ask for Corny.

WANTED: 2 6-FT P30 coil packers. Phone days (204)526-5298 or evenings (204)743-2145.

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LIVESTOCK LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions GLADSTONE AUCTION MART LTD

Cow/Calf & Bred Cow Sale on Tuesday, May 28th Along with our Regular Feeder Sale.

To Consign to this Sale Phone Gerald at the Mart (204)385-2537 Sale Starts at 9:00am The Pairs & Breds sell after the Feeders License # 1108

REGULAR SALE Every Friday 9AM

NEXT SHEEP & GOAT SALE Wednesday, June 5 @ 1:00 pm 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

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AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING REGULAR CATTLE SALES with Holstein Calves every TUESDAY at 9 am

Saturday, May 25th Horse Sale Tack at 10:00 a.m., Horses at 1:00 pm Monday, May 27th Sheep and Goat Sale with Small Animals at 12:00 Noon Tuesday, May 28th Regular Cattle Sale with Holstein Calves & Bred Cow Sale to Follow! at 9:00 am

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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

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LIVESTOCK Cattle – Angus BATTLE LAKE FARM HAS one 2-yr old Red Angus bull and Black & Red yearling bulls for sale. Semen tested & EPD’s. Carberry (204)834-2202.

BLACK ANGUS OPEN HEIFERS Open heifers, 2 year olds & yearlings, Full herd health program, Call J. Ross Anderson at Cell: 807-276-2194 or Home: 807482-1524 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 FOR SALE: REG RED & Black Angus yearling bulls, semen tested, EPD’s, performance data avail.

Contact Hamco Cattle Glen/ Albert/ Larissa Hamilton (204)827-2358 or David Hamilton (204)325-3635.

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 2-YR OLD BLACK ANGUS bulls, high performance, semen tested. Red & Black Angus yearling bulls. Blue Gentian Angus. Norman Bednar (204)380-2551.

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 HAWK ANGUS HAS Registered Yearling bulls for sale, these bulls have been hand fed to last. Bulls are semen tested & can be delivered.

Call Kevin (204)529-2605, Mather.

BLACK MEADOWS ANGUS OFFERS for sale 40 yearling & 1 2-yr old registered Black Angus bulls.

Top bloodlines, EPD’s available, fertility tested, bunk fed.

Call Bill:(204)567-3782 or cell:(204)851-1109.

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.

FORAGE BASED BLACK ANGUS Bulls. Virgin 2-yr olds & herd sires available. Phone: (204)564-2540. www.nerbasbrosangus.com

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FOR SALE: GOOD QUALITY yearling registered Black Angus bulls, sired by Net Worth, Bismarck & the son of Density. Phone (204)685-2537.

2 1/8, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2-in oilfield pipe; 3/4, 7/8, 1in sucker rod; 4.5, 5.5, 7-in., 8 5/8, 9 5/8s casing pipe. (204)252-3413, (204)871-0956.

FOR SALE: POLLED BLACK Angus & Hereford bulls. Good selection of yearlings & 2-yr olds, semen tested & delivery available. Call Don: (204)873-2430.

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.

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.

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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.

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 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.

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.

FOR SALE: YEARLING HEREFORD bulls & 2-yr old bull, hand-fed. Phone (204)466-2960 or (204)466-2722, Sidney MB. GOOD SELECTION OF POLLED Hereford yearling bulls. Call Vern Kartanson (204)867-2627 or (204)867-7315.

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.

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.

OSSAWA ANGUS AT MARQUETTE, MB has yearling bulls for sale. For more information Phone:(204)375-6658.

PUREBRED YEARLING BLACK ANGUS bulls, all natural births, birth weight 71-83-lbs, delivery up to 100kms, $1,500/each. Phone:(204)428-3625. Port age.

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YEARLING BULLS FOR SALE, semen tested, delivery available. Contact Wayne at Northwind Red Angus (204)383-5802.

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2 YR OLD BULLS PB not papered, semen tested, $1,800 each. Phone (204)371-6404, Ste Anne.

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 performance tested, semen tested & delivered. Visit us online at www.defoortstockfarm.com Celebrating 33-yrs in Charolais. Call us at (204)743-2109.

2-YR OLD RED ANGUS bulls, performance & calving ease. Bulls will be semen tested, delivery available.

Ph (204)278-3372 or (204)485-1490, In-wood.

FOR SALE: 2-YR OLD Purebred Charolais bulls.

Polled, colored & white, quiet, $2,250 -$2,500.

Wayne Angus:(204)764-2737.

1 & 2-YR OLD moderate frame, easy fleshing bulls for sale, they are semen tested, papered & guaranteed. Please phone after 6:00pm, (204)252-3136.

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2 YR OLD & yearling bulls for sale, semen tested, delivery available. Contact Wayne at Northwind Red Angus (204)383-5802.

3 RED ANGUS COWS for sale w/Apr calves at foot. Call Don (204)422-5216.

DB MICHIELS RED ANGUS PB 2 yr old bulls for sale. Catalogue info available by e-mail. Yearling bulls & heifers also for sale. Contact David (204)870-7070 or Brian (204)526-0942, Holland, MB. E-mail dmichiels10@gmail.com RED ANGUS BULLS for sale: 1, 2 yr old cow bull; 1, 1 yr old heifer bull; 2, 1 yr old cow bulls. Semen tested, delivered, guarantee.

Call Don (204)422-5216.

REG RED ANGUS BULLS for sale. 6, 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 HAS several good quality Red Angus yearling bulls still available, for more info call Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631.

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BELLEVUE BLONDES HAS AN excellent group of performance & semen tested purebred polled Blonde yearling bulls for sale. Call Marcel:(204)379-2426 or (204)745-7412. Haywood, MB.

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LIVESTOCK Cattle – Charolais

FOR SALE: 5 YEARLING Charolais bulls, $2,000/each. 1 2-yr old Charlois bull, $2,500. Thick bulls off cows with good dispositions. Phone Donald Toms:(204)843-2917. Amaranth, MB. 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.

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.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Dexter CANADIAN REGISTERED YEARLING DUN Bull, good udders & feet in his background. Phone Evelyn Wilton (204)239-1913, Portage La Prairie, MB.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Gelbvieh FOR SALE: PUREBRED RED yearling Gelbvieh bulls, quiet, semen tested & guaranteed. Phone (204)745-7718 or (204)745-7811.

POLLED PB RED & Black Gelbvieh bulls. Call Wayne (306)793-4568, Stockholm, SK. POLLED RED & BLACK Gelbvieh bulls, yearling, 2-yr old. Semen tested & delivered. Call Maple Grove Gelbvieh (204)278-3255.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Hereford 12 OPEN DE-HORNED YEARLING Hereford heifers. Call (306)743-5105 or www.vcherefordfarm.com Langenburg, SK.

LIMOUSIN BULLS FOR SALE 2 yr old & yearling Red & Black & Polled, Bred for calving ease or Performance Ready for breeding season & priced to sell, guaranteed. Delivery available. Your source for quality Limousin genetics. Call Art (204)685-2628 or (204)856-3440.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Maine-Anjou WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM HAS several solid Red & solid Black Maine-Anjou yearling bulls. Also 2 2-yr olds, bulls are all polled, semen tested & ready to go. For more info call Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Shorthorn ATTENTION GRADUATES: SHORTHORN BREEDERS of Manitoba will be accepting applications for the John A. Nevin Cattle Growers Education Fund Award until Jun. 1, 2013. Contact: Susan Armbruster PO Box 597 Rossburn, MB R0J 1B0.

Phone & Fax: (204)859-2088. Email:shorthornsue@gmail.com Thick, Easy Fleshing Shorthorn Cowmakers: Yearling & 2-yr old Shorthorn Bulls for Sale. Semen Tested, Delivery can be arranged.Monty Thomson, Hatfield Shorthorns Gladstone, MB. 204-870-0089

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Simmental 2 YEARLING BLACK SIMMENTAL bulls, 1 4-yr old black calving ease bull & 1 3-yr old red bull, calves can be seen. Call Mike:(204)745-8750.

2-YR OLD & YEARLING polled Red bulls, w/A.I. backgrounds. Acomb Valley Simmentals, Minnedosa (204)867-2203.

5 Corner Cattle has Purebred Simmental yearling bulls for sale. Multi-polled. Fully gauranteed and delivered. Contact Wes Hill at (204)435-2585.

Miami. MB. 5cornercattle@gmail.com 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.

KOPP FARMS SIMMENTALS. For sale: yearling bulls Reds, Blacks & Full bloods, 1 long yearling & 3 herd bulls. For more info call (204)843-2769 or (204)843-0090.

YEARLING BULLS FOR SALE, offers & 5 yearling heifers. Phone (204)445-2326.

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LIVESTOCK Cattle – Simmental PIZZEY SIMMENTALS HAVE YEARLING & extra age Red & Black bulls for sale. Hand fed, quiet, moderate birth weight, semen tested & delivered.

Call Cal:(204)847-2055. Manitoba.

Horses LIVESTOCK Horse Auctions

Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based in Saskatoon, is actively buying Organic Flax from the 2012 crop year.

RIVERBANK FARMS HAS YEARLING & 2 yr old bulls, semen tested & fully guaranteed. Get them now while the discounts are on. Call Ray Cormier (204)736-2608.

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.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Welsh Black REGISTERED FULL-BLOOD WELSH BLACK bull, 5-yrs old, very quiet, easy calving, $2200.

Phone (204)373-2162, Ridgeville.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Various 100 OPEN BLACK REPLACEMENT Heifers Pfizer Gold Vaccine, no horns, $1,050 choice, $1,000 takes all. Phone (204)966-3868 or (204)476-0597.

11 FANCY OPEN SHORTHORNED heifers, docile, vaccinated, ready for breeding, 825-900 lbs. Call (204)362-4614.

FOR SALE: 20 BRED heifers, red, blacks & Herefords bred to easy calving Black Angus bull. Start calving Aug 1st 2013; 10 cross-bred open replacement heifers. (204)379-2408, St Claude.

FOR SALE: 8 BIG Simm Black Angus X open heifers, weighing up to 1,200-lbs. For more info phone (204)375-6658.

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.

HIGH QUALITY BLACK ANGUS & polled Hereford 2-yr old bulls for sale. Bar H Land & Cattle Co. Phone:(306)743-2840. Langenburg SK. OPEN BREEDING HEIFERS, FULL herd health program, weighing 800-900-lbs, 800 to choose from. Call (204)325-2416.

W + RANCH HAS 4 beef booster M3 Black bulls: 3 2-yr olds & 1 5-yr old. Special for breeding heifers w/birthweights from 65-68-lbs. On full herd health program, semen tested. 2-yr olds are $2,800, 5-yr old is $2,400. Phone Stewart RM of St. Laurent, MB (204)646-2338.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Wanted WANTED: ALL CLASSES OF feeder cattle, yearlings & calves. Dealer Licence# 1353. Also wanted, light feed grains: wheat, barley & oats.

Phone:(204)325-2416. Manitou, MB.

TIRED OF THE HIGH COST OF MARKETING YOUR CATTLE??

800-1000 LBS. Steers & Heifers Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400 Ben: 721-3400 Don: 528-3477, 729-7240

Contact: D.J. (Don) MacDonald Livestock Ltd. License #1110

ORGANIC Organic – Grains

Spring Horse & Tack Sale Friday, May 24, 2013

Tack Sale - 10 am

Horse Sale - 1 pm

Horses accepted Thursday until 8 pm and Friday morning ***EID forms required at time of delivery***

Cattle Sales Spring Schedule Sale Every TWO Weeks

Office will be open reduced hours for the summer

Machinery Consignment Sale Wed June 19 at 11 am For more information please call Whitewood Livestock at 306-735-2822 or check our website at www.whitewoodlivestock.com for summer schedule & equipment listing as articles are consigned.

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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PETS & SUPPLIES

FOR SALE: 5 YR Old Sorrel Reg Belgian stallion, Jay-Kay Victor, bought at 2 yrs old, as broke to drive single, we have used him 3 seasons to pasture breed. Richard Reeves (204)748-2166.

AUSTRAILAN SHEPPARD PUPPIES, PUREBRED w/1st shots & deworming, 14 avail, Ready to go May 10, $400 each. Call (204)513-0382 or (204)955-6119.

Swine

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LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

REAL ESTATE Houses & Lots

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123

Specialty 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.

BERG GUTTER CLEANER w/20-ft. ramp; Buddex calf dehorner; Small calf squeeze; Poly calf sleigh.

Phone (204)825-8354 or (204)825-2784.

FOR SALE: HI-HOG BISON squeeze w/crash gate. Hardly used. $2,500. Phone:(306)534-4620.

Spy Hill, SK. 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.

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.

STAINLESS PIG FEEDERS can feed 10 pigs at once for several days & some small ones for small pigs, $20-50. Rabbit cages different sizes $20.

(204)278-3669.

WANTED: PEERLESS ROLLER MILL, must be shedded and in very good condition. Phone: (204)773-3252.

ORGANIC ORGANIC Organic – Certified 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

READY TO MOVE HOMES available now! Display units completed. Also custom build to your plan.

Only $75,000 for 1,320-sq.ft., 3 bdrm, 1.5 baths, beautiful kitchen. Also available for $85,000 3 bdrm, 2.5 baths, espresso kitchen, 1,520-sq.ft. Must see!

MARVIN HOMES, Steinbach, MB (204)326-1493 or (204)355-8484 or www.marvinhomes.ca

REAL ESTATE Mobile Homes CANADA SINGLE FAMILY HOME NEW 16 wide & 20 wide MODULAR HOMES at GREAT prices.

(218)751-7720 frontierhomesonline.com

REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Manitoba 2,061-AC GRAIN & CATTLE farm 1,901-acs deeded, 160 Crown Lease. 3 bdrm mobile home, bins, garden, good road. Very low taxes, very reasonably priced. Near Hodgson, MB. St Laurent, MB. 3 bdrm Bun, hot tub, swimming pool, deck, garden. On 160-acs of hay & pasture land fenced. On Wagon Creek Rd. Call Harold Gortiz Delta Real Estate (204)253-7373 www.manitobafarms.ca 319-ACRE MIXED FARM IN a very scenic location overlooking the Birdtail Valley. Older 1 1/2 storey log home, excellent range of farm buildings including machine shed w/insulated workshop built in 2006. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511 or Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753, HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc. www.homelifepro.com BEAUTIFUL LOG HOME OF 4600-sq-ft on 22-acres built in 2003. The house is in excellent condition throughout & has to be seen to be appreciated. Large workshop 40x80-ft machine shed 60x30-ft. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511 or Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753, HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc. www.homelifepro.com GOOD CATTLE FARM ON the shores of Lake Manitoba. 512-acres deeded & 1500-acres of crown lease. The land is all in a block & contained on a peninsula. The owners produce enough feed on the farm for 150 beef cows. Mobile home, machine shed built 2009, insulated barn, corrals. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511 or Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753, HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc. www.homelifepro.com GOOD FARM OF APPROXIMATELY 635-acres only 20-min from Brandon. The property is all fenced & currently run as a mixed operation.

450-acres can be cultivated w/the remainder in pasture. Bungalow home in good condition, machine shed, cattle sheds, hay sheds, dairy barn, etc. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511 or Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753, HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc. www.homelifepro.com LOG CABIN OF 1380-SQ-FT built in 2010 & located on 69-acres of land at Sharpe Lake. Workshop 24x30-ft. There is approximately 2000-ft of lakefront which may be suitable for development. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511 or Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753, HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc. www.homelifepro.com Ranch for Sale by Retiring Owners: 23 quarters; 3 deeded, 18 leased, 2 rented. 600-ac Grain/Hay. House 3456 sqft Cattle ,machinery. Call Larry: 204448-2053 Cell 204-447-7587 larlyn@inetlink.ca

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ORGANIC FARM OF 650-ACRES of which 525 are cultivated. Land is very good quality clay loam & is stone free. There is one quarter w/a small bungalow home which can be sold separately if required.

The main yard w/it’s larger 2 storey home is 1/2-mi away from the other yard site. Both houses are on municipal water. Owners would like to sell to an organic farmer. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511 or Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753, HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc. www.homelifepro.com

SUPERVISED PASTURE AVAILABLE FOR 100-120 pairs. Electric fences, corrals, dugouts, sorting facilities. Some rotational grazing, reasonable rates, Ref .(204)345-8532

FARM SPECIALIST: Count on Grant Tweed, informed, professional assistance for sellers & buyers. www.granttweed.com Call (204)761-6884 anytime. Service with integrity.

REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Wanted GOOD QUALITY GRAIN & Cattle Farms wanted for Canadian & Overseas Clients. For a confidential meeting to discuss the possible sale of your farm or to talk about what is involved, telephone Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511 www.homelifepro.com or Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753, www.homelifepro.com Home Professional Realty Inc. WANTED: 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.

NOTRE DAME USED OIL REAL ESTATE & FILTER Land ForDEPOT Sale

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NE1/4 36-16-10 W/HYDRO & fenced approx • Collect Used Filters Collect 100-acs cultivatable 2-mi •North & Oil 1.5 Containers West of Langruth, Southern priced reasonably.

Not needed any more. and Western Manitoba Phone (204)386-2713.

Tel: 204-248-2110

The Following Private Land is being offered for sale: SE 17-27-15W, NE 27-26-15W, NE 22-26-15W, NE 08-27-15W FR, Section 26-26-15W, NE 32-26-15W, NW 24-26-15W. The following Crown Lands have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural Initiatives for transfer to the purchaser of the private lands listed as these lands are part of the farm unit held by Tom McKinnon of Rorketon, MB. NE 13-26-15W, SW 13-26-15W, E 1/2 14-26-15W, NE 24-26-15W. If you wish to purchase the private land & apply for the Unit Transfer contact the Lessee Tom McKinnon at Box 235, Rorketon, MB R0L 1R0. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer write the Director MAFRI, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or fax (204)867-6578.

THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: S1/2 NE 06-34-19W; E1/2 NE 03-33-20W; SE 18-34-19W; NW 34-32-20W; NE 12-34-20W; NW 12-34-20W; SE 01-34-20W; W1/2 SE 06-34-19W. The following Crown lands have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural lnitiatives for transfer to the purchaser of the private lands listed as these lands are part of the ranch unit held by Edward Duncalfe of Winnipegosis, MB. NE 06-34-19W FR N1/2 East of Road Plan No. 1801 DLTO; NE 06-34-19W West of Road Plan No. 1801 DLTO; NW 06-34-19W Ex Road Plan No. 1801 DLTO; SW 06-34-19W; NW 07-34-19W West of Road Plan No. 1801 DLTO subject to MHYD Resv; NW 07-34-19W East of Road Plan No. 1801 DLTO; SW 07-34-19W West of Road Plan No. 1801 DLTO; SW 07-34-19W East of Road Plan No. 1801 DLTO; SE 07-34-19W FR; NE 07-34-19W FR Lying West of Lake; NE 01-34-20W. lf you wish to purchase the private lands & apply for the Unit Transfer contact the Lesse Edward Duncalfe at RR #1 Winnipegosis, MB R0L 2G0. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer please write the Director, MAFRI, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0 or Fax (204)867-6578.

THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale 1,470-acs, 900 Cultivated: NW 31-53-27W; NE 32-53-27W; SE 32-53-27W; NW 33-53-27W; NE 35-53-28W; NW 35-53-28W; NE 36-53-28W; SE 04-54-27W; SW 04-54-27W; NE 05-54-27W; SE 05-54-27W; SW 05-54-27W; SW 01-54-28W; SE 01-54-28W; SW 06-54-27W; SE 06-54-27W; NW 11-54-27W; SE 02-54-28W; SW 02-54-28W. The following Crown lands have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural lnitiatives for transfer to the purchaser of the private lands listed as these lands are part of the farm units held by Keith Donohoe of The Pas, MB 2,640-acs, 540 cultivated. NE 05-54-27W; NE 04-54-27W; NW 04-54-27W; SW 09-54-27W; SE 09-54-27W; NE 10-54-27W; NW 10-54-27W; SW 10-54-27W; NW 08-54-27W; SE 08-54-27W; SW 08-54-27W; SW 32-53-27W; NE 31-53-27W; SE 31-53-27W; NW 32-53-27W; NW 36-53-28W; NE 36-53-28W; NE 08-54-27W; NE 09-54-27W; NW 09-54-27W. lf you wish to purchase the private lands & apply for the Unit Transfer of Crown Lands, please contact the Lesses; Keith Donohoe at Box 2309, The Pas, MB R9A 1M1. Phone (204)623-5029. If you wish to object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer please write the Director, Agricultural Crown Lands, MAFRI, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0 or Fax (204)867-6578.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES RECREATIONAL VEHICLES Campers & Trailers 1994 25-FT 5TH WHEEL, Golden Falcon tour edition. Single slide, a/c, rear kitchen, free-standing table, stored inside; 4) MOTOROLA 2-WAY RADIOS, includes base radio, $225. Phone (204)745-3773.

FOR SALE: 1997 26-FT Fifth Wheel, Triple E Topaz. No slides, rear kitchen, A.C. Excellent cond., always shedded, $10,400.

Call Denis (204)228-8031, Winnipeg.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES Snowmobiles WANTED: 1974-76 295 RF JD - 340 RS JD snowmobile w/Kiortz motor. Phone:(204)728-1861.

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BuyUsed Used Oil Oil ••Buy NOTRE •• Buy Buy Batteries Batteries DAME ••Collect CollectUsed Used Filters Filters • Collect Oil Containers • Collect Oil Containers USED • Antifreeze OIL & Southern,Southern Eastern, and Manitoba Western Western FILTER Manitoba DEPOT Tel: 204-248-2110 SCALES 3000-LB LIVESTOCK SCALES made to fit in your chute or alley. We have larger & smaller sizes to choose from, no electric. Also bale scales & hopper feeders w/s in various types & sizes. ELIAS SCALES (306)445-2111. www.eliasscales.com

PEDIGREED SEED PEDIGREED SEED Cereal – Various CERTIFIED KANE & CARBERRY wheat, Certified Tradition Barley, Certifed Leggett & Summit oats.

Will custom clean canola. Wilmot Milne (204)385-2486, cell (204)212-0531, Gladstone MB. DURAND SEEDS: CERT AC Carberry&Harvest wheat; Souris Oats; Conlon Barley; CDC Bethune & Sorrel flax; Mancan & Koma Buckwheat; Canola & Forage seed. (204)248-2268,(204)745-7577, NotreDame,MB. ELIAS SEEDS CERT. A.C. Carberry & A.C. Kane wheat. Please call (204)745-3301, Carman.

FOR SALE: CERTIFIED AC Carberry, Cert AC Domain, Cert CDC Austenson. Dudgeon Seeds (204)246-2357.

JAMES FARMS LTD: Carberry & Pasteur Wheat, Tradition Barley, Souris & Summit Oats, Hanley Flax, Various Canola, Sunflower & Soybean seed varieties, Forage seed. Customer processing. Seed treating & delivery available. Early payment discounts. For info (204)222-8785, toll free 1-866-283-8785, Winnipeg.

PUGH SEEDS: CERT AC Barrie, Carberry, Kane, Somerset, HRS Wheat. Sorrel Flax. Phone (204)274-2179 or (204)871-1467, Portage.

SANDERS SEED FARM Cert, Reg, FDN Carberry, Domain, Kane, Harvest, Glenn Wheat, Cert Celebration Barley Canterra Canola varieties also.

Phone (204)242-4200, Manitou, MB. SHANAWAN FARMS LTD DOMAIN. Fdn, Reg & Cert Carberry & Kane wheat. Cert Souris oats, Fdn Reg. & Cert Hanley flax. Phone (204)736-2951.

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MALT BARLEY BARLEY MALT

2013 Malt Contracts Available Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 Phone 204-737-2000 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK. Phone 306-455-2509 SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Grain Wanted *6-Row* *6-Row*

Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based in Saskatoon, are looking to contract Borage acres for the upcoming 2013 growing season.

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Flexible contracting options available as well.

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MALT BARLEY

COMMON SEED

SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Grain Wanted

TRAILERS Grain Trailers

FARMERS, RANCHERS, SEED PROCESSORS BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS

NEW EMERALD GRAIN TRAILERS made in MB 36-ft. 2 hopper t/a air ride 24.5 tires on bud wheels manual tarp. Starting as low as $34,000 or lease to own for as low as $725 per mth.

Side chutes & dual crank hopper openings avail.

Financing avail o.a.c For more details call Glenn (204)895-8547.

Heated/Spring Threshed Lightweight/Green/Tough, Mixed Grain - Barley, Oats, Rye, Flax, Wheat, Durum, Lentils, Peas, Canola, Chickpeas, Triticale, Sunflowers, Screenings, Organics and By-Products √ ON-FARM PICKUP √ PROMPT PAYMENT √ LICENSED AND BONDED SASKATOON, LLOYDMINSTER, LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER, MINNEDOSA

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CANADA’S #1 CERTIFIED MF 5301 alfalfa seed. $2.90/lb, pre-inoculated 25-kg bags. CANADA COMMON #1, MULTI-FOLIATE alfalfa seed, $2.80/lb, pre-inoculated 25-kg bags. Certified varities of all grass seeds available. Delivery can be arranged. Call:(204)642-2572, Riverton.

CERISE RED PROSO COMMON MILLET seed at $0.65/lb. 93%+ germination, 0% Fusarium Graminearum. Makes great cattle feed, swath grazed, dry or silage bale. Very high in protein. Energy & drought tolerant. Sold in 50-lb bags. 2000+ satisfied producers. 10th Year in Business! Millet King Seeds of Canada Inc. Reynald (204)526-2719 office or (204)379-2987, cell & text (204)794-8550.

Leave messages, all calls returned. www.milletkingseeds.com , reynald@milletking.com FOR SALE: ALFALFA, TIMOTHY, brome, clover, hay & pasture blends, millet seed, common seed oats. Leonard Friesen, (204)685-2376, Austin MB. YELLOW BLOSSOM CLOVER, a yard full of bales & a field full of Nitrogen as a bonus. Flax & Y.B. excel on breaking, & can save 3-yrs of costly “N”. Also starts, clean new pastures w/high Nitrogen Boost.

Perk up old perennial pastures by overseeding w/clover, packaging w/bags & totes April. D WHITE SEEDS Ph (204)822-3649, Morden.

• Vomi wheat • Vomi barley • Feed wheat • Feed barley • Feed oats • Corn • Screenings • Peas • Light Weight Barley You can deliver or we can arrange for farm pickup.

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TIRES

New Water Pumps

TRAILERS Livestock Trailers EXISS ALUMINUM LIVESTOCK TRAILERS. $1000 Rebate offered on instock 2013 trailers. Only 2 left - one 16 x 7 x 7-ft & one 24 x 7 x 7-ft. New 2014 arriving next month!! All sizes available. SOKAL INDUSTRIES LTD. Phone (204)334-6596 email: sokalind@mymts.net REELS INDUSTRY GOOSENECK STOCK trailer, 7x16, Torsion bar tandem axle, centered, divided door, rubber matted floor, no rust. Asking $4,600.

Phone Days: (204)526-5298 or Evenings: (204)743-2145.

WANTED: GOOSE NECK V-NECK aluminum 6 x 16 tandem axle stock trailer or Norberts Manufacturing. In good shape. Phone Days Cell (204)526-5298, or Evenings (204)743-2145.

TRAILERS Trailers Miscellaneous

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BRANDON TRAILER SALES “You will like our prices!” “It’s that Simple!” “Let’s compare quality & price!” “Certainly worth the call!”

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arm and active are the best ways to describe this forecast period. It finally looks as though spring is taking hold across the forecast region as fairly mild air moves in. Along with the warmer air will come plenty of chances for showers and thundershowers.

Unfortunately, it now looks as though the warm air might not be here for good, as mediumrange models show more cool air moving in next week.

After a windy start to the week we should see weak high pressure move in on Thursday and Friday. This should bring mainly sunny skies with high temperatures in the low to mid-20s. The weather models then show a large area of low pressure moving in off the Pacific and slowly making its way across the northern states over the weekend. This will bring increasing clouds, along with a good chance of showers and thundershowers beginning late on Friday and lasting right through the weekend.

It now looks like most of the moisture will stay south of the border with this system. Temperatures will depend on the amount of cloud we see over the weekend. If we see more sun than clouds, highs should once again be in the low to mid-20s; otherwise, expect highs to be in the upper teens to around 20 C. By e a r l y n e x t w e e k t h e weather models have this low deepening as it moves into the Great Lakes region. This will help to pull down plenty of cool arctic air behind the system, dropping our high temperatures down to around the 10 C mark. Overnight lows will also be cold and a few frosty nights cannot be ruled out. The models show the cool air sticking around for most of next week. I sure hope the weather models have it wrong this time!

Usual temperature range for this period: Highs, 13 to 26 C; lows, 1 to 10 C. Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He operates a computerized weather station near Birds Hill Park.

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

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Accumulated Precipitation (Prairie Region) April 1, 2013 to May 9, 2013

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Record CO2: What does it mean?

We’re adding carbon dioxide at a rate over 100 times faster than nature could

By Daniel Bezte CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR

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t’s amazing what a little cold weather can do to people’s minds. Even after studies have come out indicating that, among active climate scientists, 97 per cent agree the current global warming we are seeing is human induced, and that these basic conclusions have been endorsed by more than 40 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries, when we have a bit of local cold weather the general public in central North America is now starting to question whether global warming is real!

I d o n’t k n ow h ow m a n y times over the years I have pointed out “global warming” is made up of two words.

Warming is rather obvious and so is global, but some people seem to think that “global” means everyone on Earth is experiencing warmer conditions at the same time. This is definitely not the case.

If there is one time of year when we’ll see bad cold snaps in a globally warmer world, I think it will be spring. We have to remember the Arctic

Just how much CO2 the oceans can absorb is not really known, and we are already starting to see the effects.

receives no sunlight during the winter months, so even in a warm world it will still get cold during the winter in the Arctic. If we continue to see large undulations in the jet stream, this will allow warm air to push farther north than usual, but will also allow colder air to push farther south. We’ve seen exactly this over the last two years. So, even if we are seeing really cold weather, other regions of the world are seeing really warm weather. Global warming is when you add up all these cold and warm areas and end up with more warm than cold.

Mo s t p e o p l e a r e a w a r e that carbon dioxide (CO2) is reported as the main culprit in global warming. While it is not the best gas for trapping heat, it stays in the atmosphere for a long time and is one of the most abundant greenhouse gases. The impression a lot of people have in their minds is that the world, as a whole,

has been trying to reduce the amount of CO2 we’ve been putting in the atmosphere, so these levels should now be steady or hopefully declining.

This is not the case; atmospheric CO2 continues to steadily increase.

Scientists have been tracking global levels of CO2 at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii since 1958. The readings have been slowly increasing each year, starting at around 320 parts per million (ppm) in 1960 and now averaging near 393 ppm. Levels of CO2 tend to peak in late spring. On May 9, for what scientists believe is the first time in human history, the level of CO2 went above 400 ppm. It’s estimated the last time Earth has seen CO2 levels this high was about two million years ago, during the Pleistocene era, but it may have been as long ago as 10 million years ago. This is where some people say, “Well, if it was higher that

long ago, then we must have nothing to do with it, because we were not around to affect the warming two million years ago!” This is absolutely true, yet there are many other natural things that can and do affect climate — such as solar input. We do know that when this increases, our planet warms, and when our planet warms, we get higher levels of CO2 that further increase the warming. However, we also know that if we artificially increase CO2, this will also cause the planet to warm.

While the 400-ppm reading was only a daily number and doesn’t indicate a recent change in global CO2 output, for most people it is seen as a significant milestone for global greenhouse gas levels.

While we don’t really know what level of CO2 is “safe,” there is some consensus that if we want to maintain our current planet, 350 ppm is a goal to shoot for (check out 350. org), and we have definitely gone well beyond 350 ppm.

At the current rate of increase we’ll see 450 ppm in about 20 years, or around 2035.

There are a couple of other parts to this increase in CO2 that make scientists ner vous. If we look at the amount of CO2 being put into the

atmosphere, overall CO2 levels should be higher. Where is this extra CO2 going? It appears the world’s oceans are absorbing it. Just how much the oceans can absorb is not really known, and we are already starting to see the effects of higher CO2 levels in the oceans because it is causing the acidity of the water to increase. This can have a direct impact on marine life, especially shellfish and corals.

The second area of concern is the speed of the increase.

Over the last 55 years we have seen an increase of around 80 ppm. Looking at ice core data we find the last time we saw a rapid increase in CO2 levels was after the last ice age.

At that point in time it took 7,000 years for CO2 levels to increase by 80 ppm. That means we are adding CO2 to the atmosphere at a rate more than 100 times faster than it would otherwise occur naturally. So, the question is, how well will plants and ecosystems be able to handle this rapid change? No one really knows.

In our next issue I think it’s time to start looking at summer weather… and what defines summer in Manitoba better than thunderstorms?

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Record world crops on horizon, USDA says, as grain prices dip Despite a late start to planting, the USDA says 2013 could be a bin buster

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ecord-large U.S. corn and soybean crops will end three years of punishingly tight domestic supplies, the government said May 10 in a report that offered the brightest outlook in years for world food supplies.

One year after a br utal Midw e s t d r o u g h t re v i v e d f e a r s o f grain shortages and higher prices, the U.S. Agriculture Department projected the largest-ever global wheat, corn, rice and oilseed crops in its first projections for the 201314 crop year. Global grain stocks would r ise more than analysts expected, with corn zooming 23 per cent to a 13-year high, it said.

The forecasts tipped Chicago grain prices lower, but losses were limited by concerns that conditions may change dramatically in the five months before the crops are in the bin. July weather conditions are critical for U.S. crops. A cold, rainy and snowy spring has farmers weeks behind in sowing corn.

“O v e r a l l , w e’re l o o k i n g a t a monster of a crop going in. But it doesn’t mean anything right now because we don’t know what the weather is going to be,” said Joe Vaclavik of Standard Grain.

If the forecasts are realized, however, they could help quell a succession of food-price spikes and supply fears triggered by extreme weather conditions, strong Chinese demand and an influx of investor funds into commodities.

First projection

In its first projection of the fall harvest, USDA said the corn crop would be a record 14.14 billion bushels, despite a late start to planting that will lower yields.

All the same, corn ending stocks for the 2013-14 marketing year would hit 2.004 billion bushels, the largest supply in nine years and marginally larger than traders expected. It would nearly triple the 759 million bushels, the smallest supply in 16 years, forecast for the Aug. 31 end of this marketing year.

“The slow start to this year’s planting and the likelihood that progress by mid-May will remain we l l b e h i n d t h e 1 0 - ye a r a ve rage reduce prospects for yields,” said USDA. It pegged yields at 158 bushels an acre, down 5.6 bushels, or three per cent, from a projection made at its Outlook Forum in February.

With the mammoth crop, 4.85 billion bushels of corn will be used to make ethanol, up from 4.6 billion bushels from the 2012 crop.

U.S. farmers are poised to harvest record yields of corn and soybeans, the USDA says — provided farmers can overcome the cold, wet spring to get them planted. photo: REUTERS/Darren Hauck

Ethanol output could top 13.4 billion gallons from this year’s crop.

U.S. soybean production was projected at a record 3.390 billion bushels — enough to recapture the title of world’s largest soybean grower from Brazil — with 201314 end stocks more than doubling to 265 million bushels from the 125 million estimated for this Aug 31. Stocks would be the largest in seven years.

Worldwide surge

Bigger wheat crops are projected in all of the world’s major exporting nations, with a record 701.1 million tonnes expected, up seven per cent. Europe and the former Soviet states would see the largest increases, said USDA. Ending stocks would rise by three per cent.

Europe, the former Soviet states and China would reap larger corn crops, along with the record U.S. crop, for a world record 965.9 million tonnes, up 13 per cent from 2012-13. Even with record cons u m p t i o n , s t o c k s w o u l d re a c h a 13-year high of 154.6 million tonnes, USDA projected.

China was forecast to become the world’s largest rice importer in 2013-14 as world production rises

two per cent to a record 479.3 million tonnes, said USDA, and ending stocks of 107.8 million tonnes would be the largest since 2001-02.

Global oilseed production was projected for a record 491.3 million tonnes, up 4.7 per cent due mainly to a larger soybean crop. Soybeans, which account for roughly 60 per cent of world oilseeds, would be up by six per cent. Soybean ending stocks would surge by 20 per cent, to 75 million tonnes, USDA said.

T h e w o r l d’s l a r g e s t s oy b e a n importer, China was forecast to buy 69 million tonnes, up 10 million tonnes from this marketing year and two-thirds of the world total. Chinese farmers are shifting land to more profitable crops and growing fewer soybeans. “If realized, harvest area of 6.6 million hectares would be down 28 per cent in four years,” said USDA. The U.S. winter wheat crop was forecast at 1.49 billion bushels, down 10 per cent from last year, mostly due to freeze and drought damage in the central and southern Plains, the heart of the crop.

Winter wheat, the lion’s share of U.S. output, is projected to be 2.057 billion bushels this year.

“Overall, we’re looking at a monster of a crop going in. But it doesn’t mean anything right now because we don’t know what the weather is going to be.”

Joe Vaclavik Standard Grain

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Health Canada is creating three new centres for tracking foodborne illness, but at least one critic says the move is a waste of money.

The department currently has foodborne illness surveillance sites in Ontario and B.C., but plans to add three more in the Prairies, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. The surveillance program, called C-EnterNet, will track food and waterborne gastrointestinal illnesses by gathering data from a variety of sources, and by monitoring food, the water supply and farms for warning signs.

“The sites are a complex partnership of federal, provincial and local health officials,” said Albert Chambers, executive director of the Canada Food Safety Supply Chain Coalition.

“They’re designed to encourage communication among the three levels of government and the food industry and are important to understanding the sources of foodborne illness in Canada.”

It was Toronto public health officials who first realized that Ontario was in the midst of a listeria outbreak that killed more than 22 people and left scores more seriously ill back in 2008.

But you don’t need more sites to boost food safety surveillance, said Chris Kyte, president of the Food Processors of Canada.

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The proposal to allow three-year visas is expected to be part of the Senate immigration bill.

Around 480,000 people work at 6,300 meat and poultry plants nationwide.

“These are not seasonal jobs. Many of these jobs take a lot of training,” said Barry Carpenter of the Food Manufacturers Immigration Coalition of livestock producers and processors.

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Expert warns livestock industry to act before antibiotic resistance issue worsens Most of the medicines used in livestock production are growth promoters and that may have to end

By Alex Binkley CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA

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anada needs to tackle antibiotic resistance in drugs “while it is still not a big problem,” says the Canadian research chair on antimicrobial resistance.

“In time, it may become necessary to ban the use of h u m a n m e d i c i nes in food production,” if a solution isn’t found, said Marc Ouellette, a professor of medical biology at Laval University.

About 75 per cent of the use of medicines in livestock production is for promoting growth, and farmers need to be made more aware of the risk that poses, he said.

“Education is an important way to decrease the use of growth promoters,” he said.

Last month, the Ontar io Medical Association called on Ottawa to impose sweeping restrictions on that practice, saying growing resistance to antibiotics endangers “one of the most fundamental and life-saving tools in medicine.”

That sort of public pressure is only going to increase, said Ouellette, adding that Health Canada must do more to track instances of drug failures.

Government, farm groups and the drug industry also need to work together to reduce drug use in livestock, and the medical system needs to do the same when treating human diseases, Ouellette said.

“There are more prescriptions for antibiotics than are really needed,” he said. “If we have better diagnosis of diseases, we might be able to cut down on the use of antibiotics and that would reduce the growth of resistance.”

The Ontario Medical Association says existing antibiotics “are not as effective as they once were because bacteria are adapting to them.” As a result it can take repeated treatment to cure pneumonia, urinary tract or skin infections. And if the first-choice medicines don’t work, doctors “are forced to prescribe new ones with harsher sideeffects,” it said.

Dropping meat label review divides food industry

Beef industry seeks approval for irradiation of ground beef The Consumers Association of Canada also supports the technology

By Alex Binkley CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA

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he Canadian Cattlem e n’s A s s o c i a t i o n has once again asked Health Canada to approve irradiation of ground beef.

The association made the same request in 1998, but never received a public response from Health Canada. Although many oppose irradiation, the association has the support of the Consumers Association of Canada this time around, and is hoping growing concern about food safety will also bolster its case.

“Irradiation is an effect i v e t e c h n o l o g y a l re a d y approved for other foods in Canada and used as a normal course of business in 50 countries around the world to improve food safety for consumers,” the association said in a statement. “When combined with food safety interventions already in use, irradiation could essentially eliminate E. coli-related illness associated with ground beef.”

The irradiation technique supported by the CCA is called E-beam, which uses electricity to destroy harmful bacteria, and has been in

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move to end “premarket approval” of labels for meat products is receiving a thumbsup from meat processors while others in the food industry condemn it as a backward step.

Having to submit labels t o t h e C a n a d i a n Fo o d Inspection Agency (CFIA) before they could be used on products was “unnecessar y, bureaucratic and discriminatory regulation,” said Ray Price, president of the Canadian Meat Council.

“The termination of premarket label registration will permit the redirection of resources toward activities that really do enhance food safety,” said Price.

The review typically added one to two months to the process of introducing a new product, such as sodium-reduced prepared meat, added council executive director Jim Laws.

But the head of the Food Processors of Canada said the pre-market label process is a quick and

inexpensive way to ensure labels meet gover nment rules and regulations.

In other food sectors, the CFIA frequently finds h i g h l e v e l s o f e x a g g e rated health claims or other labelling violations, said Chris Kyte.

But the discovery usually comes long after the product is on the market, and with 40,000 grocery stores and 73,000 retail outlets, finding violators is “clearly an expensive, hit-and-miss proposition,” he said.

“It i s a l s o o n e o f t h e f r o n t - l i n e p r o g ra m s f o r identifying products originating in countries that are not permitted to export i n t o Ca n a d a f o r a n i m a l health reasons,” said Kyte, adding the CFIA has sped up its review process and it now only takes a couple of weeks.

Other food sectors frequently see imports with misleading labels gaining market share, he said.

“A l s o, 5 0 p e r c e n t o f recalls are caused by imported non-meat products, but meat-containing products are rarely on that list,” he said.

use in the U.S. since 2000.

A p re v i o u s He a l t h C a n ada review of the technology found it results in only “minor changes to food, similar to cooking,” doesn’t significantly reduce its nutritional value, and poses no health threats, the association said.

The Canadian Meat Council, another sup-

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CROCUS BLOOMS LATE — but on time for May 4 festival

This is the latest spring showing of the crocus anyone around here can recall, say festival organizers People’s choice award winner Nancy White of Neepawa has entered several times and was a runner-up in one event in 2012. The prize of $50 is sponsored by the Manitoba Co-operator.

By Lorraine Stevenson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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he star of the show at Arden’s Crocus Festival was late this year — April 27 — the latest anyone recalls for that first appearance of crocus around here.

The good news was they were blooming in abundance on the actual day of an annual festival — May 4 — to celebrate their arrival.

Normally, organizers see the pert first flower of spring promptly around the middle of April. Last year, interestingly, was the earliest recorded bloom — March 31.

The tricky part of this cold spr ing was getting photographs submitted by deadline, says John Dietz, a photographer and writer who lives in the small southwestern Manitoba village renowned for its small-town festival and the abundant crocus that still bloom around here.

Because of the late appearance, submissions to the contest were fewer than half of normal, said Dietz.

“People had just two full days to do the photographs,” he says. “They bloomed and then the snow hit.”

T h e f i r s t c ro cus blooms photographed and entered

in their contest this year was spotted April 27. Wind came on Monday and snow followed making it tough to meet the entry deadline of April 30.

Eleven adults submitted 38 photos taken during the threeday period. Two young sisters were the only participants in the youth section.

Thanks to boosted publicity from a Winnipeg Free Press stor y, what they lacked in photo submissions they made up with more out-of-town visitors, though.

They had a very good turnout among locals, plus lots of new faces in town for the day.

“We had people coming here from other parts of Manitoba to see the crocus and saying it was because they’ve never known where to find one in Manitoba,” Dietz said, adding that he chatted with visitors from as far away as Pinawa to the east and Binscarth to the west.

Manitobans wanting to see Arden’s vast carpet of crocus can still see plenty of blooms too.

“They’re beautiful right now, and they will be for another week,” he said May 10.

Arden has hosted its annual s p r i n g c ro c u s f e s t i va l f o r 13 years running. The event began after growing interest in

The Youth Award winner is nine-year-old Lisa Maendel, of Riverbend Colony near Carberry. She and her sister Estelle were the only youth to enter this year. Her prize is sponsored by the Manitoba Co-operator.

local heritage combined with increasing appreciation of the abundant floral resource prompted the community to create the celebratory event.

Crocus need natural habitat and only bloom in undisturbed landscapes. The dry,

gravelly soil of Arden Ridge, the highest shoreline of the old Lake Agassiz, was never suited to cultivation, thus the abundance of natural flora.

Arden also registered the name Crocus Capital o f Ma n i t o b a , a n d f u r t h e r

‘branded’ their community by commissioning local artist Dennis Gagnon to create a signature 9x14-foot purple crocus that greets visitors coming to Arden year round. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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A new cookbook from Mennonite Girls Can Cook Celebrating.... Community

Lorraine Stevenson Crossroads Recipe Swap

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ou probably already know that Mennonite girls can cook. But have you heard of Mennonite Girls Can Cook?

They’re the 10 Canadian women who began blogging and sharing heirloom recipes in 2008, and ended up publishing a bestseller recipe book by the same name three years later.

About 33,000 copies have been sold so far and all of the royalties donated to the Good Shepherd Shelter in Makeevka, Ukraine for the building of a greenhouse that will provide healthy, fresh food to at-risk children in the troubled city.

That success prompted the authors to write a second cookbook, Celebrations, that will support another worthy cause, the WASH project of Mennonite Central Committee, which will provide clean water while helping improve hygiene and sanitation for schoolchildren in Kenya.

Mennonite Girls Can Cook began after Abbotsford, B.C. farmwife Lovella Schellenberg began blogging about her Mennonite food heritage in 2006, and inviting others to join her. By 2008, 10 women, including two from Manitoba and one from the U.S., had become close blog friends and were enthusiastically contributing to the site.

They didn’t initially plan to publish a cookbook, but were very excited when the opportunity arose, says Schellenberg. By then they were already fundraising via their blog — “think of it as a church cookbook, but online,” she says — so a cookbook was a natural next step.

(That blog, by the way, now has about 7,000 visitors every single day — something other community groups might want to keep in mind when thinking about how to extend the reach of their own cookbook projects.)

If you loved Mennonite Girls Can Cook, you’ll be celebrating Celebrations, too. It’s a collection of recipes and beautiful photography, plus the authors’ own devotional reflections on special events, from a child’s birth and graduation to weddings, anniversaries, special holidays and milestone events. This is a book about connecting over good food.

Most bookstores in the province are carrying the book, including McNally Robinson in Winnipeg plus the six Ten Thousand Villages locations in Altona, Brandon, Steinbach, Winkler and its two Winnipeg stores. There will be a book signing on June 8 at the two Winnipeg locations (11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 963 Henderson Highway and 3 to 5 p.m. at the 134 Plaza Drive location.)

If you’d like to learn more, see www.menno nitegirlscancook.ca.

Another section of Celebrations is devoted to community life and the enjoyment of a barbecue or a potluck, with time-tested recipes well suited to feeding larger groups. Here’s a recipe that you can adapt to your own needs. You can encourage your own guests to bring designated toppings and turn it into a potluck too.

Baked Potato Bar 20–25 large russet potatoes Chili made with 3 lbs. lean ground beef (made with your favourite chili recipe) 12 c. broccoli and cauliflower 2 c. cheese sauce 4 c. cheddar cheese, grated 6 c. Greek salad (see tip below) 3 c. fresh salsa 3 c. corn, cooked 3 large onions, thinly sliced 16 slices bacon 3⁄4 c. butter, cubed into single servings 2 c. sour cream or plain yogurt 1 c. fresh chives, chopped Salt and pepper

A few hours before dinner...

1. Set out all the serving dishes on a kitchen island or serving table, thinking through what will go into each dish and the most practical order.

2. Scrub potatoes, let dry, and set out on an extra-large, parchment-lined baking sheet.

3. Prepare your favourite chili recipe and keep warm in a slow cooker.

4. Cut broccoli and cauliflower into bite-size pieces and place in a pot, ready to steam.

5. Prepare vegetables for Greek salad and fresh salsa. Chop chives and grate cheese.

Refrigerate all.

6. Place corn in a pot or dish, ready to heat.

7. Crisp bacon, crumble, and set aside.

8. Caramelize onions by cooking in a heavy pan with a bit of olive oil, stirring often, until golden. Set aside.

One and a half hours before dinner...

1. Brush potatoes with olive oil, poke with a fork, and place in a 400 F oven.

Half an hour before dinner...

1. Lightly steam broccoli and cauliflower and prepare cheese sauce.

2. Mix Greek salad, heat corn, and reheat onions.

3. Set out all ingredients, as well as butter, sour cream, salt, and pepper.

4. Just before serving, remove potatoes from the oven and cut a long slit in the top of each potato.

Mennonite Girls Can Cook.

PHOTO: BEATRIZ PHOTOGRAPHY /WWW.BEATRIZPHOTOGRAPHY.COM

“Wonderful things happen when people are given the opportunity to gather around the table — a chance to nurture and build relationships, fellowship, and encourage one another and create a place of refuge for those who have had a stressful day.” – Charlotte Penner, Mennonite Girls Can Cook

To open potatoes, squeeze both ends toward the centre. Although this meal is more of an idea than a recipe, it is an enjoyable way to prepare for and host a group. You could also ask guests to bring designated toppings and make it a potluck. Amounts can easily be adjusted according to the number you are serving, and the possibilities for variety are endless. Pulled pork with coleslaw and baked beans or salmon with steamed asparagus and hollandaise could accompany a potato bar. It is an easy way to please both vegetarians and meat lovers. Sweet potatoes are also a great option.

Cheese Sauce: 2 tbsp. butter 2 tbsp. flour

1-1⁄2 to 2 c. milk 1 c. cheddar cheese, grated

Melt butter in saucepan. Using whisk, stir in flour. Gradually add milk, stirring until bubbly.

Add cheese and stir until melted. Pour cheese sauce over broccoli and cauliflower and transfer into a small slow cooker, if desired, to keep warm.

TIP: Greek salad is easy to make. Simply chop and mix cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, olives, and feta cheese. Add your favourite dressing.

Source: Copyright Herald Press, 2013. Used with permission.

Celebrating... the outdoors

Riverwalk Guacamole With Walking Tacos Celebrations has an entire chapter devoted to appreciating nature’s beauty, and enjoying great-tasting homemade food while we’re at it. Here is a recipe selected from that section you’ll enjoy whether you’re camping with friends and family this summer, or taking food out to the field this spring. No dishes afterward!

Guacamole: Juice of 1 small orange Juice of 1 lime 2 large avocados 1 small Roma tomato, diced 1⁄2 jalapeño pepper, minced 2 tbsp. red onion, chopped 1 tbsp. fresh cilantro, chopped 1 tsp. coarsely ground sea salt

Squeeze juice of orange and lime into bowl.

Peel and pit avocado. Add to the bowl and chop coarsely, using 2 knives. Fold tomato, pepper, onion, and cilantro into avocado mixture. Add salt. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

TIP: The key to good guacamole is using an avocado at its peak. It should be dark skinned and somewhat soft when squeezed. The guacamole should be somewhat chunky, not mashed.

Walking Tacos: Ground beef Taco seasoning mix Tomatoes Chopped lettuce, shredded Salsa Cheese, grated Sour cream Guacamole Chopped onions Other toppings of your choice Individual lunch-size bags of nacho chips or corn chips

Brown and drain ground beef; add taco seasoning and prepare according to directions on the package. Prepare and arrange all toppings on a tray, along with the hot meat. To serve, gently crush an individual bag of nacho chips. Then open the bag by slicing along the side. Start adding your chosen toppings, beginning with the meat. Stir up the walking taco with a disposable fork, and then eat it right out of the bag! Serves 4.

TIP: Small canning jars work great as bowls for the toppings. – Judy.

Source: Copyright Herald Press, 2013. Used with permission.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 16, 2013

COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Feather reed grass Try this popular variety in your own landscape

By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

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ears ago the use of grass in the landscape was limited to turf areas where it was mowed smooth, providing much sought-after lush lawn areas. More than a decade ago, however, ornamental grasses appeared on the scene and a whole other category of uses was assigned to grass in the landscape. These grasses were allowed to grow in their natural forms and not be clipped and mowed to provide green carpets.

One of the most popular ornamental grasses, Karl Foerster feather reed grass, became very popular after it was named Perennial of the Year in 2001.

From that time forward, this lovely grass has become a staple plant in both private and public gardens. Its uniform vertical structure is a product of the entire clump being rigidly upright, providing a wonderful vertical focal point as well as a perfect foil for the many rounded shapes that inhabit most gardens.

At a metre to a metre and a half, Karl Foerster is a relatively tall grass that can be used singly, in groupings of three or five clumps, or as a wall providing an interesting backdrop for

other plants. A row can serve as a separation between garden rooms. The upright stems have medium-width blades that are mid-green; the feathery seed heads form early in the growing season — an added benefit for our short growing season.

The seed heads are an attractive tan and their colour darkens to a rich gold as late fall advances into winter. The foliage adopts the same colouration, making Karl Foerster one of the most spectacular plants in the winter garden, often staying upright throughout the entire winter.

This reed grass will perform well in boggy conditions — its height is governed by the amount of water it receives. In wet conditions it will be taller but it will tolerate quite-dry conditions, resulting in shorter growth. It thrives in clay soil but seems happy in almost any soil type. This grass prefers full sun.

The slightest breeze will cause the plant to sway gracefully, but ensuring exposure to some wind will guarantee that its visual impact will be appreciated. The feathery seed heads are held aloft on sturdy stems but the seeds are sterile so there is no need to deadhead or remove seed heads for fear of self-seeding.

Although beautiful if left in the garden to enhance the winter landscape, some of the stems of Karl Foerster can be cut in the autumn and used in dried porch arrangements. The tawny seed heads will combine nicely with other dried plant material in such arrangements.

Karl Foerster is a clumping grass that is not invasive. The clumps should be cut down in early spring before new growth makes the task more difficult and before the new growth will be damaged in the process.

A clump of this feather reed grass can serve as an exclamation point in a mixed border or if positioned near a pathway or at the entrance to a garden room. Its upright growth provides contrast of form and texture to a mixed border. Using several clumps together will accentuate its vertical form.

Like most grasses, it will add subtle sound to the garden.

No matter how you use Karl Foerster feather reed grass in the landscape, it will surely create focal points and vertical accents and provide sensual pleasure in any garden.

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

This reed grass is non-invasive and provides focal points throughout the landscape. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

Tips for eating fiddleheads Unless properly cooked they could cause illness Health Canada release

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ealth Canada is reminding Canadians of the importance of properly cooking fresh fiddleheads before eating them.

Fiddleheads are the curled, edible shoots of the ostrich fern. They are collected along the banks of rivers and streams and sold as a seasonal vegetable at farmers’ markets, roadside stands and in some grocery stores.

There have been cases of temporary illness in Canada and the United States associated with eating raw or undercooked fiddleheads. Studies to date have not determined the cause of these illnesses.

Fiddleheads should never be eaten raw. Prior to cooking, Health Canada recommends removing as much of the brown husk as possible from the fiddleheads. Fresh fiddleheads should then be washed in several changes of clean, cold water. Cook them in boiling water for 15 minutes or steam them for 10 to 12 minutes. The water used for boiling or steaming fiddleheads should be discarded.

Fiddleheads should also be boiled or steamed prior to sautéing, frying or baking. Due

to their short growing season, many people freeze fiddleheads. Be sure to use the same cooking methods outlined previously when preparing fiddleheads that have been frozen.

Preserving fiddleheads with a pressure canner is not recommended, as safe process times have not been established for home-preserved fiddleheads.

Symptoms of illness usually begin 30 minutes to 12 hours after eating raw or undercooked fiddleheads and may include diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and headaches. Illness generally lasts less than 24 hours but can result in dehydration, particularly among the elderly and in infants. There have been no reported cases of illness associated with eating fully cooked fiddleheads.

Anyone experiencing the above symptoms after consuming fiddleheads should seek the advice of a health-care professional and contact their local public health unit.

It is estimated that there are approximately 11 million cases of food-related illnesses in Canada every year.

Many of these cases could be prevented by following proper food-handling and preparation techniques.

Fiddleheads should always be cooked before eating. photo: thinkstock

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 16, 2013

COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Update your lamps Here’s a fun, inexpensive way to do it Connie Oliver Around the House

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happened upon some stunning new lighting at a local furniture store recently that really piqued my interest and imagination. This new trend in lamp and lighting design adds a little bling to standard table and floor lamps as well as ceiling fixtures. The basic concept of the design is to add hanging adornment from the inside of the lampshade that hangs down around the top of the lamp base. The dangling lamp ‘jewelry’ can be anything from glass beads to strings of metal rings. The effect is quite unique and adds another dimension to lighting.

I can’t take credit for this idea but it set my mind to work. I started digging through my craft supplies to find things that I could use to enhance table and floor lamps in a similar fashion. I also picked up a dated chandelier at a thrift store for five bucks and went about removing all of the glass panels and glass rods to try out on my own lamps. They add dimension, style and a little sparkle when the lamp is turned on.

I found inexpensive, plastic, chandelier-style beads at a dollar store, which look marvellous and were lightweight and easy to hang. I happened upon some old dominoes in a junk drawer and tried them as well. Of course, specific items like game pieces need to be used on the right lamp and in the right setting but they still looked great. In a child’s room you could use board game pieces. I even thought of a deck of cards for a games room lamp. Other things that might work are jewelry (like thin, hooped bracelets), lengths of lightweight chain, puzzle pieces or a collection of key chains.

I used craft wire and hung the items from the lampshade supports and the lampshade itself. Be mindful of safety issues when considering adding anything to lamps. Use products (like wire) that are non-flammable inside the lampshade that would sit anywhere near the light bulb. The items that you

The addition of some inexpensive beads or recycled chandelier pieces can add sparkle. PHOTO: CONNIE OLIVER

hang should be well clear of the light bulb and socket of the lamp as well. Use lightweight items as adornment so as not to damage the lampshade supports or to make the lamp top heavy.

In order to get an even display of whatever you’re planning to use, you may have to create a support ring from craft wire that can be attached to the lampshade supports. This will allow an even surface from which to hang the items all around the inside of the lampshade and will help keep them away from the light bulb.

Other ideas include updating the lampshade itself.

Depending upon the shade you have, you could paint it with craft paint and stencils, cover the outside of it with co-ordinating fabric or wallpaper, paint the inside of the lampshade black or gold for a regal design (using appropriate paint that can withstand the heat), gold leaf or silver leaf the outside of the lampshade and add dangling beads or decorative trim to the perimeter of the shade base. In a child’s room, you could glue small toys, puzzle pieces or game pieces around the lampshade edges for a fun update.

A dated ceramic lamp base could easily be transformed with the right paint. There are many wonderful spray paint products that offer lots of options.

Stone, suede and metal finishes are just a few of the products available. Metal lamp bases could be updated with rust finishes or even black barbecue paint, which provides a slightly textured, coal-black finish. Simple things like adding a braided tassel to the lamp, either around the base or from the shade can provide a quick, non-permanent update any time.

Lamps are not only a necessary item in the home, they can also be an attractive, decorative element.

Connie Oliver is an interior designer from Winnipeg

From outhouse to playhouse Complete transformation with a little imagination and a lot of elbow grease

By Sheila Braun Freelance contributor

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s it wrong to convert an old outhouse into a child’s playhouse? Probably. Toddlers having tea parties in a former washroom facility sounds unsanitary and unsavoury. But we did it anyways.

When the abandoned twoseater outhouse needed to be relocated one year, I was asked, “Do you want it?” It was on the original farmyard when my inlaws bought the property in 1959.

I had never entered its unpainted door, and it leaned heavily to one side. “Sure,” I replied, “bring it home.” As my husband used a tractor to lift it into the air, I thought it would fall apart but it remained intact. Then using a skid-steer, we placed it in our garage. We removed the chimney, seats, bottom rotten boards, and door. With enough imagination, I envisioned this derelict as my children’s future playhouse.

“All it needs is a good pressure washing, sanitizing, a few coats of paint, and some roof repairs,” I told my husband. However, this project would be more about persevering than a little paint.

First, sticky cobwebs, dusty cocoons, and dilapidated bird nests had to be removed from

the interior, followed by a good scrubbing with hot, soapy water.

Then on to the exterior, where under each slat of wood were spider webs and bits of straw that had to be scraped out. The thought of a shining yellow playhouse was miles from reality as I

Before PHOTOS: SHEILA BRAUN

scrubbed the exterior walls until I was satisfied.

After a couple coats of paint my husband used the lawn tractor to move the new playhouse to the children’s play area. We positioned the playhouse on a thick rubber mat to form a floor

and inserted a toy kitchen. I lined the walls with hooks and hung wooden cooking utensils.

Pots, shelves, and an old phone were purchased from the Thrift Store, and an extra doorbell button we had was installed by the entrance.

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Our children were d e l i g h t e d w i t h t h e i r p l a yhouse and have spent countless hours in their renovated outhouse.

Sheila Braun writes from Landmark, Manitoba

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The Manitoba Co-operator | May 16, 2013

June 19 - 21, 2013

Evraz Place, Regina, SK, Canada

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InternatIonal busIness centre

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A preview of the products that will be introduced in this years Innovations Program This year again, visitors will find the international Business Centre (IBC) presented by HSBC in the Co-operators Centre – upper level. The show organizer is excited about our growing numbers of international visitors and export members. The IBC’s location allows a view of prime exhibit space of the show.

The programming in Canada’s Farm Progress Show’s IBC sets it apart from other shows of its kind. Last year, the IBC welcomed over 600 international delegates from 50 countries.

As the focus on global business continues to grow, the speed and complexity of international business communications flourishes as well. Interactions with foreign buyers that were once nearly impossible to bring about have become commonplace.

The IBC takes full advantage of the opportunity to bring buyers and exporters together in one marketplace, providing tremendous value.

The IBC provides a complete business service package to all international visitors, including assistance with hotel reservations, ground transportation to the show and airport, private meeting rooms and comprehensive business services. Professional staff is on site daily to facilitate introductions and meetings between buyers, trade delegations and export members. This year we will again be offering business 2 business meetings between export members and international visitors.

The IBC is a cooperative effort of the Government of Canada and Saskatchewan and Manitoba provincial governments. The IBC also has support from Western Diversification, Saskatchewan Ministry of the Economy, Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP), Manitoba Trade & Investment, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Agricultural Manufacturers of Canada and Canada’s Farm Progress Show. Through the IBC outreach program, thanks to its supporting agencies, Canada’s Farm Progress Show is promoted at more than 70 Canadian consulates and trade offices throughout the world.

Dutch Openers

Credit Union Event Plex – 70212, 70214, 70216, 70218 • Airguard Seed Brake Uses a series of washers at the exhaust port so you can control the airflow to match your specific type of opener. The opener tubes release product vertically so there is little to no air flow needed to dispense product. Helps to achieve perfect seed fertilizer placement by reducing the chance of plugging, from fertilizer dust and other contaminates and delivering products to the furrow with the least amount of turbulent air flow.

Haukaas Manufacturing Ltd.

Outside Lot D – 8528 • Trailer Mount Conveyor To unload both hoppers to one central point without having to move the truck. Use at seeding time to reach air seeder auger with both seed and fertilizer.

No cross contamination. Use at harvest time to unload both hoppers with one set-up. Maintains trailer clearance. Does not interfere when unloading at the elevator.

• Rotating Bale Grabber Maximize space in hay yard. Deer can’s climb on top, net-wrap does not freeze to ground. Less waste that pyramid stacking. Mushroom stack 2 bales at a time. Stack 4 bales high in hay shelter. No maintenance.

Hypro Spray Group

Credit Union Event Plex – 70528, 70530 • 9307 Series Pumps with ForceField ™ Technology Hypro brand 9307 Series Pump, with ForceField Technology is a pump designed for today’s rugged environment offering a unique isolated seal chamber that improves reliability, robustness and extends the life of the pump. The product solution pump of a crop sparyer conducts a myriad of compounded chemistries through its system.

The seal chamber of this pump is designed with a passive pressure compensating system to safely protect the mechanical seal faces against all chemistries without the need for monitoring.

Canada’s Farm Progress Show A shuttle service consisting of Chevrolet vehicles will be serving the Farm Progress Show Guests & Exhibitors and exhibitors. The presenting sponsor: STAYINREGINA.COM will provide the first-class complimentary Shuttle Service to guests who stay in a Regina Hotel Association (RHA) member hotel.

The RHA has been a longtime business partner of Evraz Place in various major events and occasions.

The daily service operates from 7am - 10am and from 4pm - 7pm. Shuttle drivers are familiar with show events and tourist attractions in and around Regina. Guests are encouraged to ask their drivers for information, maps and directions. To book the STAYINREGINA.COM Shuttle Service, please contact your hotel front desk.

Antique Tractors & Trucks saluting the past that broke ground to the future.

Parade, daily 10 am & 2 pm

Pull, daily 2:30 pm

www.myfarmshow.com