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Milking the benefits of canola meal The results will boost demand for Canadian canola, says the Canola Council of Canada

By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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he Chinese have 7.2 million reasons to switch their dairy cows to canola meal from other protein rations.

That’s how many more litres of milk their 12 million cows would produce every day based on a year-long joint Sino-Canadian study conducted by Chinese academics, in co-operation with China’s five largest dairy companies.

“Canola meal has now proven its value as a feed product in Chinese dairies, opening the door for China’s milk industry to enhance quality and increase production without significantly increasing cost,” Canola Council of Canada president Patti Miller said in a news release from Beijing June 14.

The results are timely given the growing demand for dairy products in the world’s most populated country and concerns about milk quality.

The study, which compared Canadian canola meal against the dairies’ usual protein rations of either soymeal or cottonseed meal, showed the cows fed canola meal produced, on average, 0.6 more litres of milk per cow, per day, Bruce Jowett, the canSee CANOLA on page 6 »

What was once pasture for cattle is now home to a flock of pelicans at East Shoal Lake.

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Flooded landowners slam province’s buyout tactics Shoal Lakes farmers say they weren’t allowed to examine or make a copy of their assessment and pressured to take it or leave it

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he paperwork is spread across the kitchen of the new home Brian McCulley purchased after flooding forced him off his land near the shore of West Shoal Lake — including a scorned buyout offer from the province.

“It wasn’t fair market value and I didn’t consider what was on that piece of paper to be an offer at all,” said the retired rancher. “It was insulting.”

The offer violated the terms of the Shoal Lakes Agricultural Flooding Assistance Program because it wasn’t

based on the fair market value of his property, said McCulley. Instead officials used Farm Use Assessment value, which has traditionally been used when assessing taxes on farmed land located close to urban centres, he said.

The property assessment he received from the GO office in Teulon during buyout negotiations shows there were two assessments done — one at market value and one using the much lower farm-use value.

Offering the lower value showed “they just had no respect for us,” McCulley said.

It took months before he finally received an offer that reflected the

market value of his property and what he said was an apology from an official with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives. He accepted both, but said he wonders how many other Shoal Lake producers were treated the way he was.

Orval Proctor is wondering as well.

The cow-calf operator said he believes he was also offered the farmuse value for his land instead of market value, but is having difficulty proving that because he wasn’t provided with a copy of his assessment.

“He pushed it across in front of See SHOAL LAKE on page 6 »

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CROPS The island’s namesake cattle joined in the celebrations to welcome a native son in a starring role. photo: danny evans

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Caped cowcasaders welcome Superman Jersey hosts a unique man of steel premiere at the local cinema

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Two-pronged water solution Pilot project holds water for later use

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ven the namesake local cows were getting into the spirit of things June 13 as actor Henry Cavill took a premiere of his new film “Man of Steel” to his home island of Jersey.

A release from the island’s tourism board said Cavill, who plays the leading role of Superman, made a specific request to the film company to give something back to the island where he was born and spent most of his

childhood. His family still lives on the island and were joined by friends and supporters for a series of special screenings.

“Island life is gearing up for Henry’s arrival; from the Jersey Evening Post turning into the Daily Planet for a day to local produce being prepared for the premiere’s after party. Even our famous cows can’t wait for Superman to fly in on Friday,” said David de

Carteret, director at Jersey Tourism.

As well as cows being dressed in red capes, a giant Superman crest was been drawn in the sand and a stamp featuring the man himself was issued.

Jersey is the largest of the “Channel Islands” between England and France, and like neighbouring Guernsey, is also known for a breed of dairy cattle of the same name.

Slow food and fast water B & B caters to canoeists on the Whitemouth River

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

On-farm reservoirs good for the environment and farmers’ pocketbook too A pilot project near Elm Creek is testing an on-farm reservoir as an economic way to ease the threat of flooding and reduce nutrient losses into Lake Winnipeg

By Allan Dawson co-operator staff / culross

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ike most farmers in the Red River Valley, Carl Classen sometimes has too much water on his fields, then not enough.

But he has a two-pronged solution: Improve drainage to get water off his land faster, but instead of sending it downstream to potentially flood someone else, he’s storing it in a reservoir to irrigate the same fields later.

“Because we have intensive crop management and because we have water issues we need to manage more of it,” said Classen.

“We also need to think about the dry years when the aquifers get lower.”

Holding back water also means holding on to expensive nutrients, instead of sending them to Lake Winnipeg, where phosphorus loading is causing massive bluegreen algae blooms.

“I want to just do my small part and improve things for people downstream and oceans far away,” said Classen.

“There’s so much we can do and there’s so much we don’t understand that we need to learn.

But we have to start someplace and so I’m taking a stab at it and hopefully it’s going to catch on. I can’t see why it wouldn’t.”

Last spring, Classen hired a contractor to build a reservoir 306 x 306 x 20-feet deep on the low end of a half section of his land.

A smaller dugout beside it collects the run-off, which then is pumped into the larger reservoir.

The LaSalle Redboine Conservation District contributed around $40,000 to build the reservoir, said district manager Justin Reid.

“We were willing to put in a little more than we normally would’ve as a per-acre-foot cost simply because this was a pilot project,” Reid said. “Our board is willing to do more similar projects but we’re going to be looking at different designs and different construction styles where we can maybe get the same results with a less expensive design.”

The district will test the water to see how many nutrients are collected and then returned to the land.

“We think it can have a pretty significant impact on the drainage network,” Reid said. “If there are more people holding water on the land, the less water that needs to move through the drainage network at any given time.”

There’s also an on-farm drainage benefit. Before the reservoir, Classen couldn’t drain excess spring run-off or summer downpours because the Bryson drain that runs by his farm, and municipal ditches, were full of water.

“If I can drain the water faster I have a chance for a better crop,” he said.

While the environmental and production benefits are clear, the economics are less so.

“The only way this makes sense to the farmer is from direct, onfarm benefits,” said David Lobb, a professor of landscape ecology at the University of Manitoba and an expert in watersheds.

“We’re talking about trying to get 20 per cent or maybe 50 per cent of the farmers in the Red River Valley to do it because it makes them economically competitive.”

If they do, it could significantly reduce the amount of phosphorus going into Lake Winnipeg.

Although not the only culprit, farming is a significant contributor of phosphorus heading into the lake. But farmers are already about as efficient as they can be when applying nutrients, Lobb said.

“Even if nutrient application to agricultural land was to stop tomorrow, nutrients would continue to run off the land for many years,” he said. “If you want to control the nutrients that get into the lake, you have to control the water.”

Part of the economic equation is irrigation. Classen said the reservoir can hold 6.6 million imperial gallons, enough to put one inch of water on 300 acres.

That doesn’t sound like much, but some years it can make a big difference, Classen said.

“If we start off with adequate moisture in the spring, one extra rain in a dry period at the right time can be beneficial.”

Irrigation, in combination with improved drainage, also reduces the risk in growing higher-value crops. Classen, who already grows soybeans, wants to try edible beans, which need to be on welldrained soil.

Farmers in the Red River Valley can lose five per cent or more of their crop and inputs due to delayed seeding or heavy summer rains, Lobb said.

“If you’ve got 100 per cent of your area draining well and don’t have those inundated areas you’ve gained a lot of crop on some years,” he said.

Getting rid of water has been a priority for well over a century.

The region east of Elm Creek where Classen farms was once marsh country. It was drained in the early 20th century and in recent years, laser-guided scrapers eliminated the remaining sloughs and potholes that held water and recharged aquifers.

But attitudes will change if there’s a prolonged dry spell, said Classen.

“We’ll be asking the government to supply us with water from some big dam project miles and miles away,” he said.

“We shouldn’t be treating water like waste,” added Lobb. “We just don’t have enough of it.”

But there are questions which need to be answered, he said, including construction and maintenance costs, safety and salinity. (He estimates a reservoir able to store water from a section of land would take up about

Culross farmer Carl Classen has partnered with the LaSalle Redboine Conservation District to build a reservoir to collect and store run-off from a half section and then put it back on his land later. Classen benefits from improved drainage, nutrient retention and the potential for small-scale irrigation. If a lot more farmers did the same less phosphorus would end up in Lake Winnipeg, there’d be less strain on the provincial drainage system and reduced flooding. photos: allan dawson

Joel Classen works at calibrating a tile drainage plow near Culross.

“We shouldn’t be treating water like waste. We just don’t have enough of it.”

David Lobb

six acres.) However, widespread adoption of on-farm reservoirs would lower the cost of the provincial drainage system, Lobb said.

Classen said he hopes his reservoir will be the first of many.

“My point in doing this is to start the idea that farmers can store their own water,” he said.

“It’s what we need to do in the long term.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

Joel Classen (l) Carl Classen and Simon Knutson stand beside a tile plow. Joel and Simon are Carl’s son and son-in-law, respectively. All are part of Northern Plains Drainage Systems in Carman. The company sells plows and teaches farmers how to install their own drainage tile.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

OPINION/EDITORIAL

Please, let’s not win again “

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raceability is a fact of life for almost every other commodity that consumers buy; yet somehow we have not embraced traceability’s potential in the world of food. I cannot buy an iPhone that does not have complete traceability back to its basic components; yet what we put into our bodies is rarely traceable to source.

Why is that?”

That’s a quote (see page 16) from Brian John Morriss Sterling, president of SCS Consulting which Editorial Director advises food companies.

Anyone care to disagree?

Or how about this, which is a paraphrase from a statement by a U.S. senator a few years ago?

“The law in this country requires that my underwear has a label to say where it comes from. Are you going to tell me that I shouldn’t have the same information about what I put in my mouth?”

Over the past few weeks we’ve been bombarded by indignant Canadian reaction to the new U.S. rules on countryof-origin labelling (COOL) for Canadian meat. Federal and provincial agriculture ministers and commodity organizations have issued statements. National newspapers have run columns from various pundits. Everyone agrees. It’s unfriendly. It’s unfair. It’s unnecessary. It will cost Canadians more. It will cost U.S. consumers more. U.S. meat packers and retailers don’t like it either.

Uh, huh. All true. But so what?

For several years, or at least since that senator’s comparison with underwear labels, it was clear that this thing was a done deal. There is overwhelming support in the U.S. (as in Canada) from consumers who want to know where their food comes from, and knowing where meat comes from would be at the top of everyone’s list. To think Canada could be an exception is simply unrealistic. Yes, we know all about the complications of animals raised in one country and slaughtered in another. Yes, we know there’s a free trade agreement with the U.S. Yes, we know it’s contrary to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.

Yes, but we should also know that we’re dealing with the U.S. This is the country which refuses to recognize the International Court of Justice, which kidnaps people to be interrogated by the CIA in other countries run by dictators, which uses drones to execute suspected opponents without trial and monitors everyone’s phone and Internet traffic.

In comparison, violating the rules by insisting that a package of bacon say “Canada” on it is presumably not something that President Obama and colleagues are losing much sleep over.

Though it is a violation of the WTO, as we were proudly informed by the usual blizzard of government and industry press releases when Canada won its COOL challenge.

Apparently they assumed the U.S. would roll over and comply.

Which it has, apparently with a set of rules that are even more complex than the ones already in place. According to the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, the previous rules cost the Canadian producer approximately $25 to $40 per head.

The new ones will increase that to $90 to $100.

In other words, we were better off doing nothing. The headline should read: “WTO challenge more than doubles cost to Canadian producers.”

That doesn’t include the cost of all the legal work and fruitless lobbying by producer organizations.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is eating our lunch in the beef business, or perhaps that should be serving us lunch with beef from our own cattle. According to last year’s Canadian AgriFood Policy Institute’s report on the Canadian beef industry, in 2002 Canada had a beef trade surplus of $1.4 billion with the U.S. By 2011 it had dropped to $42 million. They’re taking our cattle and shipping us high-end beef cuts that we should be producing ourselves. CAPI says we are at risk of becoming a net importer of beef.

The U.S. is also using some of our beef to expand exports offshore. Since 2005 its exports are up 280 per cent by value.

Since 2002 ours are down by 3.5 per cent. How is it that Canada, with a comprehensive cattle identification system, can be so outsnookered by the U.S., which has none?

Even more ironic is that we have a better identification system than the U.S., but Canadian industry representatives have spent all this time and effort on insisting that a label not be placed on Canadian product.

Could it be that all the fuss over COOL is just a smokescreen for failure to address bigger issues in the industry?

The latest WTO “victory” will mean the cost to export to the U.S. will more than double. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and the Canadian government need to look up the definition of a “Pyrrhic victory” — “one with such a devastating cost that it carries the implication that another such victory will ultimately lead to defeat.”

Please, let’s not try to win another one. john.morriss@fbcpublishing.com

U.S. farmers must get ready for climate change Excerpt from a speech by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to the National Press Club in Washington, June 5, 2013.

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’m the secretary of agriculture, and I am not here today to give a scientific lecture on climate change. I’m here to tell you what we’re seeing on the ground.

We’re seeing more severe storms. We’re facing more invasive species. More intense forest fires threaten communities each year. NOAA (U.S. weather service) reported that 2012 was the second most intense year in our history for extreme weather events — droughts, flooding, hurricanes, severe storms and devastating wildfire. NOAA also advised that last year was the warmest on record for the continental United States.

New technologies and advanced practices have managed to keep production steady even in the face of these new and more extreme weather patterns.

But the latest science tells us that the threat of a changing climate is new and different from anything we’ve ever tackled.

Earlier this year USDA released two comprehensive studies — one focused on crops and one on our forests — detailing the projected effects of climate change on our agriculture and forestry production.

These studies found that in the short term we have the means to manage threats, but over the next 50 years we will face new and different problems.

We’ll face the need to adapt crop production.

As temperatures increase, crop production may need to shift based on water availability and other factors. Where you’re growing water-intense fruits and vegetables today, you may be growing a drought-resistant row crop in a generation.

Rising temperatures will also add to our inva-

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sive species issues, bringing with them increased costs for producers. Right now, weed control alone costs us more than $11 billion a year in the U.S. — and those costs are expected to rise with increasing temperatures. When winters aren’t cold enough to kill off invasive insects, we’ll face a new challenge to adapt to those threats. Landowners, dealing with bark beetles, are already starting to experience this phenomenon.

We will face more severe weather patterns. We’ll see more events that could harm crops and livestock, which demand new strategies.

In our forests, the troubling pattern of intense and destructive wildfires threatens to become the norm. The fire season is now at least 60 days longer than it was just 30 years ago. The pine beetle epidemic, which many scientists attribute to climate change, covers some 40 million acres of land across the interior West. Fires impact more acres. A recent Forest Service study forecasts a doubling of annual acreage subject to wild land fire by 2050.

In the Northeast, extreme precipitation events have increased faster than anywhere else in the nation, reducing yields.

Across the Midwest and Great Plains the growing season has lengthened by almost two weeks over my lifetime.

In the West and Southwest — home of more than half of our nation’s high-value specialty crop production — increased drought poses a particular threat to irrigation-intensive nuts, fruits and vegetables.

So the fact is, across America, farmers and ranchers and forest landowners are seeing the beginning chapter of what will be a long-term challenge posed by a changing climate. This problem is not going to go away on its own.

That’s why America must take steps now to adapt.

June 1988

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n our front page of the June 23, 1988 issue, Allan Dawson reported that the first-ever wild millet (green foxtail) resistant to trifluralin (Treflan) had been found in Manitoba by U of M weed scientist Ian Morrison. Manitoba Agriculture’s weed section head Barry Todd attributed it to years of widespread trifluralin use in south-central and western Manitoba. An Elanco spokesman was “a little skeptical” of the report, but acknowledged that staff were puzzled about eight cases of resistance in the Killarney area.

The effects of the driest year on record were already becoming apparent, but Manitoba Agriculture Minister Glen Findlay said grain farmers shouldn’t expect special compensation, since crop insurance was available. However, assistance was being considered for livestock producers.

The issue contained a special section celebrating 75 years of 4-H in Manitoba. The section included interviews with several industry leaders about the value of 4-H in their careers, including brothers Jim, Alex and Doug Stow of Graysville, MLA Brian Ransom, assistant deputy minister Tom Pringle and Keystone Agricultural Producers staff Bob Douglas. This page from that issue featured a photo of the 1950 Boys and Girls Club dance at the St. Regis Hotel in Winnipeg.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

The anti-BPA crusade is back Get ready for more junk science

By Ronald Doering food lawyer

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he 25-year controversy involving BPA in food packaging won’t go away. It continues to hang ominously like a black cloud over the food industry.

Bisphenol A, more commonly known as BPA, is a chemical used primarily in the production of polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins.

The polycarbonate is used in food contact materials such as food containers and processing equipment.

Epoxy resins are used in protective linings for a variety of canned foods and beverages, including infant formula.

Over the years Health Canada (HC) conducted periodic reviews of BPA to determine whether dietary exposure to it could pose a health risk to consumers. Based on the overall weight of evidence, including reaffirmation by other i n t e r n a t i o n a l re g u l a t o r y a g e ncies (notably the U.S., Europe and Japan), HC’s Food Directorate has concluded again unequivocally that the current dietary exposure to BPA through food packaging uses is not expected to pose a health risk to the general population, including newborns and infants.

In response to growing consumer concern, HC hosted a huge expert meeting in November 2010 in collaboration with several national regulatory authorities and international bodies such as the World Health Organization ( WHO) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to review the current science. The clear conclusion of this exper t meeting confirmed that BPA was safe for food packaging.

Moreover, HC has continued to do a number of studies, reports and surveys, all of which are posted online. HC has made a real effort to make the science available to the lay public and to try to interpret it in ways that the ordinary consumer can understand. HC’s study of BPA levels in canned drinks, for example, notes that a person would have to consume 940 canned drinks in one day to reach the tolerable daily intake.

Still, the issue is raging back in the media and the blogosphere.

France’s recent decision to ban the manufacture, import, export and marketing of all food containers containing BPA (effective in 2015) has added some scientific “credibility‚” to the anti-BPA movement.

photo: thinkstock

Even if there is little health risk, governments are forced to waste scarce resources to respond to the perception of risk.

The controversy among scientists has often been personal and bitter. Even highly respected Professor Richard Sharpe of the U.K.’s Medical Research Council was so angered by the bad science of the critics of PBA that he wrote an essay in 2009 in which he documented their consistent violation of the “fundamental principles of scientific inquiry.”

Sharpe argued that the “scientific mess‚” around PBA was caused by “supposedly fellow scientists‚” who “literally play loose with the scientific evidence.”

Not to be outdone, BPA alarmist Dr. Frederick Vom Saal insists that all the scientific studies that have

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found BPA safe cannot be trusted because of an industry-funded conspiracy in the United States. For scientists, that’s serious name-calling.

Even if there is little health risk, governments are forced to waste scarce resources to respond to the perception of risk. According to Professor Sharpe “repetitive work on bisphenol A has sucked in tens, probably hundreds, of millions of dollars from government bodies and industry which... looks increasingly like an investment with a nil return.”

My colleague at Carleton University’s food science and nutrition program, internationally recog-

New-age homesteaders a civilized lot We were two of the 350 people who attended the DIY Homesteader Festival in Fraserwood two weekends ago. It was a fine event and our compliments to the organizers and volunteers.

In addition to the intrinsic merit of the various workshops, we were very pleasantly surprised by two unanticipated factors: first, that the demographic of attendees was heavily weighted towards people in their 20s and early 30s and second, that even in that young crowd

nized professor of chemistry David Miller, shares this concern: “The unsaid danger here is how much money and effort is being put on BPA instead of things that might have a larger health impact.”

The continuing BPA controversy highlights another important issue — the problems that scientific uncertainty pose for government regulators. Professor Sharpe thinks that the basic problem is that “politicians — people in decision-making positions — don’t understand uncertainty.”

Ma y b e. In m y e x p e r i e n c e, i t is just as problematic that most scientists don’t understand the regulatory system. Integrating science-based risk assessment and policy-based risk management is diabolical in its complexity, yet one of the most important public policy challenges of our time.

Ronald L. Doering, a past president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, is counsel in the Ottawa offices of Gowlings. Contact him at Ronald.doering@gowlings.com.

we saw a cellphone in use only once and never saw anyone nose down in a smartphone texting or tweeting or checking their Facebook pages — not once!

It was like being back in civilized society again, where people actually look you in the eye, carry on real and uninterrupted conversations and thoroughly engage with their neighbours.

If that is homesteading for the 21st century, bring it on!

Johanna and Jim Rodger Argyle, Manitoba 204-467-8920

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

FROM PAGE ONE SHOAL LAKE Continued from page 1

CANOLA Continued from page 1

A canola council study says canola meal rations improve milk output over soymeal or cottonseed meal.

Fencing that once marked pasture land now butts up against the shore of East Shoal Lake. Photos: Shannon VanRaes

me with his finger on it, and I just got to glance at a couple of pages and see that it was signed by the appraisers,” said Proctor. “But as far as what it said, I couldn’t pick it up and leaf through it and I never got to take a copy home.”

Other flooded-out landowners also say they weren’t given the chance to fully examine or keep copies of their property appraisals. McCulley said it was only luck, and some quick thinking, that allowed him to photocopy his assessment.

Proctor said he believes a closer look at his assessment might reveal why he was offered $99,000 for two half sections. A private appraisal of nearby land sales put the market value of his two half sections — prior to flooding — at $305,000.

“They presented all the offers as if they were fair market value,” he said. “They weren’t.”

Proctor has appealed the p r ov i n c e’s a s s e s s m e n t t o the Land Values Appraisal Commission, and expects a decision soon.

The program uses fair market values, said GO Teams director Gerald Huebner.

High water near East Shoal Lake has killed off grasslands and flooded fencelines.

“I’m not an appraisal professional so I have to be careful in commenting on that,” he said. “There was some adjustment made in some files and this was only a very small part of a few files where there was a judgment to what its agricultural value was versus its value for other purposes.”

When asked why someone might receive an offer based on farm-use rather than market value, Huebner said he couldn’t comment on individual offers, but added the program is a voluntary one. ‘ Vo l u n t a r y ’ i s a w o r d both Proctor and McCulley heard many times, including by a Crown lawyer during Proctor’s Land Values Appraisal Commission’s appeal hearing.

McCulley said it indicates a like-it-or-lump-it attitude that has left many farmers feeling bullied and without recourse.

He noted his purchase offer also stated that should an applicant appeal an assessment and receive a higher value, the government has the right to revoke its offer.

But Huebner said regardless of the “legal wording” in the offers, the province has publicly stated it will accept decisions where an appeal garnered a higher value and has not revoked any offers because of a successful appeal for a higher appraisal.

That’s typical of the kind of confusing information flooded producers have to deal with, McCulley said. In addition,

“He pushed it across in front of me with his finger on it, and I just got to glance at a couple of pages and see that it was signed by the appraisers, but as far as what it said, I couldn’t pick it up and leaf through it and I never got to take a copy home.”

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Proctor said staff at the Teulon GO office, where most offers were made, warned him not to share information or discuss his offer with friends and neighbours.

“It might have been a caution, it’s certainly not an instruction or prohibition,” said Huebner.

But Proctor said he wonders whether the rising costs for the Shoal Lakes Agricultural Flooding Assistance Program prompted officials to push for settlements below fair market value. The cost of the 46 buyouts covering 30,599 acres is approaching $13 million, with five cases yet to be settled. A 2010 estimate pegged the total cost of buying flood-prone land around the Shoal Lakes at $11.4 million. (An additional $5.26 million has been paid out to producers for income loss and transportation costs.)

A frustrated Proctor said he doesn’t know what he will do if the appeal board rules against him, noting he is too young for retirement and still has a young family.

“Right now we just have to wait and see,” he said. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

What was once grazing land on the shore of East Shoal Lake is now home to pelicans and cattails.

ola council’s vice-president of market development said in an interview.

“We want to show them if you’re going to import the seed not only are you getting great benefit in the oil that you’re extracting... but you’ve also got this meal that has got a lot of value for your dairy industry,” Jowett said.

The fact that the study was done by Chinese dairymen and a Chinese university with their own animals, in their own country adds credibility to the study, which is consistent with ones done elsewhere, he said.

“Now that they see it my hope is that they’ll say ‘how do we ensure that we can get more Canadian canola meal into our rations?’”

China is still restricting Canadian canola imports over concerns the seed could spread blackleg, a fungal disease, to its rapeseed crops. However, gradually more Chinese crushing plants are being allowed to import Canadian canola.

“We continue to work through t h e s c i e n c e,” A g r i c u l t u re Minister Gerry Ritz told reporters during a teleconference from China where he was on a trade mission. “They’ve had a number of delegations to Canada and we have also worked with them here. They are opening up more for us. The new crush facility that is available to Canadian canola is in the rapeseed-growing area at the Delta of the Yangtze, which is extremely important to us. It gets it closer into the area we’re looking to serve. So that’s a big step for the Chinese government.”

There’s no word for “canola” in Mandarin so the Chinese refer to it as rapeseed, which is high in erucic acid and glucosinolates and are undesirable in the oil and meal, respectively. The council is pushing the distinction between the two.

The council is also promoting canola oil in China by doing taste tests.

“They really like the clean, light taste of it (canola),” Jowett said.

China has 1.3 billion people, the most of any country. And its middle class continues to grow, which means more disposable income for an improved diet.

Despite concerns over blackleg, in 2012 China imported a record $3.1 billion of Canadian canola seed, meal and oil.

Most of the sales were for seed — 1.3 million tonnes versus 586,000 tonnes of meal.

However, canola exports to China swing wildly year to year.

For example, in 2011 China imported $1.5 billion worth of Canadian canola products — half as much as 2012. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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

June 19-21: Canada’s Farm Progress Show, Evraz Place, Regina. For more info visit www. myfarmshow.com or call 306-7819200.

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.

July 20: Springfield Country Fair, Springfield Agricultural Society Fairgrounds, Hwys. 15 and 206, Dugald. For more info visit www. springfieldagsociety.com or email bouw@highspeedcrow.ca.

July 22: Organic and Ecological Farming Research Tour, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., University of Manitoba Research Farm, Carman. For more info email m_entz@umanitoba. ca or call 204-474-6077.

July 23-24: Dairy Farmers of Canada annual general meeting, Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front St. W., Toronto. For more info call 613-236-9997 or visit www.dairyfarmers.ca.

Amalgamation tops agenda at municipal meetings The Association of Manitoba Municipalities is urging members to submit amalgamation plans — even if their plan is to do nothing

By Lorraine Stevenson co-operator staff / grosse isle

M

unicipal leaders are vowing to keep resisting mandatory amalgamations, supporting five resolutions at last week’s district meetings calling on the province to stop forcing the issue.

But the Association of Manitoba Municipalities is urging those affected to be ready with some sort of plan — even if it’s a plan to maintain the status quo — in time for a Dec. 1 deadline requiring rural municipalities with populations under 1,000 to submit amalgamation plans.

Some are taking a ‘wait-and-see’ approach because Bill 33, the Municipal Modernization Act, hasn’t passed yet.

“It’s not law yet but there is a Dec. 1 deadline to get your plan in and we think it’s important that they get that plan in, whether it’s for or against, or they’re not doing anything,” said association president Doug Dobrowolski.

Affected municipalities also need to

get the public involved in the process, he added, saying many Manitobans aren’t aware of the province’s bid to force amalgamations.

“I know right now a lot of municipalities don’t have all the answers but still they need to involve their public,” said Dobrowolski. “They need to know what’s going on.”

As of last week, passage of the bill was still held up by procedural delays being employed by the provincial Tories to hold up the passage of a number of pieces of

“I know right now a lot of municipalities don’t have all the answers but still they need to involve their public.”

Doug Dobrowolski AMM president

legislation, including Bill 20, the bill to raise the provincial sales tax to eight per cent.

But the delay is only temporary, said Ron Lemieux, minister of local government.

“It (Bill 33) is going to be passed sooner or later,” he said.

“We’ve been very, very clear as to where we’re going with amalgamation. If the legislation is held up by a day, a week or a month, it doesn’t change anything whatsoever. It doesn’t stop the process.”

That process includes a series of deadlines to submit intentions for amalgamating. March 31 was when municipalities were supposed to submit the names of their potential amalgamation partners, and to have passed resolutions signalling their intentions. It’s not clear how many actually have done so.

As of June 12, 69 people had registered to speak to the standing committee reviewing Bill 33. As of press time, no date had been set for the hearings. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

July 29: Glenlea Long-Term Organic Study Research Tour, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Glenlea. For more info email m_entz@umanitoba.ca or call 204-474-6077.

FESTIVALS Contact us with your event, dates, location and contact info at news@fbcpublishing.com.

June 14-23: Red River Exhibition, 3977 Portage Ave., Winnipeg.

Call 204-888-6990 or visit www. redriverex.com.

June 22: Manitoba Highland Gathering, Selkirk Park, Selkirk. Visit www.manitobahighlandgather ing.org.

June 22: Rapid City Fair. Call 204826-2273.

June 22-23: Turtle Mountain Fair, Boissevain. Call 204-534-0857 or email nicolekyle_88@hotmail.com.

June 22-23: Miami Fair and Rodeo. Call 204-435-2288 or email janmoody@mymts.net.

June 27-29: Dauphin Agricultural Fair. Call 204-638-4428 or visit www.dauphinagsociety.com.

June 27-30: Dauphin’s Countryfest. Visit www.countryfest. ca or call 1-800-361-7300.

June 29: MacGregor/North Norfolk Fair. Call 204-274-2273 or email macgregorfair@hotmail.com.

June 29-30: Treherne Fair. Call 204-723-2275.

June 30-July 1: Glenboro Fair. Call 204-827-2661.

July 2-3: Rivers Fair. Call 204-3287512 or 204-826-2810.

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July 5-7: Carberry Fair and Races.

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The only time you shouldn’t spray is when you have a poor looking crop and you are not in a fusarium head blight (FHB) area.

L G A

EAF TIM I

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FL

TO SPRAY

No visible disease present No visible disease present

If your crop doesn’t look good, but you are in an FHB area, a fungicide application can still pay for itself and safeguard the yield and quality of your grain.

Do some calculations and if your potential disease risk and ROI exceed the cost of application – you should protect your crop with a fungicide.

If your crop looks good, you will definitely want to protect your investment with a fungicide application. Which product will provide the most bang for your buck?

It depends on crop staging, current disease pressure and potential disease risks. Here is a quick chart to help make your fungicide decision easier.

No visible disease present

–

Leaf disease on upper leaves and/or flag leaf

–

Leaf disease only (lower to mid leaves)

To see how It Pays to Spray in your area visit BayerCropScience.ca/ItPaystoSpray

BayerCropScience.ca/ItPaystoSpray or 1 888-283-6847 or contact your Bayer CropScience representative.

Always read and follow label directions. Folicur® and Prosaro® are registered trademarks of the Bayer Group. Bayer CropScience is a member of CropLife Canada.

F:10.8”

No visible disease present

Leaf disease on upper leaves and/or flag leaf

Leaf disease only (lower to mid leaves)

FS:10.55”

AD TIMING E H

Leaf disease only

Leaf disease only

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NOT TO SPRAY FHB AREA

NO

YES

WHAT SHOULD YOU SPRAY?

Even when you can’t see disease symptoms, there is no such thing as a disease-free crop. A good crop is worth protecting – consider spraying an application of Folicur® EW or Prosaro® applied at head timing to help ensure top grade, quality and yield.

There is no such thing as a disease-free crop. Even in the absence of disease symptoms, the mere fact that you are in an FHB area means you need to protect your crop. Apply Prosaro at head timing.

YES

Spray Folicur EW and re-assess at head timing to determine whether a second fungicide application is required.

+ 4.6 bu./ac.

Folicur EW 3/4 rate, flag leaf OR

+ 9.4 bu./ac.

Prosaro, head

+ 1.8 bu./ac.

Folicur EW full rate, head OR

+ 3.1 bu./ac.

Prosaro, head

+ 9.8 bu./ac.

Folicur EW 3/4 rate, flag leaf

+ 4.4 bu./ac.

Folicur EW 3/4 rate, flag leaf OR

+ 8.5 bu./ac.

Prosaro, head

+ 7 bu./ac.

NO

When leaf disease is limited to lower/mid leaves at flag leaf timing, the damage is negligible. Re-assess at head timing and if you still only see leaf disease you can spray either Folicur EW or Prosaro.

Folicur EW 3/4 rate, flag leaf OR

+ 7 bu./ac.

Folicur EW full rate, head OR

+ 10 bu./ac.

Prosaro full rate, head

YES

Whenever you are in an FHB area, you should spray Prosaro. However, if leaf disease is limited to the lower/mid leaves you have the ability to make your Prosaro application at head timing to cover both leaf disease and FHB.

+ 5.8 bu./ac.

Folicur EW full rate, head OR

+ 8.5 bu./ac.

Prosaro, head

C-51-05/13-BCS13012-E

F:10.8”

T:15.5”

NO

Leaf disease damage to upper leaves or the flag leaf can cause irreparable injury to your crop and immediate action is required. Spray Folicur EW and re-assess at head timing to determine whether a second fungicide application is required.

GAIN IN YIELD*

*Gain in yield based on multi-year wheat Demonstration Strip Trial (DST) results in Western Canada, 2008-2012. Results compared to yield of untreated check.

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LIVESTOCK MARKETS Cattle Prices Winnipeg

June 7, 2013

Larger volumes of slaughter cattle pressure prices

Steers & Heifers — D1, 2 Cows 62.00 - 70.00 D3 Cows 58.00 - 65.00 Bulls 82.00 - 89.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.)

107.00 - 115.00 (801-900 lbs.)

114.00 - 117.00 (701-800 lbs.)

124.00 - 137.00 (601-700 lbs.)

133.00 - 141.00 (501-600 lbs.)

130.00 - 145.00 (401-500 lbs.)

135.00 - 145.00 Heifers (901+ lbs.)

105.00 - 108.00 (801-900 lbs.)

105.00 - 113.00 (701-800 lbs.)

105.00 - 117.00 (601-700 lbs.)

110.00 - 125.00 (501-600 lbs.)

118.00 - 135.00 (401-500 lbs.)

120.00 - 135.00

Heifers

Alberta South $ 122.00 - 123.75 — 72.00 - 84.00 60.00 - 74.00 87.31 - 87.31 $ 112.00 - 121.00 120.00 - 129.00 127.00 - 142.00 138.00 - 153.00 144.00 - 163.00 145.00 - 160.00 $ 102.00 - 115.00 111.00 - 122.00 115.00 - 126.00 119.00 - 132.00 126.00 - 140.00 128.00 - 145.00

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

(850+ lbs.)

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

(901+ lbs.)

(801-900 lbs.)

(701-800 lbs.)

(601-700 lbs.)

(501-600 lbs.)

(401-500 lbs.)

Futures (June 7, 2013) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change Feeder Cattle June 2013 120.45 0.10 August 2013 August 2013 120.03 0.98 September 2013 October 2013 123.08 0.01 October 2013 December 2013 125.30 0.33 November 2013 February 2014 126.73 0.41 January 2014 April 2014 128.33 0.25 March 2014 Cattle Slaughter Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

COOL has also put a chill on feeder cattle values

Previous Year­ 52,368 10,096 40,814 NA 598,000

CNSC

Ontario $ 113.70 - 134.29 117.68 - 129.25 58.60 - 82.08 58.60 - 82.08 75.82 - 94.60 $ 120.72 - 134.86 115.52 - 131.61 120.39 - 141.43 118.67 - 144.96 113.96 - 152.35 125.25 - 155.45 $ 107.41 - 119.32 110.57 - 123.37 109.69 - 127.16 104.20 - 130.53 111.47 - 137.56 113.65 - 145.04

Close 144.65 146.90 148.75 150.38 150.15 151.25

Week Ending May 31, 2013 627 20,838 14,308 670 740 3,960 53

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Change 0.48 0.55 0.75 1.03 0.75 0.70

Previous Year 583 25,585 18,721 966 816 5,502 72

Hog Prices Source: Manitoba Agriculture

(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg) E - Estimation MB. ($/hog) MB. (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)

MB. (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)

ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)

P.Q. (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)

Futures (June 7, 2013) in U.S. Hogs June 2013 July 2013 August 2013 October 2013 December 2013

Current Week 186.00 E 172.00 E 179.02 182.53

Last Week 183.58 169.48 175.82 180.13

Close 97.30 95.83 94.53 84.15 81.00

Table: Auction yard schedules

Terryn Shiells

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending May 31, 2013 41,715 10,096 31,619 NA 649,000

$1 Cdn: $ .9794 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.0210 Cdn.

COLUMN

(Friday to Thursday) Slaughter Cattle

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

EXCHANGES: June 7, 2013

Numbers below are reprinted from June 13 issue.

Last Year (Index 100) 181.54 166.23 162.40 164.56

Change -97.30 -95.83 -94.53 -84.15 -81.00

Other Market Prices

Ashern Now closed until August

T

he number of slaughter cattle that came onto livestock auction yards across Manitoba during the week ended June 14 continued to be unseasonably large.

R o b i n H i l l , m a n a g e r o f He a r t l a n d Livestock Services at Virden, said more than 300 slaughter cows and bulls came onto the market on June 12.

The large volumes are most likely due to farmers cleaning up odds and ends and getting rid of any open cows that weren’t able to breed this spring, he said.

Because of larger volumes in not only Manitoba, but Saskatchewan and Alberta as well, slaughter cattle prices came under some pressure during the week.

Hill noted slaughter cow prices were as much as $3 per hundredweight (cwt) lower compared to the week prior — though good demand, due to the grilling season, helped to keep prices from moving further to the downside.

The feeder market also came under some pressure as buyers were being cautious with their spending, Hill said.

“The COOL regulations, or possible regulations, are making the order buyers and feedlots very cautious on their spending,” he said. “It’s a big concern to everybody in the cattle business and what these rules and regulations become.”

The U.S. government on May 23 proposed to implement a tougher mandatory countryof-origin labelling (COOL) rule in an effort to comply with unfavourable rulings and a deadline from the World Trade Organization.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposal, if realized, is expected to see COOL cost Canadian cattle producers up to an additional $90-$100 per head, compared to the $25-$40 a head it costs them now.

Some weakness in feeder cattle prices during the week was also linked to the extremely tight feed situation in the province. Prices probably won’t see much relief until the fall, when new-crop supplies become available.

Killarney

Sale June 17, then closed for summer

Gladstone

Biweekly sales until July 9,

then closed until Aug. 19

Grunthal

Weekly sales throughout the summer

Ste. Rose

Sale June 20, then closed for summer

Winnipeg

Sales throughout the summer

Brandon

Sales every Tuesday

throughout summer

Virden

Sales every Wednesday

throughout summer

Numbers were normal for this time of year, slowing down as most of the cattle have already been marketed and farmers focus on field work.

The number of feeder cattle coming onto the market during the summer in Manitoba is expected to continue to be small until the fall, when more cattle will be ready to be sold.

Because of the lack of volumes during the summer months, many of the province’s auction yards reduce sales or close down during the season (see table).

Hill noted the lack of cattle was also hurting the market, as it had some buyers backing off.

“The big guy wants lots (of cattle) or he doesn’t want any, so we’re seeing that the demand is there for the grass cattle still but because of the small volume, it’s really hard for the prices to be stronger,” he said.

“You could go to sales in Gladstone, Bra n d o n a n d V i rd e n o n Tu e s d a y a n d Wednesday, for example, and probably never buy a full load of black steers weighing 700 pounds, or red steers, et cetera.”

Thus there was very little demand from Canada’s East, because it’s expensive to haul cattle from Manitoba to Ontario, Hill said.

There was still some routine demand from the West — and local buyers were active in purchasing grass cattle to put out to pasture.

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

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

(95 - 109 lb.)

(80 - 94 lb.)

(Under 80 lb.)

(New crop)

Winnipeg (head) (wooled fats) 60.00 - 80.00 70.00 - 90.00 115.00 - 125.00 115.00 - 125.00 120.00 - 139.00 —

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

Turkeys Minimum prices as of June 16, 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 .................................... $2.005 Undergrade .............................. $1.905 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A .................................... $2.005 Undergrade .............................. $1.905 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................... $1.910 Undergrade............................... $1.825 Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.

Toronto 36.51 - 66.73 94.38 - 134.60 120.10 - 138.90 121.10 - 139.16 120.45 - 148.79 —

SunGold Specialty Meats 20.00

Eggs Minimum prices to producers for ungraded eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board effective June 12, 2011.

New Previous A Extra Large $1.8500 $1.8200 A Large 1.8500 1.8200 A Medium 1.6700 1.6400 A Small 1.2500 1.2200 A Pee Wee 0.3675 0.3675 Nest Run 24 + 1.7490 1.7210 B 0.45 0.45 C 0.15 0.15

Goats Winnipeg (head) Toronto (Fats) ($/cwt) Kids 110.00 - 140.00 125.00 - 260.00 Billys — — Mature — 59.51 - 207.45

Horses <1,000 lbs.

1,000 lbs.+

Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Toronto ($/cwt) 19.00 - 29.00 28.00 - 50.00

news

Trader assets frozen by U.S. court

By Sarah N. Lynch washington / reuters

U

.S. regulators have obtained a court order freezing the assets of a Thailand-based trader, saying he reaped $3.2 million in illegal profits after getting a tip ahead of the announcement that a

Chinese meat company was buying Smithfield Foods Inc. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Badin Rungruangnavarat, 30, may have received the tip from a Facebook friend.

Shuanghui International Holdings, China’s largest meat processor, said last week it was buying U.S. pork producer Smithfield for $4.7 billion.

The agency said the friend is an associate director at a Thai investment bank that was advising a Shuanghui

rival, Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc, which was also exploring a bid for Smithfield.

The SEC said Rungruangnavarat reaped $3.2 million in profits by trading Smithfield “out of the money” call options and single-stock futures in an account at Interactive Brokers LLC shortly before the announcement.

“Rungruangnavarat essentially cornered the market in Smithfield call options and futures contracts,” the SEC said in the complaint.

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GRAIN MARKETS Export and International Prices

column

Last Week

All prices close of business June 13, 2013

Farmers unlock old-crop canola bins for delivery CBOT soy slipped on a bearish USDA supply/demand report

CNSC

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he path of least resistance for canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform remained to the downside during the week ended June 14. Declines were influenced by the perception that canola seeding was now complete and that the crop was off to a generally good start, development-wise.

Downward price action was augmented by a generally weaker tone in outside oilseed markets during the week, including Malaysian palm oil, European rapeseed futures and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean values.

Farmers, also now confident of harvesting a canola crop in the fall, have begun to unlock their bins of old-crop canola and to deliver to country elevators. Many farmers who have started to move their canola may have had that $700-a-tonne price target in mind, based on conversations with some oilseed brokers — but with recent price weakness, those farmers have decided to take advantage of current values.

There remain opportunities to deliver against the nearby July future, but a lot of outlets are now accepting deliveries against the November contract.

The downside in canola was restricted by scale-down pricing by commercials. A lot of that price action was said to be covering export business as well as domestic crusher requirements. The export demand coming forward was believed to be covering both routine sales and fresh Chinese demand.

Adding to the support in the canola market were concerns about wet, cool weather which has dominated Alberta in particular. The worries were confined to select pockets of the canola-growing regions in that province. However, similar concerns were also now starting to surface in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

The crop concerns are not likely to send canola significantly higher, but can be viewed as one of those weather scares that have been talked about over the past couple of weeks.

There continues to be absolutely no interest in trading ICE milling wheat, durum or barley contracts.

CBOT soybean futures were pushed lower during the week ended Friday with weakening demand and a bearishly construed supply/demand balance sheet from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

USDA left the U.S. soybean supply/demand table unchanged from its May report, with total 2013 U.S. production still estimated at 3.39 billion bushels. U.S. ending stocks were left unchanged, with old crop at 125 million bu. and new crop at 265 million bu.

Globally, USDA trimmed soybean ending stocks for 2012-13 by 1.3 million tonnes to 61.2 million. New-crop ending stocks were also lowered from May estimates by 1.27 million tonnes, largely due to lower beginning stocks.

Weather also played a role in the soybean declines, with the return of warm and dry conditions allowing U.S. farmers to finish off seeding. Improved weather was also seen aiding in the development of the recently planted crop.

The fact U.S. farmers were successful in getting the crop seeded was viewed as bearish for futures. However, there continue to be a few individuals who are adamant U.S. soybean output will be down, given how late the crop was put into the ground, and are certain yields will be well below normal.

CBOT corn values also suffered a price setback during the week with good weather for crop development and expectations of a record-large harvest in the fall.

A bearish aspect of USDA’s report on corn came from its decision to not lower its new-

For three-times-daily market reports from Commodity News Service Canada, visit “Today in Markets” at www.manitobacooperator.ca.

crop supply forecast for 2013-14 by as much as the trade had been anticipating.

USDA now projects new-crop U.S. corn carryout as of Aug. 31, 2014 at 1.949 billion bu. This would be down from its forecast last month of 2.004 billion, but well above the trade expectations averaging 1.758 billion bu.

USDA made numerous adjustments to the U.S. corn supply/demand balance sheet. It lowered yield by 1.5 bu./ac., citing delayed planting in the western Corn Belt that raised the likelihood that seasonally warmer temperatures and drier conditions in late July will adversely affect pollination and kernel set in a larger share of this year’s crop. It reduced the average yield to 156.5 bu./ac. but made no revisions to planted acreage.

Even with a 135-million-bu. cut, USDA still sees 2013 U.S. corn production at 14.005 billion bu., an extremely large crop.

Meanwhile, USDA increased, rather than lowered, its old-crop U.S. corn ending stocks projection. The old-crop ending stocks projection was raised by 10 million bushels as USDA increased its U.S. corn import total to 25 million bushels.

The slightly larger old-crop carry-over (769 million bu.), plus USDA’s adjustments to 2013 newcrop production puts new-crop ending stocks at 1.949 billion bu., 55 million lower than USDA’s May estimate, but well above trade expectations.

The stocks-to-use ratio declined slightly to 15.2 per cent, more than double the old-crop ending stocks-to-use ratio of 6.9 per cent.

Globally, old-crop corn ending stocks declined to 124.3 million tonnes from 132.2 million. Newcrop ending stocks were lowered by 2.8 million tonnes to 151.8 million on lower forecasted production and feed use.

Wheat futures on the CBOT, MGEX and KCBT generally lost ground during the reporting period, with most of the bearish news associated with the adequate global wheat supply situation. Seasonal pressure also added to the KCBT wheat market given that the harvest of the U.S. winter wheat crop was now underway in select locations.

USDA projected U.S. all-wheat production at 2.08 billion bu., up from May estimates just shy of the highest trade estimate. Of that total, U.S. winter wheat production increased to 1.509 billion bu., higher than trade estimates.

U.S. hard red winter wheat production, at 781 million bu., is two per cent larger than last month’s estimate. USDA also boosted its estimate of U.S. soft red winter wheat production two per cent higher, to 509 million bu. White wheat production increased slightly from May and came in higher than the average trade guess.

U.S. old-crop wheat ending stocks for 2012-13 increased by 15 million bu. due on slower export demand. New-crop 2013-14 ending stocks were lowered by 11 million bu. from May to 659 million bu., within the range of trade estimates, as increased production and export forecasts offset the decline in beginning stocks.

Globally, 2012-13 ending stocks for wheat declined slightly to 179.9 million tonnes; however, 2013-14 ending stocks came in lower than trade estimates at 181.3 million, a 5.1-milliontonne decline from USDA’s May estimates, reflecting lower foreign production.

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

Year Ago

Wheat

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

251.85

256.35

229.07

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

298.33

301.36

291.81

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

253.35

261.12

236.81

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

264.72

258.40

198.25

Coarse Grains

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

Dwayne Klassen

Week Ago

Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)

554.87

561.11

509.22

1,054.87

1,061.93

1,058.40

Winnipeg Futures ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business June 14, 2013 barley

Last Week

Week Ago

July 2013

244.00

244.00

October 2013

194.00

194.00

December 2013

199.00

199.00

Canola

Last Week

Week Ago

July 2013

598.60

617.40

November 2013

548.50

559.00

January 2014

551.10

560.90

Special Crops Report for June 17, 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

25.50 - 26.50

Canaryseed

Laird No. 1

23.75 - 25.50

Oil Sunflower Seed

Eston No. 2

18.75 - 21.00

25.75 - 27.25 —

Desi Chickpeas

25.70 - 27.00

Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)

Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)

Green No. 1

14.80 - 18.50

Fababeans, large

—

Medium Yellow No. 1

7.40 - 10.00

Feed beans

—

No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans

—

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

No. 1 Great Northern

—

Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)

6.25 - 8.60

No. 1 Cranberry Beans

—

Yellow No. 1

38.75 - 40.75

No. 1 Light Red Kidney

—

Brown No. 1

35.75 - 37.75

No. 1 Dark Red Kidney

—

Oriental No. 1

29.20 - 30.75

No. 1 Black Beans

—

No. 1 Pinto Beans

—

Source: Stat Publishing SUNFLOWERS

No. 1 Small Red

—

No. 1 Pink

—

Fargo, ND

Goodlands, KS

NuSun (oilseed)

FH 23.25/LH 23.05

NQ

Confection

32.00* Call for details

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Report for June 14, 2013 in US$ cwt

Source: National Sunflower Association

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Argentine farmers protest export tax buenos aires / reuters The number of grain trucks entering Argentina’s main shipping hub of Rosario dropped sharply on Monday (June 17) as farmers protested government policies by refusing to sell recently harvested corn and soybeans.

The Argentine government puts a 35 per cent tax on soybean exports and curbs overseas shipments of corn and wheat to ensure ample domestic food supplies.

Growers say the curbs reduce profits by cutting competition among the exporters who bid for the crops.

The protest threatened to slow the loading of cargo ships waiting along the Parana and La Plata rivers for corn needed to replenish global reserves left thin by last year’s poor U.S. harvest.

The Rosario grains exchange said 553 trucks entered port by mid-morning on Monday, compared with 3,561 during the same time frame a week earlier.

The strike was to continue until Wednesday at midnight. But growers said more and longer protests might be needed to pressure the government into negotiating policy changes.

Farm sector leaders are set to meet June 25 to decide what is next.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

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Controversial study finds pigs hurt by GM feed Study looked at 168 pigs over six months and found those fed genetically modified varieties of soy and corn had higher rates of severe stomach inflammation

By Carey Gillam

“The vast weight of scientific evidence gathered over hundreds of independent food and feed safety studies found no difference between animals fed GMO or non-GMO diets.”

REUTERS WITH FILES FROM CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR ALEX BINKLEY

P

igs fed a diet of only genetically modified grain showed markedly higher stomach inflammation than ones which dined on conventional feed, according to a controversial new study.

The study was trumpeted by critics of GM crops, but proponents of biotechnology were equally quick to label the study as flawed.

The study by epidemiologist and biochemist Judy Carman was published in the June issue of the peerreviewed Journal of Organic Systems.

Carman, director of the Institute of Health and Environmental Research in Adelaide, and other Australian researchers worked with two veterinarians and a farmer in Iowa to study a group of pigs raised in the U.S. The study was conducted over 22.7 weeks on 168 newly weaned pigs in a commercial American hog facility.

Half ate a diet that incorporated genetically modified (GM) soy and corn, while the other 84 pigs ate an equivalent non-GM diet. The corn and soy feed was obtained from commercial suppliers, the study said, and the pigs reared under identical housing and feeding conditions. The pigs were then slaughtered roughly five months later and autopsied by veterinarians who were not informed which pigs were fed on the GM diet and which were from the control group.

TRISH JORDAN

Monsanto Canada

There were no differences seen between pigs fed the GM and non-GM diets for feed intake, weight gain, mortality, and routine blood biochemistry measurements. FILE PHOTO

Researchers said there were no differences seen between pigs fed the GM and non-GM diets for feed intake, weight gain, mortality, and routine blood biochemistry measurements. However, those pigs on the GM diet had a higher rate of severe stomach inflammation — 32 per cent of GM-fed pigs compared to 12 per cent of non-GM-fed pigs. The inflammation was four times more likely in GM-fed males compared to non-GM-fed males, and more than twice as likely in GM-fed females versus non-GM-fed females. As well,

GM-fed pigs had uteri that were 25 per cent heavier than non-GM-fed pigs, the study said.

While the researchers said more long-term animal feeding studies need to be done, the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network said the research has lent “scientific credibility to anecdotal evidence from farmers and veterinarians, who have for some years reported reproductive and digestive problems in pigs fed on a diet containing GM soy and corn.”

Not so, charged a spokesperson for Monsanto Canada.

“The vast weight of scientific evidence gathered over hundreds of independent food and feed safety studies found no difference between animals fed GMO or non-GMO diets,” said Trish Jordan.

“For example, this study lasted about six months. Animals have been consuming GM crops and grains for more than 15 years.”

More than 150 scientific studies have been done on animals fed biotech crops and to date, there is no scientific evidence of any detrimental impact, said CropLife International, a global federation representing the plant science industry.

That’s likely to be ignored and the new study treated as “if it was sound science,” said Steven Yarrow, vicepresident of CropLife Canada.

“It will be quoted over and over,” said Yarrow.

CFIA hands over anthrax control to provincial authorities Vaccination is the first line of defence, says Manitoba’s chief veterinary office

By Daniel Winters CO-OPERATOR STAFF

M

anitoba’s Office of the Chief Veterinarian is moving in as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency pulls out of the anthrax business.

The agency announced last fall it would be handing over responsibility to provincial authorities, saying the endemic presence of anthrax in some areas means eradication is not feasible. It wants its staff to focus on emerging and foreign animal diseases such as avian influenza and foot-and-mouth disease.

“This is where federal involvement is critical and aligns with current disease realities,” said CFIA spokesperson Lisa Murphy.

Anthrax is a naturally occurring disease that can have devastating effects on cattle, sheep,

goats, horses, and bison. The spores causing the disease exist in the soil across the Canadian Prairies, and typically surface when hot, dry weather follows heavy rains. Although the disease has caused mass human illness and deaths in countries where deadstock are commonly butchered and eaten, it has been preventable since 1881 when Louis Pasteur discovered a vaccine.

Ranchers are typically “very aware” if their operations are at risk, said Dr. Glen Duizer, a veterinarian with Manitoba’s Office of the Chief Veterinarian.

“Producers who live in those areas are going to want to make sure that their herds are vaccinated. It’s just really good insurance,” said Duizer.

The rule of thumb is “10 and 10” — if an outbreak has occurred within 10 kilometres

from an operation within that last 10 years, ranchers should strongly consider vaccinating all animals in their herds, he said.

The end of CFIA involvement, which took effect in April, means indemnities of up to $500 for proper disposal of cattle killed by the disease and free vaccine for surviving animals in areas affected by outbreaks, will no longer be offered, said Duizer.

Re g i o n a l a n i m a l h e a l t h authorities in the U.S. and western provinces all regularly update each other on anthrax cases, added Duizer.

It’s been known for some time that anthrax, along with diseases such as rabies and anaplasmosis, were being moved out of the CFIA’s domain or into a modified reportable disease category, said Cam Dahl, general manager of the Manitoba Beef Producers.

Dahl refused to speculate on whether cuts to the CFIA are behind the move, but he said the beef industry needs to ensure provincial labs and veterinarians retain their capacity to monitor and assist ranchers when such diseases are found.

“The CFIA has indicated that their focus needs to be on emerging diseases and threats.

It’s hard to argue that those things aren’t important,” said Dahl.

Duizer noted anthrax remains a federally reportable disease.

This means producers, practitioners and laboratories will still be required to report suspect cases to the CFIA, which will notify trading partners and the World Organization for Animal Health as required by international reporting obligations.

Should a major outbreak occur, as it did in 2006 when

hundreds of animals died across the Prairies, Manitoba’s Office of the Chief Veterinarian will lead control efforts under its existing emergency plans with the assistance of commodity groups, private practitioners and ranchers, as well as whatever resources the CFIA can offer.

“That’s the honest answer. We don’t park 25 staff just in case we have an emergency,” said Duizer.

But Connie Haugerud, whose farm near Melfort lost dozens of cattle and sheep in 2006, said the end of CFIA involvement could leave the ranching community in the lurch should a repeat of that stressful summer occur.

“I don’t know why they don’t keep it up because it was a big help,” said Haugerud. daniel.winters@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

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Rope burns can be serious and difficult to treat While rope burns seldom bleed, they can still be painful and require regular treatment Carol Shwetz, DVM Horse Health

R

opes in their various guises are common in the horse world. Although they may differ in length, size and makeup, they all serve to connect people to horses or horses to stationary objects.

As a result of this and due to their unforgiving nature, a good working knowledge of ropes is imperative to the safety of both horses and people.

Whenever horses, people or at times both become entangled with a rope(s), burns are a likely mishap. The friction created by the rope as it runs across the skin heats the tissue, causing a burn injury that can be very serious, painful and difficult to treat.

Rope burns frequently occur in locations where the body flexes such as pasterns, knees, flanks, hocks and under the tail head. The pastern is commonly afflicted and can be problematic to heal because of its tenderness and flexibility.

Unlike an open bleeding wound which demands immediate attention, rope burns tend to be more subtle showing very little apparent damage to the tissues initially. As such their seriousness is often overlooked. Rope burns seldom bleed. Bleeding would be an indication to summon a veterinarian. These injuries cannot be sutured. Consequently they are managed as open wounds. Rope burns seep and weep fluid. Weeping is an indication of tissue injury, as well as a means of healing for often fibres from the rope become embedded in the tissue and must â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;festerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; out like splinters for complete healing.

Pain and lameness will be readily apparent. Even mild rope burns tend to be quite painful for the horse. Any person who has experienced a rope burn can readily attest to its stinging discomfort. Individual assessment of the injury will be necessary to evaluate involvement of deeper tissues such as muscles, bones, tendons, tendon sheaths and joints.

Keeping a rope burn clean is important. It is the most important element in healing any wound, and rope burns in particular. They are often incredibly painful and cleaning them can intensify the pain, so restraint or sedation may be necessary to attend these wounds. Gentle rinsing with cold water brings welcome relief, cleaning and soothing the wound.

While healing, the wound benefits from daily hydrotherapy. Aloe vera or Dermagel are good choices as initial healing salves. It may be necessary to cover the wound to keep it from crusting over and painfully breaking open as the horse walks. The benefits to bandaging the wound are cleanliness, fly control, improved healing and reduced scar formation.

Ma n y b u r n s s t u b b o r n l y form a scaly crust as they heal, leaving a raised, hairless scar.

Keeping the skin moisturized for months with soothing ointments containing lanolin, vitamins A and D or aloe vera serves to minimize scarring.

At times infection may complicate a rope burn. Horses with an infection become very lame with marked swelling and foul discharge at the injury site. They may also develop a fever, become lethargic and lack appetite.

Scarring from deep rope burns can impede blood circulation distal to the injury site, temporarily causing the limb to swell until collateral circulation becomes established.

Keeping the skin pliable and soft at the injury site while encouraging movement can minimize the effects of super-

Whenever horses, people or at times both become entangled with a rope(s), burns are a likely mishap.

ficial and deep wound scarring. These wounds can take up to two years to strengthen, remodel and mature, so patience is valued.

Rope burns are best given immediate first aid treatment. Proper treatment greatly reduces the chances of their complications, ensuring a favourable cosmetic outcome and return to function.

Carol Shwetz is a veterinarian specializing in equine practice at Westlock, Alberta.

Rope burns frequently occur in locations where the body flexes such as pasterns, knees, flanks, hocks and under the tail head.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

Wet cornfields dampen U.S. hog farmers’ hopes for cheap feed

IT’S FAWN SEASON!

There is no end in sight for a nine-month losing streak in which producers lost more than $30 per hog

By Theopolis Waters des moines / reuters

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Investor wants breakup, not sale reuters / Starboard Value LP, a large shareholder in Smithfield Foods Inc., urged the world’s largest pork producer to explore a breakup rather than go ahead with a planned $4.7-billion takeover

by Chinese meat company Shuanghui International.

The activist shareholder, which disclosed a 5.7 per cent stake in the company, said Smithfield might be worth

“well in excess” of the $34 per share offered by Shuanghui if it split into hog production, pork and international units and shopped the businesses separately.

Starboard said in a letter to Smithfield’s board its sumof-the-parts valuation was between $44 and $55 per share.

Starboard’s call echoed an earlier one from investor Continental Grain Co., which later dropped its demand after Shuanghui made a deal to buy the firm.

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.S. hog producers are losing hope for an early harvest of this year’s expected bumper corn crop, which could lower feed costs sooner rather than later, as wet fields continue to impede planting in parts of the Midwest, producers and analysts said at a pork industry meeting here June 7.

“It’s been a long haul,” said Iowa hog producer Conley Nelson, who was counting on a timely Midwest harvest after last year’s drought to boost corn supplies and ease prices in the red-hot corn market.

“You go into a survivability mode and try to be as efficient as you can.”

Iowa leads the nation in corn and hog production, harvesting 1.88 billion bushels in 2012, down 20 per cent from 2.36 billion in 2011. It currently has 20.3 million hogs, up three per cent from 19.7 million a year earlier.

Demand for corn from last year’s drought-ravaged crop has been intense. Purchases by ethanol plants, livestock producers, corn processors and exporters have made corn remaining from last year’s harvest scarce. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has forecast supplies will reach a 16-year low by the end of the marketing year on Aug. 31, just before harvest starts.

The cash market price of corn in the Midwest ranged from $7.16 to $7.56 per bushel this week, or 50 to 90 cents above the Chicago Board of Trade July futures contract. CBOT July corn futures closed Friday at $6.66-1/4 per bushel, about 70 cents more than a year earlier.

The cash corn market has been on fire all year, with ethanol producers, who use up to 40 per cent of the annual harvest, paying top dollar. Cash prices are expected to go higher this summer as corn supplies get tighter.

These historically high prices for corn — the primary feed grain for livestock — are squeezing hog, beef, dairy and poultry farmers

photo: reuters

the hardest despite very high wholesale and retail meat prices.

Iowa State University researchers calculate hog farmers in April, on average, lost $31.66 for each hog sold, extending their streak of losses to nine months.

To stem the flow of red ink, some producers are feeding hogs less, marketing them at lighter weights and using distillers grains (DDGS), a feed byproduct of ethanol production, Nelson said.

Before harvest this autumn there are places in the Midwest where corn will be hard to buy at any price “and it could get ugly,” Paragon Economics president Steve Meyer told reporters at this week’s World Pork Expo.

Rain-delayed U.S. corn planting, which is the slowest in 17 years, means early-harvested supplies are unlikely to be in marketing channels before September, crop specialists say.

The situation for soybeans, which are crushed into soyoil and

the feed additive soybean meal, is not any better.

Several Midwest soy-crushing plants have shut early to conduct summer maintenance, citing scarce soybean supplies. Other crushers are scheduled to shut down for maintenance in July and plan a longer-than-usual break, Meyer said.

Another Iowa hog producer, Leon Sheets, said farmers were accustomed to minor variations each year in acquiring feed either because crops were planted too late or too early. But the extreme weather and markets in the last year had made planning for worst-case scenarios even more challenging.

“Perhaps the summer will change and we’ll harvest on schedule and everything will be fine,” Sheets said. “But in the event that it’s not, you really don’t want to wait until there is nothing in the bin to feed hogs and wonder where you’re going to go find it.”

Dairy Farmers want to know what’s on the table in Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks Farm groups ask for access to documents with details on negotiations

By Alex Binkley co-operator contributor / ottawa

T

he federal government needs to let farm groups know what’s happening at the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, says Dairy Farmers of Canada.

While farm and other groups are briefed regularly by the trade negotiators, they have no access to any documents about the details of the talks, said Richard Doyle, the group’s executive director.

“The lack of access to the documentation is a bit of

a concern,” Doyle told the Commons trade committee.

In previous trade talks, the government set up sectoral advisory groups “which functioned fairly well in the sense that people could decide and discuss their own situation,” Doyle said.

“It was all very confidential, but there was a lot more content on discussing the text, and the impact on each of the different sectors, so everybody around the table could understand.”

The lack of access to negotiating texts “is what makes most of the industries, including the experts, very nervous about a

negotiation where you aren’t able to do a proper analysis of what is on the table,” Doyle said.

He added that he’s seen no waning in the government’s support for supply management. The supply-managed sector is working at delivering its message that Canada accepts more dairy and poultry imports than Europe or the U.S., he said.

“Between six to eight per cent of our Canadian dairy consumption is supplied by imported dairy products coming in tariff free, which makes Canada more generous than the U.S. or EU in terms of access,” he said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Feeder Steers

n/a

Jun-11

Jun-10

Jun-11

Jun-12

n/a

Jun-13

Jun-14

No. on offer

n/a

444*

129

367

746*

n/a

513*

220

Over 1,000 lbs.

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

900-1,000

n/a

100.00-126.25

n/a

100.00-113.00

105.00-115.00

n/a

n/a

114.00-117.00

800-900

n/a

105.00-127.75

n/a

115.00-130.00

111.00-122.00

n/a

118.00-120.25

117.00-123.00

700-800

n/a

105.00-140.00

112.00-123.00

120.00-132.00

120.00-133.00

n/a

125.00-127.00

124.00-130.00

600-700

n/a

110.00-147.25

119.00-129.00

125.00-136.00

127.00-143.00

n/a

130.00-139.00

125.00-137.00

500-600

n/a

115.00-148.00

125.00-134.00

130.00-140.00

130.00-145.00

n/a

135.00-136.00

130.00-140.00

400-500

n/a

120.00-145.00

130.00-138.00

135.00-145.00

133.00-150.00

n/a

140.00-132.00

130.00-140.00

300-400

n/a

n/a

130.00-145.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

900-1,000 lbs.

n/a

85.00-100.75

n/a

93.00-105.00

92.00-104.00

n/a

n/a

105.00-108.00

800-900

n/a

90.00-112.00

n/a

97.00-112.00

97.00-109.00

n/a

105.00-112.00

105.00-114.00

700-800

n/a

99.00-115.00

104.00-111.00

108.00-117.00

104.00-117.00

n/a

110.00-122.00

105.00-117.00

600-700

n/a

100.00-122.50

106.00-113.00

115.00-126.00

110.00-126.00

n/a

118.00-125.00

110.00-122.00

500-600

n/a

105.00-123.75

112.00-129.00

118.00-128.00

115.00-130.00

n/a

120.00-129.00

118.00-128.00

400-500

n/a

110.00-125.00

118.00-131.00

120.00-130.00

117.00-132.00

n/a

120.00-125.00

120.00-135.00

300-400

n/a

n/a

120.00-135.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

No. on offer

n/a

n/a

70

133

n/a

n/a

n/a

180

D1-D2 Cows

n/a

58.00-67.00

n/a

67.00-73.00

62.00-67.00

n/a

70.00-77.00

62.00-74.00

D3-D5 Cows

n/a

35.00-55.00

59.00-64.00

60.00-67.00

40.00-62.00

n/a

40.00-71.00

58.00-65.00

Age Verified

n/a

65.00-72.00

n/a

n/a

64.00-72.00

n/a

n/a

63.00-72.00

Good Bulls

n/a

78.00-81.00

84.00-90.25

78.00-83.50

75.00-82.50

n/a

78.00-91.75

82.00-89.00

Butcher Steers

n/a

n/a

n/a

98.00-106.00

102.00-107.25

n/a

n/a

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

n/a

n/a

97.00-105.00

99.00-105.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

n/a

68.00-75.00

n/a

66.00-77.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

n/a

67.00-71.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Lean Export Cows

n/a

n/a

60.00-64.00

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Feeder heifers

Slaughter Market

* 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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We’re not worried

Farmers and other local residents may have been worried about flooding along the Souris River when this photo was taken near Coulter May 29, but for these mares it was just a fine day of green grass and cool wind. Photo: Sharlene Bennie

CFIA beefs up food safety rules and sets minimum traceability standards

Food companies and farms selling products in other provinces or internationally will need detailed preventive control plans

By Alex Binkley co-operator contributor / ottawa

T

raceability will gain a more prominent place on the menu, and food companies will be required to develop preventive control plans under a new regulatory plan proposed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

The proposals, which follow the passage of the Safe Food for Canadians Act last fall, still have to be put into the form of regulations. Draft regulations will be issued for comment next spring, with implementation in January 2015.

The regulations will require food companies selling products in other provinces or internationally to detail preventive control plans, including how they will deal with “deviations and respond to unforeseen food safety situations.”

Farms that ship to other provinces or internationally would also be required to have preventive control plans in place. The draft plan notes “a food safety outbreak originating from a single farm could have devastating economic consequences to the entire sector and diminish consumer confidence in fresh fruits and vegetables.”

The traceability will require food companies to maintain records on inputs and distribution one step up and down the food chain. For example, a processor would have to know who supplied ingredients and what retailer or distributor bought the plant’s product.

photo: istock

That’s the bare minimum in traceability, and is already happening in many livestock sectors and food companies, said Brian Sterling, president of SCS Consulting which advises food companies.

“Traceability is a fact of life for almost every other commodity that consumers buy, yet somehow we have not embraced traceability’s potential in the world of food,” he said. “I cannot buy an iPhone that does not have complete traceability back to its basic components. Yet what we put into our bodies is rarely traceable to source. Why is that?”

Implementing full traceability is far cheaper than one major food recall, he added.

“Most of the information we need is already being collected, we just have to use it,” he said.

The new rules would also require a company to provide information on their produc-

tion output on request within 24 hours. During last year’s XL Foods contaminated beef incident, the meat packer took a long time to produce records — which were boxes of paper documents CFIA staff had to dig through. That delayed efforts to contain and round up contaminated products.

Food companies will also be required to immediately inform the CFIA if they suspect they may have a food safety problem.

The agency said it will try to design rules that won’t bury small and medium enterprises in requirements that are overkill for the size of their operation or range of products.

The new regulations would enable the minister of agriculture, to suspend the operating licence of any company or importer that doesn’t comply with food safety rules, and cancel it if the company provides “false or misleading information.”

Owner of seized horses faces charges Seven horses were being boarded at an Interlake ranch, but owner still responsible

By Shannon VanRaes co-operator staff

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he owner of seven horses seized by provincial officials earlier this month has been charged under the Animal Care Act for failing to provide food, water, and medical care.

“It’s not completely my fault,” said Nancy Martens, 19. “I tried as hard as I could to get these horses out of there and provide them with food, and none of it worked.”

She said she planned to “appeal these charges.”

Martens had been boarding her horses at the Aesgard Ranch, located 60 kilometres north of Winnipeg, since September. A spokeswoman for the Provincial Veterinarian’s Office said the matter is still under investigation, and would not comment on whether the ranch operator could also face charges.

Staff from the provincial vet’s office seized one of Marten’s horses from the property on June 4. The following day, the remaining six animals were taken to Papa’s Ranch Equine Rescue.

“Under the present laws, if you board your horse at a facility you are still legally responsible for what is deemed the care and control of the horse,” said Bonnie Riddell, director of Papa’s Ranch Equine Rescue.

“So even if you are paying money to someone at a stable to look after your horse, if that animal is not properly cared for the legal responsibility can still fall back onto the owner of the animal itself.”

Two of the seven horses had previously been seized by the province after being found without adequate food and water at another boarding facility. Martens had originally purchased them from a meat buyer after being outbid at auction to prevent their slaughter.

Martens, who is unemployed, said she “kind of bit off more than I could chew,” but insisted she was visiting and checking on the animals weekly. She accused ranch owner Arrayl Mason of failing to provide proper care for her animals, and misleading her about the food, water and medical attention they were receiving.

Mason disputes those claims.

She said she doesn’t run a boarding facility but took Martens’ horses on as a favour, charging $150 a month per animal in exchange for assistance around the ranch.

“People should get all the facts before they go jumping to conclusions,” Mason said, adding she was told the seized horse was underweight due to a virus, not neglect.

She also said Martens hadn’t visited the horses since midApril, when they had a dispute over the monthly boarding fee.

Mason also lashed out at some of the demonstrators who gathered outside her property earlier this month, drawing media attention and alleging horses were being starved and neglected. About 100 horse lovers gathered at the ranch, and Mason said some of them came onto her property to take photos.

“I feel very, very violated,” said Mason, who was not home at the time.

Among the demonstrators was Riddell, who confirmed some individuals entered the property, but said it was necessary to document the condition of horses at the ranch.

Meanwhile, Martens said she is looking for work, and that she and her boyfriend are hoping to purchase a farm before year’s end and to relocate the horses there. However, Riddell indicated adoptive homes are being sought for the six horses at her shelter. shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

CROPS

Many fields are in the not-so-ideal situation of slow-growing canola, seed treatment insecticide component efficacy diminishing and high populations of flea beetles still in fields.

For more information watch for MAFRI regular weekly Manitoba insect and disease updates.

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umerous calls have been coming in this week on flea beetles feeding and damaged canola. If you have not yet, you should get out to your fields ASAP and see for yourself.

As you are looking at your plants, run through this checklist: • When did you seed the field — has it been longer than three weeks?

• What is your plant population, is it less than seven plants/ft2 (make an ‘L’ with your feet, how many plants are in the ‘L’)?

• What stage is your canola at — is it less than three leaves?

• What percentage of the leaf has been bitten/ injured — does it look like more than 25 per cent?

• Are the flea beetles still seen and feeding on plants?

If you have answered yes to all these questions, you should consider an insecticide application to control the flea beetle population.

The seed treatment has an expected lifespan of three to four weeks, so once seed is in the ground the clock is on and as you get closer to the end of the third week, the flea beetles are becoming less and less controlled. Flea beetle feeding stresses the canola and with cool growing conditions, the canola is not growing as quickly as it could.

ast week yellowing corn was being reported in the eastern region of Manitoba. It is suspected that the yellowing is more likely associated with cooler temperatures more than lack of nutrients. The return to warmer temperatures will go a long way in allowing those yellowing cornfields to resume normal growth and to latch on to the starter fertilizer that’s been applied.

How cool has it been? Mike Wroblewski, MAFRI ag meteorologist, has generated corn heat unit (CHU) accumulation maps showing total accumulation and per cent of normal accumulation from May 1 to June 9, 2013.

As the map illustrates, CHU accumulation is behind compared to the 30-year normal. However, with that being said there is no need to worry at this early stage. `There remains a lot of growing season left to come and the return to warmer temperatures definitely is a good start!

When to worry about herbicide injury

By Jeanette Gaultier, MAFRI pesticide specialist Posted June 7, 2013

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e cautioned last week about herbicide application in cool temperatures. Since the 2013 growing season has not been setting records for heat, you may be stuck trying to balance optimal temperatures with recommended herbicide application timings.

Crop injury in some situations may be unavoidable since both temperature and incorrect crop staging affect crop tolerance to herbicides.

The good news is that you may not need to be concerned if you see symptoms in your crop post-application since not all injury contributes to yield loss.

• Growth setback — Stunting of cereal crops treated with certain Group 2 herbicides (e.g.

Everest, Simplicity) or with Avenge is possible but generally will not affect yield. Improper timing or cool temperatures during Group 1 herbicide application can also cause setback. Do not worry about yield penalties though, unless stunting is severe or other growth setbacks, such as reduced tillering or stem/head kinking, are present.

• Chlorosis — Pale plants and chlorosis are indicators of reduced photosynthesis, a process necessary for crop growth. However, slight chlorosis of leaves and growing points will not lead to decreased yields if plants are able to ‘grow out’ of the stress early in the season.

For example, beans treated with Basagran + Group 1 herbicide may have both green and yellow leaves on the same plant without affecting growth. Cool temperature application of Group 2 herbicides and/or glyphosate may also cause slight chlorosis, that crops can grow out, depending on the severity. Do not worry unless symptoms are severe; plants are more chlorotic than not or deformed growth tips, necrosis are also present.

The above are generalizations and yield penalties from herbicide injury in specific crop situations can vary depending on the severity of injury symptoms, crop growth stage as well as other factors that may be contributing to crop stress.

If you are concerned about your crop or want a second opinion, crop samples can be submitted to your local GO office or the Crop Diagnostic Centre. MAFRI staff are able to provide visual assessment of crop injury only; you may be referred to a private lab for herbicide residue or nutrient testing if assessment of the symptoms is inconclusive.

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Organic growers lose suit against Monsanto The company says it will not prosecute if accidental contamination is slight

By Carey Gillam REUTERS

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onsanto Co. has won another round in a legal battle with U.S. organic growers June 10 as an Appeals Court threw out the growers’ efforts to stop the company from suing farmers if traces of its patented biotech genes are found in crops.

The U.S. Court of Appeals f o r t h e Fe d e r a l C i rc u i t affirmed a previous ruling that found organic growers had no reason to try to block Monsanto from suing them as the company had pledged it would not take them to court if biotech crops accidentally mix in with organics.

Organic farmers and others have worried for years that they will be sued by Monsanto for patent infringement if their crops get contaminated with Monsanto biotech crops.

In its ruling, the Appellate Court said the organic growers must rely on Monsanto assurances on the company’s website that it will not sue them so long as the mix is very slight.

“Monsanto’s binding representations remove any risk of suit against the appellants as users or sellers of trace amounts (less than one per cent) of modified seed,” the court stated in its ruling.

Monsanto officials applauded the ruling.

“The assertion that Monsanto would pursue patent infringement against farmers that have no interest in using the company’s patented seed technology was hypothetical from the outset,” the company said in a statement.

Mo n s a n t o h a s d e v e l oped a reputation for zealously defending patents on its genetically altered crops, which include patented “Roundup Ready” soybeans, corn and cotton, genetically altered to tolerate treatments of its Roundup weed killer.

The crops are widely used in the United States and Latin America. It has proven difficult to keep the genetic alteration from contaminating non-biotech crops, as recently occurred in a wheat field in the U.S. state of Oregon.

The group of more than 50 organic farmers and seed

“Monsanto’s binding representations remove any risk of suit against the appellants as users or sellers of trace amounts (less than one per cent) of modified seed.”

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dealers sued Monsanto in March 2011 seeking to prohibit Monsanto from suing them if their seed and crops become contaminated.

Monsanto officials specifically refused to sign a covenant stating it would not sue the growers, but the court said the website statement was sufficient and would be binding.

Andrew Kimbrell, a lawyer with the Center for Food Safety, which joined as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said the decision made no sense.

“It is a very bizarre ruling that relies on a paragraph on a website,” he said. “It is a very real threat to American farmers. This is definitely appealable.”

In its ruling, the court noted that records indicate a large majority of conventional seed samples have become contaminated by Monsanto’s Roundup resistance trait.

Monsanto filed 144 patentinfringement lawsuits against farmers between 1997 and April 2010, and won judgments against farmers it said made use of its seed without paying required royalties.

Many U.S. farmers have said their fields were inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto’s biotech seeds without their knowledge. The issue has been a topic of concern for not only farmers, but also companies that clean and handle seed.

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An emu makes its way through a wheat field on a farm near Chinchilla, about 250 km (155 miles) west of Brisbane. PHOTO: REUTERS/TIM WIMBORNE

Australia sees fourthbiggest wheat crop in 2013-14 Wheat production could be 25.4 million tonnes SYDNEY / REUTERS

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u s t ra l i a , t h e w o r l d’s second-biggest wheat exporter, is expected to boost wheat production by 15 per cent this year to its fourthlargest crop on record, with a bumper harvest set to put further downward pressure on prices.

Wheat production for the new marketing year was expected at 25.4 million tonnes, up two per cent from a March forecast and well above last year’s 22.1 million tonnes, the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) said June 11.

Other wheat-producing n a t i o n s h a ve f o re c a s t b i g crops, particularly in the Black Sea region, and higher Australian output could put more pressure on Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures, which have already fallen more than 10 per cent this year on expectations for a bumper global crop.

Australia’s commodities forecaster said acreage devoted to wheat would rise three per cent in 2013-14 from the previous year as dry weather across much of Australia’s east coast prevented farmers from planting canola before the sowing window closed.

EU states deadlocked on genetically modified maize approvals The authorization would cover imports for food and feed BRUSSELS / REUTERS / European Union governments failed to agree June 10 whether to approve three genetically modified maize varieties for use in food and feed, the European Commission said.

The failure of the bloc’s standing committee on food chain and animal health to reach a majority either for or against means the decisions will pass to an appeal committee over the coming weeks, a spokesman for the commission said.

If the appeal committee is also unable to reach agreement, the commission will be free to grant EU marketing approval.

Two of the applications are for maize varieties containing multiple or “stacked” gene traits, designed to protect the growing plants from multiple insect pests and make them herbicide tolerant. Both products were developed jointly by Monsanto Co. and Dow Chemical Co. Neither variety is approved for cultivation in Europe.

The authorization would cover the use of imports in food and feed products sold in Europe, although there is little or no demand for genetically modified food among EU consumers.

The third approval covers the pollen of Monsanto’s insect-resistant MON810 maize, the only genetically modified crop currently grown commercially in Europe.

Five of the 27 European Union member states grew MON810 maize on 129,000 hectares in 2012, data from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) showed.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

CROP REPORT

Seeding nearly complete; flea beetle pressure heavy Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives crop report for June 17, 2013 Weekly provincial summary

• Seeding is wrapping up for the 2013 season. The only remaining acres left to be seeded include greenfeed, millet crops and some isolated acres of barley and oats.

• Reseeding of spring-seeded crops occurred due to factors such as soil crusting, insect activity and disease.

• Weed control operations progressed rapidly but were hampered by wind in some areas. Weed control will remain a priority.

• Insect activity increased over the past week. Control measures for flea beetles and cutworms were necessary in some fields; monitoring will continue.

• Many areas received precipitation in scattered thundershowers and accumulations varied from trace amounts up to 55 mm. Hail was reported in isolated areas on Monday, June 10 but to date minimal damage to crops was reported.

• The continuing cooler weather is slowing development of crop types such as soybeans and grain corn. However, a return to warmer temperatures should allow those crop types to advance quickly.

• Da i r y p ro d u c e r s h a ve started first cut of hay with average yields reported to date.

Southwest Region

Rainfall ranged from five to 30 mm, with heavier amounts and pea-sized hail reported in isolated thundershowers. Damage was negligible due to the early growth stages. These recent rains were beneficial to emerg-

ing oilseeds that were damaged by earlier frost and severe flea beetle pressure. Seeding in the extreme southern portions is now virtually complete.

Flea beetle feeding in canola is requiring additional control measures to be taken. There are some isolated reports of reseeding due to severe flea beetle feeding. Cutworm damage increased over this past week with most reports of activity coming from northern regions in the Birtle, Rossburn, Strathclair and Hamiota areas where control measures were taken.

Winter wheat and fall rye benefited from recent rains.

Pasture and hay growth continues to improve with most forages now entering the reproductive stages of development.

Initial yield estimates of first-cut alfalfa stands improved slightly from last week.

Northwest Region

Precipitation varied widely with ranges of five to 25 mm with Winnipegosis and The Pas areas receiving the highest amounts.

Soil moisture is generally adequate.

In localized sectors, short-season crops and greenfeed cereals planting are completed. Crop conditions are rated 70 per cent cereals as excellent and canola at 70 per cent good.

Weed growth is significant with several flushes following previous scattered rainshower.

Herbicide application, while somewhat hindered by weather conditions, is at 65 per cent completed overall.

Some reports of high flea beetle populations requiring treatment.

Fields impacted tend to be the earliest-seeded canola. Localized reports of cutworm activity are also reported. Canola insect trap counts continue to be very low.

Condition of forage and pasture are rated as good.

Central Region

A narrow strip of hail went through the Sewell/Lowe Farm area on Monday, with a few areas seeing 15 mm of rain.

Showers and minor hail were seen over the weekend in Elm Creek, Fannystelle and Homewood areas. Seeding did continue however, and the wettest areas in the southwestern part of the region saw dramatic advancement in seeded acres.

Broadcast seeding accounts for some of the progress. All areas report soil moisture as being adequate to surplus.

Stands of many crops are uneven. Crusting is an issue on some fields following heavy rains; reseeding is required for some crops, including soybeans and canola.

Cooler temperatures resulted in slow canola growth, and flea beetle feeding is a concern in much of the region. Some fields were sprayed multiple times due to heavy feeding pressure.

Corn crops are improving in colour and herbicide applications continue. There are some reports of cutworm damage.

Soybean development ranges from just emerging to early-trifoliate stage. Growth is slow, particularly for soybeans.

Winter wheat is entering the flag leaf stage; fungicide applications may start later this week.

Cutworms are reported in

corn and broadleaf crops.

Some insecticide application is required. Diamondback moth monitoring continues. Trap counts are highest in eastern parts of the region.

First-cut, high-quality alfalfa started last week with average yields expected. Hay fields are slow to progress with the average to cooler temperatures.

Pastures are growing rapidly; timely rains will be needed for maintaining growth in the driest areas. Dugouts are full.

Eastern Region

Most areas across the region report soil moisture as adequate to surplus. There are a few areas that would welcome some precipitation.

A storm with hail and strong winds went through parts of the region on Monday. Fields in a line from Tyndall/Garson to just south of Beausejour, through by Anola/Garven Road area to Elma were impacted. Most producers are concerned about winter wheat in the boot stage of development and soybeans.

Seeding is essentially complete. Herbicide applications are underway.

Fungicide applications are starting in winter wheat with further treatments to be applied in the coming week. Areas that are wetter are reporting increased downy mildew and tan spot pressure.

Insect pressure increased over the past week. Many sunflowers acres are sprayed for cutworms; cutworms are noted in some canola fields as well. Flea beetle activity in canola resulted in some isolated spraying.

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Hay conditions in the region are rated as 60 per cent to 80 per cent good, 20 per cent fair and 20 per cent poor.

Pasture conditions in the region are rated as 75 per cent to 80 per cent good to 20 to 25 per cent fair in the region.

Livestock water supply, including dugouts, is rated at 100 per cent adequate.

Interlake Region

S c a t t e re d s h ow e r s , a l o n g w i t h w a r m t e m p e r a t u re s , were reported throughout the Interlake Region. Moosehorn received the most precipitation with amounts ranging from 50 to 55 mm. Most other parts of the region received anywhere from 10 to 25 mm. With an increase in temperatures along with precipitation, crops are advancing quite well.

Se e d i n g t h r o u g h o u t t h e region is essentially complete. In some cases, reseeding is occurring due to cutworm damage.

In the South Interlake, some producers will start spraying fungicide on winter wheat for flag leaf protection.

Forage grasses started to head out while alfalfa plants are in the pre-bloom stage.

Producers are checking their alfalfa seed production fields for alfalfa weevil and lygus bug populations to determine spray timing along with their leafcutter bee incubation period.

Dairy farmers are working on completing first cut of hay.

Older stands of hay are coming off fair to average and newer hay stands reported aboveaverage yields.

Cigi signs MOU with Yihai Kerry

(Wilmar International)

By Alan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF

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ore Canadian wheat, durum and pulses could be exported to China in coming years thanks to the efforts of the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi).

Cigi and Yihai Kerry (Wilmar International), one of the largest rice and wheat flour millers in the region, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) June 14 that will see Cigi provide technical services and expertise in Canadian crops to the company, Cigi said in a news release.

Yihai Kerry is a leading agribusiness and food company with more than 20 years’ experience in China.

The MOU was signed in Beijing during a trade mission led by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz.

When asked if the MOU would translate into Canadian crop sales right away Ritz replied: “I think the only restriction as to what Wilmar

will buy is how much we can supply. This is an MOU that takes us back to the drawing board blending pulses and durum so we end up with some protein in the noodles that are being manufactured over here.”

Cigi is experienced in the Chinese market, said Cigi chief executive officer Earl Geddes.

“This knowledge enables us to identify opportunities to work with Yihai Kerry to increase the diversity, healthiness and profitability of their products using Canadian wheat, durum and pulses,” he said.

Over the next several months Cigi and Yihai Kerry officials will finalize the deal.

Cigi, an independent market development institute created in 1972 to train customers how to process Canadian crops, is funded by farmers, the federal government (AAFC) and industry partners. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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U.S.-Japan wheat trade set to resume after short-term halt

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he discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat in Oregon is unlikely to hit long-term U.S. wheat sales to Japan and could spark debate about whether importers should tolerate very low levels of “foreign material,” industry sources said June 11.

News of the unapproved wheat growing in Oregon, reported on May 29, prompted Tokyo to halt all imports of U.S. feed wheat.

“We think there could be a short interruption (in U.S. wheat exports to Japan) and then they will resume again because there won’t be a problem,” Ian White, president and chief executive officer with the Canadian Wheat Board said.

White told an International Grains Council conference that Canada was not looking at the issue as an opportunity to boost sales to Japan.

“The Japanese like to trade some Australian, some U.S. and some Canadian. They like that blend and I think that blend will probably continue,” he said.

Japan’s Farm ministry said on June 11 it was looking to buy 120,000 tonnes of feed wheat, excluding U.S. supplies shipped from the Pacific Northwest. It did, however, accept offers of U.S. soft red winter wheat which is grown in the southeast and Midwest regions of the country.

Alan Tracy, president of U.S. Wheat Associates, said so far the market had reacted to the news calmly, noting no GM wheat had been found in commercial channels.

“I’m obviously hopeful that we don’t find more and I would like to see the source discovered so it can be traced back and contained,” he said on the sidelines of the conference.

CWB’s White said trade protocols, which were tolerant of very low levels of “foreign material,” were necessary.

“There is a need for world trade to accommodate a low-level presence of foreign material and we do think that is important for countries to bring in so the trade won’t be interrupted by a very isolated event,” he said.

Tracy said that Japan’s treatment of soybean imports from the U.S. could provide a workable model for future when eventually GM wheat is grown commercially.

Japan has a tolerance level for GMO soybeans in non-GMO shipments for human consumption.

Don Cruikshank, manager of the Deerwood Soil and Water Management Association and assistant manager Kelvin Hildebrandt have been busy this year, first with monitoring the snowmelt, then the run-off from heavy rains on the May long weekend followed by more heavy rain May 30 and 31. Cruikshank says the latest run-off was the highest ever recorded by the Deerwood association. Rainfall amounts in the watershed varied from three to five inches, but because soils were already saturated much of it ran off. Here Cruikshank is sampling water during the evening of June 1 on Dale Steppler’s farm west of Miami, where beneficial management practices are being studied. photo: kelvin hildebrandt

Lack of data could reduce funding: AMM president So few filled out the voluntary census form in 2011, the data in one-third of Manitoba municipalities is so limited it is not being released

By Lorraine Stevenson co-operator staff

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ne in three Manitoba municipalities learned recently they won’t be getting data from the new voluntary National Household Survey because too few local residents participated.

This is the first release of the new survey introduced in 2011 to replace the former mandatory long-form census. At the time, the federal government said the mandatory census was an invasion of privacy.

Canadians saw the first report based on voluntary data from this initial National Household Survey May 8. That’s when many communities across the country found out the data from the voluntary form was so limited it is

“A lot of the grants, whether they’re federal or provincial, are based on per capita funding. If you don’t know how many people are there, municipalities could get shortchanged.”

Doug Dobrowolski AMM president

too unreliable to be released. If fewer than 50 per cent responded to the survey, Statistics Canada did not publish the results citing the limitation on the data’s accuracy.

Nationally, one in four communities lacks data. Saskatchewan has fared the worst, with over 40 per cent of communities lacking data.

Association of Manitoba Municipalities president Doug Dobrowolski said municipalities feared this outcome when they learned that the mandatory form was ending. He predicted a serious long-term financial impact as it affects how communities access government grants, he said.

“A lot of the grants, whether they’re federal or provincial,

are based on per capita funding,” he said. “If you don’t know how many people are there, municipalities could get shortchanged.”

It also means less data locally to do community planning, he added. The data has helped with everything from recreation planning to determining housing needs based on demographics.

“We need those statistics so when we do our planning, we know we can see changing trends in the population,” he said.

The AMM together with the national Federation of Canadian Municipalities are vowing to continue to argue the merits of returning to the mandatory long form, he said. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

Rail freight bill rolls closer to final approval Despite shortcomings, opposition says it will support the legislation

By Alex Binkley co-operator contributor / ottawa

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lthough they pointed out plenty of shortcomings, opposition parties have supported final approval of legislation to balance commercial negotiations between railways and their freight customers.

The Conservatives had shunted the Fair Rail Freight Service Act through all stages

of the parliamentary process over the last six months without accepting any amendments from the opposition parties, shipper groups, or railways. Once it is granted Senate approval, Transport Canada will begin drafting and implementing the raft of regulations required to implement the bill and lay the groundwork for mandatory service commitments for rail customers. If the latter can’t

be reached voluntarily, then the Canadian Transportation Agency will provide mediation and arbitration if needed to conclude them.

The bill has plenty of flaws but “is better than nothing,” said NDP Transport Critic Olivia Chow. The service agreements won’t deal with the cost of service, she added.

“We need to let the market dictate pricing, but because

the market is completely skewed right now, there is no competition,” she said.

Liberal spokesman Kevin Lamoureux called it a missed opportunity.

“We had a wonderful opportunity to deal with the issue in such a fashion that it could have made even that much more of a positive impact,” he said. “The government really did nowhere near what it could have done.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | June 20, 2013

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

Exotic cuisine and fast-water canoeing at Elma-area retreat Whitemouth-area retreat centre a place to ‘disconnect from everyday life,’ say owners

By Lorraine Stevenson co-operator staff / near Elma

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hannon Stebelko holds up a tiny jar of homemade jam, freshly made from the blueberries growing in abundance along the Whitemouth River.

It’s a take-home reminder of the nature and local culture visitors at Moon Gate Bed & Breakfast have enjoyed.

Stebelko, a Red Seal certified chef and co-owner of The Spicy Radish restaurant in nearby Elma, puts on “culinary adventure” workshops at the resort, instructing guests on how to prepare and enjoy local foods, including wild edibles.

Moon Gate owners Jenny and Michel Dupas quit their jobs four years ago and moved from The Pas after purchasing their riverside rural acreage. It used to be home to an egg-grading station, but the couple had another kind of country business in mind when they began to restore it to create the Moon Gate Bed & Breakfast and Wellness Retreat.

Now, where farmers’ eggs were once delivered for washing and grading, tourists arrive for rest and restoration. Both owners have backgrounds in holistic therapy, and say their primary goal was to create a rural retreat where guests could fully engage with the quiet, natural surroundings.

Jenny and Michel Dupas are the smiling hosts of Moon Gate B & B that offers visitors a one-of-a-kind “culinary adventure” on the banks of the Whitemouth River.

“People have forgotten how to actually disconnect from everyday life.

Going to the lake is just swapping your home in the city for your home at the lake.”

Jenny Dupas

co-owner of Moon Gate B & B

“We saw a need for it from our combined experiences with providing holistic services,” says Jenny Dupas, a certified reflexologist and specialist in other holistic therapies.

“People have forgotten how to actually disconnect from everyday life. Going to the lake is just swapping your home in the city for your home at the lake.”

The airy, cosily decorated fivebedroom B and B also includes the fully equipped kitchen that Stebelko regularly drops by to work in.

Moon Gate now offers a ‘Foraging and Fast Water’ adventure, a two-day package created in partnership with Stebelko and another local company, Wild Harmony Canoe Adventures.

Patricia Ryan and Adrian Storimans are the guides and instructors with Wild Harmony Canoe Adventures, a Seven Sisters Falls-based wilderness canoe adventure company. photos: lorraine stevenson

Visitors are welcomed with cups of dandelion root iced tea, enjoy meals that include other wild edibles, learn about food preservation with Stebelko, and take a canoe trip.

“You absolutely need to get out on the river and see what you’ve been missing,” says Adrian Storimans, owner of Wild Harmony.

He started the business after reflecting on how few people

get to enjoy the quintessential Canadian experience.

“I s a w a n i c h e t h e re,” Storimans said. “The reality is most Canadians don’t canoe because they don’t have the skills or the comfort level.”

Regardless of their canoeing experience, participants in ‘Foraging and Fast Water’ can enjoy a full three hours guided canoeing on the Whitemouth River with Storimans. The com-

pany also books longer trips on other Manitoba rivers.

Moon Gate is part of a ‘Foodie Adventure’ network supported

by E a s t m a n To u r i s m a n d Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives and promoting venues in eastern Manitoba that offer Manitobans opportunities vacation in the countryside and learn about local food. lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

Chef Shannon Stebelko is the co-owner of The Spicy Radish, a restaurant at nearby Elma, in its second season offering “classic diner food with a fresh flare.” Stebelko works with the Dupases to offer their ‘Foraging and Fast Water’ food and canoe weekend packages.

To learn more: Moon Gate Bed & Breakfast — www.moongatebedandbreakfast.ca/ The Spicy Radish Cafe — www.spicyradish.ca Wild Harmony Canoe Adventures — www.wildharmony.ca Next week: Learn to bake at Thistle Lane Guest House.

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MANITOBANS Dig In Lorraine Stevenson Crossroads Recipe Swap

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n 1943, there were more than 200,000 ‘Victory Gardens’ as patriotic Canadians responded to the call to help the war effort by growing their own food.

Slogans such as “Grow Your Own Vitamins” and “Can All You Can” encouraged people to help ease pressure on the food supply by gardening, notes the Reading and Remembrance Project website.

There’s no tally of how many gardens there are in backyards and community spaces today, but surely it is a growing number.

Seventy years later, gardening is entirely a grassroots movement, with the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of victory gardeners wanting to become a little more self-reliant.

They also want to push back against some of the “ills” that came with peace and prosperity — too much processed food, too much time spent indoors, and a disconnection from both neighbours in an urbanized society, and the farms where food is produced.

Today, small gardens are again found on school properties and in backyards (and front yards!) and are once more putting home grown vegetables on people’s tables. This time around, there’s also an emphasis on learning or reviving gardening skills.

One group helping spur interest in gardening in Manitoba is the Dig In Challenge, an initiative of Food Matters Manitoba. The two-year-old project encourages people to do something good for themselves and their communities by learning how to cook and garden. Interest has been nothing short of phenomenal. Nearly 100 schools, about 20 organizations, and more than 300 individuals have signed the 2013 Dig In pledge, which challenges participants to switch at least 10 to 25 per cent of their food budget over to locally grown foods.

The challenge also involves a promise to cook and eat family meals more often, support local grocery stores and farmers’ markets, and buy direct from farmers whenever possible. Dig In also challenges people to learn, and it organizes workshops on a host of topics, including seed saving; fruit tree planting and care; raising chickens; canning and preserving food; and cooking with homegrown produce.

My mom used to say, “Dig in” when everything was ready on the dinner table. It was our version of ‘Bon Appetit.’

Dig In!

Sagan Morrow, the Dig In Challenge coordinator, recently sent me a link to a large number of recipes her “Dig In’ers” are sharing. Here’s a couple that are a nice start for the lighter eating of summer. You can find more recipes and learn more about the Dig In Challenge at www.diginmanitoba.ca/ challenge.

PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

Greek Oregano Inspired Salad This salad was inspired by some of the early spring produce that can be found at farmers’ markets as well as fresh garden herbs. This recipe doesn’t specify amounts so use the herbs at your own discretion.

Mixed greens Romaine lettuce 5 radishes 1/4 c. Parmesan cheese 1/3 c. feta cheese Oregano to taste Garlic greens 2 medium tomatoes 1/2 c. raspberries Parsley to taste 2/3 c. extra virgin olive oil 1/3 c. balsamic vinegar Rosemary Lemon thyme Ground pepper Lemon juice

Tear apart lettuce. Chop garlic greens, parsley and radishes. Crumble feta and grate Parmesan. Chop oregano. Combine in large bowl with raspberries sprinkled on top. In a separate bowl, whisk or blend olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Add rosemary, thyme, oregano and black pepper to taste. Squeeze in a bit of lemon juice. Whisk again and pour over salad to taste.

Macedonian Potato Salad This potato salad pairs perfectly with homemade burgers and is a refreshing side dish for a hot summer BBQ. 4 to 5 large red potatoes or 10-12 small potatoes 1 tsp. sea salt and black pepper to taste 1 onion or 4-5 spring onions 3 tbsp. apple cider vinegar (recommended) or juice of 1/2 a lemon 3 tbsp. olive oil or extra virgin olive oil 1 tsp. dried or fresh parsley (you can also add dill if you like)

Boil the potatoes for about 20-25 minutes, drain and leave to cool. Peel and cut the potatoes into cubes. In a salad bowl — add the finely chopped spring onions, potatoes, salt and pepper to taste, the apple cider vinegar and olive oil, and mix gently. Sprinkle with parsley (and/or dill).

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see in the news,” said Andrew Jackson, “that an enterprising young Russian billionaire is planning to digitize people’s brain functions in order to be able to transfer them into computers so that people will be able to have digital versions of themselves which will make it possible for them to live forever.” He closed his newspaper as he spoke, laid it on the table beside his coffee cup and looked around the table at the assembled members of his family, all of whom were there for the annual Jackson family Father’s Day brunch.

Jennifer turned from her position at the kitchen counter where she was busy turning over the bacon on the electric griddle. “Oh!” she said.

“Brady, you should volunteer for that project!” she said.

Brady looked surprised. “I should?” he said.

“Why?” “It would be easier to digitize your brain functions,” said Jennifer, grinning, “because you have so few.”

Brady’s wife, Amanda, laughed out loud.

“Ziiing,” she said.

“Ha ha ha,” said Brady. “I’d show the guy a picture of you, Jenn, and he’d abandon the whole project on the spot.”

“No doubt,” said Jennifer, “he’d be distracted by my awesome beauty.”

“Not exactly,” said Brady. “More like he’d realize the horror of a world in which you were going to live forever.”

“Seriously,” said Andrew, “who decided that this generation is going to be the one that gets to live forever?” He took another look around the table.

“No offence,” he added, “but if I’m going to live forever, I don’t want it to be in a world populated by a race of slack-jawed gamers and computer nerds.”

“Now honey, dear,” said Rose, setting a huge plate of french toast in the middle of the table, “don’t be mean to gamers and computer nerds and slack-jawed people. They have as much right to live forever as anyone else.”

“And make no mistake,” said Randy, looking up from helping Andy Jr. with a glass of orange juice, “if living forever is going to require digital science, then those are the people who are going to figure

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it out. I mean, I could do it, but I have to feed the cows.”

“No you don’t,” said Jennifer. “The cows are on the pasture.”

“I don’t mean feed the cows as in literally ‘feed the cows,’” said Randy. “I mean figuratively, as in ‘all the stuff I have to do so that there will be food available so that people who want to live forever don’t die before they figure it out.’”

“Now that,” said Randy’s wife Jackie, “would have to be the worst time to die ever. What if you figured out how to put your brain functions in a computer so you could live forever, and then got hit by a bus on the way to the computer lab?”

“I don’t think it would be any worse than getting hit by a bus any other time,” said Amanda.

“It would be way worse darling,” said Brady, “because now you’d be thinking, ‘if only I wasn’t dead, I could have lived forever.’”

“I’m sure everyone thinks that after they get hit by a bus,” said Amanda.

There was a momentar y lull in the conversation.

“I can’t imagine living forever,” said Andrew.

“I’ve only been doing it for 50 years and I’m already exhausted.”

“Maybe you should have a nap,” said Jennifer.

“Oh, believe me, I will,” said Andrew. “But not yet. I have a firm policy; no naps before brunch.”

“Honestly,” said Randy, “if I was a billionaire, I could find better things to waste money on than trying to live forever.”

“Like what?” said Jackie.

“Well for one thing,” said Randy, “I’d get us a bigger trailer.”

“Oh goodie,” said Jackie. “I’d much rather live for a few short years in a slightly bigger trailer than live forever in the one we have now.”

“You say that with a hint of sarcasm,” said Randy, “but what if I told you that in your new larger trailer, there would also be… wait for it… a dishwasher!”

“Ooooh,” said Jackie. “Eternal life, or a dishwasher. Tough choice.”

“I know which one I’d choose,” said Rose, setting a large plate of fresh fruit beside the french toast, and then finally seating herself at the table. “Let’s eat.”

Andrew looked at the feast on the table, french toast, bacon, fresh fruit, coffee and a jug of freshly squeezed orange juice. “If it were always like this,” he said, “just my family, around a table heaped with food, then I have to admit, I think I might like to live forever.”

“Aw, that’s so sweet Daddy,” said Jennifer.

Rose raised her coffee mug. “Here’s to Randy and Andrew,” she said. “Happy Father’s Day.” Andrew raised his own mug. “That it is,” he said. “That it certainly is.”

HELIOTROPE — perfect for a container Old-time favourite gives off wonderful aroma, has long-lasting bloom

By Albert Parsons FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR

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ragrant plants are often included in our outdoor containers to perfume the air. One plant that is a great addition is a heliotrope because it not only has beautiful bloom all season but it has wonderful aroma.

Heliotrope is actually a temperate evergreen shrub that will grow well over a metre tall in warmer climates. In our area, however, it is grown as an annual and will only get 30 to 45 cm tall in one growing season. It is not frost tolerant and should not be planted outdoors until the soil is warm and the temperatures are consistently above 10 C at night.

The name of the plant comes from the Greek words Helios, meaning sun, and Tropos, meaning turn. The name refers to the plant’s tendency to move with the sun — the dense clusters of delicate flowers turn during the day to face the sun and will be facing east each morning to begin their daily ritual.

Although heliotrope likes at least six hours of sunlight per day, it prefers afternoon shade

— the leaves will sometimes burn if exposed to harsh afternoon sun. An eastern exposure is perfect for this plant.

Although tolerant of drought, heliotrope performs best if the soil is kept evenly moist. Using rich, porous soil will satisfy its need for good drainage and lots of nutrients. Fertilize every two weeks with a fertilizer with a high second number in its formula. Regular applications of fertilizer will keep the oval, dark-green, and heavily veined leaves attractive and vigorous.

Heliotrope is not particularly bothered by pests or disease, although if the plant is to be overwintered indoors, a careful watch for insects must be undertaken. The plant should be cut back in the fall before it is moved inside and placed in a location with a sunny exposure.

Heliotrope benefits from pinching when it is young so if this has not been done by the greenhouse where you buy the plant, you might want to pinch the plant back after you purchase it. Pinching back will delay bloom but will cause the plant to bush out and produce a lot more bloom.

Deadheading will ensure that blooming continues right up until fall frost cuts the plant down or it is moved indoors.

Although heliotrope comes in white and pale lavender, the most common — and in my opinion the showiest — colour is rich, dark purple. This colour combines well with plants that have yellow flowers and/ or foliage. A striking container would be one that has several plants with yellow blooms and perhaps a couple that have purple blooms. The heliotrope could act as the focal point at the base of the container as it is bushy, not that tall, and will bloom all summer. Some darkpurple and/or golden foliage would enhance such a container even more.

If you like a plant that has beautiful, long-lasting bloom, is relatively easy to care for, and gives off wonderful aroma, look no further than the oldtime favourite, heliotrope. Its heavenly scent will surround you every time you relax in your outdoor living space during the summer.

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

Dark-purple heliotrope combines well with yellow flowers such as marigolds as shown here. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

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Feature wall dos and don’ts Here’s some tips if you are considering this look for your home Connie Oliver Around the House

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recently updated my kitchen with a fresh paint colour and backsplash. I have a faux brick feature wall in my kitchen on the wall opposite the cabinets that has always been a thorn in my side. The brick “feature” was circa 1970s (installed by a previous owner) and wasn’t exactly realistic looking but was probably popular with the DIY crowd back then. Happily, the man-made stone products available on the market today are more representative of the real thing, but there are things to consider when installing a permanent feature wall like brick or stone.

As with my brick wall, once it’s up it’s a lot of work to undo. I opted for the least expensive and simple update of painting the brick out in a flat white paint. You can see from the before and after photos that the wall, and subsequently the kitchen, is much brighter and has an updated look.

The person who installed my brick feature wall broke a lot of commonsense rules that made the wall more of a detriment than a feature. Here’s some dos and don’ts for those who might be considering this look: No. 1 — Choose the right wall. In my case, the kitchen is long and narrow but the brick wall was installed on one of the long walls, which made the space feel even narrower. If your room is rectangular, consider using the smaller, end wall for the feature wall.

No. 2 — Be mindful of lighting issues that may arise. Darker stone and brick feature walls will suck up a lot of light in the room. In my case, the dark stone was on the wall opposite the window and did make the room a lot darker.

Once I painted the brick white, the room was much brighter because the painted brick reflects the natural light from the window. In a den or family room, low lighting might be acceptable and even conducive to watching television or movies, but in a room like

a kitchen, darker tones can make the room seem glum.

No. 3 — Consider the impediments on the wall you choose. Again, the person who installed the brick wall in my home chose a wall with a recessed niche, light switches and electrical outlets. They did not do a great job of cutting the brick around the light switch. I was able to rectify this once I painted out the brick. Had they chosen the smaller, end wall of the room, the installation would have been much easier because that wall had no such obstacles to work around.

No. 4 — Think about the use of the room in question and whether brick or stone is a good option. The brick wall in my kitchen runs beside the kitchen table making it a backsplash for errant ketchup splatter and spaghetti sauce spatter. This makes for difficult cleanup. A textured wall might not be the best choice for a kitchen, a bathroom or a child’s room.

Undoing what was done incorrectly can be a challenging task. I would have loved to remove all of those bricks to get a smooth wall surface back, but the walls underneath are plaster so I thought it best to leave the bricks intact. One could, I suppose, drywall over a similar wall but the wall would have to be strapped and the end result would have brought the walls in closer, in an already narrow room. Also, the electrical would have to be moved and the trim on the doorway reworked. So, in the end I chose to paint the bricks with a flat ceiling paint. I let some of the brick colour show through and left the grout lines, so that it looks like an old, brick wall from a warehouse. It’s much brighter in the kitchen now and the room feels much larger. I also pared down the accessories and opted for a simple display in the recessed niche.

My kitchen is now fresh, bright, less cluttered and feels much larger. If you’re going to install a feature wall, keep these tips in mind so that the wall can be enjoyed for years to come.

Connie Oliver is an interior designer from Winnipeg

Before. PHOTOS: CONNIE OLIVER

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Favourite month of June

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By Marilyn Goertzen Freelance contributor

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rowing up on the farm, June was always a favourite month with its colourful calves and baby chicks. No heavy jackets were needed as June meant no more frosty nights and warmer days. The fireflies flicked along the raspberry rows, June bugs could be found whenever I dug around in the garden, wild roses were blooming and wild strawberries were ripe for picking.

Regular school classes were interrupted in June as sports were practised for competition among ourselves and then with other schools.

A school picnic was held where races were run and the crowning game of softball was played — children against adults. This was also the month for provincial exams and end-of-year classroom cleanup.

Now that I am a grandmother, I still enjoy the month of June. Perhaps it’s the nostalgia or the grandchildren’s excitement as I greet them with, “Come see my row of corn!” or, “We’ve got baby chicks!”

Marilyn Goertzen writes from Grunthal, Manitoba

A first-grade Marilyn Goertzen holds a jar of strawberries that the girls had freshly picked for a teacher. photo: SUPPLIED

Our farmyard echoed with a drumming sound from the male ruffed grouse as his accelerating wings beat the spring air to impress females and proclaim his territory from rival males. The male’s display of courtship and rivalry takes place within his four-hectare claim with up to six or more favourite elevated spots such as fallen logs amid the poplar trees. The male stands tall on the drumming log to warn his intruders; droops his wings, and then slowly whips his wings in the air to make a noise similar to a balky motor before it begins to idle smoothly.

Suddenly, his wings hasten the tempo into a quick rhythm. This is his territory. PHOTO: LILLIAN DEEDMAN

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AUCTION DISTRICTS Parkland – North of Hwy 1; west of PR 242, following the west shore of Lake Manitoba and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.

Westman – South of Hwy 1; west of PR 242.

Interlake – North of Hwy 1; east of PR 242, following the west shore of Lake Manitoba and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis.

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ACREAGE AUCTION Rem & Valerie Weiss

BANKRUPTCY AUCTION SALE ON Sat., June 29th 9:30am in the Legion Hall in Rapid City. Total-ly Non Reserved Sale for BDO Ltd., Brandon. Fea-turing a large quantity of foreign paper money, large quantity of Canadian coinage, plus a stamp collec-tion. This will be a large sale, no buy backs, every-thing must be sold.

For more info phone Prairie Lane Auctions (204)7247510 or Hyndman’s Auc-tion (204)826-2092.

Winnipegosis

Roblin

Dauphin

Grandview

Ashern

Gilbert Plains

Fisher Branch

Ste. Rose du Lac Russell

Parkland

Birtle

Riverton Eriksdale

McCreary

Langruth

Minnedosa Neepawa

Gladstone

Rapid City

Reston Melita

1

Carberry

Brandon

Treherne

Killarney

Pilot Mound Crystal City

Elm Creek

Sanford

Ste. Anne

Carman

Mariapolis

Lac du Bonnet

Beausejour

Winnipeg

Austin

Souris

Boissevain

Stonewall Selkirk

Portage

Westman

Waskada

Interlake

Erickson

Hamiota

Virden

Arborg

Lundar Gimli

Shoal Lake

St. Pierre

242

Morris Winkler Morden

Altona

Steinbach

1

Red River

ANTIQUES

MEYERS AUCTION 10:00am Sun., June 23rd. 431 Lansdowne Ave, Arden, MB. Coins & Paper Money Sell at 10:00am. GUNS: sell right after Coins. 1998 Buick Park Ave; Minneapolis- Moline M670 Tractor w/Allied Loader; 2001 Club Car & 2007 EZ Go Electric Golf Carts; 2007 Dodge Ram ST 1500- Subject to; Prowler 24-ft. Bumper Hitch Trailer; Star Craft Tent Trailer; 1998 Bombardier Seadoo GTS 580cc twin; JD 115 Riding Mower; 2) Saber Riding Mowers; 2) Ariens Riding Mowers. SHOP EQUIP-MENT & TOOLS: ANTIQUES: FURNITURE & HOUSEHOLD: GARDEN. Meyers Auctions & Ap-praisals, Arden, MB. Bradley Meyers Auctioneer (204)368-2333 or (204)476-6262 cell. This is a par-tial listing. Detailed List & Pics at meyersauctions.com

ANTIQUES Antique Equipment FOR SALE: 1946 JD AR starter & lights, partly restored, need room in shop. Phone (204)435-2103.

FOR SALE: 1 NICE buggy tongue w/complete eaveners & neck yoke; 1 good set of single harness w/collar & bridle; 1 double set of frayed harness, spread rings, scotch tops; Several antique neck yokes for buggy or cutter. Good horse machinery.

(204)242-2809.

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COLLECTORS CHAPTER 38, 2013 show will be held at Olds college grounds July 19th & 20th in conjunction w/the 60th World Plowing Championship. An IH collector will be offering many project units at the Olds College Antique Machinery Auction July 18th, 10:00am. ihc38.com Derald Marin (306)869-2262.

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LARRY & LYNNE DOUGLAS EVENING AUCTION

Tues., June 25 @ 5:00 pm Teulon, MB - 132 3rd Ave NE

Well Kept Late Model Quality Items Contact: (204) 886-2952 | Email: mcsherry@mts.net

Utility Tractor: 05 Simplicity Legacy 3 cyl Dsl 4x4 hyd 3PH FCR PTO New Cond, only 170 hrs, Sold as a Package 60” Belly Mt Mower, 3PH 50” Roto Vator, Frt Mt 46” 2 Stag Snowblower * F11 500 FEL w/ Bucket * 3PH Rear Counter Weights * Removable Cab Yard & Rec: 08 rugged Cut 44” Pull Type Mower w/ 14 1/2 HP B&S * Stihl FS 45cc Wick * Trailer Sprayer * Agri Fab 17 cu ft Metal Tilt Trailer * Brindly Trailer Broadcaster * Brindy 42” Lawn Sweep * Agri Fab 38” Lawn Sweep * Air Thatcher * Hoffco 2HP Mini Tiller * Echo HC 156 * Chain Saws * B&D Edge Hog Elec Edger * Backpack & Bottle Sprayers * Manual 24” Packer * Hand Yard Tools * 06 Yamaha 350 Bruin 4x4 Quad Rev 1800 km * 98 Yamaha Gas 4 Wheel Golf Cart Canopy * SnowBear BH 8’ Utility Trailer w/ Removable Sides * BH 4’ Utility Trailer w/ Cover * 6.75 HP 2450 lb Pressure Washer * Yamaha 1000 watt Generator * Blue Ox Trailer Hitch & Elec Breaking System * Yard Furniture Tools: Crafts Prof Table Saw * Crafts Scroll Saw * Crafts Disc/Belt Sander * Crafts Counter Drill Press * Bench Grinder * Crafts 3/4 hp Dust Collector * Laser Kit * Air Nailer * Various Power Tools * Hand Tools Yard: 2) Sets Patio Table & Chairs * Cabinet * Swing Bench w/ Canopy * Wood Bench * Mosquito Magnet Household: 5 pc Wicker Sunroom * Oak Double Pedestal DR Table * Deep Freeze 1) Upright * Oak Desk w/ Hutch * Some K Items * Malibu Home Gym * More Items than Listed *

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

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MONDAY, JUNE 24, 5 PM

FROM MORDEN, HWY 3 AND 432, 1 NORTH AND 3/4 WEST ON ROAD 14

Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433 • Ford 8N With eq .1998 Chev pickup truck .

1998 GMC Pickup extendacab 4x4 clean unit .

• 1958 Chev 1ton model 9380, 6 cylinder, box and hoist, dual wheels, running • 1984 Olds Omega 4 door, Automatic. Nice clean car only 186000 km • Artic Cat Prowler snow machine • Ford 8n with implements, • Single axle trailer with dump approx. 5 x 7 ft • Pool table, • Antiques etc.

See our website: www.billklassen.com or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230

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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.

FARM & HEAVY EQUIPMENT CONSIGNMENT AUCTION Sat., July 6, 2013.

Mitch’s Tractor Sales Lot, in St-Claude MB. Consign equipment by calling Mitch Tractor Sales at (204)750-2459 or Gilbert Gauthier Auctions at (204)379-2826 Advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. It’s a sure thing. 1-800-782-0794.

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Unreserved pUblic farm aUction

russell & Hanna matiowsky Oakburn, MB | Saturday, June 22, 2013 · 10am

FARM AUCTION K & L Farms Leona and the late Ken Bay Ph: (204)-476-6147 (Darcy)

Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 11:00 AM Birnie, MB (28 km North of Neepawa)

Directions: From town of Birnie, travel 3 miles east to Road 83 N (“5 corners junction”), then 1 mile north to farm on east side. Watch for signs Please check lamportanddowler.com for picures and full listing

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

2010 Case ih stX435

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2005 BourgauLt 8810 40 Ft W/5350  SAT., JUNE 29 9:00 AM

 2 MILES EAST SWAN RIVER MANITOBA’S LARGEST 43RD ANNUAL JUNE EQUIPMENT CONSIGNMENT SALE EXCELLENT LINE OF EQUIP –

1993 Case IH 1666 SP diesel rotary 1124 hrs -1986 Versatile 4700 diesel 18 swather 1124 hrs– 1996 NH 2550 25' SP swather with 16' haybine – JD 4640 – 4240 – 4230 tractors 2009 Kioti DK90 FWA tractor 3 PTH – White 2-85 diesel tractor Hyd PTO – Clark forklift – 2012 NH BR7090 as new - NH 688 – NH 1475 16' haybine – New Idea 4865 round baler – Inland 12 wheel v rake – Case IH 8480 round baler – 40' HIGH CUBE ONE WAY SHIPPING CONTAINER – 2006 Ford F150 Lariat 4x4 – Sokal 24' tandem axle cattle trailer 5th wheel – Southland 16' bumper hitch horse trailer – Flexicoil 43’ cult CAMPERS – NEW CAR HAULERS, TENTS, BIOTECKS, TOOL BENCHES, LAWN & GARDEN, TREES & SHRUBS MUCH MUCH MORE LARGEST VARIETY EVER PANCAKE BREAKFAST 8-9 LAWRENCE (204) 525-2225 RYAN (204) 734-0191  LAWRENCE EISNER AUCTIONS MINITONAS, MB www.eisnerauctions.com ….

2003 invader 800

2006 John deere 9860sts

2007 John deere 4895 30 Ft

1997 Western star 5864ss & 1996 Lode King 40 Ft

directions: From OAKBURN, MB, go 4.8 km (3 miles) South on Hwy 21. Yard on West side OR from Shoal Lake, MB go 9.6 km (6 miles) North on Hwy 21.

Yard on West side. GPS: 50.51483. -100.57727

TRACTORS

2010 Case IH STX435 4WD, s/n Z9F117088, powershift, diff lock, 4 hyd outlets, 2 aux hyd, Case IH FM 750 GPS, auto steer, mapping, 800/70R38 duals, 1068 hrs showing.

1984 Versatile 895 Series III 4WD, s/n 093314, standard, 5 hyd outlets, 1 aux hyd, 20.8x38, duals, 5896 hrs showing.

Case IH 7120 2WD, s/n JJA0004818, 18 spd powershift, 3 hyd outlets, 540/1000 PTO, frt weights, 20.8R38 R, duals, 7430 hrs showing (Consigned by David Hyde: 204.759.2283).

1975 John Deere 4430 2WD, s/n 4430W040649R, quad shift, 2 hyd outlets, 540/1000 PTO, 18.4x38 duals, 8330 hrs showing.

Case 930 2WD, Allied 600 ldr, bkt, 6 spd, 2 hyd outlets, 540 PTO, 18.4x34 R. International 806 2WD, std, cab, 2 hyd outlets, 540/1000 PTO, 18.4x38 R, 7199 hrs showing.

Case 430 2WD, s/n 6170181, std, 540 PTO. 2007 John Deere 2305 4x4 Utility, s/n LV2305H321375, 200Cx Q/C ldr, bkt, joystick, diesel, 540 PTO, 3 pt hitch, 62 in. belly mower, 214 hrs showing.

Massey Ferguson 35 Utility, s/n SGM172828, std, 540 PTO, 3 pt hitch.

COMBINE & HEAdER

2006 John Deere 9860STS, s/n H09860S715912, 615 hdr, s/n H00615W715553, long auger, grain tank exts, rol tarp, fine cut chopper, yield & moisture, 18.4R28 duals, 1106 sep hrs showing.

2002 John Deere 930D 30 Ft Draper, s/n H00930D696241, P/U reel, hyd F&A.

2007 Fabtec 4 Wheel Header Transport, s/n TRAIlERS 0706, to fit 30 ft hdr.

1996 Lode King 40 Ft T/A Grain, s/n 2LDLSWATHERS H4023TV027242, spring susp, roll tarp.

2007 John Deere 4895 30 Ft, s/n E04895X330114, 1990 Real 16 Ft T/A Gooseneck Stock, s/n Honey Bee draper hdr, s/n 30WS075347, P/U reel, hyd 2R9G7LB21L1020028.

F&A, dbl knife drive, 2 Roto Shears, transport, 18.4R26 F, 1996 24 Ft T/A Gooseneck, s/n 3624696, (2) 14Lx16.1SL R, 481 mach hrs showing.

7000 lb axles.

1996 Westward 3000 30 Ft, s/n 107973, P/U reel, 2008 Tarnel 18 Ft T/A, s/n 5PYAT172981007997, 540 PTO, transport.

(2) 7000 lb axles.

INduSTRIAl EquIpMENT 1995 Custombuilt 14 Ft T/A Gooseneck, s/n Case 780 Loader Backhoe, bkt, extendahoe.

2345263.

Takeuchi L120CR Skid Steer Loader, s/n 2001 Karavan Trailblazer 2 Place Snowmobile.

21200309, bkt, A/C cab, rubber tracks, 1028 hrs showing.

SEEdINg, TIllAgE & BREAKINg Caterpillar 70 13 Cy Pull Scraper, converted to hyd.

2005 Bourgault 8810 40 Ft Air Seeder, s/n TRuCKS 38343MB-04, 10 in. spacing, sgl shoot, mid-row banding, 1997 Western Star 5864SS T/A Sleeper, s/n NH3 pkg, 2.25 in. poly packers, 5350 tow-behind tank, s/n 2WKLDD2G6VK947571, Caterpillar 430, 13 spd, 36679AS-04, dbl fan, 8 in. load auger.

A/R cab, A/R susp, 48 in. sleeper, 684,419 km showing.

Bourgault 9800 42 Ft Cultivator.

1986 Ford 9000 T/A Grain, s/n 1FDU90W6GVA21346, Cummins 350, 10 spd, A/R susp, 20 ft Bush Hog 10 Ft Disc.

Bush Hog 20 Ft Disc. steel box, hoist, roll tarp.

1975 Ford 8000 Tag/A Grain, s/n R808WV87009, Degelman SM7000 70 Ft Heavy Harrows.

Caterpillar 3208, 5x2, spring susp, 20 ft steel box, hoist, Flexi-Coil 82 100 Ft Harrows. roll tarp.

Flexi-Coil 95 70 Ft Harrow Packer.

1967 Chevrolet C60 S/A Grain, s/n CE6371122543, Degelman 570 Rock Picker.

366, 5x2, 16 ft box, hoist.

Crown Rock Picker.

2008 GMC 2500HD Z71 Crew Cab 4x4 Pickup, s/n 1GTHK23628F214005, Duramax, A/T, 117, 629 SpRAYER 2000 Spra-Coupe 4640 80 Ft, s/n 4640JL8A136, km showing.

1986 Ford F150 XL Explorer Pickup, s/n 2FTE- Perkins, A/T, 400 US gallon poly tank, foam markers, Ez-Steer, mapping, 981 hrs showing.

F15Y4GCA16522, 4 spd, 139,066 km showing.

gRAIN HANdlINg EquIpMENT

Grain Max 4200± Bushel Hopper Bin. (2) Goebel 4200± Bushel Hopper Bin. 2011 Westfield MK130-61 Plus 13 In. x 61 Ft Mechanical Swing Grain Auger.

2011 Farm King FK841 8 In. x 40 Ft Grain Auger.

2011 Brandt 840 8 In. x 40 Ft Grain Auger.

2011 Brandt HP1391 13 In. x 90 Ft Mechanical Swing Grain Auger.

Westfield 8 In. x 51 Ft Grain Auger.

Westfield J208-46 8 In. x 46 Ft Grain Auger.

Westfield 7 In. x 41 Ft Grain Auger.

Kendon 120± Bushel Grain Wagon.

lANdSCApE EquIpMENT

2007 John Deere LA140 48 In. Riding Lawn Mower.

2007 John Deere 647 47 In. 3 Pt Hitch Tiller.

68 In. 3 Pt Hitch Rotary Tiller.

Bush Hog 60 In. 3 Pt Hitch Bush Mower.

Fimco 10 Ft Estate Sprayer.

RECREATIONAl VEHIClES

2003 Invader 180 17.5 Ft Fish & Ski Boat.

1986 Rustler 20 Ft T/A Travel Trailer.

2008 Yamaha Apex LTX 1000cc Snowmobile.

Honda Fourtrax 250 250 cc Quad.

OTHER ITEMS INCludE International 1150 Mix Mill, 540 PTO · 10,000± Bushel

Temp Steel Grain Bin · 5000± Bushel Temp Wood Grain Bin · Buhler 10 Ft Steel Swath Roller · Handler I Chem Fill · (2) 230/95R32 Sprayer Tires · Carolina 55 ton press · Carolina crane...AND MUCH MORE!

For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com

Russell Matiowsky: 204.234.5263 (h), 204.365.7690 (c), hanna@mymts.net Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager – Daryl Martin: 306.421.5066 800.491.4494 Auction Company License #303043 & 309645

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AGASEA FARM

UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for MARION MICHALCZYK

FARM AUCTION

SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 10 AM Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433

GRISWOLD, MB - THURSDAY JUNE 27TH - 10:00 AM

5 NORTH OF PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE ON PR 240.

TRACTORS

DIRECTIONS: From Griswold, MB (Jct #1 & #21) Turn north on #21 about 50 yards to service road. Turn West on service road that runs parallel to #1. Go West 2.5 kms to Sale site. Watch for signs.

ORDER OF SALE: 10:00 AM – 1:00PM (parts, tools, lumber, building supplies, steel, tanks, pallets etc.) 1:00 PM – Larger Equipment

TRACTORS: *IH 1066 Hydro Tractor w/New motor, Newer rear 18.4–38 Tires, Dual PTO, 2 Remote hyd s/n2610163U017892*Case 830 tractor w/Dual Hyd, 540 PTO, 18.4–30 rubber*MF 97 tractor w/cab, single hyd, 540 PTO, 18.434 rubber, s/n2B7B6026*Cockshutt 1850 Tractor w/2 Remote hyd, 540 PTO, s/n285-42220*MF44 Tractor, Running but needs points, s/n11631*8’ Leon Blade (Front Mount) HARVEST EQUIPMENT: *30’ MF 9030 Straight Cut Header w/transport wagon, bat reel, s/nS000383*24’ IH 810 Straight Cut Header w/ Big auger, New wobble box, bat reel, s/nX70246X*24.5’ IH 4000 SP Swather w/no cab, UII Pickup reel, rubber slat canvass, s/n007633*Shop Built Swather Transport SEED & TILLAGE: *24’ Morris Rod Weeder*20’ JD 9450 Hoe Press Drills w/Back on Transport, s/nH002515 & H002508*2 Yard Eversman Hyd Scraper s/n5314 HAYING EQUIPMENT: *NH 855 Rd Baler w/bale kicker, auto oilers, 540 PTO, s/n707120*6’ Bushhog 3PT Rotary Mower s/n12-08532*6’ Trail Type Rotary Mower (needs shaft repair) VEHICLES & TRAILERS: *2000 Chevy 3500 1 Ton dually 4x4, Reg Cab w/10’ Flat deck, Tool Boxes, V8 Gas, Auto Trans, 209,390kms showing, s/n1GBJK34JXYF421093*2012 Big Tex 30’ Tandem Dueled Flat Deck Trailer w/fold down ramps & beaver tails, 22,000 lbs GVW, s/n16VGX2523C2628308*24’ ATCO T/A Flat Deck Fifth Wheel Trailer*1994 20’ Prairie T/A Stock Trailer s/n1P9TSB3C6RT031926*24’ TB Aluminum Triple Axel Stock Trailer, s/n2C9ED45C8H2044014*22’ Shop Built T/A Horse Trailer GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT: *Zie-Vac Grain Vac w/540 PTO*Frontier Inc 1000 grain Vac w/540 PTO LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT: *Ajax 2 Grinder Mixer Mill s/n1009*Linden Trailer Type Post Pounder (fully hyd) excellent cond. SHOP EQUIPMENT: *NEW Lincoln 250 AC/DC Welder w/Cables*NEW Simonize 2900 Pressure Washer*NEW Kawasaki 4000 Watt Generator*NEW 10” Skilsaw Table Saw*30 KVW Generator w/DSL Engine *Shur-Lift 20 Ton Shop Press*Ironsmith Drill Press*Welding Tables*24’ Trailer Load of Farm Tools, Shop Items Etc. PUMPS & TANKS: *4” Trash Pump w/4Cyl DSL engine on 2 wheel wagon*4” Monarch Water Pump w/4Cyl Wisconsin Eng on 2 Wheel Wagon*4” Allis Chalmers Water Pump on 2 Wheel Wagon (Shaft on pump is broken)*4” Water Pump*500 Gal Poly Tank on 2 Wheel Wagon*Fiberglass Water Tanks*Fuel Tanks*Skid Tanks BUILDING SUPPLIES: *Assorted Skids of Lumber (Plywood – 2”x6”- 2”x4”- 4 x6”- truss rafters, etc.*Assorted Building Supplies (Windows, etc)*Quantity of Steel – tubes, pipe, sucker rods etc.

MISCELLANEOUS: *Several Pallets of Misc Farm Related Items & Parts*Trailer Axles (7,000 lbs & 10,000 lbs)*Electric Chain Saw*Chain Link Gates FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT MARION MICHALCZYK @ 1-306-735-7550

Check out full listings & pictures at www.fraserauction.com

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BRANDON, MANITOBA Licensed and bonded. P.L. License #918093. Member of M.A.A., S.A.A., A.A.A., A.A.C. PHONE: (204) 727-2001 FAX: (204) 729-9912 www.fraserauction.com EMAIL: office@fraserauction.com Auctioneer: Scott Campbell Not responsible for errors in description. Subject to additions and or deletions. Property owners and Fraser Auction Service not responsible for any accidents.

GST & PST where applicable. TERMS: Cash or cheque. NOTE: cheques of $50,000 or more must be accompanied by bank letter of credit.

Sale conducted by FRASER AUCTION SERVICE 1-800-483-5856 www.fraserauction.com

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• 2000 Thomas 173 HLS Diesel Skid steer, with bucket, 2116 Hrs, serial # LKOO2394 • Snow bucket and forks sell separate • Duetz 9190 Tractor, Cab, FWA, Pto, 3pth, 20.8 x 38 duals, 2336 hrs, • Duetz 7120 cab, FWA, Dual pto. 3pth, 14.9 x 46 rear, 8884 hrs, serial # 74413620.

• Duetz DX 160, Cab, Dual pto, 3pth.14000 hrs, 14.9 x 46 serial # 6240131 • Duetz DX 120 Cab, creeper gear, pto 3pth, 16.9 x 38 serial # 3105 • Duetz 7120 tractor for parts, cab, 3pth, pto, • Set of 14.9 x 46 rear tractor tires on John Deere Rims

HARVESTING

• Case IH model 8820 swather with 15 ft Mower conditioner head and 21 ft Grain Draper, 3500 hrs, serial # 49572 • Gleaner L3 Diesel, Hydro, rear wheel assist, Pickup, and chopper, 2780 engine hours • Gleaner straight cut header 24 ft

POTATO EQUIPMENT

Most shedded all single phase power • Better built potato seed cutter • 3 @ Two row potato harvesters Utah and Hesstons • Spudnick potato bin piler 220 volt electric • Spudnick Potato Grader table and rubber brushes, stinger • 24’’ x approx 80 ft Telescopic Potato belt conveyor • Planter filler belt conveyor • Other older conveyors • Chain bottom Gravity loading hopper

TRUCK

• 1993 Frieghtliner Highway tractor, conventional cab with bunk, Cummins 10 speed, 11 x 22.5 tires, good farm truck • 1979 Barrmitt Tandem axle 11 x 22.5 tires, 48 ft Double Decker Alummin pot belly live stock hauler, saftied in 09 • Aprox 1983, IHC 2575 Tandem with 10 sp and Cummins, 20 ft potato box • 1978 Ford 9000 Louiville Detroit diesel and 20 ft live bottom and head lift hoist potato box

• 3 Chevy Mid 70’s single axle v8 and 15 ft gravity potato boxes, two have automatic trans • John Deere 7000, 12 Row 22’’ plate Planter, insecticide, 3pth • John Deere 12 row 22’’ 3pth bar with #70 planting units, extra plates sprockets etc.

• Chinook 1203 air cart with Lombardini Diesel, with 40 ft Flexicoil seeding tool • Chinook 1203 for parts • Separate Lombardini engine for parts with good starter • Flexicoil model 200, 40 ft cultivator with seeding tool and markers • CI Model 379 field cultivator • Sakundiak 7’’ x 1200 cm with motor mount

TILLAGE

• Hutch master 27 ft Tandem disc • John Deere 5 x16 Plow model 350 , • Set of hyd tine harrows melroe 40 ft, • Set of Diamond harrows 55 ft Ajax

MISC FARM

• Farm King 850 Grinder mixer • Green Calf creep feeder with panels • Jiffy 14 ft side dump silage wagon, needs roof • Some small misc Farm hardware, as well household merchandise

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Bohden Burak

Sun., June 23 @ 10:00 am Tyndall, MB

ANNUAL SPRING CONSIGNMENT AUCTION

Hwy #44 North, 7 miles on RD 35 then go East 2 1/2 Miles on RD 80 #37065 Auction Note: Large Auction, 2 Rings | Contact: (204) 265-3256

Sat., June 22 @ 10:00 am Stonewall, MB

BOBCAT: 07 T190, Bobcat T190 dsl, Enclosed Cab w/ Heat & AC, 18” Tracks, 1350 hrs Exc Cond 35 VINTAGE CARS: 33 Chev Coupe 2D, 3 Window w/ Rumble Seat * 33 Chev Master Deluxe Restored * 37 Pontiac 2D * 37 Pontiac Model 224 2D Sedan * 38 Ford Sedan * 49 Ford 2D Coach * 50 Chev 4D * 52 Ford * 52 Pontiac * 53 Ford Meteor * 53 Chev Model 210 4D Sedan, Restored * 57 Dodge Desota * 60 Pontiac Laurentian * 63 Ford Falcon * 64 Ford Falcon 4D * 67 Chev * 67 Dodge * 67 Ford Ltd 2D * 68 Chrysler Newport 2D Hard Top * 68 Ford Mustang VINTAGE TRUCKS: 49 Ford 3/4 ton * 50 Chev 1 ton * 50 Ford 1 ton * 55 GMC 1/2 ton * 56 GMC 1/2 ton * 56 Chev 1300, Step Side * 57 Chev 3/4 ton Step Side * 57 Chev 1/2 ton * 2) 67 GMC 1/2 ton * 72 GMC 1/2 ton * 76 Dodge 300 Tow Truck * 78 Dodge 3/4 ton Crew Cab * 80 Chev 1 ton Dually Cube Van * Various Auto Parts YARD & REC: Al 18’ Truck Frt. Box (Storage) * 75 Dodge Trivco 25ft Gas Motorhome, A/C, Bath & Awning * Suziki 250cc 4WD Quad w/ Blade * JD 316 R Mower 42” Mower, 40” Roto Tiller * Troybuilt 8HP Rear Rototiller * Craft 12hp 32” Snowblower * Craft 8hp Wood Chipper/Shredder * Push Mower * Hand Yard Tools * * Golf Clubs * 3000 Golf Balls TOOLS & MISC: Chain Saws * Battery Booster/ Charger * Shop Supplies * Vintage Wheel Balances * Vise * Jackal * Many Power Tools, Hand Tools * Honda EB2200 Generator * Kal Equip Engine Analyzer * Ford Parts Washer * Van Dorn Valve Grinder * Air Comp * 75 gal Poly Tank * White Metal Detector * Shelving * Pallet Jack * 6) GUNS - 22 cal, 32 cal, 410, 12 ga * Military Ammo Boxes ADV & COLLECTIBLES: Porc 2 Sided Red Indian Motor Oil Sign * Gulf * Firestone * Seiberling * 4) Coca Cola Sign * Quaker State * Goodyear Sign * Porc Pepsi Door Bar * Porc Prestone Thermometer * Porc. 7-Up Thermometer * Early Metal 2-Sided Manitoba Motor League Sign * Oil Bottles & Cans * Anchor Store Display * Carnival Ring Toss Game * Labeled Fruit Crate * Banks * 7-up Clock * GM Clock * General Store Die Cabinet * Tire Ashtray * Eaton’s Tea Tin * Parking Meter * License Plate * Auto Manuals * Pontiac Rad Cap * Gum Ball Machine ANTIQUE FURNITURE: Oak “S” Curve Roll Top Desk * Side Board w/ Mirrored Hutch * Painted Hoosier * 2D Painted Pantry * Tri-Mirror Vanity Dresser * Hall Stand * Painted Drop Fit Desk * Writing Desk * Painted Open Book Case * Walnut Cedar Chest * Oak Store Counter 72” * Press Back Rocker * Railway Chairs * Piano Stool * Trunks ANTIQUES: Franklin Mint Collectibles * Pocket Watch * Shaving Items * Coal Oil Lamps * Gramophone * Collector Plates * Crystal * Wash Board * Torch Lamp * Veedel Oil Pail * Old Books * Chalkware Cat * S&P * Egg Cup * Grp 7 Painting * Spinning Wheel * 2) Oak French Doors * Galv Tubs * Stained Glass Window * Sultan Short Wave Radio * Violin Uke * Metal Fencing w/ Gate * Little Big Books * Crocks * Stereo * Scope & Cards * Wind Drive Sawyer * Cabin Mantle Clock * Balloon Tire Bike * Verandah Pillars * COINS * ANTIQUE TOYS: Pedal Car * Cast Horse & Wagon * Train Set * Buddy L * Tonka’s Strucco * Die Cast Vehicles, Tractors & Planes * Lincoln Semi * Tractor & Crawler * Meccano * Dolls HOUSEHOLD: Bed * Mantle Dome Clock * Lamps * VCR Movies * Cassettes * Linen Blankets * Sewing Material * Crafts * Knitting Materials *

Growing List on Website!!

VINTAGE CAR / ACREAGE AUCTION

Ken & Marilyn Henschel

Stuart McSherry

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

#12 Patterson Dr

Skidsteer & Tractors: Ford NH L785 Skidsteer Enclosed Cab, Heater, 2 spd w/ Bucket & Forks * Case 1270 Cab Powershift 3ph Dual Hyd 1000PTO 20.838 Factory Duals 2911hrs * Int 966 Cab, Torque Amp, 540/1000 PTO Dual Hyd, 7000 hrs * JD 950 dsl 3PH 540 PTO * Kubota B7100 4WD dsl Std Trans, 3PH PTO w/ FEL * Universal 850 dsl MFWA FEL 3PH 540 PTO * Cockshutt 550 gas 540 3PH* McCormicks WD9 Pully PTO Gd Cond * Forn 8N 3PH * Schramm Pneumatractor * Equip: Vers 400 20’ Swather w/Cripper * Graham 10’ Deep Tiller * JD 9350 Press Drill * Eezon 15’ Offset Disc * JD 1209 9’ Haybine * 09 MF Hesson 2745 Silage Model NBL RD Baler, Exc Cond * 06 NH BR780 Wide P/U Auto Wrap RD Baler, Exc Cond * Vermeer 505 Super I Round Baler Dual Tie, Guide Wheels * StretchMatic Mdl 7500 Bale Wrapper w/Honda Motor * JD 3PH Model 403, 4’ Brush Mower * JD 858A Side Delivery Rake * Case Side Delivery Rake * Westfield 7” 40” Auger * Storage & Trailers: 91 Saturn 20’ Tandem Flat Deck * Gooseneck Trailer 22’ * BH 14’ Flat Deck Trailer * 4 place Snowmobile Trailer * 2) Freight Truck Box 1) 24’ 1) 18’ * 30’x40’ 15’ high Double Doored Waterproof, Fire Resistant, Storage Blding * 20’x40’ 4 sided Com Party Tent * 16’x22’ Marquee Event Tent c/w Zipper Door, 7 Windows, HD Frames & Fabric * Semi & Vehicles: 03 Int Eagle 9900 Cum 13 spd Air Ride, Sft * 96 Ford F250 5.7L Auto Crew Cab A/C w/ Fibre Glass Service Box * 75 GMC 6000 gas 14’ Deck w/ 1000 gal Poly Tank & Pump * 05 Dodge Caravan, 130,000 km, Sft * 05 Monta 7 Passenger Van * 84 Dodge Rampage * 8’ Dump Box w/ Elec Motor * 92 Chev 4x4 3/4 ton * Yard & Rec: 16’ 1/2” Fishing Board w/ Merc 60HP 2 Stroke, Live Well, Fish Finder,w/ Eezon Loader * 16’ Fibreglass Boat 40HP & Trailer * Al 16’ Boat * Canoe * 93 See Doo GTX w/ Trailer * 09 Polaris 700 Ranger XP 4x4 * 04 Bombarbier 500 4x4 Quad * JD 111 R Mower w/ Bagger * 01 Yamaha Blaster 200cc Sport Quad * Ferris Model 15 3000 hyd Zero Twin 27 HP 61” Cut, only 328 hrs * Crafts ZT 7000 44” Mower * Ariens G17 17HP hyd Mower 48” w/ Snowblower 48” & Rotovator 48” * JD 318 hyd Mower * Inland 3ph Snowblower * MTD 5hp 20” Snowblower * Ski-Doo 440 Snowmobile * 02 Yamaha Viper 700 * 00 Yamaha Umax 600 * 81 Skidoo Blizzard * Tools & Misc: 2” 5.5 HP Gas Water Pump * 3” 6.5 Gas Water Pump * Construction Scaffolding * Job Site Box 1) 36” 1) 48” * Tools Chest * Many Hand & Power Tools * Beaver Band Saw * Table Saw * Jointer * Air Tools * Air Comp * Ladders * Wrought Iron Metal Driveway Gate *

STILL ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENTS! Stuart McSherry

AUCTION SALE

Sat., June 29 @ 10:00 am Lorrette, MB

Directions: 5 Miles East on Hwy #207 then South 2 Miles on Mun 30E Viewing by Appointment: (204) 253-8769 Email: mcsherry@mts.net

Tractor & Equip: JD 5010 CAb Dual hyd 1000 PTO Dual 24.5 32, 6400 hrs * Int 706 dsl Cab 540/1000 hyd Gd Rubber 5700 hrs w/ FEL * Int 503 Gas Combine * Int 403 Gas Combine * Vers 400 cab 20’ Swather * White 247 20’ Chisel Plow * Laurier 70’ Spring Tine Harrows * 19 Sec Diamond Harrows Hyd Lift * Westfield Pony Cart Spring Tine Harrows * 3) JD Plows 2) 3B 1) 5B) * CCIL 18’ Discer * JD Vanbrunt 28 run Seed drill SAGA * Coop 10’ Chisel Plow, Plus Ext 14’ *Antique 1950s JD Tool Bar Cult 12’ * JD Side Del Rake * JD #5 7’ Semi Mt Sickle Mower * CCIL 18’ PT Swather * Great Northern 68’ Sprayer * Vers 580 70’ Sprayer * Tuk-Wick 300 bus Grain Dryer * Tote Tank 14’ w 2 Components * 300 bus Hopper Trailer w/ Auger Vehicles: 65 Dodge 700 gas Tandem 18’ Grain B&H, Roll Tarp, Kept Inside * 53 Ford F-6 12’ B&H * 50s F47 Ford Panel Van * 62 Merc Montery, Kept Inside * 63 Pontiac Parisiene Granaries: Westeel 3000 bu w/ Airation Blower & Bin Sweep * 2) Westeel Appox 1800 bus Hopper Bins * 5) Westeel 2000 bus Grainery * 10 ton Epoxy Coated Hopper Bin Misc: 16 HP B&S Engine * Gas Generator * Blding Jacks Screw & Ratchet * 2) Steel Underground Fuel Tanks, 2000 gal * 300, 500 gal Fuel Tanks & Stands * 100 gal Steel Water Tank * 500 gal Steel Water Tank on Skids * 1200 gal Poly Tank * 75 gal Poly Tank * JD 5010 Parts * JD AR parts * Tracks for Swather * Implement Parts * Hdy Cyl Hoses * 3PH System * 4) Cultverts 4’H , 6’ L * Cement Float * Metal Fence Posts * Wood Snow Fence * Chain Link Fence * Chain Link Gates * Roofing Paper * Tar Paper * Telepost Insulation * Lge Amt Lumber * 2”x10” * 2’’x12” T&G * 2”x6” * 2”x8” * 3500+ Bricks * Cinder Blocks * Ignition Cabinets * Bolt Bins * Nails * Elec Motors * Chains & Hooks * Cable * Various Tires Semi * Auto * Implement * 4) 16.9 x 26 * 2) 24.5 x 32 * Leg Traps * 20) Meat Hooks Tools: Floor Model Drill Press * LKS 180 Amp Welder * Port Air Comp * Power & Hand Tools * Shop Supplies Yard & Rec: Push Gas Mower * Wheel Barrow * 78 Kawaski km 100 Motor Bike * 70 Skidoo Snowmobile * Pedal Bikes * Hand Yard Tools * 2500 Golf Balls Antiques: Grader * Walk Behind Scuffler * Wood Wagon Wheels * “Midget” Wheel Seeder * Steel Wheels * Sleigh * Quantity of Wrought Iron Yard Fencing * Cast Bath Tub * Water Pump * 2) Gas Bowser 1) 6’ 1) 5’ Gibeco * Oil Dispensers * SuperTest Oil Rack * 4) Cases Coop Oil Cans * Mobiloil * Int * Quaker State * Radio Letters * Texaxo Letters * Stars * Highway Signs * Pop Crates * Galv Tubs * Coal Oil Lamps * Stained Glass Windows * Mantle Clock * This is only a partial list

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

www.mcsherryauction.com We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if you want to sell it fast place your ad in the Manitoba Cooperator classifieds. It’s a Sure Thing. Call our toll-free number today. We have friendly staff ready to help.

1-800-782-0794.

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AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions

MACK AUCTION CO. PRESENTS a very large Equipment-Vehicle-RV Auction. Sat., Jun 22nd, 2013 9:00am at the Estevan Motor Speedway, Estevan, SK. Directions: E of Estevan, SK on the Shand Access Road. Watch For Signs! 2 Quarters of Farmland in the Estevan area, Case 4490 w/only 3,665-hrs & has PTO; Belarus 6100 FWA tractor w/3PTH & FEL; MF 97 2WD tractor; MF 1135 2WD tractor w/4,982-hrs; 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; 1988 Western Star gravel truck, Hyster H80C forklift; 2000 Dodge Ram 2500 Extended Cab 4WD truck; 1995 Ford F 150 regular cab 4WD; 1951 L-160 Series grain truck; 2011 14-ft. tandem cargo trailer; Kubota RTV 1100 DSL side by side, MT 55 mini Bobcat walk behind skid steer, mini skid steer Bobcat trencher attachment, towable cement mixer, trailer type gas powered post hole auger; 2010 PJ 36-ft gooseneck flat deck trailer w/tandem duals; 2008 PJ 36-ft gooseneck flat deck trailer w/tandem duals & beaver tail; 2007 PJ 26-ft. gooseneck flat deck trailer; 2007 Round Up 20-ft. gooseneck stock trailer; 1971 3-Ton gravel truck w/8,500 original mi; 15 10-ft. round pen livestock panels; 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; 300x65ft. fabric storage shed canopy; 20x40-ft. commercial party tent; 16x22-ft. Marquee event tent w/7 windows; JD LA 125 garden tractor w/48-hrs; Case 44 garden tractor w/attachments; Kingkutter 3-PTH disc; Kingkutter 3-PTH cultivator; Woods 6140 zero turn lawn mower; 16-ft. Volero Boat w/115-HP Merc; 1978 Reinell 190 boat; 1982 Holidaire travel trailer; 2001 Peak Security 26-ft. 5th wheel w/rear kitchen & large slide; 1999 Eagle Jayco 28-ft. 5th Wheel w/rear kitchen & large slide; 1997 Centurion 26-ft. 5th wheel trailer travel trailer; 1995 27.5-ft.

Sandpiper 5th wheel camper w/double slide; 1984 Terry Taurus travel trailer w/bunks; Lincoln 200amp Silver Bullet portable welder; 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; 16-ft. homebuilt livestock trailer; 2, 5000 Chief Westland bins on cement, 1-4400 bushel Westeel Rosco on cement; 1, 3,500 Chief Westland bin on cement; 1, 3300 Westeel Rosco bin on cement; JD 9350 10-ft grass drill; Case IH 1682 PT combine; Lincoln ARC generator/stick welder w/9-HP Honda engine; Mastercraft tool cabinet; new Yard Works log splitter; NH 847 round baler; tandem grain box trailer w/Kohler engine for lift; Farm King gravity screen cleaner; poly sprayer tanks; Bourassa 3-PTH; Wheatheart 8-in transfer auger; NH 470 manure spreader; heavy duty job site boxes; 10-ft 20 drawer heavy duty metal work bench; Toro mower; generators; new building supplies never used 9 Triple Glazed Windows; Mahogany Interior doors; bags of insulation; stairway spindles & 4x8 sheets of sub flooring! 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

AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions ANDREWS FARM EQUIPMENT AUCTION GARAGE AUCTION Sat., June 29th, 2013. 9:30am Main St Togo, SK. CONTACT: (306)597-2028.

GARAGE: 25x70 on 3 lots, plus lean, steel shed, wired, heat, water, cemented, separated into garage at rear & store front. This building includes compressor & hoist. Excellent opportunity for business or storage building. Owner motivated to sell.

Sold w/owner’s approval. RECREATION & VEHICLES: 1989 Honda Goldwing 1500 CC, loaded, 4,300-mi, mint; 1969 54 passenger school bus converted to camper, fully loaded; 1997 Nissan Ultima fully loaded, 300,000-kms; 1995 Ford F150 4x4 extended cab, loaded, 315,000-kms; TOOLS: FMC 7600 tire changer; May tire changer; Lincoln welder; Westward 16-SPD post drill; Parker hyd hose crimper; Electric hyd hose cut off saw; *24-in belt lacer (one of a kind)* 45-Ton hyd press, double cyl; *Sickel master (repairing & rebuilding mower & swather knives)* Angle grinders; Hyd flow pressure tester; Large supply of tools, jacks, cabinets, shelving, counters etc.; NEW PARTS & HARDWARE: Large assortment of bearings, cabinet of seals, baler pickup bands, sections, rivets, bolts, guards, 3 bolt bins, hubs, spindles, axles, hyd controls, pioneer ends, etc. *$10,000 of drive line, shafts, yokes, universals, etc* Assortment of new Gel tools; Muffler clamps, clamps, center bearings, sprockets, pullies; Swather canvas rollers, canvas, canvas repairs; Swather knives, knive heads, straps, etc.; New swather knives; New swather bat reels; O rings, draw pins, baler belts; $5,000 of hyd hose adapters; $10,000 of machinery & auto belts, Plus more. ANTIQUES: Cockshutt 30; 2 Aladdin lamps; Radios; 1946 wood crates; Coke cooler; Wall phone; Hockey game; Desk. Plus more! HOUSEHOLD ITEMS: New homemade lawn furniture, real nice; GUNS: Remington Model 700 BDL 7 M Magnum, SS barrell, scope, composite stalk; White 50 cal muzzle loader SS, composite stalk; 2, Browning BL 22 cal lever action; Marlin lever action 30 30; SKS 7.62x39 semi auto w/scope; Iphaca Model 37 pump 12 gauge shotgun; Remington 12A pump 22 cal rifle; 2, 177 pellet guns; 3 fish spear guns. Plus office supplies etc. NOTE: Ron is retiring. Business started in 1948. This is one of the last small town garages. Excellent supply of parts & tools. Visit www.ukrainezauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851

AUTO & TRANSPORT AUTO & TRANSPORT Auto & Truck Parts REMANUFACTURED DIESEL ENGINES: GM 6.5L, $4750 installed; Ford/IH 7.3L, $4950 installed; New 6.5L engines, $6500; 24v 5.9L Cummins $7500 installed; G.M. Duramax 6.6L-Ford 6.0L, $8500 installed; Ford 6.4L $9,500 installed. Other New/Used/and Reman Diesel engines available, can ship or install.

Call (204)532-2187, 8:00am-5:30pm Mon. to Fri. Thickett Engine Rebuilding, Binscarth, MB.

Call Willy: 204-346-4335 email: biomassheat1@gmail.com BUILDINGS

BUILDINGS

2007 621D WHEEL LOADER 3 yd bucket, VGC, asking $78,000. Phone (204)447-0184.

FULL BIN ALARM

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Building Supplies FOR SALE: 12-FT H x 16-ft W insulated overhead door w/track & hardware. $1,800 OBO. Phone:(204)648-7136.

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

CONTRACTING

OVER 200 VEHICLES LOTS OF DIESELS www.thoens.com Chrysler Dodge (800)667-4414 Wynyard, SK.

CONTRACTING Custom Harvest

CASE 680B LOADER BACKHOE, 2WD, shuttle shift, great shape, $12,000; 1985 case 450c crawler Dozer, 6-way blade, 65% undercarriage, $18,500. www.waltersequipment.com (204)525-4521 HYD PULL SCRAPERS, 6-40 yards, Caterpillar, AC/LaPlant, LeTourneau, Kokudo, etc. Pull-type & direct mount available, tires also available. Pull-type pull grader, $14,900; 2010 53-ft step deck, $24,995; New Agricart grain cart, 1050-Bu, complete w/tarp, $27,500. Phone (204)822-3797, Morden MB.

FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS

AUTO & TRANSPORT Vehicles Various

EQUINE EQUINE HORSE BOARDING PERSON WANTED TO BOARD 4 horses in the St Lazare area, will pay reasonable fee. Call Richard (204)837-3108.

FARM MACHINERY

STOP Climbing Bins!

ALARM SOUNDS WHEN BIN IS FULL

THREE IN ONE 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.

FARM MACHINERY Grain Bins

www.neverspillspout.com

5 3,300-BU WESTEEL ROSCO bins w/aeration tubes, best offer. Dan Lovatt: (204)483-2717.

Souris, MB.

FARM MACHINERY Grain Dryers

CONTRACTING Custom Work

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.

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.

ALLAN DAIRY IS TAKING bookings for the 2013 silage season. For more information call (204)371-1367 or (204)371-7302.

CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.

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

FARM MACHINERY Grain Handling

CYPRESS INDUSTRY STEEL self feeder bins 10, 20 & 30-ft. Phone (204)436-2571.

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

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

MANITOBA BASED CUSTOM HARVESTING operation equipped w/Case IH & John Deere combines. Peas, cereals, canola, & soybeans. Flex heads, straight heads & PU headers. Professional operation fully insured. Phone:(204)371-9435 or (701)520-4036.

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

PASTURE PIPELINE SYSTEMS, we can do complete instillation of your shallow buried pipeline & water trough systems. Howard Ganske, Cartwright, MB. Email:hlganske@xplornet.com or Phone: (204)529-2464.

FOUILLARD STEEL SUPPLIES LTD.

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Roofing

PRICE TO CLEAR!!

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

AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions

• Plate Heat Exchanger • Radiators • Boiler Pumps • Glycol • Push-Fit Fittings • 1/2" Oxygen Barrier Tubing & More

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

AUTO & TRANSPORT Trucks

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Electrical & Plumbing

WHOLESALE PRICES

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

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

SIGN SHOP EQUIPMENT & Supplies Auction, Stellar Signs. Tues., June 25th, Estevan. Roland VP 540i Versa Cam Printer, 54-in. laminator, plotter, photo copier, scanner, computers, rolls of vinyl, tons of sign shop supplies & power 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

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Electrical & Plumbing

WANTED: HARVESTER W/COMBINES & support equipment for August 2013 to harvest wheat & canola. Phone: (204)769-2417, Fairfax.

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

1961 TD62 6 CYL, VGC w/8-ft. angle dozer, $6,500. Phone (204)736-2619, Oak Bluff.

AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Building Supplies

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.

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Building Supplies

AGRI-VACS

Tired of shovelling out your bins, unhealthy dust and awkward augers?

Walinga manufactures a complete line of grain vacs to suit your every need. With no filters to plug and less damage done to your product than an auger, you’re sure to find the right system to suit you. Call now for a free demonstration or trade in your old vac towards a new WALINGA AGRI-VACS Fergus, ON: (519) 787-8227 Carman, MB: (204) 745-2951 Davidson, SK: (306) 567-3031

Post Frame Buildings

UNRESERVED PUBLIC FARM AUCTION

FARM MACHINERY Haying & Harvesting – Baling

Christopherson Farms Ltd.

2007 JD 568 ROUND baler, net wrap, floatation tires, loaded, 10,000 bales, shedded, $26,800; 1995 JD 930 12-ft discbine, rubber rolls, $6500; 2004 Claas 470T rotary rake, $6500. Phone (204)625-5225, (204)625-2702, Elphinstone MB.

Weldon, SK | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 · 11 am

Post Frame Buildings Post Frame Buildings

HESSTON SMALL SQUARE BALER, #4600 w/hydraulic tension & Silo Guard applicator; NH bale wagon #1033. Phone:(204)886-2960, Teulon.

NEW IDEA 486 BALER w/monitor or 688 NH baler, both VGC. Phone (204)767-2062

2008 JOHN DEERE 9530 & 1997 JOHN DEERE 9400 w/ 2008 DEGELMAN 6900 16 FT

Let us build you a custom package!

For your farm, residential or commercial project.

2009 JOHN DEERE 9770STS & 2005 JOHN DEERE 9760STS

AUCTION LOCATION: At Weldon Fair Grounds. From KINISTINO, SK, go 9.2 km (5.7 miles) North West on Hwy 3, then 2.4 km (1.5 miles) North, then 0.8 km (0.5 miles) East on Railway St. GPS: 53.00611, -105.13708 A PARTIAL EQUIPMENT LIST INCLUDES: 2008 John Deere 9530 4WD · 1997 John Deere 9400 4WD · 2009 John Deere 9770STS · 2005 John Deere 9760STS · 2– John Deere 936D 36 Ft Draper · 2001 Volvo VNL64T

Sleeper T/A Truck Tractor · 1987 International F2575 T/A Grain Truck · 2006 Doepker 45 Ft Tri/A Grain Trailer · 1985 Fruehauf 29 Ft End Dump Trailer · 2008 John Deere 544J Wheel Loader...AND MUCH MORE!

For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com Lorne Christopherson: 306.887.2103 (h), 306.961.5890 (c) For viewing of equipment prior to the auction contact Lorne first.

Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager –

Luke Fritshaw: 306.260.2189 800.491.4494

NH D1000 SQ BALER, 24x32, good condition, CONTACT: Asking: $14,500. Phone:(204)770-0040.

RonVERMEER CookMODEL J BALER, VGC, always stored

Post Frame Sales inside. Call:(204)851-5810.

Oaklake, MB. Representative FARM MACHINERY Phone 204-638-5303 Hay & Harvesting – Mower Conditioner Fax 204-622-7053 2009 956 JD MOCO w/impeller conditioner, Cell 204-572-5821 rcook@mcmunnandyates.com $24,500; 21-ft 885 Massey MacDon gas swather,

w/heavy duty wobble box, $4500. No Sunday calls please (204)427-2074, (204)324-7410.

www.mcmunnandyates.com

CASEEveryday!

IH 8312 13-FT discbine, rubber rollers, exHelping You Build Better… at Great Prices

Ron Cook

CONTACT:

Frame Sales Representative Let us build you a Post Ron Cook custom package! | Fax Phone 204-638-5303 204-622-7053 | Cell 204-572-5821 Post Frame Sales Representative rcook@mcmunnandyates.com For your farm, Phone 204-638-5303 Helping You Build at Great Prices Everyday! residential or Better...

Fax 204-622-7053 commercial Cell 204-572-5821 CONTACT: rcook@mcmunnandyates.com Letproject. us build you a www.mcmunnandyates.com

custom package!

Ron Cook Post Frame Sales

Helping You Build Better… at Great Prices Everyday!

cellent condition, (204)427-3341

$12,000

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Mel

FARM MACHINERY Haying & Harvesting – Swathers 1999 MF 220 Series2 25-ft swather w/pick-up reel, double-saws & lifters, 1,500-hrs. Wilmot Milne, Gladstone, MB. Phone: (204)385-2486 or Cell: (204)212-0531.

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FARM MACHINERY Haying & Harvesting – Swathers

FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – White

2004 972 MACDON HEADER 25-ft. PU reel, 590 cutting hrs, immaculate, $21,500.

Phone (306)595-2211.

Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd.

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

400 VERS SWATHER 18-FT. good canvasses, good condition, PU & bat reel, shedded, $1,500 OBO. Phone (204)966-3857 or (204)476-0535.

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 1, 36-FT. 10-IN. WESTFIELD grain auger w/Honda motor. Phone (204)436-2571.

2009 JD 4895 W/895 PWR reverser header, bar ties, HID lights, variable SPD reel, 488-hrs, premium condition, $85,000 OBO. (204)838-2352 e-mail sdryden@rfnow.com CASE IH BALER like new condition, MUST BE SEEN. Phone (204)436-2571.

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, $55,000. Nice condition. (204)871-0925, Macgregor, MB FOR SALE: 2003 NH 1475 14-ft hay conditioner, w/540 PTO, excellent condition, $14,500; 52-ft Fruehauf flatdeck w/bale extension, $5500; 52-ft Tridem flatdeck w/self unloading bale racks, $14,500; 970 NH 30-ft straight cut header, clean unit, needs a wobble box, $1250. Phone (204)825-7150, Pilot Mound MB. FOR SALE: IHC 810 24-ft straight cut header w/PU reel & transport trailer, very nice condition.

(204)535-2453

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

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.

Tractors Combines Swathers

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

Rebuild combine table augers Rebuild hydraulic cylinders Roller mills regrooved MFWD housings rebuilt Steel and aluminum welding Machine Shop Service Line boreing and welding

Penno’s Machining & Mfg. Ltd. Eden, MB 204-966-3221 Fax: 204-966-3248

Check out A & I online parts store www.pennosmachining.com

Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727 Fax (204) 326-5878 Web site: farmparts.ca E-mail: roy@farmparts.ca FARM MACHINERY Salvage

Combines

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

FARM MACHINERY Combine – Case/IH

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 .

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 – Ford/New Holland

4630 JD TRACTOR, w/duals front weight; 3140 & 3130 w/low hours; 4030 w/sound guard cab, 3PT, 148 FEL, 7405 MFWA, 740 FEL. Phone: (204)828-3460.

JD 4020 W/CAB & duals, 148 loader w/6-ft. bucket & bale fork; 22 Anhydrous Dutch knives. Phone (204)239-0035.

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.

1995 AERO MAX FORD 9000, nice condition, but motor has slight knock, Asking $2,800 OBO; 2 18-ft decks w/hoist & front storage, tie down straps, Asking $2,100/each OBO; 45-ft Morris Deep-tillage, w/NH3 shanks, Asking $2,550; IHC 7200 hoe press, built in transport, markers, Asking $1,750 OBO; Antique Oliver Cetrac crawler w/front blade, runs good, asking $1,800; 2050 IHC tandem DSL gravel truck, 15-ft box, asking $4,600; 28-ft Fruehauf flat deck semi-trailer, single axle, safetied, asking $3,500. Phone:(204)728-1861.

STEINBACH, MB. Ph. 326-2443

Spraying EquipmEnt FARM MACHINERY Sprayers

1995 JD 930 STRAIGHT cut header, PU reel, reconditioned wobble box 2000-acres ago, w/4-Whl transport trailer, shedded, $10,000; Small edible bean kit to fit 9600 or 9610 combine, $500; 9610 or 9600 combine straw chopper in VGC, $750; Hawkes side-arm markers, hardly used, $700. Could send pictures for all the above. Call John (204)745-7191, (204)379-2371, St Claude.

504 COCKSHUT SWATHER, SELF-PROPELLED 14-ft, shedded, good cond., $750; Hesston 7145 Forage chopper, 2-row corn & hay header, shedded, good condition, $1500 OBO; 60-ft tine harrow, 6-bar, $1000; Steel 100-bu hog feeders, $300 each; Honda Big Red 200 3-wheeler, excellent cond.

Phone (204)835-2433 62-FT 3PTH SPRAYER: 1989 Bloomhardt 62-ft 240 US-gal 3PTH sprayer, Raven 440 auto-rate, from a spray coop, radar speed sensor on sprayer frame, all you need is one hydraulic to run pump, 12V to run monitor (3 boom section & press adj.) & 3PTH, $3,500. 1999 Flexi-coil 67 XL sprayer, 94-ft, 1,250 Imperial-gal tank, hyd. drive pump, wheeled booms, wind screens, triple nozzle bodies, factory auto-rate, 100-gal rinse tank, chemical mixing tank, disc marker, field ready, $10,500. 1998 CIH 8480 softcore round baler, excellent condition, always shedded, $2,750. Phone:(306)739-2433 or (306)435-7125.

7700 FORD TRACTOR FRONT end loader; IHC 250 DSL tractor; Vicom 5x6 round baler; 851 NH round baler; New Idea 14-ft haybine; 70-ft hyd. harrows; 16-ft Wing cultivator; JD 10-ft rake; Horse trailer, tandem axle; 14-ft Case double disc. Call for more info (204)322-5614.

BUY THIS COMBINE FOR a fraction of the cost of renting one. If you can even find one this fall because of the anticipated late harvest..This combine is in excellent condition, field ready & always shedded when not in use. No reasonable offer refused.

Retired from farming.

PH:(204)447-2073, (204)447-7570.

96-FT CROP SPRAYER, MOUNTED on Ford 700 truck 4x4, 13.6x24 tractor tires, 66,800-kms, 1000US gal tank, microtrac spray controller, Raven guidance, $12,000. Brunkild (204)736-2840.

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; Hay-bines Gehl 2270, $3,900; JD 1209, $3,000; NH 116, $3,000; Case IH 8312 discbine, $6,900; Ma-nure 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.

FOR SALE: BRAY AIR valves off of 854 Rogator.

Also Norgren air/electric control valves, offers.

(204)637-2071 or (204)526-5126 cell, Austin.

BOURGAULT COIL PACKER, 28-32 ft. adjustable, hyd lift; Behlin 1650 & 3750-bu. granaries. Phone (204)386-2412.

NH TX66 1994, 2400 separtor hours, Lots of recent work. Shedded, excellent condition w/24-ft straight cut header. Phone (204)476-6137, Neepawa.

INLAND 68-FT TERMINATOR 1 pull-type sprayer, 800-gal tank w/hyd & electric controls; 16-ft Gooseneck style cattle trailer. Phone (204)776-2063.

DEGALMAN GROUND DRIVE STONE picker $2,000; 28-ft Lylie rotovator $2,500; 4000 Cadman irrigator, new gun $3,000 OBO; Aluminum Irris hy-drates, T, airvalves ETS, 4-in & 8-in, 25-ft MF Deeptiller cold flow anhydrous kit, hydraulic shutoff, 6 row MF 3PTH Danishtine cult. & finger weeders, 20-ft Danishtine 3PTH cult. w/packers, 6 row Lock-wood potato planter, offers.

Phone:(204)834-2750 or (204)476-0367.

1 SUMMER (204)744-2762

FARM MACHINERY Combine – John Deere 2000 JD 9650W, 2538-SEP hrs, HHS, DAS, Sunnybrook Cyl, Redekop MAV chopper, hopper topper, chaff spreader, HID lights, 914 PU header complete w/new belts, variable speed FDR house, 32.5x32, 16.9x26 tires. $102,500 OCO; 2003 JD 930F complete w/PU reel, Crary air system, FA, poly skids, Elmers trailer, $22,500 OCO; 224.5x32 Firestone rice tires, on JD rims, VG cond., $3200 OCO. Phone (204)347-5244.

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

Combine ACCessories FARM MACHINERY Combine – Accessories

SPRAYER

100-FT.

Phone

Tillage & Seeding FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Air Seeders

3-170 Murray Park Rd Winnipeg, MB

204-837-1660

www.edgeequipmentsales.com

Exclusive PowerFold® feature allows operators to lift DuraMax® decks with their fingers not with their backs.

USED GRASSHOPPERS AVAILABLE FOR SALE: AIR KIT parts for 52-ft. cultivator, offers. Phone (204)743-2145 or (204)526-5298.

LIVESTOCK

FOR SALE: IHC 33-FT 645 cultivator w/harrows & packer, $3500; 70-ft diamond harrows, $1875; 1975 C65 truck w/safety, $6500 OBO. Phone (204)745-2784.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

FOR SALE: MACDON MODEL 5000 16-ft mower conditioner. VGC, $4800; Model 358 NH mixmill w/power bale feeder, new hammers, $3500; 200-Bu portable metal creep feeder w/panels, used very little. Phone (204)352-4489 leave message if no answer please.

HAUL-ALL INDUSTRIES LTD MODEL #RE6 w/non plugging fertilizer augers, $1,295; Powermatic harrow bar, 4-ft. harrows, $850; 2 MF 360 seed discers 15-ft., offers. (204)669-2366 JD 8820 914 PICK-UP header & 930 grain header & trailer; MF 860 w/pick-up & MF 20-ft grain header; MF 410 combine, PU header; Honeybee 36-ft draper header, pick-up reel, fits Case 2388 & 2588 combine; D7G, PS, ripper; CAT 235 track hoe; D760 Champion Grater; Tree farmer skidder, mechanical special, new 18.4x34 tires; Calhoun fertilizer spreader, PTO; Grousen dozer, fits a JD 8970 16-ft; 2004 Dodge RumbleBee short box. Phone: (306)236-8023.

JD ALL CROP HEADER #653 6 row 30-in. spacing; Farm Fan grain dryer AB 250; Woods brush mower 5-ft. Phone (204)637-2088, Austin.

NEW HOLLAND 815 MANURE SPREADER in excellent working condition. Floored Apron like new condition, has single beater. Reason for selling: Have no livestock.

Price $3200.

Phone (204)728-9895, Brandon, MB.

REGULAR SALE Every Friday 9AM

NEXT SHEEP & GOAT SALE Wednesday, July 3 @ 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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RETIRING! 2006 CASE IH MXU130 tractor, 1450-hrs w/Case LX156 loader, VGC, $55,000; IH 310 discers, 2x 12-ft, will sell separate, $1500; Power-Matic 60-ft hyd. harrows, $1200. Phone (204)794-5098, (204)334-6885.

Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519

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.

REGULAR CATTLE SALES

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.

VERS HARROW STRETCHER W/16 diamond harrows. Phone (204)386-2775 or (204)476-6631, Plumas.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Wanted MORRIS MH 310 HOE drill for parts or whole.

Phone (204)734-2236, Swan River.

Swather Transport Wanted Swather Transport/Carrier for a 3 wheeled swather. (204)388-6161 WANTED: TANDEM HITCH FOR hooking 2 IHC 1100 or New Idea 521 9-ft. sickle mowers together; also approx 21-24 ft. gooseneck cattle trailer.

(204)768-3312

HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING

The Icynene Insulation System® • Sprayed foam insulation • Ideal for shops, barns or homes • Healthier, Quieter, More Energy Efficient®

www.penta.ca

1-800-587-4711

GRUNTHAL, MB.

AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING with Holstein Calves every TUESDAY at 9 am

Grunthal Auction Mart will be closed from July 1 - 7th NO SALE JULY 2ND Monday, June 24th Sheep and Goat Sale with Small Animals at 12:00 Noon (Last one until August 12th) Wednesday, June 26th Possible Dairy Sale! at 1:00 pm

Sales Agent for

HIQUAL INDUSTRIES

We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural products for your livestock needs. (protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc) For on farm appraisal of livestock or for marketing information please call

Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250 Auction Mart (204) 434-6519 MB. Livestock Dealer #1111

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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.

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.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Black Angus 2 YR OLD BULL sired by Ossawa Fortune 10R, low birth weight, medium framed, ideal for heifers, $1,800. Phone Bill (204)878-3318, Lorette.

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.

IRON & STEEL

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.

FOR SALE: 3-PTH POST hole auger w/6-in. & 14in. auger, $450 OBO. Phone (204)825-8354 or (204)825-2784.

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.

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.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Tillage

FOR SALE: 7155 HESTON Forage Harvester, complete w/2-row corn head & PU head, good condition, field ready, $2,650. Phone:(204)325-7278.

Oil Field Pipe: 2 3/8, 2 7/8 & 3 1/2 inch pipe for sale.

Contact David at (250)308-4106

FORAGE BASED BLACK ANGUS Bulls. Virgin 2-yr olds & herd sires available. Phone: (204)564-2540. www.nerbasbrosangus.com

FOR SALE: 12 ROW 30-in S-tine row crop cultivator, w/hydraulic wings. Phone (204)535-2453

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

2012 JD 42-FT. 1890, 7.5-in. Spacing, Semi Pneumatic Gauge Wheels, Blockage & 2012 1910 350 TBT Cart, 12-in. Conveyor, shedded, 5,500-acs, $153,000. Call (204)825-8121.

BOURGAULT 8800 40-FT. 3 sets of openers, newer: easy flow manifolds, hoses & tires, removable mulchers and/or packers, 3195 air tank, nice condition, $27,500 OBO. (204)373-2502

FOR SALE: 40-FT. CASE IH 5600 w/NH3 kit, rear hitch, 3/4-in. carbide openers, 3 bar harrows, asking $5,000 OBO. Phone (204)637-2071 days or (204)526-5126 cell, Austin.

FARM MACHINERY Tillage & Seeding – Various 46-FT. WILRICH FIELD CULTIVATOR 5 fold c/w 3 bar Wilrich mulchers includes tow behind 46-ft. coil packers w/hyd fold, asking $6,800 OBO. Phone days (204)526-5298, evenings (204)743-2145.

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

EQUIPMENT SALES

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – John Deere 1974 JD 4430, CAB w/heater & A/C, new 18.4 x 38 rear tires w/factory duals, 540 & 1000 PTO. 12,500-hrs on tractor, engine was rebuilt at 9,000-hrs. Comes w/148 JD loader, manure bucket, dirt bucket & bale prong. W/joystick control. Asking $24,000. Phone Rob:(204)743-2145 Mornings & evenings or Days (204)526-5298. Cypress River, MB.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

EDGE

1982 CASE IH 5288, 160-hp, cab w/heater & A/C. New 20.8 x 38 rear tires w/factory duals, 1000 PTO. Tractor’s in very nice condition, w/9,300-hrs, engine & trans. just recently rebuilt. Asking $18,000. Phone Rob:(204)743-2145 Mornings & evenings or Days (204)526-5298. Cypress River, MB.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

Rebuilt Concaves

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FARM MACHINERY Tractors – Case/IH

JD 5410 W/540 LOADER, 2 SCVs for loader joystick, MFWD, sync shuttle, new front tires, 6,400-hrs. Phone (204)871-0901, Portage.

WaTRoUs, sK. Fax: 306-946-2444

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous

FARM MACHINERY Tractors – White 1855 COCKSHUTT row crop tractor, DSL, cab, A/C, 3-PTH, new clutch. $5500 OBO. Phone (204)822-3789 or (204)362-6403, Morden, MB.

FOR SALE: 25-FT MORRIS 725 cultivator w/harrows, $1500; 60-ft Flexi-Coil harrow bar, $950; 41-ft Westfield 6-in grain auger, Kohler magnum 16HP motor w/starter, $850; 22-ft (28011’s) Morris Seedrite drills, $800; 6-ft swath roller, $175. All the above are in good shape. (204)748-1024, Virden.

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FOR SALE: 2 REGISTERED Black Angus bulls, 12-13mos old, 83-85-lbs birth weight, quiet, good mothers, good semen test. Phone Frances Case:(204)428-3961.

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.

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.

FOR SALE: POLLED BLACK Angus & Hereford bulls. Good selection of yearlings & 2-yr olds, semen tested & delivery available. Call Don: (204)873-2430.

FOR SALE: PUREBRED BLACK Angus yearling bulls & some 2-yr old bulls. Scott Ranch, McCreary (204)835-2087.

GOOD SELECTION OF 2 yr old & yearling Black Angus bulls; Also Black X Simm hybrid bulls. Guaranteed breeders. Semen tested. B/B Duncan (204)556-2348 (204)556-2342, Cromer.

GREENBUSH ANGUS HAS YOUR next herd sire ready to go. Top AI sired offspring by SAV density, SAV Providence, S Chism, Harb Windy, Nichols Quiet Lad & TC Aberdeen. All bulls are semen tested & ready to go, delivery available. Cal Tim Baker:(204)966-3320 or Cell:(204)476-6040.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Hereford 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: YEARLING & 2-yr old Hereford polled bulls. Good performance tie-broke, quiet, up to date on vaccinations. Can be viewed online at www.rocknabh.com call Allan/Bonnie (204)764-0364 or Kevin/Holly at (204)764-0331.

REG POLLED HEREFORD BULLS, good selection of coming 2 yr olds, naturally developed, quiet, broke to tie, guaranteed, delivery available. Catt Brothers (204)723-2831 Austin, MB.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Red Angus 2 YR OLD BULLS PB not papered, semen tested, $1,800 each. Phone (204)371-6404, Ste Anne.

2 YR OLD & yearling bulls for sale, semen tested, delivery available. Contact Wayne at Northwind Red Angus (204)383-5802.

REG 2 YR OLD Red Angus bulls, semen tested & guaranteed to breed, delivery avail & cow calf pairs for sale. Phone (204)427-3234.

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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.

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. Reasonably priced, Call Marcel:(204)379-2426 or (204)745-7412. Haywood, MB.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Charolais CHAROLAIS BULLS FOR SALE, will semen test & deliver. Doug (204)745-3370 or (204)745-7602, Carman.

CLINE CATTLE COMPANY has for sale purebred yearling Charolais bulls. Quiet, good feet, will be semen tested & guaranteed.

Call Brad (204)537-2367 or Cell (204)523-0062.

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.

FOR SALE: 2-YR OLD Purebred Charolais bulls.

Polled, colored & white, quiet, $2,250 -$2,500.

Wayne Angus:(204)764-2737.

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.

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HOLSTEIN HEIFERS DUE TO calve in June & July. Phone (204)526-2810.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Limousin

COW/CALF PAIRS FOR SALE, Blacks & Reds, cows have had 4-7 calves, good quality cattle, $1600. (204)385-3646.

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.

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 Sheep – Katahdin APX. 20 EWES, LAMBS, various colors. Asking $125. Phone: Ray Shaw 1(800)497-1132.

Horses

FOR SALE: 2 YR old & yearling Limousin bulls, semen tested, will deliver. Contact Diamond T Limousin (204)838-2019 or (204)851-0809.

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 Horse Auctions 27TH ANNUAL ROCKING W Fall Horse Sale. Sat., Aug. 31. Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB. Consignment deadline July 26th. For more info, www.rockingw.com or Email: rockingw@xplornet.com or Phone:(204)325-7237.

LIVESTOCK Horses – Donkeys FOR SALE: 2 YEARLING donkeys, 1 2-yr old & 1 5-yr old Jenny. Will trade for other Jenny’s.

Phone:(204)873-2430.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Shorthorn

LIVESTOCK Horses – Mules

2-YR OLD POLLED SHORTHORN bulls, Roans & Reds, low birth weights. (204)365-0066.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Simmental 2-YR OLD & YEARLING polled Red bulls, w/A.I. backgrounds, also 10 older Simmental cows w/young calves at side. Acomb Valley Simmentals, Minnedosa (204)867-2203.

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.

TWO 2-YR OLD SOLID Red simmental bulls from easy calving sire, semen tested.

Phone (204)727-6988.

TEAM OF BELGIUM MULES, 16.2 hands tall, big boys. Broke to drive, one is broke to ride, 10-yrs old. Phone (204)752-2185

LIVESTOCK Horses For Sale GYPSY VANNER X, 3-YRS old, black & white, green broke to ride and brown & white yearling.

Quarter horses, geldings, mares, some broke.

Phone Don Ferguson, Moosomin (306)435-3634.

HORSE TRAINING AVAILABLE, STARTERS through advanced training, $600 + GST/month, Phone:(204)637-2104. www.michiequarterhorses.com

LIVESTOCK Horses Wanted WANTED: Belgian & Percheron colts/fillies. Contracting now for September delivery. 50 head minimum, serious inquiries only, please. (360)791-1868

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.

LEJ CHAROLAIS HAS YEARLING Red & White factor bulls, all tested & gaining up to 6-lbs per day, delivery available when you want them. Come take a look! Call Jim or Rae at (204)252-3115 or (204)856-6357, Portage.

PUREBRED CHARLOIS BULLS FOR Sale. Yearling & 2-yr old, good selection still available.

Phone:(204)427-2589. Walking Plow Charlois.

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LIVESTOCK Cattle – Holstein

9 COW/CALF PAIRS; 1 Black bull; 851 NH baler, good condition; 200 Honda 3-wheeler; Portable fuel tank; 4 heifers. Phone (204)425-3016.

YEARLING SIMMENTAL BULLS FOR sale. 5 available. Call 204-445-2326, Langruth

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SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Grain 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.

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.

HEATED & GREEN CANOLA

REAL ESTATE Land For Sale

PEDIGREED SEED Oilseed – Various

NOTICE: RUTH ZAHORODNY OF Homebrook Pwonan Point intends to sell private property: SW 17, SE 19, W1/2 20, W1/2 29, SW 32, E1/2 32, NW 33-31-11W; W1/2 4-32-11W; NW 35-31-12W, SW 0232-12W to Bryan VanderVeen & Laura Kichur who intend to acquire the following Crown Lands: NW 17, NE 18, N1/2 + SW 19, section 30, section 31, NW 32, NE + W1/2 33-31-11W; E 1/2 4, section 5, SW 9, N1/2 21, W1/2 + SE 22, SW 27-32-11W; section 13, section 23, section 24, section 25, N1/2 + SE 26, NE 34, E1/2 + SW 35, section 26-31-12W; W1/2 01, N1/2 + SE 02, W1/2 11, NW 13, SW 15-32-12W by unit transfer. If you wish to comment on or object to this transfer, write Director, MAFRI, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedo-sa, MB R0J 1E0 or e-mail robert.flem-ing@gov.mb.ca

LIVESTOCK Livestock Equipment ALTERNATIVE POWER BY SUNDOG SOLAR, portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind generators, aeration. Carl Driedger, (204)556-2346 or (204)851-0145, Virden.

KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WATERING System, provides water in remote areas, improves water quality, increases pasture productivity, extends dugout life.

St. Claude/Portage, 204-379-2763.

“ON FARM PICK UP”

1-877-250-5252

NOW BUYING Old & New Crop Confection & Oil Sunflowers Licensed & Bonded 0% Shrink Farm Pick-Up Available Planting Seed Available

Call For Pricing

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES

Phone (204)747-2904

Toll Free 1-888-835-6351 Deloraine, Manitoba

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES All Terrain Vehicles

MUSICAL

CANADA’S #1 CERTIFIED MF 5301 alfalfa seed. $2.00/lb, pre-inoculated 25-kg bags. CANADA COMMON #1, MULTI-FOLIATE alfalfa seed, $2.85/lb, pre-inoculated 25-kg bags. Certified varities of all grass seeds available. Delivery can be arranged. Call:(204)642-2572, Riverton.

HONDA BIG RED 200 3-wheeler, excellent cond. hi-low & reverse. Phone (204)835-2433

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES Campers & Trailers

PETS & SUPPLIES

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.

100% PURE BORDER COLLIE pups ready to go end of May, great cattle herding dogs. Also Akbash guardian pups for sale, keep your farm predator free. Raised with sheep & goat flock but will bond to any species; all parents on site $125 each. (204)656-4430 Winnipegosis - No Sunday calls please.

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

SLIDE ON TRUCK CAMPER EDSON w/fridge & stove. Phone (204)637-2088, Austin.

RECYCLING

PB AUSTRALIAN BLUE HEELER pups for sale, parents excellent cattle dogs, have been raising pupsNOTRE for 30 yrs.

Phone USED (204)365-0066 DAME OIL or (204)365-6451.

FOR SALE: ALFALFA, TIMOTHY, Brome, Clover, hay & pasture blends, millet seed, Crown $0.34, Red Prozo $0.38. Leonard Friesen, (204)685-2376, Austin MB.

BuyUsed Used Oil Oil ••Buy NOTRE •• Buy Buy Batteries Batteries DAME ••Collect CollectUsed Used Filters Filters • Collect Oil Containers Containers USED • Collect Oil• Antifreeze OIL & Southern,Southern Eastern, and Manitoba Western Western FILTER Manitoba DEPOT Tel: 204-248-2110

& FILTER DEPOT

PB BORDER COLLIE PUPS off Top Imported Breeding Parents & sheep. Ready to • Buy Used Oil working• cattle Buy Batteries go• Collect Aug 1st, $225.

Go •toCollect www.oakwoodgrange.ca Used Filters Oil Containers For more info phone Martin Penfold (204)722-2036 and Western Manitoba Virden/Southern Moosomin Area.

Tel: 204-248-2110

REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE Houses & Lots

MILLET SEED FOR SALE, cleaned & bagged.

Doug (204)745-3370 or (204)745-7602, Carman.

SEED / FEED / GRAIN SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Feed Grain 15,000-BU. SPROUTED FEED OATS for sale, $3 per bushel. Phone (204)738-2763.

We BUY used oil & filters

CANADA SINGLE FAMILY HOME NEW 16 wide & 20 wide MODULAR HOMES at GREAT prices.

(218)751-7720 frontierhomesonline.com

Collection of plastic oil jugs

KILLARNEY LAKE, LAKE FRONT 3-bdrm mobile home, 16x68, 1.5 baths, large deck, very good well, septic tank, 2 sheds, lot size is 50 x 170.

Phone(204)729-5264.

Specialized waste removal

Glycol recovery services Winter & Summer windshield washer fluid Peak Performance anti-freeze

REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Manitoba

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2000 (ALMOST) ACRES GRAIN land of C&E, C32 & E32 soil. Flat, Red River Valley land South. Asking $7,500,000. Offers close July 15th at 4:00pm.

Ray Shaw listing agent, Home Town Real Estate, Box 7, 125 Main St. Morris. MLS #1310224 hometwn1@mymts.net Phone:1(800)497-1132.

Proud Supporter of Manitoba Businesses & Municipalities

JAMES FARMS LTD: Feed oats for sale. Phone (204)222-8785 or 1-866-283-8785, Wpg.

REAL ESTATE Mobile Homes

PEDIGREED SEED Cereal – Oats

FARM SPECIALIST: Count on Grant Tweed, informed, professional assistance for sellers & buyers. www.granttweed.com Call (204)761-6884 anytime. Service with integrity.

HIFI SEED OATS FOR sale - 99% germ - early maturity. Call John Smith (204)825-2715.

LIVESTOCK Livestock Equipment

LIVESTOCK Livestock Equipment

Check OTR-Recycling.com for more information

They're still UGLY They're still TOUGH They're still the best value on the market.

Research proves that providing clean water for your calves can add 20 per cent or more to your weaning weights.

made from mining tires

The UGLY water troughs

Specializing in: • Corn, wheat, sunflower, canola,

soymeal, soybeans, soy oil, barley, rye, flax, oats (feed & milling) • Agents of the CWB • Licensed & bonded 5 LOCATIONS to serve you!

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Soybean Crushing Facility (204) 331-3696 Head Office - Winkler (888) 974-7246 Jordan Elevator (204) 343-2323 Gladstone Elevator (204) 385-2292 Somerset Elevator (204) 744-2126 Sperling Elevator (204) 626-3261

**SERVICE WITH INTEGRITY** www.delmarcommodities.com

Toll Free: 888-974-7246 SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Hay & Straw Second-Cut Alfalfa Round Bales for Sale Dairy-Quality high-testing round bales for sale. Two semi loads available.

Call: (204)268-5418 OR (204)268-2173 (msg-home)

800 gallon trough Beauty fades… ugly lasts forever!

• costs less & lasts longer • virtually indestructible • guaranteed not to leak • 200-800 gallon capacity

Call a dealer near you today for more information ARBORG CO-OP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-376-5201 CO-OP FEEDS, BRANDON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-727-0571 7-L RANCH, LAKELAND, MB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-445-2102 GILBERT PLAINS CO-OP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-548-2099

TJ O'Sullivan 204-768-0600 sales@otr-recycling.com

WANTED: 4000-BU OUT OF condition wheat, Please call Gerald Friesen:(204)822-3633 or (204)362-0678.

The only company that collects, recycles and re-uses in Manitoba!

888-368-9378 ~ www.envirowestinc.com

80-ACRE BEEF/HORSE/SHEEP FARM, 60 cultivated, 4-brdm house, barn, machine shed, must see! $275,000. Call Mel (204)427-3341.

for pastures and feedlots

37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0 Ph. (204) 745-6444 Email: vscltd@mts.net Andy Vanderveen · Brett Vanderveen Jesse Vanderveen

A Season to Grow… Only Days to Pay!

WE BUY OATS Call us today for pricing Box 424, Emerson, MB R0A 0L0 204-373-2328 *6-Row* *6-Row* Celebration Celebration&& Tradition Tradition

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We feed feed wheat, Webuy buy feedbarley, barley, feed wheat, MALT BARLEY MALT BARLEY oats, corn oats,soybeans, soybeans, corn & canola canola *6-Row* *6-Row* Celebration&&Tradition Tradition Celebration COME SEE IN COME SEEUS US AT AT AG AG DAYS DAYS IN WeTHE buyfeed feedbarley, barley, feed feed wheat, CONVENTION HALL We buy wheat, THE CONVENTION HALL oats,soybeans, soybeans, corn & & canola canola oats, BOOTH corn 1309

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2013 Malt Contracts Available 2013 Malt Contracts Available Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 Phone 204-737-2000 Phone 204-737-2000 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 2013Toll-Free Malt Contracts Available 1-800-258-7434 2013 Malt Available Agent: M &Contracts J Weber-Arcola, SK. Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK. Box 238 Letellier, MB. R0G 1C0 Phone 306-455-2509 Phone 306-455-2509 204-737-2000 Phone Phone 204-737-2000 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 Toll-Free 1-800-258-7434 Agent: M & J Weber-Arcola, SK. We are of farm grains.

Agent: Mbuyers & J Weber-Arcola, SK. Phone 306-455-2509 Phone 306-455-2509

BEST PRICES For Heated OR High Green Canola.

Also buying barley, wheat etc. Eisses Grain Marketing, Lacombe, AB 1-888-882-7803 www.eisses.ca

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

WATER TROUGHS

Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers

STE. ROSE DU LAC CO-OP, STE. ROSE DU LAC, MB . . . 204-447-2545 MCGREGOR CO-OP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-685-2033 NORTHFORK RANCH (CARTWRIGHT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-529-2881

SECOND CUT ALFALFA ROUND bale silage, 2000-lbs/bale average, 130 RFV. Phone: (204)642-2572. Riverton, MB.

SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS Hay & Feed Wanted WANTED: DAIRY, BEEF, GRASS & Straw bales in large square bales. Phone Mark 1-800-371-7928, Winnipeg.

• 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.

Winnipeg 233-8418 Brandon 728-0231 Grunthal 434-6881 “Ask for grain buyer.”

Contact Denis or Ben for pricing ~ 204-325-9555

NOW BUYING Confection and Oil Sunflowers, Brown & Yellow Flax and Red & White Millet Licensed & Bonded P.O. Box 1236 129 Manitoba Rd. Winkler, MB. R6W 4B3

FARMERS, RANCHERS, SEED PROCESSORS BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS 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

1-204-724-6741

OTR TROUGHS Check out our website at OTR-Recycling.com for more information Call Toll Free 1-866-621-5853

FOR SALE BY TENDER • 140 Round Oat Straw Bales • 200 Round Wheat Straw Bales (Bales are approx. 1000lb ea) To obtain bid packages interested parties please call 204-578-6546 Brandon Research Centre Closing Tender Date June 28th, 2013 VENTE par soumission • 140 avoine paille balles • 200 ronde blé paille balles rondes (balles sont approx. ea 1000 lb) pour obtenir la soumission de paquets intéressées parties composez le 204-578-6546 Brandon Research Centre fermeture tendre date 28 juin 2013

COMMON SEED Forage

FOR SALE: 1986 250 Honda 3-wheeler w/tow bar. $1500. Phone (204)822-4382

PETS

Vanderveen Commodity Services Ltd.

COMMON SEED

BRAND NEW ATVS, DIRTBIKES , Dune Buggies & UTV’s: 110cc ATV $729; 125cc $949; 150cc $1,599; 250cc $1,699; 300cc $2,499; 125cc Dune buggy $1,499; 150cc Dune Buggy/150cc UTV, $2,699. Full Warranty, Brandon,MB will add.

Phone:(204)724-4372. www.canadattatv.com

CD’S, GOSPEL, FIDDLING & Bluegrass. Huge guitar sale. 76 note Keyboard, $299; Electric Autoharp, $500; Lapsteel, $229; Banjo’s, $200-$900; 500 Watt Bass Amp, $500; Student Guitar, $79.95; Bass Guitar, $99.95; Acoustic Electric Bass, $229; Deluxe Ibanez Electric Guitar, $250; Drums-Cymbals, $400; Music books 20% off; Electric Florentine Mandolin, $599; Hildebrand Music, Portage La Prairie Mall (204)857-3172.

• Competitive Prices • Prompt Movement • Spring Thrashed

MALT BARLEY

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BUYING:

*6-Row* Celebration & Tradition We buy feed barley, feed wheat, oats, soybeans, corn & canola

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123

PEDIGREED SEED Cereal – Various

COME SEE US AT AG DAYS IN THE CONVENTION HALL BOOTH 1309

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

REAL ESTATE Farms & Ranches – Wanted

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

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

Stretch your advertising dollars! Place an ad in the classifieds. Our friendly staff is waiting for your call.

1-800-782-0794.

TIRES FEDERATION TIRE: 1100X12, 2000X20, used aircraft. Toll free 1-888-452-3850

TRAILERS Grain Trailers 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.

TRAILERS Livestock Trailers EXISS ALUMINUM LIVESTOCK TRAILERS. NEW stock has arrived. All sizes available. 24-ft, 20-ft, 18-ft, & 16-ft lengths. Some 6-ft 6-in high, some 7-ft high. Remaining two trailers from last year- still have rebate. 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.

TRAILERS Trailers Miscellaneous BRANDON TRAILER SALES “You will like our prices!” “It’s that Simple!” “Let’s compare quality & price!” “Certainly worth the call!”

Phone (204)724-4529. Dealer #4383

CAREERS CAREERS Help Wanted SILVER WEANLINGS IS LOOKING for a fulltime swine technician. Silver Weanlings is a 2800 sow unit located 7-m South West of Arborg, MB. Weekend work will be required. Experience an asset, but not required. Starting wage $14.25 per hour.

Please forward all resumes to silwean@mymts.net

CAREERS Professional

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Holland, MB Zeghers Seed Inc. is a fast growing food and feed grains processing, packaging, and export company. Located in beautiful rural Holland, MB. has an opening for a

OPERATIONS MANAGER

We are currently looking for the following attributes: Positive attitude, customer service approach to staff and customers, high commitment to quality, ability to plan daily and plan on the go under pressure, priority management, work well as a team member, understand machinery and mechanical principles, computer literate, and awareness to seeking advice and guidance from others. Other requirements that would be beneficial; acceptance to change, ability to problem solve and accept challenges. Experience in agriculture, and/or other production management would be definite assets

Phone: 204-526-2145 Toll Free: 1-866-526-2145 Email: info@zeghersseed.com Fax: 1-204-526-2524

www.zeghersseed.com CAREERS Truck Drivers MAR-DEE ENTERPRISES REQUIRES A Tandem Fuel Truck driver to start immediately. Duties include, but not limited to, daily fuel deliveries in our Melita, Reston & Virden trade areas, daily. Mon-Fri, every 3rd weekend, on call. Minimum class 3 w/air brake endorsement required, we will offer a competitive wage & benefits package to the successful candidate. Please send resumes by mail, e-mail or fax to our Melita office Box 626 Melita, MB R0M 1L0 e-mail: melita@mardee.ca or fax (204)522-3298.

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Big storms should stay away this week Issued: Monday, June 17, 2013 · Covering: June 19 – June 26, 2013 Daniel Bezte Co-operator contributor

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hile the weather across our region was relatively quiet last week, the weather pattern as a whole was not behaving quite like I predicted it would. Last week I pointed out that we were now into a summer pattern with weaker weather systems and more thunderstorms.

We definitely saw more thunderstorms last week, along with hail and even the odd funnel cloud, including a weak tornado or two.

Move a little farther west (Saskatchewan) and it experienced, for the first time this year, a very strong area of low pressure that brought several days of showers, thundershowers, and just plain rain.

What was summer-like with this system is that it formed much farther north and as it pushed southeastwards across our region last Sunday it weakened substantially, bringing only scattered clouds and a few showers.

For this forecast period it looks to be much of the same. A ridge of high pressure will be in place for the middle of the week, bring-

ing sunny skies with highs in the mid- to upper 20s. Towards the weekend the weather models are having a tough time figuring out just what will happen. Currently, it looks like the ridge of high pressure will begin to collapse and move eastward as an area of low pressure develops to our west.

This will bring increasing humidity into our region by Thursday, along with warm temperatures.

Friday may be warm and humid as well, depending on the amount of sunshine.

Over the weekend the ridge will totally collapse allowing the western low to zip through. This will bring a mix of sun and clouds with maybe a few showers, along with high temperatures in the low 20s. Next week should start off sunny with seasonable temperatures and then transition into warmer and more humid conditions as the week progresses.

Usual temperature range for this period: Highs: 20 to 29 C Lows: 8 to 16 C Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He operates a computerized weather station near Birds Hill Park.

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

WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA

1 Month (30 Days) Accumulated Precipitation (Prairie Region) May 15, 2013 to June 13, 2013

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Produced using near real-time data that has undergone initial quality control. The map may not be accurate for all regions due to data availability and data errors.

Copyright © 2013 Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Prepared by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Service (NAIS). Data provided through partnership with Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and many Provincial agencies.

Created: 06/14/13 www.agr.gc.ca/drought

The 30-day period ending June 13 was fairly wet across the extreme southern part of the Prairies along with the western half of Alberta.

Over these regions 100 to 200 mm of rainfall was recorded, which is two to four times the long-term average. Drier conditions prevailed over northeastern regions.

The ingredients of a tornado Early signs point to an active thunderstorm season this summer

By Daniel Bezte CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR

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fter a fairly cool spring with few if any thunderstorms, summer has started to make headway into the Prairies over the last few weeks. In some years summers come and go with only the odd thundershower and maybe one big thunderstorm, but in other years every storm that comes along seems to bring severe weather. If the early part of thunderstorm season is any indication, it looks like this could be one of the more active years.

Every year I revisit the topic of severe summer weather, and in particular, thunderstorms and tornadoes. The reason I do this probably has to do with my teaching background. Typically it takes three to five attempts for people to “learn” a topic and since we are dealing with such a potentially deadly topic I think the extra lessons to remind us are well worth it.

The biggest question about thunderstorms and tornadoes is probably why some thunderstorms produce tornadoes and others don’t. The answer to this, and likely why I am always hesitant to write about

The biggest question about thunderstorms and tornadoes is probably why some thunderstorms produce tornadoes and others don’t.

how tornadoes form, is that we just don’t really know. We have a pretty good idea of the conditions necessary for the formation of tornadoes, and from this we can make some good, educated guesses, but until we can get detailed measurements of the atmosphere before and during a tornado-producing thunderstorm, the best we can offer is just that — an educated guess.

We know that for tor nadoes to form you need severe thunderstorms, and not the garden-variety afternoon t h u n d e r s h ow e r. T h e r e a son some thunderstorms are not severe while others do become severe comes down to a few factors. The first is just how much energy is available for the development of the storm. For thunderstorms, energy comes in the form of heat, and heat can be found

in warm air temperatures or it can be liberated when water condenses. For most thunderstorms it is a combination of the two, but heat being released during condensation is the biggest source of energy — that’s why most storms occur on warm, muggy days.

The next factor that helps to determine whether a storm will become severe or not is wind. Now remember, the atmosphere is three dimensional, so when we talk about wind we are not just talking about wind at the surface, but also at different heights. In a garden-variety thunderstorm t h e w i n d d o e s n’t c h a n g e much as you go up in height.

This means that over time, the storm’s downdrafts wipe out or kill off the updrafts.

Separation

When this happens the storm no longer has an energy

source and it begins to weaken and die. When wind speed or direction change with height, the updrafts and downdrafts can become separated, and in some cases the downdrafts will actually help the updrafts and strengthen them. When this happens there is a continuous supply of energy for the storm and the storm can remain strong and last for several hours.

We a t h e r e x p e r t s b e l i e v e that it is this change in wind speed or direction with height, also known as wind shear, that is responsible for the development of tornadoes. Here is where it starts to get a little fuzzy, but this is how experts believe tornadoes form. If the change in wind speed and direction is just right within the storm, large parcels of air will begin to rotate. This is the same idea as when you take a pencil and spin it between your hands. If one of these rotating parcels of air gets caught up in the storm’s updraft, and the winds remain “just right,” it will begin to spin faster and faster, much like a spinning top. If the winds are not just right, then the air will not spin fast enough, and just like

a spinning top, it will fall over and break apart.

Now, picture the spinning air becoming vertical within the updraft. The rapidly rising air within the updraft now begins to stretch out the spinning air and this will enhance the rotation, much like a figure skater pulling their arms in during a spin. As the spin rate increases it continues to stretch out, eventually breaking through the bottom of the storm. At this point we would see a funnel cloud. If it continues to stretch and increases its spin rate, the funnel cloud will reach the ground and become a tornado. How big the tornado will get then depends on either how big the area of rotation that started the tornado was, or how long the “just right” set of wind speed and direction remain within the storm.

While tornadoes can produce the most powerful winds on Ear th and they can be truly awe inspiring to see, I really hope that no one has to feel the effects of one first hand. Let’s hope the rest of the summer brings us a good c o m b i n a t i o n o f s u n s h i n e, heat, rainfall, and yes, a few thunderstorms to add a bit of excitement.