Beef Business March Issue

Beef Business ‘

Saskatchewan’s largest circulated industry magazine Saskatchewan`s Premiere Cattlecattle Industry Publication

September 2010

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March 2015

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Contents Cover photo by Rob Holowaychuk at Johnson Livestock, Peebles, SK

A Proud Saskatchewan Tradition Since 1913

Industry News 6

LFSC Gathers Feedback From Industry Stakeholders

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SSGA Offers Free BIXS Registration

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Producers Permitted to Protect Livestock From Predators

13

High Noon for the Hand Shake Agreement?

15

BSE Cow Born in 2009

17

Retail Meat Price Survey

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Weekly Charts

Markets and Trade

Beef Business A Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association (SSGA) Publication General Manager: Chad MacPherson Box 4752, Evraz Place, Regina, SK S4P 3Y4 Tel: 306-757-8523 Fax: 306-569-8799 email: ssga@sasktel.net OR ssga.admin@sasktel.net Website: www.skstockgrowers.com Subscriptions - Claire Hanson Box 4752, Evraz Place, Regina, SK S4P 3Y4 Tel: 306-757-8523 Fax: 306-569-8799 email: ssga.admin@sasktel.net Subscription Rate: 1 yr $26.50 (GST included) Published 5 times per year

Features 22

How High Can Retail Beef Prices Go?

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Survey of Saskatchewan Cow-Calf Producers

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Dealing With a Cattle Truck Rollover

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National Beef Strategy

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Speaker Urges Ranchers to Listen

Advertising Sales - Tracy Cornea Tel: 306-693-9329 Fax: 306-692-4961 email: tracy.cornea@gmail.com Design and Layout - Jackson Designs Candace Schwartz Tel: 306-772-0376 email: cjacksondesigns@gmail.com

Science and Production 46

Horned Cattle Penalty

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Where's the Beef? Active Missing Livestock Files

Association News and Reports 50

A Report From the SSGA President

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Saskatchewan Charolais Association Report

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2015 SSGA Semi-Annual Meeting Resolutions

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Saskatchewan Simmental Report

59

Saskatchewan Angus Report

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SK PCAP - Sharing a Landscape With the Greater Sage-Grouse

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Calendar of Events

63

Advertiser Index

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Business Directory

Stewardship

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Contributors Katrina Barth Tara Mulhern Davidson Jeff Gaye Greg Gilliland Doug Gillespie Murray Jelinski Chad MacPherson

Carolyn McCormack Bud Rice Dave Solverson Jim Warren Michael Wheeler Cam Wilk

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Industry News LFSC Gathers Feedback from Industry Stakeholders The Livestock and Forage Steering Committee (LFSC) has presented its draft report to stakeholders and solicited feedback for the drafting of a final version. The finished report will present recommendations to the Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture.

The committee was struck after consultation between the Minister and industry leaders last April. Its mandate is to review research, training and outreach capacity, and to recommend steps to improve research productivity and training capacity.

The draft report was made available in January and presented at a consultation meeting in Regina. Stakeholder feedback was received until the end of January.

The LFSC’s recommendations aim to boost cooperation and eliminate redundancy in research, training and outreach with the goal of establishing a Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence (LFCE). This

● Public health and food safety; ● Environmental sustainability; and ● Economics and production

will involve the consolidation of existing infrastructure and programs, and the establishment of governance and funding mechanisms.

Present infrastructure includes the Western Beef Development Centre (WBDC), Goodale Farm, University of Saskatchewan campus lands, and the Clavet lands intended to host the new Beef Cattle Research and Teaching Unit (BCRTU). The report recommends relocating the WBDC to the Goodale Farm.

The LFCE would build research and training capacity in the province. The steering committee envisions the LFCE as “the preeminent national leader, with global outreach in beef cattle research.”

Priority research areas would include: ● Forage breeding and management/utilization; ● Herd health, disease prevention and animal welfare; ● Reproduction and genetics;

efficiency.

The LFSC recommends a governance model by which site managers (Goodale, BCRTU and U of S on-campus facility managers) work under the direction of a general manager. This general manager would implement policies and practices mandated by a steering committee made up of representatives of various stakeholder groups.

The Province of Saskatchewan’s Livestock Strategy has targeted a 25 per cent increase in annual livestock farm receipts.

According to the LFCS report, “[this] will only be possible through research and innovation, and the translation of research to the benefit of producers through collaboration, training, and outreach.

The LFCE will be a vehicle by which the Province will achieve this strategy.” B

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Industry News SSGA Offers Free BIXS Registration The SSGA has signed on as a third-party provider for the Beef InfoXchange System, or BIXS. SSGA members can register with the BIXS system at no charge.

Meanwhile ViewTrak Technologies, which entered into a partnership with the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) to run the BIXS platform under the name BIXSCo, has not been standing still.

ViewTrak has divested the cow/calf traceability software and turned it over to BIO, a farmer-owned technology company which has twenty years of experience in the agricultural tracking software field.

BIXSCo president and ViewTrak Vice-President Herbert Lau said the BIXS system is looking to expand applications for its technology in an effort to simplify tracking as markets grow more complex.

“Right now, producers have to enter the same information from one program to another,” Lau said. “If we integrate, then with a producer’s permission we can use a single entry. Instead of four or five times, producers can enter that info just once. We’re looking at how BIXS can help with food safety and traceability so information flows to other programs,” he said.

“Capturing and sharing history of care will soon be the norm for farmers, ranchers, feedlots, processors and retailers,” Lau added. “This is the direction the industry is heading, and, as proof, we need look no further than recent statements by Loblaws and McDonald’s regarding their interest in sustainable beef.”

Lau said Loblaws and McDonald’s commitments to sustainable beef present an opportunity for BIXS to help producers with the verification process. Discussions with McDonald’s are well underway. “If we can work side by side with McDonald’s, producers can enroll with the McDonald’s pilot,” he said. “We’re trying to get them under BIXS integration.”

Since partnering with the CCA, ViewTrak has been promoting the importance of collaborative effort among producers as a means to a competitive industry. Finding ways for the various tracking software programs to talk to each other is a collaborative rather than a competitive means to improve the way producers do business, Lau said.

“We’re looking for more ways to add value to the BIXS system for producers,” he said. B

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Industry News Producers Permitted to Protect Livestock from Predators According to Saskatchewan’s wildlife regulations, landowners are permitted to kill wolves, coyotes and other wildlife on their land that threaten their property and their livestock.

“We’ve had a few sightings in the southwest,” Provencher said. “We know of one pack in the Great Sandhills near Leader.” There have also been wolves reported in the Cypress Hills area.

The regulations allow “the owner or occupant of any land, or his or her designate,” to kill, without a licence, ravens, rattlesnakes, carnivores (except swift foxes and black-footed ferrets), beavers or muskrats.

Coyotes, on the other hand, can be found in almost every region of the province and livestock losses to coyotes are increasingly common. Unlike wolves, they are drawn to populated areas. Coyotes that become habituated to humans have been known to behave boldly, entering pens and yards and preying on livestock and pets.

Wolves are not especially widespread across the Saskatchewan prairie, but there are enough of them in the province to be a genuine problem for livestock producers.

“Wolves are native to Saskatchewan,” says Gary Provencher, a Conservation Officer with Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment. He says most wolves live north of a line from Meadow Lake in the west to Hudson Bay in the east, but there have been sightings in southern Saskatchewan as well.

A $20 bounty on coyotes in 2010 culled 71,000 of the predators.

According to the regulations, a landowner who kills an animal to protect his property must report the kill and turn in the carcass to a wildlife officer (this does not apply to coyotes). “We complete occurrence reports – we get a few every year,” Provencher said. “Most landowners are good to report to us right away.”

A wolf-hunt pilot project has been approved for Wildlife Management Area 49 in the northeast. The hunt is open from September 15, 2014 to March 31, 2015.

One hundred licences will be issued, and each hunter will be allowed one licence.

If the 100 licences are not all issued after January 1, hunters may apply for an additional licence.

Provencher said the pilot project was developed specifically to deal with wolf threats to livestock.

Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation insures producers against losses to wildlife predation. Since beginning their Wildlife Damage Compensation Program in 2010, they have paid 9,878 claims for a total of $5.75 million.

Most of the damage – 75 to 90 per cent of claims in a given year – was done by coyotes. Wolf attacks accounted for six per cent, or 593 claims. B

Congratulations!

Congratulations to SSGA Past President Murray McGillivray on his upcoming induction into the SK Agricultural Hall of Fame.

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Congratulations to Wilma Switzer on her recent retirement. On behalf of the SSGA we would like to thank Wilma for her seven years of service and dedication to SSGA. Welcome to Claire Hanson the newest member of the SSGA staff.

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Industry News High Noon for the Handshake Agreement?

High cattle prices are exposing some weaknesses in the way the industry does business.

There have been reports of sellers reneging on contracted cattle sales as rising market value outpaces the agreedupon price. According to Adrienne Waller, legal counsel for Livestock Identification Services Ltd., although failure to deliver is a risk inherent in all contracts, it is nonetheless a breach of contract. It’s also bad business practice.

The trouble is, many contracts are done in the traditional way: a verbal agreement, sealed with a handshake. This leaves both parties with little recourse if the deal goes awry.

“Cowboys are well-known for handshake deals,” Waller said. “You can’t buy a car without paperwork, but producers have successfully bought and sold cattle with nothing in writing.” Unfortunately, times are changing – and verbal arrangements may not be good enough anymore.

Waller says understanding the law and having a proper written agreement are the best ways to protect yourself when buying or selling. “If you’re going to sell 500 head at a certain price six months from now, know the rules and get it in writing,” she said. “Producers should have a basic understanding of the various laws governing their transaction and have a written agreement - which can be simple and in plain ordinary language”.

“There’s an entire legal system out there at their disposal, and it could save them a lot of problems. What are your legal rights if cattle are not delivered?” she said. “At what point does a sold animal become the buyer’s property?” In a verbal arrangement, she says, “there may be nothing to explain what the deal was.”

If there is nothing in writing the default rules provided by statutes and the common law will apply – and that may not reflect the agreement you thought you had.

A contract (a shipping manifest isn’t a contract, Waller says) will make things much easier if problems arise. And while traditionalists might balk at the paperwork, Waller asks, if someone won’t sign a document that reflects the deal, are you sure you want to do business with them?

She says the 2005 Bonnett Farms case out of Ponoka, Alberta and other lesser known receivership cases are cautionary tales of the problems that can arise when the laws governing the sale of cattle are not understood and when there are no written agreements in place. B

Not all verbal agreements are binding, and if problems arise, the contract you thought you had may not be legally enforceable. There is more to a sale of cattle than a simple exchange of cattle for cash, Waller says, and both parties need to understand the rules in order to protect themselves.

“Proving that there was a mutual understanding of the terms and conditions of a handshake deal is extremely difficult”, she said. “Terms like ‘FOB’ can mean different things to different people. It usually works out, but when it doesn’t you’re in trouble.”

One of the many statutes that govern the sale of cattle is the Sale of Goods Act, and cattle are goods, she said. Under the Sale of Goods Act, different rules apply to a forward-contract than apply to an immediate sale. For example, cattle being bought and sold in the future do not have to exist at the time the contract is entered into.

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Industry News BSE Cow Born in 2009 The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says a cow that tested positive for BSE last month was born in 2009, two years after Canada instituted a ban on cattle feed made from rendered bovine tissue. While this isn’t good news, the case is not inspiring the widespread panic that devastated Canadian beef exports in 2003. The last case in Canada was found in 2011.

among the 30,000 samples tested yearly as part of our BSE surveillance program is not unexpected.”

So far only South Korea has suspended imports of Canadian beef. That suspension will remain in place until Canada is able to assure South Korea that our beef is not a risk.

Canada’s BSE risk is assessed as “controlled” by the World Organization for Animal Health. That status is not threatened, but plans to apply for a “negligible” risk assessment are now on hold until 2020. To attain the negligible risk assessment, Canada had to have no cattle born with BSE for an 11-year period. B

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“The enhanced feed ban was put in place to accelerate Canada’s progress toward the reduction of the disease,” Mayers said. “As this progression continues, the detection of a small number of cases

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Sires represented : Motive 9016, Earnen 076E, Ranch Hand, Settler, Smoking Aces, Senator, Harvestor, Monarch, Unainmous, Resource and more.

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SAFEWAY

SOBEYS

5.80

5.25

5.69

5.39

Ground beef/regular

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4.53

*

4.49

Roast/cross rib

*

9.06

5.99

7.29

Roast/rib

13.40

*

*

14.68

Roast/outside round

5.00

6.93

7.90

8.39

Steak/rib eye

*

*

16.92

15.43

Steak/round

*

8.50

11.69

7.28

Steak/sirloin

6.99

9.47

17.29

9.89

Steak/T-bone

13.60

6.98

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13.59

Steak/tenderloin

22.70

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19.49

22.28

Ground beef/lean

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Markets and Trade SK Weekly Average Price Heifers 500-600 lbs

2013 2014 2015

290 270 250 230 210 190 170 150 130 110

2012 2013 2014 2015

Wk 1 Wk 4 Wk 7 Wk 10 Wk 13 Wk 16 Wk 19 Wk 22 Wk 25 Wk 28 Wk 31 Wk 34 Wk 37 Wk 40 Wk 43 Wk 46 Wk 49 Wk 52

2012

Price per hundred weight

310 290 270 250 230 210 190 170 150 130

Wk 1 Wk 4 Wk 7 Wk 10 Wk 13 Wk 16 Wk 19 Wk 22 Wk 25 Wk 28 Wk 31 Wk 34 Wk 37 Wk 40 Wk 43 Wk 46 Wk 49 Wk 52

Source: CanFax

200.00 190.00 180.00 170.00 160.00 150.00 140.00 130.00 120.00 110.00 100.00

Weekly Canadian Dollar

2013 2014 2015

CDN $ - US terms

2012

0.93 2014

0.88

2015 5 yr avg

0.83

Wk 1 Wk 4 Wk 7 Wk 10 Wk 13 Wk 16 Wk 19 Wk 22 Wk 25 Wk 28 Wk 31 Wk 34 Wk 37 Wk 40 Wk 43 Wk 46 Wk 49 Wk 52

0.78 Source: CanFax

Alberta Weekly D2 Cows Alberta D1 &D1 D2&Cows 310.00

140.00

290.00

130.00 120.00

2012

110.00 100.00

2013

90.00

2014

80.00

2015

70.00

Source: Bank of Canada

Lethbridge Barley Price

150.00

60.00

Price per tonne

Price per hundred weight

Source: CanFax

0.98

Wk 1 Wk 4 Wk 7 Wk 10 Wk 13 Wk 16 Wk 19 Wk 22 Wk 25 Wk 28 Wk 31 Wk 34 Wk 37 Wk 40 Wk 43 Wk 46 Wk 49 Wk 52

Price per hundred weight

AB Fed Steer Prices

270.00 250.00

2012

230.00

2013

210.00

2014

190.00

2015

170.00

Wk 1 Wk 4 Wk 7 Wk 10 Wk 13 Wk 16 Wk 19 Wk 22 Wk 25 Wk 28 Wk 31 Wk 34 Wk 37 Wk 40 Wk 43 Wk 46 Wk 49 Wk 52

150.00 Source: CanFax

Source: CanFax

Wk 1 Wk 4 Wk 7 Wk 10 Wk 13 Wk 16 Wk 19 Wk 22 Wk 25 Wk 28 Wk 31 Wk 34 Wk 37 Wk 40 Wk 43 Wk 46 Wk 49 Wk 52

Price per hundred weight

SK Weekly Average Price 500-600 lbs Steers

Source: CanFax

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“Who’s Your Daddy?”

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Feature How High Can Retail Beef Prices Go?

by Jim Warren

Higher returns to cow-calf producers for 2014 have been mirrored by higher prices for consumers at the retail meat counter.

It is unlikely that primary producers who have been selling beef at prices which lagged well behind both the Consumer Price Index and input cost inflation for a decade have a lot of sympathy for North American consumers who spend less on food as a portion of their total income than people almost anywhere else on the planet. Primary producers have bristled for years over the impacts of a real or imagined cheap food policy in North America. That said, there are some basic laws of market economics which suggest that at some point the upward trajectory of retail meat prices is bound to stall.

Exactly where and when the price curve plateaus is a matter of interest given that we can expect retail price signals to affect prices at the farm gate.

Kathy Larson’s article in the January edition of Beef Business provides an excellent assessment of how the 75% jump in calf prices between 2013 and 2014 failed to fully catch producers up with inflation in prices for certain inputs.

While many producers will report positive net income for 2014, Larson reports that 2014 should be viewed within the context of ten years of stagnant prices, BSE and drought.

By way of comparison, North American consumers have enjoyed relatively stable prices for most consumer goods including food over the past decade. The average increase in the consumer price index for Canada from 2000 to 2014 was just 2%.

The small increase in consumer prices of just 2% in 2014 occurred despite the fact prices for meat increased by 12.4% from 2013 to 2014. This is in part explained by the fact that Canadians spend such a small portion of their income on food – it doesn’t account for everything captured by the Consumer Price Index. According to a recent food price study done by the University of Guelph’s Food Institute,

Canadians spend less than 10% of their income on food. In the US the amount of household income spent on food is even lower, just under 9% and 3% of that is accounted for by alcohol and tobacco.

These are amazingly low numbers given that approximately 40% of the food consumed by North Americans is not consumed at home. In other words, consumers are buying a lot of ready to eat convenience foods and eating in restaurants as opposed to purchasing groceries and cooking at home.

Proportion of household income spent on food in various countries 48%

Cameroon

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Egypt

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Russia*

25%

Mexico

25%

South Africa

22%

Brazil

21%

France

10%

Canada

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United States

Sources: The Economist and University of Guelph Food Institute * All percentages include alcohol and tobacco consumption. Russia has the highest total for alcohol and tobacco of the countries listed at approximately 6% of household income.

Beef Business is well equipped to assess the changes in beef prices as we have been recording the retail prices for various cuts every two months since early 2009. Between 2009 and February 2015 the price of lean ground beef rose from $2.69 per lb. to $5.53 an increase of 105%. Prices for cut meat rose as well but not as sharply. Rib eye steak was selling for $11.25 per lb. in 2009 rising to $16.00

by February 2015 – a 43% increase. The sidebar accompanying this article charts and assesses retail beef price increases since 2009.

The University of Guelph analysts assume that given the low proportion of household income spent on food there should be plenty of room for increases in food prices over the coming year.

Indeed, the anticipated increase in meat prices from 3.0% to 5.0% is unlikely to have a major impact on overall meat consumption. Factors which are operating to reduce the rise in meat prices for 2015 compared to 2014 include a rebound in hog supplies as that industry recovers from last year’s Porcine epidemic diarrhea outbreak. Another factor operating in support of sustained beef consumption and slightly higher prices is the expected increase in the cost of fruits, nuts and vegetables resulting from the dropping value of the Canadian dollar. Some analysts contend that the dollar could drop to $0.75 or lower against the US dollar during 2015. Fruits, nuts and vegetables account for 15%-25% of the average household’s food purchases.

Prices for vegetables are predicted to rise by 5.5%-7.5% in 2015. This means people won’t be going vegetarian in droves to save money.

At the same time there are economic factors in operation which limit the capacity of consumers to purchase food.

Elasticity of demand and income is the area of economic study that assesses how the effects of price increases and decreases affect consumer demand.

For a product like beef, consumers will purchase more as prices decline --to a certain point. There is only so much beef an individual can eat. Conversely, as beef prices increase consumers can be expected to buy less of it especially if lower priced alternatives such as pork, chicken or fish are available. However, price changes alone do not determine everything. For example, there are some household costs that are essential or non-discretionary. These include things like mortgage payments, utility services, continued on page 24

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Feature Retail Prices cont. from pg. 22 taxes and food. A consumer is unlikely to forego the mortgage payment for too many months in a row and they won’t pass up food for more than a day or so if they can help it. However, since beef is not the only type of food available consumers will seek substitutes if the price becomes too high – before they even think about selling the house and moving into a cheaper apartment. And, it appears that escalating housing costs are closely correlated with the decline in the proportion of household income being spent on food. At the turn of the 20th century North American consumers spent 40% of their income on food and 20% on housing. By the 1950s the proportion of income spent on food declined to 34% and housing costs increased to 21%. By the early 2000s the food portion was down to 13% and housing had increased to 33% of household income. Given the rate of housing price inflation since 2001 one would expect the proportion of

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income devoted to housing has continued to increase.

Proof of this phenomenon is available to anyone who takes a trip from the centre of a prairie city to more recently built suburbs. Houses in older neighbourhoods built in the late 1940s and 1950s range from around 1,000 to 2,500 square feet which was apparently enough space to accommodate the typical post-World War II family with 2.5 kids. Today, there are neighbourhoods full of new houses that are larger than many small town hotels. Sizes up to and well over 3,000 are required to house families which have 1.5 kids on average.

Another barrier to increased consumer spending on food is overall household debt, which includes credit card debt as well as mortgages. Canadian consumers are holding record amounts of both types and on average they owe 163% of their annual income. At some point servicing non-mortgage debt could inhibit purchases of higher priced meat.

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One area where food purchases seem somewhat discretionary is in the meals outside the home category. In the 1950s out of home meals accounted for less than 20% of household food expenditures -- versus 40% today. Of course back in the 1950s there were more families with a mom at home who could buy the groceries and prepare meals. While busy two income families may be reluctant to pack their own lunches or pass up the luxury of restaurant dining and takeout, it appears that this wold be one of the easier changes in behaviour that could allow families to absorb higher food costs without necessarily reducing the amount of overall beef consumption.

Besides housing, the household expense item which has increased the most over past decades is transportation which has increased from almost nothing in the early 1900s to 22% of household spending in 2014. Indeed, food and clothing are the only two expense items which have seen continued on page 27

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Feature Retail Meat Prices Since 2009

Retail Prices cont. from pg. 24

By way of conclusion, there are grounds to expect that higher beef prices can be accommodated by consumers, but only up to the point when alternative meats become more attractive and/or when consumers realign their household budgets to conform to the new food reality. We’re not there yet but the day of reckoning may not be that far over the horizon. B Sources: Statistics Canada Consumer Price Index: historical summary 1995-2014, University of Guelph Food Price Report 2015, University of Guelph Food Price Report 2015 Revisions, The Economist, “Food for Thought,” May 12, 2013. Visual Economics, “100 Years of Consumer Spending.”

Regina Retail Beef Prices $18 $16 $14

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steady and significant decreases over time. So, at some point as products such as beef and other food items increase in price, consumers will need to look to their budgets and determine what, if anything, is actually a discretionary expenditure. Perhaps at some point restaurant meals will be replaced by home cooking or the family car will be forgone in favour of public transit, or maybe the 10% of household income going to entertainment, reading and alcohol can be reduced. These sorts of changes will not be made with any great enthusiasm.

And, some of them such as reducing transportation costs or reducing the size of houses will not happen overnight.

And, we can no doubt expect consumer pressure over excessive food prices will be brought to bear on politicians.

The two graphs provided below were derived from the retail price data collected every two months by Beef Business from September 2009 to February 2015. We selected the prices for lean ground beef which is the mainstay, most commonly sold beef product at grocery stores in Canada. It is also the item that some analysts suspect retailers use from time to time as a loss leader to attract store traffic. Rib eye steak was selected as a choice cut comparison. Lean ground rose in price during the study period from $2.69 per lb. in 2009 to $5.53 per lb. in 2015 – a 105% price increase. Rib eye steak rose from $11.25 per lb. to $16.00 per lb. over the same period – accounting for a 43% price increase.

$12 $10

Lean Ground

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$6 $4 $2 $0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

The table provided below shows the cost for lean ground beef as a percentage of the cost of rib eye steak. The data indicates that back in 2009 lean ground was one quarter the price of rib eye but has increased to just under 35% today. While we shouldn’t attempt to read too much into the data, it does suggest that retailers have been sensitive to consumer resistance to higher prices. They have been prepared to more than double the price for lean ground over the past seven years, but have been less inclined to raise the price of prime cuts. This is perhaps an indication of the levels at which retailers will confront consumer resistance to higher beef prices. Retailers have the option of deciding at what point it makes more sense to raise primal cut prices versus turning them into easier to sell burger.

Cost of Lean Ground as a % of Ribeye Cost 38% 36%

Percentage

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Feature Survey of Saskatchewan Cow-Calf Producers

by Dr. Murray Jelinski and Katrina Barth

Saskatchewan beef producers were surveyed to determine what factors were associated with their use of veterinary services; how and where they obtain nutritional and animal health advice; and their views on having non-veterinarians perform some veterinary procedures. With the assistance of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association (SSGA), surveys were sent to 2,000 Saskatchewan cow-calf producers between November 2012 and April 2013. The SSGA randomly selected the producers and forwarded the mailing labels to a third party mailer, who in turn mailed the survey to 2,000 producers. To encourage participation, respondents could direct a $25 donation, provided by the researchers, to either the Saskatchewan 4-H Association (4-H) or the Farm Animal Council of Saskatchewan (FACS). Respondents who did not have a cow-calf operation needed only to complete a few background questions (“short form”) for which they could direct a $10 donation to 4-H or FACS.

50% of producers expected to have the same size herd 3 years down the road, while 28% planned on expanding the herd over the next 3 years. Fifty producers were ready to disperse the herd or were unsure of the future of their herd, all of which were older producers (greater than 53 years of age). We also found that younger producers were 3 times more likely than older producers to have large herds.

Producers were asked to rank 7 different sources of nutritional information and animal health advice, Table 1. Veterinarians were the primary source for nutritional information and animal health advice. Furthermore, large producers were more likely than small producers to obtain nutritional advice from specialists such as feed mills, supplement suppliers, and nutritionists. As expected, the younger generation of producers was more likely to use the Internet as a source of nutritional information, while older producers

When asked about usage of veterinary services, ~20% reported a reduction in the use of all services (individual animal and herd level), while another ~20% had decreased individual animal services but increased herd level activities. In general, veterinarians are now engaged in less individual animal work but more herd level activities. Producers who pregnancy checked were also more likely to have larger herds, to semen test their bulls, to analyze their forages, and to farm in the continued on page 33

Plan ahead; vaccinate for anthrax

There were 362 producers who were still farming and completed the long version of the survey. Figure 1 shows the provincial distribution of respondents by soil zones. The larger triangles represent multiple producers sharing the same postal code but living in the same town/ proximity. When analyzed by soil type, producers who were located in the brown soil zones (“Palliser’s Triangle”) adopted more management practices such as pregnancy testing, bull breeding evaluations, and forage testing.

The average number of breeding females per herd was 173 head. This, however, was skewed by very large herds. Half of the producers had less than 124 breeding females, which we used as a cut-off for defining “small” and “large” herds. Approximately

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were more likely to access this information from printed material. However, both of these findings applied only to the small operators. Larger producers were more inclined to obtain their advice from veterinarians and other professionals (i.e. nutritionists). It should also be noted that not all sources of information are equal.

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To reduce the risk of anthrax affecting your herd, talk to your veterinarian about vaccination.

This is especially important if your herd is located in an area where there have been previous outbreaks of anthrax.

Anthrax progresses rapidly.

Vaccination and/or early diagnosis and treatment is important.

For more information, phone the Agriculture Knowledge Centre at 1-866-457-2377, visit saskatchewan.ca/livestock or visit inspection.gc.ca.

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Feature Cow-Calf Producers cont. from pg. 28 brown soil zones as mentioned earlier.

Furthermore, this survey was administered prior to the recent run-up in cattle prices, which is interesting because ~50% of producers agreed with the statement, “I would increase veterinary services usage if my cattle operation was more profitable.”

Approximately 80% of producers “agreed” or “strongly agreed” that the decision to call a veterinarian is a cost:benefit decision that must make economic sense.

Young large producers were 5 times more likely to agree with this last statement than were the young small producers.

The majority (94%) “agreed” or “strongly agreed” that adequate veterinary services could be accessed within an hour’s drive of the farm.

Table 2 shows the results of how many producers would be comfortable with having non-veterinarians (technicians or neighbors) perform some of the more commonly encountered procedures traditionally done by a veterinarian.

Overall, more than half of producers, both young and old, still believe that most procedures should be performed only by a veterinarian. It needs to be stressed that these statistics do not necessarily reflect who is doing what procedures, but rather whether producers would be comfortable with having non-veterinarians perform these procedures.

With respect to nutrition, only 22% of producers routinely test forages for protein and energy and ~55% of producers supplement trace minerals to breeding females on pasture, while 75-80% supplemented in the pre- and post-calving periods.

The cow-calf industry in western Canada is on the cusp of a major reorganization.

The number of Canadian farms reporting beef cows decreased by 25.9% between 2006 and 2011, and as of 2011, nearly half of all producers was older than 55 years of age. A record number of producers will retire within the next 5-10 years, leading to fewer but much larger cowcalf operations. These large producers will become increasingly reliant upon veterinarians for advice and for herd health services, but will also be less likely to have veterinarians attend to individual animal events, placing greater emphasis on the economics of using veterinary services. This will have implications on where and how they source their veterinary services and supplies, and on the use of non-veterinarians for procedures such as pregnancy checking. B

TABLES AND FIGURE Table 1. Summary of the percentage of producers who ranked each source of information as 1 of their top 3 resources for nutritional information and animal health advice.

Veterinarian Journals, magazines, and other printed material Other producers Feed mill, supplement supplier, nutritionist (consultant) Extension services (university, government) Internet Other

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Table 2. Percentage of producers who indicated they were comfortable with having a non-veterinarian (technician or neighbor) perform each procedure (“Non-vet”); whether only a veterinarian should perform the procedure (“Vet only); or they were undecided (“Not sure”).

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Feature Dealing With a Cattle Truck Rollover

by Bud Rice

Vehicle accidents are never good and having a load of cargo roll over is a dangerous and costly occurrence. When the cargo is large live animals, you have a big problem on your hands.

Thankfully we don’t get a lot of livestock rollovers, but there are a few in Saskatchewan every year. First responders are not always trained to handle livestock emergencies, and you can’t count on the emergency team having the supplies you need.

In some provinces and most states there are dedicated teams and storage locations with the equipment for such an incident and Saskatchewan has two emergency units: one in Saskatoon and the other in Moose Jaw. While training initiatives are getting started, there is still a serious shortage of trained responders.

It’s important for truckers to make appropriate preparations ahead of time.

In case of a rollover it is imperative to keep the animals contained until a veterinarian arrives. The vet will authorize how to proceed and can grant permission to transport the animals to a holding facility. You should have contact information for a veterinarian along your route before you set out.

You will need panels to keep the animals contained. A nearby farm, ranch, feedlot or other such facility should be able to help you. Police or other first responders may have contact information, but it helps to have contacts you know along your route.

You will need your contact to help you with panels, horse trailers, chains and ropes.

Assemble panels around the area where you will be cutting each opening in the trailer (you will have to cut an opening for each compartment). Cut the trailer one compartment at a time, let the livestock out and load them into the rescue trailer

as soon as possible.

Have the trailers backed up and ready to load before the animals are let out of the overturned unit. Avoid cutting the ribs of the trailer as this will weaken the walls and make it harder to right the trailer.

Everyone on the scene needs to be quiet and their keep movements to a minimum.

You will have to arrange for a holding facility – a farm or ranch – to hold the cattle until they can be reloaded to resume the trip. Your livestock should be contained away from other animals in the holding area.

Fire Departments should have an Animal Emergency Response Team number and a list of materials needed to remove livestock safely and efficiently, but it’s possible that the first responders at the rollover scene will lack experience moving cattle. This can lead to a stressful situation which can be alleviated by communicating with them and offering to take charge of the animals. Remember they are in charge of the accident scene, so use tact when offering help.

When moving cattle be aware that they tend to move in a circular direction and have what is called a “flight zone.” This is the short term used to describe the minimum distance that an animal is comfortable maintaining in your presence.

If you are outside of the flight zone the animal won’t move; if you step inside the flight zone, it will move away from you. This flight zone varies from animal to animal, and is different in different circumstances. Each flight zone depends on how tame an animal is, and how calm or excited it is. The flight zone is always largest around the head, and smallest around the hips.

Cattle also have what is called a “point of balance,” which is the point in the flight zone that influences where an animal can move. A bovine’s point of balance is usually at the shoulder, especially in

confined spaces and is determined by the animal’s wide-angle vision. However, the point of balance in an open-pen or pasture may not be at the shoulder but perhaps at the eye, the neck, or the side.

Applying pressure on the animal from behind the point of balance will always make an animal move forward and applying pressure from the front of the point of balance will always make the animal move backwards. Applying pressure directly to the right of the animal’s shoulder will make him move right, or left if you move at a 90 degree angle to the animal’s left shoulder.

To make an animal stop, stop walking when you are past the point of balance and when the animal feels you are out of its flight zone. To move only one animal, stop walking when the point of balance of that animal is crossed.

Remember to stay calm.

You can also get the animals to start moving by giving them a “predatory” stare, simulating the stalking movement of a predator sizing up the herd. Don’t linger too long in an animal’s blind spot though, otherwise it will turn around and look at you. Take your time and work the animal slowly.

Move cattle through a working alley or race into the holding pens with the same methods described above. The same movements for moving cattle from pasture to pasture can be used moving cattle in a corral.

You can control the number of cattle entering an opening by moving backwards to release tension and allow flow through the opening, then moving forward to stop further movement. This is useful when controlling the number of animals that are allowed through a race or working alley at a time.

Ideally, you should never be more than two hours from a source of help. Other continued on page 37

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Feature Catlle Truck Rollover cont. from pg. 34 useful reminders: Always remain calm and quiet when handling cattle. Do not get angry, frustrated, excited, or nervous. The cattle will sense your state and become excited and anxious themselves. Do not yell or use excessive force.

Always remember that whenever you are handling cattle, you are training them.

Cattle will respond to however you handle them, good or bad.

Excited, wild movement can cause a lot of damage to equipment and injury

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to people and animals. Calm, slow movement is the quickest way to get them moving and going where you want to go without any trouble.

Do not yell or chase cattle. This will only increase stress and may cause some animals to become aggressive when they feel cornered. Cornered animals are very dangerous, and may seriously injure or even kill you.

You should have, or have access to, leather gloves, livestock panels, cattle halters, horse halters with extra leads, fencing pliers, zip ties, blindfolds, lariat ropes, water buckets, lots of cotton rope, hog herding boards, lots of bungee straps,

portable lights, tool box, hammer, pliers, vice grips, screwdrivers, adjustable wrenches and 20 foot tow straps; wire cable and even snow fence will help to start with.

Your emergency response contact sheets should have names and numbers for livestock facilities, stock trailers and a large-animal veterinarian. Other useful contacts in case of a rollover include stock handlers (cattle, horses, swine), boarding stables, game farms, poultry farms, rendering companies and a source of snow fence or construction fence. B

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Feature National Beef Strategy

by Dave Solverson, CCA President

It’s an interesting time in Canada’s beef cattle industry. After an incredible year for all sectors in 2014, where record prices and demand were sustained beyond typical patterns creating once in a lifetime profits for most beef producers, it’s time to think about not only this year but about what’s to come. This is an especially poignant topic for me as I think of my family, who help me run my operation, and about my newest grandchild and the sort of legacy I’d like to one day pass on to them. And just like more hands lighten the workload at home, I believe that by working together we will build a stronger and more robust industry capable of meeting and responding to the opportunities now and into the future.

It’s true that the long-term competitiveness of Canada’s beef cattle industry has been a topic of much discussion for some time. It’s also true that there’s been general agreement that the beef industry needs to adapt and evolve to stay relevant. What’s changed now is that for the first time there is agreement from the national and provincial beef sector organizations about what needs to happen to achieve that and how to get there. The National Beef Strategy provides the framework for how the organizations can work together to best position the Canadian beef industry for greater profitability, growth and continued production of a high quality beef product of choice in the world. In short, the National Beef Strategy seeks to position the Canadian beef industry as the most trusted and competitive high quality beef cattle producer in the world recognized for its superior quality, safety, value, innovation and sustainable production methods.

The time to act is now. There’s a growing global demand for protein that shows no signs of slowing down, even with retail beef prices at record highs. The National Beef Strategy’s approach is especially important now as the record prices sustained in 2014 have given way to a new

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price environment going forward. Many of the factors which have brought prices to these levels continue to look supportive for the markets for the next one to three years. Improving economic conditions in the US, and a weaker Canadian dollar are certainly positive for the industry moving forward. Projected lower beef production in North America, flat global production, and growing demand are all very positive for Canadian cattle producers. As such, Canada’s beef industry is facing an unprecedented opportunity to increase demand for its beef products, and the National Beef Strategy provides the road map as to how the industry can achieve this while managing challenges like tight cattle supplies, reduced marketings, and competition for arable land.

The National Beef Strategy will build on and strengthen the foundational pieces of existing work that have enabled the beef industry to grow to date but in a manner which will be more responsive to current and future needs. This will enable chronic issues, like infrastructure and capacity, to be addressed more holistically, and lead to programming to help grow beef demand and bridge to where industry wants to be in the future.

In basic terms, the Strategy is a business plan for the industry. It will provide measurement and report on progress so the return on investment will be clear to all stakeholders. I particularly like that the plan will be more responsive to addressing unexpected issues that arise, which will ensure the industry continues to evolve and progress. Full details are available at www.beefstrategy.com and I encourage you to read the material housed there and view the videos to get more information.

has it been adjusted for inflation – so it makes sense to me that in order to deliver on what is proposed in the Strategy, additional funds will be required.

The discussion around how the National Strategy could be funded has been informative and many opinions have been aired at the National Beef Strategic Planning Group meetings. In my view, after a profitable year like we’ve just had, the thought of adding a few more dollars toward an industry initiative with as much potential benefit as the Strategy isn’t such a big deal – in fact it’s a wise investment.

I know that Martin Unrau and Trevor Atchison, co-chairs of the National Beef Strategic Planning Group and members of the Canadian Beef Advisors, a group of experienced beef sector professionals leading the implementation of the National Beef Strategy, feel the same. We all believe the Strategy is the way to move the industry forward, together.

The National Beef Strategy is a collaborative effort by Canadian national beef sector organizations including the Beef Cattle Research Council, Canadian Beef Breeds Council, Canada Beef Inc., Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (and its provincial member associations), and the National Cattle Feeders’ Association.

The National Beef Strategy promotes a united approach to position the Canadian beef industry for greater profitability, growth and continued production of a high quality beef product of choice in the world. B

Like any good business plan, the National Beef Strategy has a budget associated with it that details the costs of the potential activities identified with meeting the overall objective. The national checkoff hasn’t increased since 1994 – nor

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Feature Speaker Urges Ranchers to Listen

by Jeff Gaye

Bruce Vincent is a logger and a motivational speaker. He addressed the Saskatchewan Beef Conference in January, encouraging industry stakeholders to take an active part in telling their own story.

Vincent is easy to listen to. Whether he is delivering a presentation or carrying on a personal conversation, he speaks with an effortless, patient rhythm. He illustrates his points with homespun anecdotes and occasional self-deprecating humour. He lets his story unfold at an easy tempo, much like a good baseball announcer does.

He and his family own a logging business in Montana. A small logging operation is much like a ranch, he says, in that conservation and care of the land are necessary to the business’s survival. They are also the keys to a way of life that rural people love.

So he can see the irony of loggers and ranchers being lectured by city dwellers on the importance of environmental stewardship. Still, he takes a kindly approach to urbanites’ concern for the natural environment. First of all, he says he’s glad so many people live in cities – that means there’s fewer people out on the land. And he understands that they fall in love with nature when they get to spend a week or two away from the concrete, because that’s exactly the way he feels too.

This common love of nature presents an opportunity to find some mutual understanding.

Loggers and ranchers, he says, can operate only with the consent of the public. “Without their consent, we don’t have our license.” And to earn that consent, he says the first thing you have to do is listen. Explanations of who the stockgrower is will fall on deaf ears until there is some trust built,” he said. “And to build trust, you have to listen first.”

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He said the logging industry was vilified by the public for years. The more people railed against the loggers, the louder the loggers shouted back. “Instead of listening, we were shouting, and they saw us as industry puppets.”

“We have perceptions about them as well, how they’re just kind of stupid and ignorant about where their stuff comes from. Or they have no real-world knowledge of what goes on in the environment,” Vincent said.

“But we have to look at the world through their eyes. They’re not stupid people.

They’re very intelligent people trying to make decisions based on their worldview.”

“Listen to them, hear their concerns, understand,” he said. “Their feelings are valid. They have a right to be concerned about animal welfare.” The public will make decisions based on what they believe, Vincent says, and “we need to have the answers to their concerns.”

That means humanizing the industry’s image. People need to know that most beef, by far, is still produced on family operations. This kind of conversation can take place “over backyard fences and at coffee tables.” Farm issues are local issues, and producers would do well to reinforce that in their communities – “we need to worry about our neighbours working in the hardware store,” Vincent said. continued on page 42

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Feature Speaker Urges Ranchers cont. from pg. 41 Above all, he said, the beef business needs to avoid a bunker mentality. When there is a real or perceived crisis in the industry, producers tend to hunker down and hope it all blows over, when what they need to do is reach out. “Don’t run from your story, warts, pimples and all,” he said. “When we meet the public, it’s something to see how enthused they are to engage.”

Just as good environmental stewardship ensures the land will continue to provide, taking care of your relationship with the public will earn their support and cooperation. Vincent says that activism – talking to people about the industry – is an important part of a good business plan, and it should be there as a line item right along with equipment maintenance.

“Democracy works, but it’s not a spectator sport,” he said. “The world is run by those who show up.” He advises dedicating

at least an hour a week to “showing up” – not just at association meetings, but at town halls, schools and churches, and chamber of commerce meetings.

Letters to the editor, communication with candidates and officeholders and dialogue via social media are effective ways of telling your story.

Ranchers have a leg up on loggers in that regard, he says. “The public reaction to us is we’re a bunch of knuckle-draggers who cut down beautiful trees. They see a logger’s hat, they see an axe man.”

“A cowboy hat and a big buckle, that’s a positive to them. But the only way that starting point is any good is if the rancher is engaged in the dialogue.”

Vincent has spent many years speaking with large and small groups of farmers, oilmen, loggers and lawmakers, talking in cafes and in colleges. While he is often invited to speak to a sympathetic audience, he has found himself going into the proverbial lion’s den on many occasions. Sometimes he has suspected he was set up to be a punching bag or whipping boy for critical audiences.

But he finds instead that people are willing to engage and learn if they feel they are being listened to, and that there is an appetite for optimism, especially among young people. “They’re hungry for hope and good news,” Vincent said.

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“Sometimes that means changing our actions or policies or ground-based activities in ways that we don’t think make sense. That’s really hard, changing ourselves just to meet a public perception.

But we can do it.”

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Science and Production Horned Cattle Penalty

by Cameron Wilk, P. Ag.

One of the activities Livestock Inspectors are responsible for is assisting livestock dealers with the application and deduction of the horned cattle penalty.

Over the past two fall calf runs inspectors have noted an increase in cattle arriving for sale with horns. As we are now into the 2015 spring market you may anticipate seeing increased inspection of cattle for horns to ensure that the penalty is being applied correctly. It can be challenging for the inspectors to assess the penalty objectively without impeding the speed of commerce at the time cattle are received for sale. It is not feasible to restrain every animal to inspect horns, so for practical purposes, inspectors need to see visible horn tissue to assess the penalty.

The authority to deduct $2 for the horn penalty is given under The Horned Cattle Purchases Act and is intended to encourage dehorning of livestock. The legislation applies to all cattle, with horns, weighing not less than 100 kilograms (220lb.) Furthermore, “cattle with horns” is defined as cattle that are not polled or have not been dehorned.

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“Dehorned” means cattle with horns removed in such a manner as to ensure that no more than 50 mm or two inches of horn or boney tissue projects beyond the surface of the skull of the animal. In other words, a poor job of dehorning means that these cattle are subject to the horned cattle penalty.

The legislation is clear that every dealer who purchases cattle with horns, other than purebred cattle that are registered and are being purchased for breeding purposes, shall collect the sum of $2 for each head of cattle, with horns, purchased.

Livestock dealers remit the horned penalty to Livestock Services of Saskatchewan along with fees for brand inspection. The horned cattle penalties are held in the Horned Cattle Fund. Once administrative expenses have been paid from the fund, project funding may be approved by the Minister of Agriculture based on recommendations of the Horned Cattle Purchases Act Advisory Committee.

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In addition to this penalty, the selling price for horned cattle is determined by the marketplace. For example, one auction market reports that on average most horned cattle are discounted about $3 per hundred weight. This is a loss of revenue of $18.00 on a 600 lb. steer calf. If you sell 50 horned cattle through that market that is a loss of $900.00 plus an additional $100 for the horned cattle penalty ($2 per head).

The National Beef Quality Audit (2011) estimated the loss due to bruising at $2.10/head processed with an additional $0.06/head due to extra packing plant labor costs to remove the horns for worker safety. From the packers perspective dehorning is encouraged for increasing meat quality and livestock handler/ producer safety.

At the feedlot, horned cattle create additional work for processing crews and feedlot operators may decide to leave horns on to minimize stress and setback on the cattle. The cattle represent a risk to other animals in the feedlot as the risk of carcass bruising increases when transporting or handling these animals in groups. B

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Association News and Reports A Report From Doug Gillespie President, Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association efforts. I would like to encourage everyone to complete the survey if you haven’t already done so by going to www.skstockgrowers.com. As part of our ongoing efforts to add value to becoming an SSGA member. We have recently signed an agreement to become the first Saskatchewan based BIXS third party service provider (TPP). As a TPP SSGA will be offering free BIXS registration to all SSGA members.

Since my last report we held our SemiAnnual Meeting in conjunction with the SK Beef Industry Conference (SBIC). The meeting was very well attended with several interesting resolutions coming forward. All the resolutions were carried except for one that was tabled to the June AGM. The tabled resolution addressed concerns about investors circumventing the intent of The Farm Land Security Act. There is considerable discussion and debate happening in rural Saskatchewan about how to strike a balance of free enterprise while restricting investment by pension plans and foreign capital. This is a complicated policy issue that the SSGA will continue to investigate and provide input to the Ministry of Agriculture through their ongoing review and consultation process.

The policy debate whether to keep or eliminate the horned cattle fund reared its head at SBIC. I don’t understand why portions of our industry do not support getting the horns off of cattle. According to the 2011 BCRC Beef Quality Audit approximately 8.6% of all fed cattle going to slaughter had horns longer than 2”.

The argument that the market penalizes the cattle with horns doesn’t hold water.

If it did, the number of cattle sold with horns would continue to decrease but they are not. The most effective way to reduce the number of cattle being sold with horns is to increase the penalty. The penalty has been at $2 since the inception of The Horned Cattle Purchases Act in 1940. It is high time to raise the penalty because a $2 penalty doesn’t even pay for a producers time to bother removing the horns. Another consideration going forward is the Beef Code of Practice. Under the code of practice it is recommended that calves be disbudded prior to three months of age and after January 1st, 2016 the industry standard will be to provide pain mitigation when dehorning calves over three months of age. continued on page 52

Other resolutions covered a wide variety issues impacting producers including annual rent on pipelines and flow lines, changes to the Species at Risk Act and creating a $25 junior membership for producers under the age of twenty five years old. A full listing of resolutions is included on page 54.

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Association News and Reports President's Report cont. from pg. 50 It was recently announced that the first BSE positive cow in four years was found in northern Alberta. To date the cattle market has remained steady following the announcement and only South Korea has suspended the importation of Canadian beef. Hopefully this discovery doesn’t trigger any additional market disruptions and that trade can be restored quickly with South Korea. This discovery really highlights the importance of continued BSE surveillance testing to comply with our OIE requirements.

I would like to take a moment to pass out some sincere Thank-You’s. Thank you to Wilma Switzer for her seven years of service and dedication in the SSGA office, I will miss her cheery greeting on the phone when I called; to Lynn Grant for all his time and dedication he has put into his many years representing Saskatchewan on the CCA board. At this time I would also like to welcome Claire Hanson to the SSGA office and hope she enjoys her new job!!

It’s getting to the time of year for zone meeting season. I would like to invite everyone to attend your local zone

meeting. Zone meetings provide the SSGA leadership an opportunity to meet and interact with our grassroots members.

As well it provides our membership an opportunity to voice your issues and concerns and participate in the development of SSGA policy. I would like to encourage everyone to consider bringing a new perspective member to your local zone meeting.

In closing I look forward to meeting many members at the upcoming zone meetings!

SK Charolais Association Report

by Greg Gilliland, President

Greetings to everyone on behalf of the Saskatchewan Charolais Association. It seems that the articles and news reports that I have read or heard in the last six months have opened with “The cattle industry is enjoying some good times!”

Being a husband and father of four who has struggled with finances and worked off the ranch, while trying to build a herd over the last twenty years, I am hesitant to be that optimistic. Statistics say that I am almost 20 years younger than the average producer in the country but I doubt I am alone in my thinking. Cattle numbers in North America are lower than they have been in decades, therefore we have seen significant increases in the prices across the board. Last fall we saw many producers market their calves much earlier than they ordinarily do because of fear that the market would drop. If the laws of supply and demand are followed we should not see a drop in market prices for many years to come.

The Charolais business is good, although we have seen many herd dispersals in the last decade, we have seen most operations increase in size and we are also seeing new breeders pop up across the country. Charolais cattle have transformed

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from one of the largest framed to one of the most moderate framed breeds you will see as you walk the aisles in the barns at the Canadian Western Agribition.

You can find just as many easy calving Charolais bulls as any other breed in the business, the difference being Charolais has maintained the performance in the genetics. Therefore the cattle feeders will pay a premium for the Char cross calf because they know the feed conversion is built in and the Charolais cross will finish quicker and put more dollars in their pockets. This time of year we’re all receiving multiple bull sale catalogues every day in the mail and I hope you take the time to consider a Charolais bull this year, the benefits are staggering. Don’t take my word for it just take notice the next time you are in an auction mart.

climb, barring an unforeseen disaster, as we see producers market the bulk of their heifer calves and reap the reward of the hardships they have endured in a business that is 24/7.

As I am writing this the noon news is on talking of the PFRA increasing their rates from 31 cents to 52 cents per day per cow, and phasing out the remaining government controlled pastures in the next three years. A local equipment salesman informed me yesterday cattle associated equipment is going up as we are in the market for a newer baler. Market prices will not only hold they should

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Association News and Reports Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association 2015 Semi-Annual Resolutions

Resolution #1 WHEREAS it is critical to the future of the beef industry to engage and attract young producers.

BE IT RESOLVED that the SSGA establish a new $25 junior membership for producers under the age of twenty-five years old.

Carried Resolution #2 WHEREAS there are currently limited incentives to become a Verified Beef Program (VBP) audited producer; and WHEREAS there are significant funding inequities between Saskatchewan and other VBP programs in western Canada.

BE IT RESOLVED that the SSGA lobby the Government of Saskatchewan to create a second level of food safety funding for VBP audited producers.

Carried Resolution #3 WHEREAS landowners who voluntarily participate in Species at Risk stewardship programs may be exposing themselves to future liability.

BE IT RESOLVED that the SSGA lobby the Government of Canada to recognize and implement Safe Harbour Agreements under The Species at Risk Act to protect landowners participating in voluntary stewardship programs from all future liabilities.

Carried Resolution #4 WHEREAS large land purchases have raised concerns in the agricultural community; and WHEREAS entities such as pension funds, life insurance companies, ENGOs, brokerage and mortgage companies are purchasing agricultural land in Saskatchewan.

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BE IT RESOLVED that the SSGA lobby the Government of Saskatchewan to review the provincial farmland ownership policy regarding the capability of entities to circumvent the intent of the Act. Tabled Resolution #5 WHEREAS there is increasing pressure on the agricultural sector from outside special interest groups.

BE IT RESOLVED that the SSGA lobby the Government of Saskatchewan to explore the development of right to farm legislation.

Carried Resolution #6 WHEREAS the University of Saskatchewan is currently selling or generating revenue from agricultural assets.

BE IT RESOLVED that the SSGA lobby the University of Saskatchewan to invest any current or future revenue generated from these assets back into agricultural research.

Carried Resolution #7 WHEREAS investment in intellectual and physical research infrastructure and capacity is critical to the future of the beef cattle industry; and WHEREAS the Livestock & Forage Steering Committee report has recommended the creation of a Livestock & Forage Centre of Excellence at the University of Saskatchewan.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the SSGA support the concept of developing a Livestock & Forage Centre of Excellence at the University of Saskatchewan.

Carried Resolution #8 WHEREAS underground pipelines, flow lines and power lines pose a safety risk.

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BE IT RESOLVED that the SSGA lobby the Government of Saskatchewan to have all pipelines, flow lines and power lines registered with Sask 1st Call.

Carried Resolution #9 WHEREAS The Surface Rights Compensation and Acquisition Act is currently under review; and WHEREAS pipelines and flow lines create ongoing limitations on a landowner’s ability to develop and utilize their property.

BE IT RESOLVED that the SSGA lobby the Government of Saskatchewan to require resource companies to pay annual rent for pipelines and flow lines.

Carried Resolution #10 WHEREAS the Grower Requested Own Use program (GROU) allows for eligible United States versions of Canadian registered products to be imported into Canada at US pricing; and WHEREAS inoculating sainfoin seed is a recommended best management practice; and WHEREAS sainfoin inoculant is not currently available for sale in Canada.

BE IT RESOLVED that the SSGA lobby the Government of Canada to have sainfoin inoculant added as an eligible GROU listed product.

Carried

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Saskatchewan Simmental Association Report

by Carolyn McCormack Secretary/Treasurer The Saskatchewan Simmental Association (SSA) had a successful year in 2014!

The SSA works hard to promote the Simmental breed and support its members and this is evident by another busy year. We are striving to promote the breed at purebred and commercial levels, as well as through support and encouragement of our youth – the future of the breed and the cattle industry.

Spring bull sales, once again, remained strong and proved that the demand for Simmental genetics is getting stronger. The SSA “Win a $2000 sale credit Bull Promotion” has proven to be very successful. Any bulls purchased from SSA members and the registration papers transferred, automatically enters the buyer’s name into a draw for a $2000 sale credit. The more bulls you purchase, the more chances you have to win! This credit is drawn for at our annual meeting in July and the lucky winner has one year to use the credit toward purchasing a bull or female at public auction or by private treaty. Congratulations to the 2014 winner, Ed & June McCaffrey, Vawn, SK. The 2014 Commercial Breeder of the Year was awarded during the Simmental Show at Canadian Western Agribition. Hummock Springs Ranch, Watrous, SK were awarded this prestigious award and received a 3x6’ gate sign. The 2014 Purebred Breeder of the Year was awarded to Muirhead Cattle Co., Shellbrook, SK and they also received a gate sign.

The SSA continues to strongly support 4-H and youth programs in Saskatchewan. All members exhibiting a Simmental or Simmental influenced animal received a pair of SSA gloves. The SSA also gave out jackets to Grand and Reserve Champions qualifying winners at all regional 4-H shows and spring steer and heifer shows.

The SSA awards scholarships to juniors moving on to postsecondary education. This year’s recipients were: Ryley Noble, Courtney Ross, and Dorin Fedyk. To qualify to receive a scholarship, applicants or their parents must be members of the Saskatchewan Simmental Association and the application deadline is October 1.

The Saskatchewan Simmental Association Board of Directors continues to work hard to promote and encourage the breeding of Simmental cattle. Their hard work and dedication in the past and in the future will ensure the Simmental breed will continue to thrive in Saskatchewan. Our Board consists of Dave Erixon – President; Ryan Lundberg - Vice President; and Directors - Blair McIntosh, Trevor Kuntz, Garry Boon, Donna Asher, Lyle Forden, Sarah Delorme and Tyler Libke.

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Association News and Repots SK Angus Report

by Michael Wheeler

The cattle industry has gained a lot of momentum over the past year with a renewed sense of enthusiasm. The Saskatchewan Angus Association has been busy hosting many events in the past few months.

We organized and hosted the Canadian Angus Association National Convention in Moose Jaw, SK last June. Purebred and commercial producers combined for an informative and social gathering featuring tours, meetings and keynote speakers on topics ranging from succession planning to genetic selection tools. The Rancher Endorsed day also featured a panel discussion with members representing all sectors of the beef industry. The National Convention has evolved from an annual meeting to a relaxing environment where cattlemen can engage and exchange business ideas and plan for the future. It is a tremendous networking opportunity.

We look forward to Convention 2015 June 4-6 in Calgary, Alberta.

First Lady Classic Futurity; and the RBC Beef Supreme Champion Bull. The Masterpiece and Power and Perfection Angus sales were very strong with strong buyer interest. Saskatchewan Angus also offered increased prize money for Angus influence cattle in the Stock Exchange.

There was a strong Angus influence throughout the entire barn, and prices in the sale reflected the exceptional quality on offer.

Throughout the fall there were Angus influence feeder calf sales at every major auction mart around the province.

Several sales featured Angus tagged calves, as well as additional information on the calves, such as age verification and vaccination protocols. The Rancher Endorsed sales are a great way for commercial producers to promote their calves to prospective buyers and extract as much value from their calves as possible.

In January we held our Annual Meeting in conjunction with the Saskatchewan Beef Industry Conference. Elections were held and Glen Gabel, Chad Hollinger, Trent Liebreich and Michael Wheeler were elected to the Board. Our executive is as follows: Mike Howe – President; Michael Wheeler - 1st Vice-President; Sheldon Kyle - 2nd Vice-President; and Gord Roger - Director at Large. Merit Cattle Co. of Radville, SK was selected as purebred breeder of the year.

We are planning for a busy year ahead and will be taking on some new initiatives.

Please check our web site for details about our mentorship program, the summer tour, and the National Angus show held in Lloydminster, SK November 5-7.

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A group of Saskatchewan Angus breeders hosted a summer tour in August in the Swift Current area. The summer tour was a new addition to our programming in 2013 and has been very popular. It is a great way to see groups of cattle in their natural environment and visit with fellow breeders. It is also a valuable marketing tool for the hosts of the tour as you have the opportunity to showcase your program to hundreds of people all on one day. Plans for the 2015 tour in the Melville area are underway. Details will be available soon on our web site at www. saskatchewanangus.com.

The fall brought a busy season of shows and sales. Our first Gold show was held for the first time in conjunction with the Lloydminster Stockade Roundup in November and included our annual Saskatchewan Junior Angus events. We were fortunate to host the National Red & Black Angus shows this year at Agribition.

Over 400 head of Angus cattle were exhibited and were very competitive.

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Stewardship Sharing a Landscape With the Greater Sage-Grouse

by Tara Mulhern Davidson

There aren’t very many sage-grouse left around Randy Stokke’s ranch near Consul, Saskatchewan. Then again, there aren’t many ranchers left in the area either.

Randy and his wife Terry run a cow-calf operation in the far southwest part of Saskatchewan. Their ranch is located within the dry mixed grassland ecoregion, an area that is known for its challenges particularly when it comes to drought.

“The cattle need to walk and cover lots of ground to get a belly full,” Randy explains. In spite of the sometimes tough conditions, running the family ranch was always a dream of Stokke’s. “Our family has been on this place for 71 years. I always wanted the job and I guess I got it,” he says, citing many benefits of ranch life, including the ability to work alongside his family. They have three sons who are all interested in or are already pursuing ranching in one way or another. “Ranching is a good life and a great place to raise a family. It’s….an interesting life,” he chuckles.

for an infraction is to continually practice due diligence, hoping that visiting enforcement officers are in agreement with his ranch activities, including grazing.

“In the recovery strategies you read for the sage-grouse and other prairie [species at risk], they mention potential grazing restrictions,” Stokke explains, which is a concern for him and other ranchers who may be impacted.

Stokke has shared the landscape with the greater sage-grouse for decades. While their population has fluctuated a lot, he acknowledges that the diminishing number of sage-grouse is evident. “The more senior members in our area claim that around 1900 there were very few [sage-grouse]. From the 1920s to 1950s they increased quite a lot, but since the 1960s, their decline has been noticeable,” explains Stokke. Conversely, their predator population has increased. “Their only defense is camouflage and their flight pattern takes them a long time to get

Life on his ranch is becoming increasingly interesting and even more complicated due to a recent Emergency Order for the Protection (EOP) of the Greater SageGrouse that has been implemented by the Government of Canada through the Species at Risk Act (SARA). The EOP was enacted as a means to protect the greater sage-grouse, a gravely endangered grassland bird species that is at risk of extirpation from Canada. It also impacts certain land and landholders, including Stokke, whose ranch has been deemed critical to the recovery and survival of sage-grouse.

“It’s like having a black cloud over your head,” Stokke quietly describes, when asked about how the EOP has affected his operation. “Every day you go out, knowing that you could be liable for something.

You basically need to make a plan on how you’re going to defend yourself,” he says. The only defense he feels he has

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off the ground. They’re an easy meal for most predators,” he observes. He also lists other threats, including the extreme local weather conditions of the past 15 years that may have tested the species.

The Emergency Order for Protection restricts activities such as building new fences, developing new stock water sources, constructing roads, or installing machines or poles taller than a specified height. The EOP also prohibits other less obvious activities. “You cannot kill sage brush, grasses and forbs. There are a lot of different ranch scenarios that could cause this to happen,” Stokke comments. Areas under the EOP are also restricted from operating machines that have a noise level of 45 decibels or greater for more than 60 minutes in a day for 10 days of the month.

At this point, there has been no financial assistance offered to affected producers for designing or modifying infrastructure to meet the criteria outlined in the EOP. Stokke was frustrated by an early lack of communication about what the Emergency Order for Protection meant for him and his family. “We’ve always cooperated with [organizations] in the past who were looking for sage-grouse and were up front about what they were doing,” he says, and wishes these groups would have discussed their concerns about the species directly with him. “We had no prior knowledge of what was coming,” he comments, saying they first learned of the EOP by way of a registered letter they received in the mail before Christmas in 2013.

The Emergency Order for Protection may impact more than wildlife in the area, having potential social ramifications on remote and rural communities as well.

Industries, including oil and natural gas and associated service sectors have been affected. “There are very few jobs available in our area, so it could force people away from a small community in the long term,” worries Stokke. There are

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Stewardship also concerns about the effect the EOP may have on the beef industry as a whole.

Already fewer young people are entering the ranching business, and the average age of Canadian ranchers is steadily increasing. “What rancher would want to buy into a place with these restrictions on their land?” he questions.

their sage-grouse conservation efforts with interest. “We are the northern fringe of historical habitat and there is fragmentation between us and the sage-grouse core areas of Montana and south,” noting it will be useful to see what develops from conservation initiatives south of the border.

While much of the sage-grouse EOP has been an ordeal, Stokke says it has opened his eyes to what conservation means to different organizations. “I think the people we’ve talked to and who have listened to us seem to agree this is not the way to handle conservation. There should be a better way that involves one-on-one with landholders,” he says and hopes that some of their discussions will change how conservation is handled now and in the future. Stokke, along with some fellow ranchers and landholders in Alberta and Saskatchewan, recently formed a group called Sustainable Canada. Their goal is working toward what he calls commonsense conservation. He has also been watching his American counterparts and

Creating a way of life in an unforgiving ecosystem remains a challenge for humans and wildlife alike. However, ranchers across the province will continue to ranch alongside species at risk, sharing a landscape in common, as they have for generations. Hopefully, the Emergency Order for the Protection of Greater Sage-grouse will help stabilize the Canadian population of this species for the future, and perhaps recent favorable cattle markets will help maintain the population of ranchers as well, but the future is uncertain. One thing does remain constant on the prairie landscape and that is the cycle of life, which will once again start anew this spring for ranchers, wildlife and species at risk. B

Note: Environment Canada does provide funding for habitat protection, improvement, and other stewardship activities through the Habitat Stewardship Program for Species At Risk; Aboriginal Fund for Species At Risk; National Wetland Conservation Fund; EcoAction Community Funding Program; and the Environmental Damages Fund.

Descriptions of these programs can be viewed at: http://www.ec.gc.ca/ financement-funding/default. asp?lang=En&n=923047A0-1 Valuable Links: The Greater Sage-Grouse Recovery Strategy can be viewed at: http:// www.sararegistry.gc.ca/document/ dspDocument_e.cfm?documentID=1458 The Emergency Order for the Protection of the Greater Sage-Grouse can be viewed at: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/ regulations/SOR-2013-202/page-1.html

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Calendar of Events MARCH March 12

Spring Creek Ranch In Pursuit of Perfection Bull Sale

March 19

Bowerman Bros. & Nesset Lake Angus 10 Annual Black Angus Bull & Female Sale

March 19

JL Bull and Female Sale

March 21

Canada’s Red, White and Black Sale

Moose Jaw, SK

March 21

Saskatoon Gelbvieh Bull & Female Sale

Saskatoon, SK

March 22

ANL Polled Hereford Spring Bull Sale

Steelman, SK

March 23

Brooking Angus Ranch Bull Sale

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Moosomin, SK Meadow Lake, SK Peebles, SK

Radville, SK

March 23

Freyburn Family Tradition Bull and Female Sale

March 24

City View Simmentals and Ivanhoe Angus 5th Annual Bull Sale

Oxbow, SK

March 26

Cattle Creek Ranch Red Angus Bull Sale

Maple Creek, SK

March 27

Top Cut Black Angus Bull Sale

Maple Creek, SK

March 28

Anderson Ranch 9th Annual Stockman Select Bull Sale

March 28

Borderland Cattle Co. Bull Sale

Rockglen, SK

March 28

Mantei Farms Bull Sale

Alameda, SK

Moose Jaw, SK

Moose Jaw, SK

March 28

Triple A Herefords 9 Annual Stockman Select Bull Sale

Moose Jaw, SK

March 30

Merit Cattle Co. 22nd Annual Bull Sale

Moose Jaw, SK

March 31 April 1

Early Sunset Ranch 34th Annual Bull and Female Sale APRIL Peak Dot Ranch Ltd. Spring Bull Sale

April 2

Who’s Your Daddy Shorthorn Bull Sale

Saskatoon, SK

April 3

Northern Progress 25 Annual Bull Sale

Saskatoon, SK

April 3

The Summit 3 Speckle Park Sale

April 4

Burnett Angus Bull & Female Sale

April 6

Eastondale Angus 8th Annual Bull & Female Sale

Wawota, SK

April 6

Triple A 18 Annual Performance Tested Bull Sale

Moose Jaw, SK

April 6

Wilgenbusch Charolais North of the 49th 12th Annual Bull Sale

April 7

Git ‘R Done Bull Sale

April 9

Size Matters 9 Annual Charolais Bull Sale

April 9

South View Ranch 15 Annual Red & Black Angus Bull Sale

Ceylon, SK

April 9

T Bar K Ranch Annual Bull Sale

Wawota, SK

April 10

Johnston/Fertile Valley Bull Sale

April 11

Six Mile Ranch 40 Annual Bull Sale

April 13

Moose Creek 21st Annual Red Angus Yearling Bull Sale

April 17

South Shadow Your Choice Angus Bull Sale

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Halbrite, SK Hodgeville, SK

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Saskatoon, SK Fir Mountain, SK Kisbey, SK

April 18

Cornerstone Bull Sale

April 18

37th Annual Short Grass Bull & Female Sale

April 20

Right Cross Ranch 4 Annual Bull Sale

Kisbey, SK

April 21

Rancher’s Choice Black Angus Bull Sale

Medicine Hat, AB

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Abe’s Signs

Git 'R Done Bull & Female Sale

49

Right Cross Ranch

57

Grayson & Co.

66

Saskatchewan Angus Assoc.

55,65

ANL Polled Herefords

26

Hi-Hog Farm & Ranch Equipment

46

Saskatchewan Beef Expo

37

Anderson Cattle Co. Stockman Select

30

Jackson Designs

66

Arm River Red Angus

66

John Brown Farms

66

SCIC - The Wildlife Damage Compensation Program

36

Bill Laidlaw Chartered Accountant Professional Corp.

65

Johnston/Fertile Valley

40

8

Borderland Cattle Co.

51

Johnstone Auction Mart

66

SCIC - The Livestock Price Insurance Program

15,28

Bowerman Bros

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Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture

21

Kelln Solar

47

Brooking Angus Ranch

65

Saskatchewan Verified Beef

16

Kramer Auctions

24

Burnett Bull & Female Sale

65

Saskatoon Gelbvieh Bull Sale

12

Kyle Welding & Machine Shop

20

Cattle Creek Ranching Bull Sale

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Short Grass Bull & Female Sale

23

LLB Angus

53

Cattle In Motion

41

Six Mile Angus

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Lane Realty Corp.

Clews Palliser Cattle Oilers

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50

64

Linthicum Ranch

Size Matters Charolais Bull Sale

65

Cornerstone - More Bang for Your Buck

6

Solar West

35

Liphatec Inc Rozol RTU

14

Cowtown

66

South Shadow - Your Choice Bull Sale

45

Man-SK Gelbvieh

Cowtown Livestock Exchange, Inc.

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25

64

Manitou Maine-Anjou

South View Ranch

30-31

Cozy Caps

15

Stockman Select

64

Mantei Farms

65

4

McClay Design

Eastondale Angus

66

Summit 3 Speckle Park Bull & female Sale

9

Early Sunset Ranch

3

Masterfeeds

65

Edward Jones

65

67

Superior Livestock Auction

Merit Cattle Co.

56

FCC Ag More Than Ever

43

39

T Bar K Ranch

Moose Creek Red Angus

65

Federated Co-operatives Ltd.

64

Nerbas Bros. Angus

13

Target Cattle Concepts

64

Freyburn Angus Bull Sale

11

21

Terra Grain Fuels

Nesset Lake Angus

17

Friendly Acres Seed Farm

64

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Thunder Seeds Inc.

New Life Mills

61

Frostfree Nosepumps Ltd.

66

66

Top Cut Black Angus Bull Sale

New Vision Agro

42

GBT Angus

64

North Star Seed

64

Triple A Performance Tested Bull Sale

31

GENEX Cooperative Inc.

32

45

Triple A Herefords

Northern Progress Bull Sale

66

Gem Silage Products Inc.

65

2

Western Litho

Paysen Livestock Equipment

19

Gibson Livestock

65

Peak Dot Ranch

7

Who's Your Daddy Bull Sale

29

Wilgenbusch Charolais

Rancher's Choice Bull Sale

58

Zoetis

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SSGA BOARD OF DIRECTORS THE EXECUTIVE

Doug Gillespie President/Director at Large Neville, SK Phone: 627-3619 Shane Jahnke 1st Vice President/Director at Large Gouldtown, SK

Phone: 784-2899

Bill Huber 2nd Vice President/Director at Large Lipton, SK Phone: 336-2684 Harold Martens Past President/Director at Large Swift Current, SK

Keith Day, Lacadena Gerald Duckworth, Courval Kelcy Elford, Caronport Tom Grieve, Fillmore Dave Hoeft, Southey Fred Lansdall, Leross Henry McCarthy, Wawota Norm Nordgulen, Assiniboia Jason Pollock, Maple Creek Roy Rutledge, Assiniboia

ZONE CHAIR DIRECTORS Phone: 773-6782

Helen Finucane Finance Chair Regina, SK Phone: 584-2773

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DIRECTORS AT LARGE

Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3 Zone 4 - Zone 5 - Zone 6 - Zone 7 - Zone 12 -

Lloyd Thompson, Carnduff Helen Finucane, Regina Terry Ostrander, Hallonquist Robin Wiggins, Maple Creek Bill Huber, Lipton Brent Griffin, Elbow Kimberly Simpson, Kyle Kelly Williamson, Pambrun

375-2934 394-4211 355-2335 722-3504 726-2941 675-4499 739-2205 642-4961 662-3552 642-5358

AFFILIATE DIRECTORS

Garner Deobald - Charolais Affiliate, Hodgeville 677-2589 Jack Ford - SaskMilk Affiliate, Wishart 328-4700 Tara Fritz - SImmental Affiliate, Shaunavon 297-3147 Laird Senft - Angus Affiliate, Fort Qu’Appelle 332-4823 Jaime Whitworth - Shorthorn Affiliate, Mortlach 631-1400 Jeff Yorga - Limousin Affiliate 531-5717

APPOINTED DIRECTORS

Dr. Andy Acton- Veterinary Advisor, Ogema

459-2422

SASKATCHEWAN CCA DIRECTORS

486-2146 584-2773 553-2213 666-2103 336-2684 854-2050 375-5534 582-6102

Brent Griffin, Elbow Pat Hayes, Val Marie Reg Schellenberg, Beechy Perry Rasmuson, Moosomin

854-2050 298-2284 859-4905 435-3110

Listings of email and fax numbers can be found on the SSGA website at www.skstockgrowers.com

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Linthicum Ranch Open replacement and Bred Heifers for sale, Hereford Black & Baldy Heifers for sale.

Also, commercial Hereford Bulls Murray & Jan Frank (306) 266-4377 (306) 266-4417

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306-744-2332

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LLB Angus Annual March Bull & Female Sale Private Treaty Sales LEE & LAURA BROWN Box 217, Erskine, Alberta T0C 1G0 Phone: 403-742-4226 email: llbangus@xplornet.com

www.llbangus.com Call (306) 345-2280 or visit www.terragrainfuels.com for more information.

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Duralite & NOrbert StOCk trailer Dealer

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Galvanized Water Tanks From 100 to 4100 gal.

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Chartered Accountant

Canadian Livestock Auction. Ltd.

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Contact Tracy Cornea at 306-693-9329

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Celebrating 40 years in Canada!

For Upcoming As ofGelbvieh September 1, 2008 the Saskatchewan Sales and in your Stock Breeders Growers will be offering a major prize area contact: draw for all paid new and renewal of existing Ian Thackeray President memberships (306) 861-7687 as follows:

The sponsored membership prize by Flaman will be a

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Life

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Life spousal

$525.00 4 entries - Jay-Lor Vertical Feed Mixers

Dealer & Distributor For:

- Masterfeeds CargillSSGA Rite Now Minerals All draws will be made at the -2009 Annual Convention - Baler twine, netwrap, silage bunker, covers, plastic wrap, Grain Bags

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