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WINTER UPGRADES

Wheat genome breakthrough will have major impact BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU

USDA numbers baffle analysts | Miscalculation expected to send prices up

It’s not the holy grail of the complete wheat genome, but an international consortium has identified nearly 100,000 genes in the DNA of wheat. The research and the identification of specific genes, published in the journal Nature in late November, should help wheat breeders develop varieties with increased yield, disease resistance and other desirable traits. “This work moves us one step closer to a comprehensive and highly detailed genome sequence for bread wheat, which along with rice and maize is one of the three pillars on which the global food supply rests,” Jan Dvorak, professor of plant sciences at the University of California Davis and a co-author of the study, said in a statement.

BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Grain markets are far too optimistic about South America’s pending corn and soybean crops, says a trader for a major grain firm. According to Jason Charles, who runs the export trading division of Land O’ Lakes Inc., the second largest co-operative in the United States, that means prices for those trend-setting commodities will be on the rise and prices for those crops, particularly corn, drive prices for other crops. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is counting on South America to produce 150 million tonnes of soybeans in 2012-13. Some crop analysts think it could be as high as 155 million tonnes. Charles believes markets have made a huge miscalculation. He can’t fathom why they are counting on 150 million tonnes of soybean production, which would be up from last year’s drought-reduced crop of 115 million tonnes. That’s a big leap of faith despite 11 million more acres going in the ground. “We’ve set a really optimistic bar,” he said in a Nov. 28 presentation at the Agri-Trend 2012 Farm Forum Event. “We need every day to be sunny. We need two inches of rain a week. We can’t have any infrastructure issues.” It reminds him of the USDA’s overly optimistic summer forecast for a 166 bushel per acre average U.S. corn yield. SEE OPTIMISM TOO HIGH, PAGE 3

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Wheat genome breakthrough “This sequencing effort has yielded important information that will accelerate wheat genetics and breeding and help us better understand wheat evolution.” A team of scientists from UC Davis, Kansas State University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, the University of Liverpool University of Bristol, the European Bioinformatics Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, c o l l a b o rat e d o n t h e re s e a rc h, which sheds light on a piece of wheat’s complex genome. With 17 billion base pairs, the wheat genome has about five times more DNA than the human genome. It is known as a hexaploid genome because it has six copies of its seven chromosomes. In comparison, the corn genome, which has already been decoded, has two billion base pairs of DNA. Bases are chemical units represented in the genetic code by the letters T, C, G and A. Curt McCartney, a cereal genetics specialist with Agriculture Canada in Winnipeg, said the discovery is significant. Using a technique called shotgun sequencing, scientists identified 94,000 to 96,000 genes and found 132,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNIPs) within the wheat genome. A SNIP, or a change in the sequence of letters in a genome, is the most common type of genetic variation. “A SNIP is a type of DNA marker. When we’re doing our genetic stud-

ies, we need markers to track the inheritance of different pieces of the chromosome,” McCartney said from his office at the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg. “So if you’re looking at the same region of the genome, in two different (wheat) varieties, a SNIP marker between those two varieties would constitute a single change in a single base. So you’d have a G in one parent and a C in another parent.” Wheat genetic experts like McCartney will use the SNIPs to pinpoint regions on wheat’s DNA associated with particular traits, such as resistance to leaf rust. Scientists have already mapped disease resistance genes in certain regions of wheat’s chromosome, but they often don’t know precisely which gene is responsible for the desirable trait. “The addition of all these markers is very helpful when you’re actually trying to get to the actual gene that’s encoding a particular trait that you’re interested in,” McCartney said. The research team is continuing its efforts to decode the plant’s complex genome. Richard McCombie, a genetics expert and one of the paper’s authors, said sequencing work will continue. “… these results should have a significant impact on breeding efforts and further research studies of the wheat genomes,” he said. McCartney said it may take another five to 10 years to decode wheat’s entire genome.

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“summer of disease” in Saskatchewan spells trouble for 2013. 5 RAIL LAW: The federal government says it will introduce rail service legislation by mid-December. 15 EARLY SEEDING: Research has found that early seeding canola pays off only half the time when direct seeding. 17 UNIFORM BARLEY: Growing barley with uniform kernel size will improve its use as cattle feed. 31

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is a good option for cattle producers, but it comes with risks. 32 FOREIGN AID: Canada’s foreign aid policy has shifted to focus more on resource company support. 34 ZONE CANADA: Supporters of a livestock checkpoint on the Manitoba-Ontario border worry about funding. 35 CLEAN BEES: Beekeepers may be able to use a protein marker to select for hygienic bees, which are healthier. 71

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and canola price outlook is encouraging. 6 PRICE TRANSPARENCY: Grain firms are accused of hindering price transparency. 7

OBITUARY | NEIL JAHNKE

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Saskatchewan rancher Neil Jahnke is being remembered for decades of dedication to the beef industry, but mostly for piloting Canada through the BSE crisis. Jahnke, 70, died Nov. 26 on his Gouldtown ranch. The funeral was Dec. 3. Jahnke was president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association in 2003 when BSE was found in a Canadian cow. “His leadership during that difficult time boosted consumer confidence in our beef, and he stood up against protectionist policies that threatened the industry,” said provincial agriculture minister Lyle Stewart. Ralph Goodale, a Regina Liberal MP who in 2003 was in the federal cabinet, said there was never a stronger champion for producers. “Colourful, forceful and fearless, Neil was a natural leader who worked

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his heart out for the industry he loved,” he said. Jahnke served as president of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association, Saskatchewan Livestock Association, Canada Beef Export Federation and the Beef Information Centre and was a board member of Canadian Western Agribition. He was named to the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame in 2005 and was to receive a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal this week. His wife Marilyn, son Shane and daughter J.J survive him.

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Optimism too high The latest estimate is for an average of 122 bu. per acre because of drought. Charles said South American planting conditions have been less than ideal. It was exceptionally dry in northern Brazil and there was extensive flooding in northern Argentina, to the point where livestock were drowning. “I don’t think we have the ability this year with how we’re starting to grow more than 140 million tonnes down there, and I think that’s optimistic, to be quite honest,” said Charles. The USDA is counting on 28 million tonnes of corn production from Argentina, the world’s second largest exporter of the crop behind the United States. Charles thinks that number is also out of touch with reality because of the flooding. “We can certainly take 20 to 30 percent off that,” he said. “The high side of corn production in Argentina will not be more than 22 million tonnes.” Charles said the world is counting on record South American corn and soybean crops to replenish dwindling global supplies. Anything short of record production will be bullish for prices. Agustin Bianchini, an agrologist from Argentina who was speaking at the same conference, agreed with Charles that it is foolish to be counting on record production at this early stage of the growing season. “I don’t know about the exact numbers, but I agree on being more conservative. It is too early to forecast crop production,” he said. Bianchini said corn yields are set in mid-December through January and soybeans from late-January through early-February. That’s when rainfall will be critical. However, he agreed it’s pretty safe to assume that Argentina’s corn crop will be smaller than expected because of the rocky start. Some acres were lost to flooding and others won’t be nearly as productive because of nitrogen leaching in the saturated soil. Growers received 500 millimetres of rain over a two month period. He said his price outlook is also bullish because the U.S. corn crop was harvested two weeks earlier than normal, starting in mid-August. That early-harvested crop ended up in the USDA’s carryout estimate for the 2011-12 crop. It will be doublecounted as both old crop and new crop. He believes the USDA’s corn carryout number of 988 million bu. should be closer to 500 million bu., meaning the U.S. corn crop is even smaller than people think it is. “Small crops don’t get bigger. Small crops get smaller. That’s bullish the farmgate, that’s bullish prices,” said Charles. He believes March 2013 futures for corn will test $8.50 per bu. and soybeans should test $18.50. Strong corn and soybean prices will elevate most other grains and oilseeds. “I am bullish commodities and I’m out there buying every day.” He buys 20,000 to 30,000 tonnes of soybeans and 500,000 to 600,000 bu. of corn a day in advance of what he anticipates will be a run-up in prices. Charles operates a farm in Saskatchewan and plans to be 30 to 40 percent sold on his anticipated 2013 production by the end of March because the highest prices typically happen during the battle for acres in February and March.

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ASSEMBLY LINE LOADING

Tasha Soderberg, facility assistant at the Richardson Pioneer elevator in Dixon, Sask., opens the doors at the top of grain cars Nov. 30. Staff started at about 4 a.m. and worked until about midnight loading cars with wheat and canola headed for Vancouver. | WILLIAM DEKAY PHOTO

FOOD SAFETY | INSPECTIONS

Memo raises inspection questions Beef line at XL Foods | Government says opposition is misinterpreting the memo’s meaning BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is under fire over another incident at the XL Foods plant near Brooks, Alta. The incident involves a memo that appeared to order carcass contamination be ignored at one inspection point. This autumn, E. coli-contaminated meat sent out of the plant resulted in the largest meat recall in Canadian history and inspectors faced some of the blame. Last week, senior CFIA officials and agriculture minister Gerry Ritz insisted the memo was misinterpreted. The 2008 memo, reissued several times but since amended, was directed at one inspection position in the XL plant responsible for ensuring that meat destined for the Japanese market was from animals younger than 21 months, they said. It was one of 20 inspection positions in the plant. “If there is a checklist of 20 items, they’re all done regardless of where the product is going, domestic or outside the country,” Ritz told the agriculture committee Nov. 29. Opposition critics said the memo shows that exports to Japan receive a higher level of inspection than meat destined for Canadian consumers. The memo directed to the inspec-

tion station for product destined for Japan said: “Our number one priority is to ensure this standard is met with Japan-eligible carcasses. When stationed at this position, ensure that non-Japan eligible carcasses are not inspected for spinal cord/duramater and OCD defects.” It said other inspectors would catch the problem and to deal with contamination in all carcasses at the Japan-dedicated station could lead to unnecessary shutdowns in the meat line for Japan. NDP agriculture critic Malcolm Allen said the memo indicates inspectors were ordered to ignore carcasses with visible feces or ingesta (intestinal material) on them. Senior CFIA official Paul Mayers said the contamination was not being ignored. This was a memo about how to deal with products to Japan. “Fecal matter and ingesta on a carcass at the final stage renders that carcass adulterated with absolute zero tolerance,” he said. “That means that product would not be considered edible, it would not be permitted into the food supply.” Critics remained skeptical and saw it as a breakdown in the food inspection system. Liberal Frank Valeriote called it “willful blindness” and another reason to have a third-party audit of CFIA. “Can you tell me why this willful

blindness does not amount to criminal negligence when CFIA has placed the health and safety of the lives of Canadians at risk?” he asked agency president George Da Pont. “I just simply have to disagree with your analysis,” replied Da Pont at committee. It was a memo to one inspector station that was not involved in food safety assessment. Inspector union president Bob Kingston of the Public Service Alliance of Canada agriculture union met with Da Pont and Ritz in early November to argue that the wording of the memo was a potential problem. The wording was revised. If contamination is spotted, others must be notified and the line stopped as necessary until the problem has been addressed. In a Nov. 30 interview, Kingston said the government cannot downplay the error of sending the memo to inspectors. “I think there was a misunderstanding by the supervisor who wrote that memo about the difference between a regulatory audit and an accreditation audit,” he said. “In a regulatory system, no inspector should ever be told to ignore contamination that they see.” Although CFIA officials insisted there were other inspection sites later in the line that would have caught carcass contamination, Kingston said the next stage was a wash station

to remove microscopic bacterial contamination but not visible fecal or ingesta contamination. “At that point, it has already been through the process and the only contamination that should still be on the carcass should be microscopic,” he said. “In that state, the next wash station should work. If there is visual contamination, all the wash will do is spread the bacteria around the carcass.” He said a “bad culture” existed around food inspection at the XL Foods plant. The leaked memo reflects the malaise and not just at the XL plant, he added. “In southern Alberta, our people often were told to back off,” he said. “They were told by supervisors, managers to give it a break. As we know now, we’re not doing them any favours by giving them a break.” Kingston said the XL plant was one of the sites where CFIA inspectors have been told to stand aside. “At Brooks, we were told to back off from time to time, to give them a break, yeah,” he said. “There was a bad culture there. And a memo like this almost gives license to plant employees to tell CFIA to butt out.” However, he said it is not unique to the Brooks plant. “I can tell you that I could probably produce a half dozen other documents like that (from packing plants) across the country.”

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WILDLIFE INSPECTION

DROUGHT | ASSISTANCE

Eastern farmers to get help from feds AgriRecovery | Ag minister confirms program, but details thin BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU

As the 2012 hunting season comes to a close, Strathmore, Alta., district fish and wildlife officer Jim Songhurst pulls over a vehicle towing a trailer to check for harvested wildlife. Songhurst was patrolling roads and fields to ensure hunting regulations were being obeyed. | KEVIN LINK PHOTO

ELECTION | POLICY

Pulse growers block endorsements Board elections | New code of conduct prevents current members from endorsing candidates BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Saskatchewan Pulse Growers is changing its governance policies in the wake of an election controversy. The organization issued a news release last week saying no director will endorse or campaign for anybody but themselves in an election. The new policy is in response to an unusual action taken by three members of the current board of directors who handpicked and publicly endorsed two of the five candidates running to fill two vacancies on the board. Shawn Buhr, Jim Moen and Bert Vandenberg recruited Robert Hun-

deby and Trevor Simpson to run in the 2012 election and then threw their support behind the young farmers in a news release and in advertisements in community newspapers. That raised the ire of other candidates running in the election and of some of the levy-paying growers. Board chair Morgan Nunweiler said he fielded a steady stream of calls from growers questioning how this year’s election campaign was unfolding. “There were concerns that the SPG board and whole organization were endorsing candidates,” he said. That is not the case, he added. It was three individuals on the board that

issued the endorsements. Those three have since apologized to their fellow board members and to the candidates running in the 2012 campaign. “The board is unhappy that we’ve been put in this situation and had to deal with this, but the board is on the right track,” said Nunweiler. SPG has a director code of conduct, but there was nothing specific in that code related to elections. Now there is. He said the board will welcome with open arms any of the five candidates running in the election. Nunweiler said the board felt it was necessary to publicly state that it had made the governance changes.

“The main purpose for this is to restore some confidence in our board,” he said. SPG has been through a number of dramatic changes recently, including last year’s resignations of its chair, Murray Purcell, and longtime executive director, Garth Patterson. There have also been disputes between board members. Nunweiler said just because SPG has been embroiled in controversy of late is not a sign of deep-rooted problems at the organization. “Changes are not necessarily signs of dysfunction,” he said. “I think our organization is better because of our changes (and) stronger going forward.”

BIG SKY FARMS | ASSETS

Unnamed buyer making bid for Big Sky Farms Auction possible | Identity of potential buyer will become public at time of auction BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU

Another suitor is vying for the assets of Big Sky Farms. As a result, an auction could be held in January to sell the Humboldt, Sask., pork producer. Kevin Brennan, senior vice-president of receiver Ernst and Young Inc., said at least one other party met the November deadline to extend the sale process. Olymel LP had offered $65.25 million for the company, which entered

receivership in September, and was selected as a stalking horse bidder. A stalking horse bid is a way to maintain the value of a company’s assets before a bankruptcy sale occurs. However, other parties had until Nov. 9 to submit their own higher bids. Brennan said Nov. 30 one other party sent the required documents and deposited $250,000 to participate in the auction process. He could not name the potential buyer, but said the process becomes

public at the time of the auction. The new player must complete its due diligence by Dec. 14 and submit an offer by Dec. 28. “Their purchase price would have to be superior to that offered by Olymel to give rise to an auction date of Jan. 8,” Brennan said. “If at any point in this time any of the parties that are participating decide they no longer want to participate, or if they don’t submit an offer which is superior to Olymel, then we proceed to close the Olymel deal.”

Olymel will also have the chance to submit a higher bid after the company learns who is bidding against it and at what price. The receiver will disclose the players and the bids several days before the auction. “Then what we do is we declare one of the bids the leading bid and then everybody starts the auction based on that,” he said. Olymel and Maple Leaf Foods are Canada’s largest players in hog processing, and Maple Leaf recently bought Puratone Corp. in Manitoba.

Ontario and Quebec farmers affected by this year’s drought will receive help from the federal-provincial AgriRecovery program, says federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz. However, the form of help for producers remains unclear and when it will be announced is up in the air. “I don’t have a specific date in mind (for an announcement), but in discussions with my provincial colleagues … we sent very strong signals some days ago, some weeks ago, that AgriRecovery would be in play,” Ritz told the House of Commons agriculture committee last week. “They will have the choice to either move the animals to the feed or the feed to the animals, whichever makes more sense.” It was the news that Ontario Federation of Agriculture president Mark Wales has been waiting to hear confirmed. Ontario, Canada’s most diverse agricultural province and until last year its largest, has suffered hundreds of millions of damage in drought effects. OFA officials met with the federalOntario AgriRecovery group weeks ago to make a pitch for help, but he said they have heard nothing as governments decide what to announce and when to announce it. “That’s excellent to hear because it was pretty brutal this year,” he said. “We have bad weather from time to time, but the tap turned off in early June and it was the end of the summer before many farmers saw any rain.” Wa l e s s a i d t h e a f f e c t e d a re a stretched from western Quebec and eastern Ontario along northern Lake Ontario, into the agricultural powerhouse of southwestern Ontario and as far north as Grey and Bruce counties in the heart of Ontario cattle country. He said the nature of the aid is still uncertain. “It could be more than just a cheque,” Wales said. “We’ll have to see exactly how they decide to roll it out. It might be more efficient to move the animals to the hay than hay to the animals.” Meanwhile, the HayEast campaign to move cattle feed from the Prairies to Ontario and Quebec continues as western farmers pledge hay. They remember eastern generosity a decade ago with the Hay West campaign during a Prairie drought. Ritz said federal and Ontario governments continue to support the project with a promise of a $500,000 contribution to hay transportation costs and up to $2.5 million in matching funding for private or corporate contributions to the HayEast project. The campaign’s 70,000 bale target has not been reached.

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AGRONOMY | WEEDS

Volunteer canola a concern Pod shattering | Seeds lost to windstorms could be an issue in pulse crops BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

A survey of canola disease in Saskatchewan found that 77 percent of fields in the province had some level of aster yellow infection in 2012. |

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Disease pressure expected to worsen Prairie crops | Aster yellows surprised producers in 2012, while blackleg continues to spread BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Growers need to prepare themselves for an onslaught of disease next year. There is plenty of inoculum in the soil after the “summer of disease,” said Sherrilyn Phelps, regional crop specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture. Disease is one of the main reasons why a 16 million tonne canola crop turned into 13.2 million tonnes. Farmers can take a number of steps to prevent that from happening again. Saskatchewan’s canola disease survey found 77 percent of fields had some level of aster yellows infection with a mean incidence of eight percent infection. “I personally saw fields that were over 65 percent aster yellows,” Phelps told delegates attending the Agri-Trend 2012 Farm Forum Event. She said a fellow agronomist at Meadow Lake, Sask., had a field that should have produced 40 bushels per acre but delivered seven because of aster yellows damage. “I think we’ve underestimated some of the yield loss that resulted from aster yellows this year,” said Phelps. Sclerotinia was found in 91 percent of the surveyed fields with a 19 percent level of infection, although some fields had more than 90 percent infection. The rule of thumb for that disease is yield loss generally amounts to half of the infection rate. Blackleg infection is on the rise in Saskatchewan. Thirty-two percent of fields had the disease with a mean incidence of 3.7 percent. The disease has particularly spiked in Alberta, where experts suspect

varietal resistance is breaking down because growers are pushing canola rotations. “That’s having a huge impact on the blackleg levels,” said Phelps. Fusarium head blight was the biggest problem in cereals, with 82 percent of sampled fields in Saskatchewan containing at least one head infected with the disease. Leaf diseases were prevalent, and ergot was an issue in pockets of the province. High levels of mycosphaerella blight and ascochyta blight were found in pea fields in the northern grain belt. There was also plenty of foot rot and root rot, which caused up to 50 percent yield loss in some pea fields. The aphanomyces strain of root rot was discovered in Saskatchewan for the first time. “It is one of the major root rot organisms in Manitoba, and worldwide is one of the most devastating root rot organisms. Once it’s in the soil it’s very, very hard to get rid of,” said Phelps. It will be closely monitored next year. Root rot and anthracnose were prevalent in lentil crops in west-central and southeastern Saskatchewan. Phelps said producers should prepare to once again do battle with disease in 2013. The first line of defense is choosing seed with proper germination and vigour that is free of weed seeds and has an acceptable level of seed-borne diseases. “The seed you plant is one of the factors that you do have control over,” she said. Labs are reporting high levels of disease on tested seed. Phelps encouraged growers to get their seed tested at an accredited lab

Blackleg infection was present in 32 percent of Saskatchewan fields in 2012. | FILE PHOTO because it gives them valuable information and provides documentation for insurance claims proving that the seed they planted was in good shape. She stressed that growers should not plant wheat and barley seed containing any level of fusarium graminearum in regions where the disease is not common. In areas where it is common, they should use another seed source when levels exceed five percent. Seed treatments should be used when fusarium graminearum levels are between two and five percent in areas where the disease is common. A threshold of greater than five percent should be used for other species of fusarium. Chickpeas should not be planted if seed contains more than 0.3 percent ascochyta blight. Seed treatments should be used on lentil seed containing more than five percent ascochyta blight, but growers should not use the seed if levels exceed 10 percent. Seed treatments should be used on peas containing more than 10 percent ascochyta. Up to 10 percent sclerotinia and

botrytis is tolerable on lentil and pea seed but will result in seedling blight without treatment. Fusarium infection should be added to the botrytis and sclerotinia numbers. Phelps said a safe rule of thumb is that treatments provide 85 to 90 percent control. Treatment will bring the level of infection down to two to three percent if a seed lot has 20 percent fusarium, which is acceptable. Growers are encouraged to stick to rotations to minimize disease, but Phelps recognizes that farmers often push rotations for financial reasons. If they do, they need to choose varieties resistant to disease, rotate their herbicides and plan on applying fungicide. Farmers should definitely consider choosing disease resistant varieties next year. Research from Melfort, Sask., shows that fungicide application on Harrington barley, which has poor disease resistance, improved yields by 19 to 30 percent. However, yields were boosted by only three to four percent on Newdale, which has fair to good resistance. Growers may want to plan on more than one fungicide application. Timing of application is critical. Fungicide should be applied at the flag leaf stage of development for leaf diseases and at the heading stage for fusarium head blight. Fungicide for sclerotinia in canola should be applied at the 20 to 50 percent bloom stage, ideally 30 percent when the crop is as yellow as it gets. For pulses, it should be applied at the early flower stage, seven to 14 days after the first fungicide application or when growers see symptoms. FOR MORE FROM AGRI-TREND 2012, SEE PAGES 6, 8 AND 16.

A violent fall windstorm that tossed around canola swaths and hammered yields will have implications for next year, says a crop specialist. Sherrilyn Phelps, regional crop specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, said the wind caused severe pod shattering. Farmers in her area near North Battleford, Sask., lost 10 bushels per acre to the wind. “That is 500 pounds of seed per acre that is now sitting in your fields, so canola volunteers are going to be an issue for this next spring,” she said in a No v. 2 8 p r e s e n t a t i o n a t t h e Agri-Trend 2012 Farm Forum Event. Farmers who plant cereal crops on those fields will have plenty of good herbicide control options at their disposal, but those who plant pulse crops will have fewer options and limited efficacy with those options. Growers who decide to push their rotations and plant canola on canola will have to switch their herbicide tolerance systems.

It all depends on your field situation. SHERRILYN PHELPS SASKATCHEWAN AGRICULTURE

Herbicides are not the only tool farmers have at their disposal. They may also choose to increase their seeding rates or pick varieties that are more competitive with weeds. “Those are practices that organic growers use because they don’t have the herbicide options,” said Phelps. They can also vary their seeding dates, delaying planting so they can control volunteers early or seeding early to get a jump on weeds. “It all depends on your field situation,” said Phelps. Herbicide residue is another agronomic challenge growers could be facing in parts of the southern Prairies that received lower than average summer rainfall last year. Most residual herbicides are broken down through microbial activity, but the microbes need moisture to do their job. Phelps said herbicide residue caused severe injury and recropping following the dry years in 2001 and 2002. “This is just kind of a heads up,” she said. “I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but guys should be thinking of their crop rotations and looking at their past herbicide history.” Phelps said some herbicide products have residual properties that can damage crops. For example, Everest and clopyralids cause injury to pulses, canola is sensitive to Pursuit and Odyssey and lentils are extremely sensitive to sulfentrazone.

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Wheat seen as good bet in 2013

Rainfall furthers supply concerns

Early predictions | Canadian canola acres to shrink, keeping supply tight and nudging up prices BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Farmers are in line for lower corn and barley prices in 2013, but the wheat and canola outlook is encouraging, says a Winnipeg grain analyst. Marlene Boersch, managing partner of Mercantile Consulting Venture Inc., told delegates attending the Agri-Trend 2012 Farm Forum Event to expect a resurgence in corn production next year. Strong prices and tight supplies are likely to lead to a seven percent increase in world coarse grain production to 1.19 billion tonnes and a 16 percent increase in coarse grain exports to 145 million tonnes. World corn production will lead the charge, rising to a record 884 million tonnes, up 44 million tonnes from last year’s disappointing harvest. Corn consumption would have to increase by at least 10 percent to mop up the additional supplies. Boersch forecasts a two percent increase in demand, resulting in 125 million tonnes of corn carryout, up from an estimated 118 million tonnes in 2012-13. “That means corn prices most likely are going to be substantially lower and corn prices drive some of the other commodity prices,” she said. Mercantile Consulting Venture is forecasting an average corn farm price of $4.75 per bushel in 2013-14, down from a range of $6.95 to $8.25 in 2012-13. Barley will follow corn down.

Floods in Argentina worry importers

Marlene Boersch, managing partner of Mercantile Consulting Venture, is forecasting positive prices for wheat but weaker feed grains over the next year. | FILE PHOTO futures prices. She said a Chicago December 2013 futures price of $9 per bushel should be a hedging trigger for farmers. “It’s almost a no-brainer. It’s a record price and a very, very good return,” she said. Mercantile Consulting predicts a 16 percent increase in Canadian durum acres in 2013 but a one percent decline in supply because of low carry in. Durum exports are expected to rise six percent this year because of poor 2012 crops in the European Union, Morocco and Kazakhstan. Carryout stocks are expected to fall 25 percent to the lowest level since 2007-08.

Wheat

Oilseeds

The wheat outlook is the opposite of corn. Global acreage and production are expected to rise, but ending stocks will fall because of strong demand for the crop. Production is forecast to rebound to 677 million tonnes in 2013, up from 651 million tonnes in 2012. Ending stocks will contract to 171 million tonnes, down from 174 million tonnes in 2012-13 and 198 million tonnes the previous year because of increased feed wheat demand and a strong export program. China’s corn and barley imports have been falling since the 2012-13 crop year began, but wheat is way up. Boersch expects that to continue, with China’s wheat imports rising 10 percent to three million tonnes in 2013. The wheat price forecast is bolstered by the dismal condition of the U.S. hard red winter wheat crop. It is in the worst shape heading into dormancy that it has been in since the Dirty Thirties. There are also problems with winter wheat crops in the United Kingdom and Ukraine. Despite the bullish outlook for wheat, Boersch strongly encouraged growers to consider locking in

Boersch anticipates U.S. soybean plantings will increase by 1.3 million acres from 2012 and average yield will rise by 1.8 bu. per acre. That would result in 3.33 billion bu. of the crop, up 12 percent from this year’s harvest. Ending stocks for 2013-14 are expected to be 381 million bu., up 172 percent, causing the average farm price to fall to $10.75 per bu. from a range of $13.90 to $15.55 in 2012-13. Boersch sees a dramatic 10 percent decline in Canadian canola acres in 2013-14 because of disappointing yields and strong competition from other crops. “When I talk to Manitoba farmers, they’re going to switch to soybeans and wheat. There’s no way that they’re going to keep growing canola,” she said. A return to average yields would result in a 14 million tonne crop and total supply of 15 million tonnes, down from the 15.8 million tonne supply in 2012-13. Carryout will fall by 228,000 tonnes to 734,000 tonnes. “It’s going to be potentially a very tight canola picture,” said Boersch. New crop canola is undervalued

FIELD FORECASTING Mercantile Consulting Venture expects wheat to be popular among Canadian farmers in 2013 based on estimated returns, while peas could be one of the poorer performers. That should result in more wheat and less peas going in the ground next spring. Average return projections ($/acre) yellow peas $123.68

price & yield assumptions* $7.50/bu.

40 bu./acre

large green lentils $131.65

$21.00/bu.

n/a

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$11.50/bu.

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n/a

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$14.00/bu.

22 bu./acre

red lentils $146.20

$22.00/bu.

n/a

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$7.50/bu.

50 bu./acre

small green lentils $193.48

$25.00/bu.

n/a

hard spring wheat $203.19

$8.15/bu.

40 bu./acre

durum $213.36

$8.75/bu.

44 bu./acre

$35.00/bu.

n/a

kabuli chickpeas $267.95 * Returns include per acre cost assumptions

Source: Marlene Boersch, Mercantile Consulting Venture Inc. | WP GRAPHIC

compared to soybeans. China will favour Canadian canola over U.S. soybeans if that price relationship continues, which would cause enough additional demand to create a negative canola carryout. That can’t happen, so Boersch anticipates there will have to be price rationing soon. Pulses Boersch advised pea growers to hang onto their pea crop for a while. India had a poor kharif (summer) pulse harvest, and planting of the rabi (winter) is nine percent behind last year’s pace. Chickpeas’ per acre return ranks third and lentils fifth out of the six main rabi crops grown, based on the Indian government’s rabi minimum support price. Boersch said India’s combined 2012-13 kharif and rabi pulse production could be down as much as 25

to 35 percent, which could lead to another buying spree in 2013. “The (pea) market is really quite slow right now, and I think it will remain utterly uneventful until (January-February), so don’t even think about doing anything on the pea market until we get into the new year,” she said. Mercantile Consulting anticipates a five percent increase in pea acres in 2013 because of an expected drop in lentil plantings. Anything more than that would be too much. There is still a glut of lentils on the world market, which has importers buying on a hand-to-mouth basis. “We really do need to clean out some of this hangover from the 201011 crop,” said Boersch. She expects growers to reduce acres by 15 to 20 percent because of strong competition from other crops such as wheat. That would reduce carryout to 316,000 to 211,000 tonnes from an estimated 556,000 tonnes in 2012-13.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) — Rain that is expected to hit Argentina’s grain belt this week will sustain the floods that have fanned global supply worries by swamping and blocking access to key soybean, corn and wheat areas, local experts said Dec. 3. Importers need all the South American grain they can get after a string of disappointing harvests from global breadbaskets Russia, the United States and Australia. Argentine farm output, particularly in the key agricultural province of Buenos Aires, has come under pressure from months of heavy rain. Even normal rainfall at this point poses a problem in Argentina, the world’s top exporter of soy oil and soymeal. “West, central and eastern Buenos Aires province are flooded. This is flat land that does not have enough slant toward the ocean to drain off. Logistics are in chaos because the floods are crisscrossing over the roads,” said Anthony Deane, head of consultancy Weather Wise Argentina. Showers were relatively light Dec. 2-3. “It was not a lot of rain, but any added moisture at this point sustains the flooding,” Deane said. Until the weekend showers, the rate of soy and corn planting had picked up recently as the weather moderated after the Pampas was lashed by unusually harsh August-October storms. Toward the end of this week, Deane said he expects 100 to 150 millimetres to fall over 60 percent of Argentina’s grain belt, while the remaining 40 percent should receive 40 to 50 mm. Soggy topsoil makes it impossible for farmers to drive their tractors and seeders over their fields without sinking in the mud. The Buenos Aires town of Carlos Casares received 20 to 30 mm of rain early Dec. 3, said Eugenio Borras, a manager for Argentine soy farming giant Los Grobo. The company is based in the town, where soy planting is running 50 percent slower than last year’s pace. “Everything in the centre of Buenos Aires province is very complicated. A lot of land is under water,” said Borras, who manages 62,000 acres of soy cultivation for Los Grobo. “The worst part is the logistics. Farmers can’t get to some of their fields.” As of last week, soybean seeding nationally was running eight percentage points behind the normal pace and corn seeding was 10 percentage points behind.

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MARKETING | EXPERTISE

CATTLE SECTOR | RISK MANAGEMENT

Buyer beware

Cattle price insurance looks likely

HEDGE ROW

ED WHITE

ou assume your doctor has a medical degree. I’m sure you want your lawyer to have a law degree. You expect grain truckers bringing a B-train into your yard to have a Class 1 licence. You are relieved when the companies that buy your crops are bonded by the Canadian Grain Commission. But did you know that your prospective farm marketing adviser might have no education, training, experience or credentials? Anyone can claim to be a farm marketing adviser. The term essentially means nothing. Anyone can paint up a sign and go into business advising you on how to market your crops. Many farmers in the post-CWB monopoly world are looking for farm marketing advisers for the first time, and they need to realize that the title itself means nothing. Farmers need to do background checks to ensure they are talking to somebody who has at least a little knowledge and training in how to market crops and livestock. There are no specific qualifications or certifications for farm marketing advisers, but I think farmers should look for signs that the person they’re considering employing has shown at least some seriousness about marketing or agriculture. Or anything. Some advisers I know have university degrees in economics or agriculture. That demands some commitment. Others have business degrees or community college certificates. There are also professional certifications and memberships that farmers can look for. For instance, futures traders have to be both licensed and regulated. Professional agrologists require specialized degrees, additional training and experience to qualify as a P.Ag. Some marketing advisers join organizations such as the Canadian Association of Farm Advisors, which provides training and professional development and brings together serious farm advisers in many areas of agriculture from across each province and the country. Belonging to an organization like CAFA probably signifies that somebody is taking his or her job seriously. Most important, of course, is to check a prospective marketing adviser’s history. Has he or she been in business long? Do they have happy clients? The large number of farmers who are considering hiring outside marketing help for the first time might be drawing some unqualified, unskilled and uncaring individuals out of the woodwork, people willing to take your money for their advice. It’s up to you to ensure that if you hire someone to help you market your crops and livestock, they have more than a phoney baloney title on a business card.

Western Canada | Price insurance designed to help revive the industry and build the cow herd BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU

Industry leaders in Manitoba are confident that the federal and provincial governments will unveil a cattle price insurance program for Western Canada, possibly next year. Manitoba Beef Producers has spent the last few years lobbying for cattle price insurance similar to an existing program in Alberta. The lobbying has paid off because government officials are now publicly backing the proposed program. “I feel pretty confident about it,” Manitoba agriculture minister Ron Kostyshyn said during a media scrum at the Rancher’s Forum held in Brandon in late November. “They (producers) feel this is the way we have to go, as far as the viability of (the industry),” he said. “Our livestock numbers (in Manitoba) have dropped so drastically in the last number of years. We have to have some bankable options for the producers.” Alberta introduced a price insurance program in 2009 to help producers manage the price risk of feeding cattle. It guarantees producers a floor price on insured cattle. The proposed program will be available to cattle producers across West-

Cattle price insurance could be coming next year | ern Canada if it comes together, said MBP general manager Cam Dahl. “My understanding is that this will be a western Canadian offering,” Dahl said. Government representatives support the price insurance program, he added. “I would say absolutely that the players involved are committed,” he said. “We’re talking to MAFRI (Manitoba Agriculture) on this subject already and looking at mapping out a plan moving forward.” Dahl said the program will be based

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on the Alberta model. “There will be some tweaks along the way. What exactly those are going to be is what we’re going to be talking about over the next few months.” Producers have suggested the premiums in the Alberta program are too high, and Dahl said the issue will be part of the negotiations for the proposed western Canadian program. “Looking at ways to reduce the premiums is one of the things that needs to be worked on.” Canadian Cattlemen’s Association president Martin Unrau said Mani-

toba producers in particular need price insurance to revive the industry. The provincial cow herd dropped to 495,000 in 2012, the lowest figure since 1994. “Ou r c ow h e rd i s d ow n f ro m 670,000 a couple of years ago to just under 500,000 now,” he said at the Rancher’s Forum. Janet Honey of the University of Manitoba said in a 2012 report on Manitoba’s cattle industry that 25 to 33 percent of calves are fed to slaughter weight in the province. Unrau said the feedlot industry would rebound if producers could manage price risk. “If we had a price insurance program in Manitoba today, we would finish cattle, even with no (slaughter) plant … because we could then guarantee the end price,” he said. MBP president Ray Armbruster agreed. “It gives producers marketing options,” he said from his farm near Rossburn, Man. “Producers, instead of just selling calves, may decide to background.… I see producers being able to think about retaining cattle and retaining ownership.” “For the fall of 2013, I would hope that we’re in a position to start taking advantage of a program like that,” said Armbruster.

OPEN MARKETING | PRICE DISCOVERY

Grain firms keep elevator prices under wraps BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

The birth of the free market for prairie grain hasn’t caused a burst of light to shine on grain prices. If anything, prairie grain prices have become more mysterious in the months since the CWB monopoly ended. “They don’t want transparency,” Harold Davis said about most of the large prairie grain companies. “Their view is that if you’re an existing customer, they’ll give you a price.” Davis operates Prairie Crop Charts, an online crop price charting service that provides market prices and analysis for all the major prairie crops. Davis often finds creative ways to represent prairie crop values, sometimes relying on North Dakota and Montana prices when Canadian prices are unavailable or suspect. Canadian wheat and barley prices often diverged significantly from U.S. prices when the CWB monopoly was in place, and many observers expected that the price spreads would vanish once the U.S. border opened. However, Davis said it’s hard to determine the true state of prairie elevator prices because many companies guard those prices. Many elevators won’t give him prices, often those of the major grain companies. Louis Dreyfus Canada has been open with its prices, but otherwise finding available prices has been sporadic. Davis said some of this is probably because of the primitive but evolving

HAROLD DAVIS PRAIRIE CROP CHARTS

prairie grain market, with companies gingerly feeling their way from one export sale to the next. Basis levels and spreads of Canadian grain prices to U.S. futures values are also evolving, with many aberrations appearing. For instance, some prairie medium protein wheat that is similar to the

wheat represented by Kansas City Board of Trade futures has seen basis levels that suggest the grain is being priced as if it has to first be shipped to the Kansas City futures delivery zone, rather than to the export markets where it is actually going. Davis expects that sort of aberration will likely end soon. “We’re beginning to see more sophistication in the basis.” He expects the big grain markets will become more transparent, even if the elevator companies might be more comfortable with less clarity. “There’s going to be a great harmony in grain prices,” Davis said. Even though the CWB monopoly never controlled special crops and small acreage crops, their prices have also suffered a lack of transparency

on the Canadian side of the border. Davis said he often has to use North Dakota and Montana prices for crops because Canadian buyers don’t like being too open with what they’re willing to pay. He hopes all buyers in the postmonopoly world will start to move toward the open pricing common in the United States. “The Americans always seem to have a price,” said Davis.

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ANALYSIS | TRENDS

Commitment of traders report is window on grain market MARKET WATCH

D’ARCE McMILLAN

he front-of-mind factors for farmers to consider as they work out their marketing and hedging strategies include costs of production, break-even points, cash flow needs and the overall supply and demand fundamentals of the market. Those are the basics, but there are a host of technical indicators that can also help understand market trends and predict where they might go in the future. It is also helpful to be aware of what each group of players in the market is thinking. The participants in grain markets can be divided into three groups: • commercials, which are those in the grain business such as grain handlers, exporters and processors • non-commercials, which are big speculative investment funds • non-reportables, which are small speculative traders. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issues a Commitment of Traders report every Friday afternoon about the weekly net shift in positions. It is available at www. cftc.gov. The reports cover the week’s trade ending Tuesday and have nothing

to do with price. They provide information on what the largest industry players are doing. From it we can tell if they are changing direction in their buying and selling power. The report shows the position of each of the groups, whether they are net long, meaning they hold “buy” positions and expect the market to

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BEEF COWS MANITOBA FARMS 1990 - 2012

Loonie gains value | Strong buck cuts industry profits BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

Manitoba’s beef cow and pig herds have risen and fallen with the value of the Canadian dollar. The two industries have shown a remarkable similarity in the shape of their expansion and contraction, regardless of different market cycles, disease crises and border issues since the 1980s. Manitoba Agriculture livestock industry analyst Marni Donetz said the similar rise from the late 1980s and then sharp contraction from 2007 shows the profound impact of the Canadian-U.S. dollar exchange rate on livestock production profitability.

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rise, or net short, meaning they hold “sell” positions and are expecting the market to go down. The report compares the positions relative to where they were the previous week. However, to put the numbers into context you need a longer-term view over many months or perhaps years. Graphic, long-term pictures of these shifting positions are available

and market traders. I’ve also heard other analysts talk about the importance of watching to see what big speculators are doing because they have huge amounts of money to invest and the weight of their dollars can have a big influence on price direction. I think a good first step for farmers learning about risk management is to start watching the report to become aware of what all the players are doing. It is a bit like a football player knowing the broad strategies of the opposing team. Espeseth identified a specific example of how watching commercials can provide a signal of future market direction. Commercials are in a record net long position in soy oil. They were building that long position this fall, even as prices across the oilseed complex were falling because speculative traders began to worry about the potential of a record South American soybean crop. However, commercials apparently knew demand for North American soy oil would be great, especially as the last supplies from South America’s 2012 crop were used up. Soy oil futures began to rise as that became known in the wider market later in November, and so did soybeans and canola. So in this case, watching the commercials build up their net long position in soy oil gave warning that the autumn price decline in oilseeds was about to reverse. Follow D’Arce McMillan on Twitter @darcemcmillan.

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Online market data providers allow users to create charts like this. The lines at the bottom show commitment of traders positions. |

from web-based market data providers such as BarChart. The agricultural market price listings on our website, Producer.com, use BarChart data. If you burrow down into the chart offerings there, you’ll find that you can select “indicators.” Among the options available is a commitment of traders line chart. If you select that, a chart showing the positions of the speculators and commercials will appear immediately below the price and volume charts. Sometimes the page does not load properly the first time, but stick with it. It usually works on the second try. Regan Espeseth, an investment adviser and commodity broker with the Royal Bank in Saskatoon, spoke about using futures markets for risk management when addressing the Agri-Trend 2012 Farm Forum Event in Saskatoon Nov. 28. Espeseth highlighted the Commitment of Traders report as a valuable window on the market. He likes to take trading cues from the commercial players. “The number one reason is they have been the most accurate looking back on the charts,” he said in an interview. “They are laser focused on their particular commodity.” The commercial players are directly involved in the grain business. They know what the export market is demanding and how much oilseed crushing plants, flour mills and other end users need. They have a front row seat on the demand picture and work it into their hedge trades, long before the word gets out to the analysts, newsletters

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“I believe the main factor in the run-up (and subsequent decline) was the change in the exchange rate,” said Donetz. “We went from a very advantageous situation, then to par.” The exchange rate story has often been told within the larger livestock market narrative, but Donetz’s charts of beef cow and pig numbers on Manitoba farms threw the impact of that one factor into stark relief. Recent decades have seen strikingly different issues and crises hit the two industries, she told the Fields on Wheels conference Nov. 9.

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YEAR Both have faced U.S. trade actions at different times. Beef cattle producers were hit especially hard by BSE in 2003, while hog producers saw a sudden market and profitability slump in 2009 when H1N1 struck. The two industries also follow radically different production and market cycles. Hog production and prices tend to follow a three and a half to four year cycle, while beef cattle have a seven to nine year cycle. The difference in the cycle lengths is primarily because of gestation times and number of offspring which determine the amount of time the

two types of livestock require to expand production in response to profitable prices. Cattle take much longer than hogs. However, both beef cow and pig production have expanded and contracted at roughly the same times. Each rose for many years until a peak in 2007 and then fell sharply for a multi-year period. The timing of the break from expansion to contraction might have been tr iggered by the spike in feedgrain prices, which occurred in 2007-08. However, the biggest challenge to long-term livestock profitability was the reversal of the steady weakness of the Canadian dollar versus the

U.S. dollar. The currency weakness of the 1990s ended in 2002 and the currency went from the low 60 cents US to about 90 cents by 2006 and reached par in 2007. Donetz said the beef cow and pig herds showed signs of stabilizing until this summer’s feedgrain price spike, which has caused more woe to livestock producers. However, she remains optimistic about the outlook for livestock production in Manitoba, especially with beef cattle. “I think there is so much opportunity because it is an industry that is flexible and can use resources that no one else wants.”

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Low water, less cargo on Mississippi ships Low river level threatens grain exports CHICAGO, Ill. (Reuters) — U.S. grain exporters have slashed the weight of cargo shipped by barges on the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico by up to 50 percent. The move was necessary because of low water on a critical stretch of the waterway after the worst drought in 56 years. Ba r g e c o m p a n i e s, i n c l u d i n g Ingram Barge and Cargill, have informed exporters that the draft has been reduced to eight feet from the normal 12 feet for shipments on the Mississippi River north of Cairo, Illinois, which means 800 tonnes less in cargo loaded on barges. “That’s a sizable chunk of cargo,” said John Kindra, head of the Illinois River Carriers’ Association and president of Kindra Lake Towing. He said exporters would have to pay

extra in freight charges because of the draft restriction. Less cargo allows barges to ride higher on the water but also increases shipping costs because more barges are needed to haul the cargo. As well, barge tow boats burn more fuel making more trips. Reduced water from the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi River at St. Louis, was expected to cause the already-low Mississippi to drop by several more feet in the coming weeks. Sixteen U.S. senators have appealed to president Barack Obama to divert more water from reservoirs on the Missouri River to the Mississippi to prevent barge traffic from shutting down. Low water is a looming disaster, said the senators from states along

Four less feet of draft means barges have to reduce cargo by 800 tonnes. | REUTERS PHOTO the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. “Substantial curtailment of navigation will effectively sever the country’s inland waterway superhighway, imperil the shipment of critical cargo for domestic consumption and for export, threaten manufacturing industries and power generation and risk thousands of related jobs in the

Midwest,” they wrote. The prime area of concern is from St. Louis south to Cairo, Ill. Rocks on the river bottom at two locations on that stretch will become increasingly dangerous for boats as the river recedes, and the river could effectively be closed to navigation if it becomes as shallow as current fore-

casts suggest. Fully loaded barges on the Mississippi contain 1,500 tons of cargo under normal river conditions and have drafts of 12 feet. On the Illinois River, barges are regularly loaded to a nine-foot draft, or 900 tons. Barges lose 200 tons of capacity for each foot of reduced draft.

those heavier than 600 lb. were generally steady. Heifers 300-600 lb. fell significantly, while most heavier heifers rose 50 cents. Auction volume fell 27 percent to 63,137 head. Weekly feeder exports to Nov. 17 fell 10 percent to 1,213 head. This week’s feeder offering was expected to be seasonally large, but auction volume should trail off closer to Christmas. Lower stocker heifer prices may indicate softening demand.

dipped, with the AAA/AA spread narrowing to $8.29. AAA cutouts were $175.77 per cwt., down from $176.63, and AA fell to $167.48, down from $168.09 the previous week.

selected from the weekly report from Canfax, a division of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. More market information, analysis and statistics are available b y becoming a Canfax subscriber by calling 403-275-5110 or at www. canfax.ca.

CANFAX REPORT FED PRICES PEAK Alberta fed steer prices hit the highest level of the year at $118 per hundredweight, up $1.86 on the week and up more than $4 in two weeks. Fed heifers were $116.92, up $1.35. The basis tightened thanks to a smaller show list, feedlots current in their marketing and active domestic demand. In Alberta rail trade, the range was $195.75-$196.75. The time it takes packers to take delivery in some cases is stretched to three weeks. The cash-to-futures basis narrowed by $2.50 to -$9.10. It was the best basis since the last week of August. However, it remains about $1.25 weaker than the five-year average. Weekly fed cattle exports to Nov. 17 remained strong, with 11,248 going south. Fed exports have already surpassed last year’s total.

Fe d supplies should be tight through December, but more cows will be available before too long.

COWS LOWER An ample supply of slaughter cows pressured prices down $1 per cwt. D1, D2 cows ranged $55-$77 to average $65.63 and D3s ranged $45$65 to average $58.48. Dressed prices were mostly steady, at $130-$134. Butcher bull prices were steady, averaging $74.52 per cwt. Weekly western Canadian non-fed slaughter to Nov. 24 was steady at 6,610 head. So far this year, slaughter is running 19 percent behind last year. Weekly non-fed exports to Nov. 17 were up 12 percent at 8,683 head Non-fed supplies are expected to tighten.

LIGHT FEEDERS FALL Steers 300-400 pounds fell $1, while

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WP LIVESTOCK REPORT HOGS RISE U.S. packers wanted hogs in the typically busy week following American Thanksgiving and had to pay more to get supply. Market ready numbers are tight after drought-induced herd culling earlier in the year. Carcass prices rose. Ron Plain and Scott Brown of the University of Missouri noted the average hog carcass price is 95.9 percent of the cut-out value, which is unusually high for this time of year. The average barrow and gilt live weight in Iowa-Minnesota last week was 274.4 pounds, 0.5 pounds above a week earlier, but down 1.6 pounds from a year ago, they said. Iowa-southern Minnesota hogs delivered at packing plants were $60$61 US per hundredweight Nov. 30, up from $57.50 Nov. 23. The U.S. composite pork carcass

cut-out value was $84.74 Nov. 30, up from $81.92 Nov. 23. U.S. slaughter for the week rose to 2.4 million from 2.07 million in the previous holiday-shortened week. This week was up from 2.36 million a year ago.

BISON STEADY The Canadian Bison Association said grade A bulls in the desirable weight range sold at prices up to $3.85 per pound hot hanging weight. Grade A heifers sold up to $3.75. Animals older than 30 months and those outside the desirable weight range may be discounted.

LIGHT LAMBS STRONGER Beaver Hill Auction in Tofield, Alta., reported 758 sheep and 216 goats sold Nov. 26. Wool lambs lighter than 70 lb. were $122.50-$140 per cwt., 70-85 lb. were

$116-$127, 86-105 lb. were $111$120 and 106 lb. and heavier were $100-$114. Wool rams were $50-$70 per cwt. Cull ewes were $43-$57 and bred ewes were $120-$200 per head. Hair lambs lighter than 70 lb. were $110-$135 per cwt., 70-85 lb. were $115-$125, 86-105 lb. were $100$115 and 106 lb. and heavier were $90-$100. Hair rams were $61-$87 per cwt. Cull ewes were $51-$71. Good kid goats lighter than 50 lb. were $147.50-$195. Those heavier than 50 lb. were $165-$200 per cwt. Nannies were $45-$70 per cwt. Billies were $113-$157.50. Ontario Stockyards Inc. reported 1,277 sheep and lambs and 69 goats traded Nov. 26. All well-fed lightweight lambs sold stronger. Heavy lambs were steady to slightly weaker. Sheep and goats traded steady.

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AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY | FOOD PRICES

CRAIG’S VIEW

Higher food bill fact of life as production costs rise

he baby boomers among us can recall times past when the arrival of Christmas oranges was an exciting and delicious event. Packed in wooden crates, each orange was individually wrapped in paper, usually scarlet or orange, with the wood, the oranges and the paper carrying the exotic scents we associated with the Far East. Many a Christmas season was only made complete when the oranges arrived in the holiday season and the crate was opened with the aid of a hammer. There was no profligate gorging on these citrus delights. They were carefully meted out as a holiday treat. And one orange from that crate would quite nicely fill the toe of each Christmas stocking. Today, these oranges still appear in great numbers at Christmas, in recognition of tradition, but they are also available virtually all year round. Consumers expect it. It’s an example of ever-changing consumer demands as the world’s agricultural production becomes more globally available. We want our bananas, our pomegranates and our radishes to be available all winter, though we know the distances these items must travel. But seldom do we see the irony in complaining about the ever-rising cost of food and the larger percentage of income our food needs require. Last week, Alberta economist Todd Hirsch analyzed Statistics Canada food price data and concluded that food prices are now 28 percent higher than they were in 2002. The consumer price index rose 7.9 percent in Alberta over the same period, and we can assume similar statistics for the other prairie provinces. In a CBC news report, Hirsch explained it thus: “Part of the reason for rising food prices is the very same reason that has lifted farm income over the past five years. Higher commodity prices for grains, oilseeds and livestock have lifted the input costs for bakers and meat packers. These are in turn passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices at

the grocery store or on the restaurant menu.” Farmers have no need to apologize for receiving more for their commodities and produce. As these pages have often opined, increased productivity, greater costs of production and ever-rising income risk make higher farmer returns from higher commodity prices a necessity if Canada and the world are to continue feeding themselves. Realized net farm income, reported last week by Statistics Canada, reached a record level last year, with the breadbasket provinces showing the largest gains. Some say this reflects the new reality for agricultural prosperity. Let us hope that is true. And if it is, higher food prices will be part of that reality. However, that doesn’t mean farmers are the sole recipients of increases. Every orange in the box takes its portion, as it must if the system of growing, processing and delivering food continues to function. The Common Ground website, developed and supported by American corn and soybean groups, sought to forestall consumer backlash against higher food prices — and the possibility that farmers would bear the brunt — by analyzing one U.S. food dollar. Farms and agribusinesses account for 11.6 percent, food processors 18.6 percent, packaging four percent, transportation 3.5 percent, retail 13.6 percent, food services 33.7 percent, energy 6.8 percent, finances and insurance 4.4 percent and miscellaneous other costs 3.8 percent. Canadian figures are likely similar. In today’s world, commodity prices are higher, farmers’ net incomes are higher and consumers’ food access and choices are wide and growing. It seems a logical turn of events. And it’s the new reality, because we want our daily bread, our fresh food and our Christmas oranges. Let’s get used to it. Bruce Dyck, Terry Fries, Barb Glen, D’Arce McMillan and Joanne Paulson collaborate in the writing of Western Producer editorials.

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A coyote sits quietly listening for rodents moving under the snow on Lake Minnewanka Road near Banff, Alta. | MIKE STURK PHOTO

POLITICAL WINDS | GOOD TIMES

Agriculture minister Ritz’s time in charge blessed with favourable winds NATIONAL VIEW

BARRY WILSON

hen offering a state-ofthe-agriculture-industry assessment, federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz can’t help but sound like the cat that swallowed the canary, except for the feathers in his throat, of course. At a House of Commons agriculture committee meeting last week, the minister recited a list of reasons why these are the best of times.

Commodity prices generally are high “and are expected to remain well above historic levels for the next decade.” Farm net worth is up five percent and 30 percent over the past five years. Realized net farm income last year was up more than 50 percent and while he did not say it, nowhere more so than in his native Saskatchewan. The Canadian Wheat Board monopoly is gone and despite critic predictions of grain industry chaos, traditional wheat board grain acreage is up, producer car use is strong, the ports of Thunder Bay, Halifax and Churchill report increased business and overall, agrifood exports are up six percent so far this year. “The gloom and doom scenario painted by those who opposed mar-

keting freedom has not materialized,” Ritz told MPs. “In fact, we are seeing quite the opposite.” It all bodes well for the changes ministers have agreed to for the next Growing Froward five-year plan that will switch emphasis from farm income support to innovation while saving governments lots of money (although he didn’t talk about that). From the usual chorus of industry critics, there is barely an audible peep during the good times for most. And even for farmers who have not been having the best of times, including Ontario and Quebec producers hurt this year because of drought, the agriculture minister came bearing good news. Governments soon will announce an AgriRecovery package that could include compensation or money to bring in feed to animals or

to transport the animals to where the feed is. The announcement was met with praise from Ontario farm leader Mark Wales. And for the always-wary supply management folks, Ritz even had some good news to report from Canada-European Union trade liberalization talks that have supply management critics hoping for a crack in the dairy product tariff wall. Ritz was in Brussels in November to talk about some of the “sensitive” political issues including agriculture that continue to hold up a deal. Leaders of supply management sectors were there and he said they left happy, content that the government will protect them. “When we start these discussions, supply management is on the table

with everything else but we make it very clear it is one of our defensive positions,” he said “The supply managed sectors were with us in Brussels last week and are quite buoyed by the actions of the government, that we continue to maintain our unequivocal support for our supply-managed sector here in Canada.” So for the most part (hogs excluded), times are good, farmer criticism is muted despite continued anger and a lingering lawsuit by Canadian Wheat Board supporters, opposition MPs rarely lay a glove on him and Ritz is delivering the goods for the Conservative government agenda. Agriculture ministers past who faced almost constant farmer anger, budget demands and government pushback must be wondering why things have become so much easier.

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ECONOMY | DRIVERS

Whole grain plays role in healthy diet

Importance of agriculture finally realized

BY SHELLEY CASE

esults of a recent Nanos survey conducted by the Healthy Grains Institute indicate that Canadians are confused about the role whole grain plays in their diets. A clear majority of Canadians (67 percent) said wheatbased products such as bread and pasta contribute to weight gain, but they also said they would feel unhealthier if they eliminated wheat (57 percent) or gluten (46 percent) from their diets altogether. This suggests recognition of the health benefits of whole grain, such as wheat, barley, brown rice and oats, but it also shows that misinformation about the health and nutritional benefits of whole grains and fad diets that promote the elimination of entire food groups has contributed to misperceptions of whole grains. The Healthy Grains Institute was launched last week to study and compile research on the benefits of eating whole grain. It will be guided by an independent scientific advisory council. With a wealth of scientific information available that supports the role that whole grains can play in a healthy diet, the institute will identify and direct Canadians toward scien-

tific evidence that will help them make educated, science-based decisions about the food they eat. Celebrity “authorities” and authors promoting fad diets have made an increasing number of unsubstantiated weight-loss claims that eliminate whole grain entirely. It is important to note that all foods have many components and fit together like puzzle pieces. Removing one significant part could put you at risk of missing essential nutrients in your diet, which are beneficial for cardiovascular health and weight management. For instance, we have seen the gluten-free diet gain popularity in the last few years. Slightly more than 36 percent of Canadians surveyed thought that

gluten-free diets help weight loss, despite the fact that celiac disease affects one percent of Canadians, up to six percent are gluten sensitive and there is no existing scientific or clinical data to support a weight loss claim for a gluten-free diet. Following a gluten-free diet is not necessary unless you have celiac disease or are gluten sensitive. Canadians who follow a gluten-free diet when they don’t need to and do not supplement their diet with other nutritious food may be putting their health at risk. The vast majority of Canadians say that they would feel unhealthier if they removed whole grains from their diets, but they also believe that

whole grains such as bread and pasta contribute to weight gain. These survey results reaffirm the need for education on the role that whole grains play in Canadians’ ongoing quest for weight management. Recent studies have investigated the effects of including whole grain in diets for better weight control and have found evidence to support the role whole grain plays in weight management. Specifically, those who include whole g ra i n s a s p a r t o f a healthy, well-balanced die t are less likely to gain weight over time. Of course, the other side of this is chronic disease because excess weight is associated with preventable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Existing research shows that including whole grains in our diet can potentially help lower the risk of developing chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease and reduce obesity. For more information, visit www. HealthyGrains.ca. Shelley Case is a registered dietitian, author of Gluten-Free Diet: A Comprehensive Resource Guide and a member of the Healthy Grains Institute’s scientific advisory council.

RURAL ECONOMY | GRAIN BOOM

Farm income shatters record in Saskatchewan IN COMPARISON

HURSH ON AG

• Realized net farm income for all of Canada: slightly less than $5.7 billion • Saskatchewan: $2.8 billion

KEVIN HURSH

he number jumps off the page. Saskatchewan’s realized net farm income for 2011 is estimated by Statistics Canada at a record-shattering $2.8 billion. The previous record was in 2010 at nearly $1.8 billion. While Saskatchewan’s farm income has never been better, Alberta is struggling. The difference: Saskatchewan’s farm economy is dominated by grain, while Alberta relies heavily on livestock. Alberta’s realized net farm income for 2010 was a negative number, minus $178 million. There’s an improvement for 2011, but realized net income was still only $367 million. Even Manitoba, with a much small-

• Quebec: slightly less than $1.2 billion • Ontario : $730 million er land base, is doing better than Alberta. Manitoba recorded a net farm income of $603 million in 2010 and $499 million in 2011. Many numbers can be used to measure the health of the farm economy, but realized net income is probably the most common. It’s the difference between farm cash receipts and operating expenses, minus depreciation. Total cash receipts went up dramatically in Saskatchewan between 2010 and 2011. In 2010, money from the sale of grain and livestock, including any program payments, totalled slightly more than $9 billion. For 2011, cash receipts were slightly more than $11 billion. The expense side of the equation

also increased, but not nearly as fast as the rise in income. Saskatchewan farmers’ total operating expenses increased about $800 million between 2010 and 2011, while depreciation went up by more than $100 million. Alberta had comparable cash receipts, about $9 billion in 2010 and more than $10 billion in 2011. However, expenses were much higher. Of course, the biggest expense for cattle feedlots and hog operations is the cost of feed. Strong grain prices benefit Alberta grain producers, just as they do grain producers in Saskatchewan, but they limit returns in the livestock sector. There has long been a push to get a more balanced farm economy in Saskatchewan, one that’s more evenly split between grain and livestock. Saskatchewan has the second largest beef breeding herd in the country with 30 percent of the cows, compared to 40 percent in Alberta. However, Alberta dominates the feedlot industry. As well, Alberta and Manitoba have much larger hog industries. Saskatchewan’s reliance on grain

has typically been viewed as a weakness. Alberta’s farm income numbers used to regularly eclipse those of Saskatchewan. There were many years when Saskatchewan would have had negative net farm income had it not been for government payments. These days, it’s clear that the big money is in grain. And on the beef side, cow-calf operators have been doing better than the feedlot sector, so Saskatchewan has actually benefited from shipping calves to Alberta for feeding. Preliminary farm cash receipt statistics for 2012 suggest the trend is continuing. Little wonder that land prices are sizzling hot and farm machinery sales are brisk. Maybe it will someday reverse again. Maybe in three or five or seven years it will be livestock making the profit and grain that’s struggling. But for now, grain is golden and that makes Saskatchewan king of the provinces when it comes to realized net farm income. Kevin Hursh is an agricultural journalist, consultant and farmer. He can be reached by e-mail at kevin@hursh.ca.

EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK

JOANNE PAULSON, EDITOR

otash and oil are traditionally huge in the Saskatchewan economy, but if the government relied on them to make budget this year, it would be a sorry situation. The real class among sectors is agriculture. The province’s mid-year report notes that business investment in such things as housing construction is partly fuelling the economy. The population is rising, jobs are plentiful and life seems good. The budget will balance. “Though potash production and sales have been impacted this year by weak global demand, many of the other indicators for 2012 are also up,” said the report. “2012 crop production is estimated at 26.4 million tonnes, down 0.9 percent from 2011, but above the budget level. As a result, the 2012 real GDP growth forecast has been revised up.” That’s despite resource revenues dropping by more than $400 million. Meanwhile, Saskatchewan farm cash receipts are up seven percent to $8.64 billion, and realized net farm income soared 58 percent to $2.85 billion in 2011. Cash receipts are even higher in Alberta, up 15 percent to $8.76 billion, although net farm income was low. Manitoba is not faring as well, partly because of the flooding last year. Years ago, whenever things went awry in western agriculture, people (urbanites? politicians?) would say something like, “it’s no big deal; it’s only eight percent of GDP. Agriculture is just not as important as it used to be. Potash and oil and uranium are the way of the future.” That, of course, is true to a point. The non-renewable triumvirate in Saskatchewan, the massive oil economy in Alberta and a significant amount of mining in Manitoba are all crucial to the prairie economies. So is agriculture. It may not pay royalties, but it reverberates through the economy — especially in Saskatchewan — with massive spin-off effects. Who buys the most expensive stuff, such as combines, in Western Canada? Farmers. How much in income, fuel and sales taxes does that deliver to governments? No idea, but it’s huge. Doug Elliott, publisher of Sask Trends Monitor, also pointed out that agriculture still employs more people in Saskatchewan — 40,000 — than mining, oil and gas at 24,000. Agriculture is noticeably back in the spotlight, and Saskatchewan’s mid-year financial report is testament to that.

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After reading the article entitled, “New methods open doors to opportunity, controversy” (WP Nov. 8), I was struck with how much industry information was included, and how little mention was made of landowners’ very legitimate concerns or of the environmental damage that has already occurred in the path of this new technology. Despite claims that “we have been fracking in Alberta for 60 years,” multi-stage high pressure horizontal hydraulic fracturing has been practiced here for less than 10 years. While only .07 percent of overall

water use goes toward this process, it is important to note that this is water which will never return in usable form to the water table, as it is contaminated with carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The majority of chemicals presently used are dangerous to human and animal life through inhalation, direct contact or consumption (through contaminated water, soil or plants). Scientists in the United States have predicted that the contaminated water underground will find its way into the aquifers within three to five years. It will do us and our descendants little good to know what these chemicals are once they have found their

way into our environment. The farmland taken out of production is another issue. Each well takes up to about seven acres of land for the well pad and roads for access. Multiply that by 5,000. This land is difficult if not impossible to reclaim in most cases. In addition, access to farmed acres is limited, as it becomes difficult to move farm equipment around the installations. In our area, we are saturated with horizontal fracking, with even more wells planned under the old regulations. We and several of our neighbours feel that we have experienced health effects due to this activity. These effects mirror those reported in other areas where horizontal

fracking has taken place. There are reasons why this process is under bans and moratoria in many countries and municipalities throughout the world. The National Farmers Union has called for a moratorium, along with the Alberta Surface Rights Group, the Council of Canadians and many others. The future of our province will depend, not on production of oil and gas, but on fresh water and productive farmland. Our generation will be judged by our descendants. We do not want to harm the energy industry; we simply want it to stop present operations until they develop their practices to a point where independent scientific study determines them to be safe. Some informative websites include: www.canadians.org/fracking, www.frackingcanada.ca, www. endocrinedisruption.com and www. ernstversusencana.ca Nielle Hawkwood Cochrane, Alta.

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Re: “Speedy passing of food bill may put brakes on trade” (WP, Nov. 15) The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has always been committed to working with stakeholders to make food as safe as possible. In fact, Bill S-11, the Safe Food for Canadians Act, is based on extensive consultations with Canadians and industry on how we can strengthen our system even further. Before the recently passed act can be brought into force, new supporting regulations need to be made. These regulations will be developed in consultation with regulated parties and affected stakeholders, including producers and food processors. The act will provide the CFIA with clearer and more consistent rules for all food commodities, whether they are produced in Canada or imported into Canada so consumers can be confident that all food is safe, regardless of its origin. Under the act, provisions will be included to register or license importers, holding them accountable for the safety of the food commodities they bring into the country. This will put importers on a more even footing with our domestic and export-oriented processors. The act will also provide the CFIA with strengthened authorities to require regulated parties to maintain better traceability systems, which, in turn, will expedite the recall of unsafe food and further prohibit unsafe food products from entering the Canadian market. I can assure your readers that this traceability system would include strong privacy provisions that outl i n e au t h o r i z e d a c c e s s t o a n d intended uses for traceability information. These provisions would be in addition to the protections already in place under the federal Privacy Act. The CFIA is committed to a strong, fair and consistent food safety system that will benefit all Canadians. George Da Pont, president, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, Ont.

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CWB BALL GAME To the Editor: I am writing this letter in response to comments made in an op-ed column written by former CWB director Henry Vos (WP, Nov. 15). In it, Henry states, “There was a drought in 1982 and our crop was small: 25 bushels per acre for No. 1 wheat and 15 bu. per acre of canola. “At that time, the CWB was not accepting any wheat at our location and also controlled canola deliveries.” After much research and talking to my father, who has farmed over 50 years, canola has never been under control of the CWB. So how on earth did the CWB control the canola deliveries in 1982? To the best of my knowledge, canola has always been an open market crop, and you could sell it to the highest bidder. Sounds to me like Henry is a bitter

former director of the CWB who just had self-interest in mind when he got elected, and took his ball and went home when he wasn’t going to get his way. Then the government stepped in and took the CWB monopoly away. Craig Sorensen, Ogema, Sask.

CUTBACKS HURT TOURISM To the Editor: Cutbacks to Parks Canada contained in the (Stephen) Harper government’s omnibus bill C-38 will hurt Saskatchewan’s tourism industry. This summer, the Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group sponsored a vintage motorcycle tour of sites of the 1885 Northwest Resistance. Participants in Geezers on Wheezers Five came from as far away as Quebec and

Nunavut. At the Battlefords, knowledgeable staff showed us the top-notch Western Development Museum, and young guys in Northwest Mounted Police gear gave a spectacular cannon demonstration at Fort Battleford. A walking tour at Batoche was brought alive by a fellow whose greatuncle fought alongside Metis general Gabriel Dumont. But we heard that tours and programs, such as we enjoyed, would likely be cut. Since 2000, our semi-annual motorcycle tour has injected considerable cash into local economies. And that’s just a drop in a big tourism bucket. So even if the implication of a shrivelling Canadian culture doesn’t fire you up, if it’s money we’re talking, adequate federal funding for our national parks and historic sites is not a cost. It’s an investment that pays with a multitude of economic spinoffs. Now we hear winter trails in

Prince Albert National Park cannot be groomed. You might want to try helping your local MP connect the dots that join tourism investment, the quality of vacationer experience and benefits to the grassroots economy.

their grandparents and ancestors recognized and honoured. I think the young generations are doing a much better job than some of our adults, especially when it relates to Remembrance Day and “Lest we Forget.”

Doug Bone, Elrose, Sask.

John Fefchak. Virden, Man.

ACT OF RESPECT To the Editor: Manitoba premier Greg Selinger is wrong when he tells us Remembrance Day services are a matter of religious freedom. They are a matter of respect and remembrance. Often, we are reminded that the modern generations of today have no respect or show no gratitude for our Canadian heritage, the heritage that

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n a little Mexican town there was a simple little church where the true spirit of Christmas lived. It was the custom on Christmas Eve to put many candles on the altar and, close by, figures of the Nativity scene. There was the manger in the stable, and Mary and Joseph, the Baby Jesus lying in the straw, and the animals in their stalls. Overhead was the one bright star that guided the Wise Men to Bethlehem. Early one Christmas morning the pastor of the church went to see that all the little figures were in place for the first service. He was horrified to see Baby Jesus was gone. The pastor looked everywhere but he could not find the Baby Jesus. As he left the church he was almost run over by a little boy racing a red wagon along the sidewalk. It was Pedro, the baker’s son. The pastor smiled and started to speak to the boy when, suddenly, he noticed, in the red wagon, the missing figure of the Christ Child. “Pedro,” he cried. “It was you. You took the Baby Jesus. Why did you do it?” Pedro hung his head and was silent. The pastor scolded and questioned. Still Pedro would not explain. He just hung his head. “It — it was like this,” Pedro finally blurted out. “I — I wanted a red wagon for Christmas, and I prayed. I asked Jesus to let me have a red wagon. And — and I promised Him that if I got one, I’d give Him a ride in it. It’s his birthday, you know.” The good pastor knelt down and looked carefully into the boy’s face. There were tears in the pastor’s eyes. “I am sorry I scolded, Pedro. I didn’t understand. You are quite right. It is his birthday, and you have given him the finest gift of all.”

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FARM ECONOMY | FINANCIAL RESULTS

FOOD SECURITY | WHEAT PRODUCTION

Prairies steal Ontario’s top rank in ag economy Ontario’s drop from largest provincial agricultural economy to third spot is likely a blip, says an Ontario farm leader. Ontario Federation of Agriculture president Mark Wales says 2011 and 2012 farm financial reports from Ottawa reflect record grain and oilseed prices that boost prairie returns, while 2012 market returns reflect droughtreduced Ontario results. “I don’t think this is a true reflection of Ontario’s agri-food strength,” he said. According to farm financial data released by Statistics Canada, the Ontario farm economy recorded a realized net income (receipts minus expenses and depreciation) of $730 million in 2011, far behind Saskatch-

ewan’s $2.8 billion and Quebec’s $1.2 billion. Farm cash receipts for the first nine months of 2012 again show Ontario in third place at $8 billion, behind Alberta’s $8.7 billion and Saskatchewan’s $8.6 billion. “I would bet that 2011 is probably an anomaly, but it really depends on where grain prices stay in the long run,” he said. “You do have record canola prices, strong pulses and grain, and there was some increases in meat prices. These have particular impact on the Prairies. It bodes well for all provinces in the long run if we could just get some stability in production. Weather has been erratic.” This year’s drought cut hundreds of millions of dollars worth of produc-

tion from livestock and grain producers in eastern Ontario and the GreyBruce cattle heartland, as well as fruit production in southwestern Ontario and grain production in many parts of the province. “This year will see the almost total collapse of the apple industry, partially the tender fruit sector, the drought dramatically affects people across the province and low hog prices are hitting Ontario hog producers hard although it is hitting western hog producers as well,” he said. “This will not be a good year.” The federal and provincial governments are poised to hear details within weeks about an AgriRecovery payment to compensate for some of the damage.

GM wheat opposition ‘road block’ to food goal GM technology seen as essential to meet demand STORIES BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU

World wheat production will have to increase at least 60 percent in coming decades, and genetically modified varieties are inevitably part of the solution, says a leading Australian breeder. Peter Langridge, chief executive officer of the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics in Adelaide, told a Genomics Canada con-

ference last week that population growth will require significant increases in production. Yet land restrictions, limited water resources and a growing privatization of wheat research make the goal difficult to achieve. “These are exciting times, but it also is a worrying time,” he told the conference Nov. 28. In a later interview, Langridge said public resistance to GM wheat is “an obvious road block.” However, he said many companies and countries continue to work on the technology, which must be part of the solution if the production increase goals are to be met. “I simply don’t see any other way to meet that challenge,” he said. “There has to be GM wheat at some point.” Hybrid wheat varieties can also be part of the solution, he added. The University of Adelaide researcher also suggested that the introduction of GM wheat will likely not happen first in the developed world but in a country such as China or India, where food demands are high and growing. “China has invested $5 billion in developing GM wheat, and when it is a choice between hunger or GM wheat, it will be introduced,” he said. “And if China introduced GM wheat, India will follow.” Langridge said similar consumer and environmental resistance was seen decades ago when new grain varieties and production practices were introduced into India in what came to be known as the Green Revolution. “There was huge controversy,” he said. “It ended up saving 200 million lives, and not many decisions in history can be said to have had that impact.” When asked about the potential impact of ending the CWB’s wheat innovation and breeding, Langridge said there was an impact on the direction of wheat breeding in Australia when that country’s single desk wheat board was abolished. He said the Australian Wheat Board acted as a central source of information about what wheat varieties the markets wanted. That public market informationclearing-house has been lost with the privatization of the board, and companies now direct their research to products they think will sell and make money. “What has happened in Canada is really déjà vu in Australia,” he said without stating a position on whether it was a good move. “It has affected our breeding program. There now is a disconnect between our breeding efforts and what the market needs.” Langridge said genetic work with wheat is one of the most complex tasks in his business. Work continues on unraveling the wheat genome, but with 100,000 genes in wheat, it is six times larger than the human gene. “Genomics have a huge role in future advancements in the wheat industry, but this is a hugely complicated endeavour,” he told the conference.

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TRADE | AGRICULTURE

Bank deputy chair calls for national food strategy Direction needed | Frank McKenna, former New Brunswick premier, says Tories’ free trade deals lack long-term vision OTTAWA BUREAU

The Canadian government should have a national food strategy vision before it locks the industry into trade deals, says a senior Canadian business executive. Frank McKenna, deputy chair of the TD Bank Group and former New Brunswick premier, told a GrowCanada conference in Ottawa Nov. 28 that agriculture is an economic powerhouse, but signing free trade deals without an industry plan is shortsighted.

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Feds promise rail service legislation by mid-December Federal transport minister Denis Lebel says the government will table a rail service level guarantee bill in Parliament by mid-December. He said he could not discuss the details of the government position, but it will respond to shipper complaints. “Will they (shippers) get everything they want? Probably not,” Lebel said. “But we will give them the tools they need.” The legislation will be tabled before Parliament rises for its Christmas break in mid-December, he said. It will not be debated in Parliament at least until next year and then only depending on the priority given it by the Conservative government. Bob Ballantyne, chair of the Coalition of Rail Shippers, said shippers want the right to a service level agreement with railways, a credible dispute resolution process if railways do not meet the standard and the ability to have railways penalized for not meeting service standards. Ballantyne said he’s concerned that the government isn’t signaling its intention to introduce strong shipper rights in the forthcoming legislation. Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway have been lobbying strongly against new regulations, arguing market forces should allow the development of service agreements between shippers and carriers. Any regulatory obligations could derail railway investment, they say. Shippers have argued that it is not a fair fight. Railways have the upper hand and any negotiation on service standards is biased against them. “We’ll see how well CN and CP have done on this,” said Ballantyne. “The minister’s comments are not too encouraging.” The rail service issue is longstanding. The Conservatives appointed former Alberta treasurer Jim Dinning last year to try to find a way to achieve middle ground, but his effort failed and his report said a significant gap remains between the two sides.

“We have the cart before the horse,” he said. “I think we need a national food strategy and then figure out where trade and market access fit into that.” As an example, McKenna cited the government’s decision to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership Asian rim trade negotiation without an understanding of what agricultural sectors could be damaged. He said he has a brother in New Brunswick in the hog business and a cousin in the supply managed chicken industry. “There has been some speculation

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that joining the TPP talks could lead to abandonment or some erosion of supply management,” said McKenna. “We haven’t had a national debate about that or a debate about where we want the industry to go and how it could be affected.” He said farm sectors should be more involved in planning trade strategies. Conference Board of Canada vicepresident Michael Bloom argued that agricultural innovation in Canada lags in large part because private sector investment is low. “Government funding of research

and development in Canada is relatively strong, but business funding is low,” said Bloom. “I think the issue is that we find it hard to attract private capital.” McKenna said the private sector “doesn’t carry its weight” in supporting innovation in Canadian agriculture. “I really do believe that in the productivity agenda, we are falling behind in Canada,” he said. “We’re doing well and feel we’re in a comfortable pew, but we are falling behind and because of our lagging productivity, governments lose

$75 billion or more in lower revenues.” Bloom said regulations and public resistance to scientific advances that could make agriculture more productive are key parts of the problem. “There is a disconnect between how the system functions and the public perception of it,” he said. Bloom said education is the answer. McKenna said GMO resistance, particularly in Europe, is not always about food. Often, it’s an attempt to protect small farmers.

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Problems on the Mississippi River could drive up prices in Western Canada BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Growers should consider buying their fertilizer before the new year, says a grain merchandiser. “That is something that I would definitely put more focus on this year than I have in years past,” said Jason Charles, who runs the export trading division of Land O’Lakes Inc., the second largest co-operative in the United States. Charles told farmers attending the Agri-Trend 2012 Farm Forum Event that the Mississippi River is so low that a 322 kilometre section of it will likely be shut down for dredging

starting Dec. 10. That river system carries about $2 billion of fertilizer a month from New Orleans to suppliers in the U.S. Midwest and in Western Canada. If the river closes, the price of getting fertilizer to those markets will rise because barges are the cheapest form of transportation. Additional costs would likely be borne by farmers. “We w ill see fer tilizer pr ices increase as we go into the spring barring any weather changes,” said Charles. “There’s only one thing that can change it. It’s got to start raining and it can’t just rain a little bit.” The summer drought in the Mid-

west that dramatically reduced corn yields also took its toll on the Mississippi River, which is fed by tributaries from Ohio, Illinois and Missouri. The section of the Mississippi that will likely be closed for repairs has a bedrock bottom so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will have to blast away the rock to dredge the river. Charles said agricultural companies located along the river have asked U.S. president Barack Obama to declare the Mississippi River a disaster area. “I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of the world’s most major river artery being called a disaster area but that’s where we’re at,” he said.

New buyers | Officials from Kazakhstan examine forage crops as country expands beef production BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU

Kazakhstan is well known for its grain production. Delegations from that country have been attending Canadian trade shows for years, looking at equipment that will work on fields and climatic conditions that are similar to those in Saskatchewan. However, a delegation to this year’s

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CANOLA | SEEDING TIME

Yield trials examine value of early seeding in dark brown soil Study found an overall benefit, but results depend on weather and tillage practices BY BARB GLEN LETHBRIDGE BUREAU

Early seeding canola will increase yields most of the time, says an Alberta oilseed specialist, but there are caveats for those in dark brown soil zones. Murray Hartman of Alberta Agriculture told a Nov. 23 meeting of the Alberta Canola Producers Commission that early seeding will likely pay off on dryland under reduced tillage systems but leads to higher yields only half the time when using direct seeding. Hartman said early seeding of Argentine canola has been widely adopted, but some producers are thinking twice about its benefits. To answer their questions, he looked at yield data from 2002-12 on dryland in the dark brown soil zone and found an overall benefit from early seeding, though much depends on weather and tillage practices. Early seeding produced higher yields in reduced tillage systems in seven of the nine years studied but only four out of nine using direct seeding. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would say certainly it looks like a real probable for reduced tillage, but for direct seeding, early seeding (first week of May or earlier in the dark brown soil zone), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only 50-50.â&#x20AC;? Hartman said early seeding generally resulted in higher yields in most other soil zones. He has also recently explored the benefits of soil and foliar applied boron to canola crops. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It seems to be being promoted more in the last five years than it has in all my previous experience,â&#x20AC;? Hartman said. He examined published, independent research on boron that amounted to 44 site-years of data. Yield benefits from boron were the exception rather than the rule. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I had to put this into a probable, maybe or unlikely, this is a very strong unlikely,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Save your money. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put it on boron. Overall, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very good recommendation.â&#x20AC;? Hartman said farmers must carefully sort through the wealth of advertising for canola seed varieties, treatments and agronomic boosts when making cropping decisions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of hard to filter out the truth from the scams or the misinformation or the doctored trials.â&#x20AC;? He told producers to consider whether claims are based on plant function or plant content. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care what the plant has. What does it need? Try to ignore those ones that are based on function claims.â&#x20AC;? Hartman said data from unbiased, independent research in Western Canada should be given more weight than claims from those with a vested interest, although the latter should be reviewed as well. Results from at least 20 location years of data are best and should ide-

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BROOKS, Alta. — A hot and humid blossom period saved Alberta’s alfalfa seed crops from significant blossom blight damage this year, but research continues into the fungal pest. Syama Chatterton of Agriculture Canada described the nature of the beast Nov. 27 to members of the Alberta Alfalfa Seed Commission. She said she plans to focus on whether alfalfa pollen can be infected in low humidity and investigate the role bees and other insects have on spore spread. Blossom blight can be controlled with fungicides, but alfalfa presents challenges. “I think seed alfalfa is a little bit

tricky to work with … because of such a long flowering period, so you have a fairly long time when your plant is going to be susceptible,” said Chatterton. She debunked the myth that purple flowers are less susceptible than white. Resistant varieties are not an option either, she said, because the disease is so complex. Blossom blight is the result of two pathogens, sclerotinia sclerotiorum and botrytis cinerea. “These are very generalist, broad spectrum pathogens that most plants don’t have resistance to,” she said. The sclerotinia aspect, which is associated with white mould and

stem rot, is the same type that wreaks havoc in canola and pulse crops. Sclerotia produce apothecia, the small mushroom-like fungi that emit spores. Spread by wind, the spores can easily travel. “Usually the first place they like to infect is flowers in bloom, and that’s because flowers have an awful lot of pollen associated with them that can serve as a nutrient source, and flowers are also usually in different stages of development and decay.” The fungus releases spores at the beginning of the season. The other part of the blossom blight complex, botrytis, is a fluffy grey mould of the same type found on

strawberries, other fruits and pulse crops. In the right conditions, its spores can spread throughout the growing season, Chatterton said. “Botrytis is also a very widespread disease. It’s probably the number one disease in the world in terms of what it can infect.” Severe blossom blight will reduce the number of pods, the number of seeds per pod and seed quality. Fungicide treatments are preventive rather than curative, so Chatterton said it is important to consider risk factors when making spraying decisions. Blossom blight thrives in cool, moist conditions.

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BROOKS, Alta. — A reduction in Canadian acres sown to alfalfa seed is a concern for the future but a boon in the present. Terry Ewacha, executive vice-president for Pickseed’s wholesale and western operations, told Alberta alfalfa seed growers Nov. 27 that tight supplies are keeping prices on firm ground. “I think the outlook currently is very good,” Ewacha said during an alfalfa seed commission meeting. “We’re into a state right now where our inventory levels are very low, probably one of the lowest I’ve seen.” Alberta grew 23,000 acres of alfalfa seed this year, but acreage in Saskatchewan and Manitoba has dropped drastically in recent years as farmers gravitate to higher-priced commodities. The United States has also reduced its alfalfa seed acres, which is part of the reason for healthy demand for Canadian product. “Canada’s really at a loss for alfalfa seed production at this point and I don’t see us really making up that ground, other than possibly Alberta, where there’s a lot of people have interest in this industry,” Ewacha said. The U.S. is by far the major market for Canadian seed, and demand is likely to be especially healthy this year as American farmers replant their drought-ravaged acres. Commission president Karl Slomp said he anticipates prices in the range of $1.80 to $2.20 per pound this year, depending on the variety. “The prices have been stable,” he said. “Last year, the price went up a fair bit to compete with other crops and we’re kind of expecting the same prices this year.” Overseas, Australia has been a major producer of non-dormant alfalfa seed, which isn’t produced in Canada. However, Ewacha said drought in Australia has depleted supply and production. Eastern European countries that used to buy seed are now growing it, but it is generally of poorer quality. Europe also has fewer alfalfa seed acres because they’ve been replaced with higher-priced crops. As for the domestic alfalfa seed market, eastern Canadian dairies are the major buyers but demand is stable. “We’re basically in a level right now where sales have plateaued and to get into the next level, there will have to be some technology introduced to go up against corn silage, which is our big competitor,” Ewacha said. He said 25 percent of the seed bought in the U.S. last year was Roundup Ready, which is not produced in Canada. Other new technologies under development include drought tolerant varieties, low tannin types with greater bloat resistance and low lignin varieties.

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Alberta field trials show several fungicide treatments are effective against the sclerotinia and botrytis pathogen complex that causes blossom blight, reducing quality and yields. | FILE PHOTO RESEARCH | ALFALFA

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BROOKS, Alta. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fungicide trials conducted by Alberta Agriculture researchers have confirmed that there are effective treatments for blossom blight in alfalfa seed crops. Plant pathologist Ron Howard told members of the Alberta Alfalfa Seed Commission Nov. 27 that products are available to battle the sclerotinia and botrytis pathogen complex that causes the disease. Blossom blight reduces alfalfa seed yield and quality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do have a number of products that seem to be consistently providing the highest seed yields, products like Quadris, Proline, Lance,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Switch is looking not too bad and even the BASF product (BAS 703 01F).â&#x20AC;? Additional products are also in line for approval for full or minor use on the crop, he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We should be seeing some of these products coming available in the next year or two.â&#x20AC;? Howard and his team have two to three years of data comparing a range of fungicides at sites near Rosemary and Brooks. Seed alfalfaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lengthy blossom period is a challenge for producers because it is difficult to determine the best time to spray. However, fungicides tend to be preventive rather than curative for blossom blight, so other strategies should be employed. Howard said they include using disease-free seed, thinning dense stands to reduce humidity in the canopy, maintaining good fertility and avoiding excess irrigation. Alfalfa fields should be rotated with non-host crops such as cereals. Sclerotinia and botrytis commonly appear together, infect many crop types and can thrive over a wide range of growing conditions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As we see the increased production of broadleaf crops like canola and pulse crops, I think our problems with these diseases are going to intensify,â&#x20AC;? said Howard.

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of distrust of other economic models means the time is right for a renaissance in the co-operative movement. “They are fundamentally different in design and goals and operating practices (than corporations),” Gertler said during a Nov. 22 panel discussion. “They are vehicles for the concentration of wealth, but not wealth in just a few hands. They don’t facilitate the sale of assets or the off-shoring of jobs.” He said studies have found that coops had a much higher survivability rate then other businesses during the recent economic downturn. Yuill Herbert of Tatamagouche, N. S. , f o u n d i n g d i re c t o r o f t h e Sustainability Solutions Group, described how the Mondragon Corp., a federation of worker co-ops based in Spain’s Basque region, has helped people in the area weather economic turmoil. “While unemployment in Spain has risen to 25 percent, in the Basque region it hasn’t risen above 10 percent,” Herbert said. He said an important part of the Mondragon organization is its ability to provide capital to member co-ops, something with which Canadian coops sometimes struggle. The Canadian Co-operative Association is developing a national co-operative investment fund that will soon be available for co-op start-ups and expansions in Canada. Herbert said the fund would provide capital for higher-risk ventures, while credit unions tend to be more risk adverse. Kyle Korneychuk, a farmer from Pelly, Sask., said he is concerned about the future of co-ops and credit unions in Canada. Even though many co-ops are in relatively good financial position, it will be difficult for members to maintain control. ”Co-ops will be modernized and brought into the new model of business, the corporation, and members will become shareholders rather than owners,” he said. “It will not be the fault of the co-op structure, but rather the fault of the members who sit idly by and watch this happen because they are too busy doing other things.” Korneychuk said a variety of trends undermine co-op principles: • lack of support between co-ops • direct competition, such as when Saskatchewan Wheat Pool was allowed to build elevators in Alberta and Manitoba • shift of concern from community to maximizing profit • lack of training and information provided to members • erosion of local control, as with how Federated Co-operatives Ltd. sets prices and gives direction on the hiring of personnel in local co-ops, which promotes member apathy “The easiest way to kill an organization is to kill the interest of its members,” Korneychuk said. “It doesn’t matter how many guiding principles there are, if no one know them, if no one is following them, if no one enforces them, then what good are they?”

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The answer to hunger issues is not the local food movement but changes that will boost the traditional food system, says the head of an Ottawa public policy think-tank. Production increases and expanded export opportunities are key to the future. “The 100 mile diet is nonsense that would create mass starvation,” Brian Lee Crowley, managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute said Nov. 28 at the GrowCanada conference in Ottawa. In most countries and many places in Canada, there is not enough food available within 100 miles to provide an adequate or balanced diet. The only answer to world hunger issues is to allow a “food powerhouse” like Canada to excel at what it does, he said. With a growing world population and an exploding appetite for food among the expanding world middle class, Canada is not only positioned to cash in but has an obligation to provide needed food. “From Canada’s point of view, it will be imperative to do good, which also will mean we are doing well,” said Crowley. The recently formed MacdonaldLaurier Institute advocates market economics and farm income support changes and regulatory reform that will encourage investment in the food system. It has argued against retaining supply management. Crowley told the conference that increased food production and agricultural productivity will become more crucial as production stalls while demand increases. “We are leaving an era of food surpluses and entering an era of food shortages,” he said. And if Canada can free its food system from unnecessary regulation and encourage more innovation, it can be a leader in meeting the world’s growing demand for food. The regulatory system is “slow and unhelpful,” he said. “It is an oppressive blanket on innovation.” He argued that Canada’s aggressive export policy is a correct course and the existing business risk management farm support system is “a mess” because it discourages farmers from innovating and taking risks. “I think it puts too much emphasis on supporting small farmers and that is not where the most efficient production takes place.” Cowley argued that despite abundant resources in land, wager and smart farmers, Canada is “falling behind” its ability to produce increased food and the world’s need for increased production.

Children are busy compiling toy wish lists for Santa while advertisers use slick advertising to sway shoppers. But parents want toys that engage children well beyond the holiday season. The Canadian Toy Testing Council released its annual toy report in November, with an emphasis on interactive toys and games. Ange Digout Erhardt, vice-chair of the council’s board of directors, said the council tested more than 400 toys. “This year, we saw that board games are popular and there is a trend towards accessorizing, such as toys that have an app associated with them to extend their use,” she said. “We encourage parents to check the ratings of the toys on our website, www.toy-testing. org, and choose something in a category your child likes best,” Digout Erhardt said. The council gives star ratings to toys based on design, function, safety, durability, battery consumption and play value.

At Mastermind Toys, the emphasis is on creativity, education and durability. Ryan Carr of Mastermind said the company looks for quality and does not necessarily stock big brand toys. He sees several themes in toys this year. “Tech toys are exciting, such as tablets designed specifically for children, but we have other interesting tech toys, such as the Symphony in B that allows a child to create their own arrangement of classical pieces of music,” he said. Carr said there are new toys that inspire play, but there are also toys that will stand the test of time such

as wooden building blocks. “We are seeing a movement towards classic toys in our stores,” Carr said. “We have wooden railway toys that could be considered heirloom toys because they can be passed on in families.” He said there are also toys that cross the divide, such as a set of cars that operate with bar codes placed on the track, so children can change

the track and the action of the cars. Both Digout Erhardt and Carr recommend finding toys that appeal to a child’s individual interests and considering opportunities to combine the tech trend with the classic choices. Carr said the collectible market and a current movement toward nostalgia toys are designed more to get parents into stores than to engage children.

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TOY SAFETY TIPS When buying toys, look for sturdy, well-made ones that include the manufacturer’s contact information, and choose only those toys that are suitable for your child’s age group. Be sure to discard packing material such as styrofoam pellets or plastic bags to prevent accidental choking or suffocation. Health Canada offers these safety tips: Small toys Toys with small parts pose a choking hazard for children under three years of

age. Toys for this age group should be large, with no small, detachable parts. Common choking hazards include: • Puzzles with small pieces or pegs • Dolls, plush toys and soft toys with small attachments (eyes, noses, decorations) • Rattles and other toys made of brittle plastic Batteries Make sure batteries are not accessible to children and properly installed by an adult. Do not allow your child to take a

battery-operated toy to bed. Burns and other serious injuries can result if the batteries leak or overheat during the night.

while moving through the intestines, causing potentially fatal complications if the intestines twist, become blocked or tear.

Call a doctor or poison control centre immediately if your child swallows a battery. Batteries can be poisonous.

Common toys containing magnets: • Construction sets • Puzzles • Toy jewelry and dress-up toys • Alphabet and number magnets • Action figures and dolls • Science and craft kits • Board games • Vehicle sets

Magnets Many children’s toys contain small magnets. If a child swallows more than one powerful magnet, or small items with attached magnets, the magnets can attract one another

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EDUCATION | FUNDING

Province increases school funding BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU

The trend of declining enrolment in Saskatchewan schools has reversed, leading the provincial government to provide mid-year funding for divisions that saw huge increases. Eight divisions will receive a share of $6.6 million, education minister Russ Marchuk announced in November. While urban schools snagged the lion’s share, rural schools with higher enrolments also benefited. There were about 2,300 more students enrolled in Saskatchewan this past fall than were expected, and S a s k a t o o n , Ma r t e n s v i l l e a n d Warman schools account for more than half of those. The Saskatoon school division will receive $2.605 million, and St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Separate School Division, which includes Saskatoon, will get $1.753 million. Lloydminster Roman Catholic separate school division received the smallest share at $146,300. School division funding is typically announced during the provincial budget each March, when enrolment for the fall is still unknown. The funding is based on prior year enrolment.

Marchuk said that worked well when numbers were flat or declining because the divisions had time to adjust to lower funding levels. “Today we have a new reality where some school divisions are seeing large enrolment increases from one year to the next,” he said. School divisions said they had to have more money to accommodate these students. Two criteria were used to determine which divisions were eligible for the mid-year funding: an increase of 40 full-time equivalent students at the school division and one percent overall, or for individual schools, an increase of 30 students and an average of 2.5 full-time equivalent students per grade. The new money is considered operating funding and is provided unconditionally, but it is likely the divisions will use it for instruction, resources and transportation. The other divisions on the list were Prairie Spirit ($659,600), Prairie Valley ($547,500), Regina Roman Catholic ($561,400), Sun West, ($194,000) and South East Cornerstone ($174,700). Marchuk also announced the government will spend $800,000 to speed up delivery of 40 to 50 new relocatable classrooms in time for next fall.

Kolby Plant, 4, of Westlock, Alta., embraces Santa Claus at Westlock’s Light Up parade and festivities held in November. | LES DUNFORD PHOTO

DECISION MAKING | CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Respecting each other’s shopping style will create harmony SPEAKING OF LIFE

JACKLIN ANDREWS, BA, MSW

For the most part, my husband and I enjoy being with each other. But I hate shopping with him. Despite assurances that he will be

more patient with me, he usually gets agitated, annoyed and sometimes downright rude when I don’t zip about my shopping as fast as he would like me to. I like to take my time when I am shopping to make sure that I am getting the best deal, but he never seems to have the time I need and that is when our trouble begins. He probably takes less time spending thousands of dollars on a new combine than I do picking out new tea towels for the kitchen. I would like to help my husband learn to be more patient with me and I am looking to you to give me ideas.

You and your husband are clearly in a power struggle. He wants you to be more like he is and hurry up when you are in the stores. You want him to be more like you and give you more time buying. One of you comes out of this a winner while the other slides into the losers’ circle. That does not bode well for your relationship. Try stepping back to see what is happening to you and your husband to find a resolution to the conflict. You are what psychologists call a sensory thinker. You want as much information as you can find before

you make a decision. You will take whatever time you need to learn as much as you can. Your husband is an intuitive thinker. He is busy trying to anticipate what the future holds for him. If he believes something is happening, he wants to jump into it as soon as he can to take advantage of better prices, or at least cut down on some of his disappointments. He has to make firm decisions quickly and effectively and sometimes with only sparse information to guide him. Both have their place. Sensory thinking is more effective in the

supermarket, something your husband needs to recognize. He needs to give you the time you need to compare prices and measure quality. You should try to steer clear of him when he is contemplating the best time to load his truck with grain and get it to market. He will make more money for your family if he feels encouraged and appreciated in such tasks. Learn to respect fundamental differences between the two of you. Jacklin Andrews is a family counsellor from Saskatchewan. Contact: jandrews@ producer.com.

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RURAL OCCUPATION | EXTRA INCOME

Sask. farmer fits farm around kids for 50 years Off-farm income | Driving a bus has enabled Douglas Smith to drive his children — and now his grandchildren — to school every morning BY ROBIN BOOKER SASKATOON NEWSROOM

ARELEE, Sask. — Saskatchewan school bus driver Douglas Smith first drove a 1960 Ford panel van that hauled nine children and rode much too low on roads that were challenging in bad weather. “I was a feeder bus for the big bus that went to Perdue. Then I’d go around and pick up the little kids who were still going to the Grade 8 and under school in Arelee,” Smith said. “It used to be very poor in the winter. The first snow bank you’d hit, the motor was wet and you’d stand there until it dried up.” Fifty years and more than a million miles later, he continues to drive students, although now he navigates a 48-passenger diesel bus over much improved roads. Smith has taken multiple generations of neighbouring farm families to school.

He drove his five children to school and now drives some of his grandchildren. “Lots of the people around here I drove on the bus. There are too many and I can’t even remember all their names anymore,” he said. The bus job provided Smith and his wife, Maria, with an additional income for their 1,200 acre mixed farm. He fit cattle feeding and fieldwork around the bus schedule, and never had any crops left in the field when winter came. “I liked how I got to drive to Perdue, have a coffee with the other bus drivers, and then come home and work,” he said. “There was no real conflict between farming and driving the bus. We did more work on the farm in the evening than in the daytime.” Smith sold his cattle years ago, but he continues to grain farm with his son. They grow canola, peas, oats and wheat, but dropped barley because it

DIVERTICULITIS | TREATMENTS

Add fluids, fibre to diet after bowel surgery HEALTH CLINIC

CLARE ROWSON, MD

One of my female friends in her 60s is in hospital recovering from surgery for diverticulitis. At first I thought she was having part of her bowel removed because of cancer, so I was relieved to find out it wasn’t cancerous. How serious is diverticulitis and why is surgery needed?

Although not as potentially life threatening as bowel cancer, diverticulitis can be a painful and serious condition of the large intestine. Normally, a diet with adequate fibre produces a stool that is bulky and can move easily through the colon. If your diet is low in fibre, the colon must exert more pressure than usual to move small, hard stools. This may also increase the length of time the stool remains in the bowel, which only adds to the high pressure. After years of this happening, the large bowel walls weaken in places, causing pouches to develop known as diverticuli. Most people do not notice symptoms unless one or more of these pouches becomes inflamed and infected.

When this happens, there is severe abdominal pain and the sufferer often ends up in the emergency department. Most cases settle down after treatment with bed rest and antibiotics. During this time, only clear fluids should be consumed until the symptoms subside, when food and fibre intake should be gradually increased. When a person suffers multiple severe attacks of diverticulitis or there are complications such as fistula formation, abscesses, a blocked colon or severe bleeding, then a surgical procedure known as a partial colectomy may be required. Usually, the diseased piece of the large intestine is cut away and the ends sewn together. Sometimes more than one surgery is needed and the person is given a temporary colostomy. This is where part of the bowel is sewn into an opening in the skin and muscles of the abdomen and stools are collected in a special plastic bag. The colostomy is later removed and the ends of the bowel stitched together when the infection has settled down. Surgery can sometimes be avoided if patients try long-term changes in their diet. They will need to eat more high fibre foods such as whole grains, fruit and vegetables and maybe add a fibre supplement. They should also drink more water and other fluids to soften their bowel movements.

Clare Rowson is a retired medical doctor in Belleville, Ont. Contact: health@producer.com.

made Smith itchy. Farms have grown larger around Perdue, but Smith felt expanding his land base wasn’t worth the headache. “We all end up with a four by eight piece of land, so why spend so much time worrying about getting all the land in the countryside,” he said. In addition to farming and driving the bus, Smith served as a councillor in the Rural Municipality of Eagle Creek for 40 years. For the future, he plans to keep driving the bus. “I have to go every year for a medical. That’s compulsory,” he said. “My licence is good for another year, and if I’m still good, I’ll renew it again.”

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APPETIZER ENTRIES | DIPS

Entertain guests with easy to make hot and cold snacks HOT BROCCOLI DIP

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BETTY ANN DEOBALD, BSHEc

oliday entertaining can be relaxing and fun when you serve easy to prepare appetizers. Our readers shared many of their favourite recipes with us for our contest. We thank all who took the time to share their recipes. This column will focus on dips and balls this week and appetizer bits and bites next week. Our favourite dip recipe was a hot broccoli dip submitted by Carol Dunham of Waldeck, Sask. It’s made from ingredients found in most fridges. She will receive an appetizer tray as a prize.

SURPRISE CHEESE PUFFS 1/2 c. butter 125 mL 2 c. grated cheddar 500 mL cheese (old or medium) 1 tsp. paprika 5 mL 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper 1 mL 1 c. all purpose flour 250 mL 40 – 60 well drained manzanilla pimento stuffed olives

1 c. fresh broccoli 250 mL chopped 2 tbsp. onion, chopped 30 mL 2 tbsp. red pepper, chopped 30 mL 1/4 c. fresh Parmesan cheese 60 mL 1 clove garlic pressed 1 c. grated cheddar cheese 250 mL 1/2 c. fat-free sour cream 125 mL 1/2 c. mayonnaise 125 mL dash pepper tortilla corn chips for dipping Preheat oven to 375 F (190 C). Chop broccoli, onion and red pepper finely. Grate Parmesan cheese and add two tablespoons (30 mL) to the vegetables. Add garlic, cheddar cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise and black pepper. Mix well. Spoon mixture into a greased two cup (500 mL) baking dish. Bake 20 to 25 minutes. Sprinkle remaining Parmesan cheese over top and serve with corn chips. — Carol Dunham, Waldeck, Sask. Martha Dawe of Invermay, Sask., also submitted a salmon ball recipe. She added one teaspoon (5 mL) of cream style horseradish and 1/4 teaspoon of seasoning salt to her recipe, and omitted the pineapple. She suggested garnishing with grated cheese or rolling in parsley and/or chopped pecans. BETTY ANN DEOBALD PHOTOS

Soften butter and blend in cheese, paprika and cayenne pepper. Stir in flour, mix well with a fork and then knead until well blended. Mould one teaspoon (5 mL) of dough mixture around olive. Roll into a ball and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Chill until firm for at least two hours. Bake at 400 F (200 C) for 15 minutes. Serve hot. They can be baked, frozen and then reheated in the microwave. If the olives are too salty, soak them in water overnight. — Doreen E. Kohls, Medicine Hat, Alta.

BLT DIP Michael Bartolf of Oxbow, Sask., sent another adaptation of this recipe called pickle puffs. The dough was wrapped around olives, sweet gherkins or dill pickles. Dry pickles on paper towels prior to wrapping them in dough.

Betty Ann Deobald is a home economist from Rosetown, Sask., and a member of Team Resources. Contact: team@producer.com.

HURRY UP DIP

1 c. mayonnaise 250 mL 1 c. sour cream 250 mL 3/4 pkg. bacon, diced and fried 5 green onions, diced 1 large tomato, seeded and diced 2 tsp. seasoning salt 10 mL 2 tbsp. bacon drippings 30 mL (optional)

cream well. Add fried, diced bacon, green onions and seasoning salt and stir. Add the bacon drippings if you want a stronger bacon flavour. Add the diced tomato and mix before serving. Serve on a bed of lettuce with chips, rye bread or crackers.

Mix the mayonnaise and sour

— Albert Ploeg, Iron Springs, Alta.

1 - 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, 250 g softened 1 can Stagg chili, 425g prefer dynamite hot 1 jar salsa 300 g grated cheese, your choice Spread softened cream cheese on the bottom of a microwave/oven safe pie plate. Top with the chili and then salsa. Add grated cheese to cover the top of the salsa.

EASY SALMON CHEESE BALL 2 – 3 oz. frozen fillet 213 g of salmon or 1 can red sockeye salmon, drained 2 - 8 oz. pkg cream cheese 250 g 1 - 14 oz. tin crushed 398 mL pineapple, drained and press out juice 2 green onions 1 tsp. lemon juice 5 mL 1 tsp. dill 5 mL Cook salmon in microwave about four minutes until flaky. Cool and drain off juice.

Bake in 350 F (180 C) or microwave for three minutes until bubbly. Garnish with a sprinkle of chili powder and slice of green pepper. Serve with multigrain or scoop-shaped corn chips. Insert a few chips around the edge of the hot dip. An alternative is to freeze homemade chili to use in this dip.

— Marie Demetrow, Yorkton, Sask.

FRUIT DIP Soften cream cheese and combine with pineapple, onion, lemon juice and dill. Add cooled salmon and mix well. Place on a piece of plastic wrap and shape into a ball. Chill and reshape just before serving. Sprinkle with dill and serve with a selection of crackers. Substitute real bacon bits or canned tuna for the salmon and omit the dill.

— Jeannette Roy, Tisdale, Sask.

1 - 8 oz. package cream 250 g cheese 7 1/2 oz. jar marshmallow 213 g cream 2 tbsp. orange juice 30 mL 1 tsp. orange rind 5 mL dash of ground ginger Combine ingredients and mix until creamy. Serve with fruit. Makes two cups (500 mL). Variation: combine cream cheese, marshmallow cream and one teaspoon (5 mL) vanilla. — Jeannette Roy, Tisdale, Sask.

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ON THE FARM | GRAIN OPERATION

Living near city has pros and cons Third generation farm | Couple focuses on expanding grain operation BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

DUGALD, Man. — Irene and Roger Vaags farm in the thin strip of land that lies between the sprawl of Winnipeg and the band of brush a few miles east that marks the beginning of the Canadian Shield. The location has given them a life with easy access to the conveniences of city life and challenges that cities pose for farming families. “It’s a nice lifestyle,” said Irene. “It does get crazy busy at times but at other times it’s not the rat race that people have in the city.” The Vaags farm has now been in Roger’s family for three generations, since his grandfather emigrated from the Netherlands in 1948 and began farming in 1950. At first, the farm had dairy cattle, but converted in the 1960s to hogs and grain, and now produces grain only. The couple, who were married in 1990, has four children: Charlene, 19, Darcy, 18, Jeremy, 15, and Evan, 12. Irene grew up in Winnipeg but the couple loves the farming life. Their decision to embrace it after getting married raised a lot of eyebrows. Their respective parents knew each other, and Roger’s father was on the verge of losing the family farm. “They knew the grief (the Vaags) were going through, and they asked me, ‘are you sure?’ ” said Irene. “But I saw the love he had for it and I had confidence in him.” Roger recalled how close the farm came to failing. “There was a for sale sign on the farm,” he said.

I think you really have to love farming to do it. If you don’t love it, it’s not going to work. ROGER VAAGS MANITOBA FARMER

“There were buyers standing in the door and Dad was still trying to negotiate with the bank and the realtor to give us a little more time.” Roger managed to get a young farmer’s loan from the Manitoba Agriculture Services Corp. so he could take over the farm and the immediate crisis was averted. That was in the 1990s. Low grain prices have been replaced by high prices, allowing farmers to have more confidence developing their operations. For years, Roger did custom farm work to help pay off the equipment he purchased for his expanding farm but now has his hands full operating his larger operation. He tried off-farm wage work, but it wasn’t for him. “I learned in a real hurr y that wasn’t where I belonged and I felt a calling here where I needed to be,” said Roger. Irene has been busy raising the four kids and keeping the home running. She’s surprised that farm life can be a busy and relaxing lifestyle. “I probably should have grown up in the country because that’s where I like to be,” said Irene. Roger likes farming in the Dugald

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FARM LIVING RURAL BUSINESS | GOOD FOOD CLUB

Growers connect with clients Members reap rewards | Vegetables grown for low income city residents BY RON FRIESEN FREELANCE WRITER

Dan and Wilma Wiens sell homegrown winter squash and other vegetables for the Good Food Club in Winnipeg. | RON FRIESEN PHOTO

ST. ADOLPHE, Man. — If you don’t think it’s possible to make a good income by farming only a few acres of land with a limited number of buyers, you haven’t met Dan Wiens. Since 1992, Wiens and his wife, Wilma, have operated a community shared agriculture project on a small acreage south of Winnipeg. During that time, there were years when they grossed more than $60,000 a season from selling vegetables to CSA share-

holders, plus other money from selling produce at farmers markets. At times, the Wiens’s annual net farm income has been above the provincial average, mainly because their costs are minimal. One of the biggest expenses is manure from a nearby broiler chicken operation. “You can make a living doing this and it’s far less stressful because input costs are really low,” said Wiens, taking a break from building a new hip-roofed barn which, when complete, will combine living quar-

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It’s a wonderful, life-giving thing for us. Money is not the bottom line. DAN WIENS MANITOBA GROWER

ters with vegetable storage space. CSAs involve people contracting with a farm and paying a set fee to receive baskets of locally grown vegetables during the harvest season. Wiens developed the idea 20 years ago after discussing shared farming with a small group of like-minded people in Winnipeg. The concept originated during a three-year trip in the 1980s with the Mennonite Central Committee in Swaziland, where Dan and Wilma discovered the food system there was localized, personal and different from the industrialized system back home. “People who were eating the food knew the people who were growing the food. There was a joint connection. There weren’t too many middle people. It was more relational and we really liked that.” Back home in Manitoba, the Wiens family bought an acreage and began growing vegetables for local wholesalers and grocery stores. The farm gradually developed into Manitoba’s first CSA, with shareholders paying $500 a year to receive vegetables and share in the risk of farming. At peak, it had over 200 members. Today, the internet lists 17 CSAs operating in the province. Two years ago, the Wiens’s CSA took a 90 degree turn when it ceased to sell shares and instead became a supplier to the Good Food Club. Administered by a Winnipeg nonprofit group, the program supplies vegetables to disadvantaged inner city residents. Club members pay $5 to belong. It entitles them to come to the farm and help with the fieldwork. When vegetables are in season, the club’s van arrives every Thursday, loads up with produce, takes it to Winnipeg and sells it at farmers markets to members at a reduced rate. But the concept of forming a direct relationship between people and the food they eat remains the same as before, Wiens said. D a n , w h o i s a M C C p ro g ra m co-ordinator, is also a strong supporter of food justice, a system that insists people share equally in the benefits and risks of how food is grown, processed, transported and distributed. Dan and Wilma, who is a pastor, have four grown children. A skilled carpenter, Wiens said he might be a wealthy man today had he pursued a career in the building trades instead of small-scale agriculture. But the satisfaction of growing high-value crops and selling directly to consumers far outweighs any financial considerations, he said. “There’s something really satisfying about connecting with people I would not normally interact with in my daily life,” he said. “It’s a wonderful, life-giving thing for us. Money is not the bottom line.”

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HOGS | HEALTH

Prairie producers lucky to have dodged disease, says vet PRRS a threat | Expert urges hog producers to be mindful of biosafety and guard against disease that leads to high abortion losses BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

Manitoba is an island of calm in the often-stormy seas of North American hog production. However, it needs to keep biosafety barriers high in case the province gets hit by one of the “tsunami strains” of PRRS that are common in the U.S. Midwest and Eastern Canada. “You are in a fortunate position,” said swine veterinary expert Walter Heuser, a former Steinbach-area vet who now lives in Montreal. “Let’s not have this happen to us.” Heuser, who works for Pfizer Ani-

mal Health, said most prairie producers have been blessed with weak strains of PRRS. The disease is a problem that prairie farmers have often had to grapple with, but they do not suffer anywhere near the devastation faced by farmers in Ontario and Quebec. “I was flabbergasted,” Heuser said about some of the abortion rates suffered by Ontario farmers with some of their local strains of the viral disease. Abortion losses of more than 50 percent can commonly occur with outbreaks of new strains. Death losses in nursery pigs can be 12 to 15 percent, compared to pre-

You are in a fortunate position. WALTER HEUSER VETERINARIAN

outbreak rates of three to four percent. “I’m sure that is something not a single one of you has dealt with,” Heuser said at a Manitoba Pork Council fall meeting. “That’s what Eastern Canada deals with on a common basis.” He said the risk to prairie farmers isn’t

from Eastern Canada, which has little pig-flow connection to the West, but rather trucks that move pigs between the Prairies and U.S. Midwest. Truck-cleaning methods offer some protection, but the present money losses in hog production might be weakening those measures. “The industry is tight for cash. We’re looking at ways to save money. I would suggest that some corners have been cut,” said Heuser. Farmers should be reviewing their biosafety rules and ensuring they and their employees are taking them seriously. “Go back through the basics.”

Years of dealing with endemic PRRS has made it an old subject, and the lack of virulence of prairie strains might have made farmers unafraid of new infections. However, the experience of producers outside the Prairies, where devastating losses can happen year after year as new strains arrive, prove the importance of biosecurity before an outbreak of one of these nasty strains occurs. “We are talking about PRRS strains that are completely different,” said Heuser. “It is something that has to be taken really, really seriously.”

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U.S. hog sector starts to bounce back following drought CHICAGO, Ill. (Reuters) — Lonnie Hoelscher, owner of Hoelscher Farms in Bartlesville, Okla., has been fielding calls for a hot commodity from regular customers as well as strangers — his baby pigs. Interest in raising pigs is renewing after the worst drought in half a century hammered livestock producers with record-high feed grain prices. It’s an indication that the struggling hog industry is on the cusp of a recovery. Business has been brisk for Hoelscher, who last year raised 12,000 hogs, most of them from piglets. “I have people locally that will call me and ask if I have two or three pigs that they can buy because when they go to the local stockyards, they are harder to come by,” he said. The price of piglets weighing 10 to 12 pounds, such as those Hoelscher sells, has surged nearly 550 percent in less than three months. Known in the industry as segregated early weaning (SEW) pigs, their prices have gone from a low of $8.08 per head Aug. 17 to a high of $52.35 the week of Nov. 16 as hog producers take small yet cautious steps to rebuild their depleted herds. U.S. hog farmers were losing about $54 on each hog they sold in September, the most red ink since 1998 when prices for some hogs fell below $10 per head after a major packing plant went out of business. This summer’s drought drove up feed grain prices, and many hog producers liquidated their herds at a record pace as corn futures soared at the Chicago Board of Trade, finally peaking at a record high $8.43 3/4 per bushel Aug. 10. The increase in sows sent to slaughter during the drought sharply reduced the number of SEW pigs available in the market. During the week of Nov. 16, the number of these pigs delivered to farms totalled just 28,800 head, compared with 63,700 a year ago, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. University of Missouri economist Ron Plain said hog producers will likely start making money beginning in May.

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Fertilizers won’t be lost to the ground Tough year Mineralization | While weather brought down 2012 yields, growers should see long-term benefits BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU

Canola growers who fertilized last year in anticipation of a 50 bushel crop, only to watch disease and wind diminish yields, shouldn’t despair. Jeff Schoenau, a soil science professor at the University of Saskatchewan, says they should get use out of those inputs in the year ahead depending on how much mineralization takes place in the soil. Schoenau told the first Grain Expo held during Canadian Western Agribition in Regina Nov. 21 that it’s hard to predict how much of the nitrogen will be recovered at any one time. “You can expect to get some of that nitrogen in the straw, and especially those canola seeds that are laying on the ground,” he said. Micro-organisms in the soil are responsible for breaking down organic matter and turning the nutrients into plant available forms. This process of mineralization depends largely on the weather. The colder it is, the less activity there is. Schoenau estimated 20 to 30 percent of the nitrogen left behind would be available in the first year as a result of mineralization. Eventually it will all become available, but growers might consider applying nitrogen this spring. Sulfur and phosphorus will be available very quickly, he said. “That’s because typically about half of the sulfur and phosphorus in crop residues is in a water-soluble form, meaning that it readily leaches out of that straw,” he said. Potassium will be available almost immediately because it isn’t bound in organic matter. “The toughest one to get out of there is going to be nitrogen,” Schoenau said.

Producers should see residual benefits of fertilizers applied in 2012 beginning next year, says Jeff Schoenau of the University of Saskatchewan. | FILE PHOTO Environmental conditions will be the biggest determinant. “Sometimes we see unexpectedly high mineralization because there’s been a series of wet-dry cycles that’s enhanced that release of available N,” he said. Freeze-thaw cycles can also increase mineralization, which is usually what happens in most spring seasons. Mineralization slows in dry summers but continues in wet summers, which results in unexpectedly high protein levels, Schoenau said.

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Measuring just how much nitrogen is provided by mineralization is not easy. Schoenau estimated that as little as 10 to 15 pounds per acre could be released in the top 15 centimetres of soil, but it could also be as high as 50 lb. “I’ve seen even amounts as high as 80 under some circumstances,” he said. “If you think of canola that requires 120 lb. of nitrogen per acre, this mineralization process supplies as much as half or even more of what that crop needs.” For sulfur, Schoenau estimated that

one to three percent of the nutrient in the soil, or five to 15 lb. per acre, is converted for crop use. Modern hybrid canola varieties with high yield potential require 30 to 40 lb. of sulfur per acre, and farmers will need to add fertilizer to meet those requirements. Schoenau said a good rule of thumb is that high soil organic matter content generally results in high mineralization. Farmers who are considering renting or buying land should measure its organic matter content to get an idea of how much to expect from mineralization, he said. Mineralization is also greater in the black soil zone, which has more organic matter, compared to the brown soil zones. However, there can be differences within fields. Schoenau has done research on his own farm near Central Butte, Sask., in the brown soil zone, in which he looked at nitrogen gain over a fallow period on an undulating field with knolls and low slopes. “A fallow period kind of gives you an idea of mineralization because without any plants growing, any nitrogen that’s released from that organic matter converted into available form usually simply accumulates there as nitrates,” he said. The nitrogen gain ranged from three lb. per acre at the high points to 26 lb. per acre in the low spots. However, there are always exceptions. Schoenau said the wet conditions of 2010 and 2011 that flooded low points in fields actually slowed mineralization and increased nitrogen loss. He also said more work needs to be done to develop more accurate, reliable ways to measure how much they can expect from mineralization.

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Wisconsin’s agriculture secretary says producers in that state could be s t ra p p e d f o r m o n e y n e x t y e a r because of drought and tighter banking regulations. Ben Brancel, who met with several Canadian producers as well as representatives from North Dakota, Colorado and Minnesota during the seventh international roundtable discussion at Canadian Western Agribition, said the state is known for dairy but that industry extends much further. “We have 1.27 million dairy cows,” he said in an interview. “All of those will end up in the meat chain.” Dry conditions this past year have created feed and cash challenges for producers of those cows.

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Acreage that normally went into corn harvest was turned into corn silage and resulted in less income from cash crops. “Our biggest problem was forages,” Brancel said. “We didn’t have the hay production that we normally have.” The state’s beef producers rely on pastures for grazing, as do some dairy producers, and many pastures quit, he said. “Our producers are feeding up carryover stocks,” he said. “We will burn through our inventory produced this summer, so next year is going to be a very definite challenge.” The cost of feed coupled with the shortage of cash will lead to increased borrowing, he said. However, the difficult economic times in the United States have resulted in tightened banking regulations and increased scrutiny when it comes to risk assessment. “Our banking industry, our credit industry in general, is more reluctant to give higher-risk loans, which means some of our producers that have made their payments year after year, but it’s not easy, now are going to be in asking for more money,” Brancel said. This will move their loan portfolios into a higher-risk category and make it more difficult to borrow. Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association general manager Chad MacPherson said the annual roundtable is designed to keep the lines of communication open in the increasingly integrated North American market.

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HEMP | PROCESSING

Industrial hemp processor makes plans for 2013 Manitoba facility | Plains Industrial Hemp Processing will manufacture industrial products from locally grown hemp crops BY ROBIN BOOKER SASKATOON NEWSROOM

GILBERT PLAINS, Man. — The machines lined up in the Plains Industrial Hemp Processing plant near Gilbert Plains are silent. However, the new facility will soon be operational and hums will resonate from the state of the art processing equipment and hemp bale loader. The industrial hemp processing plant is said to be the first facility of its kind in Canada. It will manufacture hemp pellets, animal bedding and industrial and residential insulation. President Robert Jin said most of the machines have already been tested and he hopes to begin trial runs in January and start operations shortly after that. Many of the machines were imported from China or designed and built specifically for the facility. For example, the company is designing a machine capable of opening large square bales without breaking the hemp stalk into small pieces. Jin said the longer the hemp fibre, the higher quality the final product will be. The process starts by setting a round bale on the opener, which slowly unwinds it. Hemp stalks are fed into a separator that sends the hurd one way and the fibre another. The hurd, material inside the stalk, is separated into larger and smaller pieces. The dust is turned into pellets and the larger pieces are sold for many uses, including animal bedding. They have an absorption rate many

times greater than other straw and sawdust. The hurd is also used to produce hempcrete, a breathable material with good thermal qualities. It is generally used as infill insulation around the structural framing of a house. Material that doesn’t achieve the quality specifications for dust-free hurd or hurd-free fibre is pelletized, allowing all of the material from the bales to be used. The hemp fibre can also be separated into longer and shorter strands, as well as varying degrees of coarseness. Larger strands can be used in clothing and textile industry, while shorter strands work well for insulation and composites matting. Using hemp fibre as reinforcement for composite materials is a growing trend, largely because it has similar mechanical properties as glass fibre. As well, there is increasing demand for material with a low carbon footprint. Demand for hemp fibre insulation is also on the rise. The non-toxic building material is durable, breathable, easy to dispose of in an environmentally friendly way and has a high thermal conductivity. It will take 15 minutes to turn a hemp bale into the final products. The plant will provide a new market in the region for an under-used material by processing up to 40,000 bales per year. Plains Industrial Hemp Processing is contracting to buy 5,000 acres of hemp straw from farmers in the upcoming year. The plant will employ 30 people in a town of about 750 people, with an additional 1,000 people in the surrounding Rural Municipality of

Robert Jin, president of Plains Industrial Hemp Processing, is overseeing the company’s operations at its facility in Gilbert Plains, Man., where it plans to manufacture hemp pellets, animal bedding and industrial and residential insulation. | ROBIN BOOKER PHOTO Gilbert Plains. The $9 million project was partially funded by two repayable federal loans totalling $4,755,000, and a

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BARLEY | FEED

Uniform kernels make better feed Similarly sized kernels make it easier to roll the barley, improving digestibility and feed value BY BARB GLEN LETHBRIDGE BUREAU

Growing barley with uniform kernel size will improve its use as cattle feed. That’s the message ruminant nutrition expert Tim McAllister of Agriculture Canada delivered to barley growers in Lethbridge Nov. 22. Uniform kernel size allows cattle feeders to roll and temper barley for optimal use by ruminants. Although growing conditions, seeding rates, variety and disease load can influence kernel size, McAllister said breeding barley for uniform kernel size would increase the likelihood of producing superior cattle feed. “That’s where I think the barley industry can make a huge difference in terms of feed value for cattle, is by producing barley that has a greater kernel uniformity, which will enable them to process it with greater precision,” he told members of the Alberta Barley Commission. Barley is the foundation of the western Canadian feedlot industry and even with high feed prices, it is the most economical source of energy. Unlike corn, barley doesn’t need supplemental protein to provide a healthy ration. Canadian barley is usually 12 to 14 percent protein, and 13 percent protein is ideal for growing feeder cattle, he said. As silage, it is an important forage component, and barley straw is also valuable as bedding. “It’s probably the most economical energy source we can feed to dry cows,” said McAllister. He said that is one reason why growers and cattle feeders should be concerned about declining barley acreage. Canola does not make good cattle feed and dried distillers grain, a product of corn ethanol production, is unsuitable if it makes up more than 30 percent of cattle diets. A higher percentage of DDG in rations reduces animal weight gain and becomes uneconomical, McAllister said. Barley is also superior to corn in its internal structure, which allows rumen bacteria to break it down more easily. However, McAllister said processing is vital. Cattle can digest up to 98 percent of barley starch if the tempered grain is put through a roller. That compares to only 18 percent if barley is fed as whole grain. “In southern Alberta, we do not give corn a superior value to barley because we can’t process corn properly,” said the researcher. “We don’t have steam flaking systems in our feed processing mills and in order to maximize the utilization of starch in corn, you need to be able to steam flake it.” McAllister said studies have found no cattle production difference between two-row, six-row, malting or feed barley. Bushel weight is more of a factor than type, and cattle adjust intake according to the weight. Cattle will ideally digest most of the barley in their first stomach, the

rumen. However, that carries a risk of excessive acid production, which can cause acidosis. Conversely, greater digestion in the other stomachs results in poor use of the feed because cattle won’t extract all the energy it could provide. “Our producers are probably the best in the world at meeting that balancing act,” said McAllister.

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Winter grazing more than turning cattle out on field Monitoring needed | Cattle need to learn how to winter graze so producers must monitor herd closely BY ROBIN BOOKER SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Winter grazing can greatly reduce a cattle farm’s operational costs, but savings come with increased risk. Vern Baron, an Agriculture Canada research scientist who studies the costs and benefits of winter grazing, said it can reduce production costs by up to 40 percent. “Daily costs of cattle production are from $1.50 to $2 a day, and that includes capital as well as feed costs,” Baron said. “Costs can be brought down to under a dollar per day using extended grazing.” Savings come from reduced time and money spent harvesting, transporting, storing and distributing the feed throughout the winter, while the manure is already spread where it is needed. Baron recommended extended grazing, which includes grazing the second cut of a hay field instead of mechanically harvesting it. Second cut hay crops are allowed to regrow, and cattle are let into the field usually between September and November.

Cattle producers can reduce the costs of raising cattle to less than a dollar per day by using extended grazing. | Baron also recommends swath grazing, in which crops are swathed and left in the field for cattle to forage in winter months. Crops such as triticale, barley and corn are swathed late in the fall when the temperature is dropping and there is less chance of warm wet weather, which can reduce quality. Larger swaths are recommended

because they shed more precipitation and are easier for cattle to find in the snow. Grant Lastiwka, a grazing-foragebeef specialist at Alberta Agriculture, feeds 50 cow-calf pairs using extended grazing techniques. He said production costs decrease as the number of good grazing days increases. “We want to manage for a 365 day

nutritional system,” he said. “We’re challenging the cows at times. We’re also offsetting the challenges by putting a good body condition on them while we can. So these animals are less stressed by the cold because they’re fatter.” Baron said cattle should be in at least body condition No. 3 going into the winter. “If you are going to do any of these extended grazing techniques, you have to understand your cows are going to lose weight because they have to work more for their feed in the winter.” Swath grazing doesn’t achieve its cost saving potential if cattle are just turned into a swathed field. Too much feed will be wasted. An essential part of an extended grazing system is limited grazing, most often through moving electric fences. Producers, who need to be able to water cattle in winter grazing systems, should contact local forage associations that will be aware of area specific watering solutions. “Anyone who recommends that cows can overwinter on snow is probably erroneous because you have to have enough snow and fresh snow,” Baron said. Relying too much on extended grazing can be risky. A warm and wet fall can cause swathed feed to deteriorate, but Baron said it’s rare for losses from spoilage to exceed the savings when managed properly. Difficult conditions can cause the greatest risk. Deep snow or snow that melts and then forms a hard crust can make it impossible for cattle to break

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through to the feed. Baron said winter grazing is not done in some parts of Manitoba because producers say the snow is too deep and temperatures too cold. Contingency plans are important if snow conditions prevent grazing. For example, Baron said he doesn’t recommend producers sell their balers. They can significantly reduce the risks associated with extended grazing by having a field ready for cattle to bale graze or a pen with feed stocks. Lastiwka said bale grazing doesn’t have the same potential savings because the bales have to be harvested and transported and residue must sometimes be dealt with in the spring. However, there is also less risk involved. Lastiwka and Barron couldn’t say if a specific cattle breed is best equipped for extended grazing, but Lastiwka said herds will become more efficient over time as producers retain cattle that do best in this feeding system. It also takes cattle time to learn how to winter graze, so they need to be closely monitored when they are first expected to graze in winter months. Lastiwka said chaff bunch grazing also has significant saving potential. There are some equipment costs, including chaff collectors and fences, but the system can use feed that would otherwise be wasted, especially in non-productive areas of a field. Extended grazing also has soil fertility benefits. For instance, crops can easily use nutrients from urine that cattle distributed across the field instead of wasting it in a pen.

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CIDA shifts to resource sector Agency’s new priority | The international development agency says it will continue improving food security as well as resource development BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU

Canada’s international co-operation minister says the government is not reducing its commitment to food aid and international agricultural development despite a broader shift in priorities to resource company support. Julian Fantino said the Canadian International Development Agency’s commitment to hunger reduction and developing country agricultural improvement remains strong. “We can see improvements in hunger reduction, but I think it is very precarious and we still have a huge amount of work ahead of us and this is not the time to revel in success,” he said. “It is a time to renew our commitment and effort and we are doing that.” Fantino, a former senior police official in Ontario and then associate minister of defence before being shifted to international co-operation, recently announced a new priority that will see CIDA supporting natural resource companies working to help developing countries develop their resource sectors. Critics denounced the shift as a move away from development toward helping Canadian companies exploit developing world resources, but Fantino said in a Toronto speech it is a way to promote economic development that will help developing countries help themselves. He announced a new Canadian International Institute for Extractive Industries and Development that will be centred at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. It will work, with CIDA’s help, to connect non-governmental organizations with Canadian resource extraction companies to develop projects that “increase the capacity of developing countries to manage natural resources in a way that is sustainable and fuels economic growth.” However, Fantino said in an interview that this new focus will not diminish the agency’s commitment to helping combat world hunger and agricultural under-development. “We’ll keep working on that,” he said. “The extractive announcement today in no way, shape or form will take away from our commitment to continue working on the food security front.” In mid-November, Fantino paid his first visit to the Winnipeg office of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, CIDA’s primary partner in delivering development and food aid dollars in the world on a matching basis. Last year, CIDA signed a new fiveyear agreement with the foodgrains bank. “We have been connected to them for 30 years or so and we have committed $125 million in support over the next five years,” he said. “We are as committed today as we ever have been.” Fantino said agency efforts through non-governmental organization partners could expand funding pro-

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LIVESTOCK MOVEMENT | INFORMATION GATHERING

Funding for livestock reporting program in jeopardy Controls could be implemented sooner in the event of a disease outbreak BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

West Hawk Lake Zone checkpoint near the Manitoba-Ontario border gathers information on livestock movement. | FILE PHOTO

REGINA —The future of the West Hawk Lake livestock checkpoint is up in the air. The voluntary program to track animal movement is managed by the Canadian Animal Health Coalition and supported by government and livestock groups, but funding ends in March. Marcie Woods, who lives and works at the site on the Trans-Canada Highway near the Manitoba-Ontario bor-

der, hopes funding will be renewed with money from Growing Forward II so that there is no gap in services. “Everyone speaks highly of it,” she said. However, funds are scarce because of government cutbacks and livestock groups are collecting less money through their check-off programs. The West Hawk Lake Zone control site is a single highway surrounded by Canadian shield and forest that provides a natural buffer to prevent the spread of animal disease. Three hundred to 500 trucks pass

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by each month. Many transport trucks used to detour through the United States to save time and miles, but alternatives were needed when BSE closed the border in 2003. The checkpoint was created in 2006 as a pilot project and was recently renamed Zone Canada. Truckers who pull into the site are asked to report where they came from, their destination and what they are hauling. A simple form asks for names, addresses, premises identification, species, the trucking company and truck license. “We like to think of it as insurance if something does happen,” said Leanna Rousell, who works with the project. “We want three points of data collection to confirm our information is correct,” she said. The system meets world animal health standards. “The biggest thing we are pushing for is instead of becoming a project, we become more of a permanent program,” she said. Regulatory changes have been proposed to the federal Health of Animals Act to make the reporting program mandatory in 2015. In the event of a catastrophic disease, controls could be implemented sooner to stop animal movement and trace where they have been. “If we could retain some of our markets with zoning, perhaps we would recover a lot faster,” she said. All records are confidential and are stored in the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency’s livestock tracking systems database. Producers with an agency PIN can check to see where their livestock have moved, similar to tracking a package through the mail. Information can also be released to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency if a contagious disease occurs. Other areas have been identified as special zones with limited access, such as British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, parts of Quebec and Prince Edward Island. “The prairie regions don’t have the geological restrictions that allow for that logistical restriction.” For more information, contact 877966-3945 or visit www.zonecanada.ca.

WEST HAWK LAKE STATISTICS Records from Zone Canada show regular traffic of all types of livestock between April 1-June 30, 2012: • Beef: 42,003 head • Hogs: 25,851 head • Sheep: 13,257 head • Dairy: 1,989 head • Equine: 230 head • Bison: 203 head • Goats: 118 head • Poultry: 46 head • Other: 49 head

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DuPont has opened a 6,600 sq. foot office in Saskatoon. With staff from DuPont Pioneer and the DuPont Crop Protection on site, this new office will complement DuPont Crop Protection’s agriculture experimental farm at Hanley, Sask., and DuPont Pioneer’s research centre in Saskatoon. The office will also be used by other DuPont businesses. It will serve as the base for DuPont’s western Canadian commercial unit, enabling a more focused approach including agronomic support and services for farmers. DuPont has more than 1,400 employees in offices and facilities across Canada. Half of DuPont’s Canadian facilities and employees are focused on agriculture and food-

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Winners will be announced in March and have the opportunity to attend the Simmons School of Management Leadership Conference in Boston April 2. Award winners must be 21 years of age or older and actively involved in Canadian agriculture. Entries will be received only online at www.fccrosemarydavisaward.ca. The deadline to apply is 11:59 p.m. CST Jan. 15. Nominees who applied but did not win in previous years can reapply. For more information, call 888-3323301 or email prixrosemaryaward@ fcc-fac.ca. ECOCALENDAR ADVISES ON SUSTAINABLE LIVING Manitobans can find tips for sustainable living that also save money in the 2013 EcoCalendar, now being distributed at no charge across the province. The EcoCalendar provides tips to help Manitobans make choices for a cleaner, greener and healthier Manitoba. It supports TomorrowNow, Manitoba’s Green Plan, which sets out an eight-year strategic action plan for mobilizing Manitobans to work together to protect the environment. The calendar is available at outlets across the province including Canada Safeway stores, Salisbury House restaurants, Manitoba Hydro regional offices and most municipal and provincial government buildings. For more information, visit www. GreenManitoba.ca. FCC YOUNG FARMER LOAN ATTRACTS INTEREST Farm Credit Canada has approved more than 800 loans worth more than $187 million under the Young Farmer Loan launched in April. The new loan offers qualified producers under the age of 40 years loans of up to $500,000 to buy or improve farmland and buildings. The average loan size is $217,000. The loan includes variable rates at prime plus .5 percent, special fixed rates and no loan processing fees. FCC set aside $500 million for the Young Farmer Loan when it was first announced. Customers have used the loan to buy farms, expand their businesses and make land improvements. According to Statistics Canada’s 2011 Census of Agriculture, 8.2 percent of farm operators are younger than 35.

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FAR LEFT: Kory Ginnis of Grenfell, Sask., gets into a staring match after being tossed from his bull during the fourth day of competition. LEFT: Royce Perrin is sent flying. The Warman, Sask., bull rider was among many who failed to stay on board during the event.

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ABOVE: Canadian Cowboysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association Eastern Division 2012 bull riding title winner James Bouvier from Kingston, Ont., feels the after effects when he failed to make the eight second bell on the fourth day of competition. The 140 pound, 5 foot 11 inch rodeo rider faced off with 3,500 lb. of bull. ABOVE LEFT: Jake Brown of Eckville, Alta., scores a 78 from the judges for his bareback ride. LEFT: Monty Koopman of Consul, Sask., records a 77.75 bareback ride during the fourth attempt.

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WORLD HOLSTEIN FEDERATION CONFERENCE | BREEDING

Cattle genomics gain credibility in breeding programs Progeny test still desired | More genomic breeding values needed to improve reliability BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

TORONTO — The dairy industry is turning upside down how breeders and farmers evaluate their cattle. In the past, breeders preferred to use animals with a proven track record. But genetic analysis now allows producers to use younger sires that score high on the tests. Forty percent of younger bulls were used to produce sons this year, said Marjorie Faust, senior research dir-

ector of the genetics company ABS Global. As well, breeders would have previously used females older than two years because those animals had more offspring and milk records. However, breeding companies now own more heifers, including prepuberty heifers. Their eggs are removed and fertilized with semen from high testing sires and are then used in embryo transfer programs. “We are seeing many more breeding contracts being made on maiden

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Europe. Genomic breeding values for traits such as milk production and fertility were created from this store of information. “The rate of genetic gain you are going to make in your breeding programs when you are using genomic breeding values is partly the result of how reliable those breeding values are,” Hayes said. “The more reliable breeding values there are, the better the predictor of the true genetic merit.” Using DNA information to improve cattle more quickly was a major theme for the World Holstein Federation meeting held in Toronto Nov. 6-7. Faust said even though the genetic estimates are becoming popular, farmers may still want to see progeny records regardless of what the DNA says because the merit of young animals are sometimes overestimated. Faust said genomic information on individuals is also driving up bull prices by 50 to 200 percent. Geneticist Sander de Roos of the Cattle Improvement Co-operative in the Netherlands said everyone wants reliable breeding values and the ability to use young bulls with confi-

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Ont. breeders explain production methods Quality feed, housing | Owners of Claynook Holsteins tell international visitors the secret to raising award winning cattle BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

NEW HAMBURG, Ont. — High quality cows that produce plenty of milk are valued at Claynook Holsteins, but their comfort is a bigger priority for brothers Dennis and Wayne Wagler. The third generation family farm near New Hamburg, Ont., is in the heart of dairy country, where 800 farms operate west of Toronto. The brothers, along with their children, wives and a herdsman, milk 185 cows and farm 800 acres. They grow most of their own feed, including hay, alfalfa and high moisture corn supplemented with minerals. Feed supply was variable this year. The ground was saturated Nov. 5 when an international tour from the World Holstein Federation visited, but no rain fell during the summer. “It was really dry this year. Our corn silage was phenomenal, but our alfalfa was very poor,” said Wayne Wagler. About 150 millimetres of rain in October have stranded 60 acres of corn and 60 acres of hay. It has to dry before it can be cut and ensiled in the on-farm silos. High quality feed and a comfortable environment allow the cows to produce 11,600 kilograms of milk per year with 4.1 percent butterfat and 3.3 percent protein. The Waglers run a tie stall operation in which milkers run on a track and come to the cows. This takes about an hour and a half per milking. Cows are milked twice a day. The barn, built 11 years ago, is bright and temperature controlled. The stalls are wide and have a special mat as a base and chopped wheat straw for bedding. “It’s better for the cows. Shavings are harder on their legs and feet,” said Wayne. “It is a comfortable hotel here.” Hydrated lime is added to the bedding to change the pH level. This keeps feet dry, discourages bacteria

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ABOVE: Cattle live in comfort at Claynook Holsteins in New Hamburg, Ont. Cattle stand on a special mat or lie on a bed of chopped wheat straw. BELOW: Wayne Wagler, left, and brother Dennis, describe their operation to a visitor during the world Holstein conference held in Toronto. Their farm, Claynook Holsteins at New Hambiurg, Ont., is a third generation dairy that raises elite cows and bulls. | BARBARA DUCKWORTH PHOTOS from growing and helps maintain hoof health. “We have very high quality milk because we have low somatic cell counts,” he said. Manure falls into a 30 centimetre deep trench at the back of the stall and is carried by gravity to a cement holding tank. The farm has 550 head, including heifers, dry cows and bulls. Forty young bulls are on site, and most are sold to artificial insemination units. If the artificial inseminators don’t want them, they sell to local farmers

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There’s no shortage of information and misinformation about livestock production and welfare. Alberta Farm Animal Care wants to ensure transmission of the former rather than the latter. AFAC launched a farm animal care leadership initiative called NewStream Farm Animal Care last month that is designed to provide livestock producers with verified information about animal welfare and care.

Using electronic delivery and social media, the program aims to be a source of accurate information for anyone with an interest in livestock welfare issues. “Because farm animal care is so high profile in Canada and around the world, we wanted to produce an initiative to get credible, useful information into the hands of people making decisions on livestock care,” said AFAC executive director Lorna Baird. Among the program elements are a digital news service providing the latest developments in farm animal

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“We’ve had a lot of interest in it. We are very pleased,” Hehli said Nov. 26. “It’s really going to benefit all the livestock in Alberta.… It’s for the whole livestock industry.” Cow comfort, lameness and mastitis are the primary issues in the dairy industry, and Hehli said producers can use electronic media to learn about research into those issues. He also noted the importance of informing producers about emerging retailer and consumer demands, such as elimination of swine gestation stalls. He said economic conditions in the

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Sheep Auction Sales ............. 5505 Arcott ..........................5510 Columbia.................... 5520 Dorper .........................5527 Dorset ........................ 5530 Katahdin..................... 5550 Lincoln ........................5553 Suffolk........................ 5580 Texel Sheep .................5582 Sheep Various............ 5590 Sheep Wanted.............5595 Sheep Events, Seminars..5597 Sheep Service, Supplies ................... 5598 Swine Auction Sales ............. 5605 Wild Boars ................. 5662 Swine Various ............ 5670 Swine Wanted .............5675 Swine Events, Seminars 5677 Poultry Baby Chicks ................5710 Ducks & Geese ........... 5720 Turkeys....................... 5730 Birds Various ..............5732 Poultry Various .......... 5740 Poultry Equipment...... 5741 Specialty Alpacas .......................5753 Deer.............................5757 Elk .............................. 5760 Goats ...........................5765 Llama ......................... 5770 Rabbits........................5773 Ratite: Emu, Ostrich, Rhea .....5775 Yaks ............................ 5780 Events & Seminars......5781 Specialty Livestock Equipment. .................5783 Livestock Various .........5785 Livestock Equipment ... 5790 Livestock Services & Vet Supplies ......................5792 Lost and Found ...............5800 Miscellaneous Articles.... 5850 Misc Articles Wanted .......5855 Musical ............................ 5910 Notices .............................5925 Oilfield Equipment...........5935 ORGANIC Certification Services .. 5943 Food ............................. 5945 Grains........................... 5947 Livestock ...................... 5948 Personal (prepaid) .......... 5950 Personal Various (prepaid) 5952 Pest Control ....................5960 PETS Registered .................... 5970 Non Registered .............5971 Working Dogs ................5973 Pets & Dog Events .........5975 Photography ...................5980 Propane .......................... 6000 Pumps .............................6010 Radio, TV & Satellites .... 6040 REAL ESTATE B.C. Properties ..............6110 Commercial Buildings/Land ........... 6115 Condos/Townhouses ... 6120 Cottages & Lots .............6125 Houses & Lots ...............6126 Mobile Homes ...............6127 Ready To Move ..............6128 Resorts ..........................6129 Recreational Property . 6130 Farms & Ranches British Columbia......... 6131 Alberta ........................6132 Saskatchewan .............6133 Manitoba .....................6134 Pastures ......................6136 Wanted........................6138 Acreages .....................6139 Miscellaneous ............ 6140 RECREATIONAL VEHICLES All Terrain Vehicles .......6161 Boats & Watercraft .......6162 Campers & Trailers ...... 6164 Golf Cars .......................6165 Motor Homes ............... 6166

Motorcycles ..................6167 Snowmobiles ............... 6168 Refrigeration ................... 6180 RENTALS & ACCOMMODATIONS Apartments & Houses .. 6210 Vacation Accommodations ....... 6245 Restaurant Supplies ....... 6320 Sausage Equipment ........6340 Sawmills..........................6360 Scales ..............................6380 PEDIGREED SEED Cereal Seeds Barley .........................6404 Corn............................6406 Durum ........................6407 Oats ............................ 6410 Rye ..............................6413 Triticale ...................... 6416 Wheat ......................... 6419 Forage Seeds Alfalfa......................... 6425 Annual Forage ............ 6428 Clover ..........................6431 Grass Seeds ............... 6434 Oilseeds Canola .......................6440 Flax ............................ 6443 Pulse Crops Beans .........................6449 Chickpeas .................. 6452 Lentil .......................... 6455 Peas............................ 6458 Specialty Crops Canary Seeds .............6464 Mustard ...................... 6467 Potatoes ..................... 6470 Sunflower................... 6473 Other Specialty Crops. 6476 COMMON SEED Cereal Seeds ................ 6482 Forage Seeds................ 6485 Grass Seeds .................6488 Oilseeds ....................... 6491 Pulse Crops ..................6494 Various ......................... 6497 Organic Seed .. See Class 5947 FEED MISCELLANEOUS Feed Grain.................... 6505 Hay & Straw ................. 6510 Pellets & Concentrates .6515 Fertilizer....................... 6530 Feed Wanted ................6540 Seed Wanted ................ 6542 Sewing Machines ............ 6710 Sharpening Services ........6725 Sporting Goods ............... 6825 Outfitters ..................... 6827 Stamps & Coins ...............6850 Swap................................ 6875 Tanks ............................... 6925 Tarpaulins ........................6975 Tenders.............................7025 Tickets ..............................7027 Tires ................................ 7050 Tools ................................ 7070 Travel............................... 7095 Water Pumps....................7150 Water Treatment ............. 7200 Welding ........................... 7250 Well Drilling ....................7300 Winches...........................7400 CAREERS Career Training ...............8001 Child Care........................8002 Construction ...................8004 Domestic Services ......... 8008 Farm / Ranch ................... 8016 Forestry / Logging ........... 8018 Help Wanted ................... 8024 Management ................... 8025 Mining ............................. 8027 Oilfield ............................8030 Professional .................... 8032 Sales / Marketing ............8040 Trades / Technical ...........8044 Truck Drivers ...................8046 Employment Wanted (prepaid) ......................8050

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APPLY TODAY to take Crop Technology at Lakeland College’s Vermilion campus. Your training includes involvement in the business side of the Student Managed Farm- Powered by New Holland. Details at w w w. l a ke l a n d c o l l e g e . c a o r p h o n e 1-800-661-6490, ext. 8527.

1974 SKYMASTER P-337G, 2300 TT, engines approx. 600 hrs. SMOH, extensive annual complete, sacrifice $80,000. Phone Rick Wildfong 306-734-2345 or 306-734-7721, Craik, SK. NEED YOUR CESSNA thrush air tractor wings rebuilt? Phone 204-362-0406, Morden, MB. 1950 PIPER PACER, needing repairs. Several Lycoming engines and Lotus floats for sale. Call 306-893-2289, Maidstone, SK. 1972 CESSNA 150L, TTSN 1400 hrs., 0-320 Lycoming 150 HP, TT 900 hrs., LR tanks, intercom push to talk, tow hook, always hangared, $42,000. 306-255-2611, 306-280-3231, Colonsay, SK. 1947, 7AC CHAMP, all orig., all AD’s, C-65, 350 SMOH, 5389 TTAF, new paint, 9/10 in/out, ext. annual, $28,500 OBO. Altona, MB., seairltd@mymts.net 204-324-7552, 1963 CHEROKEE PA 28-160, 4198 TTSN, 424 SMOH, mode C, 406 ELT, Bendix KLX GPS Com, long range tanks, droop wing tips, canopy and winter covers, annual July 2012, $27,500. Lloydminster, SK, 306-825-0488, pfmeng@gmail.com VANS RV6A, slider TT494, loaded, exc. cond., $57,000. Call 250-503-0259, Vernon, BC.

1978 CESSNA A188B agtruck, 3940 TTAF, IO520D 680 STOH, 1330 TTSN, 3 blade prop, 530 SOH Dec. 2009, Satloc Bantam new 2011, many extras. NMDH always hangared, well equipped spray plane. Dan 306-625-3922, 306-625-7505, Ponteix, SK.

WANTED: COCKSHUTT TRACTORS, especially 50, 570 super and 20, running or not, equipment, brochures, manuals and memorabilia. We pick up at your farm. Jim Harkness, RR4, Harriston, ON., N0G 1Z0, 519-338-3946, fax: 519-338-2756.

1966 PIPER 28 CHEROKEE 140, new radials, 720 transponder mode C, GPS 296, all Garmin new 2008. Fresh annual May 2012, TTAF 6330 hrs., ETT 2200 hrs., all log books, NDHl, $22,500 OBO. Elgin, MB. 204-769-2210, 204-741-0054.

WIRELESS DRIVEWAY ALARMS, calving/ foaling barn cameras, video surveillance, rear view cameras for RV’s, trucks, combines, seeders, sprayers and augers. WORKING STEAM TRACTORS make M o u n t e d o n m a g n e t . C a l g a r y, A B . unique Christmas gifts. All metal, brass 403-616-6610, www.FAAsecurity.com boiler, forward, reverse, and neutral control, and working whistle. Engine runs 15 minutes, reg. $449.95, now $299.96 plus SAVE MONEY! LEARN to fly your own tax. Shipping $16. Steam catalogue $6.95. plane. 1964 Piper Colt, PA-22, Lycoming www.yesteryeartoyscanada.com Phone 135 HP, 0-290-D2, 1085SMOH, 4880TTSN, 1-800-481-1353. 6.5 gal./hr., great time builder, too much new to mention in this ad. Priced for sale, TWO JD Ms, one has new motor, new rad, $20,000. 403-396-3675, Red Deer, AB. WANTED: CAB FOR a UDLX Minneapolis new tires and good tin; 2nd is in good runMoline Comfort tractor or complete tractor ning order, good tin. I also have other old C H R O M E C Y L I N D E R f o r Ly c o m i n g for parts. 780-755-2326 or 780-806-9887, tractors for sale. 306-342-2085, Glaslyn SK 0-320E2A, certified and tagged, with new Edgerton, AB. pistons, rings, valves, gasket set. Ready to REAR STEEL WHEELS for Massey 101 i n s t a l l , $ 1 0 0 0 O B O. 3 0 6 - 4 4 5 - 3 6 9 0 , FOUR INTERESTING TRACTOR projects for tractor, like new, $500. Call 780-842-2672, 403-815-5889, Battleford, SK. sale: David Brown 2D, 2 cyl. diesel, looks Wainwright, AB. like A/C G, very rare, $2750; Oliver 880 1947 PIPER PA12, cub gear, wheels, Edo standard, 6 cyl. diesel, $2000; Fordson N WANTED: HAY PRESS or stationary baler 2000 floats, Flylite 3000 hyd. skis, flaps, standard, orange, 4 cyl. gas, $2000; Ford- for restoration, any condition. Phone: fishrod tube. 150 HP, cruise prop, borer son Dexta, 4 cyl. gas, 3 PTH, live PTO, 306-455-2649, Arcola, SK. prop, Garmin trans. w/incoder, Garmin $2000. All units 99% complete, but do not GPS w/Com, King KY97 Com, comp rebuilt run, good tin and tires, stored inside, mo- TUNE-RITE TRACTOR PARTS: New 1990. Hangared in SK., eng. 650 SMOH, bile. 780-467-2100, Sherwood Park, AB. parts for old tractors. Tires, decals, reproTTSN 1250. 403-478-4115, Calgary, AB. duction parts, antiques and classic. WestTD6 IHC CRAWLER tractor, good restora- ern Canada m.e. MILLER tire dealer and MGK AERO: LIGHT aircraft and engine tion project, was running when parked, STEINER dealer. Phone Don Ellingson,. parts, propellers, C23 new surplus parts. good condition for age, $4500 OBO. Call 1-877-636-0005, Calgary, AB. or email 780-632-7580, Vegreville, AB. Call 204-324-6088, Altona, MB. tunerite@telusplanet.net

1952 CHEVY CUSTOM deluxe 4 door car, green color, very clean interior, runs well, $3900 OBO. 204-856-6974, Austin, MB.

1975 GMC CABOVER, 350 DD, 13 spd., 40,000 rears; 1957 Dodge D700 tandem, 354 Hemi, 5&3 trans., 34,000 rears; 1971 ESTATE SALE CONSISTING of MF 97; GMC longnose tandem, 318 DD, 4x4 trans. Massey 44 and 555 gas, Allis Chalmers Sterling 306-539-4642, Regina, SK. WD45, WD9 FEL; Case 660 combine, 938 www.sterlingoldcarsandtrucks.com hrs., nice condition. Equipment last ran in 1983. 2-500 gal. fuel tanks with stands. JIM’S CLASSIC CORNER, a selling service Offers. Located 25 miles SW of Swift Cur- for classic and antique automobiles, rent, SK. Call 403-278-1202. trucks, boats. 204-997-4636, Winnipeg MB OLIVER SUPER 55 diesel w/3 PTH, asking price $3750. Phone 306-782-7749 evenings, Yorkton, SK. WANTED: VARIOUS TRAPS of all sizes, RARE: MASSEY SUPER 90 on propane, c/w a n y t h i n g f r o m g o p h e r t o b e a r. factory FEL, hardly used, fully restored, 306-425-6906, LaRonge, SK. g o r g e o u s t r a c t o r, $ 9 0 0 0 O B O. C a l l 403-485-8198, Arrowwood, AB. WANTED: TRACTOR MANUALS, sales broADRIAN’S MAGNETO SERVICE Guaran- chures, tractor catalogs. 306-373-8012, teed repairs on mags and ignitors. Repairs. Saskatoon, SK. Parts. Sales. 204-326-6497. Box 21232, WANTED: WOOD BURNING cook stove, Steinbach, MB. R5G 1S5. must be in good condition. 306-652-3139, MH 444, very clean, needs paint; W40 IHC Saskatoon, SK. on steel, new sleeve and pistons, bearings still in box, engine apart. Best offer. 306-445-5602, North Battleford, SK. BUYING TRACTOR CATALOGUES, brochures, manuals, calendars, etc. Edmonton AB. Barry 780-921-3942, 780-903-3432. MUST SELL: OVER 50 antique and collectible tractors: Deutz, MF, JD, MM, Massey, MH. Call 306-786-7991, Yorkton, SK. 1917 TITAN MODEL 1020 tractor for sale in running order. Phone 306-742-4687, Calder, SK.

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CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS. 2013 Calendars: Steam Engine calendars $11.95; Classic Tractor Fever calendar (Dupont) $11.95, (accompanying DVD tape $29.95). Motorbooks: large JD calendar $14.99. Country Store calendars: Old Iron, Puppies, JD Tractor Legacy, Cabin Fever, Birds and Blooms, Kittens, Fabulous 50’s, Barns, all $10.99 and many more available. New publications (books): Legendary Farmall tractor $25; Yesterdays Farm Tools and Equipment $39.99; The Steam Tractor Encyclopedia (Revised) $ 4 9 . 9 5 ; J o h n D e e r e Tr a c t o r L e ga c y $24.99; Heavy Equipment Books starting at $29.95. Also Massey, Ford, Oliver, MM, Allis Chalmers and general tractor books. Service and owner’s manuals plus decal sets for older tractors and stationary engines. New reproduction replacement parts for tractors from Steiners (first Steiner dealer in Canada), A&I, Central East, etc. New videos and DVD (tractor and farm videos, automotive books). Phone, fax or write orders. Please do not send money with order as applicable taxes and postage will be on your invoice sent with your order. Haugholm Books, 40372 Mill Road, RR 1, Brucefield, ON, NOM 1J0. Phone 519-522-0248, fax 519-522-0138. Hours: Mon. to Fri., 9-12 and 1-5. Other times by appointment. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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NEW WILSON SUPER B’s, tridem and tandem; 2011 Wilson Super B, alum rims; 2009 Lode-King Super B; 2009 Castleton tandem, 36’ and 40’, 10” alum. Michels augers; 2006 and 2004 Super B Lode-Kings alum, alum. budds, air ride; 1998 Castleton, Super B, air ride; 1994 Castleton tridem, air ride; Tandem and S/A converter, drop hitch, cert; 18’ TA pony pup, BH&T, $15,000; 17’ A-train pup, very clean. 306-356-4550, Dodsland, SK. DL#905231, www.rbisk.ca

NEVILLE GRAIN TRAILERS, alum. wheels, tarp, new 24.5 rubber, Gator Hyde protection, air ride, Catwalks, ladders, side chutes, fenders, loaded w/options. Tandem $32,900; Triaxle 3 hopper, $42,500. Call Corner Equipment 204-483-2774 or website: cornerequipment.com Carroll, MB 1998 DOEPKER SUPER-B, air ride, closed end, new tarp, 11x24.5, some rust, fair cond., $20,000 OBO. Cell 780-907-3243, evening 780-985-2974, Calmar, AB.

SELL YOUR EQUIPMENT online with Hodgins before year end. Auction runs from Dec. 19 to 26, 2012. Call now to enter your equipment. 1-800-667-2075, Melfort, SK., PL#915407.

NEW AND USED MERRITT aluminum stock trailers. Call Darin 204-526-7407, Cypress River, MB. www.merrittgoosenecks.com DL #4143.

TRI-AXLE GRAVEL TRAILERS, 2000 Midland end-dump, sealed unit; 2001 Midland centre dump, both in mint cond. 306-482-5121, Carnduff, SK.

NEW BLUEHILLS GOOSENECK stock, 20’, 2008 DOEPKER detachable neck machinery 2009 COURTNEY BERG end dump grain $13,900; 18’, $11,900. Call 306-445-5562, trailer, 8’6” wide, extends to 12’6”, tri-axle, trailer, air ride susp., sileage endgate and Delmas, SK. 3-axle flip, pull-out lights, rear strobes, sides, Shurlock roll tarp, Brehion remote good cond., $49,000 OBO. 780-305-3547, control system for hoist and grain slide, in 2008 WILSON TRIDEM cattleliner, exc. Westlock, AB. good shape. Safety done in June 2012. shape, very little use, certified, winter Call Toby 403-934-8447, Strathmore, AB. pkg., air ride, aluminum wheels, $58,000. TOPGUN TRAILER SALES “For those who August at 250-838-6701, 250-833-9102, demand the best.” Agassiz - Precision 1995 LODE KING Super Bs, fair cond., Enderby, BC. (open and enclosed car go) trailers. good tarps, good running gear, c/w two 1 - 8 5 5 - 2 5 5 - 0 1 9 9 , M o o s e J a w, S K . 10” Michels alum. hopper augers, $23,000. www.topguntrailersales.ca Call Paul at 403-510-9260, Acme, AB. 53’ AND 48’ tridem and tandem stepdecks; 2004 DOEPKER SUPER B’s, enclosed ends, 1991 Trail King machinery trailer, hyd. tail; fresh safety. Phone 306-961-8360, Prince 53’, 48’, 28’ tridem and tandem hi-boys, all Albert, SK. steel and combos. SUPER B HIBOYS; Tandem and S/A converter w/drop hitch; 2013 NEVILLE, 2 and 3 axles, Christmas 53’-28’ van trailers; B-train salvage trailspecials. Trades needed. Call Larry at ers; 2003 tridem lowboy, 10’ wide beaver306-563-8765, Canora, SK. tails. Option tandem Jeep. Dodsland, SK. 306-356-4550 www.rbisk.ca DL#905231 DOEPKER TANDEM TRAILERS- 2005 38’, 2012 Cim arron H eavy 2007 40’, open end, air ride, tarps, ladders, 1998 WILSON DROPDECK tandem, D uty Stock Trailer catwalks, new tires, safetied, 05- $30,000, $17,000; 1997 Lode-King dropdeck tan07- $34,000 OBO 306-921-7635 Melfort SK dem, $17,000; 1997 Manac dropdeck tri• 2 4’ lo n g , fu ll 7 ’6 ” w id e dem, $22,000. Can-Am Truck Export Ltd., • 7 ’1 ” ta ll, 3 co m p a r tm en t 1-800-938-3323, Delisle, SK. DL #910420. • 2 -7 ,0 0 0 lb . to r s io n -G r a ted tir es NORMS SANDBLASTING & PAINT, 40 years body and paint experience. We do metal and fiberglass repairs and integral to daycab conversions. Sandblasting and paint to trailers, trucks and heavy equip. Endura primers and topcoats. A one stop shop. Norm 306-272-4407, Foam Lake SK.

2004 CASTLETON SUPER B’s for sale, freshly safetied, 22.5x11 tires 70%, steel slopes excellent, tarps are fair, very little rust, clean. Asking $34,900. Call 1993 WARREN FEED/SEED trailer, 9 com- 306-867-3757, Outlook, SK. partments, complete with 2012 twin 2- BRAND NEW 2013 Wilson Super B grain pump, asking $25,000 trades considered. trailers w/lift axles, totally enclosed, 306-736-7727, Windthorst, SK. $95,000 ea. set. 306-831-7026 Wiseton SK 1990 LODE-KING tri-axle grain trailer, 2009 DOEPKER SUPER B’s, loaded, no lift spring ride, safetied, new tarp, good cond., axles, $69,000 OBO. Call 780-888-1258, $16,500 OBO. Contact Fisher Farms Lougheed, AB. 204-622-8800 or cell 204-638-2700, email rod@fisherseeds.com Dauphin, MB. SANDBLAST AND PAINT your grain trailers, boxes, flatdecks and more. We use in- 2008 SUNDOWNER 727 3-horse trailer, dustrial undercoat and paint. Can zinc coat front and rear tack, shows as new. SS pkg., for added rust protection. Quality work- $ 1 4 , 9 9 5 . We n d e l l 3 0 6 - 7 2 6 - 4 4 0 3 o r manship guaranteed. Prairie Sandblasting 306-726-7652, Southey, SK. and Painting, 306-744-7930, Saltcoats, SK. 2012 FEATHERLITE 7X24 cattle trailer, 2005 LODE-KING open end Super B’s, new 2-7,000 lb. axles, 2 divide gates w/sliders, Michelin rubber, auto greaser, fresh safety, small led lighting, spare tire, $20,000 no taxes. Kipling, SK., 306-736-8273. $50,000. 306-398-4079, Cut Knife, SK.

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705 S. 4th Street, Pender, Nebr. NOTICE: Pender Implement is overstocked with late model, low-houred, local trade-in equipment & they will liquidate all of the following inventory. Most all of this equipment has been through their shop, checked over & should be ready to go. Live Online Bidding Available - Gehling Live Online TRACTORS: JD 9420, ‘05, 4,257 hrs., 710/70R42 w/duals. 9400, ‘97 5, 780 hrs., 24-spd., 520/85R42 w/duals. 8200, 2-wheel, ‘95, 5,443 hrs., 20.8x42 w/duals. 4755 MFWD, ‘90, 9,632 hrs., 480/80R42 w/duals. Case IH 7120 MFWD, ‘90, 8,094 hrs., OH at 3,500 hrs.. Case IH 2094, 2-wheel, ‘83, 18.4x38. COMBINES: JD 9770 STS, ‘09, 937 sep., 42” w/duals. 9770 STS, ‘10, 1,002 sep., 20.8x42 w/duals. 9760 STS, ‘05, 1,228 sep., 20.8x w/duals. 9760 STS, ‘05, 1,564 sep., 20.8x42 duals. 9760 STS, ‘04, 1,786 sep., 200.8x38 w/duals. 9760 STS, ‘04, 2,162 sep., 900/60R32. 9760 STS, sidehill, ‘04, 2,241 sep., 20.8x42 w/ duals. 9660 STS, ‘05, 1,073 sep., 18.4x42 w/duals. 9660 STS, ‘04, 1,219 sep., 20.8x42 w/duals. 9660 STS, ‘04, 1,620 sep., 480/42 w/duals. 9560 STS, ‘05, 1,233 sep., 24.5x32. 9750 STS, ‘03, 1,612 sep., 20.8x42 w/duals. 9750 STS, ‘01, 1,003 sep., 30.5x32. 9750 STS, ‘01, 1,812 sep., 20.8x42 w/duals. 9750 STS, ‘00, 2,307 sep., 20.8x42 w/duals. 9650 STS, ‘02, 1,617 sep., 18.4x42 w/ duals. 9650 STS, ‘02, 1,782 sep., 18.4x42 w/duals. 9650 STS, ‘02, 2,058 sep., 18.4x42 w/duals. 9650 STS, ‘02, 2,475 sep. 9610, ‘98, 2,312 sep., 18.4x38 w/ duals. 9600, ‘95, 2,186 sep., 24.5x32. 9500, ‘90, 2,531 sep., 24.5x32. 9500, ‘90, 2,854 sep., 18.4x38 w/duals. 9400, ‘89, 2,073 sep., 24.5x32. 7720. 6620 Sidehill. New Holland CR9070, ‘07, 935 sep., 520/85R42. AGCO R75, 1,631 sep., 30.5x32. C-IH 2388, ‘98, 2,109 sep., 30.5x32. Note- Most all combines have HHS, CM, YM, chopper, etc. For more information, photos, & SN, go to www.gehlingauction.com. FLEX PLATFORMS: JD 10–635. 11–630. 625. 5–930F. 2–930. C-IH 1020. 3–20'. CORN HEADS: JD 612C. 8–1293. 1243. 3–1290. 7–893. New Holland 96C, 8R20". PLANTERS: 1790, 32R15". 1790 CCS, 16/31 row. 2)1770NT, CCS, 24R30". 1770NT, 16R30". 1770, 16R30". 2–1770, 24R30". 1770, 12R30". 1780, 24R30". 2–7200, 16R30. 2–7200, 12R30". 7000, 16R30". White 8222, 12R30". GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT: 8–Grain Carts. Augers. Feterl 10"x100', 10"x76". 2 Peck 10"x76'. 2–10"x71', Demco. 10"x70, Westfield. 8"x61' & Peck 8"x31'. MISC. EQUIPMENT INCLUDING BALERS: JD 567. 5–566. NH 688. FIELD CULTIVATORS: JD 2210, 64'9". 960, 38'. Krause 4200, 26'. Landoll 850 28' Soil Finisher. SPRAYERS: Ag Chem 854 Rogator. Demco HT 1000. Trailmaster 1000. 2–7'x28' Implement Trailers. For a complete listing & photos, go to www.gehlingauction.com or call Pender Implement, 1-800-720-2939 or Gehling Auction Co., 1-800-770-0347. TERMS: JD financing & programs available to qualified buyers on qualified items. To prequalify, stop in at or call Pender Implement, 1-800-720-2939 during normal business hours. Auctioneers: GEHLING AUCTION CO. Denny Brusse, 507-230-5009 Ron Gehling, 507-230-5010 Matt Gehling, 507-230-5014 CLERK GEHLING AUCTION CO. INC.

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2002 NORTHERN LIGHT 24’, triple axle, gooseneck, Satin SS, good condition. $9500. 306-746-8037, Raymore, SK. 1999 MERRITT CATTLELINER tri-axle, 1999 IH 9300, 500 Detroit. 306-934-5169, 306-220-1945, Saskatoon, SK. 1992 BLUEHILLS 20X7.5’ gooseneck stock trailer, $4800 OBO. 306-869-7207, Radville, SK. tjlmerit@sasktel.net

MILLER PINTLE HITCH tilt deck trailer, w/dual tires, tandem axle, air brakes, elec. lift on hitch, steel toolbox on front, $7000 OBO. 306-594-7981, Norquay, SK. ONE NEW CIRCLE R side dump trailer, 42’, triaxle with rear lift, tarp, steel wheels, $56,500. Call Corner Equipment 204-483-2774, Carroll, MB. or website: cornerequipment.com

SIX 1997 48’ Hi-boys, priced from $2500 to $8500 (cheap ones as is, good ones SK Certified); 1995 LodeKing 48’ triaxle combo flatdeck, SK Certified, $9500; 2005 Lode-King Super B grain trailers, SK Certified, $38,500; 2000 Doepker Super B grain trailers, $31,500; 1998 Talbert 48’s stepdeck, SK Certified, $15,000; 2002 TrailTec Tandem pintle combine/sprayer trailer, $16,500; 1998 Eager Beaver 20 ton float trailer, $16,500. 306-567-7262, Davidson, SK. www.hodginshtc.com DL #312974

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403-347-7721 1990 TRANSCRAFT 53’ stepdeck tri-axle, 85% on tires, deck is good and has rails, $15,000. 306-648-2880, Gravelbourg, SK. TWO A-TRAIN ALUM. TANKERS, in exc. condition, certified. 306-356-4550, Dodsland SK. DL #905231. www.rbisk.ca

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www.m onarchtrailers.com 2000 WABASH TC306 crude wagon; 2012 Wabash 312AL, tridem pup; 1995 Wabash TC407, stainless, tridem pup; 1996 Hutchi n s o n T C 3 0 6 c r u d e t r i d e m t a n ke r. 306-752-4909, Melfort, SK. 2008 DODGE LARAMIE 2500 Mega Cab, 4x2, 114,000 miles, 6.7 Cummins, 6 speed heated leather, sunroof, loaded. ReKiefer Stock Horse Trailers auto, duced to $25,000. 306-776-2394, Aluminum & Steel 306-537-0615, Rouleau, SK. 2009 FORD 150 platinum model in mint condition, folding running boards, complete with all the extras, low mileage. 780-961-3007, Vimy, AB. 2010 FORD F150 reg. cab, 4.6L eng., white, low kms, premium, $13,500 no GST. 306-493-3165 after 6 PM Delisle, SK

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2011 WHITE GMC reg cab, 2 WD, 8’ box, 17,500 kms, V6, A/T/C, lots of warranty, new shape, no taxes, $16,700. Great fuel mileage, wholesale priced. Saskatoon, SK. Ph: 306-384-2428. TWO 2008 TOYOTA Tundra SR5 TRD 4x4’s, Supercab, white, 208,000/215,000 kms, bucket cloth seats, carpets, stick shift console, boxliner, toolbox, one owner, clean, $24,000/ea plus taxes FOB Regina, SK. Morsky Construction 306-949-3099.

2001 DODGE 3/4 ton, reg. cab, 4WD, 24 valve Cummins diesel, 470,000 kms, manual trans., brand new tires, fifth wheel DOUBLE DROP TRI-AXLE, hyd. detach, hitch, $6500 OBO. 780-336-6378, Irma, AB flip axle, $26,000; Van: 26’, S/A, storage, 2004 CHEVY DURAMAX Crewcab, diesel $1,900. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. engine, Allison auto., 4x4, white, boxliner, WAYNE’S TRAILER REPAIR. Specializing cloth int., tow pkg., 383,000 kms, one in aluminum livestock trailer repair. Blaine owner, $9000 plus taxes FOB Regina, SK. Morsky Construction 306-949-3099. Lake, SK, 306-497-2767. SGI accredited. www.kieferbuiltcanada.com

24’ GOOSENECK Tridem 21000 lbs, $7890; Bumper pull tandem lowboy: 18’, 14,000 lbs., $3975; 16’, 10,000 lbs., $3090; 16’, 7000 lbs, $2650. Factory direct. 888-792-6283 www.monarchtrailers.com

2004 DODGE 2500 Quad Cab, 4x4, fully loaded, auto, 270,000 kms, $7000 recent engine work. New brakes, tires, exhaust and front end redone, excellent condition, $16,500. Ph 306-324-2169, Margo, SK.

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1987 K5 BLAZER, 5.7 eng., loaded, black, absolutely rust free Florida truck, $12,900; 1984 Chev shortbox, reg. cab, 4x4, orig. paint, rust free, Southern truck, $6900. Pics available. Ph Ladimer 306-795-7779, K&L Equipment, Ituna, SK., DL #910885. 1994 FORD F350 diesel, c/w bale deck, auto, 4x4, 145,000 kms, brand new tires, $14,000. 780-763-2179, Myrnam, AB. 2002 CHEV SILVERADO Z71 extended cab, rails, running boards, tool box, box liner, very good condition, no rust, no dents, 300,000 kms, $7000 OBO. 306-867-8410, Outlook, SK. 2004 GMC 1/2 ton, Crewcab, shortbox, 5.3L, auto, dash control 4x4, Z71 pkg., boxliner, Tonneau cover, heated leather seats, $12,600. 306-723-4737, Cupar, SK. 2004 RAM 3500, dsl, quad cab, long box, $11,900. HENDRY Chrysler, Nokomis, SK. 306-528-2171. DL #907140. 2005 CHEV DIESEL, ext. cab, longbox, good cond., 265,000 kms, $14,900; 2003 Chev diesel, ext. cab, shortbox, 336,000 kms, $6900; 2004 Chev Duramax 2500, reg. cab w/9’ tool body, $12,900. K&L Equipment and Auto, Ituna, SK. Call Ladimer 306-795-7779, Chris 306-537-2027. DL #910885. 2007 GMC REGULAR cab, long box, DuraMax, new style, 106,000 kms., $20,900. K&L Equipment, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK., DL #910885.

2008 DODGE 2500, 122,000 kms for $28,000. Have all types of trucks, all Sask. safetied. 306-463-8888, Dodsland, SK. www.diamonddholdings.ca DL 909463 2008 FORD F350 XLT, loaded, crewcab diesel, 4x4, black, 109,000 kms, only 9,000 kms on new engine, $27,000 PST paid. 306-652-3687, 306-229-1320, Saskatoon, SK. DL #306428.

2006 KENWORTH T800, AUTOSHIFT 10 spd., new B&H, ISM Cummins, very clean truck; Also trucks available w/ISX Cummins and no box. 204-673-2382 Melita MB 2007 DAY CAB FREIGHTLINER Columbia, loaded, 14 litre, 470 HP Detroit, 13 spd. Eaton Ultra shift auto., 4-way lock diff., alloy rims, 70% rubber, solid chrome bumper, Jakes ACT, great for farm unit, longer frame, ideal for 20’ box. We can supply and install for you. $44,900. SK safetied, plus cost of box. Farmer Vern, 204-275-0210, 204-724-7000, Brandon MB 2007 FREIGHTLINER COLUMBIA, Detroit 450 HP, Eaton 13 spd Ultrashift, 20’ Cancade grain box, $67,500; 2005 International 9400, Cat 430 HP, Eaton 10 spd Ultrashift, 20’ Cancade grain box, $63,500. Call 306-567-7262, Davidson, SK. DL #312974 www.hodginshtc.com 2007 FREIGHTLINER w/Mercedes eng., AutoShift, new 20’ box and hoist, green in colour, $65,500; 2007 Freightliner w/Mercedes eng., power AutoShift, new 20’ box and hoist, white w/green box, $65,500; 2005 IH 9400 w/Cat power AutoShift, new 20’ box and hoist, white w/blue box, $57,500; 2005 IH 9400 w/Cat power AutoShift, new 20’ box and hoist, white w/burgundy box, $57,500. Coming in soon: 2005 Freightliner w/Mercedes power, AutoShift w/new 20’ box and hoist, white w/white box, $57,500; 2000 Mack w/Mack power, 10 spd., new 20’ box and hoist, $44,500; 2001 Western Star w/Cat power, 13 spd. w/new 20’ box and hoist, $47,500. 2010 Loadline 36’ tandem grain trailer, $29,500., like new. All trucks have alum. wheels and will be SK. safetied. Please call cell 306-276-7518 or, home 306-767-2616, Arborfield, SK., DL 906768 2007 IH 9200, w/Eaton Ultrashift, Cat, new 20’ BH&T; 1991 Peterbilt, 60 Detroit, 430, 18 spd., 20’ BH&T, w/pintle and 20’ tandem pup; 1997 FL80, diesel, S/A, with new 16’ BH&T. 306-356-4550, Dodsland SK. DL #905231. www.rbisk.ca

2008 GMC 4x4 Crew $18,955. 8 more GM 4x4’s in stock. DL #909250. Phone Hoss at 1-800-667-4414 www.thoens.com A L L I S O N A U TO M AT I C : 2 0 0 5 C h e v tandem, 300 HP, dsl., C&C, will 2 0 0 8 R A M D I E S E L , Q u a d C a b, 4 x 4 , C8500, 20’ box, very low miles, $36,900. Call $25,975. 1-800-667-4414, Wynyard, SK. take Ladimer 306-795-7779, K&L Equipment, www.thoens.com DL #909250. Ituna, SK., DL #910885. 2010 DODGE 3500 crewcab, diesel, 4x4, AUTOMATIC 2005 Freightliner Columbia, A/T/C, PW, power seat, sunroof, 75,000 new 20 ft. box and hoist, roll tarp, kms. Full bumper to bumper warranty to $55,000. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. 160K, $38,000. Nathan Scott, Nipawin, SK AUTOSHIFT TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Boxed 306-812-7092 days, 306-862-2036 eves. tandems and tractor units. Contact David 2010 GMC SIERRA GFX Z71, X-cab, black, 306-887-2094, 306-864-7055, Kinistino, PST paid, $27,985. 1-800-667-4414, SK. DL #327784. www.davidstrucks.com www.thoens.com Wynyard. DL #909250. 2012 RAM CUMMINS diesel 4x4, crewcab, $43,975. 1-800-667-4414, Wynyard, SK. www.thoens.com DL #909250.

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2001 PETERBILT, 1.1M kms., 22.5 tires, 60% tread, C12 435 HP, 13 spd. 2006 Doepker 45’ tridem, air ride, 24.5 tires, 60% tread, 3 hopper. Call 306-369-2631 or 306-231-9941, Humboldt, SK. 2002 INT. 9900i, 475 Cat, 72” bunk, 22.5 tires, aluminum wheels, fresh safety, $26,500. 306-264-3794, Meyronne, SK.

BERG’S GRAIN BODIES: When durability and price matter, call Berg’s Prep and Paint for details at 204-325-5677, Winkler, MB. COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL MFG. for grain box pkgs., decks, gravel boxes, HD combination grain and silage boxes, pup trailers, frame alterations, custom paint, complete service. Visit our plant at Humboldt, SK or call 306-682-2505 for prices. IH 9900 EAGLE, 20’ box and hoist, 10 spd. auto., Cat C13 motor, 22.5 rubber w/alum. rims. $63,000. 306-621-1631, Yorkton, SK.

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2004 MACK DAYCAB, 252,000 kms, fresh safety, 400 HP, 13 spd., farm truck. Call 306-631-7788, Moose Jaw, SK. 2005 MACK CH613, 686,000 kms, 460 HP, 13 spd, 38,000 lb. Eaton rears, new safety, $35,000. 403-654-0132, Vauxhall, AB.

2006 FREIGHTLINER COLUMBIA CL112, 410 HP Mercedes, 10 spd. Eaton-Fuller UltraShift, 20’ Cancade monobody grain box, w/Michel’s roll tarp. New rear rubber on 22.5 rims, 4.11 full locking rear diff., $64,995. David 306-887-2094, Kinistino, SK. www.davidstrucks.com DL #327784.

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2006 KENWORTH T800, Cat C15, 13 spd. Ultrashift, 790,000 kms, 40,000 rears, full poly fenders, c/w new 50 gal. wet kit, 10 new tires, new SK safety, exc. cond., ready to go, $51,000. 204-743-2324, website www.cypresstrucksandequipment.com at Cypress River, MB. GRAVEL TRUCKS AND end dumps for sale or rent, weekly/ monthly/ seasonally, w/wo driver. K&L Equipment, Regina, SK, 306-795-7779, 306-537-2027 or email: ladimer@sasktel.net

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1974 CHEV TANDEM w/24’ steel box, hoist and tarp, auto. trans., new carb. and front tires spring of 2011. $7400 OBO. Phone 780-736-3886, Thorhild, AB. 2000 FREIGHTLINER FL120, tandem, 470 Detroit, 10 spd., air ride, AC, 20’ Ultracel box pkg, no rust, California truck. Fall special $52,500, trade considered. 306-946-8522, Watrous, SK.

2009 VOLVO DAYCAB, 485 HP Cummins ISX, 13 spd., new clutch, new AC, new rear tires 22.5”, 4:10 rear, truck in great shape, 12,000 front, 40,000 rear, 2-Way diff. lock, new paint job a year ago, AR suspension. Call 306-485-7157, Oxbow, SK. 1993 INTERNATIONAL 4700 SERIES, 390 Int. eng., 6 spd. +1 std trans, $5000 OBO. 306-924-5239, Regina, SK. 1994 MACK CH model, certified, good cond., new steering tires/battery, $14,000 OBO. Call 1-888-776-7705, Rouleau, SK. 1996 AEROMAX TRACTOR, N14 Cummins, 500 HP, 13 spd., rebuilt engine and front end, new clutch and trans., good overall cond., $15,000 OBO. Call 780-632-7580, Vegreville, AB.

2001 KENWORTH W900 w/20’ alum. grain box, tarp, 430 HP, 10 spd., dual exhaust, premium U.S no rust truck. Fall special $59,500, trade considered. 306-946-8522, Watrous, SK 2005 FREIGHTLINER M2 series, C7 Cat eng. 10 spd., A/T/C, 20’ box and hoist, elec. tarp, $57,500. 306-445-7573 or, 2000 FREIGHTLINER FL80, single axle 306-481-4740, Battleford, SK. 300 HP, California no rust, 9 spd., AC, 5th wheel, safetied, $19,500, trade consid2006 IH 4300 single, Allison auto., L/66 ered. 306-946-8522, Watrous, SK. diesel, AC, new C.I.M B&H, Michel’s tarp, premium U.S. no rust truck, trade consid- 2000 PETERBILT 379, 475 Cat, 13 spd., ered, only $48,500. 306-946-8522, Wa- wet kit; 1998 Peterbilt 330, 28’ van body. 204-870-2050, Portage la Prairie, MB. trous, SK.

DUMP TRUCK: 2003 IH, S/A, 6 spd., diesel, hyd. brakes, $25,000; Van truck: 2006 Freightliner, S/A, 24’ van, side door, hyd. tailgate, $26,000. 306-563-8765, Canora. 2012 T-800 KENWORTH, 500 HP, 18 spd, 46 diff. and lockers, 70,000 kms; 2012 389 Pete, ISX Cummins, 46 diff, 18 spd, 75,000 kms; 2005 IHC 9900i, 18 spd. 46 diff, lockers, low kms; 2006 and 2004 Pete 379, Cat, 18 spd, 46 diff, lockers, 960,000 kms; 2007 Freightliner daycab, 60 Series Detroit, 13 spd, Eaton UltraShift; 2006 IH 9200 13 spd. Eaton UltraShift, 430 Cat, 900,000 kms; 2002 T800 KW, 18 spd, 46 diff, 4-way lock; 2003 Freightliner Classic, Cat, 18 spd., new rubber; 2003 W-900L KW, Cat, recent work orders; 2000 Freightliner Classic, Detroit, 13 spd; 2001 Western Star, 4964, N14 Cummins, 13 spd; 1999 IH Cat, 18 spd; 1996 Volvo 425, 13 spd, new diff. 306-356-4550, Dodsland, SK. DL#905231. www.rbisk.ca

2008 ROLL-OFF 800 KW truck, 15 spd. trans., Cummins ISL, 272,000 kms., c/w 24’ container, steel tarp, tires 80%, new MB. safety, vg condition, $103,000 OBO. Phone 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

2007 FREIGHTLINER COLUMBIA and 2004 Stoughton van, 450 Mercedes eng, 13 spd, 12x40, 58” mid-roof, 169,000 orig. kms. 53’ van has logistic posts and translucent roof, air ride. Will trade for walking floor. Delivery of units an option. Call Jack 519-861-1576, 519-446-9966 Norwich, ON 2007 FREIGHTLINER COLUMBIA, 13 spd., Ultra shift, Eaton auto., 14 litre, 475 HP Detroit, 4-way lock-up diff., 68” mid-roof bunk, solid front chrome bumper, automatic greaser, alloy rims, 80% rubber, excellent condition, new MB. safety. Frame professionally blasted and painted, ready to pull your grain trailers. Only $36,900. F a r m e r Ve r n 2 0 4 - 2 7 5 - 0 2 1 0 o r c e l l , 204-724-7000, Brandon, MB. 2007 KENWORTH T600 Daycab tractor, C13 Cat, 430 HP, 18 spd., super 40 rears w/4 way locks, new 11R24.5 steer tires, new recaps on rear, 195” wheel base. New Alberta safety, $56,000. delivery available. Ask for Jeff 403-638-3934, Sundre, AB. 2007 PETERBILT 378, 500 HP, C15 Cat, 63” bunk, 12,000 fronts, 46,000 rears. 7 to choose from. Still have warranty. $65,000 each. 403-852-4452, Calgary, AB. 2008 DOEPKER SUPER B, good shape, rims and tires 80%. 2013 Doepker Super B’s in stock with lots of colors to pick and with Minimizer fenders. Many more used and new trailers arriving daily. In stock, 2013 Doepker end dumps. 2012 Globe Lowboys, 55 ton now available for your specialty heavy hauling needs. New and used oilfield tridem scissornecks in stock. Rentals available. Please visit our website at www.macarthurtruck.com 1-800-665-6317 DAY CAB 2005 Sterling, 400 HP, $18,000; 1999 IH 9400, 500 HP, 18 spd., 46 rears. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK.

1998 FORD EXPEDITION, 4x4, seats 8 passengers, no rust, runs good, good paint a n d w i n t e r t i r e s , $ 4 0 0 0 O B O. C a l l 306-656-4600, Harris, SK. 2007 YUKON DANALI, fully loaded, exc. shape, $19,500 OBO. Call 306-886-2073, 306-873-8526, Bjorkdale, SK. 2012 JEEP LIBERTY Sport, 4x4, $21,975. www.thoens.com 1-800-667-4414, Wynyard, SK. DL #909250.

1994 IH 4900 18’ flatdeck w/hoist, 466 diesel, very good condition. Fall clearance $24,500, trade considered. 306-946-8522, Watrous, SK. CAN-AM TRUCK EXPORT LTD., Delisle, SK, 1-800-938-3323. 2005 IHC 9400, C15 Cat, 18 spd., 46 rears, 4-way locks, ProSleeper, new safety, $28,500; 1991 IHC 4700, Reman DT466, Allison auto, 12’ gravel unit w/sand spreader, front mount snowplow, hyd. disc brakes, $25,000; New 18’ equipment trailer, 14,000 lb. capacity, tilt deck, $8500; 2007 F550 XLT, 4x4, 6.0L dsl., auto, 264,000 kms, equipped with 060-3 Hiab crane, $32,000; 2003 IHC Eagle, ISX Cummins, 13 spd., 40 rears, new wet kit, air ride, 3-way locks, $28,000; 2004 KW T300, ISC 285 HP Cummins, auto, 36,500 GVW, only 406,000 kms, $24,000; 1999 Lode-King drop deck 53’ tridem, air ride, $22,000; 1985 Grove 308, 8 ton crane, 2600 hrs, $24,000; 1978 Grove 17-1/2 ton carry deck crane, $26,000; Cat VC110, 11,000 lb. forklift, $12,000; 1998 FL80, 8.3 Cummins, 10 spd. 23 rear, $14,000; 1998 CH Mack 460, 18 spd., 40 rears, 18 front, only 209,000 kms w/21’ deck, and 300 Hiab crane, like new, $50,000; 2004 Sterling, 300 Mercedes Benz engine, Allison auto w/15’ roll off deck, only 150,000 kms, $32,000; 2004 IHC 4200 w/365 Allison auto, w/16’ reefer unit, $30,000; 2004 KW 600, 475 Cat, 13-40, clean truck, $34,000; 2006 IHC 4400, DT 466, 6 spd., 24’ van and tailgate loader, clean loaded up truck, $32,000; 1985 IHC 1954 w/Hydro-Vac unit, only 58,000 kms, $24,000; 3 dropdeck a/ride combo trailers, $17,000. to $22,000. Gen sets available. Financing available OAC. DL #910420. For other listings www.can-amtruck.com

SURPLUS GOVERNMENT TRUCKS and equipment. 3/4 ton-5 ton, cab and chassis, service trucks, bucket trucks, etc. ARE and Range Rider canopies and service caps. www.northtownmotors.com PARTING OUT: 1974 Ford 9000, 13 speed Saskatoon, SK., 306-668-2020 DL#90871. Eaton trans., turbo, air compressor, front axle, 4 rear axles, chrome, hood, rad. and TWO LATE MODEL low mileage dump trucks, Allison automatic. Call for details SELL YOUR EQUIPMENT online with Hodsaddle tanks. 306-967-9353, Eatonia, SK. 306-536-5055, Lumsden, SK. gins before year end. Auction runs from Dec. 19 to 26, 2012. Call now to enter your equipment. 1-800-667-2075, Melfort, SK., PL#915407.

2003 INTERNATIONAL 9400, ISX Cummins, 12 spd. AutoShift trans., 402,000 kms, safetied, vg cond. Call 780-877-2339, 780-877-2326, Edberg, AB.

2005 PETERBILT 379 w/2008 Timpte tridem grain trailer, $80,000. will separate. 306-725-4181, Strasbourg, SK.

4 DOOR TRUCKS: 2006 Ford, 260,000 kms, $8500; 2007 Dodge, 200,000 kms, $9500. 306-554-2824, Wynyard, SK. DL# 907914.

2007 FREIGHTLINER CENTURY w/new 20’ grain box, hoist, tarp, and pintle. 450 HP Mercedes w/Eaton AutoShift. Aluminum wheels, white w/blue box, fresh paint on frame and cab, $56,000. 204-724-9529, Oak River, MB.

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HODGINS HEAVY TRUCK CENTRE: 2007 International 9900, Cat 430 HP, 13 spd, $34,500; 2007 International 9200, Cat 430 HP, 13 spd Ultrashift, $38,500; 2006 International 9900, Cummins 525 HP, 13 spd, $36,500; 2005 Kenworth T800, Cat 430 HP, 13 spd, $28,500; 1996 International 9200, Detroit 365 HP, 10 spd, $13,000; Daycabs: 2008 Paystar 5900, Cummins 550 HP, 18 spd, 46 rears, 428,000 kms, $74,000; 2007 International 2009 FREIGHTLINER BUSINESS CLASS 9900, Cummins 500 HP, 18 spd, 46 rears, M2, 283,255 miles, Allison 6 spd. trans, $44,500; 2007 International 9200, CumCummins ISC 330 HP eng., GVW 25,500, mins 455 HP, 13 spd, 46 rears, wet kit, $44,500. Specialty trucks: 1997 Freigh$32,500 OBO. 306-924-5239, Regina, SK. tliner FLD112 Tandem, Cummins 370 HP, 10 spd, 24’ Van body, hyd lift gate, $16,500; 1994 International 9200, Cat 350 HP, 10 spd, 24’ hyd tilt and load deck w/winch, $28,000; 1995 Volvo, Cummins 370 HP, 10 spd, 24’ hyd tilt and load deck, $22,500; 1998 Ford F650, Cummins 190 HP, Allison 4 spd auto, 16’ deck, $16,500; 2002 Sterling Acterra, Cat 300 HP, 9 spd, 24’ Van body, $16,500. Call 306-567-7262, Davidson, SK. www.hodginshtc.com DL #312974.

2007 ACADIA-8 passenger, SUV, AWD, female driven, all highway kms, $10,000 OBO. Phone 306-748-2732, Neudorf, SK.

2010 IH Lon e S ta r, 500 HP Cu m m in s IS X, 18 s p , 12/ 40, 3:55 g ea rs , 4-w a y d iff. lock s , 22.5” a lloy w heels , 244” W B, 73” m id -ris e bu n k w ith tw o bed s , 650,752 k m . . $83,000 2010 Ke n w orth T370, 300 HP Pa ca r PX-6, 6 s p , 10,000 fron t20,000 rea r, 3:55 g ea rs , 200” W B, d iff. lock , 202,336 k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $55,000 4-2009 P e te rb ilt 386 , 430 HP Ca tC13, 13 s p , 12/ 40, m id -ris e bu n k , 22.5” a lloy w heels , 3:55 g ea rs , 500,000 k m . . . $46 ,000 2009 M a c k D a y Ca b , 445 HP M a ck M P8, 10 s p A u tos hiftA S 3, 3 p ed a l, 12/ 40, 22.5” a lloy w heels , 3:70 g ea rs , 215” W B, 727,262 k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $55,000 3-2008 IH P roS ta r, 425 HP Cu m m in s , IS X, 10 s p Ultra s hift, 12/ 40, 22.5” w heels , 3:73 g ea rs , 72” m id -ris e bu n k , 226” W B, 800k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $36 ,000 2007 Ke n w orth W 900L, 565 HP Cu m m in s IS X, 18 s p , 12/ 46, 3-w a y d iff. lock s , 4:10 g ea rs , 244” W B, m id -ris e bu n k , 1,053,892 k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $74,000 2007 P e te rb ilt 379, 430 HP Ca tC13 13 s p , 12/ 40, 22.5” a lloy w heels , 244” W B, 63” fla ttop bu n k , 1,003,733 k m . . . . $45,000 2-2007 P e te rb ilt 379, 430 HP Ca tC13, 10 s p , 12/ 40, 36” fla t-top bu n k . . . . . $39,000 2007 IH 9400I, 500 HP Cu m m in s , IS X, 18 s p , 14/ 46, 22.5” a lloy w heels , 3:73 g ea rs , 221” W B, 3-w a y d iff. lock s , 874,229 k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $47,000 2007 M a c k Ra w hid e , 460 HP M a ck , 18 s p , 12/ 40, 244” W B, 3-w a y d iff. lock s , 22.5” a lloy w heels , 906,719 k m . . . . $43,000 2007 IH 9200I, 425 HP Ca tC13, 12 s p A u tos hiftM eritor, 12/ 40, 3:42 g ea rs , 22.5” w heels , 220 W B, 72” m id -ris e bu n k , 432,845 k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $36 ,000 2006 Ke n w orth W 900L, 475 HP Ca t C15, 18 s p , 12/ 40, 22.5” a lloy w heels , 86” s tu d io s leep er, 3:36 g ea rs , 244” W B, 3-w a y d iff. lock s , 1,226,472 k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $55,000 2006 P e te rb ilt 379L, 475 HP Cu m m in s , IS X, 18 s p , 12/ 40, 3:70 g ea rs , 3-w a y d iff. lock s , 70” m id -ris e bu n k , 1,413,315 k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $55,000 2006 M a c k Ra w hid e , 460 HP M a ck , 13 s p , 12/ 40, 3:90 g ea rs , 238” W B, 1,127,668 k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35,000 2006 W e s te rn S ta r 4900FA , d a y ca b, 450 HP M erced es M BE4000, 10 s p A u tos hift3 Ped a l, 12/ 40, 22.5” a lloy w heels , 244” W B, 1.1M k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35,000 2006 W e s te rn S ta r 4900, 450 HP M erced es , 10 s p A u tos hift3 p ed a l, 12/ 40, 22.5” a lloy w heels , m id -ris e bu n k , 1.1M k m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $30,000 2006 W e s te rn S ta r 4900, 470 HP Detroit, 13 s p , d a y ca b, 390 g ea rs , 244” W B, 12/ 40, 24.5” a lloy w heels , 3-w a y d iff. lock s , 1.3K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,000 2005 IH 9900I, 475 HP, Cu m m in s IS X, 18 s p , 12/ 46, 24.5” a lloy w heels , 244” W B, m id -ris e bu n k , 3-w a y d iff. lock s , 1.6K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,000 2005 IH 9900I, 475 HP Cu m m in s IS X, 18 s p , 12/ 40, 22.5” a lloy w heels , 244” W B, m id -ris e bu n k , 1.4K . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $25,000 2005 P e te rb ilt 379, 430 HP Ca tC13, 13 s p , 12/ 40, 24.5” w heels , 208” W B, 36” fla ttop bu n k , 1,160,839 k m . . . . $39,000 d lr# 0122. P h. 204-6 85-2222, M a c G re g or M B. To vie w p ic tu re s of ou r in ve n tory vis it w w w .tita n tru c k s a le s .c om

1991 F800 DIESEL, 240 HP, 9 spd., 11Rx22.5, 15’ deck, air brakes, tractor pkg., Sask safety, vg cond., $9900. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. 2008 DODGE 3500 HD, quad cab, 6.7 dsl., 6 spd. std., 130,000 kms, Falcon multi-deck, extra fuel w/pump, vg cond., asking $39,500. 403-862-6760, Cayley, AB. 1995 FREIGHTLINER FL80 Cummins, 9 spd., air, 140,000 kms, 24’ flatdeck c/w winches and straps, Sask Safety, VG cond., $23,900. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

GREAT BUY! Like new. Must Sell. 2012 Grand Caravan SE, 14,000 kms, $18,900. Call 306-469-4485 daytime, 306-469-5675 evenings/weekends, Big River, SK.

LEAFCUTTER LARVAE in nest and/or loose cell, Wolf and Plastifab nests. See our website for details grevefarms.com Reg Greve, Lanigan, SK. 306-528-4610.

SELF STACKING LEAFCUTTER bee incubation trays, solid bottom wooden construction, removable screened tops. Ed Tanner PRICES REDUCED! Allison Auto, 2008 306-873-0256, Tisdale, SK. Freightliner M2, C&C, T/A, Cummins eng., WANTED: BEE SHELTERS or frames, good LWB, will take 20’ box, $24,900; Allison used styrofoam blocks, backs and corners, Auto, 2008 Freightliner M2, C&C, S/A, 12 incubation trays, small conveyor 6 to 8’. fronts, 21 rears, LWB, $19,900; 2003 Call 306-567-3113, Davidson, SK. Mack, 475 HP, 18 spd., 48” flat-top bunk, double lockers, fresh safety, 1.4 kms, price WILL DO STYROBLOCK cocoon removal. reduced to $16,900. K&L Equipment and Call: Maurice Wildeman 306-365-4395, Auto, Ituna, SK., Ladimer 306-795-7779 306-365-7802, Lanigan, SK. or Chris 306-537-2027. DL #910885.

USED BELTING, 12” to 54” wide for feeders and conveyors, 30” wide by 3/4” thick for lowbeds in stock. Phone Dave, 780-842-2491 anytime, Wainwright, AB. REPOSSESSED 2004 INTERNATIONAL 4300, DT466 turbo diesel, 6 spd., 225 HP with 26’ van body, AC, cruise control, tilt, AM/FM/CD player, all brand new 22.5 rubber, new diesel injector pump, Maxon power tailgate, ramp, new SK safety with only 348,167 kms. For bid instructions and photos- saskwestfinancial@sasktel.net WATER TRUCKS: 1996 IHC 9300, white; 2001 IHC; 1997 Volvo. All have Wabash tanks; Also 1997 Auto Car w/Jasper tank. Louise, 306-826-5751, l.gray@hmsinet.ca Marsden, SK. 1978 FORD 9000 8 yd. cement truck, 3208 Cat, hydraulic drive, $5700. 306-445-5602, North Battleford, SK.

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CONTINUOUS METAL ROOFING, no exposed screws to leak or metal overlaps. Ideal for lower slope roofs, rinks, churches, pig barns, commercial, arch rib building and residential roofing; also available in Snap Lock. 306-435-8008, Wapella, SK.

BIRCH ROLL-TOP desk, in mint condition, 4’wx72”h, $850 OBO. Call 306-375-2910 or 306-375-5548 Ext. 307, Kyle, SK.

MANUFACTURING BUSINESS welding and light fabricating. A rare opportunity! Unique patented product. Mainly agricultural. Peak sales from Sept. to March. Owned for 27 yrs., still room for growth. Moveable anywhere. North American markets. $195,000 plus inventory at cost. 50x70’ shop on 157x370’ lot, $295,000. Can be a turnkey operation or addition to an existing business. Must sell for health reasons. 306-446-4462, North Battleford, SK. Email prairiepines@yahoo.com SMALL MANUFACTURING SHOP and residence. 40 years of operation with established product line. Owner retiring. Turnkey operation. 306-445-5562, Delmas, SK.

STEEL BUILDINGS . Prices reduced. Wholesale/ factory offers on discounted deals. Big and small. Source# 1Q9. 1-866-609-4321. GRAVEL PIT FOR SALE. RM of Arborfield #456. 155 acres total. 105 cultivated, good farmland. 50 acres, bush and gravel pit, gravel pit approx. 30 acres. Sell as pkg. or seperate. Reduced price. Call for info. PRIVE BUILDING MOVERS Ltd.! Bonded, 306-769-8896, Arborfield, SK. licensed for SK. and AB. Fully insured. Moving all types and sizes of buildings. SW, NEAR LARGER city, motel, food and Call Andy 306-625-3827, Ponteix, SK. beverage business on #1 Hwy. Hotel near Regina on major Hwy., showing exwww.privebuildingmovers.com cellent volume growth, Restaurant , cafe, 2 suites for living or rent, rooms to rent, bar with banquet area. Bengough Cafe, SW SK. Lintlaw, 4 acres, school with gym, good shape, many applications. On #11 Hwy. in Craik, bar and grill, turnkey, housGOVERNMENT GRANTS, LOANS for new ing available. Vanguard, starter bar and and existing farms and businesses. grill, reasonable housing available, vendor 1-800-226-7016 ext. 10. may carry for sale or lease. Excellent investment opportunity in Balken oil play WELL ESTABLISHED BUTCHER Shop in area. Industrial building and land with nathe thriving city of Yorkton, SK. Owner re- tional lease in place. On #39 Hwy. in tiring for health reasons. Asking $399,000. small town, 7300 sq. ft. building on 2 Serious inquiries only. Details ph: Bill at acres of land, great for truckers. 93 acres 306-783-5512 or sabremeats@gmail.com development land 7 miles north on #11 OWN YOUR OWN Business. Looking for Hwy. near Saskatoon. Leland Hotel, Wolonline trainers. Flexible hrs, work from seley, SK, good volume, liquor vendor, home. Free information and training. food and rooms. Yellow Grass, 2700 sq. ft. restaurant lounge near Weyburn, potenwww.123excelyourlife.com tial for confectionary, liquor sales. Regina, FURNACE DUCT CLEANING van and equip- large volume liquor outlet with bar, food m e n t fo r s a l e , v g c o n d . , $ 3 5 , 0 0 0 . and some room income are available. Regina, 12 suite apartment block, extra land 403-341-5866 evenings, Red Deer, AB. available. Contact: Brian Tiefenbach 306-536-3269, 306-525-3344, NAI Commercial Real Estate (Sask) Ltd. PELOQUIN WELDING a manufacturer of 24 ACRES LOCATED at exit to #1 Hwy., hopper bottoms for 30 years would like to McLean, SK. Rezone to commercial use for sell the business as a going concern, no convenience store, gas station, truck stop, buildings or location involved. If fabricat- small motel. www.shirleymacfarlane.com ing or manufacturing is in your blood, this Shirley MacFarlane, 306-536-9127, EXIT could be for you. For more information call Realty Fusion, Regina, SK. MLS ® 440880. Francis at 204-647-7750, Laurier, MB. WANTED SERVICE STATIONS with conTURNKEY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! venience stores in SK; MOTEL in SE Sask. New state of the art, 8-bay carwash for Ph Bill Nesteroff 306-497-2668 Re/Max sale in thriving Saskatchewan community. Saskatoon, SK. billnesteroff@sasktel.net Located on 3 acres with great location on VERY WELL MAINTAINED 5-plex located highway. Great customer base! Selling due in Rosetown, SK. No pets, no smokers. Exto health concerns. Serious inquiries cellent occupancy rates. Contact Dwein or only please! Call 306-232-4767. Andrew at 306-221-1035, 306-370-9597, Dwein Trask Realty, Saskatoon, SK. SOLD MY SOD farm. Have line of equipment to start your sod farm, will help you DO YOU HAVE an empty barn and want start. Dennis anytime 403-308-1400, to raise ducks? For info ph 780-450-6103, dfpickerell@shaw.ca Taber, AB. 780-504-5747, Edmonton, AB.

WELL ESTABLISHED AG BUSINESS, supplement your income with seasonal work, owner retiring, serious inquiries only. Reply to: Box 5001, c/o Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4.

HEY BOSS TUB GRINDING with H1150 haybuster. Call Don 306-445-9994, North Battleford, SK.

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O3 EQUIPMENT HAULING Ltd. Professional transportation of equipment in Western 1996 624G JD wheel loader, QA 3.5 yard Canada and NW USA. Call 403-963-2476, bucket and forks, rebuilt JD engine, new Lacombe, AB. www.o3hauling.com 20.5R25 front tires, very good tight machine, $52,000. Carrot River, SK. Phone EQUIPMENT HAULING. Now offering tilt 306-768-2827, 306-768-7888. deck, swather transport and RGN trailer capabilities. Serving western Canada and 2007 CAT 140H, 7000 hrs., $140,000; northwest USA. Vandenberg Hay Farms 2006 JD 870D, $145,000. 403-291-1010, Ltd., Nobleford, AB. Contact dispatch at Calgary, AB. 1-877-824-3010. 16B PUSH CAT w/80 cargo winch, factory cab and push block, undercarriage ROUND BALE PICKING and hauling, small ROP good cond., cat needs some engine o r l a r g e l o a d s . Tr av e l a n y w h e r e . fairly work. Also have new and used parts for 306-382-0785, Vanscoy, SK. 16B. Call 306-634-6081, Benson, SK. CAT D8K crawler dozer c/w angle dozer and ripper, cab guards, sweeps, vg cond. JIM’S TUB GRINDING, H-1100 Haybuster Call 780-284-5500, Westlock, AB. with 400 HP, serving Sask. 306-334-2232, GRADER CHAMPION D600, good cond., Balcarres. $10,000. 306-536-5055, Lumsden, SK.

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FORESTRY BRUSH MULCHING. Fast, effective brush and tree clearing. Call 306-212-7896 or 306-232-4244. EXPLOSIVES CONTRACTOR: Reasonable rates. Northwest Demolition, Radisson, SK. phone 306-827-2269 or 306-827-7835. NORTHERN BRUSH MULCHING. Can clear all fence lines, brush, trees or unwanted bush. Competitive rates. Call Reuben 306-467-2422, Duck Lake, SK. 4T CONTRACTORS INC. Custom fencing, mulching, corral cleaning and bobcat services. Metal siding and roofs. Will do any kind of work. 306-329-4485 306-222-8197 Asquith SK, 4tcontractorsinc@sasktel.net MULCHING - TREES, BRUSH, stumps, carriganas, etc. 12 years of enviro friendly mulching. Call today! 306-933-2950. Visit: www.maverickconstruction.ca REGULATION DUGOUTS: 120x60x14’ $1900; 160x60x14’ $2700; 180x60x14’ $3100; 200x60x14’ $3500. Saskatoon, SK, Phone: 306-222-8054.

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1999 SNORKEL ARTICULATING boom lift, 60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Cummins diesel engine, 2277 hrs, $22,500. Financing available. Chartier, MB. 204-864-2391, 204-981-3636. 1 9 9 7 D 3 C L G P, n ew u n d e r c a r r i a g e , $28,500. Winch and delivery available. Danny Spence, 306-246-4632, Speers, SK. 2013 V-WING DITCHERS. Order now before they are sold out. Delivered to your farm by Sept., 2013. 204-734-0303. Check out v-wing ditcher on U-tube. CASE 24B, 4x4, 2.5 yard loader, good cond. $17,900. Call 204-324-6298, Altona, MB. 2006 CAT 287B skidsteer, 960 hrs., new tracks, HI-FLOW, c/w bucket, $52,000 OBO. 780-763-2179, Myrnam, AB. HITRAC CAT RIPPER D6H, excellent condiEXCELLENT SELECTION Used skidsteers, tion. Part #9W0201-04, #30100016. track loaders, fork lifts, zoom booms, mini 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. excavators. Visit www.glenmor.cc for more LOW HOURED Construction Equipment details, specs and prices. Glenmor, phone C a t e r p i l l a r, K o m a t s u , e t c . P h o n e 1-888-708-3739, Prince Albert, SK. 815-239-2309, Illinois. PORTABLE TOILET SALES: New 5 Peaks 2001 KOMATSU 250 payloader, quick atportable toilets, assembled or unassem- tach bucket, 20.5x25 tires. Danny Spence, bled. Call for quotes. 5 Peaks Dist., West- Speers, SK. 306-246-4632. ern Canada Inc www.5peaksdistributors.ca sales@5peaksdistibutors.ca 877-664-5005 SKIDSTEERS: CAT 297, 277B; Bobcat 2010 JOHN DEERE 333 track skid loader, S220, S185, T250; JD 325. Conquest h i - f l o w h y d r a u l i c s , $ 5 9 , 9 0 0 O B O . Equipment, 306-483-2500, Oxbow, SK. 204-856-6974, Austin, MB. ATTACHMENTS: SKIDSTEER, pallet forks hay spears, augers, buckets. Conquest Equipment 306-483-2500, Oxbow, SK. 1979 CASE DROTT No. 40 trackhoe, 471 Detroit, good running machine, $15,000 OBO. 306-276-3248, 306-768-2151, Carrot River, SK.

USED, REBUILT or NEW engines. Specializing in Cummins, have all makes, large inventory of parts, repowering is our specialty. 1-877-557-3797, Ponoka, AB. REMANUFACTURED DIESEL ENGINES: GM 6.5L, $4750 installed; Ford/IH 7.3L, $4950 installed; New 6.5L engines, $6500; 24v 5.9L Cummins, $7500 installed; GM Duramax Ford 6.0L, $8500 installed. Other new, used, and Reman. diesel engines avail. Can ship or install. Call 204-532-2187, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM, Mon. to Fri., Thickett Engine Rebuilding, Binscarth, MB.

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ROAD GRADERS CONVERTED to pull behind large 4 WD tractors, 14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and 16â&#x20AC;&#x2122; blade widths available. Call C.W. Enterprises, 306-682-3367, 306-231-8358, Humboldt, SK, www.cwenterprises.ca ONE SPOOL OF 775â&#x20AC;&#x2122; of Vactor high pressure hose, 250 PSI, $1.55/ft. 204-638-6462, Dauphin, MB. FORKLIFTS AND SNOWPLOWS, 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. 306-445-2111, www.eliasmfgltd.com North Battleford, SK.

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WANTED: EXCAVATOR preferably model 200 to 270, JD, Komatscu, Case or Hitachi, year 2000 to 2005. Must have a thumb. 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. 2003 ATLAS COPCO 185CFM compressor, 995 hours, JD engine, vg, $8500; Also large blasting pot. Carrot River, SK. 306-768-2827, 306-768-7888.

FARM AND INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL motor sales, service and parts. Also sale of, and repairs to, all makes and sizes of pumps and phase converters, etc. Tisdale Motor Rewinding 1984 Ltd., 306873-2881, fax 306-873-4788, 1005A- 111 STEEL BUILDING PKG. 155â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x240â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Green Ave., Tisdale, SK. www.tismtrrewind.com roof, green trim w/white sides. Package is CONVERTERS, RUN 220V 3 phase in Regina available immediately. Email SNOW TIME IS ALMOST HERE! 23 skid- PHASE csrregina@sasktel.net, call 306-543-1766 steer and 4 WD loaders. Just received a motors, on single phase. 204-800-1859. if you would like more details. truckload of skidsteer snow buckets and 90â&#x20AC;? snow push blades; 30 snow blades for POLE BARNS, WOODSTEEL packages, truck and farm tractors; Brush rakes for hog, chicken, and dairy barns, grain bins dozers and loaders; Electric power plants, WANTED: GAS OR DIESEL 3 cyl. engine and hoppers. Construction and concrete many sizes. Several hundred misc. items. from Ford 3000 or 3600, or Sellick 5000 crews available. Mel or Scott, MR Steel Two yards over 50 acres, attachments of forklift. Jamie 306-946-9864, Young, SK. Construction, 306-978-0315, Hague, SK. all types. New replacement parts at low, low prices. Phone 204-667-2867, fax 204-667-2932, Winnipeg, MB. 1- 8 77- 5 2 5 - 2 002 SKID STEER ATTACHMENTS, dirt, snow w w w .pio n eero n es teel.co m 1 S TEEL BUILD IN G S and rock buckets, grapples, stump buckW E H AVE A B UILDING T O S UIT A LM O S T A NY NEED! CA LL US W IT H YO URS ! ets, pallet forks. Also have truck decks for 3/4 and 1 ton trucks. Call 306-731-3009, Quality Welding & Sales, Craven, SK. HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS, 6-40 yards: Caterpillar, AC/LaPlant, LeTourneau, Kokudo, etc. Pull type and direct mount avail.; Bucyrus Erie 20 yard cable, $5000; pull type motor grader, $14,900; tires avail. Call 204-822-3797, Morden, MB CAT D-6R HIGH track, slightly used, new kind of tracks, 42 links, link #234-9699H, 30â&#x20AC;? pads, $13,900. for pair. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. 2 SNOW WINGS- POST TYPE. VWS post type for JD D Series grader, fits 770 or 772 ripper mount; Champion 700 cable wing for Series 4 or 5, fits 726, 730 or 740. Call Don at 306-873-7571, Tisdale, SK. 28â&#x20AC;&#x2122; GRAVEL SCREENER and hopper. Call 306-769-8896, Arborfield, SK.

S TR AIGHT W ALL 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; X 60â&#x20AC;&#x2122; X 16â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rig id fra m e bu ild in g a va ila ble for s m a ll reta il ou tlets to la rg e in d u s tria l fa cilities . This s ize for on ly $29,418.

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WANTED: 13 WHEEL wobbly packers, parts or running; 4650 John Deere 2WD tractor. Call 403-391-6118, Red Deer, AB.

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1993 D-85-E-21 KOMATSU twin tilt angle dozer, full canopy guarded, new AC and heat, bush ready, rebuilt motor, trans, torque and new radiator, new U/C w/26â&#x20AC;? pads, 2 tong ripper. Warranty. Consider t r a d e . C a n d e l i v e r, $ 1 3 4 , 0 0 0 . P h . 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. HYDRAULIC EXCAVATORS: 2004 KOBELCO SK290 LC; 2005 Komatsu PC270LC-7L; 2006 CAT 330D; 2006 JD 270 CLC; 2008 Hitachi ZX350 LC-3; 1998 Cat 325BL, all units c/w 2 buckets and hyd. thumbs.780-361-7322, Edmonton, AB 2005 CAT D6N crawler dozer, wide path, 6-way, winch, sweeps, cab guards, exc. cond,4800 hrs.780-284-5500,Westlock,AB.

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CONTERRA GRADER for skidsteers and tractors. Excellent for road maintenance, floating and levelling. 518S-SS, $2499. Conterra manufactures over 150 attachments. Call 1-877-947-2882, view online at www.conterraindustries.com

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DON’T PAY UNTIL Oct., 2013- Book your Meridian fertilizer bins now and don’t pay until next fall. Order before Jan. 1 and get free options +$300 cash back. Options include manway/view glass/pokehole and Levalert. 4100 bu., 5000 bu. and 5300 bu. bins on special. Visit your nearest Flaman store or call 1-888-435-2626 or go to www.flaman.com

WINTER BOOKING and sale prices on large grain bins. Set up and cement crews available. Call for prices and info. Rosler Construction, Saskatoon SK. 306-933-0033

CUSTOM GRAIN BIN MOVING, all types up to 22’ diameter. 10% spring discount. Accurate estimates. Sheldon’s Hauling, 306-961-9699, Prince Albert, SK.

NOW BOOKING SPRING 2013, large di- hopperbottoms.com hopperbottoms.com ameter bins, concrete, set up and install. hopperbottoms.com hopperbottoms.com Call Dale at Quadra Development Corp., hopperbottoms.com hopperbottoms.com 1-800-249-2708, Rocanville, SK.

CHIEF WESTLAND AND CARADON BIN extensions, sheets, stiffeners, etc. Now available. Call Bill, 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB. www.starlinesales.biz

FOR ALL YOUR grain storage, hopper WESTEEL, GOEBEL, grain and fertilizer cone and steel floor requirements contact: bins. Grain Bin Direct, 306-373-4919. Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin toll free: 1-888-304-2837. LIFETIME LID OPENERS. We are a stocking dealer for Boundary Trail Lifetime Lid 3-2200 BU. WESTEEL grain bins with Openers, 18” to 39”. Rosler Construction Darmani steel floors, $6500. Quill Lake, 2000 Inc., 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK. SK., call 306-287-7707, 306-287-8292.

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HOP P ER B IN C OM B O S P EC IA L S 3-5000BU. S AKUN D IAK HO P P ER BIN CO M BO S c/ w roofa n d w a ll la d d ers , top s a fety ca g es , a u to lid op en ers , 12 leg hop p ers , m a n w a ys , s lid e chu tes , trip le s k id s & erected .

DIAMOND CANVAS SHELTERS, sizes ranging from 15’ wide to 120’ wide, any length. Call Bill 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB. www.starlinesales.biz

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Hopper Cone for 19 ft Bin, no skid Startingf rom

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$3,620.00

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Hopper Cone for 21 ft Bin, no skid Startingf rom

$3,445.00

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$6,105.00

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$33,6 00.00 or $2.70P e rBu 2-7200BU. BEHLEN HO P P ER BIN CO M BO S

LIMITED QUANTITY of flat floor Goebel grain bins, at special prices. Grain Bin Direct, 306-373-4919, Saskatoon, SK.

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POLY HOPPER BINS, 100 bu., $900; 150 bu. $1250. Call for nearest dealer. Buffer Valley Ind., 306-258-4422, Vonda, SK.

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$38,400.00 or $2.6 7P e rBu 2-10,000BU. BEHLEN HO P P ER BIN CO M BO S c/ w roofa n d w a ll la d d ers , top s a fety ca g es , a u to lid op en ers , 18 leg hop p ers , m a n w a ys , s lid e chu tes , trip le s k id s & erected .

WINTER BOOKING SPECIAL- Only $2.33 bu. for a 10,400 bu. Unstiffened Twister 24-06HT hopper bin on 24’ welded cone. Includes set up, delivery extra. Book before Jan. 1 and receive a free 7 HP inline fan ($1900 value). Ask about upgrading to a spiral staircase for .10¢/bu. Available from Flaman Sales in Saskatoon 1-888-435-2626 and Prince Albert 1-888-352-6267. www.flaman.com

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SILVER STREAM SHELTERS Super Fall Fabric Building Sale. 30x72 single black steel, $4700; 30x70 double truss P/R, $6995; 38x100 double truss P/R, $11,900; 42x100 double truss P/R, $14,250; 12-1/2 oz. tarp, 15 yr. warranty. Trucks running w e s t w e e k l y, d e l i v e r y a v a i l a b l e . BROCK (BUTLER) GRAIN BIN PARTS 1-877-547-4738 silverstreamshelters.com and accessories available at Rosler Construction. 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK.

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14’Hopper 8 leg H/Duty .................$2,250 14’Hopper 7 leg S/Duty ..................$2,1 50 15’Hopper 8 leg S/Duty ..................$2,6 00 15’-10” Hopper 10 leg H/Duty .........$2,9 50 18’Hopper 12 leg M/Duty ...............$3,9 50 19’Hopper 12 leg M/Duty ...............$4 ,250

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TOP QUALITY BEHLEN/SAKUNDIAK BINS. Book now for best prices. Example: all prices include skid, ladders to ground, manhole, set-up and delivery within set radius. Behlen Hopper combos: 3500 bu. $10,450. SPECIAL 5000 bu. $13,990. We manufacture superior quality hoppers and steel floors for all makes and sizes. Know what you are investing in. Call and find out why our product quality and price well exceeds the competition. We also stock replacement lids for all makes and models of bins. Leasing available. Hoffart Services Inc., 306-957-2033, Odessa, SK.

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HORNOI LEASING NEW and used 20’ and 4 0 ’ s e a c a n s fo r s a l e o r r e n t . C a l l DO YOU NEED NH3 APPLICATION 306-757-2828, Regina, SK. KITS? Call us first! 25+ years of ammonia 40’ STANDARD SEA CONTAINERS for sale, experience. New or used, with or without guaranteed wind, water and rodent proof. sectional control. One of Western Canada’s Five in stock for $3650. Ph Bond Industrial largest MaxQuip dealers, specializing in Direct Incorporated today while supply NH3 application equipment, traditional or lasts. 306-373-2236, 306-221-9630, Sas- pressurized (pump) systems, also new or used nurse tanks. We have a good seleckatoon, SK. email: joe@bondind.com tion of used systems. Double HH Ag Sales, 780-777-8700 or doublehhco@shaw.ca USED FERTILIZER SPREADERS, 4 to 9 ton, 10 ton tender, $2500. 1-866-938-8537. In dus tria l D ire ct In corp ora te d www.zettlerfarmequipment.com S a s ka tchew a n ’s n u m b er o n e s o u rce fo r New , Us ed a n d M o d ified S ea Co n ta in ers . Recycle, Reu s e, Rein ven t

20’ AND 40’ SEA CONTAINERS, for sale in Calgary, AB. Phone 403-226-1722, 1-866-517-8335. www.magnatesteel.com

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20’ TO 53’ CONTAINERS. New, used and modified. Available Winnipeg, MB; Regina and Saskatoon, SK. www.g-airservices.ca 306-933-0436.

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SHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR SALE. 20’53’, delivery/ rental/ storage available. For inventory and prices call: 306-262-2899, Saskatoon, SK, thecontainerguy.ca

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HORST TOW BEHIND new liquid caddy, 1600 US gal. Ace Rotomold tank, 2.5” fill, pump, $14,900. Different options avail. Call Corner Equipment 204-483-2774 or website: cornerequipment.com Carroll, MB

FERTILIZER STORAGE TANKS- 8300 Imp. gallon tanks avail. Contact your nearest Flaman store or call 1-888-435-2626 or visit www.flaman.com 1998 DUTCH INDUSTRIES 43’ NH3 Coulter applicator, c/w MVD and Continental meter system, $5000. Located in Coaldale, AB. 403-345-2180, 8:00- 4:30 weekdays.

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augers, seed cleaning plants, grain cleaners, combine bubble-up augers.

SAKUNDIAK AUGER SALE. New 8x1200, $4400; 8x1400, $4775; 8x1600 $5295; SLMD 12x72, $16,500 after rebate; 10x1200, 4 wheel Hawes; 29 HP Kawasaki, new tube and flight, $13,750. Call Brian “The Auger Guy” 204-724-6197, Souris, MB SAKUNDIAK HARVEST CASH-IN EVENT: $1000 rebate on new swingaway augers. Used 12”x72’ Sakundiak SLM/D, $14,900; One 2008 12”x78’ Sakundiak SLM/D, $15,900; 8”x1600; 7”x1400 c/w 14 HP Kohler; 7”x1800 c/w 18 HP Kohler; Convey-All conveyors available. All units have leasing options. Call Dale at Mainway Farm Equipment Ltd. 306-567-3285, 306-567-7299, Davidson, SK, website www.mainwayfarmequipment.ca SAKUNDIAK GRAIN AUGERS available with self-propelled mover kits and bin sweeps. Contact Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin toll free 1-888-304-2837. REMOTE CONTROL SWING AUGER MOVERS; Endgate and hoist systems; Trailer chute openers; Wireless full bin alarms; Digital wireless cameras; Portable combine. Doing it right... keeping you safe... by remote control. Call Brehon Agrisystems at: 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK.

2007 BANDIT LIQUID caddy, 1750 gallon. One year old John Blue pump w/2” Honda pump, like new. Ph Patrick 306-638-3177, Chamberlain, SK.

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USED BATCO 1545 field loader conveyor w/30 HP engine, $13,500. Flaman Sales in Saskatoon 1-888-435-2626, or visit SAKUNDIAK AUGER SALE: HD8-39 www.flaman.com w/27 HP, elec. clutch and Hawes mover, reg. $16,325, sale $13,800; HD8-53 w/30 BUILD YOUR OWN conveyors, 6”, 7”, 8” HP, elec. clutch and Hawes mover, reg. and 10” end units available; Transfer con- $17,750, sale, $15,500. 306-648-3622, veyors and bag conveyors or will custom Gravelbourg, SK. build. Call for prices. Master Industries Inc. www.masterindustries.ca Phone REPLACEMENT 1-866-567-3101, Loreburn, SK.

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BATCO 2085 SWING conveyor, totally re- CLS 3250 2012, used w/500 gal. starter furbished, ready to go. Reduced to tank TBH, 3” fill, John Blue double piston $29,900. 306-726-4403, Southey, SK 11 HP Briggs, 800 rubber front and rear, BEAVER CONTAINER SYSTEMS, new a n d u s e d s e a c o n t a i n e r s , a l l s i z e s . BATCO CONVEYORS, new/used, grain like new cond., $33,500. Call: Corner 306-220-1278, Saskatoon and Regina, SK. augers, grain vacs, SP kits. Delivery and Equipment 204-483-2774, Carroll, MB. or see website: cornerequipment.com leasing available. 1-866-746-2666.

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BANDIT 3400 2010 John Blue ground drive, Honda fill pump, 3” fill, very nice, $26,900. Corner Equipment 204-483-2774 or see website: cornerequipment.com Carroll, MB.

2010 WESTFIELD 10”X41’ auger, with 36 HP Kohler, elec. clutch and Wheatheart mover, $10,000 firm. 306-224-4272, Winthorst, SK. 3400 US GALLON Polywest liquid caddy, 3” SAKUNDIAK GRAIN AUGERS: SP kits gas pump, ground drive or hyd. pump, and clutches, Kohler, B&S engines, gas and KEHO, STILL THE FINEST. Clews Storage nice shape. Call for pricing 204-522-0926, diesel. Call Brian “The Auger Guy” Management/ K. Ltd., 1-800-665-5346. Medora, MB. 204-724-6197, Souris, MB.

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UNSTIFFENED GRAIN BIN FOR HOPPER MOUNT (bin only) Bushels Dia. #Tiers 4280

Reg. Price 5145

Year end discount $467

Year end COST/ price BUSHEL $4678 $1.09

UNSTIFFENED GRAIN BIN FOR FLAT MOUNT (bin only)

GREAT CAPACITY, 300 TON/HOUR 1 BUSHEL CLEAN UP AT THE END OF THE BAG. FULLY WINDS UP GRAIN BAG

CHABOT IMPLEMENTS Elie, MB 204-353-2392 Neepawa, MB 204-476-3333 Steinbach, MB 204-326-6417 F.V. PIERLOT & SONS Nipawin, SK 306-862-4732 GREENFIELD AGRO SERVICE Rosetown, SK 306-882-2600 KROEKER MACHINERY Winkler, MB 204-325-4311 MARKUSSON NEW HOLLAND Emerald Park, SK 1-800-819-2583 MARTODAM MOTORS Spiritwood, SK 306-883-2045 MOODY’S EQUIPMENT LTD. Saskatoon, SK 306-934-4686 Perdue, SK 306-237-4272 Unity SK 306-228-2686 Lloydminster, SK 306-825-6141 Kindersley, SK 306-463-2335 Olds, AB 403-556-3939 High River, AB 403-652-1410 Balzac, AB 403-295-7824 NYKOLAISHEN FARM EQUIPMENT Kamsack, SK 306-542-2814 Swan River, MB 204-734-3466

HAT AGRI-SERVICE NEERLANDIA CO-OP Medicine Hat, AB 403-526-3701, 780-674-3020 1-888-526-3702 PARKLAND FARM EQUIPMENT Dunmore, AB,403-526-3701, 1-888-526-3702 North Battleford, SK 306-445-2427 HI LINE FARM EQUIPMENT LTD. REDVERS AGR. & SUPPLY LTD. Wetaskiwin, AB 780-352-9244, 306-452-3444 1-888-644-5463 ROBERTSON IMPLEMENTS (1988) LTD. HOULDER AUTOMOTIVE LTD. Shaunavon, SK, 306-297-4131 Falher, AB, 780-837-4691, 1-866-837-4691 Grimshaw, AB 780-332-4691, Swift Current, SK 306-773-4948 1-800-746-4691 SCHROEDER BROS. KASH FARM SUPPLIES LTD. Chamberlain, SK 306-638-6305 Eckville, AB 403-746-2211, 1-800-567-4394 WHITE AG SALES & SERVICE E. BOURASSA & SONS: Whitewood, SK 306-735-2300 Assinniboia 1-877-474-2456 AR-MAN EQUIPMENT Estevan 1-877-474-2495 Vulcan, AB 403-485-6968, 1-866-485-6968 Pangman 1-877-474-2471 Radville 1-877-474-2450 BILL’S FARM SUPPLIES INC. Weyburn 1-877-474-2491 Stettler, AB 403-742-8327 RAYMORE NEW HOLLAND CAOUETTE & SONS IMPLEMENTS Raymore, SK 306-746-2911 St. Paul, AB 780-645-4422 WATROUS NEW HOLLAND FOSTER’S AGRI-WORLD Watrous, SK 306-946-3301 Beaverlodge, AB 780-354-3622, YORKTON NEW HOLLAND 1-888-354-3620 Yorkton, SK 306-782-8511

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Bushels Dia. #Tiers 5900 10050

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Reg. Price 6694 9095

Year end discount $799 $1100

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PORTABLE GRAIN CLEANING SYSTEM. Clipper Super 298DH, SN 30433 and Carter SA 5, SN 182, mounted on a Prairie gooseneck tandem trailer (1991) and 1973 Chevrolet C60 truck with Kohler generator for portable power. Also have Clipper NEW “R” SERIES Wheatheart Augers: R 248BD mill SN 22155, very nice condition. 8x41, 27 HP Kohler, HD clutch, w/mover, Call for more info 701-862-3113, ask for reg. $14,075, sale $12,250; R 8x51, 30 HP John or Gary. Can email pics. Parshall, ND. Kohler, HD clutch, w/mover, reg. $14,907, sale $12,750; R 10x41, 35 HP Vanguard, WANTED TO BUY or rent: mobile seed HD clutch, w/mover, reg. $15,530, sale cleaner, 100-300 bu./hr, European equip. $13,240. 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK. if possible. 780-662-2617, Tofield, AB. MICHEL’S HYD. TRANSFER augers to WANTED: 100 BU/hr., Gjesdal 5 in 1 grain mount on grain trailer for grain and fert. cleaner, in decent shape, screens and if use, c/w remote control, $3295. Quill possible on a trailer. Call 306-547-8337 Lake, SK. 306-287-7707, 306-287-8292. anytime, Preeceville, SK. AUGERS: NEW and USED: Wheatheart, Westfield, Westeel, Sakundiak augers; Auger SP kits; Batco conveyors; Wheatheart post pounders. Good prices, leasing available. Call 1-866-746-2666.

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GSI GRAIN DRYERS. Ph. Glenmor, Prince Albert, SK., 1-888-708-3739. For all your grain drying needs! www.glenmor.cc We are the GT grain dryer parts distributor.

WANTED: 48” FARM KING or Buhler rotary g r a i n c l e a n e r. L e a v e m e s s a g e : 204-623-2813, The Pas, MB.

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USED SORTEX Colour Sorter for sale. 90000 series bio-chromatic. Machine currently has 2 chutes, capable of expansion with a third, c/w laptop for programming. $39,000. www.flamangraincleaning.com BUCKET ELEVATORS FROM 100-10,000 C a l l F l a m a n G r a i n C l e a n i n g t o d ay. bushels per hour. Replacement cups, belt1-888-435-2626. ing, bolts, etc., for all makes of bucket eleKIPPKELLY GRAVITY table, model SY300, vators. U trough screw and drag conveyors less motor, $4000. Call 306-795-3314, Itu- also available. Sever’s Mechanical Services Inc. 1-800-665-0847, Winnipeg, MB. na, SK. CUSTOM COLOR SORTING. All types of ELEVATOR IN LAMPMAN, SK. 150,000 bu., commodities. Call Ackerman Ag Services 2 steel legs, grain cleaner, pea cleaner, 50’ scale, active rail line. 306-487-7993. 306-638-2282, Chamberlain, SK. SIDING FOR- grain elevators OFFERING FOR SALE: Cimbria Delta model ALUMINUM alled Manitoba Siding. Call • Po s itio n gra in a u ger o r 108 super cleaner, right hand model c204-835-2493 or 204-647-2493. Fax co n veyo r in to b in rem o tely; w/centre clean product discharge, purN EW b y yo u rs elf. chased new in 2000, has seen approx. 15 204-835-2494, McCreary, MB. PRODUCT • Po w erfu l m a gn ets to a d here million bu., but well maintained, unit to be to gra in & co m b in e a u gers , sold as is where located at the Three Hills co n veyo rs , etc. Seed Plant with shipping the responsibility MOTOMCO 919 MOISTURE tester w/Nexof the purchaser, $35,000 OBO. For more us scale, thermometers and storage case, • Ca m era is w a terpro o f info please contact Greg Andrews at $750; Simple Sampler portable combine, & co lo r w ith a u d io . 403-443-5464, Three Hills, AB. S ee w eb s ite fo r m o re d eta ils o r Ca ll 12 volt, $150. 306-788-4502, Marquis, SK. Brow n le e s Truckin g I nc. Un ity, S K DUAL STAGE ROTARY SCREENERS and Kwik Kleen 5-7 tube. Portage la Prairie, 306-228-297 1 o r www.zettlerfarmequipment.com or call 2007 BRANDT 5000 EX grain vac, w/pile1-87 7 -228-5 5 98 204-857-8403. always shedded and maintained, w w w .fullb in s upe rs e n s o r.co m DEMO FARM KING 482, elec. motor, au- driver, $14,750 OBO. 306-442-7955, Parry, SK. ger, control panel and cord, $8900. Pro Ag S A K U N D I A K A U G E R S I N S TO C K : 2008 REM 2700, c/w set of hoses, floor swings, truck loading, Hawes Agro SP Sales, 306-441-2030, N. Battleford, SK. shovel, 75 hrs., shedded. Quill Lake, SK., movers. Contact Hoffart Services Inc. 306-287-7707, 306-287-8292. DUAL SCREEN ROTARY grain cleaners, Odessa, SK, 306-957-2033. great for pulse crops, best selection in CONEYAIR GRAIN VACS, parts, accessoWestern Canada. Phone 306-259-4923 or ries. Call Bill 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB. 306-946-7923, Young, SK. www.starlinesales.biz

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GRAIN AUGER INVENTORY CLEAR OUT 13” x 95 ftAuge rs . .$20,800 13” x 85 ftAuge rs . .$18,000

4500 BRANDT GRAIN VAC, new impeller and bearings, exc. cond., $10,000. Call 204-725-2156, Brandon, MB.

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TURNKEY GRAIN CLEANING BUSINESS F450 truck, cleaner, 70 plus customers. and support. Quick set-up/no levPh on e : 1. 800. 66 7. 88 00 Training eling. Quick/complete clean out. Average per hr.: wheat/oats 400, barley 300, flax 45’ BELT CONVEYOR (Batco field loader 225. All screens, feed and discharge au1545) c/w motor and mover kit. 6000 gers, generator and scale. 306-698-2686, bu./hour, ideal for unloading hopper bins. Wolseley, SK. rlmoss@xplornet.ca Gentle handling of pulse crops. Call your n e a r e s t F l a m a n s t o r e o r c a l l WANTED: SEED CLEANING equipment, 200/400 bu. per hr. screen and indents. 1-888-435-2626. 204-776-2047, 204-534-7458, Minto, MB.

BALE SPEARS, high quality imported from Italy, 27” and 49”, free shipping, excellent pricing. Call now toll free 1-866-443-7444, Stonewall, MB. 2007 AGCO HESSTON 2656A 5x6 round baler, fully auto., mesh and twine. Like new, shedded, only made 1900 bales, $30,000. 306-762-4712, Vibank, SK.

GRAIN BAGGING EQUIPMENT, new or NEW AND USED grain dryers. Contact used 9’ or 10’ baggers and extractors. Franklin Voth, Manitou, MB. 204-242-3300 Double HH Ag Sales, 780-777-8700 or or cell: 204-242-4123, www.fvoth.com doublehhco@shaw.ca SUPERB GRAIN DRYERS. Largest and quietest single phase dryer in the industry. CSA approved. Over 34 years experience in grain drying. Moridge parts also avail. Grant Services Ltd, 306-272-4195, Foam Lake, SK.

BALE SPEAR ATTACHMENTS for all loaders and skidsteers, excellent pricing. Call now 1-866-443-7444. TRUCK MOUNT, bale picker mover, also cattle and bale scales. 306-445-2111, www.eliasmfgltd.com North Battleford, SK. 6600 HAYLINE BALE processor, good condition, $4500 OBO. Call 780-632-7580, Vegreville, AB.

TRI HAUL SELF-UNLOADING ROUND BALE MOVERS: 8’ to 29’ lengths, 6-18 bales, also excellent for feeding cattle in the field, 4 bales at time with a pickup. 1-800-505-9208. www.LiftOffTriHaul.com NEW SUKUP GRAIN Dryers - LP/NG, 1 or 3 NEW AND USED grain baggers and extrac- phase, canola screens. Call for more info NH SQUARE BALER #273, good shape, tors available for sale or rent. Call Mike at and winter pricing. Contact 204-998-9915, front PTO seal does leak, $2500 OBO. Last used in 2009. Ph. 780-336-6378, Irma, AB. Altamont, MB. 306-934-1414, Warman, SK.

‘04 BRENT 1084 AVALANCHE GRAIN CART - 1,100 bu, tandem walking axle, 20’ hyd. auger, 520/85R38, hyd. drive avail. $34800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com 2009 BRENT 1194 grain cart, 20.8x38 tires, tandem walking axle, tarp, non custom machines, exc. cond., $54,000 OBO. L l oy d S p r o u l e , P i n c h e r C r e e k , A B . 403-627-7363 or 403-627-2764. N E W 4 0 0 B U. G R AV I T Y WAG O N S , $7,100; 600 bu., $12,000. Large selection used gravity wagons, 250-750 bu. Used grain carts, 450-1050 bu. 1-866-938-8537. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com DON’T PAY UNTIL OCT. 2013 - Book your J&M grain cart now and don’t make your first lease payment until Oct. 1, 2013. Order today to get the colours and options you want for summer delivery. Blowout prices for all remaining 2012 models (c/w Michel’s tarps). Visit your nearest Flaman store or call 1-888-435-2626 or go to www.flaman.com

CUSTOM COLOR SORTING chickpeas to mustard. Cert organic and conventional. 306-741-3177, Swift Current, SK. CARTER SCREEN MACHINE, model 1850 with scalper. Call 306-445-5602, North Battleford, SK. PORTABLE GRAIN CLEANER and accessories. Call Ted McGregor, 204-673-2527, cell 204-522-6008, Waskada, MB. LOOKING FOR: Grain cleaning equipment, oat debearder, indent, air and screen machine, air system equipment, grain legs. 780-928-2621, La Crete, AB.

designed to minimize damage to wrapped bales. One man remote operation from tractor. Automatic bale dumping. Self loading & unloading.

‘08 CIH 2142 - 35’, PUR, knife & guards, factory transport, same as MacDon D50, fits JD STS/CAT 500 series, $49,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

2009 JD T670, c/w 915 PU, 657/865 hrs., AutoTrac ready, Greenlight last year, 1900 acres on new rub bars and chopper b l a d e s , a l w ay s s h e d d e d , $ 2 1 5 , 0 0 0 . 780-374-2337, 780-679-5918 Daysland AB 2011 9120, duals, low hours, excellent condition, $275,000. 306-821-2566, Wat- 2001 9650 STS, Y&M monitor, 2450 hrs., 1750 sep. hrs., shedded, second owner, son, SK. exc. cond., $95,000 OBO. Call 306-323-4401, Rose Valley, SK.

COMBINE SPECIAL PRICING, effective now until Dec. 15. Cash no trade, we deliver. Call the Combine King, Gord, YEAR END CLEARANCE. 2012 Hesston, 403-308-1135, Lethbridge, AB. 15.5’ disc mower conditioner, 2.75% for 60 months OAC. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 2008 8010 w/duals and lateral tilt, 750 sep. hrs, oils and filters changed, ready to 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. go, $225,000; 2009 2020 35’ flex header w/air reel, $25,000. 403-502-6332, Schuler, AB. 2008 CIH 1203 30’, $89,900; four 2011 CIH WD 1203 36’, $119,000/ea; 2010 CIH WD 1203 36’, $106,000; CIH 736, 36’, PT, $1500 as is; Prairie Star (MD) 4930, 30’, 2001 CAT 470, Cebis monitor, Y&M, P-13 $49,900; Prairie Star (MD) 4930 30’, PU header, chopper, 2700 hrs., $53,000. $48,900; MacDon H. Pro 8152i 36’, Call 306-370-8010, Saskatoon, SK. $79,900, MacDon 150 35’, $123,000; MacDon M150 35’, $132,00; WP MacDon 7000 25’, $9900. Hergott Farm Equipment 306-682-2592, Humboldt, SK. 2010 CR 9090, 470 sep. hrs., fully equipped incl. HID lights, 27’ unload auger, auto-guidance, 20.8x42 duals, deluxe interior. More info. and purchase options, 3 0 6 - 2 8 7 - 7 7 0 7 , 3 0 6 - 2 8 7 - 8 2 9 2 d ay s , 306-383-2508 after 8 PM, Quill Lake, SK. 2002 TR99, 2025 eng., 1575 sep. hours, Redekop chopper, long auger, dual rotor speed, $88,000 OBO. Ph 780-608-4387, Daysland, AB. or ntspiller@gmail.com ‘06 CIH WDX1202S SWATHER - 827 hrs., JUST ARRIVED: TWO CR9080’s, through 2011 DH302 Honeybee/Case header, NH shop. Hergott Farm Equipment. Your double knife drive, PUR, very good Case/IH dealer, 306-682-2592, Humboldt. cond’n., Lease or Finance. $79,800. 2003 CR-970, Y&M, Terrain Tracer, chopTrades welcome. Financing available. p e r, c h a f f s p r e a d e r, 1 4 ’ P U h e a d e r, 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com $127,000. 306-370-8010, Saskatoon, SK. 1996 MACDON 25’ SP, 960 header, triple 2003 CR960, 1784 sep. hours, shedded, delivery, PU reel, Roto-Shear, exc. cond., loaded up, 2000 acres on new rotors, rub $35,000 OBO. 306-747-2514, Shellbrook. bars, concaves, fan, newer Case 2016 header with 16’ Swathmaster, $109,000. 2012 M155 MACDON, 25’, double knife, 780-375-2443, 780-679-8784, Kelsey, AB. DS. 2009 M150 MACDON, 25’, double knife, DS. 403-393-0219, 403-833-2190. 2001 NH TR99, 2022 eng. hrs, hopper topper, chaff spreader, duals, stored indoors, 2008 CASE 1903, 588 hrs., 30’ header, PU 14’ PU, long auger, $70,000 OBO. 30’ reel, double swath, header tilt, fore/aft, straight cut header available separately. $90,000 OBO. 403-653-2201, Cardston, AB 204-479-6665, St. Francois Xavier, MB. 2002 MACDON 4940, 25’, 1700 hrs, large 2002 TR99 1765 engine hrs., 1363 sep. tires front and rear, double knife, DS, new hrs., Redekop chopper, Crary hopper topknife and guards 2 yrs. ago, always shed- per, Norac auto header height, terrain ded, $49,000. 780-878-1550, Camrose, AB tracer, straight cut header avail. Insurance SELL YOUR EQUIPMENT online with Hod- r e b u i l d at 1 0 0 0 h r s , $ 9 2 , 5 0 0 O B O. gins before year end. Auction runs from 780-985-3779, Thorsby, AB. Dec. 19 to 26, 2012. Call now to enter your equipment. 1-800-667-2075, Melfort, SK., PL#915407. 1997 R62, 2810 hrs., Victory PU, 30’ rigid 2002 MF 220XL, 30’ header, UII PU reels, and 2000 JD 30’ 930F flex w/PU reel, Perkins diesel, new rollers and canvases, adapted to R62 and 2 header trailers, very excellent condition, 1250 hrs., $45,000. good condition, $54,000. 306-773-9275, 306-821-2566, Watson, SK. McMahon, SK. jc.wiens@sasktel.net YEAR END CLEARANCE. 2012 MF 9735, 137 HP rear suspension, hyd. tilt, fore/aft, 30’ DSA, Schumacher knife, 2.75% for 60 months OAC. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 2006 JD 9760 STS, bullet rotor, 850 sep. hrs., with Precision PU, $155,000 OBO. 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. Phone 306-726-5840, Markinch, SK. 2- 2010 JD 9870, loaded, approx. 670 sep. hrs., duals, Michel’s covers, long augers, WANTED: FULL CARRY swather transport. power tailboard. 306-397-2678, Edam, SK Must be in good condition. 306-747-2514, FOUR 1997 JD 9500, exc. cond., shedded, Shellbrook, SK. good tires, concave and rubbars, price neWANTED: WORKING GOVERNOR for an gotiable. Call 306-298-4445, Bracken, SK. IHC 4000 swather. Hoof Model BD7700. Will also consider a complete smaller swather if it has a good governor and AC. Please email: sbchristensen@mcsnet.ca Holden, AB.

CASE/IH COMBINES and other makes and models. Call the combine superstore. Trades welcome, delivery can be arranged. Call Gord 403-308-1135, Lethbridge, AB. 2003 CIH 2388, AFX rotor, 2015 header, 1490 rotor hrs, annual maintenance done, exc. condition, $104,000. 306-728-8303, 306-728-3231, Melville, SK. REDUCED FOR YEAR END: 0% financing or c a s h b a c k OAC . 2 0 1 1 9 1 2 0 , d u a l s , $309,000; 2011 9120 $312,000; 2011 9120, $329,000; 2009 8120, 347 hrs., $259,000; 2010 8120, $274,000; 2008 8010; Four 2011 8120’s, Just in; 2006 8010 topper, $189,000; 2388 AFX Y&M, topper; 2003 2388 AFX, $99,000; 2002 2388, $88,000; 2188 SP roto w/accelor, $59,900; 1984 1480, hyd., reverser, straw and chaff spreader, $10,900. Hergott Farm Equipment, 306-682-2592, Humboldt, SK.

2007 JD 9660WTS, only 528 sep. hrs., auto header height control, auto reel speed control, hyd. fore/aft, grain loss monitor, rock trap, 21’6” unloading auger, hopper topper. Just been Greenlighted! Excellent shape! $169,900. Call Jordan 403-627-9300 anytime, Pincher Creek, AB. 9600 JD COMBINE, 2300 sep. hrs., exc. s h ap e , G r e e n l i g h t e d , s h e d d e d . C a l l 306-785-4426, Ponteix, SK.

2009 JD 9770 STS, 543 hrs., Premier Cab, Contour-Master w/Hi-Torque reverser, 20.8x42 duals, JD extension, chopper, $209,500 US. Fairfax, MN. 320-848-2496, 320-894-6560, www.ms-diversified.com 2001 JD 9650 STS, 1347 sep. hrs., auto header height control, DAS reel, hyd. fore/aft, grain loss monitor, Y&M, chaff spreader, chopper, Maurer hopper topper, 800/65R32 drive and 18.4x26 rear Firestone tires, Auto Trac steering wheel included, no header, always shedded, very well maintained, exc. cond., $105,000. Call Vaughn 306-574-4905 or 306-375-7907, Lacadena, SK. (Eston-Elrose-Kyle area)

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‘91 JD 9600, 2 spd. cyl., FC chopper, long auger, hopper extension, $25,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com 2011 9870 STS, 240 rotor hrs., big duals, Contour-Master, powercast chopper, 26’ unload auger, pro-drive, harvest smart, no pulses, Greenlighted, $297,000. Call 306-834-7610, Major, SK. 2- 2009 JD 9770 STS, 539 and 506 hrs., Contour-Masters w/Hi-Torque reversers, 20.8x42 duals, bin extensions, choppers, as is $189,500 or Greenlighted, $205,000 e a c h U S . w w w. m s - d i v e r s i f i e d . c o m 320-848-2496, 320-894-6560, Fairfax, MN. 2006 JD 9760 STS, 1480 hrs., Performaxed, $32,000 workorder w/615 PU, 800-38 rubber. 780-221-3980, Leduc, AB. 2009 JD 9770, loaded, $179,500; 2008 JD 936D header, $37,500; new 1050 bu. grain cart, $25,500. 204-822-3797, Morden, MB.

2009 MF 9895, 600 separator hours, duals MAV chopper, lateral tilt, mapping, HID, w/all options, $200,000. Can hold w/deposit until Feb. 403-318-9447, Trochu, AB. 2011 MASSEY FERGUSON 9895, 245 hours, MAV chopper, 16’ Rake-Up PU, warranty. 403-588-0766, Three Hills, AB.

‘07 JD 936D HEADER - single pt., PUR, factory transport, hyd. F/A, adapter in good cond’n., rice header.$38,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com 1987 JD 7720 Titan II, w/212 PU header and 230 straight header, good cond. JETCO ENT. INC. Experienced equipment hauling and towing. AB, SK, MB. Call 306-458-2555, Midale, SK. 780-888-1122, Lougheed, AB. 2011 JD 9870, big duals, Contour-Master, ProDrive, 615 PU, 250 hrs., long auger, SELL YOUR EQUIPMENT online with Hodgins before year end. Auction runs from hopper topper. 204-673-2382, Melita, MB. Dec. 19 to 26, 2012. Call now to enter 1998 JD 9610 Maximizer, 2000 sep. hrs., your equipment. 1-800-667-2075, Melfort, 914 PU header, hopper ext., yield monitor, SK., PL#915407. JD chaff spreader, always shedded, mint. $80,000. 780-675-3896, Athabasca, AB. 2000 JD 9650W, only 1457 sep. hrs., auto header height control, dial-a-speed, chaff spreader, chopper, hopper topper, 30.5-32 drive tires, 14.9-24 rear tires, JD 914 PU header, always shedded, excellent condition, $119,000. Call Jordan 403-627-9300 anytime, Pincher Creek, AB. YEAR END CLEARANCE: 0% finance or cash back. 2010 JD 9870, Contour-Master, pro drive, 42” duals, $289,000; 2008 JD 9870 STS, duals, $239,000; JD 9600 CTS. Hergott Farm Equipment your Case/IH Dealer, 306-682-2592, Humboldt, SK.

2002 JD 930 flex header, excellent condition, $16,500 OBO. Phone 306-726-5840, Markinch, SK. 2004 JD 635F, updated auger, auger swing arms, new flex plate, vg cond., $20,000. Dennis at 204-746-5369, Arnaud, MB. 1994 JD 843 corn head, very good condition, $14,000. Dennis at 204-746-5369, Arnaud, MB.

2002 JD 9750 combine, 914 PU header, 1838 threshing hrs., excellent condition, $120,000. 306-948-2896, Biggar, SK. 2002 JD 9750, 2290 hrs., just put through shop, excellent shape, asking $95,000. 1997 CIH 2188, 2746 sep. hrs., auto HHC, Call: Peter 780-603-3455, Vegreville, AB. chopper, new tires 30.5L-32, chaff spreader, rock trap, long auger, top ext, 1015 PU 2005 9860, BULLET rotor, 1190 sep. hrs., header, exc. cond., field ready, $37,500 or c/w 615 PU; 2003 9750 STS, 2100 sep. $ 3 4 , 5 0 0 w i t h o u t h e a d e r. F i n a n c i n g h r s . , C o n t o u r - M a s t e r, V i c t o r y P U. available. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK. $114,000. 780-679-7795, Camrose, AB.

2007 JD 635 flex header, Crary air reel, A-1 cond., $32,900. Will deal, can deliver. Call 204-324-6298, Altona, MB. GERINGHOFF 8 ROW 30” chopping cornhead, headsite, JD single point, stalk stompers, exc . cond., $46,900. Call 204-324-6298, Altona, MB. 2008 CASE/IH 2020 flex, 35’, $22,000; 3 2007 Honeybee; 3 - NH 971; Case/IH 1015 PU. 306-370-8010, Saskatoon, SK.

2008 CASE 2588, 2015 pickup, 478/594 hrs., yield and moisture, Pro 600 monitor, rice tires, heavy soil machine, $170,000 open to offers. Phone 204-981-5366, 204-735-2886, Starbuck, MB. 1994 IH 1688, only 2800 eng. hrs., always shedded, $40,000. 306-536-5104, Cupar, SK. 2009 9120, MAGNA-CUT chopper, Pro 600, 700 hrs., $227,000; 1998 2388, 2800 hrs., chopper, hopper cover, Swathmaster, $59,000. 306-370-8010, Saskatoon, SK.

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2007 JD 4930, 527 spray hrs., 1114 eng. hrs., 380 and 620 tires and rims, c/w narrow and wide fenders, 1200 gal. SS tank, traction control, 2600 GPS w/swath control and autofold/height, 120’ boom, Starfire ITC, instructor seat, 5 point nozzle bodies, 5 sensor boom trac, fence rows, HID lights, remote spraytest, 3” fill. Always 2012 SCHULTE SDX 960; 2005 Schulte shedded, excellent condition, $235,000. 9600, located at Grand Coulee, SK. Call 780-632-7188, 780-603-4530, Vegreville, Dale at 306-539-8590. AB. Email shaunfried1@mac.com 2011 JD 4930, 550 hrs., 2 sets tires w/fenders, hi-flo pump, Raven AutoBoom, GS3 monitor, mint condition, can deliver. Call for attractive pricing 204-522-0926, Medora, MB.

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2004 APACHE 850 sprayer, 90’ booms, GPS, auto shut-off, large front end, 900 FORKLIFTS AND SNOWPLOWS, 8’, 10’, 12’. gal tank, new tires, only 1150 hrs., 306-445-2111, www.eliasmfgltd.com $85,000. 306-536-5104, Cupar, SK. North Battleford, SK. 1998 MAVERICK HIGH clearance sprayer, hrs., SS tank, air ride, air seat, Raven 8’ FARM KING 3 PTH snowblower with dual 3300 AccuBoom, AutoBoom. Asking augers, excellent shape. 306-792-4544, AutoSteer, $42,000. 306-628-4200 or, 306-628-7704, Springside, SK. Leader, SK. 2010 MILLER CONDOR G75, mechanical drive, 1200 gal. tank, 120’ five section 2008 JF-STOLI 1355 forage harvester, boom, 3-way bodies, Raven Envisio Pro, used four seasons, under 500 hrs., always SmarTrax AutoSteer, hyd. wheel adjust, shedded, new rotor, knives and shear bar, AccuBoom sectional control, end row nozno rocks, vg cond., well maintained ma- zles, UltraGlide boom control, 24.5x32 duchine. $55,000 OBO. Cam Sparrow, Van- als, 100 gal. rinse tank, boom blowouts, excellent condition, field ready, $199,500. scoy, SK. 306-227-3607. 306-535-7708, Sedley, SK. COMMERCIAL SILAGE, TRUCK BODIES, trailers. Well constructed, heavy duty, ta- 2008 JD 4830, 1760 eng. hrs., 811 spray pered w/regular grain gates or hyd. silage hrs., 100’ boom, new break-aways this yr., 5 point nozzle bodies, SS tank, 2 sets tires, gates. CIM, Humboldt, SK, 306-682-2505. traction control, tread adjust, 2600 GPS YOUNG’S EQUIPMENT INC. For all your w/swath control and auto height, 3” fill, on silage equipment needs call Kevin or Ron board air, always shedded, fresh oil toll free 1-800-803-8346, Regina, SK. change, 4 crop dividers, $190,000. Call NH FR 9080 CHOPPER, c/w 8 row corn Doug at 780-608-5413, Daysland, AB. header, 15’ pickup header, 900 cutter hrs. 2003 APACHE 859 SP sprayer, 2100 hrs., 403-394-4401, Lethbridge, AB. 90’ booms, 800 gal. tank, Outback AutoSteer, AutoBoom shutoff, 2 sets rear tires, updated heavy front end, Greenlight done fall 2012, field ready, $95,000. Edenwold, SK. Phone: cell: 306-536-9597. 1996 WILLMAR 765 Special Edition, 3464 hrs., 90’ boom, 2 sets of tires, Midtech autorate controller, wired for JD AutoSteer, $39,500. Call 204-304-0999, Altona, MB. 2000 CHEROKEE 575, 75’ booms, Trimble GPS and AutoSteer, EZ-Boom sectional control, 500 gal. tank, always shedded, 2004 JD 7500 Forage Harvester, no PU, 2600 hrs., $41,500 OBO. 306-259-2224, 1910 hrs., autolube, AutoSteer, spout ext., 306-946-9515 cell, Young, SK. service records, $130,000 OBO. 1996 SPRA-COUPE 3630 high clearance, 403-684-3540, Brant, AB. 70’ boom, foam marker, 1800 hours, $29,500. 604-854-0668, Abbotsford, BC.

2009 AG SHIELD 134’, 1250 gal. tank, loaded, $38,000. Call Darren 306-231-8733, St. Gregor, SK.

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2006 60’ 5710 BOURGAULT with 2007 6550 tank, 12” spacing, MRS. Tank c/w 4 tank metering, bag lift, and duals. $162,000. 306-472-3000, Lafleche, SK.

2012 JD 1910, TBH air cart, 430 bu. w/hitch, 4 rollers, dual castors, 710 rears, $80,000. 780-842-8249, Wainwright, AB. 1996 BOURGAULT 32’ 8800, c/w 2155 air cart, 8” spacing, quick detach poly packers and 4 bar harrows, all pins, bushings and hoses are new, good 1” carbide tips, cart has all new 5” hoses, no rust, shedded, field ready, looks and is in very good condition, $30,000 OBO. 306-368-2351 or 306-231-8001, Lake Lenore, SK. 2012 JD 4730, 600 hrs., full load, wide/ 2001 BOURGAULT 5350, dual fan, rice narrow rubber. Auto height/steer/shutoff, tires, loaded, always shedded, $47,500. SS tank, 4 yr. warranty, 100’. North Battle- 306-460-9740, 306-460-9846 Coleville, SK ford, SK. 306-445-1353, 306-441-2061. 1996 GREEN CONCORD 5012, 3400 PATRIOT NT, AutoSteer, $59,900; 2011 double tank, w/3rd canola tank, single CIH 3230 N&W tires and Aim Command, shoot Stealths, 1 owner, $38,000 OBO. $234,000; 2011 CIH 3330 Aim Command, 780-221-3980, Leduc, AB. N&W tires, $259,000; Rogator 864, 2 sets of tires, $119,000; 2010 CIH 4420, Aim DAVIDSON TRUCKING, PULLING AIR Command, 380 and 650’s, $264,000; 2010 drills/ air seeders, packer bars, Alberta CIH 4420, Aim Command, 380 and 650’s, and Sask. 30 years experience. Bob David$275,000. Her gott Farm Equipment, son, Drumheller, 403-823-0746 306-682-2592, Humboldt, SK. 2011 SEED MASTER 50-10, warranty, 550 2006 ROGATOR 1074, 1976 hrs., 100’ bu., M-fold, $195,000 OBO. 306-563-8482, boom, SS tank, 2 sets of tires, 3” fill, EZ 306-782-2586. Yorkton, SK. steer GPS, 4 E-Kay crop dividers, Raven 1998 FLEXI-COIL 5000, 57’, 7.5 spacing, 4000 controller, shedded, vg, $140,000. new carbide stealth openers, s/s, rubber 306-843-7613, 306-843-2135, Wilkie, SK. packers, c/w 3450 tank, above average 2007 JD 4720, 1600 hrs., 90’ boom, 2 sets cond. Call Maple Farm Equipment Yorkton, of tires, very nice, $129,500. Delivery SK. 306-782-9459. available. Call 1-800-735-5846, Minot, ND. BOURGAULT AIR DRILLS, large used se2011 JD 4930 sprayer, 120’ booms, 5 noz- lection of 3310’s and 3320’s as well as othzle bodies, high flow pump, eductor, 2 sets e r m a k e s a n d m o d e l s . C a l l G o r d 403-308-1135, Lethbridge, AB. tires, 550 hrs. 204-673-2382, Melita, MB. 2001 CONCORD 3212, dual shoot, Flexi2008 MILLER A75, 103’ spray air boom Coil air kit, paired row Atom Jet openers, and hypro nozzles, 1000 gal. tank, 2 sets original owner. 306-548-2096, Sturgis, SK. of rear tires, crop dividers, AutoSteer, AutoBoom, AccuBoom, 1,221 hrs., $185,000 2007 42’ K-HART w/2320 Flexi-Coil tank, exc. cond. 306-662-3385 Golden Prairie SK OBO. 780-674-7944, Barrhead, AB.

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FLEXI-COIL 5000 air drill, 39â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 9â&#x20AC;? spacing, steel packers, double shoot, 1720 tow between cart. 306-869-7234, Radville, SK.

2001 BOURGAULT 5710 air drill with 5350 tank, drill is 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 9.8â&#x20AC;? spacing, 3.5â&#x20AC;? steel packers, 450 lb. trip, single shoot. Tank is single fan, double meter. Field ready, $70,000. 403-642-3999, Warner, AB.

2009 SEED HAWK 84â&#x20AC;&#x2122; toolbar, 12â&#x20AC;? spacing w/800 Seed Hawk cart, $240,000; 2001 52â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 5710 Bourgault, 12â&#x20AC;? spacing, 3-1/2â&#x20AC;? packers, dual shoot, Bour gault tips, $38,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment Ltd., Storthoaks, SK. 306-449-2255. WANTED: 27 - 28â&#x20AC;&#x2122; air drill, 7 - 10â&#x20AC;? spacing, a TBT tank would be preferable. Call FLEXI-COIL 6000 air drill w/2320 tank, 1996 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; drill and cart w/Barton 403-337-3072, Carstairs, AB. openers, great shape, located in Eston, SK. BOURGAULT 5710 47â&#x20AC;&#x2122; c/w 6350 tank, Asking $40,000 OBO. Call 403-741-5641. MRB, variable rate meters, 3/4â&#x20AC;? carbide BOURGAULT 5710, 34â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 9.8â&#x20AC;? spacing, tips. 403-308-1135, Lethbridge, AB. 3-1/2â&#x20AC;? steel packers, MRBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s- rebuilt 1,000 1 9 9 3 M O D E L 3 3 9 , 3 3 â&#x20AC;&#x2122; C o n s e r vap a k acres ago, double shoot granular, $37,000. w/DS160 tank, $18,000. 306-699-7215 or 780-961-4028, Westlock, AB. 306-699-7050, Quâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Appelle, SK. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;BOURGAULT PURSUING PERFECTIONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1998 52.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1820 JD drill, 10â&#x20AC;? spacing, 4â&#x20AC;? 2002 Bourgault 5710, 54â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, MRB, steel packsteel, DS, Stealth 3 1/2â&#x20AC;? paired row, 1900 ers, w/5350, $119,000; 1998 Bourgault TBH tank, 350 bu. variable rate 2 compart- 54â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 5710, MRB, rubber packers, w/4300 ment tank, Valmar tank for inoculant, DS tank, $99,000; Bourgault 5710, 54â&#x20AC;&#x2122; sin$60,000. 306-642-7801, Lafleche, SK. gle shoot, rubber packers, $75,000; 1993 5000/2320, single shoot, 3.5â&#x20AC;? 2008 BOURGAULT 3310, 55â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, MRB, DS, Flexi-Coil $59,000; 2010 Bourgault 6000 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122; NH3, 6550, near North Dakota border. May steel, mid harrow, Valmar, $49,000; separate, $210,000 OBO. 306-563-8482, 2010 6000 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122;w/3225 mid harrow, $36,000; 2010 306-782-2586, Yorkton, SK. 5710, 74â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 5.5â&#x20AC;? packers, $195,000; 2010 2002 BOURGAULT 5710, 54â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, single shoot, Bourgault 5810, 62â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, DS, 5.5â&#x20AC;? packers, NH3 to MRB, Atom Jet 1â&#x20AC;? carbide openers, $185,000; 84â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bourgault 7200 heavy har3 1/2â&#x20AC;? steel packers, dual casters, w/2002 row, $32,500; 1990 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Flexi-Coil S82 har5350, 491 monitor, cab rate adjust, rice row bar, $6500. RD Ag Central, Bourgault tires, rear tow hitch, one owner, $95,000 Sales, 306-542-3335 or 306-542-8180, Kamsack, SK. OBO. 306-747-7438, Parkside, SK. WANTED: USED 2008 and newer 60-12 Seed Hawk toolbar, 12â&#x20AC;? spacing with or without air cart. Roland Chicoine, Storthoaks, SK. 306-449-2255. MORRIS MAXIM 35â&#x20AC;&#x2122; air drill, dual shoot, air cart, $19,000. 306-232-4705, Hague, SK. 2003 BOURGAULT 5710, 59â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 9.8â&#x20AC;? spacing, double shoot, c/w 5440 tank, mint cond., $90,000.306-946-7737,Watrous,SK. 2006 CASE CONCORD ATX 3310, w/ADX 2230 tank, C-shank, Bourgault knock-ons, 10â&#x20AC;? spacing, exc. cond., low acres. Always shedded. 204-467-2787, Argyle, MB.

2010 BOURGAULT 5710, 74â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 9.8â&#x20AC;? spacing, 3.5 steel packers, Dutch paired row knives, BOURGAULT 6350 AIR TANK, dual fans, w/6700 air tank, $262,000. Millhouse double shoot, cab rate adjust, auxiliary clutches, 3 tank metering, 591 monitor. Farms 306-398-4079, Cut Knife, SK. 306-397-2511, 306-441-6279, Meota, SK. FLEXI-COIL 2320 TBH, $15,900; 1720 TBT, $17,900; 57â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 5000, $28,900; Morris 8014 2012 JD 56â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1870/1910 430 bu. Conserva Seed-Rite, $500. Pro Ag Sales, N. BattlePak, TBT, 20.8x42 duals, full blockage ford, SK. Phone 306-441-2030 any time. monitor seed tubes, single on fert. tubes, 2004 2340 FLEXI-COIL air cart, 230 bu. 10â&#x20AC;? fill auger, 12â&#x20AC;? spacing, single row seed 8 run variable rate, 2 comp., front tires knives. Seeded only 2900 acres, $245,000 500x45/22.5 Trelleborg, rear 750x65R26 OBO. 780-658-2125, Vegreville, AB. Michelin XBIB,$24,900. Also avail. var. rate 2008 BOURGAULT 5710, 47â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, DS, NH3, liquid fert. kit. Corey 1-866-316-5379. MRB, $85,000 OBO. Near North Dakota. BOURGAULT 8800, 52â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, granular kit, 4 bar 306-563-8482, 306-782-2586, Yorkton, SK harrows, knock-ons, heavy trips, liquid kit, CASE/IH 8500 air drill, 45â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 3/4â&#x20AC;? Atom Jet Bourgault paired row boots, 3225 Bouropeners, liquid kit, $8500. 306-885-4509, gault tank w/third tank, tank shedded, $35,000 OBO. 306-743-7622, Langenburg. Vibank, SK.

2010 JD 1830 41â&#x20AC;&#x2122; air drill w/1910 cart, 10â&#x20AC;? spacing, dbl. shoot, dutch openers, 5â&#x20AC;? rubber packers, 430 bu. cart, c/w monitor and BOURGAULT 4350 10â&#x20AC;? load auger, rear canola roller, done under 5000 acres, 2011 RITE-WAY 8100 heavy harrow, 55â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, done 3200 acres, $32,500. Call hitch, 3 tank meter, $29,500. Also various $145,000 OBO 403-934-0495 Standard, AB 306-369-4163, 306-369-7820, Bruno, SK. trailers for sale. Phone/text 403-330-3698 New Dayton, AB. 2001 CASE CONCORD 3312, c/w 2300 exc. cond., low acres, field ready, 2010 MORRIS CONTOUR, 71â&#x20AC;&#x2122; air drill, tank, 8370, 3 tank, 450 bu, TBT air tank, single $34,500. 403-350-9088, Delburne, AB shoot c/w Raven Accu-Flow, 5 section 2002 BOURGAULT 5710, 42â&#x20AC;&#x2122; drill, 12.6â&#x20AC;? Mfg. Co. Inc. control NH3, TopCon X20 controlled, spacing, MRBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, w/1997 Bourgault 4350 Dutch openers, 12â&#x20AC;? spacing, 5.5â&#x20AC;? packers. TBH, DS, 3 tank metering, dual fans, rear 2010 TorMaster, TM4000, twin 2000 gal. hitch. 306-640-7915, Assiniboia, SK. NH3 tanks. Call or email 780-385-0016, 2003 FLEXI-COIL 5000, 45â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 9â&#x20AC;?, 3.5 steel, bradfreadrich@hotmail.com Killam, AB. On : Ro llers , Ro ckp ickers , SS, c/w 2340 TBH, $89,000. Call Cam-Don 2004 CONSERVA-PAK 56â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 4400 cart, ask- Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. Chis el Plo w s , Pa cker Ba rs , ing $85,000. Call: Peter 780-603-3455, Ve40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; FLEXI-COIL 6000 disc drill, 10â&#x20AC;? spacgreville, AB. Di sks , Hea vy Ha rro w s , ing, double shoot, w/1740 tank, exc., 2000 acres on complete retool. 780-943-2133, S p ra yers , Vertica l T illa ge 780-614-3587, Heinsburg, AB. E q u i pm en t, M o u n ted 1999 34â&#x20AC;&#x2122; MORRIS MAXIM air drill, 10â&#x20AC;? Ha rro w s spacing, double shoot, Morris boots, 3.5â&#x20AC;? steel packers w/7180 Morris air cart, $42,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment C a ll: Ltd., Storthoaks, SK. 306-449-2255.

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39â&#x20AC;&#x2122; FLEXI-COIL 5000, 787 air tank, DS, 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; PHOENIX ROTARY harrow, hyd. fold, Atom Jet openers, many new parts, field used very little, excellent for rejuvenating ready, $32,000. 306-478-2469, Ferland, SK hay fields, $12,500 OBO. 403-823-1894, Drumheller, AB. 1996 BOURGAULT 3225 tank, single fan, equipped with semi hopper, good cond., 1997 RITE-WAY 41â&#x20AC;&#x2122; land roller, hyd. fold and lift, excellent cond., $19,900. Call $14,000 OBO. 306-287-3826, Watson, SK. anytime, 403-627-9300. Pincher Creek AB 1986 JD 655 28â&#x20AC;&#x2122; air seeder with 5â&#x20AC;? paired row Peacock Industries precision seeders, FLEXI-COIL SYSTEM 95 harrow packer drawbar, 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 5-bar tine harrows, P20 $12,000. 306-945-2378, Waldheim, SK. packers, $10,000. Rouleau, SK., phone WANTED: FLEXI-COIL 820, 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122;-35â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or 306-776-2394, 306-537-0615. 50â&#x20AC;&#x2122;-60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Please call 403-586-0641, Olds, AB.

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2004 BOURGAULT 5710, 47â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 9.8â&#x20AC;? spacing, mid row banders, double shoot, heavy shanks, 3/4â&#x20AC;? carbide tip openers, 3-1/2â&#x20AC;? steel packers, dual castors w/2004 5350 Bourgault tank, 350 bu., 8â&#x20AC;? auger, exc. cond. Call 306-476-2500, Rockglen, SK.

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ELMERS TRANSFER TRACKS new, 10 bolt hubs, 36â&#x20AC;? tracks, $44,900. Call Corner Equipment 204-483-2774 or see website: cornerequipment.com Carroll, MB. 2010 NH P1050 TBT air cart, mech. meter, double shoot, 10â&#x20AC;? auger, only used 5000 acres. 306-929-2068, Prince Albert, SK.

PURCHASED NEW IN 2007 ATX 5010 Concord with ADX 3380 tank, double shoot, 3row harrows, 10â&#x20AC;? auger, Atom Jet side banders, always shedded, $100,000. Call Grant 204-771-9267, Paul 204-461-0337, Warren, MB.

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2001 BOURGAULT 5710 47â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 9.8â&#x20AC;? spacing, 1â&#x20AC;? knock-on carbide openers (used one season), MRBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3.5â&#x20AC;? steel packers, 2001 Bourgault 5350 (shedded) var. rate trans., cab rate adjustment, 3 tank metering, double shoot, rear hitch, air seeder hopper, $99,000 OBO. 780-205-6789 Dewberry, AB

MANDAKO TWISTER Check out the ultim at e ve r s at i l i t y i n ve r t i c a l t i l l a g e . www.mandakoagri.com 1-888-525-5892, Plum Coulee, MB. EZEE-ON CULTIVATOR, 10â&#x20AC;? shovels, requires min. 130-150 HP tractor, $5,000. Located- Onoway, AB. Jerry 780-777-9388 NEW 2012 BOURGAULT 8910 cultivator, 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 12â&#x20AC;? spacing w/spd. lock adaptors and 4 bar harrows. 306-231-8060 Englefeld, SK

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MANDAKO LANDROLLER. The heaviest production roller on the market. Check us out at, www.mandakoagri.com or call, 1-888-525-5892, Plum Coulee, MB. SET OF K-HART packers, approx. 3 years old, 37â&#x20AC;&#x2122; on 9â&#x20AC;? spacing, excellent condition, 2002 3450, double shoot, 10â&#x20AC;? auger, air $4500. 306-782-7749, Yorkton, SK. s e e d e r h o p p e r, $ 1 8 , 0 0 0 wo r ko r d e r, $45,000 OBO. 780-221-3980, Leduc, AB. 1993 FLEXI-COIL 1720 air cart, semi hopper, $10,000. 306-642-4077, Assiniboia SK

BOUGAULT 5710, 34â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 9.8â&#x20AC;? spacing, 3.5â&#x20AC;? steel packers, 1â&#x20AC;? vertical sideband liquid knives, excellent shape, $34,000. 10% down to hold until Apr. 1. 306-272-4647, cell 306-272-8047, Foam Lake, SK.

KELLO-BILT DISC PARTS: Blades and bearings. Parts to fit most makes and models. 1-888-500-2646, Red Deer, AB. www.kelloughs.com

24â&#x20AC;&#x2122; TANDEM FIELD disc; CIH 2-12â&#x20AC;&#x2122; seed drills. Both in good condition. 780-785-2663, Cherhill, AB.

2012 SEEDMASTER 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x12â&#x20AC;? air drill, 300 bu. on-frame tank, w/UltraPro canola meters and cameras, w/scales, fully loaded, run block monitors, packing force sensors, duals, c/w 2012 Nova cart, 3 compartment 780 bu. w/scales and duals. Unit in perfect cond. $376,000. 306-535-7708, Regina, SK

2009 BOURGAULT 3310, 55â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 10â&#x20AC;? spacing, MRBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 2â&#x20AC;? tips, 4.8 pneumatic packer tire, double shoot, walking axles, rear duals, exc. cond. 306-675-6110, Kelliher, SK.

TWO CP760 MORRIS cultivators, $3500 each; VERSATILE 24â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tandem disc, as is, $3000 OBO. 306-759-2051, Brownlee, SK.

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2 WD - MFWD TRACTORS 1978 JD 4640, quad, duals 7600 hrs ..........................................................$18,500 2010 JD 6430, premium cab, 3 pt, 673 FEL, 789 hrs..................................$92,500 2005 McCormick MTX135, cab, mfwd, loader, 3900 hrs ...........................$65,000 2004 JD 7520, mfwd, 740 loader, 9128 hrs ................................................$71,500 1995 JD 7700, mfwd, 740 loader, 6880 hrs ................................................$73,000 OTHERS — JD 2010, 2130, 3130, 4030, 4430................................................. CALL

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COMBINES (24 MONTHS INTEREST FREE) 2009 JD 9870 STS, 20.8X42, duals, contour master, 733 hrs ..................$260,000 2009 JD 9870 STS, 20.8x42, duals, powercast, 784 hrs ..........................$254,000 2008 JD 9870 STS, 20.8x38 duals, powercast, 721 hrs ...........................$250,000 2009 JD 9770 STS, 20.8x42 dls, CM, 615 pickup, 541 hrs .......................$289,000 2008 JD 9770 STS, 20.8X38 duals, 664 hrs..............................................$235,000 2008 JD 9770 STS, 20.8x38 duals, powercast, 916 hrs ...........................$223,000 2007 JD 9860 STS, 800/32, powercast, 763 hrs ......................................$229,000 2007 JD 9860 STS, 20.8x42 duals, 967 hrs ..............................................$218,000 2006 JD 9860 STS, 20.8x38 duals, 615 pickup, 1327 hrs ........................$220,000 2005 JD 9860 STS, 20.8x42 duals, 1446 hrs ............................................$170,000 2005 JD 9860 STS, 20.8x42 duals, 1405 hrs ............................................$178,000 2004 JD 9860 STS, 20.8x42 duals, 1250 hrs ............................................$180,000 2007 JD 9760 STS, 20.8x38 dls, pwrcast, 615 pickup, 1250 hrs .............$199,500 2007 JD 9760 STS, 20.8x42 duals, 1313 hrs ............................................$169,000 2006 JD 9760 STS, 20.x38 duals, powercast, TB, 1771 hrs.....................$158,000 2005 JD 9760 STS, 800R32, pickup header, 1562 hrs .............................$162,000 2005 JD 9760 STS, 20.8x42 duals, 1507 hrs ............................................$148,000 2005 JD 9760 STS, 800R32, pickup, 1562 hrs..........................................$160,000 2004 JD 9760 STS, 20.8x38 duals, pickup, 1475 hrs ...............................$166,500 2004 JD 9660 STS, 30.5x32, hopper ext, 1408 hrs...................................$145,000 2005 JD 9660 STS, 30.5x32, 914 pickup header, 1150 hrs ......................$160,000 2006 JD 9660 STS, 30.5x32, touchset, 835 hrs ........................................$175,000 2002 JD 9750 STS, 20.8x38 duals, 615 pickup, 2285 hrs ........................$122,000 2001 JD 9750 STS, 800/65R32, 2411 hrs .................................................$100,000 2003 JD 9650 STS, 914 pickup, 800/32 singles, 1770 hrs.......................$122,000 2001 JD 9650, walkers, dlx hdr cntls, hopper ext, 3028 hrs .....................$79,000 1995 JD CTS, 3558 hrs................................................................................$40,000 2009 CIH 7120, duals, cm, pickup (3 choices), 900 hrs.......... $269,000-$290,000 1995 Case 2188, pickup, chopper, 2452 hrs ..............................................$48,000 1995 Case 1688, pickup, new Mav chopper, 3254 hrs ..............................$42,000 1994 JD 9600, chopper, pickup, 3786 hrs ..................................................$50,000 1998 JD 9610, chopper, 2707 hrs ...............................................................$59,000 1987 JD 8820, chopper, pickup, 4026 hrs ..................................................$22,000

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JD 224, 24’ rigid ...........................................................................................$4,500 (O) 1994-1997 JD 930, 30’ rigid, bat & pickup reels available ................ $6500 & up (A) 1990 JD 925F, 25’ flex ...................................................................................$9,500 (O) 1997 JD 930F, 30’ flex, HFNA .....................................................................$17,000 (A) 1999 JD 930F, 30’ flex, sliding drives, single point ...................................$20,000 (A) 2004 JD 635F, 35’ flex, AWS air reel ..........................................................$33,000 (A) 2004 JD 635F, 35’ flex ................................................................................$27,000 (RA) 2006 JD 635F, 35’ flex ................................................................................$33,000 (RA,A) 1999 New Holland 973, flex, Crary air reel ...............................................$22,500 (E) 2009 JD 635D, 35’ draper, crop auger, hfna, trans ...................................$61,000 (E) 2005 CIH 2042, 30’ draper, 2388 adapter ..................................................$38,000 (O) 2008 HoneyBee SP4555, 45’ flex draper ...................................................$68,000 HoneyBee SP30, 30’ draper, crop auger, CIH adapter ...............................$27,000 (RA) 2004 HoneyBee SP42, 42’ draper, crop auger, JD 70 adapter ..................$39,000 (A) 1999 HoneyBee SP36, 36’ draper, crop auger, transp ...............................$29,500 (RE) 2000 HoneyBee SP36, 36’ Gleaner adapter................................................$28,000 (RA) 2000 honeyBee SP36, 36’ draper, trans, crop auger .................................$28,000 (A) 2005 HoneyBee SP36, 36’ draper, JD 70 adapter ......................................$39,000 (A) 2009 MacDon D60, 40’ draper, JD 60 adapter ...........................................$55,000 (O)

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2002 MacDon 972, 36’, trans, JD 60 adapter .............................................$39,000 2007 MacDon 963, 36’ draper, bat reels, JD 60 adapter ..........................$38,000 1996 MacDon 960, 36’ draper, bat reel, JD adapter ..................................$14,900 1996 MacDon 960, 36’ draper, pickup reel, trans ......................................$19,000 1998 MacDon 960, 36’ draper, pickup reel, trans .....................................$20,000 2004 MacDon 974, 30’ flex draper, Case adapter ......................................$45,000 2005 MacDon 974, 30’ flex draper, JD adapter..........................................$42,000

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MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT 14’ Leon Q9000 Bull Dozer, 6 way, JD 9000 tractor ..................................$18,500 2008 Schulte FLX15, flex arm ......................................................................$7,500 Degelman 15’ Rotary Mower .....................................................................$16,500 Degelman 1800 Side Aarm ..........................................................................$6,000 Degelman 10’ 5700 Dozer, fits JD 7730 ......................................................$8,950 Highline 15’ Rotary Mower ........................................................................$22,000 Used 3pt Snowblowers, F/K 84” & 96”, JD 270, Schulte 110”, 96” & 84” .... CALL

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HAYING EQUIPMENT (36 MOS INTEREST FREE) 2008 JD 568 Round Baler, mega wide pickup ..........................................$28,000 2001 JD 567 Round Baler, mega tooth pickup ..........................................$16,900 2003 JD 567 Round Baler, surface wrap ...................................................$22,000 2008 CIH RB564 Round Baler, mesh wrap ................................................$23,000 2002 CIH RBX561 Round Baler .....................................................................$9,500 2004 CIH RBX562 Round Baler, surface wrap ...........................................$16,000 1999 New Idea Round Baler, 5x5 bale .........................................................$5,000 2002 Hesston 1275 Mower Conditioner ....................................................$13,500 2002 JD 946 Mower Conditioner, 3 pt hitch...............................................$18,500

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JEFF ENGLE 306-577-7815

CURTIS KILBACK 306-452-7700

SP WINDROWERS 2008 JD 4895, 36’ HoneyBee header, 650 hrs..........................................$115,000 2006 JD 4895, 30’ Honeybee, 1680 hrs ......................................................$89,000 1997 MacDon 2930, 25’ 972 header, 3060 hrs ...........................................$37,900 2002 Hesston 8250, two headers, 2538 hrs ...............................................$48,000 1998 MacDon 1900, 30’, pto, pickup reel, ...................................................$4,500

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9230 w/PTO, PS, $45,000; 9270 Michelins at 95%, $78,000; 9370 w/triples $89,500; 9390 425 HP, 710’s, AutoSteer, $99,000; 2010 435, PTO, no hyd., AutoSteer, $24,000; 450 STX quad, no hyd., Auto Steer, $164,000; 2008 485, PTO, no hyd, 2010 SALFORD 570RTS vertical tillage, 24’, $ 2 0 9 , 0 0 0 ; 2 0 1 1 4 8 5 , P TO, l o a d e d , harrows, rolling baskets w/1200 lb weight $295,000; 2012 500 quad, PTO, loaded, kit, like new cond., $46,000 OBO. Carrot $377,000. Others: 2008 NH T9050, no hyd., 800’s, low hrs., $238,000; NH TJ 500, River, SK. 306-768-2151, 306-768-7399. no hyd., 110 watts, AutoSteer, $189,000. Mechanic Special: Steiger Bearcat III w/13’ dozer, rubber 4 at 70%, 4 at 40%, 3306 Cat needs TLC (blowby and knocks when warm). Hergott Farm Equipment, 306-682-2592, Humboldt, SK. 1995 9670, 4920 hrs., duals front and 1986 4694, 4 WD, w/14’ 4-way Leon back, 18 spd., vg condition, $57,000. Call blade, 30.5/32 tires, PTO, motor and trans Pat at 306-231-8999, Humboldt, SK. overhauled, 6335 hrs. 306-753-2707, Macklin, SK. 49- MORRIS C-SHANK, paired row openers w/side plates, done 2500 acres, $125. ea. Phone Hal at 306-483-8796 or, email hbnielsen@sasktel.net Alida, SK.

1985 JD 4450 tractor, 140 HP, 7500 orig. hrs, dual hyds, 20.8x38 rubber, like new, new rebuilt powershift done at JD dealer, runs excellent, always shedded, $25,000 OBO. 780-349-9810, Westlock, AB. STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER looking for JD tractors to rebuild, Series 20s, 30s, 40s or 50s, or for parts. Will pay top dollar. Now selling JD parts. 204-466-2927, 204-871-5170, Austin, MB. 2009 JD 7230 Premium, 2000 hrs., warranty to 3000 hours, 741 loader and grapple, recent Greenlight service, $98,000. 403-625-6519, Stavely, AB.

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2 - B R A N D N E W C A S E / I H Tr a c - m a n TRACKS FOR STX 450 quadtrac, $7500 each; 2 USED SCRAPER TRACKS, also for STX 450, vg, no rips or lugs missing, $4500 ea. 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. 1986 CASE 2294, 135 HP, duals, good cond., approx. 6500 hrs, $14,000 OBO. At Onoway, AB. Call Jerry at 780-777-9388. WANTED: IHC 1026 HYDRO, 1456 IHC, 6030 JD, 100 Versatile in running cond. or for parts 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB. WANTED: 1456 OR 1026 IH tractor, any c o n d i t i o n . To p d o l l a r p a i d . C a l l 701-240-5737, Minot, ND. IH 5288 w/FEL, $21,000; IH 5288 Cond G, Paint P, $14,900; 7130 MFD, $49,900; NH 8160 MFD, FEL w/grapple, $45,000. Hergott Farm Equipment, 306-682-2592, Humboldt, SK. 2004 STX 450, leather interior, diff. lock, 710x32 duals, gd cond., $129,000 OBO. 306-743-7622, Langenburg, SK. LIZARD CREEK REPAIR and Tractor. We buy 90 and 94 Series Case 2 WD, FWA tractors for parts and rebuilding. Also have r e b u i l t t r a c t o r s a n d p a r t s fo r s a l e . 306-784-7841, Herbert, SK.

2006 9620T, 600 hrs. on new HD Camoplast, 36” tracks, 5 hyd., 1000 PTO, receiver w/2600 display, 3513 hrs., exc. cond, $206,000. 306-472-3000, Lafleche, SK. 1989 4955 JD, MFWD, 7600 hrs., 20.8R42 rears, very good, $45,000. 306-768-2827, 306-768-7888, Carrot River, SK. 2008 JD 9630, 4 WD, Michelin 46” triples, 5 remotes, weight pkg., 1700 hrs., vg cond. 204-673-2382, Melita, MB. 2012 7200 R FWA, 500 hrs, 480 loader and grapple, exc . cond., $175,000. Call 306-834-7610, Major, SK. MITCH’S TRACTOR SALES LTD. For sale: 7610 MFWD, PQ, LHR, 3 PTH, 4600 original hrs., w/740 self leveling FEL, grapple, mint; 2- 4650 MFWD, 15 spd., 3 PTH, factory duals; 2- 4455 MFWD, 3 PTH, 15 spd., w/280 FEL; 2- 4450 MFWD, 3 PTH, 15 spd.; 4250 MFWD, 3 PTH, 15 spd.; 4055 MFWD, 15 spd., 3 PTH; 2555 MFWD, 3 PTH. All tractors can be sold with new or used loaders. Call Mitch Rouire at 204-750-2459, St. Claude, MB. JD 8450, 7800 FWD, 4050, 4450 MFWD w/loader, 2130. Have JD loaders in stock. Taking JD tractors in trade that need work. 204-466-2927, 204-871-5170, Austin, MB.

2005 STX 450, leather int., 4000 hrs., AutoSteer, diff. lock, 800/38 rubber, shedded, exc. cond. 306-231-7892, Bruno, SK. 2007 430STX, IVECO engine, luxury cab, 620x46 tires, weight package, 2050 hrs., EZ Steer, new batteries, stored inside. Call 306-960-1478, Birch Hills, SK.

1991 946 FORD VERSATILE, 5600 hrs, 20.8x42 duals, new clutch, new trans, exc. motor. 306-592-4524, Buchanan, SK. 1998 FORD/NH 8970 FWA tractor, 250 HP, 4500 hrs., PS trans., PTO, 3 PTH, Super1995 7600 MFWD, PowerQuad, 3 PTH, Steer, mega flow hyd., 4 hyd. remotes, 4500 hours, good rubber, excellent condi- front weight pkg., 18.4x46 rear duals, tion. 306-744-8113, Saltcoats, SK. 14.6x28 front duals, vg cond. $69,000. D7E HIGH HP Cat, new U/C, 24” pads, di1980 JD 4440 tractor, 8500 orig. hrs, quad 204-758-3943, 204-746-5844 St. Jean, MB shift, 130 HP, 540/1000 PTO, dual hyds., 1991 846 FORD VERSATILE, 18.4x38R du- rect start, glow plug, twin tilt angle dozer, 18.4-38 rubber, exc. cond., always shed- als, 1000 PTO, 15 spd. synchro, 4 hyds., bush ready, exc. cond. Warranty. Will conded, never had a loader, $19,500 OBO. 3800 hrs, shedded, exc. cond. Contact Jim sider trade. $66,000. Call for more info 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. 780-349-9810, Westlock, AB. 306-332-6221, Fort Qu’Appelle, SK. 1974 JD 4230 quad range, 20.8R34 radial tires, rubber good, new 12 volt batteries, new upholstery, retrofit steps. 7115 hrs., showing (approx. 8500 actual), $18,000. 2003 BUHLER 2425, 12 spd. powershift, 3800 hrs, 900 Michelins- 70%, good cond., 306-945-2378, Waldheim, SK. $150,000. 306-287-3826, Watson, SK. DUAL WHEEL RIMS and tires, cast/steel 20.8x42” off JD 8200, tires are new Michelin Agririb 520x85xR42 radials. Would prefer to swap for same in 18.4x46 w/wo tires. Grant, 204-858-2055, Hartney, MB. WANTED JD 4020 or 5020 or equivalent tractor, for parts or repair, running or not. 780-608-0652, Daysland, AB.

1997 JD 9400, 4 WD, 5327 hrs, powershift trans, PTO, 4 remotes w/return line, 710/70R38 duals, very nice! Perfect for grain cart! Reduced- $109,500. Jordan 403-627-9300 anytime, Pincher Creek, AB. 1999 JD 7710, FWA, 4200 hrs., all new r u b b e r, e x c . c o n d . , w / w o l o a d e r, WA N T E D : 7 3 2 0 T R A C TO R , F WA , 403-504-9607, Medicine Hat, AB. w/loader, low hrs, must be in excellent 1979 JD 4440 w/148 FEL, $19,500. condition. 306-741-0598, Blumenhof, SK. www.waltersequipment.com Minitonas, 2008 JD 9630T, 36” tracks, full weight MB, 204-525-4521. pkg., 5 hyd., PTO, 2600 display, AutoTrac 2008 JD 9630, 520/85R42 triples, 5 hyd., steering, deluxe cab, category 5 hitch, Xe- high flow hyd., 2600 display, AutoTrac non rear lights. Call The Tractor Man, steering, deluxe cab, diff. locks, full weight Gord, 403-308-1135, Lethbridge, AB. pkg., category 5 drawbar. Call The Tractor 1974 JD 2130, 66 HP, 3 pt. hitch, JD 145 Man, Gord, 403-308-1135, Lethbridge, AB. l o a d e r, $ 1 0 , 9 0 0 . C a l l G a r y R e i m e r JD 4640 2 WD, duals, good rubber, 8000 2 0 4 - 3 2 6 - 7 0 0 0 , S t e i n b a c h , M B . hours, nice shape, $19,900. Call Corner www.reimerfarmequipment.com Equipment 204-483-2774, Carroll, MB. or 1990 4455 MFWD, powershift, 3 PTH, low website: cornerequipment.com h o u r s , e x c e l l e n t r u b b e r, s h a r p . 306-744-8113, Saltcoats, SK.

1996 JD 6400 FWA, 85 HP, 640 JD loader, CASE/IH 5088, 140 HP, 3 PTH, FEL, cab, 3 PTH, dual hyds, good condition, $29,500. AC, vg rubber, $17,000; BUHLER ALLIED 780-698-2600, Rochester, AB. loader Model 2895-S, fits 150 to 250 HP WANTED: JD TRACTOR, 120 to 160 HP, tractor w/joystick, grapple fork, bucket, MFWD, low hrs, must be in excellent cond. $7500. 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. Phone 306-291-0333, Saskatoon, SK. CASE/IH 550 QUAD, 2012 luxury cab, 36” track, high cap. hyd., high cap. draw 1997 JD 9100, 12 spd., 4 hyds., 20.8x38 bar, diff. lock, 262 receiver, WAAF, NAV radial tires, 2915 hrs., mint, $88,000. controller, HIV, elec. mirrors, cab susp., 780-961-4028, Westlock, AB. tow cable. Call The Tractor Man, Gord, WANTED: JOHN DEERE 4010 or 4020 403-308-1135, Lethbridge, AB. tractor with FEL, in good condition. Phone 1995 CASE IH 9350 4WD, 12 spd. trans., 780-672-3755 evenings, Camrose, AB. 4 hyd. outlets, 20.8R38 duals, 3450 hrs., one owner, shedded, excellent condition, $80,000. 306-228-2000, Unity, SK. 9280 w/5500 HOURS and powershift, new tires 24.5xR32. Stored inside, good shape, runs excellent, $85,000. 403-502-6332, Schuler, AB 1982 4490, 6100 hrs., good rubber, 1000 PTO, four sets of hyd., circulating heater, 14’ Degelman dozer blade, 2’ top apron, $21,000. 306-785-4716, Cadillac, SK. 1977 JD8430 4WD TRACTOR - NEW 18.4 x 34 duals, 3 hyd., 1000 PTO, JD Quadshift, CASE/IH STEIGER built, 4 WD/Quads; 180 hp, 9,611 hrs., good cond’n., $17,800. Plus other makes and models. Call the Trades welcome. Financing available. Tractor Man! Trades welcome. We deliver. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com Gord 403-308-1135, Lethbridge AB TWO CASE 2594 tractors, duals, front JD 7830 with 746 loader and grapple, w e i g h t s , l o w h o u r s , g o o d r u b b e r. power quad trans w/E-range and LH reverse, 3 PTH, 20.8x42 rear tires, 2300 hrs, 403-394-4401, Lethbridge, AB. $125,000. 403-854-3374, Hanna, AB. VA CASE GAS tractor with blade, runs very good, $1400; 3 PTH to fit 970 or 1070 JD 9400 4x4, very clean, powershift, Case, like new, $1100. 306-395-2668, 710x42 rubber - 50%; also Big Bud. Phone Albert at 403-504-0468, Medicine Hat, AB. 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK.

2011 T9-450, 220 hrs., 710 tires, AutoTRACTORS, COMBINE, Air Drills, spraySteer, warranty 1 year, $269,000 OBO. Call er, swather, semi, etc. 1-877-862-2413, 780-352-2193, Wetaskiwin, AB. 1-877-862-2387 toll free, Nipawin, SK. 2008 NH T9040 435 HP, shedded, mint, 710-70R42 Firestones, powershift, deluxe cab, 4 electric hyds, Performance monitor, HID lites, GPS AutoSteer, 1740 hrs. Will negotiate payment terms. Asking $175,000. 306-764-8207, 306-922-4361, Prince Albert, SK 1997 9682, 20.8x42 duals, 60%, 4 hyds., shedded, performance monitor, 3822 hrs., $86,000. 306-478-2469, Ferland, SK. 1997 CAT 928G LOADER, w/rebuilt trans, 2004 NH TJ425, 2700 hrs., 710x42 tires, 15,414 hrs, $49,000. Financing available. 3 PO IN T HITCH 24 spd., 5 remotes, orig. owner, shedded, 204-864-2391 204-981-3636, Chartier, MB $135,000. 780-878-1550, Camrose, AB. a n y m a k e of tra c tor 1996 NH 9480, 4 WD, 5543 hrs., 20.8x42 G roe n in g In d u s trie s Ltd . duals, AutoSteer, air seeder ready, exc. 888-86 6 -4203 cond. Call 306-476-2500, Rockglen, SK. 2000 BOBCAT 863G with bucket and forks, 2009 TV6070, bi-directional, 3 PTH, $14,500. Danny Spence, 306-246-4632, grapple, manure tines, 1200 hours, like Speers, SK. new. Dave 403-556-3992, Olds, AB. COLOR BACK PAINT RENEWER, Re2001 TV140, 5614 FEL, 3 PTH, auxiliary stores faded machinery and paint to a new high capacity oil pump for haybine, 5200 look in minutes. No rubbing or polishing hrs., good condition, $56,500 OBO. required. Just spray on and your equip306-448-4813, 306-577-8023, Manor, SK. ment will look like new for years to come. 2010 NH T7040, 180 HP, FWA, PS, 860TL Thousands of satisfied users for over 20 quick detach bucket, FEL w/grapple, AC, years. See your local John Deere dealer or 760 hrs, 540/1000 PTO, 3 PTH, 4 remotes, call toll free 1-800-445-3840. fully loaded. 403-644-2386, Standard, AB. 1990 FIAT ALLIS FD 14 E, new rollers, exc. rebuilt transmission and torque, twin AGCO FINANCE LLC will offer the follow2005 TS115 NH, MFD, loader and grapple, U/C, dozer, exc. machine all around. Can de- ing repossessed equipment for sale to the 115 HP, 3200 hrs, $65,000. A.E. Chicoine tilt Warranty. Will consider trade. highest bidder for cash, plus applicable Farm Equipment Ltd., Storthoaks, SK. liver. sales tax. Equipment: Leon 525 manure $67,000. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB 306-449-2255. spreader, SN #120505792. Date of sale: JD 260 LOADER, w/quick attach bucket, Friday, Dec. 21st, 2012. Time of sale: T6080 FWA 850 loader, 155 HP, 3 PTH, 4 brackets for 30-40 series JD, $6,000. 11:00 AM. Place of sale: Full Line Ag, Site hyd., 720 hours, PS trans., LHR, $84,000. 306-782-7749, Yorkton, SK. 412, Box 257, RR 4, Saskatoon, SK. EquipCall 306-229-5870, Cudworth, SK. ment can be inspected at place of sale. 1997 NH 8870, Super Steer, powershift, 3 The equipment will be sold as is, without PTH, Mega-flow ready, very clean tractor, warranty. We reserve the right to bid. For $48,000. 306-370-8010, Saskatoon, SK. further info. please contact Darcy Deck 306-229-0807 cell. Reference #1033136.

2012 POWERSHIFT 535, 800 duals. Last of the pre-emission engines. Super fall pro- BUHLER ALLIED LOADER for 150 to 230 grams. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., Perdue, HP tractor, Model 2895-S, w/joystick and grapple fork, nice and straight for $7500. SK. 306-237-4212. 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB. LEON 707 LOADER, (black) 6’ bucket, wide yoke, w/brackets to fit 1105 MF trac1980 2290 Case tractor on singles, $8500. tor, exc. cond., $4750 OBO. 306-747-2514, 1980 1150 Versatile, brand new Atom Jet, Shellbrook, SK. $59,000 firm. Willing to take trade on 895 14’ DOZER BLADE off JD 8650 with new w/Atom Jet or Steiger Panther w/Atom cutting blades, manual angle, $9000. Jet. Serious inquiries only. 306-460-9027, 306-834-2991, Kerrobert, SK. Flaxcombe, SK. 1981 VERSATILE 895, 7988 hrs., 24.5R32 radials, 360 HP, plumped for Outback AutoSteer, $26,000. 306-465-2651, Yellow Grass, SK.

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USED EQUIPMENT 1–40’ Maxim Morris Airdrill with 7180 tow between tank............$39,500 1–40’ Morris Maxim II Air Drill w/7252 tow between tank, 3 tank metering............................................$55,000 1–7130 Morris Air Tank.............$7,500 1–9690 Massey Ferguson SP Combine w/ chopper & pickup, Low Hours. . .$140,000 1–8030 Allis Tractor with Ezee-On loader & grapple...........................$18,500 1–13x70 Farm King Swing Auger..$6,000 1–446 Case Garden Tractor w/tiller......................................................$750 1–245 IH Diesel Compact Tractor with Land Pride 72" mower..................$6,000 1–Riteway 50’ Harrow Packer bar.........................................................$2,500 1–7x39’ Sakundiak Auger w/Honda engine....................................................$1,200 1–Used 61’ Morris Contour, 12" spacing, 8,650 Morries variable rate Top-Con, 1 year old...................$275,000 1–Used 71’ Morris Contour, 12" spacing, 2 years old.................$149,000 1–Used 34’ Morris Maxium w/7180 Morris tank cart............................$35,000

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Carrot River, SK Ph: 306-768-2715 Fx: 306-768-2255 Email:c rimp@sasktel.net MF 4840, 4 WD, 4700 hrs; 1987 Hesston 6455 swather, 18’ grain header, 14’ hay header; HD6 AC crawler, angle dozer, 3800 hrs., new rad. and starter; HD5 AC crawler, for parts; Inland 68’ sprayer, 800 gal. poly tank, new hyd. pump; Vermeer 605C 2010 KUBOTA M135X, 770 hours, 135 round baler; 1967 JD 105 combine, new HP, c/w loader and grapple, 3 PTH, all starter, OH motor by JD; Wil-Rich 24’ cultimaintenance up to date, $73,000 OBO. ‘76 JD 4630 TRACTOR - 2WD, new big vator and harrows; Wil-Rich 2500 25’ 3 rears 24.5 x 32, JD 404 turbo intercooled, 306-672-7756, Gull Lake, SK. Powershift, 3 hyds., 1000 PTO, $15,800. 1 DEGELMAN DOZER, fits CIH 9350. Call P T H c u l t i v a t o r d o n e 8 0 0 a c r e s . 204-848-2205, Clearlake, MB. Dale 306-539-8590, Regina, SK. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com WANTED: 10’ DEGELMAN dozer blade to fit 24’ SQUARE BALE elevator, trailer type, SELL YOUR EQUIPMENT online with Hod- a J D 4 0 o r 5 0 s e r i e s t r a c t o r. C a l l gas engine. Please phone: 306-867-8410, Outlook, SK. gins before year end. Auction runs from 306-563-6312, Canora, SK. Dec. 19 to 26, 2012. Call now to enter your equipment. 1-800-667-2075, Melfort, SK., PL#915407. 1973 JD 401 gas tractor, mint cond., 4482 orig. hrs., FEL, bale fork, rear 3 PTH bale carrier, front mount snowblower. Balgonie, SK. 306-771-4598.

2012 RENTAL RETURN: MF 2680, FWA, 83 PTO HP, MF loader, 84” quick attach bucket, 100 hrs. 2.99% for 72/mos, $714. OAC. JD 344 LOADER w/grapple, rebuilt trans, Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, low hrs, exc. cond. Ph. 403-552-3753, Perdue, SK. 780-753-0353, Kirriemuir, AB. 1988 4250, MFWD, powershift, 3 PTH, 2006 MF 7495, 155 HP PTO, CVT, grapple JD MODEL 1026, 25 HP diesel tractor 4800 hrs., excellent, 306-744-8113, Salt- and loader, 2500 hrs., $89,000. Cam-Don w/loader and backhoe, less than 40 hrs. Call 306-332-2536, Fort Qu’Appelle, SK. coats, SK. Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. 2002 JD 9520T, powershift, big 1000 PTO, AutoTrac ready, 5600 hrs., front weights, deluxe cab, Premier lighting, $132,500. 780-618-5538, Grimshaw, AB.

1997 SL 250 Samsung loader, 4.5 yard bucket, all bushing and pins were done 200 hrs. ago, new turbo, 3rd valve, 9200 hrs., Michelin tires at 80%, vg working c o n d . , $ 4 6 , 0 0 0 . C a n d e l i ve r. P h o n e 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. DEGELMAN 6-WAY Blade, 12’, like new, used only 10 hrs, $24,000. Wandering River, AB. 780-771-2155, cell: 780-404-1212. LOADERS: 2- JD 544J’s, Caterpillar 950H, JD 310G backhoe. Conquest Equipment 306-483-2500, Oxbow, SK. JD 640 FRONT END LOADER, w/QA 6’ bucket, pallet forks, bale spear. Joystick, and power beyond, $7675. Can deliver. 306-946-7923, 306-259-4923, Young, SK. DEGELMAN 4-WAY 14’ dozer, JD 8650 mounts, exc. condition. 403-394-4401, Lethbridge, AB.

‘84 JD 8850 4WD TRACTOR - 6,764 hrs., Quad Range, JD V8 turbo, 3 hyd., 20.8x42 radials, nice cab, w/14’ 6-way Degelman blade. $32,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

ODESSA ROCKPICKER SALES: New Degelman equipment, land rollers, Strawmaster, rockpickers, rock rakes, dozer blades. Phone 306-957-4403, cell 306-536-5097, Odessa, SK.

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‘07 VOLVO BL60 - 1,325 hrs., 4WD, all new rubber, good condition, $44,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

GRATTON COULEE AGRI PARTS LTD. Your #1 place to purchase late model combine and tractor parts. Used, new and rebuilt. www.gcparts.com Toll free 888-327-6767. JD 2750, MFWD, 3 PTH, loader, $18,500; JD 4440, 2 WD, 158 loader and grapple, $21,000; CIH 5250 MFWD, 3 PTH, loader, $28,500; JD 725 front end loader, $6500. 403-308-1238, Taber, AB.

CASE 1070, DUALS, snow blade, manual shift, $7500; Case 2470, 4WD, w/14’ Degelman blade, $8900; CIH MXU 125 Ltd., MFWA, LX 156 loader, bucket, and grapple, $60,000; 2003 Dodge 2500 HEMI, 4WD, extended cab, long box w/liner, camper package, 5th wheel, $10,000. Call 204-263-5334, Sclater, MB.

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FIREWOOD: SEMI LOADS, self-unloading truck, or pick up on yard. Hague, SK. Phone: 306-232-4986, 306-212-7196.

WHITE FISH FROM Last Mountain Lake, for sale. Fresh or frozen, 306-484-4621, Govan, SK. BEVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FISH & SEAFOOD LTD., buy direct, fresh fish: Pickerel, Northern Pike, Whitefish and Lake Trout. Seafood also available. Phone toll free 1-877-434-7477, 306-763-8277, Prince Albert, SK.

RAIN MAKER IRRIGATION Zimmatic pivots/Greenfield mini pivots, K-Line towable irrigation, spare parts/accessories, new and used equipment. 31 years in business. www.rainmaker-irrigation.com Outlook, SK Call 306-867-9606.

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2002 CATTLELAC 350 4 auger feed wagon, mint, $17,500; Morris 310 drills, 20â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, steel packers, mint, $6500; Grain rollermill, capacity 150 bu./hr., port., $2000; Disc, 3 PTH, notch blades, $800; Gehl 125 mixmill, as is, $500; JD 14â&#x20AC;&#x2122; hoe drill, $300; JD 5 wheel rake, $450; Swath roller, steel, $500; Craftsman lawnmower, 25 HP, 48â&#x20AC;? deck, $950; Ford LT 12.5 lawnmower, 38â&#x20AC;? deck, $500; 4 used 54â&#x20AC;? barn fans, 1 used 36â&#x20AC;? barn fan, $500 for all. 780-352-1794, Wetaskiwin, AB.

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SPRUCE FOR SALE! Beautiful locally grown trees. Plan ahead and renew your shelter belt or landscape a new yardsite, get the year round protection you need. We sell on farm near Didsbury, AB. or, deliver anywhere in western Canada. For details call 403-586-8733 or check out our website at www.didsburysprucefarms.com

ANDRES TRUCKING. Call us for a quote today. 306-736-3454, Windthorst, SK. BISON WANTED - Canadian Prairie Bison is looking to contract grain finished bison for a growing market in Canada, US and Europe. Paying top market $$ for all animals. For more information contact Roger Provencher, roger@cdnbison.com or 306-468-2316. Join our Producer-owned bison company and enjoy the benefits. MORAND BUFFALO SQUEEZE with crash head gate, $4800. Call 780-941-2104, New Sarepta, AB.

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PORTAGE AND MAIN outdoor water. See why our boilers burn 1/3-1/2 the fuel of other similar units. Watch videos at: www.portageandmainboilers.com Call â&#x20AC;˘ W e S pe cia lize In U s e d Equ ipm e n t 1-800-561-0700 to speak to a rep. today! â&#x20AC;˘ N o Ad d itio n a l Co lla te ra l U s e d COALMAN STAINLESS COAL boiler, used 2 â&#x20AC;˘ Co m pe titive Ra te s & T e rm s LOWEST PRICES IN CANADA on new, high winters, auto feed, hopper ext, ext ash auquality generator systems. Quality diesel ger, mint shape. 306-795-7399, Ituna,SK. â&#x20AC;˘ Acce s s T o All T ype s O fLe n d e rs generators, Winpower PTO tractor driven Vis it us a t: w w w .lm fin a n c in g.c o m alternators, automatic / manual switch gear, and commercial duty Sommers Powermaster and Sommers / Winco portable generators and home standby packages. 2 3/8â&#x20AC;? CEMENT LINED tubing, $20/ea. 75+ years of reliable service. Contact Minimum 100 joints. Call 306-861-1280, SEASONED SPRUCE SLAB firewood, one Sommers Motor Generator Sales for all Weyburn, SK. cord bundles, $85, half cord bundle, $55. y o u r g e n e r a t o r r e q u i r e m e n t s a t WANTED: 7/8â&#x20AC;? to 1â&#x20AC;? SUCKER rod, would 1-800-690-2396 sales@sommersgen.com take large quantities. Ph: 204-722-2224, V&R Sawing 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK. Online: www.sommersgen.com McAuley, MB. BIRCH, SPRUCE, POPLAR firewood, split in semi-load lots, self unloading truck; custom firewood processing, cut/split up to 22â&#x20AC;? lengths. 306-577-5377, Kennedy, SK. F I R E W O O D : C u t a n d s p l i t , d e l i ve r y OUTBACK 360 AUTOSTEER, off 9400 JD, NEED TO MOVE water or irrigate? 4â&#x20AC;?-10â&#x20AC;? hydro steering system, good cond., asking alum. pipe, pump units. Taber, AB. Dennis available. 306-862-7831, Nipawin, SK. $5000. 306-487-7993, Lampman, SK. at: 403-308-1400, dfpickerell@shaw.ca BLOCKED SEASONED JACK Pine firewood for sale. Contact Lehner Wood Preservers NEW AND USED Outback STS, S3 mapping WESTERN IRRIGATION large supply of Ltd., 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK. Will units. Baseline, AutoSteer and VSI units. new and used irrigation equipment 2 PTO deliver. Self-unloading trailer. Trades welcome. 306-397-2678, Edam, SK pumps etc. 306-867-9461, Outlook, SK. 2009 CUMMINS DGCA-666115 - 50KW, 3.9L Cummins, 4 cyl. turbo, 120/240V 1-phase (can be converted to 3-phase), fully tested, ready to go. $11,900. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

CANDIAC AUCTION MART, Bred Cow Sale on Dec. 19, at 11 AM. Complete dispersal of Gelbvieh/Charolais cross cows, home raised, plus major herd reduction of good young cows. For more information contact Kevin 306-539-4090, or Brad 306-551-9411, Candiac, SK. DISPERSAL CATTLE AUCTION Saturday, Dec. 15th at 1:00 PM at Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw. Featuring 400+ Dennis Edwards and Jack Smith Dispersals: bred heifers, bred cows, open heifers. Red and Black Simmental cross. Check pictures and more details at johnstoneauction.ca or call us at 306-693-4715. PL #914447.

HOME RAISED BRED heifers due in April, Blacks and Black baldies, bred Black Angus. 780-990-8412, Edmonton Area. BRED BLACK ANGUS HEIFERS, bred to Black Angus bulls, to calve April/May. $1600 your pick or take all for $1500/ea. Ph: 306-594-7780, Norquay, SK.

GERLEI PUREBRED YOUNG cow herd dispersal, selling 168 head. All cows 6 yrs. and under, 76 bred cows, 38 bred heifers, 28 heifer calves, 25 bull calves. For further info. contact Gerlei Angus. Gerald and Lorellei Kary and family at 306-424-7676 or, 306-424-2332; Doug Howe 306-631-1209 or, 306-693-2163, Moose Jaw, SK. See our catalogue online www.buyagro.com PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS long yearling bulls, replacement heifers, AI service. Meadow Ridge Enterprises, 306-373-9140 or 306-270-6628, Saskatoon, SK. REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS heifers and 2nd calvers, 20 head at $1600 each. Angus Acres, 780-336-6435, Kinsella, AB.

200 VERY GOOD bred Black Angus heifers, born spring 2011 in south west SK., AI bred to Final Answer, Right Answer, and other easy calving BW, 74, 78, 88, Angus bulls. Calving date approx. starting March 24. Harry Dalke, Morden MB., 204-822-3643, cell 204-362-4101. REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS heifer calves, would make good 4H projects. From the top of our herd. JD Angus Farms, Southey, SK. Leave a message at 306-726-4307.

BRED HEIFER, COW and pair Auction, Saturday, December 8 at 1:00 PM at Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. Expecting 400 plus bred heifers, including the Regina View, R & R, Kostal, Curtis, Beitel and McClintock bred heifers, Verstegen commercial dispersal and other young BLACK ANGUS quality bred heifers, due to black and red cows. Check pics. and more start calving Mar. 20. Call 780-387-6355 details at johnstoneauction.ca or call us at or 780-387-6356, Falun, AB. 306-693-4715. PL #914447. AGASSIZ ANGUS BLACK Crossbred Genetics Dispersal: 200 Black Angus cross Maine bred cows; 50 Black Angus Maine bred heifers; 10 purebred 80 BLACK AND BWF bred heifers, low cross herd sires, closed herd. Full herd birthweight bulls out June 13. Feminine, Black health Start calving Apr. 1. Call high quality heifers with full herd health. Marcel atprogram. 204-981-6953, Oak Bluff, MB. Stewart Valley, SK. tkolson@sasktel.net Phone 306-773-7964 or 306-773-9109. 150 BRED ANGUS heifers, AIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d to Right Answer on July 1, to calve Apr. 1. Full herd REG. BLACK ANGUS replacement heifer health program used. Will keep to the end calves, born February and March, 2012. of Nov. Asking $1600. Mike 204-723-0375, 306-554-2934, Wynyard, SK. or Robert 204-871-0357, MacGregor, MB.

WANTED: CARMEN CREEK Gourmet Meats and High Plains Bison are purchasing calves, yearlings and finished slaughter bison year round. Prompt Payment. Advance deposits and long term contracts are available. For more information contact: animalsourcing@goldenbison.com or 303-962-0044, Denver, Colorado office. 15- 2012 HEIFER calves; 15- 2011 heifers; 15- 2010 heifers; 4 yr. old breeding bull, quiet disposition. Excellent stock to add to your herd or a great starting package! 204-447-3332, St. Rose du Lac, MB. NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for over 15 years, is looking for finished Bison, grain or grass fed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you have them, we want them.â&#x20AC;? Make your final call with Northfork for pricing! Guaranteed prompt payment! 514-643-4447, Winnipeg, MB. HERD DISPERSAL, 42 head mixture of bulls and heifers, 35 are 3 yrs. and under. 204-859-0000, Rossburn, MB. ELK VALLEY RANCHES, buying all ages of feeder bison. Call Frank 780-846-2980, Kitscoty, AB or elkvalley@xplornet.com HERD DISPERSAL 29 COWS, varying in ages from 3-15 yrs., 27- 2012 calves. 306-862-8490, 306-428-2769 Snowden SK

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N.A.P.S. SOLAR STORE offers solar panels, windmills, components or complete solar WANTED: 50â&#x20AC;&#x2122; HEAVY harrows, any make, systems and energy efficient appliances. decent condition. Call 306-736-2750, Kip- WINPOWER TRACTOR driven PTO genera- 780-835-3682, 1-866-835-6277, Fairview, tor, 50 KVA, 200 amp, used one time, ling, SK. AB., or check out: www.solar-store.com $3500. Call 306-536-1489, Regina, SK. WANTED: JD 7810 tractor w/FEL, 3 PTH; DIESEL GENSET SALES AND SERVICE, NH 1037, 1033, 1036, 1032 bale wagons. 12 to 300 KW, lots of units in stock, used 403-394-4401, Lethbridge, AB. and new, Perkins, John Deere, Deutz. We WANTED: USED, BURNT, old or ugly trac- also build custom gensets. We currently tors. Newer models too! Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tractor have special pricing on new John Deere HOLISTIC HEALTH CARE welcomes Wrecking, 1-888-676-4847. snowbirds to the Southwest Region. units. Call for pricing 204-792-7471. Located in Los Algodones, Baja CaliWANTED: 3 PTH, 5-6â&#x20AC;&#x2122; tandem disc, also REDUCED: KOHLER ELECTRIC PLANT fornia, Mexico near Yuma, Arizona. cultivator. Phone 306-497-7748, Blaine generator, nat. gas 35R8811 SN #215281, Chelation Therapy at Holistic Health Lake, SK. 35 KW, 3 phase, 43.75 KVA, 60 cycle, Care. 21 years of successful results in Los WANTED: ROCK SHAFT for International 120/28 volt, 1800 RPM, 121 amp per Algodones. Chelation therapy is a form of 4700 vibratiller cultivator. 204-548-2148, term., includes all switching and paneling, treatment aimed at reducing calcium 92 HP, 33.9 hrs., $6000 OBO. Dalmeny, plaque, removing toxic metals inhibiting Gilbert Plains, MB. enzyme systems, controlling lipid peroxiSK., 306-370-1603. BELT LACER SEED blender for grass seed; dation, and reducing platelet â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;stickinessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in dozer blade for 800 Versatile; small pro- DUETZ GENERATOR, 45 KW, 6 cyl. diesel, the clinical management of cardiovascular pane forklift. 204-685-2376, Austin, MB. c/w autostart panels and 120-208 volt, and other related diseases. Chelation 526 hrs. Call 306-239-4942, Osler, SK. Therapy Benefits: Anti-Aging, Arterial WANTED: International Mount-O-Matic Blockage, Arthritis, Asthma, Atherosclero2250 front end loader, good condition. Ph sis, Cancer preventative, Cardiac arrythmi780-956-4666, Rainbow Lake, AB. as, Cerebral vascular disease, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Congestive heart failure, MF 882 25â&#x20AC;&#x2122; swather or equivalent. Please Coronary artery disease, Diabetes, Emphyphone: 306-867-8410, Outlook, SK. sema, Fibromyalgia, Hypertension, Lymeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WANTED: 48â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or 50â&#x20AC;&#x2122; deep tiller, John Deere disease, Macular degeneration, Memory 1650 or Bourgault 9400. Phone loss, Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease, Peripheral vascu204-773-2868, Russell, MB. lar disease, Toxic metals. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), Oxygenate ROOT RAKE WANTED, 5 wheel or similar. and improve your health! HBOT should Call: 306-892-2003 or cell: 306-441-7776, be used to complement, improve or corMeota, SK. rect conventional therapies and treatWANTED: MF #36 DISCERS, all sizes, ments, including: Diabetic complications, prompt pick-up. Phone 306-259-4923, circulatory problems, Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease, 306-946-9669, 306-946-7923, Young, SK. oral surgery, Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease, migraines, multiple sclerosis, rheumatic arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, stress, fybromyalgia, autism, stroke and many more. Visit our Holistic Health Care clinGUARANTEED PRESSURE TREATED fence ic at 184 Ave. B, Los Algodones, Baja Caliposts, lumber slabs and rails. Call Lehner fornia (near Yuma, AZ) or call Dr. Brock at Wo o d P r e s e r ve r s L t d . , a s k fo r R o n 928-328-1810 for an appointment. 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK.

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13 EXCELLENT QUALITY Black Angus heifers exposed to proven easy calving Red Angus bull from June 20 to Aug. 25th. Preg. tested, Ivocmeced, very quiet animals, ready to go. Asking $1650 OBO. Grant Goller, 306-883-3991 Spiritwood SK SELLING: BLACK ANGUS bulls. Wayside Angus, Henry and Bernie Jungwirth, 306-256-3607, Cudworth, SK.

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GEIS ANGUS DISPERSAL SALE, Thursday, Dec. 13 and Friday, Dec. 14 at Nilsson Bros. Livestock, Clyde, AB. Providing endless opportunities of all Red and Black Angus genetics. Dec. 13 selling 60 long yearling bulls, herdsires, semen and embryos. Dec. 14 selling 300 cow/calf pairs, 70 bred heifers. Contacts: Brian and Kim Geis, 780-674-4225 or Rob Holowaychuk, OBI, 780-916-2628. View catalog online at www.cattlemanagement.ca to request a catalog email OBI at o.b.i@shaw.ca BLACK ANGUS BULLS FOR SALE, Yearlings and two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders, delivery available. skinnerfarmsangus.com 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. HUSUM RANCH is downsizing, prepared to sell 25 to 30 bred cows and heifers. These are Reg. Black Angus cattle. Call 306-647-2891, Parkerview, SK. 36 PUREBRED BLACK Angus bred heifers, to calve late March/April. Call David or Pat 306-963-2639, Imperial, SK. BIRCHAM RANCH BRED HEIFERS. 110 top cut first cross black brocklefaced and 30 3/4 Angus black and black brockleface heifers. Bred Black Angus. Bred June 10th to August 6th. All vaccinations. Selling at Rock Solid Bred Heifer Sale, Dec. 10, 2012. Heartland Livestock, Swift Current, SK. Call Wayne Bircham 306-558-4514. Visit us online: www.rocksolidbredheifer.com HERD REDUCTION: 25 purebred black cows carrying service to HF Alaskan 94T or Benlock Stoked 22W, your choice. Call 306-997-4802, John Buswell, Borden, SK. j.buswell@yourlink.ca COLDSTREAM ANGUS COMPLETE Herd Dispersal, Tues., Dec. 11, 5:00 PM Olds Cavalier Pavilion, Olds, AB. Entire cow herd sells, including 2012 open heifers and herd bull prospects. Plus a large selection of embryos and livestock equipment. For a catalogue or more info contact Doug at 403-948-5941 or T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd. at 306-933-4200. View catalogue online at www.buyagro.com PL #116061. EIGHT REG. BLACK Angus bred cows for sale; Also Reg. Black Angus replacement heifers, AI sired. Call for details. Ravenworth Cattle, Garry 306-367-2013 or cell: 306-231-7567, Middle Lake, SK. 8 REGISTERED BLACK Angus bred cows, 2 open registered heifers, 14 months. Melfort SK. 306-752-1961, cell 306-921-7536. 19 REGISTERED HEIFERS, majority AI serviced to Cedar Ridge 1V, Krugerrand 410H, or Iron Mountain, preg checked to calve mid-March to mid-April. Glennie Bros. Angus, 403-862-7578, Carnduff, SK.

15 REGISTERED RED Angus open heifers. Phone: Little de Ranch, 306-845-2406, Turtleford, SK. 20 PUREBRED Red Angus bred heifers. This is our entire 2011 heifer crop, good heifers, several AI bred, the rest bred to easy calving $5400 bull. Wilkinridge Stock Farm 204-373-2631, Ridgeville, MB. 45 TOP CUT Red Angus bred heifers, sold at Rock Solid Bred Heifer Sale, Dec. 10th, 1 PM, Heartland Livestock, Swift Current, SK. Contact: Gary Topham, 306-295-4093 or www.rocksolidbredheifersale.com or www.tophamredangus.com 12 PUREBRED PAPERED Red Angus bred heifers, bred for performance and calving ease, bull out July 1. Paul Dyck, 403-378-4881, Rosemary, AB. FANCY SIMM/RED Angus cross bred heifers, many solid red. Proven low BW Red bulls out June 5. Full herd health. Email tkolson@sasktel.net Phone 306-773-7964 or 306-773-9109, Stewart Valley, SK. RED ANGUS BULLS FOR SALE yearlings and two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders, delivery available. Website: skinnerfarmsangus.com Ph 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. 5 RED ANGUS cross and 3 Blacks, bred Red Angus, second calvers, start to calve April 10, $1500/hd. 780-336-6378, Irma, AB. PUREBRED RED ANGUS bred cows, 2 to 5 years old. For more info. call Pasquia Red Angus, 306-768-2966, Carrot River, SK. RED HERD DISPERSAL, 11 cows carrying service of Red Majestic Maserati S 107W. 306-997-4802, John Buswell, Borden, SK. j.buswell@yourlink.ca 30 PUREBRED RED Angus heifers, bred to low BW bulls. Due to calve in March/April. Discounts for larger groups 807-486-3477, Devlin, ON. www.cornellfarms.ca

SANDAN CHAROLAIS BI-ANNUAL Production Sale Sat., Dec. 8, 2012, 1:00 PM at Sandan Sale Barn, Erskine, AB. Featuring young proven producing cows, bred heifers and fancy heifer calves. Call Ursula 403-741-6114 or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-933-4200. PL #116061. View the catalogue on line at www.buyagro.com NORTH AMERICA’S LARGEST Charolais Sale! Perrot-Martin Complete Dispersal, Saturday, December 15, 10:30 AM CST, at the farm, Naicam, SK, 7 miles north on Hwy #6, 8 miles west, 1-1/2 miles south. Over 600 head sell, including all the bulls (50 long yearlings and 120 bull calves). Wintering and terms available on bulls. Also selling semen and embryos. Watch and bid online at www.LiveAuctions.TV For more info. or a catalogue contact John at 306-874-5496; Collin at 306-874-2186 or T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd. at 306-933-4200. View catalogue online: www.BuyAgro.com FOR SALE OR TRADE, purebred Charolais heifers, to calve early. AI Kaboom and one heifer natural bred to the son of Moore’s Lariot. Don, 306-727-4927, Sintaluta, SK. 25- PUREBRED CHAROLAIS cows; 20- bred heifers, white and red factor; also, yearling and two yr. old Charolais bulls. Creedence Charolais Ranch, Ervin Zayak, Derwent, AB. 780-741-3868 or cell, 780-853-0708.

LITTLE WILLOW CREEK RANCH, 26th Annual Simmental Beef Bull and Heifer Sale, Friday, Dec. 7th, 1:00 PM CST at the farm; Frenchman Butte, SK. Offering: 80 ranch raised beef bulls, 1/2 are long yearlings and 2 yr. olds; Fullbloods, red and black Simmental, Red Angus. Partial payment option available. Bulls wintered until April 1st at no charge; Approx. 200 bred commercial Simmental cross females bred Red Angus; Selling 10 Y-Coulee bulls, the service sires for these heifers; Also 150 open commercial Simmental cross females. Bid live on-line at: www.dlms.ca For info call Ervin Harland 306-344-4807 or Scott Harland 306-344-2027. View online catalogue: www.buyagro.com

WOOD RIVER CHAROLAIS fantastic female sale, Wed., Dec. 19th, 1:00 PM, Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. On offer: 1 herdsire prospect, 3 cow/calf pairs, 1 bred cow, 29 bred heifers. The heifers are the entire calf crop from 2011. They all sell including the reigning Ag Ex champion Charolais female and carry the services of the 2011 Agribition Supreme champion ALBERTA TEXAS LONGHORN Association bull CSS Gridmaker. For further info. con- 780-387-4874, Leduc, AB. For more info. tact: Wood River Charolais, Murray Blake www.albertatexaslonghorn.com and family 306-478-7088, 306-478-2520; Shane 306-301-9140 or Doug Howe 306-631-1209 or 306-693-2163. GOT OPEN COWS? We have the replacements. 60 1-iron Hereford Red Angus cross red baldies. Bred to proven calving BRED COWS AND yearling heifers, 1 and 2 ease Red Angus bulls. Had all shots, Ivoy e a r o l d b u l l s , a n d fe e d e r s t e e r s . meced, preg. tested, and quiet. These are a great set of heifers. Call Harv Verishine, 403-845-5763, Rocky Mountain House, AB. 306-283-4666, Langham, SK. 38 BLACK ANGUS cross bred heifers, bred Black for April-May calving, exposed for 60 12th ANNUAL PRAIRIE Gelbvieh Alliance days, $1450/heifer OBO. Please contact Female Sale, December 8th, Temple Gar- G r a h a m 2 0 4 - 2 2 6 - 5 6 1 0 o r K r i s t i n e dens Mineral Spa, 3:00 PM, Moose Jaw, 204-857-2377, Gladstone, MB. SK. View catalogue at www.buyagro.com or phone Ian at 306-456-2555 or Chad at RANCHER RAISED HEIFERS: Black Angus and brockles, bred Black June 10. 306-436-2086. They will be the Mammas, asking $1560 SASKATOON GELBVIEH BULL SALE, each. Call Jerry Chanig 306-478-2658, March 22, 2013, www.gelbviehworld.com Mankota, SK. Ph. 306-865-2929 200 BRED ANGUS cows, bred to Black An45 PB REG. GELBVIEH HEIFERS, bred gus bulls. Due to start calving April 10. to easy calving Gelbvieh bulls, start calving 306-532-4778, Langbank, SK. Feb. 12th. Phone: Winders Gelbvieh 150 TOP QUALITY ranch raised Black An780-672-9950, Camrose, AB. gus/BBF heifers, bred to Black Angus heifer bulls. Exposed for 60 days for April 1st calving. Ultrasound tested on Sept. 26/12. David 306-394-4800 or Lawrence 25 HEREFORD, 5 RBF bred Hereford to sell Call Dec. 7 at Weyburn Livestock Exchange, 11 306-394-2031, Coderre, SK. AM. Bred Hereford, start calving Mar. 1st. CATTLE FINANCING AVAILABLE for Herman Bieber, 306-727-3127, Wolseley. feeder cattle and bred heifers/cows. Competitive interest rates. Marjorie Blacklock, Stockmens Assistance Corp., 306-931-0088, Saskatoon, SK. FRESH AND SPRINGING heifers for sale. ANGUS BRED HEIFERS, preg checked, all Cows and quota needed. We buy all class- vaccinations done, calving Mar 1st to low es of slaughter cattle-beef and dairy. R&F birthweight Black Angus bulls, very uniLivestock Inc. Bryce Fisher, Warman, SK. form, feminine group, 1250 lbs. plus, must Phone 306-239-2298, cell 306-221-2620. be seen. Your pick $1600 or gate run M I L K Q U OTA A N D DA I RY H E R D S $1500. 780-367-2387, Willingdon, AB. NEEDED Fresh cows and heifers avail. To- 80 TOP QUALITY, home raised, Angus and tal Dairy Consulting. Tisdale, SK. Rod York Hereford bred heifers. Ultrasounded in 306-873-7428, Larry Brack 306-220-5512. calf to Black Angus calving ease bulls for DAIRY COWS AND HEIFERS, some fresh March. 10th calving start. Ivomec and vacand some springing. Call 306-548-4711, cinated. $1600 for picks. Call Winston, Meggan, Aaron Hougham, 306-344-4913, Sturgis, SK. Frenchman Butte, SK. 65 BRED HEIFERS and young cows exposed to Black and Red Angus bulls June BIG ISLAND LOWLINES Farmfair Int. 15/12. Call 306-539-5814, 306-699-2562, Premier Breeder. Fullblood/percentage, Qu’Appelle, SK. priddell@inverness-con.ca Black/Red Carrier, females, bulls, red fullblood semen, embryos. 780-486-7553 SELLING AT NILSSON BROS in Vermilion, Alberta, Dec. 15, 2012: 70 bred heifDarrell, 780-434-8059 Paul, Edmonton AB. ers, Red Angus, Simm., Hereford cross, LOWLINE CROSS CATTLE for sale, cows, bred Red Angus. Exposed for 45 days, start h e i fe r s a n d c a l ve s . 3 0 6 - 9 3 1 - 2 8 3 2 , to calve date March 25th. Tom Lyn Ranch 306-361-4030 cell, Martensville, SK. Ltd. 306-825-2246, Lloydminster, SK. 200 BRED COWS, mostly red and blacks, bred Black Angus, $1800. picked up May CANADIAN MAINE-ANJOU ASSOCIATION. 15. Call 204-871-6584, Gladstone, MB. Power, performance and profit. For info on TOP QUALITY Black Angus/Black Angus Maine-Anjou genetics 403-291-7077, Cal- cross heifers, bred to calving ease bulls, gary, AB. or www.maine-anjou.ca full vaccination program, $1550. for pick, $ 1 4 5 0 . fo r g a t e r u n . C a l l S t a n a t 780-656-0842, Waskatenau, AB. BLUE AND WHITE Shorthorn cross 75 GOOD YOUNG Simmental cross bred prospect steers, open heifer calves, breds cows, bred Simm; also 18 Simmental cross and bulls. Also black Eye Candy prospect bred heifers, bred Red Angus. April 1st calving. Will sell in smaller groups. Notre steers! 780-367-2483, Willingdon, AB. Dame, MB, 204-248-2493, 204-526-5836. 15TH ANNUAL SHORTHORN Alliance sale, Thurs. Dec. 13 at 1 PM at Saskatoon Live- 25 BRED HEIFERS, Hereford/Angus cross, stock Sales. On offer will be top females, bred Angus, to start calving April 1st. consisting of heifer calves, bred heifers, $ 1 4 5 0 t o p i c k o r $ 1 4 0 0 t a ke s a l l . and cows. Also top herd sire prospects. 306-984-4755, Leoville, SK. These are top genetics from leading West- 140 RANCH RAISED Black Angus bred ern Canadian breeders. For more info call, heifers, most from PB mothers, bred to Richard Moellenbeck, 306-287-7904 or easy calving Black Angus bulls, start calvview catalogue at www.saskshorthorn.com ing April 1st. Asking $1500 flat or $1600 SELLING AT Heartland Livestock Service, for pick. Call Scott Ranch 204-835-2087, Virden, MB on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 will be McCreary, MB. 40+ head of commercially oriented Short- 5O TOP END BRED HEIFERS, Red Anhorn and Shorthorn cross bred heifers and gus/Simmental cross, bred to top quality young cows. For more info. contact Greg Red Angus bulls, start calving end of April. Tough at 204-748-3136. Complete vaccination program. Call Dale 12 COMMERCIAL BRED heifers; also con- at 403-575-0465, Consort, AB. signing 11 bred females to the Alliance 40- BLACK AND Black baldy bred heifers, sale, Dec. 13 in Saskatoon. 306-553-2244, bred to easy calving Black Angus bull, out www.muridale.com Swift Current, SK. June 27. Excellent replacement female for over 25 years. Top quality. 6 ROAN AND RED heifers, bred to proven program calving ease bulls, preg. checked and vac- 306-646-4970, Fairlight, SK. cinated, start calving Feb. 5th. Radville, 140 BLACK AND RED Angus bred heifers SK., 306-442-2090. bred to Black and Red, calving ease, bulls July 10 for 60 days. Full herd health. SHORTHORNS FOR ALL the right reasons. out Check out why and who at 306-577-4664, $1500. 306-846-4527, Dinsmore, SK. www.saskshorthorns.com Carlyle, SK. 15 BLACK 3 year olds, bred Red Angus on June 1, $1450. Phone 306-882-3239, Rosetown, SK. 85 RED AND BLACK cows, calving March PUREBRED SIMMENTAL COWS, reds 15th, bred Simmental. 306-763-2964, and blacks, start calving January 15th. Call 306-747-8192, Shellbrook, SK. 780-336-1021, Viking, AB. HEIFERS: 60 Hereford/Simm. and 9 BRED HEIFERS for sale black Simmen- BRED Red Angus/Simmental, all bred Red tal cross, exposed to Black Angus bull May 30 Angus. 20 Black, bred Black Angus. Ex10, $1500 each. Phone 306-427-4682, posed June 1 to August 1. 306-441-5915, 306-883-8485 cell, Shell Lake, SK 306-445-6221, Battleford, SK. 44- SIMMENTAL AND Simmental cross HERD DISPERSAL: Tans, reds and white bred heifers, bred Black and Red Angus. cows, exposed to Black Angus bulls June Start calving Mar 01., groups of Red, Black 20, 2012. 306-782-5909, Yorkton, SK. and Tan, complete herd health. Nisku Land and Cattle Inc. 306-722-3668, Fillmore, SK 250 BRED HEIFERS Black Angus and Charolais cross, due to start calving March SPRING CREEK SIMMENTALS and Guest 1st, $1600. 204-522-0854, Pipestone, MB. Consignors Bred Heifer Sale, Dec. 14, 1 PM Heartland Livestock, Virden, MB. 180 Red 140 BLACK ANGUS horned Hereford cross and Black Simmental and Simmental/An- heifers, Vira Sheild, Scour Bos, Ivomec gus heifers bred to Angus bulls. Call and preg. checked for March 10 due date, $1500 each. 306-342-4447, Glaslyn, SK. 306-435-3590 or 306-435-7527.

40 COW/CALF PAIRS, some cows are re- 50 QUALITY BRED heifers, all Black Anb r e d f o r A p r i l 1 0 , 2 0 1 2 . P h o n e gus, some Baldys, all bred Black Angus, ex306-532-4778, Langbank, SK. posed for 65 days. Buyer can pick from 100 heifers, $1600. Phone: 306-538-2154, 75 BRED HEIFERS, Red and Black Angus Kennedy, SK. cross, one owner, selected out of 400 cow herd. Due April 1st. Call 306-792-4744, 23 RED and RWF Simmental crossbred Springside, SK. heifers, bred to Red Angus and Hereford FOR SALE 110 Charolais Simmental cross bulls, full vaccination program, to start and Red Angus Simmental cross cows bred calving March 1st. 306-427-4607 or Charolais Simmental, mostly one iron. 306-883-7220. Shell Lake, SK. Good herd w/top genetics used for years. GEISLER CATTLE CO. has for sale top Calves have been top sellers at Saskatoon quality black and red Simmental cross Livestock sales for a number of years, with bred heifers, due to start calving early steer calves averaging over $1000. Preg April, bred to easy calving Black and Red tested, Ivomeced, start calving Feb. 04, Angus bulls. For more info 204-739-3011 2013. Could supply feed if required and or 204-768-3633, Ashern, MB. possibly some pasture. Phone 306-497-7756 or, 306-497-3186, Crown 73 PREG TESTED red and red blaze face Hill Farms, Blaine Lake, SK. Simmental heifers, due to start calving the February. Heifers were put on a cy40 TO 50 BLACK/ BWF bred heifers. Home 22nd program before bulls kicked out and raised, bred to easy calving black bulls. cling pulled after 62 days. Bred Red Angus April calving. Pick from 75. $1550 you bulls one Black Angus bull used in the p i c k , $ 1 5 0 0 g a t e r u n . C a l l I a n a t with clean up. Asking $1600. For more informa306-246-4544, Richard, SK. tion call Charlene at 780-542-7630, cell 24 HEIFERS, 15 Black and 9 RWF, preg. 780-898-5655, Drayton Valley, AB. or checked. Erwin Lehmann 306-232-4712, email: harden.shannon@gmail.com Rosthern, SK. TOP QUALITY RED Angus/Simmental 400 BLACK and Red bred heifers, 50 bred cross heifers bred Red Angus; Black AnCharolais heifers, 200 young bred cows. gus/Black Simmental cross heifers bred All bred to Black bulls. 306-741-2392, Black Angus; Tan Charolais cross heifers bred Red Angus; Black Angus/Black SimSwift Current, SK. mental cross 3 year olds bred Black Angus. QUALITY ONE IRON heifers, 40 Red An- Oberle Farms Ltd., Kelly 306-297-9366 or gus, Red Angus Simmental cross heifers, Ralph 306-297-7979, Shaunavon, SK. bred red; 25 Red Angus cross Char tan heifers, bred red. Bulls out June 10th. 75 ONE IRON Black Angus heifers, bred Heifers sell Dec. 8th, Assiniboia Livestock Angus. Yearly vaccination program. Preg. Auction. Richmond Brothers, Gravelbourg, checked. Calving start date April 7th. SK., call Marshall 306-648-7429. $1500 each. 306-697-3084, Grenfell, SK. 30 ANGUS CROSS ranch raised one owner HEREFORD COWS for fall calving, home May calving cows bred Angus. The best r a i s e d a n d q u i e t , $ 1 1 5 0 e a c h . C a l l and youngest of 120. Field wintered and 403-772-2191, 403-820-8028, Morrin, AB. calved, never pampered. Also 8 cows with Sept. calves and 2 January calvers. YOUNG COWS for sale: 25 heifers, 150 second and third calvers, preg. tested, Ivo306-336-2667, Lipton, SK. mec, Bovishield, bred Black and Red An150 BLACK AND RED Angus, good quality, gus. 306-386-2213, 306-386-2490, Coyoung bred cows. Call 306-773-1049, chin, SK. Swift Current, SK. BLACK AND Red Angus heifers, excel125 BRED RED Angus cross heifers, bred 100 quality, exposed to Black and Red AnRed Angus, good uniform bunch, vaccinat- lent gus June 10th to Aug. 20th. Call ed and ultrasound in calf. Apr. 10th calving Craigbulls Jensen: 306-935-2058; Daryl Jendate. Call 306-355-2700, Mortlach, SK. sen: 306-935-4435, Milden, SK HERD DISPERSAL: 150 red tan cows, 50 black and red heifers, bred Black Angus. 200 BLACK BRED HEIFERS, checked by Bulls turned out July 1. Good young set of ultrasound, age verified, exposed June 25 cows. Saturday Dec. 8, 12:00, Parkland to LBW Black bulls, vaccinated and treated, $1450. 306-476-2712, Rockglen, SK. Livestock Market, 306-675-2077 Leross SK 16 BLACK/BWF heifers, bred Black or Red 80 REPUTATION RANCH raised Black AnAngus, exposed 60 days, due to start calv- gus cross heifers, bred easy calving Black ing April 1, Ivomeced, $1500 OBO. Call Angus, due April 10th, $1650. Call: 403-285-4080 evenings, Calgary, AB. 306-274-4906, Lestock, SK. 120 BLACK BRED HEIFERS plus a few reds and BBF, light BW, black bulls in June 30 for 60 days. Bovashield Gold pre-breeding ultrasound preg. tested. Call Scott 403-854-0230, 403-854-3374, Hanna, AB. BURGESS RANCH will be selling top cut Black Baldy heifers at the Rock Solid Bred Heifer Sale, December 10, 2012, 1:00 PM at Heartland Livestock, Swift Current, SK. For more info. call Joe at 306-558-4705. 400- 3, 4, AND 5 YR. OLD ANGUS AND ANGUS CROSS cows, with August / Sept. calves alongside, $1650/pr. Will sell in parcels. 403-793-5072, SE AB. and SW SK. 30 ANGUS/SIMMENTAL cross young cows for sale, $1375 OBO. Call 306-742-4771, cell 306-621-4643, Calder, SK.

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1-8 00-440-26 9 4. w w w .rka n im a lsu pplies.co m 22 BRED HEIFERS Simm. cross, average weight 1,200 lbs., bred Black Angus, March 14th calving date, $1,600. 306-427-4922, Shell Lake, SK.

180 BLACK ANGUS/Simmental bred cows, bulls out June 28th, $1500/ea. for gate run or $1650 choice. Call 306-435-6994, 306-435-3110, Moosomin, SK. 50 BRED HEIFERS, home raised, preg checked, full vaccination program, Maine/ Angus cross, due to start calving January 20th. Can supply hay for above animals. Price negotiable. Call Barry 204-386-2458, 204-476-6447, Plumas, MB. HERD DISPERSAL: 45 young age verified home raised Tarentaise cows, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd spring calvers; also 40 fall calving commercial cows. Can pasture until Oct. 31, $1450 and up. Phone Ken 204-568-4651, Miniota, MB. 15 YOUNG CHAROLAIS cows, bred Charolais, Mar./April calving, $1300. Layne and Paula Evans, 306-252-2246, Kenaston, SK. FOR SALE: 7 bred Simmental cross heifers, bred to Red Angus bull, $1500 each. 306-944-2089, Viscount, SK. 100 BRED HEIFERS: Black Angus, Red Angus and Tan Charolais cross, bred Red Angus. Start calving April 1. $1450. Hanley, SK., call 306-544-2794. 75 BRED RED ANGUS cows, 3rd calf. Bull turned out end of June. Located Eastern SK. Call 204-362-4218.

WANTING SHARE COWS or bred heifers at a fair rate, 70-180 head. Prefer Black Angus. 306-237-4516, Sonningdale, SK. WANTED: CULL COWS for slaughter. For bookings call Kelly at Drake Meat Processors, 306-363-2117, ext. 111, Drake, SK. DO CUSTOM CATTLE FEEDING, backgrounding, also bred cattle. 403-631-2373, 403-994-0581, Olds, AB. WILL CUSTOM FEED 50 to 60 cows for winter. Silage hay, plenty of water and s h e l t e r. P h o n e 3 0 6 - 6 4 7 - 2 1 1 8 o r, 306-620-8343 for details, Theodore, SK.

16th ANNIVERSARY Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede BEEF PEN SHOW, December 21st and 22nd. Commercial and Purebred Classes, 4-H, plus a CASH added Steer Jackpot. Enter online at www.mhstampede.com or 403-527-1234.

1 REG. WELL bred 11 yr. old bay Appaloosa stud with dark pigmentation, broke to ride, very quiet. 306-874-5627 Naicam, SK

EUROPEAN IMPORT HOLSTEINER sired Hunter/Jumper, broodmare prospects. Call Dr. Marshall Patterson 306-475-2232, Moose Jaw, SK.

TEAM OF BROWN and white ponies 13 HH, SIMMENTAL RED ANGUS cross, or Sim- c/w harnesses, collars and bridles. Call mental heifers, excellent quality. Bred Red Alex at 780-826-6954, Bonnyville, AB. or Black Angus, all one iron cattle. 3jSimmental Farms, 306-325-4622, or cell 49 THREE YR. old Black Angus heifers, 306-327-8005, Lintlaw, SK. exposed to Black Angus bulls June 20th. A BEAUTIFUL DARK Palomino registered Ph. 306-662-2036, Maple Creek, SK. 50 GOOD QUALITY black and red bred quarter horse stallion, broke to ride, COMPLETE HERD DISPERSAL, 170 Sim- heifers, bred Black Angus. Bulls out June $1000. 13” kids saddle, like new, $275. mental cross cows, 80 Simmental Angus 19th to Aug 21st. Complete vaccination Call 306-865-4168, Hudson Bay, SK. cross heifers, $1800 choice, $1600 for all. program. 306-696-2883, Broadview, SK. Excellent line of bulls also available. Call 60 BRED HEIFERS, blacks and reds, bred WANTED: BUYER FOR 2 or more Palomino registered quarter horse mares, $200/ea; 204-539-2662, Benito, MB. b a c k t o A n g u s . 3 0 6 - 2 8 3 - 4 7 4 7 , 1 Bay mare green broke to ride; 1 Chestnut mare broke to ride. Call 306-865-4168, GOOD QUALITY BRED HEIFERS. Red 306-291-9395, 306-220-0429, Langham. Angus cross Hereford and Red Angus cross 300 BRED HEIFERS Black Angus and An- Hudson Bay, SK. Simmental. Bred Red Angus. Ferguson gus cross. Preg tested to calve April 21st CUSTOM TRAINING. Starting colts, ranch Stock Farm Ltd 306-895-4825, Paynton SK to May 31st, $1400. Phone Bernard and problem horses, Border Collie stock WATKINS BRED HEIFERS for sale: 306-984-7272, Spiritwood, SK. dogs. Rick Wiebe 306-860-7537, Outlook. 150- home raised, exc. quality, 60 day 10 COWS WITH fall calves at side. Phone breeding starting Mar. 25; Black brockles 306-283-4747, Langham, SK. and straight Blacks, also 35- Blacks w/touch of Simmental, all bred to top 60 COWS BRED to Angus, calving starts FOR SALE REG. Welsh mares and part quality Black Angus bulls. Cliff and Nora March end. 306-283-4747, 306-291-9395, reds, $600 each; draught pony harness Watkins, 306-734-2915, Aylesbury, SK. c/w britching w/16” collars, exc. cond. 306-220-0429, Langham, SK. $700. 204-967-2830, Kelwood, MB. 100 COMMERCIAL BLACK ANGUS heifers, bred to low birthweight Black Angus bulls, BRED H EI F ERS exposed from June 18 to August 20, full vaccination program. Heifers selected •300 red a ngu s a nd red a ngu s TRIM BOSS: The Power Hoof Trimmer. from our herd of 600 cows. $1600 each. cross heifers bred to low birth Take the work out of hoof trimming. Trim Delivery avail. 306-739-2732, Wawota, SK. w eightblk a ngu s bu lls. wall, sole and flare on saddle horses, 80 RED ANGUS cross heifers, bred Black •200 blk a ngu s heifers bred to drafts and minis. Call 780-898-3752, Alder Angus to start calving Apr. 15th. Virden, Flats, AB. www.trimboss.ca low birth w eightblk a ngu s bu lls. MB. 204-748-7829 or 204-748-3889. HORSES, HARNESS AND HOMESTEAD, The Bu lls in Ju ne 15th pu lled 50 RED ANGUS CROSS bred heifers, $1600 History of Draft Horses in Saskatchewan. Au gu st15th. for gate run, $1650 your pick, exposed Soft cover, 240 pages, almost 600 picCom plete herd hea lth. July 1 for two cycles. Bred to easy calving tures. Pick up a copy near you or order, G u a ra nteed Q u a lity Sa tisfa ction polled Hereford bulls, preg. checked. Curt contact Merlin, 306-338-2132, Kuroki, SK. 306-228-3689, 306-228-9402, Unity, SK. on these su prem e fem a les. RAMSAY PONY RIDES have for sale well19 BRED HEIFERS calving March 15, bred For m ore inform ation call broke kids horses from pony to saddle Red Angus, 75 cows calving March 1, bred S teve Prim ros e a t 4 03-381-3700 horse sizes. Some horses and ponies also Limousin, preg. check, ivomec treated, broke to drive. All broke horses sold with a Cell 4 03-382-9998 $1400. 306-695-7122, Indian Head, SK. written guarantee. Also new and used ridor S teve M uddle a t 306-661-8852 ing saddles. 306-386-2490, Cochin, SK. 3 HORNED HEREFORD, 1 Red Angus, 2 Black Angus bulls. Good for a smaller op- DISPERSAL: 19 BLACK Angus Limousin eration. Great herdsires. Produce beautiful cross cows, bred Black Angus. 6 Limousin WWW.ELLIOTTCUTTINGHORSES.COM 35 plus years of training, showing, sales, calves. 306-874-5627 Naicam, SK. c r o s s c o w s b r e d B l a c k A n g u s . clinics, lessons. Clifford and Sandra Elliott, Paynton, SK. Phone 306-895-2107. HERD DISPERSAL: 200 black/red/tan 306-656-4604, Zealandia, SK. cows and heifers, bred Black Angus, good young set of cows. Sat. Dec 8, 12:00 Noon at Parkland Livestock Market, Leross, SK., 306-675-2077. 80 BLACK and BWF bred heifers, exposed to low birthweight Black Angus bulls from June 08 to Sept. 1. Ivomec, Scourguard, and BVD. 306-424-2653, Montmartre, SK. 200 BRED HEIFERS, red and black, bred Black Angus, $1500. each. Call 53339 Highway 21 204-385-3633, Gladstone, MB. Sherwood Park, AB 85 BLACK ANGUS, Red Angus and Char., Canada T8A 4V1 start calving February, $1100 to $1350 Phone: 780-719-2740 each. 306-536-5104, Cupar, SK. 1 2 0 B R E D H E I F E R S, b l a c k a n d r e d , doubledcustomhats@albertacom.com $1350/ea gate run, $1400 pick. Russell, www.doubledcustomhats.com MB. 204-773-3044, bryer610@gmail.com Working Hats - Don Weller

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25 NORTH COUNTRY/ CROSS TEXEL ewe lambs, exposed October 25, 2012, 125 lb. average weight, $175 each. 204-761-3760, Newdale, MB. HERD DISPERSAL, top quality, 40 full- PB ILE DE FRANCE and Rideau Arcott ram blood Dorper ewes, ages 1-4 yrs., 30 full- lambs for sale. Fed to last, not grain fed. blood ewe lambs, closed herd, w/wo reg. Call 780-655-6615, Onoway, AB. papers. 306-424-2276, Montmarte, SK. 65-70 RAMBOUILET/POLYPAY cross ewes, mostly young stock, ready for breeding, $200. 306-246-4468, Richard, SK.

THICK, GROWTHY Hampshire and Dorset ram lambs, from proven reputable flock. RECONDITIONED HARNESS TO fit 900 to HORNED DORSET RAMS, Purebred, born in Heeromaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Neilburg, SK., 306-823-4526. 2000 lb. horses, adjustable sizes available. April, 2011. 780-672-5987, Camrose, AB. Call 306-682-5104, Humboldt, SK.

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BRANDT BALE PROCESSOR, round or large square bales, Left-hand discharge, hyd. splitter and flow control, 1000 PTO, good cond., $6000 OBO. 306-266-4517, FOR SALE: SUBURBAN 2 bale slide-in bale Glentworth, SK picker, w/wo 1981 Ford F350, with 7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; deck, recent motor and auto. Phone HIGHLINE 7000 BALE processor, Cattleman Series, 1000 PTO, excellent cond., 306-497-7748, Blaine Lake, SK. $7900. 780-941-2104, New Sarepta, AB. SOLAR WEST PORTABLE watering system, keeps stock out of dugouts, $4500 OBO. FREESTANDING WINDBREAK PANELS, up to 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, made from 2-3/8â&#x20AC;? oilfield pipe. Phone 306-776-2386, Avonlea, SK. Square bale feeders, any size. Can build HOME-MADE TEAM and calf roping other things. Elkhorn, MB. 204-851-6423, chute, $400. Call Jerry 306-472-5219 or 204-845-2188, 204-851-6714. 306-648-7813, Lafleche, SK. 2003 BALE KING 3100 RH delivery, exc. 2001 FARM AID 550 feed mixer wagon, cond., ready to go, used only 3 yrs., asking $14,500. OBO. Call 403-834-3755, Irvine, $9000. 306-547-2923, Preeceville, SK. AB. 1998 JIFFY FEED WAGON, SN 556XX98, NH 358 MIXMILL, very little use, original Model #JBF 220, exc. cond., always shelhammers never been turned, shedded, t e r d a n d l i g h t ly u s e d , $ 5 5 0 0 O B O. $10,900. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 780-679-0719, 780-608-6328, Camrose AB 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. TEXAS GATES and 4.5, 7 and 8-5/8â&#x20AC;? pipe SUPREME 700T, used for only 30 loads, fo r s a l e , f u l l l e n g t h s a n d c u t o f f s . new condition, shedded. 780-768-3766, 403-504-3120, Medicine Hat, AB. Hairy Hill, AB.

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COMMERCIAL BUCKS, DOES or doelings, high percentage Boer and/or Kalahari cross. 306-872-4442, Naicam, SK. COMPLETE BOER CROSS herd dispersal, ready for breeding, presently being flushed with grain. 34 nannies, 51 1 1/2 year olds, 10 1 1/2 year old Suffolk cross sheep. 204-372-6823, Fisher Branch, MB.

PAYSEN LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT INC. We manufacture an extensive line of cattle handling and feeding equipment including squeeze chutes, adj. width alleys, crowding tubs, calf tip tables, maternity pens, gates and panels, bale feeders, Bison equipment, Texas gates, steel water troughs and rodeo equipment. Distributors for Cancrete concrete waterers, El-Toro electric branders and twine cutters. Our squeeze chutes and headgates are now available with a neck extender. Phone 306-796-4508, email: ple@sasktel.net website: www.paysen.com

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STEEL VIEW MFG.: 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; portable windbreaks, HD self-standing panels, silage/ hay bunks, feeder panels. Quality portable p a n e l s at a f fo r d a b l e p r i c e s . S h a n e NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for 306-493-2300, Delisle, SK. over 15 years, is looking for Elk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you have them, we want them.â&#x20AC;? Make your fi- HAY SAVER ROUND bale feeder, $459; nal call with Northfork for pricing! Guaran- 3â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; lambing pen panels, $59; 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x7â&#x20AC;&#x2122; sheep teed prompt payment! 514-643-4447, panels, $69; 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x21â&#x20AC;&#x2122; freestanding sheep corral panels, $169. Ask about quantity disWinnipeg, MB. counts. Call Jack Taylor 1-866-500-2276, ELK VALLEY RANCHES, buying all ages Melfort, SK. www.affordablebarns.com of elk. Ph Frank 780-846-2980, Kitscoty, CUSTOM BUILT 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; five bar panels, windAB or email elkvalley@xplornet.com breaks, feed bunks, bale feeders and wire rollers. 306-984-7861, Mistatim, SK.

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ELECTRONIC ROLAND V Accordions in stock. Roland Dealer, call: 306-782-4288, SILVER STREAM SHELTERS Single Steel Yorkton, SK. Fabric Buildings Super Sale, 30x72 galvanized Gatorshield P/R frame and cover kits. Limited quantity, call to book early. On sale for $5790 plus freight. Call: 1-877-547-4738, silverstreamshelters.com VAC TRUCK BUSINESS. 1995 Western YOUNGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EQUIPMENT INC. For your Star Vac truck, 328,000 kms, 8 spd., Delivestock feeding, cutting, chopping and troit 430/470 w/2002 TC 407/412 code handling headquarters. 1-800-803-8346. Bomega 82 barrell tank, 820 Hibon blower NORHEIM RANCHING HAS Red Rhino self- (1 yr. old), heated tool boxes, heated unloading hay trailers. Saskatoon, SK. valves, Gallup agitator system. 46,000 rears, 14,600 fronts, new 24.5 rubber on Phone 306-227-4503. Buds, double lockers, 2012 tire boss TCP GREGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WELDING: 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; freestanding heavy system, also rigged for floaters. Currently duty fence panels and windbreaks; Also working w/4 yr. drilling program in place. calf shelters and custom gates, etc. Deliv- 10x30 accomm. trailer, triple 7000 lb axery avail. 306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK les. Call 780-886-0748, Drayton Valley, AB.

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I AM A Kind, generous, loving 58 yr. old man and I am looking for a stable relationship. I am interested to get to know a woman to genuinely love her and worship her. I am looking for a lovely woman who is generous, who loves to learn and grow. Together we can create the best days of our lives. Email: straightup@sasktel.net or reply to Box 2100, c/o Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4.

ECOCERT CANADA organic certification for producers, processors and brokers. Call the western office 306-873-2207, Tisdale, SK, email: rusty.plamondon@ecocert.com CANADA ORGANIC CERTIFIED by OCIA Canada. The ultimate in organic integrity for producers, processors and brokers. Call Ruth Baumann, 306-682-3126, Humboldt, SK, rbaumann@ocia.org, www.ocia.org PRO-CERT ORGANIC CERTIFICATION. Canadian family owned. No Royalties! Ph. SINGLE? MEET THE MATCHMAKER The only way it works! In-person inter306-382-1299 or visit www.pro-cert.org views Dec. 13th-14th in Regina and Saskatoon. Membership $700 plus taxes. 18 years experience. Have matched thouBEST COOKING PULSES accepting samples sands of people! Camelot Introductions, of org. green/yellow peas for 2012/2013 www.camelotintroductions.com or call 204-888-1529 to book your appointcrop year. Matt 306-586-7111, Rowatt, SK ment with an award winning Matchmaker! TRADE AND EXPORT Canada now buying organic feed grains: peas, oats, barley and COUNTRY INTRODUCTIONS, good men are hard to come by, or are they? Bachelflax. Quick pay. 1-877-339-1959. orettes free membership. Personal interINTERLAKE FORAGE SEEDS Ltd. is now view, criminal check. Call 1-877-247-4399. booking organic forage seed acres for the 2013 spring season. Competitive prices, farm pickup available. 1-800-990-1390, Fisher Branch, MB. WANTED: BUYING ORGANIC screenings, delivered. Loreburn, SK. Prompt payment. 306-644-4888 or 1-888-531-4888 ext. 2 M&M ORGANIC MARKETING is buying milling oats and the following feed grains: wheat, flax, oats, peas, soy beans, lentils, barley. 204-379-2451, St. Claude, MB. LOOKING FOR feed wheat, rye, barley, oats and screenings. Call Pristine Prairie Organics, 204-522-0842, Pipestone, MB. WANTED: RED FIFE wheat seed, and Roblin wheat seed. 306-867-8477, Outlook, AVAILABLE BACHELORETTE: MONIQUE SK. is 50 and is from Italian/French descent. She is well traveled, a great cook, divorced and a professional in banking and finance. 50 CERTIFIED ORGANIC black yearling She is an avid skier, works out 4 times a cattle, steers and heifers. Contact Iain at week. She has traveled Europe extensively, the US and most of the Latino continents. 204-761-3760, Newdale, MB. She is petite 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;4â&#x20AC;?, 130 lbs., and has two independent children. She is comfortable with whom she is and seeks for a man who is confident, values his family and friends, has a good career and is wanting to have a long term relationship in his life. Matchmakers Select, 1-888-916-2824. Rural, agricultural, remote, customized memberships, thorough screening process, guaranteed service. face to face matchmaking est. 13 yrs. www.selectintroductions.com

LOVELY SENIOR WIDOW lady looking for senior widow male in his 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, non-smoker. For companion or long term relationship. Box 5003, c/o Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4. LADY, 42, SEEKING man for friendship, maybe more. I am a shy, career lady, with no children, looking for low key, NS, only social drinker. Like camping, working out, conversation, music. Live an hour north of St. Albert, AB, looking for someone sort of in my area. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m easy to talk to - write me. Box 5000, c/o Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 2C4. COUNTRY LADY, 60â&#x20AC;&#x2122;S, interested in country living, dancing and travel. Seeking gentlemen 67 to 70, Alberta area. Please include photo. Box 5002, c/o Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK. S7K 2C4. HELLO! I AM in my early 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, still hope that I can meet a lady that appeals to me. Someone I can spend special moments with, like dining and dancing. I would treat her with honesty and respect. I live in the Regina area, so would like her to live thereabouts also. I am physically fit, divorced, 5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;6â&#x20AC;?, 175 lbs, look ok, retiring soon from farming and financially sound. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t smoke, enjoy a sociable drink, movies, conversation, sports, quiet times at home, some travel, and alot of things. I hope Santa Claus gives me a Merry Christmas by having a nice lady answering this ad. I am lonesome and it would be great to develop a friendship and more if possible. Box 5004, c/o Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4.

MINIATURE SCHNAUZER pups, 1st shots and dewormed, non-shedding and hypo-allergenic, make excellent house dogs and love the outdoors, $400. 204-434-6132, www.krentzschnauzers.com Steinbach, MB

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CHESAPEAKE RETRIEVER PUPS, born Aug. 15, 2012. 6 females, 1 male. Great hunting dogs, good with kids, $100 ea. 780-658-3984, 780-603-0626, Viking, AB. SCHOOL IN EARL GREY, SK for sale. 2099.4 square metres, ready for use. Serious inquiries only. 306-725-3016.

GREAT PYRENEES/MAREMMA pups, born Aug. 15, great working bloodline, ready to go. Some white, some w/masks. No shots. $250 each. 306-237-9286, Perdue, SK LUXURY VACATION HOME in Elk Ridge EsBORDER COLLIE/KELPIE pups for sale tates just minutes from Waskesiu, SK. $400, from good working parents, already Walk-out bungalow, 3000 sq ft. developed, showing instincts as they play, mother is a $850,000. Other investment properties registered purebred, father a border col- from $312,000. Call Karen Luiten, Re/Max lie/kelpie. Email kdkeates@telus.net or Saskatoon, 306-221-6141, Saskatoon, SK. phone 780-682-2199, Winfield, AB. PIGEON LAKE WATERFRONT lot 95â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x200â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, w i l l c o n s i d e r t r a d e s fo r f a r m l a n d , 6 AKBASH/MAREMMA/PYRENEES pups, $425,000. 403-346-1482, Red Deer, AB. born Oct. 8/2012 in a dog house with the feeder lambs. Can keep until May, $250 L A C D E S I S L E S t r e e d 5 a c r e l o t , each. 306-854-2404, Livelong, SK. $180,000; 2 acre lot, $80,000. No time limit to build. 306-373-4808 or cell BONIFIDE WORKING STOCKDOGS. Austra- 306-221-0081, loiselh@msn.com lian cattle dogs, red pups. Parents work at community pasture. Watkinson Cowdogs, CEDAR D STYLE LOGS, sidings, paneling, decking. Fir and Hemlock flooring, 306-692-2573, Moose Jaw, SK. timbers, special orders. Rouck Bros, LumREADY TO GO- Six red and white Border by, BC. 1-800-960-3388. rouckbros.com Collie pups, from working parents, $450. 306-587-7169, Success, SK.

RED AND BLUE Heeler Pups. Born Sept. 12th from working stock. Phone Robin 780-709-9017, Millet, AB. BORDER COLLIE PUPS, 6 wks. old, ready to go, from ranch working parents. Guaranteed. 306-553-2213, Swift Current, SK. email: emailterryjoy@gmail.com PUREBRED TURKISH KANGAL pups, bonded to lambs, both parents guarding 1200 plus head of sheep and cattle, 14 wks. old, $800 includes all shots and Stockmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spike collar. 306-724-4451, Debden, SK. Pictures at www.candllranch.com GREAT PYRENEES/ MAREMMA pups, born Aug. 26th, from working parents, ready to go $150 ea. 306-764-4303, 306-747-7220, Shellbrook, SK.

FIVE ACRE HOBBY, Nursery and Landscape business. Two miles North of Courtenay, Vancouver Island, BC. Buy inventory and equipment with lease, $249,000 or buy everything $749,000. Beautiful view property, near by 4 golf courses, skiing, hunting and big salmon. Mild winters. Build your retirement home. 250-218-0142. www.ospreystoneandbamboo/forsale2012

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READY TO MOVE show home. Many options like front roof overhang for deck, deluxe cabinets, stone front, etc. 1574 sq. ft. for $169,000. Swanson Builders (Saskatoon, SK. area) at 306-493-3089 or email info@swansonbuilders.ca for details NEW RTM CABIN, 24x32â&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2 bdrms, loft, 2x6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, green tin roof, PVC windows, interior done in pine and poplar, $56,900. Pics. available. 306-862-5088, Nipawin, SK.

SPECTACULAR RIVERFRONT PropertyKamloops. 124 fenced acres, extensive frontage along the North Thompson river only 7 minutes to shopping and schools in Westsyde. 85 acres of irrigated, fertile crop land, 25 acres of irrigated pasture. Mostly level, white sand beach, treed along the river. Mobile home, hay shed and corrals. Fenced and cross fenced. Call Julieanne, Best-West Realty- Kamloops, BC. 250-571-0355. ja-brown@shaw.ca TIMESHARE FOR SALE Grand Canadian, CERTIFIED ORGANIC BISON RANCH for Canmore, AB. 1 week floating to be used sale. 800 acres, good corrals, with small Jan.- mid April, or mid Oct.- mid Dec., house. 250-785-5794, Fort St. John, BC. $2000. Great skiing! Gail 403-556-6184. LARGE RANCH FOR SALE in Northeast BC. Approx. 8756 acres in one block. 3000 acres under cultivation. More info. and photos at www.bickfordfarms.ca Call Rick 1900 SQ. FT. BUNGALOW, 3 bdrm, 2.5 250-262-1954, Fort St. John, BC. baths, main floor laundry, new windows, laminate flooring, gas fireplace, 3 car attached garage, landscaped yard, $95,000. 306-357-2003, 306-831-7026, Wiseton SK FULLY OPERATIONAL HOBBY farm on 136 plus acres, 1270 sq. ft. 3 bdrm bungalow, Saskatoon D istrict2.5 Acres partial basement w/2 pc. bath, 1200 sq. ft. heated shop/garage, c/w 12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; lean to, M aloffEstate Land Tender fence, pasture, shelter, hay field, auto waBUSINESS OPPORTUNITY: well estab- terer, approx. 35 kms. east of Edson on Pa rcel A Pla n FN 5721 lished fishing and hunting resort located in Hwy. 16, oil lease revenue; optional for For Pa rticu la rs : w w w .benesh.com the beautiful northwest area of Saskatche- purchase, bordering 146 acres, approx. 65 wan, surrounded by a number of lakes and in hay, also has oil lease. 780-795-2446. S u bm itBids to: rivers. This turnkey operation with cabins, M a il: Benesh Bitz & C om pa ny boats/motors and camping sites is located CENTRAL ALBERTA FARMS, acreages, 1630 Q u ebec Avenu e on the west shore of Canoe Lake MLS# businesses (all sizes). Information avail. S a ska toon, S K S 7K 1V 7 437858, Re/Max of the Battlefords. Wally on request! Central Agencies Camrose Ltd. 4870-51 St. Camrose, AB. 780-672-4491. Lorenz 306-446-8800 or, 306-843-7898. Em a il: johnb@ benesh.com B y W ed.D ec.12, 2012 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3:00 p.m . DOUBLE RV LOT, Yuma, AZ. Privately PASTURELAND FOR SALE- South of Big owned, fenced, sliding locking gate, RV Valley, AB along Hwy. #56. One section LOG HOMES, builders of quality hand- support building w/bathroom, washer/ 631 acres grassland, A-1 fences, and cross crafted log and timber frame homes. Call dryer, twin beds, storage building. Short fenced w/power and water wells on each Jeff at 306-493-2448, Saskatoon, SK. distance to grocery store, bank, YMCA and half. Gas well revenue $10,800/yr. Call Al www.backcountryloghomes.ca hardware. Call 928-503-5344. at 780-980-2084, Doug at 604-777-9357. TO BE MOVED: 2 bdrm. bungalow, approx. 900 sq. ft. New windows, shingles, siding, eavestroughs, laminate floor, with deck, located at Preeceville, SK. Reasonable offer. 306-547-2926.

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ALBERTA LAND FOR SALE: VAUXHALL: Ideal row crop farm, 480 acres (400 acres under pivots), home, shop, equipment building, storage shed, hay storage, etc. (#1939, Ben). FORT MACLEOD: Very nice ranch, Hwy 3 exposure, approx. 452 acres deeded, 320 acres grazing lease, 1400 sq. ft. home, corrals, etc. (#1936, Ben). ROLLING HILLS: Very nice half section irrigation, 260 acres EID water rights, all farmland, surface revenue approx. $40,000/year. Additional quarter section with building available. (#1932, Ben). PICTURE BUTTE: Well maintained 8000 head feedlot with 475 acres prime irrigation land. (#1900, Frans). TABER: Nice modern broiler farm, 278 acres, 2011 Valley corner pivot, home, quonset, office building, equipment shed, 4 barns, no quota included. State-of-the-art operation. (#1879, Chris/Blaine). BROOKS: 263 acres, 2 parcels. Parcel 1: 80 acres, water rights, 40 acres seed with alfalfa for seed production with 1 year left on contract. Parcel 2: 152.3 acres, wheel lines, 3 grain bins, surface revenue. (#1965, Ben). Farm & Ranch by Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Signature Service, www.canadafarmandranch.com or call 1-866-345-3414.

TENDER: 800 ACRES in RM 254. SW-27-27-4-W3, E 1/2 of 21-27-4-W3, N 1/2 of 16-27-4-W3. One quarter has elec., gas and pipeline water, and one strand electric fence. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Deadline 12/28/12. For info call 403-352-4332. Send tenders: Hal Langager, RR 3, Innisfail, AB, T4G 1T8. RM 19: 2560 acres with yardsite. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd., Swift Current, SK. 306-773-7379. www.farmsask.com FARMLAND FOR RENT Elstow/Colonsay area: Large grain farm in exc. crop producing area with 54 1/2 quarters for rent in RM 342 and 343. Divided into 7 separate mainly contiguous land blocks of various sizes. Requesting cash rental offers until January 5, 2013 for all, combination or, individual blocks. Grain storage is also available for rent. Highest or any offer may not necessarily be accepted. Info call Rene Poelzer 306-643-4449, cell 306-745-7018. poelzer@rfnow.com

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Ap p rox. 32 0 Acres Fa rm la nd . Condit ions O n S u bm itting A n O ffer: 1) A ll offers to be s u bm itted in w ritin g on orbefore 3 PM Dec. 12, 2012 to: Ed ge R ea lty Ltd . 12 2 - 12 Chea d le S t. W est S w iftCu rren t, S a sk. S 9H 0A9 2) Dep os itcheq u e for3% ofthe offered a m ou n tm u s ta ccom p a n y a ll offers . Cheq u es to be m a d e p a ya ble to Ed g e Rea lty Ltd . Cheq u e w ill be retu rn ed to u n s u cces s fu l bid d ers . 3) Hig hes tora n y offern ot n eces s a rily a ccep ted . 4) Pers on s s u bm ittin g offers m u s t rely on theirow n res ea rch & in s p ection ofla n d a s to con d ition & n u m berofa cres . 5) M in era l Rig hts n otin clu d ed . 6) No offers w ill be con s id ered w hich a re s u bjectto fin a n cin g . 7) Plea s e forw a rd a ll offers & in q u ires to:

TIM HAMMOND REALTY, RM #347 and #378 near Biggar. 11 quarters with 1,333 cultivated acres. Total assessment 482,100 (avg. assess. 46,189/160 acres). Asking $1,590,000. 306-948-5052. MLS HAVE BUYERS FOR large farm properties, #447631. http://Singer.TimHammond.ca very confidential. Call if you are thinking of LAST MOUNTAIN LAKE: Approx. 640 acres selling, I specialize in agricultural proper- with yard site. John Cave, Edge Realty ties. Phone Don Jarrett, Realty Executives Ltd., 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. Leading, 780-991-1180, Spruce Grove, AB. www.farmsask.com LAND WANTED: I have qualified buyers GRAINLAND APPROX. 600 cult. acres for ED G E REALTY LTD . and renters for cultivated and pastureland sale in RM of Mount Hope #279, 1 hr. N of 12 2 - 12 Chea d le S t. W es t in Central Alberta. Call: John Frere Regina, SK. 306-524-4551, 306-746-7528. 403-391-3230. S w iftCurrent, S a s k. S 9H 0A9 FARM/RANCH/RECREATION, buying or 306- 773- 7379 (office) EDMONTON AREA BROILER FARMS. selling. Call Tom Neufeld 306-260-7838, 306- 75 0- 8 8 76 (cell) Approx. 100,000 units quota, 2 production Coldwell Banker ResCom Realty. 306- 773- 738 7 (fa x) facilities, close to town. 6 barns, shop, 2 homes, equipment. Call Andries Steegstra, GRAVEL PIT FOR SALE. RM of Arborfield w w w.Fa rm S a s k.com Royal Lepage Lifestyles, Lacombe, AB. #456. 155 acres total. 105 cultivated, ATTENTION : John Ca ve 403-391-6260, asteegstra@royallepage.ca good farmland. 50 acres, bush and gravel www.centralalbertafarms.com pit, gravel pit approx. 30 acres. Sell as pkg. FOR SALE BY TENDER: SW32-27-19-W3rd, or seperate. Reduced price. Call for info. RM Snipe Lake #259, 160 acres, assess. 55,600. Submit written tenders to: Land 306-769-8896, Arborfield, SK. Tender, Box 964, Eston, SK. S0L 1A0. Highest or any bid not necessarily acceptRM LOREBURN #254, All cultivated, less ed. Tenders accepted until Dec. 15th, 20 acres yardsite. SW-6-26-4; SE-6-26-4; NE-6-26-4; SW-1-26-5; NE-1-26-5-W3rd, LAND FOR SALE. 1345 acres of grain land 2012. For further info. call 306-962-4623 all in one block. Tenders before Nov. 30, near Kenaston, SK., RM#282. Level to or 306-882-3881. 2012. Highest or any tender not necessari- gently rolling excellent producing, all in LAND FOR SALE IN RM of Sutton #103. ly accepted. Tenders to: Dale Kelman, Box one block w/approx. 2 miles of HWY#11 T h r e e q u a r t e r s - N E 1 9 - 1 1 - 0 1 - W 3 ; 105, Loreburn, SK, S0H 2S0. Ph. for details frontage. Approx. 50 miles to Saskatoon. NW19-11-01-W3; SW19-11-01-W3. 480 306-644-4906. Call Harry Sheppard, Sutton Group-Results total acres, 465 cultivated, power on yard. If interested send written offers by Dec. MAPLE CREEK, SK: 160 acres of native Realty, Regina, SK., 306-530-8035. 15, 2012 to 334 MacDonald Dr, Swift Curpasture. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd., EDGE REALTY LTD. RM Chesterfield rent, SK. S9H 1L7. Attention: Angela Nys306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK., #261 NE-12-27-25-W3, NE-31-26-25-W3; trom or email offers to: angela.n@saskwww.farmsask.com RM #260 Newcombe: SW-18-27-24-W3. tel.net All offers will be replied to by Price $360,000. Call Brad, 306-463-7357, phone or email. Please include your phone RM 229/230: 1520 acre grain farm with number or email address. yard site. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd., Kindersley, SK. brad@edgerealty.ca 3 0 6 - 7 7 3 - 7 3 7 9 , S w i f t C u r r e n t , S K . I NEED FARMS: Thinking of selling your www.farmsask.com farm? I have several buyers looking for both grain and livestock operations. Please call me to discuss. John Cave, Edge Realty LAND FOR SALE. 956 acres of grain land Ltd., 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK., and native grass near Bengough, SK., RM#40. Grain land is gently rolling, situatwww.farmsask.com ed along HWY#34. Older yard site QUARTERS FARMLAND, w/yardsite and w/power and phone. Call Harry Sheppard, OF GOOD CROP PRODUCTION 23 bdrm 1200 sq. ft. bungalow, power, wa- Sutton Group-Results Realty, Regina, SK., L AN D IN S AS K ATCHEW AN ter, nat. gas. 306-748-2839, Neudorf, SK. 306-530-8035.

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YOUNG FARMER LOOKING to rent land RM 168: 160 acres with good house, shop, in a 25 mile radius of Spalding, SK. Cash barns, corrals. Close to Swift Current, SK. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd. 306-773-7379 rent or crop share. Kevin at: 306-202-8736

Plea s e ca ll M a rcel a t403-350-6 8 6 8 M a rcel L eBla n c Rea l Es ta te In c. SASKATCHEWAN RANCH: 6720 acres ranch, full set of buildings, very scenic. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd, Swift Current, SK. 306-773-7379. www.farmsask.com

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RM CHESTERFIELD OR NEWCOMBE Young farmers wanting land to: rent or buy to expand grain operation. Call Ryan at 403-391-1728, Mantario, SK.

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We Are Pleased To Announce The Following Recent Sales

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LUCKY LAKE 476 ACRES - owned by The Estate of Lillian Johnson STOUGHTON 2346 ACRES - owned by Wesley, Doreen & Clinton Lee LIPTON 626 ACRES - owned by Ed, Julian & Larry Slywka & Donna Kish ELBOW 2848 ACRES - owned by Robert, Janell, Arthur & Constance Hundeby, Darren Joel, Rhonda Hardy - Joel and Failte Farms Ltd. c/o Robert Shannon BIGGAR 480 ACRES - owned by Reinhold & Barbara Janke GOVAN 161 ACRES - owned by Jefferson Fletcher STRASBOURG 1121 ACRES - owned by Gary, Brenda & Doris Hey

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GRAVEL, AGGREGATE, MAYMONT, SK. Test result’s indicate 1,000,000 plus CY, 1 hr. to Saskatoon on 80 acres. Don Dyck, Re/Max North Country, 306-221-1684, Warman, SK. HALF SECTION OF FARMLAND in the Maidstone, SK. area, 290 plus acres cultivated. Call 306-821-6659, Lloydminster, SK. YOUNG FARMER LOOKING TO RENT LAND in RM of Grandview #349 or RM of Reford #379. Phone 306-658-4860, 306-948-7807, Biggar, SK.

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COM PL ETE TURN K EY RAN CH S OUTHERN S AS K ATCHEW AN Yea r ro u n d s elf- s u fficien tpro perty w ith 8 00 + co w ca lfca pa city, 49 72 + /- d eed ed a cres a n d 3200 + /- a cres lea s ed , m a chin ery a n d lives to ck ca n b e pu rcha s ed .

Plea s e ca ll M a rcel a t403-350-6 8 6 8 M a rcel L eBla n c Rea l Es ta te In c. PIECE OF PARADISE: Approx. 1600 acres of amazing pasture land. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd., 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com SASKATCHEWAN LAND FOR SALE: WILLOW BUNCH: 800 acres, approx. 600 acres of native grass, approx. 200 acres seeded to alfalfa/crested wheat. (#1958, Elmer). LEMBERG: approx. 360 acres, approx. 233 acres seeded to Timothy hay, approx. 117 acres seeded to oats. (#1954, Elmer). HANLEY: Exceptionally well managed rotational grazing operation with 19 quarters in one block. Runs 300 cows, self contained, beautiful yard, on city water, 75 kms south of Saskatoon, quonset, barn, cattle shed. (#1944, Gordon). FILLMORE: Selling company shares with 8 quarters of land, 2 Behlin bins, 5000 bu. condo #10 (contract to be transferred to new owner), good land. (#1903, Elmer). NIPAWIN: 480 acres, character home, private location, 20 mins. to Saskatchewan’s best recreational fishing area. (#1767, Elmer). Farm & Ranch by Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Signature Service www.canadafarmandranch.com or call 1-866-345-3414. GOOD FARMLAND: 18 quarters, yard adjac e n t t o p a v e d h i g h w a y. P h o n e 306-388-2694, Bienfait, SK. RM 46/76: 5600 acre ranch with yard site. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd, 306-773-7379 Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com WANTED: LAND TO rent and/or buy in the surrounding areas of Marquis and Chamberlain, SK., phone 306-631-8454.

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FA R M L A N D F O R S A L E : R M 2 7 3 . NW-33-30-3-W2, SW-33-30-3-W2, approx. 260 acres. RM 304. SE-1-33-6-W2, NW-28-33-6-W2, NE-32-33-6-W2, approx. 435 acres. RM 334. SE-17-34-7-W2, SW-16-34-7-W2 approx. 290 acres. RM 304. SW-4-32-4-W2, NE-6-32-4-W2, SW-30-32-4-W2. West 1/2 of SE-30-32-4-W2, approx. 525 acres. Yard and buildings not included. Offers can be made on individual, multiple or entirety. Written offers only: John Kwiatkowski, Box 209, Canora, SK. S0A 0L0.

N O FEES N O C OM M IS S ION S We sold our farm to Freshwater Land Holding Co. Ltd. this spring and we were satisfied with the deal we were offered. They were very professional to deal with and upfront with the details of the land deal. We would recommend them to anyone wanting to sell their land. Ken & Penny Stevens

RM #63 MOOSE MOUNTAIN - Farm Land For Sale by Tender. Closes Dec. 15th. One section cultivated grainland. 12-7-2-2-W2, Carlyle, SK area. Assessment 223,200. 7 surface leases. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Tender cancelled, land now listed for sale with Tim Hammond Realty. Call Guy at 306-434-8857, Biggar, SK.

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RM EDENWOLD, 320 acres north of Edenwold, native grass. R M S o u t h Qu’Appelle, South of Avonhurst, 160 acres, grainland, on grid. RM South Qu’Appelle, 20 acres on #10 Hwy. RM Barrier Valley, 160 acres, paradise with home, support buildings, perfect getaway, hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, near Arc h e r w i l l . C o n t a c t B r i a n T i e fe n b a c h , 306-536-3269, 306-525-3344, NAI Commercial Real Estate (Sask) Ltd., Regina, SK.

FARM AND PASTURE LAND AVAILABLE TO RENT

PURCHASING:

TWO PACKAGES of prime Aberdeen, SK. farmland. Part of a total pkg. of over 3000 acres. sasklandhunter.com for more details or call James Hunter, Farmland Specialist, Coldwell Banker, Rescom Realty, Saskatoon, SK, 306-716-0750 or email james-hunter@coldwellbanker.ca

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FIVE QUARTERS GRAINLAND in one block in RMs Eagle Creek and Perdue, MLS 435062; One quarter grainland in RM of Douglas on Hwy 376, MLS 438710, great return on investment. Call Mike Janostin, 306-481-5574, Realty Executives Battlefords, mikejanostin.com

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WANTED: GRAIN LAND TO RENT, 25 mile radius of Rouleau, SK. Call 306-776-2600 or kraussacres@sasktel.net

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RM #382, N half of SW 12-39-28, W of 3200 ACRE GRAIN FARM: Full set of build- 3rd, 60 acres tame hay, 20 acres native ings, surface lease revenue. John Cave, grass, gas well revenue. 306-753-9149, Edge Realty Ltd., Swift Current, SK. Macklin, SK. 306-773-7379. www.farmsask.com RM OF PIAPOT: 1120 acre ranch with buildings. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd., 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com GRAIN FARM: 10,720 acres with full set of buildings. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd. 306-773-7379, www.farmsask.com Swift Current, SK. RM OF GOOD LAKE, half section w/yard, adjacent to Canora, SK. Total assessment at 144,100. 306-651-1041.

RM SNIPE LAKE 3 q trs . . . . . . . . $714,000 LUSELAND, SK. 6,700 Acres . S ee w w w .kin d e rs le yre a le s ta te .c o m fo r d eta ils . RM KINDERSLEY 2 q trs . . . . . . . $13 7,000 RM W INSLOW 20 a cres w /ho m e & b ld gs . . . . $3 15,000 12,000 SQ FT co m m ercia l b u ild in g o n 1.57 a cres o n # 7 Highw a y (fo rm erly Ca n a d ia n T ire) . . . . . . . $6 9 9 ,000

GRAIN FARM: 4960 acres with complete set of buildings. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd. 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com

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G ro up W e s tR e a lty YORKTON, SK. FARMLAND, 3 quarters, Kin d e rs le y, S K a mix of pasture and cultivated acres. Lots w w w .kin d e rs le yre a le s ta te .co m of corral space. 2 bedroom bungalow. Call FOR SALE BY TENDER RM of Kinistino Lorie, 250-585-6770, or 250-619-7089. 8-1/2 quarters of farmland. Home quarter has house, 2 steel quonsets, NG heated shop, hopper grain storage, barn. Tender Take A dvan tage of Today ’s closing date: Friday, Dec. 14th, 4:00 PM CST. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. For an info. package call Gary Stoneman at Realty Executives Gateway Realty, 306-752-4004 or 306-921-9558 Call cell, 504 Main St. Melfort, SK. ABERDEEN FARMLAND. 153 acres c/w irrigation pivot, $165,000. Call Don Dyck Re/Max North Country 306-221-1684, Warman, SK. e -m a il: h a rry@ s h e p p a rdre a lty.ca WANTED: LAND TO RENT in Viscount, Colonsay, Meacham, SK. area. Phone Kim • SPECIALIZ ING IN FARM & RANCH PROPERTIES at 306-255-7601.

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RM SNIPE LAKE No. 259 for sale or cash rent by tender. Section 31-27-18-W3: One surface oil lease. Total 2012 assessment 147,115. Written tenders accepted until Dec. 31st, 2012 to: 139 Holland Road, Saskatoon, SK. S7H 4Z5. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Inquiries can be made by contacting E. Fleming at I HAVE BUYERS for Sask. grain land, ranch land and acreages. Call Wally Lorenz at 306-374-1415 or 306-290-5654. 306-843-7898, Re/Max of the Battlefords, North Battleford, SK. znerol.w@sasktel.net RM MANKOTA: 160 acres with buildings. TO BUY GRAINLAND: 300-2000 acres, John Cave Edge Realty Ltd. 306-773-7379, west central or NW, SK. Will consider oth- Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com er areas. 306-423-5983, 306-960-3000. 11-1/2 QUARTERS of cultivated land, west of Yorkton, close to #16 Hwy., in good rain fall area. Serious inquiries only, 306-792-4544, Springside, SK. LAND AUCTION INFO. Free recorded message, call 1-888-881-4315 ext. 105. Lackey Auctioneers, PL #914582.

HAWK VALLEY RANCH •H ORSE & BROODMARE OPERATION•

2 year old high end property on 106 acres only 8 miles from the WORLD FAMOUS PONOKA STAMPEDE GROUNDS. • Upscale 3 bedroom home, 2 bath, A/C, central vac, paved driveway and more. • Situated in a mature treed setting. 1600 sq. ft. shop completely finished with 220 wiring and 1⁄2 bath. 16 stall stable designed for broodmare operation, also ideal boarding facility and barrel racing, fully insulated with in floor heating; 3⁄4 bath, office, tack room, wash bay and more. • 106 acres on 2 titles consisting of home site, 6 paddocks c/w auto waterers, 2 hay fields, all professionally fenced in 2010. For more info go to: www.HawkValley.ca |

WANTED: 18 QUARTER grain farm, within 2 hours of Regina. Would prefer private sale. 204-596-8213, Brandon, MB.

RM OF CARON: 480 acres of pasture adjoining. Approx. 20 minutes West of Moose Jaw, SK. John Cave Edge Realty Ltd, 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com

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GRAIN FARMS NEEDED: I have buyers looking to purchase large, quality grain farms that they will rent back to former owner if desired. Farms required are in the $5 million plus range. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd 306-773-7379, Swift Current SK

FOR SALE BY TENDER: RM of Redberry #435, Hafford, SK. NE-11-44-09-W3 and E-1/2 SE-11-44-09-W3. 240 total acres, 130 cult. Yardsite adjacent to grid road, power and water. Storage shed 36’x36’ (wood, tar roof on concrete). Terms and conditions: Tenders must be marked “Lydia Pyra Tender”. Highest or any offer not necessarily accepted. Tenders must include a deposit by cert. cheque, bank draft or money order for 10% of offered price, payable to Scott Phelps & Mason in trust. Buyer must provide balance of purchase price within 30 days of acceptance of tender. All offers must be received by 12 noon, Dec. 13, 2012, at Scott Phelps & Mason, Barristers and Solicitors, 400- 135 21st St. E., Saskatoon, SK., S7K 0B4. For info merving@shaw.ca 3 QUARTERS LAND, NE SK. near Leaf Lake. Mostly treed, prime hunting area for large game. Great location for outfitters. Asking $175,000 for all 3 adjoining quarters. Will only sell as a parcel. Would also consider trading for land near Lanigan, SK. Call 250-427-6036, Kimberley, BC. GRASS LAND: 2560 acres with yard located near Central Butte, SK. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd. 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com

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RM o f W ilto n N o . 472 S E-11-48 -2 6-W 3M S u rfa ce Pa rcels 1448 35443, 1448 35421 a n d 1448 35409 . Ap p ro xim a tely 161 a cres . As s es s m en t86,300. An y o r a ll ten d ers n o tn eces s a rily a ccep ted . All ten d ers m u s t b e a cco m p a n ied b y certified cheq u e fo r 10% o f the ten d ered p rice, p a ya b le to M ign ea u lt Green w o o d . Plea s e fo rw a rd a ll ten d ers in a s ea led en velo p e m a rked “ Flem in g L a n d Ten d er” to : M ign e a ult Gre e n w ood Bo x 520, 1391 - 101 S treet No rth Ba ttlefo rd , S a s k. S 9A 2Y 8. ATTENTION: M URRAY E. GREENW OOD On o r b efo re 4:00 PM , Ja n u a ry 11, 2013. T he s a le tra n s a ctio n fo r a ccep ted ten d ers w ill clo s e n o la ter tha n F eb ru a ry 8, 2013. T itles w ill rem a in s u b jectto a ll exis tin g regis tra tio n s b y Hu s ky Oil Op era tio n s L im ited p ro tectin g p ip elin e ea s em en ts . Directa ll in q u iries to : M u rra y Green w o o d , 306 -445-4436 WANTED: GOOD CROP land or pasture to rent or purchase in the Dundurn, Hanley, Clavet, Allan, Colonsay area. Phone 306-227-4503, Saskatoon, SK.

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WARMAN AREA LAND. 1500 acres Saskatoon north, mostly 1 block w/fertilizer. Call Don Dyck Re/Max North Country, 306-221-1684, Warman, SK. RM 96: 1760 acre grain farm w/buildings. C a l l J o h n C av e , E d g e R e a l t y L t d . 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com SOUTH SASK. RIVER: Approx. 800 acres with buildings. Very scenic property. John Cave, Edge realty Ltd., 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com MODERN UP-TO-DATE feedlot/farmland. Steel pens, cement bunks for up to 6000 head. Additional penning for another 2500. 1440 acres grain/hay land and pasture. Feedlot on 320 acres. Fully licensed for 25,000 head. Excellent living quarters w/1174 sq. ft. 1966 home, quonset, heated workshop. MLS ® 442676, 442681, 442687. Royal LePage Premier Realty, Yorkton, SK, 306-783-9404. For further details: www.royallepageyorkton.com or call: Murray Arnold, 306-621-5018.

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RM OF MILDEN #286. Farmland for sale by tender, NE14-28-11-W3rd, 150 cultivated acres. Written offers to Jensen Senderek, Box 421, Standard, AB. T0J 3G0. Email inquiries to: senderek1@hotmail.com Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Closes Dec. 31st, 2012.

GRAIN FARM: 5760 acres with complete set of buildings. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd., 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com LAND FOR SALE by tender Aylsham area NE-24-49-13-W2, SW-19-49-12-W2. Two quarters flat, stone free high producing land in NE Sask. Submit written tenders to: 1102 Morrell Circle, Nanaimo, BC. V9R 6K6. For more info call 250-591-4161. MINERAL RIGHTS. We will purchase and or lease your mineral rights. 1-877-269-9990. cndfree@telusplanet.net MAPLE CREEK RANCH: 6720 acres in a block. Full set buildings. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd. 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com

FEEDLOT: 3000 HEAD capacity, includes 1040 sq. ft. house. 60,000 bushel grain storage, equipment, 6 deeded quarters. 2 miles North of Ste. Rose du Lac, MB. RANCH: 8064 acres of lease land, 1600 Angus cows. Crane River, MB. Call Dale 204-638-5581, Doug 204-447-2382. LAND FOR SALE 3 quarters, 480 acres, RM of Archie #101, SE-18-13-29-W1, NE-18-13-29-W1, NW-17-13-29-W1, Assessment 213,400. Located 2-1/2 miles N of Trans Canada Hwy., and 1/2 mile E of SK/MB border. Submit written tenders to Les Freeman, Box 39, Fleming, SK. S0G 1R0. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Closing date, Dec. 20, 2012.

MULCHING - TREES; BRUSH; Stumps. Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: www.maverickconstruction.ca

WANTED SUPERVISED, long term pasture for 2500 yearlings or cow/calf pairs. Call FOR RENT in RM #435 Redberry 530 acres Mike 306-469-7741, Big River, SK. cultivated land. Call 306-549-4708, 306-445-4336 at Hafford, SK. RM BLAINE LAKE. Approx. 4471’ of river frontage having 5 separate titles. Estimated to have 300,000 yds. of gravel. 528 acres of grazing land. All fenced. Pump house (insulated and heated) w/6 watering troughs. Priced as an investment property. Seller will sell any portion or all as a package. MLS ® 425102. Roger Manegre, Re/Max of the Battlefords, 306-446-8800 or 306-843-7898, North Battleford, SK.

WANTED FARMLAND in RM of Hoodoo Bayne, Duck Lake, Conquest, Milden, Langham, Viscount areas. Ranchland, bushland, natural pasture. Phone Bill Nesteroff 306-497-2668 Re/Max Saskatoon, or email: billnesteroff@sasktel.net

GRANT TWEED: Specializing in farm real estate sales. Selling your farm may be the biggest transaction of your life and you need to do it right. I can help you make inSOUTH SASK. RANCH: 5920 acre ranch formed decisions that serve your best with yard site. John Cave, Edge Realty interest. To discuss your unique situation Ltd., 306-773-7379, Swift Current, SK. call 204-761-6884 anytime. Reference www.farmsask.com available. Email: grant@granttweed.com

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CDC COPELAND, CDC MEREDITH. Certified and Registered available. 97% germ, 0% fusarium graminearum. Call Tez Seeds Inc., 306-378-7828, Elrose, SK. CDC MEREDITH, CDC KINDERSLEY, reg., cert., high yield. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd., North Battleford, SK. 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516, gregfarms@sasktel.net TOEPFER INT. CERTIFIED: AC Metcalfe, CDC Copeland, CDC Meredith, CDC Austenson. Ph: 306-445-4022, 306-441-6699, N.Battleford, SK. www.westerngrain.com CERT. METCALFE, CERT. Meredith, 99% germ., 0% fusarium Graminearum. Fraser Farms Ltd., 306-741-0240, Pambrun, SK. FOUNDATION, REGISTERED and/or Certified CDC Meredith, CDC Kindersley, AC Metcalfe, CDC Copeland, Legacy. Berscheid Bros Seeds, Lake Lenore, SK. 306-368-2602. kb.berscheid@sasktel.net

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ACREAGE/FARM, 125/605 acres, 1250 sq. ft. bungalow, new kitchen cabinets, flooring throughout, windows, insulation, siding and eavestrough, newly renovated basement, 5 bdrms, 2 bthrms, 525 sq. ft. deck, natural gas heat, exc. water supply. 16x22 shop, 60x30 barn, 2 cattle shelters. Located between Wapella and Esterhazy. Call 306-532-4303.

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PARTS FOR VINTAGE snowmobiles, 1990 and older. Call Don at 780-755-2258, Wainwright, AB. doncole@telus.net

LARGE SELECTION OF USED SNOWMOBILES. 2011 Ski-Doo 600 Etec Summit 146”; 2011 Ski-Doo 600 MXZ elec. start; 2011 TZ1 Cat, 4 stroke; 2011 RS Venture Yamaha; 2011 M6 Cat, 154”; 2011 Ski-Doo Grand Touring 600; 2011 Polaris RMK 600, 155”; 2012 Polaris RMK 800, 155”; 2012 Ski-Doo 600 Etec Renegade; 2012 Cat M8 Sno Pro, 155”; 2012 Ski-Doo 800 Summit. FOSTER COMBINATION WALK-IN coolMany more arriving. Call Neil for details er/freezer, dismantled, 2 compressors, 2 doors, lights, cooler (11x9), freezer (11x7), 306-231-8300, Humboldt, SK. with insulated floor. Delivery possible, PARTING OUT Polaris snowmobiles, 1985 $5750. Call Brant 306-946-7923, or Terry to 2005. Edfield Motors Ltd., phone: 306-227-3675, Young, SK. 4 BEDROOM BUNGALOW w/double car 306-272-3832, Foam Lake, SK. garage on a beautiful acreage 10 min. NE of Moosomin, SK. 1200 sq. ft. house fea- WANTED: MID 1960’s or newer Bombartures an open concept kitchen/dining and dier Snowbus! Email: ballards@wiktel.com living room, 3 bdrms, 1 full bath upstairs. or call 1-800-776-2675. Basement was completely renovated 1 yr. WOOD-MIZER PORTABLE SAWMILLS, ago, 1 bdrm w/walk-in closet and a full 2002 YAMAHA SX Viper 700, 136”, 1.25”, eight models, options and accessories. bath. 16x20 treated deck off the front of 2589 kms., $4900; 2004 Yamaha SX Ven- 1-877-866-0667. www.woodmizer.ca the house. On the property’s 9 acres there om 600, electric start, reverse, 1389 kms., is a 20x30 shop. Please call 306-435-3819 $4900. Both have tarps; 2000 4-place Trailtech trailer, drive on and off, $2900. SAWMILLS – Band/Chainsaw - Cut lumto view this property. Asking $299,000. Call 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. ber any dimension, anytime. Make money 20 ACRE YARD next to 40 good hunting and save money. In stock, ready to ship. Crownland quarters. 2 storey house, barn 7 SNOW CRUISERS, 2 running, all wide Starting at $997. 1-800-566-6899 ext. with hayloft. Good water. Top Manitoba track, 1967-70, lots of parts 1967-73, in- 168. www.NorwoodSawmills.com/168 Typical deer in 2010. 50 hunting clients. cludes new hood and track. Sell as package. 204-866-2904, Anola, MB. 204-858-2555, Hartney, MB.

SNOWBIRD SPECIAL! 2011 fifth wheel Montana 3400RL, 37’ fully loaded trailer w/Arctic pkg., 4 slides, hyd. jacks, elec. awning and fireplace, AC, 2 high definition TV’s, convection microwave, queen sized bed, hide-a-bed, and much more. Call 306-421-1691, $43,000 OBO. Estevan, SK.

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1995 TRIPLE E 35’ 138,000 kms, large slide, 5000 kw genset, central vac, always shedded, many more extras, $28,000. 306-442-4322, Pangman, SK.

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FOR SALE 1995 8 wheel Argo, 20 HP, new tires, c/w tracks, new 3500 lb. Warn winch, many extras, $7000 firm. 306-594-2854, Hyas, SK.

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2002 MONACO DIPLOMAT , 44,500 miles, 3 slides, power awnings, heat pump, Arctic pkg, washer/dryer, 2 baths, king bed, 330 HP Cummins turbo dsl., fully loaded, $58,500 OBO. 204-324-7552, seairltd@mymts.net Altona, MB.

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FLEETWOOD REVOLUTION 2007, 40’, 4 slide, 400 HP Cat C9, only 22,500 kms, immaculate, loaded, N/S, no pets, stored in heated quonset 10/12 months, only 6 trips t o Ke l ow n a , s i l ve r, g r ey a n d b l a c k . $167,777. 306-374-3315, Saskatoon, SK.

ELIAS SCALES MFG., several different ways to weigh bales and livestock; Platform scales for industrial use as well, nonelectric, no balances or cables (no weigh ELBOW, SK. TWO- 3 bedroom homes for like it). Shipping arranged. 306-445-2111, rent $1000/month each. Rent to own or North Battleford, SK. www.eliasscales.com for sale duplex at $375,000. Appliances are included. 306-540-6422. 70’ SCALE, 6 load cells, asking $20,000. 306-726-7938, Southey, SK.

DESERT SURFSIDE WELCOMES Snowbirds to mild Osoyoos, BC this winter. Located on the beach, furnished suites with kitchens, stocked with linens and dishes. Studio, 1 and 2 bdrm suites starting at $550 per month, includes utilities. Onsite management can assist you with local activities and amenities. Call: 1-877-495-2228, 250-495-2228 or email: www.surfside-osoyoos.com

BlackburnMotors.ca 2006 Monaco Diplomat 40 PAQ, 400 HP Cummins, 4 slides, 7000m, $119,900; 2004 Monaco Knight 38 PST, 330 HP Cummins, 3 slides, 27,000m, $69,900. Financing available for SK res. 306-974-4223, 411 C 48 St. E, Saskatoon, SK. Tues-Sat, 8:30 to 5:00, DL#326237

ON THE GREENS COTTONWOOD, AZ. Gated 55 plus manufactured home golf course community located in the heart of Verde Valley just 20 mins south of Sedona, 1 hr from Phoenix, Prescott and Flagstaff. All homes come complete with garage, covered deck and landscaping. Land lease fees include $1 million clubhouse, large inDIESEL PUSHER MOTORHOMES FOR door lap pool, hot tub and complete gym. SALE - Monaco, Holiday Rambler, Beaver, Also includes water, sewer, trash pickup Tiffin, Fleetwood. Call Enterprise RV, and reduced golf fees. For information call 1-866-940-7777 or www.enterpriserv.com 1-800-871-8187 or 928-634-7003. ATTN: SNOWBIRDS- OSOYOOS, BC. Waterfront townhouse in development on lake. Hot tub, gym, 2 pools, $1,000/mo. Call Doug at 604-319-7838.

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CERT AND REG high germinating Metcalfe, Copeland, Newdale Barley. Call Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK.

CERTIFIED CDC VERONA, 95% germ, 0.5% fusarium graminearum. Call Tez Seeds Inc., 306-378-7828, Elrose, SK. CERT. STRONGFIELD, Cert. Verona durum, 95% germ., 0% fusarium Graminearum. Fraser Farms. 306-741-0240, Pambrun, SK REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED Verona Durum. 306-296-2104, Frontier, SK.

CERT. AND REG. Orrin, Leggett, Morgan, and Souris Oats. Call Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. FDN, REG., CERT. AC Mustang oats. Call Mastin Seeds, 403-556-2609, Sundre, AB.

CERT. ULTIMA spring triticale. Good germ, low disease. Sorgard Seeds, Churchbridge, SK., 306-399-0040, gsorgard@gmail.com

CERT. AND REG. Utmost VB, Harvest, Andrew, Conquer VB. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. TOEPFER INT. CERTIFIED: Sadash, Unity VB, VesperVB, Waskada, Stettler w/Superb seed quality. 306-445-4022, 306-441-6699 vicki@westerngrain.com N.Battleford, SK. CERT. GLENN, Carberry, Vesper VB, CDC Utmost VB, Infinity Red Spring wheats, Snowstar White wheat. Good germ, low disease. Sorgard Seeds, Churchbridge, SK., 306-399-0040, gsorgard@gmail.com FOUNDATION, REGISTERED and/or Certified Vesper VB, Unity VB, CDC Utmost VB, Carberry, Snowbird, AC Andrew, Sadash. Berscheid Bros Seeds, Lake Lenore, SK. 306-368-2602. kb.berscheid@sasktel.net CERTIFIED AC SHAW-DOMAIN VB, Midge tolerant, and Certified Utmost VB, Midge tolerant wheat, high germ., low disease. Call RoLo Farms 306-543-5052, Regina, SK

TOP QUALITY CERT. alfalfa and grass seed. Call Gary or Janice Waterhouse 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK.

CERT. ULTIMA spring triticale, Cert. CDC Baler forage oats, Cert. CDC Cowboy barley, Cert. CDC Tucker peas. Can be blended to your specification. Good germ, low disease. Sorgard Seeds, Churchbridge, SK. 306-399-0040, gsorgard@gmail.com

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COMMON OATS SEED, 97% germination, WANTED: FEED GRAIN, barley, wheat, 96% vigor, $5./bu. Call 306-237-9540, peas, green or damaged canola. Phone Gary 306-823-4493, Neilburg, SK. Arelee, SK. FOUNDTAION RECONSTITUTED FLAX for BUYING CANARY SEED, farm pickup. WANTED: FEED/ OFF-GRADE Pulses and Call 1-877-752-4115, Naber Specialty sale, FP2141-12, 48 tons uncleaned, 7% tough, heated green oilseeds and also moisture, all tests good. 306-493-2534, Grains Ltd. Email: nsgl@sasktel.net cereals. Prairie Wide Grain, Saskatoon, Delisle, SK. SK., 306-230-8101, 306-716-2297. CERT. 1 PRAIRIE Sapphire brown flax. Good germ. Sorgard Seeds, Churchbridge, CUSTOM CLEANING AND bagging all types of mustard for seed or processing. Color SK., 306-399-0040, gsorgard@gmail.com sorting available. Also looking for low g r a d e m u s t a r d . C a l l A c ke r m a n A g 306-638-2282, Chamberlain, SK.

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CERT. ANDANTE yellow mustard, Cert. Centennial brown, Cert. Cutlass oriental mustard. Treated or bare seed. Sorgard Seeds, Churchbridge, SK. 306-399-0040, email: gsorgard@gmail.com BESCO GRAIN LTD. Buyer of all varieties of mustard. Call for competitive pricing. Call 204-736-3570, Brunkild, MB.

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WANTING TO BUY: Borage seed. WillGreen and/or heated ing to pay top price for quality product. Canola/Flax, Wheat, Contact Dandilee Spice Corp. White City, Call GrainEx International Ltd. SK. 306-585-9080, dandilee@sasktel.net Barley, Oats, Peas, etc. CONVENTIONAL and ROUNDUP READY for current pricing at CERT. 1 NSC Libau, NSC Anola early ma- corn seed. Call CanaMaize Seed Inc, BOW VALLEY TRADING LTD. 306-885-2288, Sedley SK. turing soybeans from NorthStar Genetics. 1-877-262-4046 or www.canamaize.com Visit us on our website at: Full spectrum of soybean inoculants www.grainex.net available. Sorgard Seeds, Churchbridge, LACKAWANNA PRODUCTS CORP. Buy- BARLEY WANTED: 48 lbs. per bushel or ers and sellers of all types of feed grain SK., 306-399-0040, gsorgard@gmail.com CDC IMVINCIBLE, CDC Impower, CDC and grain by-products. Call 306-862-2723, better. Delivery locations Eston and Viscount. Lee 306-867-3046, 306-962-3992. Greenland lentils. High germ., no disease. Nipawin, SK. RoLo Farms 306-543-5052, Regina, SK. GRAIN MARKETING HEADQUARTERS. Buyers of all grains. On farm pricing. Quick movement and payment. Double Z Ag CALL SIMPSON SEEDS to book your new Sales, Weyburn, SK. 306-842-2406. Pedigreed lentil seed. We have all the new varieties and your proven favorites. Jamie HEAVY OATS MIXED with 20% wheat, or Trevor 306-693-9402, Moose Jaw, SK. TOP QUALITY ALFALFA, variety of grasses 7000 bushels. Call 306-642-5812, Scout and custom blends, farmer to farmer. Gary Lake, SK. CDC IMPOWER, CDC DAZIL Clearfield len- Waterhouse 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK. tils. Certified and Registered available. Call WHY NOT KEEP MARKETING SIMPLE? â&#x20AC;˘ GREEN â&#x20AC;˘ HEATED FOR ALL YOUR forage seed needs. Full line Tez Seeds Inc., 306-378-7828, Elrose, SK. You are selling feed grains. We are â&#x20AC;˘ SPRING THRASHED of alfalfa/grasses/blending. Greg Bjornson buying feed grains. Fast payment, with 306-554-3302 or 306-554-7987, Viking prompt pickup, true price discovery. Call Forage Seeds, Wynyard, SK. Gerald Snip, Jim Beusekom, Allen Pirness, Dave Lea, or Vera Buziak at Market Place Commodities Ltd., Lethbridge, AB. Ph.: CERTIFIED CDC ORRIN. Berscheid Bros 1-866-512-1711. Email info@marketSeeds, Lake Lenore, SK. 306-368-2602. placecommodities.com kb.berscheid@sasktel.net â&#x20AC;˘ OATS â&#x20AC;˘ WHEAT S e ll you r or PASKAL CATTLE COMPANY at Picture TOEPFER INT. CERTIFIED seed available: Butte, AB. is looking for feed barley. Call â&#x20AC;˘ BARLEY â&#x20AC;˘ PEAS to W e s te rn Ca n a d a â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CDC Meadow, CDC Striker, CDC Pluto, CDC Roxanne at 1-800-710-8803. Tetris. Dun CDC Dakota and common ma- la rge s t B u ye r of d a m a ge d c a n ola . BUYING: FEED GRAINS, all types of ple peas. Other varieties on request. Ph: B onded and insured,quick paym ent, screenings, damaged canola. Quick pay306-445-4022 or, 306-441-6699, N.Battlefreight options. ment. Call Joy Lowe or Scott Ralph at ford, SK. email: vicki@westerngrain.com Wilde Bros. Ag Trading 1-877-752-0115 or C allusÂ 403-752-0115, Raymond, Alberta or CDC STRIKER GREEN PEA, certified, â&#x20AC;˘ HEATED â&#x20AC;˘ DISEASED email: wildebrosagtrading@gmail.com green is the color, high germ., high yield. and ask for the seed buyer Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd. North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516. Email w w w .m illiga n biofu e ls .c om gregfarms@sasktel.net

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400 LARGE HARD core alfalfa bales (2011) for sale. 306-436-4526, Milestone, SK.

ALFALFA BROME 5X5 hard core bales, no rain, $40. Five minutes West of Saskatoon, SK. May deliver. 306-249-3877. LETâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MAKE A deal. 88- 2012 hard core alfalfa/grass, no rain, 1200 lbs. plus, $28/bale; 185- 2011 5x6 hard core alfalfa/grass, 1500 lbs., no rain, $35/bale. Need to sell before year end. 306-535-6593, Wynyard, SK. LARGE SQUARE 3x4 durum straw bales, $15 per bale. 306-631-8854, Moose Jaw, SK. JD HARD CORE alfalfa or alfalfa/brome Timothy mix. Call 306-542-8382, Pelly, SK. LARGE QUANTITY of 1st and 2nd cut hay with feed tests. Call 306-232-7784, Brian Roth, Rosthern, SK. 400 SQUARE BALES 2011 wheat straw, 3x4, will load, $50/ton. Call Jim at 403-362-6682, Tilley, AB.

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WANTED: ALFALFA/GRASS hay, large round bales. We are interested in all qualities of hay delivered to Bethune, SK. Call 306-638-3051. SOLID CORE ROUND alfalfa, alfalfa grass, greenfeed, grass, and straw. Delivered. Call 306-237-4582, Perdue, SK. BROME/ALFALFA HAY, REGINA, SK. Selling 52 large 1800 lb. bales of hay, majority is brome mix with alfalfa. Was cut and baled in Aug. 2012. 1.5 kms off Trans Canada West bypass, Regina, SK. Easy access for hauling out. Loading and hauling must be arranged by buyer. Please call Bill at 306-591-2248 or vkutsog@me.com ORGANIC ROUND FLAX straw bales, $30/bale OBO. 306-382-1299, Saskatoon, SK. wallace.hamm@pro-cert.org

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CUSTOM BALE HAULING 17 years experience. Call 306-567-8199, Kenaston, SK. 7KRXVDQGV LQ ALFALFA, TIMOTHY, BROME, Clover and Fescue, large round bales, no sprays, $35. ,QYHQWRU\ Will load. 780-524-5211, Valleyview, AB. 1500 ALFALFA CRESTED WHE AT net wrapped bales, no rain; Parting out JD 567 9DULHW\ RI 7\SHV baler. Al 306-463-8423, Marengo, SK. 4XDOLW\ ALFALFA, ALFALFA/GRASS 5x6 hard core, old hay and new, priced accordingly, 2.5Â˘ to 3.5Â˘/lb. Kindersley, SK. 306-463-3132, 306-460-7837. CUSTOM BALE HAULING with 2 trucks and VHULRXV LQTXLULHV RQO\

t r a i l e r s , 3 4 b a l e s p e r t r a i l e r. C a l l 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK. VXEMHFW WR DYDLODELOLW\ WANTED TO BUY straight alfalfa bales, rounds or squares, picked up or delivered ROUND BALES of threshed Timothy hay, to Ellinwood, Kansas. 620-786-0589. 2011 greenfeed round bales; 2011 and 500 SOLID CORE alfalfa bales, 1400 lbs., 2012 crop round bales wheat straw. $60/ton. Call Jerry at 306-472-5219, or Threshed mostly with JD rotary combine. Contact Fisher Farms 204-622-8800, cell 306-648-7813, Lafleche, SK. 204-648-3038, george@fisherseeds.com LARGE SQUARE BALES, 4x4 alfalfa, al- Dauphin, MB. falfa/grass mix. Bales located near US bor1310 ROUND BALES for sale, all with no der, South of Rockglen, SK. 306-642-5812. rain. 403-575-0410, Coronation, AB. GRASS HAY BALES, no rain, hard core. 2012- 200 bales $40/bale; 2011- 50 bales SECOND CUT PURE Alfalfa: 140 bales of $30/bale. 306-827-2351, Radisson, SK. excellent quality, 24% protein, analysis avail. Average bale 1697.5 lbs, $110 per BUFFALO HAY, 160 dry grass JD bales, metric ton. 306-363-2111, Watrous, SK. net wrapped, $18/bale. Can deliver. 306-946-7923, 306-259-4923, Young, SK. HAY AND EQUIPMENT HAULING: OfferQUANTITY OF OATS straw bales, 1 year ing hay and equipment hauling AB, SK, MB. old. Baled with JD hard core baler. Deliv- Call for quote 780-872-0107, Kenaston, SK ery available. 204-234-5411, Oakburn, MB. HAY WANTED: BUYING good quality mixed and straight alfalfa, small and large square bales, semi loads. 920-588-7230, WANTED: TIPPMANN BOSS stitcher. 780-336-4897, Viking, AB. bgbrickhay@yahoo.com Green Bay, WI.

bales for sale. Moose Jaw, SK. Call 306-631-7234, or l.g.knox@sasktel.net HAY FOR SALE, alfalfa brome, no rain. Phone 780-658-3908 or 780-658-2415, Vegreville, AB. OAT/HAY SQUARE BALES, 80/20 mix. 3600 bales, average 36â&#x20AC;? to 38â&#x20AC;? long. Baled and picked in early Sept. No chemicals on land from 2007. Stacked in yard 15 kms west of Saskatoon, SK, $4.25 ea. Terry at 306-384-5805 or wuschenny@yourlink.ca S M A L L S Q UA R E H AY b a l e s , a l f a l f a / brome/timothy, good quality, sheltered, $2.50-$5.00 306-945-2378, Waldheim, SK LARGE ALFALFA/GRASS mix hard core bales, $25/ea. Call 306-245-3756, Tyvan, SK.

HAY WANTED: for locations at Viscount, Outlook, and Eston, SK. Call Lee 306-867-3046, 306-962-3992. 270 LENTIL STRAW BALES, 450 wheat straw bales, both can be mixed for feed. 306-961-1170, Domremy, SK. 1040 ROUND ALFALFA crested wheat bales for sale. 1140 lbs. each, good quality, $38/bale, near Youngstown, AB., will load. 403-882-4204, 403-578-8206, Castor, AB. ALFALFA GRASS ROUND BALES, 1400 313 BALES: 145 smooth brome alfalfa, 168 lbs., no rain, good quality, $55 per bale. meadow brome alfalfa, 850 lbs., $28/bale. 306-725-3449, 306-725-7441, Strasbourg. 306-343-0589, Clavet, SK.

RAM POWER SNARES, Conibear traps, fur handling equipment. For free catalogue email kdgordon@sasktel.net or call 306-862-4036, Nipawin, SK. TRAPPERS. PREMIUM quality lures and scents. Over 30 yrs. in the lure business. All lures have been time proven on the trapline to produce fur. Gillilandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lures and Scents, 204-634-2425, Pierson, MB.

30 WHITETAIL DEER TAGS for wildlife management zone #65, around East Trout Lake in Northern Saskatchewan, $150,000 US. Contact gregdemakis@hotmail.com OUTFITTING CAMP FOR SALE, Zone 62: 16 bear, 23 White-tailed deer, 8 moose tags, 1 out-camp, incl. log cabins, pontoon boat, stands, diesel generator, etc. Located in northern Sask. Serious inquiries only. 306-547-5524, Preeceville, SK. OUTFITTING BUSINESS FOR sale. 7- nonCanadian resident deer tags, allocated for zones 18, 18A, 18B and 18C in Benito and Duck Mountain Prov. Park area, $35,000 OBO. 204-539-2961.

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DOMINION DRILLING, 5” water wells, will be gravel packed, e-logged and screened. 25 yrs. experience drilling in SK. Also water well witching, well rehabilitation, well deccommitioning and geotechnical drillCANADA - CUBA FARMER TOURS. 15th ing. Email: dominiondrilling@hotmail.com year. Feb. 4th to 18th. All inclusive. De- call: 306-874-5559, cell: 306-874-7653 or ductible. 7 nights 5 star, 7 nights country fax: 306-874-2451, Pleasantdale, SK. hotels, 3 days Varadero, 8 day farm tour, 3 days Havana. Max 28. Farmers and family STAUBER DRILLING INC. Environmental, members only. $3200 Cdn/person - 2 Geotechnical, Geothermal, Water well sharing plus air. www.wendyholm.com drilling and servicing. Professional service 604-947-2893 escorted by Cdn. Agrologist s i n c e 1 9 5 9 . C a l l t h e e x p e r t s a t Wendy Holm, wendy@wendyholm.com 1-800-919-9211 info@stauberdrilling.com

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U-DRIVE TRACTOR TRAILER Training, 25 years experience. Day, 1 and 2 week upgrading programs for Class 1A, 3A and air brakes. One on one driving instructions. 306-786-6600, Yorkton, SK.

HELP WANTED ON grain and cattle farm. Previous experience and self-motivation are required. Driver’s licence needed to operate and maintain equipment, new shop to work in if mechanically inclined. Applicant needs to be able to work well APPLY TODAY to take Crop Technology with others. Fax resume to 306-895-4601 at Lakeland College’s Vermilion campus. or, email buggfarms@hotmail.com or, Your training includes involvement in the mail to Box 328, Paynton, SK., S0M 2J0 business side of the Student Managed Farm- Powered by New Holland. Details at FARM WORK OR HELP? We can help by w w w. l a ke l a n d c o l l e g e . c a o r p h o n e matching you to your next job or finding 1-800-661-6490, ext. 8527. your next employee. Call Tony at Ag Employment at 403-732-4295 or fax resume to: 403-732-4290. For website or info email us at: tonykarenk@hotmail.com RANCH MANAGER REQUIRED, full-time for cattle ranch in central Alberta. Home, WANTED: FARM LABOURERS able to basic utilities and benefits included. Must run farm equipment on cattle/grain farm. be dependable, self motivated and in good F u l l - t i m e wo r k ava i l a b l e . C a l l M i ke health. Duties to include, but not limited 306-469-7741, Big River, SK. to, cattle feeding and handling, herd PASTURE MANAGER REQUIRED Wanhealth, haying and farm operation and ham Grazing Reserve is seeking a pasture maintenance. Families welcome. Please manager for the 2013 grazing season. call 403-575-0105 if interested and email Previous experience an asset. Tender closresume to: farmjobsalberta@gmail.com ing date is Dec 14, 2012. Contact Lenore RANCH permanent full-time position near Mueller at Wanham Grazing Association Merritt, BC. Responsible for 900 cow herd, for details 780-694-2573 or, email her at calving and range management. Includes mueller101@xplornet.com Wanham, AB. housing and benefits. For more info send FARM EQUIPMENT OPERATOR Wanted resume: email info@ranchland.ca, fax for a progressive, modern grain farm. 250-378-4956, mail Box 2509, Merritt, BC. Welsch Farms is a family run farm looking V1K 1B8. for a permanent full-time employee, must RANCH HAND WANTED, full time posi- have farm equipment experience and be tion available on cow/calf and grasser op- able to perform maintenance and small reeration in the Allan hills, SK. area. Duties pairs. Valid drivers licence required, Class will include but are not limited to fencing, 1A would be an asset. Mark 306-398-7752, feeding, general cattle work, herd health Cut Knife, SK. Fax resume 306-398-2275 monitoring, basic machinery maintenance or email to: mark.welsch@yourlink.ca etc. Housing available, wage based on ex- WORKER REQUIRED from January 15 to perience. Email: nlamb@xplornet.com March 30, 2013. Help calve out cows, etc. Fax: 403-226-2246, Phone: 306-203-9003. Room/board supplied. Call 306-839-4450, GENERAL FARM WORKER needed for a Pierceland, SK. grain farm in remote Northern AB., from FARM HAND REQUIRED: full-time farm mid April to mid Nov./2013. Must be will- help required in central Alberta. Must be ing to work long hours including some dependable, self motivated and in good weekends. Duties include: operating farm health. Duties include but not limited to, equipment, and manual labor tasks, must cattle help, herd health, calving, cropping speak basic English, and have valid drivers and general farm operation and maintelicence. Wages start $16/hr. Fax resumes nance, driver’s license required, Class 1 to Ed or Linda Schmidt at 780-836-2650 or driver’s license and welding skills are an call 780-836-2107, Manning, AB. asset. Housing available. Families welCall 403-575-0105 and or, email FARM MANAGER REQUIRED, Waseca SK. come. Ability to operate all types of farm equip- resume to: farmjobsalberta@gmail.com ment, GPS knowledge for seeding and FULL-TIME HELP ON grain farm, 30 miles spraying. Class 1A license for hauling S o u t h o f R e g i n a , S K , at M i l e s t o n e . grain. Supervise 1 to 2 seasonal workers, 306-436-4418 or 306-436-2053. manage equipment and building maintenance. Maintain records for planting seed, NEEDED IMMEDIATELY professional and fertilizer, spraying, fuel, maintenance, passionate farmer that pursues both pergrain in storage and quality. Problem solv- fection and efficiencies in all aspects of ing ability and knowledge of farm safety a grain production. Will require a Class 1 limust. Must pass drug test, Wage $20/hr. cense and ability to operate and maintain with benefits. 15 working days of vacation newer J.D. equipment along with all GPS per year. Phone 306-893-4756. Please fax and related computer programs. Must be resume to: 306-893-4228. able to work independently and efficiently APIARY HARVESTER NOC 8431 $11.42/hr. in a comfortable working environment (2 positions) for June to Nov, 2013. Loca- with great care and attention to detail. tion: Girouxville, AB at Paradis Honey Ltd. Very competitive wage with bonus, based Accommodations provided. Some evening on performance and experience. Located and weekend work. Must be able to work just south of Calgary. Call 403-888-7801 in presence of bees. Email your complete or e-mail resume stan@prockfarms.com resume to mikelise@serbernet.com or fax SEASONAL FARM LABOURER HELP. Paradis Honey Ltd. at 780-323-4138 Applicants should have previous farm exFULL-TIME LONG TERM ranch help needed perience and mechanical ability. Duties for cow/calf operation. Exp. and knowl- incl. operation of machinery, including edge of all aspects of ranching operations tractors, truck driving and other farm a must. Wages $16-$22/hr plus overtime. equipment, as well as general farm laborer Youngs Land & Cattle Ltd, Tyvan, SK. duties. $12-$18/hr. depending on experience. Contact Wade Feland at 306-245-3310, youngslandc@gmail.com 701-263-1300, Antler, ND. FULL-TIME POSITION at feedlot operation PUREBRED CATTLE RANCH looking for full in rural community just outside of Airdrie, time help immediately to run day to day AB. Some weekend rotation required and operations. New house to live in. All overtime available. Salary depends on ex- utilities supplied and a vehicle. Cattle and perience. Mostly outside work, can be equipment experience required. Located in physically demanding. Must be able to Grande Prairie area. Phone: 780-512-3641. work as a team or on your own with attention to detail. The willingness to continu- FARM HAND WANTED, Macklin, SK. area. ously learn is essential. Must have cattle Duties include operating and maintaining handling skills, such as processing, large farm machinery and livestock equipshipping and receiving, pen checking and ment. General farm duties for mixed farm, care of cattle. Good oral communication is grain and cattle farm background an asset, essential. Must have own transportation $16+/hr. depending on experience. and valid driver’s license. Benefits are Email: kiddfarms2012@hotmail.com or available as well as dental after a year of fax resume 306-753-3325. employment. Call DJ at 403-888-6459 or email to: dj@thorlaksonfeedyards.com PERMANENT FULL-TIME employee wanted for grain farm at Milden, SK. Farm experiHELPER WANTED on mixed farm. Steady ence, and Class 1A. Competitive, negojob for right person. Room and board avail. tiable wage. Fax resume: 306-935-2201, 403-631-2373, 403-994-0581, Olds, AB. ph Graham 306-935-4523, 306-831-7514. RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUAL WANTED to HELP WANTED ON DAIRY FARM, fullmanage a mixed farming operation near or part-time, dairy and maintenance work. Ryley, AB. Duties include caring for beef 306-493-8201, 306-493-7631, Delisle, SK. cattle, operating farm equipment and general yard, building and equipment mainte- MODERN 400 COW dairy, east of Lacombe, nance. Competitive wage and housing pro- AB. is looking to fill 1 full-time position. vided. 403-246-7116. gwkdr@telus.net Applicants must have a passion for excellence with dairy cattle and be self-motivatFARM HELP REQUIRED in east central AB. ed. Experience preferred. Wages $17Reliable person with interest and experi- $21/hr. Housing available. Fax resume to ence with livestock. Housing and applianc- 403-784-2911, Ph. 403-396-4696, Tees AB es supplied. Wages based on experience. Please email resume with references to DAIRY WORKER FOR 120 cow tie-stall clarkconstruction@xplornet.ca or fax to barn. Rental accommodation avail. Wages 403-552-2478, Altario, AB. negotiable. 306-771-4318, Balgonie, SK.

SPUR RIDGE CATTLE COMPANY is in need of a ranch hand. Job description #NOC 8431. Employment terms: full time. Permanent duties and responsibilities: assisting with feeding and daily care of cattle and horses, maintenance of ranch machinery and facilities, fencing, haying, pasture riding, calving, maintaining barefoot trim on ranch horses, processing calves and cattle. Wo r k i n g hours: 40 hours per week from 8:00 AM t o 5 : 0 0 P M , d ay o f f va r i e s . Wa g e : $3,000/month. L o c a t i o n o f Wo r k : NE-8-22-28-W of 2nd. Skills requirements/education: Certified barefoot hoof care practitioner. Work experience: knowledge and experience in haying, calving, herd health, riding, barefoot trimming. Application information: submit resume by mail to: Box 17, Caronport, SK. S0H 0S0 or e-mail it to: steve.r@sasktel.net or phone/fax to 306-734-9001. LARGE MIXED FARM looking for motivated fulltime employee. Experience w/livestock and machinery necessary. 780-376-2241, www.rawesranches.com Strome, AB. COWBOYS/PEN CHECKERS for lar ge cow/calf feedlot operation in northern SK. Call Mike 306-469-7741, Big River, SK. WEYGA FARMING LTD is a large grain farm located in the County of Camrose, AB. Weyga Farming was est. in 1974 and has grown steadily since. To support our experienced team we are looking for a FULL-TIME FARM EMPLOYEE. We are offering an interesting opportunity that involves responsibility, working with newest equipment, and a long term perspective. Our main yard is only 10 mins. away from the centre of Camrose, ideally situated for a family who enjoys country life and the advantage of a nearby city. If you are a team player, have farming experience, and are not afraid of technology, we would like to hear from you. For more info please contact Markus Reyerding 780-608-4481, weyga-farming@weyga.com

Health/Pen Riders Strathm ore,AB

Requirem ents: M ust enjoy a tea m a pproa ch a nd a desire to w ork w ith ca ttle sa fely, hum a nely & efficiently. Ability to a ssess ca ttle hea lth, a nd follow recom m ended trea tm ent protocol. Above a vera ge horsem a nship, skills a nd suita bly tra ined horses for this environm ent a re necessa ry. Ba sic com puter skills required to enter da ily records a nd pullreports. W estern Feedlots Ltd. is a diverse com pany specializing in feeder cattle m anagem ent,softw are developm ent, and com m odities. W e offer com petitive w ages,a benefits package,and encourage the grow th and developm ent of our em ployees. If yo u v a lu e a respectfu l,pro u d,tea m o rienta ted env iro nm ent w ithin a v ery u niqu e “W estern Cu ltu re”,plea se fo rw a rd yo u r a pplica tio n/resu m e to :

Em a il:dspeers@ w esternfeedlo ts.co m tel:403- 652 3933 Fo r fu rther info rm a tio n,plea se v isit o u r w ebsite a t w w w .w esternfeedlo ts.co m FULL-TIME POSITION on calf raising feedlot. Should be responsible and be able to work alone or in a crew. Competitive wages. No Sunday calls please, 403-635-0641 cell, or 403-553-2014, Fort MacLeod, AB.

FULL-TIME FARM HELPER required year round for mixed cow/calf farm. Duties include feeding, calving, grain hauling, etc. Experience an asset, but not necessary. Board and room available. 780-768-2125, Two Hills, AB.

CAD/CAM or MECH TECH. Lean Machine Metal Fabrication Inc. is currently seeking an individual that is highly motivated, thrives in a busy environment, and has an interest in working with the most advanced equipment in the industry. We require: Basic Inventor and AutoCAD skills; Mastercam experience preferred; Solidworks experience would be an asset; Must have mechanical ability and be capable of understanding tolerances; Ability to read and create part drawings and applicable documentation. Please apply bu email hr@leanmachinecnc.com or fax MIXED FARM/ FEEDLOT in Provost, AB. 306-651-0014, Attention Zach/Shaun. requires a full-time employee. Large equipment and cattle experience an asset. 4 - EXPERIENCED COOKS required for full $18- $24/hr. Scheduled days off, housing time, shifts and weekends. $11-13/hr., avail. Phone or fax resume: 780-753-6597, two years exp. preparing meals in restaurants and or Culinary degree. Apply at email: danlynn@telus.net John’s Plate Family Dining, 212 1st Avenue FOUR PERMANENT full-time workers re- West, Box 1243, Watrous, SK., S0K 4T0 or quired at remote rural farm in Keg River, email johnsplate@hotmail.com AB. Should have grade 12, valid drivers license, class 1 would be an asset. Be fluent FOREMAN REQUIRED: RM of Mountain in English, not afraid of heights. Must be View No. 318 situated in Herschel, Sask. is able to work some weekends. Heavy lifting accepting applications for a Foreman. Exand manual work, operation of various perience with the operation of graders, farm equip. and job task planning. Wages scrapers, mowers, backhoe and a 1A listart at $16/hr. Fax resume to David Vos cence is required as well as mechanical Farms Ltd. 780-981-3940, Manning, AB. aptitude and personnel skills. This is a fulltime position with the salary based on ex5000 HEAD FEEDLOT with mixed farming perience. The municipality also offers an operation of commercial cattle and 15,000 excellent benefits package and a matched acres of crop land, is seeking an experi- pension plan. Resumes including a Driver’s enced ranch/farm hand with a background abstract and references will be accepted in cattle and herd health. Will be expected until Dec. 24th, 2012. Resumes may be to ride feedlot pens, assist with process- mailed, emailed or faxed to the following ing, ride for pasture moves, branding, address: Box 130, Herschel, SK S0L 1L0. calving as well as other activities involved Phone: 306-377-2144, Fax: 306-377-2023, in the daily operation of the feedlot and Email: rm318@sasktel.net Only applicants ranch. Operation of standard farm equip- selected for an interview will be contacted. ment may be required. Valid driver’s license is mandatory. Class 1 and/or 3 is an FULL-TIME FLEET Maintenance Mechanic asset but not required. Will provide horse required for a fleet of 9 trucks and trailers or accommodate employee’s horses. Hous- in East Central AB. Mechanics license not ing may be arranged. Salary negotiable required but an asset. Wage is negotiable with experience. Call Eric 306-717-8905 or depending on experience. 403-578-8167, Cam at 306-482-3224, or email resume to Fax resume to: 403-575-2659 or email to: gentank@veterancable.net barjb_ranch@msn.com Carnduff, SK.

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(4 va ca n cies ) Perm a n en t, fu ll tim e p o s itio n s -44 hrs p er w eek. S a la ry $19.25 to $20.00/hr. Va lid d rivers licen s e. Previo u s exp erien ce a n a s s et. To a pply fo r a po s itio n w ith u s , plea s e e-m a il res u m e to : m a rc@ gcpa rts .co m o r s en d fa x to 78 0-754-2333 Atten tio n : Alvin W a n n echk o SIX ROOM CLEANERS needed, full-time, shifts and weekends, $10.50 to $14.50/hr. One year experience preferred but not required for cleaning rooms in the hotel. Apply at: Hotel Senator, 243 21st St. E., Saskatoon, SK. or fax to: 306-244-1559, or email: info@rembrandts.ca DRIVERS NEEDED for winter work by Regina charter bus company. Must be available weekends and have valid passport, overnight travel required, class 1A or 2A required. Training available for qualified drivers. Great part-time job for winter. Send resume with references and abstract to: e.bourassa@accesscomm.ca or fax to 306-721-1995, Regina, SK.

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LOOKING FOR PEN checkers, general feedlot and farm worker near Three Hills, AB. Please fax resume to 403-546-3949 or call 403-312-7154, Swalwell, AB.

PARTS PERSO N . Agricu ltu ra lBa ckgro u n d a n d Co m pu terExperien ce W o u ld Be An Asset. Fu ll-Tim e Po sitio n , $15 to $20 per ho u r.Ben efits,(a fter6 m o n th perio d ).

Plea se Fo rw a rd Resu m es to M a rc a t G ra tto n Co u lee Agri Pa rts Ltd ., B o x 4 1,Irm a ,AB T0B 2H 0 o r S en d Fa x to 780-75 4 -2333.

GOOSE HAVEN Outfitters hiring Waterfowl Guides. Experienced and proficient in calling ducks and geese. Food and lodging is PURITY FEED CO. LTD., situated in Kamincluded. Salary $17/hr. plus tips. Meadow loops and Merritt, BC. is seeking Sales Lake, SK. 306-236-3527 or 207-725-2938. Manager, Retail. Position is to effectively and profitably manage the client’s experiWELDER REQUIRED to build corral pan- ence by offering added-value agricultural, els. No tickets required. Experience a horticultural and Western lifestyle prodmust. Bunk house provided. 1 mile to Ve- ucts and services. We invite you to send us greville, AB. Contact Bill at 780-603-8842. your professional profile with wage expectations by email to: barb@purityfeed.com FULL TIME PRODUCTION line or machine fax 250-372-0282. www.purityfeed.com operator positions available at thriving cabinet door manufacturing plant. Line in- LOVE FARMING? An exciting career opporcludes design, processing, assembly, fin- tunity exists for a Farm Manager on a large ishing and shipment of solid wood compo- grain farm in Regina Plains. Competitive nents. Experience w/woodworking equip. salary and benefits for qualified candidate. an asset. Group benefits included. Forward Housing available. Please respond by email resume to maxine@cuttingedgeinc.ca or to: farmacres2@gmail.com Regina, SK. fax 306-662-2490. Maple Creek, SK.

Derrick-hands and 12 Service Rig floor-hands for work in the Lloydminster SK/AB area immediately. Wages are $29.50/hr and up for derrick-hands and $27.00 and up for floor-hands, depending on experience. Experience is an asset but will train suitable applicants. Group benefits and training/ safety bonuses available. Drug and alcohol screening tests are conducted.

Please fax: 780-871-6908 or Email resumes to: royalwel@telus.net

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC, experienced in hydraulics, diesel engines, prime movers, tracked vehicles, as well as, spray equipment. This is an opportunity for field and shop work. Please send resume by email to: acemail@acevegetation.com or, by fax to: 780-955-9426 or, send it by mail to: ACE, 2001- 8 St. Nisku, AB. T9E 7Z1.

DAVY CROCKETTS OILFIELD SERVICES Ltd. is immediately seeking trainee Power Tong Operators. Experienced power tong operators will be given preference; Shop Hand. Must be willing to reside in the Valleyview/ Grande Prairie, AB and surrounding area. Must have clean drivers license w/abstract and H2S. Please email resume GENERAL BEEKEEPING LABOURERS with 3 references to rairth5@gmail.com wanted for spring and summer months of or call 780-957-3101. 2013. We are looking for 6 applicants who are interested in working on a medium STEAMER SWAMPER OR OPERATOR sized honey farm in the Miami, MB. area. wanted, experience is an asset, but will Pay $11-$15/hour. For job descriptions train right individual. Excellent wages and and positions available please email to opportunity for advancement. Area of emstepplerfarms@hotmail.com Phone ployment West Central Saskatchewan. Call 780-753-0461, Macklin, SK. 204-435-2491, fax 204-435-2021.

Southern A lberta Equipm ent and Installation Com pany is currently looking to hire full tim e for both shop and field w ork.

C W B certification,project m anagem entand supervisory skills a definite asset.Individuals m ust have valid driver’s license and reliable transportation. A lso looking for generallabourers. Please subm ityour resum es to: scott.dice@ telus.net FULL-TIME HD MECHANIC WANTED. Ph. 403-625-4658, Claresholm, AB. email: LOOKING FOR AN experienced Parts Perrwbranch@gmail.com son. We are a fast paced store with lots of variety. Full-time w/benefits. Submit your JOURNEYMAN MECHANIC required immediately. Electrical and diesel experience resume to rbrundige@telus.net or mail: would be an asset. Benefits after 3 mos. Rick, Matichuk Equipment, Box 7880, BonMonday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM. Rainbow nyville, AB., T9N 2J2, 780-826-2535. Automotive in Grande Prairie, AB. Apply in person at 10122-124 Ave. ask for Wayne or Philip. No phone calls please. Apply by email to wayne@rainbowautomotive.ca

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6 EXPERIENCED COMMERCIAL flat roofers needed, full-time, year-round, $17. to $21./hr. Three years experience as a flat roofer on commercial buildings. Apply at: Haid Roofing, 153 Jessop Ave., Saskatoon, SK. or email: haidroofing@sasktel.net or fax: 306-374-1906.

Established Agri-Retailer 50 KM north of Edmonton, AB Is seeking a

Third Party Custom Applicator With High Clearance Sprayer Must Have a Current Pesticide Applicator License & Proof of Liability Insurance. For more information or to discuss the opportunity Contact Eric at

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G ib so n En ergy ULC is cu rren tly s eek in g en thu s ia s tic, res u lts orien ted in d ivid u a ls for ou r Co leville Bra n ch.

CO M PAN Y DR IV ER S O W N ER O PER ATO R S Q u a lifica tion s req u ired : • Va lid Cla s s 1 licen s e • 2-5 yea rs d rivin g exp erien ce is a n a s s et • O ilfield exp erien ce is a n a s s et • Nig hts hifta va ila bility G ib so n En ergy ULC offers a com p etitive com p en s a tion p a ck a g e. In teres ted ca n d id a tes a re in vited to a p p ly via ou rw ebs ite w w w .gib so n s.co m o r by Fa x a t780- 392 - 672 2 . TRUCK DRIVER REQUIRED for 2013 ice road haul season pulling tanker Super B trailers hauling fuel. Job runs from Jan. 15 to March 30th. 306-577-7203, Arcola, SK. NOW HIRING CLASS 1 licensed drivers, includes incentive pkg. 403-946-5629 ask for Greg, Crossfield, AB. WA N T E D : L E A S E O P E R ATO R S and CLASS I DRIVERS, to haul livestock Canada and US. Good rates. Call 403-625-4658, rwbranch@gmail.com WANTED: FULL TIME truck driver to haul cattle, grain and bales. Must also be willing to operate farm equipment on a seasonal basis. Contact Lee at Primrose Livestock. Email lthansen@xplornet.com or call cell 306-867-3046, Eston, SK. WATER HAULERS WANTED for building ice roads in northern AB. Class 3A, all tickets and driver’s abstract required. Please phone 306-287-8140.

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SPEEDWAY MOVING SYSTEMS requires owner/operators for our 1 ton fleet to transport RVs throughout North America. We offer competitive rates and company fuel cards. Paid by direct deposit. Must have clean criminal record and passport to cross border. Phone 1-866-736-6483. www.speedwaymovingsystems.com

SASKATOON HOTSHOT TRANSPORTER is hiring power units w/wo stepdecks 3/4 and 1 tons, for RV and Freight hauling throughout Canada and the U.S. Year round work, lots of miles and home time, fuel subsidies, benefits, excellent earnings. 306-653-8675, Saskatoon, SK. Website SELECT CLASSIC CARRIERS immediatewww.saskatoonhotshot.com ly requires Leased Operators with new model 1 tons and 5 ton straight trucks/ tractors, and Company Drivers; Also require 1 driver with 5G or Class 1 license for operating a haul and tow. Transporting RV’s/general freight, USA/Canada. Clean abstract required. Competitive rates. Fuel surcharge/benefits. 1-800-409-1733.

SEEKING EMPLOYMENT in the agriculture animal industry or other. Either full/parttime, prefer Saskatoon area, resumes and references on request. Ph. 306-492-3035, Dundurn, SK. RELIEF MILKING, I have experience and references. If you want to get away, call Jerry to book. 613-913-3911, Olds, AB.

LMC is looking for a Sales Support/Draftsperson

to handle both new and modifications to existing plant design. Also involved in this position will be to provide Sales Support to our existing sales team. The duties would include equipment purchasing, preparation of quotations, manual creation and assist with various project details.

The candidate should possess the following qualifications:

- Post secondary training in a related drafting program, experience with Auto Cad/3D Modeling - Strong computer skills - Attention to detail - Well developed interpersonal skills - Strong agricultural/manufacturing engineering background - Good trouble-shooting and problem solving skills

DUTIES: Provide sales support with regards to equipment purchasing, administrative functions; project overview, time management, manual creation, quotations etc. Mechanical drafting, including planning and design of projects involving the installation of agricultural seed cleaning and packaging equipment. This position may require some travel, and the ability to work independently. LMC offers a competitive wage and benefits package. This position is Full-Time commencing immediately. Respond by email to: roxanne@lewismcarter.com

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Parade goers take in the Pidherney’s Construction tractor and sleigh, one of several floats making their way down main street before Santa’s arrival in Olds., Alta. BELOW: Donna Geekie of Dog Pound, Alta., surprises her threeyear-old grandson, Braden Wrightson, in the hay bale maze.

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Christmas The community banded together to ring in the Yule season in Olds, Alta., Nov. 24. The Light Up event was part of the 19th annual Olds Fashioned Christmas, a month of activities, including live entertainment, craft making and barbecue, supported by service clubs, youth groups, merchants, the municipality, Olds College and the Olds Ag Society. | Randy Fiedler photos

Remi Ogouma of Olds, Alta., packs up her goods after the town’s first Christmas farmers market, which drew 80 vendors.

ABOVE: A six-month-old reindeer calf and six-year-old steer brought by Monica Hoegger of the Bergen Reindeer Ranch were a hit. LEFT: Rainbow the clown’s magic show drew a huge crowd to the Cow Palace.

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NEWS MEXICO | GM CORN APPROVAL

Mexico delays GM corn OK Government has to outline areas where GM corn will be banned

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) — A top Mexican government official says the long-awaited but highly controversial approval of genetically modified corn fields on a commercial scale will drag into next year. Mariano Ruiz, a deputy agriculture secretary, said in an interview that the regulatory approval process won’t be finalized under the outgoing government of president Felipe Calderon, but instead will fall to his successor to see through sometime next spring. President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party was set to take office Dec. 1. Ruiz said he does not expect permits to be approved for four to five months, but added the new government is like-minded in its support for

the introduction of large-scale GM corn cultivation in Mexico. “I think we are in agreement generally over the importance of having this instrument, and that farmers have the tool of genetically modified organisms,” said Ruiz. “But like they say, the devil is in the details.” Scientists recognize Mexico as the birthplace of corn, and opponents of GM corn have argued that GM varieties will contaminate native strains and irrevocably harm the grain’s biodiversity. Ruiz said the government still has to designate “centres of origin” where GM corn cultivation will be banned as well as set other safety regulations. Supporters of GM corn say it produces yields 10 to 15 percent larger

than conventional strains, which could boost production and curb Mexico’s dependence on imports. The delay will leave six applications for commercial-scale GM corn fields in limbo. They total six million acres. Monsanto has submitted two applications, both of which seek 1.7 million acres for GM corn in Mexico’s western Sinaloa state, the country’s largest corn producer. The Mexican subsidiary of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, has three applications, each of which would cover 865,000 acres in northeastern Tamaulipas state. Meanwhile, Dow Agrosciences de Mexico, has one application for 99,000 acres, also in Tamaulipas state.

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Big-picture View Gaining a perspective – and the expertise to evaluate what you’re seeing – is at the heart of the Renewable Resource Management program, which covers everything from the basic science of soil and plants to putting together a start-to-finish environmental plan. The program also emphasizes field work – something that appealed to student Page Beaton. “I love hands-on learning and when I heard about this new program they were creating, I thought it sounded pretty interesting,” says the Saskatoon native. “In the first year, there were only about five of us, so it was a really small program,” says Beaton. “In the first two years, you take your basic science courses and a bit of economics, but in the third year you get to do your field course. There was a week working in the boreal forest at Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus, another week in the grasslands by Lake Diefenbaker, and several weeks doing a plant and soil mapping project at One Arrow First Nation near Prince Albert.” By her fourth year, enrolment had grown to more than two dozen and Beaton was part of a group of seven students who undertook a costbenefit analysis of a Ducks Unlimited Canada wetlands restoration in the upper Qu’Appelle watershed. By year’s end, she will have finished all of her required courses and will complete her degree by taking a minor in communications at Curtin University in Perth, the centre of Western Australia’s massive mining boom.

Fill some ships: Indian wheat adviser NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) — India should immediately allow an extra five to seven million tonnes of wheat exports from overflowing government warehouses and cash in on attractive global prices, says its adviser on prices. “We should allow five to seven million tonnes of exports as soon as possible, as any price which is $300 a tonne plus is very attractive,” said Ashok Gulati, chair of the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices. Inventories have swollen after five

consecutive harvests ran ahead of 76 million tonnes of annual local demand, largely because of higher prices the government assured to farmers to protect them from distressed sales and back up government subsidized food programs. To dissuade farmers from growing more, the government agreed with Gulati to keep the 2013 wheat support price unchanged. Still, India looks likely to harvest a bumper crop. On Nov. 1, wheat stocks at govern-

ment warehouses were at 40.6 million tonnes, nearly three times the government’s target. Stung by criticism over its inability to protect wheat stockpiles from rot and decay, the government lifted a four-year old ban on exports in September 2011 and then allowed exports of two million tonnes from state-run warehouses as well. “We should export more, but the speed of the decision matters as prices may not be as attractive as they are now,” Gulati said.

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It’s another part of the world where there’s a gulf between those who extract natural resources and environmentalists who decry their methods – and where there’s a need for bridge-building. “You need to have someone who can help the two sides understand each other,” she says. “There are all these different aspects and it’s not easy to tie them altogether. The further I’ve gone in my studies, the harder it is to put it into simple terms of one side is right and the other is wrong.” The Renewable Resource Management program – created partly in response to industry calls for resource-management expertise – is itself a sign of how things are changing, she says. While resource companies may have once viewed environmental reviews as something to be gotten around, Beaton says they now recognize sound stewardship as a core practice. That’s raised the environmental bar for resource extraction, and Beaton predicts graduates of her program will be in high demand.

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RESEARCH | HIVE HYGIENE

Bees with good housekeeping skills wanted Researchers target proteins | Selecting bees that are more hygienic based on protein markers may reduce diseases in hives BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU

Much like humans who must make their beds everyday, certain bees within a colony are compelled to maintain a neat and tidy hive. While a clean home has value, having a hygienic hive can be a matter of life or death for bees because diseases can infest and destroy messy colonies. “Hygienic behaviour is typically associated with the removal of dead or diseased brood: larvae and pupae that are dead or dying,” said Stephen Pernal, an Agriculture Canada apiculturist in Beaverlodge, Alta. “What this does, this breaks the disease cycle … to prevent the (disease) from proliferating in colonies.” However, the difficulty for beekeepers is knowing how to select and breed bees that are tidier than other bees. Pernal and scientists from Alberta Agriculture and the universities of Manitoba and British have found a novel way to solve this breeding conundrum. “What we’re trying to do is develop a tool that beekeepers, who breed their own bees, can use to advance the speed and specificity in which they can make gains in their stock for selection,” Pernal said. In particular, he and his colleagues are trying to establish a link between specific proteins in bees and hygienic behaviour. Genes contain the instructions to make molecules known as proteins, which play a critical role in cell functions. “In this case … we’re not looking at the genetics of a colony, per se, but what primary thing those (genes) produce, which are proteins,” he said. “In colonies that are disease resistant, they produce a lot of this protein or don’t produce a lot of this protein. If we can make a quick test for (the protein), the beekeeper can use (it).” Establishing a link between a particular protein and good hive hygiene is significant because varroa mites and diseases such as nosema kill thousands of bee colonies in Canada each year. The ability to use protein markers to select bees that are hygienic and naturally resistant to disease might save millions of bees and reduce beekeepers’ dependence on antibiotics and miticides to protect hives. Genome B.C., Genome Canada, Genome Alberta and the B.C. Honey Producers Association are funding the $5.7 million project. “The tools being developed in this project are expected to be less susceptible to evolutionary resistance and the development timeline should be less than traditional pesticides,” said Leonard Foster, a UBC professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and one of the lead scientists in the project. Good hygiene, it turns out, is an inheritable trait in bees. However, the characteristic varies from family to family within a colony. “Within a colony, you have many different sub-families or worker bees, because the queen mates with many drones, or males,” Pernal said. “So if the majority of the workers express that hygiene trait, the colony,

overall, will be a hygienic colony.” Pernal and his colleagues are conducting tests to validate their theory that particular proteins are related to hygienic behaviour in bees. Over the last couple of years, Pernal and his colleagues have frozen patches of brood within bee colonies. They quantify good hygiene by measuring how much frozen material the bees remove from the hive in a certain period of time. “We freeze a patch of brood with liquid nitrogen, we kill it. Then what we do is evaluate … how many of those frozen, killed pupae are removed.”

Some people would suggest that selecting (bees) strongly for hygienic behaviour also may (increase) resistance to varroa mites. STEPHEN PERNAL AGRICULTURE CANADA APICULTURIST

Positive conclusion After conducting several tests and breeding two generations of bees based on protein markers, the results have demonstrated it is possible to select bees that are more hygienic. “We’ve enriched the level of hygienic behaviour,” by using the markers, said Pernal, who is encouraged by the results. Pernal said the ultimate goal of the three year project, which concludes in March 2014, is to develop a test to help beekeepers select bees that are more hygienic based on levels of a specific protein. If successful, it may allow apiarists to produce a population of bees that are more resistant to disease and possibly mites, he said. “Some people would suggest that selecting (bees) strongly for hygienic behaviour also may (increase) resistance to varroa mites,” he said. “So we’re also carefully gauging how the gains in disease resistance and resistance to varroa mites are advancing with each generation (of bees).” Researchers at Purdue University announced in early November that they had identified a group of genes connected to hygienic behaviour in bees. The finding was significant, but it’s not known if the Canadian protein marker approach or the gene method offers the best path to breeding hygienic and healthy bees. “Until these reports from (Purdue), no one had been successful in accurately identifying genes that might be involved in hygienic behaviors,” he said in an email. “(However) genes can only effect function by providing the instructions for making a protein…. For this reason, it’s equally valid to look at either (approach).”

WHAT ARE PROTEINS? Proteins are large molecules made up of amino acids linked like a chain. The amino acids can combine in different ways to form tens of thousands of proteins. For example, the human body contains more than two million proteins, which regulate cell reproduction, transport oxygen and defend the body against disease. Scientists can use protein expression, or biomarkers, to associate proteins with specific diseases. For instance, prostate specific antigen levels are used to diagnose prostate cancer in men. Source: American Medical Association

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PRODUCTION

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FUEL | NATURAL GAS

Natural gas picks up speed as transport fuel New uses | Fuel companies are getting serious about harnessing the natural gas that oil companies burn off daily BY RON LYSENG

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Cummins Cummins said LNG provides better energy density in diesel equivalent, which reduces the actual volume of fuel required for long distance travel. It takes 127 litres of LNG to travel 160 kilometres in a tractor-trailer rig. It takes 264 litres of CNG to go the same distance. Cummins recently announced plans to produce dualfuel engines for mine-haul trucks. Dual fuel technology substitutes LNG for diesel, thus reducing the amount of diesel fuel required. “To convert a diesel engine to a dual fuel engine, Cummins adds a gas fuel system, additional sensors and controls and a diesel oxidation catalyst,” said Cummins spokesperson Sarah Sullivan in an email interview. The first engine in the dual fuel line-

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The area with red light indicates burnoff from the Bakken oil patch in North Dakota in 2010, where 100 million cubic feet of natural gas were flared each day. This area was not present on the satellite maps in the 1992 and 2000 samples. This multi-year composite shows satellite images collected in 1992, 2000 and 2010. Each image was overlaid in a different colour (red, blue and green) so that any images that have not changed much in the three samples appear as white light. | ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF THE U.S. NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER USING IMAGES FROM U.S. DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM

THE DUAL FUEL ENGINE air intake

diesel intake natural gas intake cylinder heads

• mixes natural gas with intake air • diesel provides ignition source — no spark plugs needed

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natural gas / air mixture liner

Natural gas, already proven as a fuel to power generator sets, buses, stationary engines, homes and factories, is finding new use as a transportation fuel. Environment is usually touted as the main reason for switching to the clean fuel, but lower prices and the daily waste of excess natural gas also figure into the equation. As an example of how much natural gas disappears into the atmosphere, more than 35 percent of natural gas production from North Dakota’s Bakken oil patch is burned off as waste because oil companies cannot handle the high volume, says the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It’s estimated that 100 million cubic feet of natural gas are lost each day. Using a hypothetical depressed wellhead price of only $3 per 1,000 cubic feet, that volume of wasted natural gas in North Dakota has an annual value of $110 million in lost revenue. Because of the abundance, experts believe natural gas will never experience the artificial shortages and dramatic price fluctuations often experienced with gasoline and diesel. Investment in natural gas as a main fuel source for transportation is viewed as a safe bet over the long term. Some proponents of natural gas as a transportation fuel concentrate on compressed natural gas. The drawback is that CNG requires high-pressure fuel tanks and compressors capable of squeezing the gas into tanks at 3,500 pounds per square inch. Other companies focus on liquid natural gas (LNG) because it doesn’t require high-pressure tanks or compressors. LNG is super cooled to -160 C and stored in insulated, non-pressurized tanks. The cooling process reduces the volume to 1/600th of its vapour state once it is in a liquid state, according to a Cummins news release.

• diesel fuel is used for startup

pistons

• natural gas replaces diesel with 50% to 70% substitution rate

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to crankshaft

Liquid natural gas flows from tank to truck at -160 C. Unlike diesel fuel, LNG is highly volatile. As a result, strict safety standards must be followed when handling LNG. | WESTPORT POWER PHOTO

Source: Cummins | MICHELLE HOULDEN GRAPHIC

up is the QSK60, which was introduced 12 years ago. Output ranges from 1,782 to 2,850 horsepower. Other QSK Series engines will follow in the dual fuel conversion, all of which will meet Tier 4 Final standards. The engines depend on integrated controls to optimize the LNG substi-

tution rate, depending on operating conditions. The transition between the two fuels is automatic and seamless. The engines can run 100 percent diesel or a blend up to 70 percent LNG. “The rapid expansion and abundance of natural gas in many areas of

the world has driven a dramatic cost advantage of natural gas over diesel, said Mark Levett of Cummins’ high horsepower division. “The ability to substitute diesel with natural gas drives down the total cost of ownership of equipment.” He said the new technology pro-

vides operators of high-horsepower mining equipment an opportunity to dramatically reduce fuel costs. Power density is critical in this industry and large amounts of fuel are burned. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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PRODUCTION “The dual fuel engines will deliver the same power and torque as the base diesel engine,” Sullivan said. “They’re projected to have the same life to overhaul as the base diesel.” Many people have safety concerns about an invisible volatile vaporous fuel, whether under pressure or cooled to extreme low temperatures. “Cummins has extensive experience applying natural gas fueled engines, including automotive applications such as buses and trucks, power generation and gas compression,” Sullivan said. He said the company has no immediate plans to develop a dual fuel engine for farm equipment. Canadian National Railway

As an experiment to determine if LNG can power the railways, Canadian National Railway is running LNG in two locomotives on the Edmonton-Fort McMurray run. | CN PHOTO

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Canadian National Railway is testing a pair of LNG powered locomotives on the 500 km Fort McMurray

run north of Edmonton. The company retrofitted the diesel engines in two 3,000 h.p. ElectroMotive Diesel (EMD) locomotives to run on a blend with natural gas of up to 90 percent. A specially equipped and protected tank car situated between the two locomotives contains the natural gas. “Natural gas has a lower carbon content compared with diesel, so locomotives using natural gas, if the technology proves viable, would produce significantly fewer carbon dioxide emissions,” said Keith Creel, CN’s executive vice-president. The hybrid engines will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by 70 percent over a locomotive duty cycle. CN is also working with EMD on a long-term project to explore state-ofthe-art natural gas railway engines. CN will provide a pair of 4,300 h.p. locomotive engines for the study, which will include high-pressure direct injection technology along with the latest natural gas fuel system technologies. The research group expects to conduct laboratory engine tests next year and roll out a prototype main-line locomotive in 2014. “We’re in the early days of the trial, so it would be premature to speculate about the future use of natural gas technology,” said CN spokesperson Mark Hallman. “We need some experience under our belt.” Shell

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Shell Oil has long had an interest in the technology to liquefy natural gas for import or export, according to a company news release. With the North American transportation industry desperate for relief from high diesel costs, Shell is exploring infrastructure projects to put LNG into the fuel tanks of highway truckers. For the immediate future, the company is developing technology and logistics for a green corridor between Edmonton and Calgary that would make LNG fueling stations available for truckers equipped with the LNG technology. “That project has quietly taken shape, fuelled by a small LNG plant n e a r Ju m p i n g P o u n d a n d t h e co-operation of a number of Flying J stations along the way,” said James Burns, Shell’s general manager of LNG for transport. He said the corridor is an example of what can be done in areas with plentiful natural gas supplies. LNG costs 70 percent of the diesel fuel price, based on diesel equivalent, he added, although a new LNG truck is likely to cost 50 percent more than a traditional diesel. “When you consider LNG is noncorrosive and creates very few engine deposits, and it’s a low-carbon emission fuel, we think there’s room for it regardless of the higher cost of the equipment to burn it.” Although there are larger storage LNG requirements, Shell is working with original equipment manufacturers and engine manufacturers to see that LNG trucks are available in Green Corridors to “put them on the map” and demonstrate their usefulness. “LNG is the fuel of the future, and it is here now,” said Burns. “Natural gas is becoming more plentiful, the demand for low carbon emission fuels is great and the infrastructure for LNG is not nearly as complicated as that for compressed natural gas.”

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EQUIPMENT | PRECISION AGRICULTURE

Precision control equipment runs independently ISOLynx AE50 | System gets nod by ag engineers for ISO equipment compatibility BY MICHAEL RAINE SASKATOON NEWSROOM

A cross-system compatibility tool has made this year’s Top 50 new products list from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. ISOlynx from Ally Precision Industries in Souix Falls, S.D., was chosen for its utility. “Nearly anything you can imagine, we test it on,” said Djamel Khali of Ally. The dream more than a decade ago was that all machinery manufacturers would work to a single ISO standard and share their systems so that farmers would be able to plug and play when heading to the field. The results haven’t delivered complete function compatibility across platforms, and only a handful of independent companies now build complete steering, guidance and implement management controllers that are cross-system compatible. Khali said his system is designed to replace existing systems or upgrade basic units, “or where a farmer wants to gain full access to all of the functions on an implement.” Ally also provides hydraulic steering control where there isn’t an existing auto-steering unit, or its ISOlynx can interface with original equipment manufacturers’ valving and controllers using existing safety circuits. “We have CAN-based chassis control as well. It gets you one location for all of your information such as engine data, transmission information. It has pop-up warnings. You can customize the touch screen control. There is a diagnostic screen for troubleshooting the machine,” said Khali. “There may be more than the OEM system provides. Just because a machine has an IS O plug on it doesn’t mean it will play.” Ally began developing the system two and a half years ago. Through the acquisition of Dakota Fluid Power, it was able to offer that company’s Mobilestar telematics systems, which allowed real-time monitoring of machine locations and functions. Using a CDMA cellular modem, the ISOLynx terminal’s data is remotely available to a farm or custom applicator’s office via its Mobilestar powered FieldLynx telematics. “But all of this goes against many of the OEM’s principals of keeping the farmer locked up in their systems and with their dealers, using just their brands of products,” Khali said. “And I can understand that. But this is about what is best for the farmer who doesn’t want to be using one brand for everything.” The company has outfitted a wide variety of machines, including for producers looking to upgrade high powered Versatile tractors that have a minimum of factory installed electronics. “It means you can have all the best in machinery management and information communication, the same as if you were running all of the latest gear from John Deere,” he said. “And we make the Deere, Case and Agco machines talk to any other company’s implements.” The IS OLynx system with the modem will cost about $15,000 with

the FieldLynx telematics, which is similar to an OEM system upgrade. The 12.1-inch Miller Electronics toughened touch screen terminal displays in 1024 by 768 resolution can be used in portrait or landscape orientations. The system is capable of controlling 72 sections independently and can display up to three cameras simultaneously. Section cutoff for overlapping and headlands and variable rate control based on shape files can run up to five products. The unit can also provide naviga-

tion outside of the field, allowing transport maps for operators. Optionally parallel tracking and automatic section control are available. ISOLynx is integrated into Ag Junction software and is compatible with most office systems, including Farm Works and SST. “We don’t store or keep any of the farmers’ data. Most of the other (OEM) systems want to do that and it makes some farmers uneasy,” said Khali. The ISOLynx box has a pair of CAN connections, a USB 2, three camera

ports, one ethernet 10/100 Mbps port and three serial interfaces. The unit is rated for operation from -20 C to 40 C and can remain in the cab safely from -40 C to 85 C. It has 256 MB of RAM and runs on Windows CE6. The system is compatible with receivers from Hemisphere, NovAtel, Trimble and Deere. Khali said the system can also be custom programmed for specialized equipment or to control “stuff we haven’t thought of yet.” For more information, contact Khali at 855-304-0444.

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PRODUCTION

EQUIPMENT | SEEDING

Uniform emergence puts money in wallet Triple chute openers | Growers sing praises of openers they say have led to best ever yields BY RON LYSENG WINNIPEG BUREAU

Uniform germination and emergence go a long way toward growing a profitable crop. It’s an often elusive goal, but two brothers from Swift Current, Sask., think they have found the answer — effective openers. “I think 2012 was probably the best crop I’ve ever had, even though we had no rain after June 20,” said Gavin Greenwald, who farms 4,000 acres with his brother, Colin. “We had excellent, uniform germination in every field. We did some digging and saw that seed spacing within the row was as close to perfect as you can get. The seeds were about an inch apart. We hardly ever saw any seeds on top of each other. No skips. Everything in the row filled in nicely.” Greenwald attributed their success to the VW30PR openers he installed last winter. The openers are designed by Vic Wickstrom of VW Manufacturing to address the issue of seeding uniformity. Wi c k s t ro m s a i d h i s V W 3 0 P R paired row opener is the culmination of 30 years experience designing and manufacturing openers. The engineering concept is simply that seeds should gently fall into the seed trench rather than be blasted by a high volume stream of pressurized air. Greenwald said the concept has worked well on his farm. “I put in 1,000 acres of durum and my brother, Colin, put in 800 acres

The ramp in the middle of the chamber floor has a peak in the centre to divide the seeds equally between the left and right rows. Seeds are blown against the side walls of the chamber, exactly 2.5 inches apart. They keep their 2.5 inch separation in two straight narrow rows after they leave the opener. | RON LYSENG PHOTO

It’s a really nice crop to combine with everything uniform like that. You don’t have to be on the lookout for green spots.” ALLEN GODENIR

The even emergence is part of the smooth field surface that results from the triple chute design. |

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durum, all on stubble,” he said. “Our fields went from 46 bushels to 58 bu. That’s well above the average for our area.” He said their lentils, which were planted after the durum, didn’t do as well. Emergence was uniform, the crop was staging evenly and it looked like there were lots of healthy plants. “But they ran out of moisture just when the pods were starting to fill. June 20 was our last rain, so that did

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it for the lentils. If we’d seeded lentils first, it might have turned out differently.”

Greenwald said uniform germination simplifies management. All the plants in each field stage at the same time, so waiting for green spots is almost eliminated. Allen Godenir, who also installed new openers, said he was pleasantly surprised this spring to see uniform germination in every field on his 2,700 acre farm near Swift Current. “In the spring, I always go out after seeding looking for emergence.”

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Farmers typically see little patches of green here and there, up and down the rows, and Godenir said that seems to please farmers because that’s the kind of emergence they’re accustomed to seeing. However, this spring the field check was different for Godenir. “They all came through at the same time, all the way down the rows. There were no patches and no skips. End to end and from row to row, it was all uniformly green. And all my fields came up like that. I’ve never seen anything like that before.” Godenir thinks the VW30PR Triple Chute Paired Row openers he used for the first time did the trick. “I’ve had real problems in the past with all the other boots I’ve tried. I couldn’t cut the wind down enough to stop seed bounce and still get the seed and fertilizer to flow into the trench,” he said. “I’ve tried three different kinds of air seeders and a lot of different tips, but I kept having problems with uneven emergence, skips, missed patches and clumps. My land is a sandy clay loam. They call it loose top loam. These triple chute openers are the only ones that ever performed like this for us. No seed bounce and no plugging.” Godenir said the benefit of uniform emergence followed his crop through

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INSURANCE | CROPS

Sask. private crop insurance firm survives volatility BY MICHAEL RAINE SASKATOON NEWSROOM

the entire season, whether he was spraying for insects, disease or weeds. The benefit continued into harvest. Out of 1,460 acres of durum, one 20 acre slough was late because it was too wet and seeded later. Everything else was ready at the same time and at the same height. “It’s a really nice crop to combine with everything uniform like that. You don’t have to be on the lookout for green spots.” Godenir said his durum on stubble averaged 30.1 bu. per acre, while lentils averaged 26 bu. per acre. “That’s considered pretty good in this country. Now, maybe I’m giving too much credit to the openers because we had excellent germination conditions this spring, but from what I’ve seen this year, I think these openers are the answer I’ve been looking for.” Wickstrom said there’s no need for farmers to spend big money buying a new air drill if they do a better job controlling air and product down at the opener. He still allows the seed to come blasting down the front tube in his opener. However, he then slows it down as it enters a large chamber with a splitter ramp on the floor. As seed speed lessens, the ramp sends half the seeds to the left wall and half to the right wall. Airflow keeps seeds tight against the walls until they fall out the back end of the chamber. “We achieve those nice straight narrow rows of seed because the seeds are held tight against the walls. They never get blasted helter-skelter like birdshot from a shotgun,” said Wickstrom. The outside walls of the paired seed rows are 2.5 inches apart, which means each seed is more than one inch off to the side and 3/8 inch below the nitrogen band that runs down the middle. “There’s a 3/8 inch raised heel on the flat bottom surface of the opener,” he said. “It cuts a groove so the nitrogen band has to be 3/8 inch below the seeds.” The paired row opener includes a tube for liquid start-up fertilizer to be dribbled into each seed row. Every wear point is made of carbide plates to ensure the opener keeps the original shape. For more information, contact Wickstrom at 403-528-3350 or visit www.vwmfg.com.

are often the same companies that work with the provincial crop insurance programs. “And now we have the opportunity to lower our premiums because we have established a claims record and shown that we are able to select the right clients,” said Kosior. The company’s system insures actual fertilizer, seed and chemical costs, and allows for increases in fertilizer rates and unexpected chemical applications mid season to boost yields or protect against unplanned pests without a hike in premiums. Additional coverage, up to another $100 per acre, is available to cover margins above inputs. This means a 10,000 acre producer

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ANIMAL WELFARE | EMERGENCY TRAILERS

Handling livestock emergencies First responders get help | Trailers are designed to improve animal and human safety BY MARY MACARTHUR CAMROSE BUREAU

RED DEER — Five emergency livestock trailers are available in Alberta to help capture stray animals and deal with livestock involved in an accident, natural disaster, building collapse or vehicle rollover. Lorna Baird, executive director of Alberta Farm Animal Care, said the millions of head of livestock that are transported each year means trailers are needed to help first responders safely deal with livestock. Each trailer costs about $22,000 and is equipped with panels, plywood, snow fence, generators, lights, cutting equipment, ropes and wire to help deal with animals in an accident. Four of the trailers will go to the Municipal District of Willow Creek, Municipal District of Westlock, the County of Vermilion River and Cypress County. A fifth trailer will be used by the SP C A , but it isn’t equipped with as much emergency equipment. Orest Popil, chief of protective services with the County of Vermilion River, said they could have used the trailer two weeks earlier when a cattle liner and sport utility vehicle collided on the highway. “We would have been more organized if we would have had this trailer so we could have put up the panels and hauled the cattle away,” said Popil, who had to deal with injured people and livestock. “It has all the tools we are going to need to handle small emergencies.” Cypress County fire chief Dennis Mann said the trailers are needed to help deal with scared and injured animals. “When these things roll over, typically livestock are trapped and pinned and we were shooting. Quite frankly, that’s what was happening. They were euthanized before they should have been. We are certainly hoping with the help of this trailer and the right training and the right people out there at the right time, these animals can survive and we can send our first responders home safe,” said Mann, who started looking at building a trailer several years ago after a rash of livestock accidents. “We were lacking in the ability to humanely handle the traumatized livestock and to ensure the safety of our first responders and the public. “There is definitely a need to humanely deal with these traumatized animals.” Many of the county’s 200 volunteer firefighters are farmers and know how to deal with livestock, but not every farmer is an expert in all livestock. “Horses are really dangerous to

Protectionism reason U.S. closed border after BSE Many believe the United States buried their cases and publicized Canada’s BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU

Orest Popil, chief of protective services, and Howie Bjorge, agriculture fieldman, both of the County of Vermilion River, examine a livestock emergency trailer. | MARY MACARTHUR PHOTOS

The livestock emergency trailers are equipped with 20 10-foot panels, a roll of snow fence, plywood, generator, lights, cutting tools and other equipment that may be needed in a livestock accident.

We are certainly hoping with the help of this trailer and the right training and the right people out there at the right time, these animals can survive and we can send our first responders home safe. DENNIS MANN CYPRESS COUNTY FIRE CHIEF

work with when they’re traumatized, and we were putting people at risk trying to get them out,” he said. “This is a really good starting point for us. Yes, we will build on these trailers and we recognize that. We look forward to hopefully never using these trailers.”

Alberta agriculture minister Verlyn Olson said the trailers are an important part of ensuring Alberta’s good animal welfare record. “It’s the right thing to do for the sake of animal welfare and it’s the right thing to do for the sake of protecting our industry.” The trailers followed the prototype built by Red Deer County in 2008 after offiicials realized they didn’t have the right equipment in livestock accidents. “We wanted to protect the people, the first responders and the animals and we didn’t have the tools to do that,” said Art Preachuk, the county’s agricultural fieldman. “It was always a challenge and a panic to try and find someone who could help with the animals.” Baird said federal and provincial funding for the project will also be used for training first responders

and making police and emergency crews aware the trailers are available. AFAC chair Heini Hehli said he could have used the unit last year when the roof of his dairy barn collapsed and he needed to move his cattle to a temporary location. “You can have the most equipped trailer, but you don’t know what to do with it, how would you apply it in the case of an accident?” he said. “A lot of people don’t have connect i o n t o a nima ls a nd h ow th ey behave. Animals in an accident will behave a lot different than animals in a pasture.” AFAC hopes money will also be available next year to buy and equip more trailers for other areas of the province. The location of this year’s trailers was based on RCMP accident statistics.

The American decision to close the border to Canadian beef after BSE was discovered was a political and protectionist move rather than food safety-related, says a former Canadian ambassador to Washington. Frank McKenna also voices a commonly held Canadian view that BSE existed on both sides of the border even if the Americans would not admit it. The former New Brunswick premier and farm boy who has siblings still farming in the province was appointed ambassador to the United States in 2005 when BSE was still an issue. He resigned in 2006 when the Conservatives took power in Ottawa and is now deputy chair of the TD Bank Group. On Nov. 28, McKenna told the GrowCanada conference in Ottawa that Canadian officials in Washington shared the suspicions of many in the Canadian beef industry that the U.S. was either hiding homegrown BSE cases or was willfully blind. “They ended up burying their problem,” he told the conference. “We ended up exposing ours.” He did not offer specific proof in a later interview when asked if the Canadian embassy had concrete evidence of undisclosed BSE cases in the U.S., but said it was an assumption that he considers well founded. “That was our very strong suspicion,” said McKenna. “We really were holier-than-thou in this and the Americans took advantage of it. We had American processors on our side, but the border remained closed because it really was about protectionism and shielding their industry from competition. That was the R-CALF agenda.” The suspicion remains in Canada. Recently, when asked about lack of BSE evidence in the U.S., the Canadian Food Inspection Agency scientist who identified the first Canadian case at a lab in Winnipeg in May 2003 suggested the extent of American testing is part of the answer. Stephanie Czub said 60,000 tests are done annually in Canada, while the U.S. does the same number with a herd 10 times larger. “The answer is pretty obvious.” McKenna said it defies logic that the U.S. would have been immune to the disease, considering the industry is so integrated.

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MANITOBA LIVESTOCK EXPO | JUDGING

Couple make cattle their work and play BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU

Dale Clearwater and Spoonfulla Kitty take to the ring during Canada’s Premier Select Ranch Horse Sale at Regina’s Canadian Western Agribition. The sorrel mare won the competition and topped the sale at $14,500. | KAREN BRIERE PHOTOS

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Sales skyrocket at auction Ranch horses | Sixteen horses sell for $134,400 for an average $8,400 BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU

Auctioneer Brad Stenberg left the sale block from which he had just conducted the popular ranch horse sale at Canadian Western Agribition and said, “wow.” That’s what a lot of people were saying after the strong sale of 16 entries in Canada’s Premier Select Ranch Horse sale, along with 10 prospect horses. The 16 grossed $134,400, for an average $8,400. That’s up from last year’s $84,400 on 12 lots and a $7,033.33 average. David Esmond of Qu’Appelle Trails Ranch Ltd. at Eyebrow, Sask., earned at least some of the credit for the higher numbers after buying three top-priced horses, including the high seller: • Spoonfulla Kitty, consigned by John Wilgenbusch of Halbrite, Sask., and winner of the competition ahead of the sale, for $14,500 • Dial Juan Sailor, offered by Candice Dandum of Rosedale, Alta., and the second-place finisher, for

$12,000 • Blueberry Pepto from Karen Blake at Abbey, Sask., for $9,400 Esmond said it made sense to buy his horses at Agribition. “I can drive and look for a horse in another province and I’d spend that much just looking. You might as well buy at home.” He said he is also a fan of horses trained by Dale Clearwater, who worked with Spoonfulla Kitty. Judge Ron Hoffman said he and the o t h e r j u d g e, S c o t t L e e s, w e re impressed with the consistency of the horses during the competition and expected all of them to work well on ranches. The lowest price paid was $4,400. After Spoonfulla Kitty, the second highest price was $13,700 for Major Entertainer. The mare, consigned by Frehlick Quarter Horses of Estevan, Sask., finished third in the competition and went to Andrew Fuller from Wolfville, N.S. First place earned $5,000, second won $2,500 and third won $1,500. Fourth place in the competition and $900 went to Lucky Lil Player,

offered by Teresa Cook of Saskatoon and ridden by Clearwater. The mare sold to Dusty Wigemyr of Okotoks, Alta., for $8,100. Among the 10 prospect horses, Catts Pay, a sorrel mare consigned by Rebecca Gervin of Spy Hill, Sask., topped the sale at $6,800. Lianne Rae of Saskatoon was the buyer. The prospects grossed $47,600 for a $4,760 average.

A Top 10 list of husband-wife activities in Canada would probably not include cattle judging. For Amanda and Justin Muirhead, however, walking in a show ring and evaluating cattle is their number one recreational activity. The young couple, who raise 300 purebred red and black Simmental cows and 100 commercial cows on the ranch they run with Justin’s parents, Ward and Lori, near Shellbrook, Sask., have judged cattle for years. “We both started through the 4-H program,” said Justin. “I’ve been around purebred cattle all my life and Amanda’s had cattle all her life as well.” Amanda, who grew up on a mixed farm near Semans, Sask., before marrying and moving to Shellbrook, said judging has always been part of her life. She studied it through 4-H and won an international judging comp e t i t i o n at Ca na d i a n We s t e r n Agribition in Regina when she was in her teens. It made sense to continue judging once she became part of the Muirhead family ranch because being around cattle is her recreation of choice. “When I come home at the end of the day, it’s usually to go outside and do something on the ranch. It’s not necessarily to go out and go curling, or go to a hockey game,” she said. Justin also said they aren’t interested in traditional Canadian sports. They prefer activities that are outdoors, particularly if it relates to cattle. “We like branding calves. We go to

lots of brandings and we hunt together,” he said. The Muirheads have moved up from the junior ranks and recently judged at the Manitoba Livestock Expo in Brandon and Agribition. Amanda said they like going to shows because it gives them an opportunity to evaluate cattle. “It’s always nice when someone asks you what your opinion is, and that’s what judging is all about.” Added Justin: “When we’re out there, we take it seriously, (but) it’s just good to be out there.” Amanda and Justin say they get along inside the show ring. At the Manitoba Livestock Expo, the young couple laughed easily and had a gentle working relationship as they evaluated group after group of cattle.

Justin and Amanda Muirhead of Shellbrook, Sask., confer as they evaluate a group of cattle at the Manitoba Livestock Expo held in Brandon in early November. | ROBERT ARNASON PHOTO

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Shawn Williamson of Mankota, Sask., had a busy Canadian Western Agribition. He competed in the tie-down roping finals of the Canadian Cowboys’ Association rodeo and won the title. He also entered this mare, Peptos Miss Kitty, in the prospect horse sale. It sold for $4,200 to Moss Cattle Co. of Corning, Sask.

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Early start in ring teaches youth skills, confidence Girls love cattle | Youngsters willing to work hard to learn, compete and make friends STORIES BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

REGINA — Responsibility, learning and fun are parts of the vocabularies for girls whose lives revolve around cattle. It is not uncommon to see youth and open shows dominated by girls who not only show the cattle, but breed and own their livestock. For 14 year-old Cassidy Matthews of Cochrane, Alta., Regina’s Canadian Western Agribition turned out to be the event of the year. The high school student who keeps up with classes by email while she competes in up to 20 shows a year, is a fourth generation producer. Her father, Tim Matthews, owns Highland Farms at Olds, Alta., an operation that was a pioneer in the Canadian Limousin breed. She sees herself carrying the torch for the next generation and plans to earn a degree in animal science. “It’s hard work but you have to be determined,” she said during the Nov. 19-24 event. She is involved in 4-H, the junior Limousin program where she sits on the board and she also makes time for school sports. “I don’t think I get a month off. I am pretty busy whether it is just 4-H or juniors,” she said. “We don’t slack off. My dad has a lot of faith in me. They are very supportive but I am very independent. If there is a junior show and they can’t make it, they will send me off.” Under the guidance of her father and stepmother, Kim, she is starting her own herd. This year she entered a bred heifer named Fantasy that she bred and owns. It won the First Lady Classic, grand champion female in the open Limousin show and later earned $3,000 when she won the Youth Extreme competition. Earlier this fall that same female won the national grand championship in Brandon. An important element of these programs is friendship. When her family cannot deliver her to shows, she goes with Shallaine Daley of Carstairs,

Alta., who has become a special friend. At 16, she has her own tattoo, S-PAW, and with help from her parents, Ron Daley and Tami VanTighem, she has started her own Simmental herd. Being involved in 4-H and junior programs has taught her selection skills through judging events. “Judging isn’t my favourite but it really helps when I want to go out and build my herd and know how to pick out animals,” she said. She has been involved since she was a two-year-old toddler and has made friends wherever she goes. “I love working with the cattle and meeting new people and a lot of old friends and the connections you can make worldwide,” she said. Daley, a Grade 11 student in Didsbury, Alta., likes math and biology but animal science studies are the most attractive because she wants to own her own ranch. “There’s lot of choices,” she said. She is also a master of time management because she enters about 15 shows a year, often showing pairs with her father. The junior program has opened doors for her as well. “At the junior shows you get to meet other kids and help out the little ones because they don’t know quite as much. It is fun to help them learn something,” she said. She brought three animals to Agribition that she bred and owns. The business has given her confidence around people and cattle. “You work with them from a very young age and they get quiet and calm. You start a relationship with them,” she said. People like Matthews and Daley are already mentors to younger children at these events. For nine-year-old Avary Hickman, a helping hand from older people and her parents gives her confidence that she can be a rancher someday. “When we are six, our parents bring us to Farmfair and we each get to go and have fun. When I went, I led a heifer calf,” she said. A 4-H member with a steer and

ABOVE: Cassidy Matthews of Cochrane, Alta., won the junior extreme championship with her bred Limousin heifer named Fantasy. This female also won the First Lady Classic and grand champion female at the open Limousin show during Canadian Western Agribition in Regina Nov. 19-24. LEFT: Avary Hickman of Vermilion, Alta., has been showing Gelbvieh cattle since she was six years old. She placed first with her heifer calf. horse project, she has been showing Gelbvieh cattle for three years and claims no stage fright when competing against adults. “It is fun showing. We were taught young so I guess once you have had a few years of practice it gets easier because you know what you are doing,” she said. Much of her skill started with showmanship classes in 4-H and the junior program. “In peewee when I was six, I got first all the time,” she said. For these girls, supportive families are important. Avary’s mother, Leila, is a 4-H specialist with Alberta Agriculture. She and her husband, Darrell, believe these events are learning experiences for the entire family. “Some people would not have wanted to risk putting a kid on the halter and not risk showing it off to its best. We figured if they don’t learn at some point, when do they learn?” said Leila.

Ten-year-old Keely Adams of Forestburg, Alta., won reserve champion with her Red Angus heifer in the junior extreme competition, earning $2,000. She has been involved with cattle since she was about five, helping with her family’s operation, Ter-Ron Angus.

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Commercial show and auction sale plays major role at Agribition REGINA — Dozens of volunteers gear up every year to run an auction market for a week at Canadian Western Agribition in Regina. The Agribition commercial show is a major event to display feeders, background animals, yearling bulls and replacement females. “This barn is the backbone of the industry,” said Reed Andrew of Regina, who was awarded the grand and reserve champion pens of back-

grounder steers. The show has gotten smaller as the industry changes with later calving and weaning, but it remains the largest exhibition of its type in Canada. During the sale, which was held on the final day, Andrew’s champion pen of 10 head were sold for $151 per hundredweight. JGL Cattle of Moose Jaw, Sask., was the buyer. Pound-Maker Agventures of Lanigan, Sask., bought the reserve pen for

$160 per cwt. For seven students from Lakeland College in Vermilion, Alta., the event was an opportunity. The college has a student managed farm, and the students entered 15 head that all placed well. “They are pretty proud when they go through the ring and win grand champion,” said instructor Geoff Brown. Their pen of heifers took reserve last year, and this year that same set

returned as bred females to win grand champion with a set of Simmental-Angus crosses. The grand champion pen of feeder steers was exhibited by Blairswest Land and Cattle of Drake, Sask. The reserve went to Lakeland College. Darryl and Maria Friesen of Carrot River, Sask., claimed the prize for the grand champion pen of feeder heifers while Sentes Farms of Raymore, Sask., had reserve.

The grand champion pen of open replacement heifers for show only went to Glendar Angus. The best pen of three to five cowcalf pairs went to Westman Farms of Vermilion with an Angus Simmental cross group. The supreme championship in bull pen alley went to Gary and Richard Latimer of Remitall Farms Inc. of Olds, Alta., with three black Angus yearlings sired by SAV Prodigy 8101.

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MAINE ANJOU | BREEDING

Alta. producer keen on Maine Anjou purebreds A DNA test is done for an animal to be considered 100 percent Maine Anjou BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

Craig Cameron of Millet, Alta., showed his fullblood Maine Anjou at Canadian Western Agribition held in Regina Nov. 19-24. | BARBARA DUCKWORTH PHOTO

REGINA, Sask. — Since Maine Anjou cattle landed in Canada in 1969, they have undergone a major transformation. Popular as a crossbred, they are usually solid black but the original French cattle were red with large splashes of white. Craig Cameron wants to retain the original strain by raising fullblood cattle that trace directly back to France. “We had a feedlot before BSE and we were feeding up cattle for a lean, natural beef market in the States. We had different sorts of cattle come through. We had a couple groups of Maine crosses that outperformed everything else,” he said from his stall at Canadian Western Agribition held in Regina Nov. 19-24. He started to research them and bought a seven-eighths Maine steer

that won him a grand championship when he was still in 4-H. He has been breeding fullbloods for about five years and has built up his herd to about 50 head at his Millet, Alta., farm. He crossed some with commercial cows and was impressed with the resulting hybrid vigour in that first generation. “We really liked what fullbloods did with our commercial herd,” he said. “I decided if I was going to raise fullbloods for myself, I might as well raise them for other people too.” Finding bulls and semen can be challenging because there are so few maintaining cattle that trace directly back to France. He recently imported semen directly from France to keep the gene pool diversified. “We figured the fastest way to get a good herd was to use the best genetics that are out there,” he said. For some, seeing these cattle is like a walk down memory lane.

“In the show ring, the fullbloods won’t very often place very high because they are not built like what people want their cattle to look like, but the majority of fullblood bull sales go to the commercial guys. They want the power they put in their cattle.” The breed registers percentage cattle known as Mainetainers as well as purebred and fullblood cattle. Fullbloods must be DNA typed to verify they are 100 percent Maine Anjou. He and his wife, Miriam, have also developed a natural beef program selling meat to Edmonton. The meat is from hormone and antibiotic free registered and crossbred cattle and comes in three varieties. They offer regular beef that is well marbled and tender. The lean variety is from Maine Anjou-Longhorn cross cows. The ultra lean variety is based on beef from Piedmontese and Piedmontese cross cattle.

HYPOCALCEMIA | CALCIUM DEFICIENCY

Test cereal greenfeed potassium levels to avoid milk fever ANIMAL HEALTH

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ilk fever, also known as hypocalcemia, is often associated with mature dairy cows around the time of calving. Calcium is taken from a cow’s blood stream as it begins to produce milk and is diverted into the udder. The cow must then mobilize calcium from its bones to replace the calcium in its blood stream. A cow’s blood calcium level can drop to dangerously low levels if the process of mobilizing calcium from the skeleton is not efficient. Calcium is an essential element necessary for muscle function. As blood calcium drops, the affected cow usually shows signs of muscle weakness and eventually goes down and is unable to rise. Other symptoms become evident once the cow goes down, such as staring eyes, cold ears, constipation and drowsiness. The heart also starts to beat weaker and much faster. If left untreated, the low blood calcium will eventually impair the function of the heart muscles and the cow will go into circulatory collapse, enter a coma-like state and die. Milk fever cases are generally a rewarding experience to deal with as a veterinarian. In most cases, cows will miraculously recover following an intravenous injection of calcium and soon be up on their feet and back to normal. However, even if they respond well to calcium injections, cows that experience milk fever are more likely to suffer from retained placentas, displaced abomasums and low milk production.

Most of our knowledge about milk fever has been learned by studying the disease in dairy cows. High producing, heavy milking cows can have a significant amount of calcium enter the udder and are much more likely to be affected. Older cows aren’t as efficient at mobilizing calcium from their skeleton. As a result, the disease is usually seen in cows older than four years. Although much less common, we have also seen outbreaks of milk fever in beef cow herds. The most significant difference is seen in the timing of the disease. Most beef cows become clinically affected with the disease in late pregnancy. Nutritionists from the University of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Agriculture studied beef herds in northwestern Saskatchewan 10 years ago with the assistance of local veterinarians. Many of these herds had multiple cows affected with milk fever in late pregnancy and occasionally around the time of calving. Beef cows that are clinically affected with milk fever seem to be less likely to immediately respond to calcium treatment. This may be because the cases are not identified as quickly as they are by experienced dairy farmers or it may be because of other deficiencies that are occurring at the same time. Low calcium in beef cows can occasionally be coupled with low levels of blood magnesium, which can cause muscle tetany (spasms) that can also cause cows to go down. A common theme in the study was that all farms fed a majority of the dry cow ration as cereal greenfeed, mostly from oats or barley. The cereal greenfeed was particularly high in potassium, which meant the cows ate excessive amounts of potassium. Repeated manure application to soil can cause higher levels of potassium, which then accumulates in feed. Potassium is a key component of

something nutritionists refer to as the dietary cation:anion balance, which affects the cow’s acid base status. The levels of two important cations, sodium and potassium, are compared to the levels of two important anions, chloride and sulfur. High levels of potassium can create a subtle change in an animal’s acidbase balance, making it more diffi-

cult for the cow to mobilize calcium. Nutrition researchers see this as a cause of milk fever in dairy cows, and occasionally, in beef cows. Producers planning to use a significant amount of cereal greenfeed as a winter ration for beef cows should have feed analyzed and consult a nutritionist or veterinarian to help design a feeding program. Pay particular attention to the lev-

els of potassium in the feed and have a nutritionist calculate the dietary cation:anion balance of the ration. And consider using alternative forages in the critical period six to eight weeks before calving. John Campbell is head of Large Animal Clinical Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine.

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CATTLE | GRAZING

Producers save money by feeding chaff and straw Collected at harvest | Bunch grazing may be more time consuming, but some say it’s worth the effort BY MARY MACARTHUR CAMROSE BUREAU

RED DEER — Cattle producers should look back at their grandparents’ operations to save money. Instead of spreading chaff and straw evenly across the field at harvest, it should be collected and used as inexpensive cattle feed, cattle producers said at the recent Western Canadian Grazing Conference. Greg Selzler estimates he saves $200 a year in feed costs, saves 35 to 40 percent in fertilizer costs, spends less money on minerals and has

healthier cattle, just by collecting the chaff and straw from the combine. His inexpensive chaff collector looks like a giant pitchfork and bolts to the back of his combine. It dumps straw and chaff into neat 65 pound bundles throughout the field. “The cows head right to the piles to get at the chaff,” said Selzler, who farms near Mayerthorpe, Alta. Selzler rations cattle access to the straw and chaff piles in the winter using electric fences, which he moves every five to seven days. When it’s cold, he adds an alfalfa and rumensin mixture to the top of the

straw piles as an energy supplement. “When it’s a cold spell, they’re reluctant to go into an open field.” Duane Thompson of Kelliher, Sask., has adopted a similar approach to collecting straw and chaff to feed his cattle and save money in his mixed cattle and grain operation. Thompson attaches a small box to the axle of his combine to collect the chaff. The box tips over when the weight reaches 40 lb. The cattle can eat the piled chaff in the field during the winter, or it can be taken back to the feedlot and mixed with rations.

The chopped straw is either blown into a feed wagon or put in long windrows where it’s collected into hay wagons and fed to cattle on hilltops in winter. “It baffles me how a mixed operation wouldn’t make use of this resource,” said Thompson. “In my opinion when I am out combining, I’m putting up feed.” Thompson said few people have the patience to put up feed during the busy harvest season, but he believes the money savings are worth any lost time. “Every once in a while it will hold you up at harvest. I have no trouble

shutting the combine off to fix the chaff wagon,” he said. Thompson’s cattle are constantly moved through the winter grazing fields to put them on a level plain of nutrition. He culls cattle that don’t do well foraging through the fields. “Not every cow is made to work for a living. “I want a barrel on legs and not a lot o f d ay l i g h t u n d e r n e a t h,” s a i d Thompson of the kind of old-fashioned cows that do well grazing throughout the year. Selzler said saving money by collecting the straw and chaff to use as a supplemental feed has put the fun back into cattle production and helped regain equity lost during the BSE years.

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Canadian Western Agribition has signed on as a future mentor to the Cattlemen’s Young Leaders program. Chief executive officer Marty Seymour said the details of the show’s participation in the program have yet to be worked out, but he expects the relationship will include helping a young person develop business acumen through show involvement. Agribition in turn would gain the interest of younger members of the industry. “And as you know, there is not a huge pipeline of young people,” he said. “Our interest is, it’s a good way to give back.” The program gives participants aged 18 to 35 the chance to be matched with agricultural mentors who can help them develop specific skills or goals. Program proponents hope Agribition’s young person will be able to sit at the board table as a non-voting participant. “We’re still developing what that looks like,” said Seymour. “We need our mentee and then we’ll decide where we can help them the most.” However, he did note that Agribition’s governance model allows for the appointment of directors. Seymour is looking forward to finalizing the details and figuring out how the program can work for the benefit of both. “We would be foolish not to listen to them,” he said of young industry players. Current participant Sheldon Kyle of Kenray Ranch at Redvers, Sask., said that’s how the program should work. Program manager Jill Harvie said the partnership with Agribition is the perfect opportunity for young people to tap a wealth of experience. Applications for the 2013 program are online and close Jan. 25.

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Higher feed, input prices, send U.S. farm income down Income from insurance | Payments on crop insurance may hit $20 billion WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The U.S. government expects farm income will drop by three percent this year. It is the result of surging production costs aggravated by crop losses that stemmed from the worst drought in half a century. Even so, income would be close to the record high set in 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. In a quarterly forecast, it said production costs would rise by eight percent this year, outpacing a gain in crop and livestock income. Feed costs are up 18 percent this year, the USDA said. Feed would account for 40 percent of the overall increase in costs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Despite gains in almost all sources of farm income, larger increases in farm expenditures, especially for purchased feed, have more than wiped out those price-led gains to farm income,â&#x20AC;? the department said. The largest increases in farm income would come from insurance indemnities. Crop insurers have paid $6.3 billion on losses this year. Some analysts say the drought in the farm belt will drive indemnities to $20 billion, nearly double the record set last year. The USDA will make its first estimate of farm income in 2013 in February, at the same time that it closes the books on 2012. The new year â&#x20AC;&#x153;could be another in a string of unusually high income years,â&#x20AC;? said analyst Mark McMinimy of Guggenheim Securities. Crop prices should remain high at the same time that yields rebound from drought, he said. Bigger crops would give a break to livestock producers squeezed by high feed costs. High farm income gives producers the cash to update their equipment and pay for seed, fertilizer and pesticides. Their spending buoys businesses ranging from Deere and Agco to Monsanto, Syngenta, Potash Corp

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and Dow AgroSciences. The eight percent rise in production costs this year would follow a nine percent surge in 2011. The USDA said the string of large year-to-year increases in production costs date to 2002. Sharply higher market prices, such as corn up by $1 a bushel and soybeans up by $2 a bu., will more than offset the drought-shortened harvest, meaning larger receipts for growers. The corn crop is down 13 percent and soybeans are down four percent from 2011. Livestock production, except for hogs and milk, are expected to rise in value. Farm real estate, both land and buildings, was forecast to rise by 7.6 percent in value nationwide this year, despite widespread drought. As a result, farm equity is forecast to set a record, at $2.27 trillion, up seven percent from the previous mark set in 2011. Higher equity will mean lower debt-to-asset and debt-to-equity ratios, said the USDA. The debt-toasset ratio, now 10.7 percent, would drop to 10.5 percent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These declines reflect the farm sectorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s improving solvency position,â&#x20AC;? it said. Farm real estate debt was forecast to hold steady, but non-real estate debt would climb by 10 percent from 2011 as farmers buy equipment and expand their working capital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During 2012, farmers have continued to invest substantially in equip-

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Agrium, Jana face off over retail Fertilizer dealers worried | Jana pushes for changes, including spinning off retail outlets BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

An attempt by Agrium’s largest shareholder to spin off the company’s retail arm has caught the attention of farm groups concerned about vertical integration in the fertilizer industry. Jana Partners LLC announced last week that it is attempting to get five handpicked candidates elected to Agrium’s 11-person board of directors. Jana is a fund manager with $3.5 billion in investments and commitments, including a six percent share of Agrium. It has expressed concern with the way the fertilizer company is being operated and is pushing for changes, including spinning off the retail side of the business. A Globe and Mail article shows that Jana is not shy about making demands and often gets what it wants, but Agrium’s president said that won’t be the case this time around. Agrium has invested more than $4 billion in farm input outlets, starting with the 2008 purchase of UAP Holding Corp. The company is attempting to add to that network with the purchase of 232 of Viterra’s crop input businesses. The deal is still subject to approval, including a review by Canada’s Competition Bureau. The Viterra deal would give Agrium 42 percent of Saskatchewan’s agri-

Agrium’s shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected Jana’s ideas. As a result, we believe Jana’s attempt to run its own slate for Agrium’s board is almost certain to fail. MIKE WILSON AGRIUM PRESIDENT

culture retail business in addition to 53 percent of Canada’s ammonia production capacity and 49 percent of the country’s urea production capacity. That level of vertical integration has spooked some farm groups, including the Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission. Commission chair Brett Halstead said the Jana proposal to create a retail business that is a separate and distinct entity from the wholesale business somewhat eases those concerns. SaskCanola is worried independent fertilizer dealers would be squeezed out of business by a competitor that controls a large portion of both the retail and manufacturing sides of the fertilizer business, which would lead to less competition and higher prices. A senior official at Agrium has assured Halstead that the company produces far more fertilizer than can be sold in its own retail outlets, so there is no incentive to squeeze out

the independents. “I guess I kind of take him at his word, but (separating the retail and wholesale businesses) would still give me a little more comfort in the end,” he said. Halstead said in a perfect world farmers would benefit from the synergies realized by Agrium’s vertically integrated fertilizer business. “The reality is that doesn’t really get passed along to producers. It’s probably more likely to get passed back to shareholders,” he said. Jana claims the true value of the retail portion of Agrium’s business is being undervalued when crammed together with wholesale. Retail is typically a more stable, higher cash flow business that trades at higher share values than the wholesale business. The fund manager said the company’s retail business appears to have trouble achieving Agrium’s minimum after-tax return hurdle of nine percent. It said many of Agrium’s competi-

tors operate without retail distribution arms because they don’t see any value in integration. Jana claimed the problem is being exacerbated by Agrium’s poor disclosure of the retail side of its business and a board of directors that lacks true retail experience. Jana said its slate of directors has extensive retail experience. It also includes former federal agriculture minister Lyle Vanclief. Agrium president Mike Wilson said the company remains committed to its integrated strategy. “Jana has been trying for over six months to obtain support for its idea that Agrium should spin off or sell its retail operations,” he said in a news release. “Agrium’s shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected Jana’s ideas. As a result, we believe Jana’s attempt to run its own slate for Agrium’s board is almost certain to fail.” Wilson said the breakup of Agrium would destroy shareholder value. The directors of Agrium’s board spent two months evaluating Jana’s proposal before unanimously rejecting the idea. “Shareholders have told us that they invest in Agrium in part because they want exposure to retail and the advantages of our integrated model,” he said. Jana’s slate of directors will be accepted or rejected by shareholders at the company’s annual meeting in mid-May.

NAME

EXCH

AGCO Corp. NY Buhler Ind. TSX Caterpillar Inc. NY CNH Global NY Deere and Co. NY Vicwest Fund TSX

CLOSE LAST WK 46.15 5.55 85.24 47.61 84.05 12.00

45.61 5.45 84.16 48.86 83.97 11.65

FARM INPUT SUPPLIERS NAME

EXCH

Agrium TSX BASF OTC Bayer Ag OTC Dow Chemical NY Dupont NY BioSyent Inc. TSXV Monsanto NY Mosaic NY PotashCorp TSX Syngenta ADR

CLOSE LAST WK 101.44 89.89 90.60 30.19 43.14 0.93 91.59 54.06 38.43 79.97

100.03 87.60 90.42 29.38 43.12 0.94 90.58 52.65 38.32 78.34

TRANSPORTATION NAME

EXCH

CN Rail CPR

TSX TSX

CLOSE LAST WK 89.34 92.70

87.36 92.50

Toronto Stock Exchange is TSX. Canadian Venture Exchange is TSX Venture or TSXV. NAS: Nasdaq Stock Exchange. NY: New York Stock Exchange. ADR: New York/American Depository Receipt. OTC: Over the counter. List courtesy of Ian Morrison, financial advisor with Raymond James Ltd. in Calgary. Member of CIPF. Equity prices are from Thomson Reuters and OTC prices from Union Securities Ltd, Assiniboia Farmland LP. Sources are believed to be reliable, but accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Within the last year, Raymond James provided paid advice regarding securities of Cervus Equip. Contact Morrison at 877-264-0333.

Taxes to be reviewed The Canada Revenue Agency plans to review the arrangement involving Cervus LP and Vasogen Inc. in October 2009 where Cervus LP converted from a limited partnership to the current corporate structure. CRA has not issued a reassessment of Cervus Equipment Corp. tax filings nor has it proposed to issue a reassessment. Cervus said in a release it is confident in its tax‐filing position and intends to defend the position if CFA issues a notice of reassessment.

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FLAX | U.S. PROCESSING PLANT

Irish flax processor plans to relocate, rebuild plant Manitoba to South Dakota | After a fire destroyed the plant in Angusville, Man., the company decided to rebuild in Sioux Falls BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU

Glanbia Nutritionals Ingredient Technologies, an Irish company specializing in food ingredients, is planning to build a flax processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The company’s decision, announced Nov. 27, is a blow to the economy of western Manitoba because Glanbia operated a flax processing plant in Angusville until a fire gutted the facility in March. The residents of Angusville, located near Russell, Man., were hoping Glanbia would rebuild the plant, which employed 60 people and was a major player in the regional economy. “After careful consideration of all options, including the possibility of rebuilding in Manitoba, it became apparent that locating our cereal ingredient facility in Sioux Falls was the best decision for our customers,

Glanbia Nutritionals Ingredient Technologies is a part of Glanbia Nutritionals, which is owned by Glanbia Plc,. a global nutritional solutions and cheese company with home offices in Ireland. Glanbia Plc is a $4.2 billion company with 4,500 people employed at operations in 14 countries. In 2007, it bought the former plant in Angusville from Pizzey’s Milling.

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suppliers and company,” Glanbia president Jerry O’Dea said in a statement. “After years in Angusville, this was a very difficult decision, given our longstanding relationship with the community.”

Glanbia’s new plant in Sioux Falls is expected to employ 38 people and begin operations in July. Employees at the former Angusville plant will be offered severance packages or the opportunity to relocate.

While Glanbia’s decision will affect western Manitoba, it is also a good news story for Canada’s flax industry, said Flax Council of Canada president William Hill. “From a Canadian flax perspective, we’re pleased that Glanbia will continue to be in the business and is committed to flax,” he said. “That’s a good thing for the Canadian industry because that’s more final demand (for flax).” Glanbia sold the flax from Angusville into the food ingredient market for baked goods, cereals, supplements and beverages. Eric Borchardt, Glanbia’s director of marketing, said transportation played a role in the company’s decision to build in Sioux Falls. “The convenience of the highway and rail systems was very appealing to us,” he said from Fitchburg, Wisconsin, Glanbia’s headquarters in North America.

“This facility will be a lot closer to some of our customers … (but) our intention is to maintain relationships with our farmers and continue to source flax from Canadian (producers).” Manitoba Flax Growers Association president Eric Fridfinnson said it would have been preferable if Glanbia rebuilt its plant in Angusville, but it is a positive development when looking at the big picture. Glanbia’s plant in Sioux Falls will buy only a small portion of Canada’s flax crop, but it’s an important portion because it represents the high end food and nutrition market, said Fridfinnson, who farms near Arborg, Man. “They’re a relative small player as far as tonnage,” he said. “(But) they’re the people who are actually developing new technology and coming up with new products. So it brings a lot of excitement to the business.”

INCOME TAX | AMERICANS IN CANADA

U.S. citizens residing in Canada have tax issues to consider TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS

COLIN MILLER

he U.S. government has made it a priority recently to ensure that American citizens living in other countries file U.S. income tax returns. This has created frustration and concern for U.S. citizens living in Canada because the penalties for not filing the appropriate returns and forms can be expensive. Another tax issue for U.S. citizens living in Canada is the many differences between the two countries’ tax legislation. Tax and estate planning often takes place based on Canadian rules, with little concern given to the effect on the American’s U.S. reporting. This can create large U.S. tax bills for transactions that took place in Canada on a tax deferred basis. Here are some of the more common differences you may want to consider:

Registered Retirement Savings Plan

result in unexpected penalties.

Capital gains deduction

Registered Retirement Savings Plans can be a great tool to help defer taxes on income earned now until retirement. However, without the appropriate filings with the U.S. government, RRSP contributions made by U.S. citizens would not be considered a deduction for U.S. tax purposes and could be subject to tax in the U.S. Special elections can be made if certain criteria are met to defer this income for tax purposes in the U.S., such as if the RRSP is part of a group plan. However, failure to file the appropriate elections on time can

Principal residence exemption

The capital gains deduction is a once in a lifetime exemption that Canadians can use to reduce the taxes that are owing when they sell qualifying assets. This deduction is commonly used when selling farmland, shares of a family farm corporation or an interest in a family farm partnership. You can reduce the gain on the sale by up to $750,000. However, this deduction is applicable only in Canada. U.S. citizens who have used any of their exemption room may have unreported gains with the U.S. government. In most cases, these gains can result

Karl Hendrickson and Ebony Verbonac of KPMG contributed to this article. Colin Miller is a chartered accountant and partner with KPMG’s tax practice in Lethbridge. Contact: colinmiller@kpmg.ca.

Agriculture’s No. 1 champion Lyndon Carlson, 2012 Agri-Marketer of the Year, Canadian Agri-Marketing Association You show us every day what it looks like to act on values and principles. Your passion for agriculture is obvious. Your strong and steady leadership, inspiring. Your mentorship, invaluable. You make marketing look easy, but we all know it’s hard to get it right. Congratulations and thank you, from all who love this industry.

Tax Free Savings Accounts Tax Free Savings Accounts are a great tax saving tool for Canadian purposes. The accounts allow people to hold investments and not pay tax on the income that is earned on those investments. However, while this income may not be taxed in Canada, the United States does not accept the tax free savings tool. Therefore, any income earned through a TFSA is still taxable for U.S. purposes, and as such, may result in additional U.S. taxes. As a result, the question of whether a TFSA is an appropriate investment tool for U.S. citizens is not as easy as one may think.

When a Canadian sells his principal residence, money earned above the original purchase price is not subject to tax. This is known as the principal residency deduction. However, the U.S. government does not accept this deduction, and any money made on the sale of a principal residence is subject to taxation in the year it was earned. American citizens who used the principal residency deduction after selling a home with potentially large gains may have unreported income issues with the U.S.

in significant tax bills and potential interest and penalty charges could be applied if they are assessed. The U.S. government is developing a reputation for cracking down on some of these issues. The failure of U.S. citizens to file the necessary returns can result in large penalties and interest charges. American citizens living in Canada should carefully consider their personal tax plans and consult with an adviser to mitigate these tax issues.

Lyndon Carlson Senior Vice-President, Marketing

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CATTLE & SHEEP Steers 600-700 lb. (average $/cwt) Alberta

GRAINS Slaughter Cattle ($/cwt)

Grade A

Live Nov. 23-29

Previous Nov. 16-22

Year ago

Rail Nov. 23-29

Previous Nov. 16-22

118.00-118.25 104.27-122.49 n/a 99.00-104.00

114.15-116.25 93.73-120.02 n/a 99.00-104.75

119.78 119.38 n/a 104.88

195.75-196.75 190.00-195.00 n/a n/a

193.75-194.75 190.00-192.00 n/a n/a

n/a 105.61-118.34 n/a 97.00-103.00

113.65-116.25 101.26-115.05 n/a 97.00-103.25

119.98 115.32 n/a 103.13

196.50 189.00-194.00 195.50 n/a

n/a 189.00-191.00 193.00 n/a

$145

Steers Alta. Ont. Sask. Man. Heifers Alta. Ont. Sask. Man.

$140

*Live f.o.b. feedlot, rail f.o.b. plant.

$155 $150 $145 $140 $135 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Saskatchewan $150

$135

Feeder Cattle ($/cwt)

$130 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Manitoba $155 $150 $145 $140 $135 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Heifers 500-600 lb. (average $/cwt) Alberta $150

Canfax

Steers 900-1000 800-900 700-800 600-700 500-600 400-500 Heifers 800-900 700-800 600-700 500-600 400-500 300-400

Cattle Slaughter

Sask.

Man.

Alta.

B.C.

115-126 118-134 120-144 130-152 138-168 145-187

115-129 120-135 124-139 130-151 140-165 155-183

115-135 123-137 128-144 135-154 143-171 160-197

110-127 117-130 126-140 130-148 138-166 158-184

115-125 115-126 116-142 125-147 130-152 135-164

110-121 115-127 118-130 123-142 130-154 140-162

115-130 117-135 120-142 125-150 135-167 140-178

110-124 112-126 120-128 125-147 130-155 142-158 Canfax

$145 $140

Average Carcass Weight

$135 $130 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Canfax

Steers Heifers Cows Bulls

Saskatchewan $145 $140

Nov. 24/12 Nov. 26/11 892 893 817 831 663 665 816 963

$135

YTD 12 879 820 679 1027

YTD 11 854 782 672 1009

U.S. Cash cattle ($US/cwt)

$130 $125 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Manitoba $145 $140 $135 $130 $125 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Slaughter cattle (35-65% choice) National Kansas Nebraska Nebraska (dressed) Feeders No. 1 (800-900 lb) South Dakota Billings Dodge City

Heifers 125.12 124.77 125.00 199.85

Steers 136.90-148 no test 138-147

Trend +1/+2 +3/+8 steady/+1

Cattle / Beef Trade

Cash Futures Alta-Neb Sask-Neb Ont-Neb

-8.61 n/a -11.77

-9.10 n/a -12.45

Canadian Beef Production million lb. YTD % change Fed 1736.3 -3 Non-fed 258.2 -19 Total beef 1994.6 -5

Exports % from 2011 577,709 (1) +7.5 126,774 (1) +79.4 165,877 (3) -12.3 224,938 (3) -11.1 Imports % from 2011 n/a (2) n/a 33,084 (2) -32.3 159,291 (4) +6.1 202,829 (4) +10.6

Sltr. cattle to U.S. (head) Feeder C&C to U.S. (head) Total beef to U.S. (tonnes) Total beef, all nations (tonnes) Sltr. cattle from U.S. (head) Feeder C&C from U.S. (head) Total beef from U.S. (tonnes) Total beef, all nations (tonnes)

(1) to Nov. 17/12 (2) to Sept. 30/12 (3) to Sept. 30/12 (4) to Nov. 24/12

Canfax

Agriculture Canada

Close Nov. 30 Live Cattle Dec 126.73 Feb 130.40 Apr 134.58 Jun 130.78 Aug 130.13 Feeder Cattle Jan 145.63 Mar 148.43 Apr 149.93 May 151.63 Aug 156.00

128.95 132.73 136.45 132.28 131.48

-2.22 -2.33 -1.87 -1.50 -1.35

121.90 123.25 126.90 126.05 126.03

147.88 150.43 151.95 153.38 157.15

-2.25 -2.00 -2.02 -1.75 -1.15

147.08 149.25 150.08 151.30 152.45

This wk Last wk Yr. ago n/a n/a 209-211 Canfax

Sheep ($/lb.) & Goats ($/head) Nov. 23 Previous Base rail (index 100) 2.32 2.32 Index range 83.18-107.37 102.40-108.12 Range off base 1.92-2.49 2.39-2.51 Feeder lambs 1.10-1.30 1.10-1.30 Sheep (live) 0.40-0.60 0.40-0.60 SunGold Meats

Nov. 26 1.60-2.30 1.58-1.99 1.33-1.44 1.31-1.39 1.05-1.31 1.20-1.70 0.75-0.85 0.75-0.90 70-115

New lambs 65-80 lb 80-95 lb > 95 lb > 110 lb Feeder lambs Sheep Rams Kids

1.51-2.10 1.52-2.00 1.29-1.43 1.26-1.38 1.34-1.37 1.25-1.70 0.75-0.85 0.75-0.90 70-115

Ontario Stockyards Inc.

Index 100 Hog Price Trends ($/ckg) Alberta $150 $145 $140 $135

n/a n/a $130 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Fixed contract $/ckg

Dec 30-Jan 12 Jan 13-Jan 26 Jan 27-Feb 09 Feb 10-Feb 23 Feb 24-Mar 09 Mar 10-Mar 23 Mar 24-Apr 06 Apr 07-Apr 20 Apr 21-May 04 May 05-May 18 May 19-Jun 01

$160 $150 $140 $130 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Sltr. hogs to/fm U.S. (head) Total pork to/fm U.S. (tonnes) Total pork, all nations (tonnes) (1) to Nov. 17/12

(2) to Sept. 30/12

$155 $150

$140 $135 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Dec Feb Apr May

Close Nov. 30 84.08 86.93 91.78 98.85

Close Nov. 23 82.48 87.38 91.90 99.10

Canada 18,356,382 18,345,668 +0.1

To date 2012 To date 2011 % change 12/11

Fed. inspections only U.S. 100,724,632 98,803,128 + 1.9 Agriculture Canada

+1.60 -0.45 -0.12 -0.25

Year ago 86.25 89.23 92.03 98.40

n/a 142.43

Man. Que.

144.00 144.68 *incl. wt. premiums

Import n/a 191,221 (3) 202,337 (3)

% from 2011 n/a +11.1 +8.8 Agriculture Canada

EXCHANGE RATE: DEC. 3 $1 Cdn. = $1.0083 U.S. $1 U.S. = $0.9918 Cdn.

$315

$305 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Milling Wheat (Dec.) $310 $305

$290 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Close Nov. 30 01.53 101.25 100.00 88.58

Trend +0.50 +1.00 +0.90 +0.98

Year ago 99.33 98.55 96.90 85.70

Laird lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) Laird lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) Richlea lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) Eston lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) Eston lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) Sm. Red lentils, No. 2 (¢/lb) Sm. Red lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) Peas, green No. 1 ($/bu) Peas, green 10% bleach ($/bu) Peas, med. yellow No. 1 ($/bu) Peas, sm. yellow No. 2 ($/bu) Maple peas ($/bu) Feed peas ($/bu) Mustard, yellow, No. 1 (¢/lb) Mustard, brown, No. 1 (¢/lb) Mustard, Oriental, No. 1 (¢/lb) Canaryseed (¢/lb) Desi chickpeas (¢/lb) Kabuli, 8mm, No. 1 (¢/lb) Kabuli, 7mm, No. 1 (¢/lb) B-90 ckpeas, No. 1 (¢/lb)

Dec. 3 19.90-20.85 15.00-16.85 18.50-19.00 21.85-24.00 15.00-17.75 17.25-19.00 15.00-16.00 13.00-13.75 12.05-12.25 8.25-8.75 8.30-8.55 13.00-14.00 5.00-8.80 38.75-40.75 33.75-36.75 25.40-26.75 24.85-28.50 25.70-27.00 26.50-26.75 22.50-22.75 22.30-23.50

No. 3 Oats Saskatoon ($/tonne) No. 1 Rye Saskatoon ($/tonne) Snflwr NuSun Enderlin ND (¢/lb)

$640 $620

Avg. Nov. 26 20.37 21.31 15.69 15.26 18.90 18.90 23.06 22.65 16.54 16.54 18.14 18.09 15.65 15.65 13.51 12.90 12.20 11.74 8.44 8.57 8.46 8.46 13.40 13.30 5.98 5.62 39.75 39.75 34.75 34.08 26.30 26.30 26.87 26.82 26.57 29.13 26.60 27.80 22.60 22.60 23.10 23.10

Cash Prices

Canola (cash - Jan.)

Nov. 28 Nov. 21 Year Ago 205.52 210.06 167.04 153.47 153.47 193.65 22.30 21.80 28.80

$580 $560 10/26 11/2 11/9 11/16 11/23 11/30

Canola (basis - Jan.) $30 $20 $10 $0

U.S. Grain Cash Prices ($US/bu.) USDA

No. 1 DNS (14%) Montana elevator No. 1 DNS (13%) Montana elevator No. 1 Durum (13%) Montana elevator No. 1 Malt Barley Montana elevator No. 2 Feed Barley Montana elevator

Nov. 30 8.62 8.46 8.13 5.76 5.04

$-10 10/26 11/2 11/9 11/16 11/23 11/30

Grain Futures Feed Wheat (Lethbridge) $310 $305 $300 $295 $290 10/26 11/2 11/9 11/16 11/23 11/30

Flax (elevator bid- S’toon) $560 $555 $550 $545 $540 10/26 11/2 11/9 11/16 11/23 11/30

Barley (cash - Dec.) $290 $285

Basis: $32

Canola and barley are basis par region. Feed wheat basis Lethbridge. Basis is best bid.

Corn (Dec.) $770 $760 $750 $740 $730 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

$1550 $1500 $1450 $1400

Oats (Dec.) $420 $400 $380

Dec. 3 Nov. 26 Trend Wpg ICE Canola ($/tonne) Jan 591.90 582.40 +9.50 Mar 591.50 581.60 +9.90 May 590.80 581.50 +9.30 Jul 587.40 579.00 +8.40 Wpg ICE Milling Wheat ($/tonne) Dec 300.60 297.30 +3.30 Mar 308.60 305.30 +3.30 May 311.60 308.30 +3.30 July 313.60 310.30 +3.30 Wpg ICE Durum Wheat ($/tonne) Dec 312.00 312.00 0.00 Mar 316.00 316.00 0.00 May 320.00 320.00 0.00 Wpg ICE Barley ($/tonne) Dec 245.00 245.00 0.00 Mar 248.00 248.00 0.00 May 249.00 249.00 0.00 Chicago Wheat ($US/bu.) Dec 8.4200 8.4900 -0.0700 Mar 8.6075 8.6375 -0.0300 May 8.6925 8.7050 -0.0125 Jul 8.6875 8.5925 +0.0950 Chicago Oats ($US/bu.) Dec 3.6675 3.6875 -0.0200 Mar 3.8450 3.8525 -0.0075 May 3.8900 3.8750 +0.0150 July 3.8850 3.8825 +0.0025 Chicago Soybeans ($US/bu.) Jan 14.5375 14.2475 +0.2900 Mar 14.4825 14.1225 +0.3600 May 14.2700 13.9225 +0.3475 Jul 14.1675 13.8550 +0.3125 Chicago Soy Oil (¢US/lb.) Dec 49.90 49.27 +0.63 Jan 50.21 49.58 +0.63 Mar 50.69 50.02 +0.67 Chicago Corn ($US/bu.) Dec 7.4900 7.4725 +0.0175 Mar 7.5475 7.5125 +0.0350 May 7.5425 7.4875 +0.0550 Jul 7.4700 7.4025 +0.0675 Minneapolis Wheat ($US/bu.) Dec 9.1250 9.1500 -0.0250 Mar 9.3225 9.2800 +0.0425 May 9.4125 9.3600 +0.0525 Jul 9.4550 9.3700 +0.0850 Kansas City Wheat ($US/bu.) Dec 8.9275 8.8425 +0.0850 Mar 9.0675 9.0175 +0.0500 May 9.1650 9.1000 +0.0650

Year ago 503.00 502.70 503.90 506.00 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 5.9875 6.1150 6.2900 6.4225 3.0000 3.0700 3.0950 3.1200 11.2625 11.3650 11.4700 11.5675 50.07 50.29 50.70 5.8025 5.9100 5.9925 6.0600 8.4825 8.3075 8.0950 8.0100 6.6650 6.7250 6.8125

$360 $340 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Close Nov. 23 101.03 100.25 99.10 87.60

Source: STAT Publishing, which solicits bids from Maviga N.A., Legumex Walker, CGF Brokerage, Parrish & Heimbecker, Simpson Seeds and Alliance Grain Traders. Prices paid for dressed product at plant.

Cash Prices

$1350 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

% from 2011 -12.0 +4.1 +4.0

Jun Jul Aug Oct

$320

Soybeans (Jan.)

Index 100 hogs $/ckg

(3) to Nov. 24/12

Trend

$325

Chicago Nearby Futures ($US/100 bu.)

Chicago Hogs Lean ($US/cwt)

Manitoba $145

To Nov. 24

Export 785,834 (1) 237,709 (2) 876,510 (2)

$170

Durum (Dec.)

$270 10/26 11/2 11/9 11/16 11/23 11/30

Hogs / Pork Trade

Saskatchewan

$240 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

$275

Hog Slaughter

Alta. Sask.

$245

$280

Dec. 3 Wool lambs >80 lb. 1.05-1.10 Wool lambs <80 lb. 1.17 Hair lambs 1.02-1.05 Fed sheep 0.35-0.48

HOGS Maple Leaf Hams Mktg. Nov. 30 Nov. 30 141.75-143.12 141.11-142.48 146.31-149.51 145.67-148.87 150.88-151.79 150.23-151.15 153.62-154.07 152.97-153.43 153.62-154.53 152.61-153.52 154.07-154.99 153.06-153.97 154.53-155.72 153.52-154.85 160.30-165.33 159.42-164.45 167.61-171.78 166.74-171.16 174.52-177.72 173.91-177.11 176.81-180.46 176.19-179.85

$250

$600

Est. Beef Wholesale ($/cwt)

Pulse and Special Crops

$255

$295

Close Trend Year Nov. 23 ago

Sask. Sheep Dev. Bd.

Due to wide reporting and collection methods, it is misleading to compare hog prices between provinces.

$260

$300

Chicago Futures ($US/cwt)

USDA

Basis

Barley (Dec.)

$310

To Nov. 24 Fed. inspections only Canada U.S. To date 2012 2,400,025 29,309,892 To date 2011 2,630,109 30,454,641 % Change 12/11 -8.7 -3.8

Montreal

Steers 125.78 124.89 125.50 199.66

ICE Futures Canada

Minneapolis Nearby Futures ($US/100bu.) Spring Wheat (Dec.) $980 $960 $940 $920 $900 10/29 11/5 11/9 11/19 11/26 12/3

Canadian Exports & Crush (1,000 To To tonnes) Nov. 25 Nov. 18 Wheat 221.3 258.5 Durum 81.6 99.3 Oats 10.8 30.5 Barley 95.7 59.5 Flax 2.9 1.8 Canola 219.6 107.1 Peas 10.0 14.8 Canola crush 124.8 137.9

Total to date 4066.6 1583.9 447.4 589.2 48.7 2752.0 689.8 2337.8

Last year 4349.6 1203.7 509.3 415.8 88.3 2807.5 816.1 2066.0

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Dec. 6 - Dec. 12 (in mm)

Above normal

Churchill Prince George

Normal

Edmonton

Vancouver

PRECIPITATION FORECAST

Much above normal

Dec. 6 - Dec. 12 (in °C)

Regina

Below normal

Vancouver

Calgary

Regina

Winnipeg

Much below normal

Assiniboia Broadview Eastend Estevan Kindersley Maple Creek Meadow Lake Melfort Nipawin North Battleford Prince Albert Regina Rockglen Saskatoon Swift Current Val Marie Yorkton Wynyard

3.4 0.9 3.3 1.3 -4.2 7.8 -9.6 -9.6 -10.1 -10.6 -11.8 2.9 4.7 -8.1 2.5 4.0 -2.8 -3.8

-14.5 -22.9 -11.9 -22.0 -17.0 -12.5 -20.5 -21.5 -24.0 -24.3 -18.1 -19.5 -12.7 -19.3 -14.9 -16.4 -22.3 -22.2

0.9 0.6 0.6 1.6 7.5 0.0 0.8 4.9 3.2 7.2 4.7 0.7 2.6 5.0 0.4 3.8 1.0 6.1

14.2 28.6 13.1 29.8 31.1 9.2 4.8 16.0 19.4 17.0 26.7 22.1 24.0 18.9 10.1 23.9 28.2 24.5

90 145 66 163 229 49 22 78 82 91 131 136 142 117 65 153 140 132

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-2.2 -1.5 -10.2 -3.3 -0.7 -9.2 -18.2 6.2 -11.4 3.4 11.3 -11.5 3.8 -2.1 7.6 -8.2

-15.8 -14.3 -24.0 -17.1 -16.5 -20.3 -36.8 -11.7 -20.3 -10.8 -11.2 -19.8 -7.3 -15.7 -13.1 -18.2

Precipitation last week since Nov. 1 mm mm %

2.6 6.8 8.2 9.8 6.3 22.5 6.1 0.0 4.5 0.4 0.0 23.4 3.6 8.6 6.4 5.5

20.8 26.2 25.6 18.9 37.3 42.7 11.3 7.0 13.5 12.4 16.9 33.2 23.8 23.5 26.7 34.3

128 167 120 117 183 160 39 39 66 76 76 130 73 127 110 170

Temperature last week High Low

Brandon Dauphin Gimli Melita Morden Portage la Prairie Swan River Winnipeg

-0.5 -3.2 0.5 1.2 1.0 0.1 -9.3 2.5

Precipitation last week since Nov. 1 mm mm %

-22.4 -23.2 -24.7 -21.9 -18.5 -20.0 -24.2 -25.5

2.6 7.2 2.4 0.3 0.0 1.7 6.6 4.2

41.2 34.8 39.7 20.6 23.3 31.4 37.0 33.1

189 138 144 89 81 112 139 117

-7.8 -20.6 -4.6 -6.0 -13.6

12.0 39.6 3.8 2.8 5.6

63.2 65.3 23.5 31.2 25.4

119 221 80 74 45

BRITISH COLUMBIA Cranbrook Fort St. John Kamloops Kelowna Prince George

7.1 -11.5 12.1 11.9 -0.2

All data provided by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Service: www.agr.gc.ca/drought. Data has undergone only preliminary quality checking. Maps provided by WeatherTec Services Inc.: www.weathertec.mb.ca

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