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» CHASING STORMS IN TORNADO ALLEY: Storm
» NATURE’S LIGHT SHOW: The natural phenomenon
» MEET CANADA’S WEATHERMAN: David Phillips
» WILD WEATHER STORIES: We asked our read-
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chasers live for extreme weather and are united
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tells how he stumbled into his ideal job and
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SNOW EATERS: Few regions in Canada are so profoundly influenced by the effects of the weather
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THE FOUR-LETTER WORD FARMERS FEAR MOST:
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CAUTION — WILD WEATHER AHEAD: We’ve had
some extreme rainstorms in the past few years,
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WHY WE SHOULD ALL LOVE SNOW: It gets a bad
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS: A good forecaster knows
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HERE CAME A time in April
1967 when 175 centimetres
of snow fell on southern
Alberta. That’s five feet and
seven inches, to save some
readers from doing the conversion.
With the electricity out and the chinook coming in, I went outside to see the
Canadian Forces helicopters flying
overhead, carrying hay to storm-stranded cattle.
They flew quickly across the narrow
strip of blue sky that I could see, from my
three-foot-tall vantage, in a space dug
from snowdrifts.
That blinding white snow and cerulean sky are vivid memories and reminders of weather’s power to alter the lives of
man and beast.
Just about everyone has a cataclysmic
weather story to tell, it seems.
Given that few prairie dwellers can
start a conversation without mentioning
the weather, it is a bit of a task to say
something original about it.
But as you will see within, Western
Producer reporters have done it. So have
the subjects they’ve interviewed. Some
examples:
Meteorologist Justin Hobson (page 4):
“I always say that weather comes first,
but my girlfriend doesn’t like that.”
Climatologist David Phillips (page 8):
“I kind of liked the idea of explaining
something to people in a way that my
neighbours could understand it.”
Farmer Bryan Perkins (page 42): “Half
of the kids on the school bus stayed at
our place for three or four days and half
at the neighbours across the road
because they couldn’t get home.”
Language expert Gavin Nesbitt (page
43): “The idea is that Inuit, matching
their environment, have all these words
for snow, which means they see reality
differently.”
Researcher David Sauchyn, (page 49):
“If climate is your personality, then
weather is your mood.”
Once a year, this newspaper dedicates
an entire issue to one topic and upon
reflection, it’s kind of surprising that it
has taken us this long to dedicate a special issue to weather.
No other phenomenon plays a greater role in agriculture and rural life.
Predictable only in its unpredictability, weather defines Canadians in general and perhaps prairie people in
particular.
We love it and we hate it, sometimes
simultaneously. We are proud of our
ability to withstand harsh conditions,
dismissive of those who can’t, and grateful for the bounty and beauty weather
generates.
We are experts on parkas and toques
and we wear shorts and flip flops at temperatures that seem laughably cold to
our southern neighbours.
In chinook country, we can sometimes
ski and cycle on the same day and in the
same place, and in Saskatoon we can get
well acquainted with snow that hangs
around for eight months.
We like snowplows as well as zambonis.
Whether the weather be fine,
Whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold,
Whether the weather be hot,
We’ll weather the weather,
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not.
So wrote one scribe whose identity has
since been lost. It’s quite possible that
more has been written about the weather, in both poetry and prose, than about
any other single subject.
“It was a dark and stormy night…”
“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity…
“The fog comes on little cat feet…”
You get the picture.
On a more serious note, the historic
Paris agreement on climate change was
being debated and was eventually signed
just as this issue was being prepared.
That pact is not going to change the
weather, at least not immediately. Right
now, it seems every newsworthy and
negative weather event is attributed to
global warming. The truth or consequences of that are best left for another
day, and perhaps another special issue.
It’s winter and we are facing a brand new
year, so let us leave you with a few wintry
and thought provoking quotations.
Where does the white go when the snow
melts?
— HUGH KIEFFER
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most
fragile things, but just look what they can
do when they stick together.
— VISTA M. KELLY
Happy New Year to all of our readers.
May 2016 be a wonderful year full of
favourable weather.
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FORECAST
El Nino staying
for time being
Forecasters say lingering weather system
will be followed by hot, dry La Nina summer
BY SEAN PRATT
SASKATOON NEWSROOM
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HICAGO, Ill. — Bryce
Anderson didn’t bother packing a coat for
this year’s trip to the
Windy City to deliver
his annual weather outlook.
It has been an unusually mild
winter thanks to a lingering El
Nino, which will continue to exert
its influence right through spring.
Some forecasters believe El Nino
will be followed by La Nina, bringing drought to the U.S. corn belt in
2016.
That has some crop analysts forecasting $6 corn next year.
Anderson, who is DTN’s senior
agricultural meteorologist, isn’t in
that camp.
He told delegates attending
DTN’s Ag Summit 2015 that the
International Research Institute
(IRI) for Climate and Society says
there is a much better probability
that El Nino will stick around
through the summer of 2016 or
that there will be neutral conditions.
The IRI said there’s a 21 percent
chance that La Nina will form in the
June through August period. It rises
to 31 percent in the July through
September period, which is still far
from a certainty.
“At that time the crops will be
pretty well along in terms of their
development,” said Anderson.
In fact, farmers would likely welcome a late-developing La Nina
that brought dry conditions during
harvest.
Anderson said conditions are
reminiscent of the winter of 1997,
which was the strongest El Nino on
record before this year.
A La Nina emerged by the late
summer of 1998, but it didn’t have
the dire consequences for U.S.
crops that some analysts think is on
the horizon for 2016.
Corn production in 1998 was up
six percent from 1997. It was the
second biggest corn crop in history
at that time and the second highest
average yield.
The soybean crop set a record
that year, and the average yield tied
for the second highest ever at that
time.
Others point to the El Nino of
1987, which was followed by a
strong La Nina in 1988. That combination led to an historic drought
and vastly reduced production in
the U.S. corn belt in 1988.
Anderson showed delegates a
Palmer Drought Index map dating
back to December 1987 and its
counterpoint from this winter.
The 1987 map showed that it was
already extremely dry in the Ohio
Valley and the northern corn belt
before La Nina arrived and made
things worse.
There are no trouble spots in the
2015 map with the exception of
California and some regions in the
U.S. Northwest.
“Our soil moisture supplies are
really quite plentiful at this point,”
he said.
Anderson was more concerned
about drought in Western Canada
than in the grain producing regions
of the United States.
El Nino will deliver warm and dry
winter conditions across the prairie provinces.
“We’re seeing that play out
already. It has been very hard to
bring a lot of cold into the region,
and we’re going to see that for the
rest of the winter,” he said.
His forecast is identical for spring
and early summer, and that is a
concern because it is already dry in
portions of the Prairies and there
won’t be much winter precipitation relief.
“There will be some concern
about drought formation in the
start and at least through the first
half of the growing season,” said
Anderson.
He is forecasting a mild winter
for much of the U.S. with above
n o r m a l p re c i p i t a t i o n i n t h e
southern Plains and the southeast portion of the country and
dry conditions in the Northwest
and the Midwest.
His spring forecast calls for mild
conditions across the U.S. with
temperatures similar to the summer of 2015. There won’t be many
days where the mercury rises
above 30 C.
It will be dry in an area surrounding the Great Lakes, wet in the
southern Plains and near normal
for much of the corn belt.
“There is a pretty high likelihood
that we are going to have another
good year for crop production the
way things are shaping up,” said
Anderson.
El Nino will continue to bring dry
conditions to southeastern Australia, Indonesia and South Africa.
El Nino weather systems tend to bring heavy storms to coastal areas and dry conditions to inland areas. |
FILE PHOTO
THE EL NINO PHENOMENON
El Nino is thought to occur due to changes in the normal patterns of trade wind circulation. Normally,
these winds move westward, carrying warm surface water to Indonesia and Australia and allowing cooler
water to upwell along the South American coast. For reasons not yet fully understood, these trade winds
can sometimes be reduced, or even reversed. During an El Nino, winds blow eastward, sending warm
water to the eastern side of the Pacific ocean and causing rainstorms down the western cost of North and
South America. The warmer water also suppresses the upswell of cold deep water
during a normal season, reducing nutrient-rich resources and causing
harm to fish and other ocean life.
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country and dry in the west.
Recent rain has improved conditions in Russia’s main wheat growing region.
China has adequate to surplus
soil moisture in the southeast and
mixed conditions in the central
portion of the country, but it is dry
in the northeast, where a lot of the
country’s row crops are grown.
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CLIMATE FORECAST PROBABILITIES FOR 2016
This table shows the probability of a La Nina weather system, a neutral
weather system or an El Nino weather system in each three-month period
from Dec. 2015 through Sept. 2016:
Season
Dec.-Jan.-Feb.
Jan.-Feb.-March
Feb.-March-April
March-April-May
April-May-June
May-June-July
June-July-Aug.
July-Aug.-Sept.
La Nina
~0%
~0%
1%
1%
5%
13%
21%
31%
Neutral
~0%
1%
5%
14%
35%
48%
53%
49%
El Nino
100%
99%
94%
85%
60%
39%
26%
20%
Source: International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University | WP GRAPHIC
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ABOVE: Lightning strikes close to Riceton, Sask., July 24, 2013. |
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BELOW: Tornado hunter Greg Johnson reacts to a close lightning strike during a heated chase in Oklahoma. |
PHOTO COURTESY GREG JOHNSON
EXTREME WEATHER
SAFETY TIPS FROM
THE STORM CHASERS
In a thunderstorm:
• Seek shelter indoors and away
from windows.
• Monitor weather radio.
• Do not hide under or near trees.
• Risks include lightning, tornadoes, flooding and hail.
• Take warnings seriously
because any severe storm is
capable of producing lightning
and tornadoes.
During lightning:
• Stay indoors or in your vehicle.
• Avoid trees. This is where people are killed.
• Lightning can strike up to several kilometres away from a storm.
• Golfing is particularly bad during a lightning storm, but any
outdoor sport should stop.
• It does not need to be raining
for there to be a lightning risk.
If you see tornadoes:
• If you cannot get underground,
get into a bathroom on the main
floor.
• Do not hide under a highway
overpass.
• Stay in your vehicle with your
seatbelt on. Drive away if possible.
• If driving away is impossible,
the last resort is to get to a low
spot such as a ditch.
Source: www.tornadohunter.ca
Chasing storms
in tornado alley
BY WILLIAM DEKAY
SASKATOON NEWSROOM
S
TORM CHASERS live
for extreme weather.
Whether it’s staying
ahead of a tornado or
pursuing a thunderstorm, passion drives them to
their next weather event, again
and again.
An awesome respect for the
grandeur of nature is a trait
shared by storm chasers.
“They love watching the sky,
love the sound of thunder, the feel
of rain on their head,” said Dave
Carlsen, a meteorologist in
Edmonton.
“Most sane people drive away
from (storms), and we drive
toward them, or at least in their
general vicinity, anyway.”
Justin Hobson knows the lure of
the storm.
“If there was a bigger word than
love, I would use that,” said the
Winnipeg meteorologist.
“I always say that weather
comes first, but my girlfriend
doesn’t like that.”
Hobson has been fascinated by
thunderstorms for as long as he
can remember. At age 12 he
would ride his bike through thunderstorms in his south Winnipeg
neighbourhood and use his handlebar-mounted Ghostbusters
siren to alert neighbours.
“I was glued to the weather
warnings that came on the TV or
the radio. I was always looking
out the window,” he said.
“The movie Twister came out
later that year (1996) and from
that point forward, I was hooked
on severe thunderstorms and I
wanted to be a storm chaser.”
Hobson eventually learned
storm chasing doesn’t pay the
bills, so he pursued the next best
thing and became a certified
meteorologist.
He witnessed his first tornado in
Elie, Man., in June 2007. The EF5
(enhanced Fujita scale) event that
struck the town remains Canada’s
strongest tornado on record.
“That event just made my love
for weather grow even more. That
storm sealed the deal for finishing school and choosing meteorology as a career,” he said.
Hobson chases storms on his
days off and books vacation during part of the storm season in
June and July. He’s also a field
instructor with the University of
Manitoba’s storm chase course.
“About 20 students piled into
three vans and caught a couple of
tornadoes in South Dakota at the
end of June,” he said.
“My passion has shifted to
watching others witness their
first tornado and see them react
because I was there once.”
Carlsen saw his first tornado at
age nine while looking out a window at his grandparents’ house in
Wynyard, Sask.
“I knew at that time that I was
going to study them and chase
them for the rest of my life,” he
said.
“Almost ever yone I’ve met
storm chasing has some moment
in their life where they saw a
storm that cemented in their
mind that they wanted to do this.”
Hobson and Carlsen said storm
chasers have many reasons for
spending months pursuing thunderstorms as they drive up and
dow n tornado alley, which
reaches from central Texas to the
Canadian Prairies and from eastern Colorado to western Pennsylvania.
Many are pure thrill seekers, but
others are storm spotters who
offer their observations of haz-
ardous weather to relevant
authorities.
Many recreational chasers submit photos and videos to researchers, Environment Canada and the
National Weather Service.
Carlsen said storm-chasing
tools vary, but the main ones are a
vehicle, camera, laptop and cell
phone. Some will mount a weather station on top of their vehicle to
measure temperature, pressure,
wind speed and moisture.
“The only things you really
need for storm chasing are a car,
your brain and your eyes. Everything else in addition to that is
extra stuff that you don’t necessarily need,” he said.
“Once a storm is going on, you
don’t need the radar. You just
need to look.”
Greg Johnson is one of North
Amer ica’s top professional
storm-chasers and severe weather experts.
With more than 10 years experience, the Regina-based photographer, educator and entertainer
enjoys chasing classic prairie thunder and lightning storms, tornados,
hurricanes and blizzards.
“I’ve been fortunate to have
documented, recorded and been
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TOP: Justin Hobson takes a selfie during the EF5 tornado at Elie,
Man., in June 2007. | JUSTIN HOBSON PHOTO
ABOVE: For the first time ever recorded, two EF4 (Enhanced Fujita
scale) tornadoes roll over the ground beside each other. It happened
at Pilger, Nebraska, on June 16, 2014. | GREG JOHNSON PHOTO
at the biggest tornado events in history,” he said.
Johnson, along with a driver, videographer and “Flash,” his tornado
truck, has developed a following
that culminated in a TV show this
year on CMT in Canada called Tornado Hunters.
Flash is a pickup truck outfitted
with 750 pounds of LineX protective coating, including an external roll cage originally designed
for the mining industr y. It is
equipped with 18 cameras inside
and out.
Last year, the three-man crew and
truck “hit” 120 to 130 storms during
the five-month season and intercepted 51 tornadoes in 26 states
and three provinces. They travelled
190,000 kilometres and had eight
windshields destroyed by flying
debris.
However, there’s a fine line
between risk-taking and personal
safety that can sometimes blur.
“There’s definitely scary moments, and if it wasn’t for fear we
would probably barrel head first
into some really crappy stuff. Obviously, we have to manage those
risks,” Johnson said.
“We do the things we can to mitigate any kind of risk. But at the
same time that’s part of the fun of it.
I love going to work every day.”
May 12, 2003, at El Reno, Oklahoma, is a time and place permanently etched in Johnson’s mind
because of a life changing narrow
escape from a tornado. It killed four
storm chasers and injured several
more.
The El Reno tornado was the widest in recorded history at 4.2 km.
Measurements from mobile Doppler weather radars revealed wind
speeds in excess of 475 km-h inside
the tornado.
Johnson said he and others had
been photographing the tornado
from a safe distance but it grew
from a few hundred metres in
slightly more than a minute.
“We were also caught in that tor-
nado. We stayed in the truck, kept
driving, trying to get out. We had a
couple moments where we were in
the air five or six feet. When the
truck landed, it took a beating and
had to be rebuilt. The windows all
got blown out,” he said.
“We survived, but it was definitely
a close call. We had vehicles flying
around over our heads. We had a
farmyard blow up beside us. We
saw a two-ton 1960 era farm truck
helicoptering through the sky in
front of us and landed in the ditch
that we were driving in. We had to
swerve to avoid it.
“We were able to limp out of it.
Start to finish, inside that tornado
was probably 1.5 minutes. It was
definitely the scariest moment of
my life, not one I ever want to repeat.”
Johnson said a tornado sounds
like a jet engine as it travels through
open country, but when it hits
something, such as a town or other
object, its pitch and decibel level
rise dramatically.
“It’s a very distinct sound pattern,” he said.
The El Reno tornado did curb the
enthusiasm of storm chasers, but
Johnson said the number of people
chasing storms is rising.
“I really encourage people to educate themselves, take the necessary
precautions and use common
sense. Don’t get too close, don’t
stop the truck in the middle of the
road, and watch out for others,” he
said.
“People do a lot of stupid things on
the highway. They get mesmerized
by what’s going on in front of them
and forget they’re on a public road.”
Added Carlsen: “The number
one thing when you’re storm chasing is keeping safe. If you have to
miss a storm because you didn’t
have any road options to get to a
good vantage point, well, you miss
the storm. There will always be
more storms.”
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TOP: The mesocyclone of a supercell thunderstorm that meteorologists call “the mother ship” hovers
near Great Falls, Montana, in July 2012. | GREG JOHNSON PHOTO
ABOVE: A large lightning bolt strikes close to Pense, Sask., in July 2011. “I refer to it as the poopy-pants
shot,” said photographer Greg Johnson. | GREG JOHNSON PHOTO
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
PROFILE
Meet Canada’s weatherman
David Phillips says he stumbled his way into
his ideal job. Now he’s a household name as
Environment Canada’s public weather face,
even though he had planned on a quiet career.
BY ED WHITE
WINNIPEG BUREAU
D
AVID PHILLIPS wanted to be a teacher or geographer but
instead became as big a superstar as any weatherman
could hope to become.
“We’re not supposed to be famous. We’re supposed to be
backroom people,” Phillips said as he tried to make sense
of his path to nationwide recognition.
“I just became, in a way, the go-to guy. Not that I
encouraged it, but I was always available.”
Phillips is a fixture on radio and television stations
with his popular annual list of Canada’s top weather
stories and his willingness to discuss and describe
complex weather phenomena in a clear and interesting way.
He’s not a meteorologist. He is described by Environment Canada as a “senior climatologist,” and he’s
happy with that description.
However, when he was in university in his hometown
of Windsor, Ont., Phillips didn’t picture himself as a
climatologist. He was a geography student and had a
favorite professor who was a climatologist.
The professor suggested he apply for a meteorology
job with the government. At the interview, Phillips
pointed out he wasn’t a physics and math major, the
usual prerequisites for that sort of job.
Three months later he got a job offer from Environment Canada to move to Toronto and study how the
Great Lakes affect weather.
“That was 48 years ago,” he said, noting the only other
job he’s had was room service waiter at the Banff
Springs Hotel while he was a student.
Phillips first did research and analysis, but he found
that he liked speaking at conferences, where he could
explain the relevance of research to other experts.
The government’s Treasury Board then asked
him to revise a bonus pay system that rewarded
federal employees who worked in particularly
challenging environments.
Phillips combined 18 weather factors with
other criteria, such as isolation, to come up
with a ranking of tough-to-live-in locations
and gave it to his superiors.
A reporter found out about the “weather
severity index” and did a story about it.
Then it exploded.
“It received front page headlines across the
country. It was the perfect story,” said Phillips.
Rival cities, such as Edmonton and
Calgary or Regina and Saskatoon, had
fun comparing themselves and noting
anything worse about the other city.
Heavyweight Newfoundland politician John Crosbie condemned Phillips’
finding that St. John’s had unusually
harsh weather.
“The media just ate it up,” said Phillips,
who admitted he was befuddled at the time.
“I had to go on Canada AM and Cross Country Checkup and defend the study.”
After getting roasted by a few people with
sensitive feelings about their communities’
weather, Phillips found that he loved
teaching the complexities of
I kind of liked the idea of explaining
something to people in a way that my
neighbours could understand it, or my children
could understand it, not to a scientific audience
but to people who it really matters to.
DAVID PHILLIPS
CLIMATOLOGIST
the weather to Canadians.
“I kind of liked the idea of explaining something to
people in a way that my neighbours could understand
it, or my children could understand it, not to a scientific audience but to people who it really matters to,”
said Phillips.
So he kept talking to the media and the public about
weather stories and became the “go-to guy” within his
department when reporters called.
He also began developing fun projects, like his
Weather Trivia Calendar, which was given to the volunteers who supply Environment Canada with weather observations.
“It took off,” he said of the calendar.
At the time, it was not distributed to the general public.
“It became almost a black market around the media.”
He also started producing a Top 10 list of weather
stories, which also drew nationwide attention and
interest.
Phillips admitted wondering whether his willingness
to come up with “fun” projects for the public would
diminish his professional reputation. He once wondered if it would bother him if “inventor of the Weather
Trivia Calendar” was carved on his gravestone.
“I’m not embarrassed by that. I think that if I can reach
people and turn them on to weather and get them fascinated by that, (I’m happy).”
Phillips said he could have retired 15 years ago but
keeps going because he loves teaching Canadians
about their weather. People seem to have an insatiable
appetite for weather talk, so he never struggles to find
something to discuss.
That doesn’t extend to his own home. His wife and
daughter have told him over the years that they don’t
want to talk much about the weather at home.
So, unlike most Canadian households, the Phillips
home hasn’t been filled with talk about the weather.
He leaves that for the office.
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David Phillips, senior
climatologist with Environment
Canada, publishes the popular
weather trivia calendar every
year. | PHOTO COURTESY FIFTH HOUSE
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
The Wind in Pincher Creek
I have done some travellin’
To places far away
Just to feel and hear the wind
As it travels on its way.
Those northers down in Texas
Can chill you to the bone
And the blizzards in Alaska
Will turn your blood to stone.
There’s twisters in the Midwest
That wreck all in your path
And there’s other places in the
world
Where the wind will show its
wrath.
But from Cape Horn to the
Circle
And destruction in the Keys,
All the fury of the wind
In Pincher Creek is called a
breeze.
—N.R. BURLES
TOP 10 SONGS ABOUT WIND
1. Windy (The Association)
2. She’s Like the Wind (Patrick
Swayze)
3. Candle in the Wind (Elton John)
4. Blowin’ in the Wind (Bob Dylan)
5. Ride Like the Wind (Chris Cross)
6. Wind Beneath my Wings (Bette
Midler)
7. Blown Away (George Harrison)
8. Dust in the Wind (Kansas)
9. Wind of Change (Bee Gees)
10. Against the Wind (Bob Seger)
Compiled by Britt Bickel, K-Earth 101 Radio
Farm buildings are silhouetted by the setting sun under a western chinook arch west of Milo, Alta. Although these stratus clouds look
like storm clouds, they rarely produce rain or snow. They do, however, produce stunning colours, appearing yellow, orange or red in
the morning, becoming grey through the day and again turning a brilliant orange/yellow at sunset. | MIKE STURK PHOTO
CHINOOKS
‘Snow eater’ helps define sout
BY BARB GLEN
LETHBRIDGE BUREAU
S
You know it’s windy when a gust
bends the ear of a mule. This red
molly mule lives on Burro Alley
Ranch near Priddis, Alta. | WENDY
DUDLEY PHOTO
E M I-T R A I L E R S are
blown onto their sides,
empty grain bins are
crushed like pop cans
and big round straw
bales roll away to parts unknown
when the chinook blows strong in
southern Alberta.
In winter, snow disappears
overnight and temperatures can
rise 20 degrees in a day. In summer, the wind dries everything in
its path and swipes loose objects
from those who forget to keep
them locked up or nailed down.
Such is the bane and blessing of
the warm and powerful western
winds that race down the eastern
slopes of the Rocky Mountains and
across the foothills and prairie.
Chinook, also called the snoweater in First Nations lore, is borrowed from the Chinook Indians
who lived in the Columbia River
region, where it was once thought
the wind originated.
“Few regions in Canada are so
profoundly influenced by the
direct and indirect effects of a
specific weather phenomenon,”
Agriculture Canada researcher
Barry Grace wrote in a 1987 article about chinooks.
The record wind speed for
Lethbridge, the agricultural hub
of the region, is 171 km-h, which
was set in November 1962. A
wind of that speed would be
deemed a hurricane in other
places, but there’s a proviso, says
Agriculture Canada agro meteorologist Sean McGinn.
“That was a wind gust. When we
record wind speed, we record
five, 10 and I think 15 minute
gusts, plus the hour average. A
five minute gust can do a lot of
damage at 171 km-h, but if you
average that over a whole hour.…”
Winds of 80 to 105 km-h during
a chinook are more common,
and the average wind in the
Lethbridge region without a chinook is 21 km-h, said McGinn.
Those who live in chinook
country both love the wind and
hate it.
It’s a nuisance, but it shortens
winter. It causes migraines, but
it’s warm. And good hair days?
Not during a chinook.
That aside, chinooks have
helped define agriculture in the
region mostly because of their
drying effects.
“The big thing is that chinooks
tend to take away our snow in the
winter time, and when we do
have snow on the ground, that
snow evaporates very quickly, so
virtually all that moisture goes up
into the air and very little soaks
into the soil,” said soil scientist
Ross McKenzie of McKenzie Ag
Consulting.
“The negative is the lack of moisture, but with farmers in the last 20
years shifting to direct seeding,
keeping their stubble up, keeping
good residue on the cover, we tend
to get a lot less evaporation or
moisture loss when we do have
those chinook events.”
Though chinooks have affected
this part of the world for a long
time, McKenzie said it’s only in the
last 30 years that farmers have
adapted well to the challenges
they bring.
Farmers once used summerfallow to conser ve moisture.
Though it may have been effective in other climates, the mighty
winds sapped that moisture and
left fields subject to erosion.
“We get approximately 20 to 30
percent of our precipitation in the
wintertime, so 130 to 140 millimetres falls as snow, so that moisture is not available because most
of it is lost during the chinook,”
said McGinn.
McKenzie attributes some of the
shift away from summerfallow to
Agriculture Canada researcher
Asael Palmer, who worked at the
Lethbridge Research Centre and
suggested it was counterproductive for area farmers.
“It’s been a really long, slow
evolution, that really in the last 20
to 30 years, farmers have really
done a good job of adapting.”
THE WEATHER ISSUE
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WHAT CAUSES A CHINOOK?
The Rocky Mountains lie in the path of prevailing westerly winds. As moist
Pacific air from the west reaches and then rises over the mountain range, it
cools and loses much of the moisture it carries. The now-dry wind warms as
it rushes down the leeward side.
Pressure systems also play a role. Air is drawn into a low pressure system
on the lee side of the Rockies. Such a system is often associated with a ridge
of high pressure over the mountains, setting up a wave of troughs and crests
parallel to the mountain range.
A strong chinook is characterized by a chinook arch, a cloudless area just
above the Rockies that is the sign of a pending or current chinook condition.
The size and amplitude of the system depend on the strength of the upper
westerly winds, air mass conditions and local topography.
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Chinook country farmers were
early adopters of direct seeding and
the use of drought tolerant crops. The
climate also demanded the development of an extensive irrigation system that led to crop diversity and
high-volume production.
However, McKenzie said the
snow eater’s work also brings advantages to farmers.
“With the chinooks, usually our
snow is typically gone by mid to late
March, so it’s not uncommon for
farmers in southern Alberta to be
seeding by mid-April, so that kind of
extends our growing season,” he said.
“The big advantage is that they
give us the opportunity to seed earlier and then take advantage of
capturing that sun for a longer
period of time and actually having
higher yield potential than farmers
east or north.”
Winter crops, including winter
wheat, fall rye and winter triticale,
fare well because of the mild winters fashioned by chinooks.
In his former role with Alberta
Agriculture, McKenzie also saw the
promise of winter peas.
“We grew them successfully every
year at Lethbridge and most years
successfully at Brooks,” he said.
In contrast, winter pea test plots
in Lacombe in central Alberta usually didn’t survive and those north
of Edmonton never survived.
“Because our soil temperatures
don’t get nearly as cold, I think
there are better opportunities to
grow some of these winter crops in
southern Alberta before we’d be
able to grow them in other areas of
the Prairies … so that’s certainly an
advantage as well.”
However, with the good comes the
bad. A winter chinook that melts the
snow just enough to form an ice layer
can cut off oxygen and force winterkill of winter wheat and alfalfa.
The winter warmth can also allow
crop diseases and insect pests survive and create problems the following season.
The warm weather can also be a
mixed blessing in cattle country.
The higher temperatures that
deplete snow can extend the graz-
ing season, and some ranchers are
able to graze year-round.
A big snow followed by a quick
thaw can create muddy pen conditions in feedlots, but warmer
weather means that animals require less feed.
“Overall, I would say it’s a lot more
positive because we do have warmer conditions overall in the winter
and the summer,” said McKenzie.
“I think that generally it gives us a
longer growing season. Certainly it
is drier, but farmers are really compensating for that with our farming
practices. I think with the diversity
of the crops we can grow, the longer
growing season, farmers have
really been able to manage things
quite nicely.”
McKenzie grew up in chinook
countr y and remembers one
Christmas event fondly.
“When I was six years old, I got a
bike for Christmas … and I learned
to ride it on Christmas day because
there was no snow.”
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
WEATHER WATCHERS
Volunteer crop reporters
keep their ears to the ground
BY KAREN MORRISON
SASKATOON NEWSROOM
O
FFROSTY FACTS
Whatt is
is black
bl
frost
fro and how does it
form?
• This spring, hard frost smoked
canola seedlings on hundreds
of thousands of acres in western Manitoba and eastern
Saskatchewan. Manitoba
Agriculture crop production
adviser Elmer Askew described
it as a “black frost,” one where
dew doesn’t form and there is
little moisture to protect the
plants.
Is there any relationship between a
full moon and frost?
• Drew Lerner, president of World
Weather Inc., says there is no
statistical evidence that frost is
more likely during a full moon.
Cornell University scientists
looked at 100 years of weather
records at four locations in the
U.S. Northeast and found that
a full moon didn’t increase the
risk of frost.
What is hoarfrost?
• Snowflakes are not frozen water
and frost is not frozen dew.
When water vapour molecules
contact a frozen subfreezing surface, such as a windshield, they
jump from the gaseous to solid
state, leading to a coating of
tiny ice crystals. When there is
more moisture in the air, the ice
crystals can grow and develop
more intricate patterns. This is
hoarfrost.
DESSA, Sask. —
When a plow wind
whirled through
Bette Reiss’s mixed
farm at Odessa, the
intrepid crop reporter stayed
above ground to keep watch.
“Most people head to the basement. We are out on the porch,”
said Reiss, a volunteer crop
reporter who has been relaying
details of crops and weather in
her rural municipality to Saskatchewan Agriculture for more
than a quarter century.
“The walls near the porch were
shaking, the shingles were all
over the yard,” she recalled.
But fortunately, the cattle raised
by Bette and her husband, Dennis, were spared harm.
Reiss’s reasons for volunteering
her time are simple.
“I like seeing what’s going on,
not just in my backyard,” she said.
“I’m not a weather specialist,
just a weather observer. There’s
nothing you can do about the
weather but sit back for the ride
and hope for the best.”
Her interest in the weather is
shared by the 200 volunteer crop
reporters who watch the skies in
Saskatchewan’s growing regions.
Shannon Friesen, regional
crops specialist at Saskatchewan
Agriculture in Moose Jaw, said
they are the eyes and ears of
their rural regions, documenting in detail crop progress, soil
moisture, disease prevalence,
weather details and much more
for the weekly crop report.
“We are the only province who
relies on such a large amount of
volunteers,” she said.
Friesen said many spend a dozen or more hours a week collecting the data, talking with neighbours, visiting coffee row, com-
pleting the questionnaire and
sending in the information.
“They provide us with amazing
information. We can’t publish it all
but certainly appreciate it,” she
said.
“Crop reporters provide great
detailed analysis of exactly what’s
going on.”
The information is used by
the ministry and by businesses
around the world.
“Without them, it would be a lot
harder,” said Friesen.
“They are the backbone of what
we do. Saskatchewan is such a
vast province and in every area,
there is something different happening every day.”
Reiss said she’s the go-to person
in her region, with people often
calling her to check on weather
events.
Retired crop repor ter and
farmer Cecilia Kotylak said
weather is an endlessly fascinating topic of conversation.
Kotylak, who retired from
reporting in 1998 after 15 years,
felt well equipped to report, considering her family’s cropland
spread throughout the Montmartre region.
Do Russian children like frost?
• Probably. That’s because the
Russian Santa Claus is named
Deed Moroz, or Father Frost.
Does frost arrive later in the year
than it used to?
The first fall frost in Saskatchewan
now arrives later than it did in
the 1960s. Climatologists say the
average date of fall frost in central
Saskatchewan is stretching into late
September.
How old is Frosty?
The Frosty the Snowman TV movie
first appeared on CBS in 1969.
Gene Autry recorded the first version of the Frosty the Snowman
song in 1950.
Source: staff research
Bette Reiss, a volunteer crop
reporter for Saskatchewan
Agriculture, has been observing the
weather and preparing crop reports
for the Odessa region for more than
two decades. | KAREN MORRISON PHOTO
Twice each year, Kotylak would
push a special metal rod into the
ground to determine soil moisture, carefully compiling her information so that she could phone it
in to Saskatchewan Agriculture
each week.
She said weather monitoring
stays with her even today.
“It will never go away in my
head,” said Kotylak.
She recalled the year grasshoppers arrived in droves.
“The grasshoppers moved in
and they go through the crops like
you wouldn’t believe. Part of our
RM had severe damage,” Kotylak
said.
One year, it was bertha armyworms that swept through the
grain belt and left damage in their
wake within days.
She recalled when a plow wind
“just laid down the crops,” leaving
behind fields that were salvageable only for livestock feed.
She has seen a shift in weather
patterns over the years, citing
more abrupt and extreme changes than in the past.
Kotylak retired her rain gauge
after her husband died and when
newer crops arrived that were less
familiar to her.
“I didn’t think it was right to give
a report if I didn’t know what was
going on,” she said.
Friesen said there are three
reporters who have reported
every year since 1976.
Today, their phoned-in and
faxed reports have been largely
replaced by emails and online
surveys.
Friesen said crop reporting formally began in 1976, but was preceded by informal crop reporting.
In the beginning, reporters would
submit information to the local ag
rep.
Volunteers would receive their
choice of a subscription to The
Western Producer, Free Press
Weekly, Farm Light and Power or
a Canada yearbook. Today, volunteers receive a gift annually
and when they reach certain
milestones.
For Reiss, that included a trip to
Regina, a dinner and tour at the
Saskatchewan legislature and an
introduction to the agriculture
minister to mark her 25 years of
service.
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11
WEATHER WATCHERS
Neither rain, nor sleet nor hail will deter them
Volunteer weather watchers help to collect and report weather information to assist federal reporting network
BY MARY MACARTHUR
CAMROSE BUREAU
E
VERY MORNING at 7
a.m. Ernest Watts steps
out of his Manitoba
home, walks over to a
weather station that
measures any rain, snow or lack of it,
and reports his findings on a website.
He is one of hundreds of weather
watchers across the country who
record the weather for CoCoRaHS,
a non-profit network of weather
volunteers.
“My hobby is gardening and
growing evergreen trees. Tree
seedlings are vulnerable to flood
and drought, both of which can
occur within weeks of each other
around here,” said Watts, of Portage
la Prairie.
In Saskatchewan, Abraham
Buhler has recorded rainfall for 40
years on his Hague farm just to satisfy his curiosity. When Buhler
learned about CoCoRaHS, he knew
it was just the kind of volunteer job
he wanted.
“I’ve been doing it all my life in an
unofficial capacity,” said Buhler, a
retired farmer. “I did it just to be
informed.”
He has been a CoCoRaHS weather volunteer since November 2013.
Meteorologists, climate change
experts, engineers, farmers and
hydrologists all use the information to aid in weather and flood
forecasting. Buhler learned how to
measure the moisture in snow by
gathering it in a special cylinder,
melting and weighing it, and then
recording it.
As of Dec. 8, there had been little
snowfall and the equivalent of 4/10
of an inch of snow moisture at his
Hague farm.
CoCoRaHS, or Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow
Network, is a non-profit communitybased network of volunteers who
measure rain, hail and snow.
It began in 1998 after a flood near
Fort. Collins, Colorado, that was so
localized it was missed by all meteorologists and weather gathering
sites. In Canada, CoCoRaHS started in Manitoba after the 2011 flood.
In Canada more than 1,000 registered volunteers across the country
collect and input weather data.
The most volunteers are in Manitoba and Ontario, followed by Saskatchewan. Most of the funding for
the program comes from those
three provinces.
The network works in partnership and is funded partially by
Environment Canada and a number of other agencies to help aid in
flood forecasting.
Angie Knowles, volunteer coordinator with CoCoRaHS Canada,
said when Hurricane Patricia blew
into southern Ontario in October,
the weather volunteers were asked
to make sure they reported their
findings to paint a more accurate
picture of the hurricane’s damage.
“Rain does not fall the same
everywhere. You just can’t be
everywhere the rain may fall,” said
Knowles.
Weather volunteers buy a special
$30, extra wide rain gauge to ensure
the most accurate data is gathered
from each site.
The gauge is set up in the yard in
an open location and each morn-
ing the weather watchers take the
snow, rain or hail measurements
and enter them into the website.
“That information is publicly
available for everyone to see,” said
Tiffany Taylor, provincial co-ordinator for CoCoRaHS Manitoba.
This summer weather volunteers
recorded a flash flood near Steinback that was missed by other
weather stations.
“It was CoCoRaHS volunteers
that verified the actual intensity of
the storm because the automated
stations didn’t catch it because it
was so specific to a local area,” said
Taylor.
“We have had a lot of flooding in
the past couple years and we need
more people on the ground in a
hyper local sense to provide us with
data. There are so many gaps
between weather stations. We don’t
have reporting from automated
weather stations that we need to tell
us what is going on on the ground.
That is why we are asking local people to be citizen scientists to get
accurate data and forecast.”
Manitoba and Ontario have
received the most funding and are
able to attract the most weather volunteers. Ideally, volunteers should
enter data on the website each day,
but because of holidays and other
commitments, there is about 55 or 60
percent daily participation.
“It’s actually surprising how
many people are interested in the
weather. There are a lot of people
out there who have been tracking it
their whole lives and putting it
down on a piece of paper not realizing there is an actual place you
can put that data.
During the summer, precipitation
and any other significant details are
entered. In the winter, a snow gauge
is used to determine water equivalent. The winter snow data is used to
help predict snow build up and pos-
sible spring flooding.
“That local information can help
the forecasters see what is going to
happen if we get more snow or if a
storm were to happen, what areas are
going to be in trouble,” said Taylor.
Last winter a New Brunswick
weather volunteer took snowfall
amounts in 15-foot conditions.
“We’ve had some fabulous volunteers,” said Knowles.
Their goal is to increase the number of weather volunteers across the
country to have a better and more
accurate precipitation picture.
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team of highly qualified and experienced adjusters
who will attend to their claims.
Q. For most farmers, that would be a lot of
money left in the pocket. How do you do it?
Bruce: AG Direct reduces or eliminates costs that
can be layered onto other hail polices and passes
those savings back to farmers in the form of lower
premiums without compromising service or fair
loss awards.
Q: What about Manitoba?
Bruce: Like last year, farmers must purchase $200
with MASC first before being eligible to save with
AG Direct. Additionally, we will be matching
MASC’s loss figures so that farmers just have to
send us their proof of loss. Once we have validated
it, a cheque will quickly follow.
Q: What kind of costs?
Bruce: As our name suggests, we are a direct
model. We don’t use brokers/agents to sell our
insurance. When you buy from any other private
line company, the broker is paid about a 12%
commission to complete the policy. With AG Direct,
producers simply apply for coverage directly and
online from us. Since we don’t pay commissions to
brokers, the savings are passed directly to producers
in the form of lower premiums.
Q: So you have your own AG Direct adjusters in
Saskatchewan and Alberta?
Bruce: Yes, we do. Our entire adjusting team is
led by Baillie Shewkenek. I believe Baillie is the
best Claims Manager on the prairies. He has built
a team of committed and experienced adjusters.
We constantly get (and welcome) inquiries from
qualified adjusters that are interested in joining our
strong team.
Q: Are there any other costs you focus on?
Bruce: Yes. We have streamlined and simplified
the loss award process. Also, we don’t have the
same sales, marketing, and administrative costs as
the rest of the industry. I should also mention we
don’t have any hats, calendars or pens and farmers
won’t be getting a holiday card from us (laughs). We
believe a dollar we save is a dollar our customers
should save.
Q: So who is AG Direct’s reinsurer?
Bruce: We are exclusively backed by Allianz.
Allianz is one of the top insurance companies
in the world with 78 million customers in over
70 countries. They are a leader in cutting-edge
insurance products. We are fortunate to have them
as our reinsurance partner.
Q: What is your philosophy on loss adjusting?
Bruce: Simply, to be fair. After we leave a claim,
I don’t expect a farmer to high-five the neighbor
nor do I want to be bad-mouthed at the coffee
shop. When we leave, I want farmers to shrug their
shoulders and say “yup, that was fair”.
Q: And how would you rate adjusting
execution?
Bruce: It was another terrific year. Producers
were able to submit their claims online in about a
minute. The wheels were in motion from that point.
An adjuster was assigned, a mutually agreeable
day and time were set, and we adjusted the loss.
We attended the majority of claims within two
weeks. We are most proud of the fact that, after
hundreds of claims, we have had no appraisals
across the prairies in our first two years and our
customers rated our claims handling at 97% on our
satisfaction survey.
Q: That is impressive. Is it a goal of yours to
build on this positive momentum?
Bruce: Absolutely. Prairie farmers tell us they want
competitive rates, superior service and professional
loss adjusting. Our goal is to exceed their
expectations. Every year hard working farmers
have a choice and we believe that if we continue
to deliver, we can earn their business year after
year. I would like to share a quick story. This past
November AG Direct attended the Agri-trade show
in Red Deer. We had close to 100 customers stop by
our booth to thank us for saving them money, or for
the great service, for the quality loss adjusting or the
online convenience. I can’t tell you how appreciative
we are that our customers took the time to come by
and thank us. It is clear that AG Direct Hail has
developed a connection and partnership with our
customers and we like and respect that.
Q: So how can a producer learn about
AG Direct, check rates and apply?
Bruce: Producers simply have to go to
www.agdirecthail.com. They will need to register
with an email and create a password. Registration
is without obligation but required before they see
our rates in the spring.
Q You also have a toll-free number?
Bruce: Yes. We are available 7 days a week
to answer any questions. Just simply call us at
1-855-686-5596 and we would be pleased to speak
to farmers that would like to know more.
Q: Anything else Bruce?
Bruce: With the utmost respect for farmers, I would
urge them to research all of their options and not to
get caught in the “auto-renew net”. Farmers tell me
all the time that they meant to opt out of the autorenew with certain companies but forgot and didn’t
have a chance to take advantage of our rates And
lastly, we’ll be at the Saskatoon Crop Production
Trade Show in a couple of weeks. We invite our
current customers and also farmers that would like
to learn more to stop by and say hello.
www.agdirecthail.com
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
HAIL
The four-letter word
farmers fear most
DID YOU KNOW?
BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH
• The heaviest hailstones on record
weighed up to one kilogram and
reportedly killed 92 people in the
Gopalganj area of Bangladesh on
April 14, 1986.
CALGARY BUREAU
H
AIL CAN BE a heartbreaker.
“ You’ve got this
beautiful crop out
there and the next
thing you know a black cloud is
overhead and you look out an hour
later and there is nothing left,” said
Bruce Low, chief executive officer
of AG Direct Hail Insurance.
Prairie farmers can buy insurance through private or government run programs to protect their
crops. The rates are offered in the
second week of May based on what
they pay on a per acre basis. Policies expire in October.
“Every year farmers spend a lot
of money to protect their crops
against hail,” he said.
The Canadian Crop Hail Association reported that several significant storms occurred in 2015, but
the overall impact was less severe
than a year ago.
The average claim in 2015 was
$12,645, down from $18,628 in
2014.
The number of major storms
was down from the average. Hail
was reported on 94 days, and the
three most significant events hit
earlier in the growing season. The
size and severity of storms was
much less than usual.
Year-over-year comparisons
show overall prairie premium
totals of $274 million, down from
$316 million in 2014.
Manitoba fared the worst in 2015
with recorded losses of $46 million
compared to $16 million in 2014.
In Saskatchewan, payouts totaled
$71 million for more than 6,900
claims. This is down from 2014.
Alberta experienced an average
hail year with $50 million in payouts, nearly half that of 2014 when
$99 million was paid out for crop
losses.
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Source: Guinness Book of World Records
• The most expensive hailstorm
in Canadian history occurred
July 12, 2010, in Calgary. It tallied more than $400 million in
damages to homes, vehicles and
businesses.
• That hailstorm also wiped out
more than 222,394 acres of crops
near Strathmore and Hussar,
Alta., and caused crop damage
claims totalling $18.5 million.
• The previous claims record of
$340 million was set in 1991,
also in Calgary.
Source: Environment Canada
HAIL INSURANCE PREMIUMS
ACROSS THE PRAIRIES
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Many factors influence how much
money is spent annually on crop hail
insurance:
• reduction in rates being offered
by insurers
• commodity prices (higher crop
prices translates into more dollars spent to insure)
• drought or flooding
If you cut open a large hailstone, you may see several rings of ice, since each time the hail is swept back
up into the cloud, a new layer of ice forms around the ball. The stones aren’t always round — sometimes
they are oblong or even spiked if several small stones fuse together inside the cloud. | STOCK PHOTO
HOW DO
HAILSTONES
FORM?
Hailstones all have the same start —
tiny droplets freeze and are coated
with layers of ice as they rise and
fall with warm and cool air currents
in a cloud formation. The wind
speed within the cloud determines
the hailstone’s final size — marblesized hail needs an updraft of 56
km-h while golf ball-sized hail
requires an updraft of at least
103 km-h.
total
total
average
premium number policy
value
of
cost
($millions) policies
($)
$289
79,100 $3,654
264
58,000
4,552
264
65,700
4,018
268
62,700
4,274
340
66,700
5,097
344
63,000 5,460
316
58,400
5,411
273
57,000
4,789
2
1
Small water drops
are caught in
warm updrafts and
pulled back into
the cloud instead
of falling as rain
Source: www.meteorology.knoji.com | MiCHELLE HOULDEN GRAPHIC
The cloud is much
cooler at higher
elevations, freezing
the rain drop
4
3
The frozen droplets are
caught in the updraft
and pulled into the cool
layer, where supercooled
moisture coats the droplet
with a layer of ice
When the ice-coated
droplets are too large
to be pulled back up
into the cloud, they
fall as hailstones
• perceived risk by the farmer in
any given year
Source: Ag Direct Hail Insurance
THE WEATHER ISSUE
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HAIL
Alberta crop insurers develop cloud seeding program
Clouds are seeded with small amounts of silver iodide to reduce hailstones to pea size that will likely do less damage
BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH
CALGARY BUREAU
A
LBERTA FARMERS living
between Rocky Mountain House and High
River have a better
than average chance
that someone in their neighbourhood will suffer a devastating crop
loss due to hail.
The region is known as hail alley.
Hailstorms cause major damage
every year with direct costs to agriculture ranging from $50 million to $100
million per year, according to Alberta
Agriculture Financial Services.
However, damage to property has
surpassed agricultural losses in the
last 20 years.
As property damage claims escalated, insurance companies decided something had to be done to
reduce risk and major payouts. The
result was a co-operative decision
among insurers to form the Alberta
Severe Weather Management Society, the first project of its kind in the
world to be funded privately. It uses
cloud seeding to reduce damage to
property.
The program was initiated in
1996 after a severe hailstorm struck
Calgary Sept. 7, 1991, with insured
losses of $400 million.
“It brought the insurance companies in Alberta to their knees,” said
Terry Krauss, who was with the
Alberta Research Council while
hail was extensively studied.
For the last five years, he has overseen cloud seeding operations on
behalf of the weather management
society.
“If that storm occurred today, it is
estimated the damage would be
more than $1 billion,” he said.
The National Research Council
and the Alberta Research Council
started studying Alberta hailstorms in 1957. Through a longrunning meteorological research
program, it confirmed that Alberta
experiences a high frequency of
large hail, which causes widespread damage to economically
significant grain crops such as
wheat, canola and barley.
At the same time, farmers pushed
the government to try weather
modification and cloud seeding. In
1970, with assistance from the University of Wyoming, cloud seeding
was tested over the next two years.
The result was a provincially
funded five-year hail suppression
program starting in 1974. The program lasted until 1985.
“The historical program was
funded by agriculture. We didn’t
even seed storms over Calgary or
Edmonton, only agriculture,” said
Krauss.
The current cloud seeding project covers the area of high storm
frequency in the Calgary to Red
Deer corridor. Most efforts are
directed at controlling hail over
large population centres, but farmers on the periphery may get some
benefit.
This was the 20th summer of
cloud seeding in Alberta by Weather
Modification Inc. of Fargo, North
Dakota. It uses high-powered twinengine aircraft to fly into forming
clouds and alleviate potentially
damaging storms.
Planes fly up to 18,000 feet and try
to reach the earlier stages of the
storm before the anvil shaped
storm cloud forms.
The weather management society has its own radar station at the
Olds-Didsbury airport, where it
can scan a 150 kilometre radius to
watch areas from Red Deer to Calgary. Twenty employees work
there from June 1 to Sept. 15.
Clouds are seeded with silver
iodide to reduce hailstones to pea
size that will likely do less damage.
Small stones may take 20 minutes
to grow while the large ones could
take 40 to 50 minutes.
“The main challenge with agriculture, even though the results were
20 percent reduced crop damage
when we seeded, pea-sized hail can
still destroy a crop,” Krauss said.
“We can’t stop pea-sized hail.”
Radar meteorologists at Didsbury decide when to start seeding
and incorporate the observations
of the pilots into their decisions.
Flights are often launched before
radar indicates a destructive storm
is brewing.
“We want to seed at least 30 minutes before it hits a town or city,”
Krauss said.
They also have to rely on the best
weather predictions available but
that never has 100 percent certainty.
“We can still not predict exactly
what that storm on any given day
will produce,” Krauss said.
Cloud seeding services might
some day use drones, but that is at
the experimental stage.
Similar cloud seeding is done in
Greece, Argentina, France, Spain,
Germany, China, Russia and United States to protect agriculture and
property.
The main challenge with
agriculture, even though
the results were 20 percent
reduced crop damage when we
seeded, pea-sized hail can still
destroy a crop.
TERRY KRAUSS
FORMERLY WITH ALBERTA
RESEARCH COUNCIL
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
TECHNOLOGY
Space probe
setback
Scientists hoped a new NASA satellite would
provide cutting-edge tech for soil moisture
sampling — until something went wrong
This artist’s conception
shows the Soil Moisture
Active Passive (SMAP)
satellite capturing soil
moisture data from orbit.
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satellite that was supposed to revolutionize
soil moisture mapping around the
world has suffered a serious but not
insurmountable setback.
The American space agency
launched its Soil Moisture Active
Passive (SMAP) satellite Jan. 31,
2015. It was an upgrade over the
European Space Agency’s Soil
Moisture and Ocean Salinity
(SMOS) satellite because SMAP is
equipped with both passive and
active radar sensors.
The SMOS satellite has a passive
sensor that records how much
energy the Earth is emitting. It provides accurate soil moisture measurements but at a low resolution,
taking one reading every 40 kilometres.
The SMAP satellite is also
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equipped with an active sensor
that sends energy to Earth and
records what bounces back. It
delivers high resolution images,
taking one reading every one km.
The active sensor was the real
innovation in the SMAP satellite,
but it failed six months after the
satellite was launched.
“Even an organization like NASA
h a s s e t b a c k s,” s a i d H e a t h e r
McNairn, a research scientist with
Agriculture Canada who is part of a
large team of U.S. and Canadian
researchers working on the project.
“They lost communication with
it, is what basically happened. So it
just sort of went to sleep. They
poked at it a bit, but they weren’t
able to revive it.”
Paul Bullock, a soil science professor at the University of Manitoba, said the SMAP satellite was
going to provide a wealth of information to the neglected field of soil
science.
“Soil science is not a sexy subject.
It’s mud,” he said.
However, he believes it should be
a sexy subject, at least in agricultural
circles, because soil moisture has a
significant impact on crop yield,
quality, diseases and flooding.
There are weather stations all over
Western Canada, and Agriculture
Canada regularly produces up-todate precipitation and temperature
maps.
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TOP: Scientists use data from the SMAP satellite to show standard deviation of the difference between
satellite observations and European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) model
values for soil moisture.
ABOVE: SMAP data modelling shows the progression of spring thaw in a two-week period this spring.
However, there is precious little
information on soil moisture.
“The truth is we don’t measure it,”
said Bullock.
That is why he was so excited
about the potential of SMAP, which
was supposed to provide higher
resolution images than SMOS.
Another useful feature is that it collects data every one to three days
compared to one to two weeks for
most satellites.
“What I get passionate about is
that even though this is just looking
at that very surface skin of soil
moisture, that is the most dynamic
layer for changes in moisture in the
soil,” he said.
Bullock said soil moisture is
extremely variable. It can change
dramatically in a short distance
and over a short period of time
because of soil type, vegetation,
temperature and rainfall.
“The variability is mind-numbing.”
That is why it is important to produce high resolution images based
on readings from smaller areas.
McNairn said the SMAP data was
going to be used for flood, crop
disease and weather forecasting.
The 40 km resolution data will still
be useful for weather forecasting.
“Soil moisture is one of the variables in weather forecasting that is
the least understood but has a
pretty significant effect on weather
forecasting and modeling,” she
said.
However, 40 km is too big an area
We’re hoping that at the end
of it we can come up with a
method that’s going to work
so that NASA can kind of get
back on track.
HEATHER MCNAIRN
RESEARCH SCIENTIST, AGRICULTURE CANADA
to provide much value for flood
forecasting or for identifying what
crop production areas would be at
high risk for developing waterdependent diseases such as root
rot and sclerotinia.
“It’s not the end of the story
though, so don’t despair,” said
McNairn.
Researchers from NASA, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Canada, Environment
Canada and universities on both
sides of the border are trying to figure out a way to downscale the 40
km pixels into pixels of one km resolution.
“We’re hoping that at the end of it
we can come up with a method that’s
going to work so that NASA can kind
of get back on track,” she said.
Some strategies have already
been devised.
McNairn said researchers in
Manitoba will be validating the 40
km resolution data next year as well
as determine how they stack up
with actual, on-the-ground soil
moisture measurements.
“I’m pretty confident some solution is going to be found,” she said.
Bullock said surface moisture is
just one piece of the puzzle. It
needs to be augmented by manual
soil moisture measurements taken
deeper in the ground.
“We have to pull that information
together with the satellite information to build a complete picture of
what the moisture content of the
soil is,” said Bullock.
“In agriculture, we need to know
what’s going on in the entire root
zone.”
He agreed with McNairn that all is
not lost, but there is no doubt that
losing the active sensor was a serious setback.
“The strength of having it on one
(satellite) was that you’re acquiring
the information both from the
active and the passive over the
same piece of land at the same
time,” he said.
NASA had planned to release the
first verified soil moisture data
maps by May. It’s still possible the
agency will be able to produce the
products it was hoping to create by
working with data from another
satellite equipped with an active
sensor, but there will likely be a
lengthy delay.
“It has probably set it back a year,”
said Bullock.
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
DROUGHT
China takes weather into its own hands — and into the skies
BY ROBERT ARNASON
BRANDON BUREAU
M
OST COUNTRIES
adopt a fatalistic
“ i t ’s o u t o f o u r
hands” attitude toward the weather.
China isn’t one of them.
Every year, the country employs
tens of thousands of people and
spends as much as $100 million to
modify the weather.
The China Daily reports that the
Chinese Meteorological Administration and Weather Modification
Offices across the country have
conducted more than 560,000
operations to prevent or instigate
precipitation since 2002.
The countr y dedicates vast
resources to cloud seeding, including:
• 50 planes
• 7,000 guns
• 7,000 rocket launchers
• 47,000 people
The China Daily said weather
modification has helped “release
489.7 billion tons of rain, about 12
times the water storage of the Three
Gorges Dam.”
Chinese officials aren’t satisfied
with the status quo when it comes to
manipulating the weather. A Chinese Meteorological Administration spokesperson told a 2015 meeting that the organization plans to
step up its efforts and increase artificial precipitation three to five percent over the next five years.
An agricultural aircraft flies over Nakhonsawan province in a bid to seed clouds north of Bangkok,
Thailand, July 9. Thailand suffered its worst drought in more than a decade this year. In an effort to
maintain water levels, farmers have been told to refrain from planting rice. | REUTERS PHOTO
North American authorities
remain less enthusiastic about
weather modification.
States in the western United States
and other arid regions of the country
have experimented with cloud seeding or have active weather modification programs, but they have never
gained widespread acceptance.
“I know there were some legal
issues with it. If you give Paul a little
bit extra water, then Peter is going
to be a little upset. That water was
mine and you took my water,” said
Ron Stewart, a University of Mani-
toba meteorological expert who
studied cloud seeding when he was
a professor at the University of
Wyoming.
The science and practice of cloud
seeding are based on key principles:
• A cloud may contain moisture
but it’s not sufficiently cold to
form ice.
• Ice is needed within a cloud so
ice crystals can grow and then fall
out of the cloud as precipitation.
• Weather modification attempts
to add more ice to the cloud.
• Silver iodide is dispersed into the
cloud with flares mounted on the
wings of a plane or from the ground.
• The silver iodide particles encourage the growth of new ice
crystals, increasing the likelihood of precipitation.
Stewart said it’s a scientific fact that
cloud seeding changes the microphysics of a cloud. The outstanding
scientific question is whether it
causes precipitation to fall.
An Israeli study from 2010 that
was published in Atmospheric
Research looked at the equivalent
of 50 years of data on cloud seed-
ing, primarily around the Sea of
Galilee. The scientists determined
that cloud seeding doesn’t increase
rainfall from clouds.
A comprehensive study in Wyoming, which was completed in 2014,
came to a different conclusion. Scientists from the National Centre for
Atmospheric Research studied
snowfall in the mountains of Wyoming for six years. They compared
the amount of snow that fell when
clouds were seeded to the snowfall
in another mountain range that
wasn’t seeded with silver iodide.
The initial results were mixed.
The seeded clouds produced only
three percent more snowfall.
However, the results were more
positive after eliminating cases
where clouds were insufficiently
treated with silver iodide.
“Accumulated evidence from
statistical, modeling and physical
studies suggests a positive orographic seeding effect over a winter
season between five and 15 percent,” the researchers said.
Cloud seeding to instigate rain is
a rarity in Canada with the exception of Alberta, which has a weather modification program to suppress hail.
Stewart said that could change in
the coming decades if climate
change causes more droughts. Prairie provinces may be willing to try
weather modification to alleviate
crop failures and water shortages.
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British Columbia.............. 0310
Alberta ............................. 0320
Saskatchewan ................. 0330
Manitoba..........................0340
Airplanes ............................ 0400
Alarms & Security Systems 0500
ANTIQUES
Antique Auctions ............. 0701
Antique Equipment ......... 0703
Antique Vehicles ............. 0705
Antique Miscellaneous .... 0710
Arenas ................................ 0800
Auction Sales ..................... 0900
Auction Schools ..................0950
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Auto Service & Repairs ... 1050
Auto & Truck Parts ...........1100
Buses ............................... 1300
Cars .................................. 1400
Trailers
Grain Trailers .................1505
Livestock Trailers ........... 1510
Misc. Trailers .................. 1515
Trucks
Newest to Oldest ............1595
Four Wheel Drive ...........1670
Grain Trucks ................... 1675
Gravel Trucks .................1676
Semi Trucks .................... 1677
Specialized Trucks ........ 1680
Sport Utilities .................1682
Various ...........................1685
Vans ................................. 1700
Vehicles Wanted...............1705
BEEKEEPING
Honey Bees ...................... 2010
Cutter Bees ...................... 2020
Bee Equipment &
Supplies..........................2025
Belting ................................. 2200
Bio Diesel & Equipment...... 2300
Books & Magazines ............. 2400
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Concrete Repair &
Coatings ........................... 2504
Doors & Windows .............2505
Electrical & Plumbing.......2510
Lumber..............................2520
Roofing..............................2550
Supplies ............................2570
Buildings ..............................2601
Building Movers .................. 2602
Business Opportunities ...... 2800
BUSINESS SERVICES
Commodity/Future Brokers .....
2900
Consulting ........................2901
Financial & Legal ............. 2902
Insurance & Investments.......2903
Butcher’s Supplies ..............3000
Chemicals.............................3150
Clothing:
Drygoods & Workwear .....3170
Collectibles ......................... 3200
Compressors ....................... 3300
Computers...........................3400
CONTRACTING
Custom Baling ..................3510
Custom Combining ...........3520
Custom Feeding................ 3525
Custom Seeding................ 3527
Custom Silage...................3530
Custom Spraying ............. 3540
Custom Trucking ..............3550
Custom Tub Grinding .......3555
Custom Work ................... 3560
Construction Equipment ....3600
Dairy Equipment ................. 3685
Diesel Engines..................... 3700
Educational .........................3800
Electrical Motors ..................3825
Electrical Equipment ...........3828
Engines................................ 3850
Farm Buildings ................... 4000
Bins ..................................4003
Storage/Containers .........4005
SHAUNA
Classified Sales Manager
LILA
Advertising Office
Supervisor
FARM MACHINERY
Aeration ............................4103
Conveyors ........................ 4106
Equipment Monitors........ 4109
Fertilizer Equipment ........ 4112
Grain Augers ..................... 4115
Grain Bags/Equipment ..... 4116
Grain Carts........................ 4118
Grain Cleaners .................. 4121
Grain Dryers......................4124
Grain Elevators ................. 4127
Grain Testers ....................4130
Grain Vacuums ................. 4133
Harvesting & Haying
Baling Equipment...........4139
Mower Conditioners.......4142
Swathers.........................4145
Swather Accessories ......4148
H&H Various ................... 4151
Combines
Belarus ........................... 4157
Case/IH.......................... 4160
CI ....................................4163
Caterpillar Lexion ..........4166
Deutz ..............................4169
Ford/NH .......................... 4172
Gleaner ........................... 4175
John Deere ......................4178
Massey Ferguson............ 4181
Python ............................4184
Versatile .........................4187
White ............................. 4190
Various ...........................4193
Combine Accessories
Combine Headers ...........4199
Combine Pickups ...........4202
Misc. Accessories .......... 4205
Hydraulics........................ 4208
Parts & Accessories .......... 4211
Salvage ...........................4214
Potato & Row Crop
Equipment ...................... 4217
Repairs..............................4220
Rockpickers ......................4223
Shop Equipment ...............4225
Snowblowers &
Snowplows .....................4226
Silage Equipment .............4229
Special Equipment ...........4232
Spraying Equipment
PT Sprayers ....................4238
SP Sprayers ....................4241
Spraying Various ........... 4244
Tillage & Seeding
Air Drills ........................ 4250
Air Seeders .....................4253
Harrows & Packers .........4256
Seeding Various .............4259
Tillage Equipment ..........4262
Tillage & Seeding
Various .........................4265
Tractors
Agco
Agco..............................4274
Allis/Deutz ...................4277
White ........................... 4280
Belarus ...........................4283
Case/IH.......................... 4286
Steiger ......................... 4289
Caterpillar ......................4292
John Deere ......................4295
Kubota ........................... 4298
Massey Ferguson............4301
New Holland .................. 4304
Ford ............................. 4307
Versatile .......................4310
Universal ........................ 4313
Zetor ...............................4316
Various Tractors .............4319
Loaders & Dozers .............4322
Miscellaneous...................4325
Wanted .............................4328
Fencing................................4400
Financing/Leasing .............. 4450
Firewood ..............................4475
Fish & Fish Farming...... ......4500
Food Products ......................4525
Forestry / Logging Equipment .....
4550
Fork Lifts & Pallet Trucks ...4600
Fruit / Fruit Processing ....... 4605
RHONDA
Classified Sales
Co-ordinator
Fur Farming..........................4675
Generators ...........................4725
GPS ..................................... 4730
Green Energy........................4775
Health Care ......................... 4810
Health Foods ........................4825
Heating & Air Conditioning 4850
Hides, Furs, & Leathers ......4880
Hobbies & Handicrafts ....... 4885
Household Items.................4890
Iron & Steel .........................4960
Irrigation Equipment ..........4980
LANDSCAPING
Greenhouses .................... 4985
Lawn & Garden ................ 4988
Nursery &
Gardening Supplies.......4990
LIVESTOCK
Bison/Buffalo
Auction Sales ................5000
Bison/Buffalo ................ 5001
Cattle
Auction Sales ................ 5005
Black Angus ................... 5010
Red Angus.......................5015
Belgian Blue .................. 5030
Blonde d’Aquitaine ........5035
Brahman ........................5040
Brangus ......................... 5042
Braunvieh ...................... 5047
Brown Swiss .................. 5049
BueLingo ........................5052
Charolais ........................5055
Dexter ............................ 5065
Excellerator ................... 5067
Galloway........................ 5070
Gelbvieh .........................5075
Guernsey .......................5080
Hereford ........................5090
Highland ........................ 5095
Holstein ......................... 5100
Jersey ..............................5105
Limousin......................... 5115
Lowline ........................... 5118
Luing ...............................5120
Maine-Anjou ................... 5125
Miniature ........................5130
Murray Grey.................... 5135
Piedmontese ..................5160
Pinzgauer .......................5165
Red Poll .......................... 5175
Salers .............................. 5185
Santa Gertrudis ..............5188
Shaver Beefblend ...........5195
Shorthorn ...................... 5200
Simmental ......................5205
South Devon ...................5210
Speckle Park ................... 5215
Tarentaise ......................5220
Texas Longhorn .............. 5225
Wagyu .............................5230
Welsh Black .................... 5235
Cattle Various................ 5240
Cattle Wanted.................5245
Cattle Events &
Seminars ......................5247
Horses
Auction Sales .................5305
American Saddlebred ....5310
Appaloosa....................... 5315
Arabian ...........................5320
Belgian ........................... 5325
Canadian ........................ 5327
Clydesdale ......................5330
Donkeys ..........................5335
Haflinger .........................5345
Holsteiner .......................5355
Miniature ........................5365
Morgan ........................... 5375
Mules ............................. 5380
Norwegian Fjord ............5385
Paint .............................. 5390
Palomino ........................5395
Percheron ......................5400
Peruvian ........................ 5405
Ponies ............................ 5408
Quarter Horse ................. 5415
Shetland ........................ 5420
Sport Horses ...................5424
Standardbred ................ 5430
Tennessee Walker ..........5445
Thoroughbred................ 5450
Welsh ..............................5455
Horses Various .............. 5460
Horses Wanted .............. 5465
Horse Events, Seminars .....5467
VICKY
Display Sales
Co-ordinator
Horse Hauling................ 5469
Harness & Vehicles ....... 5470
Saddles ...........................5475
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
CECILE
Classified Consultant
JAMIE
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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WOOD BURNING STOVE, mint, 1930’s Enterprise, $600. 2- ea. solid maple butcher
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WANTED: GRAIN CODE BOOK Issue 1 & 2.
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Call: 701-240-5737, Minot, ND.
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in My Heart
7. Win a Date with ___ Hamilton!
8. Cheers bar owner
9. TV series Marion Ross starred in (2 words)
11. She plays Joan Watson on Elementary
12. Follows from Ontario
15. Film Scarlett Johansson was the voice of an
intelligent computer operating system in
16. She plays Rachel on Master of None (2 words)
17. Bond’s second personal secretary
19. Actor Mineo
21. Private investigator in Chinatown
24. Co-creator of Damages
25. Film Jamie Lee Curtis played a rookie police officer
in (2 words)
27. He played an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend
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35. Burrell of Modern Family
38. ___ Met Your Mother (2 words)
40. Adam-12 call, for short
41. ___ Without My Daughter
42. The ___ of Adaline
SASKATOON TRUCK PARTS CENTRE
Ltd. North Corman Industrial Park.
New and used parts available for 3 ton
highway tractors including custom built
tandem converters and wet kits. All truck
makes/models bought and sold. Shop service available. Specializing in repair and
custom rebuilding for transmissions and
differentials. Now offering driveshaft
repair and assembly from passenger
vehicles to heavy trucks. For more info
call 306-668-5675 or 1-877-362-9465.
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TRUCK PARTS: 1/2 to 3 ton. We ship
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or for more info. phone 403-362-5252.
ALL ALUMINUM TANDEMS, tridems and
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Western Development
Museum
North Battleford, SK.
9:00 am Western Producer
Breakfast
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11:00 am Saturday, February 6th
5:30 President’s Banquet and
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ALLISON TRANSMISSIONS Service,
Sales and Parts. Exchange or custom rebuilds available. Competitive warranty.
Spectrum Industrial Automatics Ltd.,
1-877-321-7732. www.siautomatics.com
C H E C K OUT OUR parts specials at:
www.Maximinc.Com/parts or call Maxim
Truck & Trailer toll free 1-888-986-2946.
SOUTHSIDE AUTO WRECKERS located
in Weyburn, SK. 306-842-2641. Used car
parts, light truck to semi-truck parts. We
buy scrap iron and non-ferrous metals.
ONE OF SASK’s largest inventory of used
heavy truck parts. 3 ton tandem diesel motors and transmissions and differentials for
all makes! Can-Am Truck Export Ltd.,
1-800-938-3323.
VS TRUCK WORKS Inc. Parting out GM
1/2 and 1 ton trucks. Call 403-972-3879,
Alsask, SK. www.vstruckworks.com
SLEEPERS AND DAYCABS. New and used.
Huge inventory across Western Canada at
www.Maximinc.Com or call Maxim Truck &
Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
WRECKING VOLVO TRUCKS: Misc. axles
and parts. Also tandem trailer suspension
axles. 306-539-4642, Regina, SK.
WRECKING TRUCKS: All makes all
models. Need parts? Call 306-821-0260
or email: [email protected]
Wrecking Dodge, Chev, GMC, Ford and
others. Lots of 4x4 stuff, 1/2 ton - 3 ton,
buses etc. and some cars. We ship by bus,
mail, Loomis, Purolator. Lloydminster, SK.
TRUCK BONEYARD INC. Specializing in
obsolete parts, all makes. Trucks bought
for wrecking. 306-771-2295, Balgonie, SK.
WRECKING SEMI-TRUCKS, lots of parts.
Call Yellowhead Traders. 306-896-2882,
Churchbridge, SK.
WRECKING LATE MODEL TRUCKS: 1/2,
3/4, 1 tons, 4x4’s, vans, SUV’s. Cummins,
Chev and Ford diesel motors. Jasper Auto
Parts, 1-800-294-4784 or 1-800-294-0687.
2015 AHV LODE-KING aluminum Super B
hoppers, extra light pkg., round stainless
fenders, current Safety, exc. 11Rx22.5
tires w/alum. wheels, exc. cond., no air
lift or elec. tarps. Two sets available
$104,000/ea. OBO. 866-236-4028, Calgary
2016 FEATHERLITE 8127, Stock #40802,
7’x24’ all aluminum stock trailer with 2
gates, 3 compartments. One only in Red
Deer, $24,900. Shop online 24/7 at:
www.allandale.com or 1-866-346-3148.
2016 GOOSENECK STOCK trailer, new,
never used, 20’, 7,000 lb. axles, $15,500.
306-524-4960, Semans, SK.
ALUM. STOCK TRAILERS- 24’, $22,995. BEHNKE DROP DECK semi style and
2015 SUBARU CROSSTEK, most fuel effi- Most sizes in stock. Call 306-824-4909, pintle hitch sprayer trailers. Air ride,
tandem and tridems. Contact SK:
cient AWD crossover in North America, Spiritwood, SK. www.greattrailers.ca
306-398-8000; AB: 403-350-0336.
MSRP from $24,995. 1-877-373-2662 or
www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.
Super B Timpte grain trailers. Call Maxim 24’ GOOSENECK 3-8,000 lb. axles, $7890;
2015 SUBARU IMPREZA. Best compact Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946 or see Bumper pull tandem lowboys: 18’, 14,000
lbs., $4450; 16’, 10,000 lbs., $3390; 16’,
car. $2000 cash purchase discount MSRP www.Maximinc.Com
7000 lbs., $2975. Factory direct.
from $19,995. Call 1-877-373-2662 or
1999 4 STAR, 5 horse, horse trailer, with 888-792-6283. www.monarchtrailers.com
weekender living quarters, exc. cond.,
2015 SUBARU LEGACY, $1500 cash pur- safety inspected, $26,000. 403-627-7782, TOPGUN TRAILER SALES “For those who
demand the best.” PRECISION AND
chase discount MSRP from $23,495. Call Okotoks, AB. [email protected]
AGASSIZ TRAILERS (flatdecks, end
1-877-373-2662 or subaruofsaskatoon.ca
2013
WILSON
GROUND
load
53’,
alum.,
dumps, enclosed cargo). 1-855-255-0199,
DL #914077.
excellent condition, extra lights and extra Moose Jaw, SK. www.topguntrailersales.ca
add-ons, asking $60,000 OBO.
306-322-7672, Rose Valley, SK.
C H E C K O U T O U R p a r t s s p e c i a l s at
Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
REMOTE CONTROL TRAILER CHUTE
openers can save you time, energy and
keep you safe this seeding season. FM remote controls provide maximum range
and instant response while high torque
drives operate the toughest of chutes.
Easy installation. Kramble Industries,
call 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or visit
us online at: www.kramble.net
2010 DOEPKER TANDEM with electric remote chute opener, white, 36’, exc. cond.
$37,500. 403-485-6175, 403-485-0262,
Vulcan, AB.
NEW 38’ TANDEM trailer, side chutes, roll
tarp, 72” sides, $34,995. 306-824-4909,
Spiritwood, SK. www.greattrailers.ca
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.
SANDBLASTING AND PAINTING. We do
welding, patching, repairs, re-wiring of
trucks, trailers, heavy equipment, etc. We
use Epoxy primers and Endura topcoats.
Competitive rates. Contact Agrimex at
306-432-4444, Dysart, SK.
NEW NEVILLE: 38’, air ride, 78” sides,
11x24.5 tires, side chutes, ladders, roll
tarp, 2 hoppers, $36,999. 306-563-8765.
NEW 2015 WILSON Super B, also tridem
2 hopper; 2- new CASTLETONS: one 44’
tridem and 36’ tandem; 2013 Wilson Super
B; 2012 Doepker Super Bs; 2005 Lode-King
Super B; 2002 alum. open end Lode-King
Super B; 2002 Doepker steel; 2010 Castleton tandem 36’ w/Michel’s augers; 2004
Doepker tandem; New Michel’s hopper augers and chute openers. Ron Brown Imp.
306-493-9393 www.rbisk.ca DL#905231
1996 MIDLAND 24’ tandem pup, stiff pole,
completely rebuilt, new paint and brakes,
like new, $18,500. Merv 306-276-7518,
306-767-2616, leave message, Arborfield,
SK. DL #906768.
CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used
highway tractors. For more details call
204-685-2222 or view information at
www.titantrucksales.com
PRAIRIE SANDBLASTING AND PAINTING. Trailer overhauls and repairs, alum.
slopes and trailer repairs, tarps, insurance
claims, and trailer sales. Epoxy paint. Agriculture and commercial. Satisfaction guaranteed. 306-744-7930, Saltcoats, SK.
EISSES GRAIN TRAILER Rental & Sales.
Super B grain trailers for rent by the day,
week or month. Contact Henry at
403-782-3333, Lacombe, AB.
Super B Timpte grain trailers. Call Maxim
Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946 or see
www.Maximinc.Com
NEW TRAVALUM 24’ alum. stock trailer,
7’ 6” wide body, 7’ tall, 3- compartments,
3- 7K torsion axles, $25,995. Spiritwood,
SK, 306-824-4909. www.greattrailers.ca
GRASSLAND TRAILERS has added Duralite
aluminum stock trailer line as well as
Krogmann bale beds for 3/4 and one tons,
to our list of quality products for your
farm/ranch. Glen Peutert 306-640-8034 or
email: [email protected] Assiniboia, SK.
REMOTE CONTROL ENDGATE AND
hoist systems can save you time, energy
and keep you safe this seeding season.
Give K r a m b l e I n d u s t r i e s a call at
306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or visit us
online at: www.kramble.net
SUPER B 40 bale hay trailer for sale, airbag
kickoffs, excellent condition, $25,000.
780-202-0167
Winfield,
AB.
[email protected]
GOOD TRAILERS, REASONABLY priced.
Tandem axle, gooseneck, 8-1/2x24’, Beavertail and ramps, 14,000 GVW, $6900; or
triple axle, $7900. All trailers custom built
from 2000 to 20,000 lbs., DOT approved.
Call Dumonceau Trailers, 306-796-2006,
Central Butte, SK.
PRECISION TRAILERS: Gooseneck and
bumper hitch. You’ve seen the rest, now
own the best. Hoffart Services, Odessa, SK.
306-957-2033 www.precisiontrailer.com
53’ and 48’ tridem, tandem stepdecks,
w/wo sprayer cradles; 53’, 48’ and 28’
tridem, tandem highboys, all steel and
combos. Super B Highboys, will split;
Tandem and S/A converter w/drop hitch;
tandem aluminum tankers; 53’-28’ van
trailers. Ron Brown Imp. 306-493-9393,
Delisle, SK. DL #905231 www.rbisk.ca
1997 LODE-KING 48’ alum. combo, hi-boy
flatdeck, air ride, w/side winches, $7000.
204-325-8019, 204-362-1091, Winkler, MB
2014 CANUCK END DUMP square box,
near new trailer, Hardox 450 box, electric
tarp, 3 axle, air ride, new MB safety,
$49,000. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB
80 MISC. FLAT deck semi trailers. Pictures
a n d p r i c e s a t w w w. t r a i l e r g u y. c a
306-222-2413, Saskatoon, SK.
1994 FORD, CUMMINS dsl. 9 spd., single
axle, 14’ box, ex-County truck, very low
1998 IHC 8100, 300 HP, 10 spd. manual, kms, $9980. K&L Equipment and Auto,
315,000 miles, AC, new CIM B&H, fresh Ladimer, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK; Chris,
safety, $51,900. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-537-2027, Regina, SK. DL #910885.
306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.
2007 INTERNATIONAL 9200I Eagle gravel
truck, 242,000 kms, 410 HP Cummins, 18
2007 IH 9400, with Cummins 435 HP 10 spd., air ride, 16” Renn box, roll tarp, fresh
spd. AutoShift, 20’ box, alum. wheels and SK. inspection, $49,900. 1-800-667-4515.
tanks, exc. cond., certified, $67,500; 2006 www.combineworld.com
Peterbilt, 475 HP, Detroit 18 spd., A/T/C,
alum. wheels, tanks, chrome bumper, like TANDEM AXLE GRAVEL trucks in inventonew tires, new paint, 20’ BH&T, exc. shape, ry. New and used, large inventory across
show truck, $69,500; 2007 Mack CH613, Western Canada at www.Maximinc.Com or
460 Mack eng., 13 spd., AutoShift, alum. call Maxim Truck & Trailer 1-888-986-2946
wheels, new tires, A/T/C, new paint, 20’
BH&T, very nice, $67,500; 2007 Mack,
460 Mack eng., 12 spd. auto. trans., 3-way
lockers, alum. wheels, good tires, 20’
BH&T, rear controls, pintle plate, $69,500;
1990 Kenworth T600, 450 HP Detroit, 10
spd., alum. front wheels, good tires, pulls
good w/1996 36’ Cancade 2 hopper grain
t r a i l e r - n i c e s h ap e , $ 3 5 , 0 0 0 ; 2 0 0 0
Freightliner Century Classic M11 Cummins, 375 HP, Super 10 speed, exc. tires,
20’ BH&T, alum. wheels, $47,500; 2007 IH
9400, 430 HP Cummins, new 20’ BH&T,
new paint, good tires, alum. wheels and
tanks, 10 spd. AutoShift, $67,500. Trades
accepted. Call Merv at 306-276-7518,
306-767-2616, Arborfield, SK. DL#906768
1995 IHC 9200 daycab, M11 Cummins, 9
near new rubber, 450,000 kms, 7000
2009 INTERNATIONAL PROSTAR tandem spd.,
fresh SK. safety, vg, $19,900. Camgrain truck, 485 HP Cummins, 340,000 hrs.,
Don
Motors
Ltd. 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK
kms. New 20’ CIM box and hoist, $69,900
1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com
2005 PETERBILT 378, Cummins 500HP, 18
spd; 2006 Peterbilt 379, Cummins 475HP,
2012 INTERNATIONAL PROSTAR tandem, 13 spd; 2009 IH Prostar, Cummins 500HP,
20’ CIM box and hoist, 430 HP Cummins, 18 spd; 2003 Freightliner Columbia, De295,000 kms, roll tarp. Premium unit troit 500HP (rebuilt), 18 spd., 46 rears,
w/SK Safety, $79,800. 1-800-667-4515. lockers; 2004 Kenworth W900L, Cat
www.combineworld.com
475HP, 13 spd. Daycabs: 2005 IH 9400,
Cat 475HP, 18 spd, wet kit; 2005 KenALL ALUMINUM TANDEMS, tridems and worth T800, Cat 475HP, 18 spd, 46 rears,
Super B Timpte grain trailers. Call Maxim 4-way locks. 306-567-7262, Davidson, SK.
Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946 or see www.hodginshtc.com DL#312974
www.Maximinc.Com
2007 FREIGHTLINER DETROIT 525, 60 SeALLISON AUTOMATICS: 2004 IHC 4400, ries, 18 spd., 4-way locks, CL120 Columbia
C&C, DT466, 6 speed, $39,900. K&L auto. greasing system, low kms, recent AB.
Equipment, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK. safety, $33,500. 587-284-3378, Calgary AB
email: [email protected] DL #910885.
2008 DOEPKER SUPER B grain trailers,
24.5 tires, good condition, $45,000 OBO.
AUTOSHIFT TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Boxed Phone 306-530-6561, Holdfast, SK.
tandems and tractor units. Contact David
306-887-2094, 306-864-7055, Kinistino,
SK. DL #327784. www.davidstrucks.com
Andres
Trailer Sales And Rentals
Andres specializes in the sales,
service and rental of agricultural
and commercial trailers.
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2001 MUV-ALL 48’ tandem double drop
machinery trailer, filler deck to make it
single drop, pull-out exts. to 13’, hyd. BERG’S GRAIN BODIES: Custom grain,
winch, hyd. beavertail, recent sandblast silage and gravel bodies. Berg’s Prep &
and epoxy paint, SK. safety, vg, $31,900 Paint. Call 204-325-5677, Winkler, MB.
Cam-Don Motors 306-237-4212 Perdue SK
www.titantrucksales.com to view information or call: 204-685-2222, to check out
our inventory of quality used highway tractors!
NEW INTERNATIONAL TERRASTAR 3 ton
4x4 at www.Maximinc.Com or call Maxim
Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
CIM TRUCK BODIES, grain, silage, gravel,
decks, service and installation. For factory
direct pricing and options, call Humboldt,
SK., 306-682-2505 or www.cim-ltd.ca
highway tractors. For more details call MECHANICS SPECIAL: 2006 IHC 4400,
204-685-2222 or view information at DT 466 tandem, Allison auto, C&C, low
mileage, runs and drives, but needs engine
NEW INTERNATIONAL TERRASTAR 3 ton work, will take a 20’ box. Was $44,900,
4x4 at www.Maximinc.Com or call Maxim now reduced $29,900. K&L Equipment
306-795-7779, Ituna, SK. DL #910885.
Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
2007 MACK CXN613, MACK 385HP, 10
spd. Eaton Ultrashift; 2007 IH 8600, CAT
, 10 spd. All trucks c/w 20’ grain
www.andrestrailer.com 435HP
box, air controls, windows, SK. Certified.
CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used 306-567-7262, Davidson, SK. DL #312974
highway tractors. For more details call www.hodginshtc.com
204-685-2222 or view information at 2007 MACK w/3 pedal Eaton AutoShifts;
2007 IHC 9200, 18 spd. All trucks with
C H E C K OUT OUR parts specials at: new grain boxes and fresh SK. safeties.
www.Maximinc.Com/parts or call Maxim 306-270-6399. www.78truxsales.com
Truck & Trailer toll free 1-888-986-2946.
WANTED: GOOD COND. 1960's to 1970's, 3
1993 16 WHEELER 60 ton Aspen trailer. to 5 ton cabover grain truck. 780-913-2323,
Outlook, SK. [email protected]
Call 306-634-9911, Estevan, SK.
Saskatchewan’s New Castleton &
Superior Trailer Dealer
Equipment Group
GRAVEL TRAILERS
2016 Renn SL330-AR Tri-Axle End Dump
2016 Renn SL1700-AR Tri-Axle Pony Pup
2016 Renn SLSDGEN2 Tandem Side
Dump Lead
2016 Renn SL3300GEN2 Tri-Axle Hardox
Tub 33’
HORSE TRAILERS
2016 Featherlite 8542-704H 4 Horse
Slant Load 52” dressing room, Tac
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2016 Featherlite 9409-673H BP 3 Horse,
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Supplying Castleton bulk, gravel and Superior logging trailers.
2016 Featherlite 8413-7024 24’ Combo,
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2008 T800 KENWORTH, 550 Cat, 18 spd.,
trans, 12,000 front, 46,000 rear, 700,000
kms, exc. cond. 306-921-7583, Melfort, SK
2009 INT. PROSTAR TA tractor, 340,000
kms, daycab, 485 HP, Cummins, 8 spd, air
ride, wet kit, alum. budds, $44,900.
2009 KENWORTH 900, 556,000 original
kms, 525 ISX, 18 spd., 46 rears, excellent
shape, $85,000. Call 204-243-2453,
204-871-6305, High Bluff, MB.
2010 KW T660, 500 HP Cummins, 18 spd.,
40 rears, fresh safety, $57,900. Cam-Don
Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.
GOOSENECK TRAILERS
2016 Featherlite 8127-7020 20’ x 8’
2-7K Axles, 1 Gate w/Slider
2016 Featherlite 8127-8032 32’ x 8’
3-8K Axles, 2 Gates w/Sliders
2016 Featherlite 8127-7024 24’ x 7’
2-7K Axles, 2 Gates w/Sliders
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2016 Featherlite 8270-0053 Ground
Load, Semi Trailer, 53’ Tandem
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2016 Felling XF-AG-100-3 53’ x 10’
Detachable, Aluminum Pull-outs, 50 Ton,
Flip Neck
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Call for Availability and Pricing
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2012 INTERNATIONAL PROSTAR truck
tractor, 295,152 kms, MaxForce 430 HP
engine, Eaton 13 spd., 40,000 lb. rears,
12,000 lb. front, fresh SK safety, $53,900.
2015 367 PETEBILT, 91,000 kms, 500 HP
Cummins, 22” tires, Super 40’s, 36” bunk,
$139,000 OBO.780-888-1258 Lougheed AB
BOOKKEEPING SERVICES EXCLUSIVE to
Farming and Ranching. Want to get the
cost of those accounting bills down? Bring
in the new year with an Ag bookkeeper,
highly qualified with over 13 years experience in the agriculture industry of accounting! Serving Medicine Hat, Oyen, southern
SK and surrounding areas. Please call me,
or visit my website for more information.
403-376-5919, Medicine Hat, AB.
[email protected]
www.trconsulting15.com
2010 FORD EXPLORER XLT, V8, auto., only
85,000 kms, like new rubber, ex. Gov’t,
very good, $17,900. Cam-Don Motors,
306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.
DECKS, DRY VANS, reefers and storage
trailers at: www.Maximinc.Com or call
Maxim Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
2015 MACK CHU614, Mack MP8 Engine,
Mack M-Drive transmission, 5 year warranty, 263" wheel base, Able to haul 24' grain
box, 99,818 kms, $139,000 OBO. Leasing
available. 780-803-2425, 3803-73 Ave.,
Edmonton, AB.
DISMANTLING FOR PARTS 2007 IHC
9900I w/cab damage, 475 ISX rebuilt eng.
EGR delete, 18 spd. Sexsmith Used Farm
Parts, 1-800-340-1192, Sexsmith, AB.
SANDBLASTING AND PAINTING of heavy
trucks, trailers and equipment. Please call
for details. Can-Am Truck Export Ltd.,
1-800-938-3323, Delisle, SK.
CAN-AM TRUCK EXPORT LTD., Delisle, SK,
1-800-938-3323. 2002 Kenworth T800, 60
Detroit, 13-40, $28,000; 1994 Freightliner
daycab, 60 Detroit, 13-40, $14,000; 1990
Ford L8000, 7.8 dsl, Allison auto, equipped
w/Vactor 2100 hydrovac, only 250,000
kms, $25,000; 1997 Doepker Super B flatdeck trailer, air ride susp., $9500; 1998
Freightliner FL112, M11 Cummins, auto,
40 rears, with new 20’ ultracel BH&T,
$58,000; 2006 Freightliner M2, Mercedes,
auto, 15’ Midland gravel box, 10’ hyd. belly
plow, 155,000 kms, $58,000; 2001 Freightliner FL80, Cat 3126, auto, 15’ Midland,
$45,000; 1999 GMC 8500 fuel truck, 2500
gal., 3126 Cat auto, $32,000; 2003 Pete
378, 6NZ Cat, 18-46 locks, 48’ flat-top
sleeper, $47,000; 2005 Hino 238 W 24
van, auto, 195,000 kms, $23,000; 1997 CH
Mack daycab, 350 Mack, 10 spd. 40 rears,
SLEEPERS AND DAYCABS. New and used. $12,000. Gensets avail. Financing avail.,
Huge inventory across Western Canada at OAC. www.can-amtruck.com DL#910420.
Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
T800 KENWORTHS, 2010, 2008, 2007, 204-685-2222 or view information at
heavy specs., also 2008 day cab; 2013 IH www.titantrucksales.com
5900I, 42” bunk, 46 diff, 4-way lock, 18
speed, 390,000 kms; 2009 Western Star, SLEEPERS AND DAYCABS. New and used.
rebuilt Detroit eng, 18 speed, 46s, 4-way Huge inventory across Western Canada at
lock; 2006 378 Pete, Cat 18 speed, 46 diff, www.Maximinc.Com or call Maxim Truck &
4-way locks w/roo-bar bumper; 2007 Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
T800 KW and 2006 Pete daycabs, heavy
specs.; 2007 IH 9200 daycab, ISX 435, 13
speed; 2006 IH 9200, 475 Cummins, 18
speed, 46 diff; 2004 IH 8600, S/A, daycab, DECKS, DRY VANS, reefers and storage
Cat C10, 10 speed; 1996 T800 KW, 475 trailers at: www.Maximinc.Com or call
Cat, 13 speed. Ron Brown Imp. Delisle, Maxim Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
306-493-9393 www.rbisk.ca DL#905231
2004 CHEV CUTAWAY Cube van, auto., AC,
14' ins box, trailer brakes, 64,633 kms,
$14,900. 780-446-7822, Sedgewick, AB.
Fre e In itia l C on s u lta tion s
S u c c e s s ion P la n n in g &
Im p le m e n ta tion
Corp ora te , P e rs on a l &
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Cre a tion of Fa m ily Tru s ts /
Bu s in e s s P la n n in g
Ac c ou n tin g S of tw a re
Tra in in g & S e tu p s
In c orp ora tion s / Rollove rs /
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FARM/CORPORATE PROJECTS. Call A.L.
Management Group for all your borrowing
and lease requirements. 306-790-2020,
Regina, SK.
DEBTS, BILLS AND charge accounts too
high? Need to resolve prior to spring? Call
us to develop a professional mediation
plan, resolution plan or restructuring plan.
Call toll free 1-888-577-2020.
THE HANDLER IS available in 5 sizes and
proven on tens of thousands of farms from
across the world. Call 1-855-765-9937 or
visit: www.polywest.ca
FARM CHEMICAL/ SEED COMPLAINTS
We also specialize in: agricultural complaints of any nature; Crop ins. appeals;
Spray drift; Chemical failure; Residual herbicide; Custom operator issues; Equip.
malfunction. Ph. Back-Track Investigations
1-866-882-4779 for assistance and
compensation. backtrackcanada.com
AFFORDABLE RADON mitigation solution LOWDERMILK TRANSPORT IS providing
with Polywest, Liberty Pumps and Fantech! one call service for all Equipment/Hay
hauling. Very experienced, multiple trucks
1-855-765-9937 or visit: www.polywest.ca
serving AB., SK., and MB. 780-872-0107,
306-252-1001, Kenaston, SK.
2014 KENWORTH T370, auto trans, Paccar
engine, with a sewer equipment company
America, Truck Jet 800-HPR Series 2,
1500 gallons water supply, unit excellent
condition, new MB. safety, $129,000. Can
deliver. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.
MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, stumps,
caraganas, etc. 12 years of enviro friendly
mulching. Call today! 306-933-2950. Visit:
www.maverickconstruction.ca
CUSTOM LIQUID MANURE hauling, 3
t a n k s ava i l a b l e . C o n t a c t G e o r g e
306-227-5757, Hague, SK.
2012 ATLAS COPCO port. air compressor
Model XATS 750 JD7T3, 750 CFM at 173
PSI, vg condition. Only approx. 2100 hrs,
job ready, $64,500. Can deliver. Call
NEUFELD ENT. CORRAL CLEANING, 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.
payloader, Bobcat with rubber tracks and 2007 VOLVO L20B, 3440 hrs., 1 cu. yard
v e r t i c a l b e a t e r s p r e a d e r s . P h o n e bucket, 12.5/80-18 12PR tires, front/rear
306-220-5013, 306-467-5013, Hague, SK.
lights, extra hyd. lines to bucket, quick
coupler, F.O.B., $38,000. 204-795-9192,
Plum Coulee, MB.
CAT HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS:
463, 435, 80 and 70, all very good cond.,
2011 HITACHI ZX270 LC-3 hyd. excavator, new conversion. Also new and used scrapbrand new UC, hyd. thumb, 2 buckets, cat- er tires. Can deliver. 204-793-0098, Stony
walks, positive air shutoff. 587-991-6605, Mountain, MB.
Edmonton, AB.
CAT 980G, $60,000; Hitachi ZX200LC exMACKIE EQUIPMENT LTD. New, used cavator w/thumb, $55,000; 2009 Mack
and surplus parts including attachments. CXU613, 10 spd. auto, 450,000 kms,
Using our worldwide locating system, let $35,000; D8R dozer, straight blade, twin
us help you locate Caterpillar, various oth- t i l t , $ 2 0 , 0 0 0 . 2 0 4 - 3 7 6 - 5 1 9 4 ,
ers and even hard to find parts. Contact us 204-641-2408, Arborg, MB.
today at 306-352-3070, Regina, SK. or visit
2003 CASE 580 BACKHOE, 4x4, extend-aour website at: www.mackieltd.com
hoe, shedded, $31,000. 306-786-6510,
RECLAMATION CONTRACTORS: Bigham Rhein, SK.
3 and 4 leg mechanical trip 3 pt. hitch
Paratills in stock; parts for Bigham and Tye 2003 D-7-R, cab, AC and bush canopy, 4
barrel multi-shank ripper w/A-dozer, angle
Paratills. Call Kelloughs: 1-888-500-2646.
and tilt, new eng. plus repairs totalled
2011 TAKEUCHI TB1140 excavator, doz- $137,000 approx. 3000 hrs. ago, $105,000
er, 32” trenching, 52” clean up bucket, USD; 2001 D-6-R LGP crawler tractor,
thumb, aux. hyd., 3300 hrs., good shape, A-dozer, tilt, cab, AC, bush canopy, diff.
$95,000. Call 306-594-7981, Norquay, SK.
steering, Cargo hyd. winch, 7600 hrs., UC
approx. 85%, $80,000 USD; 2008 Hitachi
ZX270, C-3 hyd. excavator, hyd. thumb,
QA bucket, aux. hyds., 7190 hrs., $70,000
USD; 2006 Hitachi ZX270 LC hyd. excavator, QA bucket, 11’ stick, aux. hyd., 6382
hrs., $65,000 USD; 2000 D-6-R LGP,
cab, AC, canopy, diff. steering, winch, Aframe 16’8”, very clean machine, $85,000;
2007 D6N LGP crawler, c/w 6-way blade
dozer, AC, cab, canopy, diff. steering, one
BB1 MS ripper, 8626 hrs., extremely clean,
UC is like new, $96,000; 2004 D6N LGP
crawler, w/6-way dozer, AC cab, diff.
steering, Allied W6G winch, 10,600 hrs.,
$84,000; 2- 2005 Komatsu 320 payload2004 LINDE H 45D FORKLIFT 10,000 lbs., ers, w/quick attach buckets, $50,000 ea;
diesel Perkins eng., side shift, 48” forks, 3 2010 Cat 324 excavator w/hyd. thumb.
stage mast, $13,500. Call 204-743-2324, 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB.
Cypress River, MB.
CLIFF’S USED CRAWLER PARTS. Some
o l d e r C at s , I H a n d A l l i s C h a l m e r s .
780-755-2295, Edgerton, AB.
HIEBERT TRUCKING: equipment
CONTINUOUS METAL ROOFING, no ex- LARRY
farm machinery. Serving western
posed screws to leak or metal overlaps. hauling,
Canada.
780-720-4304,
Willingdon, AB.
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.
TANDEM AXLE GRAVEL trucks in inventory. New and used, large inventory across
Western Canada at www.Maximinc.Com or
SUMP PITS TO suit any application! All
call Maxim Truck & Trailer 1-888-986-2946
manufactured using durable polyethylene
for guaranteed long life! 1-855-765-9937
or view: www.polywest.ca
1998 INTERNATIONAL Model 4700, auto, WHITETAIL OUTFITTING AREA. Ever dream
manual brakes, 20’ deck, 11- 22.5 tires, DT of building your own wilderness hunting
retreat on a secluded 4x4 access only fish466E engine. 306-242-6159, Warman, SK.
ing lake in NW Saskatchewan? The License
LOOK AT THIS! an excellent find, only includes 28 whitetail allocations granting
76,000 original kms. 1982 L8000 Ford, exclusive non-resident hunting on over
3208 Cat dsl, 5&2 trans., 14’ flatdeck, new 120,000 acres of rarely hunted forested
paint, exc. tires. All around excellent truck, crown land, as well as 30,000 acres of prisMake a great water or delivery truck, etc. tine park land, lodge/camp building rights
$11,500. Call Merv at 306-276-7518, and access to 8 lakes. 306-238-7500,
306-767-2616, Arborfield, SK DL #906768
Meadow Lake, SK. [email protected]
2003 KENWORTH winch truck, rebuilt Cat WEEKLY PAPER for sale in Christina
6NZ, w/30 ton hyd. winch, $40,000 work- Lake, BC. Under the same owner for 16
orders. Several tandem floats and Knight years. The Lake is about 20 kms long and
tandem scissor neck. Call Danny Spence, is the warmest tree-lined lake in Canada,
306-246-4632, Speers, SK.
situated on the US border midway be2006 STERLING TRI-DRIVE spreader truck tween Calgary and Vancouver (website
w/2007 roto-mix spreader box, 444,340 hellobc.com). Bike the Trans-Canada Trail,
kms, 4536 hrs, floater tires. Auto. powered ski Red Mt. and Phoenix, hike, golf (2
by Cat eng. Well maintained, looked after. courses), cross-country ski, snowmobile.
Used to spread manure and wood chips, Great climate and lift-style. $139,900. Will
train. 250-447-9170, [email protected]
$90,000. Jeff 403-371-6362, Brant, AB.
20’ HOIST, 2007 C7500, 7.8L 6 cyl., 6 5- BARUDAN EMBROIDERY MACHINES,
spd., 12/23 axles, hyd. brakes, 280K, SK. single head, 15 color, less than a year old.
Owner wants to retire. Call 780-862-8575,
truck, vg, $28,000. 306-563-8765, Canora
Tofield, AB.
highway tractors. For more details call WELL ESTABLISHED FRANCHISED retail
204-685-2222 or view information at tire store located east central AB. in thriving centre. High volume. Owner retiring.
For information call 780-842-8443.
2003 FORD F450 4x4, auto, V10, 99,300
kms, 225/70R19.5xDS2 Michelin tires, vg HOTELS FOR SALE: Bassano, AB. 24
condition, 7’x7.5 flatdeck w/15” sides, c/w renovated rooms, bar, 6 VLT’s, new liquor
Ferrari Model 535C crane, $14,000. store, Will train. 2 adjacent lots for sale;
Nanton, AB: Tavern, 5 VLT’s, restaurant, 6
204-362-1275, Plum Coulee, MB.
rooms, liquor store on Hwy. Will train.
FUEL TRUCK: 1996 T450 Kenworth, 3600 Gravel Pit: Crossfield, AB. Priced to sell.
gal. fuel capacity, dual pumps and meters, Bruce McIntosh, Re/Max Landan, Calgary,
coded. Call 306-493-9393, Delisle, SK.
1993 IH 8100 tandem, 466 dsl., 10 spd. STRONG INVESTMENT IN BUSINESS
trans., 12,000 front axles, 40,000 rears, And Real Estate in Saskatoon. Minimum
excellent cond., w/18’ flatdeck, exc. tires, $80,000. High return of 10%. Call Pat at
433,000 kms. Good water or delivery 306-221-7285.
truck. $21,500. Call Merv 306-276-7518,
306-767-2616, Arborfield, SK DL #906768
2006 JEEP COMMANDER, 235,871
kms., fully loaded, Command Start, asking
$7400. 780-385-8008, Viking, AB.
2015 SUBARU FORESTER. Best small SUV.
$2000 cash purchase discount MSRP from
$25,995. Call 1-877-373-2662 or
2 0 1 5 S U BA RU O U T BAC K . B e s t n ew
SUV/CUV, MSRP starting from $27,995.
1-877-373-2662 or subaruofsaskatoon.ca
DL #914077.
BRUSH MULCHING. The fast, effective
way to clear land. Four season service,
competitive rates, 275 HP unit, also avail.
trackhoe with thumb, multiple bucket attachments. Bury rock and brush piles and
fence line clearing. Borysiuk Contracting
Inc., www.bcisk.ca Prince Albert, SK.,
306-960-3804.
REGULATION DUGOUTS: 120x60x14’,
$2000; 160x60x14’, $2950; 180x60x14’,
$3450; 200x60x14’, $3950. Gov’t grants
available. 306-222-8054, Saskatoon, SK.
FROST RIPPER/STUMP puller attachment
for excavators, available with QA or pin-on
o p t i o n . We s t e r n H e av y E q u i p m e n t ,
306-981-3475, Prince Albert, SK.
GREAT PRICES ON new, used and remanufactured engines, parts and accessories for
diesel pickups. Large inventory, engines
can be shipped or installed. Give us a call
or check: www.thickettenginerebuilding.ca
Thickett Engine Rebuilding. 204-532-2187,
Russell, MB.
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.
DIESEL ENGINES, OVERHAUL kits and
parts for most makes. Cat, CIH, Cummins,
Detroit, Mack. M&M Equipment Ltd., Parts
and Service phone: 306-543-8377, fax:
306-543-2111, Regina, SK.
3406B, N14, SERIES 60, running engines
and parts. Call Yellowhead Traders,
306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK.
WANTED DIESEL CORES: ISX and N14
Cummins, C15 Cats, Detroits Ddec 3, 4,
DD15. Can-Am Truck 1-800-938-3323.
290 CUMMINS, 350 Detroit, 671 Detroit,
Series 60 cores. 306-539-4642, Regina, SK
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.,
306-873-2881, fax 306-873-4788, 1005A111th Ave., Tisdale, SK. [email protected]
Website: www.tismtrrewind.com
POLE BARNS, WOODSTEEL packages,
hog, chicken, and dairy barns. Construction and concrete crews available. Mel or
Scott, MR Steel Construction,
HYDRAULIC SCRAPERS: LEVER 60, 70, 306-978-0315, Hague, SK.
80, and 435, 4 to 30 yd. available, rebuilt
for years of trouble-free service. Lever STRAIGHT WALL BUILDING packages or
built on site. For early booking call
Holdings Inc., 306-682-3332, Muenster SK
1-800-667-4990 or visit our website
ATTACHMENTS PARTS COMPONENTS www.warmanhomecentre.com
for construction equipment. Attachments
for dozers, excavators and wheel loaders. WINTER BOOKING SPECIALS IN Effect
Used, Re-built, Surplus, and New equip- Up to 20% off Steel Farm Buildings built in
ment parts and major components. Call Clavet, SK., by Prairie Steel: 50’x125’x20’
Western Heavy Equipment 306-981-3475, $46,800; 60’x150’x20’ $61,800; 70’x150’x
20’ $71,900; 80’x150’x20’ $83,600. InPrince Albert, SK.
cludes 26 GA colour walls/galvalume roof.
2008 D85 KOMATSU dozer; 2009 SV212 Many other sizes available. 888-398-7150
Case packer; 2007 PC300-7 Komatsu 60’ [email protected]
long reach trackhoe; 2013 PC210LC Ko- PRE-ENGINEERED STEEL BUILDINGS for
matsu trackhoe; 2008 970 Volvo motor all your agricultural, equestrian, industrial,
grader; 2007 Komatsu HM 300, 2- 3305 shop or storage needs. Call 306-249-2355
Terex Rock trucks; Esco class hammer 5” for a free quote. Montana Construction
pin, 4000 lbs; NPK plate compactor, www.montanasteelbuilders.ca Saskatoon.
28”x40”. Call 306-634-9911, Estevan, SK.
1980 CASE W18, new 17.5x25-G2 12PR
tires, 2 cu. yd. bucket, F.O.B., $25,000.
204-795-9192, Plum Coulee, MB.
1988 JD 644E wheel loader, 23.5x25
DIAMOND CANVAS SHELTERS, sizes
tires, 4 cu. yard general purpose bucket KELLO DISC BLADES and bearings: 22” to ranging from 15’ wide to 120’ wide, any
EQUIPMENT HAULING. Serving Western with teeth, $35,000 204-795-9192, Plum 42” notched. Parts: oilbath and greaseable length. Call Bill 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB.
bearings to service heavy construction www.starlinesales.com
Canada and Northwest USA. Call Harvey at Coulee, MB.
discs. Call: 1-888-500-2646, Red Deer, AB.
1-877-824-3010 or cell 403-795-1872.
www.kelloughs.com
WOOD POST BUILDING packages or built
Vandenberg Hay Farms Ltd., Nobleford AB.
on site. For early booking call
5- EXCAVATOR BUCKETS, trenching and 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website
clean-out; also, 3- rippers for excavators, www.warmanhomecentre.com
WEST CENTRAL EQUIPMENT HAULING
some Cats, some WBMs. 204-871-0925,
serving SK., AB., MB. and Northwest US.
WANTED: OLDER STEEL quonsets, any
MacGregor, MB.
Specializing in Ag and Oilfield equipment.
size, std. steel Behlen of Fairford. Myles
Equipped with winch. Pilot trucks
2008 JD 270D LC hyd. excavator, Q/C, 2 306-745-6140 306-745-7530 Esterhazy SK
available. Contact Troy at 306-831-9776 or
buckets, hyd. thumb, AC, forestry package,
email: [email protected]
catwalks, pro-heat, positive air shut-off, BEHLEN STEEL BUILDINGS, quonsets,
convex and rigid frame straight walls,
8240 hrs. 587-991-6605, Edmonton, AB.
LONG LAKE TRUCKING custom hay haulgrain tanks, metal cladding, farm - coming, 2 units. 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK.
HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS 10 to 25 SKIDSTEER ATTACHMENTS: Buckets, rock mercial. Construction and concrete crews.
ANDRES TRUCKING. Heavy Equipment, yds., exc. cond.; Loader and scraper tires, buckets, grapples, weld-on plates and Guaranteed workmanship. Call your Saskacombines, bins, hay, grain, Canada/USA. custom conversions available. Looking for much more large stock. Top quality equip- toon and northwest Behlen Distributor,
Cat cable scrapers. Quick Drain Sales Ltd., ment. Call Quality Welding and Sales Janzen Steel Buildings, 306-242-7767,
Call/text 306-736-3454, Windthorst, SK.
306-231-7318, 306-682-4520 Muenster SK
306-731-3009, 306-731-8195, Craven, SK.
Osler, SK.
SHORT OR LONG HAUL? Setup with two
53’ stepdecks to haul 34 large round bales. EQUIPMENT SALE: Year-End: dozers,
rock
trucks,
excavators.
Call
Conquest
Call or text 204-851-2983, Virden, MB.
Equipment, 306-483-2500, Oxbow, SK.
LOG GRAPPLE FOR Komatsu 500 size loadYo rk to n S K - S ervic ing Alb erta , S a s ka tc hew a n & M a nitob a
er; Ripper for Champion grader; Deck for 1
ton; V plow and snow wings for graders;
Rippers for D6 and D7G’s; Blades for D6,
D7 and D8’s. Call Danny Spence,
306-246-4632, Speers, SK.
ATLAS BUILD IN G S YS TEM S & S ALES LTD
8-1/2 YARD SCHULTE scraper, $6600.
306-786-6510, Rhein, SK.
2010 CAT 958 WHEEL LOADER, with
Cat quick coupler bucket, 3-3/4 cubic
LIONEL’S TRUCKING. Haul farm equip., yards, 23.5x25 tires, F.O.B. $110,000. Call
construction equipment. Scissor neck trail- 204-795-9192, Plum Coulee, MB.
er for oilfield, truck recovery, winch truck
service. Drumheller, AB. 403-820-1235.
SKID STEER SNOW BUCKETS, new 90” and
96” buckets made with Grade 50 high tensile steel, 1/2”x6” cutting edge, back is 27”
high and 36” deep, $1500 and $1600. Call
Brian 306-331-7443, Dysart, SK.
FARM FINANCIAL CONSULTING: Farm
business and succession plans; lender
negotiations. Art Lange, PAg, CAFA, 12 yrs
experience. 780-467-6040, Sherwood Park
[email protected] www.ajlconsulting.ca
FARMERS AND BUSINESS PERSONS need
financial help? Go to: www.bobstocks.ca
or call 306-757-1997. 245- 1055 Park
Street, Regina, SK.
LINDE H70D-02 FORKLIFT: lifting cap.
15,000 lbs., 45” forks x 11” wide, lifting
height 14’, side shift, 2-stage wide view
mast, front duals, hydrostatic trans, 6 cyl.
Perkins eng., vg working cond., $21,000
OBO. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.
KECKS TUB GRINDING Services. We offer
tub grinding for hay bales, self load grapple
with scale, many screens, 500 HP.
306-312-9013,
Hodgeville,
SK.
[email protected]
JIM’S TUB GRINDING, H-1100 Haybuster
with 400 HP, serving Saskatchewan. Call
306-334-2232, Balcarres, SK.
ROAD GRADERS CONVERTED to pull
behind large 4WD tractors, 14’ and 16’
blade widths available. Call 306-682-3367,
CWK Enterprises, Humboldt, SK.
www.cwenterprises.ca
2009 D6T LGP Cat dozer, 6-way blade,
double tilt, good UC, cab, AC, diff. steer,
Carco winch, $100,000. 204-325-8019,
204-362-1091, Winkler, MB.
DON’T PAY THOSE HIGH EX CHANGE RATES
BUY CANADIAN ALL STEEL AND POST FRAM E BUILDINGS!
Servic ing SK , M B & AB.
A TL A S B UIL D ING S Y S TEM S & S A L ES L TD .
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BROCK (BUTLER) GRAIN BIN PARTS LIFETIME LID OPENERS. We are a stockand accessories available at Rosler Con- ing dealer for Boundary Trail Lifetime Lid
struction. 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK.
Openers, 18” to 39”. Rosler Construction
2000 Inc., 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK.
2015 CIM BIN TRANSPORT TRAILER
17,000 lb. cap., 32’ bed accommodates up 1- 24 ft. HOPPER CONE w/triple skids and
to 21’ dia. bin. For factory direct pricing 24” inverted V cross air, $13,500. Middle
and options call 306-682-2505, Humboldt, Lake Steel, 306-367-4306, 306-367-2408,
Middle Lake SK. www.middlelakesteel.com
SK. or www.cim-ltd.ca
FARM BUILDINGS
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www.westrumlumber.com
1-888-663-9663
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M&K WELDING
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PROGRAM NOW ON!
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See you at
CROP PRODUCTION SHOW
Saskatoon January 11-14
Booth #A10.
Remote Lid Openers starting
at $139.00
M&K Welding
Melfort, Sask
1-877-752-3004
www.mkwelding.ca
FOR ALL YOUR STRUCTURAL STEEL,
roofing and siding needs, big or small. Call
Fouillard Steel Supplies, St. Lazare, MB. U-WELD HOPPER BOTTOMS, sizes from 12
1-800-510-3303. Remember nobody sells to 24 ft., Middle Lake Steel, 306-367-4306,
306-367-2408, Middle Lake, SK.
roofing and siding cheaper!! Nobody.
ARM RIVERPOLE BUILDINGS, 40’x60’ to BIN AND TANK MOVING. Call or text
80’x300’, Sask. only. Call 306-731-2066, 306-736-3454, Windthorst, SK.
Lumsden, SK., [email protected]
WESTEEL, GOEBEL, grain and fertilizer
bins. Grain Bin Direct, 306-373-4919.
WHEN
Quality
COUNTS
Acre a ge “ M us tH a ve ” S h o p/G a ra ge
24’9”x52’-14’ High c/w 2x6 stud frame,
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colored metal (roof, walls) 16x12-R16
endwall overhead door, 10x10-R16
sidewall overhead door, 36” walk in door,
48x30 PVC slider window.
CHIEF WESTLAND AND CARADON BIN
extensions, sheets, stiffeners, etc. Now
available. Call Bill, 780-986-5548, Leduc,
AB. www.starlinesales.com
Download the
free app today.
WITH BIN SENSE installed, you can check
the temperature of the grain in your bins
on your Smart phone from anywhere in
the world. Call Flaman Sales for more info.
306-934-2121.
BIN MOVING, all sizes up to 19’ diameter,
w/wo floors; Also move liquid fert. tanks.
306-629-3324, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK.
W INTER
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SD L HO PPER
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SD L AGR A LTD
M ARG O ,SASK.
Grain Bin Direct
BINS SPECIAL PRICING on remaining inventory of 10,000 bu. Twister hopper bins.
See your nearest Flaman store for more
details 1-888-435-2626.
ANNOUNCEMENT
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FLO O RS
TOP QUALITY MERIDIAN BINS. Book
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set-up and delivery within set radius. Meridian 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.,
BOOTH C25 CROP Production Show. 52 306-957-2033, Odessa, SK.
and 48 bu. pallet bin for grain cleaning
and treated seed storage. 306-258-4422,
Vonda, SK. www.buffervalley.com
2015 CIM BIN Cranes (Westeel design),
8000 lb. capacity. For factory direct pricing
and options call 306-682-2505, Humboldt,
SK. or www.cim-ltd.ca
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Galvanized • Flat Floor • Hopper Bins
Smooth Walls • Fertilizer • Grain • Feed
Aeration • Rockets • Fans • Heaters
Temp Cables
Authorized Dealer
JTL Industries Ltd. and our
customers are excited to announce
that Henry Wiebe of Winkler,
Manitoba has joined our team.
Henry has an excellent track record
based on his enthusiasm, honesty
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He is looking forward to working
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creating new customer partnerships.
[email protected]
www.jtlindustries.ca
Neilburg, Saskatchewan
Head Office: 1-306-823-4888
Alberta: 1-780-872-4943
Manitoba: 1-204-312-7833
Visit our website
Saskatoon, SK
Phone: 306-373-4919
FOR ALL YOUR grain storage, hopper
grainbindirect.com
cone and steel floor requirements contact:
Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll TIM’S CUSTOM BIN MOVING and haulfree: 1-888-304-2837.
ing Inc. Buy and sell used grain bins.
204-362-7103 [email protected]
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P rice for(1) Hop p er: $3000.00
ora load of(4) Hop p ers: $11,500.00
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ADAMS SPREADER & TENDER
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LEASING NEW and used 20’ and
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rentals and modifications. New and used 4306-757-2828,
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containers. For further details, please visit
1 800 667 8800
us online, or in Leduc, AB. Contact:
www.nuvisionfhs.com
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8300 GAL. IMP VERT. LIQUID Fertilizer
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tanks in various sizes. 1-888-435-2626
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306-868-2199 or cell: 306-868-7738.
KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD/ OPI STORMAX.
For sales and service east central SK. and
MB., call Gerald Shymko, Calder, SK.,
306-742-4445 or toll free 1-888-674-5346.
2016
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Call for details on our exciting
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Packages Include:
Award winning “Force” aeration
hopper, skid, manway, bin level
indicators, ladder, inspection
hatch, roof vents, lid opener.
360”
bin lineup!
[email protected]
Neilburg, Saskatchewan
Head Office: 1-306-823-4888
Alberta: 1-780-872-4943
Manitoba: 1-204-312-7833
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HIGH CAPACITY AUGERS
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MERIDIAN AUGERS IN STOCK: swings,
truck loading, Meridian SP movers. Contact Hoffart Services Inc., Odessa, SK.,
306-957-2033.
MERIDIAN GRAIN AUGERS: SP kits and 2011 TRIDEKON 13” box extractor, done
clutches, Kohler, Vanguard engines, gas 20 bags, $32,000. Phone 780-221-3980,
and diesel. Call Brian ‘The Auger Guy’ Leduc, AB.
204-724-6197, Souris, MB.
FLAMAN PRO GRAIN bag roller - clean up
used bags easily. Avail. in skidsteer mount
or pull behind trailer mount at Flaman Saskatoon. Starting at $8,330 and $8,980.
1-888-435-2626. www.flaman.com
RICHIGER E-180 10’ grain extractor. Akron
E-180 9’ grain extractor. $15,000 OBO
each. 306-252-2227, Kenaston, SK.
MERIDIAN AUGER SALE: 10x39 loaded
35 Vanguard, $15,000; 10x46 loaded 35
Kohler, $15,975; 8x53 loaded 31 Vanguard, $14,775. Above pricing is customer
install. Installation available upon request.
2- 10x72 SLMD augers, $12,000 ea. Brian
204-724-6197, Souris, MB.
RENT OR BUY at Flaman! 1610 PRO grain
extractor. Unload bags easily and economically. See your nearest Flaman store
or call 1-888-435-2626.
SAKUNDIAK GRAIN AUGERS available
with self-propelled mover kits and bin
sweeps. Contact Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll free 1-888-304-2837.
www.midplainsimplements.ca Potato
LOOKING FOR A floater or tender? Call me and irrigation; crop production implefirst. 35 years experience. Loral parts, new ments. Call: 204-834-2575, Carberry, MB.
and used. Call 403-650-7967, Calgary, AB.
Call today for
introductory pricing on our
NEW “Force
BATCO CONVEYORS, new and used, 2010 CASE 4520, 3-bin, 70’ booms, 3100
grain augers and SP kits. Delivery and hrs., $168,000; 2- 2007 Case 4520s, 3-bin,
70’ booms, 3300 hrs., AutoSteer, $144,000
leasing available. 1-866-746-2666.
and $124,000; 2006 Case 4510, AutoSteer,
NEW BATCO 45’ conveyor with mover kit. FlexAir 70’ booms, 7400 hrs., $92,000;
29 HP motor, $23,900. Ph Flaman Sales 2005 Case 4520 w/70’ flex air, 4000 hrs.,
Saskatoon, 1-888-435-2626.
$109,000; 2004 Case 4010, 80’ sprayer,
7000 hrs., $68,000; Two 2004 Loral AirBUILD YOUR OWN conveyors, 6”, 7”, 8” Max 1000s, 70’ booms, immaculate,
and 10” end units available; Transfer con- $76,000 and $93,000; 2004 AgChem Roveyors and bag conveyors or will custom gator with air bed, $48,000; 2009 AgChem
build. Call for prices. Master Industries 8204, 3-bin, 2800 hrs., $94,500; 2006 2Inc. www.masterindustries.ca Phone bin AgChem, 70’ booms, $78,000; 2008
1-866-567-3101, Loreburn, SK.
Adams Semi tender, self-contained,
2012 Merritt semi belt tender,
BATCO-REM CONVEYOR and VACUUM: $39,500;
1992 Wrangler loader, $15,500;
1545FL Batco conveyor, $23,500. Rem $44,000;
1966
Fruehauf
10,300 gal. new test, triple
VRX grain vac, $23,500. 306-648-3321, axle NH3 transport,
$66,500. All prices in
Gravelbourg, SK.
USD. 406-466-5356 Choteau, MT. View
www.fertilizerequipment.net
GRAIN AUGER
INVENTORY CLEAR OUT
GRAINMAXX
G re a t, S e c u re s to ra ge fo r a ll yo u r
c he m ic a l, s e e d , fu e l, to o ls a n d a ll
o fyo u r va lu a b le s .
M o d ify yo u r s to ra ge u n itto m e e t
yo u r n e e d s w ith e xtra d o o rs , w in d o w s ,
po w e r, c u s to m pa in t, in s u la tio n ,e tc .
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.
Ca ll BOND Toda y
Ph. 306-373-2236 Cell 306-221-9630
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2010 TERRAGATOR 8204, 3450 hours, precision 2 with chemical bin, $118,000;
2009 Ag-Chem 8204, 2-bin with chemical
b i n , 4 5 7 0 h o u r s , $ 9 4 , 5 0 0 . U S D.
406-466-5356, Choteau, MT.
Auger
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Best Hopper
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DECEMBER MERIDIAN SPECIALS: New
12x72’ and 12x79’ SLMD swing augers plus
other sizes in stock. Used 2008 Sakundiak
12x85’ S/A; Brandt 10x60’ S/A; 8x59’ Sakundiak PTO drive. Plus new 45’ ConveyAll in stock. Leasing available. Call Dale at
Mainway Farm Equipment, 306-567-3285,
306-567-7299, mainwayfarmequipment.ca
Davidson, SK.
REMOTE CONTROL SWING AUGER
movers, trailer chute openers, endgate
and hoist systems, wireless full bin alarms,
swing belt movers, wireless TractorCams,
motorized utility carts. All shipped directly
to you. Safety, convenience, reliability.
Kramble Industries at 306-933-2655,
Saskatoon, SK. or www.kramble.net
20’ AND 40’ SEA CONTAINERS, for sale
in Calgary, AB. Phone 403-226-1722,
1-866-517-8335. www.magnatesteel.com
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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Increase
auger capacity up to 25%
Eliminates
spills and grain spitting
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BEAVER CONTAINER SYSTEMS, new
and used sea containers, all sizes.
306-220-1278, Saskatoon and Regina, SK.
CONTAINERS FOR SALE OR RENT: All
sizes. Now in stock: 50 used, 53’ steel and
insulated SS. 306-861-1102, Radville, SK.
SHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR SALE. 20’53’, delivery/ rental/ storage available. For
inventory and prices call: 306-262-2899,
Saskatoon, SK. www.thecontainerguy.ca
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Air travels horizontally
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drying, reduced static
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pressure, smaller aeration
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fan required, faster drying
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time, saving time and
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money.
WANTED: 7” AUGER, 45 to 50’ long w/wo
motor. Call Jack Shymko, 306-675-4419,
Ituna, SK.
M E R I D I A N G R A I N A U G E R S : F u l ly
equipped with engines, movers, clutches,
reversing gearbox and lights. HD8-39,
$15,350; HD8-46, $15,995; HD8-59,
$17,250; TL10-39, $16,500; HD10-59,
$18,750. 306-648-3321, Gravelbourg, SK.
FARM KING 16X104 swing away grain
auger loaded, excellent condition,
$25,000. 306-441-1684, Cut Knife, SK.
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exhausted out of your bin
GREAT CAPACITY, 300 TON/HOUR
1 BUSHEL CLEAN UP AT THE END OF THE BAG.
FULLY WINDS UP GRAIN BAG
Call Your Local Dealer
or Grain Bags Canada at 306-682-5888
www.grainbagscanada.com
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900/65R32, REAR TIRES
600/65R28
$128,500 (PA)
$89,900 (PA)
2012 MACDON M155
2012 NEW HOLLAND H8060
#W22651A
#HW3388A
WITH 30’ D50 HEADER.
236 HRS, SINGLE REEL
FORE/AFT, 16.5L-16.1 TAIL
WHEELS, 600-65R28 DRIVE
WHEELS, HYD CENTRE
LINK, GAUGE WHEELS,
SLOW SPEED TRANSPORT
WITH 36’ HONEYBEE HEADER.
509 HRS, AIR SPRING SUSPENSION, FULL CAB W/AC, EZEE
PILOT GUIDANCE, CAB DELUXE
UPGRADE, DOUBLE KNIFE,
SINGLE SWATH, SINGLE UII
REEL, HYD FORE/AFT, GAUGE
WHEEL, TRANSPORT PACKAGE
$137,700 (PA)
$123,600 (K)
$105,000 (H)
2007 MASSEY FERGUSON 9430
2014 MORRIS FIELD PRO 70’ HARROW
2014 GREAT PLAINS 3500 TM VERTICAL TILLAGE
#W22408A
#HR3447
9430 WITH 30’ CENTRE DELIVERY HEADER. 1108 HRS,
UII P/U REEL, HYD TILT
AND GAUGE WHEELS,
18.4R26 DRIVE TIRES,
12.5L-15 FORMED CASTORS
NEW! 70’ , 9.16” TINES
#PS3147
NEW! 35’ 3 SECTION CAT V
HITCH OPTION TV/TM/TT,
ROLL HWR/HEAVY REEL,
1500 LB TT CENTRE FRM
WGT KIT
$59,000 (K)
$36,500 (H)
$101,000 (PA)
2013 7450 LANDOLL VERTICAL TILLAGE
2005 CASE IH SCX100 DISCBINE
2004 NEW HOLLAND 94C
#N22357
NEW! 39’ WIDE, 22” DISC
DIAMETER, 7” BLADE
SPACING, ONLY 200 ACRES
ON DISCS , 10 DEG GANG
ANGLE, HYD. TILT, ROLLING
BASKETS
$105,000 (K)
#PN3169B
16’, 12,300 HRS, HYDRO
SWING, RUBBER COND.
ROLLS, 1000 PTO, 1 CROP
DIVIDER, PLASTIC END
SHIELDS
$12,300 (PA)
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$29,900 (H)
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TRUCK BLOWOUT SPECIALS
DAY CAB TRACTORS
2012 International ProStar
2012 International ProStar +122
MaxxForce 13 Engine, 475 HP, Front Axle: 12,000 lbs, Rear Axle: 46,000 lbs, MaxxForce 13 Engine, 450 HP, Front Axle: 12,000 lbs, Rear Axle: 46,000 lbs,
18 Spd, Eaton Fuller Trans, Air Brakes, 795,000 kms, 217” Wheel Base
18 Spd, Eaton Fuller D/O Trans, Air Brakes,
560,000 kms, 193” Wheel Base
$45,750
#V423014
Well
maintained
full service lease return
$55,250
MISSISSAUGA
1280
SHAWSON
DR 905-564-5955
#V423060 CALGARY 6707 894 ST SE 403-571-1275
MaxxForce 13 Engine, 475 HP Front Axle: 12,000
lbs, Rear Axle: 40,000 lbs, 13 Spd, Eaton Fuller
Trans, Air Brakes, 520,000 kms, 173” Wheel Base
MaxxForce 13 Engine, 450 HP, Front Axle: 12,000
D/O, Air Brakes, 527,449 kms, 181” WB
$69,750
$49,750
$57,500
#V423078 1860 BROOKSIDE BLVD 204-790-6599
#422970 MISSISSAUGA 1280 SHAWSON DR 905-564-5955
#V422947 MISSISSAUGA 1280 SHAWSON DR 905-564-5955
2013 International 7600 6x4
MaxxForce 13 Engine, 475 HP, Front Axle: 16,000 lbs, Rear Axle: 46,000 lbs,
18 Spd, Eaton Fuller Ultra Shift, Air Brakes, 174,501 kms, 219” WB
DUMP TRUCKS
SLEEPER TRACTORS
$126,900
$126,900
#V231423 Gravel Body specs
PRINCE ALBERT HWY #2 SOUTH 306-922-1900
MaxxForce 13 Engine, 475 HP, Front Axle:16,000 lbs, Rear Axle: 46,000 lbs,
$126,900
$126,900
THUNDER BAY 125 CONSERVATION RD 807-344-5834
WINNIPEG 1860 BROOKSIDE BLVD 204-790-6599
MaxxForce 13, 450 HP, Front Axle: 12,000 lbs,
Rear Axle: 46,000 lbs, 18 Spd, Eaton Fuller,
Air Brakes, 510,244 kms, 217” WB
$52,500
$55,250
#423019 C/W Warranty
CALGARY 6707 894 ST SE 403-571-1275
#423020 C/W Warranties
CALGARY 6707 894 ST SE 403-571-1275
#422980 Inexpensive unit, well maintained
CALGARY 6707 894 ST SE 403-571-1275
2010 Int’l Prostar Premium
Rear Axle: 46,000 lbs, 18 Spd, Eaton Fuller
$59,000
$67,250
$52,000
#423021
CALGARY 6707 894 ST SE 403-571-1275
Air Brakes, 629,000km
#V231425 16 foot East Alum gravel box
EDMONTON 13240 170 ST NW 780-448-3830
$51,250
MaxxForce 15, 500 HP, Front Axle: 12,350 lbs, Rear Axle: 46,000 lbs, 18 Spd, Eaton
Fuller D/O, Air Brakes, 408,625 kms, 228” WB
MaxxForce 13 Engine, 450 HP, Front Axle: 12,000
$69,900
$72,250
$58,750
#2921-10R Clean owner operator trade
CALGARY 6707 894 ST SE 403-571-1275
#433188 Well maintained sleeper
CALGARY 6707 894 ST SE 403-571-1275
#433173 Small bunk, c/w warranties
CALGARY 6707 894 ST SE 403-571-1275
#423116 Heavy spec, low km
EDMONTON 13240 170 ST NW 780-448-3830
D/O, ABS Brakes, 474,152 kms, 236” WB
D/O, ABS Brakes, 467,381 kms, 228” WB
$68,250
$50,000
$51,250
$69,500
#433136 Heavy Sleeper with tons of warranty remaining
EDMONTON 13240 170 ST NW 780-448-3830
#433101
EDMONTON 13240 170 ST NW 780-448-3830
#422993 Well maintained, inexpensive
MONTREAL 11300 COLBERT ST 514-354-9140
MONTREAL 11300 COLBERT ST 514-354-9140
2009 International ProStar
2012 International ProStar +122 2013 International 5900i 6x4
MaxxForce 13, 475 HP, Front Axle: 12,000 lbs, MaxxForce 15, 550 HP, Front Axle: 13,200 lbs,
O/D, Air Brakes, 202,705 kms, 236” WB
MaxxForce 13, 450 HP, Front Axle: 12,000 lbs, Rear Axle: 40,000 lbs, 13 Spd, Eaton
Fuller D/O, Air Brakes, 921,143 kms, 228” WB,
$32,500
#4426-09A Inexpensive sleeper
2011 International Prostar Premium
D
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SO
$57,500
#423028 Big Bunk Sleeper c/w 4way lock up
THUNDER BAY 125 CONSERVATION RD
807-344-5834
2011 International Prostar Premium
MaxxForce 13, 475 HP, Front Axle: 12,000 lbs, Rear Axle:
46,000 lbs, 18 Spd, Eaton Fuller D/O, Air Brakes, 660,000 kms, 46,000 lbs, 18 Spd, Eaton Fuller D/O, Air Brakes, 623,000 kms,
224” WB
224” WB
$73,000
#433161 Transferable warranty till May 2017
SASKATOON 3250 IDYLWLD DR N
306-657-5600
#422994 Well maintained, inexpensive
$49,900
#433148 Warranty incl. double bunk
MONTREAL 11300 COLBERT ST 514-354-
$85,750
#V422959 Clean one driver sleeper
#5259-13A 52,000 lb wide track Heavy Specs
REGINA 475 HENDERSON DRIVE 306-721-9700 PRINCE ALBERT HWY #2 SOUTH 306-922-1900
2012 International Prostar
2012 International Prostar
40,000 lbs, 13 Spd, Eaton Fuller D/O, ABS Brakes, 775,000
kms, 228” WB
46,000 lbs, 18 Spd, Eaton Fuller, Air Brakes, 657,300 kms,
213” WB
$47,500
$47,500
$49,500
$65,750
#9423-11A
#9427-11A
#V422963 Very inexpensive sleeper, lots of life left
#V422998 Heavy Spec Sleeper with extended warranties
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50,000 farmers
can’t be wrong.
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a tank. You are also purchasing nearly 80 years of experience
and expertise in polyethylene manufacturing. Currently one
of the top rotational molders in North America, Norwesco is
committed to producing the highest quality tanks available.
That’s why Norwesco has been Western
Canada’s #1 choice for 30 years in a row, and why
Polywest chooses Norwesco tanks for all its customers.
We have an extensive Canadian dealer network to serve you!
Please contact us for the name of your closest dealer.
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Titan Truck Sales
Box 299
MacGregor, MB
R0H 0R0
204-685-2222
2011 WESTERN STAR 4900FA
500 HP Detroit DD15, 13 sp, 12/40, 244” WB, 22.5” alloy
wheels, 3:70 gears, 3x4 diff. locks, 738,753 km.
62,000
$
2006 PETERBILT 378
475 HP Cummins ISX, 18 sp, 12 front, super 40 rear, 3x4
diff. locks, 3:91 gears, 22.5” alloy wheels, 204” WB,
wet kit, 909,424 km.
42,000
$
2010 WESTERN STAR 4900FA
515 HP Detroit, 13 sp, 12/40, 22.5” alloy wheels, 244”
WB, 373 gears, 3x4 diff. locks, 744,056 km.
55,000
$
2011 FREIGHTLINER CASCADIA
500 HP DD15, 18 sp, 12 front super 40 rear, 4:10 gears, 4x4
diff. locks, 196” WB, 22.5” alloy wheels, 412,744 km.
65,000
$
2013 IH PROSTAR
2013 KENWORTH T800
500 HP Maxx 15, 18 sp, 14 front 40 rear, 22.5” alloy
wheels, 4x4 diff. locks, 240” WB, 3:70 gears, 365,000 km.
45,000
$
2012 KENWORTH T800
500 HP Cummins ISX, 18 sp, 12 front super 40 rear, 410
gears, 4x4 diff. locks, 22.5” alloy wheels, 222” WB,
638,090 km.
500 HP Cummins ISX, 18 sp Eaton Ultrashift, 12 front
super 40 rear, 4x4 diff. locks, 4:10 gears, 22.5” alloy
wheels, 194” WB,
201,183 km.
89,000
$
2013 IH PROSTAR
65,000
2012 PETERBILT 388
450 HP Cummins ISX, 18 sp, 12/40, 70” bunk, 3x4
diff. locks, 3:70 gears, 22.5” alloy wheels, 244” WB,
799,741 km.
$
79,000
525 HP Cummins ISX, 18 sp, 12,000 front 46,000 rear,
3:91 gears, 24.5” alloy wheels, 4x4 diff. locks, 220”
WB. 1,050,188 km.
59,000
$
2013 MACK CXU613
500 HP Maxx 15, 18 sp, 12/46, 22.5 alloy wheels, 3:58
gears, 4x4 diff. locks, 228” WB, 399,869 km.
45,000
$
2010 KENWORTH T800
$
2007 VOLVO
445 HP MP8, 18 sp, 12/40, 4x4 diff. lock, 3:55
gears,22.5” alloy wheels, 224” WB, 709,698 km.
65,000
$
2003 PETERBILT 378
435 HP VE D12, 13 sp, 12/40, 22.5” alloy wheels, 4:11
gears, 192” WB, wet kit, 4x4 diff. locks, 1,252,636 km.
29,000
$
430 HP Cat C12, 13 sp, 4:11 gears, 12/40, 226” WB,
24.5” alloy wheels, 3x4 diff. locks, 1,145,316 km.
25,000
$
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$62,495
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HIGHER YIELDS WITH ADVANCED CARBIDE DRILLS POINTS FOR AIR DRILLS
VW Carbide Spoon for
Common Wedge Systems
VW7CC 2 Carbides
3/4” Wide
VW10FC 4-1/4” Wide
Full Carbide
VW11FC 3-1/4” Wide
Drill Point
VW5FC - 3-1/4” wide, VW6FC - 2-1/4”
wide; VW 5 & 6 are for 200 series; VW8FC
- 3-1/4” wide, VW9FC - 2-1/4” wide; VW
8 & 9 are for 400 series. Full carbide front
and sides - many times the wear of the
original.
Two carbides on front for considerably more
wear. The VW7CC is shown on our very popular
C shank opener. The VW14FB has a 3/4” opening
where seed comes out. Also shown on the
VW14FB is our full carbide paired row - available in 4” and 5”. The VW21DSF paired row has
4 carbides on either side. The VW21DSF also fits
the Flexi Stealth Opener. The VW7CC Drill Point
also fits the Flexi Stealth Opener and Bourgault.
Two carbides on front and two
carbides on both sides. Shown here on
our VW14FB C shank opener. Our VW10FC
also fits Flexi Stealth and Bourgault. Liquid
line easily attached to back of VW14FB
and extended down.
Full carbide - two on front and two on
both sides. Very popular drill point.
Shown on our VW14FB opener. Also fits
Flexi Stealth and Bourgault. Liquid line
easily attached to back of VW14FB.
VW12FC 2-1/4”
Wide Drill Point
VW13FC 1-1/2” WIde
VW18 HDS
Morris Double Shoot
Harmon double shoot
seed boot. Carbides
protect seed opening.
VWHC1
Small Harmon point large carbide.
Full carbide front and sides. Also fits Flexi
Stealth and Bourgault. Shown here on
VW14FB opener. Liquid line easily - simply
- attached to back of VW14FB. Single
shoot drill point.
VWHC2
Our super slim spread point - full carbide front
and sides. For producers who want a drill point
in between 3/4” wide and 2-1/4” wide. Fits our
own VW14FB opener. Also fits Flexi Stealth
and Bourgault.
Large Harmon point slides over adapter - bolt
head and nut are recessed.
Large carbide - long wear.
VW Morris triple shoot combo - shown on
Morris opener. VWM23C - main front point
- has two carbides. VW24 side plates
have carbide embedded and sold in
pairs. VWM25 is the full carbide deflector.
“We use the VW11FC on our Flexi drill and we get a number of years and acres per set. Very satisfied - very durable drill points. Easy pulling - made to wear and made to last. The cutting edge carbide
on wing sides is placed properly.” Doug Fawcett, Consort, AB.
403-528-3350
Dunmore, AB, (Medicine Hat), AB
Visit us at: www.vwmfg.com
Equip your drill with VW. Call today!
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2005 MF 9790
2900 engine Hrs, 2,000 sep Hrs, Mav
Chopper, 4000 MF Pickup
2012 Case 9230
Duals, 1120 Hrs
2007 Case AFX 8010
1707 Hrs, Duals, GPS, Field Ready
2008 Case AFX 8010
1568 Hrs, Duals, GPS, Field Ready
$
$
80,000
195,000
2001 John Deere 9650 STS
3900 Hrs, 914 pickup Head
$
75,000
$
275,000
$
210,000
2011 CLAAS Lexion 670
Duals, 1169 Hrs
$
249,000
2012 Case 9230
Duals, 860 Hrs
$
295,000
2011 Case 9120
1040 HRs, Duals, Pro600 Monitor
$
285,000
2010 CLAAS Lexion 570R
890 Hrs
$
198,000
2011 Case 7120
Duals, 985 Hrs, GPS, Yield Monitor
$
219,000
2010 John Deere 9770 STS
820 Hrs
$
240,000
2011 CLAAS Lexion 750
Duals, 1008 Hrs, HP FDR House, Pickup
$
295,000
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DRY, 3” TIPS ON SEED
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2015 JD 569 round baler, 3069 bales, JD
warranty until July 2016, large tires, twine
and netwrap, rear light kit, MegaWide PU,
bale push bar, hydraulic PU lift, $53,000.
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- Wireless remote controls drive,
auger height, spout direction,
elevator and bag winder.
2011 BRENT 2096 grain cart, PTO, scale,
walking axle, electric tarp, $95,000. Call
306-537-9636, Riceton, SK.
2012 MACDON M155 with 30’ D50 header,
236 hours, single reel fore and aft,
$123,600. 306-864-3667, Kinistino, SK. or
www.farmworld.ca
2013 MACDON M155 #W22645A with 40’
draper header, 442 hours, $137,700. Call
306-922-2525, Prince Albert, SK. or view
us online at: www.farmworld.ca
2012 NH H8060 w/36’ Honeybee header,
509 hours, air spring suspension, full cab
SELLING GRAIN LEGS, distributors, con- with AC, $105,000. Call 306-682-9920,
veyors and truck scales. Also other eleva- Humboldt, SK. Online: www.farmworld.ca
tors parts. 403-634-8540, Grassy Lake, AB.
2014 MACDON M155, 40’ double knife
drive, GPS, free form roller, 132 cutting
hrs, $140,000. 306-436-7727 Milestone SK
HANDLE GRAIN
WITH EASE
make your farm operation
more efficient than ever!
• Need a Bucket elevator.
• Drag conveyor.
• Cat walks.
• Towers with switch back
stairs or wrap around
stairs.
2013 CIH WD1203 30’, 600 hrs., factory
transport, EZ-Steer, 10’ poly swath roller,
$75,000 OBO. 306-252-2227, Kenaston SK
2008 JOHN DEERE 4895, 30’, 633 hours,
GreenStar ready, nice header, overall very
good condition, with Warranty, $64,800.
MF 200 DIESEL swather w/30’ head and
UII PU reel and 22’ head w/Batt reel,
$10,500. 204-856-6119, McGregor, MB.
2011 JD D450 40’, 540 hrs., dbl knife dr.,
belly mtd. swath roller, Command Center,
$75,000 OBO. 306-252-2227, Kenaston SK
2010 J&M 875 grain cart, 30.5x32 tires,
scale, tarp, 18” auger, JD green, 1000 PTO,
$32,000 OBO. Call/text 780-645-9630,
780-201-9796, Bonnyville, AB.
2007 MASSEY FERGUSON 9430 with 30’
centre delivery header, 1108 hrs., UII PU
reel, $59,000. 306-864-3667, Kinistino, SK
www.farmworld.ca
HESSTON 8110S, 25’, PU reel, 900 hrs.,
exc. cond., $25,000 OBO. 403-634-3500,
Lethbridge, AB.
RIDGEMAR GRAIN SYSTEMS
204-372-8769 Cell 204-739-8004
www.grainlegs.ca
[email protected]
2014 EASY TRAIL 710 cart, tarp, PTO,
30.5/32 tires, $25,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm
Equipment Ltd. 306-449-2255, Storthoaks
GRAVITY WAGONS: New 400 bu, $7,400;
600 bu., $12,500; 750 bu., $18,250. Large
selection of used gravity wagons, 250-750
bu. Used grain carts, 450 to 1110 bushel.
View at: www.zettlerfarmequipment.com
1-866-938-8537, Portage la Prairie, MB.
CALL MINIC IND. for all your bucket elevator, screw/drag and belt conveyor parts
and accessories. We specialize in stainless
steel and mild steel for your new equipment quotation requirements. Call Chris
at: 204-339-1941, Winnipeg, MB.
DUAL SCREEN ROTARY grain cleaners,
great for pulse crops, best selection in
Western Canada. 306-946-7923, Young SK
CUSTOM COLOR SORTING chickpeas to
mustard. Cert. organic and conventional.
306-741-3177, Swift Current, SK.
2010 JD A400, 36’ Honeybee header, dbl.
knife drive, single reel, AutoTrac ready,
can c/w 1800 monitor with SF1 activation,
3 0 0 0 r e c e i ve r, AT U s t e e r i n g w h e e l ,
$110,000 OBO. Call/text 780-645-9630,
1999 TX68, SWATHMASTER PU, 2700 hrs., FLEX PLATFORMS w/AIR REEL/AIR
$24,500; 1997 TX68, 2500 hrs., $26,500. BAR. 2010 CIH 2020 air reel, 35’, single
Nate Golas 204-372-6056 FisherBranch MB
point, $18,500 US or $29,500 Cdn. Also
2007 NH CR9070 #HN2912B w/MacDon fits NH combines; 2002 CIH 1020 air reel
PW7 Swathmaster PU, 1770 engine/1403 25’, $15,800 US or $23,900 Cdn; 1997 CIH
separator hours, $128,500. 306-922-2525, 1020 air reel, 30’ $12,900 US or $18,900
Cdn; 2003 NH 74C 30’, single point,
Prince Albert, SK. or www.farmworld.ca
clipped PU teeth, $11,500 US or $17,500
2005 NH CR970 #PN32028, with 76C Cdn; 2000 AgCo Gleaner 800 air reel 30’,
Swathmaster PU, 2156 eng./ 1590 sep. $14,500 US or $23,900 Cdn; 2004 JD 635
hrs., $89,900. Call 306-922-2525, Prince air bar 35’, single point, $16,500 US or
Albert, SK. or www.farmworld.ca
$22,500 Cdn; 1998 JD 930 air reel, 30’,
2009 NH CR9070, 1287 hrs, IntelliView $12,500 US or $18,900 Cdn. Delivery inPlus II, RWA, $129,800; 2009 NH CR9060, cluded free of charge to AB, SK, MB if pur1298 hrs, IntelliView Plus II, lateral tilt, chased by Dec. 31, 2015. *All above plat$89,800. www.combineworld.com Call forms are field ready condition and most
are reconditioned with new PU teeth, new
1-800-667-4515.
sickle, new poly skids, totally gone thru
shop with field ready guarantee. Reimer
Farm Equipment Ltd., please call Gary at
2002 JD 9650 Walker, 2254 hrs, auto 204-326-7000, Steinbach, MB.
HHC, reel speed, exc. tires, good cond., 2014 MACDON D65-D unused, 40’, factory
w/warranty, $59,800. Pickups available. transport, auto HHC, hydraulic tilt, JD,
CNH, Lexion completion, $74,800.
9650 JD COMBINE, long auger, 14’ PU, 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com
chaff spreader, 2500 hrs., $52,000.
MACDON 40’ FD70 w/slow speed transp,
306-786-6510, Rhein, SK.
gd cond. w/AFX, or JD adapter, $44,900.
2005 JD 9760 STS GreenStar, reel spd, Can deliver. 204-324-6298, Altona, MB.
Auto HHC, chopper, 2317 hrs, extra for PU,
$89,800. www.combineworld.com Call 2008 NH 88C flex draper, 42’, PU reel, poly
1-800-667-4515.
skids, gauge wheels, reconditioned mint,
1998 NH 973 flex 25’, $15,900;
2009 JD 9870 STS, 990 hrs., 615 header, $37,900;
NH 973 flex 30’, $17,900; 2010 CIH
AHHC, long auger, FCC, Command Center, 1996
2020
flex
35’, gone thru shop, $25,900;
$175,000. 306-252-2227, Kenaston, SK.
2008 CIH 2020 flex 30’, reconditioned,
MUST SELL: 1999 JD Maximizer 9610, only $23,500; 2006 CIH 2020 flex 30’, $16,900.
2800 hrs., JD PU, chopper, duals, hopper All 2020 CIH heads also fit HN combines.
1996 CIH 1020 flex 25’ and 30’, recondiexts., nice cond. 306-654-7772, Saskatoon
tioned, $14,900; 2001 CIH 1020 flex 30’,
2005 JD 9760 SP, 1307 sep. hrs., always reconditioned, $16,900; 1996 AgCo Gleanshedded, 10% down, balance April, 2016, er 500 flex 25’, reconditioned, $14,900;
$110,000. 204-236-4684, Birch River, MB.
2000 AgCo Gleaner 8000 flex 30’, recondi$23,900; 2008 AgCo Gleaner 8200
2013 JD 615P pickup header, overall tioned,
35’, F/F auger, $27,900; 2010 AgCo
8 . 5 / 1 0 , t r a d e s w a n t e d , $ 2 4 , 8 0 0 . flex
MF
8200
flex 35’ F/F auger, reconditioned,
$27,900. *Free delivery included to AB,
1998 JD 9610, 2653 hrs., GreenStar, auto SK, MB, if purchased by December 31,
HHC, reel spd., 2 spd. cyl., XL hopper ext., 2015. Reimer Farm Equipment Ltd., please
w/Warranty, $48,800. Headers available. call Gary at 204-326-7000, Steinbach, MB.
2005 JD 9760 STS, 1821 hrs, GreenStar,
auto HHC, reel speed, chopper, good tires,
really clean combine w/warranty, $99,800. ARMOR PLATE CONCAVES an improved
threshing element for JD S series. Please
2004 JD 9760 STS, 2062 hrs, GreenStar, call us Wildfong Enterprises Ltd., Russ
auto HHC, reel speed, factory chopper, 306-260-2833 or Rick 306-734-7721 or
pickups available, w/warranty, $92,800. the shop 306-734-2345, Craik, SK.
JD 9750 STS, 1630 sep. hours, 2
Greenlights in last 150 hrs, $33,000 spent,
GPS ready with wheel kit, $110,000 OBO.
403-634-3500, Lethbridge, AB.
1998 JD 9610, 4648 engine, 3528 sep.
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RWA, rice tires, Y&M sensors. 914 PU.
Loaded combine. Great condition. $52,500
“ Fo rAllY o u rFa rm Pa rts”
OBO. Ian 204-750-1090, Elm Creek, MB.
2008 JD 4895 30’, 883 hours, GreenStar
ready, JD AutoTrac, new knife and guards,
sold w/warranty, $59,800. 36’ header
avail. 1-800-667-4515. combineworld.com
CONVEYAIR GRAIN VACS, parts, accessories. Call Bill 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB. 2013 JD 450 swather, 30’ header, 371 hrs.
on swather, 471 hours on motor, $105,000
www.starlinesales.com
OBO. 780-888-1258, Lougheed, AB.
BRANDT 4000, $8000; #4500, $8500; 2011 MACDON M-150, 40’ D60, 300 hrs.,
Rem 2500 HD, $9500; 3- Rem 1026s, shedded, very good, $122,900. Cam-Don
$4500 and up. Call 1-866-938-8537. Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.
www.zettlerfarmequipment.com
2012 MF WR9740, c/w 36’ MF 5200 CD
header, 324 hrs., suspended axle, deluxe
air ride cab, 620-75R26 fronts, 16.5L-16L
rears, GPS ready, gauge wheels, $105,800.
C a l l 7 8 0 - 6 3 2 - 2 5 1 4 , Ve g r e v i l l e , A B . 2006 MF 9690, 954 sep. hrs., Y&M, exc.
tires, field ready, extra for PU, $89,800.
[email protected]
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2005 CASE/IH SC100 discbine #PN3169B
16’, 12,300 hrs., hydro swing, rubber cond.
rolls, 1000 PTO, $12,300. 306-922-2525,
P h :306 - 734- 2228
Cra ik, SK.
TIM’S REPAIR has REM grain vacs. Used
3700’s, VRX, and a Brandt 5200EX.
2007 CASE AFX 8010 duals, GPS, AHH,
306-784-2407, 306-772-1004, Herbert, SK
AFS, 600 monitor, 1707 hours, field ready,
REM GRAIN VACS. New inventory in stock $195,000. Canada West Harvest Centre,
now. Call us 1-888-435-2626 for pricing or 1-844-806-2300, Emerald Park, SK.
visit your nearest Flaman store for details.
2014 CASE 8230 combine. Duals, 16’ pickup, 500 Sep. hours. Plus 2012 MacDon
DUAL STAGE ROTARY SCREENERS and
header, 40’. Canada West Harvest Centre,
Kwik Kleen 5-7 tube. Call 204-857-8403,
1-844-806-2300, Emerald Park, SK.
Portage la Prairie, MB. or visit online:
www.zettlerfarmequipment.com
2013 LEXION 760TT, (CLAAS) 4 WD, 253
Separator hours. Canada West Harvest
AIR AND SCREEN Machine: Delta 142.2.
Centre. Phone: 1-844-806-2300, Emerald
S e l l s w i t h n o s c r e e n s , $ 5 0 0 0 O B O.
Park, SK.
403-578-3810, 403-578-7712, Coronation,
2014 CASE 8230 combine. Duals, 16’ pickAB. Email [email protected] or
up, 488.43 Separator hours. Canada West
web: www.seed.ab.ca/plants/coronation
Harvest Centre. Phone: 1-844-806-2300,
Emerald Park, SK.
COMPLETE SEED CLEANING Line, capacity
of 150 bushels/hour. Includes Arrow Corp
screen machine, 3- #3 uniflow indents, 3#245 graders, LMC Marc300 gravity, dust
cyclone, 5 legs. Wally Smith 204-825-7586
Crystal
City,
MB.
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[email protected]
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www.mhtractor.ca Medicine Hat, AB.
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2012 JD 635 35’ hydra flex, $32,900; 2011
JD 635 35’ hydra flex, $29,900; 2007 JD
635 35’ hydra flex, $22,900; 2005 JD 630
30’ hydra flex, $18,900; 2- 2002 JD 930F
30’, F/F auger, $17,500; 2000 JD 930F 30’,
F/F auger, $14,900; 1997 JD 930 30’,
$15,900; 1994 JD 930 flex 30’, $7900;
1996 JD 925 flex 25’, $14,900; 1994 JD
925 flex 25’, $7900. Call Reimer Farm
Equipment Ltd., Gary at 204-326-7000,
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8000 30’ and 8200 35’ MF; Cat FD30 flex;
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CASE/IH FLEX PLATFORMS: Models 1020
25’ and 30’ w/wo sir reel; 2020 30’ and 35’,
2020 30’ with air reel; 2011 3020 35’. Can
install new AWS air bar for additional
$11,500. Deliver in SK, MB, AB. Gary
204-326-7000, Reimer Farm Equip., Hwy.
#12 N, www.reimerfarmequipment.com
Steinbach, MB.
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NEW SUPERB GRAIN dryers available. Also
have Moridge parts. Grant Service Ltd. BRANDT GRAIN VAC 4500, used very little, header, 40’. Canada West Harvest Centre,
updated to a 5000, extension hose for Phone: 1-844-806-2300, Emerald Park, SK.
306-272-4195, Foam Lake, SK.
dust, in good condition, $6500.
2009 CASE/IH 7120, 900 tires, 2016 PU
FARM FAN AB180A grain dryer, auto batch, 306-457-2935 after 6, Stoughton, SK.
header, field ready, $200,000; 2013 FD75
propane, good working condition, $7500.
MacDon 30’ flex header with pea auger,
204-325-8019, 204-362-1091, Winkler, MB
$85,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 2004 NH 94C #HW3359A, 39’, integral
axle and hitch, single knife drive, UII split
306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.
NEW - NEVER USED 2013 GSI 1116 dryer,
reel, $29,900. 306-682-9920, Humboldt,
continuous or batch 710 bus. per hour,
2014 CASE 8230 combine. Duals, 16’ pick- SK. or www.farmworld.ca
$65,000 OBO. 780-888-1258, Lougheed AB
up, 490 Sep. hours. Plus 2012 MacDon RECONDITIONED rigid and flex, most
header, 40’. Canada West Harvest Centre, makes and sizes; also header transports.
GT TOX-O-WIK PROPANE grain dryer, BALE SPEAR ATTACHMENTS for all 1-844-806-2300, Emerald Park, SK.
Ed Lorenz, 306-344-4811, Paradise Hill, SK
$ 6 5 0 0 O B O. C a l l 3 0 6 - 7 9 5 - 2 7 3 4 o r loaders and skidsteers, excellent pricing.
Call now 1-866-443-7444.
306-795-7644, Ituna, SK.
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Swathmaster pickup. Agco straight cut 2012 MD FD70 40’, flex draper, pea auger,
header. Canada West Harvest Centre, transport, HHC, new knife and guards,
1-844-806-2300, Emerald Park, SK.
w/warranty, $69,800. 1-800-667-4515.
2011 CASE 7120, duals, GPS, yield moni- www.combineworld.com
tor, 985 hrs., great condition, $199,000. JD FLEX PLATFORMS: 922-925-930, severC a n a d a W e s t H a r v e s t C e n t r e , al newer ones with full finger augers and
844-806-2300, Emerald Park, SK.
air reels; 630-635 w/wo air bars. Deliver in
2008 CASE AFX 8010. Duals, GPS, AFS SK, MB, AB. Gary 204-326-7000, Reimer
600 Monitor, 1568 hrs., field ready, Farm Equipment, Hwy. #12 N, Steinbach,
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2011 MACDON FD70, 35’, slow speed
spare knife, JD 60, 70, S series
2011 CASE 9120. Duals, Pro 600 monitor, transport,
1040 hrs. Plus 3016 PU, $285,000. Canada adapter, $55,000. 780-603-7640, Bruce AB
West Harvest Centre, 844-806-2300, Eme- MACDON CA20/CA25 and HoneyBee flex
rald Park, SK.
or rigid adapters and completion kits,
plenty in stock. We want your trade! For
pricing and availability call
2005 LEXION 580R, big rubber all around
GRAINBOSS 16 • capacity 18,000 bu./ hour • driven steerable wheels
w/620 duals, full load HP feeder house, 2000 JD 14’ PICKUP header, 914P w/VicGRAINBOSS 13 • capacity 12,000 bu./hour • driven steerable wheels
variable spd. rotors, var. spd. header drive, tory Super B pickup and single point hookP13 PU header, G530 straight cut header, up, used only 500 acres, stored inside,
$115,000 OBO. Can separate. Call/text $12,000 U.S. OBO. Home: 406-487-5043,
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PU, 945 eng./672 sep. hours, $347,200. 204-326-7000, Reimer Farm Equip., Hwy.
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2008 JD 3975 c/w PU header, kernel
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2000 FLEXI-COIL 67XL PT sprayer, 1250
gallon tank, 100’ boom, hyd. pump. Call
306-873-8060, Prairie River, SK.
WANTED: USED OVERSEER computer
sprayer, any condition. Mostly need the
monitor. 403-533-2240, Rockyford, AB.
36’ JD 730 double disc air drill w/1900
TBT cart, $29,000. or, 1900 cart only,
$20,000. Also, JD 787 TBT cart, $8000.
204-856-6119, McGregor, MB.
FLEXI-COIL: 5000 57’, 9” space, $18,900;
6000, 30’, 7.5” spacing, $12,900; 1330 air
cart, $9900; 1110, $4900. Bourgault
packer wheels, $100/ft. Pro Ag Sales,
306-441-2030 anytime North Battleford SK
2011 BOURGAULT 66’ air drill #B22480A,
12” spacing, mid-row shanks, double
shoot, $143,000. 306-864-3667, Kinistino,
USED 2008 JOHN Deere 1895 Air
SK. or view online at www.farmworld.ca
Seeder w/1910 Cart, 43', 10" spacing,
1998 MORRIS MAXIM drill and 7180 trail- 430 bu. TBH, double shoot, warning system
ing tank #B21999C, 7.5” spacing, 3.5” for seed and fertilizer, $125,000 CAD; Used
steel packers, $25,000. Ph 306-864-3667, 2003 JD 1895 w/1910 cart 43', 10" spacing,
Kinistino, SK. or www.farmworld.ca
TBH, DS, 430 bu., warning system for seed
and fert., $100,000. 403-625-6195,
2007 BOURGAULT 5725 47’, 10” spacing, 403-625-2541,
AB.
Series II w/double shoot, optimal mid- [email protected] Claresholm,
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vanced carbide air drills. Find out more at:
COMBINE WORLD NOW carries ATOM www.vwmfg.com or call 403-528-3350,
JET openers! We want your old ones on Dunmore, AB.
t r a d e ! w w w. c o m b i n ewo r l d . c o m C a l l 2011 BOURGAULT 6550 ST air tank,
1-800-667-4515.
dual shoot, bag lift, 4-tank meter, 591
1997 39’ MORRIS Maxim air drill, 10” spac- monitor, rear hitch, dual tires, shedded,
ing, Atom Jet boot with Morris 180 cart, low acres. 204-648-7085, Grandview, MB.
$23,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment,
306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.
2001 BOURGAULT 4710 40’ disc drill, 10”
spacing, mid-row banders, 3” steel packers, liquid fert., $15,800. 1-800-667-4515.
2013 MORRIS 51’, C2, 12” space, SS air,
paired row openers, c/w 8370XL TBT cart,
low acres, vg, $249,000. Warranty. CamDon Motors Ltd, 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK
and irrigation; crop production imple- 2012 SEED HAWK Series 45, 50-10
w/500 bu. TBH tank, quick adjust depth
ments. Call: 204-834-2575, Carberry, MB.
control, dual casters, new seed knives, liq.
Alpine kit, var. rate w/Viper monitor and
Raven GPS, dual fans, shedded. Dave at:
2008 MILLER CONDOR A40 100’, 1728 306-783-7584, 306-621-1155 Yorkton, SK.
hrs, 1000 gallon, sectional control, Trimble
G P S a n d E Z - S t e e r , $ 9 9 , 9 0 0 . 2013 NH P2050 with P1060, double shoot,
side banding, 430 bu. air cart, exc. cond.,
$142,000 OBO. 306-297-7400, Shaunavon.
2014 NEW HOLLAND SP.240R, 240 HP,
100 gal. poly tank, tier 3 eng., SmarTrax 2008 72’-12 SEED Hawk, dual shoot, 2012
AutoSteer, $229,000. Call 306-864-3667, Case IH 3430, 430 bushel tank, $160,000.
can separate. 306-641-7759, Theodore, SK
2008 ROGATOR 1286C HC sprayer, 1200 2008 4012 SEED HAWK, Bourgault 4350
gallon SS tank, 120’, 3989 hours, HID lites, tank, 3 tank metering, rear hitch, exc.
Viper Pro, AccuBoom, AutoBoom, Smar- cond., shedded, $75,000. 204-937-0876,
Trax, Cat eng, 380-90R46 tire set, 24.5R32 Roblin, MB.
tire set, $145,900. Phone 780-632-2514, MOON HEAVY HAUL pulling air drills/ air
Vegreville, AB. [email protected]
seeders, packer bars, Alberta and Sask. 30
2008 JD 4830, 100’ 1000 gal. SS tank, years experience. Call Bob Davidson,
Raven AutoBoom, Swathmaster, Green- Drumheller, AB. 403-823-0746.
Star, AutoTrac, 420/80R46, 1471 hrs,
2010 65’ BOURGAULT 3310 paralink, 12”
$185,000 OBO 306-834-7204 Kerrobert SK
spacing, mid row shank banding, DS, rear
2012 ROGATOR RG 1300, 120’, Sharp hitch, $148,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipshooter, Viper Pro, Raven smart tracks, ment Ltd. 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.
AccuBoom, AutoBoom, remote section
control, boom clean-out, fence rows, 2004 NH (FLEXI-COIL) SD440, 40’, SC230
chem. eductor, pressure washer, Helix cart, mech. drive, SS, camera, 9.8” space.
strainer, weather station, 2 sets tires, 1760 Also 2008 Pattison FB2100 liquid tank,
variable rate nozzles, excellent, shedded,
hrs., $280,000. 403-994-7754, Olds, AB.
$65,000 OBO. 306-932-2306, Plenty, SK.
2007 SPRA-COUPE 4655, 80’, 1080 hrs.,
JD AutoTrac, sectional control, $64,800. 2001 51’ FLEXI-COIL 5000, 9” space, DS,
3” rubber, 3450 TBH carts, double fan, 10”
auger, variable rate, new bottom manifold,
1998 JD 4700 90’, 800 gal. tank, 3650 hrs., 4 new meter rollers, $35,000 OBO. Can
Trident booms, JD GPS, 18.4x26, 12.4x38, separate. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK.
$90,000 OBO. 780-645-0537 St Vincent AB
BEST VALUE FOR your dollar with our adDID YOU HAVE CANOLA DAMAGE from vanced carbide air drills. Find out more at:
Frontline Tank contamination in 2014/ www.vwmfg.com or call 403-528-3350,
2015? Contact Back-Track Investigations Dunmore, AB.
1 9 9 3 B O U R G A U LT 3 2 2 5 a i r t a n k
#PB2965D, 2 tank metering, 225 bu. TBH,
2010 CASE/IH 3330, AFS Pro 600 display, new 820 monitor, $9700. 306-922-2525,
1000 gal. SS, AccuBoom, AutoHeight, Prince Albert, SK. or www.farmworld.ca
fence row nozzles, 380/90R46, 1080 hrs.,
always shedded, very good condition. Call 2005 CONSERVA PAK 5112, 56’ air drill,
204-734-8202, Swan River, MB.
Platnium ILS openers, 4400 air cart,
$115,000 OBO. Call/text 780-645-9630,
www.midplainsimplements.ca Potato 780-201-9796, Bonnyville, AB.
72’ OF BOURGAULT 3.5” steel packers in
gangs, done 3000 acres. Call
204-648-7085, Grandview, MB.
2011 MORRIS CONTOUR C1 drill; 2002
Flexi-Coil 3450 TBH cart, 51’, 12” spacing,
single shoot drill, $110,000. 306-922-2525
Prince Albert, SK. www.farmworld.ca
MACHINE SHOP EQUIPMENT For Sale:
Milling machine, Modern 3VM, fair cond.;
Lathe, Modern C0632C, poor cond; Hand
break, Modern V8426, good cond; Sand
blasting cabinet and collector, Mod-U-Blast
34526 3B, fair cond; 20 ton shop press;
Plasma cutter, hypertherm Powermax 380,
fair cond; Electromagnetic drill stand, KBC
Machinery 09946, good cond; Assorted
work tools, welding screens and heavy duty
work tables. Some non-functioning equipment is available for spare parts, or as a
project. Volumetric scale, Doboy HA-720.
Contact us for details: 403-216-1226,
Calgary, AB. [email protected]
2012 SNOWBLAST Model #10800A. 3 PTH
snowblower, vg cond., all options. 12’ (+)
wide enough to cover the duals on your
tractor, green/yellow, $22,000 OBO. Pierson, MB. 701-389-1042 or 204-649-2276.
2009 SDX 110 SCHULTE snowblower, 3
PTH, rear mount, bought new 2010, only
used 3 winters. New HD chain, two cross
augers, $9000. 306-529-7574, Rouleau, SK
8’ SCHULTE 9600 snowblower, 540 PTO, 3
PTH, asking $3750 OBO. Call Grant
306-746-7336, Semans, SK.
FARM KING SNOWBLOWERS Y960, rear
mount 96”, dbl auger, $4795. Flaman Saskatoon. 1-888-435-2626 www.flaman.com
2011 FRONT MOUNT Schulte snowblower,
Model SDX960, 9’, like new, used only one
season, $12,650. 306-423-5476,
306-960-2274, Domremy, SK.
SCHULTE SNOWBLOWERS- your heavy
duty blower for the tough jobs in 3 PTH
and front mount options. In stock at Flaman 1-888-435-2626. www.flaman.com
2- BOLT-ON 3 POINT HITCHES from Case
tractor. Grant 306-746-7336, Semans, SK.
2009 1284 AG-CHEM, 1000 gal. tank, 110’
booms, 2860 hrs., $94,500; 2012 Case
4420, 100’ booms, 1600 hrs., $158,000.
USD. 406-466-5356, Choteau, Montana.
View: www.fertilizerequipment.net
2014 ROGATOR RG 1100, 100’, Viper Pro,
Raven smart tracks, AccuBoom, AutoBoom, remote sect. control, boom cleanout, fence rows, 2 sets tires, crop dividers,
1610 hrs $265,000. 403-994-7754 Olds AB
2 0 0 9 B O U R G A U LT 3 3 1 0 6 5 ’ d r i l l
#B22180A, mid-row banders, easily converted to DS, $139,000. 306-864-3667,
Kinistino, SK. www.farmworld.ca
2001 39’ FLEXI-COIL 5000, 12” spacing,
2340 TBT tank, var. seed rate, var. flow anhydrous. 306-747-3635, Shellbrook, SK.
HIGHER RETURNS PER acre, great germ.
and uniform emergence. For more info.
www.vwmfg.com or call 403-528-3350.
Dunmore, AB.
2008 BOURGAULT 5710, DS, AtomJet
openers, 74’, w/2008 Bourgault 6550 tank,
c/w deluxe 10” auger, dual rear wheels.
Battleford, 306-937-7368, 306-441-1648
2014 JD 4730, 800 gal. tank, 100’ booms,
5 centre BoomTrac, 2 sets of tires, 2630
monitors w/3000 receiver, SF1, JD link,
PowerGard, extended warranty, low hrs.,
$275,000 OBO. Call/text 780-645-9630, 2005 FLEXI-COIL 4350 TBH AIR CART,
DS, variable rate, good shape, asking
$40,000 OBO. 780-385-5064, Killam, AB.
BANDIT 3210 LIQUID fertilizer system!
Introducing the all new and fully engineered TBH caddy. Call 1-855-765-9937 or
visit: www.polywest.ca
FITTINGS AND VALVES for your liquid
handling needs, all offering the ultimate in
sealing power and corrosion resistance.
Call 1-855-765-9937 or www.polywest.ca
TRIDEKON CROP SAVER, crop dividers.
Reduce trampling losses by 80% to 90%.
Call: Great West Agro, 306-398-8000.
2008 BG 6450 air tank #HS34820, 3 tank
metering, double shoot, 591 Monitor,
always shedded, $83,500. 306-864-3667,
ALLIS/CHALMERS Model #6080 w/FEL,
FWA, 3PTH, $14,000 OBO. 306-236-8023,
Goodsoil, SK.
WINTER DISCOUNTS on new and used 1987 DX160 DEUTZ, c/w vg running eng.
rollers, all sizes. Leasing and delivery cab, 20.8x38 duals, excellent sheet metal,
very good condition. Goods Used Tractor
available. 403-580-6889, Bow Island, AB.
Parts, 1-877-564-8734.
DEUTZ ALLIS 7110, 4040 hrs., 110 HP,
dual hyd. and PTO, cab, air, 18.4x38,
HIGHER RETURNS PER acre, great germ. $16,000. 204-525-4521, Minitonas, MB
and uniform emergence. For more info. www.waltersequipment.com
WANTED, TOP DOLLAR paid, any cond:
Dunmore, AB.
D21; D17 w/big round fenders; 4W220;
BEST VALUE FOR your dollar with our ad- 220 and 210. 701-240-5737, Minot, ND.
www.vwmfg.com or call 403-528-3350,
Dunmore, AB.
2014 SEEDMASTER 70’, 12”, 20 bu. canola 1980 CASE/IH 2290, 2 WD, 7,620 hrs.,
tank w/ultra Pro, 800 rears, $227,000. good condition, loader, $17,000 OBO.
306-662-2951, Maple Creek, SK.
12,000 acres done. 403-505-9524, Ponoka
JD 7200 8RN vacuum planter, needs re- WANTED, TOP DOLLAR paid on IH tracconditioned, w/o fertilizer, $7,900; JD tors: 1026, 1456, 826, 1206, 1256, 756.
7200 8 RN vacuum planter, liquid fertilizer, Call: 701-240-5737, Minot, ND.
PT, field ready, $16,900; JD 7200 folding
12 RN vacuum planter, w/o fertilizer, reconditioned, $18,900. Call me for any of
your planter needs as more planters are
arriving and my supplier has all sizes,
models and makes available. Delivery
available. Reimer Farm Equipment Ltd.,
call Gary at 204-326-7000, Steinbach, MB.
2013 BOURGAULT 6700 ST air tank, all
options, dual high speed fan, bag lift, conveyor, 4-tank meter, X20 monitor, rear
hitch, dual tires, shedded, low acres.
204-648-7085, Grandview, MB.
2011 CASE 435, 1200 hrs., 710 metrics
and GPS, 4 hyds., always shedded, exc.
cond, $179,000. 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK
2004 STX 500, PTO, HID lites, 5 hyds, high
cap. hyds, luxury cab, Michelin 800 duals75%, AutoSteer, diff. locks, 5900 hrs.,
$150,000. 403-647-7391 Pincher Creek AB
DTE SYSTEMS CHIPTUNING #1, will fit
600 quad or TJ New Holland, $800. Call
David 306-463-4255, Kindersley, SK.
1991 IH 9280 375 HP, new 24.5x32 duals, powershift, Cummins 855, 4 hyds,
6434 hrs., $64,800. 1-800-667-4515.
1985 STEIGER PANTHER CP-1400, 4250
hrs., 12 spd., PS, 800 duals 80%, $75,000
OBO. 403-633-1950, Rosemary, AB.
STEIGER TRACTOR PARTS. New and
used, from radiator to drawpin, 1969 to
1999. Give us a call 1-800-982-1769 or
www.bigtractorparts.com
2013 CHALLENGER MT965C 4 WD, 602
hrs., 525 HP, Cat C18 eng., 800-70R38
Goodyear duals, PTO, HID lites, diff. lock,
hi-flow hyd. pump, GPS ready, deluxe cab,
$329,500. 780-632-2514, Vegreville, AB.
[email protected]
WANTED, ANY CONDITION: 6030; late
model 3020, or 4020; 4620; 4520; 4320
and 4000. 701-240-5737, Minot, ND.
7400 JD MFWD, 3 PTH, c/w 740 loader,
all new tires, premium condition.
403-585-1910, Rockyford, AB.
MITCH’S TRACTOR SALES LTD., St.
Claude, MB. Call 204-750-2459 (cell). JD
2550, 2 WD, 3 PTH, hi/low shift, 4500 hrs,
w/o loader; JD 2750, MFWD, CAH, 3 PTH,
2 hyds., w/245 loader; JD 2950, 2 WD,
CAH, 3 PTH, 2 hyds; (2) JD 4050, MFWD, 3
PTH, powershift, w/o loaders; JD 4640,
Quad, 3 hyds.; JD 6420, MFWD, 3 PTH, 3
hyds., PQ, w/LHR, w/640 loader; JD 7410,
MFWD, 3 PTH, 3 hyds., PQ, w/LHR, w/740
loader; JD 7610, MFWD, 3 PTH, PQ,
w/LHR, w/740 FEL; JD 7700, MFWD, 3
PTH, PQ, factory duals, w/740 FEL, grapple. Now a Husqvarna Dealer with a full
l i n e o f H u s q va r n a e q u i p m e n t . V i ew
Mitchstractorsales.com
JD 8260R, 380x54 rubber, front duals,
PTO, ILS, powershift, warranty till July
2016, 1630 hrs, loaded, $200,000 OBO.
403-634-3500, Lethbridge, AB.
1993 JD 8870, 350 HP, 6300 hrs, new injectors, new radio, 20.8x42 Michelins, 4
hyds., diff lock, shedded, good condition,
$72,900. 204-761-5145, Rivers, MB.
WANTED: 5020 JD w/FEL and grapple
fork, in good shape. 306-734-2970,
306-734-7335. Chamberlain, SK.
G.S. TRACTOR SALVAGE, JD tractors
only. Call 306-497-3535, Blaine Lake, SK.
1990 JD 4755, MFWD, rebuilt powershift
trans., triple hyds., 180 HP, good rubber,
work ready. For pricing call Medicine Hat,
AB, 1-877-527-7278, 403-548-1205.
www.mhtractor.ca
2004 JD 7720 MFWD, 6,990 hrs., IVT trans,
3 SCY, good rubber, 3 PTH, Greenstar
ready, 746 FEL, vg cond., $83,000 OBO.
204-534-0637, Boissevain, MB.
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.
1999 FLEXI-COIL 585 70’ heavy harrow
teeth- 50%, good usable harrow, $19,900.
2014, BRAND NEW heavy tandem offset
disc 12' 6", dual wheel kit, 1/4" thick 26"
diameter notched blades front and back, 11/2" gang shaft, $9,000 disc type, tandem
$9,000. 306-338-8078, Quill lake, SK.
2015 CASE/IH PUMA 150, 10 hrs, 150 HP,
M F W D, 1 8 F / 6 R p owe r s h i f t , L H R ,
520/85R38 rear, 420/85R28 front tires,
diff. lock, 3 PTH, PTO, 3 hyd., CAHR, front
2013 7450 LANDOLL vertical tillage fenders, like new condition, $137,500. Can
#N22357. New! 39’ wide, 22” disc, 7” deliver. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.
blade spacing, $105,000. 306-864-3667, 1987 IH 9150, 4 WD, 280 HP, 520/85R38
Firestone radials, 80%, very good, 8000
2012 LEMKEN RUBIN Gigant 105/800 26’ h o u r s , n i c e s o l i d t r a c t o r, $ 3 9 , 8 0 0 .
tillage disc, very good condition, $64,800. 1-800-667-4515 www.combineworld.com
2010 CASE/IH PUMA 125, MFWD, 5,180
2015 CASE/IH 600, 60’ cultivator, 12” hrs., 18 spd. power shift, diff. lock, 3 PTH,
spacing, 4-bar harrows, NH3 hitch, 600 lb. LX 760 FEL, 4 hyds., exc. cond. $77, 500.
780-205-3439, 306-893-9226 Maidstone SK
trips. 306-231-8060, Englefeld, SK.
KELLO-BILT 8’ to 20’ offset discs w/24” LIZARD CREEK REPAIR and Tractor. We
to 36” notched blades; Kello-Bilt 24’ to 38’ buy 90 and 94 Series Case, 2 WD, FWA
tandem wing discs w/26” and 28” notched tractors for parts and rebuilding. Also have
blades and oil bath bearings. Red Deer, AB. 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.
www.kelloughs.com Call: 1-888-500-2646.
JD 4760 TRACTOR, MFWD, 4950 hrs.,
powershift, 3 PTH, shedded, 1 owner. Call
403-330-1966, Coaldale, AB.
2007 JD 7220 MFWD, 4351 hrs., 16 spd.
PowrQuad trans., 3 hyds., cruise, cold start
pkg, 3 PTH, LHR, c/w JD 741 QA self-leveling FEL with grapple, 3 function joystick,
w/wo Trimble AutoSteer, $94,500. Macrorie, SK., call 306-243-2080, 306-867-7028.
2012 JOHN DEERE 6190R, 4 WD, 4500 hrs.,
H380 self-leveling loader with grapple, very
good cond., $145,000 OBO. 306-764-4944,
[email protected]
MF 1155, running, good shape. Contact
204-773-0305, Russell, MB.
GET LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE
FROM YOUR AIR DRILL
Take the uncertainty out of the seeding operation by detecting
high/low/no seed rates. Even a single plugged run will justify
investing in THE LEGEND. Use the Android® tablet or your phone
to keep track of air drill operation with THE LEGEND App.
SLEEPERS AND DAYCABS. New and used.
Huge inventory across Western Canada at
Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
Dunmore, AB.
2013 CASE/IH EARLY RISER planter,
15/30” rows, air pressure packers, sectional control, liquid kit, centre fill seed bins,
Yetter row cleaners, used very little, only
seeded soybeans, $110,000.
306-421-9909, Estevan, SK.
Dunmore, AB.
DUTCH OPENERS AND carbide tips available for all models of drills. Early booking
and volume discounts available. Call Dean
for details. 306-536-9532, 306-957-4408,
Odessa Rockpicker Sales, Odessa, SK.
2013 DEGELMAN 82’ heavy harrow, load- FLEXI-COIL DRILL 5000 HD, 40’, 12” spaced; 2013 84’ Bourgault, loaded. $45,000 ing, DS and 4350 tank; 1996 NH 9482,
2823 hrs., shedded. All in good cond.
each. Call 306-441-1684, Cut Knife, SK.
403-901-4431, Strathmore, AB.
2015 51’ DEGELMAN LAND ROLLER,
like new. 306-957-4403, Odessa, SK.
TECHNOTILL 2015 62’ on TBH Case 600
2015 BRANDT 8200, 82’, chrome wear re- cultivator (Flexi-Coil), 12” spacing, Flexisistant tines, hyd. tine adj., low acres. Coil air pack, Intelligent blockage monitor,
superior setup, ready to go, can hook to
306-231-8060, Englefeld, SK.
Bourgault or Flexi-Coil cart, like new cond.
2010 DEGELMAN 7651 LANDROLLER, low 306-421-9909, Estevan, SK.
u s e , $ 3 5 , 0 0 0 . M o o s e J aw, S K . C a l l
BEST VALUE FOR your dollar with our ad306-563-8482.
2015 DEGELMAN 7000 Strawmaster, 82’, www.vwmfg.com or call 403-528-3350,
Endura tip tines, hyd. tine adj. w/Valmar Dunmore, AB.
3255, low acres. 306-231-8060, Englefeld
2008 JD 1910, 430 bu., TBH, 8 run,
variable rate, double shoot, $49,000; 1998
JD 1900 3 comp, 430 bu., 8 run, $24,800.
SOUCY TRACKS: 32” wide, made to fit
Seed Hawk air cart, purchased in 2013,
$22,000 OBO. Pics available by emailing
request to [email protected]
or for more info 780-837-1313, Falher, AB.
2008 BOURGAULT 6550ST, dual shoot,
rear tires 900/60R32 singles, 4 tank metering, 10” deluxe auger, 591 monitor,
shedded, exc . shape, $79,500 OBO.
204-572-7999, Grandview, MB.
KELLO-BILT SERIES 176 10’ tandem disc,
24” notched blades, clean unit, some new
bearings, faded but solid, $7,980.
2014 MORRIS FIELD PRO 70’ harrow. New
9.16” tines, #HR3447, $36,500. Call:
306-682-9920, Humboldt, SK. or view us
online at: www.farmworld.ca
2014 GREAT PLAINS 3500 TM vertical tillage #PS3147. New, 36’ 3 section Cat V
hitch, $101,000. Phone: 306-922-2525,
33
WI-FI AIR
DRILL RATE &
BLOCKAGE
MONITOR
www.legendsensor.com
1-800-667-0640
[email protected]
34
1135 MF 2WD, 6400 hrs., recent hyd.
work, very well taken care of, PTO, new
tires, starter and alternator, w/or w/out
Allied 795 FEL (like new) ($5000), $13,500
for both. 306-562-8866, Canora, SK.
QUIT FARMING! 1997 9682, 20.8x42
tires 90%, 5903 hrs., $75,000. New MF
4610, FWA, 100 HP, c/w FEL and pallet
fork, shuttle shift, $65,000. 1998 5710,
54’, dual shoot, 4300 tank, dual fans, new
boots with 2” carbide spreaders, $55,000.
3- 560 IHC tractors, clean condition,
NEW 2015 VERSATILE 2375, 710’s. Own $2000 ea. NH TR98, 1996, 2641 sep. hrs.,
for $10,265 semi-annually. Call KMK Sales Rake-Up PU, $30,000. All equip. previously
shedded. 306-481-4740, Battleford, SK.
Ltd. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK.
875 VERSATILE, complete with dozer, very HIGHER RETURNS PER acre, great germ.
well maintained, asking $26,500 OBO. Call and uniform emergence. For more info.
403-823-1894, Drumheller, AB.
Dunmore, AB.
VERSATILE 500, 4 WD, row crop tractor,
w/row crop axles, 3 PTH, PTO, well main- SUNFLOWER HARVEST SYSTEMS. Call
tained, low hrs. on updates, $10,000 OBO. for literature. 1-800-735-5848. Lucke Mfg.,
3 PTH, row crop or solid vertical tillage, 16’ www.luckemanufacturing.com
for above, $5000. 204-835-2425,
McCreary, MB.
WANTED: WHITE, or UNIVERSAL: 60 HP
w/FWA. Also, wanted older CASE w/FWA. RETIRING: 1980 JD 4640 tractor, recent
drop-in 50 Series eng. and trans. service;
306-395-2668, 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK.
30’ Premier swather; Rite-Way 50’ harrow
packer bar; New Holland 1033 automatic
bale wagon; 1979 GMC 3 ton grain truck
w/roll tarp. 306-638-4550, Findlater, SK.
BEST VALUE FOR your dollar with our advanced carbide air drills. Find out more at:
www.vwmfg.com or call 403-528-3350,
Dunmore, AB.
SOLIDLOCK AND TREE ISLAND game wire
and all accessories for installation. Heights
from 26” to 120”. Ideal for elk, deer, bison,
sheep, swine, cattle, etc. Tom Jensen
ph/fax: 306-426-2305, Smeaton, SK.
GUARANTEED PRESSURE TREATED fence
posts, lumber slabs and rails. Call Lehner
Wo o d P r e s e r ve r s L t d . , a s k fo r R o n
PRIVATE MORTGAGE FUNDS available for
1st and 2nd mortgages in ON, MB, and SK.
Difficult situations welcome. FSCO#12369.
1-888-393-8686,
Vaughan,
ON.
[email protected], www.farmlender.ca
NEED TO MOVE water or irrigate? Maybe
SEASONED SPRUCE SLAB firewood, one I can help. 50 years of experience. Dennis
cord bundles, $109, half cord bundles, 403-308-1400, Taber, AB.
$72; Blocked and split wood also available. PHIL’S IRRIGATION SALES: Reinke pivV&R Sawing, 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK.
ots, lateral and minigators, pump and used
new Bauer travelers dealer and
BLOCKED SEASONED JACK Pine firewood mainline
22 yrs experience. 306-858-7351,
and wood chips for sale. Lehner Wood Pre- pivots.
Lucky
Lake,
SK. www.philsirrigation.ca
servers Ltd., 306-763-4232, Prince Albert,
SK. Will deliver. Self-unloading trailer.
WESTERN IRRIGATION: Cadman travelling gun dealer. One used Cadman 4000S
traveller; Used 2 miles of 6” ring lock used
alum. pipe; Used diesel pumping unit. We
buy and sell used irrigation equipment.
306-867-9461, 306-867-7037, Outlook, SK
1-888-92 0-1507
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WANTED COCKSHUTT MFWDs: 1900;
1950; 1955; 2050; 2150; 2255; 1650;
1750 and 1850. 701-240-5737, Minot, ND
WANTED, TOP DOLLAR paid on IH tractors: 1026, 1456, 826, 1206, 1256, 756.
Call: 701-240-5737, Minot, ND.
W AN TED
M F 3 6 & 3 6 0 Dis ce rs
All s ize s , a n y con dition , a ls o p a rts
dis ce rs , Pre m ium Price p a id for
12Ft w ith 19 ” b la de s .
SK Fa rm Boys - Hon e s t Prom p t
Se rvice :
Ca ll An ytim e
3 06 .9 46 .9 6 6 9 or 3 06 .9 46 .79 23
Call John 403 888 8140
[email protected]
2- BOLT-ON 3 POINT HITCHES from Case
tractor. Grant 306-746-7336, Semans, SK.
CASE/IH PRESS DRILLS and 7721 PT
combine. Willing to take trade. Flaxcombe, SK. 306-463-3480, 306-460-9027.
MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps.
Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at:
CABLE 5/16” and 3/8” used, .10¢ to
.12¢/ft; galv. aircraft cable 1/8”, 5/32”
and 3/16” Save $. 403-237-8575, Calgary.
INTELLIGENT CROP PRODUCTION
MORE PRECISION, MORE PERFORMANCE, LESS COSTS
www.amazone.net
6009 - 64 Ave Taber • T1G 1Z8 Alberta
Office 403 223 5969 • Cell 780 219 2456 • Email [email protected]
FINISHED BISON WANTED: Bulls
$5.55/lb. HHW CAD; Heifers $5.30/lb.
C A D. A l s o l o o k i n g fo r b i s o n c o w s .
Call/text: 306-736-3454, Windthorst, SK.
RED ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery
available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006,
Englefeld, SK. skinnerfarmsangus.com
WANTED TO PURCHASE cull bison bulls
and cows, finished beef steers and heifers
for slaughter. Call Oak Ridge Meats
204-835-2365 204-476-0147 McCreary MB
99- 3 YEAR old Red Angus cows bred Red
Angus; 150 Red Angus heifers bred to easy
calving Red Angus bulls. All to start calving
April 1. 306-784-7480, 306-629-7481,
Herbert, SK. [email protected]
10 STRAIGHT RED bred Red Angus heifers.
Bred to 78 lb. Red Angus bull, bull turned
o u t J u n e 1 s t . B o b o r Te e J e n s e n ,
306-967-2770, Leader, SK.
TUBING FROM 1-1/4” to 3-1/2”. Sucker
rod 3/4”, 7/8” and 1”. Line pipe and Casing
also available. Phone 1-800-661-7858 or
780-842-5705, Wainwright, AB.
ODESSA ROCKPICKER SALES: New Degelman equipment, land rollers, Strawmaster, rockpickers, protill, dozer blades. FROZEN SASKATOON BERRIES, various
grades, palletized and ready to go, FOB
306-957-4403, 306-536-5097, Odessa, SK.
Calgary. Call for further info and wholesale
NEW LS TRACTOR, 4 WD, 97 HP, Iveco
price quote. 403-946-4759, Crossfield, AB.
dsl., self-leveling loader, 3500 lb. lift,
CAHR, 3 spd. PTO, 3 PTH, power shuttle
with hi/lo, 5 yr. warranty, $66,000. The
Tractor Company 306-239-2262, Osler, SK.
WA N T E D : 74 STE ALTH 3” complete
GRATTON COULEE AGRI PARTS LTD. Your s p r e a d e r t i p f o r J D 1 8 3 0 . C a l l
SALE IN STOCK Generators: 35 kw,
#1 place to purchase late model combine 306-536-5475, Regina, SK.
and tractor parts. Used, new and rebuilt. WANTED USED, LOW hours, self propelled $15,214; 50 kw, $21,689; Prime Power
generators in stock. New condition.
www.gcparts.com Toll free 888-327-6767.
fo r a g e h a r ve s t e r. C o n t a c t G o r d at : 250-554-6661,
Kamloops,
BC.
780-831-6872, Sexsmith, AB.
[email protected]
www.dieselgenerators-fuelbladders.com
WANTED: ENGINE PARTS or complete engine for a 555 Massey Harris continental
10’ DEGELMAN BLADE w/JD mounts; diesel engine. 780-850-9755 Edmonton AB
Grader V plows and snow wings; Blades for
D6, D7 and D8. Call Danny Spence, WANTED: MASSEY discers, Model 36.
Sask., Alberta or Manitoba. Top dollar.
306-246-4632, Speers, SK.
306-625-3369, 306-750-0642, Ponteix, SK.
1996 LEON 225A 1000, 14’ wide, 42” high,
4-way dozer from Case 9330, good cond. WANTED: 150 TO 175 HP diesel power
Call 306-947-4644, Langham, SK.
unit, with clutch, to drive sawmill, Cumor Cat preferred. 204-742-3738, cel.
DEGELMAN 12’ late model 5700 blade, mins
mounts for JD 7720, $13,500; Degelman 204-572-5133, Ethelbert, MB.
16’ blade, 6-way, mounts for Steiger Panther KM325. 780-679-7795, Camrose, AB.
2009 DEGELMAN 6900 14’ blade for
mounting on Case STX 275/280/325/330 WANTED: MF #36 DISCERS. Will pay top
or 335 4 WD tractor, hyd. angle, silage dollar and pick from anywhere. Phone
ext., $20,000. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm Mike 306-723-4875, Cupar, SK.
Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.
WANTED: USED, BURNT, old or ugly tractors. Newer models too! Smith’s Tractor
Wrecking, 1-888-676-4847.
H E AV Y D U T Y PA R T S o n s p e c i a l at
Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
1989 VERS. 856 tractor, 8500 hrs., 280
HP, 20.8x42 radials, good cond., $36,000;
1993 Ford 846, 6500 hrs., 230 HP, 18.4x38
radials, good cond., $35,000; 1993 Delmar
5500 medium harrows 70’, autofold, near
new tines, very good condition, $16,500.
204-638-1068, Sifton, MB. [email protected]
TROPHY ZONE TANNERY. State of the
art facility. Hair on tanning for both taxidermy and domestic hides. Quality work
with fast turn around. Call anytime
403-653-1565 or cell 406-450-6300,
Cardston, AB. Email: [email protected]
LAZY S BULL POWER 2016, January 30th,
at the ranch, Mayerthorpe, AB. 240 polled
red and black Simmental, Angus and Beefmaker (SimAngus) bulls. 780-785-3136.
Video online www.lazysranch.ca
FARM TOURS, International Farm Tours Argentina, Brazil, Australia, India, Europe,
POLLED PUREBRED COMING 2 year old
Charolais bulls, Red Factor and white. Easy
calving. Call Kings Polled Charolais,
306-435-7116, Rocanville, SK.
CHAROLAIS BULLS, YEARLING and two
year olds. Wintering available. LVV Ranch,
780-582-2254, Forestburg, AB.
REGISTERED CHAROLAIS BULLS, 2 year
olds and yearlings. Polled, horned, some
red. Quiet hand fed, hairy bulls. 40+ head
available. Wilf at Cougar Hill Ranch
306-728-2800, 306-730-8722, Melville, SK
40 PB CHAROLAIS cows, 20 bred heifers,
white and red factor w/wo papers. Cows
calving mid March, heifers mid April. Ervin
Zayak, Creedence Charolais Ranch, Derwent, AB. 780-741-3868, 780-853-0708.
O N E S TO P
CATTLE FIN AN CIN G
BC, ALBER TA, S AS K.
“ Fa rm e rs He lping Fa rm e rs ”
FOOTHILLS
LIV ESTO C K C O - O P
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Toll Free 1-8 66-8 48 -6669
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SPRUCE FOR SALE! Beautiful locally
grown trees. Plan ahead and renew your
shelterbelt 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. 6 - 12’
spruce available. Now taking spring bookings while supplies last. Phone
403-586-8733 or check out our website at
www.didsburysprucefarms.com
BISON WANTED - Canadian Prairie Bison
is looking to contract grain finished bison,
as well as calves and yearlings for growing
markets. Contact Roger Provencher at
97th Annua l
P rid e ofthe P ra iries
Bull S how a nd S a le
DAVIDSON GELBVIEH/ LONESOME
DOVE RANCH, 27th Annual Bull Sale,
Saturday, March 5, 2016, 1:00 PM at their
bull yards. Complimentary lunch, 11 AM.
Pre-sale viewing and hospitality, Friday,
March 4th. Selling 100+ purebred yearling
Gelbvieh bulls, Red or Black. Performance
and semen tested. View catalog and video
at : w w w. d av i d s o n g e l b v i e h . c o m o r
www.lonesomedoveranch.ca Vernon and
Eileen 306-625-3755, 306-625-7863; Ross
and Tara 306-625-3513, 306-625-7045,
Ponteix, SK.
M a rch 6- 7, 2 016
Llo yd m in ster, S K/AB
F eatu rin g Halteran d
P en S how s
23 POLLED HEREFORD HEIFERS, bred
Hereford. Call Duncan or Jeff Lees at:
306-455-2619 or 306-577-1375 Arcola, SK
Con tactthe L loyd m in sterExhib ition
P hon e: (306) 825- 5571
Em ail: sam @ lloyd exh.com
ENTRY DEA DLINE: Ja n 5 /16
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NEBRASKA BISON BUYING ALL CLASSES
Bison calves, yearlings, adult bulls, cows,
pairs. All export requirements processed
by Nebraska Bison. Contact Randy Miller, 10 BLACK ANGUS heifers, calving April 1st,
NEW AND USED PTO generators. Diesel 402-430-7058, Adams, Nebraska or email: Ivomec, Scourguard, all vaccinations,
and natural gas sets available as well. Call [email protected]
$2200. 306-445-8425, North Battleford, SK
1-888-300-3535, Airdrie, AB.
BLACK ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, sewww.midplainsimplements.ca Potato NILSSON BROS INC. buying finished bison men tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery
and irrigation; crop production imple- on the rail at Lacombe, AB. for winter de- available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006,
livery and beyond. Smaller groups wel- Englefeld, SK. skinnerfarmsangus.com
come. Fair, competitive and assured payNEW AND USED generators, all sizes from ment. Call Richard Bintner 306-873-3184.
40 BLACK ANGUS HEIFERS, bred to Black
5 kw to 3000 kw, gas, LPG or diesel. Phone
Angus heifer bulls starting July 2nd. Bulls
for availability and prices. Many used in NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for out August 20. Nice, quiet, average weight
stock. 204-643-5441, Fraserwood, MB. over 15 years, is looking for finished Bison, 1100 lbs. 306-322-7905, Archerwill, SK.
grain or grass fed. “If you have them, we
want them.” Make your final call with 11 REG. PB open Black Angus heifers,
GENERATORS: 20 KW-2000 KW, low hour Northfork for pricing! Guaranteed prompt $2500; 16 registered PB bred Black Angus
diesel, natural gas and propane units. payment! 514-643-4447, Winnipeg, MB.
cows, $3500. 306-236-6952 Rapid View SK
Abraham Generator Sales Co., Cooperstown, ND. 701-797-4766 or 701-371-9526. KICKIN’ ASH BUFFALO Meat Products is SELLING: BLACK ANGUS BULLS. Wayside
Angus, Henry and Bernie Jungwirth,
www.abrahamindustrial.com
currently looking for all classes of bison 306-256-3607, Cudworth, SK.
for
expanding
North
American
market.
Call
DUAL SKID MOUNTED Magnum MMG55
generators, 2013 Magnum MMG 55 on skid Paul 780-777-2326, Athabasca, AB. or PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS long yearling
bulls, replacement heifers, AI service.
w/light tower and transfer switch, fuel email to [email protected]
tank, Gen 1 3962 hrs, Gen 2 2723 hrs, exc. SELLING 90 HEAD 6 year old Wood Plains Meadow Ridge Enterprises, 306-373-9140
or 306-270-6628, Saskatoon, SK.
cond., $74,250. 250-554-6661, Kamloops.
cross bison cows. Will keep until Jan.
16th.
204-855-2073
eves,
Oak
Lake,
MB.
YOUNG TOP QUALITY Black Angus cows
LOWEST PRICES IN CANADA on new, high
quality generator systems. Quality diesel WANTED: CULL BISON cows/ bulls for 115- 4 year olds, 85- 2 year olds. Bred fullblood
Maine. Bulls turned out June 15,
generators, Winpower PTO tractor driven slaughter. Kelly at Drake Meat Processors,
$3,000. 306-476-2252, Killdeer, SK.
alternators, automatic/ manual switch 306-363-2117, ext. 111, Drake, SK.
[email protected]
gear, and commercial duty Sommers Powermaster and Sommers/ Winco portable BUYING: CULL COWS, herdsire bulls, BRED HEIFERS PUREBRED Black Angus,
generators and home standby packages. yearlings and calves. Phone Elk Valley papers available. Exposed to light birth75+ years of reliable service. Contact Ranches, 780-846-2980, Kitscoty, AB.
weight Angus bulls, July 5 to Sept 5th.
Sommers Motor Generator Sales for all
Ernest Gibson, Everblack Angus,
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 ALL CLASSES of bison: calves, Contact
Vermilion, AB., 780-853-2422.
yearlings,
cows,
bulls.
Willing
to
purchase
1-800-690-2396 [email protected]
any
amount.
[email protected]
Online: www.sommersgen.com
Call 605-391-4646.
DIESEL GENSET SALES AND SERVICE, QUILL CREEK BISON is looking for fin12 to 300 KWs, lots of units in stock. Used ished, and all other types of bison. COD, 85 YEARLING RED ANGUS bulls. Guaranand new: Perkins, John Deere and Deutz. paying market prices. “Producers working teed, semen tested, and delivered in the
We also build custom Gensets. We cur- with Producers.” Delivery points in SK. and spring. Phone Bob Jensen, 306-967-2770,
Leader, SK.
rently have special pricing on new John MB. Call 306-231-9110, Quill Lake, SK.
Deere units. Call for pricing 204-792-7471.
WANTED: ALL KINDS of bison from year- 100 PUREBRED BRED Heifers and Young
lings to old bulls. Also cow/calf pairs. Ph Cows. April/May calving. Breeding and
selection for 25 years. Sound functional
Kevin at 306-429-2029, Glenavon, SK.
cattle with length, muscle, and perforBISON WANTED. VALLEY Bison looking to mance. Whole herd vaccinations. Deer
INVACARE MOBILE SCOOTER, holds up to purchase all ages of bison. Payment upon Range Red Angus. 306-773-7964,
400 lbs., used very little, exc. cond., $1500 delivery. Contact Nolan 204-773-6725 306-773-9872, Stewart Valley, SK.
firm. 306-442-4201, Pangman, SK.
Binscarth MB. [email protected] [email protected]
SQUARE D: TWO year old and yearling bulls
for sale. All bulls sell out of the yard. Pick
now, we deliver, one at a time or by the
trailer load. Replacement Hereford heifers
bred Hereford, March calving. Jim Duke
306-538-4556, 306-736-7921, Langbank,
SK.
square-dpolledherefords.com
[email protected]
FRESH AND SPRINGING heifers for sale.
Cows and quota needed. We buy all classes of slaughter cattle-beef and dairy. R&F
Livestock Inc. Bryce Fisher, Warman, SK.
Phone 306-239-2298, cell 306-221-2620.
BIG ISLAND LOWLINES Premier Breeder.
Selling custom designed packages. Name
your price and we will put a package together for you. Fullblood/percentage Lowline, embryos, semen. Black/Red carrier.
Darrell 780-486-7553, Edmonton, AB.
REG. LONGHORN COW Herd Dispersal, 25
head of good quiet cows bred for wide
heavy horn. Proven bloodlines bred to 2
great bulls. Photos and pedigree available
at www.suncreekranches.com Call Cliff
780-388-3324, Buck Lake, AB.
WELSH BLACK- The Brood Cow Advantage.
Check www.canadianwelshblackcattle.com
Canadian Welsh Black Soc. 403-442-4372.
250 COWS FOR sale and ranch for rent.
Looking for energetic business minded
young couple interested in relocating. Call
780-755-2550, Edgerton, AB.
74 BLACK HEIFERS bred to low BW Red
and Black Angus bulls. Start calving March
20th. 306-442-4545, Weyburn, SK.
BRED HEIFERS: 9 Simmental/Angus
heifers, due March 1st, 1100 lbs. $2600.
Phone 306-717-3297, Hafford, SK.
MJ PETERSEN TRANSPORT Ltd. has for
hire ground load 53’ cattleliner and a 53’
stepdeck hay trailer. Mortlach, SK. Call
Dakota 306-891-1380 306-631-2023 Miles
BLK, BWF BRED HEIFERS, 20 top end bred
heifers. Choose from 30. Bred to easy calving Angus bulls. Start calving April 1st. Full
herd health program, $2600. 306-246-4544
HERD DISPERSAL: 80 bred Black Angus Richard, SK.
cross cows, you pick top 60, 100 bred
mixed cows, you pick top 80. Full herd BRED HEIFERS, mostly Red Angus and Red
health program. $2500 per head firm. Angus cross. Some Blacks. Start calving
Feb. 01. Can pick 50 out of 100. Can see
306-335-7875, Lemberg, SK.
first and second calvers from same herd as
well as calves. Bred Angus. Asking $3,000
BRED HEIFERS
OBO. May feed at custom rates. Carrot River, SK. 306-768-3226, 306-768-7386.
70 Red Angus and 120 Black Brockle
faces FAN CY, FAN CY b re d to Bla ck An gu s
20 CHAR CROSS cows for sale, bred
Charolais, March/April calving. Layne and
Bu lls . Bu lls tu rn e d o u t Ju n e 1 5th. P rice
Paula Evans, Kenaston, SK 306-252-2246.
$2900.00. All fe m a le s o n Co m ple te he rd
he a lth.
BRED HEIFERS: Black, BWF, and Red AnFo r pictu re s , s e e the cla s s ifie d s pa ge a t
gus, bred to easy calving Black Angus
bulls. Start calving April 1. 306-493-2969,
w w w .p rim ro s elives to c k.c o m
Delisle, SK.
Gu a ra n te e d qu a lity s a tis fa ctio n o n
the s e s u pre m e fe m a le s .
WELL BRED BLACK Angus/Simmental
cross and Black Angus open replacement
Ca ll S teve a t 40 3 -3 8 1-3 70 0
heifers. Call 306-726-2151, Southey, SK.
o r Cell 40 3 -3 8 2 -9 9 9 8 .
50 RED/BLACK ANGUS/SIMM cross cows
for sale. Start calving Apr. 20. Cows have
been Ivomeced and ultrasounded. Nice set
of cows. Asking $2350/ea. OBO. Phone
306-621-4643, Jason in Calder, SK.
90 CHAROLAIS CROSS COWS. Charolais
& Simm. bulls out June 25. Preg. checked
Dec. 3. 403-664-2755, Oyen, AB.
CUSTOM WINTERING COWS and feeders. For details call: Eric 306-717-8905,
Cam 306-339-7840, Carnduff, SK.
80 YOUNG COWS, 2nd and 3rd calvers,
bred Black or Red Angus, April 1st calving.
Can be feed to end of Feb. 306-386-2213
or 306-441-9327, Cochin, SK.
2004 HIGHLINE 7010 bale processor, big FREESTANDING PANELS: 30’ windbreak
square, Right-hand delivery, $6500. Call panels; 6-bar 24’ and 30’ panels; 10’, 20’
403-793-1302, Brooks, AB.
and 30’ feed troughs; Bale shredder bunks;
PAYSEN LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT INC. Silage bunks; Feeder panels; HD bale feedWe manufacture an extensive line of cattle ers; All metal 16’ and 24’ calf shelters. Will
handling and feeding equipment including custom build. 306-424-2094, Kendal, SK.
squeeze chutes, adj. width alleys, crowding tubs, calf tip tables, maternity pens,
gates and panels, bale feeders, Bison
equipment, Texas gates, steel water
troughs, rodeo equipment and garbage in2002 ARABIAN GELDING, 15 HH, quiet, cinerators. Distributors for El-Toro electric
gentle, well broke. 306-516-7890, York- branders and twine cutters. Our squeeze
ton, SK. everything-on-sale.weebly.com
chutes and headgates are now avail. with a
neck extender. Ph 306-796-4508, email:
[email protected] Web: www.paysen.com
2 RECONDITIONED BOBSLEIGHS, as new,
with 2-1/2” runners and new poles. Also
3 seat cutter. 780-744-2113, Islay, AB.
SELLING LAMBS AND GOATS? Why
500 BRED 2nd and 3rd calvers, mostly Red take one price from one buyer? Expose
and Black Angus, a few tans. Swift Current, your lambs and goats to a competitive
SK, call 306-773-1049 or 306-741-6513.
market. Beaver Hill Auctions, Tofield, AB.
Sales every Monday, trucks hauling from
150 BLACK ANGUS BRED HEIFERS, SK, BC, AB. www.beaverhillauctions.com
bred to low birthweight Black bulls, ex- Call: 780-662-9384.
posed July 4, 2015, vaccinated with VL5
plus 7 Som, Safeguard/Ivomec, $2500. SUNGOLD SPECIALTY MEATS. We want
your lambs. Have you got finished (fat)
Call 306-476-7996, Rockglen, SK.
lambs or feeder lambs for sale? Call Rick
36 TOPCUT RED Angus cross heifers, bred a t : 4 0 3 - 8 9 4 - 9 4 4 9 o r C a t h y a t :
to easy-calving Red Angus bull, all AI bred 1-800-363-6602 for terms and pricing.
June 10, exposed to Redman Son. Battle- www.sungoldmeats.com
ford, SK. 306-937-2880 or 306-441-5010.
AQUA THERM A pasture proven trough.
Winter water problems? Solved! No electricity required. 3 sizes - 100, 200 and 525
ga l l o n . Ke l l n S o l a r, L u m s d e n , S K .
1-888-731-8882, www.kellnsolar.com
ARROW LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT: Port.
windbreaks, custom panels. Mossbank, SK.
1-866-354-7655, www.shadowranch.ca
HEALTHY COWS ARE PROFITABLE COWS:
Buy tubs and mineral direct. Riomax tubs,
RangeRocket lick sleds and Riogrande bag
mineral. Top quality supplements, low cost
and delivered direct to you. Call to discuss
your winter supplement and/or mineral
needs. Simply order over the phone, and it's
shipped right to your ranch with freight
free (minimum 3 tons). Ask about full/half
load discounts. Call 306-500-6417, Maple
Creek,
SK.
[email protected]
www.rionutrition.net
H E AV Y D U T Y PA R T S o n s p e c i a l at
BEST COOKING PULSES accepting samples
Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
of organic and conventional pulses for
NEW TUPPERWARE, liquidating, no tax, 2014/2015 crop year. Matt 306-586-7111,
discount prices. 306-516-7890, Yorkton, Rowatt, SK.
SK. everything-on-sale.weebly.com
Buying all classes of sheep,
lambs and goats.
Contact Darren Shaw 403-601-5165
Same Day Trade Payment. Farm Pickup.
Competitive Pricing.
S hop O n lin e
GOT GRAIN FOR SALE? Growers International is currently dealing in all wheats
and durum, malt and feed barley, milling
and feed oats, brown and golden flax,
spelt, edible and feed peas, brown and yellow mustard and lentils. Call Mark Gimby
306-652-4529 or Lorne Lix 204-924-7050.
2000 HARSH 575 feed box complete for
sale, $15,000. Call Jeff at 403-371-6362,
Brant, AB.
SOUTHERN ALBERTA
LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE
RK AN IM AL S UPPL IES - Be o n ta rget.
Us e the p ro d u cts en d o rs ed b y the
p ro fes s io n a ls . RK & S UL L IV AN S UPPL IES
Fo r a fre e c a ta lo gu e : 1-8 00-440-26 9 4
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[email protected]
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76 GOOD QUALITY bred heifers, bred to
low BW Black Angus. Bulls out June 22.
Black, Red, Brown. Preg checked, vaccinated and Ivomeced, $2500. Near Plunkett,
SK., 306-682-3717, eves. 306-682-3066.
BRED HEIFERS: Simmental and Simm.
Red Angus cross. Big, strong, top quality
heifers. All one iron bred Red and Black
Angus. Complete vaccination program incl.
first dose of Scourguard and Ivomec. Call
3J Simmental Farms, 306-325-4622,
306-327-8005, Lintlaw, SK.
120 ANGUS CROSS 2nd and 3rd calving
bred cows, bred to Angus bulls, start calving April 1st. 50 Angus bred heifers, bred
Angus. Vaccinated with FP5 and Ivomec.
Call 204-851-0745, Elkhorn, MB.
BRED HEIFERS FOR SALE. 30 quality
Simmental and Simmental Red Angus half
blood heifers bred Red Angus to start calving April 1. 306-963-7700, 306-963-7777,
Stalwart, SK. [email protected]
30 BRED CHAR./Red Angus cross cows, 4
bred heifers, bred to Char. and Red Angus
bulls. Start calving March 20th; Also 3 year
old Char. bull. 306-867-8410, Outlook, SK.
HERD DISPERSAL: CAN WINTER AND
calve for new owner. 150 cows, bred
Red and Black Angus. You pick 130. 30
heifers bred Red Angus, you pick 25. Start
calving Apr. 10. Cows, $2450; Bred heifers,
$2700. 306-696-7870, Broadview, SK.
$5000 REWARD LEADING up to or in
finding 14 missing Simmental cows and 13
calves. Cows have brand “TLX” on left rib
and possibly a brand of “P” and backwards
“G” on left rib. Calves probably not branded. Went missing in Alliance/Sedgwick, AB
area. Call 780-386-3745, 780-888-1258.
TWO GROUPS OF Red Angus Simmental
cross heifers bred Red Angus. Calving
starts February 15th and April 1st.
306-436-7741, Milestone, SK.
8- HALF ANGUS HALF LONGHORN 2 yr.
old heifer bulls, $3500. 403-740-5197, Big
Valley, AB.
GOOD QUALITY BRED HEIFERS. Red
Angus, Red Angus cross Hereford and Red
Angus cross Simmental. Bred Red Angus.
Ferguson Stock Farm Ltd., 306-895-4825,
Paynton, SK.
NOW PURCHASING AT Roy Leitch LiveCOZY CAPS! Ear protection for newborn stock Co. Ltd. Fat lambs, feeder lambs, cull WINTER WATERING: FREEZE proof,
calves! 306-577-4664, Carlyle, SK. Email ewes and goats. Brandon, MB. Phone: motion eye, 24”/36” drain back bowl. Call
204-727-5021, 204-729-7791.
[email protected]
toll free 1-888-731-8882, Lumsden, SK.
Or visit: www.kellnsolar.com
74 FAN CY HOM E RAISED
EZE-FEEDER: Quality built grain feeders
BLACK AN GUS
w/auger for range or bunk feeding. From
15 - 95 bu. Optional scales, 3 PTH frames,
BRED HEIFERS
SHEEP and LAMB on-farm Biosecurity etc. 1-877-695-2532. www.ezefeeder.ca
Bla ck a n gu s b u lls pu t in M a y 20th a n d
Workshop and Canadian Sheep and
pu lle d Ju ly 20th. P re g te s te d a ve we ight L a m b F o o d S a fe F a r m P r a c t i c e s MOLE HILL DESTROYERS: 2015 Demo
Workshop, in conjunction with SSDB’s Unit, Series 4, 50’; Also Used Series 4, 40’.
will b e o ve r 1 1 00 lb s . re a d y to go o u t a n d
Order your 2016 Units before Dec. 31. Call
m a ke yo u s o m e m o n e y. T o ta l he rd he a lth AGM and Symposium, will be held at the 306-542-7325, molehilledestroyer.com
Ramada Plaza, 1818 Victoria Ave., Regina,
P rice $2900.00.
SK. Jan. 15-16, 2016. Call: 306-933-5200, 2006 H1000 tub grinder and 2009 Bale
email: [email protected] to register. King processor. Contact 204-773-0305,
Fo r pictu re s , s e e the cla s s ifie d s pa ge a t
Visit: www.sksheep.com for details.
w w w .p rim ro s elives to c k.c o m
Russell, MB.
Gu a ra n te e d qu a lity s a tis fa ctio n o n
SVEN ROLLER MILLS. Built for over 40
the s e s u pre m e fe m a le s .
years. PTO/elec. drive, 40 to 1000 bu./hr.
Example: 300 bu./hr. unit costs $1/hr. to
Ca ll S teve a t 40 3 -3 8 1-3 70 0
run. Rolls peas and all grains. We regroove
o r Cell 40 3 -3 8 2 -9 9 9 8 .
SASK. SHEEP DEV. BOARD sole dis- and repair all makes of mills. Call Apollo
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of
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Sask.,
offers
BRED RED AND RWF Simm./Angus cross programs, marketing services and sheep/ Machine 306-242-9884, 1-877-255-0187.
heifers bred to Red Angus bulls. Breeding goat supplies. 306-933-5200, Saskatoon, www.apollomachineandproducts.com
exposed June 1st. Mitch at: 306-467-4975, SK. www.sksheep.com
MIXMILL SCREENS, BRAND new 3/8 and
306-467-7912, Duck Lake, SK.
1/2 screens to fit 359 NH Mixmill, $175.
each. Phone: 306-746-5704, Raymore, SK.
COMPLETE HERD OF 100 yellow/tan Simm
cross cows. Start calving end of March.
Bred to Red Simm. bulls. Full herd health
program. 2015 calves can be viewed
w/cows. 2014 steer calves, avg. 634 lbs. BUY ALL: Pigs/swine/wild boar, raised
Call Randy at 204-739-3011, Ashern, MB.
outside, all sizes. Most $. 1-877-226-1395.
www.canadianheritagemeats.com
8- STANFIELD ELECTRIC HEATING pads,
never plugged in. 1’ wide x 4’ long, $550.
WANTED: CULL COWS and bulls. For book- buys all. 250-260-1650, Vernon, BC.
ings call Kelly at Drake Meat Processors,
3 PTH FOLDING BALE FORK: Carries 3
306-363-2117 ext. 111, Drake, SK.
bales, folds narrower than tractor, hyd.
fold, $3900. Save time! Save fuel! Call
204-966-3221 or 204-841-1277, Eden, MB.
or email: [email protected]
READY TO LAY pullets. Taking early booking 2008 HIGHLINE BALE Pro 8100, feed
for white or brown for June pickup. Call for chopper series, EZ Feed II grain tank, very
2 FJORD MOLLY mules, minis, and har- pricing. 306-435-3530, Moosomin, SK.
good condition, used 4 years, $18,900.
ness. 1 Arab mare sorrel w/blaze, 1 Paint
780-853-7205, Vermilion, AB.
gelding. 780-853-2031 or 780-581-4035,
Vermilion, AB.
QUALITY 5 BARS, windbreaks, gates and
feeders, plus more. Many satisfied long
term customers. 306-485-8559, Oxbow SK
WE NEED ELK FOR U.S. MEAT Markets FFS- FUCHS FARM SUPPLY is your partner
No status or testing required. Picked up at in agriculture stocking mixer, cutter,
your farm. Competitive pricing up to feed wagons and bale shredders and in$4/lb. Call Ian at 204-848-2498.
dustry leading Rol-Oyl cattle oilers.
306-762-2125, Vibank, SK. www.fuchs.ca
WANTED: ELK, WHITE-TAILED Deer and
FROSTFREE NOSEPUMPS: Fully susBison. Rob at 780-871-1056, Lloydminster
tainable livestock watering. No power reNORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for quired to heat or pump. Prevents contamiover 15 years, is looking for Elk. “If you nation. Grants available. 1-866-843-6744.
have them, we want them.” Make your fi- www.frostfreenosepumps.com
January 20-22, 2016
nal call with Northfork for pricing! Guaranteed prompt payment! 514-643-4447,
Saskatoon Inn
Winnipeg, MB.
ORGANIC FEED GRAIN. Call DMI
306-515-3500, Regina, SK
TRADE AND EXPORT Canada buying all
grades of organic grains. Fast payment
and pick up. Call 306-433-4700.
WANT THE ORGANIC ADVANTAGE?
Contact an organic Agrologist at Pro-Cert
for information on organic farming: prospects, transition, barriers, benefits, certification and marketing. Call 306-382-1299,
Saskatoon, SK. or [email protected]
ORGANIC GROWERS WANTED. Grow
q u i n o a ! To t a l p r o d u c t i o n c o n t r a c t s
available for 2016. Premium returns, guara n t e e d m a r ke t s a n d d e l i v e r y. C a l l
306-933-9525 or view www.quinoa.com
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www. allenleigh.ca
[email protected]
Join us for SBIC 2016!
SASKATCHEWAN’S
PREMIER
BEEF EVENT
Beef & Forage Symposium
Trade Show
Industry Meetings
PUREBRED NUBIAN GOATS, dry does,
doelings, bucks, bucklings, no CAE/CL.
306-682-0112, Humboldt, SK.
Jiffy Bale Processor
MORAND INDUSTRIES
Builders of Quality Livestock
Equipment, Made with Your
Safety in Mind!
85 HOME GROWN top quality preg. checked
bred heifers. Bred to calving ease Black
1-800-582-4037
Angus bulls. Due starting March 15, 2016.
www.morandindustries.com
For more information and to register visit:
Winston Hougham, Meggan Laidler,
306-344-4913, 306-825-0358, Frenchman
www.saskbeefconference.com
STOP WASTING GRAIN! Try our grain
Butte, SK. [email protected]
troughs: 30’ c/w skids, made of conveyor
belting and pipe, $750 ea. 306-538-4685,
306-736-7146, Kennedy, SK.
435 Bulls
CATTLE SHELTER PACKAGES or built on
site. For early booking call
Saturday, January 30, 2016 12 noon MST
Lloydminster, AB Ex. Grounds
www.warmanhomecentre.com
GREG’S WELDING: Freestanding 30’ 5 bar
panels, all 2-7/8” drill stem construction,
$470; 24’x5.5’ panels, 2-7/8” pipe with 51” sucker rods, $350; 24’x6’ panels, 2-7/8”
75 Red Angus
35
Dehorned
Herefords
pipe with 6- 1” rods, $375; 30’ 2 or 3 bar
(Two’s)
(Two’s)
windbreak panels c/w lumber. Gates and
double hinges avail. on all panels. Belting
80 Black Angus 70 Black Super Baldies 30 Super Guppies
60 Charolais
troughs for grain or silage. Calf shelters.
(Two’s)
(Two’s & Yearlings)
(Two’s)
(Two’s)
Del. avail. 306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK.
HIGHLINE BALE PRO 7000, with added
Call Mac Creech, DVM at 1-800-561-BULL (2855)
feed chopper, 30 bushel grain tank, big
tires, 1000 PTO. Makes poor feed better.
For Free BULL BOOK/DVD - Now On Line!
75 Red Super
30 H-2’s
$16,500 OBO. Phone 306-463-3225,
www.canadabulls.com email: [email protected]
(Two’s)
Baldies (Two’s)
306-460-7620, Kindersley, SK.
Model
Chamber Number of Hammer
Maximum
Hammers
Size
Bale Length Discharge Length
RJS 927
RJS 928
72”
left hand
right hand
95”
32
½” x 2”
x 5 ¼”
RJS 958
108”
right hand
117”
40
½” x 2”
x 5 ¾”
1000 RPM PTO / 100 HP Minimum / Optional Hydraulic Deflector Kit
The exclusive Jiffy Rock-Not-Roll cradle:
• Shreds hay across the bale, not just the outside layer.
• Evenly disperses inferior outside hay and green core hay –
for whole bale consumption.
• Only 14 bearings. No belts. No chains.
• There is no ‘wrong way’ to load a Jiffy Bale Processor.
Models and specifications are subject to change without any advance notice.
RENN Mill Center Inc., RR#4 Lacombe, AB T4L 2N4
Call the factory to find your local dealer.
TEL:
403-784-3518 | www.rennmill.com
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Farm at 780-338-2934, Grimshaw, AB.
3000 ACRES DEEDED farmland for sale in
1 block. Sections 5, 6, 7, 8 and 18, all
22-2-W4, Bindloss, AB. [email protected]
Call 403-528-5425 or 403-548-1299.
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RECENTLY REDUCED. 1800 sq. ft. home
to be moved off lot. 3 bdrm, 1 bath, large
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Susan - Age: 55
Susan is a sweet country girl who manages
the farm she owns with her 2 brothers.
She likes curling, skiing, baking, dancing
and traveling. She has a dog, a border
collie, named Daisy. Susan is twice divorced,
financially stable, has no young children,
and is very close to her family. She wants
a man who lives a simple life like herself,
is caring, fun, passionate, likes animals,
is a little bit romantic, and knows what he
wants in life. She is looking for a committed
relationship, with an honest man who is not
afraid of being affectionate.
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YOU NOW HAVE time for love - you’re
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DWEIN TRASK REALTY INC., St. Benedict south, 325 acres of 32-40-24-W2
with grain storage, very good 2 storey
house just complete with $100,000 renos!
FARM TOURS, International Farm Tours - Barn and extensive corrals. New price
Argentina, Brazil, Australia, India, Europe, $699,900! Ph Dwein Trask 306-221-1035.
Ireland, England. www.farmtoursusa.com FARM TOURS, International Farm Tours 888-414-4177, [email protected]
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RANCH FOR RENT and 250 cows for sale. Ireland,
Looking for energetic business minded 888-414-4177, [email protected]
young couple interested in relocating. Call DW E I N T R A S K R E A LT Y I N C . , NW780-755-2550, Edgerton, AB.
05-38-24-W3, SW-07-38-24-W3 and NE06-38-24-W3 total 480 acres. Reward, SK.
ID#1100453 COALDALE: Established 6 oilwell leases and long term land renter.
Modern Feedlot, built with future expan- Please call Dwein Trask at 306-221-1035
sion in mind. Current capacity: 5,000 beef for more info.
feeders with NCRB permit for a further
1,000 head plus composting area. Well MINERAL RIGHTS. We will purchase and
landscaped with lagoons and newer water o r l e a s e y o u r m i n e r a l r i g h t s .
reservoir, c/w 3 homes, quonset. Approx. 1-877-269-9990. [email protected]
537 acres irrigated and 488 SMRID Water
Rights. ID#1100469 BROOKS: 337.2
“ S pecia lizing in S a s ka tchew a n
acres of irrigated land w/revenue situated
Fa rm & Ra nch Rea l Es ta te”
in the City of Brooks. Includes approx. 282
acres of EID Water Rights, all irrigation
equipment: 7-Tower Valley Electronic Irrigation Pivot (installed in 2009), wheel
Yo rk to n , S K
move system w/pumps and 3 grain silos.
306-641-4667
Annual Right of Way income of $3,000 &
w a d e.b erlin ic@ ha m m o n d rea lty.ca
Surface Lease Revenue of $3,150. Real
Estate Centre, 1-866-345-3414. For
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all our listings: farmrealestate.com
W A D E B ER LIN IC
RT M ’ S AND SITE built homes. Call
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QUALITY GRAIN LAND for sale in Lamont
pricing at: www.warmanhomes.ca
County. Total 381.30 acres with approx. 340
cultivated acres. NE-29-58-19-4 is located
close to the North Sask. River and the
Waskatenau Bridge. This parcel has 154.54
APACHE JCT, AZ. 55+ gated community, acres. SW-14-58-19-4 is quality grain land
12x54 mobile home w/AZ room, sleeps 5, with 147-26 acres, mostly all cultivated.The
west 1/2 of NE-11-58-19-4 has 79.5 acres
fully furnished, exc. cond. 780-974-3844.
and is mostly all cultivated. $1,495,000.
ATTENTION SNOWBIRDS: Lot to rent or 780-916-9025, 780-363-2302, St. Michael,
sell for trailer/motorhome. Roadhaven Re- AB., [email protected]
sort, Apache Junction, AZ. 780-836-6478,
LAND OPPORTUNITY: 1) 70 acres devel780-836-3086, Evelyn, [email protected]
opment property west of Lloydminster. 2)
Brand new feedlot and cattle headquarters, approx. 2000 head cap., attached to
2700 acres of cattle country, West of Edmonton. 3) 960 acre rolling pasture, great
hunting, will carry approx. 180 cow/calf
pairs, $37,850 surface lease revenue. West
700+ ACRE PUREBRED Angus beef ranch, of Leduc. 4) 6800 acre ranch north of
located central BC. House, buildings, and Smoky Lake, 2 modern homes, $30,000
irrigation. Livestock, irrigation and equip- surface lease revenue. 5) 800 acres prime
property just west of Edmonton, north of
ment negotiable. 250-330-4423.
Cougar Creek Golf Course and South of AlFARM TOURS, International Farm Tours - berta Beach. 6) Deluxe recreational quarArgentina, Brazil, Australia, India, Europe, ter west of Caroline. Fronts on Clearwater
Ireland, England. www.farmtoursusa.com River. Call Don Jarrett, Realty Executives
Leading, 780-991-1180, Spruce Grove, AB.
Debenture pays 10% per annum with stock options
Debenture funds used for Alberta liquid rich gas project
1.403.291.0005 or Toll Free 1.877.784.9696
4 GREYHOUND PUPS, 8 months old from
outstanding hunting parents. Will be ready
to hunt next fall. Serious inquiries only.
Call 403-556-0282, Olds, AB.
PB AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD PUPS,
working parents, new litter at Christmas.
Call 780-853-2783, Vermilion, AB.
NEW ZEALAND HUNTAWAY herding pups,
ready to train. Four months old males,
black w/white chest, $600./each. Gordon
and Irene Trost: 780-576-2293, or email:
[email protected] Newbrook, AB.
GREAT PYRENEES/AKBASH CROSS pups,
born Oct. 3, with sheep, both working parents, $200. 306-845-2404, Livelong, SK
KUVASZ/PYRENEES, 4 males & 1 female, 1
yr. old. Farm raised. Medicine Hat, AB.,
403-526-9177 or 403-502-9470.
DIGITAL AGRICULTURE PUMPS and meters! Dura Products offer best in class solutions for consumers wishing to transfer
liquid. 1-855-765-9937, www.polywest.ca
OUR CODE BLUE pump metering service is
designed to ensure proper maintenance of
your pumps! Call 1-855-765-9937 or view:
www.polywest.ca
CAST ALUMINUM PUMPS, from Polar
Pumps! Designed for heavy duty applications where you need the durability. Call
GRAZING LEASE & Deeded land for sale/
rent. 23 quarters grazing lease for sale with
12 adjoining quarters of deeded land for
rent. For sale by owner. 780-202-0167,
Winfield, AB. [email protected]
CEDAR LOG HOMES AND CABINS, sidings, paneling, decking. Fir and Hemlock
flooring, timbers, special orders. Rouck
Bros., Lumby, BC. www.rouckbros.com
1-800-960-3388.
RM 225: IRRIGATION potential! Approx.
800 acres of grainland which can be irrigated from the South Sask. River according to the owner. Excellent opportunity to
own irrigated land. John Cave, Edge Realty
Ltd., 306-773-7379. www.farmsask.com
Plea s e ca ll M a rcel a t1-403-350-6 8 6 8
M a rcel L eBla n c Rea l Es ta te In c.
THE GREAT CANADIAN
ENERGY DEBENTURE
GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS, ready to go.
Phone Ed 306-269-7745, leave message if
not in, Foam Lake, SK.
LOOKING FOR DRY land or irrigation to
seed to pure alfalfa. Cash rent by standing,
or crop share. Prefer west of Hwy. #36,
s o u t h o f H w y. # 2 7 . C a l l B a r r y at :
403-507-8660, email: [email protected]
C A LL W A D E T O D A Y!
View m y w ebsite at: w w w .Acre s OfFa rm s .ca
Acreso fE xp er tise.
RM OF GRANT #372, 30 miles east of
Saskatoon off Hwy #5. SE-29-37-28-W2,
153 acres, 82 cult., 54,700 assessment.
MLS® 556060, $152,000. Garry Frie, Royal
LePage Saskatoon, SK. 639-480-7254.
PRICE REDUCED. RM of Leask #464.
What a ranch! 4342 acres in a block,
4-wire fences and treated, posts. Over
3000 acres in tame pasture. 36x112’ hip
roof calving barn w/boxstalls, 3 large open
end cattle shelters, corrals systems, well,
pasture water. Plus a 36x51’ metal clad
building. 36x20’ adjoining ranch hands living quarters w/in-floor NG heat, power,
phone, sewer. What a location! One hour
to Prince Albert and just over an hour to
Saskatoon and North Battleford. MLS®
557460. For more info. or viewing, call
Lloyd Ledinski, Re/Max of the Battlefords,
306-446-8800 or 306-441-0512.
RM of HOODOO #401, SW-36-43-26-W2.
158 acres, 155 cultivated. New scale assessment, 107,600. Taxes $1,142/yr. Asking price, $275,000. Contact Omar Gomaa
by phone at: 403-407-1700, or email to:
[email protected] Wakaw, SK.
RM OF CALEDONIA #99 480 acres. 40
mi. SE of Regina. Assess 256,400. Asking
$1190/acre. Keith Bartlett 306-535-5707,
Sutton Group Results Realty, Regina, SK.
GRAIN LAND TO RENT, 35 mile radius of
Rouleau, SK. Call 306-776-2600 or email:
[email protected]
BISON RANCH/LAND FOR SALE MLS®
556997, $1,250,000. 1,007 acre ranch
SW of St. Louis with cedar log home, 8’
and 5’ game fence on 5 quarters, 2 not
fenced, excellent bison handling facilities
for sorting and loading. MLS® 529815,
RM of Aberdeen, $249,900. 40 acres partial Hwy #41 frontage. MLS® 530816,
RM of Bayne, $879,900. 474 acres with potential for aggregate source. MLS®
546502, RM of Fish Creek, $199,900. 369
acres natural topography, wildlife and cultivated land. MLS® 553388, RM of Vanscoy, $99,900. 40 acres good building site
20 kms from Saskatoon. MLS® 557183
RM of Laird, $199,900. Organic land. Seller
willing to rent back. For further details
check out listings at: www.EdBobiashTeam.com or contact Ed Bobiash RE/MAX
Saskatoon, at: 306-280-2400.
RM SPIRITWOOD. What a property! This
307 acre grain farm offers a 1204 sq. ft., 3
bdrm home w/full basement, nat. gas heat
and well. 40x60 quonset, 5 steel bins,
22x42 garage/shop, plus other yard buildings. Approx. 220 acres cultivated. Located
8 miles East of Spiritwood and 1/2 mile
South. Bring your pets and farm animals
and enjoy this peaceful area. MLS®
556862. Call Lloyd Ledinski, Re/Max of the
Battlefords, 306-446-8800, 306-441-0512,
North Battleford. remaxbattlefords.com
RM OF CANAAN: Approx. 160 acres of
farmland. John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd.,
306-773-7379. www.farmsask.com
RM ROSEMOUNT, CANDO: $630,000.
352 acre livestock ranch with 317 acres
grass, 25 acres cultivated, 10 acres yard
w/1950 sq. ft. bungalow, detached double
garage, 44x80’ quonset w/overhead door,
barn with hay loft, calving barn, 3 shelter
barns, watering bowls, new water well
2014. MLS®550607. Wally Lorenz, Realtor
Re/Max of the Battlefords 306-843-7898.
RM OF GARDEN RIVER #490, 1 quarter
grainland for sale, SE-09-51-24-W2. Call
FOR RENT: 3 quarters grainland, RM of 306-929-4624, Albertville, SK.
Ponass Lake #367, NE-11-37-13, NW-1137-13, SW-10-37-13. Inquiry text to: WANT TO RENT: Farmland in RM of Grand306-690-6786.
See
details
at: view #349, RM of Reford #379, or RM of
http://community.bidwin.org/post/grain- Biggar #347. 306-948-7807, Landis, SK.
land-for-rent-ponass-lake. Rose Valley, SK.
BEAUTIFUL 160 ACRES, 17 miles NW of
[email protected]
Meadow Lake, SK., 1/2 mile S of Beaver
FOR RENT: 3 quarters grainland between River. Can be used as recreation land, hay
Biggar and Perdue. 449 acres all in one or grains. NW-31-18-60-W3, RM 588.
section, 340 cultivated, 65 to 125 pasture. $142,000. 306-240-5997.
For
more
details
go
to: ID#1100380 BENGOUGH: 34 quarter
http://community.bidwin.org/post/Biggar- sections (5419.16 acres) of probably the
Land-For-Rent 306-690-6786 Biggar, SK. best grassland around. Numerous sloughs,
[email protected]
dugouts and an underground river run
WANTED FARMLAND TO RENT in the through the property. Could be farmed.
Raymore/ Semans area, North of Hwy. 15. Yardsite w/home, corrals and quonset and
another with a 1978 bungalow and well.
Call 306-528-7875 or [email protected]
MLS®. ID#1100470 LLOYDMINSTER:
159 acres of fenced land, 2 separate titles
and 2 homes located approx. 42 kms from
Lloydminster. 34x24 barn/shop w/loft, 4
horse stalls and attached tack shop, round
w /Aggrega te Potentia l
pen, heated watering bowl, grain bin, lean
to and chicken coop. 1-866-345-3414,
In Sa ska tchew a n
Real Estate Centre. For all our listings
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LAND FOR SALE RM Buchanan: NE-24-32-5
Phone: 306-782-74 23
W2, 109 cult. acres. NW-24-32-5-W2, 101
Fa x: 306-786-6909
cult. acres, power, 3 air bins, 3 steel bins.
NW-25-32-5-W2, 133 cult. acres, machine
Em a il: info@ potzu s.com
shop, 2 steel bins. SW-19-32-4-W2, 131
cult acres. 306-563-7455 or 306-563-7534
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306-540-8370,
Balgonie,
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536159, $429,900. 77 acres with 2010
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CERT. CDC AUSTENSON, feed; Cert. CDC
Maverick, forage; Bentley, 2 row malting;
Legacy and Celebration, 6 row malting.
Call Fedoruk Seeds, Kamsack, SK., CERTIFIED NO. 1 AAC Brandon CWRS.
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Lake, SK., shewchukseeds.com
306-524-4339, Semans, SK.
CERTIFIED #1 LEGACY (6R). Call Fenton
Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.
CERT. #1 AAC Synergy (2-row malt), CDC
Austenson, CDC Maverick. Exc. quality. Ph
2005 MONACO CAYMAN 34PDD, 35’, 5.9 Ardell Seeds Vanscoy, SK., 306-668-4415.
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2016 PALAZZO 36.1, Stock #K4419, 340
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cash price $224,000. save $68,022. Shop
online 24/7 at: www.allandale.com or
1-844-488-3142.
CERTIFIED CONVENTIONAL CM440
grazing corn. Early maturing, leafier for increased grazing yield. No planter required.
Swath or stand graze cattle, sheep, bison
& for wildlife food plots. Early booking discounts til Dec. 31/15. CanaMaize Seed Inc
1-877-262-4046, www.canamaize.com
$28/ACRE, CATT CORN, open pollinated
corn seed. Lower cost alternative for grazing and silage. 7-9’ tall leafy plants, 8-10”
cobs, early maturing 2250 CHU’s. Seed
produced in MB. Selling into SK. AB., and
MB. for over 10 years. High nutritional value and palatability. Delivery available.
204-723-2831, Austin, MB.
PARTS FOR VINTAGE snowmobiles, 1990
and older. Call Don at 780-755-2258,
Wainwright, AB. [email protected]
SLEIGHS- HUNTING, CALVING, hauling, or
playing. Koenders Sleighs are SK. made
and come in a variety of sizes w/optional
covers for all types of jobs. Flaman, CERT. DURUM SEED, AAC Current, AAC
Raymore, AAC Marchwell, Transcend.
1-888-435-2626, www.flaman.com
Printz Family Seeds, Gravelbourg, SK.,
TRAIL GROOMER BOMBARDIER BR160 306-380-7769, 306-648-3511.
M o g u l M a s t e r M B P 1 8 - 0 8 g r o o m e r,
CERT., REG. AAC Marchwell VB durum.
$35,000. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK.
Sean Miller, Avonlea, SK., 306-868-7822.
CERT. TRANSCEND, AAC Marchwell VB,
AAC Raymore, Eurostar and Strongfield.
All germs. are 90% plus, 0% fusarium graminearum. Fraser Farms 306-741-0475,
Pambrun, SK. [email protected]
MIDGE TOLERANT DURUM now available.
Cert. AAC MARCHWELL. Printz Family
OLIVER, BC., studio suite, $550-$650/mo. Seeds, Gravelbourg, SK., 306-380-7769,
Smoke/fragrance free. 1-888-498-4451. 306-648-3511.
[email protected]
CERTIFIED #1 CDC PLENTIFUL CWRS.
Good FHB resistance, great standability.
high yield, 99% germ., 96% vigor, Super B
discounts! 306-290-7816, Blaine Lake,
SK., shewchukseeds.com
EXCELLENT QUALITY CERT. No. 1 CDC
Plentiful, CDC Utmost VB, Cardale, Muchmore, Harvest, Elgin ND, AAC Elie, AC Andrew, Conquer VB. Frederick Seeds,
306-287-3977, Watson, SK.
CERTIFIED #1 AAC BRANDON, AC Shaw
VB, AC Vesper VB, CDC Utmost VB and
Conquer VB. Call Hetland Seeds at Naicam,
SK. 306-874-5694. www.hetlandseeds.com
WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Certified #1
Gazelle Spring Rye. Call Trawin Seeds
306-752-4060, Melfort, SK.
CERTIFIED WHEAT, AC Conquer VB (Midge
Tolerant CPS), AC Ryley, AC Stettler, AC
Redwater. Delivery available. 250-782-7820
Dawson Creek, BC. www.spgrain.ca
CERT. #1 AAC Synergy, CDC Copeland,
CDC Meredith. Northland Seeds Inc.,
306-324-4315, Margo, SK.
CERTIFIED BRANDON WHEAT. Call Grant,
Greenshields Seeds, 306-746-7336,
306-524-4339, Semans, SK.
LESS FUSARIUM MORE bottom line.
GP Wheat WFT603 seed available. Suitable
for ethanol production and livestock feed.
Western Feed Grain Development Co-op
Ltd. 1-877-250-1552, www.wfgd.ca
BARLEY FOR SALE: foundation, registered
and/or certified, CDC Copeland, AC
Metcalfe, CDC Kindersley, CDC Meredith
and Legacy barley. Berscheid Bros Seeds, WHEAT FOR SALE: Reg. and/or Cert.: AAC
306-368-2602, 306-231-6454, Lake Lenore, Brandon, CDC Plentiful, AC Vesper, CDC
SK. [email protected]
Utmost wheat. Berscheid Bros Seeds,
CERT. CDC COPELAND, Cert. AC Metcalfe 306-368-2602, 306-231-6454, Lake Lenore,
SK.
[email protected]
malt barley. Call for large and early order
discounts. Treating available. Visa or M/C. CERTIFIED #1 CDC Plentiful, Cardale,
www.llseeds.ca 306-530-8433, Lumsden.
Goodeve VB, Vesper VB, CDC Utmost VB.
Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.
TOP QUALITY CERT. #1 CDC Copeland,
AC Metcalfe, Newdale, CDC Meredith. WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA CWRS AAC
Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977 Watson SK
Brandon, CDC Plentiful, CDC Utmost VB,
Shaw VB. Call 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK.
WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Certified CDC
Copeland, AC Metcalfe. Call Trawin Seeds, CERTIFIED AAC CHIFFON soft wheat.
Highest yielding. Available in SK. and AB.
306-752-4060, Melfort, SK.
[email protected] 403-545-6018.
CERTIFIED #1 AAC SYNERGY, AC Metcalfe and Legacy. Hetland Seeds, Naicam, CERT. CARDALE WHEAT. Midge tolerant
Shaw-AC Domain VB wheat; Prosper; FallSK. 306-874-5694. www.hetlandseeds.com
er high yielding new class wheat; Andrew
WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Certified CDC soft wheat. Call for large and early order
Austenson, highest yielding feed barley on discounts. Treating available. Visa, M/C.
market. Call 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK.
306-530-8433, Lumsden. www.llseeds.ca
CERTIFIED BARLEY, CDC Austenson, CDC WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA New- CPS AAC
Maverick. Delivery available. 250-782-7820 Foray VB, Penhold, Conquer VB. Call
Dawson Creek, BC. www.spgrain.ca
Trawin Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK.
LENTILS,
CANARY AND
CHICK PEAS.
Call GrainEx International Ltd.
for current pricing at
306-885-2288, Sedley SK.
Visit us on our website at:
www.grainex.net
• Screenings • Heated lots
• Old lots • Lots with bacteria count
too high • Etc.
(403) 715•7095
[email protected]
CERTIFIED CDC MARBLE, dark speckled
lentils. Call Grant, Greenshields Seeds,
306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, Semans, SK
TOP QUALITY ALFALFA, variety of grasses
and custom blends, farmer to farmer. Gary
Waterhouse 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK.
LOOKING FOR OLD and new crop soybeans
FOB Western Canada. Licence and bonded
grain company. Call, email, text Now for
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Place Commodities Ltd, accurate real time
CERTIFIED 40-10 FORAGE peas, 99% marketing. 403-394-1711; 403-315-3930
TOP QUALITY CERTIFIED alfalfa and grass germ., high protein, perfect for blending text, [email protected]
seed. Call Gary or Janice Waterhouse w i t h c e r e a l s . Va n B u r c k S e e d s ,
306-874-5684, Naicam, SK.
306-863-4377, Star City SK.
CERTIFIED #1 CDC LIMERICK and CDC C O M M O N Y E L L O W P E A S E E D. C a l l
Greenwater. Hetland Seeds at Naicam, SK., 204-673-2382, Melita, MB.
306-874-5694. www.hetlandseeds.com
RED LENTIL- 2 varieties, excellent germ.
PEAS FOR SALE: Fdn., Reg. and/or Cert.: and vigor, 0% disease. Ph. Byron Blackwell,
HYBRID AND OPEN-POLLINATED canola CDC Greenwater, CDC Limmerick and CDC 306-846-7222, Dinsmore, SK.
varieties. Certified #1 Synergy (Polish), Raezer green peas. Berscheid Bros Seeds, SMALL BLACK LENTILS. Bulk or by the bag.
Dekalb, Rugby, Cafe. Fenton Seeds, 306-368-2602, 306-231-6454, Lake Lenore, 306-631-1944, Moose Jaw, SK.
SK. [email protected]
306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.
COMMON GREEN PEAS, high germ. Early
FOUNDATION REG. CERT. #1 CDC Lime- booking discount. Terre Bonne Seed Farm
rick, CDC Greenwater. Also, CDC Marble 306-921-8594, 306-752-4810, Melfort, SK.
(french green lentil). Ardell Seeds Ltd.
CERTIFIED #1 CDC SORREL. Call Hetland Vanscoy, SK., 306-668-4415.
Seeds at Naicam, SK., 306-874-5694.
www.hetlandseeds.com
C E R T I F I E D G R E E N W AT E R P E A S .
306-395-2652, Chaplin, SK.
WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Certified CDC
Sorrel, CDC Bethune, Glas. Call Trawin CERTIFIED PEA SEED, CDC Meadow Yellow,
Seeds, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK.
CDC Tetris Green, CDC Peace Yellow. DelivCERT. AAC BRAVO, CDC Sanctuary, CDC ery available. 250-782-7820 Dawson Creek,
Sorrel, CDC Bethune. Fraser Farms, Pam- BC. www.spgrain.ca
brun, SK. 306-741-0475. [email protected]
WANTED HEATED CANOLA. No broker
FLAX FOR SALE: Fdn., Reg. and/or Cert.,
involved. Sell direct to crushing plant.
AAC Bravo and CDC Sorrel flax. Berscheid
Cash on delivery or pickup. 306-228-7306
Bros Seeds, 306-368-2602, 306-231-6454,
or 306-228-7325, Unity, SK.
Lake Lenore, SK. [email protected]
WANTED FEED BARLEY- Buffalo Plains
CERTIFIED #1 CDC Sorrel, AAC Bravo.
Cattle Company is looking to purchase
Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.
barley. For pricing and delivery dates, call
Kristen 306-631-8769, Bethune, SK.
CERT. AAC BRAVO and Prairie Thunder.
Fedoruk Seeds, Kamsack, SK.,
WANTED
PREMIUM QUALITY
YELLOW PEAS
AGT FOODS Saskcan Parent
Tel: 204-737-3002
Cel: 204-324-4058
Buying Across the Prairies
CERTIFIED CDC AMARILLO and Limerick
peas. Call Grant, Greenshields Seeds,
306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, Semans, SK
CERT. #1 CDC Limerick and Cooper. Call
Northland Seeds Inc., 306-324-4315,
Margo, SK.
CERTIFIED PATRICK, HIGH germ. Early
booking discount. Terre Bonne Seed Farm
306-921-8594, 306-752-4810, Melfort, SK.
CERTIFIED McLEOD R2Y soybeans from
SeCan; 33003R2Y soybeans from Thunder.
Rebates for orders in 2015. Call for large
and early order discounts. Visa or M/C. CERTIFIED CDC CALVI. New itchless variwww.llseeds.ca 306-530-8433, Lumsden
ety, good germ. 306-693-9402, Moose Jaw,
SK. www.simpsonseeds.com
PRAIRIE PULSE INC.
P.O. Box 399 • 700 Campbell Drive
Vanscoy, SK S0L 3J0
LENTIL BIDS delivered Vanscoy, SK
as of Dec 17, 2015
CY Product (Dry)
REG., CERT. #1 CDC Utmost, CDC Plentiful, Cardale, AAC Brandon, Conquer. Ardell
Seeds Ltd., Vanscoy, SK., 306-668-4415.
WANTED
CERTIFIED CDC DAZIL CL Red lentil.
Hansen Seeds. Phone: 306-465-2525,
CERT. AC BRANDON, CDC Plentiful, Car- 306-861-5679 (cell), Yellow Grass, SK.
dale, CDC Utmost VB, Carberry, and Glenn. Email: [email protected]
Fedoruk Seeds, Kamsack, SK.
REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED Greenstar
306-542-4235, www.fedorukseeds.com.
lentils, no disease. 306-395-2652, Chaplin,
SK.
CERTIFIED SEABISCUIT OATS. Call Grant,
WOOD-MIZER PORTABLE SAWMILLS, G r e e n s h i e l d s S e e d s , 3 0 6 - 7 4 6 - 7 3 3 6 ,
eight models, options and accessories. 306-524-4339, Semans, SK.
1-877-866-0667. www.woodmizer.ca
CERTIFIED #1 CS CAMDEN and Triactor.
Call Hetland Seeds at Naicam, SK.,
SAWMILLS from only $4397 - Make 306-874-5694. www.hetlandseeds.com
CERT. CDC SORREL flax seed, Triffid free.
Money and Save Money with your own
Call for large and early order discounts.
bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Certified AC Visa or M/C. 306-530-8433, Lumsden, SK.
stock, ready to ship. Free info. and DVD: Morgan, Souris, Triactor, CS Camden oats. www.llseeds.ca
www.NorwoodSawmills.com/168 or call Trawin Seeds 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK.
1-800-566-6899 ext. 168.
CERT. #1 CS CAMDEN, Triactor, Souris. REGISTERED, CERTIFIED CDC Neela flax,
C a l l N o r t h l a n d S e e d s I n c . , good germ, new variety. 306-693-9402,
Moose Jaw, SK. [email protected]
306-324-4315, Margo, SK.
www.simpsonseeds.com
TOP QUALITY CERT. No. 1 CDC Minstrel,
ELIAS SCALES MFG., several different Souris, CDC Orrin, Summit, Leggett. CERT. CDC SANCTUARY flax, #1 variety
ways to weigh bales and livestock; Plat- Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977 Watson SK
in the brown soil zone. Printz Family
form scales for industrial use as well, nonSeeds, Gravelbourg, SK., 306-380-7769,
electric, no balances or cables (no weigh OATS FOR SALE: Reg. and/or Cert. CDC 306-648-3511.
like it). Shipping arranged. 306-445-2111, Minstrel and CDC Orrin oats. Berscheid Bros
Seeds, 306-368-2602, 306-231-6454, Lake CERTIFIED CDC BETHUNE flax. Call Grant,
North Battleford, SK. www.eliasscales.com
Greenshields Seeds, 306-746-7336,
Lenore, SK. [email protected]
306-524-4339, Semans, SK.
CERT. SUMMIT, CS CAMDEN, Souris, CDC
Seabiscuit, and CDC Haymaker (forage).
Fedoruk Seeds, Kamsack, SK.,
CERTIFIED OATS, AC Mustang, AC Morgan,
CDC Seabiscuit. Delivery available.
250-782-7820, Dawson Creek, BC.
www.spgrain.ca
CERTIFIED #1 CDC Orrin, Leggett, CDC
Ruffian. Call Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438,
Tisdale, SK.
CERT. #1 SUMMIT, Souris, Leggett, CDC
Haymaker (forage) Excellent quality. Ardell
Seeds Ltd., Vanscoy, SK., 306-668-4415.
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milling oats. 204-758-3401, St. Jean, MB.
upgrade your low grade mustard! Can supply you with new certified Andante treated
WANTED:
FEED
GRAIN,
barley,
wheat,
or untreated. Contact Ackerman Ag Servicpeas, green or damaged canola. Phone
es, 306-638-2282, Chamberlain, SK.
Gary 306-823-4493, Neilburg, SK.
Schluter & Maack
P ilotButte, S K.
BUYERS OF YELLOW
& BROWN MUSTARD
A ll g ra d es in clu d in g
S A M PLE G ra d e
ALS O BUY IN G :
G reen Pea s - Up to 25% Blea ch
La rg e & M ed iu m Typ e
G reen Len tils
Yellow Pea s - 2 O B
1-306-771-4987
BESCO GRAIN LTD. Buyer of all varieties
of mustard. Call for competitive pricing.
Call 204-736-3570, Brunkild, MB.
Prices subject sample approval, 1%
elevation and change without notice.
* 2016 Crop with Act of God clause.
P: (306) 249-9236 • F: (306) 249-9245
www.prairiepulse.com
REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED IBC 550 red and irrigation; crop production implelentils, no disease. 306-395-2652, Chaplin, ments. Call: 204-834-2575, Carberry, MB.
SK.
CERTIFIED #1 CDC Impala (Small Red)
Clearfield. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438,
Tisdale, SK.
REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED CDC Greenstar large green lentil. 99% germination.
Phone 306-693-9402, Moose Jaw, SK.
email: [email protected] website:
www.simpsonseeds.com
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DIVERSIFY WITH A frost tolerant specialty
crop. Grow quinoa! Total production contracts available for 2016. Premium returns,
guaranteed markets and delivery. View
www.quinoa.com or call 306-933-9525.
WANTED: OFF-GRADE PULSES, oil seeds
and cereals. All organic cereals and specialty crops. Prairie Wide Grain, Saskatoon,
SK., 306-230-8101, 306-716-2297.
FALL RYE, DURUM and oats for sale. Call
306-283-4747, Langham, SK.
LACKAWANNA PRODUCTS CORP. Buyers and sellers of all types of feed grain
and grain by-products. Call 306-862-2723,
Nipawin, SK.
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300 BIG SQUARE bales, straight alfalfa as
well as grass mix. 306-364-4700,
306-320-1041, Leroy, SK.
ROUND BALE PICKING and hauling, small
or large loads. Travel anywhere. Also hay
for sale. 306-382-0785, Vanscoy, SK.
TOP PRICES
PAID FOR
FEED BARLEY,
WHEAT, OATS,
RYE, TRITICALE,
PEAS, LENTILS,
HEATED OIL SEEDS,
SOYBEANS
M AGNUM TANKS
M AGNUM
TOUGH
CUSTOM BALE HAULING. Will haul large
squares or round. Phone 306-567-7199,
Kenaston, SK.
ISO 9001 :2008 Appro ved
400 BIG SQUARE FLAX STRAW BALES,
ideal for shelters, highway and road water • U L C a ppro ved • Skid P a c ka g e a va ila b le
erosion protection, mix off with other • Sin g le a n d d o u b le w a ll a va ila b le
feed, etc. 306-364-4700, 306-320-1041,
Leroy, SK.
Available at Magnum Fabricating & our dealers
HAILED WHEAT BALES, very good feed,
w w w .m a g n u m fa brica tin g .com
average weight 1400 lbs. 306-937-2880 or
306-441-5010, Battleford, SK.
M AGN UM F ABR ICATIN G LTD .
THE HAY STORE. We have 2nd and 3rd cut
M a ple Creek, SK P h: 306-662-2198
alfalfa large sq. bales. We sell for sheep,
horse, dairy and beef. All stored inside.
Prices start at 4¢/lb. and up. Oat straw,
3¢/lb. Delivery can be arranged. Landmark
MB., call 204-355-4980 or 204-371-5744.
ROUND OAT STRAW bales, 5x6, plastic
twine, $20/bale. Will load. Located near SHUR-LOK TRUCK TARPS and replacement
tarps for all makes of trucks. Alan,
Sinclair, MB. Call 204-662-4432.
306-723-4967, 306-726-7808, Cupar, SK.
SAVE 5% TO 7% on your hay and straw
freight bill or free loading. Hauling 48
large round bales per load. Loading 3 at a TARPCO, SHUR-LOK, MICHEL’S sales,
time, using wheel loader w/engine heater. service, installations, repairs. Canadian
Call Hay Vern: 204-729-7297, Brandon, MB
company. We carry aeration socks. We
ALFALFA BALES, 2ND and 3rd cut 5x6 round now carry electric chute openers for grain
bales. 204-371-6181, Blumenort, MB. trailer hoppers. 1-866-663-0000.
[email protected]
Priced at your b in.
PEARMAN
GRAIN LTD.
Saskatoon
306-374-1968
EAGLE
COM M ODITIES
S OARIN G TO N EW HEIGHTS
Bu yers o f co n ven tio n a l a n d
o rga n ic gra d es o f len tils , pea s ,
m u s ta rd , w hea t, b a rley,
o a ts , rye, ca n o la , fla x, etc.
C a ll for your on fa rm b id .
As h le y La za r
403-894-4110
M ike D yck
403-929-407 0
D o ug Jo rd a n
306-5 5 4-87 15
D a rre n G uid in ge r403-308-5 284
Ea gle To ll Fre e n um b e r
1-888-328-9191
DURUM STRAW BIG square bales, no rain,
very clean, no weeds, w/some durum
seed, $30/bale. 306-861-4592 Fillmore SK
LARGE ROUND HAY and large round alfalfa
bales. Delivery available. Call or text:
306-408-0038, Moosomin, SK.
ALFALFA HAY, FEED tested, large square
bales. Delivery available: MB, SK, AB, BC.
Chris, 204-746-0462, Brunkild, MB.
GOOD USED TRUCK TIRES: 700/8.25/
900/1000/1100x20s; 11R22.5/11R24.5;
9R17.5, matched sets available. Pricing
from $90. K&L Equipment and Auto.
Phone Ladimer at: 306-795-7779, Ituna,
SK; Chris at 306-537-2027, Regina, SK.
SCRAPER AND LOADER TIRES available.
All sizes. Quick Drain Sales, Muenster, SK.
Ph 306-682-4520, 306-231-7318.
Le th b ridge , AB.
WHY NOT KEEP MARKETING SIMPLE?
You are selling feed grains. we are
buying feed grains. Fast payment, with
prompt pickup, true price discovery. Call
Jim Beusekom, Allen Pirness, David Lea,
Vera Buziak or Matt Beusekom at Market
Place Commodities Ltd., Lethbridge, AB.
Email [email protected]
or phone 1-866-512-1711.
BEEF FEED PELLETS from FeedMax.
High quality cattle feed pellets at competitive prices. 1-866-FEEDMAX (333-3629).
12% COW & CALF PELLETS. Railcar lots
available upon request. Cramer Livestock
Nutrition, Swift Current, SK 306-773-1323
Doug 306-520-3553, Roger 306-741-7094.
cramerlivestock.com
15% PROTEIN PURE alfalfa cattle feed pellets. No waste, no spoilage, 8% moisture.
17% dehy pellets also available. Western
Alfalfa Milling Company Ltd., Norquay, SK.
BIG ROUND MIXED hay bales, approx. 306-594-2362 or [email protected]
1000, $50 each. Call Warren Fair at
306-927-2732, North Portal, SK.
MR. TIRE CORP. For all your semi and
half ton tire needs call Mylo 306-921-6555
Serving all of Saskatchewan.
C H E C K O U T O U R p a r t s s p e c i a l s at
Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.
1ST, 2ND AND 3RD cut alfalfa 3x4x8
square bales, wheat and triticale greenfeed. Delivery available in southern AB.
403-633-3777, 403-363-3318, Tilley, AB.
HAY FOR SALE. Contact Lyle Lumax at
204-525-2263, Swan River, MB.
STRAW BALES: 500 round barley and
500 round wheat straw bales. All net
wrapped. Ph 780-878-4655, Ferintosh, AB.
RURAL & CULTURAL TOURS
GREEN 3RD CUT alfalfa, 52 bales, 3x4x8’
big squares. Also 250 big squares, greenfeed, triticale underseeded to alfalfa. 122
flax straw bales. 403-501-1837, Tilley, AB.
Ita ly V illa /Cru is e ~ April2016
Irela n d & S co tla n d ~ June 2016
N ew fo u n d la n d /M a ritim es
~ M ultiple Dates
SMALL SQUARE HAY bales, horse quality,
grass or alfalfa. Contact 306-290-8806,
Dundurn, SK.
ALFALFA/GRASS MIXED round hay bales,
approx. 1300 lbs., $50 per bale. Call
306-245-3756, Tyvan, SK.
WANTED: CARAWAY SEED. Dandilee Spice
Corp. is looking to purchase Caraway Seed
450 BIG ROUND wheat straw bales, at competitive pricing. 306-697-3152,
Conventional combined, no rain or weeds, Grenfell, SK. [email protected]
$25/bale. Loaded. 403-556-0141, Olds, AB.
MJ PETERSEN TRANSPORT Ltd. has for
hire ground load 53’ cattleliner and a 53’
stepdeck hay trailer. Mortlach, SK. Call
Dakota 306-891-1380 306-631-2023 Miles
ICE FISHING SHACKS- portable, insulated
shacks. Fit easy into truck box or hitch opGREENFEED BALES, 1100 lbs. Located tion available. SK made by Koenders,
Minitonas, MB. Can deliver. Contact Ken Shacks and full accessory line in stock at
Kolisnyk 204-620-0010.
Flaman, 1-888-435-2626 www.flaman.com
ROUND RYE STRAW bales; Greenfeed
hailed rye bales; Round oat straw bales;
Greenfeed oat bales. All netwrapped.
306-283-4747, 306-291-9395 Langham SK
FOR DECADES, FARMERS and retailers
GREENFEED BALES and 2nd cut alfalfa have recognized fibreglass tanks are the
bales. Greenfeed bales are barley grain ideal tank for storing liquid fertilizer! Call
mixed with alfalfa and some kochia. 1-855-765-9937 or visit: www.polywest.ca
306-625-7865, Ponteix, SK.
POLY TANKS: 15 to 10,000 gal.; Bladder
LONG LAKE TRUCKING custom hay haul- tanks from 220 to 88,000 gallon; Water
and liquid fertilizer; Fuel tanks, single and
ing, 2 units. 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK.
double wall; Truck and storage, gas or dsl.
FLAX STRAW BALES, $1 per bale, both Wilke Sales, 306-586-5711, Regina, SK.
round and large square bales, 3 years old. 50,000 FARMERS CAN’T be wrong! When
Can be used for feed, bedding or erosion you purchase a Norwesco tank, you’re not
control. Call Brad at NorAmera in Weyburn, j u s t p u r c h a s i n g a t a n k . C a l l
SK. 306-681-7148.
DOUBLE A TRAILERS & CONTRACTING INC.
When you rely on your trailers for commercial, residential or leisure use, rely
on a Quality Build by a team of Quality People. We’re everything you tow.
LIQUID FERTILIZER CARTS
Our arsenal of low profile liquid
fertilizer carts range from single
wheeled 1750 gal. to the massive
5250 gal. dual tank carts. Designed
for maximum flotation, you’ll hardly
know it’s there.
New model now
available with dual
nozzles! You can dry
out your slough twice
as fast, pumping 2000
gal./min. in a 4-acre
arc. Check out the
video on our website.
Yu k o n /N W T & Ala s k a ~ July 2016
S w itzerla n d & River Cru is e
Egypt L a n d /N ile Cru is e
DELIVERY
Place any order and have our cost-effective
truck deliver right to your doorstep. How easy
is that? But if you would rather pick it up
yourself, let us know and we’d be happy to
throw in a tour of our facility!
Tel: 780-657-0008
www.doubleatrailers.ca
LARGE YEARLING COW/Calf Operation
requires full-time working Foreman. Aggressive wages. Duties include: Herd
health, rotational grazing, operation and
maintenance of modern equipment, calving, and management of staff. Additional
attributes: 1A, welding, seeding experience. Renovated family home on-site. Call
Scott, 306-536-2157, Indian Head, SK.
FARM LABOURERS. LINCOLN Gardens
seasonal vegetable farm located at Lumsden, SK. Seeking 8 seasonal field labourers
starting May 1, 2016. Must have valid
drivers license, be reliable and physically
fit. Duties include: Planting, weeding and
harvesting vegetable crops. Sort, wash,
weigh and pack vegetables. Hand move irrigation pipes. 50 to 60 hrs/week, must be
available weekends. Starting wage is
$10.50/hr. Send resume with references to:
Lincoln Gardens, Box 750 Lumsden SK. S0G
3C0. 306-731-7781.
FA R M I N G R A N C H I N G O P E R AT I O N
Seeking experienced worker to operate
farm equipment and handle cattle. Mechanical ability preferred. Housing provided. Resume, references and criminal
EXPERIENCED PASTURE RIDER wanted for record check required. Wages negotiable.
southern AB. Onefour Grazing Association is Trevor: 403-575-5237, [email protected]
looking for a qualified rider for a contract
position starting in April, ending in October GRAZING MANAGER WITH experience and
for 2016. Rider must have working horses, education in Managed Intensive Grazing
his own equipment. Summer housing avail- required for ranch NW of Edmonton AB.
able. Questions Brant Reese 403-421-0247 Duties include calving, grass management,
water maintenance, animal health, fencing
or Jeff Belisle 403-647-7835.
and record keeping. Wages $23-$28/hr.
to: South Seven Ranches, Cherhill,
Apply
FARM/RANCH HAND FULL-TIME. Duties
include feeding cows, calving, doctoring. AB., 780-674-0148.
Operate and maintain a good line of farm
equipment for seeding, haying and harvest. FARM LABOURER REQUIRED for livestock
Work independently and experience neces- operation, RM of Minitonas. Requirements:
Grade 12, driver’s license, skill set to work
sary. Start immediately. 403-566-2341.
with horses and farm equipment, good
FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER HELP. communication skills, ability to work as a
Applicants should have previous farm ex- team. Duties include: all aspects of general
perience and mechanical ability. Duties in- farm work and feeding program for horsclude operation of machinery, including es; operating and maintaining of seeding
tractors and other farm equip., as well as and harvesting equipment. Must be able to
general farm laborer duties. $25/hour de- speak English. Smoke free environment.
pending on experience. Must be able to $17/hr. Housing available. Lyle Lumax
cross US border. Location: Pierson, 204-525-2263, Box 1989, Swan River, MB.
MB/Gainsborough, SK. Feland Bros. Farms, R0L 1Z0. [email protected]
Greg Feland and Wade Feland, Box 284, 2 FULL-TIME HERDSMAN (NOC 8253)
Pierson, MB. R0M 1S0. 701-756-6954.
positions on large mixed farm. Wages
$16-$19/hr., depending on experience.
FULL TIME GRAIN FARM EMPLOYMENT: Individual should have good work ethic,
Delage Farms Ltd. at Indian Head, SK. is positive attitude, mechanical skills and be
looking for motivated, experienced and able to work well with others. Duties inteam orientated employees who are inter- clude: Working cattle; Operating and
ested in working full-time for a progressive maintaining farm equipment. Must have
grain farm. The farm strives towards reach- farm background. Furnished housing with
ing high yields by introducing innovation utilities avail. for $500/mo., non-smoking
and improving efficiency within a team environment. Fax: 306-264-3752. Phone:
atmosphere. Duties include, but are not 306-264-7742, Spruce Meadow Farms, Box
limited to: spraying, grain hauling, grain 186, Kincaid, SK. S0H 2J0
cart operation, combining and general farm
labour. 1A Licence is encouraged but not EXPERIENCED PASTURE RIDER Wanted.
necessary. Fax your resume: 306-695-2608, Writing On Stone Grazing Association in
or call Marc at: 306-660-7802.
Southern Alberta is seeking Pasture Rider
for the 2016 grazing season. This contract
2 SEASONAL FARM MACHINERY operators position will start May 15 to 3rd week in
required. Must be able to operate grain October. Rider must have working horses
cart, tandem grain truck, FWA tractor and his own equipment. Housing is availw/rockpicker, 4WD tractor for harrowing. able. Questions, call Jeff Belisle
Also manual labour for upkeep of leafcut- 403-647-7835
or
Lee
Gaehring
ter bees and general servicing of equip- 403-647-1141.
ment. May 1 to October 31. $15-$18/hr.
101008187 SK Ltd., 303 Frontier Trail, Box ALTHOUSE HONEY FARMS, INC. 1/2
3 7 2 , W a d e n a , S K . , S 0 A 4 J 0 . F a x : mile south Porcupine Plain, SK. 7 positions
306-338-3733, phone: 306-338-7561, or required for 2016 season, May to Oct.
Wages $14-$18/hr. depending upon experience. Job duties: assisting in spring hive
FULL-TIME CATTLE CHECKING Posi- inspection, unwrapping, and splitting, sutions. Buffalo Plains Cattle Co. has pen pering, building supers and honey frames,
checking positions available for our ex- honey removal and extracting, fall feeding,
panding feedlot with new facilities. Job applying mite control and wrapping hives
also includes pasture work in the summer. for winter. No education required. WCB
Owned horses and tack preferred. No coverage. Ph. Ron Althouse 306-278-7345,
green horses allowed. Competitive salary email: [email protected]
a n d g r o u p b e n e fi t s . F a x r e s u m e t o
306-638-3150, or for more info. ph Kristen
at 306-631-8769, Bethune, SK.
PERMANENT FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE
for Potato Farm in Fort Saskatchewan,
AB. Applicant should have previous potato
farm experience. Must be reliable, detail
oriented and have Class 3 driver’s licence.
Se le ct Holida ys
Mechanical experience a must. Duties incl.
1- 800- 661- 432 6
working on and around potato handling
w w w .selectho lid a ys.co m
equipment and other farm equip., directing seasonal employees, irrigation duties.
Family housing available. Salary depends
upon experience. www.norbestfarms.com
FARM TOURS, International Farm Tours - Email resume: [email protected]
Ireland, England. www.farmtoursusa.com GRACE HILL FARMS LTD. is currently
looking for a Farm Production Operator
to join our team. We are a 10,000 acre
family owned certified organic grain farm
and seed cleaning operation located in SW
Sask., Mankota area. Essential Competencies. Operate large machinery for field opWANTED: WATER CANNON. Box 92, Bat- erations to assist in achieving farm goals.
Maintain equipment including daily pretleford, SK., S0M 0E0.
ventative and repair maintenance. Maintain building and appearance of farm as
assigned. Obey all safety guidelines. Able
to work in a team environment and independently when required. Must be able to
build and maintain positive working relationships. Qualifications: High School diploma or equivalent. Must maintain a valid
Class 5 driver’s license (Class 1A or 3A an
asset). Experience in grain farming, GPS
technology and heavy equipment maintenance preferred. Ability to work long hours
during peak season. Ability to work in extreme dusty conditions and outside weather conditions. We offer exc. compensation
package including a competitive wage of
PTO AUGER WATER PUMPS, Cardale Tech, $21- $26/hr based on experience, Sundays
4000/8000 gal. per minute, mud, ice, slur- off and bonus program. Send resume to
ry, plant matter. No prime, no filters, no [email protected] or fax 306-264-3726
seize. New condition. 204-868-5334, or for more info. phone 306-264-3721.
Newdale, MB., www.cardaletech.com
PARADIS HONEY LTD., 5023-50 St.
Girouxville, AB., requires Apiary Technician,
www.midplainsimplements.ca Potato NOC 8253 (1 position) $14-18/hr. dependand irrigation; crop production imple- ing on exp. for full-time (40 plus hrs/wk)
from Feb - Nov, 2016. Must have min. 3+
yrs. exp. working in bees in a Canadian
style commercial apiary. Duties: assist
mgmt. in bee colony mgmt. Must be in
good physical condition and able to work in
team environment. May require some
evening and weekend work. English an
2007 LINCOLN D300 welder, trailer asset. Valid driver's license an asset.
mounted, shedded, exc. cond., $5600. Accom. available. Email resume:
204-243-2453 204-871-4509 HighBluff MB
[email protected] 780-323-4183
GRATTON COUL EE
AGRIPARTS L TD.
Is a pro gre s s ive , e xpa n d in g
a gric u ltu ra l s a lva ge pa rts
c o m pa n y s pe c ia lizin g in la te
m o d e l tra c to r a n d c o m b in e pa rts
a n d lo c a te d a tIrm a , Alb e rta .
W e a re looking for
M E CH ANICAL
AS S E M BL E R S
(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
FULL-TIME MEAT CUTTER required.
Prefer experience. Apply with resume to
Sobeys South Albert, 4250 Albert Street,
Regina, SK. or [email protected]
PARTS PERSO N REQ UIRED
W ellEsta blished M u ltilin e
Agricu ltu ra lDea lership in Ea st
Cen tra lAlberta IsLo o kin g Fo rAn
Ho n est,Aggressive & Am bitio u s
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.
GRAIN FARM MANAGER required for
approx. 4500 acre grain farm in Battleford,
SK. area. Email [email protected]
SALES AGENTS REQUIRED. Are you outgoing and desire job flexibility for a
work/family balance? We have an opportunity for you. 100% outside sales, home
based, commission with incentives. Our
successful Agents are from backgrounds
such as: Farmers, Business Owners, Sales
Representatives. PowerRich was formed
in 1984 as a family owned business. The
main market for PowerRich products is
farmers. If interested, we’d like to talk to
you. Call or email: Greg Grant, General
Sales Manager, Power Rich Fertilizers,
1-800-491-8984. [email protected]
~ N ov 2016
Portion oftours m a y b e Ta x Ded uc tib le.
4802 - 57th Avenue, Box 39,
Two Hills, AB T0B 4K0
Email:
[email protected]
Fax: 780-657-0016
U-DRIVE TRACTOR TRAILER Training,
30 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.
KORNUM WELL DRILLING, farm, cottage
and acreage wells, test holes, well rehabilitation, witching. PVC/SS construction, expert workmanship and fair pricing. 50%
government grant now available. Indian
Head, SK., 306-541-7210 or 306-695-2061
CROP MANAGER FOR 450 acres in
Beaverdell, BC. ISO manager for crop rotation, field maintenance, equipment maintenance, etc. Must have experience producing quality crops, good mechanical skills,
welding and managerial experience.
Competitive salary, living accommodations
and a vehicle for ranch use provided.
Please email your resume with references
to [email protected] by Jan. 1.
HELP WANTED ON farm and ranch. Experience preferred. Wages based on experience. Room and board possible. No texts.
Please call 403-350-4089, Red Deer, AB.
HELP WANTED for cattle and grain operation. Monthly or hourly wage. Seeking
self-motivated person, potential for year
round work. 306-795-2710, Goodeve, SK.
PERMANENT FULL-TIME POSITION
Grace Hill Farms Ltd. invites you to
come join our team on our 10,000 acre
family owned certified organic grain farm
and seed cleaning operation located in SW
Sask. We currently have an opening for a
Mechanic/Maintenance Technician.
Grace Hill comes with a well equipped
shop and service truck. If you are interested, we are looking for the following
qualifications:Journey person status an
asset. Equivalent experience will be considered. Thrive on fast pace and daily challenge of keeping farm machinery running
during peak season. Obey safety guidelines. Maintain parts inventory. Clean and
organize shop. 1A license preferred but
not required. Participate in field operations
as required. Work well with other team
members building and maintaining positive working relationships. We offer competitive salary based on experience. Bonus
program. Modern housing close to farming
operation. Send a resume by email to:
[email protected] fax 306-264-3726 or
ph 306-264-3721 for more information.
FACILITY OPERATOR/ SALES ASSOCIATE
Required: experience in the Agriculture
industry; Customer Service skills; forklift
and equipment operation experience; valid
Class 5 Driver's License and current
abstract. Duties will include: assisting the
Lead Facility Operator in the conditioning of
seed and running of the facility; bagging
grain/seed; POS transactions, invoice and
work order entry; loading/unloading grain
trucks. 250-782-7820, www.spgrain.ca
ALTA GENETICS INC. Herdsperson is
needed for our production team at our
Calgary, AB. location. Applicants should
have strong livestock handling and husbandry skills with an ability to perform
general maintenance duties. Housing may
be provided. Please submit resume to our
Human Resources Dept, Attention: Erica
Habenei, [email protected]
DRIVERS WANTED/ Owner Operator.
H. S. Knill Co. Ltd. Long haul- USA/Western Canada/Ontario/Quebec. Livestock
handling experience an asset. Able to
cross border. Send a resume and driver’s
abstract to email: [email protected] Fax:
519-442-1122.
WORKERS AVAILABLE: GENERAL, seasonal,
supervisors, herdsmen, equip. operators.
Call for details. 306-260-9546. ILCag.ca
THE WEATHER ISSUE
39
HURRICANES,
THE GREY CUP
AND SANTA
Photo essay | If you live in Saskatchewan, these are three things we
didn’t see in 2015. At least we can still all talk about the weather.
TOP LEFT: Hurricane Sandra is seen in a National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration image taken from a
satellite off the coast of Mexico at 12:45 ET Nov. 25.
Hurricane Sandra strengthened to a Category 4 storm
Nov. 24, the strongest recorded in the eastern Pacific
Ocean that late in the year, as it headed toward
Mexico’s coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
| REUTERS/NOAA PHOTO
TOP RIGHT: Edmonton Eskimos offensive lineman Tony
Washington gestures in cold weather during the team’s
walkthrough practice ahead of the CFL’s 103rd Grey Cup
championship football game in Winnipeg Nov. 28. The
Eskimos went on to win the cup. | REUTERS/MARK BLINCH PHOTO
ABOVE: A member of the “Sibspas” Siberian search
and rescue group dressed as Santa Claus, right, waits
for his teammate, dressed as Father Frost, the Russian
equivalent of Santa Claus, as he climbs the rock named
“the Fourth Stolb” (the Fourth Pillar) at the Stolby
national nature reserve during a training session of
the Russian Emergencies Ministry, outside the Siberian
city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Dec. 15.
| REUTERS/ILYA NAYMUSHIN PHOTO
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
AURORA BOREALIS
Nature’s light show
BY ASHLEY ROBINSON
SASKATOON NEWSROOM
T
he aurora borealis
creates beautiful
scenes in the night
sky, which those living in Canada are
often lucky enough to see.
Even so, the natural phenomenon is a mystery to many, and
most don’t know that it is caused
by space weather, which can also
mess with global positioning
systems.
“(Space weather is) basically a
collection of different processes
that are originating from space, so
mostly coming from the sun that
can ultimately affect us on Earth or
technology near Earth,” said
Robyn Fiori, a research scientist
with Natural Resources Canada’s
Geomagnetic Laboratory.
Visible aurora occur when particles in the ionosphere are
struck by energetic particles that
originate from the sun. These
collisions generate light, making
the aurora borealis.
Fiori said the aurora is always
occurring, but it can be visible farther south if there is a large space
event such as a coronal mass ejection exploding on the sun.
“Any time you have the aurora,
you’re usually going to have a
fluctuating magnetic field,” Fiori
said.
“It starts to basically fluctuate,
and any time that happens you
can have currents being driven,
or basically it’s called a geomagnetically induced current.”
These fluctuations can cause
electrical transformers to overheat, creating blackouts. Pipelines can rust and corrode faster
than expected. High frequency
radio used in trans polar airplane
flights can be interrupted. Directional drilling can be affected by
throwing off the compass in the
head of the drill.
Bad space weather can also
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“If GPS starts to act up, consider
the possibility that there may be
something going wrong with the
equipment,” said Richard Langley, a professor in the University
of New Brunswick’s geodesy and
geomatics engineering department.
“But also consider the possibility
that maybe there is a significant
space weather event going on.”
GPS receivers work by picking
up signals from satellites and
then sending the signals through
the atmosphere. The bottom
part of the atmosphere, which
controls our day-to-day weather,
can slow down GPS signals, but
the upper part of the atmosphere, the ionosphere, can also
affect them.
“You end up with a sea of electrons, and the parent or host
atoms and molecules … but it’s
the electrons, actually, which
mostly affect the GPS signals,”
Langley said.
The same process that causes
the aurora borealis also affects
GPS signals.
Most GPS receivers used in precision farming try to get around
the effects of space weather by
operating at two frequencies.
“The ionosphere affects the
signals on those two different
frequencies slightly differently
and the receiver can actually
then combine the measurements on the two frequencies
and essentially remove the ionosphere’s effect,” Langley said.
Severe space weather can affect
GPS receivers even if they are
operating on two frequencies.
“Space weather events don’t
last for an awful long period of
time. Often they can be tens of
minutes, maybe hours, but certainly it doesn’t go on for days
typically,” Langley said.
The space weather forecast can
be checked at www.spaceweather.gc.ca.
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41
ARCHIVES
Farm journals a record of Prairie history
BY ED WHITE
WINNIPEG BUREAU
I
f you want to know from what
direction the wind was blowing in Deloraine, Man., in
1895-96, 1922 and 1924,
you’re in luck.
A set of journals written by William C. White, held in the archives
of Manitoba, contains daily entries
from those years, and almost every
entry begins with a noting of the
wind, unless there is a bigger
weather event that day.
White, a Deloraine farmer, found
his life ruled by the vagaries of
weather, just as farmers are today,
and he carefully noted them
throughout his journals.
His entries usually begin with
weather observations and then
note farming activities of the day,
along with social activities, such as
visiting friends.
On one August 1926 day, for
example, he notes the “south wind,
a fine drying day,” mentions that
“Dave got a load of lumber,” adds
that a horse that had eaten recently
cut grain was taken out into the
field and “we watched her die,”
then finding out “Dr. Miller died
after a short illness. A dear good
friend.”
Even with such dramatic events
in a day, the weather still seemed
most important to note first.
Modern folk often think about
weather records and observations
being composed and maintained
by scientific and government
authorities, with amateur efforts by
others playing a decidedly secondary role in terms of historical
records.
However, farmer journals and
those kept by people such as
employees of the Hudson’s Bay
Company provide an invaluable
resource to historians and writers
interested in the earliest written
period in Western Canada.
Manitoba residents are lucky to
have not just their provincial
archives housed in Winnipeg, but
also the Hudson Bay Company
archives.
Many farmer journals and record
books are in the general archives,
as well as other written records
referring to weather experienced
by individuals.
The Hudson’s Bay archives contain hundreds of “post journals,”
which describe daily activities at
the company’s posts spread across
much of western North America.
Both sets of archives are in the
same building.
Weather often played a big role in
entries written by the isolated
Europeans working at the posts.
For example, Francis Heron, an
HBC clerk at the Upper Fort Garry
post, which is now in the centre of
Winnipeg, describes the 1826 Red
River flood, which destroyed most
of the settlement.
Highlights of that journal have
been posted on the Government of
Manitoba website (gov.mb.ca)
under Hudson’s Bay Company
Archives.
Historians and analysts have
used the detail contained in the
HBC records to produce studies
that are also kept at the archives
library, such as “Climatic change in
central Canada: a preliminary
analysis of weather information
Farmer journals and those kept
by people such as employees of
the Hudson’s Bay Co. provide
an invaluable resource to
historians and writers interested
in the earliest written period in
Western Canada. | ED WHITE PHOTO
from the Hudson’s Bay Company
forts at York Factory and Churchill
Factor, 1714-1870” by Timothy Ball.
A visit to the archives can be a
revelatory experience for one interested in prairie history, farm life or
weather. Leafing through White’s
1922 and 1924 journals reveals a
generally cheerful and optimistic
person dealing with the manifold
demands of pioneer life while coping with the everyday horrors of
baby deaths, sickness and harsh
weather.
In the 1896 journal, the writer
shows honest feelings about the
day’s weather, sometimes describing tough days as “nasty” and celebrating good weather as “cold, but
sunshine.”
In their focus on the weather, with
its harshness and its beauty, the
pioneer farmers recorded feelings
and preoccupations not so different to those of today.
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
SCIENCE
Pillows a tool
of the trade to
measure snow
pack in Alta.
BY MARY MACARTHUR
CAMROSE BUREAU
M
ountain snow
pack is usually
talked about in
the spring when
weather forecasters worry about the possibility of
flooding.
Snow pack is the snow that falls
and doesn’t melt until spring, and
it’s not just in the mountains. It’s
anywhere it snows, said Lisa Glover, a spokesperson for Alberta’s
environment department.
Mountain snow pack is generally
deeper than that on the Prairies
and accumulates throughout the
winter.
The depth of the snow pack is
measured with special tools called
snow pillows, which measure the
weight of the snow and calculate
how much water there would be if it
melted.
Snow melt in spring is a key
source of water for springs, lakes
and rivers. Extreme snow melt, in
combination with rain, can be a
major factor in flooding.
Alberta Environment’s River
Forecast Centre monitors snow
pack in the province. Field crews
from the centre manually measure
the depth and density of the snow
once or twice a month. The department also has snow depth sensors
and automated snow pillows to
help collect data in the mountains.
The snow surveys are completed
at 133 locations, and snow samples
are taken at 10 points across the
sites. The samples are weighed and
the amount of water calculated.
A snow depth sensor is an automated instrument that uses sound
waves. The data is collected and
transmitted to the centre throughout the winter via satellite.
An automated snow pillow is a
large bladder filled with antifreeze.
The antifreeze is forced into a measuring tube that sticks out of the snow
when it gathers on top of the pillow
and pushes down on the bladder.
There are 21 snow pillows in
Alberta. Data from these stations is
displayed on the Alberta River
Basins website and the Alberta
River app.
Readers tell us their
wild weather stories
There may be four
seasons in Canada, but
when Canadians are
asked to remember
storms, it’s the snow
and blowing snow that
sticks in their minds
like frost to a window.
Here are memorable
weather stories from
prairie people.
| BY MARY MACARTHUR,
CAMROSE BUREAU
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THE MIGHTIEST HAILSTORM
Bill Greenhough of Genesee, Alta., was only six
years old, but he can still remember the hailstorm of 1935 that destroyed grain in the field
and ripped the roof to shreds.
“What I remember most was the storm. They
pretty well had to feed the cattle the next day,”
Greenhough said.
“The storm was so violent that the only thing
left from the rubberoid and tarpaper roof was a
bit of rubber under big-headed nails. At night the
roof leaked and everything was sopping wet and
we stood around and shivered.”
The next day he climbed a nearby hill to survey
the damage and found dozens of partridges,
most of them dead but some with their wings
broken by the storm.
That fall, the family travelled with their tractor
and binder doing custom work to earn money
lost from the storm.
Graders in most municipalities go onto the
roads at the first snowfall and don’t stop until the
roads are clear, but it wasn’t always that way.
Greenhough remembers a wicked storm at the
beginning of March in 1953 that was difficult to
clear.
“It took me nine hours to go a half mile pushing
the snow off the road.”
The next day he and his brother cut a road
through the bush where the snow had drifted.
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It wasn’t unusual for farmers to become storm
stayed.
“That was a bad one. There was still snow in the
ditch in June from the drifts.”
A horse hooked up to a sleigh or cutter could
usually get people to town by field or road.
“In them days, you were prepared to be housebound for a couple of weeks. You carried more
groceries,” Greenhough said.
There never seems to be enough good weather at
harvest, but Greenhough said it wasn’t uncommon
during the 1960s and 1970s to leave crop in the field
for winter. He remembers once combining Dec. 31.
Another year it snowed 10 to 12 centimetres on
the standing crop.
“We would go out at night after it froze, maybe
10 p.m. or midnight, and work through the night
until morning. As long as it was frozen, it would
go through the machine. We piled that grain in a
shed. In July (we) sold the last of it and there was
still ice in it.”
Every old-timer has stories of walking to school in
the winter. Greenhough doesn’t know how accurate the school thermometers were in the oneroom schoolhouses he attended as a boy, but one
winter the thermometer read -52 F (-46 C) when he
and his cousin, Glen, walked the mile and a half to
school. The next day was even colder and Bill
stayed home. His cousin walked to school, and the
teacher was the only one there. It was -54 F (-48 C).
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TERMINOLOGY
Snow goes by many different names
Linguistics professor says there are dozens of names for the white fluffy stuff
more,’ and that’s just one word.”
Inuit and other indigenous languages in North America are polysynthetic, which means it’s possible to pack multiple concepts and
observations into a single word.
The following Inuit examples for
snow illustrate the concept:
• Qaniut: The first thin, soft, fresh
snowfall before the wind or
storm.
• Qanniqusiuqtuq: He is travelling or arriving while it is snowing.
• Quilluqqaaq: New snow formed
by a storm, which is now hardened following the storm.
Gavin Nesbitt, who works for the
Piruvik Centre, an Inuit language and
culture organization in Iqaluit, said
people in Canada’s Arctic distinguish
between different types of snow,
much like southern Canadians.
For instance, people from the
Prairies are likely familiar with the
dry snow and the squeaky-crunchy
sound it makes when the temperature drops below –30 C.
“Up here you get snow that’s even
drier than you get in (Manitoba).
It’s basically like walking on Styrofoam,” Nesbitt said.
“The idea is that Inuit, matching
their environment, have all these
words for snow, which means they
see reality differently…. People in
the jungle see different colours that
BY ROBERT ARNASON
BRANDON BUREAU
S
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ONLY THE TRAIN MOVED
Bryan Perkins of Wainwright,
Alta., remembers Dec. 12, 1955,
as the blizzard to end all blizzards when the only thing moving was the passenger train.
The school closed, and country children were sent home by
bus. By the time the bus arrived
at the Perkins farm, the roads
were too bad to continue.
“Half of the kids on the school
bus stayed at our place for three
or four days and half at the
neighbours across the road
because they couldn’t get
home,” he said.
“I remember we had a great
time. I was just a kid then, and
we were playing with other kids
staying at our place.… Their
parents didn’t know where they
were. They assumed they were
still in town because the phone
lines were down. The storm
lasted a good day, but there
were snow banks that were 12
feet (3 1/2 metres) high. We
didn’t have the equipment to
clean the snow banks.”
CULTURE SHOCK
Anita Lischewski of Calahoo,
Alta., remembers the shock of
leaving Australia during the
Christmas of 1981 with temperatures of 40 C and arriving in Canada to find piles of snow and the
temperature dropping. She went
from wearing shorts to being
bundled up in her winter gear.
Her family fed their cattle that
winter using a horse and stone
boat because there was so much
snow.
“If we went off the trail, we got
stuck in the snow,” she said. “It
was so cold for all of January.”
GET ME TO THE CHURCH
Ed Nelson of Stavely, Alta.,
said he needed help from the
rural municipality to get to his
sister-in-law’s wedding on
March 3, 1955. It sent a snowplow to clear the roads, and Ed
and his wife, Otalie, made it to
the wedding.
The snow was so deep that
Nelson, who is six feet, four
inches tall, couldn’t step over
the high drifts.
Two weeks later, a chinook
blew through southern Alberta
and melted all the snow.
“We’re still in a chinook belt,”
he said.
Nelson doesn’t recall the year
but remembers that one of the
neighbours near the Waldron
Ranch was snow ed in and
forced to eat potato peelings
until the weather turned and he
could travel to get groceries.
SNOW DAYS
Ralph Boe of Mannville, Alta.,
remembers the winter of 1974,
when all it seemed to do was
snow and blow.
Graders couldn’t keep the
roads clear, and Boe and his
siblings went to school only
three days a week in December,
January and February.
“The road would just get clear
and it would blow in,” said Boe,
who now drives a grader for the
County of Minburn.
“Lots of weeks we would leave
school at noon on Thursday and
not go back until Monday or
Tuesday,” he said.
Unlike city kids who could
relax and enjoy the time off, Boe
said they did chores when they
stayed home.
“We always had chores to do,
so that is what we did.”
Boe remembers that the drifts
were so high he could walk off
the roof of the barn onto the
snowbank.
“That’s how much it had drifted in.”
ONE BAD BLIZZARD
Abraham Buhler of Hague,
Sask., said a blizzard on Jan. 10,
2007, was bad.
“You couldn’t see in front of
your vehicle and it lasted most
of the daylight hours,” he said.
He also recalled a blizzard in
the winter of 1947-48 that lasted
for days.
“It was a real blizzard, not just
blowing snow. It was a blizzard
you could be lost in.”
Buhler stayed inside for most
of the day, but twice a day he
was forced to venture outside
and feed his broiler chickens. A
yard light over his barn door
and another over his house
door guided him between the
two buildings.
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kiers, at least those who
ski frequently, have many
unique terms to describe
snow, such as:
• champagne (ultralight, fresh
snow)
• boilerplate (dense snow that
resembles ice)
• corn (loose kernels of snow)
• death cookies (ice chips frozen
to snow surface)
Like skiers, Canada’s Inuit also
have dozens of words for snow.
Many southern Canadians have
heard and repeated the story that
Inuit people have 50 or more words
for snow.
Richard Compton, a linguistics
professor at the Université du Quebec a Montreal, said it’s true, or at
least partially true.
Compton said it depends on how
you count words in Inuktitut, the
Inuit language spoken in the eastern half of Canada’s Arctic.
Counting synonyms for snow is
complicated in Inuktitut because
words are much more complex
than other languages. Compton
said a single word in Inuit might
have as much meaning as an entire
sentence in English.
“In Inuktutit you can say things
like, ‘I’m not building libraries any-
OTHER INUIT WORDS
FOR SNOW
Qikirrarnaqtuq: Crunch sound of
snow underfoot.
Apujjaujuq: When an object is completely covered by snow and you
can’t see it.
Aputi: Snow.
Source: Language Commissioner of Nunavut
you or I don’t see because we don’t
have the words (for them) or don’t
see (the colours).”
The multitude of Inuit words to
characterize types of snow and
describe the Arctic environment is
a form of expertise. Nesbitt said the
Inuit, much like experts, have
developed distinctive terminology
to express their knowledge of snow.
“Anybody who specializes in
something is going to end up with a
lot of terminology.”
Nesbitt said the belief that the
Inuit have dozens of words for
snow is a familiar question for
Inuktitut language experts. The
question, though, has already been
answered.
“Whether there are actually 50
words for snow, it almost doesn’t
matter any more. People believe
there are. So, there are.”
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
WIND
MYTHS, PROVERBS AND LORE
Seasonal signs
Long before meteorologists had sophisticated technology and 24/7 global weather networks,
people made forecasts based on their observations of the sky, animals and nature
BY WILLIAM DEKAY
SASKATOON NEWSROOM
P
EOPLE ONCE relied on lore to
forecast the weather and connect changes in nature with
rhythms or patterns of weather.
Proverbs were created and
passed down through the generations as if
they were family heirlooms.
Bill Zak has been a farmer, hunter and
trapper for more than 50 years. A life of
living off the land and observing nature
has taught him that animal behaviours in
the wild can sometimes foretell winter
weather.
“We pay attention to stuff like that,” said
Zak, who lives east of Hudson Bay, Sask.
“There seems to be some truth to it.”
He said a common belief among trappers
and First Nations elders is that a big muskrat house often means a harsh winter.
“I did find that there’s a correlation
between the house and the winter,” he
said.
“If it’s going to be a severe winter, or the
ice freezes down, they just seem to have a
larger house for whatever reason.”
Zak said the fall hunt taught him that
deer can sense whether the coming winter
will be colder than normal, based on their
fat reserves.
“It’s got to be a built-in instinct. I notice
that animals respond to weather.”
He has also seen deer change their eating
habits before a particularly cold winter.
“Normally they’re browsers, eating a few
alfalfa leafs and moving on and taking a
few more and moving on,” he said.
“If there’s a rough winter coming up, they
just seem to be in one spot and eat and eat
in the field.… It’s a common fact that if you
see deer out in the middle of the day eating, then there’s a storm coming.… I don’t
think anybody can dispute it.”
He said coyotes and wolves are also more
active before a storm.
“They seem to sense the low pressure
system, the change in the barometric pressure.”
The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which is published in the northeastern United States,
has been a source of information since
1792 and contains a collection of proverbs:
• A green Christmas, a white Easter.
• If the first week in August is unusually
warm, the winter will be white and long.
• Full moon in October without frost, no
frost till full moon in November.
• When March has April weather, April
will have March weather.
• Ring around the moon? Rain real soon.
GARRY STONE heard a few theories about
weather while growing up on a Saskatchewan farm in the 1940s. He remembers
hearing it will rain 100 days after a February fog, and that frost is more likely during
or right after a full moon.
He recalls hearing Environment Canada
meteorologist David Phillips debunking
the myth that a full moon means colder
temperatures.
“He said, ‘do you realize the full moon
happens all over the world on the same
day? It’s unlikely it’s going to be colder
everywhere,’ ” said Stone.
He has never put much stock in old
myths but does remember the saying,
“whether it’s cold or whether it’s hot, we
have to have weather, whether or not.”
Biologist Mike Gallop of Saskatchewan
Fish and Wildlife is not aware of scientific
studies on the subject of wildlife and
weather.
“No one to my knowledge has ever published information, a paper where they’ve
gone out for five or six years and done, say,
measurements on muskrat houses and
then correlated that with winter weather
conditions, or that kind of thing.”
Gallop said the question is whether there
is a predictive value as opposed to seasonal rhythms or the amount of light.
A common belief among trappers and First Nations elders is that a big
muskrat house often means a harsh winter. | iSTOCK PHOTO
Although anecdotal, Gallop’s personal
opinion relates to his observations with
geese and cranes.
“Their ability to predict is probably not so
different than our own weathermen,” he
said.
“You’ll start to see some major movements of birds well in advance of when you
and I would detect on the ground that
there’s weather patterns moving in. Somehow they seem to know that there’s a front
moving in and will react way ahead of that
front.”
The amount of natural light is key to
understanding animal behaviour, said
David Weiman, who traps near Preeceville, Sask.
“I find a lot of them (myths) are really
dictated mostly, and this is my personal
opinion from my years out in the bush, by
the amount of light,” he said.
“When you look at something, for example grouse, they’ll start drumming in the
fall again. Not that the hens are going to get
bred, but it’s the amount of light.… We get
some trumpeter swans right now that are
going through another breeding cycle.
They’re not breeding now, but it’s the light
again. It’s no different than trying to get
chickens to lay eggs. You just give them
more light.”
Weiman takes a pragmatic view when
explaining the square footage of a muskrat
house.
“I think it depends on how many muskrats there are. If you get into some situations where there are a lot of muskrats,
you’ll get a big house beside another big
house because they need a bigger home to
live in,” he said.
“(However,) those muskrat houses are
up in a day and a half. They know when
there’s a front coming in and if it’s going to
be sitting there for a while. They have to get
something going.”
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Twisters
common
on the
Prairies
BY KAREN BRIERE
REGINA BUREAU
A
PRAIRIE SUMMER
wouldn’t be complete
without thunder, lightning, rain and wind.
But sometimes you
get more than you bargained for.
Canada has the second most tornadoes in the world, behind the
United States, and the Prairies get
most of them.
About 43 are recorded in this
region each year, typically June to
August, compared to 17 in Ontario
and Quebec, according to Environment Canada.
The number could be far higher
because those that aren’t witnessed aren’t recorded.
Technically, a tornado is a rotating column of air extending from a
cumuliform cloud that touches the
ground.
They can be hundreds of metres
wide and last for hours but can also
be small and last for minutes.
And while the very word strikes
fear, tornados aren’t the only
threats from big wind.
John Paul Cragg, a warning prep a re d n e s s m e t e o ro l o g i s t i n
Saskatoon, said thunderstorms
produce other damaging winds
such as microbursts, macrobursts,
downbursts, squall lines and plow
or straight-line winds.
“A lot of people assume that it’s
only a tornado that does the kind of
destructive damage that people
see,” Cragg said.
Straight-line winds from Taber to
Bow Island, Alta., in 2008 caused
damage along a 30-kilometre path
with winds of more than 200 km-h,
he said.
Microbursts, or small downbursts from thunderstorms, can
cause incredible damage in a small
area.
“Everybody thinks that the tornado is the real threat, but it’s winds
with thunderstorms in general
that’s threatening,” Cragg said.
“These straight-line winds can
cover a huge area so they can be
more threatening.”
The strength and type of a windstorm is determined by the damage
it does, particularly if it happens at
night or in an uninhabited area
where no one witnessed it.
Cragg said a tornado isn’t confirmed from radar data alone. Environment Canada also relies on
spotters to report during or after
the event.
Radar can indicate whether a
storm is rotating and is capable of
producing tornados, but only
direct observers can tell if it’s touching the ground.
Defining the type of storm also
depends on the damage it does.
“If things have blown down all in
the same direction, that could be a
good indication of straight-line
winds,” Cragg said.
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A lot of people assume
that it’s only a tornado that
does the kind of destructive
damage that people see.
JOHN PAUL CRAGG
METEOROLOGIST
“Or if it looks like there’s a centre
and everything is blown down sort
of away from that centre, that could
be a microburst.
“But tornadic damage looks quite
different. You can see the rotation
on the ground.”
One side of the tornado will do
less damage than the other, depending how fast it is moving and
which direction it is turning, he
said.
“ The motion of the tornado
enhances the wind on one side and
decreases it on the other, but you
have to look at that pattern in the
context of the storm and you can
determine whether it was straightline winds or a tornado.”
Pictures of the damage sent to
Environment Canada are critical in
deciding what happened and how
intense it was.
The department has used the
Enhanced Fujita scale since April 1,
2013, to measure tornados. It has
more accurate wind speeds and
damage assessments than the previous Fujita scale.
The top rating on both scales is
five and only one documented
tornado in history has rated this
high: the June 22, 2007, storm at
Elie, Man. This was a nearly stationary tornado that fortunately
caused no injuries.
The deadliest tornados on record
are the Regina Cyclone of June 30,
1912, which was rated F4 and killed
28 people in the city and two in
rural areas; the July 31, 1987, F4
tornado at Edmonton, which killed
27; and the Pine Lake, Alta., F3 tornado of July 14, 2000, that killed 12
people at the Green Acres Campground.
On the F-scale, an F4 storm produces wind speeds of 330 to 410
km-h, while an F3 has winds of 250
to 320 km-h.
The newer scale considers F3 to
have wind speed of 225 to 265
km-h, F4 to be 270 to 310 km-h and
F5 to be anything more than 315
km-h.
Cragg said people always want to
know whether a tornado or a plow
wind caused the damage they find.
“Having it labelled one way or
another helps them discover what
it was they experienced,” he said.
Merle Massie, an environmental
historian at Biggar, Sask., said tornados carry that extra level of awe.
“I think probably that there’s a
certain cachet if it was actually a
tornado as opposed to ‘just’ a plow
wind,” she said.
“There’s a different level of, not
fear factor, but certainly wow factor.”
People are fascinated with tornados. They chase them and make
movies about them. Last year a
photograph of a Saskatchewan
bride and groom, tornado in the
background, was shared worldwide on social media.
A tornado hit the Massie family’s
farm in west-central Saskatchewan
a few years ago, although they
weren’t there to see it.
“You could actually track it on the
ground in the crop. You could see
exactly where it went.”
It moved from one unoccupied
farm across three fields to another
and struck the Massie yard with
such force that it stripped the bark
off trees.
“They looked like someone had
come along and pressure washed
them and took all the bark off all the
jack pines,” she said.
She has researched all types of
events, including the incredible
dust storms produced by plow
winds in May 1919 through Saskatoon, which took the paint off
buildings.
Massie said tornados rarely come
alone, producing hail or massive
rain and flooding.
For farmers, any storm plays into
the larger story of their relationship
with nature, she added.
“Farming is always a dance with
nature,” she said. “You’re betting
against the weather every year, and
this is almost the largest bet.”
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WHICH WIND IS WHICH?
Straight-line or “plow” winds
• cause the most thunderstorm
wind damage
• move horizontally along the
ground, away from thunderstorms
• may cause swirling dust and
debris like tornadoes
• can produce the same roar as
tornadoes
• can be as strong as tornadoes
but usually cover larger area
• winds in excess of 200 km-h
have been reported
Tornado winds
• violently rotating column of air
between cloud and the surface
• can appear as funnels, but vary in
appearance, strength and speed
• most common in afternoon and
early evening
• most in Canada have speeds less
than 180 km-h
Hurricane winds
• average sustained
winds of at least 119 km-h
• often bring threat of local
flooding from heavy rainfall
• categorized based on wind
speed using Saffir Simpson
Hurricane Wind Scale
• there are five categories, with
category 1 being sustained wind
of 119-153 km-h and category 5
having sustained winds
greater than 249 km-h
• hurricanes above category 3
(178-209 km-h) have never been
documented in Canada on land
Wind warning
• issued by Environment Canada
when there is steady wind at
60-65 km-h or more or winds
gusting to 90 km-h or more
Source: Environment Canada
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
METEOROLOGY
The future of forecasting
BY SEAN PRATT
SASKATOON NEWSROOM
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iSTOCK ILLUSTRATION
EATHER FORECASTING is going to become more accurate
and user-friendly in
the next five years.
Jim Block, chief meteorologist with
Schneider Electric, the parent company
of DTN, said there will be more public
and private weather stations churning
out data every five to 60 minutes.
For instance, DTN plans to nearly
double its network of 4,000 weather stations by the end of 2016.
Modern electronics have led to the creation of cheap, compact, high-tech weather stations that provide a steady stream of
reliable precipitation and temperature
data.
“What we’re seeing right now today is
this explosion in the number of stations,”
Block told delegates attending DTN’s Ag
Summit 2015.
The data will be augmented by millions
of observations generated by “connected vehicles” that can provide real time
temperature and precipitation data.
“In the next five years, you’ll be seeing a
lot of vehicle information that’s going to
be made available and be used in weather forecasting,” he said.
Mobile phones are already able to
measure barometric pressure and temperature and will be even more sophisticated in the future.
Block said the additional data will make
forecasts more accurate, but the computer models that assimilate and analyze
the data are also becoming more sophisticated.
Europe’s Integrated Forecast System
weather model is the best in the business
with a resolution of 16 kilometres
between grid points. The closer the grid
points, the more accurate the forecast.
“In March, the European model is
going down to a resolution of 10 km,” he
said.
“The reason that the European model
is the best model in the world is because
they have the biggest and faster computer running weather modeling.”
The U.S. National Weather Service and
other global agencies are also upgrading
their weather models.
Today’s weather forecasters are able to
produce useful information out to about
eight days. By 2020 they should be able to
extend that to 10 days.
Forecasting skill doubles every 15
years. The 36-hour forecast was accurate 25 percent of the time when it
debuted in 1955 and today is approaching 90 percent accuracy.
Block said the switch to more probabilistic forecasts is another trend emerging in
weather forecasting.
Instead of saying there is a 50 percent
chance that it’s going to be 20 C on Tuesday, forecasters can say there is a 95 percent chance that the temperature will
exceed 17 C and a five percent chance it
will get above 22 C.
“You can not only look at the forecast
itself but you can understand how much
uncertainty there is in that forecast,” he
said.
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ONLINE
ACIS service is aces for weather information
BY MARY MACARTHUR
CAMROSE BUREAU
A
NETWORK OF more
than 370 weather stat i o n s, g e n e r a t i n g
hourly weather updates, makes Alberta
Agriculture’s weatherdata.ca one
of the most detailed weather websites in Canada.
“This is the weather watchers’
website,” said Ralph Wright, manager of the provincial department’s
agriculture meteorology section.
At the AgroClimatic Information
Service site, commonly called ACIS,
and visitors can click on a link and a
visitor to the site can watch a storm
cell tracking over a specific quarter
section.
Click on another link and find the
temperature, wind and precipitation at any location.
Or, browse through the website to
see any one of the 20,000 weather
maps dating back to 1961.
“You can go to any month in a
56-year period. No one has got anything like this,” said Wright.
Alberta Agriculture staff developed the website after a drought in
2002 as part of a drought management plan.
Two years later, Agriculture Financial Service Corp. (AFSC) contributed
money for more weather stations to
allow it to design a better crop insurance program based on weather.
“It was a happy coincidence of a
project supported by management
and staff that had the ability to build
a detailed weather website and
install the stations,” said Wright.
Engineers use the website to
study extreme weather patterns
before designing transmission
towers, buildings or other large
structures, Wright said.
Counties use it to manage fire risk
in agricultural areas. Skiers and
snowboarders check to see if snow
has fallen near their recreational
destinations.
“I even had mushroom pickers
say they love the website. They can
see what areas are wet and go
there,” said Wright.
“I’ve (had) trappers say they look
at the website to see if snow has
fallen on the trap line.”
The website can be used as a party trick to predict when a weather
cell will arrive or pass over a specific location.
“It’s even better in the summer,”
Wright said. “You can track thunderstorms and see them all moving
and where it’s going to end. You can
see the backside of the storm.”
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I even had mushroom pickers
say they love the website.
They can see what areas are
wet and go there.
RALPH WRIGHT
METEOROLOGIST
“It just happened spontaneously
over a decade.”
The number of meteorological
stations has increased dramatically in the last decade from the
department’s original 36.
Many of the stations are located
on Alberta farms, but a few are in
forest areas, mountains and cities
to give a detailed weather picture
across the province.
Wright said staff are working to
add more stations in the vacant
areas of the map. This year, they are
targeting the Peace River region.
Stations cost $20,000 each and
must be located in an open area,
which is representative of the surrounding agriculture area, to
ensure accurate readings.
“We pounded the pavement of
who wanted a weather station or
who was interested in the target
area,” said Wright. “You can’t just
throw a meteorological station anywhere.”
The website has become a handy
tool for developing irrigation schedules, drought management plans
and spray schedules since it became
more detailed. An insect prediction
map will be added this year.
“It is a great way to see how
weather may impact your farm and
impact your growth.”
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BY KAREN BRIERE
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HE CHARACTERISTICS of prairie rainfall have changed.
Researchers agree that one-day
rains have given way to multipleday events, and storms are larger.
However, total precipitation seems to have
stayed the same.
John Pomeroy, Canada research chair in
water resources and climate change at the
University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for
Hydrology, said there are no real trends in
total precipitation on the Prairies, but rain
has replaced snowfall in spring and fall.
The work that he and others did in the
Smith Creek Research Basin of east-central
Saskatchewan found that annual precipitation did not change between 1942 and
2014, but there was significantly more rain
than snow.
They found increasing amounts of rain in
March, May, June and October and a 50
percent increase in the number of multiple
day storms.
David Phillips, Environment Canada’s
senior climatologist, said people believe
more rain is falling, but it’s difficult to measure because of these changes.
He said temperature is easy to measure
because it has used the same instrument for
centuries and is measured every day.
“Precipitation is a little bit more elusive,” he
said.
“It really is just a tin can that sits on the
ground. The wind can blow away the drops
and it can evaporate. Snow is even more elusive. We’re one of the snowiest countries, but
all we do is stick a ruler in the ground.”
Global weather seems to be wetter, he
added, but no trends are noticeable in specific areas.
For example, the average precipitation in
Calgary from April to September was 364
millimetres in the 1950s and 366 mm in the
1990s, although it dropped to as low as 307
mm in between.
Putting all the weather station data together from a broad geographic area could result
in a generalized statement that Canada is a
wetter country now than 50 years ago, Phillips said.
“But it’s more evident on the coasts and to
some degree in Central Canada, but not on
the Prairies,” he said.
Extreme rainfall is the other factor, which
various places on the Prairies have experienced, particularly in the last five years.
Phillips said extremes are usually localized,
and it’s difficult to obtain good statistics on
exactly how much rain has fallen.
Large rainstorms can cause havoc, such as
the one in Maple Creek, Sask., in 2010 and the
Calgary flood of 2013.
“The big storms upstream of Calgary and in
eastern Saskatchewan were part of trends for
larger and longer rainstorms in the Prairies,”
said Pomeroy.
“This is climate change producing the
change in rainstorms, so one may indirectly
associate these events
with climate change.”
Phillips said a warming world means the
atmosphere holds more moisture. The conditions to trigger that moisture don’t always
exist on the Prairies, but they do in more
humid areas.
Prairie residents have been surprised by
the extreme rain of the past few years, but
they might want to prepare for more of them.
A study that Pomeroy and student Kevin
Shook did in 2011 examined the Historical
Adjusted Climate Database for Canada to
determine the fraction of monthly precipitation that fell as rain on the Prairies. They
looked at 1901 to 2000 as well as the shorter
period of 1951 to 2000.
“Over the period 1951 to 2000, the fraction
of summer rain falling as single-day events
has been decreasing at many locations (one
site showed a significant increasing trend
and many showed no trend),” they wrote in
their published research.
“Significant decreasing trends were also
found at the majority of sites over 1901 to
2000.”
However, they also found that summer
multiple-day rains had significantly increased at many locations over the periods
that were analyzed.
Phillips said prairie farmers aren’t really set
up to deal with such weather variability. For
example, 43 mm of rain fell in Regina this
past spring compared to 310 mm the previous year.
“In 10 months, parts of Saskatchewan went
from the wettest to the driest conditions in
history,” he said.
Weather patterns are destabilizing, and he
expects more of the same. He said even if
precipitation increases, the effect could be
less because of warmer temperatures.
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Researchers say climate change will
cause big swings in rainfall, snowfall and
temperatures across the Prairies
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SCIENCE
Researchers use tree rings to trace weather patterns
BY KAREN BRIERE
REGINA BUREAU
T
REE RINGS continue to
serve up scientific
information about past
weather and help scientists determine what
might lie ahead.
Dave Sauchyn leads the tree ring
research at the University of Regina’s Prairie Adaptation Research
Collaborative. Examining the cores
of trees have allowed researchers to
establish short and long weather
cycles on the Prairies.
“Our tree ring research continues
to uncover two scales of weather
cycles, one short cycle of three to
eight years, which we can relate to
El Nino and La Nina, plus a longer
cycle with several decades of drier
weather and several decades of
wetter weather,” Sauchyn said.
The longer cycle is generally 60
years, with half of them wet and
half of them dry.
He said a large-scale climate fluctuation called the Pacific Decadal
Oscillation probably drives the
longer cycle. Water in the Pacific
Ocean changes from warm to cold
and back again to affect North
American weather.
Tree rings tell these stories
because narrow rings indicate dry
years and wider rings indicate wetter years.
Sauchyn and others have been
examining tree rings for years, and
the research has evolved.
“We are still collecting tree ring
data but using a different strategy,”
he said.
“We are focusing on older dead
wood so that we can speak with
confidence about climatic variability over the past 1,000 years.”
Researchers have pieces of wood
as old as 641 AD.
“I can’t imagine a day when we’ve
learned all there is to know,” he
said.
“I feel like we are just scratching,
or sanding in the case of wood, the
surface.”
This work has allowed scientists
to reconstruct all of the prairie river
basin levels, which Sauchyn said
tells them about the variability and
reliability of water supplies.
People have only 100 years of
weather measurements, and while
there have been droughts, research
has shown this has been one of the
wettest periods.
Explorer John Palliser said in the
mid-1800s that southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern
Alberta shouldn’t be settled and
farmed, but it was and still is.
Sauchyn has long said that farmers must adapt to drier conditions.
He studies climate more than
weather, but he said the two are
obviously linked.
“If climate is your personality,
then weather is your mood,” he said.
“ I f y o u r p e r s o na l i t y w a s t o
change, for example you switched
from pessimist to an optimist, then
you’re likely to be happy more
often. Using that analogy, if our
climate is becoming warmer, then
there is likely to be more extremes
of weather and water because
warmer oceans produce more
water vapour and warm air holds
more moisture.”
Hotter, drier air masses will occur
when moist air bypasses the Prairies.
Sauchyn said the natural variabil-
ity of climate and extreme weather
events will be different in the future
because they will occur in a warmer world.
Learning as much as possible
about natural variability from tree
rings helps establish the basis for
further research.
El Nino is part of that natural process and has affected tree growth
over the past 1,000 years. It occurs
when water in the Pacific Ocean is
half a degree warmer than usual. The
current one is 3.1 degrees warmer.
El Nino will change if the water
continues to heat, which will affect
future prairie weather, he said.
Extreme weather events and
water levels take people by sur-
prise, but Sauchyn said we should
expect the unexpected.
“Our long climate records show us
that we have not seen or measured
the worst weather, and that even in
the absence of climate change we
can expect conditions that are more
extreme than we’ve seen because
they occurred in the recent past
before the Prairies were settled by
Europeans and before we installed
weather and water gauges,” he said.
Government agencies, municipalities and the private sector all
support tree ring research because
they want to know how much
worse it could get, he added.
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THE WEATHER ISSUE
METEOROLOGY
Rivers
in the sky
Water vapour is constantly
moving over head
BY ASHLEY ROBINSON
SASKATOON NEWSROOM
R
IVERS ARE NOT confined to the earth.
There are also rivers
in the sky, called atmospheric rivers, which
carry water just as their terrestrial
counterparts do.
“(Atmospheric rivers are) very
long, narrow regions in the atmosphere where there’s a lot of water, so
large amounts of water vapour, and
that water vapour is being moved
typically from kind of southwest to
northeast,” said Faron Anslow, a climatologist with the Pacific Climate
Impact Consortium.
These rivers carry 99 percent of
the water vapour that moves up
from the tropics to mid-latitudes.
The rivers generate most of the
rainfall in British Columbia, while
they show up as snow on the Prairies.
John Yackel, a geography professor at the University of Calgary, said
the moisture in atmospheric rivers
falls as snow as they move eastward
from B.C. over the Rocky Mountains.
“That build-up of snow can lead
to real nice increases in watershed
or river water resources,” Yackel
said.
Atmospheric rivers can also be
associated with an increase in chinook frequency and strength once
they reach the Prairies, he added.
They are also associated with El
Nino, which brings warmer and
drier conditions to the Prairies.
However, they cause higher than
normal rainfall in California, which
is a hotbed for atmospheric river
activity.
“When we have an El Nino year
like we have now, then we’ll get an
increase in frequency of these
atmospheric rivers, and it’s mainly
stemming from the tremendous
amount of ocean heat that’s piling
up in the eastern part of the equatorial pacific,” Yackel said.
Atmospheric rivers have a nickname on the west coast of North
America.
“It’s called (pineapple express)
because every once in a while
you’ll get an atmospheric river that
kind of lines up perfectly with
Hawaii, so you can think of it as
Hawaiian air being brought to our
shores,” said Anslow.
Environment Canada can track
an atmospheric river for up to two
weeks before it causes weather
activity.
They have previously caused
heavy rain on the western coast of
North America, which led to floods.
A big flood in Dawson Creek,
B.C., in 2011 was caused by atmospheric rivers.
Anslow said there is a rough consensus among researchers that
atmospheric rivers will occur less
frequently in the future.
“When (atmospheric rivers) do
happen, they might be more
intense, and that’s kind of the general picture of climate change and
rainfall, is when the events happen
they’re going to be much heavier
than what we’ve experienced.”
CLIMATOLOGY
Why we should all love snow
BY WILLIAM DEKAY
SASKATOON NEWSROOM
T
HE TECHNOLOGY of climatology
has made great advancements,
but tools for measuring snow
remain crude.
“We can put a man on the moon
and we have super computers and satellites,
but the good old-fashioned way that we’ve
been measuring snow for eons of time is the
same way, which is a bit sad,” said meteorologist David Phillips of Environment Canada.
“It’s probably the simplest of all measurements. All you do is stick a ruler in a cover of
snow and you say how much snow fell from
the last time you observed it..… We’re really
fooling ourselves if we think we have accurate
measurement of snow.”
Phillips said a lot happens to snow when it
falls, and therein lies the problem.
“It gets blown away. It melts and it compacts.
If you took measurements of snow every hour
for the next 24 hours, you’d have a humongous amount of snow, and yet we only measure it twice a day,” he said.
“We know that we underestimate snow
because when you melt it all, you get more
river water than you would have by measuring
the amount of snow.”
However, he said Canada is one of the few
countries that measures snow.
“Most countries are interested in the water
content from snow. Most people are only
interested in what they’re going to get out of
the snow: water reservoirs, irrigation, hydroelectric dams, ski resorts,” he said.
“They don’t see it as anything but that.”
There are colder places in the world, but
Canada is the snowiest country.
“We get 200 centimetres per year in Canada,
and 39 percent of the Canadian total precipitation is snow,” said Phillips. “The world’s
average is five percent.”
He said snow cover is one of the most important things in agriculture, but its value is not
always understood.
Snowfall represents about one quarter of the
annual average precipitation on the Prairies
during the winter.
“It’s a very important component of our
annual precipitation,” he said.
Moisture and insulation are the two vital factors in agriculture, said Allan Howard of Agriculture Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Service in Regina.
“Snow is a moisture reserve that is held
largely until spring. Through snow melt, we not
only recharge our streams but we generally
recharge our soil moisture on the Prairies,” he
said.
“Typically we run a moisture deficit in the
Prairies, meaning that all the rainfall that
occurs does not match or equal the amount of
water that could be lost through evaporation.”
Howard said snow also protects what’s in the
ground during winter.
“The snow acts as a blanket and insulates
overwintering crops from the rapid changes
in air temperature,” he said.
“This is particularly important for pastures
and fall seeded crops such as winter wheat. It
does reduce the risk of winterkill.”
Snow’s ability to insulate from extreme cold
is also important for insects, said Owen Olfert
of Agriculture Canada in Saskatoon.
“We have native insect pests that are really
well adapted to North America because over
the years they consider this home,” he said.
Other insects are considered invasive species.
“Quite often, depending on where on the Prairies you’re talking about, they sometimes aren’t
quite as resilient with our winters as our native
species,” he said. “Rarely do we get the situation
where it’s that brutally cold without snowfall that
these populations die right out. Mortality
increases with increased cold temperature.”
As well, migratory insects are blown into the
region during the spring and summer and
usually cannot survive a prairie winter.
“They really don’t overwinter here,” Olfert
said. “However, if it’s a very mild winter without severe frost, like this year, there is some
potential for some of these migratory species
to survive the winter.”
Phillips said warming temperatures and dimin-
ishing snow cover are concerns for the future.
“We’re seeing on the Prairies less snow now and
in southern Canada than we used to,” he said.
Added Howard: “Certainly we need some
snow and generally the more snow we get, the
more moisture we get and the more snow we
have the better insulation capacity we have.
It’s important to have at least the average
amount of snow that we get each year.”
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WHEN WAS THE SNOWIEST …
DAY?
In Alberta:
• June 29, 1963, Livingstone Ranger Station,
111.8 cm
In Saskatchewan
• Nov. 16, 1900, Indian Head, 88.9 cm
In Manitoba
• Nov. 18, 1906, Dauphin, 76.2 cm
MONTH?
In Alberta
• January, 1975, Columbia Ice Fields, 287 cm
In Saskatchewan:
• March 1904, Estevan, 206 cm
In Manitoba:
• March 1916, Morden, 158 cm
YEAR? (Sept. 1 to Aug. 31)
In Alberta:
• 1973-74, Columbia Ice Fields, 1,066 cm
In Saskatchewan:
• 1955-56, Pelly, 368 cm
In Manitoba:
• 1960-61, Brochet, 355 cm
AVERAGE ANNUAL SNOWFALL
Alberta: 140 cm
Saskatchewan: 145 cm
Manitoba: 176 cm
Source: Environment Canada, David Phillips
THE WEATHER ISSUE
51
METEOROLOGY
A good forecaster
always has his
head in the clouds
BY BARB GLEN
LETHBRIDGE BUREAU
F
CIRRUS CLOUDS
The word “cirrus” is Latin for “lock of hair.”
These clouds usually appear as wispy
streaks and are higher in the sky than other clouds.
Most cirrus clouds are made of ice particles instead
of water droplets because of the high altitude and
are prone to being whipped about by high winds.
These clouds may not appear to be moving because
they’re so far away but they move faster than any
other cloud and can give you a good indication that
a storm is approaching.
1
cirrus
cirrocumulus
cirrostratus
CUMULUS CLOUDS
The most common of all clouds,
cumulus clouds appear to be fluffy or
puffy with flat bases and tops that look a bit
like cauliflower florets. They usually form over
land during sunny days — but these are also
the clouds that can develop into thunderclouds
or even tornadoes and can bring sudden
downpours, hail and thunderstorms. If you spot
these clouds before noon, be prepared for rain.
2
altocumulus
altostratus
stratocumulus
nimbostratus
STRATUS CLOUDS
Stratus clouds don’t have a distinct
form, appearing instead as misty
stretches that bring drizzle and dampness.
They are usually found along coastlines and
mountain bases and sit fairly low on the ground.
3
cumulus
low-level (0 m - 6,000 m)
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There are three basic cloud types, but depending on the elevation, there are different
names for each cloud formation:
mid-level (2,000 m - 6,000 m)
Curran says it has truth but it’s not
completely reliable.
“When the sun is setting in the
west, which, in the northern hemisphere is normally where your
weather is coming from … if you
have a lot of particulate matter in
the sky … it scatters the light and
makes it redder.
“That kind of dust is what is called
condensation nuclei. It’s really,
really tiny and it’s what allows the
water in the air to condense and
form cloud. So there is some truth,
that if you look west during a sunset
and its really red, there’s a possibility that something might be coming” by morning.
“It’s not always right, but it’s right
often enough.”
Clouds are identified according
to their position in the sky, for
descriptive purposes.
High clouds include cirrus, cirrocumulus and cirrostratus and are
found 5,000 to 13,000 metres above
the surface.
Middle clouds include altocumulus and altostratus, found at altitudes from 2,000 to 7,000 metres.
Low clouds, the stratus, stratocumulus and nimbostratus occur
between the surface and 2,000
metres.
Then there are those with vertical
growth, the big puffy ones called
cumulus and cumulonimbus,
which can occur anywhere between the surface and 13,000
metres.
Cumulus clouds commonly
have flat bases and heaped tops,
the “ice cream castles” of Joni
Mitchell’s song. But she might also
mean towering cumulus, which
have brilliant white tops and grayish bottoms because their thickness doesn’t allow sunlight to
penetrate to the bottom, said
Curran.
“Under these towering cue, you’re
going to have rain and if it continues
building, you get a CB and a thunderstorm and lots of rain.”
All clouds are formed when water evaporates from streams, lakes, oceans and plants.
The evaporated water molecules rise, then cool and form tiny water droplets as the air
temperature drops at higher elevations. If the water droplets condense around dust or
smoke particles, they form into clouds. When the water droplets grow large enough that the
air updrafts can’t hold them, they fall to the ground as rain — or if it’s cold, as snow or even
hail.
high level (above 6,000 m)
ROM THE WIDE windows on the main building at Lethbridge County
Airport, air traffic specialist Joel Curran can
see the weather coming.
It usually comes from the west in
this part of the world, and analyzing clouds and what they indicate
about weather conditions is a key
part of his job in keeping passengers and pilots safe.
As he looks out over runways 05
and 23, Curran can see bald prairie
in the foreground and part of the
R o c k y Mo u n t a i n s a b o u t 1 0 0
kilometres away.
The clouds, on the other hand,
are much closer. Besides the moisture they hold, they carry information that can help in forecasts.
“If you have an advancing front,
you can sometimes see that it will
push layers of cloud in ahead of it,”
says Curran.
“As you get closer and closer to
the cold front, if this is active
enough, here you’ll have cumulus,
or towering cumulus or even thunderclouds, cumulonimbus.
“So you can, in a way, forecast
by looking up and saying, oh
look, you’ve got advancing cirrus
coming toward you, so you know
that late today or maybe early
tomorrow, the weather is going to
change.”
Providing precise weather conditions is the goal in aviation. Pilots
need to know conditions at that
moment, along the route and at the
destination.
Forecasting for agricultural purposes is more complex, Curran
admits, and sometimes even cause
for amusement.
“The weather channel will give a
14-day forecast, which I find hilarious because no one can forecast 14
days in advance. Nobody.
“We used to have a product that
we used called the global forecast,
which took everything that we
knew now, plugged it into a computer and then said, OK, based on
these initial conditions, here’s
what’s going to happen. And the
farthest we would go is 120 hours,
which is five days.
“We told everyone, the pilots, you
get beyond three days and I’m
making this up. I have no idea.”
Nevertheless, clouds give up
clues to weather in the short term
and indicate what’s going on in the
troposphere and tropopause.
Clouds are water droplets or ice
crystals suspended in air. They
generally need some kind of particle on which to condense, called
condensation nuclei. When
enough vapor condenses on
enough nuclei, a cloud is formed.
That’s the basis of this old weather rhyme:
Red sky at morning, sailors take
warning.
Red sky at night, sailors delight.
CLOUD SPOTTING
cumulonumbus
stratus
Souce: www.metoffice.gov.uk | MICHELLE HOULDEN GRAPHIC
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