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Deadly
bird flu
strain
2011 flood
report in
Just in time for the
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Puts world on edge » Page 34
W I M P Y W H E AT W O E S ?
April 11, 2013
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Customer complaints about
Canadian wheat performance
colour quality, brand debate
They come at a time when some question Canada’s emphasis on
wheat quality assurance and the registration system
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
I
f there is good news in a
recent wire service story that
told the world some customers are complaining about
Canadian wheat that wimped
out in the bakery, it’s that complaints over quality are so rare
they become news.
Chinese officials complained
this past winter, suggesting that
a lack of processing consistency in the CWRS class might
prompt them to switch to buying Dark Northern Spring (DNS)
wheats from the United States,
Canadian International Grains
Institute (Cigi) executive director Earl Geddes told the Canada
Grain Council’s annual meeting
April 2 in Winnipeg.
Geddes said the complaint
itself is manageable. The bigger
question is how well prepared
the industry is to collectively fill
the customer service and brand
maintenance role once played
by the Canadian Wheat Board.
See WHEAT QUALITY on page 6 »
Employees prepare bread products in a small roadside bakery in Beijing. Wheat performance in baking can be influenced by a number of factors ranging from
variety, environment, agronomic to time in storage. Photo: REUTERS/Reinhard Krause
Another hog stabilization program rejected
Pork producers must turn to AgriStability and AgriInvest: Kostyshyn
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
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T
he provincial government has refused to back
a hog stabilization program proposed by the Manitoba
Pork Council to help producers through ongoing financial
turbulence.
“While the province continues to work with the Manitoba
Pork Council on possible solutions, their recent proposal is
too much of a financial risk during these uncertain economic
times,” the minister said in an
emailed statement.
“With another flood on the
way, any request for support
above the programs already
offered must be cr itically
reviewed.”
Pork Council chairman Karl
Kynoch said the decision is disappointing and he anticipates
more hog producers will exit
the pork industry as a result.
The Manitoba Pork Council first
pitched the stabilization program to the government last
winter.
“Our numbers have been
dropping so fast, some producers have been closing down,
but then there are also producers who have been losing their
independence,” said Kynoch.
“Those producers can’t operate
anymore, they’re out of money
to continue owing the pigs and
feeding them, so the packing
plants have in turn been forced
to actually take ownership of
the pigs and then the producers basically become contract
feeders.”
The now-rejected program
would have seen the province act as a guarantor for
cash loans provided by financial institutions and administered by Manitoba Pork Council
Corporation.
Low risk
Kynoch said the province
wouldn’t have had to pay out
any funds unless a sizable
number of operations went
bankrupt, defaulting on their
loans.
The loans were to be repaid
by a mandatory $5 levy applied
to all hogs sold in the province.
The chairman said the council had gone through nearly a
dozen options before presenting this plan to the government.
The proposal was also assessed
by an accounting firm for viability before government was
approached.
“Basically at the end of the
day, this is what we came up
See HOG PROGRAM on page 6 »
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The Manitoba Co-operator | April 11, 2013
INSIDE
Did you know?
LIVESTOCK
Butt out; so is
pork chop
Fruit flies fed organic
diets are healthier
U.S. makes big
changes
meat-speak
Fruit flies raised on diets based on organic foods performed better
on a variety of health tests, including fertility and longevity
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Staff
R
CROPS
Ottawa wants a
solo, not a choir
Grains industry
urged to consolidate
its voice
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FEATURE
Making the most
of Churchill
Climate change may
expand northern
port’s season
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CROSSROADS
Hooked on
Prairie icons
Rug display of
elevators makes the
rounds
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5
7
10
Editorials
Comments
What’s Up
Livestock Markets
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Grain Markets
Weather Vane
Classifieds
Sudoku
esearchers aren’t sure why, but fruit flies
fed organic fruits and vegetables in a laboratory study lived longer and produced
more offspring than flies fed a non-organic diet.
The study from the lab of SMU biologist Johannes H. Bauer, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, found that fruit flies raised on
diets of organic foods performed better on several tests for general health.
“While these findings are certainly intriguing,
what we now need to determine is why the flies
on the organic diets did better, especially since
not all the organic diets we tested provided the
same positive health outcomes,” said Bauer, principal investigator for the study in an SMU release.
The release said fruit flies on organic diets
showed improvements on the most significant measures of health, namely fertility and
longevity.
“We don’t know why the flies on the organic
diet did better. That will require further research.
But this is a start toward understanding potential health benefits,” said student Ria Chhabra,
a student at Clark High School in Plano, Texas,
who led the experiment.
Bauer, an assistant professor in SMU’s department of biological sciences, mentored Chhabra
by helping guide and design her research experiments. The research focus of Bauer’s fruit fly
lab is nutrition and its relationship to longevity,
health and diabetes.
Because of the low costs associated with fly
research and the fly’s short life cycle, researchers
use fruit flies to study human diseases, from dia-
Tiny fruit fly sitting on an apple. photo: thinkstock.com
betes to heart function to Alzheimer’s disease,
the release said.
The findings, “Organically grown food provides health benefits to Drosophila melanogaster,” have been published in the openaccess journal PLOS One. Bauer and Chhabra
co-authored the paper with Santharam Kolli, a
research associate at SMU. The article is available from PLOS One online at http://bit.ly/
RGB8LJ.
correction
Correction to variety identity
A subhead in the front-page April 4 story
“First fusarium-resistant spring wheat in
pipeline” wrongly identifies the variety
as HY1610. The fusarium-resistant CPS
variety is HY1615.
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Co-operator
staff win
writing awards
The paper placed in three categories in the annual
North American Agricultural Journalists awards
Staff
S
everal Manitoba
C o - o p e ra t o r s t a f f a n d
contributors were winners in the North American
Agricultural Journalists’ (NAAJ)
2013 writing contest.
The awards, in seven categories, were presented at
the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C. April 8.
Co-operator editor Laura
Rance placed first in the columns and analysis category.
Rance,
along
with
Co-operator reporters Allan
Dawson and Shannon VanRaes,
were second in spot news and
Co-operator contributors Ron
Friesen and Val Ominski placed
second in the series category.
Rance won with an editorial
that compared the response
to the U.S. beef slime issue
to the Canadian Federation
of Agriculture response to a
rule change in meat animal
slaughter.
“The three ‘Cs’ of good writing — clarity, conciseness
and content — are all strong
in this opinion,” wrote judge
Beth Pratt, a retired religion
editor of the Lubbock (Texas)
Avalanche-Journal.
“This highly skilled writer
sheds light rather than heat
on a high-interest, sometimes
abused, topic — food safety.”
Wr i t e r s f r o m T h o m s o n
Reuters and DTN/The
Progressive Farmer, placed second and third.
The spot news category is
for stories written on tight
deadlines, which is more often
the case for wire services than
weekly newspapers. The story
Dawson, VanRaes and Rance
broke was about the controversial euthanizing of wean-
ling pigs near Austin last
summer.
“A great piece of spot news
journalism, with colour from
the scene combined with solid
reporting and context from the
office,” wrote judge and former
Winnipeg Free Press editor
Margo Goodhand.
“With two hours to deadline,
an anonymous tipster claims
1,300 baby pigs have been shot
and killed at a hog barn. One
reporter drives an hour out of
town to confirm the tip, another
reporter and editor jump on the
phones to plumb industry and
government sources.”
Reporters from DTN/
The Progressive Farmer and
Bloomberg News and Thomson
Reuters (tied) placed first and
third, respectively.
Three other Thomson Reuters
reporters received honourable
mentions.
Judge Mary Kay Quinlan, associate professor of journalism
at the University of NebraskaLincoln, had high praise for
Friesen and Ominski’s “special
projects” entry on the Canadian
Grain Commission’s centennial.
“I knew nothing about this
organization and found myself
drawn in to the historical perspective the articles explored,”
Quinlan wrote. “The reporting
and writing was straightforward,
detailed and engaging. But it
was not cloying and laudatory
the way you might expect a
commemorative project to be.”
Reporters with Investigate West
and EarthFix placed first, while
a reporter from the Lexington
Herald-Leader took third.
Reporters from the Western
Producer, DTN/The Progressive,
Better Farming and the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette received honourable mentions.
Co-operator staff (l-r, Laura, Allan and Shannon) did well in the
North American Agricultural Journalists’ (NAAJ) 2013 writing contest.
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Flood review makes
recommendations but
assigns no blame
Lake Manitoba flooding might have occurred without the use
of the Portage Diversion, according to the authors
of a report on the 2011 flood
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
T
hose looking for a clear
answer on what caused
flooding around Lake
Manitoba in 2011 won’t find it
in the newly released Manitoba
2011 Flood Review.
Completed in conjunction
with a regulation review of Lake
St. Martin and Lake Manitoba,
the report makes 126 recommendations, including the construction of a second permanent outlet structure for Lake
Manitoba.
But the question of artificial
flooding on the lake was not
part of the regulation review
committee’s mandate, said
chairman Harold Westdal.
“We did not study that,
however, it was one of those
top-of-mind issues that came
up at every public meeting,”
he said. “I think for the people around Lake Manitoba
the answer is pretty simple. As
far as they’re concerned there
were measures that were taken
that knowingly led to flooding
on Lake Manitoba and Lake St.
Martin.”
Experts consulted by the
review committee indicated
that it was possible excess
water would have found its
way into Lake Manitoba even if
the Portage Diversion had not
been used, following natural
channels to the lake once the
Assiniboine River overflowed or
breached its dikes.
“There was approximately
53,000 cfs (cubic feet per second) coming down the system,
the Assiniboine River could
safely handle 18,000 cfs downstream of Portage la Prairie the
other 35,000 had to go somewhere, and rather than trying
to push it down the Assiniboine
and having a catastrophic failure, the safe choice was to run it
through the Portage Diversion,”
said Flood Task Force chairman, David Farlinger.
During normal conditions,
the diversion removes a maximum of 25,000 cubic feet of
water per second.
Harold Westdal, chairman of
the Lake Manitoba and Lake
St. Martin Regulation Review
Committee, speaks to media
following the release of the 2011
Flood Review. Photos: Shannon VanRaes
During the flood of 2011, the
diversion’s capacity was temporarily increased to 33,000 cubic
feet of water per second, resulting in the emergency fortification of the diversion. Unlike
years past, the diversion also
ran for 100 days, rather than the
roughly two weeks it usually
operates.
Since 2011, $6 million of
repair work has been done at
the site.
“If that water had not been
diverted through the Portage
Diversion, there would have
been, certainly, a catastrophic
failure of the Assiniboine River
dikes, some of that water would
have found its way through
natural channels into Lake
Manitoba, but where the water
would have gone is a bit of a
moot point,” said Westdal.
“For the people who live
around Lake Manitoba this is
not a technical issue, this is a
very emotional issue, they feel
it very strongly, and they feel
they have taken a significant
hit for other people in the
province.”
Steve Ashton, minister of
infrastructure and transportation, said the province did everything it could with the tools
available to minimize damage
across Manitoba.
“I want to stress one thing;
at no time was there any
trade-off of protecting the
City of Winnipeg versus rural
Manitoba,” he said, adding
David Farlinger, chairman of the
Manitoba 2011 Flood Review
Task Force, speaks to media
following the release of the 2011
Flood Review.
that he could not say in technical terms whether the use of
the diversion caused artificial
flooding.
However, he noted overland flooding in 1892 caused
significant flooding on Lake
Manitoba without diversion
structures.
The authors of the Regulation
review of Lake Manitoba and
Lake St. Martin describe the
debate around flooding as,
“partially technical (hydrologic
analysis), partially semantics
and partially perspective.”
A $260-million class-action
lawsuit has been launched
against the province in relation to the flooding of Lake
Manitoba.
One thing all parties agreed
on was that the flooding experienced in 2011 was unprecedented and unlikely to be
repeated. Damage along some
areas of Lake Manitoba was
also linked to high winds that
coincided with high water
levels.
The report recommended
lowering water levels on Lake
Manitoba for the next five
years to allow for the restoration of natural vegetation,
as well as better forecasting
technology, better communication, new water control
structures, updated zoning
regulations and new forecasting models.
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OPINION/EDITORIAL
The need for
speed
W
hen the Harper government
gutted Canada’s environmental
review legislation as part of the
2012 omnibus budget, the public was told
it was because the process was inefficient,
slow and standing in the way of economic
development.
But as researchers at the University of
Toronto noted, federal officials “provided
no evidence apart from the testimony of a
Laura Rance
handful of representatives of the resource
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extraction and energy sectors.”
So they took a look at the time it took to
process environmental reviews undertaken between 2001 to
2011.
“They found no evidence that regulatory review in Canada
was inefficient, even when regulators had an ongoing load of
over 600 projects for review at any given time,” according to a
release from NRC Research Press.
On the contrary, researchers Dak de Kerckhove, Ken Minns
and Brian Shuter with the university’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology found that most environmental
regulatory reviews were already being completed within the
arbitrary new time frames laid out in the 2012 legislation
restricting the scope of reviews.
“Arbitrary changes would therefore not expedite the review
of the majority of projects, and may instead rubber-stamp
those few projects that actually merit more in-depth reviews
because of their potential to cause greater environmental
damages,” said lead researcher de Kerckhove.
“Governments should recognize that environmental oversight is a necessary and valuable component of the approval
process for development projects, and that alternate options
exist for managing the submission load aside from weakening
environmental protection,” says de Kerckhove.
There are striking similarities between this scenario and the
proposition currently before the Canadian grain and oilseeds
industry to reduce or eliminate merit assessments before
new crop varieties can be introduced into the Canadian marketplace. Only instead of the environment, this is about compromising quality and farmers’ bottom line.
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has instructed the variety
recommending committees to undertake their own reviews
to remove what he calls “barriers that unnecessarily encumber innovation in the crop sector.”
The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association has
already outlined its wish list, which we suspect will become
Ritz’s road map for change.
Currently, varieties developed for Canadian producers
must meet merit criteria in three areas, quality suited to a
specific wheat class, disease and agronomic traits. These
characteristics are evaluated by an industry committee after
three years of co-op trials. Those committees vote as to
whether the variety should be recommended for registration
by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
The wheat growers want to adopt the Australian model
for wheat varieties, which includes a body to determine the
parameters of Canada’s wheat classes and a technical committee to decide where new varieties would fit. Merit testing
for quality, disease resistance or agronomic traits would not
be required but could be voluntarily conducted following its
introduction.
“While Western Canada has an excellent reputation for
producing high-quality wheat, we have fallen behind other
countries in terms of our access to higher-yielding varieties,”
says WCWGA president Levi Wood in a letter to Ritz.
“The wheat growers believe this new model will give farmers greater and faster access to an array of varieties that better
meet the diverse growing conditions and market opportunities that face farmers across the Prairies.
Before this goes too much further, we’d like to see the scientific evidence backing up these claims. Looking across the
border, and indeed across the globe, we note that most of
the new varieties are coming out of publicly funded breeding programs, or through public-private partnerships, which
suggest return on investment is the issue, not the registration
system.
Nor would the evidence suggest that American spring
wheat varieties necessarily yield better. Manitoba’s 10-year
average wheat yield (2003-12) is 45 bushels an acre compared
to 40 in North Dakota, according to a presentation to the
Manitoba Agronomists Conference last December.
“New” and “more” is not always “better.” Farmers need to
remember that one’s perspective on disease resistance differs
based on whether you are a grower or a seed developer who
also happens to be in the business of selling fungicides.
We would suggest that Canada’s competitive disadvantage
lies not in the haste with which we introduce new varieties,
but rather with our relatively shorter growing season, cool
climate, and distance to market. It is these disadvantages that
producing quality — and more importantly — consistent
quality can overcome.
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Farmers leery of offending grain buyers
The CGC doesn’t want
to be Big Brother
The following is an exchange between farm
marketing consultant Brenda Tjaden-Lepp
of FarmLink Marketing Solutions and Elwin
Hermanson, chief commissioner of the Canadian
Grain Commission at the recent Canada Grains
Council meeting in Winnipeg over how farmer
and grain buyers determine fair value.
Tjaden-Lepp: “It boils down to this party wants
to sell high and this party wants to buy low.
There’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s a
hesitancy to talk about that on the driveway.
You’re not getting a lot of people asking for
recheck samples because they know if they
submit it, they’re never going to get another
trucking premium or grade upgrade from that
guy. That’s a regularly reported issue from the
growers we’re working with.
“We’re running into a lot of challenges in just
understanding what the contracts mean —
what they look like and getting performance.
And there’s nobody to go to for dispute resolution. So on your list on 10 things under the
grain act, there’s nothing about markets there,
nothing about contracts, nothing about price
transparency. Is that simply a reflection of
today’s government’s attitude about this industry — that markets are working fine and everybody does great business together?… It seems
to me the grain commission is in a perfect
position to apply some muscle or oversight.
Is there any acknowledgment of that coming
out of Ottawa when you have your discussions
about how to reorganize for the future?”
Hermanson: “The way the act is constructed
and will be constructed, we are focused on the
grain quality assurance side, not the commer-
OUR HISTORY:
cial contacts. And I guess if you want your government involved in the commercial contract
side for grain, you could do that, but then you
start to wonder if they should be involved in
all sorts of contracts for all kinds of things. Not
only the current government but previous governments have not thought that’s the direction
they want to go — Big Brother...
So at the current time, when commercial
contracts are in dispute the Canadian Grain
Commission does not get involved because it
is not a breach of the Canada Grain Act. Where
there is a breach of the Canada Grain Act we
will involve ourselves and will move heaven
and earth to resolve an issue.
On the point about producers being reluctant to use the ‘subject to grade and dockage’
provision in the act we hear that quite a bit.
And that’s the producer’s call. But it’s a competitive world and if the industry decides because
a producer wants to use that instrument to
make sure they get a fair price... I think there
is a commercial risk for those entities that is
equal to or greater than the risk of the producer
using that particular instrument.
When I think back to when I was farming, it
was not a bad thing to say to a grain buyer —
and oftentime the grain buyer would raise it —
‘you know this durum has some colour in it and
I just don’t know how to grade this, why don’t we
send a sample off to the grain commission?’
That happened a few times in our operation. It wasn’t a dispute. It was a way to assess
proper value on that grain. The more we can
have that frame of mind — and maybe with
your customers, you can encourage that and
perhaps we can encourage that approach to
the issue (and) I think we’ll all be better off.
It shouldn’t be a negative — ‘if you’re not
going to trust me I’m not going to buy your
grain anymore type of a response.’ That’s
unfortunate if that happens.”
April 14, 1966
S
outhern Manitoba farmers in April 1966 had other
things on their mind than purchasing this all-weather
tractor cab. The largest flood since 1950 (imagine a
whole 16 years between floods!) was covering the Red River
Valley. The Red had crested at 789.25 feet at Emerson on Apr.
11 and large areas of the Red River Valley were under water.
One photo showed some of the 12 children of the Robert
family from Aubigny, who were said to pose a special problem
for relief workers in trying to find temporary accommodation
for the whole group. “The problem was solved when officials
decided to vacate the schoolhouse at Carey, three miles to the
east, where the family settled until such time as the threat is
over,” we reported.
The Red River Floodway was still under construction, but
dikes in Winnipeg were said to be holding.
Meanwhile, outside the valley, spring field work was said to
be underway.
An outbreak of salmonellosis in cattle was reported in the
Interlake, Westlake and Boissevain areas, with some 50 head
in 20 herds. Bone meal in feed was a suspected cause.
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COMMENT/FEEDBACK
COOL: Some are for it, some are not
Consumers have a right to know where their meat was born, raised and slaughtered
By Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer
M
Letters
ore than a decade after
mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) was
first included in the Farm Bill, the
debate continues.
We’ve examined a legal opinion
by the legal firm Stewart and Stewart (S&S) — paid for by the National
Farmers Union, the United States
Cattleman’s Association, the Food
and Water Watch, and Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch — that
analyzed the ruling of the World
Trade Organization ( WTO) Appellate Body in the case that Canada
and Mexico brought against the
U.S. COOL law.
S&S said that the U.S. could come
into compliance with the appellate body ruling through rewriting
portions of the COOL regulations.
Specifically, they opined that the
information collected by the producers and packers concerning
where an animal was born, raised,
and slaughtered needed to be conveyed to the consumer in order to
fulfil a legitimate regulatory objective.
We’ve also examined the proposed United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) rule that eliminated the mixed origin label for
muscle cuts — primarily used for
beef and pork — and required that
all retail labels specify the country for each step in the production
process. The changes in the proposed rule appear to us to be consistent with the legal analysis of
S&S.
L a s t Nov e m b e r, w e l l b e f o r e
the USDA issued the proposed
r ule, a Kansas State University
study by Glynn Tonsor and others—“Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling MCOOL: Consumer
Demand Impact” — found that 1)
demand for covered meat products
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issues that have been covered in the
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(subject: To the editor)
One super farm
group needed?
Danny Penner has been advocating
for one “super” farm group to speak
with one voice. That idea has been
around for as long as there have
been farmers.
It’s easy to feel disassociated with
the groups that are left, such as the
commodity groups and the astroturf wheat-barley growers, Grain
Growers of Canada and the Canada
has not been impacted by MCOOL
implementation; 2) typical U.S. residents are unaware of MCOOL and
do not look for meat origin information; 3) consumers regularly
indicate they prefer meat products
carrying origin information but
reveal similar valuations of alternative origin labels, and 4) their
conclusions hold across the species and products evaluated (www.
agmanager.info).
As a result of their study that was
based on scan and interview data
from the few years immediately following COOL’s implementation in
2009, they concluded that “given
the costs of compliance introduced by MCOOL and no evidence
of increased demand for covered
products, their results suggest an
aggregate economic loss for the
U.S. meat and livestock supply
chain spanning from producers to
consumers.”
Some of those opposed to COOL
have characterized the proposed
USDA rule to bring the U.S. into
compliance with the Appellate
Body ruling as doubling down on a
faulty law, thus leaving the U.S. still
in violation of its WTO trade obligations.
That sentiment is consistent with
a statement by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) that
says, “In the CCA’s view, the USDA’s
proposed rule, if adopted, will in
fact increase the discrimination
against imported cattle by adding
labelling requirements and eliminating some of the existing mitigating flexibility, thereby significantly
increasing the costs of compliance. The net result is a rule that
not only does not comply with the
WTO Appellate Body’s findings but
will also violate WTO provisions not
previously ruled upon.”
In a similar vein, J. Patrick Boyle,
president, American Meat Insti-
Grains Council, all of whom have
a long record of being lapdogs of
the industry and the present Conservative government. They cannot
speak against Ottawa and industry
for fear of losing funding or their
place in the prime minister’s sunshine.
Penner states, “While it is widely
agreed that changes in an open
market will continue to benefit
producers” it seems ironic he also
contends a supergroup is needed
in an open market. He can’t have it
both ways.
He also states, “If Canadian farmers want to maintain control of the
agriculture industry, they need to
work to form a unified voice.”
What he has missed is that Canadian farmers presently do not
control the agriculture industry.
Groups like his have ensured that
the industry is firmly in control of
agriculture in Canada, not farmers.
Many of the present groups are
ineffective as farmer voices as
they have been infiltrated by the
industry. In some cases, industry
representatives even sit on the
executives of these groups.
Groups such as the National
Farmers Union, who actually
believe in farmer control, and do
not have any corporate sponsor-
When we go into the hardware store to purchase a
hammer, we can look at the package and determine where
the hammer was made.
tute said, “Only the government
could take a costly, cumbersome
rule like mandatory country-oforigin labelling (COOL) and make
it worse, even as it claims to ‘fix
it.’ That’s exactly what they are
doing with a new proposed rule
that purportedly aims to bring
the law into compliance with U.S.
obligations under the World Trade
Organization… The bottom line:
mandatory country-of-origin labelling is conceptually flawed, in our
view and in the eyes of our trading
partners.”
In introducing the proposed rule,
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
said, “USDA expects that these
changes will improve the overall
operation of the program and also
bring the current mandatory COOL
requirements into compliance with
U.S. international trade obligations.”
National Farmers Union (NFU)
p re s i d e n t Ro g e r Jo h n s o n s a i d ,
“The proposed rule changes
released by OMB are an excellent
response to decisions by the World
Trade Organization that called for
changes to our COOL implementation. By requiring further clarity in
labels and stronger record-keeping,
the set of rules… are a win-win for
farmers, ranchers and consumers.” In discussing COOL the NFU
website says the “NFU has always
fought for farmers’ right to differentiate their product in the marketplace, and consumers’ right to
make educated decisions about the
origin of their food.”
The largest national farm organization, the American Farm Bureau
Federation, has not posted a press
release on its website on the proposed COOL rule. Over time and
in contrast to the national Farm
Bureau, some of the state Farm
Bureaus have been less reticent in
making known their positions on
COOL.
One of the fundamental principles of economics is symmetry of
information between the buyers of
a product and the sellers. When we
go into the hardware store to purchase a hammer, we can look at the
package and determine where the
hammer was made. In the produce
section of the grocery store, it is
easy to determine where our purchase was grown.
In a time when consumers are
paying more attention to the food
that they eat, it makes sense to us
that they should be able to go over
to the meats case and read where
the meat was born, raised and
slaughtered. We understand that
providing information is not costless, but then it seldom is.
ship membership are seen as “old
fade.”
It was people like Penner who
naively believed industry propaganda and helped to undermine
our independent institutions.
Industry and farmers will never
have the same vision or voice.
Farmers certainly need an independent voice to balance industry
power, but we will not find that in
the current crippled commodity
and astroturf groups Penner seems
to favour.
last May for a week of press conferences, declaring that Canada has a
“food security” problem. An overeating problem maybe?
We can be proud of Canadian
progress in the perfection of zerotillage equipment and technology
“... which has done so much to
preserve Prairie soil.” Some Former Soviet Union countries can
use this technology because their
agronomic conditions and farming
methods have similarities with our
own. But once you get into parts
of the world where most of the
population is found, most of the
food is produced, and much of the
water scarcity and drought problem occur, you find that there is no
place for 400-horsepower tractors
and equipment designed for farming huge dryland fields.
As was noted, there is a market
for such equipment in parts of the
Former Soviet Union so it can be
said without exaggeration that this
Canadian technology is presently
helping other parts of the world.
Parts of Africa may have some
potential in the not distant future.
These markets develop largely on
their own through market forces.
Eric Sagan
Melville, Sask.
Canadian role in
fighting deserts
Regarding the April 4 editorial by
John Morriss “Fighting more deserts,” it was probably a bad idea
for the Harper government to drop
its modest annual contribution to
the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification, regardless
of how little the committee seems
to achieve. Similarly, it was almost
certainly a bad idea for the UN to
send its representative to Canada
Daryll E. Ray holds the Blasingame Chair of
Excellence in Agricultural Policy, Institute of
Agriculture, University of Tennessee, and is
the director of UT’s Agricultural Policy Analysis
Center (APAC). Harwood D. Schaffer is a
research assistant professor at APAC.
http://www.agpolicy.org.
Bill Anderson
Forrest, Man.
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WHEAT QUalITY Continued from page 1
The concerns over Canada Western Red Spring
wheat lacking dough strength have come to
the forefront just as pressure is increasing from
some quarters of the industry to further deregulate the quality control system.
“If we address it properly... I don’t think that
this is insurmountable in any way to the point
that the Canadian wheat brand will lose its position,” Geddes said, noting that when customers
report an issue, it’s often a matter of assisting
them with adjustments in the baking processes
to get the performance they need.
At the same time, he noted Canadian exporters aren’t accustomed to addressing this side of
the wheat-selling business.
Some industry officials say CWRS dough
strength has weakened in recent years because
some of the most widely grown varieties such as
Unity, Lillian and Harvest, have weaker gluten
strength. All three have strong agronomic benefits such as midge resistance or higher yields
making them popular with farmers and now
dominate the CWRS class.
One hypothesis is wetter-than-normal growing conditions the past two growing seasons
reduced gluten strength even more. Another is
that larger volumes of wheat from specific locations are loaded directly on ships rather than
blended at export terminals. As well, protein
strength in wheat typically becomes stronger in
storage and the wheat in question hadn’t been
stored for as long as is typical.
“It could be a variety problem, it could be
a collection issue — that we’re not collecting
the way we used to,” said Elwin Hermanson,
chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain
Commission. “There are all kinds of things it
could be but we need together as an industry to
find the right solution — if there is a problem.”
“I don’t think there’s an irreparable problem, but I think we’re hearing some concerns
expressed that we should take seriously,” chief
commissioner Elwin Hermanson told reporters
at the same meeting.
Bakers want flour that bakes the same every
batch. Inconsistency increases cost. Part of the
Canadian wheat brand has been consistency.
Dough strength issues come and go, but there
haven’t been any lately at Canada Bread, president Barry McLean told reporters.
Some unexplained variability is showing up
this crop year’s CWRS wheat, Canadian National
Millers Association president Gordon Harrison
said in an interview on the meeting’s sidelines.
He said the inconsistency is showing up in water
absorption, which affects dough strength.
There are ways to adjust the milling and baking processes to compensate when problems
arise, but it’s better if wheat meets the customer’s needs in the first place, Geddes said.
Canada’s reputation for having the best wheat
in the world is the result of its variety development and registration system, overseen by the
CGC, he said. Farmers and grain companies contribute by delivering varieties to the right class.
CGC chief defends wheat registration,
quality control process
Elwin Hermanson says the commission is open to
changes, but he rejects suggestions that it isn’t working
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
Canadian wheat is branded as the world’s best. It’s
up to Canada’s grain industry if it wants to continue
the brand, says Earl Geddes, executive director of the
Canadian International Grains Institute. If it does the
industry has to deliver what it’s promising. photo: allan dawson
“If you want to have that brand image that
wheat has... as the best in the world, then you
have to work at it and you have to commit to it,”
Geddes said.
When the Canadian Wheat Board had a
monopoly on wheat exports it played a key role
in promoting and maintaining the Canadian
wheat brand.
If the grain industry wants to keep the brand
it must co-operate, said Geddes. Each provincial wheat association has to be on the same
page.
“The industry needs to decide which markets
it wants to be in and which ones make the most
sense,” he said.
Some say Canada should focus on mediumquality wheat. Those markets are as far away
as those who buy higher-quality milling wheat,
Geddes said. When prices are comparable most
customers will buy CWRS wheat over DNS.
“It’s first off the shelf,” he said.
Canada can capture other wheat markets
because of its wheat classes. Each class has a
specific end use, Hermanson said. In the new
open market, other classes will now get more
attention, he added.
“If you have a low-protein wheat that does
the job, it’s high quality, just lower protein,”
Hermanson said.
Quality is supplying the right wheat to meet a
customer’s needs whether it’s for bread, livestock
feed or ethanol, he noted.
The wheat registration system
combined with Canadian Grain
Commission (CGC) oversight is the
foundation for Canada’s wheat quality
assurance system, says chief commissioner Elwin Hermanson.
“We think that our system is a cornerstone to ensure consistent quality,”
he told the Canada Grains Council’s
annual meeting in Winnipeg April
2. “It’s important to our customers
that the wheat that comes out of the
Canadian spout in their country is consistent year after year. In other words,
it’s always going to perform the same.
Whether they blend it with other products they want Canadian wheat to be a
reliable product.”
That helps farmers by maintaining markets and avoiding trial and
error when assessing new varieties,
Hermanson added later in an interview.
“We’re not stuck on the status quo,”
he said. “They need to be reasoned
changes with broad industry support.
That’s the way we’ve made changes in
the past and it works for us.
“We’re concerned if someone just
wants to throw it all out and think that
a good grain quality assurance system
is not necessary. We think it is very
important.”
Some say quality control blocks
innovation. In February, Agriculture
Minister Gerry Ritz asked the chairs
of the committees that recommend
whether new varieties should be
registered or not to consider ways to
streamline the process to give farmers
faster access to improved varieties.
The Western Canadian Wheat
Growers Association (WCWGA) proposes seed developers alone decide
which new varieties to register and
commercialize, dropping the current
requirement that new wheats meet
certain agronomic, disease tolerance
and end-use standards.
New wheats would still be tested for
quality and placed in the appropriate
class, while agronomy and disease
tolerance would be tested on a voluntary basis.
When first appointed to the CGC,
Hermanson said some suggested
Canada should follow the United
States and sell wheat based only on
protein content and falling number.
“Well, it’s not true,” he said. “They
have grades and grading factors very
similar to ours and they have some we
don’t have.”
The U.S. has a wheat quality control
system, he said. The United States
Department of Agriculture accesses
8,000 samples from wheat breeders
a year for quality at one of its laboratories, he said. Only one in 1,000 goes
on to be grown commercially because
they fail to perform well enough,
Hermanson said.
“So if somebody says the Americans
don’t do anything to maintain a grain
quality assurance system and we’re
playing in a game that no one else is
competing with us, that’s not the truth,”
he said. “Other countries that export
are spending a great deal of effort and
resources to maintain a grain quality
system.”
Australia has a wheat class system
similar to Canada’s. New wheats are
placed in the appropriate class based
on its end-use quality.
“Exactly the same system we have
here in Canada,” Hermanson said.
The Canadian National Millers
Association (CNMA) also defends the
current system.
“CNMA holds the current variety
evaluation and registration system
in high regard, “ its president Gordon
Harrison wrote in an op-ed last year.
It’s largely because the process,
which association members participate
in, results in commercializing wheat
and other cereals Canadian millers
want.
“Let us ensure that new varieties
continue to respond to market demand
and let us be clear, that CNMA in no
way wishes to stand in the way of
Canadian producer efforts to respond
to global demand and opportunities,”
Harrison wrote. “Canada’s current variety evaluation and registration system
has ample scope for adaptation, and
we look forward to being part of this
evolution.”
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HOG PROGRAM Continued from page 1
with, so I don’t know where we
will go from here,” said Kynoch.
The need for another stabilization plan came after feed
corn prices skyrocketed last year
before the industry had recovered from a 2009 collapse due to
H1N1 concerns and country-oforigin labelling.
Kostyshyn said producers
have to use AgriStability and
AgriInvest to deal with market
fluctuations.
“Hog producers have benefited from these programs since
they were first introduced under
Growing Forward and they will
continue to benefit from them
under Growing Forward 2,” said
Kostyshyn. “Despite what some
in the industry say, these programs have already provided
hundreds of millions of dollars
in support to the industry.”
Support
Kostyshyn indicated the province has also assisted the
pork industry by supporting
upgraded waste-water treatment facilities in Brandon
and Neepawa to help with the
expansion of the Maple Leaf and
HyLife hog-processing facilities.
“We all know the hog industry
has had a tough time recently
— high feed prices and countryof-origin labelling are having an
impact. That is why, in partnership with the federal government, we have put programs in
place that help the farm industry, including hog producers,” he
said, adding Manitoba will continue raising the issue of COOL
with American counterparts.
Pork producers might also
be driven out of business due
to increasing pressure on production practices, the Canadian
Pork Council said last week.
“Hog farmers are working hard
every day to provide Canadian
consumers with a nutritious, safe
and affordable food supply,” said
Jean-Guy Vincent, chairman of
the Canadian Pork Council. “At
the same time, we have seen
recent announcements by foodservice operations and grocery
stores outlining new purchasing
and sourcing requirements that
will have repercussions at a farm
level.”
Quit stalling
A growing number of major customers in the food-processing
and food-service industry —
most recently Tim Hortons and
Olymel — have announced they
want their pork suppliers to stop
using sow gestation crates. The
Manitoba council estimates that
will cost producers $600 per
sow to move to group-housing
systems.
“These forced changes on
Canadian pork producers may
end up putting farms that have
been passed down from generation to generation in many parts
of rural Canada out of business,”
the Canadian Pork Council says
in a release. “Producers’ livelihoods depend on the viability of
the farm and they have concerns
Industry officials predict more producers will go out of business. file photo
about the lack of discussions on
the economic implications for
farmers of these demands.”
Vincent said the entire value
chain needs to share in the cost
of making such adjustments. “Any
decision to substantially change
production practices, and particularly those that require considerable infrastructure changes and
significant investment, need full
value-chain support.”
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Some farm leaders
want the new plant to
include feed mills
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
A
new program to protect
farmers when licensed
grain companies fail
to pay them could be implemented Aug. 1, says Elwin
Hermanson, chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain
Commission.
“I’m not betting my life we’ll be
ready by Aug. 1 but that’s still our
goal and it’s still possible,” he said
during an interview April 2 during the Canada Grains Council’s
annual meeting in Winnipeg. “If
we don’t, it’s not the end of the
world. Our existing program will
continue. There’s not going to be
a gap.”
The CGC has asked companies
to submit proposals for the new
program.
The CGC has said it wants to
replace its current security program with an insurance scheme,
which it says will protect farmers
better and cost less.
The CGC has said grain
company participation in an
insurance program would be
mandatory.
Late last year CGC commissioner Murdoch MacKay didn’t
rule out the possibility the new
scheme could include grain selling to feed mills. That’s something the Keystone Agricultural
Producers have asked for in the
wake of Puratone going into creditor protection owing a number of
farmers hundreds of thousand of
dollars for grain they delivered.
The current CGC security program only applies to licensed
grain buyers. Feed mills are
exempt. Grain companies must
post security to cover what they
owe farmers. It ties up working
capital and the CGC says it’s hard
to stay on top of what companies
owe.
Sometimes in the past when
companies ran into financial trouble or went under, their security
failed to cover all the money owed
to farmers.
Province sued over
2011 flooding
Residents say province’s bid to protect Winnipeg by diverting water into
Lake Manitoba greatly increased the damage they suffered
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
A
The fourth annual event takes place Sept. 15
group of frustrated Lake
Manitoba residents is
suing the province for
$260 million for what they say
was the artificial flooding of
their homes, cottages and property in 2011.
“That was a man-made flood,
and it was a government decision that caused it,” said Fred
Pisclevich, one of the plaintiffs hoping the lawsuit will be
certified as a class action by
Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s
Bench.
The Twin Lakes Beach resident saw his house destroyed in
the spring of 2011 as lake levels
rose to record heights and said
the offer the province made him
wouldn’t even begin to rebuild
his home of 10 years.
Now the 69-year-old and his
wife are searching for homes in
Winnipeg’s North End, where
listings are in their price range.
“I don’t want to go back
and live in an apartment, I
don’t want to start over again,”
Pisclevich said. “This isn’t how I
envisioned my retirement.”
MANITOBA GOVERNMENT RELEASE
Retirement disappointment
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Register now to be an
Open Farm Day host
M
anitoba’s farm families have until April 30 to register as
hosts for the fourth annual Open Farm Day Sept. 15.
Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Minister Ron Kostyshyn says the event gives a chance to interact
with non-farmers in ways that foster a better understanding of
food origins and agriculture.
“Farming is an important contributor to our province’s success
and we want to show Manitobans how our farmers bring fresh
produce, primary crops and a variety of livestock and other foods
to consumers across the province and around the world,” said
Kostyshyn in a release. “By opening the farm gates to the public,
we can showcase Manitoba agriculture and give farmers an opportunity to directly market their products.”
Last year, 51 farms participated in Open Farm Day, attracting
over 4,600 visitors. Farm sites can include fruit and vegetable producers along with crop and livestock farms. Agri-tourism, horticultural operations and agribusinesses related to farming are also
invited to take part. Many farm families provide demonstrations,
recreational activities, tours and commentaries on farm life.
Host farms will be provided with farm gate signs, posters and
map brochures giving directions to the participating farms. In
addition, the host farms will have an opportunity to be featured in
videos that can be used for additional marketing purposes.
Farmers wishing to participate in Open Farm Day can call
Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives at 204-821-5322.
Pisclevich and his fellow plaintiffs — John Howden, Stephen
and Shaun Moran, and Keith
and Alex McDermid — say the
damage they suffered was the
result of the province’s decision
to increase the flow of water
through the Portage Diversion.
In order to protect Winnipeg and
properties along the Assiniboine
River, the province temporarily allowed 33,000 cubic feet of
water per second — well above
the normal maximum of 25,000
— in the spring of 2011.
“What happened with the
Portage Diversion, was they sent
too much water into the lake,
so much that it overflowed and
flooded,” said Alex McDermid.
Prior to 2011, McDermid
and his two sons operated the
Sunshine Resort campground
near St. Laurent. Now he sees
nothing but flat, barren land
where his home and business
used to be.
Initially reluctant to join the
lawsuit, he said his treatment
by the Manitoba Agricultural
Services Corporation (MASC)
changed his mind.
“We thought we were going to
get more from MASC, the people that were supposed to be
looking after us as far as financing goes, but they didn’t come
up with the figure I thought they
would,” said McDermid.
Now he hopes that flooding this spring doesn’t delay
the building of his new home,
which will be four to eight feet
off the ground.
Diversion
The pending lawsuit will have
no impact on the operation of
the diversion this spring, said
the minister of infrastructure
and transportation.
“I think everyone on our flood
fight team respects those views
and if people wish to undertake
legal action that’s fine,” said
Steve Ashton.
“But I want to stress when it
comes to the Portage Diversion,
the kind of operation we’re looking at this year is very similar
“I don’t want to go
back and live in an
apartment, I don’t
want to start over
again.”
FRED PISCLEVICH
to the operation we’ve had on a
regular basis.”
However, the province has
taken steps to avoid a repeat of
the 2011 flood.
The Fairford water control
structure has remained wide
open since 2010, even when the
Portage Diversion was closed,
and the province is also prepared to reopen the emergency
outflow channel from Lake St.
Martin to Big Buffalo Lake if
need be, said Ashton, adding
lake levels fell by five feet before
it was closed.
At a recent meeting of floodaffected residents, many agreed
it didn’t make sense to spare
them and inundate Winnipeg,
but said they deserved full compensation for their sacrifice.
The lawsuit is also a way to
bring the issue of drainage and
water management back into
the spotlight, said Pisclevich,
who is currently residing in
accommodations provided by
the province.
“The amount of water that
comes into our tributaries is
coming too fast, we need to
slow it down and have wetlands
again,” he said. “We need to
have a way to store it.”
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WHAT’S UP
Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected]
or call 204-944-5762.
April 16: Prairies East Sustainable
Agriculture Initiative annual general
meeting, 5 p.m., Richardson Centre for
Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals,
196 Innovation Dr., Smart Park,
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. For
more info or to register (deadline April
12) visit www.pesai.ca or call 204376-3300.
June 16-19: BIO World Congress on
Industrial Biotechnology, Palais des
congres de Montreal, 1001 place
Jean-Paul-Riopelle. For more info visit
www.bio.org or call 202-962-9200.
April 25: Agriculture in the Classroom
- Manitoba annual general meeting, 5
to 9 p.m., Western Canadian Aviation
Museum, 958 Ferry Rd., Winnipeg. For
more info visit www.aitc.mb.ca or call
1-866-487-4029.
July 9-12, 15-19: Manitoba Crop
Diagnostic School daily workshops,
Ian N. Morrison Research Farm,
Carman. For more info visit www.
cropdiagnostic.ca or call 204-7455663.
May 28-June 1: 4-H Canada annual
general meeting, Fairmont Winnipeg,
2 Lombard Place. For more info call
613-234-4448.
July 23-24: Dairy Farmers of Canada
annual general meeting, Fairmont
Royal York, 100 Front St. W., Toronto.
For more info call 613-236-9997 or
visit www.dairyfarmers.ca.
June 19-21: Canada’s Farm Progress
Show, Evraz Place, Regina. For more
info visit www.myfarmshow.com or
call 306-781-9200.
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SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN
Dairy farmers ask for
delay of GM alfalfa
registration
Slight decrease in lamb
prices at April 3 sale
The goats on offer were mostly Pygmy-crosses
Critics say the Canadian Seed Trade Association’s
plan to protect organic crops won’t work
By Mark Elliot
March 20, 2013
co-operator contributor
P
roducers delivered 200
sheep and goats to the
Winnipeg Livestock Auction April 3 sale.
Buyers showed limited interest in ewes. The price ranged
from $0.42 to $0.54 per pound,
compared to the price range
from last sale of $0.51 to $0.90
per pound. The ewes placed
in the lower class ranged from
$0.20 to $0.35 per pound. These
ewes were in the weight range
from 83 to 93 pounds.
Rams continued a constant
and steady price bidding, as the
demand has remained by the
buyers. Two 190-pound Katahdin-cross rams brought $142.50
($0.75 per pound). Two 193pound rams brought $123.52
($0.64 per pound).
There were two price groupings for heavyweight lambs.
The higher-price lambs had a
weight range from 120 to 130
pounds, which had a price
range from $0.675 to $1 per
pound. A group of four 113pound lambs and two groups
of 140-pound lambs formed
the lower price range by the
buyers. The price ranged from
$0.32 to $0.41 per pound.
Prices for market lambs
w e r e d ow n s l i g h t l y. T h e
weight ranged from 99 to 105
pounds that brought a price
range from $1.02 to $1.17 per
pound. One exception was a
105-pound Dorset-cross lamb
which brought $28.35 ($0.27 per
pound).
Feeder lamb prices were
d ow n s l i g h t l y b u t b u y e r s
showed interest. The weight
ranged from 80 to 92 pounds
with a price ranging from $1.20
to $1.02 per pound.
Nine 73-pound lambs
brought $78.84 ($1.08 per
pound). The 70-pound Suffolkcross lamb brought $81.20
($1.16 per pound). An exception
Ewes
$52 - $487.71
$67.50 - $110
$18.60 - $29.05
$40.50 - $57.83
$99 - $128
$118.45 - $149.80
Lambs (lbs.)
110+
$44.80 - $56
95 - 110
$100.98 - $117
$110.20 - $129.47
80 - 94
$90.78 - $100.80
$98.31 - $124.60
70 / 73
$81.20 / $78.84
$87.13 - $95.94 (70 - 78 lbs.)
65 / 66
$76.38 / $70.62
$60 - $79.50 (60 - 66 lbs.)
55
$63.25
$59.80 - $87.50 (52 - 58 lbs.)
44
$35.64
Under 80
was a more mature 75-pound
Su f f o l k - c ro s s l a m b w h i c h
brought $54.38 ($0.725 per
pound).
Prices showed some slight
decrease in the much lighter
lamb classification following the other lamb classes.
A group of 65-pound lambs
brought $76.38 ($1.175 per
pound). A group of nine
66-pound lambs brought
$70.62 ($1.07 per pound).
An exception was a group of
seven 68-pound more mature
lambs that brought $51.68
($0.76 per pound).
A 55-pound Cheviot-cross
lamb brought $63.25 ($1.15 per
pound).
Four 44-pound Savy-cross
lambs brought $35.64 ($0.81 per
pound).
No new-crop lambs were
delivered for this sale.
Goats
The selection of goats delivered
was much lower than the past
sale. The Pygmy-cross goats
dominated the total number of
goats. A 65-pound Pygmy-cross
doe brought $42.50 ($0.65 per
pound).
n/a
The selection of goat bucks
dominated the various goat
classes. Demand for large
bucks was low. The 120-pound
A n g o ra - c r o s s g o a t ( b u c k )
brought $75 ($0.63 per pound).
The well-developed 160-pound
Alpine-cross buck brought
$142.50 ($0.89 per pound). A
40-pound Pygmy-cross buck
A 25-pound Pygmy-cross buck
Two 40-pound Pygmy-cross
bucks brought $37 ($0.93 per
pound).
Two 65-pound Alpine-cross
wethers brought $90 ($1.39 per
pound). A 90-pound Boer-cross
wether brought $87.50 ($0.97
per pound).
A group of four 33-pound
Pygmy goats brought $32.50
($0.99 per pound).
The Ontario Stockyard Report
indicated that the demand for
all classes of lambs was lower
and causing the prices to be
lower. The bidding prices of the
sheep have stabilized compared
to the constant declining prices
from the past sales. The goats
continue the strong and steady
prices as the past sales.
By Alex Binkley
co-operator contributor / ottawa
R
egistration of genetically modified alfalfa
should be delayed until
next year so a “coexistence”
plan can be completed, says
Dairy Farmers of Canada.
Roundup Ready alfalfa
has become a cause célèbre
for anti-GM groups, which
say its cultivation will make
it impossible for growers of
organic alfalfa to stay in business because their crops will
be contaminated by the GM
variety.
The Canadian Seed Trade
Association is tr ying to
address such concerns, and
until its work is complete, registration should be held back,
Dairy Farmers president Wally
Smith stated in a recent letter
to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
But the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network
contends contamination is
inevitable.
“While the conditions for
contamination in Eastern
Canada differ from those in
Western Canada where alfalfa
seed is produced, contamination in Ontario is assured,
as are the economic costs to
farmers,” said Lucy Sharratt, a
spokeswoman for the organization.
“The only question is how
long it will take and which will
be the first or primary means
of gene escape.”
Roundup Ready alfalfa,
already approved in the U.S.,
has only been approved for
test plots in Canada so far. The
developer of the GM variety,
Monsanto, has not yet decided
on when it might start selling it in Canada, said spokeswoman Trish Jordan.
“The priority and focus for
2013 remains the U.S. market,” she said.
The main market here
would be in Ontario and
Quebec, because those province’s account for 70 per cent
of dairy production and that
sector is the primary buyer of
alfalfa hay.
The Canadian Seed Trade
Association says the plan
being drafted by its experts
“does not advocate for or
against the commercialization of GM alfalfa. Nor does
it favour one production system over another. This plan
strives to anticipate the future.
Its purpose is to identify clear
practices that will allow all
alfalfa hay production systems
to be successful in Eastern
Canada.”
The plan would include
using buffer zones or other
physical barriers to prevent
contamination of non-GM
varieties. Organic alfalfa is
estimated to be 2.4 per cent
of total Canadian alfalfa production, and is mainly sold to
organic milk producers.
Alfalfa hay is pollinated by
insects and not wind-borne
pollen, a report from the seed
trade association notes.
Volunteer alfalfa plants
in successive crops will have
to be dealt with through the
development of appropriate
best management practices,
the report states.
“In Eastern Canada, few
alfalfa plants are found outside of the field, and feral
alfalfa is not expected to be a
major risk for GM gene flow.”
In addition to Roundup
Ready alfalfa, a GM variety
with reduced lignin — which
increases fibre digestibility —
has been developed by Forage
Genetics International.
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Helping Hooves hits the
trail to aid cancer fight
A three-week ride across Manitoba is planned to raise money
for breast cancer patients
Staff
T
here’s nothing quite
like a long trail ride for
a good cause.
The cancer-support group
Helping Hooves is staging
a three-week-long trail ride
across Manitoba in August,
attempting to meet or beat
last year’s effort in which 41
riders raised $35,000.
Participants can ride for a
day, a week, or join the whole
ride, which starts in Kleefeld
August 10, loops around
north of Winnipeg and winds
up at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum in Austin Aug.
31.
Non-riders can get
involved by attending one of
the kick-off or windup events
or contributing as a sponsor.
The organization supports
breast cancer patients with
out-of-pocket expenses such
as gas money for appointments, day care and wig costs
not covered by the province.
Fo r m o re i n f o r m a t i o n ,
contact Pam Glover at pam@
h e l p i n g h o ov e s m a n i t o b a .
com.
Yo u c a n f o l l ow He l p ing Hooves on Facebook,
or check out the website
ww.helpinghoovesmanitoba.
com.
Last year, 41 riders participated in the Helping Hooves trail ride in support of cancer patients raising $35,000.
Another one is planned for August. supplied photo Abused dogs’ owners plead guilty
Of the 64 dogs seized from the property,
34 had to be euthanized
Staff
A
couple from Gull Lake
has pleaded guilty to
animal abuse following
an investigation by the Office
of the Chief Veterinarian and
seizure of 64 dogs from their
property in July 2010.
Judith and Peter Chernecki
pleaded guilty April 4 to seven
counts of animal abuse under
the Animal Care Act for failing to
provide adequate medical attention to wounded animals, failure to provide adequate lighting
and confinement of animals in a
manner that impaired their wellbeing.
The seized dogs were
assessed by the Winnipeg
Humane Society (WHS) and 34
were euthanized due to physical injuries or behavioural
impairment. Seven dogs were
sent to a rescue ranch in the
U.S. and the remaining ones
were given to shelters in Manitoba for adoption.
A Manitoba government
release credits the WHS with
providing “invaluable assistance” with the initial intake and
assessment as well as helping
to co-ordinate rehoming for the
animals.
The charges against the Cherneckis were laid prior to amendments to the province’s animal
care legislation to increase fines
and penalties for cases of animal
neglect. Under the applicable
provisions, the maximum penalties are up to six months imprisonment, a fine of up to $5,000
per count and up to five years
prohibition of animal ownership.
The revised maximum penalties are up to $10,000 per count
and/or six months imprisonment and up to lifetime prohibition of animal ownership for a
first offence.
The couple will be sentenced
Sept. 17.
Impact of
Russian red meat
ban uncertain
The country will no longer accept meat from plants
that process animals fed ractopamine
By Alex Binkley
co-operator contributor / with files from reuters
R
ussia plans to ban meat
imports from most Canadian and Mexican suppliers from April 8 over concerns
about the use of the feed additive
ractopamine, Russia’s veterinary
and phytosanitary service (VPSS)
said.
But it is not yet clear what the
overall impact on the Canadian
meat sector will be.
VPSS, Russia’s veterinary and
phytosanitary service, estimates
about half of the Canadian companies that export meat to Russia, will be blocked from sending
product. But it has yet to release
a list of the plants from which
product will be accepted.
However, John Masswohl, vicepresident of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, has said
every exporter could be affected.
At the same time, Canadian Pork
International thinks 12 member
plants will be able to keep shipping. The Canadian Meat Council, which represents packers and
processors, had no comment.
Meanwhile Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said the Russian decision was disappointing
because Canada had been trying to assuage Russian concerns
about the safety of ractopamine.
Health Canada approved its
use after doing a health impact
study.
“Despite our collaborative
efforts, the Russian government is moving forward with
this measure not rooted in science,” Ritz said. “We continue to
work aggressively with Canadian
industry to restore their access
into the important Russian market.”
Canada has been the largest pork supplier to Russia and
accounted for 25 per cent of its
imports in 2012. The pork sales
were worth $500 million last year
while the sale of Canadian beef
products in 2011 amounted to
about $15 million.
Canada’s two biggest pork
processors, Olymel and Maple
Leaf Foods, have some facilities
that should be eligible.
“We’re working very hard
to meet Russia’s expectations,”
said Olymel spokesman Richard
Vigneault. “It’s a very important
market for us.”
The Canadian Cattlemen’s
Association says the levels of ractopamine being fed to Canadian
cattle are well below the internationally set limit. The additive
enables the animals to digest
more of their feed and this helps
farmers be more efficient and
reduce production costs.
In addition to Russia, South
Korea and Taiwan have banned it
over concerns that residues could
remain in the meat and cause
health problems even though
scientific evidence indicates it is
safe.
In December, Russia required
all imported meat to have never
been treated with ractopamine,
which severely reduced beef
shipments. Now it will only take
product from plants that don’t
handle animals fed the stimulant.
Russia had banned U.S. beef,
pork and turkey because of ractopamine even though the
additive isn’t used in turkey production. The U.S. has said it suspects the ban had more to do
with American criticism of Moscow’s human rights’ record.
Russia imported 1.32 million
tonnes of red meat, excluding
offal, worth $5.12 billion from
countries outside the Commonwealth of Independent States in
2012.
One option for Canada is to
challenge the Russian action at
the World Trade Organization,
which Moscow recently joined.
However, trade complaints take
a long time to resolve at the international trade body.
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10
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Cattle Prices
Winnipeg
April 5, 2013
Wave from grains’ dive lifts
feeder cattle market
Steers & Heifers
—
D1, 2 Cows
—
D3 Cows
—
Bulls
—
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
—
(701-800 lbs.)
—
(601-700 lbs.)
—
(501-600 lbs.)
—
(401-500 lbs.)
—
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
—
(701-800 lbs.)
—
(601-700 lbs.)
—
(501-600 lbs.)
—
(401-500 lbs.)
—
Heifers
Alberta South
113.25
113.25
72.00 - 83.00
62.00 - 75.00
—
$ 115.00 - 123.00
120.00 - 130.00
125.00 - 138.00
135.00 - 151.00
145.00 - 163.00
148.00 - 170.00
$ 104.00 - 113.00
110.00 - 121.00
115.00 - 125.00
120.00 - 132.00
127.00 - 142.00
131.00 - 148.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
Futures (April 5, 2013) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change Feeder Cattle
April 2013
127.25
-1.65
April 2013
June 2013
122.35
-2.02
May 2013
August 2013
123.20
-2.00
August 2013
October 2013
127.47
-2.05
September 2013
December 2013
129.05
-1.65
October 2013
February 2014
130.20
-0.95
November 2013
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
One last big push of cattle is expected before seeding
Terryn Shiells
Ontario
97.02 - 120.65
103.01 - 120.67
57.07 - 76.20
57.07 - 76.20
73.47 - 92.33
$ 118.61 - 133.40
113.55 - 129.78
114.38 - 137.20
116.45 - 150.23
124.02 - 158.79
127.67 - 164.14
$ 107.57 - 116.91
106.19 - 118.88
106.66 - 123.72
108.05 - 130.00
112.14 - 138.60
112.08 - 140.33
$
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
Close
143.90
145.95
152.82
154.40
155.62
156.25
Change
0.50
0.88
0.57
0.25
0.12
-0.05
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
March 30, 2013
39,905
9,988
29,917
NA
599,000
Previous
Year
54,403
14,474
39,929
NA
602,000
Week Ending
March 30, 2013
717
22,398
10,842
369
634
4,463
50
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
686
28,527
13,344
517
724
7,691
364
Hog Prices
Source: Manitoba Agriculture
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)
MB. ($/hog)
MB. (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)
MB. (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)
P.Q. (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)
Futures (April 5, 2013) in U.S.
Hogs
April 2013
May 2013
June 2013
July 2013
August 2013
Current Week
156.00 E
144.00 E
141.25
144.39
Last Week
151.08
139.97
137.31
142.05
Close
81.42
89.15
92.02
91.75
91.40
Last Year (Index 100)
170.03
155.45
148.42
153.95
Change
0.82
-0.40
0.95
0.70
0.68
Other Market Prices
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
$1 Cdn: $ .9813 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.0191 Cdn.
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
Slaughter Cattle
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
April 5, 2013
Winnipeg
(180 head)
40.00 - 50.00
100.00 - 105.00
102.00 - 117.00
106.00 - 117.00
100.00 - 120.00
—
Chickens
Minimum broiler prices as of May 23, 2010
Under 1.2 kg................................... $1.5130
1.2 - 1.65 kg.................................... $1.3230
1.65 - 2.1 kg.................................... $1.3830
2.1 - 2.6 kg...................................... $1.3230
Turkeys
Minimum prices as of April 7, 2013
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $2.035
Undergrade .............................. $1.945
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $2.010
Undergrade .............................. $1.910
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $2.010
Undergrade .............................. $1.910
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................... $1.955
Undergrade............................... $1.870
Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.
Toronto
53.75 - 81.36
95.79 - 112.73
139.24 - 163.06
146.82 - 170.83
164.07 - 198.25
—
CNSC
F
eeder cattle prices at auction yards
a c r o s s M a n i t o b a w e re s t e a d y t o
slightly stronger dur ing the week
ended April 5, underpinned by a crash in
U.S. grain futures.
Robin Hill, manager of Hear tland
Livestock Services at Virden, said prices
for feeder cattle that weighed 800 pounds
or less were about one to two cents per
pound higher, which is “a little increase.”
On March 28, the U.S. Department of
A g r i c u l t u re re l e a s e d i t s f i r s t p l a n t i n g
intentions report for the 2013-14 crop
year, as well as its report on stocks as of
March 1, 2013.
The planting intentions report was neutral for the market, but the stocks report
was extremely bearish, as it showed much
more of a corn supply in the U.S. than
most people thought. The bearish report
caused the corn market to see significant
losses.
The lower grain prices brought
increased demand, which supported cattle values.
Feeder cattle that were on the heavier
side, weighing more than 800 lbs., managed to keep steady, with the majority of
the strength linked to the downswing in
U.S. corn futures as well.
Good demand from multiple areas also
helped keep a firm floor under the market. Hill noted buyers from Eastern and
Western Canada were in the mix, as were
U.S. buyers.
The easter n market is ver y picky on
quality, and will pay good prices for what
it wants, which also helped underpin values, according to Hill.
There wasn’t a lot of local demand for
grass cattle dur ing the week, but that
could start to change if it continues to
look like there will be good grass production this year.
“The local interest may start picking up
as the weeks progress here,” said Hill.
Even though feeder cattle prices were
“The local interest may start
picking up as the weeks
progress here.”
Robin Hill
Manager of Heartland Livestock Services
at Virden
steady to stronger, the market still isn’t
where producers in Manitoba want it to
be. Prices could move higher on a certain
day, but in the grand scheme of things
high feed costs will continue to pressure
the market.
“Very, very quiet”
There were still strong volumes at most
auction yards in the province during the
we e k , t h o u g h t h e y s t a r t e d t o d e c l i n e.
Farmers are starting to become busy with
other projects.
Some auction yards will change their
schedules soon, if they haven’t already.
For example, Heartland Livestock Services
at Brandon reported it will now only hold
one sale per week until fall.
Once spring seeding starts, the markets
will become “very, very quiet,” because
farmers will be too busy to market their
cattle, said Hill.
There will be one last push of cattle
before seeding starts this spring, which
is expected to star t later than nor mal
because of excessive snow and belownormal temperatures.
Spring road bans in the province may
s l ow m a r k e t i n g d ow n , b e c a u s e s o m e
roads will be closed to heavier trucks,
including those carrying cattle.
Slaughter cattle continued to come in
strong numbers during the week. Prices
on the slaughter side of the market were
firm, underpinned by a slight increase
in demand for less expensive beef
choices.
Terryn Shiells writes for Commodity News Service Canada,
a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity
market reporting.
SunGold
Specialty Meats
40.00 - 60.00
news
Eggs
Minimum prices to producers for ungraded
eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the
Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board
effective June 12, 2011.
New
Previous
A Extra Large
$1.8500
$1.8200
A Large
1.8500
1.8200
A Medium
1.6700
1.6400
A Small
1.2500
1.2200
A Pee Wee
0.3675
0.3675
Nest Run 24 +
1.7490
1.7210
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
U.S. hog herd
expands slightly
By Theopolis Waters
reuters
T
he U.S. hog herd in the latest quarter had modest growth from yearago levels, a U.S. government report
showed March 28, as producers increased
production in hope for less-costly
feed.
USDA’s data showed the U.S. hog herd as
of March 1 at 101 per cent of a year ago, or
65.911 million head.
The U.S. breeding herd was 100 per cent
of a year earlier at 5.834 million head.
The March 1 supply of market-ready hogs
was 102 per cent of year earlier at 60.077
million head.
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
Winnipeg
(15 head)
—
130.00 - 130.00
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
39.15 - 249.93
—
65.02 - 172.03
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
15.00 - 30.00
31.79 - 46.17
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11
GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
Last Week
Week Ago
Year Ago
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
255.89
—
234.58
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
290.80
—
310.82
All prices close of business April 4, 2013
Unexpected stocks of U.S.
soybeans pressure canola
The risk of delayed spring seeding adds some support
Dwayne Klassen
CNSC
C
anola values on the ICE Futures
Canada trading platform moved
lower during the week ended April
5, with declines a function of chart-related
speculative liquidation orders as well as
the downward price action experienced
in the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soybean complex.
The continued declines seen in
Malaysian palm oil and European rapeseed futures during the reporting period
also added to the bearish sentiment in
canola. The advancing harvest of a recordsize soybean crop in South America also
didn’t do canola any favours. Added pressure came from ideas that the port congestion which had been preventing soybeans from leaving Brazil has started to
clear up.
Underlying support in canola came
from a major drop-off in farmer selling to
the commercial pipeline on the Canadian
Prairies. The turning off the taps, so to
speak, by farmers came in view of the
uncertainty facing the planting and development of new-crop canola.
Weather has helped to keep a bit of a
floor under values, as there are already
concerns that excess moisture and cold
temperatures could delay seeding operations this spring across Western Canada.
For three-times-daily market
reports from Commodity News
Service Canada, visit “ICE
Futures Canada updates” at
www.manitobacooperator.ca.
Se a s o n a l s p r i n g s e e d i n g c o n c e r n s
should help to keep that firm price floor
under canola, with steady demand from
the commercial sector also likely to generate some strength.
There were ideas circulating in the
oilseed sector that canola processors will
be crushing nothing but vapour based on
the rate of usage. Normally that would
be considered supportive for values, but
some participants feel a lesson can be
learned from the recent U.S. Department
of Agriculture stocks report. U.S. analysts
had predicted that old-crop stocks of soybeans in the U.S. would be extremely tight
and the March 28 USDA report would
even show tighter-than-anticipated supplies. The report instead showed much
higher-than-expected stockpiles of U.S.
soybeans.
So m e p a r t i c i p a n t s a s a re s u l t f e e l
Statistics Canada may also pull the same
stunt and come up with extra supplies of
old-crop canola in its May 3 grain stocks
in all positions report.
The reasoning for a jump in old-crop
canola comes by way of the fact that
Canada’s canola export and domestic
crush pace doesn’t seem to be slowing
by much. If stocks were believed to be
as tight as the industry expects, exports
would be the first to see a decline.
Canada’s canola crush pace continues to
be running at a strong, if not record, pace
with exports also not that far behind.
Adding to the bearish price scenario in
canola were ideas that with speculators
holding a large long position in the May
canola future, a flush of those contracts
has begun. With open interest in the May
canola future sitting around 80,000 contracts, the speculative sector was believed
to be holding roughly 35,000 of those.
Non-existent activity was once again the
feature in the milling wheat, durum and
barley markets on the ICE Futures Canada
platform. No open interest exists in any of
those contracts.
CBOT soybean futures exper ienced
declines during the week, with old-crop
months leading the downward price slide.
Much of the selling in old-crop was attributed to USDA’s larger-than-anticipated
stockpile of soybeans. The downward
price push in CBOT soybeans also came
on news of a bird-flu problem in China’s
poultry sector. The concern was that as
China takes measures to control the situation, demand for animal feed, particularly U.S. soymeal, will drop significantly
and help add to the domestic supply
base.
Increased availability of cheap soybeans
from Brazil and Argentina on the global
market only contributed to the depressed
oilseed price situation.
Uncertainty heading into spring seeding
in the U.S. was also expected to help slow
any further downward movement in values, but that didn’t stop some participants
from speculating that should weather and
yields for soybeans remain favourable,
values for the crop could easily drop into
the US$9- to $10-per-bushel area at harvest time.
That’s certainly not what any farmer in
the U.S., or Canada, wants to hear, but the
fact the industry is already having those
thoughts should be taken as a cautionary
note.
Corn futures on the CBOT also continued their downward price trek, with
nearby months again suffering most of the
downward price push. The larger-thananticipated supply of old-crop corn in
U.S. stockpiles, as USDA reported March
28, maintained its bearish impact on values. The absence of export and domestic
demand for U.S. corn added to the price
weakness.
Firmness in the U.S. dollar further
undermined values. Some support, however, was derived from the fact that values
had reached oversold levels and were in
need of a correction to the upside.
W h e a t f u t u r e s o n t h e C B O T,
Minneapolis and Kansas City exchanges
managed to post small to modest
advances during the week, with concerns
about the drought-plagued U.S. Winter
Wheat Belt behind some of the price
strength. Sentiment that values were oversold and in need of an upward correction
also influenced some of the gain.
Positioning ahead of some new USDA
supply/demand tables on April 10 was
also evident.
The lack of precipitation in the U.S.
Wi n t e r W h e a t Be l t a n d i t s p o t e n t i a l
impact on production will likely continue
to be a feature in the wheat market at least
in the near term.
Dwayne Klassen writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
Wheat
Coarse Grains
US corn Gulf ($US)
—
—
—
US barley (PNW) ($US)
—
—
—
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
252.56
—
259.15
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
234.73
—
218.52
507.10
—
526.85
1,083.76
—
1,248.91
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business April 5, 2013
barley
Last Week
Week Ago
May 2013
243.50
—
July 2013
244.00
—
October 2013
244.00
—
Canola
Last Week
Week Ago
May 2013
611.20
—
July 2013
597.90
—
November 2013
548.70
—
Special Crops
Report for April 8, 2013 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan
Spot Market
Spot Market
Lentils (Cdn. cents per pound)
Other (Cdn. cents per pound unless
otherwise specified)
Large Green 15/64
21.75 - 22.75
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
20.75 - 22.75
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
19.00 - 20.00
Desi Chickpeas
25.25 - 28.00
—
27.00 - 28.75
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
Fababeans, large
—
Feed beans
—
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
—
Feed Pea (Rail)
No. 1 Great Northern
—
Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)
No. 1 Cranberry Beans
—
Yellow No. 1
38.70 - 40.75
No. 1 Light Red Kidney
—
Brown No. 1
34.75 - 36.75
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
—
Oriental No. 1
27.30 - 28.75
Medium Yellow No. 1
15.30 - 16.50
8.50 - 9.25
5.00 - 8.10
Source: Stat Publishing
SUNFLOWERS
No. 1 Black Beans
—
No. 1 Pinto Beans
—
No. 1 Small Red
—
No. 1 Pink
—
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
22.40
23.20
32.00* Call for details
—
Report for April 5, 2013 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed)
Confection
Source: National Sunflower Association
news
Japan to import
4.91 million
tonnes of food
wheat in 2013-14
tokyo / reuters / Japan
plans to buy 4.91 million
tonnes of foreign wheat
for milling use in the
year through March 2014
to supplement locally
grown grain, the Ministry
of Agriculture said
March 28.
Japan, the world’s sixthbiggest wheat importer,
sets an import target
annually to protect local
farmers and keeps a tight
grip on imports to stabilize domestic prices. The
ministry set an import target of 4.78 million tonnes
for 2012-13.
Wheat is the second
most important grain after
rice for Japan’s 128 million
people, but the countr y
grows only about 10 per
cent of its needs.
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The language of meat
is changing in the U.S.
There are new names being applied to more than 350 cuts of beef, pork
By P.J. Huffstutter
CHICAGO / REUTERS
B
BQ fans, brace yourselves:
“Pork butt” will soon be a
thing of the past.
In an effort to boost sales just
ahead of the U.S. grilling season,
and make shopping at the meat
counter a bit easier, the pork and
beef industries are retooling more
than 350 names of meat cuts to
give them more sizzle and consumer appeal.
T h e re v i s e d n o m e n c l a t u re
emerged after two years of consumer research, which found that
the labels on packages of fresh
cuts of pork and beef are confusing to shoppers, said Patrick Fleming, director of retail marketing for
trade group National Pork Board.
A stroll down the meat aisle had
become baffling for shoppers looking for a steak. When they would
see packages of “butler steak” or
“beef shoulder top blade steak,
boneless, flatiron” — they would
walk away with an empty cart, said
Trevor Amen, director of market
intelligence for the Beef Checkoff
Program.
So recently, the National Pork
Board and the Beef Checkoff Program, with the blessing of officials
with USDA, got the nod to update
the Uniform Retail Meat Identification Standards, or URMIS. Though
the URMIS system is voluntary, a
majority of U.S. food retailers use
it.
New names
So pork and beef industry officials
say they hope the new names will
show up in stores nationwide by
this summer’s grilling season.
If it does, the lowly “pork chop”
will be gone. Instead, grocery
retailers could be stocking stacks
of “porterhouse chops,” “rib-eye
chops” and “New York chops.” The
pork butt — which actually comes
from shoulder meat — will be
called a Boston roast.
“One of our biggest challenges
has been the general belief among
consumers that a pork chop is a
pork chop,” said Fleming. “But not
all pork chops are equal, and not all
pork chops are priced equally.”
So much for pork being known as
the other white meat — a label the
pork industry used for years to lure
consumers away from chicken.
In the beef aisle, a boneless
shoulder top blade steak will
become a flatiron steak, a beef
under blade boneless steak will
become a Denver steak. Not all
names in the meat counter will
change — ground beef will still be
ground beef.
The new retail names will also
Under new U.S. meat identification standards, the lowly pork chop is no longer. It is now a porterhouse chop, rib-eye chop or New York chop.
come with new labels for retail
packages, which will tell consumers what part of the animal’s body
the cut comes from, as well as
include suggested cooking instructions.
Challenging times
This marketing move comes at a
challenging time for the nation’s
livestock sector, which has wrestled
with historic high grain prices and
devastating droughts.
Overseas demand for U.S. meat
has cooled as both Russia and
China have concerns about possible traces of the feed additive ractopamine, which is used to make
meat leaner. That has protein clogging the nation’s supply chain and
the supply pork and beef in commercial freezers hit a record high
“One of our biggest
challenges has been the
general belief among
consumers that a pork
chop is a pork chop.”
PATRICK FLEMING
for the month of February, according to Agriculture Department
data.
Also domestic sales have been
slow as the relatively cool spring
has quashed consumer interest in
breaking out the backyard grill.
While fresh beef and pork
cuts have official names that are
approved by USDA, compliance
with using those naming conventions is voluntary for the industry,
said Sam Jones-Ellard, spokesman
for USDA’s Agricultural Marketing
Service.
“There won’t be any changes to
our naming conventions, but we’re
supportive of this,” Jones-Ellard
said. “Anything that simplifies the
names of cuts of meat is a good
thing for consumers.”
At least one section of the meat
department will stay the same:
A spokesman for the National
Chicken Council said that no such
plans are in place to change the
names of chicken cuts. A chicken
breast, the official said, will remain
a breast.
PHOTO: ©THINKSTOCK
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COLUMN
Research project pinpoints cause of bison deaths
A specific type of pneumonia has been identified as the cause of high losses in some herds
Roy Lewis, DVM
Beef 911
T
he preliminary results are
in from a bison research
project examining the
post-mortem findings and
pathogenic agents causing
bison deaths in Alberta herds.
Four veterinarians have examined the causes of 100 bison
deaths in herds across the
province. The research group is
composed of four veterinarians
— Drs. Burrage, Clark, Lewis,
and Tremblay. Although only
the preliminary results are in,
the results have a considerable
impact on the bison industry.
As far as we know this is the
first time many bison deaths
have been followed up with
lab diagnosis to determine
the exact cause of death. By
knowing the cause it can help
us determine preventive measures.
What shocked the researchers was the main cause of
death in this study. In the past,
respiratory agents, parasitism
and injuries were the main
causes. Although the study
is not fully complete and the
population in the study is not
huge, last year at least the
cause of death in most cases
was respiratory, and a specific
type of pneumonia at that.
The researchers found
increasing causes of death,
within some instances high
mortality upwards of 20-30 per
cent from pneumonia — more
specifically Mycoplasma Bovis
pneumonia. This organism is
not a virus and not really a bacteria — it fits between the two
groups. It is not overly responsive to antibiotics. Over time it
causes pyogranulomas — a sort
of drier pus pocket throughout the lungs, which over time
destroys them. In bison, especially mature ones, we primarily have seen weight loss,
Bid to furlough
U.S. meat
inspectors
squashed
some respiratory embarrassment and coughing, eventually
leading to death. The organism’s actions and the lesions
it causes can resemble tuberculosis. It can also get into
the joints, causing lameness
because of the arthritis as well
as causing abortions in pregnant cows or occasionally mastitis.
If we look in the literature,
we find this organism is not
new to the bison industry. Several outbreaks have been documented in large herds in the
U.S. as well as in Saskatchewan, dating back to the mid- to
late 1990s. The disease seemed
to cause high death losses in all
ages of bison and then disappear. Feeder bison, cows, bulls
and in a few cases young calves
still nursing are also susceptible.
Whether your bison are in a
feedlot or on the open range,
once introduced it runs its
course and in most cases the
next year pretty much disappears. Treatments were tried
by most producers and this
i n v o l v e d s e p a ra t i o n f r o m
the herd where possible and
treatment, in most cases with
Draxxin under the supervision
of the veterinarian. There are
almost no products approved
for bison so the use of Draxxin
has to be under the direction
and with a prescription from
your veterinarian.
Currently a study is in the
planning stages for developing a known withdrawal for
Draxxin in bison. Some herds
in the study were also vaccinated for the common respiratory organisms in cattle but in
most cases it only marginally
improved the situation. There
is no current vaccination for
mycoplasma in bison, or cattle
for that matter, as according to
the vaccine manufacturers it is
a very hard organism to produce a vaccine from.
In the study on the under-30month bison, half the deaths
photo: thinkstock.com
were from mycoplasma and in
the over-30-month bison most
died or were put down because
of chronic mycoplasma. It
causes a severe pneumonia
where almost all of the lungs is
destroyed. When we see them
at necropsy, it is no wonder
antibiotics or any form of treatment is ineffective.
Whenever your veterinarian autopsies any dead bison,
make sure he or she checks the
tonsillar area and larynx as this
can be the starting place for
the mycoplasma infection. The
organism has a predilection for
the tonsillar area.
Introduced carriers?
In most of the herds infected
with mycoplasma last year,
the common denominator was introduction of new
bison into the herd, or two
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C
ongress approved $55
million to prevent the
furlough of all U.S. meat
inspectors this summer, a step
that could have driven up meat
prices and created spot shortages in grocery stores and restaurants.
The USDA was planning the
furloughs to deal with a $1.9-billion cut in funding. But in a special step, lawmakers shifted $55
million in funding so to keep its
8,400 inspectors on the job. Livestock futures prices in Chicago
rose following the House vote.
The threat of one-day-a-week furloughs beginning in mid-July has
weighed on cattle and hog prices
for weeks. Meat packers and processors are barred from operating
their 6,300 plants without USDA
inspectors.
In most of the herds infected with mycoplasma last year, the common denominator was introduction of new bison into
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herds purchased and mixed
together or individual animals
bought and introduced to a
breeding herd. All these scenarios are making researchers ponder several questions
about how and why the mycoplasma organism is spread
and if there are carrier animals. The length of the incubation period, whether there
is any predisposing stressor
and what makes a population
so susceptible are questions
the researchers are trying to
find answers to.
Because mycoplasma is
both north and south of the
border, an international team
of investigators from the two
veterinary schools in Canada
as well as several veterinarians in the U.S. have teamed
together with the or iginal
four veterinarians to try and
This organism is
not a virus and not
really a bacteria — it
fits between the two
groups.
decipher the answers to these
and other questions about
mycoplasma, which to my
mind is the single most significant disease affecting the
North American bison industry today.
Roy Lewis is a large-animal veterinarian
practising at the Westlock, Alta. Veterinary
Centre. His main interests are bovine
reproduction and herd health.
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Industry representatives give go-ahead to
keep developing a strategy for Canadian beef
Trio of leaders in beef sector gives first look at skeletal framework, gets input from summit attendees
By Victoria Paterson
af staff / calgary
T
he broad outlines of a plan
to revitalize the Canadian
beef industry received a
welcome reception at a recent
industry summit in Calgary.
After stinging critique of their
sector by the Canadian AgriFood Policy Institute last fall, Kim
McConnell, Dave Andrews and
John Kolk were asked in November to consult with industry players and create a framework for a
comprehensive strategy.
“One of the big things we have
learned is that increasingly, the
world of beef is changing, it’s
changing fast and it’s changing
big time,” McConnell said at the
meeting, which drew representatives appearing from producers,
processors, retailers and other
industry players.
That was also the conclusion
of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, which accused the
Canadian beef sector of being
complacent and lacking a strategy
to succeed. In its report last September, the institute highlighted
a number of troubling issues,
including that in 2001, Canada
received $3.74 for each kilogram
of beef it sold in the U.S., while
Americans sold us their beef,
often from Canadian-raised cattle, at an average of $6.55 a kilogram. Even then, American beef
was displacing Canadian beef in
this country. It also noted American global beef exports had, on
a value basis, increased 280 per
cent since 2005, while Canada’s
only grew by 45 per cent during
that time.
“Canada’s beef industry is falling behind and opportunities are
being eroded by a failure to work
together,” said David McInnes, the
Dave Andrews (l), Kim McConnell (centre) and John Kolk (r) presented their straw-man framework for a cohesive beef
industry strategy. photo: Victoria Paterson
institute’s president and CEO, following the report’s release.
But the Calgary summit suggested that’s changing, with
attendees giving a strong endorsement to a five-point plan put forward by McConnell, Andrews and
Kolk.
“I’m stunned at the consensus,”
said Andrews in a post-summit
interview.
Kolk added the goodwill was
surprising, but it suggests there
has been an attitude shift and the
realization that industry has to
win together.
Throughout the day-long meeting, McConnell outlined the
framework the trio put together,
with industry stakeholders offering input via table discussions
and electronic voting. He said
the perceived value in our beef is
the “Canadian beef advantage,”
namely high-quality, safe, grainfinished beef raised in the Canadian environment by committed
“One of the big things we have learned is that
increasingly the world of beef is changing, it’s
changing fast and it’s changing big time.”
Kim McConnell
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producers and processors as part
of an agile system that provides
transparency, traceability and
respects the desires of customers
and consumers.
To capitalize on that, the trio
said five things are needed:
• An information sharing sys-
tem, accessible to all and with
the full backing of major industry
players;
• A clear set of goals, with a simple way to measure progress in
achieving them;
• Twice-yearly meetings to bring
the entire industry together;
• Industry-wide financial support of the promotional efforts of
Canada Beef Inc., which currently
relies on producer checkoffs and
government funding;
• And a commitment to have
the industry speak with a single
voice.
The trio said a task force needs
to be struck to flesh out the framework, but emphasized the entire
sector needs to get involved and
move the effort forward.
“Now it’s about process and
deadlines,” Kolk said.
McConnell was hopeful that
would happen.
“There was a lot of harmony
here today and this is an industry that is not used to a lot of harmony,” he said.
The trio will continue their
work, which includes further
development on the strategy,
forming various teams, and
arranging the first meeting to
bring the industry together.
They said many people volunteered to work on the various task
force teams which will be set up.
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JBS boosting animal welfare
practices at Brooks plant
Video cameras part of JBS’s efforts to ensure
animal-handling practices meet company standards
staff / calgary
F
ood safety put the former
XL Foods beef plant in
the news, but new owners
JBS USA will also be bolstering
animal welfare oversight at the
Brooks facility.
“Animal welfare is a school
zone — you don’t speed
through school zones,” Lily
Edwards-Callaway, who oversees the company’s animal welfare systems for pork and beef,
told attendees at the recent
Livestock Care Conference in
Calgary.
“It’s a top priority for JBS.”
In addition to having staff
on the plant floor monitoring
workers and watching for signs
of animals in distress — something the company calls biased
audits, video cameras are used
for two other types of audits.
Unbiased audits are conducted
by staff observing through the
cameras while remote video
audits are conducted by a thirdparty company, Arrowsight. The
audits are key to ensure company standards are being met
when it comes to things such as
unloading cattle or using prods,
said Edwards-Callaway. Those
doing the audits also watch for
slips and falls, and other signs
of problems in animals.
Audits are conducted daily
and Edwards-Callaway checks
on the numbers, figuring out
differences between the three
different kinds of audits and
checking in with the plants on
a weekly basis. She showed
examples of plants’ auditing
numbers and how they shifted
over time, thanks to influences
such as new staff members,
Lily Edwards-Callaway speaks about animal welfare processes at JBS
USA’s beef and pork plants. photo: Victoria Paterson
training or other factors. The
numbers do show people forget
occasionally that the cameras
are there, she said, but putting
focus on the audits helps to
address any issues.
The effort is not only a way
to combat criticism of slaughter plants, but makes workers
feel good about their jobs, said
Edwards-Callaway, adding JBS’s
animal-handling standards are
set above those of the American
Meat Institute.
Pork plants typically have
about 27 cameras and there are
about a dozen in beef plants.
Edwards-Callaway can get live
camera access via the Internet,
and a viewing screen in the corporate office shows scenes from
cameras in the various plants.
The monitoring is also key to
improving standards because
employees, and sometimes
individuals, are given feedback
on things flagged by the daily
audits.
It’s become part of their everyday operation, Edwards-Callaway said.
“If something’s not working,
stop and tell someone,” is the
message given to employees,
she said.
In a followup interview,
Edwards-Callaway said cameras will be installed in the
Brooks plants.
“We don’t have a timeline for
it yet, but we’re working with
the vendors to figure out next
steps,” she said.
“We’re on the same program
in terms of what we’re auditing,
how many head we’re auditing.
They just don’t have the cameras yet.”
She said she expects the
move will be well received by
the Brooks employees.
“It’s a real pleasure working
with them. They’re willing to
change, adapt,” she said.
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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
n/a
Apr-04
n/a
Feeder Steers
Apr-03
Apr-02
Apr-02
Apr-02
Apr-03
No. on offer
1,390
*630
641
1,740
1,338*
n/a
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n/a
n/a
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n/a
n/a
n/a
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Over 1,000 lbs.
900-1,000
800-900
n/a
n/a
n/a
105.00-117.00
107.00-116.25
n/a
105.00-114.00
n/a
105.00-123.75
110.00-123.00
112.00-120.00
115.00-127.00
114.00-126.00
n/a
114.00-132.00
n/a
700-800
110.00-130.00
110.00-129.50
120.00-132.25
120.00-131.00
121.00-134.00
n/a
125.00-143.00
n/a
600-700
128.00-153.00
120.00-144.50
125.00-146.00
129.00-144.00
134.00-149.00
n/a
130.00-154.00
n/a
500-600
130.00-151.50
125.00-157.00
130.00-153.00
135.00-155.00
139.00-155.00
n/a
145.00-159.00
n/a
400-500
n/a
140.00-173.00
140.00-168.00
155.00-173.00
145.00-165.00
n/a
140.00-165.00
n/a
300-400
n/a
145.00-163.00
145.00-176.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs.
n/a
85.00-109.00
n/a
95.00-107.00
98.00-108.50
n/a
105.00-111.00
n/a
800-900
95.00-114.50
95.00-116.50
100.00-110.00
100.00-114.00
104.00-112.50
n/a
105.00-115.00
n/a
700-800
101.00-122.50
100.00-116.50
108.00-119.00
112.00-120.00
109.00-118.50
n/a
110.00-122.00
n/a
600-700
99.00-128.00
105.00-129.00
115.00-126.00
115.00-130.00
114.00-127.75
n/a
118.00-136.00
n/a
500-600
100.00-135.50
120.00-135.50
122.00-140.00
127.00-143.00
119.00-134.00
n/a
120.00-135.00
n/a
400-500
n/a
120.00-145.00
135.00-150.00
130.00-147.00
127.00-141.00
n/a
120.00-143.00
n/a
300-400
n/a
130.00-149.00
135.00-158.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
130.00-147.00
n/a
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No. on offer
250
n/a
78
89
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
D1-D2 Cows
60.00-70.00
60.00-74.00
n/a
68.00-78.00
67.00-73.00
n/a
70.00-78.00
n/a
D3-D5 Cows
52.00 and up
n/a
58.00-66.00
60.00-67.00
48.00-67.00
n/a
40.00-69.00
n/a
Age Verified
70.00-79.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
68.00-77.25
n/a
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
75.00-90.50
65.00-84.00
82.00-90.00
78.00-84.50
79.00-86.00
n/a
70.00-91.50
n/a
Butcher Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
100.00-106.00
99.00-104.50
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
99.00-104.00
97.00-102.75
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
65.00-78.00
n/a
70.00-80.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
66.00-72.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
59.00-65.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
* includes slaughter market
(Note all prices in CDN$ per cwt. These prices also generally represent the top one-third of sales reported by the auction yard.)
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immunity systems of the heritage breeds to commercial lines,
he said.
“So the significance of our lines
is we have not selected against
immune response in these lines,
so if an emerging disease occurs
and commercial birds become
susceptible… the birds we’re
preserving may have a better
immune response and may be a
resource that is required to regenerate commercial stocks,” he said.
The birds in the university’s
flocks come from a variety of
sources. The egg layers for the
program were acquired from the
University of Saskatchewan about
20 years ago, and represent breeds
that would have been common
on farms 50 to 100 years ago,
Zuidhof said. Two lines of chickens come from Don Shaver, of
Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms.
There’s also three lines from Agriculture Canada that were received
in about 1989.
“Those are really interesting
lines,” Zuidhof said, noting there’s
a 1957 breed and two broiler lines
from 1977.
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gotten into the egg business in a bid to maintain its
flocks of heritage chickens.
“We’ll raise the chicken for
you and you get eggs every two
weeks,” said Agnes Kulinski, business director of the university’s
Poultry Research Centre.
The centre, which has about
1,500 heritage-breed chickens,
has an “adopt-a-heritage-hen”
program in which people who
contributed $75 receive the eggs
of their hen. The current program,
which runs until November, is
sold out, but Kulinski said a bigger
one may be launched in November.
Among the centre’s breeds are
light Sussex, white leghorn, darkbrown leghorn, barred Plymouth
Rock, and New Hampshire. Kulinski said the chickens cost about
$75,000 a year and as the centre
faces cuts, the future of the flocks
is being considered.
“We haven’t seen any return on
them. That’s why the committee is
questioning the value of keeping
them,” she said.
But genetic conservation is
important because the breeds
have important traits that may
have been lost in commercial
chicken breeds, where the focus
is on efficiency and productivity,
said Martin Zuidhof, an associate
professor of poultry systems at the
university.
“Preserving their genetics is an
important part of preserving the
heritage of chicken lines,” Zuidhof
said.
For example, researchers at
the university are comparing the
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Well-below-average temperatures to continue
Issued: Monday, April 8, 2013 · Covering: April 10 – April 17, 2013
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
T
his is probably one
of the toughest forecasts I have had to write
in a long time. First of all, it’s
tough because the weather is
not looking that great over the
next seven to 10 days; secondly,
because the weather models
have been all over the place
with each model run!
This forecast period starts
off on the cold side and looks
like it will end on the cool side.
Cold arctic high pressure will
be firmly in place across all of
southern and central Manitoba
this week, keeping any precipitation well to our south. We’ll
start off pretty darned cold,
with highs struggling to make it
to the freezing mark. Under the
strong spring sunshine each
day will get a little warmer, with
highs finally making it above 0
C on Thursday or Friday. Overnight lows will continue to be
quite cold.
Over the weekend an area
of low pressure is forecast to
come in from the Pacific over
northern B.C. This low is then
expected to move southeastward and cross central Manitoba on Sunday and Monday.
Central regions will likely see
some light snow with this system while southern regions
should see a mixed bag of light
snow, showers and maybe even
some freezing rain.
Clouds and the odd shower
or flurry look to linger into
n e x t Tu e s d a y a s t h i s l ow
slowly moves off to the East.
There does not appear to be
any strong push of cold air
behind this system, but don’t
expect any big warm-ups
either. Highs are expected to
be around +5 C for much of
next week, with a +10 C reading possible by next weekend.
With all the snow around I
think we might have to wait a
little longer for those springlike temperatures.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, 2 to 16 C;
lows, -8 to 2 C. Probability of
precipitation falling as snow: 50
per cent.
Daniel Bezte is a teacher by profession
with a BA (Hon.) in geography,
specializing in climatology, from the
U of W. He operates a computerized
weather station near Birds Hill Park.
Contact him with your questions and
comments at [email protected].
WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA
Never thought we’d be looking at a snow cover map a week into April, but with deep snow cover still present across much of the Prairies
I figured it was worth one more look. This map was originally created by Environment Canada and then I worked on it to make it easier
to read. In this process some of the finer details are lost, so the map is intended to give you a general idea of how much snow cover
there is. I didn’t include central and western Alberta as the snow cover in those regions is so variable it made it almost impossible to map
properly. There is still a lot of snow cover, with large portions of Manitoba and Saskatchewan still having over 25 cm on the ground.
Opposite pattern to last year
Our snow cover would have to linger through to early May to beat the record
By Daniel Bezte
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
I
wouldn’t go as far as to
say that panic is setting
in over the weather, but
from some of the conversations I am hearing, it’s not
too far off. Personally, I think
it’s a little too early to hit the
panic button.
As I pointed out in an
article a couple of weeks
a g o, t h e a ve ra g e d a t e
f o r t h e s n ow t o b e g o n e
across southern Manitoba is between April 5 and
12, a few days earlier over
southwestern regions and a
few days later over central
regions. What we need to
remember about averages is
just that: they are averages.
In the world of climate and
weather we rarely see average conditions; something
is usually above average or
below average. It only makes
s e n s e : i f we h a ve a ye a r
when the snow melts two
weeks early, there is usually
going to be a year when it
will melt two weeks later.
The interesting thing, at
least for our part of the world,
is how often an extreme
a b ove - o r b e l ow - a ve ra g e
The average date for the snow to be gone
across southern Manitoba is between
April 5 and 12.
event is closely followed by
the opposite event. For example, the coldest average maximum monthly temperature
for April recorded in Winnipeg occurred in 1950 (+2.1 C).
The warmest average maximum monthly temperature
for April recorded in Winnipeg occurred just two years
later, in 1952 (+16.8 C). So it
should not seem that unusual for us to see a recordearly spring followed by a late
spring. Will it be a record-late
spring? You need to read on.
Whither global warming?
When we see cold weather
like this, the talk naturally
turns to climate change and
global warming and the
critics start coming out to
stir the pot, asking, Where
is the global warming now?
Shouldn’t we always be see-
ing war mer spr ings? The
answer is, No, we shouldn’t.
As I already pointed out, we
look at weather or climate
using averages and these
averages are made up of
above-average and belowaverage temperatures. We
always have seen and will
continue to see temperatures that are above and
below the average. When
we discuss global warming
what we are looking at are
the numbers of times temperatures are above average
compared to below average.
We are also looking at how
much above or below the
average we are seeing.
Gl o b a l l y we a re s e e i n g
more temperatures coming
in above average than below
a v e ra g e a n d t h e a m o u n t
these temperatures are
above average is exceeding
the range of below-average
temperatures. Just looking
at my own weather station
data, which is in a rural setting and routinely records
temperatures much colder
than the closest city, Winnipeg, over the last 14 years
I’ve recorded 105 months
above the Winnipeg average
and 63 months below the
Winnipeg average.
So, let’s look at this April
so far. We’ve been well below
average in temperature and
these conditions look to last
for at least a couple more
weeks; check out the forecast
for more information. These
cold temperatures, combined
with a deep snow pack, mean
we will have a late spring melt
this year. Will it be a recordlate melt? I doubt it, unless we
see a record-big snowstorm
move in sometime in the
next couple of weeks. Does
this late melt mean there is
no such thing as global warming? No. If we want to play the
average game again, last year
we saw a record-early snow
melt and start to spring. To
even this out, we need to see
a record-late year. For that to
happen, the snow would have
to stick around until May 1
or so. That doesn’t mean the
snow melts, disappears, and
then we see snow again. That
doesn’t count. We have seen
May snowstorms more often
than we care to admit. To beat
the record, our current snow
cover has to stick around right
through to the start of May.
The other big question
regarding the weather is,
Why? Why are we seeing this
early spring cold snap? In a
nutshell, back in March, the
atmospheric pattern across
North America started to
block up with a very strong
area of high pressure forming over Greenland. This
allowed, or helped to form,
a large trough of low pressure across much of North
America. This is almost the
exact opposite pattern to
what occurred last year, so
it makes sense that instead
of bringing warm, dry conditions we are seeing cold, wet
ones. Last year’s early-spring
blocking pattern waxed and
waned in strength for about
t w o m o n t h s b e f o re f a d ing away. While this year’s
block formed a little earlier than last year, let’s hope
that it doesn’t last quite as
long!
17
CROPS
Ottawa urges Canadian
grain industry to pull together
AAFC’s Greg Meredith says the sector needs to act fast or risk being overtaken by competitors
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
D
anny Penner, the iconoclast
who wants Canada’s farmers
to get their voices together,
has a fan in high places.
“I read your blog. I think it’s great,”
Greg Meredith, an assistant deputy
minister with Agriculture and AgriFood Canada told Penner during a
question period April 2 during the
Canada Grains Council’s annual
meeting in Winnipeg.
Penner, who farms at Halbstadt, has issued several documents
recently advocating western Canadian farmers consolidate their
checkoff-funded commodity groups
into a single, national farmer-run
organization.
Meredith’s message was similar.
The federal government needs a
strong representative voice from the
grains sector giving it direction, he
said.
“And I know that there are some
cynics who believe that bureaucrats
actually love this balkanization so we
can pick and choose what opinions
we hear and amplify the ones that
we like and try to ignore the ones
that we don’t,” Meredith said.
“I don’t think we’re strategic
enough to actually do that. So it
would be much better if we had a
dialogue with the sector that allowed
us to make choices between grains
in terms of investment and within
grains.”
With the change to the Canadian
Wheat Board monopoly last Aug. 1,
who now speaks for wheat?
“Who do we talk to, to understand
where we should be investing dollars or where we should be changing policy or what kind of regulatory
environment needs to be adjusted
to improve the sector’s prospects?”
he said.
Meredith said the industry must
act fast to capitalize on the opportunities created by rising population
and wealth.
Canada’s grain competitors are
moving ahead with higher yields
and more investment in research
and food processing, he said. Meanwhile, in Canada private-sector
investment in both has plateaued,
he said.
Canada needs to attract invest-
ment by having regulations rewarding it.
“I think government private-sector collaboration is going to be quite
critical to Canada succeeding in the
future space,” Meredith said. “The
opportunity is enormous.”
To that end Canada is considering signing UPOV 91 (International
Convention for the Protection of
New Varieties of Plants), he said. The
agreement can be implemented in a
way that farmers are allowed to save
seed, he added.
“The government is looking
actively at these issues and I think
the industry is very, very anxious at
this particular time to encourage us,”
Meredith said later in an interview.
The government is also looking at
setting up a system to collect royalties on grain when it’s sold and then
investing the money into varietal
research, Meredith said.
While the government has also
asked the grain industry to review the
variety registration system to ensure
“that it’s efficient, that it’s transparent and that it rewards breeders with
quick approvals (and) quick registrations for new varieties,” Meredith
said it’s unclear whether the present
system acts as an impediment.
“I’m not sure that it is an impediment and that’s one of the reasons
why we want to talk to those in the
industry about it. I think we need
to balance very carefully the quality
assurance dimensions of the variety
registration system and what that
means to end-use customers and
therefore what it means in terms of
returns to producers.
“In a post-wheat board world
where the wheat board and our own
scientists were the dominant players,
particularly on the wheat, rye and
triticale committee, we’re just asking
the members of the committee, ‘is
this the best?’”
The current registration system
has a lot of flexibility. Changes should
be industry driven, reflecting the
needs of both farmers and end-users,
Meredith said.
Getting farmers and the rest of the
grain sector to co-operate should be
easier now that the polarized debate
over the marketing monopoly is over,
Meredith said.
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Province will consider lifting spring weight restrictions on Manitoba roads if
producers need to move grain or livestock out of flood-affected areas
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
W
hen the flood waters
come, grain stops moving — and that means
farmers better hurry if they want
to empty some bins and recharge
their bank account this spring,
industry officials say.
And unlike past floods, the
Canadian Wheat Board won’t be
overseeing grain movement to
ensure there’s plenty of elevator
space for those needing to make
last-minute deliveries.
In fact, the new CWB has already
moved out most of the grain it has
contracted in the Red River Valley, an
area that provincial flood forecasters
predict will see plenty of road closures during the spring melt.
“For us it is different, we have
less tonnes than in the past so
this is actually happening on a
smaller scale for us than previously,” said Mark Dyck, CWB’s
logistics director.
“But if farmers do still have grain
on contract with us that hasn’t
moved and it’s at risk of flood damage, they should contact their local
farm business representative and
we’ll work with them and the grain
company to try and get it delivered
as soon as possible.”
That’s the advice of other grain
company reps: If you need to move
grain and haven’t made arrangements, get on the phone to your
elevator right away.
Floods are a challenge to everyone in the system, said Gerald Bryson, Richardson International’s
area business manager for southern
Manitoba.
“On the producer side and getting
grain into the elevator, flooding can
affect access to yards, make roads
soft, and routes can be affected by
bridges being out,” said Bryson.
“The outbound rail is definitely at
risk in certain areas, and there are
certain lines that will go out of service with excessive flooding.”
For example, previous floods
have closed rail lines through
Brunkild and Carman, and Canadian Pacific tracks servicing Killarney were shut down in 2011.
But most producers know the
flood drill by now, he said.
“You try to move your grain in
advance,” said Bryson. “Producers deal quite well with flooding,
they’ve either got their storage in
good places or they’ve been able to
move it.”
Richardson will focus on locations predicted to be out of service
for extended periods he said, adding if producers have concerns they
should check with their local elevator.
A spokeswoman for Manitoba
Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives said the province will consider
lifting spring weight restrictions on
roads as the thaw moves closer, so
that producers could begin hauling
grain and animals if needed.
If producers need advice or
assistance in finding temporary
locations for livestock they can contact their municipality or the local
GO office, she added.
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U.S. courts helpless to stop biotech
crops while being reviewed
The provision tucked into a larger bill alters court powers during biotech lawsuits
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A
number of U.S. farm
groups wants to extend
a law that allows farmers
to grow a genetically modified
crop while regulatory approval
of the variety is still being challenged in court.
No one in Congress claims
ownership of Section 735 of a
recent spending bill, but the
22-line provision has blown up
a storm of opposition to what is
being dubbed by critics as the
“Monsanto Protection Act.”
The legislation is lauded by
some farm groups, who have
vowed to try to extend the life
of the statute beyond its Sept.
30 expiration at the end of the
fiscal year.
Food safety advocacy groups
frequently ask for a temporary injunction against sale of
seeds when they challenge U.S.
approval of genetically modified crops. So Section 735 would
benefit biotech seed companies
such as Monsanto Co. and Dow
Chemical Co.
“We’ll certainly try to get that
language put into the Farm
Bill,” Mississippi farmer Danny
Murphy, president of the American Soybean Association, told
Reuters.
He said lawsuits have delayed
farmer access to profitable biotech varieties for years at a time.
“We think it’s important farmers have the certainty once they
plant a crop they would be able
to harvest it.”
Lawmakers aim to pass a new
farm policy law by this fall.
Only one variety, a genetically modified alfalfa developed
by Monsanto, is under court
review at present.
Biotech foe Andrew Kimbrell,
executive director of the Center
for Food Safety, called Section
735 a back room deal that muzzles the power of federal judges
to prevent the cultivation of
inadequately reviewed biotech
crops.
Opponents range from
organic food advocates and
small-farm activists to environmentalists, consumer groups
and the American Civil Liberties
Union.
The language was tucked into
the 240-page government funding bill in the Senate with no
indication of its author. Even
the groups who support the
provision say they do not know
who got it into the sure-to-pass
bill. No one claimed credit during debate.
The bill was passed on March
22 and signed by President
Barack Obama on March 28 —
even after thousands signed
petition opposing the so-called
biotech rider.
Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, is often a
focal point for opposition by
those who oppose genetically
engineered crops or want more
labelling of genetically modified
foods. The company on April 3
announced a 22 per cent rise in
quarterly earnings.
A pro-labelling/anti-Monsanto demonstration is planned
for Monday at the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration offices
in College Park, Maryland.
Se n i o r m e m b e r s o f t h e
Appropriations Committees in
the House and Senate pointed
at each other when asked who
was behind Section 735. Two
senators said the House panel
was responsible because it
backed the idea last year, albeit
in a bill that failed to advance.
A spokesman for Representative Jack Kingston of Georgia,
tabbed as the 2012 sponsor, said
Kingston had no role this year.
Speculation has since centred
on Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, Monsanto’s home state.
His aides did not respond to
queries.
Senate Appropriations
chairwoman Barbara Mikulski
“didn’t put the language in
the bill and doesn’t support it
either,” said spokeswoman
Rachel MacKnight. She said
Section 735 was an unavoidable
carry-over from House-Senate
negotiations last fall.
Mikulski has supported labelling of genetically modified
foods and will fight for “valuable priorities, including food
safety,” said MacKnight.
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Canadian corn is flowing
to U.S. ethanol plants and
feed suppliers in largerthan-usual volumes, with
up to one million tonnes
expected in 2012-13,
as a large Ontario crop
backfills demand after
last year’s severe U.S.
drought.
Canada is normally a
net importer of corn, feeding Eastern Canada’s pigs
and poultry and supplying
Ontario ethanol plants.
But the worst U.S. drought
in more than 50 years has
forced corn buyers to look
north.
“Ontario had not a lot
of rain last year, but it was
timed almost perfectly so
we had the biggest corn
crop in history,” said Steve
Kell, grain merchant at
Parrish & Heimbecker. “It’s
just a natural redistribution. And it’s moving.”
Ontario accounted for
about two-thirds of Canada’s 13.1-million-tonne
corn harvest.
Kell predicted more
than one million tonnes
of Ontario corn will move
south this crop year, and
maybe more if there are
U.S. corn planting delays.
That would be the
second-biggest Canadian
corn export program
on record, after nearly
1.7 million tonnes were
shipped two years earlier
following a poor coarse
grain harvest in Europe.
Canadian exporters say
most of the corn is feed
or destined for ethanol
plants in the northeast
U.S.
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Multi-toxin biotech crops not silver bullets
New study helps explain why one major pest is evolving resistance faster than predicted
Staff
W
hen pests developed resistance to Bt crops such as
corn, potatoes and cotton,
seed companies had an answer: twotoxin varieties.
But new research suggests it may be
the wrong one.
Bioengineered crops with genes
taken from bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis have been widely grown
since 1996. The genes produce Bt toxins, reducing the need for pesticide
use. When pests began developing
resistance, seed companies adopted
a “pyramid” strategy: each plant produces two or more toxins that kill the
same pest.
The idea was simple — if the first
toxin doesn’t kill the pest, the second
one will.
The pyramid strategy has been
adopted extensively, with two-toxin Bt
cotton completely replacing its onetoxin cousin since 2011 in the U.S.
But “in the real world, things are a
bit more complicated,” states a press
release from University of Arizona
outlining the results of a new study
conducted by a team of its entomologists.
“The pyramid strategy has been
touted mostly on the basis of (computer) simulation models,” said Yves
Carrière, the professor of entomology
who led the study.
“We tested the underlying assumptions of the models in lab experiments
with a major pest of corn and cotton.”
The researchers used cotton boll-
worm — also known as corn earworm
— a species of moth that is a major
agricultural pest, and selected it for
resistance against one of the Bt toxins,
Cry1Ac.
As expected, the resistant caterpillars survived after munching on cotton plants producing only that toxin.
The surprise came when Carrière’s
team put them on pyramided Bt cotton containing Cry2Ab in addition to
Cry1Ac.
“On the two-toxin plants, the caterpillars selected for resistance to one
toxin survived significantly better
than caterpillars from a susceptible
strain,” said Carrière.
In total, the researchers carried out
21 such experiments and used eight
different pest species. In 19 of them
they found some degree of crossresistance between Cry1 and Cry2 toxins. Moreover, populations of cotton
bollworm are starting to show up in
fields.
So what’s the flaw in the pyramid
strategy?
The authors concluded even low
levels of cross-resistance can reduce
redundant killing and undermine
the pyramid strategy, and that crossresistance is fairly common in cotton bollworm and some other pests
not highly susceptible to Bt toxins to
begin with.
The Arizona researchers also examined another technique for combating resistance — crop refuges
— and found it may not work as well
as hoped either.
They looked at insects that carry
A major agricultural pest, the moth
Helicoverpa zea and its caterpillar go by
many common names, depending on the
crop they feed on: shown here is a “corn
earworm.” Photo: Jose Roberto Peruca
two forms of the same gene for resistance to Bt — one confers susceptibility and the other resistance. When
resistance to a toxin is recessive, one
resistance allele is not sufficient to
increase survival. In other words, offspring that inherit one allele of each
type will not be resistant, while offspring that inherit two resistance alleles will be resistant.
Refuges are based on this idea.
They consist of regular plants that
don’t produce Bt toxins. This allows
susceptible pests to survive and mate
with resistant ones — and thus continually reduce the resistant population.
But if inheritance of resistance is
dominant instead of recessive, as
seen with cotton bollworm, matings
between a resistant moth and a susceptible moth can produce resistant
The same pest is called cotton bollworm
when plaguing cotton plants. photo: Thierry Brevault/CIRAD
offspring, which hastens resistance.
However, the size of the refuge area
makes a difference.
“Our simulations tell us that with
10 per cent of acreage set aside for
refuges, resistance evolves quite fast,
but if you put 30 or 40 per cent aside,
you can substantially delay it,” said
Carrière.
According to study co-author Bruce
Tabashnik, overly optimistic assumptions have led the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency to greatly reduce
size requirements for refuges.
The new results are a wake-up call,
said Carrière.
“We need more empirical data to
refine our simulation models, optimize our strategies and really know
how much refuge area is required,”
he said. “Meanwhile, let’s not assume
that the pyramid strategy is a silver
bullet.”
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U.S. encourages
South Korea to join
Trans-Pacific
trade talks
CHEW ON THAT!
Seoul is seen as a natural ally in helping
shape the TPP agreement
By Doug Palmer
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Manitoba legislature last week. The annual Agriculture Awareness Day showcased the $30.9-billion contribution farmers and food processors make to the provincial economy. PHOTO: LAURA RANCE
he United States would
welcome South Korea
joining negotiations
on an Asia-Pacific free trade
a g re e m e n t , a s e n i o r U . S .
trade official said on April 3,
as Washington continues to
weigh Japan’s bid to enter the
same set of talks.
“ We d o t h i n k i t’s n a t u ral and logical for Korea to
j o i n t h i s n e g o t i a t i o n . We
think they would have a lot
to offer,” Assistant U.S. Trade
Representative Wendy Cutler
said in a speech at the Wilson
Center, a foreign policy thinktank.
T h e Un i t e d S t a t e s a n d
South Korea are already free
trade partners under a oneyear-old agreement.
Cutler, who was the lead
negotiator on that pact, said
Washington sees Seoul as a
natural ally in helping shape
the Trans-Pacific Partnership
( TPP) agreement, a proposed
regional agreement that Japan
has asked to join.
The TPP negotiations
include the United States,
Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile,
Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam
and Brunei.
B r i n g i n g i n Ja p a n , t h e
world’s third-largest economy,
into the negotiation would
set the stage for a final agreement covering the nearly 40
per cent of world economic
output.
New models predict drastically
greener Arctic in coming decades
A boom in trees, shrubs is expected to lead to net increase in climate warming
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY RELEASE
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ew research predicts that rising temperatures will
lead to a massive “greening,” or increase in plant
cover, in the Arctic. In a paper published on March
31 in Nature Climate Change, scientists reveal new models
projecting that wooded areas in the Arctic could increase
by as much as 50 per cent over the next few decades.
The researchers also show that this dramatic greening
will accelerate climate warming at a rate greater than previously expected.
“Such widespread redistribution of Arctic vegetation
would have impacts that reverberate through the global
ecosystem,” said Richard Pearson, lead author on the paper
and a research scientist at the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.
Plant growth in Arctic ecosystems has increased over the
past few decades, a trend that coincides with increases in
temperatures, which are rising at about twice the global
rate.
The research team — which includes scientists
from the museum, AT&T Labs-Research, Woods Hole
Research Center, Colgate University, Cornell University,
and the University of York — used climate scenarios for
the 2050s to explore how this trend is likely to continue
in the future.
The scientists developed models that statistically predict
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the types of plants that could grow under certain temperatures and precipitation. Although it comes with some
uncertainty, this type of modelling is a robust way to study
the Arctic because the harsh climate limits the range of
plants that can grow, making this system simpler to model
compared to other regions such as the tropics.
The models reveal the potential for massive redistribu-
tion of vegetation across the Arctic under future climate,
with about half of all vegetation switching to a different
class and a massive increase in tree cover. What might
this look like? In Siberia, for instance, trees could grow
hundreds of miles north of the present treeline.
“These impacts would extend far beyond the Arctic
region,” Pearson said. “For example, some species of birds
seasonally migrate from lower latitudes and rely on finding
particular polar habitats, such as open space for ground
nesting.”
In addition, the researchers investigated the multiple climate change feedbacks that greening would produce.
They found that a phenomenon called the albedo effect,
based on the reflectivity of the Earth’s surface, would have
the greatest impact on the Arctic’s climate. When the sun
hits snow, most of the radiation is reflected back to space.
But when it hits an area that’s “dark,” or covered in trees
or shrubs, more sunlight is absorbed in the area and temperature increases. This has a positive feedback to climate
warming: the more vegetation there is, the more warming
will occur.
“By incorporating observed relationships between plants
and albedo, we show that vegetation distribution shifts
will result in an overall positive feedback to climate that is
likely to cause greater warming than has previously been
predicted,” said co-author Scott Goetz, of the Woods Hole
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A sample options strategy for soybeans
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planters idled
by rains
Results under three price scenarios — up, down and sideways
By David Derwin
e recently had the
privilege of co-presenting with the CME
Group at their CBOT Grain
Op t i o n s Wo rk s h o p d u r i n g
the annual Wild Oats Grainworld conference in Winnipeg. Here’s an overview of that
event including what is risk,
what is risk management and
a straightforward strategy you
can use to protect yourself
against falling grain prices.
Risk, like energy, cannot be
destroyed but it can be altered,
redirected or transferred. Risk
management is not about not
losing any money, it’s about
balancing risks and balancing
gains and losses.
Risk management doesn’t just
necessarily manage the risks of
the markets; it manages the risk
of the behaviour of the individuals who make up the markets.
This gets into the realm of psychology, or the new fancy term
“behavioural economics,” also
known as human nature.
What is risk?
What is risk management?
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Widespread rainfall in
the U.S. Midwest and
Plains this week will add
valuable soil moisture
but also stall spring field
work and prevent early
corn seedings, an agricultural meteorologist
said April 8.
“It’s an active storm
system leaving 0.2 to
0.6 inch of rain Monday
and 1.0 to 2.0 inches or
more Tuesday through
Thursday in most of the
Midwest,” said John Dee,
meteorologist for Global
Weather Monitoring.
This week marks the
first official days farmers
can begin planting corn
in many spots across the
upper Midwest, according to crop insurance
policies.
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For us, risk is not standard deviation, volatility or even losing
some money. The definition of
risk that most connects with
clients is the consequence of
not meeting your objectives.
We like to work with clients to
define internal benchmarks and
levels that take into account
their exposure, revenues, costs,
break-even and even their
worst-case scenario.
We are all learning every day
in the markets and we want
clients to learn more about
their money so they can earn
more on their money. A riskmanagement strategy needs to
start with learning and education. Once you are comfortable
and confident with the basics, a
proactive, disciplined, straightforward risk-management strategy can be developed.
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Franklin said: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
We want to plan ahead while
remaining flexible, ready to act
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as markets develop and opportunities present themselves.
• Disciplined: I find the
best methods don’t attempt to
guess where prices are going
but rather consistently apply
predefined risk-management
techniques. The aim is not that
it works perfectly every time,
but rather consistently over
time.
• Straightforward: Simple,
straightforward strategies provide the greatest results since
you are more likely to use them.
There’s no point building a
more complex mousetrap if no
one is going to use it.
Protecting the downside
A protective put option strategy is very straightforward. It’s
just like buying price insurance on future production
Three scenarios
From now until November,
soybeans can move either up,
down or sideways. Let’s look at
each scenario:
• Up: Soybeans reach $15 for
Oct./Nov. Since that is above
$12.40, the put options expire
with no value, but the farmer
can sell grain into the cash market at $15. He’s lost the put cost
of $0.60, but still nets $14.40,
less local basis.
• Down: Soybeans drop to
$10 for Oct./Nov. The options
purchased at $0.60 are now
worth $2.40 — the difference
between the $12.40 put strike
price and the current price of
November soybeans at $10
— for a net gain of $1.80. The
farmer sells into the cash market at $10, or a net price of
$11.80 minus the basis.
• Sideways: Soybeans are at
$12.65 for Oct./Nov. The $0.60
options expire with no value,
but the farmer sells in the cash
market at $12.65 for a net of
$12.05 minus the basis.
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when prices are high.
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a producer north of Winnipeg
who wants to hedge his newcrop soybeans for October/
November delivery. He is very
profitable above $12/bushel so
with November soybeans currently at $12.65, we decided
to buy November $12.40 put
options. In other words, he
can sell a futures contract
at $12.40 even if the market
has dropped below that level.
The options cost $0.60, which
means he’s established a floor
pr ice of $11.80. The main
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This protective put strategy
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$11.80.)
• Upside potential above
$11.80/bu. (Put strike price
of $12.40 minus premium of
$0.60 = $11.80.)
Overall, for the cost of the
insurance premium to protect
the downside, you can also
participate in upside of higher
prices.
The bottom line, like everything in the markets, is that
you have to balance risk and
reward. Some strategies cost
very little so offer less protection and with little upside.
Others are more expensive but
give full protection and more
upside.
It’s important to remember
that this is just one of many
strategies. You shouldn’t hedge
everything with one strategy
at one time. Instead give yourself some flexibility to diversify
your hedges. While you won’t
be right every time with your
market direction or strategy,
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Manitoba farmer continues push
for merger of commodity groups
Danny Penner suggests there be three commodity groups and one “New Farm Organization” at the top
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
A
Halbstadt farmer says
his call to create three
big Prairie-wide commodity groups is getting
positive reviews — but no
organizations have officially
embraced the idea so far.
Last month, Danny Penner issued a discussion document calling for the merger of
existing commodity groups to
make them more efficient and
effective.
“In person, I have not yet
had one board member... that
has said, ‘This is crazy and we
can’t get it done,’” said Penner. “They’ve all said it makes
sense.”
However, no group is officially endorsing his plan,
and that’s not surprising, he
said.
“I understand there is turf
protection and things like
that,” said Penner, a former
president of the Manitoba
Pulse Growers. “It’s very comfortable to do what you’ve
always been doing.”
In h i s d i s c u s sion paper,
Penner proposes checkofffunded commodity groups
also funnel money into what
he’s calling the “New Farm
Organization,” which would
focus on issues common to all
the groups.
“The core concept of One
New Farm Organization has
proven success in the case of
Grain Farmers of Ontario,” the
paper states. “It’s our hope to
build on what they’ve created
and eventually end up with
just one, fully national farm
organization.”
Improving efficiency
The current system is neither
efficient nor as effective as
a single group would be, the
paper argues.
“You can’t count how many
different organizations speak
on behalf of farmers these
days, let alone get a quick,
clear answer,” he wrote. “( T )
h e r e’s u n n e c e s s a r y ov e r lap in administration... Just
think what one organization
could accomplish by taking
the best of what every individual group is doing today and
combining resources.”
The paper proposes rolling all commodity groups in
Western Canada into three
entities representing cereals,
oilseeds, and pulse-special
crops.
Each group would collect
and administer the checkoff
from their own crops, spending some of the money on
their specific interests and
giving a portion to fund the
New Farm Organization.
“One hundred per cent producer governance is core to
this idea, but the process of
identifying specific farmers
to sit on each board will be
a matter for discussion,” he
wrote.
Penner proposes each of
the three commodity groups
and the New Farm Organization have their own boards
of directors, and that Western Canada be divided into
six districts — northern and
southern Alberta; north, central and southern Saskatchewan; and Manitoba. ( Two
additional districts could be
included later from Eastern
Canada.)
The number of votes for
each farmer would be tied to
the amount of checkoff contributed.
Election process
Six farmers would be elected
to each of the boards, which
would also have its own chief
executive officer. In addition to six elected farmers,
the New Farm Organization’s
board would include the presidents of the cereals, oilseeds
and pulse/special crops commodity groups.
“Just think what one organization could
accomplish by taking the best of what every
individual group is doing today and combining
resources.”
Danny Penner
E a c h re g i o n w o u l d h a ve
four farmer representatives
in total — one on each of the
commodity groups and one
on the New Farm Organization.
“The work of the commissions (commodity groups)
and the New Farm Organization would fall under direc-
t o r a t e s s u c h a s re s e a rc h ,
policy, markets, education,
environment and logistics,
w i t h a f o c u s o n b ra n d i n g
and advocacy of Canadian
crop farming systems, guiding investment in agriculture
to its best possible use, and
communicating key messages
from other stakeholders back
to primary producers,” Penner wrote.
Farm organizations funded
directly by members, such as
the Western Canadian Wheat
Growers Association, or the
Keystone Agricultural Producers, which has a checkoff,
would continue to operate
independently, Penner said
i n a n i n t e r v i e w. Bu t t h e y
could also contribute to policy development within the
New Farm Organization, he
added.
Penner was to present his
proposal to Canadian Federation of Agriculture vice-president Humphrey Banack and
the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ executive on April 1.
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Commodity groups may band together
to hold mega-meeting
The plan is to pool resources and get more farmers to attend association annual meetings
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
A
nnual meetings of commodity groups could soon be more
convenient and worthwhile for
Manitoba farmers if a proposal for a
joint meeting is accepted.
“I’m really excited about this,” said
Ernie Sirski, a director with the Manitoba Canola Growers Association.
The idea would be to have one large
event held over several days. Groups
would pool their money to attract topquality keynote speakers, but also have
separate breakout sessions, including
their annual meetings, said Sirski, who
farms near Dauphin.
The Manitoba Pulse Growers Assoc i a t i o n , Ma n i t o b a Co r n Growe r s
Association, and National Sunflower
Association of Canada already do just
that during their annual Special Crops
Symposium.
The sunflower and pulse associations
expressed interest in including other
commodity groups when the idea was
broached at a recent meeting organized
by the canola growers which attracted
reps from sunflower, pulse, canola, winter cereals, flax, hemp and new cereal
groups, Sirski said. There was no oats
representative there, but their association wants to participate, said Sirski,
adding he hopes corn growers will also
join in.
A working committee has been set up
to explore the idea and will meet April
9 in Carman, with an eye to making it
happen as soon as next year.
“We want to get a good feel about
making this go or not before spring
seeding,” Sirski said.
In addition to having more money
for top speakers, a large event would
attract more farmers and be a great networking opportunity, he said.
“My pitch is it would be beneficial for
all commodity group members in Manitoba,” he said.
It can be a struggle to get farmers out
to annual meetings. For example, aside
from directors, the recent Winter Cereals Manitoba annual meeting in Portage
la Prairie drew fewer than 20 farmers.
But the Manitoba Canola Growers Association has attracted a larger crowd by
adding events such as a combine clinic
or this year’s canolaLab.
Part of the problem is there are fewer
farmers and more organizations, and
even Sirski said he just doesn’t have
time to attend all their annual meetings.
Alberta’s annual FarmTech conference could serve as a model, he said.
This year, 1,700 farmers attended that
meeting in Edmonton jointly held by
Alberta’s canola, barley, pulse, wheat
and seed grower associations.
FarmTech is similar to Manito ba’s annual Ag Days meeting in that
it includes a large agricultural trade
show, as well as keynote speakers and
seminars. In fact, some of the same
keynote speakers presented at both
events.
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Manitoba Canola Growers Association director
Ernie Sirski hopes Manitoba commodity
groups can hold a joint meeting to pool
resources and boost farmer attendance at
their annual meetings. photo: allan dawson
also brings a number of commodity
groups together for joint sessions, as
well as individual commodity group
annual meetings.
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Drought-stricken U.S.
farmers were given good
news by private weather
forecaster AccuWeather.
A series of winter
storms, which have continued into March, are
positive for spring seeding from the Plains to the
East Coast, AccuWeather
said in its 2013 U.S.
spring weather outlook.
“Compared to last
year, for the season as
a whole, more moisture
will be available for
agriculture due to lower
temperatures and lower
evaporation rates from
the Mississippi Valley
to much of the Atlantic
coastal plain,” said the
Pennsylvania firm.
With the USDA predicting record-large U.S.
corn and soybean crops
this year, assuming normal growing conditions,
new-crop futures at the
CBOT are trading well
below old-crop levels.
Parts of California
and the Florida peninsula could experience
drought or at least drierthan-normal conditions
into the first part of the
summer. But overall,
the severe drought that
extended over much of
the United States in 2012,
and hammered U.S.
corn, soybean and wheat
growers, is not expected
to be repeated.
Winter storms have
added up to near-normal
snowfall for major cropping areas of the lower
Plains through the Midwest and in parts of the
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Parrish & Heimbecker has a
Faller wheat contract for 2013
There’s lots of interest among millers in the American wheat
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
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This boreal owl has found itself a prime spot near a bird feeder at
Winnipeg Beach, where it sits in wait for the mice which come for
the seed the birds have spilled on the ground. Photo: Ann Hoogstraten
arrish & Heimbecker will
contract around 10,000
acres of Faller, an unregistered American wheat, under an
identity-preserved program with
farmers in Manitoba and eastern
Saskatchewan this spring, says
John Devos, the company’s manager of seed and chemical.
P & H is the second grain company to offer such a program and
there could be more, John Smith,
president and CEO of Seed Depot,
said in an interview April 4. Seed
Depot has the exclusive Canadian distribution rights for Faller,
which was developed at North
Dakota State University.
“Mills like it,” Devos said of
Faller, a dark northern spring
wheat. “It has good stability. We
have a home for it in our mills.”
Parrish & Heimbecker will pay
farmers the going hard red wheat
price for Faller delivered under
the contract, he said. Normally
unregistered wheats sell at a discount.
Faller, which yields about 20
per cent more than Glenn, will be
grown in co-op tests this spring
providing the data required to
assess whether it should be recommended for registration in the
Canada Prairie Spring (red) class.
Smith said it’s unlikely the variety
would be recommended for registration in Canada’s premier milling wheat class, Canada Western
Red Spring (CWRS), because its
protein content is too low.
Canadian seed regulations allow
Faller to be contracted under IP
contracts for test marketing.
Farmers must deliver all their
Faller production to the contractor and not keep any seed for
future propagation. They must
also purchase the seed through
the contractor.
It’s illegal to import an unregistered wheat for the purposes of
growing it in Western Canada. It’s
also illegal for American farmers
to sell Faller, for seed, for export
to Canada because Seed Depot
holds the rights to the variety.
Richardson Pioneer confirmed
its Faller IP program in February.
Its Faller wheat will go to British
baker Warburtons.
Parrish & Heimbecker, in addition to being an elevator company, operates seven flour mills
across the country, making it
Canada’s largest Canadian-owned
flour miller.
Devos said growing Faller, as
well as a more traditional CWRS
variety, is good hedge against
price volatility related to protein
content. Some years, such as this
one, buyers aren’t paying protein
premiums so a higher-yielding
variety, with a little less protein,
can return farmers more money.
“It’s a phenomenal yielder. It has
a good disease package. R (rating)
for leaf rust, R-MR to stem rust.
Mid-range for fusarium,” he said.
But when high-protein wheat
supplies are tight, higher-protein
wheat can earn farmers more,
Smith said.
“As one farmer to another
farmer I want producers to realize
Faller has lower protein,” Smith
said. “It’s also a couple of days
later maturing than some of our
CWRS wheats so you better get it
in early.”
Smith said he’s gratified his
efforts to get Faller into the registration trials and get grain buyers
on board with test marketing are
paying off.
The Faller programs demonstrate the current wheat registration system is more flexible than
some of its critics claim, he added.
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U.S. corn quality
concerns linger despite
better test results
Domestic users have run into problems with toxins
because the best-quality corn is going for export
By Tom Polansek and
Julie Ingwersen
chicago / reuters T
he quality of last year’s
drought-hit U.S. corn harvest remains under scrutiny
because of worries about toxins that flourish in dry weather,
despite improved test results for
export shipments.
The U.S. Grains Council, which
works to promote exports, said in
a report on Wednesday that 77.8
per cent of corn samples tested
at export markets from October 2012 to February 2013 had
no detectable levels of aflatoxin,
a byproduct of a mould that can
sicken humans and animals if
ingested.
A year earlier, 75.2 per cent of
samples at export markets had
no detectable levels of aflatoxin,
according to the council.
The report was based on 397
corn samples collected from
export shipments as they underwent a federal inspection process
performed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Corn must be
tested for aflatoxin before being
shipped overseas.
“The 2012 crop was superior
in quality across a number of key
variables to the U.S. 2011 harvest,
which was itself a high-quality
crop,” the council said.
Still, concerns persist about the
quality of corn from the autumn
harvest, which is still being used
domestically and abroad.
Last year’s historic drought in
the U.S. Midwest put everyone
from farmers to grain handlers
and food industry officials on
high alert for aflatoxin because it
is usually more prevalent in dry
conditions.
Grain dealers typically send
the best corn to export markets
because importers have strict
standards for grain quality. Corn
also typically deteriorates during
the shipping process.
Exporters have “a great deal of
incentive not to offer” corn that
tests high for aflatoxin because it
cannot be shipped, said Charles
Hurburgh, an agricultural engineering professor at Iowa State
University.
Of the corn tested for the report,
22.2 per cent contained aflatoxin
in levels greater than or equal to
five parts per billion but less than
the 20-parts-per-billion level at
which corn can usually not be
exported.
A year earlier, 24.8 per cent of
the samples were above five ppb
and below 20 ppb, according to
the report.
Domestic users of corn have
already experienced problems
due to elevated levels of aflatoxin.
The Hy-Vee Inc. grocery chain
in February recalled five different product lines of its privately
branded dog food across eight
Midwestern states due to elevated
levels of aflatoxin in corn used to
make the pet food.
Aflatoxin contamination also
prompted a series of pet food and
livestock food recalls in 2011.
According to crop insurance
data from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, payouts for mycotoxins, of which aflatoxin is the most
common, totalled nearly $75 million as of February, triple the level
of a year ago.
“There are places where buyers
need to test every load” of corn for
aflatoxin, Hurburgh said. “There is
aflatoxin out there.”
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Changing climate and oil markets
good for Churchill
Churchill port sees new opportunities for shipping in a melting — and rapidly developing — Arctic
By Daniel Winters
“As with other things,
there’s a good side and
a bad side.”
co-operator staff / dauphin
T
he thawing of the Arctic is a chilling environm e n t a l p rospect, but
Port of Churchill proponents
say it heralds a new era for
Canada’s long-neglected and
underutilized northern deepwater port.
Since the port was built 70
years ago, the focus has been
on grain shipments, but it’s now
shifting to supplying the fastgrowing communities in Nunavut as well as gigantic mine
projects being planned for the
far north.
However, the most exciting
development is the potential
for shipping oil, OmniTRAX
Canada president Brad Chase
said at the recent Hudson Bay
Route Association annual general meeting.
“This is our most significant activity right now without
question,” said Chase, whose
Denver-based parent company
owns the Hudson Bay Railway
and the Port of Churchill.
David Barber
Brad Chase, president of OmniTRAX, discusses potential opportunities for the
Port of Churchill at the recent Hudson Bay Route Association’s annual general
meeting. photo: Daniel Winters
The North Sea oilfields —
which produces the benchmark Brent crude and supplies
European refineries — are in
steep decline even as the spread
between Brent and West Texas
Intermediate grows. In addition, light sweet crude from
Alberta and the North Dakota
Bakken formation faces a further discount off the W TI
benchmark due to a lack of
pipeline capacity to get it to foreign markets, said Chase.
“Right now it’s about $12, but
it has been as high as over $20,”
he said.
That’s prompted the port to
upgrade its existing Cold War
era, 216,000-barrel tank farm
to include a short pipeline for
loading crude onto tankers,
he said. Along with Europe,
refineries along Canadian and
American eastern coast would
be target markets.
So far the end of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk
hasn’t been felt yet, said Chase,
who noted that last year’s shipping season saw 432,000 tonnes
of wheat move through the port.
Other opportunities for
Churchill include shipping
potash from new mines being
proposed in Saskatchewan that
unlike Canpotex, don’t already
have coastal facilities, and a
rail car fleet for moving the dry,
bulk commodity to foreign markets.
Supplying liquified natural
gas (LNG) as a substitute for
northern communities that
rely on diesel generators for
their power needs is also being
looked at.
“The hamlets in Nunavut are
using over $250 million in diesel. LNG could replace that,”
said Chase, adding northern
mines are also in need of a
cleaner energy source.
Chase has pitched the port’s
potential to investors in Hong
Kong, Shanghai and Beijing,
and has hosted two delegations from China as well as Normandy and France, in the past
year.
And while the melting of the
Arctic ice cap has extended the
Hudson Bay shipping season by
an extra month, port officials
still need to convince shipping
insurers such as Lloyd’s of London to cover vessels using the
port and Transport Canada to
provide additional coast guard
support as well as port upgrades.
The evidence is there, said
University of Manitoba research
scientist David Barber, who
recently submitted a proposal
to the federal government for
a study that would collect data
proving the shipping season is
growing longer.
“We can produce a scientific
case for what is actually happening in Hudson Bay,” said
Barber.
During the past 30 years, the
average temperature in the
region has increased 1.5 C and
it’s likely to rise a further 8° to
12° by the end of this century,
he said.
While this would extend the
shipping season even further,
it would not be good news for
the planet, said Barber, who
also spoke about “polar amplification.” The Arctic permafrost contains vast quantities of
methane — a greenhouse gas
100 times more potent than carbon dioxide — and its release
could see the rate of global
warming increase exponentially
in as little as a decade, he said.
“This is an experiment that
we should not be conducting
because the consequences for
our habitat — for us — would
be enormous,” said Barber.
“We’re playing with the climate of our entire planet.”
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Spring seeding is in full flow
in western Europe with a
sharp rise in area expected
in Britain after wet weather
wrecked autumn plantings,
but a significant drop is
anticipated in Germany due
to much more favourable
conditions.
In France, the EU’s top
grain producer, conditions
were generally satisfactory,
with mild, dry weather in
early March helping spring
barley sowing accelerate
and providing relief for winter crops after a very wet
February.
Britain is expected to
see a major shift towards
spring cropping as many
farmers were unable to
plant crops last autumn
due to extremely wet conditions.
Barley, Britain’s most
important spring-sown
crop, is expected to rise by
about one-third with the
area of winter wheat down
sharply.
In Germany the outlook
for winter crops is much
more favourable, with a low
level of frost damage which
should limit spring plantings.
Spring grain sowings
are expected to be sharply
reduced this year based on
seed sales and the low level
of frost damage to winter
grains so far — a reversal
of what happened last
year when frost damage
caused the replanting of
large areas sown to winter
grains.
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NEWS
WELL, THE CALENDAR SAYS IT IS SPRING
Winemakers
seek tax changes
to boost
their sales
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA
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share.
In countries such as
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domestic wines capture
the lion’s share of the
market — but winemakers here have only a 30
per cent share, industry
officials told the House
of Commons agriculture
committee.
The government could
help make domestic
wines more competitive through an excise
tax exemption for the
Canadian grape content
in international and
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said Murray Marshall, of
Diamond Estate Wines
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and Grower Alliance of
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“This is the largest segment of the wine sales in
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“Trust me, even a one
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Marshall also called for
“a specific initiative or
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“Wineries make significant investments in the
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He also said Ottawa
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through deregulation of
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Removing standard
container size regulations
would allow foreign suppliers to flood the Canadian market, Marshall
said.
“Our biggest vulnerability with such a change
is our bag-in-a-box products,” he said. “Today,
that represents 31 million
litres of sales each year.
The economic impact of
these sales is some $688
million to the Canadian
economy.”
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Spraying off label reduces yield
and costs farmers money
A survey is showing the prevalence of off-label use is increasing year over year
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farmer practice of spraying
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“Over a two-year period and
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Strong flax prices may not
encourage acres this spring
Flax prices must maintain a premium over canola
in order to attract production
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By Terryn Shiells
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alues for new-crop
flax across Western
Canada are strong,
but that may not result in
more acres this spring.
According to Prairie Ag
Ho t w i re, n e w - c r o p v a l u e s ra n g e d f ro m $13.75
to $14.50 per bushel as
of April 4, 2013. Old-crop
prices across Western Canada were reported as being
around $14 to $16.50 per
bushel.
“A lot of guys will tell you
that $14 to $15 per bushel
on flax is still a good price,
but the yield was so terrible
last year that they have gotten
discouraged,” said Paul Martens, of Prairie Flax Products
in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.
Martens noted that the decision to grow flax this spring
will also be dependent on
what other commodity prices
are doing at planting time.
“Typically most producers
like to see at least a $1-perbushel premium on flax over
canola,” he said.
Flax is less expensive to
grow than canola is, but the
premium is needed to make
up for poorer flax yields.
As of April 4, flax prices
didn’t hold a strong enough
premium over canola to
encourage acres, but if canola
prices crash, some additional
flax interest could be created.
Flax is also seeing big competition from soybeans in
parts of eastern Manitoba,
because soybeans hold up
better in adverse weather
conditions.
Excessive snow cover and
below-normal temperatures
could mean delayed planting this spring because of the
wet weather, and though flax
is one of the crops that can be
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planted later, seasoned growers
like to get it in early to avoid
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“A lot of guys are dropping
their flax acres in favour of
the soybeans,” said Martens.
“Soy b e a n s a re o n e o f t h e
crops that will suck it up if
there’s a lot of moisture, and if
it starts to get dry, they’ll still
be OK.”
Another determining factor
will be what kind of crops are
planted in the U.S. and other
parts of the world this year, as
well as weather in the U.S. —
as that will drive commodity
prices.
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Rugs elevate bygone Prairie symbol
An exhibit of exquisite hooked art rugs by the Heritage Rug Hookers of Saskatoon on six-community tour of Manitoba
Brenda Major, director of the Golden Prairie Arts Council at Carman (l) and Debbie Watt, a board member with GPAC, look at the newly hung display of art rugs in the Heritage Rug Hookers’ exhibit
Vanishing Prairie Landmarks. photos: lorraine stevenson
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
A
n art exhibit of the gonebut-not-forgotten Prairie
grain elevator is helping
revive a once common craft of
Prairie homemakers, too.
A collection of 40 hooked
rugs, each depicting a grain
elevator, is now on display in
Carman.
The collection — which has
been displayed at about 20 galleries in Alberta, Saskatchewan,
and, most recently Virden since
2010 — is the brainchild of
Rita Smith of the Heritage Rug
Hookers of Saskatoon.
Although most of the iconic
e l e va t o r s t h a t d o t t e d t h e
Prairies are gone, they continue
to hold a special place in the
hearts and minds of westerners,
Smith said from her home in
Borden, Sask.
“Every town had one. We were
on this big, flat, old Prairie, but
looming in the distance you’d see
an elevator and it told you that
there would be people and food
and home and those wonderful,
comforting things,” she said.
Likewise, every farmhouse
once had hooked rugs. To make
one was once “a craft of necessity,” says Smith, whereby frugal homemakers used remnants
of no-longer-wearable clothes
and other fabric to create these
things of beauty and comfort
for their homes.
Rug hooking might have gone
the way of wooden grain elevators but is enjoying a revival as
an art form, she said.
“There is a renewed interest. I think it has gone the same
This work of art by Judy Trefry of Manitoba depicts the former Manitoba Pool
Elevator at Beausejour. It was still standing when Trefry was creating her rug.
It was demolished in September 2012.
route as quilts,” said Smith.
“Quilts were beautiful and functional, but then they became art
quilts.”
Almost all the rugs on display were made expressly for
the exhibit by contributors
from the Prairie provinces as
well as Newfoundland, New
Brunswick, and B.C. Many
live nowhere near the sites of
the elevators they depict, yet
included warm and personal
recollections of them.
Two of the rugs in the exhibit
are on loan from the family of
the late Velma Daws whose rugs
depict elevators at Oberon and
Ingelow in the RM of North
Cypress.
A rug depicting the former
Manitoba Pool Elevator at
Beausejour, was created by
another Manitoban, Judy Trefry.
It was still standing when Trefry
was making her rug, describing how the Beausejour elevator
was “visible miles away” and “in
the evening you can see the sun
gleaming off the silver walls.”
The elevator, demolished in the
fall of 2012, is one of thousands
that have disappeared in the
past two decades.
They may be gone but they’re
not forgotten by visitors to the
exhibit, said Brenda Major,
director of the Golden Prairie
Arts Council in Carman.
“People say, ‘I recognize that
elevator,’ or, ‘I used to live in
that town,’” said Major.
Another council board member, Carman-area artist Debbie
Watt, said she appreciates not
just the beauty of the rugs but
the effort it took to create them.
Watt said she’s hooking a
rug right now, but joked that “I
don’t know if I’ll ever finish it.”
Their makers also designed
the rugs.
“Some are adapted from
photographs, but are original
designs,” said Smith.
Hooked rugs of yesteryear
were made from feedbags,
scraps of clothing not good
enough for quilting and burlap
sacks. The rugs in this exhibit
are made from mostly handdyed wool flannel, but rug
hookers still use recycled materials, said Smith.
It’s an inexpensive hobby
because all you need is a hook,
material for backing, and virtually any type of fibre, she said.
“If you can cut it, you can
use it,” she said, noting rugs
are now made from strips of
T-shirts, pantyhose and polar
fleece.
The Rug Hookers of
Saskatoon hosts an annual fall
rug hooking school, and attendance is not only growing but
attracting a wide range of ages
— although only one gender.
“We’re a group of women.
Unfortunately, no men,” said
Smith.
“Grain Elevators: Vanishing
Prairie Landmarks” will be
on exhibit at the Carman Art
Gallery until the end of April.
In May, it will move to the
Tiger Hills Arts Association
Gallery at Holland, followed
by visits to Neepawa in June
(the Manawaka Galler y in
the Viscount Cultural Centre
for the Arts), McCreary in
August (hosted by the Burrows
Trail Arts Council at the local
library), and in Boissevain
(from November to January at
the 1894 Arts Centre).
They thought the exhibit
might wrap up after that, said
Smith, but the Royal Alberta
Ga l l e r y i n Ed m o n t o n h a s
requested it for display in the
spring and summer of 2014.
The Rug Hookers have compiled a list of comments from
those who have seen it and
they’ve been really touched by
them, said Smith.
“It means as much to men as
it does to women,” she said. “It’s
had a wonderful reception.”
[email protected]
Grain
Elevators:
Vanishing Prairie
Landmarks
“They are to the Prairies
what pyramids are to Egypt,
what windmills are to the
Netherlands and what lighthouses are to coastal regions.
Their mystique goes far beyond
their sole function as a grain
storage building. Grain elevators
are a metaphor for a way of life.
They symbolize our agricultural
heritage, which is the lifeblood
of the Prairies.”
Source: Heritage Rug Hookers of
Saskatoon
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RecipeSwap
Send your recipes or recipe request to:
Manitoba Co-operator
Recipe Swap
Box 1794,
Carman, Man. ROG OJO
or email: [email protected]
Sugaring season begins in Manitoba
Corn And Butternut Squash
Soup With Maple Syrup
Lorraine Stevenson
3 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 medium butternut squash, peeled, seeded and cubed
1 onion, sliced thin
2 celery stalks, cubed
3 garlic cloves
3 tbsp. fresh ginger, chopped
1/2 c. maple syrup
4 c. chicken stock (or vegetable stock)
2 c. frozen corn
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 c. sour cream
Chives, to taste
Crossroads Recipe Swap
I
t’s still a snowy, ice-clad world out
there, but have you noticed how
bright the days are getting? The glare
off the snow is dazzling. The trees notice
it too.
Gnarly Manitoba maple trees are gurgling and gushing with sap as they wake
up to increasing warmth and sunlight of
an ever-so-slowly advancing spring.
I’m actually quite surprised how many
still don’t know our native maple tree
(Acer negundo) is a prolific sugar-maker,
much like its eastern cousin, the sugar
maple (Acer saccharum).
In fact, many Manitobans tap their
trees in spring for their abundant sap,
which produces one of the sweetest
syrups going. Many do it as a hobby. A
few produce enough that they sell their
maple syrup products.
Maple tapping is so popular around
McCreary that an emerging cottage
industry has developed, complete with a
spring festival to celebrate the sugaring
season.
On Saturday, April 13 McCreary hopes
visitors will drop in to learn more about
their early-spring harvest in full swing,
and the delicious, locally made sweet
treats being produced from it. If you go,
you can take a wagon ride tour through a
maple bush and learn more about syrupproducing woodlots from producers
such as Bob Gas and Albert Thompson.
There are treasure hunts and taffy
on snow to enjoy, and you can learn to
dance a traditional Métis dance form in
a workshop with the Manitoba dance
troupe, the Asham Stompers. There’s
even a maple-themed art exhibit hosted
by the Burrows Trail Arts Council. If
you’d like more information please call
ahead to the McCreary Recreation Office
(204 835-2673).
McCreary’s festival is actually a second
regional festival built around the delectable maple sugar in Manitoba.
For years, St. Pierre-Jolys has also
celebrated local production of maple
syrup with its own ‘Sugaring Off’ festival.
Theirs flows over two days April 13 and
14. You can learn more about it online at
www.museestpierrejolys.ca/sugaringoff.
html.
You can visit a sugar shack at both
locations to see how sap is boiled down
to syrup.
So, if you’re wondering — does
Manitoba maple syrup taste different, or
sweeter, or better than syrup of Ontario
or Quebec? You be the judge. I’ll just say,
as a sign that spring, at last, is surely
arriving, that first lick of Manitoba maple
syrup is a very sweet treat indeed.
Here are three recipes courtesy of
Fédération des producteurs acéricoles
du Québec. You can find many more
recipes from the Federation of Quebec
Maple Syrup Producers at http://ilovem
aple.ca/recipes/types-of-dishes.
In a large saucepan over high heat, sauté the
squash, onion, celery, garlic, ginger and maple
syrup for about six minutes. Add the chicken
broth, bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium
and simmer five minutes. Purée the soup in
a blender until creamy. (If the mixture is too
thick, add some broth or water.) Return to the
pot. Add the corn, salt and pepper and cook
over medium heat five minutes.
To serve, garnish with sour cream and chives.
While most people associate maple syrup with
Quebec, the Manitoba maple is a sugar producer
too. PHOTO: REUTERS
Maple Energy Squares
These squares make an excellent snack,
whether in the afternoon in preparation for an
end-of-day workout, after you’ve finished your
workout, or to pack for a long hike or bike ride.
They provide complex carbohydrates, protein,
fibre, vitamins and minerals — all vital nutrients for an active person!
1/2 c. quick-cooking oatmeal
1/2 c. skim milk powder
1/2 c. roasted sunflower seeds
1/3 c. all-purpose flour
2/3 c. pure maple syrup
2 large eggs
1/2 c. dried cranberries
1/2 c. dried apricots, chopped
1/2 c. sliced almonds
1/2 c. coconut flakes
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Spray a 9x9-inch
baking pan with cooking spray or brush with
vegetable oil. In a food processor, combine
the oatmeal, skim milk, sunflower seeds, flour,
maple syrup and eggs. Process until the mixture is almost smooth, about 10 seconds. Stir
in cranberries, apricots and almonds. Pour
into the prepared dish. Sprinkle with coconut.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until the edges are
golden and the centre is set.
Makes 16 squares.
Source: Fédération des producteurs acéricoles
du Québec
du Québec
Green Salad With
Maple Vinaigrette
2 endives
1 lettuce (loose leaf or romaine)
1 apple
1 red onion, sliced in rings
1 or 2 mandarin oranges
1/2 c. yellow or red pepper, chopped
1/4 c. cashew nuts, whole
3 tbsp. raisins
2 tbsp. lemon juice
Vinaigrette:
4 tsp. cider vinegar
3 tbsp. vegetable oil
2 tbsp. maple syrup
1/2 tsp. Dijon mustard
Salt and pepper, to taste
Wash and dry lettuce. Removes endive leaves
and set aside. Halve the apple, remove the core
and slice. Mix the apple slices with raisins and
lemon juice. Add segments of the peeled mandarin oranges, lettuce, endive leaves, onion
rings, yellow or red pepper and cashew nuts.
Sprinkle with the maple vinaigrette and serve.
To make Vinaigrette:
Mix salt, pepper and mustard. Add vinegar and
mix well to dissolve the salt. Add oil and maple
syrup. Store in the refrigerator until ready to
serve. Serves 4.
du Québec
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Manitoba Co-operator Recipe Swap
Box 1794 Carman, Man. R0G 0J0
or email Lorraine Stevenson at: [email protected]
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R
ose Jackson placed a bookmark carefully between the pages of her book, then
laid the book down on the end table as
she curled her legs underneath herself on the
couch and leaned up against Andrew, who
was stretched out, legs resting on the old tapestry-covered ottoman, reading a section of
the Saturday paper. A rare, quiet Sunday afternoon. Rose gazed out of the window across the
room where she could just see a pair of Canada
geese struggling to make headway against a
strong, cold north wind, the lead goose flapping in determined silence while the other followed noisily, its incessant honking audible right
through the glass.
Rose snuggled up against her husband. “I
know exactly what that goose is saying,” she said.
Andrew looked up. “Huh?” he said. “What
goose?” He looked out of the window just as the
geese finally disappeared from sight. “Oh,” he
said. “Really? You speak goose?”
Rose chuckled. “Apparently I do,” she said. “I
could tell by the tone of the honking. She was
not a happy goose. ‘I told you it was too early to
go north,’ she was saying, ‘but did you listen? Oh
no, of course not. You just followed your infernal gander instincts instead of looking at the
fact that EVERYTHING WAS STILL FROZEN and
away you went and now here we are in the middle of a bloody snowstorm, and the only open
water we’ve seen in two weeks was a water main
break in Fargo, North Dakota! And God only
knows where we are, because there’s no way to
tell when the rivers are all still COVERED WITH
SNOW!’” Rose shifted to look up at Andrew.
“That’s what she was saying,” she said, “and you
know it’s true.”
Andrew pondered that for moment. “Well, I
know what the gander was thinking,” he said.
“Do you now?” said Rose. “You have EGSP, do
you?”
“EGSP?” said Andrew. “What’s that?”
“Extra goose-sensory perception, obviously,”
said Rose.
“I don’t need EGSP to know what he was thinking,” said Andrew. “He was thinking, ‘seriously?
The
Jacksons
BY ROLLIN PENNER
We geese mate for life? Well thank God it’s not
a very long life. Maybe if I just keep flapping
into this blizzard I can shorten it even more.
And I am NOT LOST. At least I don’t think so. I
mean you can’t be sure you’re lost if you don’t
know where you are. And I have no idea where
we are.’” Andrew folded his paper. “That’s what
that gander was thinking,” he said, “and you
know it’s true.”
“It IS true,” said Rose. She was silent for a
moment. “Do you think we might be descended
from geese?” she said.
Andrew raised an eyebrow. “That would
explain the urge I get every October to flap my
arms like a maniac and run off as fast as I can in
a southerly direction. An urge I might add, that
I feel less inclined to fight every year that goes
by.”
“Exactly what I was thinking,” said Rose,
“although I was thinking more about the whole
‘how do you know you’re lost if you don’t know
where you are’ thing. Because that’s just an
eerily human thing to say, don’t you think?”
“You mean eerily man-like,” said Andrew.
“Well, yeah,” said Rose.
“It is very man-like,” said Andrew. “But on the
other hand, we could be getting the whole thing
all wrong. I mean we don’t even know which
was actually leading. Maybe it was the goose
that was leading and the gander was shouting
encouragement from the rear. Maybe he was
saying ‘you GO girl! Keep flapping baby! A little blizzard never hurt anyone and I trust your
instincts implicitly my dear even though it’s a
little hard to see where we’re going! Because
your instincts have never let us down! Except
for that one time when we crashed into the
CanWest building because you thought it was a
lake… but I’m not counting that honey because
with all the windows and whatnot, it DID look
a little like a lake… so let’s just keep heading
north baby because you are ALWAYS right!’”
Rose thought about that for a second. “You
could be right,” she said. “Birds crash into the
CanWest building all the time.”
There was a long pause while the two of them
continued to gaze out the window.
“It’s ridiculous,” said Andrew.
“I would like to know who’s to blame,” said
Rose.
“I blame our ancestors,” said Andrew. “They
could have gone anywhere in the world and
they chose to come here.”
Rose sighed. “We do this every year,” said
Rose. “We revile our ancestors in April and then
we forgive them in June.”
“Will we ever worship them, do you think?”
said Andrew.
“It’ll be a hot day in January if we do,” said
Rose. “So, no. Not a chance.”
Starting slips and cuttings
A quick and inexpensive way to propagate plants
By Albert Parsons
FREELANCE CONTIBUTOR
M
ost plants used in our
outdoor gardens are
grown from seed, and
in many cases, these seeds are
planted indoors in early spring
to produce good-size seedlings
by planting-out time. There are
many plants, however, which are
grown from cuttings (or what
some gardeners refer to as slips)
rather than seeds. It may be that
the plants are hybrids, which will
not come true from seed, or they
may indeed be sterile.
For the home gardener, slips
are often a quick and inexpensive
way to propagate favourite plants.
The parent plants that have been
sitting on the windowsill throughout the winter are, by late winter, becoming tall and overgrown.
They need to be cut back so that
the plants will not be overly tall
and floppy when the time comes
to plant them outdoors. From
the process of cutting back these
plants, a pile of plant pieces
(slips) results, and many gardeners cannot bear to throw them
out so they become cuttings used
for propagation.
Whether it is geraniums, ivies
of all types, streptocarpella,
fibrous begonias, tradescantia, or
some of the various members of
the Swedish ivy family, these cuttings can be planted to produce
new plants for the outdoor garden. The best cuttings are terminal shoots that are about 15 cm
long, although this recommendation can vary depending on the
plant. Most slips will benefit from
being left exposed to the air for a
few hours to allow the cuts to callous over somewhat before they
are planted. Be careful doing this,
however, as you don’t want the
slips to wilt and collapse. If you
see them beginning to wilt, plant
them immediately.
Prevent pathogens from attacking the slips while they are rooting by using a sterile planting
medium and sanitized tools, and
be careful not to cross-contaminate. After the slips are planted
in the sterile planting mix, provide the container with warm
temperatures and bright, indirect
light. Don’t place the container in
direct sun as the slips will not be
able to withstand its strong rays.
Enclosing the container inside a
plastic bag reduces dehydration
but increases the possibility of rot
by increasing the humidity levels
around the slips. Keep the planting medium damp but not overly
wet and do not fertilize.
A light garden is an ideal loca-
tion for the container of slips as
the fluorescent tubes provide
both bright light and adequate
heat. A windowsill might not be
the best location since the planting medium may become chilled
in such a cool location. The
rooting process takes anywhere
from a couple of weeks to over a
month, depending on the plant.
Some plants, such as coleus,
German ivy and tradescantia, will
root readily in water and need not
be planted in a planting medium.
Some people have success rooting other plants, such as geraniums, in water, but I have better
luck using a soilless mix.
To determine if roots have
formed, slip the whole root ball
out of the container to see if
roots are visible. Generally, if you
tug gently on a slip and it won’t
budge, then it is rooted. The
rooted cuttings can then be potted individually and grown on
until you are ready to use them.
Feed and water the plants regularly and give each kind of plant
the appropriate amount of light.
The slips you took earlier will
have provided you with a wealth
of new plants to use in your outdoor garden.
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa,
Manitoba.
Slips of streptocarpella and tradescantia, taken from parent plants (at top),
wait to be planted in pots of soilless mix. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
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Hamiota woman rides in India
Sole representative from Canada participates in endurance ride
By Darrell Nesbitt
Freelance contributor
E
xcited to be the sole rider
to represent Canada, Prue
Critchley shared her passion for endurance riding on
India soil this year.
Critchley, who lives between
Ha m i o t a a n d S h o a l L a k e
with her husband Andrew,
received an official invitation
to participate in the Himalayan
Endurance Ride competition
from the Equestrian Federation
of India. “Despite being at very
short notice, I made the trip,”
said Critchley. “We (myself and
crew/groom member, Candace
Oakes of Lyalta, Alta.) frantically collected donations for our
flights to India, as based on the
time frame we didn’t have time
to save up.”
Cr i t c h l e y s a i d w h i l e a l l
expenses between Jan. 31
and Feb. 3 were kindly covered by the Indian Equestrian
Federation — which in itself
was a huge bonus to participants — flights weren’t
included.
Since becoming involved
in endurance riding in 1989,
Critchley has competed in a
number of events of varying
distances. The international
championship in India is a
60-km competition — taking in
account the loops are a distance
of 3x20 km.
Endurance riding is an equestrian sport based on controlled
long-distance races and the terrain can be varied and challenging. In India, all international
riders rode leased horses supplied by the Assam Equestrian
Federation.
“The ride was very exciting,”
said Critchley. “It was held in
the northeast part of the coun-
try with a backdrop of the
Himalayas! The r ide went
through tea plantations and
along the Brahmaputra River.”
The first edition of the
Eastern Himalayan Ride, an
International Endurance
meet, was flagged off by Dr.
T.R. Barbora, pr incipal of
Assam Medical College in
2010. Assam is under the aegis
of Equestrian Federation of
India, with participation from
five nations — U.S., Argentina,
Switzerland, U.K. and India.
The ride was developed to
promote equestrian sports in
general and endurance riding
in particular in the northeast
or the eastern Himalayan subregion of India.
Critchley was one of seven
international riders.
Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake,
Manitoba
Prue Critchley of Hamiota began endurance riding in 1989, and competition
has included the Canadian National Championships and Pan Am Games. PHOTO: COURTESY
Try rosemary to boost flavour
Add flavour without adding calories or sodium
By Julie Garden-Robinson
NDSU Extension Service
R
osemary has been used
widely in Mediterranean
cuisine, but it can be
added to a variety of foods,
including various meats, fish,
eggs, breads, soups and vegetables such as potatoes. Herbs
such as rosemary add flavour
without adding calories or
sodium. It can be used fresh
or dried, and in general, use
about one-half as much dried
as fresh.
Rosemary has been used in
weddings, funerals and other
ceremonies throughout the
ages, and its lemony, pine-like
aroma has been used to add
fragrance to lotions. Although
little research is available to
prove its effectiveness, rosemary has a long history of use
in complementary medicine.
For example, according to
the University of Maryland
Medical Center, rosemary
extracts have been used in
complementary medicine to
ease muscle and joint aches
and treat alopecia (patchy
baldness). The leaves have
been used to treat indigestion.
M o r e r e c e n t l y, s o m e
Paperless gift bags
research has been conducted
to explore the role of the rosemary scent in memory. The
participants in the study didn’t
eat the rosemary; they simply
smelled the aroma of rosemary oil in various concentrations as they worked.
One group of researchers
identified a chemical compound in rosemary that may
enter the bloodstream through
the lining of the nasal passages or lungs. They noted
improvements in overall mental performance. The researchers proposed that a rosemary
compound may prevent the
breakdown of a chemical in
our nervous system needed
for brain function.
However, intriguing as these
results are, a study or two
doesn’t prove that rosemary
aroma helps our memory.
Scientists note some precautions with the medicinal
use of rosemary. Although
rosemary supplements are
available, their safety and
effectiveness have not been
well studied, and they may
have interactions with prescription medications. Some
people may have allergic reactions to rosemary, and high
Reader’s Photo
doses of rosemary supplements are linked to miscarriage. Be sure to visit with a
medical professional before
taking supplements.
Try some rosemary in your
cooking, though. You can create some memorable meals
with a delicious aroma by adding some rosemary and other
herbs to your recipes.
Julie Garden-Robinson, PhD, R.D.,
L.R.D., is a North Dakota State
University Extension Service food and
nutrition specialist and professor in
the department of health, nutrition
and exercise sciences.
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By Eva Krawchuk
Freelance contributor
T
he colours, textures
and designs of fabric
allow you to get creative, and even the smaller
pieces are useful. Recently,
a friend brought me a large
bagful of remnants of the
most delightful designs, one
being plastic bandages! I was
able to make three bags in
different sizes from the piece.
Now the first sick friend or
relative will get a little gift
“wrapped” in one of these.
All the really small remnants are passed along to
a friend with a passion for
quilting.
Eva Krawchuk writes from
Winnipeg
I’d love to hear from you.
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no longer return material,
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A male wild grey partridge in the Belmont, Manitoba area. PHOTO: LILLIAN DEEDMAN
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Foreign demand for beef, soybeans
adds pressure on Amazon forest
A study links consumers to environmental impact on Brazil, saying foreign demand
accounts for 30 per cent of deforestation
By Alister Doyle
oslo / reuters
R
ising foreign demand
for beef and soybeans
will tempt Brazil to
clear more of the Amazon
rainforest, in a reversal of
recent success in slowing forest losses, a study said April 4.
About 30 per cent of defore s t a t i o n i n Brazil in the
decade to 2010 was due to
farmers and ranchers seeking land to expand export
production of beef and soybeans, against about 20 per
cent in the 1990s, the report
said.
“Trade is emerging as a
key driver of deforestation in
Brazil,” according to experts
at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo
(Cicero).
“This may indirectly contribute to loss of the forests
that industr ialized countr ies are seeking to protect through international
agreements,” they wrote in
the journal Environmental
Research Letters.
Exports of beef and soybeans accounted for 2.7
b i l l i o n t o n n es of carbon
emissions caused by Brazil’s
deforestation in the decade to 2010, the report said.
That exceeds greenhouse gas
emissions of a nation such as
Egypt over the same period.
Deforestation of Brazil’s
Amazon region fell 27 per
cent to 4,656 square kilometres (1,798 square miles)
between August 2011 and
July 2012 from the same
period a year earlier, the Brazilian Environment Ministry
said in November.
An aerial photograph shows the construction site of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam at Pimental, near Altamira in Para State. After years of gains against
destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil appears to be suffering from an increase in deforestation as farmers, loggers, miners and builders move into
previously untouched woodland, according to newly compiled data. Photo: REUTERS/Stian Bergeland/Rainforest Foundation Norway
That was the lowest since
monitoring began in 1988.
Brazil’s so-called Legal Amazon covers 5.2 million square
kilometres.
But growing foreign
demand and the Brazilian
government’s eagerness for
economic growth meant continued falls in the rate of forest loss were unlikely without
new measures to safeguard
forests, the report said.
Worldwide, deforestation
accounts for up to a fifth
o f g re e n h o u s e g a s e m i ssions from human sources,
according to UN estimates.
Trees soak up carbon dioxide
as they grow and release it
when they burn or rot.
Under UN climate change
rules, greenhouse gas emissions count as those within
national boundaries. Suggestions of shifting responsibility to consumers, for
instance foreign buyers of
Brazil’s beef, are often dismissed as too complicated.
“It’s been a bugbear in the
forest sector,” said Duncan
Macqueen, a forest researcher
at the International Institute
for Environment and Development in Edinburgh. “Consumers ask, ‘Why should we
suffer the cost of reforming
the system?’” he said.
So m e s c h e m e s s e e k t o
certify forest production as
coming from a source that
does not involve illegal logging. But these have drawbacks since the costs of
audits can be prohibitive for
small producers, he said.
The Cicero study suggested
better labelling or information about imports to guide
consumers.
The study did not try to
compare the environmental
impact of Brazil’s beef or soybean production with that of
other nations to see where
production was least damaging. “Similar analyses still have
to be done,” lead author Jonas
Karstensen told Reuters.
Horsemeat scandal buoys U.K. organic sales after 2012 dip
Consumers are turning to organic products as a guarantee of integrity after meat products were mislabelled
london / reuters
S
ales of organic products in
Britain continued to decline
last year in contrast to continental Europe but the horsemeat
scandal has sparked a revival, the
country’s main organic certification body, the Soil Association,
said March 20.
“In the worst economic downturn in living memory, it’s not surprising to find subdued sales of a
wide variety of goods and services
— and the U.K. organic sector is
not immune to these,” business
development director Jim Twine
said.
Sales dipped 1.5 per cent in
2012 to 1.64 billion pounds ($2.48
billion), continuing a downward
trend linked to Britain’s prolonged
economic downturn. Sales fell 3.7
per cent in 2011.
The Soil Association, in its
annual report, said European
sales of organic products had, in
contrast, risen 25 per cent since
the start of the global economic
downturn in 2008.
“Our government has much to
learn from its European counterparts who back the organic sector
strongly through a combination of
environmentally based producer
support, firm targets for publicsector procurement of organic
and investment in promoting
organic products,” the report said.
The Soil Association said, however, the horsemeat scandal had
a positive impact with recent fig-
ures from market research firm
Kantar Worldpanel showing total
supermarket organic sales rose
8.4 per cent in February versus
January.
“Total supermarket organic
sales increased to their highest level in nine months indicating consumers choosing to buy
organic as a guarantee of integrity,” the association said.
Europe’s horsemeat scandal
erupted in January, when testing in Ireland revealed that some
beef products also contained
equine DNA. It has since spread
across the continent, ensnaring
numerous well-known brands,
prompting product withdrawals, consumer concerns and government investigations into the
region’s complex food-processing
chains.
The report said U.K. organic
farmers had a challenging year, in
common with their non-organic
counterparts, with high feed and
fuel prices compounding the
impact of the worst weather conditions for many years.
In July 2012, the U.K.’s organic
land was reported to be 656,000
hectares, down 8.7 per cent from a
year earlier and now representing
3.8 per cent of the country’s agricultural area.
“There is a real risk that if
retailers do not work with U.K.
organic farmers and growers, the
market could become restricted
due to supply shortages,” Twine
said.
“There is a real risk
that if retailers do
not work with U.K.
organic farmers
and growers, the
market could become
restricted due to
supply shortages.”
Jim Twine
Soil Association
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China readies to fight new bird flu
As the death toll rises, countries are stepping up vigilance to keep the virus from spreading
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG / REUTERS
C
hinese authorities
slaughtered over 20,000
birds at a poultry market
in Shanghai April 5 as the death
toll from a new strain of bird
flu mounted to six, spreading
concern overseas and sparking a sell-off in airline shares in
Europe and Hong Kong.
The local government in
Shanghai said the Huhuai
market for live birds had been
shut down and 20,536 birds
had been culled after authorities detected the H7N9 virus
from samples of pigeons in the
market. Other live poultry markets in the city have also been
closed.
The total number of reported
infections nationwide was
reported to be 18 as of April 7.
At least four of the dead are
in Shanghai, a city of 23 million people and the showpiece
of China’s vibrant economy.
Shanghai authorities stressed
the H7N9 vir us remained
responsive to the drug Tamiflu
and those who were diagnosed
early could be cured.
“We currently have enough
reserves of Tamiflu to meet with
the current outbreak,” Wu Fan,
director of the Shanghai Center
for Disease Control & Prevention, told a news conference.
Tamiflu is made by Roche
Holding AG.
Airline shares tumbled in
European markets on fears the
outbreak could become widespread.
In Shanghai, the rising death
toll prompted some residents
to stay away from markets with
live chickens and ducks.
“I’m only getting my groceries
at the large supermarkets now
because I don’t think it is safe to
visit the wet markets anymore,”
said 38-year-old Shao Linxia,
adding she had also stopped
buying poultry since news of
the bird flu surfaced.
Shadow of SARS
The 2002-03 epidemic of Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) started in China and
killed about one-tenth of the
8,000 it infected.
Still, there were few signs of
panic in Shanghai with shops
remaining open, and the strain
does not appear to be transmitted from human to human.
“We have 14 cases in a large
geographical area, we have no
sign of any epidemiological
linkage between the confirmed
cases and we have no sign of
sustained human-to-human
transmission,” said World
Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl before the
two new cases were confirmed.
But Hong Kong authorities
were taking extra precautions.
Additional staff would be
deployed at immigration points
to make random temperature
checks of visitors in addition to
the infrared full-body scanners
already in place, Ko Wing-man,
Hong Kong’s food and health
secretary, told reporters.
Vietnam banned imports of
Chinese poultry.
In Japan, airports have put up
posters at entry points warning all passengers from China
to seek medical attention if they
have flu-like symptoms.
In the United States, the White
House said it was monitoring
the situation and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
A market vendor places poultry into a plastic bag at a poultry market in Hefei, Anhui province. Chinese authorities
reported a strain of bird flu previously unknown in humans that has already killed five. PHOTO: REUTERS/STRINGER
said it had started work on a vaccine if it was needed. It would
take five to six months to begin
commercial production.
Analyzing samples
The virus has been shared
with WHO collaborating centres in Atlanta, Beijing, London, Melbourne and Tokyo,
and these groups are analyzing samples to identify the
best candidate to be used for
the manufacture of vaccine —
if it becomes necessary.
Any decision to mass produce vaccines against H7N9
flu will not be taken lightly,
since it will mean sacrificing
production of seasonal shots.
That could mean shortages
of vaccine against the normal
seasonal flu which, while not
serious for most people, still
costs thousands of lives.
Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s
largest flu vaccine manufacturer, said it was in continuous
contact with the WHO through
the International Federation of
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA),
but it was too soon to know
the significance of the Chinese
cases.
Other leading flu vaccine
makers include GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis.
Pre l i m i n a r y t e s t re s u l t s
suggest the new flu strain
responds to treatment with
Roche’s Tamiflu and GSK’s
Relenza, according to the
WHO.
Experts said more needed
to be done to determine the
level of risk from the bird flu
strain.
“H7s are viruses that mutate
often so it could disappear as
a result of mutation or it could
become much more aggressive, so it is important to study
every one of the viruses that
we isolate in humans and in
animals,” Alex Thiermann,
special adviser to the World
Animal Health Organization’s
(OIE) director general, told
Reuters.
German farmers balk at free trade with U.S.
A deal with the U.S. would not open the way for hormone-treated meat or genetically modified foods
By Hans-Edzard Busemann
BERLIN / REUTERS
A
planned free trade agreement
between the European Union
and United States should not
completely liberalize agricultural
trade, the president of the association
of German farmers’ association DBV
said March 26.
Trade talks must involve upper
limits to exports to prevent market
disruption, Joachim Rukwied told
Reuters.
Brussels and Washington hope to
start negotiations in June on a transatlantic free trade agreement which
would encompass almost half the
world’s economy, and are seeking as
broad a deal as possible to deliver
strong economic growth.
The negotiating mandate proposed
by the European Commission, which
has kept its contents secret, must be
approved by EU governments before
the talks can start and agricultural
trade is seen as a contentious issue.
Rukwied said he did not expect free
trade to open the way for hormonetreated U.S. meat or genetically modified (GM) foods into Europe.
Germany has an agricultural trade
deficit with the United States, the
association calculates. Germany
exported 1.5 billion euros ($1.93 billion) of agricultural products to the
U.S. in 2011 but in the same year
imported 1.7 billion worth from the
United States, the association said.
Rukwied said he sees export opportunities for German food such as dairy products and sausages to the United States.
The EU currently imports large volumes of feed grains from South America; whether these could be replaced by
U.S.-origin cereals after the free trade
agreement would depend on market
price, he said.
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New line of genetically altered
pigs improves phytase uptake
The Enviropig produces less phosphorus in its waste
A
research team at the
University of Guelph
has developed a new
line of transgenic “Enviropigs.”
The new line of pigs is
called the Cassie line, and it
is known for passing genes on
more reliably. The results of
this project were published
ahead of print in the Journal
of Animal Science.
Enviropigs have genetically modified salivary glands,
which help them digest phosphorus in feedstuffs and
reduce phosphorus pollution in the environment. After
developing the initial line of
Enviropigs, researchers found
that the line had certain genes
that could be unstable during
reproduction or impractical in
commercial use.
Scientists at the University of Guelph created the
Cassie line to address these
problems. In their paper for
the Journal of Animal Science,
they explain that the Cassie
line has the same ability to
digest high levels of phosphorus in plant matter.
Phosphorus is crucial for
healthy growth in pigs. Unfortunately, 50 to 70 per cent of
the phosphorus in grain is
in the form of phytic acid, a
compound indigestible by
pigs. Because of this, many
farmers have to supplement
pig diets with an enzyme
called phytase. Phytase breaks
down phytic acid and helps
pigs digest more of the nutrient. The phytase enzyme has
a hefty price tag for farmers, and the enzyme can be
accidentally damaged or
destroyed when farmers mix
feed.
The Enviropig was created to solve this problem. By
digesting more phosphorus,
the Enviropig also produces
less phosphorus in its waste.
“The enzyme is secreted
in the saliva and functions
in a similar fashion to that of
phytase included in the diet,”
said Dr. Cecil Forsberg, professor emeritus, department
of molecular and cell biology
at the University of Guelph
and co-author of the study.
Though no studies indicate
a food safety risk from genetically modified Enviropig pork,
meat from the Enviropig is
not yet available for human
c o n s u m p t i o n . Fo r s b e rg
said using Enviropigs could
improve food production and
the environment.
“When transgenic food animals are accepted by consum-
The inspections were
triggered by the ongoing
horsemeat scandal
COPENHAGEN / REUTERS
D
The transgenic pig named the Enviropig synthesizes phytase in its salivary
glands, eliminating the need for additional supplements or enzymes in the
feed. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK.COM
ers, the Enviropig perhaps
would be one of the first innovations to be introduced into
swine production,” said Forsberg. “We have demonstrated
that the gene can be transferred by breeding through
many generations in a stable
fashion. Furthermore, the pigs
are healthy.”
Research on the Cassie line
stopped in June 2012, but
researchers collected semen
from the pigs, and they have
the option to breed new Enviropigs.
NEWS
Polish entrepreneur offloads agricultural holdings
WARSAW / REUTERS / Zbigniew
Komorowski, one of Poland’s richest
men who built a fortune from grain
and dairy markets after Poland’s democratic transition in 1989, is selling
Danish
inspectors
find pork in
beef kebabs
most of his agricultural holdings in a
disposal that could be worth up to 1.1
billion zlotys ($337 million), people
familiar with the plans said.
Komorowski wants to cash out of
the country’s biggest rapeseed oil producer Komagra, flour maker Polskie
Mlyny and biofuel firm Bioagra Oil,
the sources said.
Potential buyers of the assets, which
some of the sources said could be sold
separately, include foreign rivals, such
as Glencore.
Komorowski will hold on to
his dair y product maker Bakoma,
which competes with much bigger international rivals such as Danone.
anish authorities said
March 26 they discovered
traces of pork in some
meat sold as beef for kebabs
during an inspection triggered
by the recent horsemeat scandal, prompting demands by the
country’s Muslim community for
stricter inspection.
A spokesman for the Danish
veterinary and food administration said pork traces were found
in beef sold by supplier Anadolu
Kod.
“They told us meat was from
some of their counterparts
in Poland,” said Erik Jepsen,
a spokesman for the Danish
veterinary and food administration.
“It was part of an investigation
that we made due to the horsemeat scandal. Meat from close to
100 companies was analyzed.”
The company was not immediately available for comment.
On its website, Anadolu Kod
describes itself as a leading producer of Doner kebab meat in
Denmark and Poland.
Danish newspaper Politiken,
which earlier reported the discovery, said the Danish Halal
Federation was now demanding
more stringent controls.
The federation called for
inspections to ensure meat
labelled halal comes from animals slaughtered following religious rules and does not come
into contact with pork.
Europe’s horsemeat scandal
erupted in January, when testing
in Ireland revealed some beef
products also contained equine
DNA.
It has since spread across the
continent, ensnaring numerous
well-known brands, prompting
product withdrawals, consumer
concerns and government investigations into the region’s complex food-processing chains.
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Duckweed touted
as biofuel source
Duckweed, the tiny plant
that thrives on marshes and
sloughs, is an ideal raw material for biofuel production, say
scientists writing in the journal Industrial & Engineering
Chemistry Research.
Christodoulos A. Floudas, Xin Xiao and colleagues
describe four scenarios for
duckweed refineries that use
proven existing technology to
produce gasoline, diesel and
kerosene. Those technologies
include conversion of biomass
to a gas; conversion of the gas
to methanol and conversion
of methanol to gasoline and
other fuels. The results show
that small-scale duckweed
refineries could produce costcompetitive fuel when the
price of oil reaches $100 per
barrel. Oil would have to cost
only about $72 per barrel for
larger duckweed refiners to be
cost competitive.
The authors say duckweed
grows fast, thrives in waste
water that has no other use,
does not impact the food supply and can be harvested more
easily than algae and other
aquatic plants.
Russia finds
foot-and-mouth
disease in Siberia
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has found foot-and-mouth disease in the East Siberian region
of Zabaikalsk, according to the
country’s Veterinary and PhytoSanitary Surveillance Service.
The virus affected cattle
and pigs at private farms, said
spokesman Alexei Alekseenko.
“It was an Asian type of virus.
Now we are checking on how
it got into Russia,” said Alekseenko.
The Zabaikalsk region borders China and Mongolia.
Foot-and-mouth disease was
last discovered a year ago in
the Primorsk region some 45
kilometres from the border
with China.
The highly infectious and
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2010-11 when a nationwide
outbreak forced the slaughter
of 3.5 million animals, mostly
hogs.
U.S. farmland
stays hot - Illinois
farm fetches
$15,375 an acre
chicago / reuters
Demand for U.S. farmland
remains strong this winter,
with a central Illinois farm
selling for $15,375 an acre, a
record high for the area.
The 173-acre farm was
auctioned last week in
Champaign County — a
top-yielding corn and soybean region in the centre of
the U.S. Corn Belt.
“This is the first time in
Champaign County we’ve
seen a sale top $15,000 that
didn’t have some development component associated
with it,” said Joe Bubon, an
official with a farm auction
and real estate company.
“This was just a farm.”
The high bidder was a
farmer, who ultimately
sold part of the property to
another farmer, part to an
investor and kept the rest
for himself, Bubon said.
“A lot of farmers have
money in their pockets to
spend,” he said. “Couple
that with a historically low
supply of farmland available — that drives the market up.”
Ritz fights COOL in Washington
The U.S. proposal to address COOL is expected to make things worse for Canadians
By Alex Binkley
Co-operator contributor
A
griculture Minister Gerry
Ritz and representatives of
the pork and beef sector
were in Washington April 8 trying once more to convince the
Obama administration to comply
with a trade ruling against a protectionist U.S. labelling rule.
The World Trade Organization
gave the U.S. until May 23 to end
its discrimination against Canadian and Mexican livestock and
meat or face retaliatory actions by
its neighbours. The measure has
cost Canadian beef and pork producers more than $5 billion in lost
sales and lower prices since it was
enacted in 2008.
The U.S. Agriculture Department has proposed a reworking
of its country-of-origin labelling
(COOL) scheme that neither Canada nor Mexico find acceptable.
Neither do mainstream U.S. farm
or food industry groups.
However, a hodgepodge coalition of American agriculture,
consumer and religious organizations has endorsed the proposal
to make COOL more stringent in
response to the WTO ruling.
“The only acceptable way to
respond to the WTO challenge is
to make labels more informative
for consumers, not water them
down,” the coalition says. The
best-known member to Canadian
farmers is R-Calf, a vociferous
outfit that essentially wants to bar
all imports.
The coalition says COOL allows
“farmers and ranchers to take
pride in their products and allow
the American public to know the
origins of their food and make
more informed food-purchasing
decisions.”
John Masswohl, vice-president
of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, says the coalition’s position “confirms our expectation
that the protectionist groups who
want to maintain the discrimination on imported livestock are not
going to give up easily and it confirms our expectation that to overcome this opposition, Canada will
have to prepare a solid retaliation
strategy that includes tariffs on
U.S. exports to Canada produced
by groups like this or in areas represented by them.
“The USDA proposal is absurd
in its claim to bring the U.S. into
compliance with WTO obligations
by making the labelling requirements even more onerous,” he
added. “It will increase the discrimination that the WTO found
was the root of the U.S. WTO violation.”
The U.S. proposal would
move beyond saying whether
meat was the product of Canada
or the United States to where it
was raised and slaughtered. That
would do nothing to reduce the
discrimination against imports
and would saddle farmers and
processors with ever-more
administrative costs, which
would further increase the price
discounts on imported meat and
animals.
Comments on the proposed
rule are due by April 11, and the
deadline to comply with the WTO
case is May 23. In theory, if the
U.S. isn’t in compliance by that
date, Canada and Mexico can
impose retaliatory tariffs on any
American imports.
Ritz says Canada is looking at
products other than meat shipments because most U.S. farmers and processors have opposed
COOL.
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Livestock origin a
sticking point in
Canada-EU trade talks
The EU wants to know whether livestock slaughtered in
Canada originated in Canada
WINNIPEG / REUTERS
R
ules on recognizing the
origin of cattle and pigs
slaughtered in Canada
are one of the sticking points
in free trade talks with the
European Union, Canada’s
chief agriculture negotiator
said April 3.
Canada hopes to win greater
access for its beef and pork in
Europe, while the EU wants a
foothold in Canada’s protected
agriculture sectors, especially
dairy.
Talks on a comprehensive
deal are expected to finish this
year, but one outstanding issue
is on rules of origin, said Frederic Seppey, chief negotiator
for Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada.
The issue is whether the EU
will give preferential access to
all meat processed in Canada,
given the strong integration of
the North American livestock
market. Canadian and U.S.
farmers freely move livestock
across the border to take advantage of the lowest feeding costs
and highest slaughter prices.
The EU has not agreed that
a l l m e a t s l a u g h t e re d a n d
processed in Canada is considered of Canadian origin. It takes
into consideration where the
livestock was born and raised.
Canada’s position is that
slaughtering and cutting up
a cow or pig is a significant
enough step that the end product should be recognized as
Canadian, even if the animal
was born or fattened to market weight in the United States,
Seppey said.
once the United States and EU
negotiate their own trade deal,
but those talks are just beginning, nearly four years behind
Canada-EU negotiations.
“We are within reach of an
agreement, the final stages. It
would be such a shame to not
conclude,” Seppey said, adding
that he expects the two sides
to eventually find a solution on
the livestock origin issue.
Other outstanding issues
include access for pharmaceuticals and automobiles, he said.
Canada is the third-biggest
pork shipper after the United
States and European Union,
and also the No. 6 exporter of
beef and veal. European Union
countries are collectively the
world’s third-biggest beef and
veal producer and the secondlargest pork producer.
Canada is seeking to diversify its trade away from the
United States, which currently
takes 75 per cent of all Canadian exports, and the EU just
over 10 per cent. Under an
FTA, Canada-EU trade could
increase by 20 per cent, Canada has said.
Total trade of agriculture
and food products between
Canada and the EU currently
amounts to about $6.6 billion
annually.
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to all meat processed
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has been processed in Canada
and perhaps is from cattle that
were born in Canada but fed
in the U.S. to be prevented
from getting the potential preferential treatment,” Seppey
told reporters on the sidelines
of the Canada Grains Council meeting in Winnipeg. “In
our trade agreements we are
always advocating that slaughter is enough of a transformation to confer origin.”
European Union negotiators are hesitant to concede
the point, because Canadian
slaughter plants import livestock from the United States, as
well as buying domestically. The
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U.S. forecasters wary of drought
after missing 2012 surprise
Meteorologists ignored atmospheric data that might have tipped them to the impending drought
By Christine Stebbins
CHICAGO / REUTERS
T
he U.S. drought of 2012,
the worst since the dust
bowl years of the 1930s,
sent world food prices to record
highs. The long, dry summer
cost the government a record
$16 billion in crop insurance
payments. The Mississippi River
shrank in the heat, and barge
traffic slowed to a trickle.
And U.S. weather forecasters
never saw it coming.
That’s why this year, as spring
planting begins, meteorologists
are adjusting forecasting techniques, trying to learn from
what went wrong last summer
and using 2012 weather data
for what they hope will be an
improved early alert system.
“The drought of 2012 was such
a singularity, only repeated a few
times in a century,” said Harvey
Freese, a top private weather
forecaster. “The temperature
and precipitation departures
were two standard deviations
from normal. The year 1934 did
begin to show up in our analog
comparisons of past years, but
we probably only dared to think
about the possibility.”
Both forecasters and their
customers say improvement
is needed over what happened
during the first half of 2012.
“People are calling it a ‘flash
drought’ because it developed
so suddenly,” Siegfried Schubert, a senior research scientist
for NASA said, recalling the dry
season that started last winter,
persisted through the spring
and summer, and now continues in the western Corn Belt and
southern U.S. Plains. “I don’t
think there were any models that
predicted that.”
Well-established agricultural
forecasting services like MDA
EarthSat Weather, Commodity
Weather Group, World Weather,
Freese-Notis and others were
caught by surprise. Commodity
traders and grain analysts pay
richly for forecasts that can be
reliable as far as three months in
advance, but none of the firms
gave advance notice of last year’s
drought during the winter or
early spring.
Meteorologists rely on esoteric
weather conditions to forecast
long-term U.S. weather trends,
such as the La Niña and El Niño
phenomena tied to changes in
southern Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures. A year ago,
weather forecasters said the second-strongest La Niña in history
An underdeveloped cob of corn sits in a field at Wisconsin dairy farm in Sept. 2012. Forecasters now admit they didn’t see one of the most devastating droughts to hit
the U.S. coming. PHOTO: REUTERS/DARREN HAUCK
faded in the winter of 2012 when
sea surface temperatures began
to warm.
Ignored data
Meteorologists took that as
a sign that the U.S. Crop Belt
should experience a fairly normal growing season. But they
ignored atmospheric data that
might have tipped them to the
impending drought.
“Even though the oceans were
acting like they were not in La
Niña anymore, the atmosphere
was acting like we were,” said
Joel Widenor, agricultural director for Commodity Weather
Group. “Unfortunately, we
didn’t pay attention to that soon
enough to adjust our forecast
last spring. It’s something we’re
watching this year. We think it
was a pretty big factor last year.”
Widenor calls it the “GLAAM”
factor. He has tweaked his
forecasting techniques for
this season using the global
atmospheric angular momentum (GLAAM), an atmospheric
index that measures the spinning of the Earth and its effect
on weather.
Hoping to catch signs of
a drought earlier, he also is
watching the weekly U.S.
D r o u g h t M o n i t o r, w h i c h
tracks soil moisture, as well
as water temperatures in the
north Pacific Ocean, off the
coast of Baja, California, and
the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
EarthSat’s senior meteorologist Don Keeney said his
firm is studying previous big
drought years and comparing
them with current patterns,
looking for any sign that
drought-prone conditions will
continue.
Betting on weather or climate?
But meteorologists as well as
climatologists who study climate — the interaction of the
sun, the atmosphere and the
earth — readily admit 2013
will be another tricky year to
predict. La Niña and El Niño
patterns this winter have
been “neutral.”
It boils down to educated
guesswork, forecasters say.
Or hunches based on years of
experience. Iowa State University climatologist Elwynn
Taylor in March 2012 looked
at the La Niña trends and
updated his prediction for
a major drought to a 50-50
probability from 30-50.
This year, Taylor says, the
wester n Midwest is set up
for another hot, dry summer, citing La Niña history.
He says rock-hard soils several feet below the surface
are another flag the droughty
conditions could continue
this season.
Ta y l o r ’s o u t l o o k a l i g n s
with recent comments from
Ne b ra s k a s t a t e c l i m a t o l o gist Al Dutcher, who says the
c o r n h u s k e r s t a t e’s 1 0 - m i l lion-acre corn crop stands
or falls on irrigation as well
as rain.
In fact, most weather-forec a s t i n g m o d e l s, i n c l u d i n g
the U.S. government’s, are
now leaning toward a hot,
dry summer for the U.S. Crop
Belt, especially west of the
Mississippi River.
But last year’s failures have
left g ra i n m a rke t a na l y s t s
worr ying about this year’s
forecasts. And they need to
balance the longer trends
with the way a sudden shower
can affect markets day to day.
“We all know that the longterm guidance is not as reliable
as near-term patterns,” said Rich
Feltes, an analyst at giant broker
RJ O’Brien. “We also know nothing is more rivetting to the markets than what the last 24 hours’
precipitation and temperatures
have been relative to expectations.”
While calculators to crunch
data on long-term patterns are
important, analysts say, day
to day they must always give
greater weight to short-term
weather forecasts. Why? Because
most commodity traders think
short term, not long term. Volatile grain market moves reflect
that reality.
“Weather forecasts 12 to 15
days out are not terribly reliable. The forecaster we use points
that out constantly,” said Anne
Frick, oilseed analyst at Jefferies
Bache in New York. “For three
days out, very high confidence.
Up to seven days: confidence.
Beyond the seven- to 10-day
period, it gets quite iffy.”
BlackHawk™ Pre-seed Challenge
Satisfaction guaranteed or the in-crop herbicide is free.
Nufarm is so confident BlackHawk will perform as stated on the label that we will provide the
in-crop broadleaf herbicide treatment if you’re not satisfied.
For details visit www.nufarm.ca
1-800-868-5444
Business made easy.
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ANTIQUES
ANTIQUES
Antique Equipment
HORSE HARNESS & EQUIPMENT. 1 complete
set of single harness w/23-in collar, steel hames &
leather tugs, $300; 1 complete set of single harness
w/flat hames, new tugs & new back pads, $350; 2
sets of good chore harness, bridles & lines $475
each OBO; Good selection of steel eveners, good
selection of wooden neck yokes for cutters or buggies. Several pieces of good horse machinery
ready to go to the field. Phone:(204)242-2809, Box
592 Manitou.
AUCTION SALES
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Westman
AUCTION SALES
UPCOMING APRIL SALES
See our other ad in this issue of
Manitoba Co-operator for full listings.
UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION
for ROBERT & BEVERLEY HALL
GOODLANDS, MB. - FRIDAY, APRIL 12th - 12:00 noon
for NELSON HULME
MACGREGOR, MB - SATURDAY, APRIL 13th - 11:00 AM
for GREG GRANT (STAND FAST FARMS)
MINNEDOSA, MB - MONDAY, APRIL 15th - 11:00 AM
for LORIE M. HOWE
SOURIS, MB. - TUESDAY, APRIL 16th - 11:00 AM
UNRESERVED AUCTION for WESTEEL
HOLDFAST, SK. - THURSDAY APRIL 18TH - 11:00 AM
FARM AUCTION FOR REINER BROS FARMS
LTD SAT., APR. 27TH 12:00PM NOON. 1-mi East
of Plumas MB on PTH 260 & 1.5-mi North. Website
www.nickelauctions.com. Tractors: 2001 MX120
Case IH MFWD L655 Case IH self leveling ldr grapple fact 3-PTH PTO 2 hyds 7,200-hrs; 1992 5240
Case IH MFWD fact 3-PTH 2 hyds; 520 Case IH ldr
grapple PTO 10,700-hrs; Truck & Trailers: 1973
GMC C70 15-ft. stl box & hoist RT 5-SPD trans;
2000 Real Industries 21-ft.x6.5-ft Gooseneck stock
trailer; 1992 M&B Welding 18-ft.x6.5-ft Gooseneck
stock Trailer; 2007 Precision Gooseneck 26-ft. flatdeck Trailer w/beaver tails; 1,000-gal Fuel Tank
w/elect pump; Haying & Tillage Equip: 2006
RBX5630 Case IH Rd Baler shedded (bought new
in 08); 2011 MF Hesston 1372 Discbine w/drawbar
hitch kit shedded (used 1 season); M&B 23 Rd Bale
Trailer; 2 stl RD Bale racks for farm Wagons; model
180 Farm King 18-in. Grain Roller; 28-ft. Case IH
6200 rubber Press Drill Fact Trans; 15-ft. IHC offset
Tandem Disc; 18-ft. Morris Deep Tiller w/mulchers;
24-ft. IHC Vibra Shank Cult; 60-ft. Blanchard Tine
Harrows; 36-ft. Hyd fold back shop bilt Packer Bar;
3 PTH RD Bale Fork; 7x46-ft. Westfield auger
w/13-HP Honda; Cattle Equip: Highline Pro 7000
Bale Shreader; North Star 42-ft. portable
Squeeze/alley & crowding Tub; Hi Hog Squeeze
chute w/palpation cage; 2 Hi Qual maternity Pens
walk thru gates; 250-bu Miami Creep Feeder; 75-bu
Creep Feeder; 4, 16-ft. Calf Shelters; 2 Calf Hot
Boxes; 2 Head Gates; approx 23 Rd Bale Feeders;
approx 30, 24-ft. Free Standing Panels; 5, 24-ft.
Free Standing Panels w/10-ft. swing gates; 35,
10-12 & 16-ft. Corral Panels; Panel carrier; 2 Calf
Catchers carts; Lewis Cattle Oiler; 400-gal Water
Tub; 150-gal Water Tub; Solar water pump; 3-in.
Honda water Pump; approx 1,500-ft. of 3-in. Hose;
approx 500, 2 to 8-in. fence posts; 2 submersible
pumps; stock tank heaters; Pill switches; M1800
Gallagher elect Fencer; elect Fencers; 6 ground
rods for elect fences; 3 pails of Gallagher insulators; 3 Gallagher wire Reels; under ground cable;
misc Fencing supplies; Baler twine; 15-ft. 2-in. tow
Rope; misc. Auctioneers note: Be on time there
is about 3/4 hr of small selling. Murray & Richard
Reiner have rented out their farm & have pursued
other interests. Terms Cash or Cheque w/photo I.D
Lunch served. Subject to additions & deletions Not
responsible for any errors in description. GST &
PST will be charged where applicable Everything
Sells As Is Where Is All Sales Final Owners & auction company are not responsible for accidents on
sale site. Contact Murray Reiner (204)386-2066.
Sale conducted by Nickel Auctions Ltd Dave Nickel
& Marv Buhler auctioneers Ph (204)637-3393 cell
(204)856-6900.
AUCTION SALES
FARMYARD EQUIPMENT & TOOL AUCTION for
Denise & the late Kevin Major on Tues., Apr 23rd
10:30am at the farm 3.25-mi east of Glenora, MB.
We are able to sell small items in a heated shop if
necessary. Shop Tools & Equip at 10:30: Sanborn Air Comp 5-HP 60-gal, Lincoln 225 AC Welder; Lincoln SP 100 Mig Welder; 4x6 Metal Band
Saw; 2-Ton Cherry Picker; Floor Drill Press; JD Airhose Reel, St. Steel Shop Bench 14-ft.x30-in.;
Welding Bench 48-in.x66-in.; St. Steel Parts Table
4-ft.x30-in.; Metal Parts Bin 72 Compartments; 2
Angle Grinders; 2 Bat Chargers; 3 Air Impacts; Air
Ratchet; 110V Impact; Die Grinder; 2 Sanders; 2
Sprayers; 2 Circ Saws; Drills; 110V Recip Saw;
Good Hand Tools at 10:30: Snap-on 2 tier Tool
Box; Beach Tool Box; Snap-on Pry Bar Set; Jet 3/4in socket Set; Impact sockets; Westward & other
wrench sets; Pullers; Chisels; Punches; Gauges;
Callipers. Yard & Outdoor Equipment at 2:00: JD
#318 Tractor, Attachments to fit the 318 54-in.
Mower, 42-in. Tiller, 48-in. Mower; MF #2722 Riding Mower 22-HP 48-in. cut 6 yrs of use; Rainbow
1999 Car Hauler 16-ft. w/2, 3,500-lb axles, 2 wheel
Utility Trailer; Quad Trailer; ATV Yd Sprayer; Arctic
Cat Cutter w/skies & Wheels; 350-gal Turtle Tank;
2 Chain Saws; Farm Equipment at 2:00: JD #115
9-ft. 3-PTH Angle Blade; IHC Vibra Shank 14-ft.
Cult, Old JD Baler 14T or 24T, 3 Bottom Plow on
Steel; 20-ft. Drill Carrier; Westfield 36x 7 Auger
w/16-HP Engine; John Blue NH3 Kit w/manifold &
Hitch; 3 Keho Aeration Fans; Laurier 500-gal Poly
Tank; 100-gal Slip Tank; 4 Fuel Tanks w/stands &
hoses 1,000-gal, 500-gal, 2x 300-gal; Livestock
Equipment at 2:00: Farmatic 7.5-HP Feed Mill; 2
Bale Forks; 3 Delair Exchangers; 18-in. Barn Fans;
8 Pencil Augers; 12 Hog feeders; Cattle Waterers;
Cattle Oiler; Corral Panels; Mineral Feeder; Hopper
Bins at 2:30: 2, Westeel 2,500 Bush w/aeration; 1
NRW 1500 Bush w/epoxy; 1, 300 Bush Feed Bin;
2x 100 Bush Feed Bins; Household at Noon: 2
Desks; Bar Stools; Computer; Ent Unit; Stereo; 27in. TV; Trampoline; BBQ; Patio Set; 3 Bikes; Picture
Window 68-in. Hx74-in. W; Collectible Farm Toys
at Noon: There will be 30 or 40 pieces of a lifetime
collection, mostly IH, some JD, also implements,
vehicles & parts, see website for detailed list. Misc:
Lumber; Plywood; Welding Iron; Parts; fittings; Vers
Seat; Barn Paint; Electric Wire; Tires; 10-ft. OH
Door; Fire Hose; 6 & 8-in Sewer Pipe & lots more.
For inquiries call Denise Major at (204)825-2339 or
cell (204)825-7219. Visit website for details & lots of
pics. Sierens Auction Service (Rick) (204)744-2364
or (204)526-5047 www.sierensauction.com
for RUSTY & LIZ SOUCH
BINSCARTH, MB - FRIDAY, APRIL 19th - 11:00 AM
for MELVYN AND AUDREY EYOLFSON
ARBORG, MB. - TUESDAY, APRIL 23rd - 11:00 AM
for EINARSON FARMS
Riverton, MB. - WEDNESDAY APRIL 24th - 11:00 AM
CONSIGNMENT SALES
5th ANNAUL KILLARNEY
and DISTRICT SPRING
CONSIGNMENT SALE
HEWSONS ENTERPRISES
INC FARM
EQUIPMENT AUCTION
Killarney, MB
SATURDAY, APRIL 20th - 9:00 AM
Angusville, MB
MONDAY, APRIL 22ND - 9:00 AM
STILL ACCEPTING EQUIPMENT FOR THESE CONSIGNMENT SALES
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www.fraserauction.com EMAIL: [email protected] Auctioneer: Scott Campbell
AUCTION SALES
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
BUILDING SUPPLY AUCTION Sat., Apr 13th
10:00am Stonewall, MB. #12 Patterson Dr. Featuring; LUMBER; Trusses; Metal; Tools; Trailers; Bldg
Supplies; Many Power & Hand Tools; Office Bldg;
BOOK Your Consignments in! Stuart McSherry
(204)467-1858 or (204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com
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AUCTION SALE
Clarence & Verna Kozie
Sat April 20 @ 10:00am Tyndall, Mb
1 Mile East on Hwy # 44 then
South 5 Miles on Hwy #12 then East 1/2 Mile on Rd 8
Everything Shedded & Well Kept
Contact: (204) 755-3360 Email: [email protected]
Tractor & Truck: 98 JD 7210
MFWA Cab A/C Quad Shift w/
Left Hand Rev 3PH 540/1000
Triple Hyd 16.,9 26 18.4 38
3016 hrs, Exc Cond * 75 Dodge
600 gas 5spd x2 w/ 14’ B&H Roll
Tarp 18,000 mil Sft * Combine
& Swather: 80 JD 6620 A/C
STD Chopper, 3022 hrs * 80 Vers
4400 Swather w/ 18’ P/U Reel *
18’ Bat Reel Swather * Equip &
Granary: Eversman Model 250
hyd Scraper * JD 100 16’ Deep
Tiller w/ Degleman Mulchers *
Int 770 5B Plow Auto KickBack * Int 4500 20’ Cult * PowerMetic 60’ Diamond Harrows * JD
220 20’ Tandem Disc * Rockomatic 57 Stone Picker * Int 300 16’ Discer Seeder Box Ext SAFA
* Vers 580 68’ Tandem Sprayer w/ Foam Markers * Rem 552 540 PTO Grain Vac * Westfield 7”
31’ Auger w/ 10HP B&S * 200 bus Grain Hopper Wagon * Fanning Mill * Pencil Auger * Hyd Drill
Fill * 3) Westeel Bins 2) 1350 bus 1) 1650 bus on wood floor * Snowmobile, Misc: 96 Polaris
Indy 500 Liquid Cool * Grain Moisture Tester * Hyd Cylinder * Hyd Hose * Implement Parts *
Steel Wheels * Wood Saw * Along w/ Farm Misc * Some Tools * Antiques
Stuart McSherry
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
Fre-MAr
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CRAIG STORY FARM
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THURSDAY APRIL 18, 2013 10 AM
1 MILE SOUTH OF DARLINGFORD AND 5 NORTH
ON ROAD 39
OWNERS: 204-246-2219 CELL 204-362-8342
SAturDAY, April 13, 10 AM
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Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
NEIL & JEFF FRIESEN, Wawanesa, MB. Farm Retirement Auction Sale Tues., Apr. 23rd, 12:00pm
noon, 2-mi North of Wawanesa on PR 340, 3/4-mi
East. 1979 JD 4240 DSL w/3-pt., dual hyd., quad
range, 540/1000 PTO., complete engine o/haul @
10,000-hrs; JD 3130 DSL w/Leon FEL w/bucket &
bale fork; 1997 Kenworth T600 hwy tractor, Detroit
60 series engine, sleeper cab, 13-SPD trans; 1967
Chev C65 full tandem grain truck, 20-ft. steel box
w/roll-over tarp; Great Dane 48-ft. step deck trailer;
40-ft. logging trailer w/steel uprights, tandem axle;
1982 JD 7720 SP combine, DSL, hydrostatic, JD
PU, 3,700 engine hrs., shedded; 1982 Vers 4400
SP swather, 22-ft., new knife, guards & canvas;
1978 JD 7721 PT combine, JD PU; MF 751 PT
combine; 2000 JD 13.5-ft. discbine 946 MoCo impeller hay conditioner; JD 1600A 16-ft. mower conditioner w/new pump; Hesston 4755 square baler,
medium square 33x31-in.; PMI RP1411 round baler; Neimier rotary hay rake; Westfield 7-in.x41-ft.
auger w/near new Honda 13-HP engine; Edwards
28-ft. HD Cultivator w/air seeder package & Morris
7130 tow behind tank w/fill auger; JD 15-ft. Model
310 tandem disc; JD 16 ft. 9350 DD press drill, pan
press & shop made transport; Haul-All 12-ft. dual
hopper tank drill fill; Morris 21-ft. CP719 deep tiller;
Morris 29-ft. CP625 deep tiller; Herman 61-ft. tine
harrowbar; 1,000-gal. Stainless water tank on 4
wheel trailer; Toledo {Techmaster} 3,000-lb. scale;
Good roller mill 5-HP 220V motor; 10x15-ft. truck
axle scale; Speeder band saw 7x12-in.; Wheatheart
hyd bin sweep w/hoses; 2 mower decks for JD garden tractor 30-in. & 47-in.; 2 furrow JD 3-PT plough.
3-pt. Hitch blade; Extension for JD bucket; 2011
Husqvarna RZ30-16 0 turn lawn mower, like new.
Mr. Neil Friesen is retiring from farming & Jeff has
also decided to sell his equipment. For info contact:
Neil (204)824-2339 or cell (204)761-8635. Check
websites www.mrankinauctions.com & www.rosstaylorauction.com Murray Rankin Auctions Murray
(204)534-7401 Killarney, MB. Ross Taylor Auction
Service Ross (204)522-5356 Brock (204)522-6396
Reston, MB.
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Ed And LAurA FriEsEn
Morris, MAnitoBA
rEtirEMEnt FArM
Auction
LocAtion from morriS two miLeS
weSt on 23 And two miLeS north
on roAd 2e, YArd #25155 or 7
miLeS South from Pr 205 eASt of
roSenort.
FridAY, ApriL 12, 5 pM
· 1979 Case 2390, power shift, duals, 1000 pto
6052 hrs, 165 HP. engine and transmission
overhauled, in 08 complete with Trimble auto
steer serial #7895012
· 1975 Case 970 Diesel standard shift, duals and
trimble harness, 93 hp serial #8787414
· 1960 Massey Ferguson 65 with 3 pth pto and
loader. 42 hp. serial #SGM 663189
· Simplicity 7790 with Lambordinie diesel
Garden tractor 889 hrs Hydrostatic drive,
mower and tiller
· 1983 Massey Ferguson 860 Combine, AT6-354
Perkins engine gear drive, 9001 head with
melroe Pickup, Field ready, 3305 hrs. serial
#1746-18149
· John Deere 7700 Turbo Diesel combine.
6 belt JD Pickup on 212, head,
Chopper, all in very good condition
from Neighbor Art Friesen 204-746-8611
See our website for photos and listings
www.billklassen.com
or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
Bill Klassen Auctioneers
[email protected]
For more information please contact
Ed and Laura Friesen (204) 746-8596
Supper Available
Go public with an ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds. Phone 1-800-782-0794.
tractors
• 2002JohnDeere9520T,36inbelttracks,rubber
blockairride,4remotes,frontandsideweight
package, beacon light, power shift, wired for
JohnDeerestarfireautosteer,greenlightedin
Springof2012atEnnsBros.Morris.3903hours
atlisting,serial#901062
• 2005 John Deere 8520 MFWD 480/ 80 R 50
duals, front 480/85/ R34. Power shift, 3pth,
w/cat 3 quick hitch, front weight package, 4
remotes,4143hoursatlistingserial#033734
• 2008JohnDeere6430MFWDtractorwithcab,
IVTtransmission,3pth,dualpto,dualhydraulic,
complete with JD 673 self level loader and
bucketjoystickcontrol.1419oneownerhours
• John Deere quick tach pallet forks. Sells after
6430
• 2008 John Deere 2520 yardTractor, HST, with
rollbar,200CXloader.Industrialtires,fwa.62D
driveoverbellymountmower.Totalhours400
showing
• 1983Case2390pto,powershift,frontweights,
4868oneownerhours
• 1997 IH 9300 Eagle tandem grain truck, air
ride suspension, 244 WB, automatic Chassis
greaser 425, hp Cummins, 13 speed Cancade
unibody 20ft x 8.5 x 66’’, Michelle’s roll tarp.
Remote tail gate and hoist control, 11 x
24.5 aluminum buds. Pintle hook up, serial
#2HSFBRE7UC036339,MBsaftied.
• 2004Macktandemgraintruck,480hpmack.13
sp, maxitorque Fuller. 20 x 8.5 x 66’’ Loadline
box with remote tail gate and hoist control
and Michelle’s roll tarp, air ride suspension,
Pintlehookup,11x24.5albuminbuds,serial#
1M1AEO7Y141NO191174MR21084MBsaftied.
• 2010 Loadline full tandem all around 30 ft
dualhoppergraintrailerpup,66insides,sight
glasses,airgauges,fenders11x24.5aluminum
buds.Michelesrolltarp
• 1976 Ford F-700 V8 gas, 5 & 2 transmission,
23000 Gvw. Tag with lift and brakes, 18 ft
midland,boxwithheadlifthoist,rolltarp.Good
10x20rubber,goodfarmrunnersellswithout
safety,VIN#N70EVW85945
• New set of Dual tandem chrome fenders, for
truckortrailer
• 1989IHEagletandemcabandchassis,runsbut
needs engine work, 855 Cummins, 13 speed.
Sellsasis
• 2008PolarisQuad850ccetc,loadedmachine
• Concord3400aircartwith47ftConcordseeder
10’’ space dutch knife openers, single chute,
havesetof10’’shovelsforconcordseeder
• Summers 54 ft super C chisel plow with
mountedharrows,andNH3Kit.hydwinchon
rearhitch
• Bourgault7200superharrows5/8x24inteeth,
excellentcondition
• 27ftIHCModel5500chiselplowwithmulchers
• CollectorcarsandtrucksandTractors,etc.
This is a partial listing please check our website
www.billklassen.com for listing and photos
or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
[email protected]
For information call
Owner Bernie Friesen (204 ) 746-2045 or 5014
Owner Herman Martens 204 326 154
Our spring catalog coming to your farm
mail box mid-March
• 1990 – CASE IH- 9170, 4X4, 6750 hours, 855 A
cummins / BIG CAM, 12 speed powershift trans.
• 1997- CASE IH- 9370, 4X4, 6211 hours, N14 cummins,
24 speed
• 1992 - CASEIH - 1680 combine, 2687 hours, cummins
engine, 1015 P/U
• MF - 220, S/P swather, 1633 hours, 25ft., UII-Pick-up
Reel,
• Bourgault Air Seeder - 8800 cult., 36ft., floating hitch
• 2011 Fusion, 70ft., Heavy Harrow Bar, 9/16” X 24” tines
• 1980 HC - 2575, Semi-Truck-Day Cab, 3406 CAT
Engine, this truck is Safetied
• 1992 - Load King Lode Handler 40ft, Grain trailer, this
trailer is also Safetied
Internet Bidding with bidspotter.com
INTERNET BIDDING
BEGINNING
AT 11:30 AM
See our website www.billklassen.com
or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
[email protected]
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Saskatchewan Auctions
JOHN & GAYLA HEDSTROM AUCTION Dubuc,
SK. Sun., Apr 21st, 2013 11:00am. 8 S, 2 E, 1/2
SOUTH OF DUBUC. DUBUC, SK. CONTACT:
(306)877-4706. TRACTORS: 1977 Vers 700 Series
II 4WD cummings V8, cab, air, clamp on 18.4x38
duels, good inside tires, 2,000-hrs on major showing 7,000-hrs; MF 1105 DSL cab, air, good rubber,
FEL; MF 150 Gas 3-PTH, like new rubber, FEL,
good. EXCAVATING: *1999 Case 590 Super L Series II Backhoe ride control, 1-yd FEL bucket, extend-a-hoe, 24-in. bucket, AWD, delux seat, power
shuttle, cummings DSL, Real nice* Fifth Wheel
Heavy homebuilt 16-ft. tandem axle trailer on converter; BUCYRUS ERIE 8.5-yd pull scraper. COMBINE: 1981 MF 860 SP Combine cab, PU, chopper,
chaff spreader, air foil sieves, hydro. SEEDING: JD
1610 33-ft. cultivator, air package, granular package, liquid fert package, car bide tip knives w/packers, JD 655 air tanks; HAYING & CATTLE: 2 NH
855 round balers; NH SD rake; Flexicoil trailer post
pounder w/motor & hyd. SWATHERS: Vers 20-ft.
SP Swather cab, bat reel, PU reel, MF #35 20-ft.
PTO Swather; Swather mover. TILLAGE: JD 16-ft.
offset disc; Case 30-ft. deep tillage; Morris 731 33ft. deep tillage, harrows; AUGERS: Secundiak 50x8
swing-a-way Auger; Secundiak 7x41 Auger ES;
Secundiak 6x37 Auger Honda engine; TRUCKS:
1978 GMC 6500 Tandem 3-ton box, hoist, new motor, windshield, V8 5-SPD, air brakes; 1972 Ford
600 15-ft. box & hoist; 1996 Chev 6.5 DSL 1/2-ton
extend-a-cab, auto; YARD & RECREATION: Club
cadette RZT zero turn 50-in. mower; Bush hog
3615 10-ft. heavy duty PTO mower; 60-in. rotary
3-PTH mower; Starcraft 18-ft. boat w/140-HP motor, trailer. Plus misc equipment & shop items.
NOTE: John & Gayle are retiring from farming. Not
many small items. Online bidding 1:00pm. Visit
www.ukrainezauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK. (306)647-2661. License #915851.
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APRIL CONSIGNMENT SALES
5th ANNUAL KILLARNEY & DISTRICT EQUIPMENT
CONSIGNMENT AUCTION
of KILLARNEY, MB - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20th at 9:00 AM
DIRECTIONS: Sale will be held at the farm of Del & Gert Smith, ½ mile west of the Jct of #3 & #18 Hwys. (Just off #3 hwy across from water tower)
ORDER OF SALE: 9:00am – 12:00pm (misc, tools, palleted lots) 12:00pm – (livestock related items followed by Grain Bins & major equipment)
THIS IS A VERY EARLY LIST AND CONTAINS ONLY THE ITEMS CONSIGNED AT TIME OF PRINTING. THIS WILL BE A VERY LARGE AUCTION BY SALE DAY!!!
GRAIN BINS: (MUST BE MOVED by AUGUST 1st 2013): Yard 1 - NW 4-3-19: *Bin #3 - Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, Slide down door, Half-round aeration, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000
Bushels *Bin #4 - Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, New style door, Half-round aeration, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000 Bushels *Bin #5 – Westeel, Ladder, New style door, large lid, Half-round aeration, 18’
Diameter 7 Tier, 5900 Bushels Yard 2-SE 9-3-19: *Bin #E1 – Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, Slide down door, 19’, 6 Tier, 4000 Bushels *Bin #E2– Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, Slide down door, 19’, 6 Tier, 4000
Bushels *Bin #E3 – Brock, Ladder, 5000 Bushels *Bin #E4– Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, Slide down door, 19’, 6 Tier, 4000 Bushels Yard 3-NW 28-2-19: *Bin #S1 – Westeel-Rosco, OPI Temperature
Cable, Ladder, slide down door, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000 Bushels *Bin #S2 – Westeel-Rosco, OPI Temperature Cable, No Ladder, slide down door, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000 Bushels Yard 4 –SE
16-3-19 *Bin #F1 – Chief Westland, Ladder, 4600 Bushels *Bin #F2 – Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, New style door, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000 Bushels *Bin #F4- Westeel-Rosco, Ladder, Slide down
door, 14’ Diameter, 6 Tier, 1950 Bushels Yard 5- NE 31-2-20: *Bin #V1 – Butler, Ladder, 18’ Diameter, 5000 Bushels *Bin #V2 – Westeel, OPI Temperature Cable, Ladder, New Style door, Halfround aeration, 19’ Diameter, 8 Tier, 5000 BushelsBins will be sold by picture and buyers are welcome to pre-inspect bins in the yards they are located. All the bins are sold to be moved
and must be removed by August 1st 2013. Click on the link below for a Google Map with directions to bin yards. Any questions on these bins please call Del Smith 1-204-534-7783
Link to map of bins: https://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?msid=212560892911293326367.0004d0ee59e65792a79fe&msa=0 - Information on bin moving companies will be posted soon.
HARVEST & HAYING EQUIPMENT: *JD 7720 Turbo sp combine *JD straight cut header w/batt reel *White 8650 pt combine (always shedded) *21’ IH #75 pt swather (black reel) *JD 330 Rd Baler *NH 65
Baler *NH 1033 sq bale wagon *JD 1600A moco *14’ JD 1424 moco *9’ NH 479 haybine *side delivery hay rake *Massey Hay Rake TRACTORS: *JD 4020 2wd tractor w/Leon loader *WD Allis Chalmers
Tractor, 3 PT, Hitch, Pulley, Good Rubber, Mag., Starts Good AUGERS & GRAIN HANDLING: *7”x37’ Sakundiak auger w/18hp B+S engine SEED & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: *14’ JD 360 off set disc *(NEW)
8’ 2422 off set disc w/24” blades *Morris #MH-310 Hoe Drill (2-10’) SPRAYER: *95’ Flexi Coil Sprayer #62, 800 gal tank, regular monitor, hydraulic pumps, single nozzle TRUCKS & TRAILERS: *2007
Kenworth T2000 t/a w/New 20’ grain box, 13 spd Trans, 475hp Cummins, Safetied *1982 Chev 350 Truck with 12’ Deck, Automatic, Hitch Back, very clean *1978 Ford F600 s/a grain truck w/15’ B+H,
5+2 Trans *2005 26’ Rainbow flat deck Pintle hitch trailer w/dual wheel tandem axels (2-10,000lbs) *NEW 7’ x 16’ Sure-Trac Utility Trailer, Steel Mesh Folding Gate, 2 x 3500 lb Axles *NEW 6’ x 12’
Friesen Utility Trailer, Steel Mesh Folding Rear Gate *2000 Bergen 24’ T/A Gooseneck Stock Trailer *t/a utility wagon w/ball hitch *s/a utility wagon w/ball hitch NEW TRUCK BOXES: *(2) New 20’x8 ½
‘x58” grain boxes *(2) New 15’ gravel boxes *(1) New 28’ gravel box (made for trailer running gear) OTHER EQUIPMENT: *NEW 12’ box blade scraper *NEW 3pt harrow *Leon 425 Hyd Push –Off Manure
Spreader *(3) large hose reels loaded with 6” water hose LIVESTOCK RELATED ITEMS: *round bale feeders *Aprrox 700 treated fence posts ATVS & LAWN and GARDEN: *2005 Arctic Cat 250cc quad w/4wd, good rubber, hi/low Trans *JD F525 front deck mower w/48” deck *JD 205 Scrub
Cutter (Gyra Mower) never been used NEW TIRES & TIRE TUBES: *New 12-16.5 skid steer tires *New 10-16.5 skid steer tires *New 12.5-18 backhoe tires *New 18.4-38 tire tubes *New 14.9-28 tire tubes NEW GOODS: *Selection of New seats (tractor, skid steer, lawn tractor, gator, ECT.) *New
16’ transport grade chains *New 5/16 load binders (ratchet and over center style) *New 2” ratchet straps *New 1” impact wrench *New lock boxes and tool boxes *New flexible ratchet combination wrench sets *New top links *Paint JD green (1 gallon) *Paint CaseIH red (1 gallon) INDUSTRIAL:
*CAT Fork Lift, 8’8” Lift Height, 2 Stage, 5000 lb, Propane eng. TOOLS & SHOP EQUIPMENT: *Metal Cutting Band Saw *3/4 drive socket set *Tap & Die set *Large flat wrench set *4800watt construction heaters *Air Operated Tire changer *Gas Engine Powered Generator/Welder (Briggs & Stratton
Engine/Lincoln Welder) TANKS & PUMPS: *2000gal poly water tank (green) *(2) 1250gal poly water tanks *3” water pump w/7hp gas engine (only one season old) *110 gallon skid tank w/12 volt pump, auto shut off nozzle *2003 Polywest Bandit 3400 US Gallon Liquid Fertilizer Caddy w/ Honda
Pump (2 x 1700 US Gallon Cone Bottom Tanks) OTHER ITEMS & MISCELANEOUS: *concrete stairs & landings w/railings *Assortment of electric motors (various sizes) *3ph electric motors *hyd cylinders *Hydraulic Driven Reel Roller * 2 Rolls of 2 ½ “ Air Seeder Hose (Approx) 75’ long – each)
*2 ½” HD Tow Rope (Approx – 75’ long) *(69) USED Dutch NH3 Fertilizer Knives *Propane Burner
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL Del Smith 204-534-7783
1st ANNUAL HEWSON’S ENTERPRISES EQUIPMENT
CONSIGNMENT AUCTION
of ANGUSVILLE, MB - MONDAY APRIL 22nd at 9:00 AM
DIRECTIONS: Sale will be held on the Hewson’s Enterprises lot in the North West corner of the town of Angusville, MB. just off highway #45. (Look for the elevator) Watch for signs
THIS IS A VERY EARLY LIST AND CONTAINS ONLY THE ITEMS CONSIGNED AT TIME OF PRINTING. THIS WILL BE A VERY LARGE AUCTION BY SALE DAY!!!
TRACTORS: 1989 Case IH 7120 2WD Tractor, 155HP, 7400 hrs showing, duals, good shape, always shedded 1975 JD 4430 2wd tractor w/9800hrs showing, new clutch, dual PTO (good runner), s/
n034431R JD 4020 2wd tractor w/2 remote hyd, dual pto, 12 volt conversion, 12519hrs showing, s/n1223R187514R HARVEST EQUIPMENT: NH TX 36 sp combine w/3000hrs showing 25’ MacDon
970 header w/Bi-Directional adapter 18’ Versatile 400 sp swather 8’ FarmKing metal swath roller SPRAYER: 70’ Flexi Coil 55 Sprayer, Foam Marker, 650 Gallon tank w/ Front mixing tank, Serviced &
Field Ready, Auto Rate, Auro Fold HAYING & SILAGE EQUIPMENT: JD 566 rd baler w/approx 14000 bales, twine tie, new top rollers, s/nX129878 (hasn’t been used in 2 years) NH Rd Baler 851, Auto
Wrap Fox sp forage harvester Fox pt forage harvester High dump silage wagon Massey side Delivery Hay Rake SEED & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: Valmar 500 granular applicator w/canola gears 1995
47’ CaseIH 5600 chisel plow w/mounted harrows 1989 61’ Herman harrow 70’ Herman hyd harrows (good tines) GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT: Toxowick 570 Grain Dryer 52’ Westfield Grain Auger
12” x 36’ U Trough – HD Drag Auger 6” X 16’ Farm King Pencil Auger 6” x 10 Pencil auger FEED PROCESSING EQUIPMENT: NH 357 Mix Mill w/ Bale Feeder (Good condition) TRAILERS: s/a 5th wheel
stock trailer 1984 Camper Trailer VEHICLES: 2002 Pontiac Bonneville w/168000kms showing, s/n1G2HX54K224179973, good runner, (Pre safety will be done) 2001 Ford F-150 Lariat 4x4 Ext Cab
w/246000kms showing (87000kms on new engine), Safetied, 2FTRX18W2YCB04866 1995 Chev Blazer s/n1GNDT13W2SK155131 1995 Buick Le Sabre LDT s/n1G4HR52L5SH415683 1986 Chrysler
K-Car w/150,000kms showing (Good Cond) 1970’s International Grain Truck, S/N226611005339 Pontiac 6000 car LAWN & GARDEN, ATV’s: 2001 Honda 450 4x4 quad (1 owner unit) s/n222014200940
2007 Honda 250R dirt bike s/nCRF250R Komelite Chainsaw OTHER ITEMS: Diesel Generator 5000 KW Commercial electrical panel boxes Various used tires (singles/pairs/full sets) 9’ fuel tank stand
(hold 1000 gal tank) Westward ½ hp drill press Assorted tools 16hp Kohler auger engine Renn Post Pounder JD 6 Ton 4 Wheel Wagon 3PT HD Bale Prong Fuel Tank Stand – 2 x 300 Gal Tanks & 2 x 500
Gal Tanks Welder Miller 200 amp, set on Gooseneck Trailer (10,000 lb axles) (3) 32” Color TV’s (2) Electric Drill 12” x 18” Spruce & Fir Beams – Various Lengths 12” x 12” Spruce & Fir Beams – Various
Lengths Inland Hydraulic Bale Unwinder Brake Pads Baseboard Heaters (1) Box – Picture Frames Dumbbell weights Box – Jars Stencil Machine Hoe Twine Telescope Welding Helmet Saw Blade Tack
Ice Hook Box – Tupperware Rake Tooth Filters BBQ Grinder Disks Speakers Tool Box Tools B.B. Motor Chicken Plucker
Truck Tool Box Chestwader Xmas Lights Boxing Gloves TV for Camper Trailer
Dog Kennel Box – Board Games & Jig Saw Puzzles Storm Door 17” Tires Vacuum Cleaner Pump Wicker Basket DVD’s Router Electric Motor Metal Cut Off Saw Box – Misc items 32” Color TV TV/Media
Cabinet 16 HP Briggs & Stratton Auger Motor, Electric Start, s/n 1-138112 Brass Coffee Table – Glass Top Magazine Rack – wicker Pierrade Tefal Cooker (6) Boxes Misc – Kitchen Ware Wicker Basket
Air Mattress & Pump Heat Blanket Car Speakers and Amp – 500 Amp & box
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO CONSIGN CONTACT Hewson’s Enterprises 204-773-3025 E-Mail [email protected]
PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO ADD YOUR CONSIGNMENT TO THESE SALES TODAY
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Ken & Darlene Laycock
Of Saltcoats, SK
Fri. April 26th @ 10:30am
Directions: From Yorkton go 19 Kms East on Hwy 16 to Atwater
Grid # 629, then 16 1/2 Kms South & 1.2 Kms East
TRACTORS: CASE 9330 4wd • CASE 2096 2wd • CASE 2390
• DOZER BLADE: LEON 9ft. • COMBINES: Two INTERNATIONAL 914’s • SWATHERS: VERSTILE 400 SP • INTERNATIONAL 75 • SWATH ROLLERS: FLEXICOIL 6FT. • GRAIN
TRUCKS: GMC 6500 • AIR SEEDER: BOURGAULT 8800
32ft. c/w 2115 Air Cart • CULTIVATORS: MORRIS CP 631
35 Ft. Chisel Plow w/ MTH • MORRIS 25 Ft. Chisel Plow w/
MTH • TANDEM DISK: EZEE ON 20ft. •SPRAYER: FLEXICOIL 65 w/3800L Tank • HARROWBAR: MORRIS 68ft.
• HARROWPACKER BAR: RITEWAY RHP446 •ROCK
PICKER: Two SCHULTES • AUGERS: BUHLER 10” X 70 Ft
• WESTFIELD W80-51 • SAKUNDIAK HD7-37 • TANKS • ANTIQUE TRUCKS & TRACTORS • BINS & BUILDINGS:
Two TWISTERS • Four WESTEELS • Two BEHLENS • LAWN
& GARDEN EQUIP. • MISC. & HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
For More info Visit our website or Call Toll Free
1-800-667-2075
hodginsauctioneers.com
SK PL # 915407 • AB PL # 180827
UNRESERVED CONSTRUCITON EQUIPMENT
Complete Dispersal For
L. LARSON TRUCKING
KAMSACK, SK
MON APRIL 29TH @ 9:30am SHARP!
Directions: 605 Park Street West, Kamsack SK
1-800-667-2075
SK PL # 915407
AB PL # 180827
CRAWLER TRACTOR: CAT D7G-92V Series • WHEEL LOADERS: 2004 JOHN DEERE644J W/ 4YD. Bucket • CASE W14 w/
15d. Bucket • MOTORGRADER: CAT 16 w/ P/S Trans., Ripper
• HYDRAULIC EXCAVATOR: FIAT ALLIS FL200LC • SKID STEER
LOADER: 2007 JOHN DEERE 317 w/60” Bucket • AGGREGATE
EQUIPMENT: • 40ft. Radial Stacker w/lister • TRUCK TRACTORS:
KENWORTH W900L •1999 FREIGHTLINER • MACK CH613 •
GRAVEL TRUCKS: MACK R600 • • SERVICE TRUCK: FORD F250
4wd, D. Eng. • GRAVEL TRAILERS: Two ARNES • MIDLAND •
LOWBOY TRAILER: FRUEHAUF • ATTACHMENTS • DISKER: CCIL
• Two IH 100 Press Drills • SPRAYER: BRANDT •SHOP EQUIPMENT: WELDER •CUTTING TORCH • AIR COMP. • HYD. JACKS
REAL ESTATE: 605 & 613 Park Street West
(Insulated Work Shop & Quonset Shop)
For More info visit the website or call Toll Free
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ALLEN FAYE AUCTION Bankend, SK. Thurs., Apr
18th, 2013 10:30am. Directions: 4 S TO GILBERT
ROAD ON HWY 35, 4 E, 1/2 NORTH, BANKEND
SK. CONTACT: (306)272-7274 OR (306)543-3102.
TRACTORS: 2002 2310 Buhler Vers Tractor
12-SPD PS, 20.8x38 factory duels, 330-HP, 4 hyd,
differential lock, 2,304-hrs, MINT; 1994 Vers 846
Tractor 4WD, 4 hyd, 18,4x38 factory duels,
3,964-hrs, Excellent; 1999 Case IH CX100 DSL,
3-PTH, 2 PTO’s, 3 hyd, differential lock, 18.4x34
tires, 2,800-hrs; 1979 Deutz 130-06 cab, air, protector II delux cab, Leons 767 FEL, duels, 6,489-hrs,
Real Nice; 1967 Case 730 square fenders, gas,
707 FEL, P steering (306)675-4588. COMBINES:
1999 2388 Case IH SP Combine hydro, 2566 engine, 2127 rotor hrs, hopper extensions, long augers, rake up PU, chopper, spreader, auto header
excellent (25% down, interest free balance on or
before Aug. 15th, 2013); 1992 Case IH 1680 SP
Combine Chopper, headers, long auger, hopper extensions, hydro, 2,400-hrs, recent new rotor, Nice
(25% down, interest free balance on or before Aug.
15th, 2013). SWATHER: 1997 #2930 30-ft. Premier
Turbo SP Swather Macdon 960 header, 3 way
swath, PU reel, leveling wheels, large rear wheels,
2-SPD hi/low, 1,500-hrs, Real nice (25% down, interest free balance on or before Aug. 15th, 2013).
TRUCKS: 1985 GMC General DSL 20-ft. box, hoist,
tarp, tandem, 13-SPD Fuller Detroit silver 92,
385-HP Engine, Good SER: 1GDT9E4J3FV625969
1973 GMC 3-Ton C-65 16-ft. steel box, hoist, tarp,
V8 5x2, 46,000-mi SERIAL: CCE673V141007;
1973 Chev 3-Ton 16-ft. steel box, hoist, tarp, 633,
5x2 trans (306)675-4588. SEEDING: Bourgault
#8800 48-ft. cultivator w/air package, harrows,
spoons, & 2003 Bourgault 5250 tank, 250-bu, 3
compartment, Excellent; TILLAGE: Morris #8900
35-ft. Cultivator, harrows, floating pitch, w/anhydrous package, Real Nice; Morris 32-ft. Vibrashank,
good harrows; Leons 36-ft. rodweeder, multiplex,
harrows; HARROWS: Morris Wrangler II Harrow
packer bar, real nice; Flexicoil system 82, 70-ft. harrow bar, good harrows; AUGERS: 2007 Wheatheart
8x46 Auger Robin 25-HP ES Motor w/Wheatheart
bin sweep on self propelled mover, Mint; Secundiak
HD 7-1600 51-ft. Auger, electric motor; Secundiak
7x45 auger w/bin sweep, like new Kohler 15-HP
motor; Westfield MK-100-61 10x60 mechanical
swing-a-way, excellent; Malco PTO auger. STONE
PICKERS: Degelman 3 bat stonepicker; Degelman
3 bat chain stonepicker; Degleman 14-ft. stone
rake; SCRAPER: Leons #900 9.5-yd Push scraper
(upgraded to large front tires), Excellent; SPRAYER: Brandt QF1000 80-ft. sprayer autofold, foam
markers, wind cones, chemical mixer, Real Nice.
Plus misc equipment, vehicles, shop. NOTE: Allan
is retiring. Machinery is above average to excellent
shape & shedded. All major equipment is one owner & low houred. This is one of the best sales in the
area. Internet Bidding 1:00pm. Visit www.ukrainezauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale
conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK.
(306)647-2661. License #915851.
HOME QUARTER, FARM & INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT AUCTION ROSS (DAVID) & JOYCE KING
101115037 Saskatchewan Ltd. CHOICELAND, SK.
LOCATION: 6.4-km West of Choiceland on Hwy
#55 & 4.8-km North. DATE: WED., APR. 24, 2013
10:00am PROPERTY TO BE SOLD AT 1:00pm,
Apr 24th. VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT. PHONE
(306)428-2700. LAND: NW27-52-18 W2. Approx
159-acs large mature very well kept yard site. 1981
Nelson
bungalow, over 1,900-sq.ft. QUONSET:
46x100; 5 Westeel; 1, 4,750-bu.; 4 Westeel 3,300bu bins. Excellent opportunity to purchase a very
well maintained, mature yard w/an excellent shelterbelt that is close to hunting, fishing or an excellent farm base. TERMS & CONDITIONS: Sold AS
IS, WHERE IS, CONDITION. A minimum of 10%
Non-refundable deposit. Subject to seller’s approval
of high bid. Balance of terms available on our web
site or call Balicki Auctions. TRACTORS: JD 4960
FWA, 1993, 5,899-hrs, LPTO, all new rubber; JD
8440 FWD, shows 8,616-hrs (10-hrs on new motor), LPTO; JD 4630, 1976; MF 90 LPTO. DOZER:
JD 544 HD; GPS EZ STEER: Trimble w/light bar;
COMBINES: JD 9600 SP, 1997; JD 7720; HEADERS: JD 922 flex 22-ft.; JD 222, 22-ft. flex;
SWATHER: JD 2420, 25-ft., cab, 4 cyl DSL; INDUSTRIAL LOADERS: Cat 966A, 1967, FWD; MF
470 4WD; 2 Wilco log grapples; SAWMILL: P.A.
Foundry #2 portable mill on 56-ft.x14-in. I-Beams
w/head & edger saws, PTO; PLANER: Beaver 49
No. 8 PTO; TRUCKS: 1976 IHC 1600 14-ft. B&H;
1965 Ford Tandem, WI 8.5x18-ft.; 1973 Ford Louisville 8000 tandem; 1982 Renn 14-ft. Gravel box;
1969 Ford stepside; DRYER: Drymor Hum, nbird
1982 fully automatic 90-bu.; AIR SEEDER: JD 665
air seeder, 40-ft. on JD 610; DISC: Ford 242, 33-ft.,
tandem disc. Farm equipment, shop equipment,
tools & many items to numerous to mention. SEE
OUR Web site or call for details. TERMS- To persons unknown to our company- cash, bank draft, or
cheque w/irrevocable letter of credit from bank.
CONDUCTED BY: BALICKI AUCTIONS PRINCE
ALBERT, SK. PL #915694 PHONE (306)922-6171
or (306)961-7553 www.balickiauctions.com
MACK AUCTION CO. presents a farm equipment
auction for Brian Dreger (306)464-4919 Mon., Apr
22, 2013, 10:00a.m. Direction from Hwy 39 at Lang,
SK. Go 1-mi North & 7-mi East. Watch for signs!
Live internet bidding www.bidspotter.com. 2002
Case IH STX 375 Quad Trac 4-WD tractor w/Trimble 750 Autosteer; 2009 NH TV 6070 bidirectional
tractor w/FEL & 965-hrs; Case IH 2188 SP combine
w/2315 rotor hrs; 36-ft Macdon 960 Draper harvest
header; 25-ft Macdon draper harvest header; Macdon header adapters for Case IH; Macdon header
adapter for NH; 1983 IH S1900 tandem grain truck
w/466 DSL & on board grain vac; shop built header
trailer; steel drum swath roller; 39-ft Flexi-coil 5000
air drill w/tow between Flexi-coil 3850 air tank; 40-ft
Co-op 204 cultivator; Case 4490 4-WD custom built
SP 80-ft sprayer w/Trimble GPS & 1000-gal., poly
tank; Wheatheart BH 8-36 auger w/25-HP Kohler &
mover, Brandt 10-60 hyd swing auger; Sakundiak
8-60 swing auger; Sakundiak 6-20 auger w/electric
motor; Demco 300-bu hopper wagon w/unload augers; Haul All tote tank mounted on shop built trailer; DMC #44 high capacity grain cleaner; Good Will
Fanning Mill; Carter Disc; NH pallet forks; JD 10-ft
land leveller; shop built 14-ft pull scraper; 3-PTH
12-ft cultivator; 3-PTH 5 bottom disc plow; tandem
axle utility trailer; 1250-gal. poly tank; steel waste
oil tank; antique JD auger; antique stove & washing
machine; IH stationery engines; 2010 Kubota
26-HP DSL F2680 front mount lawn mower
w/122-hrs; 2010 4-WD Yamaha Rhino Special Edition 700 EFI side by side; Yamaha 225 Tri Moto.
Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill &
photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter.
(306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co.
PL 311962.
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MACK AUCTION CO. presents a clean well maintained farm equipment auction for Garth & Marla
Hurford (306)332-7900. Sat., April 20, 2013
10:00am. Directions from Balcarres, SK go 5-mi
North of Balcarres on Hwy 310. Watch for Signs!
Live internet bidding at www.Bispotter.com. 2009
Kubota M108X FWA tractor w/Kubota M45 FEL
w/only 710-hrs; Case IH 7130 2WD tractor w/Auto
Steer GPS & duals; JD 322 lawn tractor w/50-in
mower; 1999 JD 9610 SP combine w/2362 sep hrs;
30-ft 2005 Honey Bee NH94C straight cut header
w/UII PU reel w/pea cross auger & flex finger lifters;
30-ft Westward 3000 PT swather w/PU reel & Roto
Shear, Douglas poly drum swath roller; 1993 GMC
Topkick tandem axle grain truck w/3116 Cat DSL
engine & 96,900-kms; 1980 Western Star tandem
axle grain truck w/automatic trans & Cummins engine; 1974 Dodge 600 3-ton grain truck; 33-ft Case
IH 5600 seeding tool & JD 787 air tank w/Atom Jet
Side Bank liquid openers; Pattison CB 1300-gal. liquid fertilizer caddy w/Honda engine; 60-ft Flexi-Coil
tine harrows; Graham Hamey 14-ft cultivator w/Morris Harrows; Rolo Flex 14-ft cultivator w/tine harrows; 60-ft Jetstream 20th Anniversary computer
sprayer; Sakundiak HD 10-2000 swing auger; Sakundiak 8-1600 auger w/25-HP Subuaru engine &
Wheatheart mover; Sakundiak 7-45 grain auger
w/Kohler engine; 29-ft tandem axle tow compartment grain trailer w/roll tarp; 100-bu hopper grain
wagon; Schulte hyd drive rock picker; Buhler Farm
King 720 3-PTH mover; 3-PTH angle blade; 1000gal. water tank; Honda 11-HP pressure washer;
Forney welder; Dewalt chop saw; Honda generator;
plus much more!! Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on Facebook
& Twitter. (306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack
Auction Co. PL 311962.
auction for the Estate of Warren Domres, Fri., Apr
19, 2013 10:00am. Directions from Lemberg, SK.
3-mi West on Hwy 22 turn South on Gardiner Road
& go 5-mi South, 1-mi West, 1-mi South, 1-mi West,
& 3/4-miles South. Live internet bidding at www.bidspotter.com. Case 4490 4-WD tractor w/PTO; Case
2390 2-WD tractor; Case 1270 2-WD tractor; Case
1070 2-WD tractor; David Brown 990 DSL 2-WD
tractor; IH 1066 2-WD tractor; Case 830 DSL 2-WD
tractor w/FEL & round fenders; Ford 8N 2-WD tractor; 1984 Ford 9000 LTL tandem grain truck
w/13-spd Cummins & 2 seed compartment box; 27ft Flexi-coil 5000 double shoot air drill w/JD 787 air
tank; JD 8820 Titan II SP combine; 30-ft JD 230
Rigid straight cut combine header; 2006 4-WD Duramax Chev auto Silverado crew cab truck w/leather & sunroof; 1974 GMC 6000 3-ton grain truck
w/wood box & roll tarp; 1966 IH 1500 grain truck
w/steel box & hoist; 1987 Ford Lariat F-150 4-WD
extended cab truck; 1976 GMC half ton truck; 2006
Ski-Doo Rotax 550F w/725-mi; Polaris Sportsman
800 quad w/winch & heated handle bars; Parker
400-bu grain cart; JD 7721 PT combine; Farm King
steel drum swath roller; 30-ft Case 730 PT swather
w/UII PU reel; 24-ft Vers PT swather; 29-ft IH 75 PT
swather w/batt reel; 3, 3 wheeled header transports; 2, Goebel 4,400-bu bins on steel floors;
Twister 4,000-bu bins on steel floor; Westeel 4,000bu bin on steel floor; Westeel 2,700-bu bin on steel
floor; Westeel 1,950-bu bin on steel floor; Westeel
1,850-bu hopper bottom bin; Friesen 2,000-bu hopper bottom bin; Flaman & Caldwell aeration fans;
OPI bin monitor system; Walinga 510 grain vac;
Brandt MD 10-50 swing auger; Brandt 8-52 Supercharged PTO auger; Sakundiak 7-37 auger w/Kohler; Sakundiak 6-41 auger w/electric motor; Hart
Uniflow 3 roller grain cleaner; Labtronics 919 grain
moisture tester; Load Trail tandem axle car trailer; 2
steel 110-bu hopper wagons; 3-hyd dump wagons;
500-gal. poly tank on walking axles; 100-ft Brandt
QF 1500 field sprayer; 85-ft Brandt field sprayer;
20-ft 3-PTH sprayer; 2, 1200-gal. poly water tanks;
Chem Handler I mixer; banjo pumps & hoses, shopbuilt flax straw buncher; hyd. log splitter; front
mount snow blower; 3-PTH 3 bottom plow; 3-PTH
road scraper blade; 3-PTH 7-ft cultivator; 3-PTH
Riteway mower; Charge Air 60-gal. air compressor;
ATV floor jack; 20-ton air bottle jack; hyd porta power; plus a large complete line of shop tools. Visit
www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter. (306)421-2928
or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962.
auction for Stan & Carol Doughty (306)442-4785.
Wed., Apr 17, 2013 10:00am. Pangman, SK. Directions from the Junction of Hwy 6 & Hwy 13 go 6-mi
North on Hwy 6 & 1.5-mi East. Watch for signs!
Live internet bidding
www.Bidspotter.com. NH
9682 4-WD tractor; 2008 NH TV6070 bidirectional
tractor & NH 82LB FEL w/only 750-hrs; JD 425 yard
tractor w/PTO & 3-PTH; Case 195 lawn tractor
w/mower & tiller; NH TR98 SP combine
w/2,502-hrs; 30-ft Honey Bee 994 straight cut draper header; 30-ft MacDon 960 harvest draper header; MacDon header adapter for NH 6070 bidirectional tractor; straight cut header trailer; 1995
Willmar 785 Air Trak SP 85-ft sprayer w/2,896-hrs
& 5.9 Cummins engine; Titan 12.4-42 set of four
tires & rims; 1981 IH S1900 DSL tandem axle grain
truck w/auto trans; 2003 Chev 2500 HD gas extended cab PU truck; 1972 GMC 5500 2-ton grain
truck w/22,000-mi; 2007 18-ft Precision tandem
axle flat deck bumper pull trailer w/7000 axles;
Quick Way 16-ft triple axle grain trailer w/hyd dump;
43ft Harmon 4480 air drill & Harmon 3100 air tank
w/double shoot; 70-ft Degelman Straw Master
heavy harrow; 47-ft Morris Magnum II CP-743 DT
cultivator; 32-ft JD 332 off set disc; Co-op 39-ft cultivator; Sakundiak HD8-1600 auger w/Wheatheart
mover; Westfield 10-51 swing auger; Sakundiak
7-37 auger w/Kohler engine, Big Chief batch grain
dryer; Sakundiak 4,300-bu hopper bottom bin; Friesen 60-Ton hopper bottom bin; Behlin 3,500-bu
hopper bottom bin; temporary 6,500-bu hopper bottom ring; Rockomatic 12-ft rock rake; Speed Spred
1-ton fertilizer spreader; 1,000-gal., fuel tank
w/electric pump; Chem Handler I; Floating slough
pump w/1/2-mi of lay flat hose; Honda 3-in water
pump; Briggs engine w/2-in banjo pump; 850-gal.
oval water tank; NH pallet forks; JD disc parts;
Generac 5500XL generator; Simonz 2900 PSI gas
powered pressure washer; Trojan metal band saw;
Sanborn upright air compressor, plus much more!
Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill &
photos. Join us on Facebook and Twitter.
PL 311962.
RODNEY & ADELIA FLUNDER AUCTION Churchbridge, SK. Sat., Apr 20th, 2013 11:00am Directions: 12 N ON #80 OF CHURCHBRIDGE OR 9-MI
SOUTH OF WROXTON ON #80 CHURCHBRIDGE, SK. CONTACT: (306)896-2917. MACHINERY TRACTORS: 1979 JD 4640 DSL, cab,
air, good inside rubber, 20.8x38 duels, quad shift, 3
hyd, rebuilt motor, hyd pump, 3,200-hrs ago, showing 10,000-hrs; JD 4020 cab, DSL, quad, 23.1x30
tires like new, recent clutch & PTO; AC 7045 DSL
cab, air, PTO, (306)742-4744. COMBINES: 1979
MF #750 SP Combine (grey cab) cab, PU, chopper;
1976 MF #750 SP Combine cab, PU, chopper.
TRUCKS:
1976 Dodge 600 3-ton V8, 2-SPD,
8.25x20 tires, 15-ft. box, hoist, new clutch, good
rubber; 1969 IH 3-ton box, hoist, power steering;
*2003 Ford F150 XTR-4x4 4.6L V8 auto, loaded,
87,000-kms, real nice* 1997 Ford Truck, needs motor. TILLAGE: Morris 27-ft. deep tillage & harrows;
Morris 24-ft. Challenger & harrows; Morris L320 32ft. cultivator & harrows. DISC: MF #40 18-ft. offset
new front 24-in. blades & bearings, real good;
SEEDING: IHC 24-ft. #620 press drills, rubber
press. AUGERS: Westfield 8x51 PTO Auger hyd
drive; Westfield 8x36 PTO Auger; Secundiak 7x41
ES motor. HAYING EQUIPMENT: (306)742-4744
NH 2003 HS 1475 18-ft. Haybine new pump, new
auger, real good; JD 2003 567 Silage Special round
baler moisture tester, megawide PU, 5000 bales,
real nice; NH 404 Trailer hay conditioner; portable
chute w/self locking headgate. CONSIGNMENT:
8x50 Brandt Swing-a-way; Rock-o-Matic PTO
Stone Picker; 8-ft. Swath roller; Valmeer applicator
36 run & hoses (306)742-4744. JD 5 belt 3 roller
PU (306)742-4744. Plus misc equipment, hopper &
steel bins, yd, recreation, shop. Visit www.ukrainezauction.com for updated listing & pictures. Sale
conducted by Ukrainetz Auction Theodore SK.
(306)647-2661. License #915851.
Do you want to target Manitoba farmers? Place your
ad in the Manitoba Co-operator. Manitoba’s best-read
farm publication.
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MACK AUCTION CO. presents a large multi farm
equipment auction for Eugene Fradette & the Estate of Dennis Cherpin Mon., Apr 15th, 2013
10:00am. Directions from Radville, SK. 4-mi South
of Radville on Hwy 28 & 2-mi West. Watch for
Signs! Live internet bidding at www.Bidspotter.co
Vers 836 Designation 6 4WD tractor; JD 8430 4WD
tractor w/PTO & 12-ft. dozer blade; JD 7520 4WD
tractor w/PTO; Case 2394 tractor w/duals; JD 4440
2WD tractor w/4,343-hrs; JD 4010 2WD tractor
w/JD 46 FEL & approx 800-hrs on overhaul; JD 180
lawn tractor; JD 7720 Titan II combine w/JD 212 PU
header; 30-ft. JD 930 straight cut header; 29-ft.
Morris Maxim Air Drill w/Morris 7180 air cart & Atom
Jet Side Band openers; JD 7721 PT combine; MF
760 SP combine; 30-ft. MF straight cut header; 24ft. MF straight cut header; 20-ft. Vers 400 SP
swather; 24-ft. Vers PTO swather; 18-ft. Vers PTO
swather; 1983 Chev C-70 grain truck; 1976 Dodge
600 grain truck w/39,100-mi; 1976 GMC 6500 grain
truck w/34,215-mi; 1966 Dodge 500 grain truck
w/steel box & roll tarp; 1966 Fargo 500 grain truck
w/steel box & hoist; 1970 IH Loadstar 1600 grain
truck w/wood box & 36,200-mi; 1980 Chev Cheyenne 1500 PU; 1980 GMC Scotsdale 1500 PU; 28ft. IH 150 hoe drills; 60-ft. Riteway harrows; 24-ft.
AC tandem disc; 37-ft. DT cultivator w/1655 Valmar
& harrows; Morris CP-725 cultivator w/tine harrows;
Morris B3-36 rod weeder; 32-ft. Massey cultivator,
CCIL 18-ft. discers; Rolo Flex 16-ft. cultivator; JD
steel wheel drill w/PWR lift; Leon 550 earth scraper;
Riteway hyd 2 batt rock picker; Crown fork type
rock picker; Varuna 6-in. PTO irrigation pump &
pipe; Comet drill transport; Vers 1,000-gal tank trailer & pump; Vers poly tank on tandem trailer; Sakundiak HD 7-47 auger w/Kohler 16-HP engine; Sakundiak 7-47 auger w/16-HP engine; Sakundiak
7-45 auger w/16-HP Briggs engine; Farm King 7-40
auger w/Kohler engine; 2, Behlin 3,100-bu bins
wood floors; 2, Westeel 2,000-bu bins steel floors;
Westeel 4,000-bu bin steel floor; Westeel Twin Air
2,000-bu hopper bottom bin; Bader 2,000-bu hopper; Butler 2,700-bu bin wood floor; Twister 2,200bu wood floor; Metal Ind. 1,400-bu hopper bottom;
Westeel 2,700-bu wood floor; Butler 2,700-bu bin
wood floor, 3, Rosco 1,300-bu bins wood floors;
Metal Ind. 3,300-bu bin wood; Rosco 1,650-bu on
wood. Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale
bill & photos. Join us on Facebook & Twitter.
PL 311962
1-800-782-0794.
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FARM EQUIPMENT
Tuesday April 16th 8:30 a.m. C.S.T.
Hwy # 3 East Tisdale Sask
ANNUAL SPRING EQUIPMENT AUCTION
8 Farm Dispersals to Date
Be early misc 8:30 am C.S.T. machinery sells @ 9:30 C.S.T sharp
Internet Bidding Starts 9:30 am C.S.T. on Machinery
Check Website for Complete Listings
Darrel & Olga Rieder
Of Yorkton SK
Wed. April 24th @ 11:00am
Ed & Darlene Antonio - The Pas
Owners Phone 204-623-5919 or Cell 204-620-0505
Directions: FromYorkton go 8 Miles East on HWY 10 to Tonkin, then 2 Miles North
TRACTORS: 2008 NEW HOLLAND TJ330 4WD • DUETZ DX160
FWA • COMBINES: 2002 NEW HOLLAND TR99 • NEW HOLLAND
TR96 • SWATHERS: 2009 MASSEY FERGUSON 9220 • CASE
6000 • SWATH ROLLERS: ROENDERS 10ft. • BLANCHARD
7ft. • GRAIN TRUCKS: INTERNATIONAL S2500 • CHEV C70 •
AIR SEEDER: BOURGAULT 8800 - 40ft. w/ 8” Spacing • LIGHT
TRUCK: 2002 FORD Ranger • CULTIVATORS: FLEXICOIL 800
- 35 ft. JOHN DEERE 1600 - 27ft. • HEAVY HARROW: RITE WAY
7100 - 50 ft. • HARROWPACKER BAR: FLEXICOIL System 92,
60ft. • SCRAPER: Three Yard Earth Mover w/hyds. • AUGERS:
WHEATHEART 10”X71ft. • Two SAKUNDIAK 7” X 33ft. • 3 PT
HITCH EQUIP • OTHER FARM, LAWN & GARDEN, & SHOP
EQUIPMENT • Many Household & Misc. Items • GUEST CONSIGNERS: HAROLD DICKIE & PERRY FROEHLICH: Versatile
835 4WD • Wheatheart, Westfield & Sakundiak Augers • Flexicoil 5
Bar Harrow Bar
For More Information, Visit our website or Call Hodgins Auctioneers
1-800-667-2075
TRACTORS* 2008 Case/IH 435 w/825 HRS, *86 JD 4450 COMBINE* 2009 Case/IH 7120 AFS, HEADER* 05 Case/IH 2062, 30ft SWATHER* 2006 MF 9220 25ft w/502 HRS AIR DRILL*04 JD 1820, 52ft
update done HEAVYHARROW BAR *03 Bourg 7200, 60ft GRAIN TRUCKS* 92 Kenworth w/ 20ft box,
*1977 Mack w/19ft Box, *75 Chev 3 ton GRAIN DRYER* Farmfan AB-180 CULTIVATOR* Flexicoil 300
B, 39ft TANDEM DISK* JD 32ft SPRAYER* Brandt 70ft GRAIN VAC* Conveyair 140,* Qty of Augers
plus more. PARTIAL LISTING ONLY OF OTHER DISPERSALS: TRACTORS* JD 9400 & 9100,* JD
4650,*JD 8200 MFWDw/loader, JD 8650,*JD 8450,* JD 4630,* JD 4450,* 08 Steiger/Case/IH 435
*Case/IH 7120 M.F.W.D,*Case/IH 4494,*IHC 2388,* Case 2590,*Versatile 946,* NH-TM 130 M.F.W.D,*
2-1991 Deutz Allis 9150 M.F.W.D, COMBINES * 09 Case/ih 7120,*Case/IH 2188,*05 JD 9660 STS,*09
JD 9870,* 05 JD 9860,* PLUS MORE. SWATHERS* 2012 Premier M015 w/124hrs,* Premier 2940,
30ft,* MF 9220, 25ft,*Plus Air Drills,*Grain Trucks,* Heavy Harrowbars,*Sprayers.
www.schapansky.com
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Ph: 306-873-5488
Drayton, ND.
Saturday, April 20
th
• Tractors • Trucks • Tillage
• Sprayers • Row Crop
• Headers • Recreational
• Lawn & Garden.
Full listing after March 23rd on
midwestauctions.com, Agweek,
or Farm & Ranch.
online bidding on major items.
BUILDINGS
AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post
frame building company. For estimates and information
call
1-888-816-AFAB(2322).
Website:
www.postframebuilding.com
rudy & bev lekach
Ituna, SK | Friday, April 19, 2013 · 10 am
CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place &
finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any
floor design. References available. Alexander, MB.
204-752-2069.
AUTO & TRANSPORT
2009 VeRSAtiLe 2375
2002 WeStWARD 9352 30 Ft
2011 BouRgAuLt 8810 50 Ft
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Auto & Truck Parts
Auction LocAtion: From ITUNA, SK, go 5 km (3.1 miles) North to the Jct of Hwy 15 & Hwy 52. First yard on West side OR
From East side of LEROSS, SK, at the Jct of Hwy 35 & 15, go 27.3 km (17 miles) East to Jct Hwy 15 & 52. Yard on west side.
GPS: 51.2103139, -103.5050472
FOR SALE: 7.3L DSL engine w/rebuilt trans, taken
from 1993 F350, engine runs well, approx
250,000-km, $1,200 OBO. Phone (204)745-7445.
A PARtiAL equiPment LiSt incLuDeS: 2009 Versatile
2375 4WD · 1996 John Deere 8200 2WD Tractor · Farmall M Utility
Tractor · 2006 John Deere 9660STS Combine · 2002 Westward
9352 30 Ft Swather · 1986 Ford F800 S/A Grain Truck · 1994 Volvo
T/A Grain Truck · 2011 Bourgault 8810 50 Ft Air Seeder · 2003
Ezee-On 2210 Tow-Behind Air Tank · John Deere 14 Ft Cultivator
· 48 Ft Q/A Harrows · 1999 Degelman 7000 Strawmaster 50 Ft
NEW TRUCK ENGINE REBUILD kits, high quality
Cummins, B&C series engines 3.9, 5.9, and 8.3,
also IH trucks, great savings, our 39th year!
1-800-481-1353 www.diamondfarmtractorparts.com
Heavy Harrows · Morris 55 Ft Harrows · 1998 Flexi-Coil 65 80
Ft Field Sprayer · New Holland 273 Square Baler · 225± Bushel
Gravity Grain Wagon · Moridge 8440 400± Bushel Batch LPG
Grain Dryer · Sakundiak HD10-1800 10 In. x 60 Ft Mechanical
Swing Grain Auger · Sakundiak HD8-1200 8 In. x 40 Ft Grain
Auger · Sakundiak HD7-33 7 In. x 33 Ft Grain Auger · Sakundiak
HD7-1400 7 In. x 47 Ft Grain Auger...AnD much moRe!
For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com
Rudy Lekach: 306.795.2788
PARTING OUT TRUCKS: FORD CL9000, L800,
L880, F350 Dually, also complete for restoration
IHCB170. (204)685-2124, cell (204)871-2708
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Trucks
Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager –
Dan Steen: 306.361.6154 800.491.4494
2005 TMC SLE NEVADA edition Z71, 4 door crew
cab, short box, 4WD, towing package, 97,000-km,
very nice condition, safetied, asking $18,000.
Phone
Dave
(204)526-5298
or
evenings
(204)743-2145.
UNRESERVED PUBLIC FARM AUCTION
Robert & Carole Atkinson
Dysart, SK | Thursday, April 18, 2013 · 10am
1995 JOHN DEERE 8970
1997 JOHN DEERE 9600
AUCTION LOCATION: From DYSART, SK, go 9 km (5.6 miles) North on Grid 639. Yard on East side.
GPS: 51.0323056, -104.0306833
A PARTIAL EQUIPMENT LIST INCLUDES: 1995
John Deere 8970 4WD Tractor · 1997 John Deere
6400 MFWD Tractor · 1996 John Deere 9600 · 1999
John Deere 930 30 Ft Flex · 1996 Premier 2920
30 Ft Swather · 1986 Ford F150 · 1999 Doepker
T/A Grain Trailer · 1996 Bourgault 8810 30 Ft Air
Seeder · 1999 Apache 760 90 Ft Sprayer · Qty of
Hopper Bins ...AND MUCH MORE!
For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com
Rob Atkinson: 306.331.6990 (c),
306.432.2114 (h)
FARM MACHINERY
Fertilizer Equipment
OVER 200 VEHICLES LOTS OF DIESELS
www.thoens.com Chrysler Dodge (800)667-4414
Wynyard, Sk.
FERTILIZER SPREADERS 4-9 TON, large selection, $2000 up; 10 Ton tender, $2500. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com (204)857-8403, Portage La
Prairie.
BEEKEEPING
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Augers
BEEKEEPING
Bee Equipment
BEE HIVES FOR SALE, Nucs, frames of brood.
Phone (204)434-6918 or (204)392-0410, Grunthal.
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
PRICE TO CLEAR!!
75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard
100,000PSI high tensile roofing &
siding. 16 colours to choose from.
B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2
Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.2
Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft.2
Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for
archrib buildings
BEAT THE PRICE
INCREASES CALL NOW
FOUILLARD STEEL
SUPPLIES LTD.
ST. LAZARE, MB.
1-800-510-3303
BUSINESS SERVICES
BUSINESS SERVICES
Crop Consulting
FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS
We also specialize in: Crop Insurance appeals;
Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; Custom operator
issues; Equipment malfunction; Yield comparisons,
Plus Private Investigations of any nature. With our
assistance the majority of our clients have received
compensation previously denied. Back-Track
Investigations investigates, documents your loss and
assists in settling your claim.
Licensed Agrologist on Staff.
For more information
Please call 1-866-882-4779
FOR SALE: 04 CHEVY 2500 4x4, 4-dr, gas, new
safety, new steer tires, flat deck w/tool boxes,
$8500. Phone:(204)871-0925.
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Semi Trucks & Trailers
2007 TOREQ 18000 SCRAPER 18-yd $30,000.
Phone (701)521-0581.
Cornerstone Charolais & Red Angus Bull Sale
April 20th, 1:30pm, Whitewood (SK) Auction Market.
Offering 25 Charolais & 33 Red Angus Yearling Bulls.
Semen tested, guaranteed w/free board & delivery
available. Contact Kelly Brimner (306)577-7698, Phil
Birnie (306)577-7440, or view the catalogue online at
www.bylivestock.com
FOR
SALE: 1980 WESTERN Star Highway tractor.
Cummins engine, 13-spd, w/wet kit, 46000 rears,
safetied,
good
running
condition.
Phone
(204)348-2064, cell (204)345-3610.
BUILDINGS
2008 BOBCAT T250 1,200-HRS CAH HiFlow Excellent Tracks $29,000. Phone (701)521-0581.
ENGINES
ENGINE REBUILD KITS FOR most makes and
models of tractors, great selection, thousands of
parts! Service manuals, super savings, Our 39th
year,
www.diamondfarmtractorparts.com.
1-800-481-1353
BUILDINGS
FARM KING 13X70 HYD. mover, hyd winch, low
profile hopper, excellent condition. Notre Dame.
Phone:(204)248-2364 or (204)723-5000.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
552 REM VAC COMPLETE w/hoses & pipes, all offers. Phone (204)436-2067 or cell (204)745-0424.
BIG BINS & FLOORS at old prices, 20,000-56,000bu. bins holding prices until spring. NEW MOISTURE CABLES! Call Wall Grain for details
(204)269-7616 or (306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.
CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.
Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103
or E-mail Requests [email protected]
CUSTOM GRAIN BIN MOVING, any kind of bin, up
to 19-ft. diameter, reasonable rates. Phone
(204)648-7129
or
e-mail
[email protected]
Grandview, MB.
SUKUP GRAIN BINS Flatbottom or hopper, heavy
duty, setup crews available, winter pricing now in effect. Call for more info Vince (204)998-9915
WESTEEL GRAIN BINS, EXTENSIONS & parts,
19-ft roof panels $35 each. 14-ft roof panels $20.
Steel & plastic culverts. Colorad & galvanized metal
roofing & siding. 108 bin sheets $35. Galvanized
flat steel sheets 4x8, 4x10. (204)257-3634.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Dryers
NEW SUKUP GRAIN DRYERS w/Canola screens, LP/
NG, 1PH/3PH, Various sizes, Winter pricing now in
effect. Call for more info Vince (204)998-9915
NEW MC DRYERS IN STOCK w/canola screens
300-2,000 BPH units. Why buy used, when you get
new fuel efficient & better quality & control w/MC.
Call Wall Grain for details (204)269-7616 or
(306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Handling
AGRI-VACS
Tired of shovelling out your bins,
unhealthy dust and awkward augers?
Walinga manufactures a
complete line of grain
vacs to suit your every
need. With no filters to
plug and less damage
done to your product than
an auger, you’re sure to
find the right system to
suit you. Call now for a free
demonstration or trade in your
old vac towards a new WALINGA AGRI-VACS
Fergus, ON: (519) 787-8227
Carman, MB: (204) 745-2951
Davidson, SK: (306) 567-3031
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Baling
1999 NH MODEL 590 square baler. Med squares
35x32-in bales, only 7000 bales, always shedded.
Asking $26,000 OBO. Phone (204)967-2157, Kelwood.
FOR SALE: JD 567 Baler, silage special, megawide PU w/hyd lift, bale kicker, 1000 PTO, $15,500;
JD 930 disc bine, 11.5-ft wide, 1000 PTO, $5500;
10-wheel V rake, 3-PTH, $2500. Call Don
(204)873-2430.
NH BR750, 4X6 BALES, auto-wrap, bale monitor,
wide p/u, always shedded, in excellent condition.
Phone (204)782-1336 or (204)269-5317.
Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager –
Dan Steen: 306.361.6154 800.491.4494
Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds.
Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our
friendly staff, and don’t forget to ask about our prepayment bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free!
1-800-782-0794.
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Vehicles Various
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Roofing
SK PL # 915407 • AB PL # 180827
Unreserved pUblic farm aUction
Toll Free: 1-866-873-5488
Fax: 306-873-5492
Box 2199, Tisdale, SK S0E 1T0
Email: [email protected]
9TH ANNUAL SPRING
EQUIPMENT AUCTION
1-800-782-0794.
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FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Various
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
Rebuilt Concaves
NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS
NEW COMBINE PARTS
Rebuild combine table augers
Rebuild hydraulic cylinders
Roller mills regrooved
MFWD housings rebuilt
Steel and aluminum welding
Machine Shop Service
Line boreing and welding
Large Inventory of
new and remanufactured parts
SEED CLEANING
Check out A & I online parts store
www.pennosmachining.com
Heads Up
STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
Combines
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
Web site: farmparts.ca
E-mail: [email protected]
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Case/IH
FARM MACHINERY
Salvage
1985 CASE IH 1480, 3,950 engine hrs, new front
tires, 2 sets concaves, chopper, rock trap, specialty
rotor, 12-ft. PU header w/large auger, always stored
inside, must see, $26,000 OBO. Call Clint
(204)822-9861.
GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.
FOR SALE: 2005 CASE IH 8010 combine, AWD,
45-32 front tires, means 45-in wide, 28Lx26 rear
tires, approx 1950-separator hrs w/spreader &
chopper, 30-ft draper header, $150,000; 2008 Case
IH 8010, AWD, 45-32 front tires, 28Lx26 rear tires,
spreader & chopper, approx 800-separator hrs,
w/30-ft
flex
draper
header,
$250,000.
Phone:(204)871-0925.
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – John Deere
1997 JD 9600, COMPLETE w/Trelleborg tires, always shedded, field ready, $65,000 OBO.
Phone:(204)745-8333.
Combine ACCessories
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Accessories
CIH FLEX: 2010 CIH 2020 35-ft., PU Reel, Poly
Skids, F/A, like new $28,500; 2007 CIH 2020 30-ft.,
PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $24,500; 2001 CIH 1020
30-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $14,900; 1999 CIH
1020 30-ft., Crary Air Reel, PU Reel, Poly Skids,
F/A $16,500; 1995 CIH 1020 30-ft., Crary Air Reel,
PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $12,500; 2000 CIH 1020
25-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $11,900; 1993 CIH
1020 25-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids $7,500. Most of
the above flex platforms are reconditioned. Call
Gary Reimer (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB
www.reimerfarmequipment.com
JD FLEX: 2004 JD 635 Hydra Flex 35-ft., PU Reel,
Poly Skids, F/, $18,900; 2011 JD 635 Hydra Flex
35-ft., PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A, Low Acs, $33,500;
2003 JD 930F 30-ft. Crary Air Reel, FF Auger, PU
Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $19,500; 2001 JD930F 30-ft.,
FF Auger, PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $15,900; 1996
JD 930 30-ft, Crary Air Reel, PU Reel, Poly Skids,
F/A, $14,500; 2001 JD 925F 25-ft., FF Auger, PU
Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $14,500; 1996 JD 925 25-ft.,
PU Reel, Poly Skids, F/A $11,500; 1992 JD 925 25ft., Steel Points, PU Reel, Poly Skids, $6,900. Most
of the above flex platforms are reconditioned.
Call Gary Reimer (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm
Equipment located #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB
PARTING OUT TRACTORS: CASE 930, 1270,
Cockshutt 30, MM-U, also cultivators, harrows,
seed drills, some older trucks, misc hyd cyl., some
combine parts, older swathers, etc. (204)685-2124
cell (204)871-2708.
TRACTORS FOR PARTS: IHC 1486, 1086, 886,
1066, 966, 1256, 656, 844, 806, 706, 660, 650,
560, 460, 624, 606, 504, 434, 340, 275, 240-4, W9,
WD6, W6, W4, H, 340, B-414; CASE 4890, 4690,
2096, 2394, 2390, 2290, 2090, 2470, 1370, 1270,
1175, 1070, 970, 870, 1030, 930, 830, 730, 900,
800, 700, 600, 400, DC4, SC; MF 2745, 1805,
1155, 1135, 1105, 1100, 2675, 1500, 1085, 1080,
65, Super 90, 88, 202, 44, 30; JD 8640, 3140,
6400, 5020, 4020, 3020, 4010, 3010, 710; Cockshutt 1900, 1855, 1850, 1800, 1655, 1650, 560, 80,
40, 30; Oliver 66; White 4-150, 2-105; AC 7060,
7045, 7040, 190XT, 190, 170, WF; Deutz DX130,
DX85, 100-06, 90-06, 80-05, 70-06; Volvo 800,
650; Universal 651, 640; Ford 7600, 6000, 5000,
Super Major, Major; Belarus 5170, 952, 825, 425,
MM 602, U, M5; Vers 700, 555, 145, 118; Steiger
210 Wildcat; Hesston 780. Also have parts for combines, swathers, square & round balers, tillage,
press drills, & other misc machinery. MURPHY
SALVAGE
(204)858-2727
or
toll
free
1-877-858-2728 .
FARM MACHINERY
Potato & Row Crop Equipment
DAHLMAN 6-ROW, CUP STYLE potato planter;
Better Built potato seed cutter. Also assorted potato
equipment. Ph (204)757-2887, [email protected]
Spraying EquipmEnt
FARM MACHINERY
Sprayers
1990 ALL CROP SPRAYER, mounted on 1982
Ford 700 Truck 4x4, 13.6x24 tractor tires,
66,800-km, 96-ft. boom, 1000 US gal tank, MicroTrak spray controller, Raven guidance, good condition, $15,500. Phone (204)736-2840, Brunkild.
Willmar Explorer 6400, 2,900-hrs Midtech autorate,
Outback mapping, autosteer & autoboom shutoff
(5 sections), 2 sets of tires, skinny & floater tires
each w/factory rims, 3 way nozzle body’s, 80-ft
boom. Good shape. Asking $35,000 OBO. If you
have any questions please contact (204)874-2279,
leave a message.
FARM MACHINERY
Spray Various
HIGH CLEARANCE AJSHIELD SPRAYER 1500
US gallons, w/JD 90-ft suspended boom, 3 sets of
nozzles, variable auto-rate controller. Asking $7500
OBO; JD 24-ft rubber press drill, $600.
(204)373-2502.
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd.
1-866-729-9876
5150 Richmond Ave. East
BRANDON, MB.
www.harvestsalvage.ca
New, Used & Re-man. Parts
Tractors Combines Swathers
FYFE PARTS
1-800-667-9871 • Regina
1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon
1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg
1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton
“For All Your Farm Parts”
www.fyfeparts.com
The Real Used FaRm PaRTs
sUPeRsToRe
Over 2700 Units for Salvage
• TRACTORS • COMBINES
• SWATHERS • DISCERS
Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN
(306) 946-2222
monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
WATROUS SALVAGE
WaTRoUs, sK.
Fax: 306-946-2444
Tillage & Seeding
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Air Drills
36-FT & 44-FT JD 730’s w/787 carts, $18,000$19,000; 787 carts $12,000- $14,000. 57-ft. Flexicoil 5000 w/2320 cart, 1-in. knife, 3-in. rubber,
$23,500. Can deliver. Brian (204)856-6119 or
(204)685-2896, MacGregor, MB.
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Air Seeders
BOURGAULT 8800 36-FT. 3/4-IN Bourgault knock
on carbide knives, packers, 4 bar harrows, 3165
tank, 8-in. spacing, new manifolds & hoses 2012.
(204)378-0030, (204)364-2337, Arborg, MB.
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Seeding
06 JD 1770 NT 16-30in planter. 2x2 liquid fertilizer
w/Yetter all wheel steer caddie. 3-bu hoppers, Esets, row cleaners. Excellent condition, always
shedded. $76,000US. Phone:(218)773-8160 or
(701)741-7957. Grand Forks, MN.
JD 7000 8 ROW, 30-in., Finger PU, Dry Fert. Att.,
Markers, Monitor, $10,000; JD 7200 Vacuum, 16
Row, 30-in., Front Fold, Markers, 3-bu, Insecticide,
Markers, Yetter Row Cleaners, $23,500; JD 7200
Vacuum, 16 Row, 30-in., Front Fold, Liquid Fert.
Att., Markers, Monitor, $26,500. Call Gary Reimer
(204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located
#12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB www.reimerfarmequipment.com
YELLOW BLOSSOM CLOVER, a yard full of bales
& a field full of Nitrogen as a bonus. Flat & Y.B. excel on breaking, & can save 3-yrs of costly “N”. Also
starts, clean new pastures w/hiq Nitrogen Boost.
Perk up old perennial pastures by overseeding
w/clover, packaging w/bags & totes April. D WHITE
SEEDS Ph (204)822-3649, Morden.
SEED CLEANING
Treat your Soybean Seed for White Mold
Penno’s Machining & Mfg. Ltd.
Eden, MB 204-966-3221
Fax: 204-966-3248
SEED CLEANING
Heads Up® Seed Treatment EPA Reg. 81853-1
Soybean Alert: Seed treatment product now available for the suppression
of White Mold in Soybeans.
Proven results with over 7 years of testing at Iowa State University by Dr. XB Yang
White Mold Seed Treatment. Heads Up® seed treatment (by Heads Up Plant Protectants Inc.)
OMRI approved for Organic Use. Economical and effective.
EPA Registered seed treatment for Soybeans
Can be mixed in with other products or applied over top of seed already treated.
Call Toll free Heads Up Plant 866-368-9306 or Visit www.rightonseed.com
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Tillage
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – John Deere
FLEXICOIL 49-FT MODEL 800 chisel plow. 650-lb
trips, 19-in spacing, harrows, Raven NH3 & distribution kit, Atom-Jet non-freezing blades. $35,000.
Phone:(204)842-5251 or Cell:(204)847-0188. Birtle,
MB.
FOR SALE: 7130 MFWD, PQ, LHR, 3pt, 3hyd;
6400 MFWD, PQ, RHS, 3pt, 2,00-hrs; 7410 MFWD,
PQ RHS, 3pt w/740 loader; (2) 4650 MWFD, 15
spd, 3pt, factory duals; (2) 4455 MFWD, 3pt, 15
spd; 3155 MWFD, 3pt, w/loader; 2955 MWFD, 3pt,
w/wo loader; 4430 Quad, 3pt, painted; 8760
7,800-hrs, quad, 4 hyd, couplers, quad range
trans., 16 spd; JD 725 FEL. All tractors can be sold
w/new or used loaders. MITCH’S TRACTOR
SALES LTD Box 418 St. Claude, MB R0G 1Z0
Phone:(204)750-2459.
WANTED:
SUNFLOWER-MORRIS
EXPRESS
DISC Airdrill, 40-45-ft in width, in good shape.
Phone Days Cell:(204)526-5298 or Evenings
(204)743-2145.
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Various
2004 JD 2410 CHISEL Plow 43-ft. Single Point
Depth JD Harrows $32,000. Phone (701)521-0581.
2008 BOURGAULT 7200 HEAVY Harrow 84-ft.
$38,000. Phone (701)521-0581.
80 USED 4-IN. PAIRED ROW DUTCH openers
(bodies & tips) VGC, $80. Phone (204)648-4945.
FLEXI-COIL 33-FT 5000 AIR drill, 7.2-in spacing,
rubber packers, factory markers, recent 3/4-in Atom
Jet openers, 1720 TBH air tank, 3-metre rollers,
good
shape.
Phone:(204)836-2406,
cell
(204)825-7260.
JD 1610 DEEP TILLER 25-ft. Walking axles all
around, 3 row Degelman harrows, rear hitch, good
shape. $4,850 OBO. Clint (204)362-4532 or
(204)822-9861.
JD 9350 40-FT. PRESS drill, factory transport,
markers, rubber & bearings on packer wheels refurbished in 2012. (204)378-0030, (204)364-2337, Arborg, MB.
RETIRED, HAVE FOR SALE: Green-lighted
JD7800 MFWD tractor w/GPS; 36-ft Continental
Anhydrous applicator on Morris cultivator frame
w/mounted harrows; 54-ft Morris 4-bar harrows; 18ft Ezee-On model 400 heavy disc; 30-ft JD 9450
press hoe drill. Wilmot Milne (204)385-2486, cell
(204)212-0531, Gladstone MB.
TracTors
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – White
FOR SALE: 2-105 WHITE tractor, complete new
engine & frame 10-hrs ago, rear tires approx 80%,
LPTO, the high-low shift, nice tractor, $9500.
Phone:(204)871-0925.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Case/IH
1995 CIH 4240 OS, MFWD, 3-PT, Dual PTO,
85-HP, Allied 595 Loader, 2,215-hrs., $24,500. Call
Gary Reimer (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – John Deere
1982 JD 4040 2-WD tractor. 90 PTO hp, cab, air,
heat, factory 3-PTH, triple hyd., power shift transmission,
5200-hrs,
in
excellent
cond.
(204)886-7009, (204)886-2245, Teulon.
1991 JD 8560 4WD, 20.8x38 duals, 24-SPD trans.,
diff. lock, 4 hyd., 7,567-hrs. $39,900. Call Gary
Reimer (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located #12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB www.reimerfarmequipment.com
JD 8650 Tractor 4 hyd. outlets, 1000 PTO, rubber vg:
Firestone 7000 radials 20.8x38 duals, new radiator,
very good condition. Call Daniel (204)526-2746 home
or (204)526-5257 cell [email protected]
JD TRACTORS, SPECIALIZING IN quality engine
rebuild kits, great selection, thousands of parts, super savings, Our 39th year, 1-800-481-1353
www.diamondfarmtractorparts.com
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – New Holland
1995 NH 6640SLE CAB, air, 3-pt, MFWD, dual
PTO, Allied 694 Loader, joystick, grapple,
4,531-hrs,
$28,900.
Call
Gary
Reimer
(204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment located
#12 Hwy N, Steinbach, MB www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Versatile
MATEYCHUK FARM SALES
Tractors (4wd)
• 1983 steiger st280
• 1990 versatile 900
Haying
• jd 2004-2009 discbines
• nh 2000-2009
discbines
• nh 688,780a,7090
balers
• case,vermeer,challenger
balers
• jd&nh moco
• 3pt & trailer v rakes
Construction
• cat 922b loader
• jd 644b loader
• jd 325 skidsteer
2wd & mfwd
• ihc 5288
• ihc 986 w loader
• ihc 784 w loader
• ihc b414
2wd & mfwd
• jd 4555 mfwd
• ford tw135 mfwd
• jd MT restored
Skid attatchments
• brushmower,
snowblower,
buckets,palle t& hay
forks
Misc.
• aloe 790 loader w
mounts
• nh manure spreader
• meyer vertical manure
spreader
• new 20’ cattle trailer
Tillage
• jd 3100&3600 plows
• jd 331 30’ disc
•jd 16’deep tiller
• farm king 70’hyd
harrows
Dealer for Diamond C Trailers
All types of trailers ( dump,carhaulers,utility,gooseneck )
1982 855 VERS. 9,042-HRS showing, 20.8x38
tires,
w/approx
60%
rubber
left.
Phone:
(204)763-8846 or Cell: (204)721-0940
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – 2 Wheel Drive
STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in
JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for
parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or
cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – 4 Wheel Drive
BEST PRICES IN CANADA
204-425-3518 204-381-9044
For Full Listings Visit Our Website
www.sites.google.com/site/mateychukbrothers/home
40-FT JD 1050 FIELD cultivator, 3-row mulchers,
like-new shovels, $3500; 90-ft Powermatic, diamond harrows, $2200; 80-ft Powermatic, tine harrows, heavy coil, $3200; 24-ft JD press drill, rubber
packers, plus 16-ft JD drill for parts, grass seeders;
18-ft Drill-fill, $500; All items in good cond. & ready
to use. Phone:(204)373-2502, pls lv msg.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Various
DEGELMAN 70-FT. HEAVY HARROW, $20,000;
Summers 70-ft, $14,000; Phoenix 42-ft, $9,500; 52ft, $12,000; Kewannee breaking disc 12-ft, $18,000;
JD 330 22-ft. $9500; Bushog 21-ft, $7,000; Krause
16-ft., $5000; John Deere 15-ft, $5,000; Scrapers
JD 12-yd, $12,000; Crown 6-yd, $5,000; Soilmover
7.5-yd, $7500; Ashland 4.5-yd, $4,500; New Landlevellers 10-ft, $2,250; 12-ft, $2,450; 3-PH rotary
ditcher, $1250; Haybuster 256 shredder, $6000.
Phone (204)857-8403.
NEW TRACTOR PARTS AND specializing in engine rebuild kits, great selection, super savings! Not
all parts online, service manuals and decals, Our
39th
year,
www.diamondfarmtractorparts.com
1-800-481-1353
GOOD QUALITY UPRIGHT PIANO & MISC
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE; Pull-type sprayer, 67ft, good condition, always shedded; 24-ft pull-type
swather, good condition. Always shedded. Phone
(204)837-4970.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
FARM MACHINERY
2011 VERS. 435 TRACTOR. 300-hrs, 800x38 Firestone tires, 4 hyd, deluxe cab, like new, w/complete
JD auto-steer. $196,000US. Phone:(701)741-7957
or (218)773-8160. Grand Forks, MN.
SITTLER
®
Compost Turners, Spreaders, Screeners, Baggers
1993 JD MODEL 6300 MFWD, open station, c/w
640 self levelling JD loader, good rubber, excellent
condition, $22,500 OBO. Phone (204)967-2157,
Kelwood.
Brent Hansen
Environmental
1995 JD 7200 MWFA, 740 loader & bucket, 3-PTH,
12,355-hrs, 13.6x28 front, 18.4x38 rear, tractor excellent condition, $29,800. Phone (204)448-2348.
204-726-3335 www.globalrepair.ca
83 JD 4650 JD 4650 MFWD, POWER SHIFT, 7,562HRS., 18.4-42 DUALS, 16.9-28 FRONT TIRES, 3 PT
QUICK HITCH, CLEAN TRACTOR, $29,900. Phone
(204)324-7781 or (204)324-5194.
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
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FARM MACHINERY
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Salers
SKIDSTEERS GEHL #4510 $7,000; NH865 $12,900;
Gehl #6625 $12,900; Snowblowers: JD 7-ft $1,500,
International 7-ft $1,500: Schweiss 8-ft single auger
$800; Scrapers Crown 6-yd $5,000; Fieldmaster 4-yd
$3,900; New 10-ft Land Levellers $2,250, 12-ft $2,450;
3PH 9-ft blade $900; Used 7-ft 3PH blade $600; 11-ft
3PH rotary ditcher $1,250; Woods 6-ft pull-type mower
$1,600, JD 5-ft $1,000, NH 9-ft sicle mower $2,200 IH
Mirmill $1,500; Henke 36-in rollermill $5,000; 20-in rollermill $2,000. Phone:(204)857-8403
ANGUS PINE FARM HAS yearling Black & Red
Angus bulls for sale. Semen tested & delivered, we also
have 4 bulls at the MB Bull Test Station, Sale April 6th.
Check them out at www.manitobabulltest.com , Also
yearling purebred heifers for sale, call Peter or Florence Petrash (204)425-7765, Sun-down.
YEARLING & 2-YR OLD polled Salers bulls for
sale. Sons of the top performing sires in Canada.
Red or Black, hand fed & quiet, birth weights from
79lbs.
www.sweetlandsalers.com
or
Phone:(204)762-5512
GRAVITY WAGONS NEW 400B, $7,100; 600B,
$12,000; Used wagons 250-750 Bu, tarps available;
Used grain carts 450-1050 Bu; Ez475 Bu, $7900; JM
875 Bu, $20,000; Kwik Kleen grain screeners 5 tube,
$3500; 7 tube, $6500; Dual stage screeners, $1500 up;
Rem 552 grain vac, $3500; Rem 2500 vac, $9500; Valmar applicator, $850. Phone (204)857-8403.
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
LOOKING FOR SMALL SQUARE balers & pulltype
swathers, end-wheel drills. Phone (204)325-4526, ask
for Corny.
WANTED: 1960-1966 CHEVROLET TRUCKS or
parts; Old steel wheel seed drill; WALLIS tractor parts
& Massey Harris U frame tractor parts pacemaker &
25. Phone:(204)826-2554.
WANTED: DEUTZ 100-06 TRACTOR for parts & round
bale tubulater; Also wanted, hopper for 14-ft steel bin.
Phone (204)278-3438, Inwood.
WANTED: NH 8500 ROUND bale wagon. Phone
(406)883-2118
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
The Icynene Insulation
System®
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
RED & BLACK ANGUS bulls, 2 yr old, semen tested & guaranteed. Triple V Ranch Dan at
(204)665-2448
cell
(204)522-0092,
Matt
at
(204)264-0706.
ROHAN ANGUS HAS ON offer Black & Red 2-yr
old bulls, no seconds all 2-yr olds. Phone
(204)467-5093 after 7 pm. Stonewall, MB.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
3 2-YR OLD BLACK Angus bulls w/experience. Also, Yearling Black Angus bulls. Holloway Angus.
Souris, Manitoba. Phone: (204)741-0070 or
(204)483-3622.
BLACK ANGUS BULL, 3-YR old, used on cows &
heifers, $2,200. Also 1 Goodyear tire 20.8Rx38 &
two 16.9Rx28. Good tires, just taken off.
$150/each. Phone:(204)886-2083.
BOTANY ANGUS FARM & Leaning Spruce Stock
Farm have for sale yearling & 2 yr old Black Angus
bulls. Come early, a deposit will hold your purchase
until Spring. For more info & prices contact Ryan
Shearer (204)824-2151 or (204)761-5232.
CRANBERRY CREEK ANGUS BULLS for sale on
the farm. Bulls are registered, will be semen tested.
Choose now, we will deliver at the end of April.
Hand fed for longevity, not pushed, these bulls
have a great disposition. A.I. sired by Pioneer, Final
Answer, Coalition, Mohnen Dynamite, Game Day,
natural sires are S Square Tiger & Cranberry Creek
Networth. All EPD’s & weights available. For more
info please call David & Jeanette Neufeld
(204)534-2380, Boissevain.
FORAGE BASED BLACK ANGUS Bulls. Virgin
2-yr olds & herd sires available. Phone:
(204)564-2540. www.nerbasbrosangus.com
www.penta.ca
1-800-587-4711
IRON & STEEL
FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS, Feeders & Alley ways, 30ft or order to size. Oil Field Pipe: 1.3, 1.6,
1.9, 1 7/8, 2-in, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2. Sucker Rod: 3/4,
7/8, 1. Casing Pipes: 4-9inch. Sold by the piece or semi
load lots. For special pricing call Art (204)685-2628 or
cell (204)856-3440.
FULL LINE OF COLORED & galvanized roofing,
siding & accessories, structural steel, tubing, plate,
angles, flats, rounds etc. Phone:1-800-510-3303, Fouillard Steel Supplies Ltd, St Lazare.
LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
REGULAR SALE
FOR SALE: POLLED BLACK Angus & Hereford
bulls. Good selection of yearlings & 2-yr olds, semen tested & delivery available. Call Don:
(204)873-2430.
FOR SALE: REGISTERED BLACK Angus yearling
bulls. Moderate framed w/good dispositions, EPD’s
avail., will be semen tested & delivered. Blood lines
include Kodiak, KMK Alliance, Peacemaker, Aberdeen, Pioneer, Final Product, Dynamite. Also registered open heifers. Phone Colin at Kembar Angus
(204)725-3597, Brandon MB.
GOOD SELECTION OF 2 yr old & yearling Black
Angus bulls; Also Black X Simm hybrid bulls. Guaranteed breeders. Semen tested. B/B Duncan
(204)556-2348 (204)556-2342, Cromer.
GREENBUSH ANGUS HAS YOUR next herd sire
ready to go. Top AI sired offspring by SAV density,
SAV Providence, S Chism, Harb Windy, Nichols
Quiet Lad & TC Aberdeen. All bulls are semen tested & ready to go, delivery available. Cal Tim Baker:(204)966-3320 or Cell:(204)476-6040.
N7 STOCK FARM HAVE 30 top quality yearling
Black Angus bulls for sale by private treaty. Sired
by some of the Breed’s leading AI sires, bulls are
developed on a homemade oat ration & free choice
hay. Performance records available, will be semen
tested, delivery available. Contact Gerald & Wendy
Nykoliation
(204)562-3530
or
Allan’s
cell
(204)748-5128.
NEXT SHEEP & GOAT SALE
WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD
PB Black Angus bulls for sale. Check out our bull
catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. Phone
Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
BRED COW SALE
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
Every Friday 9AM
Wednesday, April 17 @ 1:00 pm
Monday, April 22
Gates Open:
Mon.-Wed. 8AM-4PM
Thurs. 8AM-10PM
Friday 8AM-6PM
Sat. 8AM-4PM
We Will Buy Cattle Direct On Farm
For more information call: 204-694-8328
Jim Christie 204-771-0753
Scott Anderson 204-782-6222
Mike Nernberg 204-841-0747
www.winnipeglivestocksales.com
Licence #1122
GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK
AUCTION MART. LTD.
Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519
GRUNTHAL, MB.
AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING
REGULAR CATTLE SALES
with Holstein Calves
every TUESDAY at 9 am
Saturday, April 13th
Wilkinridge Stock Farm
Bull Sale at 1:00 p.m.
Bred Cow & Heifer Sale at 10:00 a.m.
Horse & Tack Sale at 10:00 a.m.
Monday, April 29th
Sheep and Goat Sale
with Small Animals
at 12:00 Noon
Sales Agent for
HIQUAL INDUSTRIES
We also have a line of Agri-blend all natural
products for your livestock needs.
(protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc)
For on farm appraisal of livestock
or for marketing information please call
Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart (204) 434-6519
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM
2 YR OLD BULLS PB not papered, $1,800 each.
Phone (204)371-6404, Ste Anne.
2-YR OLD RED ANGUS bulls, performance & calving ease. Bulls will be semen tested, delivery
available. Ph (204)278-3372 or (204)485-1490, Inwood.
Cornerstone Red Angus & Charolais Bull Sale
Offering 33 Red Angus & 25 Charolais Yearling Bulls.
available. Contact Phil Birnie (306)577-7440, Kelly
Brimner (306)577-7698 or view the catalogue online
at www.bylivestock.com
REG RED ANGUS BULLS for sale. 7, 2 yr olds; 1,
3 yr old; 1, 4 yr old. Proven breeders, 250 heifers
can’t be wrong. Jim Abbott (204)745-3884 or cell
(204)750-1157, Carman.
REG RED ANGUS BULLS for sale both yearlings
& 2 yr olds. Also have bred cows & cow/calf pairs
for sale. Phone (204)641-5725, Arborg, MB.
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM ANNUAL Bull Sale
Sat., Apr 13th, 1:00pm at Grunthal Auction Mart.
Featuring 10 Red yearling Maine-Anjou bulls; 1
Black 2 yr old Maine bull; 7 Black yearling Maine
bulls; 19 yearling Red Angus bulls. All bulls are
polled, performance tested & will have passed
breeding evaluation. Bulls are selected for growth,
breeding soundness, calving ability & structural correctness. Bulls can be viewed online at www.wilkinridge.blogspot.ca For more info or sale catalogue
Contact Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631
WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD
PB Red Angus bulls for sale. Check out our bull
catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. Phone
Michael Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
CLINE CATTLE COMPANY has for sale purebred
yearling Charolais bulls. Quiet, good feet, will be
semen
tested
&
guaranteed.
Call
Brad
(204)537-2367 or Cell (204)523-0062.
Cornerstone Charolais & Red Angus Bull Sale
Offering 25 Charolais & 33 Red Angus Yearling Bulls.
available. Contact Kelly Brimner (306)577-7698, Phil
Birnie (306)577-7440, or view the catalogue online at
www.bylivestock.com
DEFOORT STOCK FARM HAS an excellent group
of registered Charolais bulls for sale by private treaty. Over 40 bulls on offer, 20 of them are Red.
Choose your bull early for best selection. All bulls
performace tested, semen tested & delivered. Visit
us online at www.defoortstockfarm.com Celebrating
33-yrs in Charolais. Call us at (204)743-2109.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
FOR SALE: 2-YR OLD Purebred Charolais bulls.
Polled, colored & white, quiet, $2,250 -$2,500.
Wayne Angus:(204)764-2737.
FOR SALE: PUREBRED CHAROLAIS bulls, 1-1/2
yr olds & yearlings, polled, some red factor, some
good for heifers, semen tested, guaranteed & delivered, R & G McDonald Livestock, Sidney MB.
Phone:(204)466-2883, cell (204)724-2811.
FOR SALE: PUREBRED YEARLING & 2-yr old
Charlois bulls, semen tested & guaranteed. Wawanesa, MB. Phone:(204)824-2115.
FOR SALE: RED, POLLED, 2 yr old & yearling
bulls. Developed on a growing ration. Birth weights
as low as 63-lbs. We also have bulls at Douglas
Test Station. Check out our website at www.poplarparkfarm.com (204)764-2382.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
Swine
CONRAY CATTLE CO. HAS for sale 2-yr old &
yearling polled red factor bulls. These bulls are
quiet, structurally sound & have great hair coats.
They are sired by a proven calving ease sire. They
will be semen tested & delivered. Connor:(204)825-2140 or Gayle:(204)825-0163.
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
TRIPLE T DIAMOND SIMMENTALS has Fullblood
Fleckvieh, Red & Black Simmental Bulls for sale on
the farm. Bulls also consigned to Cattle Country
Sale April 9th in Neepawa, MB view catalogue at
www.transconlivestock.com, Lundar Bull Sale April
20th, view catalogue at
www.buyagro.com, For
more info, call Stewart (204)762-6156, cell
(204)739-8301
Wade
(204)762-5492
cell
(204)739-3225 www.tripletdiamondsimmentals.com
YEARLING & SEVERAL 2 yr old PB Simm bulls.
Reds & Blacks. Thick & Solid coloured w/moderate
birth weights. Sired by A.I. Sires: IPU Revolution, In
Due Time & Colossal. Semen tested & ready to go.
$2,250-3,000. Valley Field Simm Larry Dyck, Morden. Phone evenings (204)822-3657.
For Sale: Red, Polled, Simmental Bulls
MARTENS CHAROLAIS EXCELLENT YEARLING
& 2-yr old bulls for sale. Dateline sons for calving
ease & performance. Specialist sons for consistent
thickness. 3-yr old Red Mist son. Call Ben
(204)534-8370.
FOR SALE: GALLOWAY BULLS. Purebred yearlings & 2-yr olds. Blacks & Duns now available. Willow-Mar Farms. Tom Morrish -Devlin, Ont.
Phone:(807)486-3622.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Gelbvieh
FOR SALE: PUREBRED RED yearling Gelbvieh
bulls, quiet, semen tested & guaranteed. Phone
(204)745-7718 or (204)745-7811.
POLLED RED & BLACK Gelbvieh bulls, yearling,
2-yr old. Semen tested & delivered. Also 10-15
commercial yearling heifers. Call Maple Grove
Gelbvieh (204)278-3255.
SELIN’S GELBVIEH FARM, RED & Black Polled
yearling bulls, semen tested & also selling bulls at
PGA sale in Moosejaw. Call Wayne (306)793-4568.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
12 OPEN DE-HORNED YEARLING hereford heifers. Call
(306)743-5105 or www.vcherefordfarm.com Langenburg, SK.
FOR SALE: EXCELLENT SELECTION of yearling
& 2-yr old purebred, polled Hereford bulls. Good
performance, tie broke, quiet, up to date on vaccinations. Will deliver & winter until May 1st. Can be
viewed online at www.rocknabh.com. Call Allan
/Bonnie at (204)764-0364 or Kevin/Holly at
(204)764-0331.
FOR SALE: POLLED HEREFORD & Black Angus
bulls. Good selection of yearlings & 2-yr olds, semen tested & delivery available. Call Don:
(204)873-2430.
FOR SALE: REGISTERED HORNED Hereford
bulls, 2-yr old & yearlings. Semen tested & delivered. Phone M. Wilson:(204)246-2142.
FOR SALE: REGISTERED POLLED Hereford
bulls, reasonably priced, pick your bulls now, will
winter to end of April. Call Martin (204)425-3820 or
Lenard (204)425-3809.
GOOD SELECTION OF POLLED hereford yearling
bulls. Call Vern Kartanson (204)867-2627 or
(204)867-7315.
QUALITY PUREBRED POLLED QUIET bulls. 2
5-yr old herd Sires. 1 herd Sire from Crittenden
herd in SK. 1 from our Grand Champion Lacombe
bull in AB. 1 2-yr old horned bull purebred no papers, extremely thick & deep, heavy quarters from
our heavy milking polled cow. 3 yearling polled bulls
sired by our reserved senior bull from Toronto Royal Fair. Thick beef, good round butts. All bulls from
heavy-milking purebred no-papered dams. 53-yrs
breeding Herefords. Phone Francis Poulsen
(204)436-2284, cell (204)745-7894.
REG POLLED HEREFORD BULLS, good selection of coming 2 yr olds, naturally developed, quiet,
broke to tie, guaranteed, delivery available. Catt
Brothers (204)723-2831 Austin, MB.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Limousin
AMAGLEN LIMOUSIN BULLS FOR sale. Red,
black, performance or calving ease, polled, w/all
weights recorded, Semen tested, delivery available
when you want them. Phone:(204)246-2312.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Maine-Anjou
SECTION 19 CATTLE CO. offers its first set of
yearling Maine Anjou bulls originating from the
reputation Cee Farms cow herd. Thick, deep &
quiet. Blacks & Reds w/moderate birthweights. Call
Cam at (204)239-1553 or e-mail [email protected]
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM ANNUAL Bull Sale
Sat., Apr 13th, 1:00pm at Grunthal Auction Mart.
Featuring 10 Red yearling Maine-Anjou bulls; 1
Black 2 yr old Maine bull; 7 Black yearling Maine
bulls; 19 yearling Red Angus bulls. All bulls are
polled, performance tested & will have passed
breeding evaluation. Bulls are selected for growth,
breeding soundness, calving ability & structural correctness. Bulls can be viewed online at www.wilkinridge.blogspot.ca For more info or sale catalogue
Contact Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD.
728-7549
Licence No. 1123
LIVESTOCK
Poultry For Sale
CLUCK & QUACK POULTRY Club’s Fourth Annual Spring Auction, Sat., May 4th, 2013, 12:00 noon.
South Barn of the CPTC/Rodeo Grounds off Hwy
#302 in Beausejour. For more info, call Susan
(204)268-1459 or e-mail [email protected]
EXOTIC BIRD & ANIMAL AUCTION, Apr. 21st,
2013. Skating Rink at Indian Head, SK. 11:00am.
Lunch
available. To
consign
call Yvonne
(306)347-1068. For info call Gord (306)695-2184.
WWW.REDDIAMONDFARM.COM 18 MTH OLD PB
Polled Charolais bulls for sale. Check out our bull catalogue online. We guarantee & deliver. Phone Michael
Becker (204)348-2464, Whitemouth.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Galloway
CAREERS
Help Wanted
BRONSON DAIRY, NEAR LANDMARK, has a
herdsperson position which includes performing
general farm duties in a fast paced environment &
working under pressure, tight deadlines, physically
demanding. Work requires a combination of sitting,
standing & walking. Position includes formulating
feed programs, carrying out pen breeding programs
& recognizing & treating livestock health problems.
Permanent F/T position w/some evening & weekend shifts. $14.05 hourly for 40 hrs per week. Medical & Dental benefits. To apply, e-mail resume to
[email protected]
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Shorthorn
F BAR & ASSOCIATES ANGUS bulls for sale.
Choose from 20, two yr old & yearling Red & Black
Angus bulls. Great genetics, easy-handling, semen
tested, delivery avail. Call for sales list. Inquiries &
visitors are welcome. We are located in Eddystone,
about 20-mi East of Ste Rose, or 25-mi West of
Lake Manitoba Narrows, just off Hwy 68. Call Allen
& Merilyn Staheli (204)448-2124, E-mail [email protected]
CAREERS
Specialty
1, 5 yr old herd sire (pictured)
Also yearling bulls, deep, thick & semen tested.
Call Kelly @ Boynecrest Stock Farm
(204)828-3483 or (204)745-7168
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – South Devon
BULLS FOR SALE: 2, 3 yr old Solid Red South
Devon bulls, will semen test, $2,000 each. Phone
(204)425-3362 or cell (204)371-6424.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
200 BRED HEIFERS, REDS, Blacks, Tans, full
herd health program, bred to Black & Red Angus
bulls, to start calving April 1st, 2013. All heifers
were
sourced
out
of
reputation
herds.
Phone:(204)325-2416.
FOR SALE: 20 BRED cows & cows w/calves. Red
Angus cross Simmental. Phone (204)749-2033,
Rathwell.
FOR SALE: 60 BLACK bred hfrs, $1,350 each.
Phone (204)937-7688, Roblin, MB.
LIVESTOCK
Specialty – Bison/Buffalo
FOR SALE: 6 BRED bison cows, $1,500 each
OBO
& 1 bull. Phone (807)548-4435 or
(807)466-7610
LIVESTOCK
Specialty – Various
FOR SALE: REGISTERED BELTON Galloway
bull, Mouflon sheep & yaks. Phone:(807)548-4435
or (807)466-7610.
LIVESTOCK
Livestock Equipment
ALTERNATIVE POWER BY SUNDOG SOLAR,
portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind
generators, aeration. Carl Driedger, (204)556-2346
or (204)851-0145, Virden.
KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WATERING
System, provides water in remote areas, improves
water quality, increases pasture productivity, extends
dugout
life.
St.
Claude/Portage,
204-379-2763.
FOR SALE: ANGUS HEREFORD cross heifers,
bred for calving ease, fertility & maternal traits, out
of purebred cows & bulls. Guilford Hereford Ranch,
Call Don (204)873-2430.
PORTABLE WINDBREAKS, CALF SHELTERS,
free standing rod & pipe panels, fence line & field
silage bunks. Also sell Speed-Rite & 7L Livestock
fence equipment, drill pipe & sucker rod. Phone
(204)827-2104 or (204)827-2551, Glenboro.
HIGH QUALITY BLACK ANGUS & polled Hereford
2-yr old bulls for sale. Bar H Land & Cattle Co.
Phone:(306)743-2840. Langenburg SK.
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR SALE
SOUTHWEST BULL DEVELOPMENT SALE 50
Red & Black Angus, Hereford Bulls April 13, 2013
at 1:00pm. Video sale at Oak Lake Community Hall.
Bulls viewed at Batho Farms Ltd. Catalogue &
Video online at Southwestbulldevelopmentcentre.com Contact Ron (204)855-2404 or cell
(204)748-5208 Albert cell (204)748-7640.
NATURAL WOOD MULCH, PICKUP.
$10/yrd,
minimum 10-yrds, South Winnipeg pickup, call for
directions. (204)257-5497.
SWATH GRAZING? BOOST THE YIELD & double
the Protein & Calcium by adding Yellow Blossom
Clover seed to the Millet. Other Plus’s: can be kept
“year two” if a drought & leaves field “Nitrogen” rich.
Processing soon. Bags or totes. Also some top yielder
Foxtail Millet & Oats off breaking! For prices & delivery
call early D. White Seeds (204)822-3649, Morden.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Wanted
HEALTHY HAY (SAINFOIN.EU) SAINFOIN seed
for sale. Bloat-free perennial forage. Highly digestible, palatable & nutritious. www.primegrains.com/prime-sainfoin.htm (306)739-2900 [email protected]
WANTED: ALL CLASSES OF feeder cattle, yearlings & calves. Dealer Licence# 1353. Also wanted,
light feed grains: wheat, barley & oats.
Phone:(204)325-2416. Manitou, MB.
USED 1000X20
TIRES & RIMS $75 & up
Call Ken (204)794-8383.
#2 Mountain View Rd
Winnipeg, MB
Trux-N-Parts Salvage Inc.
ORGANIC
Organic – Grains
Horses
LIVESTOCK
Horse Auctions
ROCKING W SPRING HORSE SALE Keystone
Centre, Brandon, MB. Huge Tack Sale: Fri., Apr
19th. Horse Sale: Sat., Apr 20th. Late entries accepted.
(204)325-7237
[email protected]
www.rockingw.com
Gladstone Auction Mart Ltd
Open Horse & Tack
Gladstone, MB
Thursday, April 18th at 5:00pm
All Classes of Horses Welcome
Starting with tack at 5:00pm
For more info phone Gerald
at the Mart (204)385-2537
Will be receiving Thursday morning at 9:00am
License #1108
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based
in Saskatoon, is actively buying
Organic Flax from the 2012 crop year.
If interested, please send a 5lbs sample* to
the following address:
Attn: Sandy Jolicoeur
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp.
102 Melville Street
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7J 0R1
*Please state the Variety & Quantity for Sale
For more information,
please contact Sandy at:
306-975-9251
306-975-1166
[email protected]
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save!
Renew early and
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Wanted
MUSICAL
BANJOS, $229-898; MANDOLINS, $125-599;
Electric Guitars, $98-569; Amplifiers, $29.95-1,200;
Violins $69.95-1,295; Harmonicas, $8.98-220; Ukuleles $39.95-179; Student Guitars, $59.95-$149.95;
Base Guitars, $129-299; Auto Harps, $299-500;
Drums, $399; Trumpet, $199; Trombone, $299;
P.A. Microphones, Strings, Cases, Music Books,
Accessories. Hildebrand Music Portage La Prairie
Mall (204)857-3172
WANTED: A MIXED FARM in Western MB or Eastern SK. 1/2-2 sections, consider livestock & equipment also. Contact Phil Schwarz (204)842-3491,
Box 40 Birtle MB, R0M 0C0.
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LAND FOR SALE BY tender in the RM of Fisher:
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fence. Dugout & well. Terms: It is the bidder’s responsibility to inspect the parcel of land for accuracy and condition. The highest or any bid not necessarily accepted. Submit bid by mail to: Wade
Sobkowich, 114 Brentford Road Winnipeg, MB
R2M 5B9. (204)452-7577. All Bids must be received by April 26, 2013.
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FARMLAND FOR SALE BY tender. RM of Riverside East 1/2 of 4-6-17W 320-acres, 200-acres valley land arable now in grass balance fenced pasture. Crop insurance F. Tenders close at 1:00pm on
April 15th, 2013. For details or tender forms call
Dave Mooney (204)824-2094 or [email protected] Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Countryland Realty.
FARM SPECIALIST: COUNT ON GRANT TWEED,
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REAL ESTATE
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FARMS FOR SALE
RM of Minto - Minnedosa area
mixed farm section of land with
home, shop, quonset, calving
barn, cattle sheds. Very scenic
with river running through it.
Legal: 19-16-18w
RM of Park - Half section with
approximately 270 cultivated
acres. Yard site with hydro and
quonset. Legal: E 1/2 28-19-19w
RM of Daly - Quarter section of
scenic pasture land with Little
Saskatchewan River running
through. Hydro and drilled well on
property. Legal: SE 9-12-21w
RM of Clanwilliam - Four quarters
with approximately 385 cultivatable
acres. Good farmland! Legal: NE
1-17-18w, SE 1-17-18w, NW 1-1718w and SW 12-17-18w.
FOR SALE: POTATO SPECIAL CROPS LANDCARMEN. 470-acres potato & special crops land in
1 block in the Carmen area. Spring 2013 possession. Contact Melvin Toews at Golden Plains Realty
Ltd. (204)745-3677.
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Rick Taylor 204-867-7551
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LAND FOR SALE. NW 1/4 30-16-12W. RM of
Westbourne 2-mi NW of Plumas. Contact Ted
Mauthe (204)386-2314.
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APPROX 320-ACS OF GRAINLAND w/storage on
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90-acs of Pasture on Section 31-12-18W for 2013
w/stocking rates to be determined. Grain & Pasture
tenders accepted separately or as a combined
package. Tenders to be received by April 19th at
Box 1000A RR 3 Brandon, MB R7A 5Y3. For more
info
call
Brad
(204)868-5579
or
Greg
(204)826-2718. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITY
Seller looking to lease back
430 cultivated acres. Property
has surface rights lease in place
currently generating $7300
annual income. Potential for
over 5% return on investment plus
appreciation on land value.
Rick Taylor 204-867-7551
[email protected]
GOOD QUALITY GRAIN & Cattle Farms wanted
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FARMLAND FOR SALE RM OF GRANDVIEW
1) SW 34-23-24W 160-acs 135-acs Cultivated
2) NE 5-24-24W 160-acs 105-acs Cultivated
old yardsite w/municipal waterline & hydro
5) NE 12-24-25W 145-acs 142 Cultivated
6) PT NE 12-24-25W 15-acs yardsite c/w
1,376-sq.ft. bungalow home. Built in 1998,
3 bdrm w/finished basement, deck & pool.
Municipal water line, steel grain storage &
Quonset implement storage.
Sealed written tenders will be accepted on
individual as well as any combination of parcels.
Tenders will be accepted until midnight
Monday, April 22nd, 2013.
Mail tenders to: PO Box 784
Grandview, MB R0L 0Y0
Marked “Land Tenders”
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Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
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wheels manual tarp. Starting as low as $34,000.
Tri axle starting at $49,500 side chutes & dual
crank hopper openings avail.
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TRAILERS
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Hay & Straw
Collection of plastic oil jugs
Glycol recovery services
Specialized waste removal
Winter & Summer windshield
washer fluid
Peak Performance anti-freeze
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Deloraine, Manitoba
WHEAT & OAT STRAW bales for sale, 3 x 3 x 8.
Phone (204)343-2144 or cell (204)745-0085.
Feed Grain
BUYING ALL TYPES OF feed grain. Also have
market for light offgrade or heated, picked up on the
farm. Eisses Grain Marketing 1-888-882-7803,
(403)350-8777 Lacombe.
PEDIGREED SEED
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PEDIGREED SEED
CERTIFIED KANE & CARBERRY wheat, Certified
Tradition Barley, Certifed Leggett & Summit oats.
Will
custom
clean
canola. Wilmot
Milne
(204)385-2486, cell (204)212-0531, Gladstone MB.
ELIAS SEEDS A.C. CARBERRY & Kane Wheat,
Cert, CDC Copeland Barley. Please Call
(204)745-3301, Carman.
JAMES FARMS LTD: Carberry & Pasteur Wheat,
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Flax, Various Canola, Sunflower & Soybean seed
varieties, Forage seed. Customer processing. Seed
treating & delivery available. Early payment discounts. For
info
(204)222-8785,
toll
free
1-866-283-8785, Winnipeg.
PUGH SEEDS: CERT AC Barrie, Carberry, Kane,
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(204)871-1467, Portage.
SANDERS SEED FARM Cert, Reg, FDN Carberry,
Domain, Kane, Harvest, Glenn Wheat, Cert Celebration Barley Canterra Canola varieties also.
Phone (204)242-4200, Manitou, MB.
JEFFERIES SEEDS LTD.
Certified #1 Wheat: Vesper VB, Glenn Hard Red
Spring, Snowstar Hard White Spring
Certified #1 Oats:Souris,Triactor(good for forage)
Certified #1 Barley: Bentley(malt)
Pioneer Oil Sunflowers
Phone:(204)827-2102
LARGE ROUND WHEAT STRAW bales, trucking
available. Phone:(204)242-2913. Manitou, MB.
COMMON SEED
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3000-LB LIVESTOCK SCALES made to fit in your
chute or alley. We have larger & smaller sizes to
choose from, no electric. Also bale scales & hopper
feeders w/s in various types & sizes. ELIAS
SCALES (306)445-2111. www.eliasscales.com
LARGE QUANTITY OF WHEAT straw bales,
4x4x8. Can deliver. Phone Phil:(204)771-9700.
La Salle, MB.
OAT STRAW & BARLEY Straw for sale, medium
square bales. Phone (204)483-2990.
HAIRY VETCH SEED FOR sale, cleaned &
bagged, high germination, excellent forage & nitrogen fixation source. Phone: Ron at (204)723-2831,
Austin, MB.
SCALES
FOR SALE: LARGE ROUND bales of Grass Hay,
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can be arranged. Phone (204)278-3438, Inwood.
COMMON SEED
FOR SALE: ALFALFA, TIMOTHY, brome, clover,
hay & pasture blends, millet seed, common seed
oats. Leonard Friesen, (204)685-2376, Austin MB.
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FOR SALE: ALFALFA & Corn silage; Corn &
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the above. Also selling bull calves. Phone Alvin
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WHEAT STRAW BALES for sale, baled w/DR780
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Call for pricing (204)362-4192.
WHEAT STRAW FOR SALE in 3x8x8 & small
square. Very clean. Delivery available. Phone
(204)856-3561, Portage.
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for pricing ~ 204-325-9555
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Phone 204-737-2000
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TRAILERS
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$2,350, 11-ft $2,850. Phone:(204)857-8403.
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Italy/Greek Isle Cruise ~ Oct 2013
Mississippi Cruise ~ Oct 2013
Branson/Tennessee Tour ~ Oct 2013
Australia/New Zealand ~ Jan 2014
South America ~ Feb. 2014
India ~ Feb. 2014
South Africa ~ Feb. 2014
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CAREERS
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F/T EMPLOYMENT ON GRAINFARM near Starbuck, MB. Duties to assist in all aspects of grainfarming including mechanical, welding & trucking.
Class 1 license is required or willing to obtain. For
more info call PAGE FARMS (204)735-2373 or
(204)981-4234.
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UNRESERVED RETIREMENT FARM AUCTION for RUSTY & LIZ SOUCH
of BINSCARTH, MB - FRIDAY, APRIL 19th at 11:00 AM
DIRECTIONS: From Binscarth, MB. (Jct #16 & #478) East on #478 3kms (To sign that reads Silver Creek R.M.) Turn South 3kms (to Sale site on East side of road) Watch for signs
ORDER OF SALE:11:00 – 12:30: Misc, Tools, Parts, Shop Items, etc. 12:30 – 1:00: 3PT Equipment, Tanks, Pumps, etc. 1:00: (Internet Bidding Starts) Major Equipment Sells
AUCTIONEER NOTES: Rusty & Liz are retiring from farming and are offering this premium line of equipment to the highest bidder. The Souchs are well known for being great caretakers and the equipment is in very nice condition. The
tractors and the combine will have fresh oil and filters and ready to go to work for you. Plan to attend this great clean sale.
TERMS: Rusty has agreed to offer terms on the JD 9750 Combine and the Premier 2952 Swather. Terms are: 25% down sale day by way of none refundable deposit. Balance due on or before August 1, 2013 by certified cheque payable to
Russell Souch. Units will stay in possession of Rusty & Liz until paid in full. Purchaser must insure units at time of sale.
TRACTORS: *1998 New Holland Versatile 9682 4WD 360hp Tractor w/ 3350 hrs showing, 20.8R42 duals, 4 Remote Hyd, Return line, Rear Weight Pkg, 12 Spd Standard Trans, Accu-Trac Auto Steer system,
s/nD106777 *1990 CaseIH 9130 4WD 220hp Tractor w/5740hrs showing, 18.4R38 duals, 12 spd pwr shift, 4 remote hyd, return line, s/n0005319 *1997 JD 6400 MFWD 85hp Tractor w/JD SL640 Loader,
Joystick Controls, Pwr Quad Trans, Shuttle Shift, 4834 hrs showing, 3PT, Dual PTO, 2 Remote Hyd, 18.4R38 Singles s/n201831 *1963 MF35 Gas 33hp Tractor w/3PT, 540 PTO, 5962 Hrs Showing, s/
nSGM237425 *JD 2 Prong Bale Fork (Off JD 640 Loader) WHEEL LOADER & ATTACHMENTS: *2012 CS920 wheel loader w/bucket, 100hp engine, quick attach, 10hrs showing *quick attach pallet forks
*quick attach hyd angle blade *quick attach toothed bucket *quick attach smooth edge bucket *quick attach snow bucket HARVEST EQUIPMENT: *2003 JD 9750 STS SP Combine w/1574 Sep Hrs showing,
2000 Eng Hrs showing, Big Top Hopper Topper, Long auger, Dial-A-Height, Dial-A-Speed Header Controls, 800/65R32 rubber, s/nS701387 *1998 30’ Honey Bee SP30 Straight Cut Header w/pickup reel, Crop
Lifters, JD Adapter, Self Transport s/n430981701 *2002 Premier 2952 SP Swather w/30’ MacDon 972 Header, hyd in throat Canola drum, pick up reel, 2 Spd Hydro, 810 Cutting hrs showing, 1024 Eng hrs
showing, Header Tilt, fore and aft, s/n145265 *10’ Flaman Poly Swath Roller *30’ JD 590 PT Swather w/Bat Reel s/n002211 *Shop Built Swather Transport *Labtronics 919 Digital Moisture Tester w/Scale
SEED & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: *2002 52’ Bourgault 8810 Air Seeder w/ 8” Spacing, 450 lbs Trips, Single Chute, Carbide Tip 3/4” Bourgault Openers, Poly Packers, s/n37369CU-02 *Bourgault 3225 Air Tank
w/low profile hopper, s/n8036 (Sells separate from drill) *1997 52’ Bourgault 9200 Tillage w/Squibb Taylor Control flow NH3 Kit, Bourgault Granular Kit, 12” Spacing, 600 lbs Trips, Nickel Knock on Openers,
4 Bar Harrows, s/n824919 *47 1/2’ IH 4700 Vibra Tiller w/3 bar harrows *70’ Flexi Coil System 85 Heavy Harrows s/nU092614-00 *60’ Herman Hyd Harrow Bar *Melroe 903 7 Bottom Plow w/coulters,
spring Reset *Mel-Cam Fork Type Rock Picker *Degelman 558 Rotary Stone Picker w/ hyd drive, Rock Apron, s/n1352 *Miskin M7000 Approx 7 Yd Hyd Scraper, s/n17248 *7’ Kirchner Ditch King V-Ditcher
*Sections of Bourgault Harrows (for Parts) *24’ White 271 Tandem Disc (for Parts) SPRAYER: *2003 130’ Flexi Coil 67XL PT Sprayer w/1250 Gal Poly Tank, Chem Mix Tank, Eye Wash Stn., Triple Nozzle
Bodies, Wind Screens, Hyd Pump, Micro Trak Spray Mate II GPS Rate Control, s/n113476 TRUCKS & TRAILER: *1986 Ford LTL 9000 T/A Grain Truck w/20’ B & H, Roll Tarp, 9 Spd. Fuller Trans, 3406B Cat
350 HP Engine, Rear Hoist controls, Remote tailgate controls, 621976Kms showing, Cancade Side Delivery Auger for filling Airseeder, Pintle Hitch, Bottom End done last season, New Head Gasket, SAFETIED,
s/n1FDYA92X0GVA18635 *1975 Chev C60 S/A Truck w/2500 gal Metal Water Tank, 5 + 2 Trans, V8 Gas Engine, 6.5Hp, 2” water Pump, 9.00-20 Rubber, 95,313 Miles showing, s/n CCE615V134260 *2002
Advance 40’ T/A Double Hopper Metal Grain Trailer w/Aluminum Slopes, 11R24.5 Rubber, s/N2AESGXEE52S000133 ***NOTE: may be deleted from sale if Rusty is unable to get all his grain out by sale
time. Call to confirm prior to Sale*** WAGONS: *15’ S/A Grain/Fert Wagon, Single Hopper, Side Delivery Air Seeder fill auger, Pintle Hitch *(2) 4 Wheel Farm Wagons GRAIN HANDLING: *Farm Fans AB-180A
Propane Grain Dryer w/7” Wet - Dry Augers, Updated Circuit Board and timers, s/n186 *Grain Handler 5250 Grain Vac w/1000 PTO, s/n5254819 *2010 Westfield 13” x 61’, PTO Swing Hopper Auger w/Low
pro Hopper, hyd Swing, 540 PTO, s/n223649 *2008 8” x 51’ Wheatheart Auger w/Self Propel Kit, 25HP Subaru Engine, s/n206776 *7” x 45’ Sakundiak Auger w/18HP B&S *7” x 38’ Sakundiak Auger w/18HP
B&S *Wheat Heart Super Sweep Bin Sweep *Pencil Augers 3PT EQUIPMENT: *9’ Buhler/Farm King 3 PT Blade (5 Way Angle) *96” Farm King 3 PT Dbl Auger Snow Blower, 540 PTO, s/n20402693 *6’ Farm
King 3PT Finishing Mower s/n9766864 *6’ 3PT Cultivator *Flexi Coil 3 PT Hitch Post Pounder SHOP ITEMS: *Assortment of Farm Shop items, Hand Tools, Impact Sockets, Flat Wrenches, Sockets, Hammers,
Drills, Grinders *Smith Roles 16 Spd Drill Press w/Vise *Home Built Shop Press *500 lbs 3/4” Torque Wrench *Pipe threaders *7” Angle Grinder *JD 250 Amp Ac/Dc Welder *Jack-All Jacks *72 Compartment
Metal Bolt Bin – Loaded *Bench Grinder on Stand *Oxy/Acct Torch Set w/Caddy *Schumacher Battery Charger/Booster *Posi Lock Pullers *Butterfield Tap & Die Set *Crowbars *220 Volt Extension Cord *50’
Aluminum Ext Ladder TANKS, PUMPS & MISC ITEMS: *1000 Gal Fuel Tank w/110 Volt Pump & Meter *300 Gal Fuel Tank on Metal Stand *Electrical Cord *New 2” Gas Water Pump *Assortment of Farm Related
Smalls *Air Seeder Hose *NH3 Hose *Cultivator Shovels (Bourgault 11” knock on) *Dusk till Dawn Light *(4) UHF Radio’s, Antennas, Base Antenna, Power Supply *Banjo 2” Digital Flow Meter *Air Hose *Fill
Rite 115 Volt Oil Transfer Pump *(2) Barrel Dollies *1/2 HP Submersible Pump *(24) Schumacher Crop Lifters *1500 lbs ATV Jack *Old Cattle Oiler (Roller Style)
ITEMS CONSIGNED by MOULSON’S WELDING of FOXWARREN, MB. For information on this consigned equipment call Dustin at Moulson’s Welding 1-204-847-2227
*IH 1566 2wd tractor w/7200hrs showing, head and injectors done 200hrs ago *1997 F-350 4x4 w/7.3l diesel, 5 spd std, 350,000km 1000km on rebuilt motor, newer tires, Safetied *2001 Southland 20’t/a flat deck trailer w/beaver tails 2- 7000lb axles, new deck *NEW 2011 7’x14’ aluminum t/a cargo trailer w/2-3500lb axles,
barn doors *NEW 2011 2 place s/a snowmobile trailer *16’x42” land roller with folding hitch *10’x42” land roller *8’x42” land roller *3pt hitch 6’ box scraper *hopper bottom feeder tank *1992 Prowler 33.5’ fifth wheel travel trailer w/slide (water damage on slide out roof) *Flat deck for truck 8’ x 11’ new wood just installed
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL RUSTY & LIZ SOUCH 204-532-2180 OR CELL# 204-773-6120
for EYOLFSON FARMS LTD (MELVYN & AUDREY EYOLFSON)
of ARBORG, MB - TUESDAY, APRIL 23rd at 11:00 AM
DIRECTIONS: From Arborg, MB (Jct #7 & #68) 5Km East on #68 Hwy to Road 13E (Asgeir Line Road) 2.5Km North on Road 13E (Asgeir Line road) to Sale Site on West side of Road. Driveway Marker #130094
TRACTORS: *1990 JD 8760 4WD 300HP w/5146Hrs showing, 12 Spd Quad Trans, 3 Remote Hyd, 20.8-38 Duals, Diff locks, Extra Light Pkg, Radar, rear wipers, Updated Audio System, s/n002517 *1984 JD 4450 MFWD
140HP w/6785Hrs showing, 3PT, 15 Spd Pwr Shift Trans, 2 Remote Hyd, dual PTO, 20.8-38 Duals, Diff Locks, updated audio system, s/n012555 *1969 White 1370 2WD w/Loader, 3 PT, single Hyd, 540 PTO, 7229Hrs
Showing, s/n721635 HARVEST EQUIPMENT: *2001 CAT Lexion 465 SP Combine w/35” Tracks, Rear Wheel Assist, 2270 Sep Hrs, 3162 Eng Hrs Showing, fine Cut chopper, Chaff Spreaders, CAT Precision Header w/
Swath Master Pick Up, Auto Head Height, Long Auger, Cebis computer system with printer, Electronic sieve adjustments, Parts manual available, s/n3HZ00543 *2002 25’ MacDon 972 Draper Head w/ Cat Adapter, Pick
Up Reel, s/n 148285 *2002 Westward 9352 SP DSL Swather w/25’ MacDon 972 Header, DBL Swath, Pick Up Reel, 2 Speed Hydro, Turbo High HP Engine, Roto Sheer, Hyd in throat roller, Mandako Mounted Concave
Swath roller, 1906 Eng Hrs showing, 1365 Header Hrs showing, s/n145190 *Matt Track Conversion system for Westward/MacDon Swathers (All bearings & seals done in tracks fall 2012, 0 Hrs since track rebuilt)
Model 175M1-A1 Suspension Track *8’ Metal concave Swath roller *Labtronics 919 Moisture Tester w/scale, canola and cereal sieves, canola roller and counter *Dimo Labtronics 919 Electronic Smart Charts *Simple
Sampler Portable Combine *Farmex Hand Held Moisture Tester SEED & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: *40’ Flexi Coil 800 Air Seeder w/Flexi-Coil 1610 air Cart, 9” Spacings, 350 lbs trips, Single Chute Hyd Fan, New Fertilizer
Manifolds, 2 Metering rolls, 3 bar Harrows, 10” Sweeps, SencTech Depth control system, s/nK036010 *1997 40’ Flexi Coil 340 Tillage w/Dickey John Auto Rate NH3 Kit, 3 Bar Harrows, 12” Spacing, 550 lbs Trips,
Knock on shovels, s/nT075000 *50’ Flexi Coil System 95 Harrow Packer Bar w/P20 packers, 5 bar harrows, s/n1025530 *22’ EzeeOn Tandem Disc w/22” Notched Front & Smooth Rear Blades s/n11846 *Cockshutt 6
Bottom Plow w/Nitro resets SPRAYER & CHEMICAL HANDLING: *95’ Flexi Coil System 62 PT Field Sprayer w/800 Gal Poly Tank, Wind screens, Chem Mix Tank, Hyd Pump, Smucker Foam Markers, 15 Gal (8003) nozzles, s/n1027195 *Chem Handler “I” 2” Chemical Mix System *Sotera System Chemical Pump w/Meter *2”
Honda Water Pump GUIDANCE SYSTEM: *Trimble GPS system w/Auto Steer *Light Bar Guidance System TRUCKS & GRAIN TRAILER: *2003 Volvo 420 Highway Tractor w/Bunk, 475 HP Volvo engine, 18 Spd Trans, 22.5 Rubber, 12,000 front Axle, 40,000 Rears, 698,000Kms Showing, s/n4V4NC9GH33N342437, SAFETIED
*1989 Freightliner FLD 112 Highway Tractor w/Day Cab, 350 HP Cummins Eng, 15 Spd Trans, 24.5 Rubber, 12,000 Front Axle, 40,000 Rears, 529,072Kms Showing, s/n1FUPZCYB4KH442582, SAFETIED *1979 GMC Brigadier S/A Grain Truck w/16’ B&H, Roll Tarp, Detroit 6V53 DSL Engine, 5+2 Trans, Air Brakes, 244162Kms
Showing, 11.00-20 Front, 22.5 Rear Rubber, s/nT18CV9V583761 *1967 IH Loadstar 1600 S/A Grain Truck w/14’ B&H, 392 IH Gas Engine, 4+2 Trans, Plumbed for drill fills, 024942 Miles showing, s/n416600C008988 *1988 Chev 1500 Ext Cab 4x4 Truck w/8’ Box, Color Matched Topper, shocker Hitch system, 350 Engine
Auto trans, 280135Kms showing, s/n2GCEK19K4J1282045 *1993 Doepker Super B Grain Trailers w/24.5 Rubber, Spring Ride Suspension, Roll Tarps, LED Lights on Rear Trailer, (Newer Rubber) Lead s/n2D9GBSA34P1016918, Rear s/n2D9GBSZ27P1016919 *Tandem axle converter dolly w/22.5 rubber *Michaels’ 8” Hopper
Augers for Grain Trailers, Hyd Driven w/Wireless Remote Controls WAGONS: *(2) 200 Bushel gravity Grain Tanks on Farm King 4 Wheel Wagons *T/A Farm Wagon GRAIN HANDLING: *Vertec VT6500 Propane Grain Dryer w/M2 Updated Control Panel, Top Extensions with Roll Tarp cover, PTO Fan, s/n6597134 *1000 Gallon
Propane Tank *10” x 70’ Farm King PTO Swing Hopper Auger w/Full Bin Monitor, s/n9106147 *8” x 36’ Farm King Auger w/13HP Honda engine *8” x 51’ Westfield Auger w/Electric Motor, Wheel Pivot Kit (has pulleys to convert back to PTO) *10” Farm King transfer Auger w/Hyd Drive *Assorted 4” & 5” Augers w/Electric
Motors BINS & AERATION FANS: *(2) 5000 Bus Stor-King Hopper Bottom Bins *(2) 5000 Bus Grain Max Hopper Bottom Bins *(2) 3200 Bus Stor-King Hopper Bottom Bins *(2) 1400 Bus Load King Hopper Bottom Bins *(2) 24” Grain Guard Aeration Fan (5HP) in-line centrifugal *(4) Grain Guard Aeration Fan (5HP) direct drive
*(2) Keho Aeration Fan (2HP) *Aeration Transitions 3 PT & BUCKET: *8” Farm King 3PT DBL Auger Snow Blower *8’ Snow bucket (JD Brackets)
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL MELVYN & AUDREY EYOLFSON Cell 204-642-2721 or EMAIL [email protected]
for EINARSON FARMS LTD (KELVIN & KELLY EINARSON)
of RIVERTON, MB - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24th at 11:00 AM
DIRECTIONS: From: Jct #8 & #68 (South of Riverton, MB) 1.3Kms East on #68 to Sale Site on South Side.
TRACTORS: *1998 Case IH 9390 425Hp 4WD Tractor w/20.8R42 Triples, 24 Spd Std Trans, 4670hrs Showing, Outback STS Auto Steer System, 4 Remote Hyd Return Line, s/n0072993 *2005 JD 7220 MFWD 95HP w/
JD741 SL Loader, 18.4R38Rear, 16.9R26 Front, 3PT, 2 Remote Hyd, Dual PTO, 2660hrs Showing, 24 Spd Trans, Left Hand Reverser, s/n037796 *1974 JD 7020 4WD Tractor 146HP w/ 18.4-34 Duals, 2 Remote Hyd,
1000 PTO, 16 Speed Std Trans, 1680hrs Showing, s/n003380 *1975 4230 2WD Tractor 100HP w/16.9-38 rubber, Quad Range Trans, 3 PT, Dual PTO, 2 Remote Hyd, 4143hrs showing, s/n023246 *1971 JD 3020 DSL
2WD Tractor 71HP w/18.4-30 rubber, Syncro Trans, 2 Remote Hyd, Dual PTO, 4869hrs showing, s/n150254 *JD 158 Loader w/Bucket HARVEST EQUIPMENT: *1992 JD 9600 SP Combine w/JD914 Pick Up , Rear
Wheel Assist (New Rear Rubber), (only 400 Hrs on Sunny Brook Cylinder, Concave & Beater), Fine Cut Chopper, Chaff Spreader, Dual Spd Cylinder, Long auger, Harvest Trac Monitors, 2905sep hrs Showing, 4170eng hrs
Showing, s/n646107 *1998 Westward 9300 SP DSL Swather w/25’ MacDon 972 Header, Pick Up Reel, Turbo Cummins Engine, 2002hrs Showing, 2 Spd Hydro, 21.5L-16.1 Rubber, s/n120369 *Brent 670 Grain Cart
w/1000 PTO Drive, 14” Unload Auger, s/n671418 *2001 30’ JD 930F Straight Cut Flex Header w/Pick-Up Reel, Elmers Transport, s/n691267 *1996 30’ JD 930 Straight Cut Flex Header w/Pick-Up Reel, NEW Arc Fab ESB
30 Transport, s/n 666766 (New poly skid plates) *1994 25’ JD 925 Rigid Straight Cut Header w/Batt Reel, s/n655947 *22’ Batt Reel (off 4400 Versatile) *(2) 10’ Metal Concave Swath Rollers *Labtronics 919 Moisture
Tester w/ Scale *Handheld Moisture testers SEED & TILLAGE EQUIPMENT: *2008 47’ New Holland ST830 Tillage w/Raven control NH3 system, Knock on shovels, 12” Spacings, Light Kit, HD 3 Bar Harrows, s/n006529
*40’ CaseIH Concord 4010-4R Air Drill w/CaseIH 2300 Air Cart, Hyd Fan, 10” Spacings, 550 lbs Trips, Rubber Packer Wheels, Single Chute Carbide Tip Openers, Haukaus Side Arm Markers, 3 Rollers with tank (Set of 6”
LS Sweeps w/Splitters Sells with Unit) Tillage s/nCKB0014928, Cart s/nCKB0011939 *GMC Big Wheels Floater w/12’ Wilmar Applicator, Dual Spinners, Mid-Tech Guidance system, 5+2 Trans, 366 Gas Engine, 47399 Miles Showing, 48/25.00-20 Front Rubber, 66/43.00-25 Rear Rubber, s/nT17DB9V600138 *70’ Flexi-Coil
System 82 Hyd Harrows, s/nP061245 *45’ Wilrich Field Cultivator w/7” Spacings, 3 Bar Harrows *14’ Degelman Rock Rake w/540 PTO, s/n2203 *#57 Rock-o-Matic High Dump Rotary Stone Picker, PTO Drive (will dump into gravel truck) *16’ Load King Seed & Fert Tender w/Hyd Augers *IH 770 6 Bottom Plow w/ Auto
Resets, s/n002378 *IH 770 5 Bottom Plow w/Auto Resets, s/n002218 SPRAYER & CHEMICAL HANDLING: *2008 CaseIH 3320 SP Sprayer w/100’ Booms, 5 Plex Nozzle Bodies, 1000 S/S Tank, Rinse Tank, Chemical Induction System, Foam Marker, S3 Outback Auto Steer, Outback Auto Mate Boom Controls, SCS 4600 Monitor
Pkg, Wide Rubber 650/65R38, Narrow Rubber 320/90R46, 1104hrs Showing, 220HP Engine, s/nXY7P-022196 *Chem Handler III 2” Chemical system *Sotera Systems Series 400 Chemical Pump w/Meter *3” Water Pump *2” Suction Hose SCRAPER, LASER TRANSIT, LIGHT BAR SLOPE GUIDE & GUIDANCE SYSTEM: *Cat
435 Hyd Scraper (approx 18 yd cap) s/n45D532 *Spectra Precision Laser GL522 transit w/Tri-Pod *AGatec MR360R 7-9 channel Light Bar Grade Sensor system *Cultiva Guidance System TRUCKS & GRAIN TRAILER: *1994 Ford AeroMax L9000 Highway Tractor w/Cat 3176 Eng, 350HP, 13 Spd Trans, Wet Kit, 41” Bunk,
22.5 rubber, 4 Way Lock-Ups, 944876Kms Showing, s/n1FTYY95S2RVA12080, SAFETIED *1992 Mack T/A w/NEW 2012 Loadline 19 1/2 B&H, Roll Tarp, 400HP Engine, 18 Spd Trans, 24.5 Rubber, Rear Hoist Controls, 406,754Kms Showing, Pintle Hitch, Trailer Air Equipped s/n1M2AA14YXNW017217, SAFETIED *1975 Ford
LN800 S/A w/17’ B&H, Roll Tarp, 5+2 Trans, 361 Gas Engine, 52967 Miles Showing, 10.00-20 Rubber, s/nN81EVX48282 *2007 GMC Sierra SLE 2500 HD 4x4 Ext Cab w/ 6 Liter gas, Auto Trans, Pwr Windows & Locks, Air, Cruise, Tilt, 239,669Kms Showing, s/n1GTHK29U97E139331, SAFETIED *2001 Ford F250 4x4 Reg Cab
w/7.3 liter DSL, auto Trans, Air, Tilt, Cruise, Pwr Windows, Pwr Locks, 5th Wheel Hitch, 215805Kms Showing, s/n1FTNF21F51EC22427, SAFETIED *1993 24’ T/A Kan Dump End Dump Grain Trailer w/Roll Tarp, 22.5 Rubber, s/n2K9FD2429P1040050, SAFETIED *2003 Duncan 20’ T/A Flat Deck 5th Wheel Trailer w/Custom
Removable Hoop & Tarp cover, Slide in Aluminum Snowmobile Ramp, s/n2D9EJA5B03R060984 WAGONS: *13’t/a Gravel Box converted to Wagon w/PTO Drive Hoist (pull with tractor) *Approx 200 Bus Galvanized Gravity Grain box on 4 Wheel Wagon *(2) four wheel farm wagons with 10’x24’ hay rack decks w/11L15 rubber
HAYING: *NH 1069 Stack Cruiser SP Sq Bale Picker w/2435Hrs showing, 4+2 trans, 460 Ford Engine, s/n1639 (400 Hrs on rebuilt engine) *1992 JD 535 RD Baler w/540 PTO, Gandy Inoculator, Gathering Wheel, s/n924277 (approx 500 Bales on NEW Belts) *1995 Hesston 4590 In-Line Sq Baler w/540 PTO, 1/4 turn Chute,
Hyd Tension, Light Kit, s/nB459-01129 *1994 Hesston 4590 In-Line Sq Baler w/540 PTO, 1/4 Turn Chute, Hyd Tension, Hyd Pick-Up, Light Pkg, Gandy Box Inoculator, s/nB459-00768 *NH 144 Swath Inverter, s/n845963 *18 Bale (Small Sq) Bale Grab *Several Hay Tarps *Hay Tarp for 48” Drop Deck Trailer *Vicon 5 Wheel Hay
Rake *NH # 56 Side Delivery Rake *(2) 24’ Bale Elevators GRAIN HANDLING: *Vertec VT5500R Propane Grain Dryer, s/n5597220 *2006 13” x 71’ Buhler/Farm King PTO Swing Hopper Auger *10” x 60’ Brandt PTO Swing Hopper Auger *8” x 51’ Westfield PTO Auger *8” x 46’ Westfield PTO auger *8” x 36’ Buhler/Farm King
Auger w/20HP Honda Engine *7” x 41’ Westfield Auger w/16HP B&S Engine *6” x 30’ Auger w/ 5HP Electric Motor *11’ x 4” Pencil Auger w/ 1/2 HP Electric Motor *Bin Drag Auger w/Electric Motor *(3) Keho 5HP Aeration Fans *Keho Aeration Fan, 2HP 3 PT & ATACHMENTS: *8’ Farm King 3 PT DBL Auger Snow Blower *7’
JD 709 Rotary Mower, s/n057675 *JD Pallet Forks (fits 40 Series Loader) *3PT Ball Hitch Adapter *Bale Forks *JD Bale Fork (FITS 40 Series Loader) *6’ JD Lg Sq Bale Fork LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT: *(2) Lewis Cattle Oilers w/Mineral Tubs *(2) 10’ x 24’ Deck 4 Wheel Farm Rack Wagons *Assortment of Treated Fence Posts
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL KELVIN & KELLY EINARSON RES 204-378-5207 CELL 204-642-2273 EMAIL [email protected]
Not responsible for errors in description. Subject to additions and or deletions. Property owners and Fraser Auction Service not responsible for any accidents. GST & PST where applicable.
TERMS: Cash or cheque. NOTE: cheques of $50,000 or more must be accompanied by bank letter of credit. Sale conducted by FRASER AUCTION SERVICE 1-800-483-5856 www.fraserauction.com
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