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SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | Vol. 71, No. 47
Farmers will pay royalties
on crop instead of seed
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
T
he federal government is
poised to sign on to an
international treaty that
will see farmers pay seed royalties when they sell their crop.
Agriculture Minister Gerry
Ritz said last week the decision
to adopt UPOV ’91 by Aug. 1,
2014 will provide plant breeders
with a better return on investment and encourage more
private-sector investment into
developing new crop varieties.
“We will have it this winter during the winter session
(of Parliament),” Agriculture
Minister Gerry Ritz told
t h e Ca n a d i a n Se e d Tra d e
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Transmission projects
anger landowners
Many southern Manitoba residents fear a trio of new transmission
lines will hamper their ability to farm or lower their home’s value
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff / st. malo
R
ural
Manitobans
shouldn’t expect help
from their urban cousins in battling three proposed
p ow e r t ra n s m i s s i o n l i n e s
because they don’t care what
happens in far m countr y,
according to a Conservative
MLA.
“The people in Winnipeg
don’t give a sh-- about what
happens on your land,” said
Emerson MLA Cliff Graydon,
although he also said two newly
announced power projects may
be in the best interest of the
province.
There were similarly angry
words from many of the two
dozen attendees at a recent
meeting organized by the
Bipole III Coalition. Members
of the group were caught off
guard when two new projects
— the Manitoba-Minnesota
Transmission Project and the
St. Vital Transmission Complex
— were announced this summer because as recently as
this spring, Manitoba Hydro
officials had indicated no new
developments were on the horizon, said coalition president
Karen Friesen.
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CROSSROADS
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on private lands
Trees provide broader
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protectors
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Editorials
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What’s Up
Livestock Markets
esearchers at the University of Sydney
in Australia have developed a robotic
herder which they say does a better
job than humans or dogs.
A four-wheeled device nicknamed Robotic
Rover has successfully herded dairy cows in
tests on the university’s dairy herd.
“Removing human judgment from trafficking speed will allow us to ensure that
cows are only ever herded at a pace that is
comfortable, even for the slowest cows,” a
background document on the Robotic Rover
says.
So far, Rover has been operated remotely
by a human but researchers think it could
be automated.
According to a BBC story, researchers were
amazed at how easily cows accepted the
presence of the robot. They were not fazed
by it and the herding process was calm and
effective, they said.
Because the robot moved in a steady
manner it allowed cows to move at their
own speed which was important in reducing lameness among cattle, Kendra Kerrisk,
dairy researcher and associate professor,
told the BBC.
Robotic Rover can be seen in action at http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXJbYDGvPg
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
Herds well enough, but doesn’t fit next to you in the
front seat of the truck.
75Xz-1JxmU http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=S4Dndp-Esd8#t=58.
Based on comments on an Australian farm
publication website, not all farmers are convinced about robotic superiority.
“Bet the diode warmer doesn’t even
lick your hand when your best cow dies,
your wife leaves, or the bank forecloses,”
said one.
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Richardson Pioneer
donates $300,000 to
three Prairie communities
KAP president angry
over fall fertilizer ban
Minnedosa will get new
baseball diamonds
By Allan Dawson
news
Staff
Minnedosa is one of three Prairie
communities selected to receive a
$100,000 grant from the Richardson
Pioneer Century Gifts Program, the
company announced last week.
The western Manitoba community
joins Falher, Alta., and Whitewood,
Sask., as the applicants chosen from
the 145 proposals received since the
program was announced in the spring.
While the Richardson Pioneer
Century Gifts Program was created to
commemorate the 100th anniversary
of Richardson Pioneer, Canada’s largest, privately owned agribusiness, the
company regularly donates more than
$1 million each year to support community initiatives and organizations
through the Richardson Foundation,
the company says in a release.
Minnedosa will use the funds to
expand and develop new baseball
diamonds.
“At Richardson, we are proud of our
long history of supporting communities across Western Canada,” said president and CEO Curt Vossen in a release.
“A key part of our success has been the
strength of the communities in which
our customers and employees live and
work and we will continue to look for
opportunities to invest in projects and
give back to those communities.”
Doug Chorney has some tough words for the Manitoba government
co-operator staff
D
oug Chorney, the normally
calm, cool and collected
president of the Keystone
Agricultural Producers (KAP), is steaming mad at the Manitoba government
for failing to accommodate farmers
wanting to apply fertilizer and manure
to their fields last week.
“I’m really upset because we were
misled and I think it was deliberate,”
he said in an interview Nov. 15.
Chorney said KAP is calling for a
meeting with Conservation Minister
Gordon Mackintosh “where we are
going to lay it on the line. I just don’t
know how we can work with this
government if this is the way they
are going to treat farmers. It is just
unacceptable.”
Manitoba Conservation and Water
Stewardship regulations prohibit
Manitoba farmers from applying fertilizer and manure to fields after Nov. 10
and before April 10.
Earlier this month, KAP asked the
government to grant a blanket exemption to farmers so they could continue applying fertilizer and manure
on unfrozen fields like it did in March
2012 when spring arrived unusually
early.
On Nov. 8, with forecasts for colder
weather ahead, Chorney said he agreed
with the government’s decision not to
grant a blanket exemption on the condition it issue exemptions to farmers
on a case-by-case basis. But the government refused to grant those exemptions even though the applicant’s fields
weren’t frozen. The high near Miami
Nov. 13 was 13 C.
“It’s unacceptable and completely
unworkable for farmers to keep using
this system because it has proven to
be inflexible,” Chorney said. “We just
think dates need to be thrown out the
window completely. They make no
sense for farmers. They’re basically
telling farmers they have to break the
law in order to run their farms. There’s
no scientific or environmental justification for any of this. It’s a complete
joke.”
The date system, introduced in 2011,
is designed to reduce nutrient run-off
from fields into waterways and eventually Lake Winnipeg, which is already
polluted with high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen. Nutrients applied
to frozen soils are more susceptible to
run-off.
Chorney said farmers won’t apply
nutrients to frozen land because fertilizer is so expensive.
The Manitoba government no longer
uses the calendar for setting truckload
limits on Manitoba highways, instead
basing restrictions on road conditions.
Chorney said the government should
do the same with fertilizer.
If the government has to keep the
dates it should at least be prepared to
implement blanket and/or individual
exemptions when conditions allow for
it, he said.
“I just don’t know how
we can work with this
government if this is the
way they are going to
treat farmers. It is just
unacceptable.”
Doug Chorney
It took all day for government officials last week to deny one farmer an
exemption, even though his field was
not frozen, Chorney said.
“A farmer could get the job done in
the time it takes them to look at a piece
of paper,” he said.
A lot of Manitoba farmers seeded
late this year, delaying their fall work,
including fertilizing, Chorney said. In
addition, Manitoba farmers are planting more, later-maturing crops such
as corn and soybeans. As a result more
farmers are working later in the fall.
Ironically, another government
department — Manitoba Agriculture,
Food and Rural Development — recommends farmers wait to apply nitrogen until soil temperatures cool off
because there’s less risk of it being lost
into the atmosphere, which adds more
greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
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OPINION/EDITORIAL
The value of trees
O
n bitterly cold and blustery winter
days on the farm, there wasn’t much
by way of trees to block our view of
those fiery red sunsets framed by sundogs
over the drifting snow. It’s a view I am glad
I experienced. But as beautiful as it was, it’s
not a view I miss.
We grew up knowing the value of a tree.
As kids, we heard more than once how
every tree on the section of land my parents
Laura Rance
farmed had been planted and then indiEditor
vidually watered by human hands. We lived
in a part of the province where the pioneers
joked you could say goodbye to someone in the morning and
see their campfire on the horizon that night.
By the late 1950s, the maturing farmyard bluff fed out to
several miles of young shelterbelts separating the fields. They
anchored the soil, they tamed the wind, and they provided
a haven for birds, wildlife and beneficial insects. Simply by
being there, they made that flat-as-a-pancake prairie landscape seem warmer and more inviting.
Trees still exist out here on the prairie, surrounding remaining farmyards like little enclaves. But shelterbelts and freestanding tree bluffs are rapidly becoming a thing of the past
as they are razed in the insatiable drive for more cropland.
Smouldering piles of bulldozed trees are a common sight
in rural Manitoba these days. No one seems to know how
quickly the trees are disappearing. It’s one of those trends the
governments of today don’t really want to quantify.
In that context, it’s no surprise that the federal government
is washing its hands of the former PFRA shelterbelt nursery
at Indian Head. It’s doing it in such a way that it appears the
asset will be destroyed rather than transferred as a viable
entity into private hands.
A business plan submitted by a coalition of farm groups
hoping to take over the 112-year-old agroforestry centre was
rejected after it sought $1.6 million in bridge financing. Given
the government’s spending habits in other areas, it can’t be
about the money.
This is a political decision, a tacit admission that the decision makers in our federal Agricultural Department see no
public value from trees on the agricultural landscape.
On one hand, you can see government’s point. Why subsidize, even in a small way, the cost of trees for one generation
only to have the next generation come along and knock them
over?
This open season on trees isn’t limited to agricultural areas
of the Prairies.
Reuters reports that deforestation in the Amazon increased
by nearly a third over the past year, as illegal logging cleared
5,842 square km — an area bigger than the size of Prince
Edward Island.
Although technically illegal, governments seem helpless,
perhaps wilfully so, to stop it.
Some argue the world’s remaining undeveloped lands
would be protected by introducing more technology to boost
yields from existing farmland and by ensuring farmers are
adequately paid for what they currently produce. We have no
argument with either, provided the technologies used don’t
destroy our soil and water.
But the reality is, farmers get paid to produce, whether
prices are high or whether they are low. Our hunch is the
destruction of shelterbelts and forested areas on the Prairies
accelerated when prices were high, partly because farmers
had more money to invest in tree clearing.
The role of trees in our ecosystem is well understood. But
we are only beginning to understand how they might influence our weather.
New research published by Princeton University researchers suggests that total deforestation of the Amazon may
significantly reduce rain and snowfall in the western United
States, resulting in water and food shortages, and a greater
risk of forest fires.
“The big point is that Amazon deforestation will not only
affect the Amazon — it will not be contained. It will hit the
atmosphere and the atmosphere will carry those responses,”
wrote David Medvigy, an assistant professor of geosciences at
Princeton. “By this study, deforestation of the Amazon could
have serious consequences for the food supply of the United
States.”
Of course, shelterbelts and mixed prairie bluffs aren’t the
Amazon rainforest. But neither are they benign fixtures in our
environment.
Government policy both intentionally and indirectly plays
a key role in shaping a society’s values. In the past, particularly after the Dirty ’30s, adding trees to the landscape was
considered development. These days, development means
taking them out and pushing more land into production.
You have to wonder what historians will say about this era
in world agriculture, and whether future generations will
regret our disregard for the value of trees.
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Chinese corn imports set to increase
Grain handlers can import
corn for less than the cost of
acquiring it domestically
By Gavin Maguire
CHICAGO / REUTERS
T
hey may have slowed their purchasing pace lately as agronomists and
trade officials awaited greater clarity on
domestic and U.S. production potential, but
Chinese corn importers may soon be forced
to resume buying activity after the spread
between key interior prices and U.S. export
corn has widened sharply recently.
Questions over domestic production potential coupled with delays to export shipments
expected out of Ukraine have helped underpin domestic Chinese grain prices, even as
U.S. prices have been dragged lower by the
ongoing harvest.
This helped widen the price spread between
Chinese and U.S. values by more than 10 per
cent since the start of November, and could
well spur Chinese grain importers to look to
U.S. shipments as a way to plug supply gaps
until their own production makes it to market
around the end of the year.
Even though China is the second-largest
corn grower globally and is projected to pull
in roughly 210 million tonnes of the grain this
year, steady advances in industrial demand
for the crop have helped sustain domestic
corn prices some $150 per tonne or 40 per
cent above U.S. export values for the past several months.
This price spread marks an advance over
last year’s $115-$120 differential — which triggered China’s largest-ever corn import purchasing campaign last summer.
The country has already booked around
4.73 million tons of imports from the U.S.
this crop year (Sept. 1 to Aug. 31), and since
January has shipped in more than 1.6 million
tons of the grain from the U.S., Argentina and
elsewhere.
OUR HISTORY:
But statements from government officials
stress that any additional import purchases
are unlikely, as the country intends to remain
self-sufficient with regard to its corn requirements.
Further, the country struck a deal with
Ukraine to secure a total of four million tons
of corn over the course of 2013 and 2014 as
part of a $1.5-billion loan agreement that is
tied to infrastructure investments in Ukraine
and elsewhere in the Black Sea region.
However, bursts of heavy rains in the southern Ukraine Corn Belt delayed the harvest by
several weeks, and so pushed deliveries of the
grain to China to much later in the year than
anticipated.
This has left Chinese grain handlers
in a bind, as robust domestic demand has
depleted interior inventories and fanned food
and feed price inflation in many areas.
Concerns over the country’s own production prospects following localized floods and
drought have prompted further concern, and
set the stage for a potential late-year incursion by Chinese import traders on to the global corn export stage.
American farmers are nearly through with
harvest and a stream of supplies are already
filtering out of the country’s export hubs on
the U.S. Gulf and in the Pacific Northwest.
Containerized shipments are also leaving the
country via ports in California.
Politics aside, the economics of additional
corn imports make sense, as traders can purchase and transport corn from overseas for
roughly 70 per cent of the current cost of cash
corn in Shandong province.
We have seen before that China is prepared
to bend its own rules when it comes to securing corn supplies whenever domestic prices
have exceeded overseas values by a wide margin.
So the stage could be set for another wave
of Chinese corn imports — even if that does
not fully jibe with government-stated intentions.
Gavin Maguire is a Reuters market analyst.
November 1961
T
he front page of our Nov. 9, 1961 issue featured this
photo, with the caption, “ Surrounded by some of
the finest of Manitoba 4-H’ers is Gary Workman of
the provincial government extension branch. The 14 youths
were chosen on the basis of their interest and proficiency
in 4-H work to represent the province at the National 4-H
Club week in Toronto Nov. 11-16 and will be accompanied
by Betty Collyer and Mr. Workman of the Extension Branch.
Clockwise from the bottom they are: Silvia Bertram, Lila
Henderson, Robert Smith, Orval Henderson, Evelyn Graham,
Joyce Rigaux, Maurice Hodgson, Robert Searle, Gary Digby,
Bernadette Leifso, Meridale Dewar, Roberta Cunnington,
Lois Wilton, Hubert Meir.
National 4-H Club Week was held at the Royal Winter
Fair in Toronto, and the front page also featured a photo
of Alf Strachan of Carman loading his purebred Yorkshires
on a special train for Manitoba livestock to be shown at
the fair.
For anyone travelling to Winnipeg, an advertisement
offered single rooms with bath at the Royal Alexandra
hotel for $5, and a double for only $2 more.
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COMMENT/FEEDBACK
No greener pastures for beef producers in Europe
CETA may lead to a complete restructuring of the beef industry and higher prices for meat in Canada
By Ryan Lijdsman
Troy Media
T
Letters
he phrase “game changer” is
bandied around to describe
everything from public policy
to hockey players. And while the Canada-EU free trade agreement actually
is a “game changer,” it will not be the
saviour of the beef industry.
It may, in fact, lead to a complete
restructuring of our beef industry,
eliminate smaller producers and
force Canadian consumers to pay
high EU prices for their meat.
Beef sells in the EU for up to triple the price in Canada, mainly due
to higher production costs both for
transportation and to adhere to EU
regulations. To attain those higher EU
prices, Canadian exporters will also
end up with those higher production
costs.
Following the foot-and-mouth and
BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) crises, the EU refocused
its quality control system from the
end product to one that provides
full transparency from farm to fork,
including environmental standards
of production and animal welfare.
Growth hormones are banned and
a strong emphasis is put on process
controls throughout the food chain.
The opposite is true in Canada,
where growth hormones are standard
and quality control is sector based
with a focus on the end product.
Producers use the Canadian Cattle
Identification Program (CCIA) to tag
their animals and verify age and birth
place. CCIA is an industry-initiated
and established system designed
solely to contain and eradicate animal disease and is not mandated by
law.
At the feedlot and processing plant,
Animal Identification and Premises
Identification (PID), is used to enable
animal traceability and determine, in
the case of a disease outbreak, which
animals came into contact with each
other. Again, animal welfare, feed
considerations and life cycle quality
control are not mandated.
Fundamental changes will be
required if Canadian suppliers expect
to compete with the EU’s largest beef
supplier, Brazil, and other international suppliers for the EU market,
including raising livestock without
hormones. In fact, Brazil has a competitive advantage because of its high
quality, low-production costs, and its
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early buy-in to infrastructure changes
required by the EU.
For Canada, doing so will translate
into both a slower growth cycle and
more feed and direct costs of up to
$50 per head. There will also be much
higher indirect costs because of the
need to join and adhere to the mandated CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)-administered program
and “to provide evidence to the certifying veterinarian that Canadian beef
products are derived from animals
that have never been treated with any
growth-enhancing products during
their raising period.”
Producers must enrol their calves
in the CFIA program within six
months of birth and the cattle must
be raised under special requirements
that include specific feed and space
requirements which must be certified
by an approved CFIA veterinarian.
The cattle will also need be segregated from other non-EU-destined
cattle, checked at intervals for the
presence of implanted hormones and
slaughtered separately at the beginning of a shift. Meat identity and
traceability is maintained at all times.
Bipole surveyors
ignoring biosecurity
protocols
Manitoba Hydro is not following the
regulations on the new Environment
Act Licences that were just issued to
them for Bipole III. The surveyors
that Manitoba Hydro have hired are
not cleaning their equipment before
entering pedigreed seed land. The
surveyors came when there was still
crop in the fields and never asked
permission before they entered our
crops and they never inspected their
equipment for weeds and debris.
Issues with cross-contamination
of seed from one crop being dragged
from one field to the other are huge
concerns, which may pose a varietal
Fundamental changes will be required if Canadian
suppliers expect to compete with the EU’s largest beef
supplier, Brazil, and other international suppliers for the
EU market, including raising livestock without hormones.
What sounds good in Ottawa and
in Brussels doesn’t always make sense
on the back 40. Canadian producers could achieve EU standards but
it will mean a complete and costly
transformation of an industry, from
producers, feed suppliers, feedlots,
meat-processing facilities and exporters. In addition, Canadian consumers
will have to be willing to pay higher
prices for their beef or accept a twotiered system where high-grade beef
goes to Europe and a lower quality
and rejected beef stays in Canada.
The fact is, despite enjoying most
favoured nation (MFN) status for EU
beef exports, Canada has never filled
its current quota and has only four
facilities that are approved to proc-
ess the high-quality, grain-fed prime
cuts the EU demands. Combined,
Australia, U.S., New Zealand and Uruguay — which also enjoy MFN status
— only fill about two-thirds of their
quota.
The market is simply not big
enough to absorb more supply unless
new sales come at the expense of
other suppliers, one of whom, Brazil,
enjoys a distinct advantage.
We need to ask ourselves: are we
prepared to do all of this for a market
that we do not, and never will, have a
competitive advantage in?
purity problem in a pedigreed seed
crop planned the following crop season. Farmers also fear clubroot getting into their fields.
If Manitoba Hydro is not going to
follow the rules and regulations of the
Environment Act Licences then we do
not want the Bipole III Hydro transmission, Hydro towers and lines coming on our pedigreed seed land.
Pam Pugh
Portage la Prairie, Man.
“Stop picking on livestock producers.” Although some members of
our group are vegetarian and probably eat tofu, I am not one of them.
We are a varied group of
individuals with the common
goal of improving the life
wherever possible of all animals.
The Manitoba Co-operator has
been ‘serving Manitoba farmers
since 1925’ and my letters are in
response to articles I see in the
paper. I am most pleased to see
that Mr. Sterling is aware of a
variety of animal welfare issues and
look forward to his support in these
other areas.
Leslie Yeoman, co-founder,
The Humane Education Network
(THEN),
Winnipeg, Man.
Not all animal welfare
advocates eat tofu
I would like to respectfully respond
to Brian Sterling’s Nov. 14 letter
Ryan Lijdsman is a Canadian-based
international business consultant.
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Consultation
on variety
registration
reforms coming
to a head
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“The lesson I’ve learned is
you can’t trust the government
and you can’t trust Hydro,” said
Friesen, whose farm will be
affected by the massive Bipole
III line and may be affected by
the St. Vital project.
S h e’s u r g i n g l a n d o w n ers and producers to come
together under the umbrella
of the Canadian Association
of Energy and Pipeline
L a n d ow n e r s A s s o c i a t i o n s,
a n o n - p ro f i t o rg a n i z a t i o n
that represents people facing
expropriation.
“You should have the right
to say no,” said the organization’s CEO, Dave Core, who
addressed two other community meetings the day before
the St. Malo gathering.
“We’re not antidevelopment
here. Our role is to get your
property rights as landowners respected and make sure
we address all the liabilities,
risk and costs that are imposed
along with this.”
Following the meeting, Core
was swamped with questions as people weighed their
options.
“Our family farm is affected,
the line looks like it is going
to go through,” said Russell
Calder, who farms with two
brothers and several nephews
near Letellier and is considering joining the landowners’
association.
His land is already impacted
by a transmission line built
in the 1960s — for which his
father and uncle were paid
$300 per tower.
“I don’t like that we don’t
have any say in this... so we’re
UPOV ’91 Continued from page 1
A s s o c i a t i o n’s s e m i - a n n u a l
meeting in Winnipeg Nov. 13.
“We’re looking at time frames
in the parliamentary calendar
and that’s the best date we have
so far working with the House
Leader’s office to get it on the
agenda after we come back from
Christmas break,” he said triggering applause.
“That still gives us opportunity
and time to get it in place for the
next crop year.”
UPOV ’91 is the acronym for
the International Union for the
Protection of New Varieties of
Plants, which was struck in 1991.
Previous Canadian governments
failed to pass legislation enacting UPOV ’91 in 1992 and 1998.
The pros and cons of UPOV
’91 have been hotly debated in
meeting rooms and hallways as
the grain sector seeks ways to
encourage more private company
research, especially in cereals.
End point
UPOV ’91 paves the way to socalled, “end-point royalties,” collected when farmers sell their
grain.
Some farmers say paying a
royalty based on what they produce, instead of the seed they
buy, reduces their risk. If they
harvest a poor crop, they pay
less with an end-point royalty,
whereas now they pay up front
when they buy seed or herbicides linked to the seed.
However, critics fear UPOV ’91
could prevent farmers from saving seed, resulting in higher production costs.
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
“The lesson I’ve
learned is you can’t
trust the government
and you can’t trust
Hydro.”
Karen Friesen
CAEPLA CEO, Dave Core Photo: Shannon VanRaes
going to have to decide what to
do now,” said Calder, adding he
only learned that the St. Vital
Transmission Complex was
heading his way 10 days earlier.
The new line could be built
within 60 feet of the existing
lines on his property.
“And we have a 60-foot air
seeder that doesn’t go between
the hydro poles,” said Calder.
“We’re stuck with this mess.”
Others at the meeting weren’t
farmers, but homeowners who
would see the new power lines
cut in front of their houses.
“I’m retired, but what if I
want to sell? Who knows how
much this will devalue the
property... what if it affects
your health?” asked Camille
Nault, who lives a few miles
south of St. Pierre Jolys.
Nault said it’s too early to
tell if Core’s organization is
the right one for him, adding
he needs to first learn more
about the six per cent commission applied to successful
settlements attained through
the association’s ratification
process. The membership fee
is only $150, and there is no
commission charged unless the
lines cross your property and a
settlement is negotiated, said
Core.
Some landowners wait to see
if the proposed routes fall on
their property — holding out
Ritz told reporters the same
people who oppose UPOV ’91
also criticize Ottawa for not
spending enough on varietal
research. “You can’t have one
without the other in my estimation,” he said.
“The biggest howl would be
farmers can’t save seed. Well,
they can’t save seed now if they
sign a contract. It would be the
same situation under UPOV ’91.
There’s still the ability to save
seed. If you sign a contract you
have to honour the contract.”
“... at the end of the day, we
have to put that (UPOV ’91)
in place if we’re going to draw
investment here in new seed
varieties.”
UPOV ’91 allows farmers to
save seed if the government
authorizes it, National Farmers
Union president Terry Boehm
said in an interview Nov. 15. But
it also gives plant breeders the
right to control their varieties
through the entire production,
processing and retail chain.
“We’re going to fight this,”
Boehm said. “This is just a big
sell-out to the biggest corporations in the world.
“The Canadian Seed Trade
Association would prefer total
control over seed and Ritz
is essentially facilitating this
through UPOV ’91. It makes it
possible for a cascading (royalty)
rate.”
CSTA president Peter Entz
said Ritz’s decision on UPOV ’91
“is very significant.” UPOV ’91
“is very farmer friendly,” added
Entz, who is also Richardson
International’s assistant vicepresident of seed and traits.
The association has also been
facilitating industry discussions
on ways for variety developers
to get a better return on their
investments, including changes
to Canada’s variety registration
system.
hope it will be pushed onto
their neighbour’s land — before
looking at options, said Core.
But there is strength in numbers, he said.
“The best deal we can get,
will see the most landowners
participating,” he said.
The Bipole III Coalition has
also published an open letter to
Premier Greg Selinger, calling
on the government to reconsider the new power projects,
and asserting they will lead to
significant increases in the cost
of electricity.
Friesen said both former
Conservative premier Gary
Filmon and former NDP premier, Ed Schreyer contributed to the letter, sharing their
concerns.
“And how often to you think
that happens?” Friesen said.
[email protected]
Who should pay?
Most everyone agrees more
investment is needed, especially
wheat. But views vary on who
should pay.
The NFU says the federal government should, as it traditionally has. According to Boehm
private company research is
inefficient. He said one study
shows only 10 per cent of company earnings from seed sales
goes back into research, whereas
publicly funded research has a
12:1 return.
Don Dewar, interim chair
of the proposed Manitoba
Wheat and Barley Association,
said Ottawa has been cutting
research. Meanwhile, farmers in
countries such as Australia, have
been spending more.
“If we really want to increase
investment we need to have a
way for the developers to get a
reward for their work,” he said.
“And one of the things in UPOV
’91 allows them to do that. But
you could do it with a contract
too.”
But if farmers invest more
because of UPOV ’91 they should
also discuss the merits of owning
all or part of the resulting varieties, Dewar said.
“Do we want the canola system or do we want the farmers to
own part of the system?” he said.
“If we’re going to end up pay-
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz wants
to bring in legislation to implement
UPOV ’91 — a policy, he says will
encourage more investment in
developing new crop varieties for
Canadian farmers. photo: allan dawson
ing this $3 or $5 a tonne between
levies and royalties, do we want
to have some say in what comes
out of that or do we just want to
feed somebody else? It’s not that
farmer-owned will be cheaper
seed, but you’re going to provide some competition and have
some input on what you get.”
UPOV ’91 allows farmers to
save seed, Dewar said. “It’s just
that you have to keep paying for
the technology every time you
use it.”
The Keystone Agricultural
Producers (KAP) doesn’t have
a position on UPOV ’91, said
president Doug Chorney. An
end-point royalty makes sense
so long as it isn’t too expensive,
he said.
[email protected]
Implementing UPOV ‘91 is one
way Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz
hopes to encourage private investment in plant breeding — the
other is reforming Canada’s crop
variety registration system.
Last year Canada exported a
record $47 billion in agricultural
products, Ritz told the semi-annual
meeting of the Canadian Seed
Trade Association in Winnipeg
Nov. 13.
“Many of those dollars depend
on an efficient and responsive and
effective varietal registration system,” he said. “There’s no question
the system has delivered for the
industry and for Canadian farmers
over the years. Today by developing consensus on next steps we
continue to build on that success.”
The consultation process began
in February when Ritz asked chairs
of the committees that recommend new varieties for government registration to propose ways
to streamline the system. Citizens
were also invited to submit their
views.
“We still have people in different camps (on variety registration),
but we’re probably very close (to
a position),” CSTA president Peter
Entz said in an interview after Ritz
spoke.
Critics says the current system,
especially for registering new
wheats in Western Canada, takes
too long, delaying and even preventing farmers from accessing
new, higher-yielding wheats.
Supporters say the process
is important for maintaining
Canada’s high-quality wheat
brand. They say it also protects
farmers and end-users from bad
varieties.
“There are people who say we
should’ve done it three years ago
and others who say we should
never do it,” Ritz told reporters last
week.
A working group struck by the
Prairie Recommending Committee
for Wheat, Rye and Triticale
(PRCWRT) has proposed a number
of reforms for wheat registration,
including shortening pre-registration trials by one year and instead
collecting 24 site-years of data
over three years.
Other proposals include:
• Making up to four site-years of
foreign data acceptable if collected
in from U.S. states adjoining Prairie
provinces;
• Dropping the priority disease
assessments to five from seven
— fusarium head blight, leaf, stem
and stripe rusts and common
bunt;
• The committee as a whole, which
now votes on every candidate cultivar, would automatically endorse
candidate receiving ‘Do Not Object’
or ‘Support’ at evaluation team
level meetings;
• Candidates not supported by all
three teams would be referred
to the Cultivar Voting Panel as
opposed to the whole 75-member committee. The voting panel
would consist of seven representatives from each team, plus representatives from the Canadian Seed
Trade Association and Canadian
Seed Growers Association.
The proposals are being
reviewed by the PRCWRT, and if
ratified, could be in place when
the committee meets in Winnipeg
in February.
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WHAT’S UP
Please forward your agricultural
events to daveb@fbcpublishing.
com or call 204-944-5762.
Nov. 27: Pesticide Applicator
School 2013, Assiniboine
Community College, 1430 Victoria
Ave. E., Brandon. For more info call
204-725-8700, ext. 6716, or email
[email protected].
Nov. 28: Keystone Agricultural
Producers District 7 meeting, 1:30
p.m., Brandon Research Station.
For more info call 204-697-1140.
Nov. 28: Keystone Agricultural
p.m., Mountview Centre, 111 S.
Railway Ave. E., Deloraine. For
more info call 204-697-1140.
Dec. 3-5: GrowCanada
Conference, Hyatt Regency, 700
Centre St. SE, Calgary. For more
info visit www.growcanadaconfer
ence.ca/2013.
Dec. 9: Keystone Agricultural
p.m., Arborg Bifrost Curling Club,
Arborg. For more info call 204697-1140.
Long list of resolutions as municipal
leaders gather for 15th annual
AMM convention
Councillors, reeves and mayors meet in Brandon next week
By Lorraine Stevenson
The convention takes
place Nov. 25 to 28 at
the Keystone Centre
in Brandon.
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
M
unicipal leaders will
debate the merits of
nuclear power to meet
Manitoba’s long-term energy
needs when they meet in Brandon for their annual convention
next week.
A resolution from the Local
Government District of Pinawa
asks delegates to press Manitoba
Hydro to consider “all options,”
including a nuclear power station as part of its ongoing
investigation into alternative
power sources. The Public Utilities Board has directed Manitoba Hydro to look at options
to northern dam projects and
Bipole III.
This isn’t the first time nuclear
power has been a topic for discussion among local leaders — a
similar resolution passed in 2006,
then was dropped in 2009 after
Manitoba Hydro announced
its long-term commitments
to hydraulic generation and
expanding wind power.
The impact of this summer’s
one per cent hike in the provincial sales tax is on the agenda,
as are two separate resolutions
on Bill 33, the contentious act
requiring municipalities with
populations under 1,000 to
merge. Those municipalities
face a Dec. 1 deadline to put forward their amalgamation plan
— although it’s not known how
many will do so.
The 38 resolutions up for
debate also include calls for
i m p r ov e d d i s a s t e r f i n a n cial assistance, more timely
responses for development
plans, meeting the training needs
of volunteer firefighters, and
boosting provincial funding for
rural palliative care programs.
The City of Thompson has
put several resolutions forward
this year, including two expressing its concerns for the negative impacts of VLTs and misuse
of alcohol among its residents.
Another resolution from the
northern city includes a call for
a longer season for provincial
parks.
Delegates to the 15th annual
convention of the Association
of Manitoba Municipalities will
also hear from newly appointed
Municipal Government Minister
Stan Struthers, who took over the
renamed department from Ron
Lemieux in a cabinet shuffle last
month.
This is the final of the four-year
terms served by municipal leaders elected in 2010. Manitobans
go back to the polls Oct. 22, 2014
to re-elect local governments and
school boards.
The convention takes place
Nov. 25 to 28 at the Keystone
Centre in Brandon.
[email protected]
Dec. 9-11: Canadian Forage and
Grassland Association conference,
Pomeroy Inn and Suites, Olds
College, 4601-46th Ave., Olds, Alta.
For more info call 204-726-9393
or visit www.canadianfga.ca/
events/current-events/.
p.m., Real Canadian Superstore,
Hwy. 12 N., Steinbach. For more
info call 204-697-1140.
Producers District 5 meeting,
7:30 p.m., Community Centennial
Centre, 11 Thompson Ave., Garson.
For more info call 204-697-1140.
p.m., Fair Board Office, Portage la
Prairie. For more info call 204-6971140.
Producers District 3 meeting, 7
p.m., Legion Auxiliary Hall, 28 First
St., Carman. For more info call
204-697-1140.
2014
Jan. 14-16: Red River Basin
Commission’s Land and Water
International Summit, 1635-42nd
St. S., Fargo, N.D. For more info visit
www.redriverbasincommission.
org.
Jan. 29-31: Keystone Agricultural
Producers annual meeting, Delta
Winnipeg, 350 St. Mary Ave.,
Winnipeg. For more info call 204697-1140 or visit kap.mb.ca.
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Feb. 4-5: Manitoba Beef
Producers 35th annual general
meeting, Victoria Inn, 3550 Victoria
Ave. W., Brandon. For more info
visit mbbeef.ca.
Feb. 24-25: Wild Oats
Grainworld 2014 conference,
Fairmont Winnipeg, 2 Lombard
Pl., Winnipeg. For more info visit
wildoatsgrainworld.com.
Feb. 25-27: Canola Council of
Canada annual convention, San
Antonio, Texas. For more info visit
www.canolacouncil.org.
April 28-29: Advancing Women:
Life Skills for Leadership-Women
in Ag Conference, Deerfoot Inn,
1000-11500-35th St. SE, Calgary.
For more info visit www.advanc
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Trade deal to hit dairy farmers hard
The Dairy Farmers of Canada estimates milk quota will have to be cut by more than two per cent,
and producers will collectively see an annual $150-million drop in income
By Alex Binkley
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he proposed trade deal
with Europe could cost
Canadian dairy producers $150 million a year in
lost income, according to the
Dairy Farmers of Canada.
Details of the Comprehens i v e E c o n o m i c a n d Tr a d e
Agreement (CETA) are still
b e i n g h a m m e re d o u t a n d
it’s expected to be two years
before the deal is ratified
by the European Union’s 28
member nations. But once in
effect, European cheese makers would receive an additional tar iff-free access of
18,500 tonnes over and above
the current 13,471 tonnes
they’re allowed.
Translate that back into
milk production and the
impact on Canadian dair y
producers is “much more significant than what has been
DFC president Wally Smith says if the entire tariff-free quota is used, the EU will capture 7.5 per cent of the Canadian
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“The loss to the dairy farmers is real,” Smith said. “The
additional access is equivalent to a 2.25 per cent cut
in farm quota, representing
a farm income loss of nearly
$150 million a year.”
T h a t’s e q u i va l e n t t o t h e
e n t i re m i l k p ro d u c t i o n o f
Nova Scotia, he noted.
Ot t a w a h a s p ro m i s e d t o
compensate those affected
and the Dairy Farmers of Canada has begun discussions on
that issue, said Smith.
“DFC is trying to work with
the gover nment to ensure
that there is no impact on
Canadian dairy farmers and
cheese makers,” he said. “In
spite of all the negative emotion amongst Canadian farmers resulting from the CETA
agreement, the DFC leadership is intent on engaging in
constructive dialogue with
government to mitigate the
negative impact to our industry.”
It was initially estimated
that while the deal would
allow Europe to capture onet h i rd o f t h e “f i n e c h e e s e”
market in Canada, it would
amount to just four per cent
of the overall cheese market. But Smith said that if
the entire tariff-free quota
is used, the EU will capture
7.5 per cent of the Canadian
cheese market.
And it will be r iding on
the coattails of the marketing efforts of Canadian dairy
farmers, he added.
“The domestic cheese market has been a priority market
segment with a yearly strategic investment totalling $30
million dedicated to developing this market across Canada,” Smith said.
“Over the last decade we
have invested heavily into
developing and growing the
specialty cheese market, and
we have been successful.
What has happened, by giving that access to the European Union, not only are you
costing the farmers directly
on their income, and having
to reduce production, you are
also taking away the investment that’s been made to
grow that speciality market.”
It will also have a wider economic impact as the Canadian dair y sector accounts
for 218,000 jobs, and pays
more than $3 billion in local,
provincial and federal taxes
annually, according to DFC.
The organization also dismissed any idea that more
Canadian cheese might head
across the Atlantic. Canada
has been unable to fill the
existing duty-free quota of
4,000 tonnes of aged cheddar
and to match the highly subsidized European milk prices
Canadian farmers would have
to sell their milk to processors
at $28 a hectolitre, said Richard Doyle, the group’s executive director.
“Quite frankly, not a single producer in this country,
based on our cost of production, could actually recover
their cash costs,” he said. “No
return on investment and no
return on labour.”
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Cattle Prices
Winnipeg
November 15, 2013
Local interest helps ease
transportation pressure
Steers & Heifers
—
D1, 2 Cows
70.00 - 76.00
D3 Cows
68.00 - 72.00
Bulls
84.00 - 90.00
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
100.00 - 127.00
(801-900 lbs.)
115.00 - 143.00
(701-800 lbs.)
120.00 - 155.00
(601-700 lbs.)
130.00 - 160.00
(501-600 lbs.)
140.00 - 170.00
(401-500 lbs.)
150.00 - 193.00
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
100.00 - 126.00
(801-900 lbs.)
110.00 - 131.00
(701-800 lbs.)
120.00 - 137.00
(601-700 lbs.)
125.00 - 148.00
(501-600 lbs.)
135.00 - 156.00
(401-500 lbs.)
140.00 - 163.00
Heifers
Alberta South
$ 124.50 - 125.50
—
65.00 - 75.00
60.00 - 70.00
84.05
$ 130.00 - 142.00
135.00 - 147.00
139.00 - 155.00
146.00 - 164.00
154.00 - 175.00
169.00 - 193.00
$ 118.00 - 130.00
122.00 - 136.00
124.00 - 138.00
128.00 - 144.00
134.00 - 151.00
142.00 - 165.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
Futures (November 15, 2013) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change
December 2013
132.97
1.30
February 2014
134.52
0.97
April 2014
134.95
0.75
June 2014
129.05
0.83
August 2014
127.57
0.52
October 2014
129.67
0.60
Feeder Cattle
November 2013
January 2014
March 2014
April 2014
May 2014
August 2014
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
Week Ending
November 9, 2013
51,513
12,417
39,096
NA
599,000
With fall work done, local buyers are back at markets
CNSC
Ontario
$ 100.67 - 132.95
107.79 - 128.70
51.56 - 74.16
51.56 - 74.16
68.55 - 88.96
$ 122.87 - 158.14
140.27 - 162.32
128.90 - 162.49
138.89 - 171.31
144.44 - 184.68
146.63 - 192.14
$ 116.01 - 134.08
114.04 - 145.90
118.81 - 139.53
122.82 - 144.96
128.93 - 158.02
132.05 - 167.66
Close
165.02
165.20
164.90
165.65
165.90
167.05
Change
0.40
0.08
0.08
-0.55
-0.67
-0.20
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Previous
Year
46,901
13,400
33,501
NA
627,000
Week Ending
November 9, 2013
534
21,435
15,912
733
810
11,470
234
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
397
22,921
15,201
994
760
5,866
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Source: Manitoba Agriculture
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)
Current Week
171.00 E
159.00 E
160.98
164.64
Futures (November 15, 2013) in U.S.
Hogs
December 2013
February 2014
April 2014
May 2014
June 2014
Last Week
173.63
160.96
163.92
168.38
Close
85.60
89.80
92.10
97.22
98.47
Last Year (Index 100)
158.12
146.68
146.73
152.73
Change
-1.95
-1.60
-1.07
-0.23
-0.58
Sheep and Lambs
Winnipeg (640 head)
(wooled fats)
—
Next
Sale is
Nov. 20
—
—
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 November 17, 2013
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.955
Undergrade .............................. $1.865
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.940
Undergrade .............................. $1.840
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.940
Undergrade .............................. $1.840
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................... $1.855
Undergrade............................... $1.770
Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.
M
anitoba’s fall run continued during
the week ended Nov. 15, with most
auction yards seeing strong volume
again, according to Rick Wright of Heartland
Order Buying Co., who noted an increase of
local buyers due to most harvest activity being
completed for the year.
“Volumes were strong,” he said. “Of course,
the last week of October and first week of
November are normally the two biggest weeks
in Manitoba historically, so it was no surprise
that volumes were still big. There were more
local buyers buying this week too.
“The fall work was done, and while there’s
still some corn out there, the feed is up and
done. There are a number of things that affect
when these guys come to town to buy, but certainly they were there this week.”
According to Manitoba Agriculture, Food
and Rural Development, producers across
the province are heading into the winter with
adequate to above-average feed supplies from
forage crops.
Additionally, prices of other feeds such
as corn and barley are significantly weaker
than last year due to extremely large production. December corn on the Chicago Board of
Trade closed Friday afternoon at US$4.215 per
bushel and Lethbridge barley was priced at
C$154.86 per tonne at the end of the week.
The increase of local buyers also eased
transportation issues that have been felt all
fall, Wright said, because they are able to take
their cattle straight home.
“That helps with the shortage of trucks
we deal with every week, because the local
guys can take them right home,” he said.
“Transportation has been an issue all fall, but
it really came to light in the last two to three
weeks.”
Volumes are expected to be strong throughout most of November, as a late harvest had
rick wright
the fall run start a little later than it normally
does.
“We’ll see pretty good volumes right to the
end of November this year, because the fall
run is being compressed,” Wright said. “It’s
running a week and a half behind where it
would normally run for a lot of areas.”
There was good U.S. buying again during the week, as a weak Canadian dollar,
which has been hovering in the US95-cent
range for two weeks now, gave a boost to
U.S. interest.
Lots of yearlings are going across the border,
Wright said. “There’s also lots of American
interest to buy calves to background here and
take down south. Most will be here to stay for
60 to 90 days and moved in the spring.
“The weak Canadian dollar helps with
future contracts for the spring and also helps
with the immediate cash sales.”
The loonie opened the week at US95.44
cents, before closing slightly higher on Friday
at US95.77 cents.
In terms of market value, Wright said feeder
prices were strong yet again this week, but
butcher cattle were slightly down, due to large
volume seen at this time of the year.
“The cow market was just one to two cents
lower, but that’s seasonal and volume related,”
he said. “We’re past the grilling season, so
it’s supply and demand. Supply has reached
demand, so it’s a little lower, and it’s going to
stay that way the rest of the fall.”
Brandon Logan writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
briefs
Other Market Prices
$/cwt
Ewes Choice
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
“We’ll see pretty good volumes
right to the end of November
this year, because the fall run is
being compressed.”
Brandon Logan
Hog Prices
E - Estimation
MB. ($/hog)
MB. (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)
MB. (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)
P.Q. (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)
$1 Cdn: $ .9562 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.0458 Cdn.
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
Slaughter Cattle
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
November 15, 2013
Toronto
71.33 - 92.54
124.77 - 161.26
154.62 - 175.26
154.19 - 183.65
103.14 - 196.69
—
SunGold
Specialty Meats
20.00
Eggs
Minimum prices to producers for ungraded
eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the
Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board
effective June 12, 2011.
New
Previous
A Extra Large
$1.8500
$1.8200
A Large
1.8500
1.8200
A Medium
1.6700
1.6400
A Small
1.2500
1.2200
A Pee Wee
0.3675
0.3675
Nest Run 24 +
1.7490
1.7210
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
Goats
Extra EU aid
comes too late
for French meat
sector slump
paris / reuters / France’s
aim to point almost one
billion euros in European
subsidies at str uggling
livestock farmers will
do little to heal its ailing
meat-processing sector,
with cheaper competitors
already eroding its market
share.
France is the European
Union’s biggest poultr y
producer and third largest
for pork, with its western
region hosting the bulk of
farmers and others in the
supply chain, attracted
by easy access to ports
to import feed and boost
exports.
But its pole position
is now under threat as
Germany, the Netherlands
and Belgium gain market
share, even in France, using
more efficient plants and
cheaper labour.
“In other European
c o u n t r i e s , t h e y d o n’t
play by the same rules,”
said Frederic Bossard, a
pork farmer in Lusanger,
Western France, adding
that many other countries
did not have a minimum
wage and employed east
European workers at lower
costs.
In a bid to boost the sector, President Francois
Hollande early in October
pledged almost one billion euros ($1.4 billion) of
mainly EU farm grants to
livestock farmers he said
faced lower income, higher
r isks and heavier con straints than other farmers.
Bu t t h e a i d , p a r t o f
a re v a m p o f t h e E U ’s
Common Agriculture
Policy (CAP) for 2014-20,
will target farmers, not the
industry and only apply
from 2015 due to talks
delays.
Winnipeg (225 head)
Toronto
(Fats)
($/cwt)
Kids
—
72.70 - 215.44
Billys
—
—
Mature
—
69.85 - 189.79
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
12.00 - 27.00
23.36 - 43.96
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11
GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
Big supplies still sit heavy
on canola values
U.S. wheat futures may be finding a bottom
Phil Franz-Warkentin
CNSC
I
CE Futures Canada canola held rangebound for the most part during the week
ended Nov. 15, but dropped sharply on
Friday to settle with losses overall.
The January contract tested the psychological $500-per-tonne level a couple of times
during the week, but never managed to settle above that chart point. A firmer tone in
the outside vegetable oil markets, including CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) soyoil
and Malaysian palm oil, was also supportive. However, Canada’s record-large crop
continues to overhang the market, with
any attempts at moving higher being met
with increased selling and a downturn in
demand.
The next resistance comes in at around
$505 if canola manages to bounce above
$500, but it will take a weather scare in South
America or some other similar outside influence to spark a rally as most factors are pointing down for the time being.
First and foremost, Canada grew a recordlarge canola crop this year that was likely over
16 million tonnes. Farmers are storing what
they can in hopes of getting better prices
down the road, but end-users are well aware
of the big supplies and will need that outside
catalyst in order to get more aggressive in
their buying.
Second, South America is in the middle of
planting its latest soybean crop, and conditions so far look close to ideal for a possibly
record-large crop.
The U.S. soybean harvest is nearing completion. Farmers there will also store what
they can, but supplies are still relatively large.
Week Ago
Year Ago
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
236.82
237.09
310.64
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
256.01
257.67
331.58
Coarse Grains
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
166.13
170.17
283.96
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
222.41
218.19
236.35
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
470.51
484.75
515.09
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
892.36
898.54
1,046.49
oilseeds
Ongoing uncertainty in the global economy
is yet another bearish influence overhanging
the commodity markets in general, although
any resulting weakness in the Canadian dollar would serve to limit the impact on canola
prices.
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business November 15, 2013
Wheat moves lower
In the U.S., soybeans, corn and wheat all
posted losses for the week. For beans and
corn, the declines were tied to profit-taking after initially moving higher. News the
U.S. was considering reducing its ethanol
mandate, which would lead to a reduction in
demand for corn as a feedstock as well, put
further pressure on corn.
The three U.S. wheat contracts, meanwhile,
have been trending lower for the better part
of the past two months and remained stuck in
that trend.
However, there were signs that the wheat
futures were starting to find a bottom, with
U.S. prices said to be looking more favourable
internationally once again. Short-covering
was also starting to come forward in wheat.
Soyoil and oats were the two bright spots in
the U.S. grain and oilseed markets during the
week. Oats supplies are relatively sufficient to
meet the demand, but logistical issues getting
the crop into delivery positions were keeping
it propped up so far.
The relative strength in soyoil was linked in
part to the strength in the Malaysian palm oil
market. Good export demand for the tropical oil kept prices near their highs for the
year, while the possibility of supply disruptions due to the damage caused by Typhoon
Haiyan in the Philippines was also underpinning that market.
Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
For three-times-daily market reports from
Commodity News Service Canada, visit
“Today in Markets” at www.manitobacooperator.ca.
Last Week
All prices close of business November 15, 2013
barley
Last Week
Week Ago
December 2013
152.00
152.00
March 2014
154.00
154.00
May 2014
155.00
155.00
Canola
Last Week
Week Ago
January 2014
488.90
495.70
March 2014
497.40
504.10
May 2014
505.20
—
Special Crops
Report for November 18, 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
22.00 - 23.00
Canaryseed
Laird No. 1
20.00 - 22.00
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
13.75 - 17.75
23.00 - 24.00
—
Desi Chickpeas
21.90 - 23.00
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
Fababeans, large
—
Feed beans
—
Medium Yellow No. 1
12.30 - 12.50
6.40 - 6.85
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Feed Pea (Rail)
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
5.00 - 8.60
42.00 - 42.00
No. 1 Great Northern
—
Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)
No. 1 Cranberry Beans
64.00 - 64.00
Yellow No. 1
37.75 - 38.75
No. 1 Light Red Kidney
55.00 - 55.00
Brown No. 1
35.75 - 37.75
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
50.00 - 50.00
Oriental No. 1
27.30 - 28.75
No. 1 Black Beans
38.00 - 38.00
No. 1 Pinto Beans
37.00 - 39.00
No. 1 Small Red
Source: Stat Publishing
No. 1 Pink
SUNFLOWERS
—
40.00 - 40.00
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
19.75
18.95
32.00* Call for details
—
Report for November 15, 2013 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed)
Confection
Source: National Sunflower Association
briefs
U.K. wheat area
to rise 22 per cent
london / reuters / Wheat area
in the U.K. is projected to rise 22
per cent for the 2014 harvest to 1.98
million hectares, the Home-Grown
Cereals Authority (HGCA) said Nov.
13, issuing the results of a survey of
farmers’ planting intentions.
“This autumn we’ve had good drilling conditions across the U.K. and,
as a consequence, we are looking at
a return to a more normal cropping
mix for harvest 2014,” HGCA analyst
Jack Watts said in a statement.
Wheat area fell to 1.63 million
hectares for the 2013 harvest after
heavy rains wrecked autumn plantings and forced many farmers to
switch to growing spring barley.
For the 2012 harvest, wheat area
was 1.99 million.
“The return of a more normal
U.K. wheat area is the first step to
the U.K. returning to the export
market, although yields and quality
remain weather dependent,” Watts
said.
Britain was a net importer of
wheat for the first time in more
than a decade in the 2012-13 season
following a poor-quality harvest in
2012.
Spring barley area was projected
to drop 40 per cent to 534,000 hectares for the 2014 harvest as farmers switch back to growing winter
crops.
The survey projected the secondhighest-ever rapeseed area at
740,000 hectares, up three per cent
from the 2013 harvest.
Canadian lowest offer
in Iraq’s 50,000-tonne
wheat tender
hamburg / reuters / Canadian
wheat was offered at the lowest
price of $345 a tonne c. & f. free out
(CIFFO) in Iraq’s tender to purchase
a minimum 50,000 tonnes of milling wheat which closed on Sunday,
European traders said Nov. 18.
The offer was made for 100,000
tonnes.
No purchase has yet been made,
traders said. Offers must remain
valid until Thursday, Nov. 21.
The lowest offer for Australian
wheat was 150,000 tonnes at
$349.29 a tonne ciffo, traders
said.
The lowest offer for U.S. wheat
was $369.44 a tonne CIFFO for
50,000 tonnes, traders
said.
The tender had sought supplies
from Australia, the United States
and Canada only.
Iraq is one of the world’s largest
importers of wheat, much of
which goes to supply a massive
national food rationing
program.
Volumes sought in Iraq’s tenders
are traditionally nominal, and it
frequently buys more than the
amount in tenders.
In its last reported wheat tender
on Oct. 24, Iraq’s state grain board
purchased 150,000 tonnes of
Australian and Canadian wheat
after also seeking offers for 50,000
tonnes.
12
LIVESTOCK
h u s b a n d r y — t h e s c i e n c e , S K I L L O R ART O F F AR M IN G
column
Farrowing rate
Going back to basics and attention to detail
Five key areas of management were found to need improvement on farms surveyed
Bernie Peet
Peet on Pigs
M
aximizing farrowing
rate requires a focus
on the basic aspects
of management and close
attention to detail, Steinbach,
Manitoba-based veterinarian
Dr. Blaine Tully told delegates
at the recent Red Deer Swine
Technology Workshop.
He was describing the findings from his work carrying out
fertility assessments on swine
farms across Canada over the
last three years. “Very few of our
conclusions reveal ‘new’ information about sow reproduction,” he said. “In other words,
95 per cent of farms with suboptimal fertility and therefore
reduced farrowing rates have
very similar deficiencies in the
execution of basic breeding
barn tasks.” This applies to all
types and sizes of farm, whether
using natural service or AI, he
added.
Tully stressed the importance of farrowing rate on overall breeding herd output and
profit. “Maximizing farrowing
rate and achieving a consistent
level allows breeding targets
to be set and achieved, driving
uniform pig flow for customers
downstream, right through to
the packer,” he pointed out.
“Suboptimal farrowing rate
will increase the cost of production by increasing nonproductive days (NPDs). On
many farms, we also find a link
between reduced farrowing rate
and litter size.” He noted that
the opportunity cost of a five
per cent reduction in farrowing
target on a 1,000-sow unit was
about $71,000 annually in the
breeding herd alone.
Tully said that the value of
the fertility audit was in viewing
procedures with an outside set
of eyes and providing a different perspective. It also allows
“In other words, 95
per cent of farms
with suboptimal
fertility and therefore
reduced farrowing
rates have very
similar deficiencies
in the execution of
basic breeding barn
tasks.”
Dr. Blaine Tully
Boar exposure should be provided to gilts from 180 to 210 days of age and the date of observed estrus recorded, says Manitoba vet Dr. Blaine Tully.
the relevant farm protocols to
be reviewed in the light of what
is observed on farm and the
results achieved.
It’s the boar’s fault!
Boar management is top of
Tully’s list of five key areas of
management that are found to
need improvement on the farms
he has surveyed. Too often the
boar is blamed for poor outcomes, when in reality he is not
being managed properly.
“The boar has three main
jobs — stimulation of the
female brain, help with heat
detection and stimulation during and after insemination,
which assists semen transportation up the reproductive
tract,” he explained. “In order
for the boar to perform all of
these tasks well, he needs to be
trained and managed from an
early age to drive a high libido.”
Tully stressed the importance of using boars that produce a large amount of frothy
saliva, containing pheromones which stimulate the sow’s
brain and impact the release
of reproductive hormones. The
Chinese Meishan breed is an
ideal boar for stimulation as
it is smaller and early maturing, has a very high libido and
produces lots of pheromones,
Tully said. In addition, he suggested, a number of different
boars should be used for heat
detection, because sows show
varying levels of attraction for
different boars.
It is essential to allow boars
used for heat detection and
stimulation in AI systems to
serve sows or gilts naturally
once per week, Tully believes.
This helps to maintain libido
and keep them keen, he says.
Sow and gilt management
Second on Tully’s list is management of the sow after weaning, in particular maximizing
feed intake from weaning to
breeding.
“Feed a lactation diet with a
higher energy and protein level
than the gestation diet, feed
sows twice per day and group
sows by condition to prevent
the bigger sows stealing from
thinner sows,” he advised.
“Much of the success in the
breeding barn will depend on
the energy balance and body
condition of weaned sows following lactation.”
Tully also recommended boar
stimulation of weaned sows
daily following weaning, in
order to stimulate the onset of
estrus. He noted that this also
results in more effective detection of sows with a short weanto-estrus interval.
The gilt development program is the third important
area of management and farms
should have a well-defined
protocol, which includes acclimatization procedures, boar
exposure, recording of dates of
estrus, feeding and weight/age
at breeding, Tully said. “Boar
exposure should be provided
from 180 to 210 days of age
and the date of observed estrus
recorded,” he suggested.
Breeding techniques
and protocols
Problem area No. 4 is the techniques used during insemination, notably hygiene, sow stimulation and semen storage.
“The stockperson should provide the stimulation given by
the boar during natural service,” Tully said. “This includes
back pressure and kneading
the sow’s flanks. Another good
stimulus is to rub the udder,
which releases oxytocin, which
stimulates sperm transport.”
Once insemination is complete,
he advised that a ‘followup’
boar is placed in front of sows
for further stimulation.
Finally, Tully said, breeding
protocols and the way in which
they are being implemented
should be reviewed periodically.
“Veterinarians visit many
farms where the intended protocol, be that for biosecurity,
vaccination, feeding or breeding is not actually followed
through consistently by all
farm staff,” he noted. “I find
that helping staff to understand some of the basic reproductive physiology behind the
breeding protocols helps to
keep motivation high, and prevent deviation from some of
the intended procedures. Once
a level of understanding about
why we do certain things in the
barn is reached, then fine tuning of the procedures can take
place.”
Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain
Consulting of Lacombe, Alberta and a
director of U.K.-based Pig Production
Training Ltd.
13
LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
Nov-13
Nov-12
Nov-12
n/a
Nov-13
Nov-11
Nov-14
Nov-15
No. on offer
1,900
1,296
937
n/a
3,829
970
1,832
1,200
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
100.00-125.00
Over 1,000 lbs.
900-1,000
800-900
n/a
110.00-146.00
n/a
n/a
125.00-136.00
n/a
n/a
125.00-150.00
147.00-157.00
125.00-150.00
132.00-146.00
n/a
132.00-147.00
130.00-147.75
135.00-155.50
130.00-157.00
700-800
130.00-159.00
130.00-153.50
140.00-155.00
n/a
140.00-158.00
142.00-156.75
140.00-157.00
135.00-162.00
600-700
140.00-170.50
135.00-156.00
148.00-163.00
n/a
145.00-163.00
148.00-165.50
145.00-163.50
140.00-166.00
500-600
155.00-192.00
150.00-172.00
152.00-179.00
n/a
150.00-170.00
152.00-171.00
160.00-186.00
145.00-174.00
400-500
161.00-189.00
165.00-188.00
170.00-189.00
n/a
166.00-193.00
165.00-188.50
165.00-194.00
165.00-190.00
300-400
171.00-184.00
160.00-191.00
175.00-235.00
n/a
175.00-205.00
175.00-209.00
160.00-201.00
180.00-211.00
n/a
110.00-130.00
n/a
n/a
115.00-128.00
n/a
n/a
100.00-129.00
800-900
120.00-133.00
120.00-139.25
120.00-130.00
n/a
123.00-136.00
n/a
120.00-133.00
115.00-134.00
700-800
125.00-138.00
125.00-139.50
124.00-136.50
n/a
128.00-139.00
n/a
125.00-139.00
118.00-135.00
600-700
123.00-146.00
125.00-152.00
130.00-145.00
n/a
129.00-142.00
138.00-150.00
130.00-149.00
125.00-151.00
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs.
500-600
117.00-158.25
130.00-156.00
140.00-155.00
n/a
131.00-144.75
140.00-154.00
140.00-162.00
135.00-153.00
400-500
120.00-160.00
140.00-161.00
150.00-170.00
n/a
138.00-158.00
142.00-173.00
140.00-165.00
135.00-153.00
300-400
110.00-143.00
140.00-164.00
160.00-182.00
n/a
145.00-170.00
140.00-170.00
137.50-180.00
130.00-155.00
321
1,296
110
n/a
3,829
970
135
350
Slaughter Market
No. on offer
D1-D2 Cows
60.00-69.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
67.00-72.00
n/a
70.00-76.00
64.00-70.00
D3-D5 Cows
55.00-60.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
63.00-67.00
n/a
55.00-69.00
58.00-65.00
Age Verified
70.00-77.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
69.00-74.75
n/a
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
61.00-85.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
79.00-87.00
n/a
n/a
82.00-90.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
106.00-111.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Butcher Steers
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
105.00-110.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
70.00-80.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
75.00-80.00
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
67.00-71.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
60.00-66.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
* includes slaughter market
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14
Case of cattle
starvation
‘exceptionally
unusual’
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
The case of a rancher who
starved dozens of animals
to death in southwestern
Manitoba is “exceptionally
unusual,” says the head of
Manitoba Beef Producers.
“From what I have read
about the case, I know this
is not how beef is raised in
Manitoba or anywhere in
Canada for that matter,” said
Cam Dahl, the association’s
general manager.
“This is why we have a code
a practice, and it’s important
that producers read it, and the
producers I know abide by it.”
Thomas Jeffery McLean
pleaded guilty to more than a
dozen counts under the Animal
Care Act last week, following
the deaths of 67 animals in his
care in 2011.
This sort of abuse just
doesn’t make sense, he added.
“The producers who I know
are in this business because
they’re very fond of animals,
and it’s not in their interest and
it’s not in their nature,” he said.
Dahl said he believes this
is the largest incident of this
nature to have ever occurred in
Manitoba.
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“The producers
who I know, are
in this business
because they’re
very fond of
animals, and
it’s not in their
interest and
it’s not in their
nature.”
Cam Dahl
Rancher’s fate rests with
judge in cattle starvation case
A complicated family feud over an inheritance has left the courts to decide
whether cattle were deliberately starved
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
A
rancher accused of deliberately
starving cattle to death over an
inheritance feud has pleaded to
13 offences under the Animal Care Act.
With tears welling up in his eyes,
Thomas Jeffery McLean, 49, told provincial court Judge Mary Kate Harvie last week he was “ashamed” of his
actions. Harvie delayed sentencing,
seeking time to consider additional
submissions.
The 49-year-old for mer rancher
could face fines in excess of $100,000
and a lifetime ban on owning or caring for animals after causing the starvation deaths of 67 cattle. Another
50 cows and two bulls seized from
property in the Rural Municipality of
Louise in the spring of 2011 were so
emaciated, they received a body condition score of a mere 1.6 (on a scale
of one to nine) when they were transferred to the Killarney Auction Mart.
Animal welfare officers were first
c a l l e d i n a f t e r Mc L e a n’s b r o t h e r
complained to the Chief Veterinarian’s office. Prosecutor Shaun Sass
told Harvie that the Crown believes
McLean deliberately stopped caring
for the herd after learning his brother
would inherit much of the farm he had
expected to get following his mother’s
death.
“He d i d e v e r y t h i n g t o t r y a n d
devalue the herd because of the ongoing estate issues,” said Sass. “This was
an attempt, through his negligence,
to make sure whomever, however the
estate was divided, ends up getting
nothing from it.”
He noted that rather than compost
the dead animals or call a deadstock
removal company, McLean stored
many carcasses in a large garage on
the property.
“It is not proper to put cattle on a
concrete floor in a roofed building,
on and around tractors and machinery,” Sass said. “These animals were
placed here intentionally, and that fur-
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“He did everything to try and devalue the herd because of the
ongoing estate issues.”
Shaun Sass
thers the concern that Mr. McLean was
doing this on purpose to try to devalue
the estate.”
Necropsies and examinations by veterinarians confirmed most of the animals died after months of starvation,
although one heifer died slowly during
an unassisted labour and was found
left as she died with the dead calf still
half wedged in the birth canal.
Other calves were born to starving
mothers, left too weak to stand and
nurse, or in pens so clogged with mud
they couldn’t reach their mothers for
nourishment, leaving them to die of
exposure.
Mc L e a n c o u n t e r e d h i s a c t i o n s
weren’t those of a man determined to
settle a score, but rather those of a
desperate individual whose resources
h a d b e e n d e p l e t e d by t w o y e a r s
of legal wrangling over his mother’s
estate.
“Too proud to ask for help — too
stupid some might say,” McLean told
judge Harvie.
Defence lawyer Gavin Wood said
McLean, who had cared for the herd
since 1987, stored the carcasses in the
garage to avoid being shamed in the
eyes of his southwestern Manitoba
community.
“He’s got a pride here that has led to
this situation,” said Wood.
He also described some of McLean’s
behaviour as “puzzling” and said he
believes he was suffering from depression at the time. He said another factor
was the loss of control of 90 acres of
alfalfa to his brother in early August
2010, who then applied Roundup to
the fields.
“Over the course of the winter of
2010, 2011, Mr. McLean gradually ran
out of foodstuffs for the cattle,” said
Wood.
The desiccation of the alfalfa
f i e l d s f o l l owe d c o m p l i c a t e d l e g a l
p r o c e e d i n g s t h a t s a w M c L e a n’s
brother become the sole execut o r o f t h e i r m o t h e r’s e s t a t e a n d
McLean lose his right to live in the
family home.
A portion of the herd was also determined to belong to the brother. But
because McLean still owned a substantial portion of the herd, it wasn’t
in his interest to neglect the cattle,
Wood said. He said the inheritance
dispute also meant McLean could not
sell off any adult animals to reduce
feed requirements.
Sass said McLean could have called
on provincial agriculture officials for
assistance in feeding the animals if he
could no longer afford hay.
Whether or not McLean intended
to use the deaths of the animals to
lower the value of the estate will now
be central to sentencing.
According to justice officials, this
will be the first major case to be sentenced since 2010 amendments to
the Animal Care Act that increased
potential fines and jail terms. Among
the 13 charges are failure to provide
adequate care, providing inadequate
medical attention, and confining animals where there is risk.
If the case had gone to trial, prosecutors had intended to seek jail
time.
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Probiotics could serve as alternative
to antibiotics in pig feed
The probiotic inhibited pathogenic E. coli from establishing
Staff
G
erman researchers have
found that piglets fed
probiotic Enterococcus
faecium showed reduced numbers of potentially pathogenic
Escherichia coli strains in their
intestines, the American Society
for Microbiology says in a release.
Researchers were looking for
alternatives to antibiotics for
reducing pathogens in the intestines of young pigs following the
EU’s ban on using antibiotics as
growth promotors in 2006.
“We found a clear reduction
of E. coli strains possessing typical genes for extra-intestinal
pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC),” said
researcher Carmen Bednorz of
Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. The reduction was particularly noticeable in strains that
adhere to the intestinal mucosa
(and less so in the feces), which
was “very interesting,” she says,
because “ExPEC typically harbour a lot of adhesion genes
that promote colonization of the
mucosa.
“Our data suggest that the
feeding of probiotics could substitute for antimicrobials as
growth promoters,” says Bednorz. “This could help to reduce
the burden of antimicrobial
resistance,” she adds.
The study was published
ahead of print in the journal
Applied and Environmental
Microbiology.
In the study, Bednorz and her
collaborators compared piglets
fed with E. faecium to those in
a control group. They collected
more than 1,400 samples of E.
coli from piglets of different ages,
file photo
and from different parts of the
intestine.
The results suggest that E. faecium inhibits pathogenic E. coli
from becoming attached to the
intestinal mucosa.
15
COLUMN
Strawberry foot rot is on the increase in feedlots
An infection previously mostly found in dairy cattle is showing up in some western feedlots
Roy Lewis, DVM
Beef 911
I
t has come to my attention
that “strawberry foot rot” or
“hairy heel wart” or “Montellaros disease,” which was
once considered a dairy disease is now making its way into
feedlots in Eastern Canada. The
disease is potentially caused
by a treponema bacteria. The
infection starts at the back of
the hoof on or near the bulbs
of the foot and works its way
down. It causes a reddened,
raised wart-like lesion surrounded by long hair, hence the
descriptive names.
It can be confused by the true
foot rot, which starts between
the toes at the front of the hoof.
Both conditions make cattle
very sore but with strawberry
foot rot the first cases go unnoticed because there is not much
swelling evident at first.
Cattle generally contract this
disease from constant exposure to moisture which is why
some dairies have a high incidence of it. Feedlots can have
outbreaks, especially when
moist and cattle need to move
through sloppy manure to get
to feed bunks. The excessive
moisture combined with those
cattle immunosuppressed and
abrasions to the feet will result
in strawberry foot rot.
It is important to be recognized early, as the organism is
sensitive to a fairly broad range
of antibiotics. Tetracyclines are
one of the families of antibiotics that are effective. They are
injectable early, or wrapping
the area in gauze soaked with
tetracycline has also proven
beneficial. Some dairy practitioners have even gone to
spraying, especially the backs of
the feet with a tetracycline liquid. Treatments of topical lowstrength iodine, chlorhexidine
or peroxide have also at times
been effective.
The cattle are extremely sore
with this condition and often it
affects both hind feet. Affected
calves just want to lay around
so subsequent weight gain
is severely affected. In some
feedlot calves the condition
becomes so severe that shipping (once antibiotics are withdrawn) or humane euthanasia
are the only solutions, so it is
important to recognize it early.
If any foot trimming or hoof
care is attempted on these
cases, thoroughly disinfect
and clean the instruments.
Also clean yourself, as it may
be zoonotic (transferrable to
humans) and lead to infections
of the hands and arms.
Prevention
The most effective preventive
in the dairies has been first to
maintain good hoof care and
keeping the nutrition sound.
Trace minerals such as zinc,
calcium, phosphorus as well as
vitamins A, D and E have been
associated with good feet integrity. There is a vaccine in the
U.S. against it which is somewhat effective apparently but it
is not available in Canada yet.
The other preventives in
dairies and that may need to be
adapted for feedlots are foot-
Cases of strawberry foot rot may
go unnoticed because there is not
much swelling evident at first.
PHOTO: LELY
baths with various products
in them to routinely keep the
treponema and other organisms at bay. Products such
as formaldehyde (one gallon
37 per cent in 19 gallons of
water), copper sulphate (five
lbs. in nine gallons of water)
or even dry footbaths of lime
with tetracycline powder have
been tried.
With footbaths it is critical that two long footbaths
be strung together so the first
one simply washes off organic
material and the second is
the treatment footbath. Footbaths must be long enough and
wide and deep enough so the
affected area is treated. Copper sulphate does not do well in
organic material that is why the
pre-wash is critical. Ideally it is
best to have a space between
water baths to allow the organic
material to run off and upon
exiting the water bath best to
have the cattle in a dry pen for
15-30 minutes but I know that
might be hard to implement.
It’s best if the footbaths are in
the nine- to 15-feet-long range,
three feet wide and six inches
deep. This way the entire foot
is exposed and this may be
repeated daily or some do it
twice weekly.
I have personally seen a few
Ontario feedlots where the footbaths were easily rigged up in
the processing alley and the
cattle could almost be trained
to run through it after a couple of times. This seems to be
keeping the organism at bay.
Treatment rates vary from daily
to a couple times a week until
clinical signs subside. Going
aggressively after the bad ones
early with the tetracycline
wraps is also worth the effort
and the individual care will pull
these through.
Dairy producers under the
advice of their veterinarians
are also spraying the bulbs of
the feet with Lincospectin and
avoiding the water baths but
this may not be practical in a
feedlot, though could be done
to the clinical cases. Strawberry foot rot is also emerging
as a significant disease in some
feedlots out west, similar to
the emerging sporadic condition necrosis of P3 documented
recently.
We need to work on prevention by controlling wet conditions and communicate with
each other advancements in
either prevention or treatment
of this very painful, contagious
and production-limiting disease. Talk to your veterinarian and be ready to implement
their best management practices to minimize the incidence
of hairy heel wart in your feedlot or dairy.
Roy Lewis is a large-animal veterinarian
practising at the Westlock, Alberta
Veterinary Centre. His main interests are
bovine reproduction and herd health.
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16
WEATHER VANE
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M a r k Tw a i n , 18 9 7
Expect plenty of arctic air
Issued: Monday, November 18, 2013 · Covering: November 20 – November 27, 2013
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
W
ith most regions now
having at least a light
covering of snow, it’s
definitely starting to look like
winter. Combine the snow cover
with a couple of shots of arctic
air and this forecast period is
going to start feeling like winter
too!
The area of low pressure
expected to help bring mild
weather to our region this week
ended up being much weaker,
thanks to last weekend’s low
being stronger than expected.
As a result, we only saw a slight
warm-up early in the week
before arctic air pushed in
behind the low by mid-week.
A weak area of low pressure is
forecast to slide southeastward
behind this first push of arctic
air late Thursday and through
the day on Friday. This system will bring some clouds
and maybe a few flurries, but
doesn’t look like it will bring
any measurable snow.
A second arctic high will
push south behind this low
over the weekend, bringing
sunny skies and cool tempera-
tures. By Sunday the high will
be to our southeast, which will
allow the winds to become
southerly. This will start to
bring in milder air, especially
over western regions. This
warm-up will only last a day or
two as an area of low pressure
sliding by to our northeast will
drop a cold front through the
region by next Tuesday. Behind
this front we’ll see another
arctic high build in, dropping
temperatures back down to the
bottom end of the usual temperature range for this time of
the year.
Looking further ahead, the
weather models show a slow
warming trend for later next
week as the arctic high slides to
our southeast, but once again,
it doesn’t look like the mild air
will stick around as another
area of arctic high pressure
looks ready to drop southward
by the end of next week.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, -10 to 2 C;
lows, -21 to -6 C.
WEATHER MAP - WESTERN CANADA
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].
This issue’s map shows the total amount of snow cover across the Prairies as of Nov. 18. The map was originally created by Environment
Canada, but I do a lot of “cleaning up” to make the map more readable. For this reason some of the data has been lost, so the map
should only be used to give a rough idea of how much snow cover there actually is.
What are the odds for big snowfalls?
A single-day snowfall of a foot or more only comes along about every 30 years
By Daniel Bezte
co-operator contributor
A
s we’ve been learning
over the years, certain
weather-related questions sound simple enough,
but when you actually start to
look at the question, it becomes
tougher to figure out. Take trying to figure out when winter
actually begins: the tough part
is how to define just what constitutes the start of winter. Should
it be the first significant snowfall? How about when the high
temperature consistently stays
below 0 C? Should we simply use
the astronomical date of Dec. 21,
or maybe just stick to the meteorological date of Dec. 1?
I think most people across
the Prairies would agree winter
doesn’t really arrive until you
have snow on the ground, so
for us, I use this as our measure of when winter arrives. Even
narrowing it down to this still
has some problems. What if,
for example, it snows five cm
on Oct. 22, then by Nov. 8 it has
all melted and we don’t receive
any more snow until Dec. 4? Did
winter start on Oct. 22 or Dec. 4?
I call this situation a false start
to winter and I would record
the winter in this example as
starting on Dec. 4. Once I determined this, I went through the
snowfall records for Winnipeg,
Table: When winters began
Winnipeg
Brandon
Dauphin
Earliest start
Oct. 27, 1972
Oct. 6, 1959
Oct. 6, 1959
Latest
Dec. 16, 1939
Dec. 15, 1974
Dec. 14, 1981
Nov. 14
Nov. 14
Nov. 10
Nov. 3-26
Nov. 2-27
Oct. 29-Nov. 22
Average
Usual range
Brandon, and Dauphin, and
came up with the results you see
here in the table.
From the table we can see
all three regions of agricultural
Manitoba have seen winter
start in October and as late as
mid-December. Winnipeg and
Brandon both have an average
date for snow to stick around
of Nov. 14, with Dauphin being
four days earlier at Nov. 10. The
“usual range” is a measure of the
standard deviation around the
average. It indicates the range
of days within which we should
expect winter to begin. If winter begins before or after these
dates, it’s a fairly unusual year.
Another question I often get
is whether we’re going to get a
lot of snow this winter, and are
we going to see any major snowstorms? I often have a tough
time with this question; as those
of you who regularly read my
articles have probably already
figured out, I really like snowstorms, at least if I don’t have to
go anywhere! So, I tend to be a
little biased when talking about
the probability of snowstorms.
If we look back over previous
years’ snowfall events in our
three different regions, I found
that large single-day snowfalls
are fairly rare events. When I
looked at the number of times
Winnipeg, Brandon and Dauphin received more than 10 cm
of snow in one day over the last
70 years, I was surprised to find
out that on average, all three
locations have this occur a little less than twice per winter.
When we bump up the singleday snowfall to 15 cm or more,
this occurs on average a little
less than once per winter. If we
increase the single-day snowfall to 20 cm or more, the frequency drops down to around
once every five years. Finally, to
show how rare really big snowstorms are in our region, if we
take a look at the probability of
receiving 30 cm or more in one
day, we would find that this kind
Finally, to show how rare really big snowstorms
are in our region, if we take a look at the
probability of receiving 30 cm or more in one
day, we would find that this kind of event only
occurs once every 30 or so years.
of event only occurs once every
30 or so years.
One thing that I need to point
out is, from December to February, agricultural Manitoba, on
average, receives about 50 cm
of snow. So all it takes is one big
storm and we’ll be at average
or even above average for the
winter. This is why it’s so hard
to predict whether winters will
be wet or dry: often it only takes
one storm to make a wet winter! Another point to make about
these types of statistics is that
if you get a 30-cm snowfall, it
doesn’t mean the chances of seeing another large snowfall that
winter are any smaller.
A second question that comes
up with the talk of snow is cold
temperatures: just when will
they move in? The answer to that
is almost always tied to when the
snow moves in. While we can get
some cold temperatures without
snow covering the ground, to
get extremely cold temperatures
and sustained cold temperatures
we need to have snow cover.
Snow cover acts in a couple
of ways to contribute to colder
temperatures. First of all, it insulates the ground, trapping the
ground heat and preventing it
from warming up the air above
it. Secondly, snow has a very
high albedo — that is, it reflects
a very large proportion of the
sun’s energy. So instead of the
sun’s energy being absorbed by
the ground and then released to
warm the air, it gets reflected and
we don’t warm up much during
the day. Finally, snow, simply put,
is cold! We really notice this in the
spring, but having snow on the
ground at any time of the year
acts like a refrigerator to keep
temperatures down.
In the next issue we’ll take our
annual look at weather-related
gift ideas for the upcoming holiday season.
17
CROPS
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
C
anada’s railways are doing an “adequate”
job moving this year’s record crop to market, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told
an industry conference last week.
“The increase in volume means the logistics system must fire on all cylinders to ensure
farmers’ products are making it to market on
time. To date our system is proving effective in
handling the workload,” Ritz told the Canadian
Seed Trade Association’s semi-annual meeting.
But he said the government will continue to
monitor the situation through its Crop Logistics
Working Group.
However, owners of plugged grain elevators
disagree.
The 5,000 cars a week CP and CN Rail are
shipping to export ports is close to their best
historical performance, Western Grain Elevator Association WGEA executive director Wade
Sobkowich, said in an interview Nov. 15.
“But when you compare it to what the industry needs, then it falls short of what we need.
So we’re in the process of communicating our
issues to the ministers of transport and agriculture.”
As of week 16, CN had committed to deliver
5,289 cars, but orders for almost 8,400 cars
went unfilled and added to the thousands of
unfulfilled orders from past weeks, Sobkowich
said.
CP Rail is even further behind, he said.
Country elevators are, on average, 92 per cent
full across the West, while export terminals
have lots of space, Sobkowich said.
After speaking to the Canadian Seed Trade
Association’s semi-annual meeting in Winnipeg
Nov. 13 Ritz told reporters the railways could
always do better. But when asked if they’re
doing a good enough job Ritz replied: “I think
it’s adequate to this point.”
When asked about the growing backlog of
grain shipments Ritz said: “They’re running at
peak capacity. I’m not an apologist for the railways but I do agree with Claude Mongeau (CN
president and chief executive officer) when he
says putting more cars on the freeway during
rush hour really doesn’t make it more efficient.”
Sobkowich said that since most grain shippers are captive the railways have no incentive
in surge capacity, because they are guaranteed
to get the traffic anyway.
The federal government promised its new
legislation forcing the railways to give shippers
service agreements would address rail service
complaints. But Sobkowich said grain companies haven’t signed agreements because the
legislation lacks teeth.
That was news to Ritz. If the legislation isn’t
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says Canada’s railways are doing an “adequate” job moving this year’s record crop to
market. The Western Grain Elevators Association says it’s not good enough and farm groups agree. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON
effective the government is willing to look at it,
he added.
Ritz said the cap on how much the railways
can earn shipping grain could be a factor.
“I’ve never been a cheerleader for the revenue cap,” he said. “I think in a market-driven
economy that’s something that needs to be
looked at. When you’re looking at competing
with oil, with potash, with coal, with timber
on the rail lines and then you have a cap on
one commodity, guess which ones the railways
aren’t going to haul?”
But Sobkowich defended the cap, which
some say should be called an “entitlement.”
“I think removing the revenue cap is a very
risky proposition because when we look at
other industries that don’t have a revenue cap
they’re negotiating with the railways to get
good rates and to get better service. We’re negotiating with the railways to get better service,”
he said.
Western Canadian general farm organizations are also worried about the grain backlog, Doug Chorney, president of the Keystone
Agricultural Producers (KAP), said in a news
release. KAP, the Agricultural Producers of Saskatchewan, Alberta Federation of Agriculture
and the British Columbia Agriculture Council
discussed grain transportation and other issues
when they met Nov. 14 in Abbotsford, B.C.
“This is unacceptable,” Chorney said. “Farmers have been asking for better rail service
basically since farming began on the Prairies
and now this situation underlines the fact that
nothing has really changed.”
Ritz said he is loath to add more regulations.
“Unless someone wants to start laying double
track across Canada, which I don’t see happening in the near future, we have the system that
we have. When I compare it with others around
the world, it works as well as can be expected.
There’s (sic) always more things that can be
done.”
Examples include shipping more through
Churchill and the United States and processing
more grain in Western Canada, Ritz said.
During his formal address Ritz said the
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization predicts the world’s farmers will have to
produce more than one billion tonnes of cereal
grains over the next 40 years to feed the growing population.
Sobkowich agreed but he said a properly
functioning transportation system is equally
pivotal.
“We can’t be left with product in our system
and on our farms year over year. It’s not going
to do,” he said.
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Caterpillars
attack Brazil
crops
The leading
soybean-producing
state is under siege
sao paulo / reuters
Infestations of the
Helicoverpa caterpillar
in Brazil’s Grain Belt
prompted the Agriculture Ministry to declare
a state of emergency
Nov. 18 in the leading soy state of Mato
Grosso, highlighting the
potential risk to large
parts of the crop.
The ministry’s head
of supply, Antonio
Andrade, also declared
an emergency in the
state of Bahia, a smaller
but important producer state where difficulty controlling pests
caused financial losses
for producers last year.
State governments
will draw up guidelines
for dealing with the pest
that is believed to be a
serious threat to crops.
Production costs in
areas where the caterpillar is most prominent are going to rise
for farmers as fighting
the pest often involves
multiple applications of
insecticide and destruction of plant material
that host to the caterpillar.
Brazil, one of the
world’s biggest exporters of soybeans and
corn after the United
States, is nearly finished planting what is
expected to be a record
soy and bumper corn
crop that will start harvest in early 2014.
The caterpillar can
also destroy cotton
crops.
Past and future collide as
Mexico fights over GMO corn
Opponents say the genetically modified varieties will contaminate traditional landraces
By David Alire Garcia
mexico city / reuters
A
fter pioneering the cultivation of corn thousands
of years ago, Mexico
must overcome the weight of
history to give the go-ahead
to allow genetically modified
strains into its fields.
Religion, culture and science
are competing for primacy in
the debate on how acceptable
corn produced by genetically
modified organisms (GMOs)
is in a country where farmers
first domesticated maize about
8,000 years ago.
Last month a federal judge
in Mexico City created a stir by
ordering a temporary halt to
any new GMO corn permits,
accepting a lawsuit brought by
opponents of the crop.
It was widely interpreted as a
definitive ban on the commercial use of GMO corn in Mexico,
but experts say it will likely just
delay any resolution into 2014
or beyond.
With Mexican output falling
short of demand, GMO backers are keen to open the door to
firms such as Monsanto, which
have applications pending to
plant some 2.5 million hectares
of GMO corn, an area roughly
the size of Rwanda.
The Agriculture Ministr y
must first finish designating the
“centres of origin” where GMO
corn farming would be banned,
and set other safety regulations
before permits can be issued.
And it must also wait until the
legal wrangling has been settled
since the federal judge sided
with opponents, finding that
GMO corn has already been
planted illegally in Mexico.
“It’s a very controversial
topic,” Agriculture Minister
Enrique Martinez said recently.
“This will have a final resolution
that adheres to what the scientists decide.”
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A corn farmer holds corncobs during a protest in Mexico City January 2013. Farmers protested against the growing of
transgenic or genetically modified corn, as it is one of the primary food staples of Mexico and Central America. Photo: REUTERS/Bernardo Montoya
The science is hotly disputed. Proponents of GMO corn
say studies show that production will rise, and costly inputs
such as pesticides and fertilizers would fall. They add that
GMO crops have proven safe for
human consumption.
O p p o n e n t s , m e a n w h i l e,
contend that large-scale GMO
plantings will contaminate
native strains of the grain and
harm biodiversity. They also
point to toxins that protect GMO
corn against pests that may be
linked to elevated insect mortality, which could undermine pollination.
Mariano Ruiz, a deputy agriculture minister in the previous government who backs
GMO corn, said the case will
likely reach Mexico’s Supreme
Court and cause at least a
year’s delay.
Although President Enrique
Pena Nieto’s administration
has avoided taking a firm position on its commercial use, Ruiz
believes it supports GMO corn.
And in his view, there was no
question about the legitimacy of
large-scale planting.
“There isn’t a legal vacuum,
there’s a delay in the application
of the law,” he told Reuters.
Born of corn
Despite its humble origins,
corn is by far the planet’s most
produced grain, dwarfing both
wheat and rice output.
Mexico now plants 7.2 million hectares of corn annually to
grow mostly white corn, which is
used for human consumption,
including the country’s staple
tortillas.
Last year its farmers produced
some 21 million tonnes of corn,
or about three per cent of global
production. But the country
consumed roughly 30 million
tonnes, making up the difference with U.S. imports.
Mexico already imports tens
of thousands of tonnes of GMO
yellow corn each year, largely for
animal feed, and permits planting of other GMO crops, mainly
cotton and soybeans.
“It’s a very
controversial topic,
this will have a
final resolution that
adheres to what the
scientists decide.”
Enrique Martinez
Agriculture minister
Supporters of GMO corn like
Mexico’s corn farmers’ federation argue it can boost yields by
up to 15 per cent.a
Their peers in the United
States, Brazil and Argentina
— the world’s top three corn
exporters — are already producing large quantities of GMO
corn.
But the crop has a unique
place in Mexico. The 49 landraces of corn, or distinct strains
improved over time by traditional methods, and thousands of individual varieties,
are often tied to specific indigenous groups and religious ceremonies.
Scientists say modern corn
comes from teosinte, a tiny wild
grain native to southern Mexico.
The ancient Maya believed
the gods made the first humans
out of corn, after rejecting earlier
clay and wood forms.
“The women and men of corn
saw as much as the gods,” reads
the Popol Vuh, the sacred text of
the Maya, who still live in Mexico. “Their glance ranged over
the whole world.”
Legal limbo
In 2009, during the previous
administration of President
Felipe Calderon, changes to
Mexico’s biosafety law allowed
biotech crop developers for the
first time to experiment with
GMO corn trials in approved
regions of Mexico.
Since then, dozens of pilot
permits have tested GMO corn
strains for their tolerance to herbicides as well as resistance to
insects and drought. But Calderon left office without approving
large-scale GMO corn plantings.
Those corn permits could
have been approved as early as
February, but the change of government led to a delay.
GMO corn backers like Alejandro Monteagudo of industry
lobby AgroBIO, argue Mexico
has no reason to fear tinkering
with DNA in search of larger
yields and hardier plants.
“The government’s biosecurity
measures allow us to be calm
that (commercial GMO corn
plantings) are done legally and
with no impact on the environment or biodiversity,” he said.
But opponents say Monsanto’s proprietary seeds essentially
privatize corn production and
threaten age-old farming practices by making farmers buy new
GMO seeds rather than harvest
them from Mexico’s current
crops.
Unsurprisingly, they applaud
the judge’s ruling last month.
“This decision is unprecedented,” said Aleira Lara, the
head of Greenpeace Mexico’s
sustainable agriculture campaign.
Greenpeace, which is not a
party to the case, will immediately file a separate suit if the
Agriculture Ministry approves
any permits as the court case
proceeds, Lara said.
The extended political and
legal fight leaves five applications for commercial-scale GMO
cornfields in limbo.
Monsanto has submitted two
applications, both of which
seek 700,000 hectares for GMO
corn in the northwestern state
of Sinaloa, the country’s largest
corn-producing area.
The Mexican unit of Pioneer
Hi-Bred International, part of
DuPont, has three bids, each
of which would cover about
350,000 hectares in northeastern
Tamaulipas state.
Meanwhile, Dow AgroSciences de Mexico, part of Dow
Chemical, has one application
for 40,000 hectares in Tamaulipas.
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Dry soil a
concern
for some
Pastures need more
moisture further west
By Terryn Shiells
Richard Phillips has taken over as president of the Canadian Grains Council at a
difficult time in his own life and one of rapid change in the grain sector
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA
COMMODITY NEWS SERVICE CANADA
D
ry soil conditions
heading into winter could cause
problems next spring.
“There are some concerns with pasture recovery and just starting up
the season next year,” said
Trevor Hadwen, agro-climate specialist with Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada.
“In terms of native pasture, the dry fall doesn’t
allow the recharge of
the soil moisture, which
doesn’t allow the plants
to prepare as well for the
winter as they normally
would.”
The biggest area of
concern is a region starting in central Alberta and
stretching into Saskatchewan, he said.
There are some dr y
regions in Manitoba as
well, but many areas in
the south and southwest
received some good precipitation this fall.
“The southwest (region
of Manitoba) has received
quite a bit of rain, getting
a few of those storms that
were popping up from
North Dakota,” Hadwen
said.
Though the soil is too
dry in Alberta now, it’s
likely that things will
improve in spring, said
Drew Lerner of World
Weather Inc. in Kansas.
“ We’v e h a d s o m e
snow events already (in
Alberta) which helped
to pad the dryness a little bit and it kind of suggests that maybe we’ll see
some improvement in the
spring,” said Lerner. “A lot
of the snow that fell will
help to keep frost out of
the ground, so when we
do get into the spring
thaw, the moisture will
go into the ground fairly
quickly.”
It’s still a wait-and-see
kind of situation in Saskatchewan, though Lerner
said he expects average snowfalls during the
first half of winter across
Western Canada, and that
should keep winter wheat
crops covered, he said.
“I think in general, the
crop will probably be in
fairly good shape,” he said.
“There will be some very
impressive bouts of cold
that will occur, but I think
we’ll have sufficient snow
on the ground to take care
of that. So, when it comes
to the spring, we should at
least get a fair start to the
season.”
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New grains council head faces
personal and professional challenges
R
ichard Phillips was expecting plenty of challenges
when he took over as
president of the Canadian Grains
Council.
But July 31, his last day as executive director of Grain Growers
of Canada, brought him a challenge he hadn’t expected. His doctor told him he had an advanced
case of bladder cancer. What was
to have been a quiet summer for
him and his wife turned into the
agony of surgery and treatments.
By mid-November, he was able
to start working part time, but
admits his energy fades and the
days following a treatment are low
points.
However, he doesn’t spend
much time in an interview feeling
sorry for himself and in conversa-
tion is soon running through the
issues facing the council and grain
industry.
His predecessor, Dennis Stephens, focused on major issues
such as the presence of genetically modified traits in grain shipments and removing barriers to
the international shipments of
grain.
For Phillips, the pivotal issue
will be the shape of the country’s
grain industry now that the Canadian Wheat Board — the face of
the Canadian grain industry in
many countries — no longer has
monopoly over wheat and barley
exports.
“We have to take a good look at
where we are going,” said Phillips.
“There is a real need for us to be
co-ordinated so we don’t confuse
the customers. They want to buy
Canadian grain and not have to
be pitched for grain from particu-
lar provinces. We have to focus on
what’s best for the customer.”
Two new organizations —
Cereals Canada and the Barley
Council of Canada — have been
created this year, and that has
implications for the Canadian
Grains Council, he said.
“We have to sort out the role of
the council,” said Phillips. “Is it to
be a council of industry councils
or does it have another purpose?”
For example, his organization
could assist new councils in dealing with research issues and other
services to farmers, he said. It also
needs to consider how smaller,
non-grower members — such as
the railways, grain-handling terminals, ports and farm supply
companies — might best fit into
the scheme of things.
Other issues high on his agenda
are the rail transportation system,
which has been strained by this
Richard Phillips
year’s bumper crop in Western
Canada, and the revamping of
the Canadian Grain Commission,
which has raised concerns with its
plan to increase fees.
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U.S. farmland buyers more
selective but still pay for prime
The biggest buyer at this recent sale was Archer Daniels Midland
By Christine Stebbins
CARLINVILLE, ILLINOIS / REUTERS
B
uyers of U.S. farmland
appear undaunted by
falling grain prices, paying top dollar for prime parcels
coming up at autumn auctions
although showing a more cautious tone than in recent years,
farmland auction participants
said at a sale last week.
“It’s more dependent on
where a farm is located than the
general land market. The person the farm is near matters
more than the type of farm,”
said Bruce Huber, an Illinois
real estate broker who handled
a sale in central Illinois last
week. “Last year, it was just up,
up, up.”
If the sale of the 535-acre
(217-hectare) grain farm in Carlinville, Illinois, for $14.5 million is any indication, farmland
values in the most productive
areas of the Grain Belt will stay
steady during harvest, the traditional season for farmland auctions.
The farm in question, which
included grain storage facilities for more than four million
bushels, was sold in seven tracts
with the top parcel of 200 acres
bringing in $13,600 an acre.
“We decided $13,000 was our
top dollar. We exceeded our
expectations. But I’m glad we
did it,” said David Fullington, a
local CPA who organized a partnership of farmers to make the
successful bid for that parcel,
which will be farmed by one of
the buyers’ sons in the coming
year.
The sale price was as strong
“It’s more dependent
on where a farm
is located than the
general land market.
The person the farm
is near matters more
than the type of farm,
last year, it was just
up, up, up.”
BRUCE HUBER
Illinois real estate broker
as a year ago when corn was at
$8 a bushel versus the $4 being
paid today. Corn prices have
been the catalyst for sky-high
U.S. farmland values in recent
years.
Why the strength? The usual
reason: the neighbours wanted
the farm.
“We wouldn’t have bought
this if we didn’t own other
land,” said Fullington, who said
top-grade land four years ago
had been selling for $4,000 an
acre. “It would have been a poor
investment for somebody to go
out and buy land for the first
time.”
Huber said he had seen
a common theme at this
autumn’s grain land auctions
in Illinois, typically the nation’s
No. 2 corn and soybean grower
behind Iowa.
If the farm is in the right spot,
and the land is good quality,
farmers are paying top prices
and quickly — the 200-acre parcel, a $2.72-million sale, was
done in 15 minutes, Huber said.
A combine drives over stalks of soft red winter wheat during the harvest on a farm in Dixon, Illinois last July. U.S.
farmland prices remain high and holding, but buyers are more selective. PHOTO: REUTERS/JIM YOUNG
But if those factors are not
present, sales go slow and often
disappoint sellers.
“There is more variability
this year,” he said. “If you want
$13,000 or $14,000, you’re going
to sit on it for a while. A year
ago, that wasn’t the case.”
Hard lessons
There is a wide audience for
farmland prices this season.
Federal Reserve policy-makers, farm bankers who use
land as loan collateral, seed
and fer tilizer dealers and
equipment makers like John
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Deere are closely watching
land sales as an indicator of
future farmer spending at a
time grains prices — if not revenues, given higher yields —
have fallen back.
Jason Henderson, a Purdue
University agricultural economist, said the Illinois auction
was in line with what many
have expected.
“Farmland values are holding pretty flat from where they
have been. Usually the big
moves in land values come in
the fourth quarter, so we’re
right in the middle of it,” he
said in an interview. “My scenario as to how I think it’s
going to play out: we’ll get a
little softness. Then those
far mers will sit there and
decide, ‘Is this the top of the
market or not?’ Those who
were on the fence thinking
about selling, if they think this
is the top, then they’ll put it on
the market.”
Prime grain land in Illinois,
Iowa and other Midwest states
rose 20 to 30 per cent in 2012
alone. Soaring demand for
corn from ethanol makers,
strong demand from China
and other importers, and rockbottom U.S. interest rates have
all combined to feed the farmland boom.
But skyrocketing land values
have stirred nightmare memories of the ruinous land bubble
of the 1980s, when overleveraged farmers lost their farms
a s i n t e re s t ra t e s j u m p e d .
Farmers who lived through
those times remember them
well. Many were among the
m o re t h a n 1 0 0 o n l o o k e r s
who sat in the old Macoupin
County courthouse in Carlinville last week to watch the
auction.
For some, the sale was a
sober reminder of the bad
old days and bitter lessons
repeated.
The property had been
owned by Rick Rosentreter, an
ambitious young farmer who
grew his grain operation from
a few thousand acres to 30,000
acres in just a few years. But
it was fuelled by debt and the
bankers who had lent to him
foreclosed.
“The tone of the sale was
great,” said Huber. “The reason
for the sale was not. There was
stress.”
Rosentreter was not present
for the sale. Seth Baker, a broker with real estate company
Schroeder Huber, said the
young farmer’s meteoric rise
and fall drew some interest
in the event. But he said that
when the bidding opened, it
was the productive value of the
land, not seller distress, that
made the day.
“There have been some sales
that went well, others not so
well over the past few months.
We were on the high end of
what we expected,” Baker said.
“Outside of Tracts 5-6, which
sold relatively low due to
access issues, all of the other
tillable ground brought exceptional market value for class B,
B+ soil types.”
Other big buyers were also
neighbours of Rosentreter,
including the Behme family,
which bought a 40-acre tract
for $11,500 an acre.
But the biggest buyer was a
neighbour from 90 miles (145
km) to the north in Decatur —
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biggest grain processor in the
country. ADM bought a 30-acre
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Brazil likely
to lose
briefly held
top corn
export title
in 2014
YOU KNOW YOU’RE FROM THE COUNTRY WHEN…
Drought in 2012 crimped
production in the U.S.,
but it is poised to reclaim
its top export position
SAO PAULO / REUTERS
B
razil’s corn exports in
2013 have surpassed last
year’s record as the agricultural superpower gained
international market share with
U.S. stocks still low, but the
United States is set to make a
huge comeback in 2014.
Brazil exported 20.8 million
tonnes of corn between January
and Nov. 10, according to trade
data, passing the 19.77 million
tonnes shipped abroad in all
of 2012 when drought crimped
production in the United States,
the top producer and exporter
of the grain.
For the 2012-13 crop year,
Brazil exported 22 million
tonnes of corn while the U.S.
exported 18.58 million tonnes,
according to USDA.
But Brazil’s exports will likely
fall off in December and January, analysts said, and the
United States should reclaim its
spot as the top corn exporter,
according to the U.S. Agriculture Department.
Brazilian corn exports usually
start trailing off at the end of the
year, when logistics make the
U.S. crop more accessible, but
last season was atypical, analysts said.
“Last year, with the damage
in the United States, prices
jumped to $7.50 (per bushel)
and the whole world bought
from Brazil at any pr ice,”
said Paulo Molinari of Brazil-based Safras & Mercado
consultancy.
Now, prices on the Chicago
Board of Trade are around
$4.30 per bushel on promises
of an abundant supply from the
Northern Hemisphere as the
U.S. harvests a record crop.
Brazil’s corn production has
increased 60 per cent in the
past 10 years, culminating in a
record 80-million-tonne crop in
the 2012-13 season that left the
country with far more corn than
it can use domestically.
Most analysts believe the next
corn crop will be smaller with
farmers preferring to plant soybeans and cotton. The USDA
expects Brazil to produce 72
million tonnes of corn in the
2013-14 season and export 20
million tonnes for that crop
year.
The United States is forecast
to export 35.6 million tonnes in
the 2013-14 marketing year.
Molinari said an agreement
for Brazil to export corn to
China inked last week is not
likely to increase exports by
much.
Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry
believes China could eventually take up to 10 million
tonnes of Brazil’s corn as pork
and poultry consumption rises,
but it will take time for Brazil
to gain a share of the market
which is dominated by the
United States.
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Churchill exports up after longerthan-usual shipping season
OmniTRAX says exporting crude oil through Churchill would help ensure the port’s viability
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
T
he Port of Churchill, which closed
for the season Nov. 12, was open
almost two weeks later than usual
and exported more than 600,000 tonnes
of grain.
Merv Tweed, president of OmniTRAX
Canada, which owns the port and the
Hudson Bay Railway that serves it, said
that while this year’s performance is
encouraging, the port must still diversify
if it is to survive.
That’s why OmniTRAX wants to
export light sweet crude oil, said Tweed,
who recently resigned as the member
of Parliament for Brandon — Souris to
head the firm.
“I use the example of a shopping mall
with anchor tenants,” Tweed said in an
interview Nov. 15. “Grain would be one of
our anchor tenants and we’re hoping oil
would be the other and then that would
allow us to do all the other things people
want to do up here.”
Oil exported through Churchill would
be shipped to Rotterdam to be refined,
Tweed said.
Last year Churchill exported just under
432,500 tonnes of grain; the 10-year average is about 450,000 tonnes.
Churchill exported 656,298 tonnes in
2010 and the record was 729,000 tonnes
sent in 1977.
This was Churchill’s longest shipping
season since OmniTRAX purchased the
port in 1997, Tweed said.
The port also loaded a couple of Panamax ships, which can carry 55,000
tonnes of grain.
Tweed said OmniTRAX is struggling to
find rail cars to get grain into place at the
northern terminal for next year’s shipping
season.
Until last year almost all the grain
shipped through Churchill came from the
Canadian Wheat Board. There were dire
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“If we were to have a coast
guard icebreaker then that
opens up a whole new
area of possibilities.”
Merv Tweed
predictions that exports through the port
would dry up when the board’s monopoly
was ended last year.
But the federal government stepped
in with a $25-million shipping subsidy
allocated over five years to assist with the
port’s transition.
“What it does, is give us the opportunity to attract new grain companies and
prove to them we can do what we say
we’re going to do and give us the opportunity at the end of the day when the program expires,” Tweed said.
This year five grain companies shipped
wheat, durum and canola through
Churchill.
“We’re hoping we can expand that
variety and supply markets we haven’t
reached before,” he added.
Churchill, Canada’s only northern
seaport, is about 1-1/2 days closer
to some markets than Thunder Bay,
Tweed said.
“To the shipping companies that’s a lot
of money and a lot of savings,” he said.
Although Thunder Bay can load small
ocean vessels, much of the grain shipped
from there is transferred to other terminals along the St. Lawrence Seaway, adding cost.
Churchill’s disadvantage is its short
season. This year the first ship arrived
Aug. 4 and the last vessel usually sails
by Oct. 31. This year’s Nov. 12 departure could be a sign of longer seasons
to come. Arctic weather expert David
Churchill exported more grain this year than last and had its longest season since at least
1997, says Merv Tweed, president of OmniTRAX Canada, which owns Manitoba’s only
seaport. photo: allan dawson
Barber of the University of Manitoba has
said Churchill’s shipping season could
be extended by a month due to global
warming.
“If we were to have a coast guard
icebreaker, then that opens up a whole
new area of possibilities,” Tweed said.
So would oil shipments — something
environmental groups oppose. They
question the safety given much of the
Hudson Bay Railway is built on unstable
permafrost. But Tweed said the railway
has shipped petroleum products safely to
Churchill’s fuel storage facility for years.
Gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel is then
shipped from Churchill to communities
further north.
“We continue to move forward,” Tweed
said. “We are having a series of community meetings with people along the rail
line and listen to what they have to say
and are showing them what we’d like to
do and taking the feedback and adjusting
accordingly.
“We have a company that is going to
evaluate our business plan, safety plan
and environmental plan. Whatever suggestions they make to improve it we’ll follow. We have taken a lot of steps to make
it credible.”
The dream of establishing a northern
seaport in Manitoba goes back more than
a century. The Canadian Northern Railway laid track from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay Junction in 1908, but declined
to head north despite federal government aid. With more government funds
the next year, the railway began laying
track to Nelson on Hudson Bay, but work
ceased during the First World War.
When construction resumed it was
decided to go farther north to Churchill.
The Hudson Bay line was completed in
September 1929 at a cost of $45 million.
But it wasn’t until 1931 that the grain terminal at Churchill began operating.
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NGO sees gold mine in recycled grain bags
HELP International finds creative, lucrative use for old grain bags
By Daniel Winters
co-operator staff
O
ld, used grain bags are
big, bulky, and present
a disposal headache for
farmers.
But for Rodney Sidloski, the
CEO of Weyburn, Saskatchewanbased Help International, they
are a potential gold mine.
“We can potentially see a retail
value of up to $4,000 out of a bag
that brand new only cost the
farmer about $1,000,” said Sidloski. “Imagine that, from a recycled product.”
With the help of a handful of
interns from foreign universities who assist a number of
agroforestry-related projects at
his eight-acre site, Sidloski has
developed a streamlined process for turning the bags into
long-lasting mulch pads that can
prevent weeds and grasses from
choking out newly planted tree
seedlings.
In the past six weeks, he
and his team have repurposed
about 20 bags by cutting them
into two-foot squares with an
x-shaped slit in the middle for
the tree to grow up through.
Because they are made from
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Tests at HELP International show that recycled rubber tire rings allow weeds
to gradually infiltrate the planting site of a hybrid poplar. The recycled grain
bag rings after the same period of time do a better job of protecting the
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such high-quality, heavy plastic, the pads make newly planted
trees virtually maintenance free
for up to 20 years, he said.
In researching the idea, he
has even found that at $2 each,
the plastic squares compete
favourably with a similar product made from shredded rubber
tires that cost about $18 each,
and much more in terms of
effort and energy to recycle.
“You can make 2,000 pads
from one single grain bag that
are of much higher quality,” he
said, adding that he is exploring a
Canadian and United States patent for the idea and has arranged
marketing and distribution across
the Prairies through an undisclosed retail chain this spring.
The mulch pads will be marketed to appeal to urban landscapers and gardeners planting
single trees, but not farm shelterbelts. They also work well for
transplanted garden crops such as
tomatoes, he added.
“We think the government
could be a bit more visionary in
protecting the environment and
promoting industry, rather than
spending money to send valuable
products out of the province to be
recycled in a really environmentally unfriendly way,” said Sidloski.
Resembling a beached whale
when full of grain, grain bags
weigh nearly 182 kg empty and
are made of a high-quality polyethylene plastic.
At 10 mm in thickness, they are
twice as thick as regular construction vapour barrier, and almost as
heavy-duty as pond liner.
Slit open, they are about 10
metres wide and up to 107 metres
long, and contain an average of
2,700 square metres of very useful
material that has “101 uses,” said
Sidloski.
“It’s unbelievable, really. There
are all kinds of industries that
require plastic membranes.
It doesn’t have to be sent out to
Alberta and melted down,” said
Sidloski.
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Australia
to revert to
Asia to sell
big wheat
crop
a sky’s the limit
Lower protein will shift
market focus to nearby
Asian buyers
By Gus Trompiz
geneva / reuters
L
ower expected protein in
a large Australian wheat
crop will encourage a
shift in the country’s exports
back towards nearby Asian
buyers after unusually high
sales to the Middle East last
season, grain handler CBH
Group said.
CBH nudged up its estimate
of the country’s 2013-14 wheat
harvest to 26 million tonnes,
from 25.9 million two weeks
ago, and sees potential for
more upward revisions, Sean
Cowman, the group’s marketing manager for the Middle
East and Africa, said.
Like others in the market,
co-operative CBH increased
its outlook for the ongoing
Australian wheat harvest due
to favourable conditions in
western and southern belts
that have offset frost and
drought damage in the east.
Last season, the Australian
crop was 22.1 million tonnes.
High protein levels at a time
of short supply from Black
Sea exporters such as Russia
fuelled Australian sales to the
Middle East in 2012-13, but
the new marketing campaign
should see Asian destinations
come back to the fore, Cowman said.
“It will be a more traditional
year with Asia,” he told Reuters ahead of a presentation
on Wednesday at the Global
Grain conference in Geneva.
“The thing the Australian
farmer will be looking at, apart
from the weather, will be Chinese demand.”
A burst of buying by China
in 2013, after weather damage to its own wheat crop, has
already brought large sales for
Australia, but Cowman said
Australian exporters would be
watching for competition from
India after the authorities
there moved to cut the floor
price for selling state reserves.
The Middle East and Africa
claimed 43 per cent of Australian wheat exports in 2012-13,
against 20-30 per cent in previous years, led by strong sales
to Iraq, a major buyer of highprotein wheat, he said.
“Indications are that the
(new) Australian crop will be a
mid- to low-protein crop,” he
said, estimating that two-thirds
of the harvest would show
11.5 per cent protein or lower,
assuming 11 per cent moisture.
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GRAND FORKS AREA EQUIPMENT & TRUCK AUCTION
CORRECTION: NOVEMBER 13TH WHEEL & DEAL & NOVEMBER 14TH
CORRECTION
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2013- 9:00 AM
LOCATION: Indoors at the Alerus Center, 1200 S. 42nd St, Grand Forks, ND (Just off I-29)
AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: The auction will take place in the Alerus Center ballroom by huge video screen & photographs. All units will
be on hand for inspection on the Alerus Center Lot- go outside to “look & touch” come inside to “bid & buy”. Running inspection from
noon to 5pm November 25th and 8am to 10am auction day. Please be prepared as there will be two auction rings
SPECIAL NOTES: : All items must be removed by December 4, 2013 at 1pm- loading dock on site. Alerus Center is equipped with hotel
& restaurant facilities. We will accept absentee bids until 6pm November 25th!
ONLINE BIDDING: Please register in advance to bid live online by visiting www.resourceauction.com
IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS IS A VERY PRELIMINARY LISTING! AS THIS AD WENT TO PRESS WE WERE ADDING MANY
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FINANCING AVAILABLE: Nearly ALL of our late model combines, tractors and heads are eligible for conventional, low or no interest
financing to qualified U.S. buyers. Please call in advance for details on specific program units or visit our website for breakdown.
FOUR WHEEL DRIVE & LARGE
BELTED TRACTORS
*2012 JD 9560RT belted ag tractor,
560hp, 18/6 power shift trans, premium
radio, 5 hyd, 30” Durabilt tracks-95%
rubber, 7” touch screen display, Auto
Trac ready, deluxe light pkg, 2600lb
front weight pkg, only 237 hrs,
remaining warranty, SN#901592
*2010 JD 9430T belted ag tractor,
425hp, 18/6 power shift trans, radar,
4 hyd, 36” Durabilt tracks- excellent
rubber, Auto Trac ready, HD drawbar,
Xenon light pkg, front weight pkg, only
1013 hrs, SN#912302
*2011 JD 9430 4WD, 18/6 power shift
trans, deluxe leather interior, active
seat, buddy seat, elec mirrors, 5 hyd,
1000 PTO, radar, Auto Trac ready, HID
light pkg, HD drawbar, 710/70-42 duals90% rubber, only 620 hrs, SN#025248
trans, active seat, buddy seat, 1000
PTO, 4 hyd, diff locks, Auto Trac ready,
HID lights, rear weight pkg, 710/7042 duals- 90% rubber, only 742 hrs,
SN#023827
trans, active cloth seat, buddy seat, elec
mirrors, 5 hyd, radar, Auto Trac ready,
HID lights pkg,800/70-38 duals- 80%
rubber, rear weight pkg, only 1306 hrs,
SN#13676
*1997 JD 9400 4WD, 24 spd trans, 4 hyd,
diff lock, radar, Auto Trac ready, 710/7038 duals -75% rubber, weight pkg, 5908
hrs, clean, SN#001966
*2000 JD 9200 4WD, 24 spd trans, 4
hyd, diff lock, radar, 20.8-42 duals90% rubber, rear weight pkg, recent
eng OH & rubber, only 3998 hrs, clean,
SN#030523
*2002 New Holland TJ325 4WD, power
shift, 3pt w/ quick hitch, 1000 PTO, 4
hyd, Auto Steer, 20.8-42 duals, 3890
hrs, SN#RVS001545
*1998 JD 9200 4WD, 24 spd trans, 3pt
w/ quick hitch, 3 hyd, diff lock, 20.8-42
duals, front & rear weight pkg, 2720 hrs,
SN#010623
*1994 Cat 65C belted ag tractor, power
shift, 4 hyd, 36” tracks, JD ATU- no
globe, ISO, GPS navigation ready, local
tractor, always shedded, 6612 hrs,
SN#2ZJ00622
*1991 Case IH 9280, power shift, 4 hyd,
20.8-42 triples- excellent matched
rubber all around, EZ Steer auto
guidance, 8205 hrs, SN#JCB0028444
*1976 IHC 4386 4WD, CAH, factory 3pt, 2
hyd, 18.4-38 duals, 5454 hrs showing,
clean older tractor, SN#3U000597
*1976 IHC 4366 4WD, CAH, 3 hyd, 18.438 duals, 9789 hrs showing, clean older
tractor, SN#2U010245
*1975 JD 8630 4WD, CAH, quad range,
1000 PTO, 3 hyd, JD factory front hyd
dozer, 23.1-34 tires & duals, 10318 hrs
showing, SN#2105
ROW CROP TRACTORS:
*2010 JD 8245R MFWD tractor, IVT
trans, instruction seat, active seat, 3pt
w/ quick hitch, PTO, 4 hyd w/ power
beyond, Auto Trac ready, front weights,
380/90R50 duals, 380/85R34 fronts,
second owner local tractor, 2451 hrs,
SN#2790
*2009 Case IH MG245 MFWD, deluxe
cab, power shift, instruct seat, 3pt
w/ quick hitch, 540/1000 PTO, 4 hyd
w/ power beyond, creeper, radar, auto
guidance ready, 380/80-38 fronts,
380/90-54 duals, weights, 3255hrs,
SN#Z7RZ05097
*2003 JD 8230 MFWD, deluxe cab, active
seat, power shift, 3pt w/ quick hitch,
1000 PTO, 4 hyd w/ power beyond, front
weights, HID lights, 320/90R54 duals70% rubber, 320/85R34 fronts, 4351
hrs, SN#12915
*2004 Case IH MX210 MFWD, deluxe
cab, power shift, 3pt w/ quick hitch.
540/1000 PTO, 5 hyd, HID lights,
front weights, 380/90R50 rear duals,
380/85R34 front duals, 4996 hrs,
SN#JAZ131639
*2002 JD 7810 MFWD, CAH, power shift,
3pt w/ quick hitch, 540/1000 PTO, 3
hyd w/ power beyond, 740 self leveling
loader w/ bkt, field office, like new 18.442 rear duals, new 14.9-30 fronts, 6470
hrs, SN#P073028
narrow gauge, 3pt w/ quick hitch, PTO,
4 hyd w/ power beyond, 16” belts40%, Auto Trac ready, front weights,
second owner local tractor, 5602 hrs,
SN#902344
narrow gauge, 3pt w/ quick hitch, PTO,
4 hyd w/ power beyond, 16” belts- 60%,
Auto Trac ready, front weight bracket,
6553 hrs, SN#902196
*1979 JD 4440 tractor, CAH, quad range,
hyd, front tank & weights, 18.4-38 tires,
12157 hrs, SN#16066
*1978 JD 4440 tractor, CAH, quad range,
hyd, front tank, 18.4-38 tires, 13248
hrs, SN#10424
*1977 IHC 1486, CAH, 3pt, PTO, 2 hyd,
10.8-38 duals, 2767 hrs on engine
major
CASE IH & NEW HOLLAND
COMBINES:
*2010 Case IH 9120T track combine,
corn/grain/bean, RWD, 36” rubber
tracks, rock trap, lateral tilt feeder,
AccuGuide w/ Nav II controller, AFS
antenna, 24’ unloading auger, HID
lighting, 890 sep hrs, 973 eng hrs,
SN#YAG209769
*2010 Case IH 8120, lateral tilt,
AccuGuide w/ Nav II controller, AFS
antenna, 24’ unloading auger, axle ext,
620/70R42 duals, 890 sep hrs, 921 eng
hrs, SN#Y9G208165
*2011 Case IH 8120 RWD, corn/ grain/
bean, full auto steer, lateral tilt feeder,
long auger, color touch screen, chopper,
670/70R42 duals, large rear rubber,
1102 sep hrs, 1353 eng hrs, loaded,
SN#YAG210713
SN#Y9G207968
SN#Y9G205733
*2009 Case IH 7120, corn/grain/bean,
Y/M monitor, color screen, rock trap,
lateral tilt feeder, long auger, chopper,
650/42 duals, 650 sep hrs, 850 eng hrs,
loaded, SN#Y9G207148
*2008 Case IH 8010, lateral tilt feeder,
rock trap, full auto steer, Y/M, PRO
600 screen, 650/42 duals, long auger,
chopper, 1220 sep hrs, 1685 eng hrs,
loaded, SN#HAJ202327
*2009 Case IH 7088, field tracker, rock
trap, Y/M monitor, AFS ant w/ Pro 600
color screen, ext wear rotor, chopper,
520/85R42 duals, axle ext, 24’ unload
auger, only 750 sep hrs, 997 eng hrs,
SN#Y9G001456
*2009 Case IH 7088, CAH, standard
chopper, Pro 600, Y/M monitor, auto crop
setting, HID stadium lights, 800/65R32
drive tires, 18.4-24 rears, 860 sep hrs,
1124 eng hrs, SN#Y8G000514
*2006 Case IH 2388, AFX rotor, Y/M
moisture, Ag Leader GPS & Mapping,
20.8-42 duals, AHHC, F/A, bin ext.
ext sieve adj. very well equipped,
clean, 1114 sep, 1520 eng hrs,
SN#HAJ295941
*2004 Case IH 2388, spec rotor, field
tracker, chopper, rock trap, hyd feeder
reverser, grain bin ext, Universal Display
Plus Yield monitor, Trimble auto steer
ready, 30.5-32 drive tires, 14.9-24
steering tires, 1727 sep hrs, 2266 eng
hrs, SN#JJC0274856
*2003 Case IH 2388, AFX rotor, chopper,
rock trap, auto reel spd, AHHC, chaff
spreader, F/A, Y/M monitor, grain bin ext,
30.5-32 drive tires, 1865 sep hrs, 2652
eng hrs, SN#JJC0273986
*1998 Case IH 2388, spec rotor, fine cut
chopper, razor rock beater, auger ext,
30.5x32, hopper topper w/ roll tarp,
speed up kit for auger, upgrade kit for
fan, new poly feeder chain, total rebuild
on feeder house, 2 sets of grates- wide
& narrow, 2500 sep hrs, 3300 eng hrs,
SN#JJC0199102
*1995 Case IH 2188, RWD, spec rotor,
chopper, rock trap, 30.5-32 singles,
5500 sep hrs, 6900 eng hrs, $24000
work order on thresher components,
SN#JJC0189997
*1996 Case IH 2188, spec rotor, chopper,
rock trap, 3 strand feeder chain,
HD feeder drum, keystock & slotted
grates, large & small wire concaves,
hopper topper, F/A, corn/grain/bean
combine, 3478 sep hrs, 4500 eng hrs,
SN#JJC0192145
*1996 Case IH 2188 RWD, specialty rotor,
rock trap, chopper, bin ext, duals, 3397
sep hrs, 5055 eng hrs, SN#JJC0191580
*1994 Case IH 1688, rock trap, fdr rev,
chopper, spec rotor, SN#JJC0121045
*1994 Case IH 1688, rock trap, fdr rev,
chopper, spec rotor, 4590 eng hrs,
SN#JJC0120913
*2001 New Holland TR99, twin rotor, elec
rock trap, lateral tilt fdr, chopper, hyd fdr
rev, SN#565908
JOHN DEERE & LEXION
COMBINES:
*2010 JD 9770 combine, Bullet Rotor,
corn/bean/grain, contour master, rock
trap, Y/M monitor, Auto Trac ready, Hi
Torq reversible variable spd feeder, bin
ext, AHHC, hyd F/A, chaff spreader, auto
reel spd, grain loss monitor, touchset
roundbar concaves, 21’ unloading auger,
20.8-38 duals, 18.4-26 rears, only 645
sep hrs, 890 eng hrs, SN#736728
*2011 JD 9670 combine, Bullet Rotor,
corn/bean/grain, contour master, rock
trap, Y/M monitor, Auto Trac ready, Hi
Torq reversible variable spd feeder, bin
ext, AHHC, hyd F/A, chaff spreader, auto
reel spd, grain loss monitor, touchset
roundbar concaves, 22’ unloading
auger, Xenon lighting, 20.8-42 duals,
18.4-26 rears, only 439 sep hrs, 586
eng hrs, SN#740852
*2009 JD 9770, Bullet Rotor, corn/
bean/grain, contour master, rock trap,
Y/M monitor, Auto Trac ready, bin ext,
hopper topper, fine cut chopper, chaff
spreader, 24’ unloading auger, ext wear
pkg, HID lights, 800/65R32 drive tires,
480/85R26 rears, only 600 sep hrs, 906
eng hrs, SN#H09770S730932
*2008 JD 9870, Bullet Rotor, RWD,
corn/bean/grain, Y/M monitor, Auto
Trac ready, bin ext, hopper topper, fine
cut chopper, 5 spd feeder, grain loss
monitor, auto reel spd, AHHC, HID lights,
power tailboard, 520/42 duals, 28L26
rears, 1024 sep hrs, 1607 eng hrs,
SN#S726016
*2008 JD 9860, Bullet Rotor, corn, grain,
bean, contour master,Y/M monitor,
Green Star ready, chopper, var spd
feeder, grain loss monitor, auto reel spd,
HHC, 520/42 duals, 600/26 rears, 1282
sep hrs, 1824 eng hrs, SN#715909
*2008 Lexion 585R, track machine,
RWD, corn/bean/grain, 3D sieves, dual
cyl spd, contour feeder, straw chopper,
variable spd feeder, AHHC, F/A, auto
pilot, grain loss monitor, yield mapping,
Y/M monitor, on board computer, 208”
unloading auger, auto reel spd, 1199 sep
hrs, 1697 eng hrs, clean, SN#57800733
*2008 Lexion 595R, track machine,
RWD, 3D sieves, dual cyl spd, auto
contour feeder, straw chopper, variable
spd feeder, AHHC, F/A, auto pilot, grain
loss monitor, on board computer, 3XL
unloading auger, auto reel spd, 1199 sep
hrs, 1697 eng hrs, clean, SN#57900362
*2004 JD 9660 Walker, RWD, bin ext,
AHHC, auto reel spd, grain loss monitor,
800-32 drive tires, 28L-26 rears, 60%
rubber, 1791 sep hrs, 2656 eng hrs,
used in wheat only, SN#W705345
*2000 JD 9550 Walker, AHHC, DAS,
DAM, bin ext, chopper, chaff spreader,
30.5x32 tires, 2420 sep hrs, 3550 eng
hrs, SN#685937
*1996 JD 9600 RWD combine, DAM,
DAS, HHC, chopper, chaff spreader, bin
ext, 2622 sep hrs, 3710 eng hrs, 18.438 duals, SN#665735
*1994 JD 9500, DAM, DAS, HHC, F/A,
duals, chopper, bin ext, 3633 eng hrs,
SN#X655262
*1990 JD 9600, DAM, DAS, HHC, F/A,
duals, chopper, bin ext, 4623 eng hrs,
SN#X637700
CORN HEADS:
*2012 Case IH 3412 12R30 corn head
w/ knife rolls, hyd deck plates, AHHC
& field tracker, only used 1 season,
SN#YBS023118
*2012 Capello 1222 12R22 chopping
corn head w/ AHHC, knife rolls & hyd
deck plates, single owner, CIH AFX adap,
SN#8221
*2012 Capello 1222 12R22 chopping
corn head w/ knife rolls & hyd deck
plates, single owner, CIH AFX adap,
SN#8228
*2011 Geringhoff NS1222 12R22 corn
head w/ knife rolls & hyd deck
plates, 1800 acres, single owner,
SN#7067111222/B
*2010 Geringhoff NS1622 16R22 corn
head, SN#7182101622
*2008 Geringhoff RD630 corn head, 2
sensor head sight hdr height, red poly,
88 series CIH mounts, reconditioned,
3500 total acres, SN#92927630
*2007 Geringhoff RD1222 12R22 corn
head w/ AHHC & rotodisc chopping
head, SN#915871222
*2005 Harvestec 8R30 chopping corn
head, CIH adapter, SN#5095
*JD 8R22 corn head, 5 yrs on new
recondition & GVL II poly- clean
FLEX HEADS & DRAPERS:
*2011 Case IH 2162 40’ flex draper
head w/ finger reel, knife reverser,
F/A, skid plates & slow spd transport,
SN#YBZN14524
*2011 Case IH 2162 40’ flex draper
head w/ finger reel, F/A & slow spd
transport, SN#YBZN15381
*2011 Case IH 3020 35’ flex head
w/ Crary air reel, 3” cut, F/A, in
cab control, good poly & new sickle,
SN#YBZL57374
*2009 Case IH 2162 40’ flex draper, 3”
cut, F/A, finger reel, SN#Y9ZN11297
*2008 Case IH 2020 35’ flex head, 3”
cut, F/A, finger reel, SN#CBJ041578
*2009 JD 635F 35’ flex head w/
Crary wind system, 3” cut, F/A, full
finger auger, pickup reel & good poly,
SN#730800
w/ bat reel, Crary wind bar, 3” cut,
AHHC, F/A & field tracker, 23/2588 adp,
SN#Y9ZL52029
*2008 Case IH 2020 35’ flex head w/
AFX adapter, SN#CBJ041334
*2008 Case IH 2162 40’ draper head
w/ pickup reel & skid plates,
SN#Y8ZN10964
*2008 Cat F540 40’ flex head w/ auto
reel spd, AHHC, F/A & field tracker,
SN#44100519
*2006 Case IH 2052 40’ draper head, 3”
cut, finger reel, F/A, slow spd transport,
SN#CCC0014771
*2005 Case IH 2042 30’ draper head w/
built in transport, SN#CCC0013199
*2004 JD 630F 30’ flex head w/ full
finger auger, AHHC, F/A, auto reel spd
& contour master, SN#707216
*2004 Gleaner 8000 25’ flex head, Crary
air reel, SN#AN84307
w/ finger reel, AHHC & F/A,
SN#JJC0325638
*Case IH 1020 30’ flex head w/ Crary
air reel, 3” cut, F/A, good shape,
SN#JJC0218782
*2001 Macdon 972 25’ draper head w/
Case IH adapter, SN#142185- adapter
SN#122372
*2002 JD 925F 25’ flex head,
SN#F69673
*2002 JD 925F 25’ flex head,
SN#F69627
*1998 Case IH 1020 25’ flex head,
SN#JJC0316529
*1996 Macdon 962 30’ rigid draper
head, SN#108160
*1992 JD 925F 25’ flex, F/A, HHC,
poly, reel wraps, hkp for 8820/9600,
SN#646164
*JD 930F 30’ flex head w/ Crary air
reel, full finger auger, 3” cut & F/A,
SN#687152
OTHER HEADS:
*2008 Case IH 2016 pickup platform w/
Swathmaster pkp & AFX/CR adapter,
used very little, like new, SN#22481
*1995 Case IH 1010 25’ rigid head
*Case IH 1010 18’ rigid head w/
sunflower pans
*Case
IH
1010
rigid
head,
SN#JJC0124113
*1991 JD 930 30’ rigid head w/ Sund
pkp, converted to edible bean head,
SN#P641207
*JD 912 pickup platform w/ 6 belt pkp
*JD 912 pkp platform for parts
*Case IH 1015 pickup head
*Case IH 1015 pickup head w/ 397
Westward pkp
*1981 JD 222 22’ flex head w/ pkp reel,
SN#489948
*1978 JD 212 pickup head w/ 5 belt
pkp, SN#323310
*Sund 11’ pickup
*2000 Macdon 871 adapter, fits JD
combines, SN#134617
HEADER TRAILERS:
*3) Unused America 435 35’ 6-wheel
header trailer
header trailers
header trailers
*Hart 30’ single header transport
*2) 2-wheel header transport
*4-wheel header transport for storage
For more information call 701-757-4015 office, 701-215-2058 Dennis
AUCTIONEERS & CLERK:
Main Resource Equipment Auctions
2702 17th Avenue S • Grand Forks, ND 58201
Fax 701-757-4016
www.resourceauction.com
Phone 701-757-4015
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FARM TRUCKS:
*2005 IH 9200i tandem, Cummins ISX
430hp, Eaton Fuller 10 spd, 3:90 ratio,
good 11R24.5 rubber on steel disk
wheels, new 20’ Load Line box, hoist,
roll tarp, comb 3pc end gate & rear
controls
*2005 IH 9200i tandem, Cummins ISX
430hp, Eaton Fuller 10 spd, 3:90 ratio,
good 11R24.5 rubber on steel disk
wheels, new 20’ Load Line box, hoist,
roll tarp, comb 3pc end gate & rear
controls
*2001 Freightliner Columbia tri-axle,
Detroit 60 series 470hp, Eaton Fuller
10 spd, full third lift tag, 11R24.5 tires,
alum wheels, new 21’ Load Line box,
hoist, roll tarp, comb 3pc end gate, rear
controls & beet equipment
*1999 Kenworth T-800 quad axle, Cat
C-10 350hp, Eaton 8LL trans, 4:88 ratio,
11R22.5 tires, alum wheels, full 3rd lift
tag, pusher 4th, full locking rears, new
HMI 24’ box & hoist w/ comb end gate,
roll tarp, rear controls & beet equipment,
heavy spec truck, only 237440 actual
miles, sharp
*1997 Kenworth T-600 tri axle, Cat
3406E 475hp, Eaton 8LL trans, 3:70
ratio, 11R22.5 tires, alum wheels, full
3rd lift tag, full locking rears, new HMI
22’ box & hoist w/ comb end gate, roll
tarp, rear controls & beet equipment,
605274 actual miles, sharp
*1995 IH 8200 triaxle, Cummins M11,
9 spd, full 3rd lift tag, 23’ Loadline box,
hoist, combo end gate, roll tarp & rear
controls, approved equipment for heavy
haul, 1 season on brakes, 450000 miles
showing
*1975 IH Loadstar tag tandem, 404 V8
engine, 5/2 spd, 20’ B&H box, 10.00-20
tires- 50%
*1985 Ford 9000 twin screw water
truck, Detroit 6V92 engine, 9 spd, 2)
1500 gal tanks, new Honda pump,
11R22.5 tires, new steer tires, 50%
tires & brakes, full service records, DOT
inspected
SEMI TRACTORS:
*2007 Peterbilt 379 day cab, Cat C15
475hp, 10 spd, engine brake, tilt &
telescope wheel, low air susp, 4:11
ratio, alum deck plate, , 200 WB,
11R22.5 low pro, alum wheels, 623000
miles showing
ratio, alum deck plate, air slide 5th, 192
WB, 11R22.5 low pro, alum wheels,
327000 miles showing
425hp, 10 spd, custom interior, air
ride cab, engine brake, tilt & telescope
wheel, air ride susp, 3:70 ratio, alum
deck plate, air slide 5th, dual tanks,
dual chrome stacks, 188 WB, 11R22.5
low pro, alum wheels, 877000 miles
showing
ratio, air slide 5th, dual alum tanks, dual
stacks, 226 WB, 11R22.5 low pro, alum
wheels, 564283 miles showing
425hp, 10 spd, custom interior, engine
brake, tilt & telescope wheel, air ride
susp, 3:70 ratio, alum deck plate, air
slide 5th, dual tanks, dual chrome
stacks, 178 WB, 11R22.5 low pro tires,
alum wheels, 959000 miles showing
*2007 IH 8600 day cab, Cummins ISM
telescope wheel, air ride susp, air slide
5th , 168 WB,11-22.5 tires, alum/steel
*2006
Freightliner
CST12064ST
Century 120 day cab, Detroit 60 Series
14L 515hp, 10 spd, tilt & telescope
wheel, air ride susp, 3:42 ratio, air slide
5th,, 230 WB, 11R22.5 low pro, alum
*2004 IH 9200i day cab, Cummins ISX
435hp, 10 spd, deluxe interior, engine
brake, tilt & telescope wheel, air ride
susp, alum deck plate, air slide 5th ,
dual alum tanks, single stack, 161 WB,
11R22.5 low pro, alum wheels, 287000
miles showing
*2004 Kenworth W900 Aero cab
sleeper, Cummins ISX 475hp, 10 spd,
engine brake, tilt & telescope wheel,
smart wheel, air ride susp, 3:55 ratio, air
slide 5th wheel, 255 WB, 11R22.5 low
pro tires, alum wheels, 903372 miles
showing
*2002 Freightliner FL112, 24” single
bunk flattop sleeper, Cat C12, 13 spd, air
ride, 220 WB, dual alum tanks, wet kit,
11R24.5 tires, 1043612 miles showing
*2002 Mack CH613 day cab, Mack
engine 427hp, 10 spd, wet kit, dump
valve, 743000 miles showing
*1999 Mack CH513, E7 355/350, 10
spd auto shift, hot shift PTO, 4:11 ratio,
40000 lb rears, mud scrapers, 340000
miles showing
*1998 Peterbilt day cab, Cummins M11,
10 spd, 11-22.5 tires
*1997 Freightliner FLD112 day cab,
Cummins M11 350hp, 18 spd, hot shift
PTO, 25 gal reservoir, 4:11 ratio, 40000
lb rears, set back front, grip tires, mud
scrapers, 431000 miles showing
*1996 Volvo, Cummins M11 400hp,
10 spd, virgin rubber all around, new
windshields, 3 yr old batteries, 601800
miles showing
*1994 Mack CH613 semi tractor, 48”
midrise sleeper, Mack engine, Eaton
Fuller 13 spd, 285/75R24.5 tires, alum
*1989 IH 8300, Detroit 11.1 engine, like
new tires, need trans work
*1986 Volvo integral sleeper, Big Cam
III Cummins engine 350hp, 13 spd, 4:44
ratio, new air compressor & dryer
*1985 Ford 9000 twin screw, Cat *Case IH 730B 18’ 7 shank disk ripper
engine, Road Ranger trans, wet kit, 5th
w/ front disks, rear disk leveler & lead
wheel, good matching rubber, DOT’d
shanks, SN#JFH0020379
*1984 IH 9670 COE, Big Cam III Cummins *Case IH #14 V-ripper, 3pt or pull type,
engine 400hp, 13 spd, 4:10 ratio
cover boards, cast iron points, low acres
HOPPER BOTTOMS, LOW BOY & *JD 980 44 ½’ field cultivator w/
OTHER SEMI TRAILERS:
walking tandems around, 3 bar
-Expect 2 Additional Hoppersharrow & wing gauge wheels,
*2012 Timpte 42’x72”x 96” alum
SN#X001762
hopper bottom trailer, ag hoppers, *Flexicoil System 92 60’ auto fold
11R24.5 tires, alum wheels, air ride w/
harrow packer w/ 5 bar sections
scale & roll tarp
*JD 1650 16’ heavy tandem disk w/
twin cyl lift, notched blades & dual
hopper bottom trailer, ag hoppers,
wheels
11R24.5 tires, alum wheels, air ride w/
*JD
1060 62’ 5 fold field cultivator
scale, roll tarp, very low miles, single
w/ walking tandems around, 3 bar
owner
harrow, single point depth control &
wing gauge wheels
hopper bottom trailer, ag hoppers,
11R24.5 tires, alum wheels, air ride w/ *Alloway RTS 43’ field cultivator/
conditioner
scale & roll tarp
*2007 Neville 40’ steel hopper bottom *Degelman 43’ 3 bar harrow for
cultivator
trailer, ag hoppers, 102” wide, 26”
hopper clearance, 60” sides, roll tarp, *Case IH 8600 30’ air disk drill, 6 ½”
spacing, hyd markers, dry fert, track
24.5 tires, steel disk wheels
eliminators front & back, small & large
*1997 Timpte 42’ x 66” x 96” alum
1000 PTO shafts, PTO fan
hopper bottom trailer, 11R24.5 tires,
*JD 9350 30’ press drill w/ 6” spacing
alum wheels, spring susp, roll tarp
& factory transport, kept indoors
*1999 Eager Beaver 52’ x 102” 50T
NGB detachable low boy trailer, tri- *IH 620 28’ press drill w/ liquid
attachment on transport
axle, fixed axle, steel composite, wood
deck, 24’ well, outriggers, 255/70R22.5 *Great Plains folding drill w/ grass
attachment & solid stand
tires, alum wheels
*1994 Timpte 42’ x 96” x 72” hopper
PLANTERS & PICKETT ONE
bottom trailer w/ air ride, new tarp,
STEP:
11-24.5 tires on all alum rims, good *JD 1790 16R30/31R15 interplant
tires & brakes
Maximerge Plus vaccum planter
*1992 Wilson 41’x84”x96” alum
w/ CCS central fill, pneumatic down
hopper bottom trailer, 11R24.5 tires,
pressure, Seed Star w/ display, new
alum wheels, roll tarp
variable seed openers, Keeton firmers,
*1979 Timpte 40’ hopper bottom trailer
new depth arm bushings, Precision corn
w/ roll tarp & good brakes
& soybean plates, very nice condition,
SPRAYERS, FLOATERS &
SN#705399
*2012 Pickett One Step 12R22 bean
CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT:
cutter/windrower, cushion shank,
*2012 TopAir 2400 pull type sprayer on
movable draper, center & end delivery,
tracks w/ 132’ suspended boom, hyd
approx 900 acres, excellent condition
boom leveling, 2400 gal poly tank w/
hyd pump drive, 4-way nozzle bodies, *JD 7200 24R22 Maximerge II vacuum
planter on Friesen front fold bar,
fence row nozzles, in cab tip pressure
nearly new 1.6bu poly boxes, herb/
transducer, 5 sensor sonar & touchdown
insecticide, markers, monitor &
wheel autoboom, JD ISO rate controller,
accessories, clean unit
JD ISO steerable hitch, 16” belts, boom
*Late model JD 7300 12R30 Maximerge
lights, SN#B30440114
II vacuum planter w/ vertical fold, lift
*2012 TopAir 2400 pull type sprayer on
assist, 1.6bu poly boxes & corn/bean/
tracks w/ 132’ suspended boom, hyd
beet plates
boom leveling, 2400 gal poly tank w/
hyd pump drive, 4-way nozzle bodies, *Late model JD 7300 12R30 Maximerge
II vacuum planter w/ lift assist, 1.6bu
fence row nozzles, in cab tip pressure
poly boxes & corn/bean/beet plates
transducer, 5 sensor sonar & touchdown
wheel autoboom, JD ISO rate controller,
SWATHER, DRYER, SEED
JD ISO steerable hitch, 16” belts, boom
CART, GRAIN CART & GRAIN
lights, SN#B30440115
HANDLING:
*2008 Case IH SRX160 pull type sprayer *2006 MacDon Premier 2952i turbo/
w/ 120’ suspended booms, front fold,
diesel self propelled windrower,
1600 gal poly tank, monitor, hyd pump
972 25’ draper platform w/ 6 bat finger
drive, agitator & 14.9-46 tires, single
reel, F/A, 3-way table & self leveling
owner, SN#Y8S005067
cutter bar, spindle type rear wheels,
*2003 Apache 890 self propelled
16.5-16.1 rears, 540/65R24 fronts, 772
sprayer w/ 90’ booms, 800 gal tank,
engine hrs, 597 header hrs, very clean,
450 Raven, Trident air bar & rear duals,
SN#168580
SN#906-2398
*2000 Ag Chem Rogator 1254 self *2001 American 2420 380BU auto
batch grain dryer, rated at 11400Bu/
propelled sprayer, stainless tank,
day- dry & cool, twin fan, single phase,
100’ boom, 3 way nozzle bodies, Raven
pre-burner
vapor conversion, Kittleson
controller, 275/90R54 duals, 4201 hrs,
controls, nice unit, single owner, low
well equipped SN#125008600
hrs, SN#0292RB2001
*2002 Spray Aire 3400 pull type
sprayer w/ 90’ Trident suspended *2012 Parker 3620 Seed Chariot, 360
unit capacity, Honda engine, roll tarp,
booms, front fold, hyd boom leveling,
scale, triple axle trailer, unloading
1000 gal poly tank, monitor, hyd pump
conveyor- New Unused
drive &13.6-38 tires, SN#34192
*2012
Rem 2700 grain vac w/
*1996 Ag Chem Terragator 854 self
complete hose pkg, only 259 hrs, like
propelled sprayer, 90’ booms, hyd
new, SN#0967
boom leveling, 800 gal stainless tank,
markers, 14.9-46 tires, 4051 hrs, *2011 Rem 2700 grain vac w/ complete
SN#8516746
hose pkg, nice unit
*1998 Ag Chem Terragator 1903 dry *2011 Brandt 1545 grain belt conveyor
fert floater, Cummins L10 engine
w/ hyd mover & 30hp Kohler engine
350hp, 18 spd Eaton Torque Boost trans, *Brandt 10x60 auger w/ swing away
Soilection 6 bin box, 70’ air booms,
hopper
Falcon 2 controller & elec roll tarp, 5257
*Orthman 700bu grain cart
hrs, SN#1906935
*Ag Chem Terragator 1603 dry fert *Westfield J208-51 8x51 grain auger
w/ 10hp Baldor elec motor
floater, Cat 3208 engine, 10 spd trans,
single box, 60’ air booms, flip tarp, 4250 *Westfield J207-41 7x41 grain auger
w/ 7 ½hp Baldor elec motor, very
eng hrs, SN#1602350
good condition
*Brandt 4000 90’ suspended boom
sprayer w/ 5 section boom control, *Westfield J207-31 7x31 grain auger
w/ 5hp Baldor motor
1600 gal tank, clean water tank, mix
tank, single nozzle bodies, touchdown *Brandt 1585 conveyor, PTO or electric
wheels, adj axles & windshields, *KBH self contained stainless steel
380/85R46 tires
field conveyor w/ 20hp Kohler
TILLAGE EQUIPMENT & DRILLS:
engine, used for fertilizer, like new
*Case IH Tigermate II 50 ½’ field *Farm King steel drum canola roller
cultivator w/ five section fold,
walking tandems around, wing gauge HAY & LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT:
wheels, depth control, new 3 bar harrow *2009 Macdon A30-S 18’ mower/
conditioner, swing hitch, new twin
& new sweeps, SN#JFH0003834
sickles, new guards, steel conditioner
*Ezee On 3800 36’ cushion gang disk
rollers, new set of extra sickle guards,
w/ 11” spacing, 25 ½” front blades, 24
single owner, used for 3 seasons on
½” rear blades & scrapers, SN#40992
alfalfa, excellent reel, stored inside
*Ezee On 4600 32 ½’ cushion gang disk *2003 New Holland 1475 hay
w/ 12” spacing, 26” front blades, 27”
conditioner w/ 2300 Series 18’ head,
rear blades & rigid scrapers,SN#45368
new tires, new cyl for lift system, 2 yr old
*Wishek 842T 24’ heavy duty spring
hydro pump, 1 yr on sickle & guards, oil
cushion disk w/ 11” spacing, front
changed this year
blades measure 27”, SN#249426
*Buffalo model 7200-1254 high
capacity corn & feed roller mill, PTO,
*JD 2200 45’ 5 fold field cultivator
5000 bu/hr, SN#20077200688
w/ walking tandems around, depth
control, 3 bar harrow, wing gauge *Haybuster 2650 1000 RPM round bale
wheels & casters
processor, SN#26FJ237250
*Wilrich 4400 35’ spring std chisel *Unused America bale wagon
plow, walking tandems around, new *Unused America hay feeder
sweeps, 3 bar harrow
*Unused America silage feeder
*Late model Flexicoil S82 70’ 5 bar adj *SturD self contained portable
harrow w/ down pressure springs &
crowding tub w/ alleyway, transport
auto fold, good unit
& Reel Industries head gate
*Case IH 9300 9 shank ripper w/ all *Vern’s portable steel loading chute
new points, SN#824352
*Wilson wheel corral, SN#13152
*JD 2700 18’ disk ripper w/ front disks *Vern’s self feeder w/ creep racks &
& rear disk levelers, SN#X00730
transport
*Large cattle squeeze chute
*Powder River calf table
*16’ & 24’ livestock panels
OTHER TRUCKS, PICKUPS,
TRAILERS & TRUCK
ACCESSORIES:
*2012 Wells Cargo 7x14 tandem axle
enclosed cargo trailer w/ ramp gate
& side door, used very little
*2000 Ford F450XL SD service truck,
Power Stroke V8 diesel, auto trans,
spring susp, Stahl 3200LRX crane,
11000 lb rears, 165 WB, 255/70R19.5
tires, all steel wheels, 206126 miles
showing
*2004 Chev 2500HD Silverado 4x4
crew cab, Duramax 6.6L diesel, Allison
auto, power seats, locks, windows &
mirrors, cold air intake, chip along w/
programmer, 8” lift kit, 35” all terrain
tires, 20” Rockstar rims, less than 500
miles on new tires & batteries, 90000
actual miles
*2002 GMC C6500 service truck, 8.1L
gas, Allison auto, a/c, power steering,
10’ service body w/ low sides, low
profile 255/19.5 tires, set up to pull
gooseneck trailer, 130000 miles
showing
*1998 Peterbilt tri axle dump truck,
Cummins M11, 10 spd, 16’ gravel dump
box, 11R22.5 tires
*1983 Ford LN7000 tandem axle fuel &
lube truck w/ 8.2L diesel fuel pincher
engine, 7 product tanks, elec start air
compressor, generator, hose reels &
front tool room
*1979 IHC S-1954 tandem twin screw,
Detroit diesel, 13 spd, 19’ gravel dump
body, 10.00-20 rears
*2001 Dodge 1500 1/2T 4x4 quad
cab pickup, V8 5.9L, 188000 miles
showing, runs great
*1998 Chev 2WD pickup, good tires,
150000 miles showing
*Shop built triaxle bumper hitch trailer
*JD 28’ tandem axle donahue trailer
*Bert’s pickup service body w/ fuel
tank, 12Vpump, tool box, generator &
crane
*3) 7000lb trailer axles w/ new spring
& mounting hardware, new rims &
tires
*2) Shurlock truck endcaps, 5) tarp
bows & assorted Shurlock parts
*19’ x 8’ sheet of plastic bedliner
*2001 Pontiac Bonneville 4 door,
188000 miles
SCRAPERS, DRAINAGE TOOLS &
GPS GEAR:
*Unused Stout full back 48” pallet
forks w/ skid steer quick attach
*Unused 48” pallet forks w/ skid steer
quick attach
*2) Unused heavy duty walk through
pallet forks w/ skid steer quick
attach
*Unused receiver plate
*2) Unused quick attach plates
*Unused 102” snow bucket w/ skid
steer quick attach
*Unused 96” snow bucket w/ skid
steer quick attach
*72” x 28” angle blade skid steer
attachment
OTHER EQUIPMENT, TOOLS,
TIRES & MISC:
*Woods 9204 17’ finishing mower w/
new blades, SN#1331
*Bushhog 2615 Legend 16’ double
batwing rotary mower w/ chain kit
& pneumatic tires, 1000 PTO
*MM Z antique tractor, repainted, has not
been started for 8 yrs
*5) Unused 12’ pull type box blade/
killifer
*Unused heavy duty 12’ pull type box
blade/killifer
*5) Unused 10’ pull type box blade/
killifer
*2) Unused 10’ 3pt pull type box blade/
killifer
*2) Unused 9’ 3pt pull type box blade/
killifer
*Nissan 1222 rod weeder
*2) 2010 EZ GO 48V elec golf carts w/
club canopy & charger
*Kohler 80KW 120 amp generator w/
Power 549 International propane
engine
*Coleman Powermate 5000 10hp
generator
*Erskine 8’ 2 stage snowblower w/
540 PTO
*Erskine 4020 84” rear mount
snowblower w/ hyd spout
*1000 gal fuel tank w/ hand pump on
skids
*560 gal fuel tank on skids, no pump
*Tuthill fuel pump w/ big hose, filter &
nozzle
*Endura fuel 25 gal tank w/ pump
*1760 gal poly water tank
*Fargo Products markers for JD 30’ notill drill, fits 50, 60 & 90 series
*1974 Enduro F7 KAW175 motorcycle,
runs well
*1975 Street G3 KAW100 motorcycle,
runs well
*7’ x 7’ dock leveler w/ 1’ beaver tail
*3) 1000 gal fuel tanks w/ fresh paintno pumps or leaks
*JD 380 9’ 3pt sickle mower
*PR 320/80R54 rear tires on JD inside
rims- 50%
*PR 320/80R54 rear tires on JD dual
rims- 50%
*PR 320/85R34 front tires on JD rims50%
*Firestone 420/80R46 tire
*6) Cast center wheels for JD tractors
*Ashland I-110 11yd hyd push off
scraper, SN#16255
*Cat 70 12-15 yd hyd conversion push
off scraper
*Cat 60 11 yd hyd conversion push off
scraper, SN#4F4529
*HyGrade model 1400 14’ multiangle
blade w/ 2 endcaps, steerable rear
axle & weight box, SN#JM1002-114
*3) JD Greenstar GPS kits w/ original
brown box display units & Starfire
ITC receivers w/ SF-1 Activation
LAST MINUTE ADDITIONS:
*1) JD Greenstar GPS kit w/ 2600 color
touch screen, Spray star & Starfire ITC *2010 Ag Chem RG1386 Rogator, 1300
receiver w/ SF-1 activation & RTK
gal stainless tank, 120’ boom, 5 way
*AGPS GPS screen w/ Tile Pro, receiver
nozzle bodies, air ride cab, Viper Pro/
& base station
Smart Trax auto auro steer, auto boom,
*Eagle ditching & leveling laser w/ 3
well equipped, SN#A1386CNVST1091
receivers & all accessories
*2009 Ag Chem RG1286 Ro Gator, 1200
*Tripod for RTK set up
gal stainless tank, 120’ booms 10”
*Stabilaser portable telescoping laser
spacing, 5 way nozzle bodies, Viper/
stand
Smart Trax, light bar & ultrasonic auto
*2) Outback S3 GPS guidance systems
boom, well equipped, 2 sets of tires,
*Outback S3 & eDriveTC
SN#A1286ENU001081
*SSR 12” rotary water pump w/
*1998 Lexion 485 combine, track
discharge hose
machine w/ 35”
belts & RWD,
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT &
620/75R26 rears, 3D sieves, auto
SKID STEER ATTACHMENTS:
contour,
Cebis
auto
pilot,
quantimeter,
*2011 JD 310SJ 4x4 loader backhoe,
var spd rotor, SN#08ZW00473
ext hoe, EROPS w/ A/C & heat, pilot
controls, QC GP bkts, 18” backhoe bkt, *1999 Bourgault 5710 40’ air seeder,
350# trips, 3” rubber press, new towers,
breaker line, only 799 hrs, single owner,
hoses & manifold, eagle beak carbide
local unit, SN#1T0310SJVB0201760
tips, new hyd depth controls, 3225 TBH
*Liftall MT80 rough terrain forklift, gas
tank w/ dry fert, twin comp, hyd fan
engine, 3 stage mast, sideshift, ROPS,
drive, 21.5L16.1 rubber- offset axles,
SN#76282
monitor & d=fill auger, SN#AH-2564
*Whiteman B-16 walk behind concrete
dumper w/ 13hp Honda engine, *2011 Honey Bee 4555 45’ flex draper,
U2 finger reel, storage transport,
SN#220718
headsight bands, Lexion adapter,
*Wacker WB16AF concrete dumper w/
SN#4555113116
13hp Honda engine, SN#5007684
*2009 Honey Bee 3655 36’ flex draper,
*Used thumb for mini excavator
U2 6 batt finger reel, transport, auto
*Supra walk behind plate compactor
reel spd & header control, cross auger
*3) Unused Lowe 750ch hyd augers w/
& AWS wind system, Lexion adapter,
various 9”, 12” & 15” bits & skid steer
SN#3655093177
quick attach
*Unused Stout 66” brush/grapple *2007 Honey Bee 4555 45’ draper head
w finger reel, transport, AHHC, auto
bucket w/ skid steer quick attach
reel height, SN#4555073134
*Unused Stout XHD84 brush/grapple
*MacDon 963 36’ draper head w/
batt
reel, new center draper & guards
*Unused Stout HD72 rock/grapple
in 2010, transport, Lexion adap,
SN#159505
*Unused Stout HDU72 brush/grapple
*MacDon 962 30’ draper head w/
R72 Gleaner low hook adapter,
*Unused Stout 72” grapple bucket w/
SN#121286
skid steer quick attach
*JD936D
36’ draper head w/ finger reel
*Unused Stout SG13R stump grinder w/
& transport, SN#686547
skid steer quick attach
*Unused Stout 84” material bucket w/ *JD 914 7 belt pkp platform, SN#670212
double cut edge & skid steer quick *1989 AC Gleaner 8R30 hugger corn
head, SN#83013391R8990
attach
*Unused Stout 96” snow bucket w/ *Misc R62/R72 Gleaner parts & rotor
*6)
Unused Agco White 8000 series
double cut edge & skid steer quick
planter units
attach
*Unused Stout receiver plates; Unused
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Machinery Miscellaneous
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Machinery Wanted
CARBIDE DRILL POINTS & openers for air drills.
VW Manufacturing Ltd Dunmore (Medicine Hat)
(403)528-3350 US: Loren Hawks Chester, Montana
(406)460-3810 www.vwmfg.com
Case 1070,107-HP, std trans, 6,180-hrs, $7,500;
1978 White 2-105, 6,780-hrs, 100-HP, Hydro-shift,
$7,500; 1982 IHC 5088, 8979-hrs, triple hyd, 1000PTO,
18.4x38 duals, 1100 front, W/Leon 707 FEL, $17,500.
Phone (204)525-4521 www.waltersequip-ment.com
30-FT WHITE TANDEM DISC, new front blades,
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(204)526-2857. Holland, MB.
FOR SALE: JD 610 41-ft. deep tiller w/Summers
mulchers & ammonia kit, $12,000 OBO. Phone
(204)745-7445.
FARM MACHINERY
PLOWS MELROE AUTORESET 8-18, $3000;
8-16, $3000; 7-18, $3000; 8-16 w/coulters, $4500;
White 5F rollover, $3500; I-H 5-16 Semimount,
$750; 3-PH JD-4-16, $1000; JD 3F 3-16, $850; JD
drainage V-Plow, $1500; VFT rotary pitcher, $1250;
Degelman 14-ft rock rake, $7500; Haybuster L-106
picker, $2500; Case 450 skidsteer, 1260-hrs,
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TracTors
$265,000 OBO
577 engine and 438 sep/ it
has 620/70R42" duals and 28L-26
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guide, ESP, chopper with spreader,
yield and moisture loaded.
Phone 320-748-7277 | Cell 320-305-9002
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Combine ACCessories
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Accessories
1500 NH COMBINE, W/GAS motor, motor in good
running condition, would consider selling motor only. Phone:(204)434-6386.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – John Deere
FOR SALE: JD 1840 c/w high-low JD 146 loader,
3-PTH, 540/1000 PTO, 6-ft. bucket & bale forks,
8,300-hrs, good running condition, $12,000 OBO.
(204)278-3308.
FOR SALE: JD 2130 3-pt., re-built engine w/146
loader, painted; JD 2750 MFWD, 3-pt., 245 FEL,
painted; JD 2950 MFWD, 3-pt., painted, w/265 FEL;
JD 3155 MFWD, 3-pt., w/265 FEL; JD 4020 Synchro; JD 4250 MFWD, powershift w/o FEL; JD 4455
MFWD, 3-pt., quad shift; JD 4440 Quad, fact duals;
JD 4450 2WD, 3-pt., 15-SPD; JD 4450 MFWD,
Quad shift; JD 4450 MFWD, 15-SPD, power shift,
w/wo FEL; JD 4640 2WD, 3-pt., 3 hyd, Quad shift, 8
front weights w/bracket. All tractors can be sold w/new
or used loaders. Mitch’s Tractor Sales Ltd. St. Claude,
MB. Call: (204)750-2459. mitchstractorsales.com
2008 DEGELMAN BALE KING 3100 bale shredder, RH discharge, w/controls, not used last 2 seasons,
as
new,
asking
$12,500.
Phone
(204)534-7401.
We know that farming is enough of a gamble so if you
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1-800-782-0794.
TD9 PARTS FOR SALE including dozer tracks &
other misc parts. Phone (204)378-2763.
BELT ELEVATOR, 80-ft long w/undercarriage,
PTO driven, excellent cond, $7,500; 5 tanks for liquid fertilizer storage, choice of 15,000-gal. or
20,000-gal. capacity. Hutch cleaner w/unload auger. Phone Morris:(204)746-8851.
EZ-ON MEDIUM DUTY DISC, 20-26-ft, others considered; Late model 5020 JD tractor; NH 1475 haybine; L3 Gleaner combine. Phone:(306)876-4707.
JD 3970 HARVESTER, $8900; NH890, $2500; I-H
781, $2000; JD Hay head, $3000; 3R Corn head,
$3000; NH 822 head 2R, $2000; NH 3R adjustable,
$3000; I-H 2R corn head, $800; Harsh 350 feed
cart, $5000; Mohrlang 420 feed cart on truck,
$5000; KR feeder cart, $2000; Snowco feeder 150Bu cart, $750; Haybuster 256+2 bale shredder,
$6000;
Weigh
wagon,
$2500.
Phone
(204)857-8403.
WANTED: 80-HP (+) TRACTOR w/ or w/o loader.
Phone (204)242-2362.
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
FLAIL CHOPPER OR DIRECT cut forage harvester, right hand bar, rake or twin bar rakes; NH 276-278
or similar small square baler; JD 410 round baler working or parts. (204)266-9059 call or text.
WANTED JD 530 MODEL, row crop; Also looking
for an International Super WD6. Phone Gordon
(204)268-2392.
FARM MACHINERY
JD 4230, CAB-AIR, $12,950; JD 2950, cab, FWD,
3-PT, new front tires, $17,950; JD 4630, Cab, duals, $12,950; JD 4430, cab-air, $11,950; JD 3130,
cab, 3PT, $9,250. JD 830, running, $6,950. For
pics, see: hlehmann.ca Phone: (204)746-2016 or
(204)746-5345.
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.
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
Why would you buy a used John Deere?
For the same reasons you’d buy new.
Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd.
1-866-729-9876
5150 Richmond Ave. East
BRANDON, MB.
www.harvestsalvage.ca
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FARM MACHINERY
Salvage
There are many reasons to buy a pre-owned John Deere tractor or combine, and they
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GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
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Uptime. You can’t make money standing still. Pre-owned John Deere equipment, like a
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consistent performance, backed by an unrivaled dealer network.
MURPHY SALVAGE New & used parts for tractors,
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Resale value. John Deere tractors and combines are among the best in the industry
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Tillage & Seeding
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Tillage
AC 3400 DOUBLE DISC (22-in) 34-ft; Powermatic
tine harrows 130-ft; 8-in PTO grain auger 56-ft; 10in x 70-ft PTO auger w/hopper; Richard Wilcox
14x20 overhead door 1 glass panel w/hardware;
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Friday, November 29th at 11:00am
Complete Herd Dispersal for
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130 Black Angus cows bred
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1/2 of the cows are age verified
40 cows are coming with their 4th calf or younger
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LARRY & LYNN HENRY, EDDYSTONE
204-448-2053
• 180 CHAR X COWS BRED CHAR, DUE
IN FEB, MARCH.
BLAIR HOPHNER, STE ROSE, MB
204-732-2483
• 55 CHAR X COWS BRED CHAR, DUE
FEB 8 THROUGH MARCH
• BULLS EXPOSED FOR 7 WEEKS.
• 6 Char heifers, 18 - 3 yr olds,
Balance 3-4.5 yr old.
BRENT LEPLA, STE ROSE DU LAC, MB
204-447-7185
• 40 SIMX HEIFERS, BRED RED
ANGUS, DUE MID FEB.
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Friday, December 6th at 11:00am
Complete Herd Dispersal of
of 80 Red & Tan cows
most of these are coming with their 2nd calf
Bred Red Angus & Hereford
Bulls where exposed June 1st
Plus other small dispersals
For more info
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(204)385-2537
Dave Nickel auctioneer
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Saturday, November 23rd
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Sheep & Goat Sale with
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to red Sim bulls; Approx. 38 SimX Heifers - bred
Black Angus. Bulls are to pasture on May 22 &
out on Aug 13. 80-90 day calving period.
Cows & Heifers on complete health program &
done with Ivomec this fall.
Also included in this sale are 17 Char Cows bred Char (belonging to Bob Harris)
Animals will be preg checked at the Auction Mart.
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For more info call: Barry (204)364-2337 home,
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Cattle Auctions
Bred Cow & Heifer Sale
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
35 HEREFORD COWS & 12 bred hereford heifers.
All bred to start calving Feb 1st. Will keep cows until Jan 1st 2014. Contact Glen (204)436-3377, Elm
Creek.
FOR SALE: 30 YOUNG cows bred Red Angus, to
calve Mar5-Apr30, full vaccination program, $1,600
OBO. Also 6 Red bred heifers. Howard McDonald:
(204)834-2931 or (204)724-5673.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
FOR SALE: RED ANGUS & Red Angus Cross
bred heifers, bred to easy calving Red Angus bulls,
March/April calving. Phone: (204) 873-2530 or
(204) 825-8419.
Friday, November 29, 11 am
Highway #1 West, Whitewood, Sask.
* DISPERSAL OF 65 Red Angus x Simm cows bred Char and
Char X cows bred Red Angus
* DISPERSAL OF 60 Black cows and Heifers bred Black,
lots of 2nd - 4th calvers
* DISPERSAL OF 60 Bwf/Black cows bred Hereford & Black
* 30 Purebred Red Angus cows and heifers bred Red Angus
* 95 Black/Black baldy heifers (few Purebred horned
Hereford, Most bred Black or Red Angus)
For more information please call Whitewood
Livestock at 306-735-2822 or check our website
at www.whitewoodlivestock.com for more
information and pictures on this sale
*** Next Bred Sale - December 13th***
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
20 PB ANGUS COWS & heifers for sale. You pick
out of 40+; culls already gone. Call Don
(204)422-5216, evenings.
Top producing Black and Red Angus Breeders
present the 25th Annual Keystone Klassic Red
and Black Sale Sat. Dec. 7, 1:00pm at the Keystone Centre, Brandon, MB. Featuring fancy heifer
calves and an elite selection of bred females. For a
catalogue or more info contact T Bar C Cattle Co.
Ltd. (PL # 116061) at (306)220-5006. View the
catalogue online at www.BuyAgro.com
ANNUAL
BRED
FEMALE
PROSPECT
STEER &
HEIFER SALE
November 28, 2013
at Grande Clairiere, MB
Sale at Grande Clairiere Hall at 2 pm
REDS/BLACKS/BALDYS
SIMMENTALS & ANGUS
• 45 Bred Heifers
• 20 Bred Cows 3-5 yr old
Cows Bred to Maple Lake Bulls
Viewing anytime at the farm,
See Pasture Tour on website:
www.maplelakestockfarms.com
Call Gerry Bertholet
204-858-2086 or 204-741-0340
Andrea 204-483-0319
Ward Cutler 204-851-2614
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
KILLARNEY AUCTION MART LTD
BRED COW SALE
FOR SALE: REGISTERED POLLED Hereford
Heifers, bred to calving ease Hereford bull, to start
calving in April. Also Registered Black Angus heifers bred to Black Angus bull. Call Don
(204)873-2430
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Cattle – Limousin
MARK YOUR CALENDARS MB Limousin Association. Limousin advantage sale Nov 23rd, 2013 at
1:30pm. Hosted at Triple R Limousin, MacGregor,
MB. The best of the best will be on offer. Steers &
heifer calves, Bred heifers & proven cows w/some
commercial cows. Come & check out. Your source
for quality Limousin genetics. Art (204)685-2628,
Trav (204)838-2019, Bob
(204)274-2490, Cheryl
(204)736-2878,
Bill
(204)776-2322,
Len
(204)937-4980, Lawrence (204)838-2198, Kevin
(204)734-4797, Brad (204)638-8554.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Shorthorn
130 Age Verified, Black and Red Angus cows
bred for early March Calving
Garrett and Laura Calverly
204-741-8224 or 204-858-2260
60 young Red, RBF, Black and Char cows
bred for April Calving
Workman Annual Sale Dec. 7
Bred Cow Sales Dec. 12 and 16
Or visit the website at
killarneyauctionmart.com
DEALER LICENCE #1361
TIRED OF THE
HIGH COST OF
MARKETING
YOUR CATTLE??
800-1000 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400
Ben: 721-3400
Don: 528-3477, 729-7240
Contact:
D.J. (Don) MacDonald
Livestock Ltd.
License #1110
Bred shorthorns for sale Selling at Heartland Livestock Services, Virden, MB on Dec 6th, 2013, 80+
head of commercial bred shorthorn heifers. For
more info contact Greg Tough 204-748-3136
FOR SALE: 30 HEAD of PB & percentage Simm
heifer calves, weaned since Oct 23rd, vacc & Ivomec’d, weight 725-800-lbs. Boynecrest Stock Farm
(204)828-3483 or (204)745-7168 Stephenfield, MB.
SIMM/ ANGUS OPEN HEIFERS & Simm open
heifers. Contact (204)767-2327.
SIMMENTAL & SIMMENTAL RED Angus heifers
bred
Black
for
February
calving.
Phone
(204)748-1366
Harvest Hoedown
Simmental Sale
Monday, November 25th
at 1:00 PM in Beautiful
Plains Ag Complex, Neepawa MB
for more info contact
Jay Good 403-556-5563 or
Darren Paget 403-323-3985
Please visit our website for
more information
www.transconlivestock.com Or
give us a call at 403-638-9377
Simmental Bred Females
Spring Creek Simmentals will sell 110
head of cows and bred heifers at their
40th Anniversary Sale at Heartland
Livestock, Virden, MB on Saturday,
November 23 at 1:00pm. For a catalogue,
call Brian McCarthy at (306)435-3590 or
(306)435-7527, or see it online at
www.springcreeksimmentals.com
(306)435-3590
Redfern Farm
Services Ltd.
Minnedosa, MB
(204) 867-2679
SHEEP, LAMB &
GOAT SALE
Wednesday, December 4 @ 1:00 pm
This sale will feature:
• Dispersal of 150 open Crossbred Boer
Nannies. Excellent quality and
condition 2 to 5 years old
• Dispersal of 55 Cheviot Ewes x Bred
Ewes 3 to 5 years old, vaccinated. Over
200% lambing Bred Ramboulet and
Cheviot. For April 1st lambing.
• Various consignments of Breeding
Rams.
• 30 - Ewe Lambs
• 90 - 2nd Lambers
• 3/4 Dorset, 1/4 Ram Romonof
**Open and Choice Quality**
www.winnipeglivestocksales.com
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
FOR SALE: REGISTERED BLACK Angus heifers,
bred to calving ease Black Angus bull, to start calving in April. Also Registered polled Hereford heifers
bred to Hereford bull. Call Don (204)873-2430
HERD DISPERSAL 18 BLACK Angus heifers, 7
young Black Angus cows for sale. Bred to easy
calving Black Angus bulls. Will be preg checked &
vaccinated. Call Jeff (204)612-1734.
130 BRED HEIFERS, BLACK Angus, Angus Hereford cross, some Red Angus. From our own range
calving herd, bred to calving ease, Black Angus &
Angus Hereford cross bulls. Start calving mid-Feb.
All shots, Ivomec. $1,200. (204)873-2525, Clearwater.
80 BRED COWS FOR SALE. Approx 40 will be
having their 2nd calf Spring 2014, approx 40 of
varying ages. All bred to Black Angus bulls starting
July 1st, 2013. Priced in small groups or as a whole
unit. (204)876-4798 Snowflake, MB.
80 RED ANGUS CROSS, Charlois cross, due to
calve March/Apr. Bred to PB Red Angus. These
cows are 2nd calvers & are age verified. Call
Ed:(204)385-2672.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
HAMCO CATTLE CO has for sale a strong group
of Red Angus bred heifers, A.I.’d & bull bred to
calve Feb, Mar, & April 2014. Contact Albert, Glen,
or
Larissa
Hamilton
(204)827-2358
or
(204)526-0705 or David Hamilton (204)325-3635.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
PB BULLS & HEIFER calves born Feb & Mar. Also
1 1/2-yr old bulls. Phone Jack: (204)526-2857. Holland, MB.
BRED YEARLING HEIFERS FOR SALE: Red &
Black Angus cross. Exposed from Jun 14-Aug 14
to easy calving bulls. Your choice: $1,700/ each;
50 or more, $1,650/each, or $1,600/each for all 90.
St. Lazare, MB. Phone: (204) 683-2208.
FOR SALE: AN AWESOME group of fully vacc
Red, Red White face, Blacks & Tans Char bred
heifers. Bred to proven easy calving Red Angus
bulls, hit the ground running & yet wean heavy. My
2012 calves off 1st calf heifers weaned at 635-lb
steers & 588-lb heifers, bred for 60 day calving
starting Mar 6th, 2014, your pick $1,700. Also have
a select package of all black heifers bred to Black
Angus 45 day breeding program to start Apr 1st,
2014, your pick $1,750. All heifers have been preg
checked using ultrasound. I guarantee if you come
to have a look you won’t be disappointed. Call Jason (204)724-6093 or (204)466-2939.
Specialty
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
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.
FOR SALE: BALE KING 3100 Bale processor, excellent condition, will do partial trade for JD-4240 or
JD-4040 w/loader. HAY FOR SALE: 1400-lb ALFALFA/Brome round bales. Phone:(204)733-2436,
Ochre River.
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.
ORGANIC
Organic – Grains
M&M ORGANIC MARKETING: Now buying milling
oats & these feed grains: oats, flax, soybeans,
peas. Phone:(204)379-2451.
ORGANIC
Organic – Grains
LIVESTOCK
Sheep Auctions
Licence #1122
Bioriginal Food & Science Corp., based
in Saskatoon, is actively buying
Organic Flax from the 2013 crop year.
If interested, please send an 8lb 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]
PERSONAL
MISSING A GREAT RELATIONSHIP? CANDLELIGHT MATCHMAKERS can help. Confidential,
Photos & Profiles to selected matches, Affordable,
Local. Serving MB, SK, NW Ontario. Call/Write for
info: Box 212, Roland, MB, R0G 1T0,
(204)343-2475.
REAL ESTATE
Houses & Lots
LIVESTOCK
Sheep For Sale
1,400-SQFT HOME, FULL BASEMENT, attached
& detached garage, 4 other bldgs, 2-ac lot, garden
plots, shows like new. Phone:(204)768-3044 or
(204)302-9106.
PUREBRED CLUN FOREST RAMS for sale. Born
March. Ready to breed this fall. All breeding lines
from Imported British Genetics. For more information about our Cluns go to www.oakwoodgrange.ca
$250-$300. Phone:(204)722-2036. (Virden area)
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
Horses
LIVESTOCK
Horses – Donkeys
2 MATURE FEMALE STANDARD Jennys, 2 standard 2013 Jennettes, 1 2013 standard Jack. Good
guardians, experienced w/cattle, sheep & goats.
Phone:(204)425-3131.
3, 2013 MAMMOTH JENNY’S for sale, 2 black, 1
blond. Check out: ridgesideredangus.com or Call
Don:(204) 422-5216.
LIVESTOCK
Horses Wanted
WANTED: BELGIAN & PERCHERON COLTS/FILLIES
Contracting now for 2013 delivery. Serious inquiries
only, please. (360) 791-1868
Swine
LIVESTOCK
Swine For Sale
FOR SALE: BERKSHIRE HOGS, bores & gilts plus
market hogs. Also some Tamworth pigs. Delivery at
cost.
Contact
Troy
&
Lee
Collingridge
(204)828-3317, (204)750-2759, (204)750-3082.
GOOD QUALITY GRAIN & Cattle Farms wanted
for Canadian & Overseas Clients. For a confidential
meeting to discuss the possible sale of your farm or
to talk about what is involved, telephone Gordon
Gentles (204)761-0511 www.homelifepro.com or
Jim McLachlan (204)724-7753, www.homelifepro.com Home Professional Realty Inc.
GRAIN & CATTLE FARMS wanted for both overseas & Canadian buyers. Call me to discuss all options & current farmland market prices. Rick Taylor:
(204)867-7551. [email protected] Homelife Realty, Brandon, MB.
ORGANIC
Available at:
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Wanted
P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD.
728-7549
Licence No. 1123
FOR ALL YOUR MUSICAL instruments & accessories, shop Hildebrand Music, Portage La Prairie
Mall. (204)857-3172. Large variety of student & professional instruments, famous name brands, new
arrivals weekly, strings, sound equip, keyboards,
percussion, band & wireless.
For more information or to leave an
order call: 204-694-8328 or 204-207-0747
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
MUSICAL
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
November 28, at 11:00 AM
MJ Stock Farms, Wawanesa
Jack 204-824-2104
& Gord 204-729-5274
HERD DISPERSAL OF 40 young Charolais &
Charolais cross cows. Bred Charolais for Mar 04
calving. (204)638-8502 or (204)648-5186, Dauphin.
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
FOR SALE: WOODSIDE 160-ACS fenced pasture
w/1982 built bungalow, 1056-sq.ft, efa, $164,000.
2) PLUMAS 1,156-sq.ft. 2+ BDRM MODERN
HOME 4.17-ACS, ca c vac, WORKSHOPS &
MORE! 2) ARDEN 5-acs 2+ bdrm renov. Home dbl
garage. Also 2-ac lot only $8,000; 4) 1 section of
pastureland NE of GLADSTONE, fenced & dugouts, $269,000; 5) GLADSTONE, 157-acs Lakeland, fenced, arable. older home, outbldgs,
$360,000. 6) Acerage w/3-bdrm home w/trucker’s
shed 72x36, in OBERON, $229,000. Phone
Liz:(204)476-6362 or John:(204)476-6719. Gill &
Schmall Agencies.
KOMARNO 1,200-AC BEEF RANCH, solid 3-bdrm
home; Inwood 1,020-ac, ranch only $500,000; Fisher Branch 574-ac grain, 1,800-sqft bungalow; Eriksdale 640-ac, right on Hwy 68, $150,000; Dallas
1,000-ac, presently hayland, good for grain;
2,061-ac N of Fisher Branch, 600-ac cultivated,
very reasonable; 1,260-ac Red Rose, 500 in hay,
only $360,000, offers. See these and others on
manitobafarms.ca. Manitobafarms.ca sells Manitoba farms, so list yours now. Call Harold:
(204)253-7373. Delta Real Estate.
GRANT TWEED
Your Farm Real Estate Specialist.
Developing a successful farm takes years of
hard work. When it’s time to sell there are many
factors to consider. I can provide the
experience & expertise
to help you through the process. To arrange a
confidential, obligation free meeting,
please call (204)761-6884 anytime.
Website; www.granttweed.com
640-ACS PICTURESQUE FARM LAND adjacent to
Turtle Mountain near Boissevain in the RM of Morton. All land is well drained, could all be broken, or
left for good wildlife viewing, or wildlife hunting. Can
be purchased as a package or in separate units.
SW 3-2-20 80-acs, 50-acs broke, rest wooded pasture, w/10-yr old home, 2,400+ sq.ft., 30-ft.x80-ft.
biotech; SW 3-2-20 80-acs w/50-acs broke, the rest
wooded pasture, w/restored older home, 3,900+
sq.ft.; NW 3-2-20 160-acs w/69-acs broke, the rest
partially wooded pasture; NE 4-2-20 160-acs
w/94-acs broke, rest partially wooded pastures; SE
4-2-20 160-acs w/125-acs broke, rest wooded pasture. (204)534-6979
FARM LAND FOR SALE: 4 quarters hay land & 4
quarters pasture, $500,000. Phone (204)646-4226
FARM LAND FOR SALE. SW 33-5-2W, 160-acs,
SE 33-5-2W, 160-acs in the RM of Morris. Deadline
for bids December 13, 2013. Highest or any bid not
necessarily accepted. Mail bids to Bill Rempel, Box
81 Rosenort MB, R0G 1W0. Ph:(204)746-2092,
Fx:(204)746-2112.
FOR SALE 320-ACS IN the RM of Clanwilliam only
1-mi east of Otter Lake, & 3-mi from Riding Mountain National Park. One of the quarters is bush &
native pasture & would be great for recreation or
hunting. The other quarter has 120-acs of cultivatable land & is presently sown to hay. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511. HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc.
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
FARM PROPERTY FOR SALE BY TENDER.
Sealed tenders in writing for the purchase of the
property described below will be received by Adam
Accounting Services Inc. as follows: PROPERTY
FOR SALE: (owned by Andre Mangin) PARCEL 1:
NE 17-7-7W, PARCEL 2: SE 7-7-7W (Land & Buildings) CONDITIONS OF TENDER: 1. Interested parties must rely on their own inspection of the property. Specific questions pertaining to the property
should be directed to Andre Mangin at
(204)828-3446. 2. Parties will tender on Both Parcels or Individual Parcels. 3. Tenders must be received at the address below before 12:00 Noon,
Friday, November 29, 2013. Please mark the envelope “Tender”. 4. Tenders must be accompanied by
a $15,000 deposit cheque payable to McCulloch
Mooney Johnston LLP. Deposit cheques accompanying unacceptable bids will be returned. 5. The
highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR SALE: 1. The
bidder(s) whose tender is accepted will be required
to complete an agreement covering the terms and
conditions of the sale. 2. Possession date will be
December 31, 2013. Vendor shall retain residence
until June 30, 2014. 3. The successful bidder will be
responsible for all realty taxes following December
31, 2013 (the adjustment date.) 4. In addition to the
deposit, the balance of the accepted tender must
be paid on or before the date of closing or evidence
provided that the purchase funds will be available
under conditions acceptable to the Vendor. If the
balance of the purchase is not paid by the possession date or under such acceptable conditions, the
deposit paid shall be forfeited as liquidated damages and not as a penalty. Adam Accounting Service
PO Box 480, 175 Broadway St, Treherne, MB R0G
2V0. George Adam (204)723-2544.
FOR SALE: 604-ACS OF vacant land, of which
500-acs is good grain land, only 12-min from Brandon
in the RM of Daly. Tel: Gordon Gentles (204)761-0511.
HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc.
GUY & SUSAN JOHNSON of Eddystone, MB intend to sell private lands: SW 11-25-12W; NW
11-25-12W; NE 10-25-12W FR; SE 10-25-12W FR;
NE 02-25-12W; NW 02-25-12W; SE 02-25-12 W;
SW 02-25-12W; NE 03-25-12W; SE 03-25-12W;
NW 05-24-12W; SE 05-24-12W; NW 17-24-12W;
SE 33-23-12W to John & Deana Martin & Katherine
Lansdell who intend to acquire the following agricultural Crown land leases: N1/2 28-23-12W; NE
29-23-12W; E1/2 32-23-12W; N1/2 33-23-12W; SW
33-23-12W; W1/2 3-24-12W; Sec 4-24-12W; NE
5-24-12W; NE 08-24-12W; SE 08-24-12W; Sec
09-24-12W; NW 08-12-24W E1/2; SW 10-24-12W,
SW 16-24-12W; NE 17-24-12W; SW 08-24-12W
E1/2; SE 17-24-12W; SW 17-24-12W E1/2 by Unit
Transfer. If you wish to comment on or object to the
eligibility of this purchaser please write to: Director,
MAFRI, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286,
Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or Fax (204)867-6578.
LARRY & PHYLLIS HENRY of Ste. Rose du Lac,
MB intends to sell private lands: NE 31-24-12W, NE
30-24-12W, SW 32-24-12W to John & Deana Martin & Katherine Lansdell who intend to acquire the
following agricultural Crown land leases: Sec
7-23-11W, S1/2 18-23-11W, W1/2 20-24-12W Sec
29-24-12W, S1/2 31-24-12W, NW 31-24-12W,
W1/2 31-24-12W, NE 18-23-18W, W1/2 12-25-31W
by Unit Transfer. If you wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this purchaser please write
to: Director, MAFRI, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO
Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or Fax
(204)867-6578.
N1/2 NW 35-20-24 W1 NE of Rossburn, MB: Land
is rolling has approx 38 arable acs & the balance is
bush & water, $45,000. Karen Goraluk Salesperson
(204)773-6797. NorthStar Insurance & Real Estate
www.north-star.ca
SW-5-25-14W RM OF ALONSA, 70-acres tame
hay. Good hunting (wildlife opportunity) Surrounded
by crown land, fenced in. Tender by Nov 22, 2013.
Mail to 48 Stradbrook Place, Dauphin MB, R7N 0M9.
Farming is enough of a gamble, advertise in the Manitoba Co-operator classified section. It’s a sure thing.
1-800-782-0794
DAIRY & BEEF HAY for sale, 3x4 square bales,
delivery available. Phone (204)827-2629 before
9:00am or leave message.
LAND FOR SALE
Selling 100% shares
of Corporation
Deadline for bids
November 30, 2013
Mail bids to:
Daniel & Terry Sabourin
Box 25
St. Jean Baptiste, MB
R0G 2B0
204-746-4028 - cell
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loaded.
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274-2179
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328 5346
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467-5613
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LARGE ROUND ALFALFA/GRASS BALES, avg
weight 1,650-lbs. Good quality, reasonable priced
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Catellier Seeds
347-5588
Clearview Acres Ltd.
748-2666
Court Seeds
386-2354
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David Kohut Ltd.
483-3063
Durand Seeds Inc
745-7577
Ellis Farm Supplies Ltd. 824-2290
Ens Quality Seeds
325-4658
Fisher Seeds Ltd.
622-8800
Friesen Seeds Ltd.
746-8325
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306-229-9976 (cell)
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Farm Land for Rent by
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Legals: West 1/2 15-26-15WPM,
W 1/2 22-26-15WPM, NE 1/4 21-26-15 WPM
Acres: 780 - Cultivated
Two Crop Years - 2014 and 2015
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Payment Dates: April 1st & November 1st
Tenders Close: December 6, 2013
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FOR SALE: BROME ALFALFA 4x6 round bales,
no rain, baled w/Claas baler cut & conditioned. Call
Edmund (204)843-2769 Amaranth, MB.
Grain Wanted
• Vomi wheat • Vomi barley
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• Light Weight Barley
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434-6881
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FOR SALE: 2 SETS of ‘09 Super B Lode King
Prestige grain trailers, c/w air lift axles, 22.5 tires,
asking $50,000. 2004 Super B Lode King Prestige
trailer, asking $37,500. (204)857-1700, Gladstone, MB.
NEW EMERALD GRAIN TRAILERS made in MB
36-ft. 2 hopper t/a air ride 24.5 tires on bud
wheels manual tarp. Starting as low as $34,000
or lease to own for as low as $725 per mth.
Side chutes & dual crank hopper openings avail.
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For more details call Glenn (204)895-8547.
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CAREERS
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MCMILLEN RANCHING LTD a large PB livestock operation & grain farm, is seeking honest, reliable persons to join our team. Experience w/livestock, operating machinery & 1A license an asset. F/T year round
positions available or part time. Excellent wages, modern equipment, housing provided. Send resume by fax
(306)928-2027 or e-mail [email protected] or call Lee
(306)483-8067.
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SEASONAL FARM WORKERS SOUGHT for asparagus & potato related duties. Position will be seasonal
full-time, 40+ hrs/week. Wage $10.45/hr. Period of
employment anticipated to be from April 15, 2014 until
September 30, 2014. Job description includes cutting
seed potatoes & all potato harvesting duties. Also, work
includes cutting & packing of asparagus. Must be willing to work long hours & do repetitive tasks, as well as
bending & some heavy lifting. Applicants must be able
to work in a variety of conditions in outdoor environment & must be able to work well with others. Education requirements not applicable, experience an asset. Location of work is MacGregor & Area, Manitoba.
Please apply in writing to Northern Potato Co. Ltd., Box
33, Bagot, MB R0H 0E0.
WANTED: A HERD MANAGER. We have a modern 200 cow milking herd in the Lake Francis, MB
area. We are looking for a hard working, responsible, patient individual. Breeding, herd health &
computer data some responsibilities in addition to
some milking. Housing is available. Please phone
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Israeli agri-tech firm aims for big
boost in crop yields without GMOs
Genome doubling process occurs naturally in plants but can dramatically increase yields
By Ori Lewis and Rinat Harash
moshav sarona, israel / reuters
A
n Israeli enterpr ise
which aims to boost
global crop yields
without the aid of genetic
modification will sow its first
commercial seeds within three
years, the company pioneering
the technique has told Reuters.
Seed technology firm Kaiima Bio-Agritech says it has
developed a way to greatly
speed up the multiplication of
the genome of crops, known
as genome doubling, without
changing their DNA, or genetic
fingerprint.
It is as if a piece of string
were thickened into a rope by
adding more fibres of the same
material, making it stronger
and more durable. In agriculture, it means enhancing seeds
so that they produce more
plentiful and robust crops.
Kaiima has kept secret how
it has achieved its breakthrough and says it has filed
a number of patents worldwide. Independent experts
contacted by Reuters declined
to comment on the work,
saying they did not have
enough details.
In a tour of Kaiima’s experimental crop fields in northern
Israel, company officials displayed examples of what they
said were crops improved by
its new technique.
Doron Gal, Kaiima’s chief
executive officer, said that
by 2050, farmers will need to
meet the “daunting challenge”
of producing 70 per cent more
food than they do currently to
sustain a growing world population.
Kaiima, the Hebrew word
for sustainability, said that by
2016 it expects to be able to
deliver to growers the basis for
producing seeds for enhanced
wheat, corn and rice for food
and castor for biofuel and
biopolymer production.
Israel is considered a world
leader in agricultural technology development with irrigation techniques, hothouses
and computerized animal
feeding systems among leading exported products, the
Israel Export Institute said.
In c o m e f ro m a g r i - t e c h
exports in 2011 amounted to
$3.4 billion, out of a total of
$91.7 billion in Israeli exports
for that year, according to
official figures.
Kaiima, founded in 2007,
said in September that it
had raised some $65 million
in equity from international
investors. It does not have any
plans for an IPO in the foreseeable future.
“Our plan is for this funding to finance our operation
through 2016 when we are
“Our plan is for this
funding to finance
our operation
through 2016 when
we are going to
be able to bring
our product to the
market...”
Doron Gal
Kaiima’s chief
executive officer
going to be able to bring our
product to the market... we
will produce seeds together
with partners that will be similar in price to regular seeds,”
Gal said.
Enhanced crops
Genome doubling evolves in
nature, but only over thousands of years. Scientists have
been trying since the 1940s to
speed up the process, but had
not been able to avoid damage to a crop’s core characteristics.
Gal said Kaiima had managed to achieve a crop’s
stability by respecting the
integrity of its original DNA.
Kaiima expects that its technology will result in an initial
25 per cent improvement in
crop yields.
Asked by Reuters about Kaiima’s breakthrough claim, five
experts in the field of agricultural genetics at leading Israeli
academic institutions declined
to comment, saying they did
not have enough information
about the company’s work.
One scientist confirmed
Gal’s statement that attempts
to speed up genome doubling
had been tried for decades,
but added that neither he nor
any other researcher he knew
of had managed to unlock the
secret for doing it successfully.
Stronger plants have been
developed during genome
doubling attempts in the
past, but Gal said their lack of
genetic stability meant they
could not produce seeds for
subsequent generations.
Kaiima’s main centre is
based in a cluster of portable cabins in a farming community in northern Israel’s
agricultural heartland. The
company has taken over a
number of fields at various
locations in the area for its
crop experiments.
In its rice crop trial, Kaiima
planted seed variants and
breeders picked out the best
results to continue laboratory
work on the most successful
strains.
Alon Lerner, Kaiima’s senior breeder, displayed an
enhanced yield of bigger
A researcher stands in an experimental rice field belonging to seed technology firm Kaiima Bio-Agritech, near Kfar
Tavor in northern Israel. Kaiima says it has developed a way to greatly speed up the multiplication of the genome
of crops, known as genome doubling, without changing their DNA, or genetic fingerprint. Photos: REUTERS/Baz Ratner
A researcher at seed technology firm Kaiima Bio-Agritech holds two corn seedlings, one that he says was not modified
(l) and one after modification (r), at the firm’s laboratories in Sarona, in northern Israel October 21, 2013. plants and grains. He said they
had received the same amount
of water and nutrition as crops
to which the technology had
not been applied.
Kaiima’s recent injection of
cash has come from three new
investors: Horizons Ventures,
which manages the private
technology investments of
Asia’s richest man, Li Ka-shing,
the World Bank’s private-sector arm International Finance
Corp. (IFC) and Infinity Group,
a China-focused private
equity fund.
It also received new funds
from existing investors that
include DFJ, DFJ-Tamir Fishman, Mitsui, KPCB, Oberlee
and Musea Ventures.
An employee of seed technology firm Kaiima Bio-Agritech holds a rice
stalk in an experimental field near Kfar Tavor, in northern Israel October 21,
2013.
34
New report says improved food
literacy key to a healthier life
Conference Board of Canada says too many people can’t understand nutrition labels,
make a meal in their kitchen, or stick to a food budget to reduce waste
co-operator staff
I
mproved food literacy would
improve the health of Canadian adults and children,
says a new report from the Conference Board of Canada.
The number of books, television programs and websites
dedicated to food — not to
mention diets — continue to
multiply, but our understanding
of food isn’t necessarily getting
better, says the 46-page report.
“It is unclear whether households’ attitudes, skills and
knowledge about food — their
food literacy — have developed
along with that interest. In reality, Canadians’ food literacy
may not be as high as it could
and should be.”
Being able to interpret nutrition labelling on foods is one
area of concern. Canadians,
especially those lacking numeracy skills, struggle with them
despite efforts to raise awareness about Nutrition Facts
tables, says the report, entitled
a.
The low percentage of children and adolescents regularly
participating in family meal
preparation is another concern
and may be leading to more
“deskilled” generations to come.
Canadians also waste a lot of
food, and the report suggests
the root of the problem may be
that relatively few households
have and follow a food budget.
“Many households could
improve their planning and
purchasing habits,” it says.
Food safety is another area
of concern. While individuals
generally know how to store,
handle and prepare food, the
report says, “they do not always
put that knowledge to use” and
“tend to mistakenly believe that
their risk of exposure to foodrelated hazards in the home is
minimal.”
As well, immigrants and some
Report cites concerns related to the “normalization” of processed and packaged foods” and concerns that the next generation’s food choices will be limited
because they lack confidence to prepare food. photo: thinkstock
Aboriginal peoples face additional barriers to food literacy,
it says.
Lack of food skills in youth
also persists into adulthood,
increasing the risk of ill health
for the next generation, it says.
“Many of the most common
chronic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases (mainly
heart disease and stroke),
cancer, chronic respiratory
diseases, diabetes, and others (such as oral diseases, and
bone and joint disorders) — are
linked to unhealthy diets aand
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subsequent overweight and
obesity rates,” the report notes.
The issue also spills into other
areas.
“ Fo r e x a m p l e , w h e t h e r
new production and processing technologies that promise improvements to safety,
yields, and/or environmental
performance will be permitted
for use, or are actually put into
use, depends to some extent
on whether households understand and have confidence in
those technologies.”
There’s not a lot of data on
Canadians’ food literacy, but
numerous studies elsewhere
have found health levels
improve when people have a
better understanding of nutrition and food preparation. A
Health Canada review of international cooking skills literature has also concluded “that
there is an association between
food literacy and dietary quality, frequency of family meals
and involvement in food preparation activities among adolescents and young adults.”
The report makes a series of
recommendations, including
making nutritional information
more effective and accessible for
household use; tailoring food
literacy programs to high-risk
populations and community
needs fostering hands-on parental involvement in food literacy
programming; creating guiding
principles for advertising to children; and incorporating food literacy into school curricula.
The report stresses that nutrition education for children is
especially important as a positive influence on children’s
food-related knowledge and
skills, eating and physical activity behaviour, and health status.
The latter is something Canadian home economists have
long advocated. The Ontario
Home Economics Association
recently called for mandatory
home economics education in
Ontario schools. A Manitoba
assessment of foods and nutrition studies in schools also
concluded updating the home
economics curriculum could
significantly improve children
and youth’s skills and understanding of their food system.
Improving food literacy has
also been a key theme in other
policy proposals attempting to
map out a long-term national
food strategy. The Canadian Federation of
Agriculture says government
should ensure every Canadian
child by age 16 should know
how to plan and prepare at least
six nutritious meals. A 2009
report from the Canadian AgriFood Policy calls for a ‘whole of
society’ approach that puts an
informed consumer at the centre of a healthier food system.
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CFGB supporters
hold a cattle
auction
The first-ever Manitoba
cattle auction in support
of Canadian Foodgrains
Bank (CFGB) will take
place December 10 at the
Grunthal Livestock Auction Mart.
Livestock farmers
are donating the cattle,
which will be auctioned
off to support the CFGB’s
hunger-alleviation programs in the developing
world.
At 1 p.m., buyers will
have the option of purchasing either beef cattle
or dairy cattle, with proceeds going to the CFGB.
“It’s a great way for both
sellers and buyers of cattle
to be able to contribute
to the work of the CFGB
in a way that is meaningful for them,” says Harold
Penner, regional co-ordinator for Manitoba. “It
was great to see the auction mart people immediately offer to donate their
services to make this possible.”
Traditionally, it has
been grain-growing projects in Manitoba that
have raised money for
the CFGB. But organizers
are hoping to turn the
auction into an annual
event — something
that is already a regular
occurrence in other parts
of Canada.
The CFGB auction will
be part of a normal auction Tuesday at the Grunthal Auction Mart. Things
will proceed as usual,
except that, at 1 p.m.,
the donated cattle will
be brought out and sold.
Money raised by the sale
of those cattle will go to
the CFGB.
Donations from farmers
of beef or dairy animals
are warmly accepted, and
cash donations are also
welcome.
Both farmers and nonfarmers are encouraged to
attend with their families
and enjoy the event. Coffee and doughnuts will be
available.
Upon request, donors
of cattle will receive a tax
receipt for the value of the
animal.
Anyone wishing to
donate can do so by calling the Grunthal Auction
Mart, or by showing up
to the auction mart with
their cattle as usual and
letting the receiver know
which animals are for the
CFGB.
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Alberta and Nova Scotia couples earn 2013
Outstanding Young Farmers titles
Honorees are selected for their progressive approach to farming and communities
Staff
F
arm couples representing Alberta and Nova
Scotia were proclaimed
Canada’s Outstanding Young
Farmers for 2013 at a ceremony Nov. 15 held in conjunction with Agribition in
Regina.
Alberta farmers Michael
Kalisvaart and Karen Jansen
joined James and Amanda
Kinsman of Nova Scotia in
sharing the top prize.
Kalisvaart and Jansen, who
began farming in the early
1 9 9 0 s, ow n Kalco Far ms,
an 11,000-acre grain and
oilseed far m at Gibbons,
Alta. Michael is also chairman of Providence Grain, a
farmer-owned, independent
grain company the couple
has heavily invested in, and
which has grown from two
elevators to five, plus four
agro-retail locations in the
past decade.
Parents of three children
ages 17, 14 and 11, Kalisvaart
and Jansen were chosen by
judges as an outstanding
farm couple for their investment in local infrastructure,
s t r o n g i n d u s t r y p a r t n e rships and adoption of ‘lean
management’ principles to
ensure highly efficient work
p ro c e s s e s o n t h e i r f a r m .
Michael is the second generation of his family to farm
in Canada. His parents emigrated from the Netherlands
to begin a mixed hog and
grain farm here.
James and Amanda Kinsman run Windcrest Farm, a
dairy and cash crop farming operation near Berkwick,
Nov a S c o t i a . Ja m e s t o o k
over the farm early in his
life after his father became
unable to continue, meeting
not only that considerable
challenge, but going on to
expand the farm into a larger
operation.
Parents of two-year-old
twin daughters, the Kinsmans today milk 190 purebred registered Holsteins
while cropping 2,000 acres
of cor n, soybeans, wheat
a n d g row i n g h a y l a g e f o r
their cows. Windcrest Farm
has received other industry
awards over the years for
farm productivity that has
tripled in the last 20 years.
This is the 33rd year of the
Outstanding Young Farmer
awards, given annually to
Canadian farmers under 40
who derive a minimum of
two-thirds of their income
from their farm operations.
M a n i t o b a ’s p r o v i n cial winners at this year’s
OYF event were Tyler and
Dorelle Fulton, who run a
cow-calf operation at Birtle.
The couple has operated
their farm as a joint venture
with Tyler’s parents these
past six years, and balance
t h e i r 4 5 0 - c ow b e e f h e rd
with a backgrounding beef
lot and hay export business.
The Fultons have five-yearo l d t w i n s a n d a re a c t i ve
community volunteers with
the local school and library
boards.
Honourees at both provincial and national levels are
chosen for the progress made
during their farming career
in areas such as conservation practices, production
history, financial and management practices and community contributions. The
awards have been presented
annually since 1980 when the
program was launched by the
Canadian Junior Chamber/
Jaycees.
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fast-moving storm
system triggered
multiple tornadoes on Sunday that
killed at least six people
and flattened large parts
of a town in Illinois as it
tore across the Midwest,
authorities said.
The tornadoes levelled scores of homes
and demolished entire
neighbourhoods. Some
80 tornado reports were
received, along with
358 reports of damaging winds and 40 reports
of large hail, according
to Rich Thompson, a
lead forecaster with the
weather service’s Storm
Prediction Center in
Norman, Oklahoma.
Traffic was halted
briefly at Chicago’s two
major airports, and tens
of thousands of people
in several states lost
power.
The National Weather
Service confirmed preliminary EF-4 tornado
damage in Washington
County in southern Illinois, with winds of 166
to 200 miles (267-322
km) per hour.
The unusual late-season storms moved dangerously fast, tracking
east at 60 miles per hour
(97 km/h), with the bulk
of the damage spanning about five hours,
Thompson said. Wind
damage threats continued across Pennsylvania
and New York.
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U.S. crop price decline cools
farmland value boom
Analysts are looking for weakness in the market — and finding some
chicago / reuters
F
alling crop prices from
a bumper 2013 harvest
dampened buyer interest in U.S. Plains and Midwest
farmland in the third quarter,
slowing price gains after years
of record advances, regional
Federal Reserve data showed
Nov. 15.
The Kansas City Federal
Reserve, surveying 219 farm
bankers in its leading region
for wheat, corn and cattle, said
farmland price gains in the
quarter were only one to three
per cent higher on average
from the second quarter, compared to the usual double-digit
annual growth seen in previous
years.
The St. Louis Fed, in its quarterly survey of 47 bankers in
the south-central Midwest
and Delta area, said farmland
prices eased six per cent from
the prior quarter with more
weakness expected.
“Farmland values are holding pretty flat from where they
have been. Usually the big
moves in land values come
in the fourth quarter, so we’re
right in the middle of it,” Jason
Henderson, a Purdue University agricultural economist and
former Kansas City Fed economist, said in an interview this
week. “My scenario as to how
I think it’s going to play out:
we’ll get a little softness. Then
those farmers will sit there
and decide, ‘Is this the top of
the market or not?’ Those who
were on the fence thinking
about selling, if they think this
is the top, then they’ll put it on
the market.”
The Kansas City Fed district
includes Kansas, Nebraska,
Oklahoma and parts of
Missouri and Colorado, a top
region of wheat, corn, cattle,
“While district farmland values increased on the
whole in the third quarter of 2013, this upward
trend was not expected to continue.”
Chicago Federal Reserve
sorghum and grazing. With
drought still lingering in the
Plains, the sur vey of farm
bankers said irrigated cropland
values rose 22 per cent from
a ye a r a g o, n o n - i r r i g a t e d
cropland increased 19 per cent,
while ranchland values were up
15 per cent.
The Kansas City Fed said that
it will be carefully watching the
value of farmland in the fourth
quarter against cash rents, a
key indicator of far mland
returns tied mainly to crop
prices.
Crop prices
The U.S. Agriculture Department projects 2013-14 season
corn prices at $4.10 to $4.90 a
bushel versus $6.89 last year,
with wheat at $6.70 to $7.30 a
bushel versus $7.77 a year earlier and soybeans at $11.15 to
$13.15 versus $14.40.
“ Fa r m l a n d v a l u e g a i n s
have continued to outpace
increases in cash rental rates,
highlighting the potential for
a future adjustment in farmland values,” the Kansas City
Fed said. “The ratio of non-irrigated cropland values to cash
rents, historically less than 20,
recently reached 27 in the district. Irrigated cropland values
have also risen significantly
faster than cash rents in recent
years.”
One farm banker in southeastern Nebraska, quoted by
the Kansas City Fed, summed
up the cautious view of Plains
lenders.
“With normal grain production in the Corn Belt, farmers’ cash flows are going to get
much tighter. With lower grain
prices, we expect land prices
and cash rents to go down 10
to 20 per cent over the next few
years,” the banker said.
Upward trend down
Those findings were in line
with the rich crop region east
of the Plains in the heart of the
Corn Belt. The Chicago Federal
Reserve Nov. 14 said in its own
survey of farm bankers in Iowa,
Illinois and the upper Midwest
cropland prices were up 14 per
cent year on year but only up
one per cent from the previous
quarter as of Oct. 1, with values
actually easing one per cent in
the quarter on Iowa, the top
corn state.
“While district farmland values increased on the whole in
the third quarter of 2013, this
upward trend was not expected
to continue,” the Chicago Fed
said.
Policy-makers, farm bankers, sellers of seed and feed
and equipment to farmers,
and farmers themselves have
been watching farmland auctions carefully this fall in the
Midwest to pick up any pronounced weakness in the market after the sharp decrease
in grain prices from last year’s
records.
Farmland is the basic collateral for farmer loans and economists have expressed concern
for months that a farmland
“bubble” may pop as it did in
the 1980s, hurting what has
been one of the healthiest sectors of the U.S. economy.
Farm auctions
While third-quarter surveys by
the Fed bankers should allay
fears of any sharp break in U.S.
farmland prices, the autumn
harvest season in the Midwest
and Plains is usually when
most farm owners put land up
for sale. Most farmland buying
is from neighbouring farmers,
who are flush with cash at harvest.
U . S . i n t e re s t r a t e s a l s o
remain near record lows, and
grain producers have used
record prices in recent years
— fuelled by the biofuels boom
and rising exports to Asia —
to retire debt. So analysts have
said that the key indicator to
watch in the fourth quarter will
be how much land comes on
the market.
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Brazil government figures confirm
spike in Amazon deforestation
Satellite data shows a reversal in the progress towards protecting the world’s largest rainforest
By Paulo Prada
rio de janeiro / reuters / staff
D
eforestation in the Amazon
increased by nearly a third
over the past year, according to
Brazilian government figures released
Nov. 14, confirming a feared reversal
in what had been steady progress over
the past decade against destruction of
the world’s largest rainforest.
Satellite data for the 12 months
through the end of July showed that
deforestation in the region climbed by
28 per cent compared with a year earlier. Although scattered, the total land
cleared during the period amounted
to 2,256 square miles (5,843 square
km), an area bigger than Prince
Edward Island.
The figure, boosted par tly by
expanding farms and a rush for land
around big infrastructure projects, is
the second-lowest annual tally since
Brazil’s space agency began tracking
deforestation. But it fulfilled predictions by scientists and environmentalists, based on preliminary figures
compiled through the year, that
destruction was on the rise again.
“You can’t argue with numbers,”
said Marcio Astrini, co-ordinator for
the Amazon campaign at the Brazilian
chapter of Greenpeace, the environmentalist group. “This is not alarmist
— it’s a real and measured inversion
of what had been a positive trend.”
Brazil tracks the amount of land
cleared each year as part of its efforts
to protect the Amazon, a western
European-sized jungle that is an
abundant source of the world’s oxygen
and fresh water and considered by
scientists to be a crucial buffer against
climate change.
The measurement year for the satellite data starts each August, during the
Amazon dry season, when overhead
imagery is freest of clouds.
The reasons for the rebound in
deforestation are numerous. Changes
to Brazil’s forestry laws have created uncertainty among landowners
regarding the amount of woodland
they must preserve. High global prices
for agricultural commodities have
also encouraged growers to cut trees
to make way for farmland.
Loggers, squatters and others are
also rushing to exploit land around
big infrastructure projects, including
railways, roads and hydroelectric dams
under construction in the Amazon.
Izabella Teixeira, Brazil’s environment minister, dismissed criticisms
that government policies had led to
the increase. She pointed to the longterm decrease in deforestation over
the past decade and said the overall
trend was “positive.”
The government’s goal, Teixeira told
a news conference in Brasilia, “is to
eliminate illegal deforestation in the
Amazon.”
A military policeman walks past trunks of trees recently cut illegally from the Amazon
rainforest, inside Jamanxim National Park near the city of Novo Progresso, Para state. Initial
data from Brazil’s space agency suggests that destruction of the vast rainforest — the largest
in the world — spiked by more than a third over the past year, wiping out an area more than
twice the size of the city of Los Angeles. Photo: REUTERS/Nacho Doce
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olunteer firefighters racing to reach fire-threatened Vita last week passed
hundreds of vehicles headed the
other direction and wondered
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The air was so smoke filled
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ising corn acres and severe
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One thing’s for sure, waiting until Ag
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Impasse over food stamps may cripple Farm Bill progress
Decoupling consumer programs from farm supports might be the end of Farm Bills
MINNEAPOLIS / REUTERS
T
he chances of the U.S.
Congress passing a fiveyear Farm Bill by year’s
end are a little better than
50-50 given the gridlock over
food stamps for the poor, a top
farm policy expert said November 11.
“There is a slightly better
chance than 50-50 that we will
get a bill rolled into a budget at
the end of the year. But it’s no
better than that,” Barry Flinchbaugh, a Kansas State University agricultural economist who
advises legislators shaping the
U.S. Farm Bill, told Reuters on
the sidelines of a farm bankers’
meeting in Minneapolis.
The Farm Bill, already a year
behind schedule, is the master
legislation that directs government supports for farmers and
food aid programs.
The bill is now with a conference committee of 41 members
of Congress who are hammering out the difference between
the House and Senate bills. The
biggest difference: the Senate
wants a $4-billion cut from
food stamps while the House
wants to reduce the program
by $40 billion.
“Food is the only division.
The other issues can be settled,” said Flinchbaugh, citing
variations in how they address
crop insurance for farmers
along with other subsidies.
Historically, the conference
committee reconciles differences and brings a compromise to a final vote. That
process has been hampered by
the deep divisions between the
Republican-controlled House
and the Senate, where Democrats are in the majority.
“There is a way perhaps we
can get past this food stamp
gridlock. We cut food stamps
$6 billion to $8 billion and
then we put in all these caveats the far right wants to put in
the food stamp program, like
work requirements and drug
tests,” said Flinchbaugh, who
has advised on farm policy for
over 40 years.
The government extended
the expired 2008 Farm Bill last
year. Leaders of the House and
Senate agricultural committees have a self-imposed deadline of reaching agreement by
Thanksgiving and the White
House has threatened to veto a
bill with large food stamp cuts.
If Congress fails to pass a
new bill, a second extension is
likely, Flinchbaugh said.
“There is some talk we will
do that for two years because
we don’t want to be messing
with this during an election
year,” Flinchbaugh said. “Or,
we implement the permanent
legislation.”
Without a new law, U.S. farm
policy will be dictated by an
underlying 1938 permanent
law that would bring back the
concept of “price parity” which
led to sharply higher guaranteed crop prices, Flinchbaugh
said.
“It’s normally been the safeguard to push the Congress to
act,” Flinchbaugh said. “But
I’ve never seen a Congress like
this one. So it’s very hard to
predict.
“Consumers are the biggest
losers without a Farm Bill,” he
added.
Given the impasse on this
Farm Bill — which tradition-
ally has had bipartisan support
— some farm analysts are suggesting this could be the last
Farm Bill, ending 80 years of
U.S. farm policy designed to
protect farm price and income.
“If we remove food and
nutrition bills from the Farm
Bill this is the last one,” Flinchbaugh said. “If we keep the
consumer-farmer coalition
together there will be future
Farm Bills.
“There are 400 urban districts in the House of Representatives and 35 rural districts.
When you’re a minority like
farmers — granted they are
a potent minority because
they produce food — but you
remove nutrition and food
stamp programs from the Farm
Bill, the leverage is over.
“Another thing, if you take
food stamps and nutrition
programs out of the Farm Bill
you’re removing about 85 per
cent of USDA’s budget. Can
USDA sur vive with 15 per
cent of its budget? Likely not,”
Flinchbaugh said.
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Chinese state media kick into
high gear to ease GMO food fears
Winning acceptance won’t be easy in a country gripped by food scares
By David Stanway and Niu Shuping
beijing / reuters
C
hina’s state media are
w o r k i n g ov e r t i m e t o
persuade the public
that genetically modified food
is safe, apparently softening
up the population for a policy switch to allow the sale of
such food to ensure its 1.35
billion people have enough
to eat.
In the past 30 years, China’s
urban population has jumped
to about 700 million from
under 200 million, driving up
demand for meat and staples
such as rice that scientists say
only GMO can satisfy.
Imported GMO soybeans
are already used as feed for
animals but winning acceptance for the more widespread
use of GMO may be a hard sell
in a country frequently in the
grip of food scares — just this
year over baby milk powder
and chemicals in chickens, for
instance.
GMO food faces opposition
even at the top levels of Chinese bureaucracy, with a senior national security official
likening it to opium.
But state media is taking up the fight. The Comm u n i s t Pa r t y m o u t h p i e c e,
the People’s Daily on Nov. 11
rejected rumours that eating
GMO food could alter human
DNA, and news agency Xinhua ran an investigation last
week debunking tales that
GMO corn consumption had
reduced sperm counts.
Zhang Qifa, known as China’s “father of GMO r ice,”
recently criticized the Ministry of Agriculture for refusing to approve strains that
have cost billions of yuan in
research over the past decade.
Beijing granted safety certificates for its first genetically
modified rice in 2009 but has
so far refused to authorize
commercial production until
the public is onside.
The certificate for Zhang’s
pest-resistant “Bt” rice will
expire next year, meaning
researchers have to reapply, a
process that could take years.
“Right now, China’s GMO
rice production has ground to
a halt... I personally think we
have missed opportunities to
develop,” Zhang said, adding
that GMO commercialization
wasn’t a matter for the public and should begin without
delay.
Huang Dafang, a researcher
with the Biotechnology
Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, was unimpressed
with the media campaign.
“We have not seen any signs
of progress, only the continuation of the debate.”
Scientists have been at
p a i n s t o s h ow t h a t G M O
is already part of the food
chain: China is the world’s top
importer of GMO soybeans,
used as feed, and also imports
GMO corn from the United
States and elsewhere.
T h e U . S . De p a r t m e n t o f
Agriculture has forecast
China’s rice imports would
reach a record high of 3.4
million tonnes in 2013-14
and researchers say China
is facing a growing food gap
that can only be properly
addressed through the use of
GMO.
But while policy-makers
h a v e e x p re s s e d o p t i m i s m
about GMO crops and scientists have long urged the government to allow new strains
of GMO rice, Beijing will not
move until it is sure the risks
are minimal and that, crucially, the public is behind it.
A new kind of opium
T h e d e b a t e h a s n’t b e e n
entirely one-way, with influential researchers still urging
caution, especially when it
comes to staples like rice and
wheat.
“Many have said there are
no risks to GMO food but the
risks may not even be dis-
covered in three or five years
but actually over three to
five generations,” said Jiang
Changyun, research director
at the Industrial Development
Research Institute, who wants
the government to improve
food labelling so that people can decide themselves
whether to eat GMO or not.
The debate has moved into
the realms of national security, with Peng Guangqian,
deputy secretary-general of
the National Security Policy
Committee, likening GMO
food in August to a new kind
of opium being forced upon
China by western companies.
Writing in Global Times, a
tabloid backed by the People’s Daily, Peng said companies such as Monsanto and
DuPont were dumping GMO
products on China.
“Many have said there are no risks to GMO food
but the risks may not even be discovered in
three or five years but actually over three to five
generations.”
Jiang Changyun
Research director at the Industrial Development Research Institute
Wang Xiaoyu, an official
at the Heilongjiang Soybean
Association, said GMO soyoil
consumed in southern parts
of the country was linked to
high cancer rates.
However, another worry, he
conceded, was that imports of
cheap GMO soy had led to a
fall in local production, since
many planters were unable to
compete.
Huang of the Biotechnology Research Institute complained that the scientific
debate had been hijacked.
“GMO is a scientific matter and should not be debated
at the social level. If China’s Three Gorges dam and
nuclear power were decided
by p u b l i c d e b a t e, n e i t h e r
would have been established,” he said.
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Experimental bird flu vaccines
show promise in early trials
Companies are using new technologies to accelerate production
By Sharon Begley and
Ben Hirschler
NEW YORK/LONDON / REUTERS
T
he first human tests of
experimental vaccines
against a deadly strain
of avian flu, using novel technology that could produce
millions of doses very quickly,
has produced protective antibodies in the vast majority of
recipients.
Encouraging results
i n e a r l y- s t a g e t r i a l s w e re
announced for separate vaccines from Swiss drugmaker
Novartis and Novavax, a biotech company based in Rockville, Maryland.
Details of the Novavax vaccine were published online
in the New England Journal
of Medicine late on Nov. 13,
while Novartis disclosed its
positive findings the next day.
“These are ver y preliminary results, but it appears
for the first time that we may
have a vaccine that would
work against an outbreak” of
avian flu, said Robin Robinson, director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and
Development Authority, or
BARDA, the federal agency in
charge of developing countermeasures against public
health emergencies.
Because other candidate
vaccines against avian flu
have failed, “this is a ver y
important milestone,” he said.
“We have a promising vaccine
where before we had none.”
The H7N9 strain of avian
flu emerged in China last
winter. There had been 45
deaths from 137 confirmed
cases this year as of late October, according to the World
Health Organization. Cases
and deaths, often from severe
pneumonia, both peaked in
March and April.
But public health experts
fear the virus could come
storming back this flu season. After no reported cases
of H7N9 in China in August or
September, there have been
four since early October.
A mortality rate of one-third
suggests the virus is highly
lethal.
The WHO says there is currently “no indication” the
virus can be transmitted from
person to person, and so
cannot become a pandemic.
But flu strains can quickly
undergo genetic changes that
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In the Novartis clinical trial,
400 healthy adult volunteers
received two doses of either a
dummy injection (placebo) or
different formulations of the
experimental vaccine — either
with or without an adjuvant, a
chemical compound that turbocharges the immune system.
Of those given the adjuvanted vaccine, 85 per cent had a
protective immune response,
against only six per cent for
those getting the vaccine
without the adjuvant.
The Novavax study involved
284 volunteers who also
received vaccine formulations
with or without an adjuvant.
At the heart of the vaccines
are two proteins, dubbed H7
and N9, that stick out from
the virus and give it its name.
The Novavax vaccine tr iggered production of antibodies against the “H” protein in
81 per cent of the volunteers
who received the vaccine with
the high level of adjuvant, and
antibodies against the “N” in
more than 90 per cent.
Antibodies are molecules
produced by the immune system that attack invaders. The
studies did not expose volunteers to the virus, which is
considered unethical, to see
if the antibody levels warded
off infection. “But these antibody levels are very likely to
be protective,” said Dr. Louis
Fries, Novavax’s vice-president for clinical and medical
affairs, who led the Novavax
study.
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hina rejected a cargo
of U.S. corn because it
contained a genetically
modified variety that is not
approved for import, a trade
source said Nov. 18.
The shipment contained
Syngenta AG’s Agrisure Viptera
corn, also known as MIR 162,
the source said.
“It’s confirmed. It’s one cargo
and MIR 162 was the problem,”
said the source, who asked not
to be identified.
China has not yet signed off
the variety but is expected to
approve it later this year or in
2014, according to traders. It is
approved for import by numerous U.S. trading partners,
including Mexico, the European
Union and top corn importer
Japan.
“Syngenta is not aware of any
such incident,” said Paul Minehart, head of Corporate Communications-North America for
Syngenta Corporation.
Agrisure Viptera, designed
to offer enhanced protection
against crop-damaging insects,
is widely grown in the United
States so traces of the grain may
have been commingled with
approved corn strains in a shipment to China, traders said.
A bulk corn shipment from
Argentina was cleared for
import earlier this year despite
it containing traces of MIR 162.
China is expected to import
a record-high seven million
tonnes of corn in the 2013-14
marketing year, according to
the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
After shifting from a corn
exporter to a net importer in
2010, China has become one
of the world’s top three corn
markets, buying nearly all of its
imports from top exporter the
United States.
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In win for Big Oil,
U.S. proposes
biofuel mandate cuts
The EPA is seeking a 16 per cent cut
in renewable fuels goal versus the 2007 mandate
By Timothy Gardner
washington / reuters
T
he Obama administ ra t i o n h a s proposed
slashing federal requirements for U.S. biofuel use
in 2014, bowing to pressure
from the petroleum industry
and attempting to prevent
a potential fuel crunch next
year.
The Nov. 15 decision was
the first cut to renewable fuel
targets written into a 2007 law,
and was seen as a clear win
for oil refiners and a loss for
biofuel producers. It followed
a prolonged lobbying blitz on
both sides of the issue.
The plan follows the Environmental Protection
Agency’s warnings that the
country was approaching a
point where the so-called
Re n e w a b l e F u e l St a n d a rd
(RFS) would require the use
of more ethanol than can be
blended into gasoline at the
10 per cent level that dominates the U.S. fuelling infrastructure.
Re f i n e r s h a v e s a i d t h i s
“blend wall,” if left in place,
would force them to export
more fuel or produce less
gasoline, leading to shortages
and higher prices at the pump.
In response, the EPA proposed to cut overall use of
renewable fuels, made mostly
from U.S. corn and to a lesser
extent from soybeans, grasses,
crop waste and Brazilian sugarcane, to a range of 15 billion to
15.52 billion gallons.
Within that range, the
agency proposed a specific
goal of 15.21 billion gallons,
which is more than 16 per
cent less than the 18.15 billion gallons contained in the
law that governs the RFS, and
below this year’s 16.55 billion
gallons.
The proposed goal matches
the number contained in a
draft that was leaked and circulated in October.
U.S. gasoline demand had
been expected to rise every
year when Congress passed
the law in 2007, but it peaked
in 2008 and has been anemic
since, partly because fuel efficiency of U.S. cars and light
trucks has risen steadily.
“This unanticipated reduction in fuel consumption
brings us to the point where
the realities of the fuel market
must be addressed to properly
implement the program,” a
senior administration official
told reporters in a teleconference about the proposal.
The impending blend wall
problem had led to a surge
in prices for ethanol credits,
known as renewable identification numbers or RINs,
from a few cents a year ago to
almost $1.50 at mid-year.
The surge had threatened to
push up gasoline prices as the
extra RINS costs for refiners
would have been passed on to
consumers.
The proposed change in
advanced biofuels implies a
corn ethanol mandate of 12.7
billion to 13.2 billion gallons,
down from the previous 2014
mandate of 14.4 billion gallons.
“We are astounded by the
p r o p o s a l re l e a s e d by t h e
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n t o d a y. I t
reflects an ‘all of the above,
except biofuels’ energy strategy,” said Fuels America, a
coalition of alternative energy
producers.
The group termed the blend
wall a fictional narrative, “created by the oil industry to stifle competition.”
The EPA expects to release
a final rule next spring after
a 60-day public comment
per iod. After that ethanol
backers could unleash legal
challenges to soften or reverse
the changes.
Raw corn is shown as it is unloaded for processing at the Lincolnway Energy
plant in the town of Nevada, Iowa, Dec. 6, 2007. The U.S. is moving to lower
required biofuel use, which is lowering demand for corn and soybeans used
to produce it. photo: REUTERS/Jason Reed
Corn falls to new lows
Biofuels stocks were mixed following the announcement. Chicago corn futures fell to new
lows for the day, down 1.1 per
cent at $4.21-3/4 per bushel,
although the impact was muted
because the Nov. 15 announcement was similar to the leaked
proposal from October. Prices
this month hit their lowest
point in more than three years.
The price of soybeans, used to
make biodiesel, dropped 2.5 per
cent.
Biofuels backers were livid at
the announcement.
A representative for Archer
Daniels Midland Co., one of
the largest ethanol producers,
said companies had invested
in renewable fuel projects “on
the basis of firm legislative
commitments” and across two
presidential administrations,
presidents Barack Obama and
George W. Bush.
A lower mandate to produce corn-based ethanol could
cost grain growers at the farm
gate. Livestock producers, by
contrast, were jubilant at the
prospect of lower feed prices,
but called on lawmakers to do
more.
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China doesn’t want to keep them
down on the farm
The government would like more workers in cities, but farmers have no incentive to give up title to their land
By Kevin Yao
chengdu, china /reuters
T
an Yingyu is one of China’s
200 million migrant workers and like many he is
stuck: he does not want to return
to his village but also cannot
become a legal resident in the
city of Chengdu, where he has
worked for nearly 20 years.
His dilemma highlights a
key issue for China’s reformist
leaders as they look for ways to
encourage more people to move
to cities to help turn a creditand investment-driven economy into a consumer-powered
one.
If rural Chinese are given formal rights to their land, they
could cash in its value and feel
more secure about moving to
work in cities. If they are given
residency status in cities, rather
than having it tied to their home
village, they would have access
to social welfare, making it more
likely they would spend more or
move their family to live in the
cities too.
Without reform of land and
residency rights, a government
urbanization drive may fall
behind, endangering broader
economic reform and even risking social unrest.
“I won’t go back to work the
land, but I cannot afford to buy
a property here — prices are too
high,” said Tan, pointing to towering apartment blocks in the
southwestern city of Chengdu.
Top leaders are meeting in
secret in Beijing to plot an economic agenda for the next decade, and will be looking at pilot
schemes in Chengdu and elsewhere that are testing land and
residency reform for clues on
what changes to make.
But the Chengdu pilot program and others that allow
farmers to lease or sell their land
have shown the process is slow
and tangled with problems.
Reforms in the 1980s assigned
farmland to households but
reserved formal ownership to
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“I won’t go back to
work the land, but I
cannot afford to buy
a property here —
prices are too high.”
Tan Yingyu
the village collective. Land certificates are imprecise at best and
many rural households lack documentation, although Beijing
has tasked the provinces with
registering title to land nationwide over the next five years.
The lack of clear land rights
makes many farmers vulnerable
to land grabs by local administrations for development, a
major source of government revenue and equally a major source
of discontent among farmers
who say they are not compensated fairly.
Another dilemma
Closely tied to land reform is
a need to relax a rigid household registration system, which
means Tan has no access to
social welfare, such as medical
care, outside of his home village.
The lack of status reduces the
incentive for rural Chinese to
move to urban areas.
Tan does not want to formally cut his ties with his village
because he cannot sell the fifth
of a hectare of land his family
has tended for more than 50
years. It is now looked after by a
relative.
But until he cuts his ties, he
cannot register as a resident
of Chengdu, where he trades
in second-hand furniture and
appliances.
Land reform and household
registration are two key issues
if China is to succeed in its plan
to persuade 390 million rural
dwellers — equivalent to the
U.S. population — to migrate to
urban areas.
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Land reform and household registration are two key issues if China is to succeed in its plan to persuade 390 million
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That itself is central to the
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for new economic drivers after
three decades of double-digit
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Even if farmers or rural households do not want to lease or sell
their land, the lack of recognized
legal rights reduces their incentive to develop businesses where
they live.
The pilot programs in
Chengdu and other cities have
been testing reforms of the
established land rules, rooted in
China communist ideology, and
the household registration system, which dates back to 1958.
The project in Chengdu allows
farmers or village landholders
to sell their land rights on an
exchange, getting cash in return.
But the watchword is caution.
“The steps cannot be too big,”
said Hou Peng, a senior offi-
cial at the Chengdu Agriculture
Equity Exchange.
“Land reforms are very complicated. The interests of many
people will be affected,” Hou
told Reuters in an interview
inside the exchange’s new building, where big electronic screens
display land deals.
Hou said land reform has to
be gradual to maintain social
stability by ensuring farmers do
not rush to sell their land before
they have secured long-term
jobs in cities. The last thing that
the central government would
want is cities filling rapidly with
unemployed migrants.
Collateral
One option being considered
is to allow farmers to use land
rights to secure bank loans, or
turn them into shares in largescale farming companies, government economists say.
Possibly the biggest difficulty
reformers have to overcome is
an inherent conflict of interest
on the part of local authorities
where migrants are registered.
Compensating them fairly for
land sales would help achieve
national urbanization goals. But
seizure of farmland by local governments, with little or no compensation, is widespread and
sparks tens of thousands of protests a year.
A Tsinghua University survey
showed that 64 million Chinese
households have had their land
seized or homes demolished over
decades of rapid urbanization,
leaving many feeling disaffected.
“The government says it is
building the new countryside,
but the purpose is to appropriate our land for their own development,” said one 62-year-old
farmer. His house was demolished earlier this year and he has
been promised a new home in
two or three years.
Eli Lilly unit raises prices on
ractopamine, farm animal drugs
Demand has surged after a competing product was pulled off the market
By P.J. Huffstutter
chicago / reuters
E
li Lilly & Co.’s Elanco
A n i m a l He a l t h u n i t
will raise the price of
its beta-agonist feed supplements by two to three per
cent on Nov. 26 amid strong
demand from beef feedlots,
a company spokeswoman
told Reuters Nov. 13.
The price increase —
which the company said
will apply to all of Eli Lilly’s
products for cattle, hogs
and other food animals —
comes amid strong demand
for its Optaflexx ractopamine-based feed additive for cattle, which helps
bulk up the amount of meat
on a beef carcass prior to
slaughter.
T h e m ov e i s p a r t o f a
review of its agricultural
product pricing, market
conditions and production
costs that Elanco regularly
conducts for all products,
said company spokeswoman Colleen Parr Dekker.
The price increase, though,
will not apply to newer
non - b e t a g o n i s t p ro d u c t s
released in 2012 or this year,
she said.
S a l e s o f E l a n c o’s c a t tle feed additive Optaflexx
in the United States began
surging in late August,
a f t e r r i v a l Me rc k & C o.
announced its decision to
temporarily suspend sales
of its Zilmax beta-agonist
additive. Merck’s announcement came after meat processor Tyson Foods said it
would stop buying Zilmaxfed cattle amid concerns the
livestock drug was potentially causing health problems for some cattle.
E lanco’s pr ice increase
will likely not have much of
an impact on meat producers, nor cool demand for the
drug-maker’s beta-agonist
feed products — particularly among cattle feedlot
owners. Retail beef prices
re m a i n a t re c o rd h i g h s ,
w h i l e t h e n a t i o n’s c a t t l e
herd is the lowest level in
more than 60 years.
E l a n c o “ i s c l e a r l y t a king advantage of the lack
of competition” for betaagonists,” said Jim Robb,
director of the Livestock
Marketing Information
Center in Denver, Colorado.
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CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S
Shelterbelts suffer from being
a public service in private hands
Survey identifies social benefits of shelterbelts, but finds less value as an agricultural asset
co-operator staff
R
photo: laura Rance
e s u l t s f r o m a s m a l l s u r v e y,
answered mostly by farmers in a
southern Manitoba municipality,
may give others reason to rethink the
role of shelterbelts on their farms.
The esthetics and ‘a sense of place’
provided by shelterbelts are their main
benefit, said over half of the respondents who say it’s the broader community that benefits most from the presence of trees in the rural landscape.
T h e re s u l t s we re g l e a n e d f ro m
responses of 103 residents of the Rural
Municipality of Stanley in a survey asking questions about the multiple functions of shelterbelts.
It was conducted by master’s of
science candidate with B.C.-based
Royal Roads University Louise Bellet
for her soon-to-be-published thesis
and done with help from the Stanley
Soil Management Association and the
municipality.
Three hundred surveys were mailed
out and 103 responded. Most respondents were male and over the age of 50.
Bellet’s research cites many of the
ecosystem-enhancing functions of
shelterbelts, including their role in sustaining soil biological activity and providing habitat pollinators such as bees
and birds.
Her survey has additionally quantified the social and ecological services
of shelterbelts.
Taken together, Bellet said the results
show shelterbelts provide conservation and societal benefits as well as
agricultural.
“Shelterbelts benefit the whole community and the sustainable management of the landscape,” she said.
“And it’s important to remember who
answered the survey. It is acreage owners and farmers predominantly. They
recognize that shelterbelts play this
important role.”
The survey asked questions about
the perceived benefits and risks associated with shelterbelts. People were
asked to rank their responses.
Not surprisingly, most rank soil conservation and erosion control as the
shelterbelt’s most important function,
Bellet said.
“Soil conservation was ranked the
highest at an 8.8 out of 10,” she said.
“It’s the most well-known function of
shelterbelts. When people think shelterbelt they think soil.”
Other functions largely related to
agricultural productivity, including
ecosystem enhancement were also
ranked highly.
But they also cause problems related
to their interference with farm equipment, and debris, weeds and snow that
accumulates in the row.
The main risk associated with
removing them wasn’t soil erosion,
however. Most respondents just said
losing trees from the landscape makes
it a windier environment, Bellet said.
They also said it was a loss of bird
habitat.
The majority (64 per cent) of
respondents said the wider community
benefits most from shelterbelts and
nearly three-quarters ranked the overall importance of shelterbelts to the
municipality at seven or higher.
“Having this structure of trees in the
landscape really helps connect people,
and promote a sense of place and welcome,” she said.
By contrast, just 27 per cent said the
main benefits of shelterbelts accrue
to farmers and only nine per cent said
shelterbelts provide environmental
benefits.
Bellet said results raise the question of how, if trees on the rural landscape have value to others besides the
farmer, the wider public contribute to
their maintenance. Right now, people
perceive shelterbelts as a private landowner’s property, she said, adding that
people don’t feel they are entitled to
say what farmers should do on their
own land.
“People do say they are sad when
they see a shelterbelt being pulled
over, but there’s been very little voice
expressing disagreement about what’s
going on.”
There’s also the question of the wider
public’s willingness to pay to maintain
shelterbelts.
“Pretty much 50 per cent of people
were not willing, and 50 per cent were
willing to pay,” she said. She thinks the
responses may reflect both difficulty
understanding how to put a money
value on trees or how the public would
pay. But it also boils down to these
being private assets with wider perceived public benefits.
Respondents said local municipalities are the key agency that can influence how farmers manage trees.
Bellet said she hopes her research
will expand the definition of a shelterbelt and encourage more thinking
around community-wide stewardship
incentives to help conserve them.
“ The definition of a shelterbelt
shouldn’t be about just windbreaks and
soil protection,” she said.
“It should be about the whole benefit
they provide to the community, as something that makes the prairie thrive.”
Her recommendations include developing a land planning guide for farmers for future optimal placement of
shelterbelts. She also recommends that
specific supports be made available
to farmers to maintain and renovate
shelterbelts.
Richard Warkentin, a technician
with the Stanley Soil Management
Association, said Bellet’s survey results
support its work.
Unfortunately, right now it’s considerably easier to hire a bulldozer and
crew to have trees taken out than it is
to trim, thin and maintain tree rows,
he said.
“There’s a big lack of decent equipment that can renovate shelterbelts
rather than eliminate them.”
As long as farmers see more benefit in removing shelterbelts, and lack
these supports to maintain them, the
net loss will continue, he said.
“Certainly we see more coming down
than going in,” he said.
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Fair trade for your table
Manitoba Council for International Co-operation wants us to think
about the benefits that come from fair trade product purchases
Lorraine Stevenson
Crossroads Recipe Swap
B
ridgehead coffee kept me awake for
years.
Now that I’m out of university, I
no longer need it to pull all-nighters when
writing term papers due the next day.
But I still drink fair trade coffee. Today
it’s Kicking Horse, a brew sold by the B.C.
company of the same name and one of many
trying to get a better deal for the world’s 25
million coffee farmers.
Annual coffee consumption worldwide is
around 400 billion cups — that’s 12,000 cups
per second — but the financial return for
growing the labour-intensive crop is often
meagre.
A fair trade approach means paying a
guaranteed minimum price and also entering
into longer-term trading relationships that
provide other benefits to farmers.
This month, the Manitoba Council for
International Co-operation (MCIC) is
reminding us what the impact of switching
our purchases to fair trade products can
have.
Its ‘Fair Trade Challenge’ asks Manitobans
to sign up for 30 days and commit to
consuming products certified as ‘Fairtrade’
in a ‘core challenge’ (coffee, tea and
chocolate for 30 days) or a school challenge
(be ‘fair aware for three minutes a day’).
There are also office, holiday and baker
challenges.
About 1,000 Manitobans have signed up
for one or more of the challenges. The baker
challenge has been especially popular, with
nearly 90 people committed to using the fair
trade ingredients in their home baking.
More fair trade products are now
available to more people so this is a good
way to raise awareness about it, said MCIC
director Janice Hamilton. Your local co-op
likely stocks certified fair trade coffee
and chocolate nowadays. Other fair trade
products such as sugar, spices, cocoa, dried
fruit, and olive oil are also now available
either online or through stores committed
to local products. Vita Health and some
Mennonite Central Committee thrift shops
carry fair trade products, as do chains such as
Costco, Safeway and Sobeys.
Demand for fair trade products is growing
because more people appreciate their
impact, said Hamilton.
“It’s when people become aware of the
difference it can make in the producer’s life,
that they are more interested in doing it, even
if it costs a little bit more,” she said. “People
send their kids to school when they have a
little more money.”
When the appalling use of child labour
in cocoa harvests of the Ivory Coast was
exposed in the early 2000s, a lot of us started
to think twice about a simple purchase of a
chocolate bar, for example. Fairtrade-certified
alternatives now available include chocolate
from the U.K. company Green & Black’s;
Camino, a Canadian brand; and the Fairtradecertified Dairy Milk line from Cadbury.
Companies must register with Fairtrade
Canada in order to use the Fairtrade logo
on products sold in this country. The
certification ensures that products are
coming from suppliers that meet specific
standards around labour law, environmental
sustainability and business governance.
The 26 Fairtrade-certified wines
available through Manitoba Liquor Control
Commission stores, for example, come
from wineries where employees share in the
profits and have input into the company’s
decision-making. Liquor Marts have been
recognized twice by Fairtrade Canada for
its commitment to carrying these products,
and so has Fresh Carrot in Gimli and Ten
Thousand Villages in Winnipeg. Gimli, by the
way, is one of 17 official fair trade towns in
Canada, which means its local council uses
Fairtrade-certified products and supports
other fair trade initiatives in the community.
MCIC’s Fair Trade Challenges wrap up at
month’s end. But the seasonal spend-a-thon
called Christmas is beginning. It’s a good
time to be thinking about how our dollars
can make a difference in other farmers’ lives.
Want to learn more?
• www.fairtrademanitoba.ca
You can learn more about the Fair
Trade Challenge and other activities in
Manitoba at this site.
• www.FairTradeCanada.ca
You’ll find more product info, a fair
trade finder, and recipes on this site. It
also explains the certification process in
detail.
• www.cftn.ca
This is the website for the Canadian Fair
Trade Network.
• www.lasiembra.com/camino/
This website belongs to Camino, a
Canadian brand of fair trade products.
You can find baking products to shop
online for at this site.
Shorter days and colder temperatures mean it’s time to eat hearty.
This dish is easy to make and works for supper, breakfast or brunch.
Beefy Huevos Rancheros
If you prefer a smoky, fiery version, add a teaspoon or so chopped canned chipotle peppers.
1 lb. extra-lean or lean ground sirloin
1 large sweet pepper, diced
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 can (14 oz./398 ml) tomato sauce
1-1/2 c. frozen corn kernels
1 c. shredded mild cheddar cheese
1 large onion, diced
2 tbsp. chili powder
1 can (28 oz./796 ml) diced tomatoes
1 can (19 oz./ 540 ml) kidney or black beans, drained and rinsed
6 eggs
Cook beef, onion, sweet pepper, chili powder and cumin in large deep skillet or sauté pan over mediumhigh heat for eight to 10 minutes or until meat is thoroughly cooked and any liquid has evaporated. Drain
if necessary. Stir in tomatoes, tomato sauce, beans and corn. Cook over medium-high heat until boiling.
Reduce heat to medium; simmer, covered, for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Spread into a 9x13-inch
baking dish. Make 6 to 8 wells in meat mixture; gently break an egg into each; sprinkle cheese over top.
Bake in 400 F (200 C) oven until chili is bubbling and until egg whites are set, about 25 minutes.
PHOTO: THINKSTOCK
Source: Canada Beef Inc. (www.beefinfo.org)
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“
W
hat are you drawing sweetheart?”
Jennifer Jackson turned her attention
from her own half-finished work of art
to study the work her little niece Allison was
intently concentrating on beside her. Allison
paused, her bright-red crayon poised over the
sheet of copy paper on the table in front of her.
“A picture,” she said.
“Well sure enough, it IS a picture,” said Jennifer
leaning in for a closer look. “But what is it a picture
of?”
Allison gave a little giggle. “I don’t know that,”
she said. “It isn’t finished. But it looks like it’s going
to be something red.”
“Maybe it’ll be Clifford,” said Jennifer. “The big
red dog.”
Allison shook her head. “I can’t make Clifford the
big red dog, because my paper isn’t big enough.” She
put down her crayon. “I need another colour. Maybe
yellow.” She rummaged through the crayons on the
table and picked up a green one. “Or blue,” she said.
“That’s a green one,” said Jennifer.
Allison studied it for a moment. “It might be
blue,” she said, and bent over her picture once
more.
Jennifer returned to her own work and there was
a brief period of silence while they concentrated
on drawing.
“I was a blue jay,” said Allison.
“Were you really?” said Jennifer. “When were you
a blue jay?”
“On Hawolleen,” said Allison.
“Halloween, you mean,” said Jennifer.
“I told Mommy I wanted to be a blue jay and she
said she didn’t know how to make a blue jay costume. So Daddy said she should make a big blue
letter ‘j’ and put it on me and then when people
asked what I was I could just say I was a blue ‘j.’”
Allison stopped working for a second to look at her
picture. “It IS green,” she said. “I thought it might
be blue.”
“Did you have fun on Halloween?” asked
Jennifer.
“I got lots of candy at the mall,” said Allison. “But
I was a little bit sad,” she added.
“Oh? Why were you sad?” said Jennifer.
“Because I didn’t get any money,” said Allison.
“People don’t give out money on Halloween,”
said Jennifer. “They only give candy. And anyway,
if you already got lots of candy why would you
need money?”
The
Jacksons
BY ROLLIN PENNER
“I like money,” said Allison.
“What do you do with it?” Jennifer wanted
to know.
“I p u t i t i n m y p o c k e t ,” s a i d A l l i s o n .
“Sometimes I like to take it out of my pocket,
and then I put it back in.”
Jennifer reached into the pocket of her
jeans. “Would you like to have a nickel?” she
said.
Allison stopped colouring and looked up at
Jennifer. “Is that money?” she said.
Jennifer nodded and put a nickel on the
table in front of her niece. “You can have it,”
she said.
“Why?” asked Allison.
“Because I like you,” said Jennifer. “And I
don’t like nickels.”
Allison picked up the coin. “How come you
don’t like nickels?” she asked.
“Um… because I don’t like the picture,”
said Jennifer. “It’s a picture of a big ugly bucktoothed rodent, you know.”
Allison studied the coin for a moment. “The
other side has a beaver,” she said.
Jennifer laughed out loud. “You’re hilarious,” she said. “I just love babysitting you.”
“ You shouldn’t call it babysitting,” said
Allison. “I’m not a baby anymore.”
“That’s true,” said Jennifer.
“Andy is a baby,” said Allison. “That’s why
he’s still sleeping. Watch this,” she added, as
she scribbled rapidly on her picture. “I can
draw really fast. Fifty kilometres an hour. Can I
have a cookie?”
“Can I have a cookie what?” said Jennifer.
“Please,” said Allison.
“Yes you can,” said Jennifer. “You can have
a cookie. And you can have milk with it if you
want.”
“OK,” said Allison. “Where’s Mommy?” she
added.
“Your Mommy and Daddy went to a movie
with my Mommy and Daddy,” said Jennifer.
“You mean with Grandma and Grandpa,”
said Allison.
“Yes that’s what I mean,” said Jennifer.
“I like movies,” said Allison. “My favourite
movie is ‘Nemo.’ Did you see ‘Nemo’ once?”
“I saw it with you last week,” said Jennifer. “I
like it a lot.” She set a plate and a cup in front
of Allison. “There’s your cookie and your milk,”
she said.
Allison looked up. “Thank you,” she said. “I
just love your face,” she added.
Jennifer smiled. “That’s nice,” she said.
“What do you like about it?”
Allison thought about that for a second. “I
don’t like anything about it,” she said. “I just
love the way it looks.”
Jennifer reached over and tousled the little
girl’s hair. “Well, I love everything about you,”
she said.
Allison reached for the plate. “I know,” she
said. “But right now I have to eat a cookie.”
Jennifer smiled. “Yes you do, darling,” she
said. “Yes you do.”
Looking for an unusual plant?
Prayer plant will provide eye-catching foliage and interesting behaviour
By Albert Parsons
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
W
e indoor gardeners are always
on the lookout for unusual
plants, but often what we are
seeking is some unique feature in their
appearance. Rarely do we even think
about how a plant behaves. We tend to
consider them as living things that just
sit there and grow, while we appreciate
their foliage and/or bloom.
A few plants, however, are renowned
for their actions, most notably several
carnivorous plants that have gained
notoriety. There is a plant whose
actions are quite unique, and it does
not come with the reputation of its carnivorous cousins — nor does it come
with the unpleasant smell associated
with many such plants.
The name says it all — the prayer
plant. This plant (its proper name is
Maranta, although sometimes it is
called Calathea) has the unusual habit
of folding up its leaves every evening
just like it is praying. The following
morning it will open its leaves once
This is a popular plant for both its foliage and
unique behaviour. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
more for a day before folding them up
in prayer again as evening approaches.
We are all familiar with the photosensitive reactions of plants: the
turning of sunflower heads to constantly face the sun; the budding of
Christmas cactus plants as daylight
hours decrease in the fall; or the col-
our change in the bracts of poinsettias
when they are subjected to long periods of darkness.
The behaviour of the prayer plant is
unique, however, in the movement of
its foliage as a reaction to decreased
light as night approaches. Its leaves
are produced in pairs on its short
stems so that each leaf has a partner
immediately beside it so that they
can close onto each other.
While the leaf behaviour is what
attracts us to the plant, the leaf colour is also a drawing card. The leaves
are dark green with bright-red veining and/or darker green spots. The
leaves are oval and about eight to
12 cm long. Although the plant may
flower, the flowers — which are pink
— are small and insignificant.
Prayer plants are small and compact, suitable for tabletop display,
and they are good houseplants
b e c a u s e t h e y a re c o m f o r t a b l e i n
temperatures that are found in
our homes during the winter. They
like moderate to low, indirect light
so they can be displayed in many
locations in the home and are not
restricted to just the windowsill.
In fact, the windowsill may not be
the best place for prayer plants as they
object to fluctuations in temperature,
which might easily occur near windows in the winter. They like humidity
and moist soil — the soil should not be
allowed to dry out, although it should be
kept evenly moist, not sodden.
The most common complaint about
prayer plants is the browning of leaf
edges. To avoid this problem do not
let the soil become dry, mist the plant
regularly — or more conveniently,
use a pebble tray, do not locate the
plant in too bright light, and leach the
soil of a buildup of salts regularly by
allowing water to run through the soil
and out the pot’s drainage holes. Any
brown edges can be made less noticeable by trimming them off with a pair
of sharp scissors. If you want a plant
with both eye-catching foliage and
unique behaviour, try a prayer plant.
Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa,
Manitoba
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Reena answers more questions
Plus, reader feedback and some handy tips
Reena Nerbas
Household Solutions
Dear Reena,
Any tips on how to keep my potatoes fresh
for a long period of time? I am tired of
throwing out potatoes.
– Thanks, Borcan
Hi Borcan,
When storing potatoes choose ones that
are firm and free of sprouts, green skin
or spots. Green potatoes may contain a
substance called solanine, which is bitter and can be toxic. If potatoes have
turned green, trim off the green areas
before using. To prevent potatoes from
greening, they should be stored in a
dark, cool place that is well ventilated.
Potato sprouts are poisonous; cut off
the sprouts and the potatoes are fine for
eating. Store an apple with potatoes to
prevent sprouting. When a potato grows
an “eye” the potato starts to shrivel. This
means the potato shrinks and the outside
skin gets old… just like people. Next time
you see a potato growing an “eye,” take
a knife and cut the eye off. The potato
will not shrivel up as quickly. Avoid storing potatoes with onions, because when
close together, they produce gases that
spoil both.
Tater Tips:
• No need to throw potatoes or potato
peels into the garbage, they are easy
to compost. In the winter collect left
over fruits and veggies into an empty
ice-cream bucket and leave outside
to freeze. When spring arrives; dump
the contents of your buckets into your
compost pile.
• Use boiled potato water to kill weeds or
to make yummy-tasting gravy.
• After you empty the water out from
boiled potatoes, place the saucepan
over low heat back onto the stove and
shake the potatoes a few times. This
prevents potatoes from sticking and
keeps them fluffy.
• Instead of boiling potatoes for just one
meal; boil additional potatoes with
their jackets on. Once cooked, store
them in the fridge. Next time you
decide to make potato casserole, potato
soup or potato salad, prep is a cinch.
Taken from: Household Solutions 2 with
Kitchen Secrets.
Don’t store potatoes with onions, because when close together, they produce gases that spoil both. photo: THINKSTOCK
Hi Reena,
I need a suggestion for a painless way
to remove bandages. My eight-year-old
screams every time I begin to pull the
bandage off.
– All the best, Vanessa
Hi Vanessa,
Dip a cotton ball or cotton swab in oil
(olive or baby) and rub it against the bandage. This will allow the bandage to fall off.
Another option is to remove the bandage
after she has taken a warm bath; water and
warmth help loosen the glue that holds
bandages onto skin.
Dear Reena,
hint is to secure lids on pens when not in
use. A home-schooling teacher once told
me that she always keeps ballpoint ink
pens in sealable bags when not in use to
keep them working longer.
Dear Reena,
I am a seamstress and often use velvet
ribbon for finishing edges of dresses and
blouses. Often the ribbon frays, unravels and curls up, leaving the ends unfinished looking. Your input would be much
appreciated!
– Thank you, Mavis
Hello Mavis,
How can I prevent my ballpoint ink pens
from drying out? It seems that in the winter
they stop working after only three or four
uses. Love your books.
– Mariam
Good for you for keeping up the art of
handmade apparel! When you prepare velvet ribbon for cutting, run a bead of clear
nail polish across the ends. After it dries,
cut through the coated area. Your edges
will no longer fray, ravel or curl.
Dear Mariam,
Fabulous Feedback from Readers:
The ballpoint pen has replaced the fountain pen as the most popular tool for
everyday writing, due to its reliability and
convenience. When it comes to most things
in life you often get what you pay for, and
ballpoint ink pens are no exception. One
I recently received this little anonymous gem
on my voicemail:
Hi Reena,
Just want to let you know that last week I
noticed ballpoint ink on my leather couch.
Freelance contributor
• Since I have hard water,
when canning, I add 2 tbsp.
vinegar to the pot when
boiling snap lids, 2 to 3
tbsp. into the canner, and
2 tbsp. into the pot when
blanching tomatoes. This
softens the water and eliminates the hard water scum.
• For cleaning stove burner
pans, grimy oven windows
or burnt casserole dishes,
mix a thin paste of equal
parts of white vinegar and
cream of tartar and apply.
Leave on for 30 minutes
or more and clean with a
scouring pad, rinsing with
cool water.
Lemons are useful for so
many things:
• Rub lemon juice into cutting boards to eliminate
odours, or to get rid of
stains. Leave until odour is
gone or stain disappears.
• For fridge odours, pour
lemon juice on cloth or
sponge and leave in fridge
till odour is gone.
• Use 1/4 cup lemon juice per
wash load to get a cleaner
wash (vinegar gets the
same result).
• Rubbing with lemon juice
disinfects germy hands.
• Wipe the stains on counters
Tips of the Week:
• When using paint trays for household
painting jobs, try slipping an empty
(and very clean) plastic bag over the
tray before pouring paint. Instead of
having a paint tray to clean up, it’s a
simple job to remove the plastic bag
and discard.
• Buff out scuffs on suede using a cardboard emery board or a piece of light
sandpaper. Proceed gently, making
sure not to damage suede. Or place the
affected area of the suede over steam
from a kettle of boiling water to raise
the nap and then carefully brush out
with a suede brush.
• Before filling a plant container with potting soil, first lay a coffee filter on the
bottom inside of the pot and then add
the soil on top. This will prevent the soil
from draining out of the drainage holes
when you water the plant.
I enjoy your questions and tips, keep them coming.
Missed a column? Can’t remember a solution? Need
a speaker for an upcoming event? Check out my
videos/blog/website: reena.ca.
Reader’s Photo
Handy hints for the home
By Joanne Rawluk
I used non-bleach, non-gel toothpaste on
the area and the ink came out instantly!
with lemon juice to clean
and disinfect. If the stains
are stubborn, mix in vinegar
and water to wipe down.
• Put 1/2 lemon inside a
chicken when roasting for
flavouring and tenderizing.
Can also mix lemon juice
with your favourite herbs
and rub under the skin for
more flavour and to retain
moisture.
• A cut lemon on top rack of
the dishwasher is a good
rinse agent. Secure it so
it stays put through the
cycles.
Joanne Rawluk writes from
Gypsumville, Manitoba
This one didn’t make it off the tree before the snow. PHOTO: CINDY MURRAY

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