changes to cost sharing could hit manitoba hard

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SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | Vol. 73, No. 7
Pork producers
warned of
difficult year
ahead
Hog profits last year will
shrink in 2015
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Changes to cost sharing
could hit Manitoba hard
Federal government changes DFAA, increases amount provinces
must pay to trigger for federal disaster relief payouts
By Ron Friesen
Co-operator contributor
D
espite racking up
solid profits in 2014,
Manitoba hog farmers
face an uncertain year ahead
because of falling prices, risi n g f e e d c o s t s a n d p ro blems in financing new barn
construction.
Last year was a turning point
for Manitoba’s long-suffering
pork producers, who finally saw
a return to profitability after
years of low prices, high costs
and crushing debt.
But a financial model developed for the Manitoba Pork
Council by Meyer Norris Penny
estimates the average margin
for a finished pig in 2015 will
plunge to $7.48 from $55.31 the
year before.
Average revenues of $203.69
per pig experienced in 2014 are
expected to drop by nearly 20
per cent to $163.71 this year,
while the cost of feed is predicted to rise by over eight per
cent.
Meanwhile, Manitoba continues to experience a serious
shortage of pigs because hog
barns emptied in recent years
are not being replaced.
Producers used money from
profits in 2014 to pay down
debt and restore some equity
in their operations, said Andrew
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The federal government says it’s moving to a model that will allow better planning for and prevention of flood risks. photo: manitoba government
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
F
loods and other disasters are
about to become even more
expensive for Manitobans.
That’s the inevitable outcome of a
federal government change to how it
contributes to disaster financial assistance, say provincial and municipal
leaders.
Canada’s Minister of Public Safety
and Emergency Preparedness Steven
Blaney announced changes last month
to federal Disaster Financial Assistance
Arrangements (DFAA). As of Feb. 1, the
province’s threshold for eligibility for
federal disaster assistance has risen
significantly.
That means Manitobans are on the
hook for more of the cost of a disaster
before the rest of Canada steps in to
help, said Premier Greg Selinger.
“Under the new rules, a disaster in
Manitoba would have to reach $3.9
million before federal cost sharing
would begin. The previous limit was
$1.3 million,” he said in a news release.
“The 90-10 cost-sharing formula,
where the federal government pays 90
per cent of the costs, won’t kick in until
Manitoba’s costs reach almost $20 million,” he added.
“The previous threshold was $6.5
million. The impact to rural and northern communities in particular will be
significant.”
Selinger said if these changes had
been in effect back to 2000 they would
have cost the province an additional
$54.9 million.
This is the first time the federal government has updated DFAA
since 1970. It is part of Ottawa’s plans
to roll out its new National Disaster
Mitigation Program on April 1. That
program will stream more money into
flood prevention, and it also lays the
groundwork for introducing a new residential flood insurance program in
Canada, a federal news release stated.
“We are shifting from a reactive
model to one that allows us to better
identify, plan for, and prevent flood
risks and the costs to Canadians that
come with them,” said Blaney in the
same release.
Municipal leaders are nervous that
this is going to mean higher costs to
them too, said Joe Masi, executive
director of the Association of Manitoba
Municipalities.
Municipalities’ share has been
capped at $5 per person in the event
there are damages from flooding.
That’s been much better than having to pay a percentage of disaster
costs, which can be highly variable, he
added.
“The way the formula has worked
over the years has been very good,” he
said.
But this new federal-provincial formula could lead to municipalities having to contribute more upfront costs
too, he said.
See DFAA CHANGES on page 7 »
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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 12, 2015
INSIDE
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Beef sustainability
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Chocolate snorting offers
new way to a cocoa high
Feds and province
fund demo sites
near Brandon
Selections include chocolate flavoured with bacon and onion,
oysters and even grass
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By Miranda Alexander-Webber
Bruges, Belgium / Reuters
CROPS
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Good news for
soy growers
MPGA research says
you can cut inoculants
and fungicides
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FEATURE
You can ‘save’
seed but…
8
KAP hears Bill C-18
wording is ‘convoluted’
CROSSROADS
Students discuss
world hunger
Ag in the Classroom
shows how the
world eats lunch
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Editorials
Comments
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Livestock Markets
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Grain Markets
Weather Vane
Classifieds
Sudoku
hen Belgian chocolatier Dominique
Persoone created a chocolate-sniffing device for a Rolling Stones party
in 2007, he never imagined demand would
stretch much beyond the rock ’n’ roll scene.
But, seven years later, he has sold 25,000 of
them.
Inspired by a device his grandfather used
to propel tobacco snuff up his nose, Persoone
created a ‘Chocolate Shooter’ to deliver a hit
of Dominican Republic or Peruvian cocoa
powder, mixed with mint and either ginger or
raspberry.
“The mint and the ginger really tickle your
nose,” the 46-year-old said in his chocolate
factory in the medieval city of Bruges. “Then
the mint flavour goes down and the chocolate
stays in your brain.”
Tattoo-clad Persoone, who has collaborated with celebrated chefs such as The Fat
Duck’s Heston Blumenthal and elBulli’s Ferran
and Albert Adria, has a history of culinary
innovation.
Alongside the classics, he has created chocolates flavoured with bacon and onion, oysters and even grass.
It took some perfecting to create the snorting powder as chocolate itself was too dry.
Before the successful formula was discovered,
Persoone used a mix that included chili pepper.
“It’s a very bad idea,” he said.
The chocolate shooters, which sell for
A Belgian chocolatier has sold 25,000 of his sniffing
devices.
45 euros (C$64) each, have been exported
to Russia, India, Canada, Australia and the
United States.
The packaging bears a warning against
excessive sniffing, but Persoone insists it is safe.
He was inspired by the role of the nose when
tasting food and, he says, a certain idea of fun.
“The mentality when you think about sniffing is: ‘Oh it’s kinky, guys who do that stuff...’”
Persoone said.
“I’m not the bad boy promoting drugs, not
at all... Life is boring. Let’s have fun.”
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Weekly, not yearly rail performance
key to grain shippers: WGEA
The Ag Transport Coalition’s second weekly report on rail service
shows the railways aren’t meeting demand
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
“We can’t discuss averages
or talk about annual totals.
We have to talk about
performance on a weekby-week basis and this
report does that.”
C
anada’s railways say they are moving more grain than a year ago,
but still aren’t meeting grain shippers’ demands, according to the latest weekly railway performance report
prepared by QGI Consulting for the Ag
Transport Coalition.
And there’s the rub, says Wade
Sobkowich, executive director of the
Western Grain Elevator Association
( WGEA), which represents Western
Canada’s major grain companies, and a
coalition member.
“We can’t discuss averages or talk
about annual totals,” Sobkowich said
Feb. 4 after the report for grain Week 23
was released. “We have to talk about performance on a week-by-week basis and
this report does that.”
CN Rail said in a recent statement it
had shipped a record amount of grain
during the first half of the current crop
year — 18 per cent more than at the
same time last year.
However, the Week 23 report says CN
and CP Rail supplied 2,271 cars or just
25 per cent of the 6,312 cars ordered for
delivery.
“In the crop year to date, the railways
have supplied 45 per cent of customer
orders in the week for which cars were
ordered, with CN supplying 58 per cent
of orders and CP supplying 33 per cent,”
the report says. “Through the first 23
weeks of the current crop year, railways
have failed to supply 15,743 hopper cars
ordered by shippers. This represents a
shortfall equivalent to nine per cent of
shipper demand.”
The report says the shortfall for both
CN and CP has continued to grow
weekly since the beginning of the crop
year.
“More than 7,400 customer orders —
approximately 47 per cent of the current
shortfall have been outstanding for four
weeks or longer.”
CP blames interruptions
There are factors not mentioned in
the latest report to consider, CP Rail
spokesman Jeremy Berry said in an
email. For example, due to New Year’s
(Week 22) there was a 1-1/2-day closure
at the ports so cars weren’t processed
in a timely manner. The report also
dwells on the number of cars waiting
Wade Sobkowich
The first report for the Ag Transport Coalition says railways have failed to supply 15,743 hopper
cars so far this crop year. photo: file
at port, but fails to note that the port
cannot process many of those cars “disrupting the rhythm of overall railroad
operations.”
Sobkowich said the Week 23 figures
speak for themselves — the railways
are not keeping up with grain company
car orders — a long-standing shipper
complaint. According to the WGEA the
railways don’t have to compete to move
grain and therefore don’t have to invest
in surge capacity.
In a truly competitive market the
railways would meet grain shippers’
requirement or shippers would go elsewhere, Sobkowich has said in previous
interviews.
The WGEA, backed by many farm
groups, wants the federal government to
pass legislation requiring the railways to
sign service agreements with shippers,
which include penalties for failing to fulfil the agreement.
The railways say it’s too expensive
and inefficient to build a system to meet
temporary surges. They say they are
shipping more grain than in the past
and the key to increased throughput is
better pipeline collaboration and less
regulation.
CP Rail issued a statement saying it
was “appalled that a government-funded
group such as the Ag Transport Coalition
can claim it is trying to enhance ‘the
competitiveness of the agricultural supply chain,’ but not involve transportation partners in the discussion (see
sidebar).
Until now most railway performance
data has been aggregated and either
supplied directly by the railways or
through Quorum Corporation, the firm
hired as Canada’s grain transportation
monitor. The Ag Transport Coalition,
with funding through the federal-provincial Growing Forward 2 program, was
formed to measure weekly railway performance from the grain shipper’s perspective, Sobkowich said.
Other members include the Canadian
Canola Growers Association, the Alberta
Wheat Commission, Pulse Canada, the
Manitoba Pulse Growers Association,
the Canadian Oilseed Processors
Association, the Inland Ter minal
Association of Canada and the Canadian
Special Crops Association. The coalition
issued its first report Jan. 30.
“The idea is to continue to provide
this data on a weekly basis as long as
the resources are available to do that,”
Sobkowich said.
The weekly reports are available at
www.agtransportcoalition.com.
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Just watch this — and be inspired
Vote for best Just Watch Me! video until February 17
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
F
our rural entrepreneurs with a
disability who share their stories about operating a business
are top finalists in a video contest.
The Just Watch Me! contest on
until February 17 is an initiative of
the Entrepreneurs with Disabilities
Program (EDP) run through
Community Futures.
The program supports and encourages small business owners from
Manitoba and Saskatchewan who
have overcome hurdles from a selfidentified health issue or disability to
become entrepreneurs.
The EDP has run since 1997 across
Western Canada to support, assist
and recognize persons running small
businesses, says Susan Bater, program co-ordinator.
“We support entrepreneurs to start
a small business, expand a business
or purchase an existing business.
The video contest began in 2011 to
share stories that can inspire others
to also start small businesses.
“We have received some fantastic
business success stories in the past
four years,” Bater said. It’s garnered
a lot of attention too, with last year’s
videos receiving over 7,000 votes.
Past winners in the Just Watch Me!
contest have included those who
provided Internet services, graphic
design, desktop publishing, and recycling services.
Finalists in this year’s contest
from Manitoba are Sydney Deneka
who operates a business called Kozy
Kritters by Sydney in Beausejour,
and Nancy Weicker, an Independent
Epicure Consultant in Holland.
Corrine and Darold Biette, own-
ers of Pheasant Point Adventures
i n Mi s t a t i m , Sa s k . , a n d E m m y
Barr, owner of Queen Caramel in
Moose Jaw are the finalists from
Saskatchewan for 2015.
The video contest finalists are
s e l e c t e d e a c h y e a r by a p a n e l
o f j u d g e s , t h i s y e a r ’s i n c l u d ing rising country music star from
Saskatchewan Codie Prevost, as well
as other business leaders from across
Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
The winner of the Just Watch Me!
contest will be announced February
20 and will receive a $1,000 prize
plus additional offers for more business mentoring. Votes for favourite video are received until noon
February 17.
To view the videos log on to www.
justwatchmecontest.ca.
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Ritz dismisses
complaints CP’s
Hunter Harrison
Statement blasts use
of public funds for Ag
Transport Coalition
By Alex Binkley
Co-operator contributor / Ottawa
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has
rebuffed complaints from Canadian
Pacific CEO Hunter Harrison about his
department’s funding of an initiative
that is critical of the railways’ grain
transportation service.
In fact, Ritz said the report from
the Ag Transport Coalition will play
an important role in the review of
grain transportation being conducted
by the Canada Transportation Act
Review.
The first report said CN and CP have
fallen behind in delivering freight
cars to Prairie terminals in recent
months to haul grain and oilseeds to
Canadian ports and customers in the
United States and Mexico.
“While to date grain is moving
ahead of last year’s unacceptable
pace in certain corridors, the government understands that improvements are needed within supply
chain partners,” Ritz said when asked
about Harrison’s comments. “We
will continue to work with the entire
supply chain to ensure shippers and
our economy are well served by
Canada’s rail logistics system.”
Harrison issued a statement blasting the Agriculture Department for
providing some of the funding for
the coalition’s grain transportation
analysis.
“The use of public funds to drive a
single, self-serving agenda under the
guise of solving large, complex supply chain issues is unconscionable,”
Harrison said. “It is disingenuous
for the Ag Transport Coalition to say
it wants to improve the agricultural
supply chain if it doesn’t want to
involve transportation stakeholders
in the discussion.”
briefs
Correction: KAP vp
The newly elected vice-president for Keystone Agricultural
Producers is Glenn Young, of
Cypress River, not Glen Franklin,
of Deloraine, as reported in last
week’s Manitoba Co-operator.
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OPINION/EDITORIAL
More teeth may
be needed
I
f you didn’t read Phil Franz-Warkentin’s
article on calculating basis on page 11
last week and don’t still have a copy,
you can find it by going to our website and
searching for “muddied.”
That word appropriately describes
the voodoo combination of futures and
exchange rates that Prairie grain companies use to calculate their published
cash prices for wheat. If you look at recent
John Morriss
quotes, you’ll see that No. 2 CWRS is 22
Editorial Director
cents a bushel over the Minneapolis future.
That certainly sounds better than last year
when it was a buck and a half under, and makes it appear that
the grain company is being pretty generous.
What it more likely says is that the cash bid has nothing to
do with the futures. The companies might be using futures to
protect themselves from price fluctuation, but not necessarily
to set the price in the country.
It’s more likely that they are doing as any business would.
They know (a) the price at which they can sell to the customer, and (b) the cost of getting the grain from the country
to the ocean vessel plus whatever they can add for profit. The
difference between the two becomes the elevator bid.
As noted in the space before, and by many others analyzing the market, the change to the Canadian Wheat Board’s
monopoly left Western Canada with a U.S.-style marketing
system, but without the U.S.-style assistance to give farmers
their fair share of market information.
U.S. exporters are required to report major sales within a
week. The USDA has staff to gather and publish daily export
prices at the major ports. It publishes monthly averages of
actual prices received by farmers in each state.
It seems that Minister Ritz is starting to get the message
about this discrepancy, based on his recent announcement
of almost $743,000 to the Alberta Wheat Commission for its
“Price & Data Quotes (PDQ) project.” It’s being developed in
conjunction with FARMco, a private marketing advisory service run by Winnipeg’s John DePape. The objective is to have a
website where farmers can find “market-related data.”
Good start, but will the operators of initiative have any
teeth? The grain companies aren’t going to part with sales
information unless they’re required to. Farmers also need
timely information on car supply by area — will the companies and railways part with that?
As for actual prices received by producers, we know getting
them is quite doable. That’s what was collected and published
back in the days of the Western Grain Stabilization Administration — before computers in the elevators. It would be much
easier now — if the companies were required to report it.
The PDQ project is a start, but if it can’t obtain enough useful information, let’s hope the operators let Mr. Ritz know that
he’ll have to take this another step and put some teeth into
the process.
A job for the senators
The initiative to improve access
to market information is another
indication that the changes to the
wheat board led to some unintended consequences. Even supporters of the change agree with
that, especially when it comes
to the ongoing transportation
schmozzle.
Discussing those consequences in advance was out of
the question, at least as far as
the government was concerned.
If you supported the wheat
board monopoly, you were an
anti-progress, stuck-in-the-past
lefty. End of story. No discussion
allowed.
There’s an element of that attitude when it comes to changes to
Plant Breeders Rights legislation
as a consequence of Canada joining UPOV ’91, the international
convention on breeders’ rights.
When Minister Ritz announced
the decision last year, there was a
virtual blizzard of press releases
from organizations anxious to
show the government they were
on side by announcing they had
joined an organization called
“Partners in Innovation” to support it.
Joining UPOV ’91 may well be
the right decision but that haste
may have allowed the devil to
hide in the details. The government did acknowledge that it’s
OK to be a little bit worried about
the ability to save seed, and Minister Ritz was at pains to emphasize that the “farmers’ privilege”
would be protected.
But to save seed how and
where, exactly? That seems to
be in question, based on lawyer
Robert Watchman’s presentation to the KAP annual meeting
(see page 8). It turns out that the
definition of the ability to “condition” or “stock” seed is at the least
vague if not completely absent.
That will be defined in regulations, which we haven’t seen —
and which can be changed.
The “Agricultural Growth Act”
(who could be against that?)
containing the changes has yet
to pass the Senate. Its committee discussions are often much
more reasoned and non-partisan
than those in the House of Commons committee. Before passing
the bill, the senators should call
some witnesses to help clarify
these questions.
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Digging deeper on development
By Laura Rance
Co-operator Editor
S
o are you getting away this winter? That
question ranks right up there with talking
about the weather as conversation starters
in Manitoba this time of year.
Well, in answer to that question, I am, and it
is even to somewhere warm. But this will be no
holiday.
For the next several weeks I will be on secondment to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, visiting
remote rural communities in several African
countries. My job is to document, through the
stories of the people I meet, the value investing in
agriculture.
One of the sad ironies of the 21st century is that
so many of the people who are hungry and poor
in this world are farmers working with small plots
of land that has lost its resiliency due to unsustainable production practices.
But that reality also offers some of the greatest potential for making gains in the global food
security challenge. With the right kinds of supports, these farmers are demonstrating they can
grow their way out of poverty.
As farmers achieve food security for their families, it opens the path to better nutrition, more
education, and a widening envelope for economic
development — all of which become a foundation
for healthy communities and countries.
One focus of this research is the state of conservation agriculture in different parts of Africa,
which is very much in keeping with this year
being the UN FAO’s Year of Soil.
For me, personally, that’s at the root of it all.
That connection — dare we call it a relationship? — between farmers and soil is somewhat
tenuous at times. We have traditionally looked
at soil as something static, a combination of elements with chemical properties. And throughout
most of history, we have treated it, well, like dirt.
OUR HISTORY:
The FAO says one-third of the Earth’s soils are
degraded. If the current trend continues, the
global amount of arable and productive land per
person in 2050 will be a quarter of what it was in
1960.
Australian soil scientist John Crawford told
the World Economic Forum in 2012 that “under
a business-as-usual scenario, degraded soil will
mean that we will produce 30 per cent less food
over the next 20 to 50 years. This is against a
background of projected demand requiring us to
grow 50 per cent more food.”
Throughout my career here on the Canadian
Prairies, I’ve witnessed the productivity gains
that can be unleashed through technological innovation. But we can’t make up for this
decline in our soils with technology alone.
There might be enough money, but there isn’t
time.
Statistics released by CropLife International
last week show that it takes 13 years and $136
million to bring one GMO trait to market. It takes
10 years and costs $256 million to bring one new
crop protection product to market. Either, or
both, offer incremental gains in yield.
We have to do more than come up with solutions. We need to prevent the problems that are
rooted in declining soil fertility. And that starts
with a commitment to practices that build soil
biological health. Stopping erosion is only the
first step.
There is growing recognition of this, as evidenced by this week’s Canola Watch newsletter
from the Canola Council of Canada. “Microbes
matter,” it says as a lead-in to articles on importance fostering healthy soil.
Similar dialogues have begun in Africa, albeit
on a smaller scale and with greater intensity.
Exciting things are happening. It’s a story I look
forward to telling.
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February 1981
T
his ad from Feb. 5, 1981 reminds us that canola is no longer called rapeseed, Furadan is no longer registered and
Chemagro no longer exists — it later became part of Bayer.
That week we reported that an Agriculture Canada seeds officer
was concerned that Manitoba farmers purchasing rapeseed from
Saskatchewan risked spreading “a sclerotinia-type disease called
blackleg” into the province. He felt the purchases should be discouraged to fend of the disease as long as possible.
Speaking at a CSP Foods growers’ meeting in Altona, Agriculture
Canada’s Keith Downey — one of the “fathers of canola” — said
soybean production was becoming feasible and economic in
Manitoba due to new varieties such as Maple Presto. He also
speculated that in future, there could be hybrid rapeseed varieties
yielding 40 per cent more than Torch or Candle.
Speaking to the Western Canadian Fertilizer and Chemical
Dealers Association, University of Saskatchewan soil scientist Don
Rennie said better snow management was key to increasing Prairie
production. He said zero-till farming could also increase production,
but information on how it could be applied in Western Canada was
not yet available.
We also reported that Bar 5 Simmental Breeders near Brandon
had been sold to an Alberta company for $3.7 million.
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COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Fight the video cameras with video
cameras: Temple Grandin
Famed animal welfare advocate says well-run operations can welcome public scrutiny
By Daryll E. Ray
and Harwood Schaffer
“Many practices can be
easily defended but some
practices will have to be
changed.”
F
Letters
ixing the slaughter plants was
easy,” Temple Grandin told
the 2015 annual meeting of
the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF). “But now I see problems that we are going to have to
fix at the farm: lame dairy cows,
e m a c i a t e d d a i r y c ow s b e c a u s e
somebody let them go too long,
animal production to the point we
are starting to have problems with
animal biology. We need to look at
what is optimal not what is maximum.
“But what we’ve got to do is there
are some practices that are going
to have to change… and there are
some people in the ag industry who
are not happy with me because I
won’t defend everything that ag
does. And we’ve got to change some
practices, but what we’ve got to do
is we’ve got to communicate with
the public. We also have to remember that everybody has one of these
(holds up cellphone) and you can’t
get away from the video cameras
anymore. So what we need to be
doing is change some practices and
open up the doors.”
Grandin is known to many for
her work with slaughter plants to
reduce animal stress during the
slaughter process. The result is a
system that is both more humane
and more efficient.
At the meeting, Grandin received
an award from the AFBF. The comm e nts in her br ief acceptance
remarks are a synopsis of her paper
“Animal welfare and society concerns finding the missing link,”
published in Meat Science last
year. She points out than in today’s
h i g h l y u r b a n i ze d c u l t u re m o s t
young adults have little connection to or knowledge about farming
and farming practices. This lack of
knowledge deprives them of context when it comes to understanding a video clip involving farm
animals.
Grandin writes, “Young consumers do have a desire to connect with
the origin of their food… the meat
industry must start communicating
more effectively with these affluent
young adults. Their influence will
extend beyond the developed world
because they will write future legislation and policies that will have an
effect on the entire world.”
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Temple Grandin says the slaughter plants have been fixed. Now it’s time for the farm. file photo
for meats, retailers and processors are increasingly implementing farm-level audits. In looking at
farm-level issues, Grandin writes,
“It is the author’s opinion that to
pass (an animal welfare audit) a
farm must receive an acceptable
score on all of the following critical
points: air quality in indoor facilities, animal stocking density, coat/
feather condition, lameness, injuries, body condition, animal cleanliness, and low levels of abnormal
behaviour. A failing score on any
one of the above critical points
would be an automatic failure.”
Biological system overload
Flooded landowners
don’t trust government
mittee heard this concern so often
that it ensured it was noted on several
storyboards throughout the meeting
rooms.
The committee is focused on
issues such as a lack of any requirement to notify municipalities north
of the floodway when it has gone
into operation, and a perception that
emergency summer operation of the
floodway mainly benefits Winnipeg.
Another issue is the negative impact
of flooding on water quality for people and wildlife.
I anticipate the committee will
make sound recommendations in its
final report at the end of February,
but only the government can address
The province recently concluded a
public consultation for a review of
operating guidelines for the Red River
Floodway, Portage Diversion and
Fairford Water Control Structure.
The regularity and severity of flooding that landowners and communities have experienced over the last
several years have taken a financial,
physical and emotional toll. Several common themes were heard
throughout the review process, and of
particular concern was a “mistrust of
government.” In fact, the review com-
In raising the issue of “biological
system overload,” Grandin writes,
“In intensively housed broiler chickens, laying hens, pigs and dairy
cows, there is increasing concern
that pushing the animal to produce
more meat, eggs, or milk will cause
both increasing welfare problems
and a decline of functionality…
Green, Huxley, Banks, and Green
(2014) reported that dairy cows that
give more milk had thinner body
condition. These two studies show
that fat reserves in the body of highproducing cows are reduced. In
many large dairies a cow lasts for
only two years of milk production.
In layers, the rate of bone fractures
due to osteoporosis is very high
even when the hens are housed in
good systems. In enriched furnished
colony cages, hens had 36 per cent
keel bone fractures and in the aviary system with multi-level perches
they had 80 per cent… fracture levels are so high that even in better
housing the improvements are like
comparing something that is atrocious to something that is poor. In
the future, researchers and managers need to breed for optimal
production instead of maximum
production.”
Grandin suggests that industry
become proactive by videoing their
operations so everyone can see how
things work. In her remarks to the
press, Grandin praised one operator for providing 24/7 camera feeds
of their animal operations. She also
advocates opening up farms for
public tours as a means of creating
an informed consumer base.
“Bad responses from the U.S.
industry are so-called Ag Gag laws
which make it a cr ime to take
undercover video. This sends the
wrong message to today’s consumer. Agriculture has to look at
everything it does and ask themselves, ‘Can I explain this to my
guests from the city?’”
“The meat industry needs to be
transparent and explain and show
everything we do. Many practices
can be easily defended but some
practices will have to be changed.”
Daryll E. Ray holds the Blasingame Chair of
Excellence in Agricultural Policy, Institute of
Agriculture, University of Tennessee, and is
the director of UT’s Agricultural Policy Analysis
Center (APAC). Harwood D. Schaffer is a
research assistant professor at APAC (865)
974-7407; Fax: (865) 974-7298; [email protected]
and [email protected]; http://www.agpolicy.
org.
the issue of mistrust. The NDP must
treat flood-affected farmers, cottagers and landowners fairly and stop
putting out false information, such
as claiming the average payment
per farmer for the 2011 flood was
$300,000 while documents show it
was less than $70,000. The mistrust
of government threatens to remain a
stumbling block to the resolution of
these issues, regardless of how reasonable property owners may be.
Shannon Martin
Progressive Conservative MLA
for Morris
Conservation and
Water Stewardship Critic
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PORK Continued from page 1
Dickson, Manitoba Pork
Council general manager.
But he warned it’s too early to
celebrate because recovery will
still be long, slow and difficult.
“One good year doesn’t prepare a balance sheet overnight,” he said.
Dickson outlined potential
difficulties for 2015 in a state
of the industry presentation
to the annual Manitoba Swine
Seminar in Winnipeg last week.
He a c k n ow l e d g e d a v e rage prices will be lower this
year but said a lot depends
on the situation in the United
States, where hog production
is increasing, despite the PED
virus outbreak.
Dickson said the U.S. will
produce as much, if not more,
pork in 2015 as in 2014. If it
can export enough pork, prices
could remain stable. But if
exports are soft and Americans
are forced to move excess
pork into their domestic market, supplies will increase and
prices will fall.
Dickson also warned about
increased expenses for feed,
which makes up 60 per cent
of a producer’s operating
costs. The U.S. Department of
Agriculture suggests the northcentral Iowa soybean price
could top $10 a bushel in 2015
after falling below $9 in late
2014. Corn could increase to $4
a bushel after dipping below $3.
The U.S. country-of-origin
meal labelling rule continues to hurt Canadian swine
exports. Iowa imported 2.15
million weanlings from Canada
in 2014, down from four million in 2008, mainly because of
segregation restrictions resulting from COOL. Manitoba
accounts for over 60 per cent of
Canadian weanlings exported
to the U.S.
But the real problem for the
Manitoba industry is a decline
in hog production and the
resulting impact on the provincial economy because aging
barns are not being replaced,
Dickson said.
In his presentation, he said
producers should be replacing 20 to 30 barns a year with
newer, larger facilities just to
retain current capacity. But
only four new barns were built
between 2008 and 2013.
The financial downturn in
the industry is partly to blame
for the lack of construction.
But a lot of the problem stems
from the fact that lending institutions are reluctant to lend
producers enough money to
replace or upgrade their facilities, said Dickson.
He said financial institutions lend at 65 per cent of the
appraised value of existing
barns on the market. But since
there are few new barns and
the value of existing ones is so
low, banks can’t lend enough
for new facilities and producers have to fund up to 70 per
cent of the cost themselves. As
it is, producers have maxed out
their lines of credit because of
five years of low or negative
margins.
“One good year
doesn’t prepare
a balance sheet
overnight.”
Andrew Dickson
MPC
Also, financial institutions
traditionally lend working
capital based on a producer’s
previous three years of income,
which until recently was very
low.
As a result, the pork sector is
stuck in a “fiscal trap” similar
to rental property construction
in Winnipeg after rent controls
were imposed, Dickson said.
The lack of barn space and
the resulting shortage of pigs
make it tough for the province’s hog-processing plants.
Currently, Manitoba’s two federally inspected plants are running at only 75 to 80 per cent
capacity and are short about
1.5 million finished pigs a year.
In the U.S., comparable plants
operate at 97 per cent of capacity, making the Manitoba plants
uncompetitive.
Dickson warned the lack of
hogs could result in Maple Leaf
closing the second shift at its
Brandon plant, losing about
1,000 jobs. Without the second
shift, Maple Leaf could become
uneconomical to operate and
all 2,300 jobs could be lost.
“This is a dark precipice
we’re trying to avoid driv-
file photo
ing over,” Dickson said in an
interview.
Another problem is the
Manitoba government’s ban
on the construction of new hog
barns without anaerobic digesters. Dickson said the province
recently agreed to a pilot project
for new construction in which
two-cell lagoons, separate streams
of manure treatment and direct
injection into fields would be
allowed in place of digesters.
On the bright side, the lower
Canadian dollar is positive
for swine exports to the U.S.,
despite COOL. And Dickson is
confident the worst is over for
the beleaguered industry and
producers who weathered the
storm are here to stay.
“There’s light on the horizon
and it’s bright sunshine,” he said.
“The people who survived to
now are going to be in business
10 years from now.”
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Moratorium remains, fine print may change
In certain areas of Manitoba new hog barns may again be constructed, provided they qualify for proposed pilot program
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
M
anitoba’s minister of
agriculture has indic a t e d t h e p rov i n c e
may be prepared to ease some
restrictions around new hog
barn construction in certain
circumstances.
Speaking to reporters
at a Keystone Agricultural
Producers meeting in
Winnipeg last month, Ron
Kostyshyn said that alternative technologies could replace
the anaerobic digesters now
required for new barns in some
phosphorus-deficient areas of
the province.
That possibility was confirmed last week by Andrew
Dickson, general manager of
the Manitoba Pork Council.
“Currently, in the legislation… anaerobic digesters
are a requirement for new
barn development, but I think
they’re prepared to accept the
concept of multi-cell systems
as an alternative method of
dealing with the nutrient load
in manure,” said Dickson,
speaking at the annual
Manitoba Swine Seminar.
However, use of multi-cell
systems would be limited to
geographic areas with low
phosphorus concentrations.
Kostyshyn characterized these
areas as being outside the
“nucleus” of existing intensive
livestock operations.
“They want them in some
proximity with the processing plants in the province,”
Dickson explained. “In the
geographic sense that is probably western Manitoba, but it’s
a little vague. So I’m starting by
defining that as west of the Red
River.”
Kostyshyn said new hog
barns using the multi-cell
system will have to be preapproved as pilot projects
i f t h e p l a n m ove s a h e a d .
Although what that process
will look like and how many
of these multi-cell manuretreatment installations might
be allowed has not yet been
determined.
“There’s a lot of details to be
sorted out, we’re not sure how
many sites we might be able to
get going, but it’s going to be
more than one,” Dickson said.
“We’re going to be looking for
co-operative municipalities,
we’re going to be looking for
producers who are prepared
to invest in these barns and I
think there’s going to have to
be some relationship between
these barns and the processing
capacity in the province.”
Kostyshyn also cited increasing the number of hogs available to processors as part of
the rationale for the departure
from the province’s stance on
anaerobic digesters.
“It’s a start, but there is a
very significant shortfall in our
finished pig capacity in the
province,” said Dickson. “We
just don’t have enough barns
to provide enough finished
pigs to the processing plants so
they can be as efficient as their
U.S. counterparts.”
He added it would take a
considerable number of new
barns to produce the number
of hogs processors are looking
for. Whether a pilot program
could deliver enough additional hogs remains to be seen,
Dickson said.
He noted that all major federal processors have also been
involved in discussions around
the pilot project proposal.
“ We k e e p i m p rov i n g o n
the regulations, in partnership with Manitoba Pork, and
I think we’ve come to a consensus that we’re addressing
the one situation from both
sides,” said Kostyshyn, noting
Manitoba still has the highest
level of environmental regulation of any province when it
comes to hog production.
Manitoba Pork has opposed
“It’s a start, but there
is a very significant
shortfall in our
finished pig capacity
in the province.”
Andrew Dickson
the anaerobic digester requirement since it was introduced,
citing installation costs of up
to $1 million.
Dickson said the move by the
province is a step in the right
direction, albeit a small one.
“There is still a very long
ways to go,” he said, adding this change by no
means marks the end of the
moratorium.
Kostyshyn stressed that discussions will continue.
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You can save seed, but can you ‘stock’ it?
As UPOV ’91 becomes closer to reality for Canadian farmers and seed breeders, many questions remain to be answered
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
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KAP members take in speakers at the organization’s annual general meeting in Winnipeg.
Photo: Shannon VanRaes
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lanned amendments to
Canada’s Plant Breeders’ Rights Act are generating a lot of questions and
few answers, as some farmers
begin to fear they’ll be left to
reap what the federal government sows.
Omnibus Bill C-18 — known
as the Agricultural Growth Act
— will affect a total of nine
pieces of legislation including the Plant Breeders’ Rights
Act if approved by the Senate.
The changes could alter if not
revoke a farmer’s ability to
save and store seed, according
to those opposed to the bill.
“Clearly, it makes significant amendments to the Plant
Breeders’ Rights Act, and it
does so in a way that I can
only describe as convoluted
and undefined,” said Robert
Watchman, a partner at Pitblado Law who specializes in
intellectual property rights
and agribusiness.
Speaking at Keystone Agricultural Producers annual
meeting in Winnipeg, Watchman explained that the
changes are an attempt to
bring Canada in line with the
International Union for the
Protection of New Varieties of
Plants’ 1991 convention, commonly called UPOV ’91.
This is the third attempt
by the federal government to
adopt the nearly 25-year-old
convention. Currently, Canadian law is compliant with
UPOV ’78.
While broad changes would
be implemented through legislation, Watchman said the
amendments Bill C-18 outlines for the Plant Breeders’
Rights Act would actually be
defined through regulations
passed after the bill is passed
into law. Regulations that will
be enacted through orders-incouncil — cabinet-approved
orders that aren’t debated in
the House of Commons or
examined by the Senate.
So m e o f t h e t e r m s t h a t
re m a i n u n d e f i n e d i n t h e
amendments include words
like “farmer” and “holdings,”
terms that will be key to how
the amended law is applied.
‘Convoluted’
What producers at the meeting most wanted to know was
how the changes would affect
the concept of farmers’ privilege.
“Farmers’ privilege… would
be taken into consideration,
but in a very convoluted fashion,” said Watchman, adding
that “the significance of these
changes could be very profound.”
The idea of farmers’ privilege is present in the bill, but
in an undefined way spread
over three of the act’s provisions, and subject to contractual obligations between a
farmer and seed providers, he
said.
“The farmers’ privilege only
displaces the exclusive right
to produce or reproduce the
materials, which covers off
the growing issue, and only
the exclusive right to condition the material — condition
is not defined in the act —
for the purposes of producing propagated material,” he
said. “So one of the changes
I referred to was the exclusive right to stock — so you
have farmers’ privilege which
allows you to reproduce the
material, it allows you to condition the material, but it
doesn’t allow you to actually
stock the material.”
Some see that change as
the gateway to end-point or
point-of-sale royalties for seed
c o m p a n i e s. So m e c o m p a nies including Canterra have
already made their intention
to eventually collect end-point
royalties clear.
“There’s a lot of things I
think farmers need to be
aware of,” said Dean Harder,
who farms near Lowe Farm. “I
have a lot of concerns… when
we think of seed, when I think
of seed, in my mind, traditionally, that means I can plant
it, and save it and sell it and
keep it in the bin, but it seems
like that is actually being separated in the bill in terms of
saving seed.”
Farmer input?
Paul Gregory of Interlake Forage Seeds expressed concern
that farmers would be left out of
the regulatory process once Bill
C-18 passes.
“We’re not dumb farmers
here,” he said. “I think we can
do a good job.”
Watchman noted that farmers are part of an advisory committee on the matter, but won’t
hold real sway over the process.
“At this point there is provision for consultation, but not
really interpretation. At the
end of the day, interpretation is
made initially by the commissioner, but typically through the
courts,” he said.
The potential impact of an
extension of plant breeders’
rights on public research was
also raised.
“We’ll lose public seed breeding as we know it,” Gregory said,
adding niche crops like peas
and lentils will be affected first.
Delegates at the meeting
later passed a resolution calling
for the federal government to
enable generic seed developers
— which includes farmers — to
have access to off-patent plant
traits at least seven years before
traits come off patent.
Minto-area farmer and seed
developer David Rourke put
forward the resolution, adding
that, “I think a lot of us have
some hesitation about believing
Minister Ritz about the value of
our farm-saved seeds under this
regulation and what value we’ll
get in the long term.”
Earlier this month the
National Farmers Union raised
its concerns about the changes
to the Seed Breeders Rights Act
with the Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. That organization has
long argued that the intent of
UPOV ’91 is to make farmers
dependent on outside suppliers
for all their seed.
But Watchman noted that
the amendments to the Seed
Breeders’ Rights Act could have
been more severe had the Canadian government chosen to do
more than meet the minimum
requirements of UPOV ’91.
“So depending on whether
you love it or hate it, it could be
worse or it could be better, so
there is a little bit of room there
for it to go either way,” he said.
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KAP’s new president off to a quick start
Last week he met with the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation to push for better Excess Moisture Insurance
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
K
AP’s new president has hit the ground running.
On Feb. 4, less than a week after being
acclaimed head of the Keystone Agricultural
Producers, Dan Mazier and KAP’s management team
met with the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation’s (MASC) board of directors and senior staff to press
for improvements to crop insurance, especially Excess
Moisture Insurance (EMI).
“It was a very good exchange,” Mazier said from his
farm between Justice and Forrest. “I was pleased. It was
a good open discussion about where MASC is going and
what it’s doing.”
KAP delegates have passed a number of resolutions
calling for improvements to EMI including dropping the
deductible, not including yields from flood years in farmers’ individual productivity index (a measurement that
affects crop insurance coverage) and introducing spot
loss coverage.
“They (MASC) are going to look at the numbers and
share them going forward,” Mazier said. They have to do
some research.”
Some of these issues will also be explored by the task
force Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn has
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struck to see how insurance programs can better protect
farmers from weather perils, including flooding and
excessive moisture.
Last spring almost one million of Manitoba’s 12 million acres of farmland were too wet to seed resulting in
EMI payouts of almost $63 million.
“We’re aware of the issues and are trying to come up
with alternatives,” Craig Thomson, MASC’s vice-president of insurance said in an interview.
Constraints
But there are constraints. Crop insurance is a federalprovincial program which must operate on the funding it
receives, he said. Crop insurance must also be actuarially
sound. That means over time it must break even.
Farmers who often experience what they believe to
be man-made flooding on some of their land have suggested spot loss coverage. Currently, crop insurance coverage is based on the average yield of the insured crop
across the whole farm. Flooding could destroy one field,
but farmers are ineligible for compensation if their total
average yield exceeds the payout threshold.
Spot loss flooding coverage would be expensive
because the risk of triggering an insurance payment
is higher, Thomson said. MASC has looked into insur1/7/15
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ing individual fields and found it to be too expensive,
because of the higher risk.
MASC offers spot loss hail coverage but unlike the rest
of crop insurance the hail program is strictly user pay
and not subsidized by the provincial and federal governments.
The standard EMI deductible is five per cent. On a
1,000-acre farm that’s 50 acres. Each year a farmer makes
an EMI claim the deductible increases five per cent. It goes
down by the same amount every year there’s no claim.
Farmers also have the option of buying down their
deductible and/or buying up their coverage from the
standard $50 an acre to $75 or $100. But KAP says that’s
expensive for farmers who have been routinely hit by
excessive spring moisture in recent years.
EMI was introduced in 2000 following the 1999 flood
and based on field history, which was much drier than it
has been in recent years. Like other crop insurance coverage, EMI adjusts based on farmers’ claim history.
MASC met with a number of other farm groups last
week too, Thomson said. In total MASC meets with 18
or 19 Manitoba farm groups annually to hear their concerns and get feedback, he said.
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LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Cattle Prices
Heifers
Alberta South
—
—
125.00 - 145.00
112.00 - 129.00
—
$ 219.00 - 228.00
228.00 - 240.00
241.00 - 258.00
264.00 - 284.00
290.00 - 313.00
319.00 - 353.00
$ 200.00 - 215.00
216.00 - 226.00
228.00 - 240.00
241.00 - 259.00
259.00 - 280.00
283.00 - 301.00
($/cwt)
(1,000+ lbs.)
(850+ lbs.)
Futures (February 5, 2015) in U.S.
Fed Cattle
Close
Change
February 2015
153.42
-0.11
April 2015
148.02
-2.48
June 2015
141.25
-2.18
August 2015
141.00
-1.95
October 2015
143.90
-2.53
December 2015
144.82
-2.53
Feeder Cattle
March 2015
April 2015
May 2015
August 2015
September 2015
October 2015
Cattle Slaughter
Canada
East
West
Manitoba
U.S.
Ontario
$ 157.75 - 194.31
160.33 - 195.81
103.15 - 133.93
103.15 - 133.93
134.02 - 157.92
$ 207.20 - 238.02
227.99 - 245.64
228.65 - 259.96
230.48 - 283.30
245.50 - 306.60
241.71 - 303.93
$ 191.69 - 219.30
188.48 - 218.65
194.92 - 230.68
210.07 - 248.75
214.36 - 259.63
233.88 - 286.76
$
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
(901+ lbs.)
(801-900 lbs.)
(701-800 lbs.)
(601-700 lbs.)
(501-600 lbs.)
(401-500 lbs.)
Close
195.65
195.85
196.47
200.12
199.17
197.80
Change
-7.92
-8.35
-8.23
-6.41
-6.93
-7.20
Cattle Grades (Canada)
Week Ending
January 31, 2015
47,066
10,394
36,672
N/A
563,000
Previous
Year
54,085
12,511
41,574
N/A
572,000
Week Ending
January 31, 2015
608
21,025
14,056
392
639
9,649
65
Prime
AAA
AA
A
B
D
E
Previous
Year
561
23,033
17,641
634
448
9,911
130
Hog Prices
Source: Manitoba Agriculture
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)
E - Estimation
MB. ($/hog)
MB (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.)
MB (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.)
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)
PQ (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.)
Current Week
170.00 E
157.00 E
156.61
163.29
Futures (February 5, 2015) in U.S.
Hogs
February 2015
April 2015
May 2015
June 2015
July 2015
Last Week
175.13
162.33
162.62
166.49
Close
63.27
66.27
74.60
78.05
78.70
Last Year (Index 100)
172.71
159.68
161.09
167.85
Change
-5.28
-6.93
-4.83
-5.58
-5.18
Other Market Prices
Winnipeg (Hd)
Wooled Fats
—
No
February 4
report
received
—
Chickens
Minimum broiler prices as of April 13, 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 February 8, 2015
Broiler Turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.970
Undergrade .............................. $1.880
Hen Turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.950
Undergrade .............................. $1.850
Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $1.950
Undergrade .............................. $1.850
Tom Turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A..................................... $1.890
Undergrade............................... $1.805
Prices are quoted f.o.b. producers premise.
Cattle volumes hold in
normal range at Man. sales
The U.S. Plains’ cattle are reportedly lighter than usual
Dave Sims
I
t was another steady stretch of cattle sales
at Manitoba stockyards during the week
ended Feb. 6. Prices stayed mostly rangebound compared to their January values,
with steers (400-500 lbs.) recording $5-$10
improvements while heifers (700-800 lbs.) softened a touch.
“It stayed fairly steady; might have been
off a penny or two. Cows and bulls were
fully steady,” said Keith Cleaver, manager of
Heartland Livestock at Brandon.
Top bids for good bulls were up across
the board as the slaughter market held firm.
Volumes were down slightly from the week
previous, but Cleaver said they were still relatively normal for this time of year.
“I think they’ll stay fairly consistent over the
next few weeks.”
Interest still came from all sides, including the U.S. and Eastern Canada, according
to Cleaver, who pointed out the depreciating
dollar has helped to support the market. “With
the dollar being low it’s helping the cattle for
sure.”
Some analysts have speculated there are
fewer cattle in some producers’ yards after the
record price run last fall.
That’s difficult to calculate, Cleaver said.
“You know it’s hard to say for sure; there’s
probably a few less… but there’s still some cattle there to come.”
SunGold
Specialty Meats
—
Eggs
Minimum prices to producers for ungraded
eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the
Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board
effective November 10, 2013.
New
Previous
A Extra Large
$2.00
$2.05
A Large
2.00
2.05
A Medium
1.82
1.87
A Small
1.40
1.45
A Pee Wee
0.3775
0.3775
Nest Run 24 +
1.8910
1.9390
B
0.45
0.45
C
0.15
0.15
Goats
Kids
Billys
Mature
Winnipeg
(Fats)
—
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
99.06 - 352.18
—
99.10 - 254.37
Horses
<1,000 lbs.
1,000 lbs.+
Winnipeg
($/cwt)
—
—
Toronto
($/cwt)
23.00 - 29.00
37.00 - 66.00
keith cleaver
Feed supplies throughout the province
remain on the tight side while the government’s feed assistance program remains in full
swing. As long as the cold weather stays away,
Cleaver said he expects producers in his area
will likely be OK.
“I think the feed is going to be OK; the
winter hasn’t been terrible, nothing like last
winter.”
Packers in the U.S. will also likely hope for
mild weather after a recent report found cattle
weights in the U.S. Plains down significantly.
Short-bought packers were forced to bring in
more feed supplies as a result, which cut into
profit margins.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture also
reported the cattle population in the U.S. as of
Jan. 1, 2015 was bigger than at the same point
in 2013 or 2014, but the third-smallest number
since 1952.
One economist suggested this meant the
beginning of 2016 would likely see weaker
Chicago beef prices, despite smaller cattle
numbers.
Dave Sims writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a
Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity
market reporting.
briefs
Aggressive
herd expansion
reverses shrinking
U.S. cattle supply
chicago / reuters
Toronto
94.54 - 118.62
198.59 - 207.88
202.22 - 220.09
213.61 - 255.10
170.83 - 293.04
—
“Right now I believe the dollar is
saving our market.”
CNSC
By Theopolis Waters
Sheep and Lambs
$/cwt
Ewes Choice
Lambs (110+ lb.)
(95 - 109 lb.)
(80 - 94 lb.)
(Under 80 lb.)
(New crop)
$1 Cdn: $0.7985 U.S.
$1 U.S: $1.2523 Cdn.
COLUMN
(Friday to Thursday)
February 6, 2015
Winnipeg
Slaughter Cattle
Steers
165.00 - 17.00
Heifers
165.00 - 168.50
D1, 2 Cows
122.00 - 131.00
D3 Cows
110.00 - 121.00
Bulls
140.00 - 148.00
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers
(901+ lbs.)
$ 200.00 - 221.00
(801-900 lbs.)
215.00 - 240.00
(701-800 lbs.)
225.00 - 257.00
(601-700 lbs.)
240.00 - 284.00
(501-600 lbs.)
275.00 - 319.00
(401-500 lbs.)
280.00 - 316.00
Heifers
(901+ lbs.)
—
(801-900 lbs.)
200.00 - 219.00
(701-800 lbs.)
220.00 - 234.00
(601-700 lbs.)
230.00 - 267.00
(501-600 lbs.)
245.00 - 300.00
(401-500 lbs.)
270.00 - 312.00
Slaughter Cattle
Grade A Steers
Grade A Heifers
D1, 2 Cows
D3 Cows
Bulls
Steers
EXCHANGES:
February 6, 2015
Affordable feed and recordhigh spikes in cattle prices
in 2014 encouraged ranchers to increase their herds at
a faster pace than previously
expected during the past year,
analysts said in response to
a government yearly cattle
report Jan. 30.
Expansion efforts by producers helped turn around
the seven-year decline in
the U.S. population from
a 63-year low after severe
drought hurt crops and forced
ranchers to reduce the size of
their herds.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s annual cattle
inventory report showed the
U.S. cattle herd as of Jan. 1 at
101.0 per cent of a year earlier,
or up one per cent at 89.8 million head.
Analysts, on average,
expected a 0.1 per cent
decline from 88.5 million last
year.
The Jan. 30 USDA data
showed the Jan. 1 cattle population was larger than in
2013 and 2014, but still the
third smallest since 1952, said
University of Missouri livestock economist Ron Plain.
The results, some of which
were revised upward from last
year, imply lower-than-anticipated cattle and weaker beef
prices beginning in 2016, analysts said.
The inventory figure, well
above the average trade estimate which was largely
unchanged, suggests more
cattle are available and the
breeding herd is growing faster
than expected, said Plain.
Analysts expected a more
measured response to herd
rebuilding, but attractive cattle prices, healthy pasture
conditions and affordable
feed caused ranchers to be
more aggressive than initially
thought, he said.
In the past, USDA’s semiannual cattle reports typically
have not influenced Chicago
Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures because the results
project cattle production well
beyond the contracts listed by
the exchange.
USDA’s data deflates the
argument about tight supplies this year, and will cause
people to revise upward
slaughter estimates for 2015,
said Allendale Inc. chief strategist Rich Nelson.
“We will be raising our
numbers for slaughter for this
year and when expansion will
hit, beginning in 2016 instead
of 2017,” said Nelson.
On Jan. 29, JBS U.S.A. said it
will expand a Utah beef-processing facility, despite fewer
cattle now that forced some of
its rivals to close plants.
“We’ve got bigger numbers
coming down the road and
JBS may have anticipated this
better than the rest of us did,”
said Plain.
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GRAIN MARKETS
Export and International Prices
column
Attractive exchange rates
trump stocks data in canola
U.S. markets await this week’s USDA supply/demand report
T
he ICE Futures Canada canola market
moved higher during the week ended
Feb. 6, with a rally in outside oilseed
markets helping to underpin the Canadian
futures.
Malaysian palm oil values led the global
oilseed complex higher during the week,
reacting to news that Indonesia will raise subsidies on biodiesel production. This could, in
turn, increase demand for oilseeds such as
palm oil and soyoil.
The Canadian dollar was a mixed bag during the week, moving higher one day only to
give up large losses the next. Overall it held
steady compared to a week ago, though was
still very weak, below US80 cents.
Canola futures, however, moved to the
higher end of their range, meaning downside
could be possible in coming sessions. March
canola is expected to top out at about C$465
per tonne, and find support around $445.
The market is expected to hold fairly steady
within that $20 range, as a number of bearish
and bullish factors influence the market.
On one side, global oilseed supplies remain
very large, especially with South American
soybeans now being harvested. Canadian
canola supplies are also big, with Dec. 31
stocks estimates from Statistics Canada topping expectations.
On the other side, the Canadian dollar
remains very weak, making canola cheaper
to buy for crushers, and for exporters.
Commercial demand for canola also remains
steady.
A lack of fresh demand news for the
Chicago soybean market during the week
didn’t stop the futures from ending higher
overall. Much of the week’s advances were
linked to short-covering and to spurts of buying on days when crude oil values rose and
the U.S. dollar dropped.
A similar story was seen in the corn market,
which finished with gains of US15-16 cents
per bushel.
Both corn and beans are still paying attention to the South American crops, but traders
Last Week
Week Ago
Year Ago
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
193.18
186.57
213.39
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
212.75
205.49
234.52
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
151.67
146.25
174.40
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
186.58
183.18
296.00
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
360.55
355.77
487.13
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne)
699.21
651.36
852.45
Coarse Grains
oilseeds
Terryn Shiells
CNSC
All prices close of business February 5, 2015
For three-times-daily market
reports from Commodity
News Service Canada,
visit “Today in Markets” at
www.manitobacooperator.ca.
are sure to shift their focus to the 2015-16 U.S.
crops in coming weeks as farmers firm up
their planting intentions.
The annual fight for acres should begin in
the markets in the coming weeks. The spread
between the two commodities will have to
tighten up a lot more to encourage farmers
to switch any intended soybean acres back to
corn.
As of Feb. 6, the price of new-crop soybeans
was about 2.3 times higher than that of newcrop corn. To encourage acreage switching,
that factor would have to narrow in to 2.1-2.2,
analysts say.
Wheat markets in the U.S. moved higher
during the week, seeing a rebound off
recent sharp declines. Optimism that export
demand for U.S. wheat will pick up, as prices
may have fallen far enough, also underpinned
values.
All three commodities will look to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s monthly report
on Feb. 10 for direction, as it will give an
updated picture on domestic and global supply/demand situations for corn, wheat and
beans.
For wheat, export demand for U.S. supplies,
where the U.S. dollar moves and weather conditions in U.S. winter wheat-growing regions
will also be watched in the coming weeks.
Terryn Shiells writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business February 6, 2015
Last Week
Week Ago
March 2015
barley
195.00
195.00
May 2015
197.00
197.00
July 2015
199.00
199.00
Canola
Last Week
Week Ago
March 2015
459.60
453.40
May 2015
456.00
449.40
July 2015
452.00
447.80
Special Crops
Report for February 9, 2015 — 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
Canaryseed
40.50 - 44.00
Laird No. 1
37.50 - 44.00
Oil Sunflower Seed
Eston No. 2
24.00 - 30.00
Desi Chickpeas
23.00 - 26.00
—
15.20 - 16.00
Field Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
Beans (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1
8.80 - 9.50
Fababeans, large
Medium Yellow No. 1
8.15 - 9.00
—
Feed beans
—
Feed Peas (Cdn. $ per bushel)
No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans
28.00 - 28.00
Feed Pea (Rail)
No. 1 Great Northern
44.00 - 44.00
No. 1 Cranberry Beans
44.00 - 44.00
4.75 - 4.85
Mustardseed (Cdn. cents per pound)
Yellow No. 1
33.00 - 34.50
No. 1 Light Red Kidney
57.00 - 57.00
Brown No. 1
25.00 - 25.50
No. 1 Dark Red Kidney
75.00 - 75.00
Oriental No. 1
29.50 - 31.00
No. 1 Black Beans
33.00 - 33.00
Source: Stat Publishing
SUNFLOWERS
No. 1 Pinto Beans
25.00 - 32.00
No. 1 Small Red
47.00 - 47.00
No. 1 Pink
47.00 - 47.00
Fargo, ND
Goodlands, KS
19.00
NQ
Ask
—
Report for January 30, 2015 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed)
Confection
Source: National Sunflower Association
CWRS wheat bids strengthen across Western Canada
Bids range from about $203 in north-central Saskatchewan to $219 in Manitoba
By Phil Franz-Warkentin,
Commodity News Service Canada
C
ash bids for Canadian Western
Re d Sp r i n g ( C W R S ) w h e a t
generally moved higher during the week ended Feb. 9.
Av e r a g e C W R S p r i c e s g a i n e d
about $3 to $8 per tonne, with
pr ices ranging from about $203
per tonne in north-central
Saskatchewan to $219 per tonne in
Manitoba, according to bids from
a cross-section of delivery points
across Western Canada.
Basis levels varied from location,
to location, but worked out to even
money on average if ignoring the
currency exchange rates between
the U.S. dollar denominated futures
and Canadian dollar bids.
When accounting for the currency
by adjusting the Canadian prices
to U.S. dollars ($1=US$0.7985 as
of Feb. 6), CWRS bids ranged from
US$162 to US$175, which would put
the currency adjusted basis levels at
US$35 to US$48 below the futures.
Looking at it the other way around,
if the Minneapolis futures are converted to Canadian dollars, CWRS
basis levels across Western Canada
range from $44 to $60 below the
futures.
Av e r a g e C a n a d a P r a i r i e R e d
Spring (CPRS) bids were up by $6
to $10 per tonne during the week.
CPRS prices came in at about $178
in Manitoba, between $181 to $182
per tonne in Saskatchewan, and
$188 to $193 in Alberta.
Soft white spring wheat prices
were up by about $8 to $14 per
tonne, ranging from $185 to $178
per tonne in Alberta. Winter
w h e a t p r i c e s we re u p by $ 9 t o
$12 per tonne, ranging from $161
to $168 per tonne across Western
Canada.
Durum prices were steady
to lower, with prices in southern
Saskatchewan, where the bulk of the
crop is grown, down $4 at $342 per
tonne.
The March spring wheat contract
in Minneapolis, which most CWRS
contracts in Canada are based off
of, was quoted at US$5.7700 per
bushel on Febr uar y 6, up 20.25
cents from the previous week.
The Kansas City hard red winter
wheat futures, which are now traded
in Chicago, are more closely linked
t o C P R S i n Ca n a d a . T h e Ma rc h
Kansas City wheat contract was
quoted at US$5.6200 per bushel on
February 6, up 21.50 cents from last
week.
T h e Ma rc h C h i c a g o B o a rd o f
Trade soft wheat contract settled at
US$5.2700 on February 6, which was
24.25 cents higher compared to the
previous week. The Canadian dollar finished the week at 79.85 U.S.
cents, which was up by roughly one
cent compared to the previous week.
12
LIVESTOCK
P R O J E CT S U P P O R T
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
Governments invest
in sustainable beef
production research
Several organizations will partner to develop two demonstration sites near Brandon
By Jennifer Paige
Co-operator staff / Brandon
T
he federal and provincial governments have
announced $3.1 million
in support over three years for
applied research on sustainable beef production at two sites
near Brandon.
Manitoba Agriculture, Food
and Rural Development Minister Ron Kostyshyn and Brandon-Souris MP Larry Maguire
were on hand at the Manitoba
Beef Producers annual general meeting here last week
to announce support for the
project.
“The Manitoba Beef Producers will lead this project which
will be focused on launching a
research program on beef and
grassland management and
establish a demonstration farm
in order to share knowledge
with producers and other stakeholders about grassland management, animal feed efficiency
and herd health and it will also
create an industry-led committee to co-ordinate these industry-led projects,” said Maguire.
“Working together with a
focus on farm-level research
will create valuable information
for producers and result in the
greatest benefits for the longterm future of the beef sector in
Manitoba,” said Kostyshyn.
One of the sites to be developed is the old Johnson farm
west of Brandon and another
will be on a demonstration
farm north of the city.
Once established, the new
sites will offer producers a location to visit, the ability to see
practices first hand and evaluate procedures for themselves.
Along with Manitoba Beef
Producers, the project will also
include a partnership with
MAFRD, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, Ducks Unlimited
and the Manitoba Forage and
Grasslands Association.
“This really comes at a critical
time in our industry as we are
looking to grow and find better
ways to do what we do,” said
Manitoba Beef Producers president Heinz Reimer. “This has
been a long time in the making
for us. We have worked with the
minister’s staff for a number of
years and we are very pleased
that it has finally come to fruition.”
Determining practices
Ducks Unlimited Canada is
providing the land for the
farms.
“All of the practices that will
From left: Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn along with Canadian Cattlemen’s Association Ramona Byth, Manitoba Beef Producers president Heinz Reimer and
Brandon-Souris MP Larry Maguire announced funding for a new research project geared toward sustainable beef production. Photo: Jennifer Paige
“Everyone is at the
table and we can
discuss similar ideas,
meld that into one
really good idea,
spend less funds
getting there and
have more funds to
do a better job and
get better results.”
Jim Lintott
Manitoba Forage and
Grassland Association
be promoting proper grass
management, grass selec tion and any kind of intensive
equipment displays will occur
on our land,” said DUC’s Ken
Gross. “Producers will have a
place they can come to and
view the most innovative practices and any new management
techniques.”
Gross said an advisory committee has been tasked with
determining the practices that
will be examined. The process
of surveying producers for what
they would like to see explored
began last week.
“There is a lot of interest in
cover crops, polycrops, bale
grazing and swath grazing.
There is also a new product
called Batt-Latch that is actually a timed gate so that cattle
can move without the producer
having to be there,” said Gross.
“Producers will be able to
come and discuss what has
worked and what hasn’t. It is
all about keeping the industry
profitable and I believe that this
will certainly take some of the
risk out of trying new practices
for producers.”
Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association chair Jim Lintott said the best part of the
project is that the whole industry is involved.
“It’s not just one sector. Everyone is at the table and we can
discuss similar ideas, meld that
into one really good idea, spend
less funds getting there and
have more funds to do a better
job and get better results.”
Next steps include assembling an advisory committee, surveying producers and
developing the site, which will
include new infrastructure
on the demonstration farm to
accommodate an education
centre.
Project leaders hope to have
the demonstration farm ready
for producer and public interaction by the summer.
“I look forward to inviting all
of you to a grand opening and
a tour to highlight the work
that we will be doing as part
of the initiative,” said Ramona
Byth, a representative from the
Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. “We believe the ideas
tested, research conducted and
the coming together of producers, industry and the public
will have great value to producers here in Manitoba and
beyond our borders.”
Fu n d i n g f o r t h e p ro j e c t
will be provided under the
Growing Forward 2- Growing
Innovation — Capacity and
Knowledge Development program.
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Supply
management
has to keep
pressure on
Ottawa
Politicians and consumers need reminding
that the system is economically sound
By Alex Binkley
W
hile the federal
g ove r n m e n t h a s
promised to protect
supply management for dairy
and poultry producers in trade
negotiations, farmers need to
keep reminding politicians and
consumers the system works
to Canada’s economic benefit,
says Wally Smith, president of
Dairy Farmers of Canada.
One way to do that is for producers to make people aware
that dairy and poultry farms
boost rural prosperity by offering well-paying jobs and supporting local suppliers, he
told the organization’s annual
meeting.
“We invest in Canada and
the explosion of local farmers’
markets in recent years shows
that consumers are interested
in buying local-produced
foods,” he noted. The average
Canadian dairy farm milks 76
cows a day, which is a much
smaller number than many
dairy farms elsewhere. “It’s all
about our family farms.
“We need to convince the
government to become more
aggressive in its defence of
supply management. Processors should support us as well.”
Reports that the TransPacific Pact trade negotiations
could be wrapped up later this
year should have producers
paying close attention to what
issues are in play, he said.
Tailspin
With the collapse of world oil
prices in recent weeks, many
economies have gone into a
tailspin, Smith noted. Dairy
farmers in New Zealand are
struggling because world dairy
prices have dropped as consumers in imported countries
have cut their purchases. Milk
production in Europe will
become completely unregulated in the coming months
and that could throw European
milk production into an oversupply crisis. Canadian beef
and pork farmers have gone
through the kind of agony
dairy farmers elsewhere are
experiencing.
The Canadian system
keeps dairy and poultry farms
healthy while retail prices are
on average close to what shoppers pay in countries like the
United States and Europe,
where up to half the farm
income comes from government payments.
Smith said some economists
and business columnists keep
calling for the end of supply
management so Canada can
export more dairy products.
“We’re not against exports
but it has to make economic
sense. We’re not in favour
of giving away our product.
We’re exporting some cheese
and fluid milk to Asia but we
are producers in a northern
climate.” He noted that of all
the milk produced on farms
around the world, only seven
per cent is exported. Canada is
hardly alone in primarily serving its domestic market.
“We don’t want to see the
government trade away a system of sustainable agriculture so we can participate in a
highly subsidized world market,” he added.
Local foods
The demand for dairy products
grew by two per cent last year
in Canada, he said.
Food companies and restaurants are becoming increasingly interested in serving
products made with 100 per
cent Canadian milk. Tim Hortons will join the ranks in the
near future along with other
well-known companies.
While Dairy Farmers of
Canada appreciates the federal support for supply management, its members are
becoming fr ustrated by
the government’s failure to
explain how it will compensate for the increased access
for European cheese that
will come from the CanadaEurope trade deal.
column
Vesicular stomatitis:
a travel advisory
The rules have changed for transporting horses across Canada-U.S. border
Carol Shwetz, DVM
Horse Health
T
he importance of vesicular stomatitis to horse
owners in Western Canada is relatively small, that is
unless your horse(s) are travelling to or from southwestern
locations in the United States.
If so vesicular stomatitis will
demand significant attention in
your travel plans.
Although Canada is currently
free of vesicular stomatitis and
has been since it was last diagnosed in 1949, outbreaks of
vesicular stomatitis occur in an
unpredictable manner in southwestern United States. Whilst
vesicular stomatitis is rarely life
threatening to animals, its political significance lies in its clinical resemblance/similarity to
foot-and-mouth disease.
An outbreak of foot-andmouth disease would have devastating economic consequences
for the agricultural industry. As
a result vesicular stomatitis is a
reportable disease.
Vesicular stomatitis is a
viral disease afflicting horses,
and less commonly ruminants, swine, members of the
camelidae families and wildlife.
Clinical signs are mild fever,
depression, and the formation
of blister-like lesions within the
mouth, and on the lips, nostrils,
sheath, udder, and hairline of
the hooves. When the blisters
break open they leave a raw
painful wound.
Affected animals drool and
froth at the mouth, often refusing to eat or drink. Weight loss
Whilst vesicular
stomatitis is rarely
life threatening
to animals, its
political significance
lies in its clinical
resemblance/
similarity to footand-mouth disease.
can be marked and lameness
is not uncommon with infection. There is no vaccine available and as with many viral
diseases treatment is symptomatic, with the disease running
its course within two weeks’
time. Although the mechanisms of spread are not fully
known, mechanical transmission through insect vectors and
animal movement are likely
responsible.
Laboratory testing of blood
samples or vesicular fluid from
the infected animal(s) are necessary to confirm a diagnosis of
vesicular stomatitis.
Due to the current outbreak
of vesicular stomatitis in the
states of Colorado and Arizona,
the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and the
CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) have invoked
import and export restrictions
for equines until further notice.
Horse owners are advised
to refrain from travelling to or
through the infected states.
However, for those horse owners who are still willing to travel
with their horses to these states,
it is important to understand
the four necessary requirements for uninterrupted return
to Canada.
It is important to note that
the original Canadian export
certificate is no longer valid for
return.
Instead horse owners bringing their animals back to Canada need to obtain:
(1) A CFIA import permit.
CFIA import permits must be
applied for well in advance of
travel to the vesicular stomatitis-affected states as it may take
weeks to process. This permit
must be provided for inspection
at the port of entry.
(2) A USDA health certificate
stating the horse(s) have been
inspected by a veterinarian
within 15 days preceding the
date of entry.
(3) A negative test to vesicular
stomatitis using a cELISA test
during the 15 days prior to the
date of entry into Canada.
(4) The horse(s) must have
not have been on premise(s) or
adjoining premises where vesicular stomatitis occurred 60 days
immediately preceding entry to
Canada.
It is also suggested Canadian
horse owners check individual state requirements before
movement as various U.S.
states may prohibit movement
into its state without permit/
certification/testing.
Contacting the local veterinarian or the CFIA office may
be necessary to further guide
horse owners on questions specific to travel.
Carol Shwetz is a veterinarian
specializing in equine practice at
Westlock, Alta.
Wetland restoration
is a worthwhile venture
Wetlands moderate the effects of floods and droughts,
provide water for livestock, filter nutrients and more.
Funding is currently available for landowners for wetland
restoration projects. If wetlands have been drained or
altered on your land, contact DUC to learn more about
restoration and other programs that help maximize the
benefits to you and your land.
news
CFGA seeks new
executive director
The Canadian Forage and
Grassland Association
(CFGA) is advertising for a
new executive director to
replace Ron Pidskalny, who
stepped down late last year.
The CFGA says responsibilities include providing
direction and input in areas
such as research and extension, domestic and export
forage market development
forage and grassland and
the environment, as well as
responding to priority issues
identified by member organizations, producers and users.
For more information contact CFGA chair Doug Wray
at [email protected] or
403-935-4642.
Program Funding by NAWCA,NWCA and LWBSF
1-866-251-DUCK (3825)
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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS
Weight Category
Ashern
Gladstone
Grunthal
Heartland
Heartland
Brandon
Virden
Killarney
Ste. Rose
Winnipeg
Feeder Steers
Feb-04
Feb-03
Feb-03
Feb-05
Feb-04
Feb-02
Feb-05
Jan-30
No. on offer
1,680*
962
637*
977*
3,271*
705*
1,453*
1,175*
Over 1,000 lbs.
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
900-1,000
n/a
200.00-210.25
n/a
208.00-227.00
212.00-225.00
n/a
n/a
210.00-223.00
800-900
214.00-230.00
209.00-338.00
200.00-232.00
220.00-239.00
224.00-239.75
225.00-238.00
220.00-229.00 (231.00)
215.00-234.00
700-800
245.00-259.00
220.00-258.50
230.00-253.50
235.00-259.00
233.00-254.00
240.00-260.00
225.00-255.00 (265.00)
220.00-261.00
600-700
260.00-289.00
260.00-288.00
250.00-280.00
250.00-285.00
252.00-289.00
260.00-285.00 (301.50)
260.00-282.00 (287.00)
235.00-285.00
500-600
270.00-325.00
280.00-317.00
275.00-345.00
275.00-328.00
275.00-311.00 (324.00)
285.00-315.00 (324.00)
275.00-312.00 (322.00)
260.00-322.00
400-500
280.00-329.00
300.00-330.00
300.00-350.00
315.00-349.00
295.00-348.00
325.00-350.00 (361.00)
275.00-318.00 (326.00)
275.00-337.00
300-400
n/a
310.00-320.00
275.00-330.00
335.00-380.00
n/a
330.00-368.00
270.00-295.00 (325.00)
300.00-345.00
n/a
175.00-201.50
n/a
190.00-210.00
180.00-204.00
n/a
n/a
180.00-202.00
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs.
800-900
n/a
200.00-225.50
175.00-205.00
195.00-215.00
195.00-213.50
n/a
n/a
200.00-215.00
700-800
217.00-238.00
210.00-234.50
200.00-236.00
217.00-234.00
208.00-233.00
225.00-237.00
200.00-228.00 (232.00)
210.00-235.00
600-700
220.00-244.00
230.00-271.00
225.00-257.00
230.00-258.00
226.00-252.00
235.00-255.00 (259.00)
225.00-252.00 (259.00)
220.00-261.00
500-600
255.00-298.00
260.00-297.00
245.00-315.00
260.00-293.00
255.00-293.00
260.00-290.00 (303.00)
260.00-280.00 (292.00)
230.00-305.00
400-500
250.00-304.00
290.00-323.50
280.00-330.00
280.00-310.00
280.00-314.00
295.00-315.00 (325.00)
270.00-310.00 (315.00)
245.00-307.00
300-400
n/a
295.00-319.00
260.00-300.00
310.00-340.00
n/a
280.00-320.00
n/a
300.00-319.00
No. on offer
150
n/a
104
n/a
n/a
n/a
171
160
D1-D2 Cows
110.00-120.00
95.00-131.50
118.00-124.00
125.00-135.00
120.00-131.00
115.00-135.00
118.00-130.00 (135.50)
125.00-134.00
D3-D5 Cows
95.00-110.00
n/a
95.00-110.00
110.00-123.00
115.00-120.00
n/a
108.00-119.00
115.00-124.00
Slaughter Market
Age Verified
120.00-135.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
123.00-135.00
118.00-139.00
n/a
n/a
Good Bulls
140.00-157.75
130.00-146.75
130.00-139.25
140.00-158.00
140.00-155.00
140.00-150.00
130.00-151.00
140.00-146.00
Butcher Steers
n/a
n/a
n/a
165.00-175.00
164.00-174.00
n/a
n/a
165.00-168.50
Butcher Heifers
n/a
n/a
n/a
163.00-174.00
162.00-172.00
n/a
n/a
164.00-168.00
Feeder Cows
n/a
n/a
125.00-135.00
n/a
125.00-139.00
130.00-140.00
n/a
120.00-140.00
Fleshy Export Cows
n/a
n/a
118.00-124.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Lean Export Cows
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Heiferettes
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
135.00-148.00
* includes slaughter market
(Note all prices in CDN$ per cwt. These prices also generally represent the top one-third of sales reported by the auction yard.)
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Producers must end antimicrobial
growth promotants
The risk from antimicrobial-resistant organisms found in meat is statistically low, but of great potential consequence
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
I
f producers want to keep
antibiotics in their tool
boxes, they’re going to have
to change the way they use
them.
And that means voluntarily
ending the use of antimicrobials as growth promotants,
Leigh Rosengren told those
attending the annual Manitoba Swine Seminar in Winnipeg.
“I promise you, if we see no
change, this will be a big black
strike across the industry,”
said the Saskatchewan-based
veterinarian and epidemiologist. “When we say we’re going
to step up, and that we’re
voluntar ily going to clean
something up, and then if we
ultimately don’t change, I see
the next step as regulation.”
Regulation has already come
to producers in the United
States. There, pharmaceutical
companies have voluntarily
removed claims of growth promotion from their labels, while
government regulations have
made it illegal to use extralabel feed antimicrobials.
Leigh Rosengren speaks at the Manitoba Swine Seminar. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
Winter doldrums at sheep
and goat sale
Lightweight lambs dominate, just one ewe and one doe
W
innipeg Livestock
Auction had 100
sheep and one goat
delivered for the Feb. 4 sale.
The lightweight lambs dominated this auction. Classifications were extremely limited.
Just one 125-pound Rideaucross ewe brought $136.25
($1.09 per pound).
Quality of the rams created more excitement. A
195-pound Rideau-cross
ram brought $226.20 ($1.16
per pound). Two 160-pound
Rideau-cross rams brought
$188.80 ($1.18). A 105-pound
Dorset-cross ram did not have
similar quality to the others
Leigh Rosengren
Pharmaceutical companies
have also begun to remove
claims of growth promotion
from Canadian labels.
“They see the writing on the
wall — that we don’t have a
social licence to use these drugs
in this way,” Rosengren said.
But unlike the United States,
Canada has not made it illegal
to use antimicrobials as offlabel growth promotants. Here,
the responsibility to ensure
proper antimicrobial use rests
with industry and farmers, pork
producers were told.
“There is a fundamental difference in how this is going to
play out in the United States
versus in Canada,” she said.
“And so, there is a lot of debate
in Canada as to how much
impact this will actually have on
antimicrobial use.”
Government may step in
SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN
By Mark Elliot
“Open sharing about antibiotic use will ensure
we are good stewards and build engagement
with regulators in managing this societal
resource.”
and brought only $0.70 per
pound.
There were no heavyweight
lambs or market lambs delivered.
Bidding for feeder lambs
was similar to the last sale.
There appeared to be no price
differences between wool and
haired lambs. The weights
ranged from 84 to 88 pounds,
with a price range from $1.79
to $1.88 per pound.
The lightweight lamb classification dominated this sale.
The bidding was slightly lower
compared to the last sale. A
group of six 72-pound lambs
brought $1.82 per pound. A
75-pound Dorper-cross lamb
brought $1.90 per pound. The
quality of two Dorper-cross
lambs was lower, causing less
interest and lower bidding.
The lambs in the 60-plus
weight range dominated the
lightweight classification. The
weight ranged from 63 to 68
pounds, with a price range from
$1.70 to $1.80 per pound. A group
of five 60-pound lambs brought
$1.60 per pound. A group of five
65-pound Barbado-cross lambs
brought $1.70 per pound.
A 55-pound Suffolk-cross
lamb brought $107.25 ($1.95 per
pound).
The only goat delivered for
this auction, was a 100-pound
Boer-cross doe. The bidding
from the buyers rose, based
upon this extreme limitation
and she brought $152.50 ($1.53
per pound).
Canadian regulators often follow
the lead of their American counterparts, she added, noting that
without a voluntary decrease in
antimicrobial use, further government action is likely.
“For the producers in the
room, I would be encouraging
you to be having this conversation with your feed mill and with
your nutritionist and with your
veterinarian about how your
feed meds are going change.”
Producers also need to be
having conversations with the
public about antibiotics and
antibiotic resistance
“There is certainly a food
safety risk, it’s real,” she said.
“Over 75 per cent of E. coli that
comes off pork chops in Canada
are resistant to tetracycline. Do
we have a problem? Undoubtedly, yes.
“Where the rubber hits the
road is when the doctor prescribes something, and it’s
related to whatever was used on
the farm, and the therapy that
the doctor prescribes is ineffective because of that drug use on
the farm. That is a real chain of
events,” Rosengren said.
But she was quick to add that
it’s also a chain of events that
rarely reaches its conclusion. In
some cases the risk of an adverse
event stemming from resistant
bacteria is as low as one in 85
million.
“When you’re talking to consumers, you want to… make
sure they understand that the
probability of this is very, very
low,” said Rosengren. “But does
that mean we shouldn’t be concerned? Well no, I don’t actually
think so. Just because the risk is
low it doesn’t mean it isn’t there.”
Un d e r s t a n d i n g h ow t h e
antibiotics you use work, why
they’re needed, and what risks
they can pose is all part of
responsible stewardship, she
stressed. A failure to take action
and responsibility could mean
the loss of these powerful medicines through both resistance
and regulations.
“Open sharing about antibiotic
use will ensure we are good stewards and build engagement with
regulators in managing this societal resource,” Rosengren said.
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Box 1476 Estevan, SK S4A 2L7
January 10, 2015
Ewes
$136.25
Marlin 306.634.8031
Cell
306.421.2470
$143.10 – $175.95
$80.80 – $85
110+
n/a
95 - 110
n/a
$176.40 – $192
80 - 94
$155.40 – $163.68
$151.20 – $166.60
Under 80
$131.04 / $142.50
$138.45 – $163.53 (70 – 79 lbs.)
63 - 68
$110.50 – $122.40
$130.65 / $133.33 (65 / 67 lbs.)
$107.25
$105.84 / $114 / $116.23
(56 / 57 / 59 lbs.)
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WEATHER VANE
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M a r k Tw a i n , 18 9 7
Typical mid-winter weather
Issued: Monday, February 9, 2015 · Covering: February 11 – February 18, 2015
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
I
t’s turning out to be quite
the battle between cold air
to our north and east and
warm air to our west and south.
Unfortunately, for those hoping for a return to mild melting
weather, it looks like we stay on
the cold side of things at least
for the next week or two, as a
series of arctic highs invades
central and eastern North
America. If you were hoping
for more snow, again, more bad
news, as the arctic highs should
keep any snow on the light side.
The general weather pattern
across North America is staying fairly stable, with a ridge
of high pressure over western
regions and a trough of low pressure across eastern regions. This
places us in a northwesterly flow
between these two main features,
which will result in systems moving through fairly rapidly.
The first system will be an
area of arctic high pressure
building in on Wednesday
and Thursday, bringing plenty
of sunshine and temperatures near the bottom end of
the usual range. This high will
quickly slide off to the southeast Friday, with a weak low in
its wake bringing some milder
temperatures and a few flurries.
A second high will slide by to
our northeast on Saturday and
Sunday, which should help to
clear the skies. Fortunately, it
doesn’t look like we’ll see colder
air move in with this high, as
another weak low following
quickly behind this system late
on Sunday will help to keep the
coldest air to our north.
A third arctic high will then
drop southward and dr ift
across our region Monday and
Tuesday, bringing plenty of
clear skies and cold temperatures as daytime highs and lows
struggle to make it into the low
end of the usual temperature
range. By Wednesday this one
will also quickly move off to the
east, allowing for milder air to
move back in.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, -17 to -2 C;
lows, -29 to -12 C.
snow across the U.S. and southern Canada
For this issue I have included two
snow maps. Usually I try to clean
up Environment Canada’s snow
map so we can see more Canadian
data, but due to spotty snow cover
across much of southern Alberta and
Saskatchewan that map was too
difficult to work with.
The first map shows the total snow
cover across the U.S. and southern
Canada as of Feb. 8. Snow cover
over southern parts of the Prairies
is rather light, with amounts usually
below 25 cm and some areas having
no snow cover. You have to go
farther north into central regions to
see snow cover in the 50-cm range.
The second map nicely shows the
path of the Feb. 7 storm system that
tracked from central Alberta across
Saskatchewan, then southeastward
through Manitoba into Ontario. The
heaviest amounts from this system
were in the 15- to 20-cm range,
quickly dropping off to only a couple
of centimetres on the southern edge
of the system.
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].
Just what is an atmospheric river?
If conditions are right, atmospheric rivers can inject huge amounts of water into storm systems
By Daniel Bezte
So far this year we haven’t seen many of these
rivers develop, which helps to explain why
California is experiencing such extreme drought.
co-operator contributor
A
s we settle into the middle
of winter and start thinking about when spring
will start rolling in, I sometimes
struggle to come up with different weather stories to talk about.
If you have something you would
like to share, or something you
would like to see explained or
discussed, please let me know
at [email protected]. When there
are no big weather stories affecting our part of the world, I often
rely on listening to, or overhearing, weather conversations for
ideas of what people are thinking about weather-wise and,
more importantly, what they
aren’t hearing or understanding
correctly. You’d be amazed how
many people have very little
weather knowledge, yet are selfproclaimed weather experts and
will spout off incorrect weather
information like it is the gospel
truth. Usually, I stay clear, as I’ve
found these weather conversations are often like pro sports,
religious or political conversations: you can’t change the other
person’s viewpoint. Even if they
know you are right, they will stick
with it to the bitter end.
The latest conversation I overheard had to do with atmospheric rivers and the current
weather pattern over North
America. I figured I would tackle
Here we see a view of an atmospheric river from December 2010, much like
the one that recently brought rain to parched California.
the first of these topics in this
issue and try to clear the air, so
to speak, of just what an atmospheric river is. The second topic
— namely, why it has been so
warm out west and cold and
snowy to our east — will have to
wait until the next issue.
An atmospheric river is almost
exactly as it sounds. A river is a
long and narrow water source
which, for the most part, has a
continuous flow of water from
upstream to downstream. In the
atmosphere, most of the moisture comes from evaporation
and the majority of evaporation
occurs in the tropics. In our part
of the world we have very little
evaporation occurring in the
winter and only see high levels
under certain circumstances in
the summer. Over the tropics, a
large amount of evaporation is
taking place all the time. A good
portion of this moisture falls back
to earth in the tropics, but some
makes its way northward to fuel
storm systems that give us a large
amount of our rain and even
snow.
Some of this tropical moisture
simply works its way northward,
drawn into mid-latitude weather
systems a little bit here and a little bit there. Sometimes a large
flow of tropical moisture can
develop and last for several days
to even a week or more, bringing huge amounts of moisture
northward, usually resulting in
flooding rains or heavy snow.
These northward or westward
plumes of moisture can stretch
over thousands of kilometres but
are often only 50-100 km wide.
Usually, in our part of the world,
the atmosphere holds between
10 and 20 mm of water — more
in the summer than the winter,
but this is a good average. This
means if you were to take all
the moisture in the atmosphere
above you, and condense it back
into water, you would typically
expect this much water. Over the
tropics, this amount is typically
in the 50- to 60-mm range. When
an atmospheric river forms, we
get a long narrow transport of
these high water content values
— a river of moisture in the air.
The atmospheric rivers that tend
to affect us typically form over
the Pacific and will often bring
flooding rains to the West Coast,
from British Columbia southward to California. The image
here shows an atmospheric river
that formed in December 2010
and is very similar to the one that
recently brought much-needed
rain to California.
These atmospheric rivers,
while bringing large amounts
of rain and snow to the West
Coast, are also often responsible
for large rain and snow events
across the Prairies. In the past,
these atmospheric rivers over
the Pacific were called the Pineapple Express, since they often
originated near Hawaii. The
storm system that brought snow
to a good portion of the central
Prairies Jan. 7-8 was largely the
result of moisture pouring into
North America in an atmospheric river.
Again, these rivers are not our
only source of moisture. If they
do set up and if the conditions
are right, these rivers can inject
huge amounts of water into
storm systems, which in turn will
often bring our largest rains or
snows of the season. So far this
year we haven’t seen many of
these rivers develop or affect our
region, which helps to explain
why the West Coast, California in
particular, is experiencing such
extreme drought. But that leads
us to the second topic of study:
why has it been so warm and dry
over western North America and
cold and wet to the east? More
on that next week.
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Soybeans — it might be
OK to go easy on the inoculant
MPGA tests also show little or no benefit in using fungicides
By John Morriss
Staff / Beausejour
P
lant your soybeans on wheat
or corn stubble and aim for
140,000 to 150,000 plants per
Soy on soy is risky
Podolsky said that based on rotation trials by Yvonne Lawley of the
University of Manitoba at three
sites in 2013 and 2014, planting soy
on soy was either the big winner or
the big loser.
At Carman in 2013, it yielded 65
bushels per acre compared to 53
on corn and 52 on wheat. But at
Kelburn in 2014, soy on soy yielded
only 36 bushels versus 45 on corn
and 47 on wheat.
While trials of soy on canola
produced similar yields to corn
or wheat in most cases, Podolsky
warned of the risks in the long
term. They include susceptibility
to the same root rot and sclerotinia
diseases, herbicide residue con-
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Fungicides and inoculants
MPGA on-farm tests in 2014 have
yielded some good news for soy
growers looking to shave input
costs.
At nine of 10 locations in 2014,
there was no significant statistical
difference in soybeans grown with
or without fungicides. Podolsky
noted that most disease pressure
on soy is on the roots rather than
above ground, but that tests will be
repeated in 2015 and 2016 to see if
the recommendation to skip fungicide holds.
There is also good news if you’ve
grown soybeans for more than two
years — you can probably skip that
second inoculant now that Manitoba soils are becoming colonized
with the soy rhizobia. MPGA tests
at seven locations in 2014 showed
no significant difference between
beans grown with liquid inoculant
only and with a second application
of in-furrow granular inoculant.
“Overall we’re finding that the
A segment of soybean root infected with soybean cyst nematode. Signs of infection
are white to brown cysts filled with eggs that are attached to root surfaces. While no
CST has been detected in Manitoba so far, it has been found near the border in North
Dakota. Photo: USDA
2008-12 SOYBEAN DATA
From Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation
Previous Crop
% of soybean acres grown
on major stubble types
Relative soybean yield
according to previous crop
Winter Wheat
7%
101%
Spring Wheat
22%
103%
Oat
14%
99%
Canola
21%
101%
Soybean
15%
95%
Grain Corn
3%
107%
Crop insurance data from 2008-12 tends to confirm that in practice,
soy does best on wheat and corn.
longer you grow soybeans, the
more likely you can back off,”
Podolsky said. “Maybe in a few
years we’re at the point where we
can’t use any inoculant but we’re
not there yet.”
Nematodes at the door
While there’s good news for now on
soybean cyst nematode, the No. 1
yield robber in the U.S., it may not
last long. Tests across Manitoba
last season found no evidence of
the pest, but it’s been moving north
and is already being found at low
levels in North Dakota near the
border.
“It could very well be in Manitoba — we just haven’t scouted the
right field yet,” Podolsky said.
One problem in identifying the
nematode’s presence is that yields
can be reduced 10 to 15 per cent
before any symptoms are visible.
Podolsky encouraged producers
to choose varieties rated “R” for the
nematode, and to scout their own
fields for the pest. Mario Tenuta
at the University of Manitoba has
been running a scouting program,
and encourages producers who’ve
received a positive result from a
private lab to contact him for further testing.
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Those were two of the recommendations from research results
delivered by Manitoba Pulse Growers production specialist Kristen
Podolsky to a meeting of the Brokenhead River Agricultural Conference here last week.
Podolsky also said you might
not need to use in-furrow granular
inoculants, and those yellow canola volunteers might not be as bad
as they look.
The recommendations for plant
establishment are based on work
by Ramona Mohr at AAFC in Brandon. While optimum yield was
achieved at an actual plant stand
of 160,000 plants per acre, because
of the extra seed cost the total economic return was higher at 140,000
plants per acre when calculated
both at $9 and $10 per bushel.
Podolsky said 30 on-farm tests
showed that average expected seed
survival is 74 per cent with an air
drill and 82 per cent with a planter,
so an actual plant stand of 140,000
to 150,000 can be achieved with a
seeding rate of 190,000 to 210,000
per acre with an air drill and
170,000 to 190,000 with a planter.
An app for calculating plant
stands is available at mpgabean.
com.
cerns and suppression of beneficial
mycorrhizae on soybean roots.
Another risk is herbicide-resistant canola volunteers, and the
increasingly common sight of a
yellow canopy above Manitoba
soybean fields. “I’ve been in fields
where you have to guess what the
crop is this year,” Podolsky said.
On the other hand, the problem
is usually esthetic, she said. Deciding on control requires determining the density. Research by Rob
Gulden of the University of Manitoba from 2012-13 showed that
yield loss per canola volunteer per
square metre ranges from 0.5 to as
high as 4.9 per cent.
Podolsky said five per cent is an
“action threshold” for yield loss,
and that control becomes economic at 2.4 volunteers per square
metre in narrow rows and 4.2
plants in wide rows, though she
was cautious on the latter figure.
“This narrow-row threshold is
pretty solid, on the wide row we
want to do more work.”
To try and reduce the volunteer
seed bank, Podolsky suggested
patch spraying, and harrowing or
light tillage early after soybean harvest to encourage the seeds to germinate and be killed by frost.
18
Everything you ever wanted to
know about shipping to the U.S.
Online publication includes info on weight restrictions, phytosanitary certificates and more
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
C
anadian and American
grain companies have
a new resource to assist
them when buying or transhipping grain to or through each other’s countries.
The goal is to expedite grain
trading between the two nations
and beyond following the elimination of the Canadian Wheat
Board’s single desk.
“We’ve seen all sorts of border
challenges in other types of commodities so we wanted to make
sure we did a very good job of
making sure the information was
out there for everyone,” Canada
Grains Council president Tyler
Bjornson said in an interview Feb.
6. “We wanted to dispel any myths
and make sure the appropriate
While you can now sell directly to the U.S. without going through the wheat board, there are
still grain customs and import regulations such as phytosanitary requirements. Photo: Thinkstock
February 17 & 18, 2015
“We’ve seen all sorts
of border challenges
in other types of
commodities so we
wanted to make sure
we did a very good
job of making sure the
information was out
there for everyone.”
Victoria Inn Hotel and Convention Centre
1808 Wellington Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
•
A tradeshow with access to Crop Specific information
•
Two intense days of more than 30 educational speakers
•
Keynote Speaker: Drew Lerner
President and Senior Agricultural Meterologist,
World Weather, Inc.
•
Tyler Bjornson
Keynote Speaker: Glen Hodgson
Chief Economist,
The Conference Board of Canada
Full Registration
240
$
DAY RATE also available
information from authorities
from either side of the border was
available publicly.”
The information posted at
http://canada-usgrainandseedtrade.info was prepared by the
Canada-U.S. Grain and Seed
Trade Task Group. It’s designed
to give commercial grain buyers
a better understanding of crossborder trade regulations.
The task group, which included
Canada Grains Council and the
North American Grain Export
Association, National Grain and
Feed Association and U.S. Wheat
Associates, has already posted
information for Canadian and
American grain farmers and seed
growers and distributors.
“The open market changes provide new opportunities for U.S.
and Canadian producers and
traders to move wheat, durum, or
barley across the border, but that
grain is still subject to the respective and applicable customs and
import regulations, such as phytosanitary requirements,” the
task group said in a news release.
“Some of that grain may also be
exported to a third country.”
The 29-page document is full of
meaty information ranging from
links to sites regarding local highway road weight restrictions to
links on obtaining phytosanitary
certificates. There’s information
on shipping grain from one country into the other and then on to
a third country. Canadian and
American grain-grading systems
are also discussed.
“It’s meant to be a proactive
information service for anyone
engaging in cross-border trade to
make sure there isn’t any confusion and frustrations don’t turn
into irritants at the end of the
day,” Bjornson said.
“I think it’s important for our
Canadian industry to have an
open, transparent discussion with
our U.S. colleagues... to make sure
as the private sector we’re managing any concerns together that
might be coming up rather than
letting them become sore points.”
In the past the United States
has slapped countervailing duties
on imported Canadian wheat,
although they were ruled to be
unjustified and were overturned.
At the time the wheat board’s
monopoly was cited as an irritant.
It’s gone, but there are still concerns among some that a sudden
flood of Canadian wheat into the
U.S. could prompt trade action.
However, others have predicted
in an open market Canadian and
U.S. wheat prices will arbitrage
preventing a rush of Canadian
wheat to the south.
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Growing demand for better food
One economist predicts demands for grains could shrink in the face of increased fruit and vegetable consumption
By Alex Binkley
G
rowing world demand
for food doesn’t necessarily equate with
increased demand for comm o d i t y g r a i n s , s a i d Ti m
Beatty, a professor of agriculture and resource economics
at the University of California,
Davis.
“Generally people are eating better than a decade ago,”
Beatty told the annual Canadian Agriculture Economics
Society policy conference. He
said food supplies are growing, and so is demand.
But he noted trends in consumer demand for health and
nutr ition suggest that the
demand for fruits and vegetables would keep growing,
while grains will see a declining importance in the food
system.
He a l s o s u g g e s t e d t h a t
despite all the controversy
they generate, the production
of biofuels “is not that important in terms of forecasting
the global supply of food calories.” Land used to produce
crops for fuel will be switched
to food production when
“food prices get too high.”
At the same time, the
march to a world population
in the nine billion range by
2050 means agriculture and
science have to find ways to
increase food production, he
added. “ We cannot expect
another Green Revolution.”
While they’re fraught with
controversy, genetically modified crops offer the prospects
of higher yields without having to increase the amount of
land being farmed, he said.
As well, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean “all
have large areas capable of
increasing food production.”
Jim Brandle, CEO of Vine-
It’s a scam,
Manitoba Hydro
warns
land Research and Innovation
Centre, said his organization
is building a one-acre greenhouse complex in the Niagara
Peninsula to demonstrate the
importance of technology to
the future of food production.
The centre aims to create
the right commercial
partnerships that translate an
idea into a value product or
process, he said. “We’re trying
to build up a technology base
for horticulture.
“The value of the greenhouse complex is in both
what it will produce and the
technology it generates which
can become an exportable
product as well.”
Mo d e r n a g r i c u l t u re h a s
become the Age of Biology
and the centre plans to investigate the potential of reverse
genetics as a way to develop
more productive plant varieties, he said. Reverse genetics
involves examining individ-
ual genes in a plant to determine what role they play in a
plant’s growth and how that
could improve its overall productivity.
Brandle said it has the
potential to lead to major
breakthroughs in plant
breeding without the cost or
controversy of genetic modification, noting it currently
costs about $163 million to
bring a new GMO plant to
market.
Michel Post, managing
director of Food, Beverages
and Agribusiness at the Dutch
bank Rabobank International,
said that despite the huge disparity in the size of their agriculture sectors, Canada and
the Netherlands could gain
a lot by working in partnerships. Canada earns about 8.5
per cent of its GDP from agriculture exports while Holland
receives nine per cent.
“We’re in an era where agri-
culture has to do more with
less, achieve more value
a d d e d a n d d e v e l o p m o re
public-private partnerships,”
he noted. “The Netherlands
doesn’t have room to expand
production but it has agriculture knowledge that it can
export.”
Canada can increase production “as well as bringing
knowledge and the ability
to attract investments,” Post
said. One area the two countr ies could advance is the
adoption of precision agriculture to increase production
in the oilseed and grains sector while reducing input and
labour costs.
“The era of big data or data
intensity in agriculture could
reach 75 per cent of farmers
by 2025,” he said. “By then
farm equipment should be
able to execute variable-rate
applications that big data
would make possible.”
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cut off power due to
an unpaid bill
( A really nice place to brag about it.)
Staff
Manitoba Hydro has issued an
advisory warning customers not
to fall for a scam caller threatening to cut off power due to an
unpaid bill.
“Several customers have
received phone calls that appear
to come from the utility demanding immediate payment,” Hydro
said in a release.
A typical scam phone call:
• Originates from a toll-free
number. In some cases, our
phone number also appears in
the Caller ID.
• The caller asks a few questions,
then states that the customer’s
account is in arrears and must
be paid immediately.
• The customer is provided
with payment options, which
include making a payment
through a local retailer (often
Safeway/Sobeys), paying
through a PayPal account,
wiring a cash payment via
Western Union, or providing a
credit card number.
Manitoba Hydro said recipients of such phone calls are
urged to hang up immediately
and contact Manitoba Hydro,
the local police non-emergency
phone number, as well as Phone
Busters at 1-888-495-8501.
These are the numbers to call
if you wish to reach Manitoba
Hydro:
• Questions about your accounts;
call directly at 204-480-5900 or
toll free 1-888-624-9376.
• Questions about a pending
disconnection; the direct line
to Manitoba Hydro Credit
and Recovery Services is
204-480-5901.
Manitoba Hydro does not
make reminder phone calls to
customers who are in arrears. As
well, it does not demand immediate payment, or accept PayPal
or credit card payments.
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A scenic combination of ice, fog and frost
Those interested in
commenting have
until April 9 to make a
submission
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
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Eating foods Canadian farmers
grow can reduce health-care costs
The study looked at the impacts of increased consumption of the Canadian Climate Advantage Diet
Staff
T
he Manitoba Agri-Health
Research Network Inc.
(MAHRN) has released
a new study that found the
province could shave annual
health-care costs by $400 million if people ate more of the
healthy foods that are produced by local farmers.
“There is substantial potential savings of between $360
million to $400 million annually to the health-care system
in Manitoba by changing eating habits to include more
functional foods — a reduction
of more than 10 per cent of
the annual health costs in the
province.”
The study looked at the
healthful benefits of the
Canadian Climate Advantage
the health impact of increased
consumption of functional
foods.”
The project was supported
by funding through the Canada
and Manitoba governments
through Growing Forward 2, a
federal-provincial-territorial
initiative.
MAHRN members, which
include the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in
Health and Medicine (CCARM);
Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceut i c a l s ( RC F F N ) a n d Fo o d
Development Centre (FDC),
test and assess plant- and
animal-based bioactive compounds, from isolation and
characterization through clinical proof of safety and efficacy
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Diet (CCAD), which is based
on consumption of products
grown under Canadian climatic conditions, such as flaxseed, pulses, whole grains,
potatoes and emerging crops,
eggs, dairy, turkey, bison, freshwater fish, honey and grass-fed
beef.
“In Manitoba, the management and treatment of NCD
(non-communicable diseases)
represent approximately 60
per cent of the total health
expenditure in the province
so new solutions are needed
that address patient quality
of life as well as fiscal realities,” said Lee Anne Murphy,
MAHRN executive director in
a release. “MAHRN’s validation
of the science base underlying the CCAD concept continues to build the evidence of
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CFIA calls time out on reg review
Industry groups say they are pleased it is taking time to get it right
By Alex Binkley
T
he Canadian Food
Inspection Agency has
called a time out in its
re g u l a t o r y m o d e r n i z a t i o n
project to further study agriculture and processor proposals
for improving food safety.
After a massive series of consultations through 2014, CFIA
had been expected to present
its package of proposed regulatory changes in the Canada
Gazette Part One by late January.
“We are taking a pause,” the
agency informed the industry as
speculation swirled about what
CFIA would do. Colleen Barnes,
executive director of Domestic
Food Safety Systems and Meat
Hygiene Directorate in the
Policy and Programs Branch,
said in an interview the agency
would continue to assess the
“extremely valuable” proposals
farm groups and food industry
associations advanced last year.
“We appreciate all the feedback
we received and we may even
undertake further consultations
before proceeding.”
Chris Kyte, president of Food
Processors of Canada, said his
organization “fully supports
CFIA taking a collective deep
breath. Hopefully a delay will
allow us to better understand
what’s in the agency’s proposed
regulations.”
CFIA has undergone significant management turnover in
the last year, which calls “into
question the quality of consultations and analysis so we support a review of all regulatory
proposals.”
Albert Chambers, executive
director of the Supply Chain
Food Safety Coalition, said the
industry wasn’t surprised by
the time out. “We have been
supportive of the consultative process the agency followed in developing the new
regulations. We look forward
to further collaboration and
understand the agency is trying
to get it right.”
The industry hoped it would
finally see the full package of
regulatory changes, he added.
Susan Abel, vice-president of
Safety & Compliance with Food
and Consumer Products of
Canada, also supports a slower
approach. “We are pleased the
CFIA is taking time to carefully
review the high volume of feedback it received. We have suggested it share a full list of draft
regulations in advance of the
Gazetting process, so we can
continue providing meaningful
feedback.”
No specific dates had been
set on when the agency might
unveil its full package of regulatory changes in the Canada
Gazette, Barnes said. That
would be followed by a 75-day
consultation with domestic and
international organizations. The
industry had been pushing for a
90-day consultation period.
After the Safe Food for Cana-
dians Act was approved by Parliament in 2012, the agency
consulted with more than
10,000 agriculture, processor and consumer representatives on a proposed regulatory
framework.
Chambers said the pause
will likely mean the regulations
won’t come into effect until at
least 2016.
The government has indicated it wanted the regulatory
package completed before the
general election expected this
October.
The agency was assembled
in 1997 from bits and pieces
of several government departments, and in the process,
accumulated a load of disconnected acts and regulations to
enforce.
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Canadian food producers, the
agency is also responsible for
certification of food exports
and monitoring the safety of
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Cargill begins
selling Syngenta
corn seed
By Tom Polansek
Reuters
Cargill Inc. has started selling
a variety of genetically modified Syngenta AG corn seed
that previously disrupted
U.S. grain trading now that
China has approved imports
of the biotech crop.
Cargill began selling seed
containing the Agrisure
Viptera trait last month
and scrapped a policy that
required farmers to give the
company prior notice of
deliveries that may contain
Viptera corn, spokesman
Mark Klein said.
The agribusiness giant
eased its policies on Viptera
corn after suing Syngenta AG
over the trait last year, when
China had a ban on imports
of the genetically modified
crop.
Cargill adjusted its policies
after Swiss-based Syngenta
provided written confirmation that Beijing approved
imports of Viptera corn,
Klein said.
China in November 2013
began rejecting boatloads
of U.S. crops containing
Viptera corn, spurring
Cargill, Archer Daniels
Midland Co. and dozens of
farmers to sue Syngenta for
damages.
David MacLennan,
Cargill’s chief executive
officer, earlier said the rejections caused the company “a
lot of financial damage.”
In April 2014, the National
Grain and Feed Association
estimated that rejections
of shipments containing
MIR162 corn cost the U.S.
agriculture industry at least
$1 billion.
Cargill still refuses to
accept another variety of
GMO corn developed by
Syngenta, called Duracade,
because China has not
approved it for import.
CWB building
sold: reports
By Commodity News
Service Canada
CWB’s downtown Winnipeg
office building has been sold,
according to media reports.
The eight-storey building
near Portage and Main was
bought by Calgary-based
Hopewell Development for
an undisclosed amount.
CWB, formerly known as
the Canadian Wheat Board,
will continue to lease two
floors of the building. The
sale was initially reported
in December, but was only
finalized at the end of January. The building, with over
146,000 square feet of office
space, was first listed for sale
in 2012, as the company
transitioned from its former
role as the single-desk seller
of western Canadian wheat
to the open market.
The current building
consists of two parts — a
building purchased from
Manitoba Pool Elevators in
the early 1960s and a larger
addition attached to the
south side.
23
All crops not equal in face
of weakening dollar
By Phil Franz-Warkentin
Commodity News Service Canada
W
ith the Canadian dollar falling to its weakest levels relative to
its U.S. counterpart in six years
the general sentiment holds
that it should be good news
for exporters, such as Canadian grain farmers. However,
any net benefit may depend on
what exactly is being exported
and who is doing the buying,
according to an analyst.
T h e C a n a d i a n c u r re n c y
moved to US79 cents Jan. 29, or
(US$1=C$1.2658). Using canola
as an example, that means that
the March canola contract trading at C$449 per tonne on the
ICE Futures platform on January 29, would only cost US$354
in the international market.
At its most basic level, a
weaker Canadian dollar is beneficial for Canadian exporters
but detrimental for importers. For a western Canadian
farmer, this theory means they
should be getting more Canadian dollars back for their
commodities sold into the global market, but also spending more of those Canadian
dollars on anything imported
— such as equipment or fertilizer.
While there is some truth to
the general theory, the reality
“The lowest canola
prices I’ve ever seen
came at a time when
we had the weakest
Canadian dollar,
and some of the
best canola prices
I’ve ever seen came
at a time when we
had the strongest
Canadian dollar.”
Mike Jubinville
is a bit more nuanced.
For grain exports, a weaker
Canadian dollar that makes
exports cheaper for international buyers “works in a
demand-pull environment,
where the buyers are really
interested in buying your
product,” said analyst Mike
Jubinville, of ProFarmer Canada. In that scenario, the benefit of the currency exchange
is translated back to the
farmer, he said pointing to
lentils as an example.
However, in a supply-push
environment, where the grain
has more challenges finding a
home, the benefit of the currency exchange goes to the
buyer, said Jubinville. He said
wheat would be an example
of a supply-push commodity,
as there are many competitors in the global market and
other currencies are also going
down relative to the U.S. dollar.
For canola, the impact is
mixed. “The lowest canola
prices I’ve ever seen came at
a time when we had the weakest Canadian dollar, and some
of the best canola prices I’ve
ever seen came at a time when
we had the strongest Canadian
dollar,” said Jubinville highlighting the fact that explaining
the market is not as simplistic
as saying ‘a weaker Canadian
dollar equals higher canola
prices.’
While it depends on the
commodity being sold, the
potential returns for Canadian
producers are also related to
who is doing the buying. “If
you’re dealing in a direct relationship with the U.S., it works
out,” said Jubinville, noting that
there was an increasing incentive to sell as much grain to the
U.S. as possible.
However, the U.S. isn’t the
main market for a majority of
grains and oilseeds grown in
the Prairies. As other world
currencies are also declining
relative to the U.S. dollar, those
buyers aren’t really seeing the
same currency-related savings
when dealing with Canada.
In addition, competing grain
exporters such as Australia
and Europe have also seen
their currencies weaken, thus
increasing their competitiveness internationally as well.
The currency exchange
is also having a roundabout
negative impact on Canadian
fertilizer prices. While Canada
is a net producer of nitrogen
fertilizer, the pricing tends
to be established in the U.S.
Midwest. From a U.S. point of
view, buying Canadian product looks attractive given the
current exchange rates, so
Canadian suppliers are selling
into the U.S., said Jubinville.
The U.S. price may be going
down because of the increasing Canadian supplies, but
Canadian prices are going up
as Canadian growers are now
competing with U.S. growers
using the stronger U.S. currency.
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The recipe has to be just right
when fertilizing your crops
Seed row-added phosphorus and potassium work well, but nitrogen and sulphur are mobile
By Jennifer Blair
staff / edmonton
“Placement,
especially of
immobile nutrients,
means you need
to have it close to
where that root is
in order for it to be
available.”
N
itrogen may be the first
thing producers think
of when they want to
bump up their yield — but don’t
neglect the other nutrients.
“In order to get the maximum
benefit out of all of our fertilizer nutrients, we need to have
a balanced supply,” said University of Saskatchewan soil scientist Jeff Schoenau, who drew big
crowds for his FarmTech presentations.
“That’s where phosphorus,
sulphur, and potassium come
in.”
Every year, Schoenau drives
home the point about balanced nutrition to his soil
fertility students by conducting a little experiment. Working with brown and grey soils,
the students look at how canola responds to nitrogen alone,
nitrogen plus phosphorus, and
nitrogen plus phosphorus and
sulphur.
In the brown soil, the “main
limitation” in crop yield is usually phosphorus.
“Nitrogen alone didn’t give us
much of a yield response, but
with phosphorus present, we
got a big yield gain, and a little
bit of sulphur added on top of
that gave us the highest yield,”
said Schoenau.
Phosphorus “wasn’t really an
issue” in the grey soil, but sulphur was.
“When we added nitrogen, we
got a little bit of a yield gain,
and nitrogen plus phosphorus
wasn’t much higher than just
nitrogen,” he said.
“But where we had the nitrogen, the phosphorus, and the
sulphur together, that’s where
we got the highest yield. That’s
the importance of balanced
nutrition for fertility.”
Placement is tricky
So where’s the best place to put
that fertilizer? That depends,
said Schoenau.
jeff schoenau
Jeff Schoenau
photo: supplied
“Op t i m u m p l a c e m e n t o f
these nutrients is very much
related to the mobility of the
nutrient,” he said.
Phosphorus and potassium
are immobile nutrients, while
nitrogen and sulphur move
about.
“Phosphorus and potassium
will only move a few millimetres or centimetres in the soil
from where they’re placed,”
he said. “Placement, especially of immobile nutrients,
means you need to have it
close to where that root is in
order for it to be available.”
Sulphur is a different story.
“Sulphate will move long
distances — literally metres
— in the soil to that root,” he
said.
“ Yo u d o n’t n e e d a l l t h e
sulphate there available for
uptake right away.”
Producers also need to consider “how much nutrient fertilizer can we safely place in
that seed row before we run
into injury issues?”
“Nearly all fertilizers are
salt, so one of the negative
impacts of too much fertilizer in the seed row is that,
because of the salt, it holds
back water from the germi-
nating seed and seedling,”
said Schoenau.
Tolerance varies
Using a controlled environment with “typical Prair ie
soil,” Schoenau tested the
effects of seed row-added
phosphorus, potassium, and
sulphur on cereals, oilseeds,
and pulses.
Cereals were the most tolerant to the added nutrition in
the seed row.
“Cereals, like wheat and
barley, can tolerate upwards
of 40 pounds of P2O5 (phosphorus) per acre,” he said.
“Above that, you start to see
s o m e s i g n i f i c a n t d ro p s i n
emergence. You throw some
potash in there, there’s somewhat of a negative effect, but
it’s not huge.”
Oilseeds such as canola had
moderate tolerance to seed
row-placed fertilizer.
“Fo r c a n o l a , a r o u n d 2 5
p o u n d s o f P 2 O 5 p e r a c re
seems to be about the maximum safe rate,” he said. “And
when you throw some potash
in there, you have to reduce
the amount of phosphorus
accordingly in order to avoid
burn.”
A n d w h i l e s o m e p u l s e s,
including pinto beans and
chickpeas, were quite tolerant
to the added nutrition, peas
weren’t.
“Of the crops that we evaluated, pea was one of the
most sensitive to high rates
of phosphorus placed in the
seed row,” said Schoenau.
“ When you put some potash in there, it significantly
reduced the germination and
the emergence.”
Test for sulphur
High rates of sulphur can also
cause reductions in emergence, he said, so producers should test their soils for
residual sulphur before adding any more.
And even then, there’s really
no advantage to placing sulphur in the seed row, said
Schoenau.
“Because sulphate is
mobile, I’d say the best place
for ammonium sulphate is
not in the seed row but somewhere else — a mid-row band
or a side-row band away from
the seed,” he said.
“Putting it away from the
seed row would be my preference to avoid that potential
for injury. If you’re forced to
choose between phosphorus
or sulphur in the seed row, I’d
go with the phosphorus.”
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ADM-Glencore
grain port
venture to
shuffle Brazil
grain flows
By Karl Plume
chicago / reuters
Plans by commodities
trading rivals Archer
Daniels Midland Co. and
Glencore PLC to jointly
develop an export terminal in northern Brazil
promise to shift grain
flows both within South
America’s largest producer
and to Asian importers.
ADM will give Glencore
50 per cent in its Barcarena export terminal in
Brazil’s Para state, it said
Feb. 3, the Swiss-based
company’s first foray into
Brazilian grain ports.
The companies plan to
quadruple the facility’s
annual capacity to six million tonnes, making it one
of the country’s largest
grain export terminals.
Terms of the deal and
the timeline for expansion
were not disclosed.
The two grains heavyweights hope to tap rising crop production in
northern Brazil, eyeing
the upcoming expansion
of the Panama Canal for
a more direct route to
Asia, industry analysts
said. Northern ports are
also easier and cheaper
for exports from northern
Mato Grosso, Brazil’s top
soybean state.
Brazil currently exports
the majority of its crops
through southern ports
such as Santos and
Paranagua, which have
become congested as a
result. Investments in better roads in recent years
have opened a path to
northern ports.
“The global players are
all lining up to participate
in what is expected to
be a boom,” said Pedro
Dejneka, managing
partner with AGR Brasil,
a unit of consultancy
AgResource Co.
Accessing Barcarena
from Brazil’s centre-west
Grain Belt requires trucking over the BR-163 highway to river ports in the
Amazon, where grains are
sent by barge to ports for
loading into bulk grain
ships.
Rival grain trader Bunge
Ltd. started shipping out
of Barcarena last year. Cargill Inc. has moved only a
small amount of grain on
barges deep in the Amazon to northern ports over
the past decade.
Brazil’s ports minister
said last year grains shipments through northern
ports could rise from three
or four million tonnes to
15 million tonnes by 2020.
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Former OFA president heads up
farm labour task force
There are numerous strategies in play to help fill the growing deficit in agricultural workers
By Alex Binkley
M
ark Wales, for mer
president of the
Ontario Federation
of Agriculture, is the new
chairman of the Labour Task
Force of the Canadian Agriculture Human Resources
Council.
The council is working to
flesh out the future labour
needs of the agri-food sector. Wales’ task force will be
developing recommendations
to address agricultural industry worker shortages.
“We have a broad-based,
growing group representing
all commodities and value
Canadian wheat,
canola stocks
dwindle,
but still ample
By Rod Nickel and
Peter N. Henderson
reuters
C
anadian stockpiles of
wheat and canola dwindled, but were among the
largest in recent decades at the
end of the last calendar year, Statistics Canada said Feb. 4.
Farmers reaped smaller but still
relatively big crops last autumn,
with ample supplies carrying over
from the record-large 2013 harvest.
StatsCan, using a farmer survey,
pegged all-wheat stocks in commercial and on-farm storage as
of Dec. 31, 2014 at 24.8 million
tonnes, down 13.5 per cent year
over year, but the second-largest
amount in 18 years.
Canola supplies totalled 11.1
million tonnes, the second largest
ever, down 10.5 per cent from the
previous year.
“There (are) so many powerful things going on in these
markets right now, violence in
the currency markets, violence
in the petroleum market,” said
Ken Ball, a broker at PI Financial
Corp. “These stocks numbers
are going to get lost a bit among
those huge influences” on crop
prices.
The trade, on average, expected
canola stocks of 10.7 million
tonnes and wheat supplies of 25
million tonnes, according to a
Reuters survey.
Although canola supplies were
slightly larger than expected,
demand looks solid from domestic crushers and seed exporters,
Ball said.
Durum stocks dipped 22.5 per
cent to 4.1 million tonnes, slightly
less than the average trade estimate of 4.2 million.
Canada is the world’s secondlargest wheat exporter and the
biggest shipper of canola, a cousin
of rapeseed used largely to produce vegetable oil.
Statistics Canada pegged barley
stocks at 5.4 million tonnes, off
20.3 per cent, and oat supplies at
2.5 million tonnes, down 12.7 per
cent.
chains and we’re rolling up
our sleeves, coming together
to work on solutions for agriculture and agri-food labour
shortages,” said Wales, an
Elgin County horticulture producer.
“Through the Labour Action
Plan we have a road map forward addressing our workforce
shortages, which have been
identified as the No. 1 risk
affecting the agriculture and
agri-food industry today.”
Wales is also chairman of the
CAHRC.
The Labour Task Force grew
out of recommendations from
the Value Chain Roundtables
organized by Agriculture Canada to examine labour issues
in the sector. Its members represent primary production,
meat processing and ornamental horticulture, CAHRC
says.
It has the support of 45
industry partners in its work
on updating the council’s
action plan, including a review
of changes to the Temporary
Foreign Worker Program in the
agri-food sector.
“Labour shortages are pervasive, affecting current operational success,” Wales said,
adding that short-, mediumand long-term solutions are
urgently needed.
“We always recruit and hire
Canadian domestic workers
first,” said Mark Chambers,
who is production manager
for Sunterra Farms, a familyowned pork operation in Acme,
Alta. and chairman of the Task
Force’s Policy and Programs
Working Group. “However,
finding workers to work and
live in small rural communities is very challenging. We
need more workers to meet
current production demands
and to take advantage of export
opportunities offered by new
free trade deals.”
CAHRC is also researching
labour and skill gaps in the
agriculture sector as well as the
exact jobs and skills involved
in modern agriculture so that
industry, government and academic institutions have an
opportunity to prepare, said
Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst,
CAHRC executive director.
CAHRC is also studying how
much farm work is done by
family members and employees, including the mix of
domestic and/or foreign workers.
The Conference Board of
Canada has surveyed 1,000
farmers across the country to
learn more about the labour
situation on their farms.
“It is imperative that we get
an accurate picture of the agricultural employment needs in
Canada and the best way to do
that is to go directly to the producers themselves,” says MacDonald-Dewhirst.
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 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. John Fast, the “family business doctor”
will provide insight into farm transition from generation
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• Daily: $75 per person by February 18
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by February 18
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AUCTION DISTRICTS
Parkland – North of Hwy 1; west of PR 242,
following the west shore of Lake Manitoba
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Westman – South of Hwy 1; west of PR 242.
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McCreary
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BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
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Winnipegosis
Roblin
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BUILDINGS
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call
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Website:
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CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place &
finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any
floor design. References available. Alexander, MB.
204-752-2069.
BUSINESS SERVICES
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McSherry Auction Service Ltd
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CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
AUCTION SALE
06 D6R CAT LGP 6 way dozer, double tilt, A/C cab
& heat, 1-bbl MS ripper, system 1 U-C, top con
GPS system, $97,500. (204)871-0925
Sat., Feb 14 @ 10:00 am
Stonewall, MB - #12 Patterson Drive
1998 JD 270 LC hyd excavator, quick attach, hyd
thumb, 12-ft. stick, A/C, $40,000. Phone:
(204)871-0925, MacGregor.
Yard & Rec * Tools & Misc * K Appliances *
Furniture * Antiques * Go to the Website for
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D50A-15 KOMATSU DOZER W/BUSH canopy. 11ft straight blade & 9-ft root blade w/ripper. Good shape,
Asking $28,000. Cell:(204)371-6664 or (204)427-2519.
Estate & Moving
www.mcsherryauction.com
FARM MACHINERY
AUTO & TRANSPORT
FARM MACHINERY
Fertilizer Equipment
(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Trucks
06 GMC DURAMAX DSL 4x4, extended cab, runs
very nice, 310,000-km, good rubber, $9,000 w/new
safety. (204)871-0925
95 F800 CAB & Chassis, 5.9 Cummins DSL,
$5,500. F800 tandem water truck w/hoist, 3208
CAT engine, $6,500. (204)871-2708.
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Doors & Windows
1991 LOREAL FLOATER: 466 dsl engine, Trimble
auto-steer w/mapping. Shedded all winter. 60-ft
booms, Allison auto. trans. Motor & trans. in excellent shape. Phone:(204)466-2822 or (204)856-9176
USED DRY FERTILIZER SPREADERS 4-8 ton.
Many to choose from, $3000 up. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com (204)857-8403
USED FERTILIZER SPREADERS, 4-8 ton, large
selection. Portage La Prairie. (204)857-8403
www.zettlerfarmequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.
Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103
or E-mail Requests [email protected]
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Carts
FOR SALE: UNVERFERTH 7000 grain cart w/tarp,
30.5x32 tires, SER #B1666145, VGC, $21,000.
(204)655-3458.
Serving Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
NW Ontario & Alberta....Since 1937
• Quality Commercial/Agricultural/Residential
Overhead Doors & Operators.
• Aluminum Polycarbonate Doors Available.
• Non-Insulated and Insulated Sectional Doors Available.
• Liftmaster Heavy Duty Operators.
• Mullion Slide Away Centre Posts.
• Commercial/Agricultural Steel Man Doors and Frames.
• Your washbay door specialists. • Quality Installation & Service.
• 24 Hour Service. • Replacement Springs & Cables.
Phone: 204-326-4556 Fax: 204-326-5013
Toll Free: 1-855-326-4556
www.reimeroverheaddoors.com
email: [email protected]
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
Big Tractor Parts,
Inc.
Geared For
The Future
CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES, parts & repair for
all makes & models. Craik SK, (306)734-2228.
STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.
MURPHY SALVAGE New & used parts for tractors,
combines, swathers, square & round balers, tillage,
press drills & other misc machinery. MURPHY SALVAGE (204)858-2727 or toll free 1-877-858-2728.
Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd.
1-866-729-9876
5150 Richmond Ave. East
BRANDON, MB.
www.harvestsalvage.ca
New, Used & Re-man. Parts
Will Haul/Tow any items
Capability –30,000 lbs
Call for details
1-204-483-2113 or
1-204-724-0274
[email protected]
Tractors Combines Swathers
The Real Used FaRm PaRTs
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Over 2700 Units for Salvage
• TRACTORS • COMBINES
• SWATHERS • DISCERS
Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN
(306) 946-2222
monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
WATROUS SALVAGE
WaTRoUs, sK.
Fax: 306-946-2444
SMALL GARDENER LOOKING FOR a corn planter. Call (204)268-2392 ask for Gordon.
HAYING & HARVESTING
HAYING & HARVESTING
Various
FOR SALE: HIGHLINE 1400 bale picker, 14 bales.
(204)655-3458.
Combines
FYFE PARTS
COMBINES
Case/IH
“For All Your Farm Parts”
www.fyfeparts.com
2008 CIH 8010 4WD combine.(it will drive as far as
a track machine in mud), 30-ft flex draper, very low
hrs 800-hrs, $200,000 OBO. (204)871-0925
COMBINES
Accessories
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
42-FT 960 JD FIELD cultivator, w/brand new shovels & good mulchers, $8000; 40-ft Blanchard packer bar, $4000; 30-ft JD 9350 press drill w/factory
transport, always shedded, $7500; 7x41 Westfield
auger w/13-hp Honda engine w/electric start,
$1800; 10x60 Westfield swing auger, $3000. All
equipment
well
maintained
&
in
VGC.
(204)825-2799 or (204)825-8340.
BREAKING DISCS. KEWANEE 12, 15, 16-ft;
Towner 18-ft, Wishek 14, 26, 30-ft. Feeder wagons,
Roorda 300-bu, $2000; Kelly Ryan, $2000; Gehl
130, $900; Auger feeder, $750; Phoenix harrows,
35, 42, 53-ft; Flexi-Coil 50-ft winged packer, $9500;
Oval 340 loader, $2000; Allied # 2795, $4500; Gehl
400-bu spreader, $7500; Knight slinger spreader,
$3500; JD Double auger snowblower, $1250; Single auger, $1000. Call (204)857-8403.
DISCS JD 16-FT, $5000; Terra 15-ft, $4500;
Krause 15-ft, $3500; JD 28-ft 330, $10,000; Bushog
25-ft & 28-ft, $7500; IH 490, 24-ft, $7500; Wishek
15-ft, 26-ft, 30-ft breaking discs, Kewanee 12-ft, 15ft, Versatile 36-ft, $25,000; JD 8-30 planter, $7000;
8-36, $6500. Phoenix harrows 35-ft, $9500; 42-ft,
$10,900; 53-ft, $12,000; 48-ft Flexi-Coil fold-up
packer, rock cushion, $9500; AW Mixmill, $1500;
Henke 30-in Rollermill, $3500; Peerless 20-in,
$2000. (204)857-8403
FOR SALE: 1998 FLEXICOIL 5000, 28-ft Airseeder w/1700 Air Cart, Liquid Green Drop Kit, Atom Jet
Openers, on board Seed Treater, 3 rollers & Monitors. Never had fertilizer in tank. Asking $30,000
OBO; 1980 4386 IHC 4WD Tractor, 4,700-hrs,
good tires, plumbed for Airseeder. Asking $15,000
OBO. 1985 Case IH 1460 Combine, 466 engine,
2,952-hrs, no chopper, always shedded. Asking
$15,000
OBO.
Call:
(204)867-0315
or
(204)867-0367 or Email: [email protected].
NEW 400-BU GRAVITY WAGONS, $7400; 600-bu,
$12,500; 750-bu, $18,250; Used Gravity wagons
350-750-bu. Used Grain carts, Brent 772, $17,500;
672, $15,000; 874, $22,000; Ficklin 650-bu,
$14,000. Others up to 1100-bu. Used fertilizer
spreaders $3000 up; Valmar 1655, $3300; NoJet
applicator, $1500; Grainvacs REM 2500 HD,
$9500; Brandt $4000- $8000; 9-ft 3-PH blade,
$950; 10-ft Land leveller, $2450; 12-ft, $2650.
(204)857-8403
SEED CLEANING EQUIPMENT: 620 screen machine, parallel flow 245, 3 #3’s aspirator & 6 lights.
Phone:(604)491-3513.
Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds.
Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our
friendly staff, and don’t forget to ask about our prepayment bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free!
1-800-782-0794.
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
The Icynene Insulation
System®
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient®
www.penta.ca
1-800-587-4711
IRON & STEEL
FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS, Feeders &
Alley ways, 30ft or order to size. Oil Field Pipe: 1.3,
1.6, 1.9, 1 7/8, 2-in, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2. Sucker Rod:
3/4, 7/8, 1. Casing Pipes: 4-9inch. Sold by the piece
or semi load lots. For special pricing call Art
(204)685-2628 or cell (204)856-3440.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
Large Inventory of
new and remanufactured parts
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
Web site: farmparts.ca
E-mail: [email protected]
1-800-982-1769
LIVESTOCK
NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS
NEW COMBINE PARTS
STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
RED OR GREEN
1. 10-25% savings on new replacement
parts for your Steiger drive train.
2. We rebuild axles, transmissions
and dropboxes with ONE YEAR
WARRANTY.
3. 50% savings on used parts.
www.bigtractorparts.com
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
Hit our readers where it counts… in the classifieds.
Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifed
section. 1-800-782-0794.
1-800-667-9871 • Regina
1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon
1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg
1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton
TRACTORS
Various
GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK
AUCTION MART. LTD.
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
[email protected] www.arcfab.ca
Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519
Spraying EquipmEnt
AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING
SPRAYING EQUIPMENT
Sprayers
REGULAR
CATTLE SALES
FOR SALE: BRANDT SB4000 Hi-Clearance sprayer, 1,350 Imp Gal, triple nozzle, auto boom shut off,
$24,900. (204)655-3458.
Tillage & Seeding
TILLAGE & SEEDING
Air Drills
08’ 5510 SEED HAWK w/500-bu tank. Phone
(306)485-7843.
TracTors
TRACTORS
Case/IH
08 STX 430 brand new 620-70-42 tires, delux cab,
heated leather seat, just over 3,000-hrs, $150,000.
Phone (204)871-0925, McGregor.
TRACTORS
John Deere
FOR SALE: JD 1840, hi/low, 3-pt; JD 2130, hi/low,
3-pt, w/FEL; JD 2750, 2-wd, O.S., 3-pt, Hi/Low shift
w/146 FEL; JD 3155, MFWD, CAH, 3-pt, w/740
FEL, grapple; JD 4055, MFWD, PS, 3-pt; JD 4240
Quad shift; JD 4440, (2) Quad shifts; JD 4640,
Quad, add on 3-pt, w/FEL; JD 6400, MFWD, CAH,
3-pt, PQ, w/640 FEL; JD 6420, MFWD, 3-pt, 24-spd
w/LHR, loader; JD 7710, MFWD, PS, 3-pt, w/740
FEL. All tractors can be sold with new or used loaders. Mitch’s Tractor Sales Ltd St. Claude, MB
(204)750-2459 (cell), Mitchstractorsales.com
FOR SALE: JD 4850 MFW PWR shift auto steer,
10,500-hrs, in very good mechanical condition, Ser
#RW4850P009657, $36,500. (204)655-3458.
TRACTORS
Massey Ferguson
1994 3660 MF, front wheel assist, 140-hwp, loader
& grapple, good rubber. Asking $23,000 OBO. Also,
triple axle 48-ft flat deck trailer, $5,000. Phone:
(204)325-5264.
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.
TRACTORS
Various
COCKSHUTT 1850 W/DUALS 2 hyds, good tires,
$2,500. 1200 Case 4WD, good tires, $6,000.
(204)871-2708.
GRUNTHAL, MB.
every TUESDAY at 9 am
February
17th & 24th
Monday, February 23rd at Noon
Sheep and Goat with
Small Animals & Holstein Calves
Saturday, February 28th at 10 am
Bred Cow Sale
For on farm appraisal of livestock
or for marketing information please call
Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart (204) 434-6519
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Angus
45 RED & BLACK Angus 2-yr old bulls, suitable for heifers & cows, private treaty at the Ranch. Info sheets available. Contact Triple V Ranch. Dan: (204)522-0092 or
(204)665-2448. Matthew: (204)264-0706. vvvranch.com
D.B. MICHIELS RED ANGUS purebred two-year
old bulls for sale. Catalogue information available
by email at [email protected]. Contact
David at (204)723-0288 or Brian at (204)723-0474.
EDIE CREEK ANGUS has 35 Meaty, Moderate, Maternal, Black & Red Angus bulls for sale. March 14th at Ashern Auction Mart will be our 8th Annual Sale. Easy Calving, Easy Fleshing. Developed as 2-yr olds to breed more
cows for more years! Great temperaments, many suitable
for heifers. www.ediecreekangus.com (204)232-1620
RED & BLACK 2-YR old & yearling Angus bulls for
sale; we have 10 bulls @ the Douglas Bull Test station; visit our website: ridgesideredangus.com
Call Don:(204)422-5216. Thank you, have a great day!
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
20TH ANNUAL CATTLEMANS’ CONNECTION Bull
Sale, March 6th, 2015, 1:00pm. Heartland Live-stock
Brandon. Selling 100 Yearling Black Angus Bulls. For
Catalogue or more information call Jack Hart, Brookmore
Angus (204)476-6696 or email brookmoreangus@gmail.
com Barb Airey manager HBH Farms (204)566-2134
email [email protected] Sale management Doug
Henderson (403)782-3888 or (403)350-8541.
BULL SALE WED., MAR-25TH. 50 Black Angus
2-yr olds & select yearlings. Bar H Land & Cattle
Co. Langenburg SK. Robin (306)743-2840, cell
(306)743-7490. Sales Manager Chris (306)933-4200.
CRANBERRY CREEK ANGUS REGISTERED bulls for
sale. Sired by Windy 702, Remitall Rachis, Vermilion Yellowstone, Game Day, Cranberry CRK Pioneer, HF Kodiak.
Bulls are easy going with great dispositions. Hand fed for
longevity. Semen tested, guaranteed & delivered. Will hold
until the end of April. All weights & EPD’s available. Call
(204)534-2380, or [email protected] for more
info, David & Jeanette Neufeld, Boissevain
29
OSSAWA ANGUS AT MARQUETTE, MB has for
sale: yearling & 2 yr old bulls. Also 3 yr old & 6 yr
old herdsire. For more info call (204)375-6658, cell
(204)383-0703.
REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS BULLS for sale.
Low birth weights & quiet. Buy now & save, no
disappointments! EPD’s & delivery available. Phone
Amaranth (204)843-2287.
STEWART CATTLE CO & GUESTS BULL SALE
50 Black Angus & Simm/Angus Bulls
View catalogue online: www.stewartcattle.com
Email for catalogue: [email protected]
Phone: (204)773-6392
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
FORSYTH F BAR RANCH have for sale 20, 2 yr
old & 5, 3 yr old PB Red Angus bulls. For more info
& prices contact Roy Forsyth (204)448-2245
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM ANNUAL Bull sale.
1:00pm April 11th at Ridgeville Hall. Sale will include 16 yearling Red Angus bulls, 1 yearling Black
Angus Bull, 2) 2-yr old Red Angus Bulls. There will
be a good selection of Red & Black Maine Anjou
Bulls & 18 Charolais bulls from Walking Plow Charlais. Sale catalogue & videos will be online
www.dlms.ca as we get closer to sale time. Sale
will be by video w/online bidding available. For
more info call Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
THREE 2-YR OLD PUREBRED Registered Charolais
bulls, Very good dispositions, will be easy calving, born
in April & May, will be semen tested & guaranteed. Also
2-yearlings (Bluegrass grandsons).Phone:(204)748-1024,
Virden, KEH Charolais, Keith Hagan.
WALKING PLOW CHAROLAIS HAS 18 yearling
Charolais bulls consigned to Wilkinridge Stock farm
Bull Sale 1:00pm April 11th at Ridgeville Hall. Also
in the sale will be Red Angus & Maine Anjou bulls.
Sale catalogue & videos will be online www.dlms.ca
as we get closer to sale time. Sale will be by video
w/online bidding available. For more info call Cliff,
Warren Graydon (204)427-2589.
WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT selection of PB Charolais bulls, both Red & white yearling & 2-yr olds.
Pictures & info on the net www.defoortstockfarm.com. Call Gord or Sue:(204)743-2109.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Maine-Anjou
WILKINRIDGE STOCK FARM ANNUAL Bull sale.
1:00pm April 11th at Ridgeville Hall. Sale will in-clude 18
yearling Red & Black Maine Anjou bulls, as well as 1)
2-yr old & 1) 3-yr old herd sire. There will also be 2) 2-yr
old & 16 yearling Red Angus bulls. Walking Plow Charolais have 18 yearling Charolais bulls in the sale. Sale
catalogue & videos will be online www.dlms.ca as we get
closer to sale time. Sale will be by video w/online bidding
available.For more info call Sid Wilkinson (204)373-2631.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Simmental
WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT group of Red & Red
Blaze face Polled, Simm Bulls for sale. Your bull
c/w a full guarantee & is semen tested, fed, insured
until delivered & delivered when you need him all at
our cost. Call Ray Cormier (204)736-2608 & you
can visit our website at www.riverbankfarms.com
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
300 BRED COWS FOR sale 2/3 Black 1/3 Red.
Bred to Purebred Black bulls, start calving mid
April. Call (204)638-5581.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Wanted
TIRED OF THE
HIGH COST OF
MARKETING
YOUR CALVES??
300-700 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Rob: 528-3254, 724-3400
Ben: 721-3400
800-1000 LBS.
Steers & Heifers
Don: 528-3477, 729-7240
Contact:
D.J. (Don) MacDonald
Livestock Ltd.
License #1110
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD.
728-7549
Licence No. 1123
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: FARM KING model 100 rollermill
w/5-hp motor; 20-in Better Air barn fans; 2-in Chore
Time feeding system w/4 drives. Ph:(204)836-2434.
FOR SALE: POLY-CAST SLEIGH, 24-in x 48-in x
12-in high; Small calf-squeeze w/head holder, 15 x
30 x 40-in high; Budd calf de-horner; Cattle shock
prod; Birdizzo; Stop-Doctor medicine injector; Lawis
cattle oiler. (204)825-8354, (204)825-2784.
LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT
LIVESTOCK SCALES made to fit in your chute or
alley. We have a variety of sizes to choose from, no
electrics. Also bale scales, hopper feeders in various sizes. Elias Scales:(306)445-2111 www.eliasscales.com
MORAND CATTLE MATERNITY PEN, complete
w/headgate & nursing panels, as new. $1,600.
Please Call:(204)534-7401. Killarney , MB.
12V. or Hydraulic
Electronic Scale Opt.
1 877 695 2532
www.ezefeeder.ca
MISCELLANEOUS
WANTED
LOOKING FOR INSTANT DEEP freezer for freezing potato chips. Phone (204)638-8415.
WANTED: MILKTANKS 150-250 GAL & 600-1,200
gal, cooling does not need to be in working condition. Call (204)529-2022.
PERSONAL
SHARE YOUR LIFE, as it’s meant to be... A lasting
Relationship. CANDLELIGHT MATCHMAKERS is
here to help you. Confidential, Rural, Photos and
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
REAL ESTATE
Cottages & Lots
RECREATION PROPERTY NEAR RIDING Mountain National Park! Prime hunting! 120-ac. of bush.
40-ac. cult. Log cabin. 24-ft x 24-ft metal storage
shed. 30-ft x 36-ft heated shop. Camper. Power,
water & sewer. Karen Goraluk, Salesperson.
(204)773-6797. NorthStar Ins. & Real Estate.
www.north-star.ca MLS# 1409718
REAL ESTATE
Houses & Lots
READY TO MOVE HOMES- 1520-sq.ft, 3-bdrm,
$85,000; 1320-sq.ft, 3-bdrm, $75,000; 1320-sq.ft, 3bdrm w/dormers & covered front porch, $85,000. All
homes completely finished including cabinets, interior woodwork, light fixtures, bath fixtures,
200-amp service, painted. Flooring not included.
Will also custom build your plan. Call for quote.
MARVIN HOMES (since 1976) (204)326-1493 or
(204)355-8484
Steinbach
area,
www.marvinhomes.ca
RUSSELL: 316.92 TOTAL AC. Approx. 230 cult.
ac. Class B soil. Eaton’s home, established bed &
breakfast - great revenue property. 2nd house is 3
bdrm bungalow. Various outbuildings. Treed. Landscaped. Includes equipment. Karen Goraluk, Salesperson. (204)773-6797. NorthStar Ins. & Real Estate. MLS#1417127
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: SE 33-22-11W, NE 32-22-11W, NE
21-22-11W, NW 34-22-11W. The following Crown
lands have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture,
Food & Rural Development for transfer to the purchaser of the private lands listed, as these lands
are part of the ranch unit held by Tom Anderson of
Alonsa, MB: NE 31-22-11W EX Road Plan No. 616
PLTO, NW 31-22-11W, NW 32-22-11W, NW
35-22-11W, SW 05-23-11W, SE 06-23-11W, SW
06-23-11W, NE 28-23-11W West of Lake EX Road
Plan No. 555 PLTO subject to MHYD Easement,
NE 29-23-11W, NW 29-23-11W, SE 29-23-11W,
NE 35-22-12W, SE 35-22-12W, SW 35-22-12W
subject to MHYD Easement, NE 36-22-12W. If you
wish to purchase the private land & apply for the
Unit Transfer, contact the Lessee Tom Anderson at
PO Box 114, Alonsa, MB R0H 0A0. If you wish to
comment on or object to the eligibility of this Unit
Transfer, write the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural
Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa, MB R0J
1E0; or Fax:(204)867-6578.
THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND is being offered for sale: NW 27-25-12W; SE 27-25-12W; SW
26-25-12W; W1/2 34-25-12W; S1/2 03-26-12W; NE
03-26-12W; S1/2 10-26-12W; SW 11-26-12W;
W1/2
12-26-12W;
SW
13-26-12W;
E1/2
14-26-12W; SE 23-26-12W; N1/2 26-26-12W; SE
26-26-12W; SW 35-26-12W. The following Crown
Lands have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural Development for transfer to the
purchaser of the private lands listed as these lands
are part of the ranch unit held Wilhelm, Gudjon &
Norman Finney of Ste Rose du Lac, MB. NW
03-26-12W; NE 11-26-12W; NW 11-26-12W; SE
11-26-12W; NE 12-26-12W; NE 13-26-12W; NW
13-26-12W; SE 13-26-12W; NW 14-26-12W; SW
14-26-12W; NE 23-26-12W; NW 23-26-12W; SW
23-26-12W; NW 24-26-12W; SW 24-26-12W; NE
35-26-12W; NW 35-26-12W; SE 35-26-12W. If you
wish to purchase the private land & apply for the
Unit Transfer, contact the lessee: Wilhelm, Gudjon
& Norman Finney at Box 4, Grp 20, RR #1, Ste
Rose du Lac, MB R0L 1S0. If you wish to comment
on or object to the eligibility of this Unit Transfer,
write the Director; MAFRD, Agricultural Crown
Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB R0J 1E0; or
Fax (204)867-6578.
The Following Private Land is being offered for
sale: SE 06-25-12W, SE 07-25-12W, NE
07-25-12W. The following Crown lands have been
approved by Manitoba Agriculture, Food & Rural
Development for transfer to the purchaser of the
private lands listed as these lands are part of the
ranch unit held by Alfred Klein of Ste. Rose du Lac,
MB. NE 32-24-12W, NW 32-24-12W, NE
05-25-12W, NW 05-25-12W, SE 05-25-12W, SE
19-24-13W, SW 20-24-13W, NE 03-25-13W, NW
03-25-13W, SE 03-25-13W, SW 03-25-13W, NE
04-25-13W, NW 04-25-13W, SE 04-25-13W, SW
04-25-13W, SE 10-25-13W, SW 10-25-13W. If you
wish to purchase the private land and apply for the
Unit Transfer contact the Lessee Alfred Klein at PO
Box 681, Ste. Rose du Lac, MB R0L 1S0. If you
wish to comment on or object to the eligibility of this
Unit Transfer write the Director, MAFRD, Agricultural Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa MB
R0J 1E0; or fax (204)867-6578.
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Acreages/Hobby
GRANT TWEED:
3 KIPLING LANE
1604 sq. ft. 2 storey
$319,900
in Niverville, 20
min. south of Wpg.
3+1 BR. 3.5 bath.
Modern open concept main floor w.
espresso finished
hardwoods. Gas
fireplace. Island &
high end stainless
steel appliances, under cab. lighting.
Huge master w. tray ceiling, WIC +
bath. 2nd flr. Laundry w. front load
appl. Fin. bsmt. 12x20 deck, dble
detached garage. Must see!
NIVERVILLE,MB · PH:1-204-899-7684
REAL ESTATE
Land For Rent
50 QUARTERS OF PASTURE near Crane River
Manitoba, For sale or rent, very reasonable, call
(204)638-5581, Dauphin.
FARM LAND FOR RENT: University of Manitoba
Glenlea Research Station (530-ac). Application
deadline February 20, 2015-midnight. For Land
Rental Application Detail Sheet, please contact
[email protected]
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
CERTIFIED SEED
CERTIFIED SEED
Cereal Seeds
Farmland For Sale
By Tender
LESS FUSARIUM MORE BOTTOM LINE. GP
Wheat WFT603 seed available. Suitable for ethanol
production, livestock feed. Western Feed Grain Development Co-op Ltd. 1-877-250-1552 www.wfgd.ca
In the RM of Macdonald,
The W½ of the S½ of the
N½ of Section 2-9-1 EPM
and
The E½ of the S½ of the
N½ of Section 2-9-1 EPM
ACC ELIE SPRING WHEAT, ACC Brandon Spring
Wheat, Meridith Malting Barley, Faba Bean Seed.
Phone (204)944-1654.
DURAND SEEDS: CERT AAC Brandon, Cardale &
Carberry Wheat; Souris & Stride Oats; CDC Bethune Flax;
Mancan Buckwheat avail w/contracts; Forage & Canola
Seed. (204)248-2268, (204)745-7577, NotreDame, MB.
consisting of approximately
160 cultivated acres is hereby
offered for sale.
INTEL SEEDS at Oakville, MB. Now taking bookings for colour sorting seed/grain. Taking SHB egort
upgrading damaged grain. Call Don Campbell for
booking schedule (204)267-7389.
Tenders must be received no later than
February 27, 2015 and must include a
deposit of 10% of the tendered price
paid by certified cheque to D’Arcy
& Deacon LLP.
Highest or any tender not
necessarily accepted.
JAMES FARMS LTD Brandon, Cardale & Carberry
wheat, summit oats, Mcleod & Chadburn R2 soy-beans,
tradition barley & forage seeds. Various ca-nola & sunflower seed varieties. Custom process-ing, seed treating,
inoculating, as well as delivery are available. Early payment discount. For info call (204)222-8785, or toll-free
1-866-283-8785, Winnipeg. [email protected]
Closing of the sale and transfer
of possession of the property shall
be March 6, 2015 or earlier by
mutual agreement.
PUGH SEEDS: CERT CARDALE WHEAT, Souris
oats, Conlon barley, Registered & Certified Sorrel flax. Phone:(204)274-2179 or Cell:(204)871-1467,
Portage,MB.
Tenders should be submitted to:
D’Arcy & Deacon LLP
2200-One Lombard Place
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3B 0X7
Attention: John C. Stewart
(204) 975-2684
[email protected]
Tenders Close: February 27, 2015
SANDERS SEED FARM: Certified AAC Brandon,
Carberry, Domain, Glenn wheat; celebration barley &
Cangerra canola varieties. (204)242-4200. Manitou, MB.
CourtSeeds
Free Delivery
EXCELLENT LIVESTOCK FARM EXTENDING to
1,732 deeded acres w/4,425-ac of Crown land. All
the land is fenced & the farm has very good buildings & metal corral system. The farm can carry up
to 400-450 cow/calf pairs. There is a small bungalow home. Also, excellent 254-ac property located
in the RM of Alexander at the junction of Maskwa &
the Winnipeg River. This would make a first class cottage development, or is suitable for other uses. 235ac of pastureland in Rapid City area. Jim McLachlan
(204)724-7753. Homelife Home Profes-sional Realty
Inc. www.homelifepro.com
GRAIN FARM: 803 TOTAL ac. 702-ac are cultivated. Land is in a block. Yardsite w/house, 48-ft x
96-ft machine shed, grain storage. N of Roblin, MB.
Karen Goraluk - Salesperson. Call:(204)773-6797.
NorthStar Ins. & Real Estate. www.north-star.ca
& FILTER DEPOT
Country Retreat: 163-ac of scenic rolling land near
• Buy Used
Oil120-ac arable,
• Buylarge
Batteries
Erickson,
MB.
mature yard w/
natural
shelter
& small
lake. Oil
Cozy
bungalow,
• Collect
Usedbelt
Filters
• Collect
Containers
garage, machine shed. Grant Tweed,Century 21
Southern
and
Western
Manitoba
Westman. Brandon MB. Phone: (204) 761-6884
[email protected]
Tel: 204-248-2110
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
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Used Oil
Oil
••Buy
NOTRE
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Buy Batteries
Batteries
DAME ••Collect
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•
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Oil
Containers
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• Antifreeze
OIL & Southern,Southern
Eastern,
and Manitoba
Western
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DEPOT Tel: 204-248-2110
IS ENOUGH OF
A GAMBLE...
Advertise in the Manitoba
Co-operator Classifieds,
it’s a Sure Thing!
1-800-782-0794
Phone: 204-526-2145 | www.zeghersseed.com
Email: [email protected]
QUALITY PEDIGREE SEED SALE
CWRS Wheat
Other Crops
• Cardale
• Carberry
• Harvest
• New, Brandon
• Pasteur GP
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
• Conlon Barley
• Souris Oats
• Lightning Flax
• Glas Flax
• Meadow Peas
• Red Proso Millet
North Star Seed - Forages
Delmar Legend - Soybeans
FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER, RM of Westbourne:
Sealed bids for the purchase of the following parcels of land,
located in the RM of Westbourne, Manitoba, will be received up to
5:00 pm on March 10, 2015 at the offices of CanadianFarmRealty.com,
Attention: Dolf Feddes, Box 2046, Carman, MB, R0G 0J0
Zeghers Seed Inc. is also a exporter of special
crops. Dealing in Flax, Mustard, Rye, Triticale, Spelt,
Peas, Canary, Damaged Canola, Millets, and others.
Give us a call for marketing opportunities!
ASK ABOUT Early Pay, and
Volume DISCOUNTS! On select
Seed purchases.
SE 33-16-11W 161 AcRES
EAST hALF OF SW33-16-11W 80.9 AcRES
cONDiTiONS OF TENDER:
Any questions regarding these parcels
or this tender can be directed to:
Dolf Feddes, REALTOR
canadianFarmRealty.com 204-828-3371 (office)
or 204-745-0451 (cell)
FARMING
RECYCLING
320-AC. ROBLIN: 180-AC. seeded to pasture/hay.
All fenced. 3 dugouts. 1,120-sf bungalow. 3 bdrms.
21-ft x25-ft attached garage. Quonset. Karen Goraluk, Salesperson. (204)773-6797. NorthStar Ins. &
Real Estate. www.north-star.ca
1. Interested parties must rely on their own inspection and knowledge
of the property.
2. Tenders must be accompanied by a deposit in the form of a certified
cheque or bank draft of 5% of the amount offered, payable to Royal le Page
Riverbend Realty in Trust. Deposit cheques accompanying unaccepted
bids will be returned.
3. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
4. The purchaser(s) shall be responsible for payment of GST or shall
self-assess for GST.
5. The Purchaser(s) will be responsible for payment of the
2015 property taxes.
6. Successful bidders will be asked to enter into a formal Purchase agreement
covering the terms and conditions of sale.
7. Land to be sold as one complete package.
8. Tenders will be held in confidence and not be released to the public.
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1ST CUT ALFALFA ROUND bales for sale. Phone
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Rowdy ‘open outcry’ reaching
quiet end for longtime CBOT trader
In July, agricultural futures trading on the floor in Chicago will end after 167 years
By Christine Stebbins
Chicago / Reuters
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h e b o i s t e ro u s w o r l d Ke v i n
Duffy entered 34 years ago to
run paper slips into trading
pits at the Chicago Board of Trade
was an age apart from today, when
open-outcry trading only intermittently disrupts the quiet hum of
computers.
The Chicago corn market was a
noisy, bruising, frantic place where
traders and commercial brokers
establish prices for future deliveries of
grain. Trading on the CBOT had a selfdescriptive moniker: “open outcry.”
Sh ov i n g a n d f i s t f i g h t s b ro k e
out over price moves as small as
a quarter-cent per bushel of corn.
Paramedics stood by for emergencies, including pencils stabbed into
hands and even heart attacks.
The place will go mostly quiet
in July, now that CME Group Inc.
announced Wednesday that agricultural futures trading on the floor will
end in Chicago 167 years after Chicago merchants and brokers first
gathered on the banks of the Chicago River to swap grain.
“I’ll miss the competitive
fire, the adrenal rush.
There is nothing like
openings and closings.”
Kevin duffy
CBOT trader
“It’s been a good run,” said Duffy,
56, standing on the top step of Chicago Board of Trade corn pit, his
trading perch for years.
The flow of CBOT orders, from
farmers, grain processors and others, is at record levels today. With
the corn crop double its size in the
1980s, the volume of trade in CBOT
corn futures last month hit a single-day record of 1.45 million contracts. But less than two per cent
was traded by open outcry.
The price of CME Group memberships reflects the decline. A
seat on the board sold for a record
$775,000 in 1997. The last sale of
a full membership interest on the
CBOT, now part of CME Group, went
for $290,000 on Thursday.
Duffy has never left the CBOT
since travelling from his home on
the south side of Chicago, a recent
college graduate, on Sept. 8, 1980.
“Started as a runner at $4.65 an
hour,” Duffy said. “We had the Russian grain embargo. I got on the
phones.”
Duffy, no relation to CME Group
executive chairman Terr y Duffy,
became a CBOT member in 1989,
and has worn a bright-yellow plastic
badge with initials “KED” abreast
his bright-red trading jacket since.
He met his wife, Lu, at the Chicago
Board of Trade when she worked in
operations for a brokerage firm.
The biggest market he ever traded,
Duffy said, was in 1996, when corn
spiked amidst a surge of demand
from China, crop-threatening
weather and farmers trapped by
hedges. Duffy handled orders for
grain houses and trading firms, but
would not say how much money he
made.
Duffy said he and other pit traders first saw the potential demise of
pit trading when the CBOT, in 1997,
The Chicago trading floor in headier days when most trading was done “in the pit.” Today less than two per cent is traded by open outcry. Photo: Reuters
started matching orders electronically, an effort to reach customers in
Asia and Europe.
“The pit trader had the edge” over
outsiders, Duffy said, because they
could see orders coming into the
pits. “Now the markets are instantaneous,” he added.
Duffy said he fears traders will
lose their ability to “read” markets
through the ebb and flow of open
outcry. The wisdom of floor traders
— encapsulated in sayings like, “the
trend is your friend,” and, “don’t
stand in front of a train,” — applies
as much today as before electronic
trading started in 1992, he said.
“Did you ever think E.F. Hutton
would go out of business? Did you
ever think floor trading would end?”
asked Duffy, referring to the stock
brokerage firm that met its demise
in the 1980s. “A lot of people are
pissed off. I get it.”
Duffy said he will close out his
book in July and move on.
“I’ll miss the competitive fire, the
adrenal rush,” Duffy said. He mentioned the din as the market opened
each day. “There is nothing like
openings and closings,” Duffy said.
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Australia temperatures rising
faster than rest of the world
The country faces a rise in temperature of more than 5 C before the end of the century
By Jane Wardell
sydney / reuters
A
ustralia faces a rise in temperature of potentially more than 5 C by the end of the century,
outpacing global warming worldwide, the
country’s national science agency said Jan. 27.
In its most comprehensive analysis yet of the
impacts of climate change, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
painted a worst-case scenario of a rise of up to 5.1
C by 2090 if there are no actions taken to cut greenhouse emissions.
“There is a very high confidence that hot days
will become more frequent and hotter,” CSIRO
principal research scientist Kevin Hennessy said.
“We also have very high confidence that sea levels will rise, oceans will become more acidic, and
snow depths will decline.”
The dire warning from the government-funded
agency is at odds with the official line from Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009
declared the science of climate change was “crap.”
Abbott last year scrapped a tax on carbon pricing and abolished the independent Climate Commission, saying recent severe droughts that have
crippled cattle farmers were “not a new thing in
Australia.”
As the host of the Group of 20 last year, he
attempted to keep climate change off the agenda,
resulting in an embarrassing backdown at the
Leaders Summit in Brisbane after U.S. President
Barack Obama used a high-profile speech to warn
Australia that its own Great Barrier Reef was in
danger.
One of the world’s biggest carbon emitters per
capita, Australia initially declined to join the United
States, Japan, France and others in contributing to
the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund.
At the Lima climate change conference in
December, Australia announced it would provide A$200 million from its existing aid budget
— a method of contributing that went against
An aerial view of small dams containing water seen in dry paddocks located northwest of the city of Melbourne one year ago.
Australia is warming faster than other countries. Photo: REUTERS/David Gray
agreements when the fund was set up at the
Copenhagen conference in 2009.
Abbott has committed A$2.55 billion (US$2.21 billion) to a domestic initiative to reduce Australian’s
emissions by five per cent below 2000 levels by 2020.
The new research by CSIRO and the Bureau of
Meteorology, using some 40 global climate models,
has Australia warming at a greater rate than the rest
of the world.
The 5.1 C projection for 2090 is at the top end of
a range starting at 2.8 C and is dependent on how
deeply, if at all, greenhouse gas emissions are cut.
The world average is for an increase of between
2.6° and 4.8 C.
The report said the annual average temperature
in Australia would likely be up to 1.3 C warmer in
2030 than the average experienced between 1986
and 2005.
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Libya dips into wheat reserves
By Ulf Laessing
tripol / reuters
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Libya’s internationally recognized government said Feb. 4 it
had started tapping into its strategic wheat reserves to ensure
bread supplies and overcome what it called a “flour crisis.”
The government works from the east of the north African
nation having fled the capital Tripoli, where a group called
Libya Dawn has seized control and backs a rival government
not recognized by world powers.
Fighting between armed groups loyal to each side has disrupted oil exports as well as imports of goods by road and ships.
A Libyan state grain-buying agency made no purchase in
an international tender for 50,000 tonnes of milling wheat
because of payment problems due to the political turmoil,
European traders said.
Some ports such as Benghazi supplying much of the east of
the country with wheat and other goods have stopped working due to fighting. Volumes are down at other ports such as
Misrata as well.
“The Ministry of Economy and Industry is assuring the
citizens that it will overcome a flour crisis in Libya after it was
decided to release the strategic reserves,” it said in a statement.
It said it would distribute more than 200,000 bags of flour.
There is no sign of bread shortages in Libya but the country
suffers from overconsumption of subsidized bread. Some
buyers go several times a day, rejecting any bread baked more
than one hour earlier.
But in recent weeks some bakeries in Tripoli and Benghazi
have closed or produce less.
Libya is struggling as revenues from oil exports have fallen
sharply since the ousting of leader Muammar Gaddafi four
years ago.
The OPEC member nation is producing about 350,000
barrels of oil per day, down from 1.6 million before a NATObacked uprising toppled Gaddafi.
Libya Dawn seized control of Tripoli last August and has set
up its own rival administration and parliament.
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Sizzling U.S. burger demand a boon to
hard-up N.Z. dairy farmers
Export dairy demand has slumped, but price for culled animals is some compensation
By Naomi Tajitsu
wellington / reuters
S
upersized U.S. demand
for burgers is a godsend
for New Zealand farmers
who have been struggling with
weak dairy prices but are now
earning good money for cows
sent to slaughter for beef.
Years of low cattle supplies have kept U.S. beef
import prices near a record
high of around $3 per pound
hit last September, according
to agricultural data provider
AgriHQ.
New Zealand is the thirdlargest exporter of the meat
to the United States, helping
satisfy a surge in demand for
ground beef from both longestablished outlets such as
McDonald’s Corp. and trendier,
“fast-casual” chains such as
Shake Shack Inc.
Farmers have cut back on
milk production and sent aging
cattle to the slaughterhouse,
seizing on the demand for beef
as global dairy prices have
plunged to a five-year low.
Last month, Andrew Hoggard reduced the 550-strong
milking herd on his farm in
the North Island town of Fielding by 22, taking some of the
cattle out of production so
they need less feed but sending four less-than-prime cows
to slaughter.
“There was one cow we got
NZ$1,300 for. She was big, but
normally if you get $500-$600
you’re quite happy and $700 is
a big deal,” Hoggard said.
Un f a vo u ra b l e s u m m e r
weather has added to the dairy
farmers’ woes, leaving the normally lush landscape so vital to
the sector as dry as a crisp.
“If there’s one positive thing
(about this season), it’s that
those cows are getting good
money,” Hoggard said, adding
that he expected his milking
herd to fall to 500 by the end of
the season in May.
Meat accounted for 12 per
cent of New Zealand’s total
global exports in 2014, less
than half of the 29 per cent
contributed by dairy products, the country’s top export
earner.
The country’s beef exports
usually rise around February
or March and stay high through
May, when dairy production
winds down for the season.
But frozen beef exports have
been climbing since November
as cash-strapped farmers have
cut production and started
culling herds earlier in the season than normal.
As a result, beef exports to
the United States hit NZ$160.5
million ($116 million) in
December, Statistics New Zealand says, more than double
the value of a year before.
Insatiable Americans
Demand for ground beef continues to rise in the United
States, where nine billion servings of burgers were ordered
at restaurants and food outlets last year, up three per cent
from 2013, according to U.S.
market research group NPD.
Gourmet burger chains such
as Shake Shack and Habit
Restaurants are luring both
hungry punters and investors
away from the old fast-food
chains. Shares in Shake Shack
more than doubled on their
debut on Jan. 30.
In New Zealand, older cows
and those not expected to
produce much the following
season are sent to slaughter and processed into frozen lean beef cuts. Much of
this is shipped to the United
States, where it is minced and
plumped up with additional
fat to be made into hamburger
patties for burger chains.
The drop in herd numbers
has reduced dairy production
in New Zealand, prompting
dairy co-operative Fonterra to
cut its milk collection forecast
for the 12 months to May to
1.5 billion kg of milk solids,
down 3.3 per cent from last
season’s record high. It has
also slashed its farm gate price
forecast.
The culling will not pose a
problem if milk demand picks
up; farmers can lose up to 20
per cent of their cattle even
in a normal year and have to
replenish herds, and they can
simply feed their cows more
to push up output rapidly if
needed.
Fo r n ow, t h o u g h , m e a t
processors say business has
been brisk since last month,
with the latest weekly cattle
cull numbers up 72 per cent in
the South Island from a year
before and nearly 27 per cent
higher in the North Island.
“ T h e l ow d a i r y p a y o u t ,
coupled with the dry weather
conditions, has resulted
in a dramatic increase in
the number of cows being
p r o c e s s e d ,” s a i d Mu r r a y
Behrent, general manager for
livestock at processor Alliance
Group Limited.
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U.S. lawmaker
says Japan, Canada
must cut tariffs
Uganda turns
beasts to biogas
Ritz says it would take a ‘sea shift’ for Canada to
open its dairy, and poultry markets
Slaughterhouse waste is now going into energy instead of a lake
Washington / Reuters
kampala / reuters
C
anada and Japan must
open their markets to
farm imports under a
Pacific trade pact, the chairman of a U.S. congressional
committee responsible for
trade said Feb. 4, adding that
any country that cannot meet
the deal’s goals should drop
out.
Negotiators from 12 Pacific
countries hope to wrap up
talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) within months,
but House Ways and Means
Committee chairman Paul
Ryan said some countries
might have to wait for the second round.
“For TPP, Japan and Canada
just have to lower their agricultural tariffs,” he said at an event
hosted by the Washington International Trade Association.
“Those have to go. And if any
of the 12 countries currently in
the talks think our standards
are too high, well, I’d complete
the agreement without them
and invite them to join it later.”
Ryan also said it was vital to
pass legislation known as trade
promotion authority (TPA) as
soon as possible to streamline
the passage of trade deals
through Congress.
Japan is eager to protect sectors including beef, sugar and
dairy, although Japanese media
have reported the government
is considering concessions.
“Too many times
in the past, Canada
has gotten a pass
on its impenetrable
tariff wall on dairy
imports.”
Jim Mulhern
NMPF
U.S. dairy farmers cheered
Ryan’s remarks. “Too many
times in the past, Canada has
gotten a pass on its impenetrable tariff wall on dairy
imports,” National Milk Producers Federation president
Jim Mulhern said.
Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, speaking on a
conference call with reporters
during a visit to Washington,
said he was confident Canada
would remain in the TPP.
“There’s a lot of pushing
and shoving when you get to
these steps in the negotiations. Everyone has defensive
and offensive positions,” he
said, declining to comment
on whether Canada would
ease back on supply management.
Ritz, who has said it would
take a “sea shift” for Canada to
open its dairy, egg and poultry
industries, noted the United
States still had to re-enact TPA,
which expired in 2007.
By Sophie Mbugua
U
ganda’s largest slaughterhouse runs 24 hours
a day, turning up to
700 cattle, 200 sheep and 300
chickens each day into meat
for the local market.
But the energy-thirsty Kampala City Abattoir is often
brought to a stutter by the
city’s daily power outages,
which can last up to 12 hours.
At those times, it is forced to
rely on polluting diesel generators that are expensive to run.
Then there’s the problem of
the large amounts of blood,
waste water and other waste
produced, much of which is
drained directly into nearby
Murchison Bay in Lake Victoria.
Across East Africa, increases
in processing of agricultural
products — a change meant to
boost local economics and provide jobs — is being accompanied by an increase in organic
waste dumped into bodies of
water and open landfills.
But a pilot project to turn
that waste into biogas is getting
started this month in Uganda,
Ethiopia and Tanzania.
Fu n d e d by t h e Sw e d i s h
International Development
Co-operation Agency (SIDA)
through the Bio-resources
Innovations Network for Eastern Africa (Bio-Innovate), the
effort aims to provide training
and technology to agricultural
factories to help them generate their own power, save on
electricity and cut down on climate-changing emissions.
Capturing cheap energy
At the Kampala City Abattoir, the
changeover is already underway.
To turn waste into power, the
slaughterhouse puts its waste
and waste water through a fermentation process that releases
methane, which is then captured and burned to produce
electricity.
The facility uses the biogas it
produces to power its generator.
“We are generating on average about 10 to 15 cubic metres
of biogas daily,” said Joseph
Kyambadde, head of biochemistry at Makerere University and
one of those involved with the
project.
“With 60 cubic metres of gas
we (would be) able to run about
15 security lights, 15 deep freezers and 15 refrigerators at the
abattoir, helping save around
eight million Ugandan shillings
($2,800) per month,” he said.
To add to the project’s green
credentials, it uses solar panels
to heat water and raise the temperature in the digester, to allow
it to produce the most burnable
methane, said Robinson Odong,
a biological sciences lecturer at
Makerere University and a manager of the biogas project.
Besides helping the slaughterhouse get around the city’s frequent blackouts, using biogas
for energy has cut the plant’s
monthly diesel bill by 90 per
cent.
“We are now spending 300,000
Ugandan shillings ($105) per
month on diesel instead of 3.5
million shillings ($1,200), as the
generator now runs on biogas
during power blackouts,” said
Nsubuga Muhamed, the Kampala City Abattoir secretary.
Plans to scale up
According to Odong, the project
currently treats 40 per cent of the
Kampala abattoir’s waste, though
the facility plans to eventually
treat 100 per cent.
“There are plans to upscale the
technology to completely rely on
biogas and sell the excess (energy)
to the national grid,” said Kyambadde of Makerere University.
Using $275,000 in SIDA funding, backers hope to replicate the
project across Uganda, said Allan
Liavoga, manager of the Bio-Innovate project.
Uganda’s government is also
watching the effort closely, to see
if it might offer one answer to
Uganda’s energy problems.
“We are an energy-poor country, with 95 per cent of rural
households having no access to
electricity,” said Ronald Kaggwa,
an environmental economist at
the Uganda National Environmental Management Authority.
If the biogas project is scaled
up, it could allow Ugandans who
live too far from the power grid
to generate their own energy,
he said.
And if the country could turn
more of its waste and waste water
into biogas, it would also be closer
to its goals of switching to greener
power sources and reducing
deforestation, officials say.
“About 15 to 20 per cent of our
felled trees are used to produce
charcoal (which is in) demand in
urban areas,” Kaggwa said. But
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
CON N EC T I NG RU R A L FA M I L I E S
Discussing World Hunger
and Ag Innovation
Ag in the Classroom discusses food insecurity and reducing world hunger
By Jennifer Paige
Co-operator STAFF
S
itting on the bare classroom floor with a plastic cup half-full of rice,
a group of students from
Minnedosa Collegiate were
enlightened on world hunger,
food insecurity and why it is
important for all Manitobans to
appreciate and foster the agriculture industry.
Representatives from
Ma n i t o b a’s Agr iculture in
the Classroom stopped in at
Minnedosa’s high school on
the afternoon of Wednesday,
Feb. 4, to give students the
experience of eating lunch the
way the world eats lunch.
“This is Ag in the
Classroom’s version of the
Oxfam Hunger Banquet,” said
Karen Hill, project co-ordinator. “It is an exercise used to
demonstrate how food and
resources are inequitably distributed in the world.”
Students randomly selected
a card which depicted an identity and an income bracket.
The number of students in
each income bracket was set
up adjacent to reality with 15
per cent in the high-income
category, 25 per cent in the
middle income and 60 per
cent in the low-income tier.
“The roots of hunger lie in
inequalities, in access to education and resources, and the
results of this are illiteracy,
poverty, war and the inability
of families to grow, produce or
buy enough food,” she told the
students.
Each income level received
a corresponding lunch. The
high-income group was served
a well-rounded meal, the
middle-income section ate a
simple meal of rice and beans,
while the low-income tier was
given a small portion of rice
and water.
Hill described why developing countries face greater challenges in dealing with hunger
due to the constraints of lack
of fertile land and water availability, as well as the misconceptions surrounding insufficient production.
“You might think that hunger is about too many people and not enough food but
that is not the case. The agriculture industry, especially in
the developed countries, has
used innovation, science and
technology to actually produce
enough food throughout the
world to feed our 7.2 billion
people.”
As they ate, students discussed current examples of
innovations and technology in
the production of food, including genetically modified crops
and precision farming.
High school students from Minnedosa Collegiate participated in a
demonstration about the world’s food insecurity put on by Ag in the
Classroom on Wednesday, Feb. 4. photos: Jennifer paige
“The agriculture industry
continues to innovate and
improve. It continues to grow
more food with less land, less
water, less energy, while giving off fewer emissions,” said
Hill. “And this is going to be
one of your challenges as you
enter the workforce and your
adult life, is that you have to
keep agriculture going in that
correct direction, especially
here… where we have the ability to do this and innovate.”
Hill also explained to the
group how the proportion of
the world’s population that
lives in hunger has actually
been decreasing. “In 1990, we
had a population of 5.3 billion
with one billion hungry. Today,
we have 7.2 billion people and
experts are estimating 805 million living in hunger.”
Ag in the Classroom has
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since 1988. Today, it continues
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“You might think
that hunger is
about too many
people and not
enough food but
that is not the case.
The agriculture
industry, especially
in the developed
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actually produce
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throughout the
world to feed our
7.2 billion people.”
Karen Hill
program co-ordinator with
Agriculture in the Classroom
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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Prairie Fare
Bring on the leafy greens this winter
Julie Garden-Robinson
Food and Nutrition Specialist
NDSU Extension Service
O
ur snow accumulation in North Dakota has been meagre this
winter. Looking out my window, I can see spots of dormant,
brownish grass. I’m not complaining. At this time of winter, I
begin wishing for spring and the sign of green vegetation. I do not
have a warm-weather-destination trip planned, so I probably won’t
see grass for a few months.
I decided we should add more leafy greens to our wintry comfort-food-filled menu. My menus tend to have more cooked
vegetables than fresh ones. On the bright side, fresh, frozen and
canned vegetables are nutritious, and they all count toward the
adult goal of two cups per day. I just need some “fresh vegetation”
now and then.
I was inspired while shopping at a warehouse-type store to buy a
fairly large plastic bin of mixed leafy greens. The spinach, romaine
and other leafy greens were welcome additions to my plate.
When I stacked my plate with greens for a couple of meals, I
didn’t seem to be making a “dent” in the container. My family had
a “standard” side dish of mixed greens until we ate the entire container of salad.
Leafy greens are among the “nutritional powerhouse foods” in
our diet. Dark-green vegetables include spinach, romaine, collards,
turnip, mustard greens and broccoli. Unfortunately, many people
do not eat enough dark-green vegetables, so current recommendations set a specific goal for leafy greens.
The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that
we have at least 1-1/2 cups of dark-green vegetables per week.
Why the emphasis on dark-green vegetables? These low-calorie
foods contain natural pigments that are converted to vitamin A,
which plays a role in maintaining the health of our skin and eyes.
As you like it
breakfast casserole
8 eggs
2 c. grated cheddar cheese
2 c. milk
1/8 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
6 slices day-old bread, cut into cubes
Additions (choose two or three):
1 c. corn (cooked or frozen)
1/2 c. chopped broccoli or spinach
3/4 c. sliced mushrooms
1/4 c. sliced green onions or chopped onion
1 c. cubed ham
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Beat the
eggs in a large bowl. Mix in the milk,
cheese, salt and pepper. Add the bread
and carefully stir until all pieces of
bread are moistened (don’t overmix).
Add additions. Bake in casserole dish
for one to 1-1/2 hours, until the top is
browned and the centre springs back
when touched, with no liquid present.
Let cool for 10 minutes before serving.
Makes 12 servings. When made with
broccoli, mushrooms and onions, each
serving has 180 calories, 10 grams (g)
of fat, 12 g of protein, 10 g of carbohydrate, 2 g of fibre and 270 milligrams
of sodium.
Some pigments in leafy greens, namely lutein and zeaxanthin,
play a role in maintaining our eye health. When you have spinach,
kale and broccoli, you literally are “feeding your eyes.”
Leafy greens are among the best sources of vitamin K, which is
important for blood clotting, heart health and bone health.
People on certain blood-thinning medications are advised to
keep a consistent intake of leafy greens so the drug does not interact with the vitamin. Be sure to follow the guidance from your
health-care provider.
If you are a Pinterest fan, you may have seen pictures of “salads
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technique to make a main-dish salad that you can transport to
work or eat at home. Be sure to leave enough room in the jar for
plenty of leafy greens.
• A dd two tablespoons of your favourite salad dressing to the
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• A dd a layer of “hard” vegetables, such as sliced carrots,
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• If desired, add soft vegetables or fruits such as avocado slices,
tomato chunks or diced strawberries.
• A dd nuts or seeds, such as almonds, walnuts or sunflower
seeds.
• Add salad greens, especially dark-green ones (romaine, etc.).
• Top the jar with the lid and store in the refrigerator. When you
carry it to work, try an insulated lunch bag to keep it cool.
• Use within four days for best quality.
Brighten your winter menus by integrating more leafy green
vegetables into your menus. Add some kale, spinach or broccoli
to your favourite soups or casseroles such as this tasty and easy
breakfast casserole that you can personalize.
Made in Manitoba
T
h e Fa r m e r y H a r v e s t
Flour Collection of five
flour mixes is the newest product release from a
Manitoba company making a
popular homegrown beer.
The collection includes
five flour mixes — Whole
Grain Harvest Bread Mix plus
a Pancake and Waffle Mix,
Fish Coating Mix, Wing Mix
and Muffin Mix — made with
m a l t e d b a r l e y g r ow n n e a r
Neepawa.
That’s the same crop used
in the production of Farmery
b e e r, a p r e m i u m l a g e r
l a u n c h e d by b r o t h e r s a n d
business partners Chris and
Lawrence Warwaruk in 2012.
The Warwaruks made national
headlines in the late 1990s
after moving to Winnipeg to
open a restaurant and used
the profits to save the family’s
farm. They continue to operate Luxalune Gastropub at 734
Osborne.
Farmery’s new flour mixes
are intended as flexible ingredients cooks are encouraged
to use creatively in their own
recipes and the recommended
liquid ingredient for the bread
and pancake mixes is — you
guessed it — Farmery beer.
The mixes are sold online
and at The Forks Market in
Winnipeg at the Farmery Gear
Store alongside other Farmery
p ro d u c t s s u c h a s T- s h i r t s,
candles and soap. The Gear
Store is a mini-version of what
visitors can expect to find
inside the estate brewery the
Warwaruks, who continue to
farm near Neepawa, aim to
build in future.
Learn more at www.farmery.ca.
— Co-operator staff
39
COUNTRY CROSSROADS
“
G
ood morning Mom.” Jennifer Jackson
yawned widely as she appeared in the dining room where her mother Rose was seated
at the table reading a newspaper and enjoying her
morning cup of coffee. Rose looked up from her
paper.
“Good morning sweetie,” she said. “How was your
sleep?”
Jennifer yawned again and ran her fingers through
her tousled hair as she headed towards the coffee
maker on the kitchen counter. “I slept great,” she
said. “Is there coffee in here?” she added picking up
the stainless steel pot.
“Indeed there is,” said Rose. “Help yourself. You
want some toast or something?”
Jennifer found a mug in the cabinet and filled it
with steaming black coffee. “Not yet,” she said. “I
have to wake up first.” She walked over to the table
and sat down, brushing a stray lock of hair out of her
eyes.
“Fun party last night?” asked Rose.
Jennifer nodded, smiling. “Kendra throws the best
parties,” she said.
“Were there a lot of people?” Rose wanted to know.
Jennifer shrugged. “I didn’t count,” she said. Me
and Alan and a bunch of our friends from school.
Maybe 15 people altogether.”
“Everybody behaved?” said Rose.
“Oh totally,” said Jennifer. “And I’m definitely not
going to tell you who didn’t.”
Rose grinned. “That would be you then,” she said.
“I was perfectly well behaved,” said Jennifer, taking a sip of her coffee. “Bobby on the other hand
had one too many drinks and had to bow out of
our monopoly game because every time he rolled
the dice he’d go directly to jail no matter what he
rolled. So we auctioned off his property and made
him sit in the corner wearing a lampshade. Because
it isn’t a successful party until someone’s wearing a
lampshade.”
“True enough,” said Rose. “I’ve worn a lampshade
or two myself over the years in order to save a dying
shindig.”
Jennifer looked at her mother doubtfully. “You’re
kidding right?” she said.
“Definitely,” said Rose.
There was a brief silence between them.
The
Jacksons
By Rollin Penner
“What is it about parties?” said Jennifer.
“People do things that seem so hilarious at the
time and then when you think about it the next
day they just seem ridiculous and silly, but you
know you’d totally do them again under the same
circumstances.”
“It’s the best part of human nature,” said Rose.
“The part that knows how to have fun with other
people.”
“It was Kendra’s birthday party as you know,” said
Jennifer, “so her boyfriend Dave bought her a saddle. He made us blindfold her and then he put the
saddle on his back and we sat her on it, still blindfolded, and there he was on his hands and knees
galloping around the living room wearing a saddle,
with Kendra on his back. And I was thinking what,
are we like five years old? But at the same time I
was laughing so hard I was crying and it was actually super sweet and romantic because if you know
Dave and Kendra… well, that’s just exactly the way
they both are.”
Rose chuckled. “I can see how funny that could
be, in the moment,” she said. “Was it a nice saddle?”
“It’s maybe the nicest saddle I’ve ever seen,” said
Jennifer. “I’m actually jealous. If my boyfriend gave
me a saddle like that I’d marry him on the spot.”
“Well, I will keep that in mind, in case your boyfriend ever asks,” said Rose.
Jennifer laughed. “My boyfriend is a starving artist,” she said. “The only saddle I’d ever expect to get
from him would be a handmade ceramic one to put
in the curio cabinet that I don’t have.”
“Everybody gets a curio cabinet eventually,” said
Rose. “But usually not until they have at least a few
curios to put in it.” She picked up her coffee cup.
“Speaking of starving artists,” she said, “how is that
going?”
Jennifer paused to consider the question. “Good,”
she said at length. “Almost too good.”
“Too good?” said Rose. “How is that?”
“Well, you know,” said Jennifer. “I had this plan
for my life, which did not include getting serious
about a guy till I was like 30 at least. I thought I’d go
to university and do all the crazy things that university students do like party way too much and have
bad relationships and make stupid mistakes and
maybe even get a degree eventually. And instead I
met Al.”
“Making stupid mistakes is way overrated,” said
Rose. “You want my advice?”
“Surprisingly,” said Jennifer, “yes, I do.”
“The most important thing,” said Rose, “don’t
rush it. There’s always tomorrow. ”
Jennifer smiled. “That’s very profound,” she said.
“Indeed,” said Rose. “Anything else I can do?”
“Sure,” said Jennifer. “I think I’m ready for that
piece of toast now.”
For more from Rollin Penner visit his blog at roll
inon.me/blog.
‘Apple Sun’ pelargonium
This scented geranium is one of my all-time favourites
By Albert Parsons
I like aromatic plants and
of course, being a scented
geranium, “Apple Sun”
does have a distinctive
scent.
Freelance contributor
W
e a l l h a v e o u r f a v o u rite plants, and for whatever reasons they just have
endeared themselves to us and we
simply must keep them in our collections. Often they are not particularly exotic or rare — they are just for
some reason — our favourites. So it is
with my scented pelargonium, “Apple
Sun.” I’ve had this scented geranium
for quite a number of years and I am
never tempted to dispose of it; it has a
permanent place in my collection.
What do I like about “Apple Sun?”
I like plants that always look good
and don’t have a “downtime.” They
are used indoors in the wintertime to
supply colour and interest and then
take their place in the outdoor garden
during the growing season where they
contribute to the beauty of that landscape. Dual-purpose plants are always
among my favourites.
“Apple Sun” is a blooming plant and
it has bloom on it for most of the year.
It blooms most profusely when it is
outside but it continues after I bring
it indoors in the fall as long as I have
the space in front of a sunny south
window to give it the amount of light
it prefers. The flowers are not spec-
The “Apple Sun” pelargonium is an upright
potted plant but if left to grow it gradually
becomes a trailing plant. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS
tacular; they are small and white, but
their understated beauty appeals to
me. I also like the plant because it can
be an upright potted plant but if left to
grow for any length of time it gradually
begins to trail and becomes a trailing plant. I therefore am always reluctant to cut it back. Last spring I put
a full-grown plant outside that had
started to cascade and it provided a
glorious display of foliage and flowers
all summer.
I like aromatic plants and of course,
being a scented geranium, “Apple Sun”
does have a distinctive scent. When I
brush past the plant or rub its leaves,
it gives off an apple-like scent, quite
pungent, but pleasant. It is wonderful to touch because its leaves have a
marvellous texture; they are as smooth
as silk. Although they are not shiny
and appear not to be that smooth,
upon touching them, the leaf surfaces
feel like satin.
Like most scented geraniums, “Apple
Sun” is an easy-care plant. It is drought
tolerant so if it isn’t watered quite as
regularly as it should be, it doesn’t
complain. It likes ordinary soil and
doesn’t require a lot of fertilizer or any
other attention. I have never had a disease or insect problem with it either. It
is not a particularly fast-growing plant,
so it doesn’t require a lot of grooming other than the removal of the odd
brown leaf.
Another characteristic that I like
about “Apple Sun” is that it is easy to
propagate. Cuttings root easily in a
damp soilless mix and new plants are
easily started. I do use some rooting
hormone on the slips which seems to
encourage better root growth. I crowd
several slips into a pot when I am taking cuttings — that is another thing
that I like about this plant; it doesn’t
mind being shoulder to shoulder with
other plants. That makes it a good candidate for my crowded sunroom in the
wintertime and it is also good for use
in mixed planters in the outdoor garden where I use it as a filler.
“Apple Sun” pelargonium, one of
my favourite plants, has lots of traits
that I like. While not my only favourite,
it ranks right up there because of its
many positive attributes. If you like
a plant with similar characteristics,
“Apple Sun” may become one of your
favourite plants as well!
Albert Parsons writes from
Minnedosa, Manitoba
40
COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Rodeo community mourns loss of friend
Heartland’s Cowboy of the Year, Terry Marshall, remembered
By Darrell Nesbitt
His life also focused
around livestock
inspecting, PFRA
pasture riding,
and his M2 Ranch
hayrides.
Freelance contributor
T
he memories of a man
deeply enriched by the
lifestyle of ranching,
rodeo and riding with his family
at home and on the road, will be
forever etched in the minds of
countless friends.
“The outpouring of sympathy has been amazing,” said
daughter Lacey, as she spoke
of the death of her father Terry
Marshall of Rapid City. “He definitely touched thousands of
lives. It’s really kept us going,
knowing how many people
cared about him as much as we
did.”
At the age of 64, Terry died at
home last month of a massive
heart attack.
Rodeo nurtures the close
family ties that make life rich,
and for that he was blessed
to be able to rodeo with his
three daughters — Kelly-Jo
of Melville, Sask., Lacey of
Strathclair and Jerri-Lynn of
Brandon.
Terry is remembered from
a pickup man’s standpoint —
one of the best on the circuit
— well known for his prowess
of removing ornery or stubborn
bulls out of the arena.
At the Hear tland Rodeo
Association (HRA) 2014 Finals
in Carman, Terry was honoured
with the “Cowboy of the Year”
The late Terry Marshall of Rapid City was known to keep rodeo running
smoothly by dragging out ornery or stubborn bulls. PHOTO: DARRELL NESBITT
award. He’s been the recipient of various other awards
including a trophy saddle presented by the Manitoba Rodeo
Cowboys Association (MRCA) in
1979. He was the MRCA Finals
Champion in team roping in
1986, the MRCA 1994 Pickup
Man of the Year, HRA Finals
Champion Header in 1996, and
was gunning for the HRA Finals
Champion Heeler honour, when
his life was cut far too short.
“He was extremely proud to
win the team penning belt
buckle, alongside Karen Krueger,
at Agribition in Regina in 2000,”
said Lacey. “They were the only
Manitobans to ever win the
buckle.”
With rodeo being a part of
Terry, it was only fitting his wisdom and knowledge was passed
down to three extremely talented
cowgirls cheered on by his second wife Kathy. Granddaughter
Emma-Dee Marshall, Kelly-Jo’s
little girl, was a gem in a proud
grandfather’s eyes.
Lacey said that one thing as
sisters they promised each
other was not to quit rodeo — a
foundation built on family and
friends.
“My dad built his farm by himself, and built it into what it is,
and we promised we’re not going
to let it go.”
Her older sister, Kelly-Jo,
stands behind that decision.
“I am very proud to say Terry
Marshall was not only my dad,
but also raised me when his first
marriage went south. While I
basically grew up riding on a seat
of a truck, I learned a lot from
the man I so dearly loved.”
Perhaps some felt Terry had
a gruff and rough side to him,
which may have stemmed
from his playing days with the
Brandon Wheat Kings, and the
now-defunct Eastern Hockey
League with the Syracuse
Blazers, upon being drafted by
the St. Louis Blues. His hockey
days in the U.S. also presented
the opportunity to appear as a
hockey-playing extra in the original “Slap Shot” movie, alongside
Paul Newman.
Others saw him as a kindhearted soul, who cherished
sharing jokes with acquaintances, away from the world of
work, rodeo or horse-drawn
sleigh and wagon rides at community events.
His life also focused around
livestock inspecting, PFRA pasture riding, and his M2 Ranch
hayrides.
With rodeo being a cornerstone of Terry’s life, when Rapid
City held its first rodeo in 1997,
it was dedicated to Terry’s son
Dane, who died as a result of a
tragic farming accident at the
age of three in 1990.
“The impact of our father’s
death is evident,” Lacey said.
“Like a cowboy we will share stories, fond memories and cherish
the awards, and life’s pleasures
of a man, strong on talent, and
dedicated to the wonderful sport
of rodeo.”
Friends, family and colleagues
came together to celebrate the
life of Terry Marshall last month,
at the Victoria Inn, Brandon.
Darrell Nesbitt writes from
Shoal Lake, Manitoba
Co-operator barn
series revival
Do you know this barn?
I
f you do, a Manitoba historian wants to hear from you. In early
1981 the Co-operator worked with provincial Manitoba Historic
Resources Branch staff to photograph and publish a series on
rural buildings in Manitoba. Each week a photo and a story were
published about why each of the buildings were rare or unusual.
Now Gordon Goldsborough, webmaster and journal editor with
the Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is looking for Co-operator
readers’ help to relocate these barns. He has looked for them during road trips in rural Manitoba, but because the site’s location
details are scant, he has been unable to find them. He wants to
include the buildings, with their GPS co-ordinates on a map of historic sites being prepared for the MHS.
This photograph was taken by now-retired Co-operator editor Bob Hainstock who took the photo in the 1980s for the earlier project. Many of the photos were eventually included in
Hainstock’s 1986 book Barns of Western Canada: An Illustrated
Century.
We are including the original “caption” that ran with his photo,
hoping a reader can answer these questions:
1. Does the building still stand?
2. If so, where is it?
3. What are its GPS co-ordinates?
4. What other information can you provide on its state of preservation or other details about its history since the original story in
the 1980s?
Please send your responses to Gordon Goldsborough at:
email: [email protected]
Telephone: (204) 474-7469
Mail: 2021 Loudoun Rd. Winnipeg, Man. R3S 1A3.
This red barn near Rossburn is similar to many in the province in design, function, and age. What it has that attracts interest from travellers is something that most barns in Western Canada no longer possess — a character picture over the main
entrance. At one time, portraits of animals or farm activities were popular among barn builders, a reflection perhaps of the
competition between farmers to add ornate designs or fancy features that put their particular structure “one up” on the
neighbours.
This barn is owned by Jean Mervyn, granddaughter of William Henry Armstrong, who built the 62x58-foot barn in 1911.
The picture was painted by Frank Steele of Vista, who retired to British Columbia many years ago.

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