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Industry officials caution it is a small increase BY RON FRIESEN Co-operator contributor

n expected increase in contracted volumes of pregnant mare urine over the next two years is a small bit of good news for Manitoba’s long-beleaguered PMU industry. Pfizer Canada says it will increase the amount of PMU collected from ranches in Manitoba and Saskatchewan during 2016 and 2017. Pfizer uses estrogen from PMU to manufacture Premarin used for hormone replacement therapy in post-menopausal women.

It is not transgenic, but some fear glyphosate-resistant flax will produce a second Day of the Triffids

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A new system could allow glyphosate-resistant flax to be developed by ‘gene editing’ as opposed to genetic modification, but how will customers react? photo: csp

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ome Manitoba flax growers are expressing concern after learning a glyphosate-resistant flax variety is only a few years away from being market ready. Eric Fridfinnson of the Manitoba Flax Growers Association said the move towards herbicide-tolerant flax

began several years ago and stemmed from a desire to increase yields, which hover around 22 bushels per acre in Manitoba. “We really feel that it would be a great benefit to flax to be able to use this technology,” said Fridfinnson. “We see a number of areas where it would be useful for breeders to be able to move their program more quickly and raise the genetic potential of flax.” In the spring of 2010, the Flax Coun-

cil of Canada signed on with U.S. crop trait development firm Cibus to work on non-transgenic flax traits, providing significant funding for the company’s work. The Manitoba Flax Growers Association also contributed to the project, providing approximately $200,000 to the San Diego-based company over about four years. But after Cibus failed to meet various See FLAX on page 6 »

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Bringing out the ‘wild side’ of fruits and veggies

Cut the bull A researcher says using AI pays off for producers

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CROPS Three steps Strategies for reducing nitrogen loss in the soil

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CROSSROADS Seedy story A playwright turns the Schmeiser vs Monsanto case into a compelling docudrama

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he natural ability of plants to fend off pests is falling through the cracks in our modern quest for fruits and vegetables varieties that have larger sizes, better colour and a longer shelf life, researchers with Newcastle University in the U.K. say. A study published recently in the academic journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development said wild tomatoes are better able to protect themselves against the destructive whitefly than modern, commercial varieties. Wild tomatoes have a dual line of defence against these voracious pests; an initial mechanism which discourages the whitefly from settling on the plant in the first place and a second line of defence which happens inside the plant where a chemical reaction causes the plant sap to “gum up” blocking the whitefly’s feeding tube. Thomas McDaniel, the PhD student who led the research, said the findings highlight the natural resistance of wild plant varieties and suggests we need to “breed some of that wildness back in” instead of continuously looking for new methods of pest control. “By selecting for certain characteristics we have inadvertently lost some really useful ones,” said McDaniel, who is based in the School of Biology at Newcastle University. “The tomatoes we buy in the supermarket may have a long shelf life and be twice as big as the wild varieties, but the trade-off is an intensive and costly pest control regime — both biological and in the form of chemical pesticides. “Our research suggests that if we can breed the whitefly-resistant genes back into our com-

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mercial varieties, then we can produce a super tomato that not only has all the characteristics that we have selected for but is also naturally resistant to the whitefly.” Currently, growers use a parasitoid wasp that lays its eggs in the young whitefly, which are then eaten by the hatching larvae. However, for control to be effective, the wasps need to be released on a weekly basis, which is costly and labour intensive. As a result, most farmers also use chemical pesticides as a second line of defence. This includes the widespread use of the controversial neonicotinoid pesticides. In the study, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the team found that when given free choice, the whitefly were 80 per cent more likely to settle and feed on the commercial tomato plants over the wild variety.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

Manitoba’s on-farm income seen slipping this year The federal Agriculture Ministry’s outlook calls for declining cash receipts STAFF

acroeconomic” factors such as low fuel costs and a depreciating loonie are expected to support Canada’s and Manitoba’s net farm incomes this year — but not at last year’s levels. In its Canadian Agricultural Outlook, published Feb. 19, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says such factors have “insulated Canadian producers from weakness in global commodity markets, which has led to declines in U.S. dollar prices for key agricultural commodities.” That weakness in global commodity markets is expected to persist, the report said. Global stocks of crops will continue to place downward pressure on grain prices. Expansion in the U.S. livestock sector will also put pressure on prices for cattle and hogs — particularly for hogs, as the U.S. sector recovers from the 2014 porcine epidemic diarrhea outbreak. In the medium term, the report said, “fundamental drivers” for farm profitability are expected to stay strong, as economic growth is expected to eventually improve in the devel-

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oping world, and per capita meat consumption is expected to keep rising as those countries’ middle classes expand. “As Canada exports a significant share of its agricultural production, these expected improvements in demand will provide additional opportunities for Canadian producers over the next 10 years.” Canada’s forecast calls for crop receipts this year to remain “virtually unchanged” at $30.6 billion, down from an expected $30.7 billion in 2015. Canada’s total livestock receipts are expected to slip by four per cent this year to $25.2 billion from an expected $26.2 billion in 2015, as Canada will continue rebuilding its cattle-breeding herd over the next several years. Farm family income, which includes off-farm wages, investment income, and farm salaries paid to family members, has been rising steadily and is expected to reach $136,900 per Canadian farm family in 2016. “Other” family income is to increase to 78 per cent of total farm family income, up two per cent.

Manitoba’s net shrinks Manitoba’s total farm cash receipts are expected to hit

A federal forecast calls for Manitoba’s crop cash receipts to slip to $3.31 billion in 2016, down from $3.36 billion in 2015 but up 13 per cent from the five-year (2010-14) average. file photo

$6.06 billion in 2016, down two per cent from the expected 2015 level of $6.17 billion but up 13 per cent from the 2010-14 fiveyear average of $5.34 billion. Manitoba crop and livestock receipts are both expected to slip two per cent in 2016, to $3.31 billion and $2.47 billion respectively. Net operating expenses, how-

ever, are expected to rise four per cent in 2016 over 2015 and program payments are seen nearly flat, leaving Manitoba’s total net farm income at $472.6 million, down 48 per cent from 2015. Manitoba farms’ average net operating income per farm is expected to drop 19 per cent, to $78,488, on farm cash receipts of $476,803.

M a n i t o b a f a r m s’ f a m i l y income in 2016 is expected to include $32,780 in net farm operating income and $84,495 in “other” income per family, for total farm family income of $117,276 per family, down three per cent from the expected 2015 level but up 13 per cent from the five-year (2010-14) average.

Income support programs not working for farmers But they are being helped by the low Canadian dollar By Alex Binkley Co-operator contributor

griStability and AgriInvest, two key government programs to support farmers during periods of low prices, don’t do the job and many producers have dropped out of them, say Ontario and Quebec farm leaders. “Canadian farmers are asking governments to revisit our risk management programs,” Markus Haerle, vice‑chair, Grain Farmers of Ontario, told the Senate agriculture committee, which is studying international market access priorities for the Canadian agriculture and food sector. “At this time, those programs do not work for grain and oilseed farmers.” The programs are needed for the years when market prices drop to or below the cost of production, he added. “In the past, we had good programs. They were eliminated because there weren’t enough dollars to cover them off.

“However, now we are basically at the point where we really have to take a look at them closely because it is hurting all aspects of agriculture, not just grain and oilseeds. It’s flowing down the line. Even animal production is being hurt by this.” William Van Tassel, first vice-president of Quebec Grain Producers, said farmers were protected by high grain prices over the past three years so the programs weren’t needed. While farmers are currently benefiting from low value of the Canadian dollar in terms of sales, “our inputs are going up, such as the costs of fertilizer and imported products,” he said. “All we ask for, and what I would ask for here, is that we can be a bit more competitive with our neighbours; and AgriStability does not make us competitive,” he said. AgriInvest “helps more when the prices are good,” he said. “I don’t believe it’s a good program.”

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Haerle called for an insurance-like program where the farmer and governments make annual contributions. The money should be readily accessible during bad years. The current programs require farmers to prove “such a huge loss that you will never touch it because then it becomes a nuisance. “We have seen multiple farmers in Ontario dropping out of AgriStability because they never touched any dollars, and they paid into it, because the trigger points are not where they should be. Make it worthwhile for someone to be in it.” Van Tassel also called for a reverse of the cuts to public agriculture research. “We have really good public researchers in Ottawa but they are fewer than there used to be.” Better crop varieties would go a long way to keeping Canadian farmers internationally competitive. Haerle said, “It’s important that Canada recommit to having an active and significant role in plant breeding. As

regards exports, many countries have, for example, very low tolerances for certain toxins that are products of fungi that infest crops, especially corn and wheat. We need to develop plant-breeding programs of grain varieties that are much more resistant to these fungi.” Van Tassel also urged the federal government to improve its program of countervailing duties on products being dumped in Canada. Ontario and Quebec farm groups launched a case against American corn in the past. “It cost our two organizations a fortune and didn’t last any time. The legal bill was $3 million. He also wants governments to make science the priority in regulatory decisions. “Not like what they have in Ontario, cutting out the neonics pesticides, which is coming in my province, also. You have to have decisions based on science, not based on the Sierra Club placing social pressure on them.”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

OPINION/EDITORIAL

Commodity voice(s)

t was encouraging to see the reports emerging from the recent Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association (MWBGA) annual meeting about the potential for collaboration among the key commodity groups in the province. The MWBGA, Manitoba Corn Growers Association, Manitoba Canola Growers Association, the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Association and National Laura Rance Sunflower Growers Association have Editor enlisted a consultant to find common ground for how they might work together. It’s a modern spin on a tale as old as commercial farming on the Prairies. Of course, a 100 years or so ago farmers called it “co-operate” rather than “collaborate.” The definitions of these two words are much the same, but the implications of this working-together business in the 21st century are vastly different. According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, the verb “collaborate” means to“work jointly on an activity, especially to produce or create something.” In the noun form, “collaboration” is “the action of working with someone to produce or create something.” The verb “co-operate” means to “act jointly; work toward the same end.” However, a “co-operative” is a “farm, business, or other organization that is owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits.” In fact, the collaboration under discussion by these groups more closely resembles a “union,” which is defined as “ a club, society, or association formed by people with a common interest or purpose.” However, most farmers don’t see themselves as the union type. So why explore this play on words? Because although language changes over time, the underlying principles of working together have not. Despite the fact that these organizations represent different commodities, their checkoff dollars all come from the same pockets. As has been noted in recent news reports, the profitability in crop production is being squeezed by oversupplied markets and the inability of producers to collectively curtail production, as would happen in other industries. As agricultural economists from the University of Tennessee point out on the opposite page, the nature of crop production is such that planting decisions are disconnected from market supply-and-demand fundamentals. Farmers may switch their acres to different commodities based on price outlooks, and they will push more acres into production when prices are strong. But when prices are weak, they’d rather gamble on a market turnaround than cut production and be caught without the ability to cash in on a rising market. That means when low prices hit due to oversupply, those low prices persist for a lot longer than they might if supply was reduced. Farmers will be looking for places to cut costs on their own operations and that may well extend to the organizations they support through checkoffs. It never did make sense for all of these commodity organizations to be maintaining independent offices and administration staff; it makes even less sense now. These organizations need to be able to assure farmers feeling socalled ‘checkoff fatigue’ that they are doing everything possible to make sure those checkoff funds are going towards research, or they risk losing that support.

Seedy stories

nother Saskatchewan farmer was in the doghouse last week just as the acclaimed play “Seeds,” which tells the story of Percy Schmeiser’s prolonged run-in with modern-day seed laws, completes its run in Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange. Although the two stories are different, they both relate to the application of intellectual property rights to seed and society’s conflicting views around that. Schmeiser was found guilty of breaching patent law by being in possession of canola seed containing Monsanto’s glyphosate-resistant gene without having paid for it. That case turned on whether it mattered how he obtained the seed: did it blow in off a passing truck or did he steal it? The courts ruled it didn’t matter. Now Harvey Marcil of

Pasqua Farms near Moose Jaw, Sask. will pay $150,000 to SeCan for breaching plant breeders’ rights after he was caught making unauthorized sales of SeCan’s PBR-protected varieties. Patenting new traits and protecting Plant Breeders Rights is premised on finding marketbased methods for supporting agriculture’s ongoing need for innovation. Farmers can see the benefits and to many, these enforcement actions are pretty cut and dried: I paid, so why shouldn’t he? However, as playwright Annabel Soutar points out, the general public is generally comfortable with intellectual property rights when applied to non-living organisms, but less so when it is applied to seed, the foundation of life. It’s worth keeping in mind. laura@fbcpublishing.com

Coming clean on dirty water in the U.S. By Alan Guebert

t’s been a year since the Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) sued the boards of supervisors of three, ag-based Iowa counties over alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. The lawsuit against 10 drainage districts in Sac, Buena Vista, and Calhoun counties, is over “the discharge of nitrate pollutants into the Raccoon River,” the utility’s chief source of water, and the counties “failure to obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Permit in violation of the Clean Water Act.” On Jan. 4, DMWW reported it had spent $1.5 million to operate its nitrate-removal equipment a record 177 days in 2015 so the water sold to its 500,000 customers would meet federal drinking water standards. Iowa’s farm-centred politicians continue to condemn the DMWW as overwrought and its lawsuit as legal overreach. Last July, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad suggested the utility “start working with others” rather than continue “to sue and attack other people.” In an October visit, former governor and current secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack also encouraged co-operation and cautioned, “You do not want a federal judge deciding this...” The lawsuit continues. In January, federal Judge Mark Bennett, asked the Iowa Supreme Court to rule on several legal questions before, he said, he could proceed because of the suit’s importance to the state’s key industry and its legal “novelty.” That novelty is, in fact, why most Iowa politicians and farmers alike are trembling at the very idea of the suit going forward. Here’s how Neil Hamilton, director of the Agriculture Law Center at Drake University in Des Moines, explained it in a lengthy, jargon-free blog post last March:

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“The key legal claim is the (three Iowa counties’) drainage districts built, manage, and maintain the system of drainage ditches which artificially collect, convey and discharge polluted groundwater into Iowa’s rivers and streams imposing costs on the DMWW and others who use the water. This makes the districts’ point sources under the (Clean Water Act... need permits to discharge...” Hamilton, an ag law expert, is quoted by Food & Environmental Reporting Network (FERN) as saying that if the suit’s key claim is proven — that underground farm tiles in “artificially created and maintained” drainage districts constitute traceable “source points” of alleged pollution — then long-exempt “normal farming activities” may fall under the Clean Water Act. The recent report titled “Fooling Ourselves” only adds to that evolving discussion. Researched and written by Environmental Working Group, EWG, the report found that while USDA “has spent $3 billion in Iowa alone” since 2005 “on programs to help farmers farm in more environmentally friendly ways,” there’s little to none “conservation” benefit to show for all the dough. The dirtier water, however, is an indication of a dirtier secret we in agriculture would like to keep: yesterday’s rules cover an agriculture that no longer exists in either Iowa or the rest of the country. The rules covered traditional agriculture; today’s agriculture is industrial. Therein lies the rub; more non-farmers than farmers — water customers in Des Moines and Akron, federal judges, members of Congress, your state legislators — are working to bring the old rules up to the public’s new needs. The Farm and Food File is published weekly through the U.S. and Canada. www.farmandfoodfile.com.

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f you were cleaning your own seed in 1967, you had the choice of these six models manufactured by Simon-Day in Winnipeg. The biggest news that month was the introduction of a five per cent sales tax in Manitoba. Industry Minister Gurney Evans said the extra revenue was needed to pay for the rapidly increasing costs of education. In the Feb. 16 issue we reported that the Manitoba Winter Fair was planning to celebrate the country’s 100th birthday with the All Canada Centennial Steer Show in April. On the opposite page was news of the planned construction of the $10-million Seagrams distillery at Gimli, which would use 1.3 million bushels of barley, corn and rye per year. The first signs of the interprovincial “chicken and egg war” among provinces were evident in the Feb. 9 issue — egg prices had dropped 20 cents a dozen since November due to steady increases in production across Canada as well as in the U.S. We reported progress in the national program to eliminate brucellosis — 45 areas across the country had been declared free of the cattle disease, with Manitoba leading the country with 13 areas declared free. A photo that issue showed famed horticulturalist Frank Skinner of Dropmore receiving the Order of the Buffalo Hunt from Premier Duff Roblin. Skinner, then 85, had introduced 248 new species or varieties to Western Canada.

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

COMMENT/FEEDBACK

The TPP attacks democracy and supply management Increasing imports of U.S. milk would be blended with Canadian product BY JAN SLOMP

he Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is designed to entrench the interests of foreign corporations at the expense of our sovereignty and democratic processes. Its Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism gives foreign corporations the right to sue our government if they believe future profits will be reduced as a result of democratically enacted measures. ISDS puts a chill on public interest regulation, easing foreign corporations’ access to resources and commodities. The TPP also has more insidious ways of overturning democratic decision-making and imposing a corporate-friendly agenda. One is its attacks on our supply management system. Supply management is a Canadian innovation that ensures subsidies are not needed to keep farmers in business and ensures the population has enough dairy, eggs and poultry. It is built upon three pillars: import controls, cost-of-production pricing to farmers and producer discipline to ensure enough, but not too much, is always produced. If the TPP is ratified, the border will be opened wider, increasing imports, primarily from the U.S. The implications for the dairy sector are severe. The TPP would immediately allow imports equal to 3.25 per cent of Canada’s current fresh milk supply, with increases of one per cent (compounding) per year for the next 18 years. Eighty per cent of these milk imports must be processed in Canada, and would likely be mixed with Canadian supplies.

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The TPP is a direct assault that cannot be cheered because it might have been even worse.

Differences Imported U.S. milk may contain synthetic bovine growth hormone (rBGH). This drug was not approved for use on Canadian dairy herds in the late 1990s, the outcome of a democratic process involving citizens, scientists, dairy farmers, and the Senate. This was based on clear evidence that the drug increases disease and suffering of cows. It is more difficult to assess human health effects of consuming milk from rBGH-induced cows. However, many consumers remain wary and avoid it. The TPP includes a commitment for Canada and the U.S. to discuss their food safety rules for dairy with a view to harmonization. If the TPP is adopted, the difference between Canadian and U.S. milk will be diluted, and potentially disappear.

High-protein components NAFTA opened Canada’s doors to high-protein milk components produced in the U.S. The TPP would remove all tariffs on U.S. whey after 10 years. It would also allow New Zealand to increase dairy exports to the U.S. In turn, even more of the U.S.’s excess milk protein would be dumped into Canada. This causes a number of problems. Butter is popular again after decades of being blamed for high cho-

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lesterol. In the 1970s the dairy sector had to adjust production to avoid creating butterfat surpluses. Margarine with trans fats is now seen as the unhealthy choice, and consumers are switching back to butter and whole milk. Today, dairy faces a structural milk protein surplus. The cost of removing surplus protein components eats into farmers’ returns for milk. Processors have new ways to separate proteins from fluid milk which they market as milk protein isolates (MPIs). MPIs are added to certain dairy products to increase yields. Separating milk components, then processing, storing and transporting them to reintroduce them in other foods is a drastic departure from fairly simple fermenting or cultivating whole milk into butter, cheese, yogurts and quark – and a practice that may ultimately undermine consumers’ confidence.

Processors can import MPIs tariff free, and due to the worldwide structural surplus, they are very cheap. This leaves dairy farmers in Canada with even more surplus skim milk powder and higher costs to get rid of it, putting pressure on the farm gate price. Thus, the TPP reduces dairy farmer incomes by exacerbating the butter-protein imbalance, in addition to taking away a portion of our domestic fluid milk market. Our system ensures milk is produced and processed in every province, within a reasonable distance from both farmers and consumers. More intense, capital-intensive processing to make protein components with longer shelf life would promote larger, centralized plants and eliminate dairy farmi n g i n l e s s p o p u l a t e d re g i o n s, namely the Maritimes, northern Ontario, interior British Columbia and Vancouver Island. A vicious circle would ensue, eroding supply management and concentrating production and processing. Centralization would also impair climate change mitigation. Supply management minimizes GHG emissions by keeping production and processing close to where products are consumed. Supply management is a treasure of Canada’s agriculture policy and the envy of dairy farmers around the world who suffer with price volatility, debt, uncertain markets and unfair contracts. The TPP is a direct assault that cannot be cheered because it might have been even worse. Jan Slomp is the president of the National Farmers Union. He farms near Courtenay, B.C.

Adjusting production to lower prices is a slow process in crop agriculture Aggregate crop production tends to remain steady in the face of lower prices, essentially locking in low prices for long periods of time By Harwood D. Schaffer and Daryll E. Ray

here are several reasons why farmers do not respond in textbook fashion to a reduction in prices by making a proportional reduction in production. Farmers must begin planning for a given crop at least two years before the marketing year for that crop comes to a close. Most of these decisions have to be made with no clear picture of what the price situation will look like before the last bushel/bale/hundredweight is marketed. In the midst of that, the farmer often has only a narrow window in which to get the crop into the ground. The crop cannot be planted earlier in the year to take advantage of high prices or later in the summer to see if prices improve. For farmers, both price and production are unknowns at planting time, though they may have general expectations for both. Farmers can take advantage of various marketing tools to lock in a price at planting, but with total production unknown, many are reluctant to take that risk. While farmers only have one time to make the deci-

sion that has the most impact on production — to plant or not to plant — other industries have many more opportunities during the year to adjust the production/ inventory they offer for sale. The key resource that farmers use in their production is land. The land can be shifted back and forth between crop production and pasture for livestock but any alternate use during periods of low prices forecloses any return to agriculture. Once it is sold off for a housing development or shopping area, the chance of it returning to use as agricultural land is minimal. As a result, farmers and their countries have a vested interest in preserving agricultural land for future production. In recent years we have seen that the return of pasture land that is converted to crop production in highprice years back to pasture is exceedingly slow. Once farmers have made the investment to convert pasture to crops they are reluctant to change course, hoping that high prices will return. In recent years, the shift away from the diversified farming operations of the past to crop-only production or crop production accompanied by barns full of chickens or hogs has reduced the movement of land

between pasture and cropland. This is especially true in areas where farmers have pulled out the fences and any equipment they had to handle cattle has been sold. As a result, a large amount of land in the U.S. has been locked into crop production whether the prices are high or low. Unlike other economic sectors, for the reasons we have described in this column and the one before it, aggregate crop production tends to remain steady in the face of lower prices, essentially locking in low prices for long periods of time. On the other hand, if the demand for crops were to quickly and sustainably respond to price signals, it is possible that farmers could avoid long periods of low prices. In our next column, we will look at the characteristics of the demand for crop production in the face of a change in prices. Harwood D. Schaffer is a research assistant professor in the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee. Daryll E. Ray is emeritus professor, Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, and is the former director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center http://www. agpolicy.org.

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

FROM PAGE ONE PMU Continued from page 1

Industry officials cautioned the announced increase in volume will probably not have a major impact on PMU production. “From our perspective, it’s not going to be anything of any significance,” said Norm Luba, executive director of the North American Equine Ranching Information Council, a non-profit association in Louisville, Kentucky representing PMU ranchers.

“It will be a small increase over the current amount that we contract.” Christina Antoniou Pfizer Canada

Still, it is a welcome development for a once-booming industry reduced to a shadow of its former self by severe cutbacks over the last 15 years. It is believed to be the first increase in contracted PMU volumes since Pfizer bought Wyeth Inc., the previous Premarin manufacturer, in 2009. Pfizer would not reveal the amount of the increase, nor would it say how much PMU it currently contracts from its 19 operations. “It will be a small increase over the current amount that we contract,” was all Christina Antoniou, corporate affairs manager for Pfizer Canada in Montreal, would say in an email message to the Manitoba Co-operator. “We are currently in the process of contracting for 2016-17 and therefore cannot provide any further details.” But she indicated some previously mothballed PMU operations could reopen as a result. “We can confirm that we are in discussions with ranchers who have existing facilities for this type of operation. Our rancher suppliers are, and will continue to be, those with outstanding credentials in horse management and welfare.”

Antoniou indicated a recent improvement in Premarin sales is responsible for the increase. “The amount of estrogen we require from our ranchers has always been driven by product demand.” At peak, Wyeth contracted with 450 PMU ranches in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and North Dakota. A plant in Brandon, established in 1966 and still in operation, processes PMU into Premarin. Manitoba was the hub of PMU production during its heyday. In 2002, the industry contributed $61 million to the province’s economy through sales of PMU and live animals. Menopausal hormone therapy (MHP) was widely prescribed during the 1990s to treat menopausal symptoms. But a research study by the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), begun in 1991 and published in 2002, suggested MHT increased the risk of heart attack, breast cancer, stroke and blood clots. The results caused a sharp drop in MHT use and a decreased demand for Premarin as a result. PMU operations ceased completely in North Dakota and Alberta and were gradually reduced to a mere handful in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. However, MHT slowly recovered after an expert panel reviewed the WHI study. It found the conclusions did not apply to most menopausal women starting MHT, a group the WHI did not study. Today, according to the Hormone Health Network, scientific evidence suggests the benefits of MHT outweigh the risks in most cases. “No one medicine is right for everyone,” Antoniou said. “Ongoing analysis of the WHI (study) has helped confirm that the risk-benefit profile for hormone therapies varies among patients based on a number of factors, including patient age, time since onset of menopause and certain risk factors, and that hormone therapy remains an appropriate treatment option for many women.”

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milestones, the council ended its arrangement with the company. “A year and a half ago it was not meeting the goals or steps that were set,” Fridfinnson said. “We felt we had to suspend the program, but it continued to work on it after that and we still have an agreement with it and have some ownership of the process.” According to the Cibus’s website, glyphosate-resistant flax will be launched in the U.S. in 2019 and in Canada in 2020. Don Rourke raised the issue during Manitoba Flax Growers’ annual general meeting in Winnipeg earlier this month, which was held in conjunction with the annual Crop Connect conference. “Personally, I don’t want it,” he said. “I don’t think resistant flax is something we need.” Raising the spectre of CDC Triffid — a transgenic variety that saw Canadian flax shut out of the European market — the Minto-area producer said introducing a new modified crop could again risk Canada’s access to overseas markets. Fridfinnson was quick to point out that in the technical sense, he doesn’t believe the process used by Cibus is considered a genetic modification. “It is not a GMO technology, it’s gene editing, it’s mutagenisis,” he said. How the European Union defines the trait has yet to be ascertained. “The European Union has not decided yet, whether or not it is going to consider this technology GMO or not, however, it is the direction the industry is going,” said Rachel Evans, extension agronomist for the Flax Council of Canada. “In the traditional definition of a GMO you have a new trait going into a plant, what they are calling this technology is a ‘rewriting,’ and so it is highly technical in terms of the difference, but there is a difference.” Fridfinnson is optimistic that the public will understand the difference between the variety development techniques and accept herbicide-resistant flax. “I hope that consumers will give it a fair hearing and look at the benefits that it could provide.”

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“The European Union has not decided yet whether or not it is going to consider this technology GMO.” Rachel Evans

Others were less confident. “We’re splitting hairs,” said Rourke. “It’s still glyphosate resistant.” In the future, Fridfinnson said the hope is that Cibus’s “Rapid Trait Development System” will allow for the development of other novel traits and new flax varieties. Glyphosate resistance was chosen as a starting point because the herbicide is well understood, widely available and inexpensive.

“In terms of glyphosate, you get 12 farmers in a room and you will get 12 different opinions,” said Paul Dribnenki, a consultant who has worked with the flax council on yield improvement strategies. “I think glyphosate was a reasonable choice… the good thing about glyphosate right now is that the cost of glyphosate is really pretty low per acre, so it is certainly cost effective.” But whatever happens in the future, Evans said that market access will be at the forefront of the decision-making process. “I think I can probably speak for the flax council… to say that we are first and foremost interested in market acceptance, so we are continuing conversation with Cibus,” she said. “No one wants a repeat.” shannon.vanraes@fbcpublishing.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

Social media — use it, but have a plan Communication specialist provides advice on how to create a social media presence BY JENNIFER PAIGE Co-operator staff/Brandon

eing a part of the online community is no longer a choice if you want to be relevant in today’s business world, says Karen Burton, marketing and communication coordinator with the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba. “It is not a matter of if you should be on social media, you have to be on social media. So ciety has pushed us in that direction,” Burton told a recent workshop in Brandon. “Everyone is online. It is not something that can be ignored. If you are not on it, chances are your competitor is and they are beating you to it.” The workshop on how to leverage the power of social m e d i a w a s s p o n s o re d by Entrepreneurship Manitoba, Economic Development Brandon and the Brandon Chamber of Commerce. Dustin Redfern, equipment manager for Redfern Farm Services, says his company just recently joined the online world and he attended the workshop to gain a little insight on how to make the most of it. “We have just started on social media within the last month. We joined Twitter. You see all of your competition online and using these social media. So, we wanted to get on there and make sure that we are just as accessible to our customers as they are,” said Redfern. “The online ag community is larger than I ever thought. It has been an eyeopener to see how well used it really is.” For those who have yet to try social media, Burton says to be patient. “Everyone has to start somewhere and it is still new technology to many. It takes time to grow your audience,” said Burton. “But, the benefits of engaging are huge. You are able to learn who your existing or potential customers are, what they are concerned about, the problems they may have and what they really want.”

trying to reach is primarily on Twitter, then just focus on Twitter. It is better to be present and active on one platform than to have a number of platforms with little activity,” she said. She also recommends sitting down and creating a social media strategy, outlining what you want to post and the points you are hoping to get across. Redfern says that posting for his company has been a bit of a challenge, in comparison to posting personally. “When you are posting for the company, you need to have meaning in your posts. I don’t want to put something out there that isn’t relevant,” Redfern said. “And, you’ve got to stay with it for sure and it takes time. Even just to go take a picture and write something about it takes time out of your day. Finding time can be an issue.” To develop a larger audience, Burton suggests using

your existing customers to help build up followers through testimonials. “‘So and so said… that our product is…’ and tag the person offering the testimonial, and now all of their friends are seeing this and that expands your reach,” Burton said. “And, ask your friends and family to like and share your posts. By engaging their circle you are able to reach a larger audience.” Burton said social media can also be an advocacy tool for the industry. “I absolutely think that social media can be a venue to help the urban-rural divide. Urban residents want to hear from that rural voice but they don’t know where to get it,” said Burton. “So use your voice, use the value that you have in your existing customers to engage with urban residents. This can also be an opportunity to bring in even more customers.” jennifer.paige@fbcpublishing.com

Karen Burton, marketing and communication co-ordinator with the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba provided tips on social media at a recent workshop in Brandon. photo: Jennifer paige

Communication, not advertising Burton says users should look at social media as a method of communication, not advertising. “Social media is a conversation. It’s about talking and connecting. People don’t want advertising or to be constantly marketed to. They are on social media for engagement and social interaction,” said Burton. “It should be looked at as a way to pique people’s interest in what you have to offer.” She said social media is a way to grab the audience’s attention and develop a relationship where you can further direct them to your website or collect their email. A big part of being successful is understanding who you are trying to reach. “If you are unclear about who your audience is or what you want to say, you won’t be getting the most out of it,” Burton said. She recommends focusing on one social media platform at first. “If the audience you are

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

Agriculture Canada launches emergency management consultation Agriculture faces evolving and increasingly complex risks in a more volatile climate BY ALEX BINKLEY Co-operator contributor

griculture and Agri-Food Canada is looking for industry input into the question of how to respond to the special changes faced by agriculture in natural disasters or emergency disease outbreaks. In partnership with the provinces, a draft Strategic Emergency Management Framework for Agriculture in Canada has been prepared on ways the existing system could be strengthened. A consultation with farm groups ends March 11. The document is long on principles and guidelines and short on any specifics. Agriculture faces “evolving and increasingly complex risks,” the document says. In response, governments “propose a stronger, more cohesive and collaborative approach to preventing, mitigat-

ing, preparing for, responding to and recovering from emergencies. The food-producing sector is receiving special attention because its “operating environment is changing rapidly and the threats, hazards and risks that can lead to emergencies are increasingly complex and diverse.” “A paradigm shift is required by all parties in placing greater emphasis on prevention and mitigation, given the potential for significant emergency impacts faced by the agriculture sector, particularly with respect to Canada’s economy and environment.” Measures that prevent or mitigate the impact of disasters will create a more resilient and sustainable agriculture sector,” the department said. They will also simplify the task of responding to and recovering from a natural disaster. While the federal and provincial governments want an increased

focus on prevention and mitigation, they recognize not all risks can be prevented. “There are times when the cost to prevent an emergency may be prohibitive and, therefore, a risk management decision could instead be made to respond and recover.” One priority would be to build agriculture’s resilience to disasters. One obvious threat is climate change which will inflict extreme events and new pests and plant diseases on the industry, the document states. Another is “consolidation, concentration and integration, which are increasingly characterizing the Canadian agricultural sector and may increase vulnerability by magnifying the impact of emergency events on the sector as a whole.” The industry’s dependence on technology that could be crippled during a disaster is another factor the strategy had to look at, the document notes.

The strategy says preparation will help the industry cope with disasters. It cites the 2014-15 avian influenza outbreaks in southwestern Ontario and British Columbia “where increased biosecurity measures adopted by industry helped the effectiveness of response, and also demonstrated how industry association collaboration can improve government response efforts by providing direct information and communication with their membership.” The document suggests modernized plant and animal health programs including enhanced pre-border oversight is the kind of measure that would strengthen the sector’s resilience. Other possible steps include: • A strategy to modernize and enhance plant pest and animal disease prevention and management to mitigate risks to Canada’s plant and animal

resource base through proactive, collaborative and sustainable approaches; • Widespread adoption and consistent application of prevention and biosecurity measures to mitigate the introduction and spread of pests, diseases and contamination events; • Strengthened public risk communication to build individual awareness, and reinforce a culture of emergency prevention, resilience and responsible action by each partner in practising preventive approaches and efforts to mitigate the impacts of emergencies; • Enhanced scientific and technical work on risk reduction and its mobilization through the coordination of existing networks and scientific research institutions at all levels, and in all regions, in order to strengthen the evidence base in support of transparent decision-making.

WHAT’S UP Please forward your agricultural events to daveb@fbcpublishing. com or call 204-944-5762. March 1: Manitoba Turkey Producers annual meeting, Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. For more info call 204489-4635. March 1-3: Canola Council of Canada annual convention, Loews Coronado Bay Hotel, 4000 Coronado Bay Rd., San Diego. For more info or to register visit con vention.canolacouncil.org. March 3: Deerwood Soil and Water Management Association annual informational meeting, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Altamont Community Centre, 57 King St., Altamont. For more info call Les McEwan at 204744-2344. March 8: Farm Credit Canada (FCC) Forum, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. For more info or to register visit www.fcc-fac.ca/en/events/ fcc-forums.html.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | Febraury 25, 2016

Prairie wheat growers wanted to assist in gluten strength study

Farmers can get some valuable data about their wheat, and potentially help boost returns for the whole class BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

Prairie farmers are being urged to help researchers understand how weather and genotype affect the quality and consistency of Canada’s premier Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS). photo: canstockphoto

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cientists investigating the effect weather, agronomics and genotype have on milling wheat quality are appealing to farmers across the Prairies to participate in their study. The goal is to improve the quantity, quality and consistency of Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat and in so doing increase returns to farmers. In return participating farmers will get a report on the quality of the wheat samples they submit, plus a summary of all the results. To start, all farmers have to do is fill out a questionnaire at https://gallery.mailchimp.com/ 27cae5e519b4ca3a17694555e/ files/SP5_Questionnaire_for_

Farmers.pdf and email it to glutenstrength@umanitoba.ca. University of Manitoba cereal chemist Harry Sapirstein and agro-meteorologist Paul Bullock are investigating nine CWRS wheats: Glenn, Stanley, Utmost, Carberry, Brandon, Cardale, Stettler, Unity and Harvest. “What we are hoping to see is about 100 farmers for each variety respond so we can pick the 50 who are most widely distributed for each variety,” Sapirstein said in an interview. Selected farmers will receive a package containing background information about the project, an information sheet to fill out and a pre-labelled sample container for shipping at no cost. Farmers will submit two kilograms of wheat representative of the field on which it was grown.

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“That will tell an interesting story in how much variation grain companies see when farmers deliver to their elevators,” Sapirstein said.

Customer concerns The research was sparked by Canadian wheat customers who complained several years ago some shipments of Canada’s top-quality CWRS class wheat had weaker and more variable dough strength than normal. “From what I hear (now) from my miller colleagues, they are seeing quite a lot of variability shipment to shipment from Western Canada whether their mills are in Eastern Canada or in Western Canada,” Sapirstein said. “This variability aspect of quality is not going away any time soon. “I think that part of the brand continues to be tainted a bit.” Researchers have already identified that some CWRS wheats are on the low end of the acceptable range for gluten strength and some years weather conditions make it even worse. Weather has a big impact on wheat quality, Bullock said. The grading and handling system can smooth quality variations but the trend to fewer, bigger elevators has resulted in less blending. “The whole grain-handling system has moved to larger centralized points,” Bullock said. “The level of blending logistically has dropped. Now there is greater opportunity where regional difference in environment can actually cause greater variation in things like bread-making quality between shipments.” In addition, wheat enters the handling system differently since the Canadian Wheat Board’s single marketing desk ended in 2012. Then wheats of varying grades and protein were contracted and delivered throughout the year. Now farmers can deliver all their wheat at once if they choose to. “Now it could all go into a 100car train… and shipment to shipment you have a lot more variability now in principle than what was happening under a delivery quota system,” Sapirstein said. “It’s very different grain-handling logistics now than in the past.” Sapirstein and Bullock suspect some wheat varieties produce more consistent quality than others, despite variable growing conditions. For example, does Glenn, known for its strong gluten strength, retain that strength better when the weather is poor compared to Harvest, which has weaker strength? “This will be information that is valid in the short term and the long term moving forward,” he said. The project is funded through a combination of public and farmer funds. Farmer money comes through the Western Grains Research Foundation, Alberta Wheat Commission, Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission and Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association. For more information email Sapirstein at Harry.Sapirstein@ umanitoba.ca or Bullock at Paul. Bullock@umanitoba.ca. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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LIVESTOCK MARKETS (Friday to Thursday) Winnipeg Slaughter Cattle Steers — Heifers — D1, 2 Cows 90.00 - 105.00 D3 Cows 86.00 - 95.00 Bulls 126.00 - 135.00 Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only) Steers (901+ lbs.) 170.00 - 193.00 (801-900 lbs.) 185.00 - 196.00 (701-800 lbs.) 190.00 - 221.00 (601-700 lbs.) 218.00 - 247.00 (501-600 lbs.) 230.00 - 280.00 (401-500 lbs.) 270.00 - 315.00 Heifers (901+ lbs.) 160.00 - 175.00 (801-900 lbs.) 165.00 - 188.00 (701-800 lbs.) 170.00 - 197.00 (601-700 lbs.) 190.00 - 227.00 (501-600 lbs.) 210.00 - 250.00 (401-500 lbs.) 230.00 - 276.00

Heifers

Alberta South — — 100.00 - 114.00 85.00 - 104.00 — $ 185.00 - 196.00 192.00 - 204.00 205.00 - 224.00 226.00 - 249.00 250.00 - 279.00 276.00 - 303.00 $ 172.00 - 184.00 181.00 - 190.000 190.00 - 204.00 204.00 - 223.00 221.00 - 240.00 234.00 - 260.00

($/cwt) (1,000+ lbs.) (850+ lbs.)

(901+ lbs.) (801-900 lbs.) (701-800 lbs.) (601-700 lbs.) (501-600 lbs.) (401-500 lbs.) (901+ lbs.) (801-900 lbs.) (701-800 lbs.) (601-700 lbs.) (501-600 lbs.) (401-500 lbs.)

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Cattle Slaughter

February 19, 2016

Warm spell attracts more, heavier cattle to market Values have potential to turn bullish in coming months

CNSC

Close 156.48 155.50 154.00 153.48 151.20 148.88

Change 6.22 5.65 4.63 3.45 3.25 3.50

Cattle Grades (Canada)

Week Ending February 13, 2016 44,674 11,634 33,040 N/A 544,000

Previous Year 52,244 12,121 40,123 N/A 540,000

Week Ending February 13, 2016 1,044 23,004 9,132 379 405 9,731 295

Prime AAA AA A B D E

Previous Year 1,028 26,738 14,125 325 455 8,784 112

Hog Prices (Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg)

Source: Manitoba Agriculture

E - Estimation MB. ($/hog) MB (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.) MB (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.) ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.)

Current Week 181 E 167 E 164.45

Last Week 180.59 167.24 164.00

Last Year (Index 100) 159.81 149.13 136.69

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“I’m not sure we’re seeing any (cattle) going south at this point, but you’d think we’d be getting close.”

Jade MarkuS Ontario $ 160.00 - 174.60 155.96 - 176.80 80.46 - 106.48 80.46 - 106.48 122.44 - 143.02 $ 183.21 - 215.67 205.25 -222.48 204.83 - 234.49 208.30 - 260.74 211.20 - 276.41 239.53 - 287.47 $ 168.74 - 189.34 182.17 - 204.44 179.54 - 208.23 187.24 - 225.95 190.29 - 246.03 207.96 - 262.98

Futures (February 19, 2016) in U.S. Fed Cattle Close Change February 2016 135.15 5.03 April 2016 134.38 4.85 June 2016 123.45 3.48 August 2016 119.48 2.65 October 2016 119.90 2.33 December 2016 118.75 2.10

Canada East West Manitoba U.S.

$1 Cdn: $0.7245 U.S. $1 U.S: $1.3801 Cdn.

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Slaughter Cattle Grade A Steers Grade A Heifers D1, 2 Cows D3 Cows Bulls Steers

EXCHANGES: February 19, 2016

Futures (February 19, 2016) in U.S. Hogs

Change

February 2016 April 2016 May 2016 June 2016 July 2016

70.78 76.75 80.30 80.00 79.15

1.33 1.10 0.72 0.55 0.40

Other Market Prices

attle sales in this province are seeing steadier runs due to milder weather, according to a local auctioneer, and a seasonal rally could lend itself to higher prices in coming months. “The weather’s been co-operating since January and we’ve been steady,” said Allan Munroe of Killarney Auction Mart, which had an 828-head sale on Feb. 15. “A lot of years we’ll have a big run one week, and a smaller one the next; for me it’s a lot nicer to have steady volumes.” Munroe said he expects those volumes to stay the same throughout March, as many cattle still need to be marketed. The warmer weather is also lending itself to higher cattle weights, he said. “We are seeing some more flesh on cattle than we normally would, because they’re not shivering off those pounds, working that energy off.” In many cases the cattle are eating less, but gaining weight better, he said. But on the flip side, some cattle have additional flesh that gets discounted in the ring. The only reason auction mart volumes might not be steady going forward is turbulence in futures markets, he said. “The only thing is with the volatility in the prices, some guys will hold off a week or two or until they want to sell.” Nationally, cattle prices have pulled back for the second week in a row, said Dallas Rodger, market analyst at Calgary-based CanFax, a division of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. Futures are trying to find a low, he added, and producers may see some recovery in local prices. “From a supply standpoint, we’re looking at very moderate supplies, and seasonally we’re closing in on a bottom.”

allan munroe Killarney Auction Mart

Rodger said he expects prices to make a seasonal rally, especially as the supply side of the market favours higher prices. The market could have a bullish tone within the next two months, he said. “There’s a pretty good chance we’re going to see prices pick up here with front-end supplies; we’re friendly from that standpoint.” Last year’s relatively dry spring allowed yearlings to come to market earlier, and those cattle are currently moving through the system, which will create a supply gap in March and into April. Demand for Manitoba’s cattle over the past week was mostly from the East and West, Munroe said. “There was a load that went straight out to Alberta. I’m not sure we’re seeing any going south at this point, but you’d think we’d be getting close.” He thinks U.S. buyers may be looking to the Canadian market soon, as prices have been steadily depreciating. “It would be nice to see some cattle start going south, just because that’s going to show us some stability.” The heaviest cattle saw the largest amount of pressure at auctions this week, Munroe said. “The fats have been falling and there’s less time. It’s the story that we always see, the lighter cattle can go to grass; it’s a long time before they’re fat. They’re buying time as much as anything.” Jade Markus writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

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Sheep and Lambs Winnipeg $/cwt Ewes Lambs

Wooled Fats

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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 21, 2016 Broiler Turkeys (6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average) Grade A ................................................$1.925 Undergrade ........................................$1.835 Hen Turkeys (between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ............................................... $1.920 Undergrade ....................................... $1.820 Light Tom/Heavy Hen Turkeys (between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average) Grade A ............................................... $1.920 Undergrade ....................................... $1.820 Tom Turkeys (10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average) Grade A..................................................$1.880 Undergrade.......................................... $1.795 Prices are quoted f.o.b. producers premise.

Toronto 1481.4 - 194.76 152.95 - 174.13 174.21 - 187.28 198.36 - 229.08 217.03 - 299.53 —

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Winnipeg ($/cwt) — —

Lethbridge feed barley prices have strengthened on bargain buying, according to one market watcher, while demand for feed wheat is steady at best. Lethbridge barley prices have increased from $200$205 in January to $205$215 in February, as the grain becomes more dif-

ficult to source, said Jim Beusekom, president at Market Place Commodities. “It’s not an issue, but it becomes a market factor,” he said. Demand for feed barley has increased, he said, as buyers have been swayed by cheaper prices. “I think the feed wheat situation is a little different.” The amount of feed wheat being used is limited, but constant, Beusekom said. “It’s steady at best, and buyers just pick away at the supply that’s out there.”

Despite fluctuations within the market, feed grain prices in Lethbridge are stronger than those seen a year ago. Producers saw increased amounts of export-quality wheat and barley this year, which take away from the amount of feed available. “A lot of it is milling grade, so we have less push-back into the feed market with wheat.” Producers are favouring malting barley, and have seen higher-quality yields this year, he said. Product rejected by malt companies becomes feed.

Toronto ($/cwt) 160.00 - 198.00 — 120.00 - 150.00

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Buyers eating up Lethbridge feed barley

Toronto ($/cwt) 34.00 - 53.00 27.40 - 61.18

Looking for results? Check out the market reports from livestock auctions around the province. » PaGe 14

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

GRAIN MARKETS column

Manitoba Elevator Prices Average quotes as of February 22, 2016 ($/tonne)

Expect currency to remain the major driver for canola

Future

Basis

Cash

E. Manitoba wheat

181.24

53.04

234.28

W. Manitoba wheat

181.24

41.90

223.14

E. Manitoba canola

466.60

-14.58

452.02

W. Manitoba canola

466.60

-20.60

446.00 Source: pdqinfo.ca

Concerns for soybeans and palm oil provide some support

Port Prices DAVE SIMS CNSC

CE Futures Canada canola contracts fell lower for the week ended Feb. 22, as the ever-strengthening Canadian dollar put pressure on prices amid a sea of volatility. The Winnipeg-based ICE market was closed on Feb. 15 for Louis Riel Day, while U.S. markets were also shuttered due to Presidentâ€™s Day. When trading did resume, canola began to climb out of the lows suffered the previous week. A potential shortage of Malaysian palm oil put some strength into the vegetable oil market, into which canola tapped throughout the week. Rain showers in Brazil also caused some slight disruption to the soybean harvest, which helped support canola futures. Commercial buying was also fairly steady, which was a stabilizing factor. However, the strength of the Canadian dollar remained the biggest factor influencing canola through the week, as the loonie fought to climb above the 73 U.S. cents mark.

Traders began rolling out of the soon-toexpire March contract into the most-active May one. Going forward, currency issues look to remain the major story, with some strength in the vegetable oil market lending support. CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) cor n futures were higher for the week. Weakness in the U.S. dollar mixed with rising crude oil prices to underpin the corn market. Weather issues were lacking, while investors covered shorts off of nearby lows. Cheap corn supplies from South America and the Black Sea region continue to make life difficult for U.S. exports. CBOT soybeans were also higher due to short-covering and rainfall which hampered harvest efforts in Brazil. Speculators covered positions in the early going after ideas emerged that the net short position held by large funds had become extremely large. CBOT wheat futures posted gains largely on the back of a softer U.S. dollar and other technical issues. Speculation swirled that warm temperatures in the U.S. southern Plains could cause some plants to emerge prematurely and lose yield potential. Dave Sims writes for Commodity News Service Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and commodity market reporting.

As of Friday, February 19, 2016 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

U.S. hard red winter 12% Houston

189.04

4.68

U.S. spring wheat 14% Portland

225.33

2.12

Canola Thunder Bay

472.60

-2.20

Canola Vancouver

491.60

-2.20

Closing Futures Prices

As of Monday, February 22, 2016 ($/tonne) Last Week

Weekly Change

ICE canola

466.60

-2.20

ICE milling wheat

229.00

3.00

ICE barley

186.00

-2.00

Mpls. HRS wheat

181.24

2.57

Chicago SRW wheat

169.67

1.29

Kansas City HRW wheat

167.92

4.78

Corn

143.89

2.07

Oats

124,59

0.32

Soybeans

322.70

1.75

Soymeal

291.48

0.88

Soyoil

692.15

-4.41

Cash Prices Winnipeg As of Monday, February 22, 2016 ($/tonne)

For three-times-daily market reports and more from Commodity News Service Canada, visit the Markets section at www.manitobacooperator.ca.

Last Week

Weekly Change

Feed wheat

n/a

Feed barley

180.96

0.46

Rye

n/a

458,64

-4.72

n/a

Oats

174.42

-3.89

Soybeans

381.77

1.84

Sunflower (NuSun) Fargo, ND ($U.S./CWT)

16.55

-0.10

Ask

Flaxseed Feed peas

Sunflower (Confection) Fargo, ND ($U.S./CWT)

Prairie spring wheat bids rise with U.S. futures CWRS wheat prices rose by up to $5 per tonne from the previous week BY PHIL FRANZ-WARKENTIN CNS Canada

ash spring wheat bids across Western Canada moved higher during the week ended Feb. 19, as U.S. futures moved up and basis levels held reasonably steady. Average Canada Wester n Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were up by about $2-$5 per tonne over the course of the week, according to price quotes from a cross-section of delivery points across the Prairie provinces compiled by PDQ (Price and Data Quotes). Average prices ranged from about $221 per tonne in southeastern Saskatchewan to as high as $237 in southern Alberta. Quoted basis levels varied from location to location, but improved by about $1 per tonne on average, to sit

at roughly $45-$55 per tonne above the futures when using the grain company methodology of quoting the basis as the difference between U.S. dollar-denominated futures and Canadian dollar cash bids. When accounting for currency exchange rates by adjusting Canadian prices to U.S. dollars, CWRS bids ranged from US$160 to US$172 per tonne. That would put the currency adjusted basis levels at about US$9$21 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 $12 to $29 below the futures. Average Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) bids were up $2-$9 per tonne compared to the previous week. Average CPSR prices came in at about

Average CPSR prices came in at about $173-$183 per tonne in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

$173-$183 per tonne in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and $191-$199 per tonne in Alberta. Average durum prices held relatively steady during the week, with bids in Saskatchewan ranging from roughly $305-$309 per tonne. The May spring wheat contract in Minneapolis, off of which most CWRS contracts in Canada are based, was quoted at US$4.9775 per bushel on Feb. 19, up 10.25 U.S. cents from the previous week. Kansas City hard red winter wheat

futures, traded in Chicago, are more closely linked to CPSR in Canada. The May K.C. wheat contract was quoted at US$4.6625 per bushel on Feb. 19, up 12.5 U.S. cents compared to the previous week. The May Chicago Board of Trade soft wheat contract settled Feb. 19 at US$4.6675, 4.25 U.S. cents higher compared to one week earlier. The Canadian dollar closed Feb. 19 at 72.63 U.S. cents, up by about half a cent relative to its U.S. counterpart compared to the previous week.

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LIVESTOCK h u s b a n d r y — t h e s c i e n c e , S K I L L O R ART O F F AR M IN G

AI could be a big bang for your buck for the beef herd The bull doesn’t charge for service, but he costs quite a bit to keep around when he isn’t working By ALEXIS KIENLEN Staff

t could make sense to skip the bull in a beef cattle operation, says an economist with the Western Beef Development Centre. “Natural-ser vice breeding is still the most common. Probably some of the hesitancy is the feeling that it is more expensive to use fixedtime artificial insemination,” Kathy Larson said during a webinar hosted by the Beef Cattle Research Council. According to the western Canadian cow-calf survey last year, only 10 per cent of Alberta producers, 13 per cent of Manitoba producers and 14 per cent of Saskatchewan producers use artificial insemination in their beef herds. The national beef strategy has called for a production efficiency increase of 15 per cent by 2020. “Increased uptake of AI among commercial producers was mentioned as one way to reach that target. That’s why it’s important to chat about it,” Larson said. Most people don’t think about the actual costs of maintaining a herd sire, Larson said. “The cost of fixed-time AI is not that much higher than natural service. If you are

paying $7,500 or more for a bull, it’s only really about $10 more,” she said. Bull prices can range widely, from $4,000 to about $10,000 and bulls are generally good for about four years. For every year that a bull is in a herd, it depreciates by about $725. General maintenance costs for one bull, including feed, labour and semen tests are about $750 a year. There’s also a risk of loss, which increases based on a purchase price. Larson calculated that a bull that costs about $7,560 costs about $3,000 a year to maintain. If that bull is servicing 25 females, the cost is about $120 per female serviced. In 2013, Bart Lardner, senior research scientist with the Western Beef Development Centre, conducted a comparison between 40 cows bred using natural service, and 40 cows bred using fixed-time artificial insemination. Calves were born and weaned in 2014. The natural-service cows were bred in a 60-day breeding season. The artificially inseminated cows were bred using a controlled internal drug release (CIDR) and a cosync program. GonadotropinReleasing Hormone (GnRH), Cisterellin, Prostaglan, and Estrumate were administered, and a technician performed the AI. Total costs for the arti-

Western Beef Development Centre economist Kathy Larson says AI could be one way of achieving the national beef strategy’s goal of increasing production efficiency by 15 per cent by 2020. Photo: Supplied

ficial insemination worked out to about $130 per cow. The artificially inseminated cows had pregnancy rates of 97.5 per cent, compared with 92.5 per cent pregnancy rates for the natural-service cows. The AI cows had a shorter calving span of 64 days compared to 69 days for the natural service.

The comparison Artificially inseminated cows had higher birth weights. There was high calf loss on the natural-service side, and 90 per cent of the AI calves weaned a calf, while only 77.5 per cent of the natural-service cows weaned calves. While there were more weaned calves on the artificially

inseminated side, they ended up a little lighter. “This is not what you’re looking for,” said Larson. “We would tout that you’re using AI to get better genetics and higher weaning rates, but for this oneyear demonstration, we did see slightly lower adjusted lower weaning weights. Given all the other improvements with the conception and wean rates, we had an additional 4,100 pounds of weaning weight or pounds of calf weaned when we weaned those calves at the start of October 2014,” she said. That additional overall weaning weight was worth about $11,250. Larson also conducted a partial budget analysis for the implementation of fixed-time AI. The costs of AI were about $3,300, and the revenues about $11,250. Reduced revenues included a reduced amount of cull bull sales, and fewer opens to sell. There were reduced costs because fewer bulls needed to be sold or purchased. Improved conception also meant that fewer replacements needed to be purchased, resulting in a reduced cost of $4,925. When Larson crunched the numbers, she found a net profit of $2,070 for the one-year example. This number would change depending on the year and operation. akienlen@fbcpublishing.com

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Lice and ticks and horses Horses that have stressed immune systems are more vulnerable Carol Shwetz

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Horse Health

ice and ticks are unwelcome guests on horses and donkeys, taking up residence in the warmth of their thick winter coats with peak infestations occurring during the late winter and early spring. Horses infested with lice are intensely itchy, and often the first sign of trouble is a tattered hair coat — or perhaps extra dandruff or “scurfy” stuff noticed duri n g g ro o m i n g . A s i n f e s t a tion progresses the hair coat becomes increasingly matted, unkempt, and “moth eaten.” Ho r s e s b e c o m e a n x i o u s and irritable, scratching, rubbing, and biting at the skin. This behaviour quickly leads to hair loss/alopecia, scarring and inflammation of th e s k i n , a n d self-mutila tion. With severe infestations horses may lose condition and become depressed and lethargic. Generally horses that have immune systems depleted from stressors such as overcrowding, underlying health issues, poor feed quality or age are the most susceptible to infestations. However, even healthy well-cared-for animals can become infested as the little parasite is not too terribly choosey as to who it infests. L i c e a re p re d o m i n a n t l y found under and around a horse’s forelock, mane, tail, and the feathering of the lower limb. If present, the lice can be found by parting the hair of the horse and examining the skin and coat with the aid of a light source and, if available, a hand-held mag-

nifying glass. Fully grown, the louse will be only two to four millimetres in length, making them slightly difficult to detect with the naked eye. Two types of lice infest both horses and donkeys — the sucking louse and the chewing/biting louse. The sucking louse is the larger of the two lice with a dark nutmeg to dirty grey-coloured broad body and a long pointy narrow head. Their mouthparts are adapted to piercing the h o r s e’s s k i n a n d s u c k i n g blood. With severe infestations, blood loss can be substantial, causing the horse to become anemic and weak. The smaller chewing/biting louse is yellow brownish in colour with a wide body, marked with dark cross-bands. Its head is broad and rounded with a snubbed nose. These lice feed on the dander, scales, and scurf of the horse’s skin. In contrast to the stationary sucking louse the chewing louse is active, crawling around on the horse’s skin. Both species of lice have a s i m p l e l i f e c y c l e. T h e y glue their tiny cream-coloured eggs, called nits, near the base of the horse’s hair shafts. The young hatchlings, called nymphs, mature into the adults within two to four weeks. Lice are easily spread from one animal to the next through direct contact. They can also be easily transferred between horses by things the horses have direct contact with such as shared grooming tools, tack, and/or a favourite scratching post. Lice need the warmth and food supply of their host and are unable to survive off the host for much longer than two to three days. Therefore severe cleaning of the environment with infestation is not necessary however, a

thorough cleaning of those things in close contact with the horse, such as grooming tools and blankets is advisable. Fortunately lice are host species specific, which means horse lice prefer horses and will not infect humans, dogs, cats, etc. The only approved product for the treatment of horses with lice is a pesticide dusting powder; it is the treatment of choice under winter conditions. All other products are used in an off-label or extra-label manner and veterinary supervision is advised, if chosen. Control of lice is challenging because pesticides kill the lice but not the eggs. Therefore re-treatment will be necessar y two to three weeks later to successfully kill the hatchlings. Be generous with the dusting powders, taking precautions not to inhale the dust and using gloves to work the dust thoroughly into the thick winter coats. All horses in contact with the infested horse may need to be checked and treated if necessary. For reasons not completely understood, a few animals remain as a reservoir for a small population of surviving lice, despite treatment. These a n i m a l s c a n t h e n re i n f e s t larger numbers of animals when conditions become opportune. Horses in Alberta can also occasionally get winter ticks. The preferred habitat of the winter tick are members of

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the deer family such as deer, elk and moose. Horses are marginal habitat for the winter tick so numbers of individual ticks generally remain low. The adult female tick lays eggs in the vegetation and the infective lar vae gather on plants in hopes of catching a ride on a suitable host as it passes by in the brush. Once on the host, the larvae engorge on blood meals and mature into the adult form around March and April. The females become grossly engorged with blood before dropping off onto the

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LIVESTOCK AUCTION RESULTS Weight Category

Ashern

Gladstone

Grunthal

Heartland

Brandon

Virden

Killarney

Ste. Rose

Winnipeg

Feeder Steers

17-Feb

16-Feb

19-Feb

17-Feb

15-Feb

18-Feb

No. on offer

1,900

726*

1,220

505

1,009*

828*

1,285*

1,130

Over 1,000 lbs.

n/a

900-1,000

180.00-195.00

175.00-192.50

175.00-188.00

185.00-196.00

188.00-201.00

n/a

180.00-194.50

180.00-195.00

800-900

185.00-208.00

180.00-202.00

180.00-200.00

190.00-205.00

193.00-207.50

190.00-209.00

185.00-209.50

188.00-197.00

700-800

200.00-229.00

200.00-215.00

200.00-221.00

195.00-219.00

206.00-223.00

205.00-219.00

195.00-223.00

195.00-224.00

600-700

210.00-256.00

220.00-244.75

215.00-250.00

225.00-248.00

222.00-247.00

220.00-250.00

210.00-260.00

210.00-252.00

500-600

200.00-270.00

250.00-279.00

240.00-292.00

250.00-275.00

244.00-285.00

240.00-270.00

250.00-285.00

240.00-270.00

400-500

220.00-241.00

270.00-313.00

265.00-295.00

275.00-300.00

265.00-306.00

270.00-308.00

250.00-290.00

250.00-275.00

300-400

n/a

270.00-306.00

275.00-330.00

n/a

150.00-177.00

150.00-170.00

165.00-182.00

170.00-180.00

n/a

175.00-188.00

n/a

800-900

175.00-192.00

165.00-184.00

165.00-175.00

170.00-185.00

173.00-186.00

170.00-180.00

185.00-201.00

170.00-194.00

700-800

180.00-217.00

175.00-197.00

175.00-198.00

185.00-200.00

182.00-200.00

175.00-195.00

190.00-206.00

180.00-202.00

600-700

188.00-235.00

170.00-208.00

190.00-230.00

200.00-217.00

198.00-221.00

185.00-215.00

205.00-221.00

195.00-228.00

Feeder heifers 900-1,000 lbs.

500-600

190.00-236.00

180.00-232.00

220.00-255.00

215.00-235.00

210.00-240.00

220.00-245.00

210.00-225.00

400-500

200.00-237.00

230.00-265.00

240.00-250.00

220.00-250.00

230.00-251.00

240.00-270.00

225.00-242.00

235.00-260.00

300-400

n/a

240.00-279.00

250.00-295.00

n/a

205.00-272.00

n/a

No. on offer

220

n/a

108

251

n/a

190

D1-D2 Cows

93.00-101.00

n/a

94.00-103.00

91.00-101.00

90.00-98.00

92.00-101.00

n/a

D3-D5 Cows

82.00+

n/a

83.00-93.00

85.00-91.00

n/a

82.00-93.00

n/a

Slaughter Market

Age Verified

100.00-112.00

n/a

93.00-104.00

n/a

Good Bulls

130.00-146.00

n/a

128.00-140.00

125.00-138.00

n/a

130.00-136.00

Butcher Steers

n/a

Butcher Heifers

n/a

n.a

n/a

Feeder Cows

n/a

105.00-114.00

n/a

Fleshy Export Cows

n/a

96.00-104.00

n/a

90.00-96.00

Lean Export Cows

n/a

80.00-89.00

n/a

80.00-92.00

150.00-162.00

n/a

125.00-145.00

n/a

Heiferettes * 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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World dairy market in crisis, upturn seen end 2016 BY OLE MIKKELSEN Copenhagen / Reuters

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Cargill to supply Alberta carcass data to BIXS The BIXS system is being rebuilt to handle the added data load STAFF

ne of Canada’s biggest beef packers is set to supply the specs on beef carcasses processed at its Alberta plant to the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association’s (CCA) BIXS information-sharing system. Cargill and BIXSCo, the CCA-backed operators of BIXS (Beef InfoXchange System), announced Feb. 18 that the multinational agri-food firm will provide its past three years of beef carcass data from its High River, Alta. plant — plus all such future data going forward — in trust, for use in BIXS. “Access to carcass data has long been identified as the major roadblock to industry-wide data sharing as it relates to cattle production information throughout the supply chain,” BIXSCo CEO Hubert Lau said in a release.

“With this agreement, that roadblock has been removed.” The High River plant processes up to 4,500 head of cattle per day. BIXS’s data management system is now being rebuilt to take up the “anticipated high volume” of data, Lau said, making for a more “robust” system that’s expected to also allow Canada’s beef supply chain to buy and sell data up- and downstream. CCA executive vice-president Dennis Laycraft hailed the deal as “a crucial step in ensuring information flows up and down the cattle value chain.” Cargill will provide 15 fields of data on each carcass processed at the plant, once an audit by Cargill of BIXS’s privacy functions is completed, the company said. The initial data transfer will come from the High River plant, but Cargill and BIXS

said they will “work towards including” data gathered at Cargill’s other Canadian beefpacking plant, at Guelph, Ont., “when the time is right.” Once rebuilt, the BIXS data management system “will continue to ensure no personal information is shared through the system,” the company said. “Users will remain anonymous until they choose to contact a source of information.” BIXS, set up in 2009, is described as similar to a stock market in that it allows buyers and sellers to exchange data on individual animals for a price. Producers, for example, can buy carcass data to help improve operating efficiency and profitability, but can also sell their own cattle management data to others, and thus be compensated for their work in capturing said data.

Arla Foods, one of Europe’s biggest dairy companies, said Feb. 17 the global milk market was in crisis due to oversupply, but it expected demand, particularly from China, to pick up at the end of the year. Headquartered in Denmark, Arla is Britain’s largest and the world’s seventh-largest dairy company. It reported net profit falling nearly eight per cent to 295 million euros on revenue of 10.3 billion euros in 2015. Rising European milk production following the scrapping of EU milk quotas combined with China’s slowdown in demand and a Russian embargo on European foods have put downward pressure on milk prices and prompted protests by farmers. “Our annual results show that the dairy industry is in a global crisis. There is more milk supply in the market than demand can absorb,” chief executive Peder Tuborgh told Reuters. The GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) benchmark milk index showed milk prices are down 65 per cent since a peak in April 2013. Tuborgh expects an upturn at the end of 2016 when China, the world’s biggest importer of powdered milk, will need to start increasing imports, having depleted its stocks although a game changer would be Russia lifting its import ban.

SHEEP & GOAT COLUMN

Low selection in all sheep categories

There were only 200 sheep and goats delivered to the Feb. 17 sale at Winnipeg Livestock Auction February 3, 2016

BY MARK ELLIOT Co-operator contributor

he selection of ewes was dominated by wool ewes. However, the hair ewes attracted similar prices. The weight of the ewes ranged from 139 to 227 pounds with a price ranging from $1.03 to $1.113 per pound. The bidding on rams followed no pattern. Buyers were looking for some particular item with the various rams. The bidding price ranged from $0.88 to $1.11 per pound. Prices for heavyweight lambs have slightly increased from the last sale. Four 125-pound Rideau-cross lambs brought $1.42 per pound. Six 111pound lambs brought $1.48 per pound. The bidding was slightly lower on market lambs. The bidding prices ranged from $137 to $1.50 per pound. A group of nine 95-pound

Ewes

$233.81

$180 - $182.25

$214

$161.46 - $164.90

$137.80 - $170.04 Lambs (lbs.) 110+

$164.28 / $177.50

$165.60

95 - 110

$143.85 - $157.50

$155.82 - $169.05

80 - 94

$151.20 - $173.40

$151.20 / $154.38

74 / 75

$142.50 / $152.44

$135 (75 lbs.)

63 / 65

$126 / $132.60

$73.13

Under 80

Dorset-cross lambs brought $1.60 per pound. The bidding on the feeder lambs remained strong and held full interest by the buyers. The price bidding ranged from $1.80 to $1.89 per pound. An exception was two 85-pound

lambs which brought $2.04 per pound. The lightweight lambs continued the strong bidding; even those lambs not reaching the feeder classification. Two 75-pound Rideau-cross lambs brought $1.90 per pound.

Eighteen 74-pound Rideaucross lambs brought $2.06 per pound. Four 65-pound lambs brought $2.04 per pound. Four 63-pound lambs brought $2 per pound. A 45-pound lamb brought

$1.625 per pound. Any lowerweight lambs were considered as risk and the bidding was much lower. The selection for goats was very limited. Two 133-pound Boer-cross goat does brought $154 ($1.16 per pound). No goat bucks were supplied. Six 97-pound Boer-cross wethers brought $198 ($2.04 per pound). Six 77-pound Boer-cross goat wethers brought $160 ($2.08 per pound). A 30-pound Alpine-cross goat kid brought $30 ($1 per pound). The Ontario Stockyard Report is showing some unstable bidding. Lamb prices are dropping and the goats are not remaining as constant as in previous months. Even the new-crop lambs are affected, as the bidding is only strong for the “perfect” new-crop lamb weight. Lambs that are lower or heavier than this weight are receiving lower price bidding.

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Still a little early to think of spring Issued: Monday, February 22, 2016 · Covering: February 24 – March 2, 2016 Daniel Bezte Weather Vane

he start of my forecasts is beginning to sound a bit like a broken record. It doesn’t look like the current weather pattern we’ve been in for the last month or so is going to change any time soon. If you think winter has come to an early end and spring is ready to move in and replace it, think again. After some very spring-like weather last week, we saw a brief return of cold air late in the weekend thanks to arctic high pressure. This high fortunately moved off to the east fairly quickly, allowing for mild air to move in during the first half of this week as we continue the see-saw battle between mild air to our west and cold air to our north and east. By Wednesday of this week a strong area of low pressure will be developing south of the Great Lakes. While this low will not affect our region directly, it is going to have big impact on our temperatures over the weekend and into next week. This low will move northeast into northern Quebec and become very large by the end of the week. Behind this

low we will see a secondary area of low pressure that will bring a chance of some flurries or light snow to our region on Friday. This low will continue to slide to the southeast over the weekend, helping to open the door for the main push of cold air. Confidence in this part of the forecast is a little lower than usual, as the weather models are bouncing back and forth on just how cold it might get. As the trend has gone so far this winter, it looks like it won’t be as cold as the models first indicated. With this push of arctic high pressure we can expect plenty of sunshine, along with daytime highs around -15 C and overnight lows falling into the -26 C and possibly -30 C range if the conditions are right. Luckily, as we’ve seen and experienced all winter, this cold snap looks like it will only last three or four days before mild air begins moving back in by the middle of next week. Usual temperature range for this period: Highs, -15 to -1 C; lows, -27 to -10 C. 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 daniel@bezte.ca.

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Time to take a bit of a longer view of precipitation amounts across the Prairies. This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation compared to average for the agricultural year which started in September 2015. Even with the light snow cover this winter, thanks to a wetterthan-average fall, precipitation amounts are around average across most of the Prairies. The exceptions are in parts of west-central Manitoba and northwestern Alberta.

What record summer heat might look like With El Niño sticking around this spring, we can expect more heat in the atmosphere BY DANIEL BEZTE Co-operator contributor

he time of the year when winter slowly begins to give up its grip and spring hints at its arrival can be a slow time weather-wise across the Prairies, and this year is definitely no exception. With our current weather pattern keeping big storms away and only the occasional warm and cold snap, there is just not much happening. That means it’s time to take a look around the world to see what’s up. The first story has to do with global temperatures. The official numbers are in for January and all three of the major centres that track global temperatures reported January 2016 was the warmest January on record. NASA reported a January mean monthly temperature that was 1.13 C above average, making it the warmest month ever on record compared to average. In fact, according to NASA, the top four warmest months compared to average have been the last four months (October 2015 to January 2016). NOAA also reported record-warm global temperatures for January with a mean monthly temperature 1.04 C above average. This was the second-warmest departure from average of any month,

… we have seen our share of record warmth over the last few years, but most of this heat has occurred in the winter, early spring or fall.

with only December 2015 being warmer. According to NOAA’s database of global temperatures, January 2016 was the ninth straight month of recordwarm global temperatures and the 14th consecutive month with readings in the top three warmest months on record. Are we going to continue to see month after month of record-breaking global temperatures in 2016? Well, with El Niño still on the strong side and only expected to weaken slowly into the spring and summer, it looks like a lot more heat will be pumped into the atmosphere. Combine this with ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases and it looks likely that we’ll see more records fall. Does this mean that every month and every place going forward will see record-warm temperatures? In the case of every month, I sure hope not, because if we do we may be in more trouble than we think. As for every place, I hope by now we know that

while the planet as a whole can see record-warm temperatures, that doesn’t mean that every place on the planet is warm. What I do worry about is the timing and placement of the heat around the globe. So far in our part of the world we have seen our share of record warmth over the last few years, but most of this heat has occurred in the winter, early spring or fall. We have yet to see the same degree of warmth occur in the summer and I think that eventually it will happen. To put this into some kind of perspective on what an equivalent summer heat wave would feel like compared to what we have seen in the winter, let’s take a look at this last December. December 2015 came in 6.5 C warmer than average, which for most of us was no big deal. It was nice, heat and fuel costs were down, and maybe there were some issues with conditions not freezing up enough to get a par-

ticular job done, but overall the warm temperatures did not create any big issues. Now, what would it be like if this occurred in July? The mean monthly temperature across southern Manitoba in July is between 19 and 20 C. So if we bump that up by 6.5 C that would give a mean monthly temperature of around 26 C. We could argue that this could or would probably never occur as the current record for the warmest mean July temperature is around 24 C, set in 1936, and breaking a monthly record by 2 C is pretty tough. So instead, let’s say we see a mean monthly temperature of 25 C. Just what does this mean for daily high and low temperatures? Well, there are usually two different ways heat moves in: hot and dry, or hot and humid. Under the first scenario, daytime highs would be very warm with the average expected to be in the 35 C range and overnight lows a more comfortable 15 C. Remember, these are average daily temperatures that would result in a mean monthly temperature of around 25 C. That means some days would be cooler than 35 C but other days would be hotter. In the second scenario the increase in humidity would help to lower daytime highs but increase the overnight lows, giving us daytime highs around 30

C with overnight lows around 20 C. While this sounds a little better, the lack of overnight cooling combined with the effect of high daytime humidity would make for very uncomfortable conditions. Will we see this happen this summer? No one really knows. Will something like this happen sooner rather than later? I’m leaning toward sooner.

Record wind speed On a different weather note, I’m sure hoping that no one knows anyone who went to Fiji. The Southern Hemisphere recorded the strongest storm on record last week as tropical cyclone Winston smashed through Fiji on Feb. 19-20, bringing with it sustained winds of nearly 300 km/h — equivalent to an F3 to F4 tornado! W h i l e Wi n s t o n’s c e n t ra l pressure was not unusually strong, its small size allows for the winds to really wind up and break the previous record for highest wind speed set up by Cyclone Zoe in 2002 and Cyclone Monica in 2006. Damage reports are just coming in from Fiji and initial reports indicate that damage is extreme. That’s about all the room I have for this issue; next week it’s already time to take a look back at February. How time flies!

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

CROPS 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

Three steps to reducing nitrogen loss in the soil Staff / Edmonton

hen it comes to getting maximum yields, nitrogen is still king. “Nitrogen is the most important nutrient when it comes to providing yield responses,” said agronomist Rigas Karamanos. In a study conducted in 2000 that looked at how barley yields responded to various nutrients, nitrogen increased yields by almost 60 bushels per acre — over six times more than any other nutrient, said Karamanos, who spoke at FarmTech in late January. “You can see why we always focus on nitrogen, because it does provide the maximum yield.” But like any other nutrient, the availability of nitrogen in the soil depends on the potential losses, which can occur through volatilization (or loss from the soil surface), denitrification (or loss from the root zone), and leaching (which is movement below the root zone). Typical nitrogen loss in the soil is about 50 per cent, said federal bioeconomist Elwin Smith. “Essentially, half the nitrogen you apply could be accounted for in the plant and the yield, but 50 per cent either goes back into gaseous nitrogen or some of it leaches,” he said. And reducing that nitrogen loss will give you more bang for your buck when it comes time to purchase inputs. “If the nitrogen isn’t being lost, it’s available for your plants to use,” said Smith. “So the biggest impact is you could get away with purchasing less nitrogen if you have less losses.” Producers apply a high rate of nitrogen knowing that the plant won’t be able to use it all, he said. “You have to apply that extra, but with more efficient use, you could apply less and save on your input costs,” said Smith. “If you could increase the efficiency — even to 60 per cent — at a typical nitrogen application rate,

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Nitrogen remains the most important nutrient for maximum crop yield, says agronomist Rigas Karamanos. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

you could be looking at saving $7 to $10 an acre without impacting your crop yield.”

Reducing nitrogen loss But how can producers prevent these nitrogen losses in the soil? The first step is to deep band the nitrogen — or place the nitrogen at least three inches deep. “Deep banding fertilizer still remains the golden standard,” said Karamanos. “But now what happens is we have people who want to go faster, so they shallow band. People are looking for operational efficiencies versus agronomic efficiencies.” Many farmers assume they’re home free as long as the nitrogen is in the soil — but that’s not always the case. “Although we still put fertilizer

in the soil, shallow banding is not the same thing as deep banding,” he said. “Because it’s shallow banded, there’s not enough soil to prevent gaseous losses. Shallow banding does result in higher losses.” Secondly, if you’re going to shallow band or broadcast your nitrogen, consider using an enhancedefficiency product, like products with polymer coatings or nitrification inhibitors, Karamanos suggested. “It allows for increased uptake. That’s the key. And increased uptake means getting the same yield with less fertilizer or getting less losses,” he said. “If you have the means of reducing the conversion of ammonia to nitrate, you can also minimize the gaseous losses as well as the leaching losses.

“That’s what nitrification inhibitors do.” And finally, producers need to adhere to the 4R nutrient stewardship principles — applying the right rate of the right nutrient source at the right time and the right place. “There’s not very much nutrient uptake at the early stages of the crop, so the crops need to have the nutrients at the right time — the time they require maximum uptake,” said Karamanos. “During the first two or three weeks, there is hardly any uptake happening, and that’s where most of the losses occur.” For wheat, about 75 per cent of nitrogen is taken in during the first quarter of the plant’s life, while maximum uptake in canola happens at the six-leaf stage, he said. “If the early supplies are not adequate, we run into issues, and the crops may not realize their maximum yield potential.” That starts with “knowing what’s in the soil beforehand,” said Smith. “If you already have quite a bit of nitrogen available in the soil, you may not need as much applied nitrogen, and if you continue to apply high amounts, you’re likely to have higher losses,” he said. “Targeting your nitrogen application to what the plants need and considering what’s available in the soil would be a good starting point, but there’s no silver bullet out there.”

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PBR breach cost seed grower $150,000 It’s a record settlement for SeCan stemming from a breach of its plant breeders’ rights BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

Saskatchewan seed grower will pay $150,000 to SeCan — the largest penalty in the seed company’s history — for breaching SeCan’s plant breeders’ rights (PBR). In addition, Harvey Marcil of Pasqua Farms near Moose Jaw, Sask., has agreed to stop making unauthorized seed sales and was expelled from SeCan’s membership, Todd Hyra, SeCan’s business manager for Western Canada said in an interview. The previous highest settlement for unauthorized seed sales of SeCan varieties was $120,000 in 2013. “By enforcing (PBR) and letting people know that we’re enforcing we’re sending two messages,” Hyra said. “One is that if they are going to infringe we’ll do our best to catch them. But more importantly we want to let our plant breeders know that if they are willing to invest in Canada that we will do our best to support their

efforts and ensure they get paid for their innovation. “Whether they are university scientists or a private breeder from another part of the world we want to make sure that they feel their intellectual property is protected.” The settlement relates to unauthorized sales of SeCan’s PBR protected varieties of CDC Bethune flax and AC Strongfield durum. What makes the breach even more troublesome is Marcil is a seed grower and was a SeCan member, Hyra said. “When someone has demonstrated they know the rules and is willing to break them then we need to make sure we show we are willing to enforce and protect our plant breeders’ rights seriously,” he said. Moreover, Marcil’s unauthorized sales of flaxseed could have compromised efforts to flush Triffid-contaminated flaxseed from the system, Hyra said. In 2012 reconstituted Triffid-free flaxseed was released. “All SeCan members agreed to switch over to the new seed stocks and get rid of B:8.125”

all past seed stocks,” Hyra said. “Someone selling old stock could’ve caused harm and prolonged the issue for us.” When SeCan’s rights are breached it seeks to get what it’s owed in royalties, plus other costs, including legal fees, Hyra said. SeCan started its investigation into Marcil’s activities in January 2014. Hyra said he couldn’t recall how SeCan learned of the breaches. Sometimes it follows up on tips or comes across advertisements for seed sales.

New rules under UPOV ’91 In this case both varieties were protected under the previous UPOV ’78 international protection protocol. However, new rules apply to varieties protected under UPOV ’91, which took effect last year. “Previously only the seller was liable for an illegal sale,” Hyra said in a news release. “The big change under PBR ’91 (all varieties granted PBR protection after February 27, 2015) is that everyone associated with an illegal sale is potentially liable. This includes the seller, processor,

and the individual who buys the seed. Grain handlers can also be held responsible, as rights extend to the harvested material.” When farmers legally buy certified seed protected under plant breeders’ rights they are allowed to save seed grown from the crop produced from that original seed purchase to grow again on their farm. However, they aren’t allowed to sell that seed to other farmers to grow. SeCan expects to announce settlements involving about 20 other breeders’ rights breaches in the next week or two, Hyra said. In the meantime, as many cases again are still under investigation. “We’re not out to trap people,” he said. “We always want to ensure they know the rules. One of our first steps is to ensure that those who look like they are breaking the rules have an understanding. So when a second occurrence comes around we take a very different tact in terms of how we pursue them.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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lack of ice on the Great Lakes means Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway will start shipping grain earlier than last year. Last year the seaway’s opening was delayed until the beginning of April, due to the amount of ice in the system, according to Bruce Hodgson, director of market development for St. Lawrence Seaway. The seaway will have two opening dates this year, with the Welland Canal opening on March 21, and the Montreal/Lake Ontario section opening March 23. “Certainly we’re ahead of last year, which bodes well for the shippers,” Hodgson said. International ships will likely come into the system earlier, he added. “They typically hold back when there’s ice in the system; they don’t like to come in when it’s like that.” Limited ice also allows ships to move more quickly than they otherwise could once they’re in the water. “Last year we had ships in the system, but once they got to Lake Erie they literally couldn’t go anywhere, so this year we don’t anticipate that,” Hodgson said. Hodgson’s early estimates for the amount of grain the seaway will be moving in the upcoming season is somewhere in the 7.5-million- to eight-million-tonne range, but that could change as farmers start harvesting. “I guess you could say there’s going to be a reasonable carryover from last year. So we expect the year to start off not strong, but not weak; it’ll be a medium start, I guess.”

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

Reducing agriculture’s carbon footprint by focusing on soil Storing water where it falls is another area where agriculture should do a better job BY JENNIFER PAIGE Co-operator staff / Brandon

as shown great improvement, but needs to do better.” That’s David Rourke’s report card on progress to improve soil health on the Prairies. “We will need to look at minimizing soil disturbance, more plant diversity and keeping something growing on our land from snow to snow,” the Minto-area producer told the Manitoba Sustainable Energy Association (ManSEA) conference in Brandon Feb. 10. Rourke said the improvement in soil health will reduce dependence on chemical applications and improve fertility and water retention. As well as farming, Rourke operates AgQuest, a company that provides research in product and fertilizer efficiency, variety development and environmental trials. R o u r k e ’s p r e s e n t a t i o n addressed climate change, agriculture’s contribution to the national carbon footprint and the need to prevent the 2° rise in global temperatures that has been predicted by climate scientists. “Climate change is a serious global problem and it is getting worse. We are in a country where we have the opportunity to try and salvage what we can or we can continue as status quo and we will run into major problems,” Rourke said. He said that over his 36 years in farming, he has seen the agriculture industry come a long way in reducing its environmental impact, and that he believes it can continue to be at the forefront of environmental stewardship. “We have reduced tillage, implemented continuous cropping, diverse rotations; we have made energy-efficiency gains in tractors, trucks and combines, we use the four Rs in fertilizer practice to make those as efficient as we can, we have superior genetics, and a lot of our farms use precision placement,” Rourke said. But despite the improvements there are still salinity problems, a decline in organic matter and many water-management problems. “Regardless of the global climate change, I think we have issues we aren’t addressing. We are not storing enough water where it falls and that is causing erosion issues, flooding, and road wipeouts.”

David Rourke says climate change is a serious problem that must be addressed for the sake of the next generations. photo: jennifer paige

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

Organic conference draws a crowd More than 250 people attended the two-day event that offered “how-to” advice to farmers operating within an organic production system. “Everyone does what they do and they do it for a reason. It’s nice to learn from them so you don’t make the same mistakes.”

BY LORRAINE STEVENSON Co-operator staff/Winnipeg

he game of chess isn’t learned easily, requires forward thinking, and you have to like playing it. That’s why University of Manitoba plant scientist Martin Entz compares it to organic farming. “It takes a long time to learn to do this well,” he said during his opening address to last week’s Prairie Organic Think Whole Farm conference in Winnipeg. Researchers in Manitoba have puzzled over organic’s next move for literally decades, said Entz, who described work done in the 1930s on plots where the presentday Investor’s Group stadium now stands on the university campus. “They were asking how to manage the rotation,” he said, adding the records they kept on what they called ‘the fertility fields’ showed discoveries of how yield increased when peas or sweet clover or manure followed summerfallow. That work ceased in the 1950s. However, ongoing work at Western Canada’s oldest organic cropping system at Glenlea, and at the Ian N. Morrison Research Farm at Carman have significantly increased understanding of how to grow crops that create their own nutrient cycle. There are now green manure legume species suited to pretty well every soil and moisture condition on the Prairies, said Entz. “It just shows that there is value to looking backwards to see what people discovered in the past in an agricultural system that didn’t have the inputs that many of our systems do have now,” he said. That research is becoming more relevant now than ever. Patty and Andrew Harris were among more than 250 attendees at the conference, which offered farmers a chance to listen and link up with other organic producers. Organic’s comparison to chess gets a knowing nod from this couple whose gradual transition of the family mixed grain and livestock farm near Stonewall now includes 400 certified acres, 200 in transition and 1,000 conventional. “We really like the challenge of it. You have to think ahead and plan,” Patty said.

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Donovan Hickson (l), Brandon-area organic farmer, listens to speakers at the Prairie Organic Think Whole Farm conference in Winnipeg last week. Also pictured (middle to right) are Jonathon Bouw of Anola and Ryan Boyd of Forrest. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

The chance to hear other farmers talk about their own organic field management was helpful, she added. “Everyone does what they do and they do it for a reason. It’s nice to learn from them so you don’t make the same mistakes.” The conference was held in a partnership between the western Canadian industry initiative Prairie Organic Grain Initiative (POGI), University of Manitoba and the provincial and federal governments. There is a lack of knowledge about production on the organic front, said MAFRD organic specialist and conference organizer Laura Telford, adding the conference featured researchers talking about the science, but also farmers to talk about how things actually work. “If you’re kicking the tires you need to hear about this from other producers,” she said. “Our first goal was to deliver a lot of in-depth production information. Secondly, we just wanted to make sure that all of the science was tempered by practical farmer knowledge.” The event was oversold, with 250 pre-registered plus an estimated additional 30 to 40 who joined in. Shows of hands in audiences revealed farmers in transition, already certified, or still farming conventionally.

“What was just really rewarding was that there were a lot of farmers,” added Telford. It’s the business case and the increasing price advantage of an organic production system over conventional that’s causing all the buzz. More than 60 per cent of Canadians are now buying organic products on a weekly basis, and consumer demand for organic food products is far outpacing Canadian supply, said other speakers at the conference. Farmers also want to know more about a system of farming that increases the farmers’ margins. According to the Organic Value Chain Roundtable, an industry-led partnership with the Canadian government, for every $100 earned per acre, an organic farmer keeps $58 while a conventional farmer keeps $31. But as Iowa farmer Tom Frantzen pointed out, this was also a conference for people to ask questions of themselves, not just about how they farm but why they do what they do. Frantzen and his wife Irene have a 300-acre diversified rotation of corn, beans, small grains and hay and raise pigs and cattle on pasture. Know your end game very well, said Frantzen, who described organic farming as “keeping a

complicated, integrated package together.” “Your goal is really important,” he said, describing how he spent several years trying, without much luck, to boost soil health on one particular field, while he watched a neighbour, also farming organically, push to get the biggest bang from his own certification buck. Frantzen eventually got his desired result. But his neighbour eventually quit and switched back to an inputs-based system. “My goal was soil improvement, and I actually was able to significantly improve the productivity of that land,” he said. “His goal was to maximize his profitability on every acre every year. That doesn’t work.” Organic farming has continued to pay his bills “very, very well,” Frantzen also said, adding, “and yes, I like very much what I’m doing. Would I give up on that? No.” So does Larr y Marshall, who has a 3,000-acre organic farm in the Parkland region of Saskatchewan where he’s grown industrial hemp for a dozen years, and Chris Boettcher, whose 800acre biodynamically managed crop and livestock farm near the shore of Lake Huron in Ontario has been carefully planned to ensure there’s room for family members to start future enterprises one day.

Many more farmers shared their production knowledge, what’s worked and what hasn’t, during the two-day event. Listening in the audience were farmers like Wayne Williment of Miami who has an organic grain farm and raises cattle and freerange pigs. “I picked up some really useful techniques on keeping track of your carbon content in the soil and how we can increase the carbon content in the soil,” said Williment. Likewise, St. Pierre-Jolys farmers Murielle and Larry Bugera said the event boosted knowledge of fundamental production practices such as using green manures. The couple began to transition to organic in 2005 and today has 265 certified acres of their grain land, mainly on the urging of their son Ivan, says Murielle. They plan to certify more as they familiarize with an organic production system, It’s all about making that first move. Telford says there are probably about 100,000 certified acres in Manitoba and 150 organic farmers, of which about 120 are strictly grain producers. The remainder is either mixed crop and livestock operations or vegetable producers. The conference had a separate stream dedicated to helping conventional vegetable growers learn more about switching a few acres to organic. Currently, only about 25 per cent of the organic vegetables consumed in Canada are Canadian grown, said Gunta Vitins, an organic market sector consultant. “We import the rest. There’s huge opportunity for import replacement for operators on a commercial scale.” lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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The window may be narrow for adequate soil moisture for seeding BY JADE MARKUS CNS Canada

bove-average temperatures and limited precipitation could mean parts of the Prairies will struggle with soil moisture heading into the spring, according to one specialist. “The soil moisture that we have in the ground right now is similar to what we went into the winter with,” said Trevor Hadwen, agroclimate specialist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Drought Watch program in Regina. Regions in Alberta are most likely to be affected by dry soil, especially the central and northwest parts of the province, he said. “It’s been fairly dry throughout last year, and they haven’t received the amount of precipitation that they’re used to. That’s an area of concern.” Aside from Alberta, many regions south of the TransCanada Highway also face the risk of below-normal soil moisture. Dryness in those areas will become a bigger concern in the spring, Hadwen said, but noted the Prairies often get a lot of moisture at the end of February and into March. “We could end up with a normal winter period, according to snowfall records, so we’re certainly not in a desperate situation right now.” Soil moisture conditions can recover quickly, especially with spring rainfall, he added. The current forecast from Environment Canada shows a trend of below-normal precipitation and above-normal temperatures for the month ahead. Hadwen expects a quick melt and start to spring, which means producers will need to find a sweet spot between spring frost and adequate soil moisture. “The concern right now is if you wait to be free of frost, some of the soil moisture isn’t going to be there to germinate.” Producers saw similar conditions last year, and in Manitoba

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reseeding claims were above the five-year average, as a late frost swept parts of the province. Fa r m e r s i n A l b e r t a a n d Saskatchewan had similar problems, Hadwen said. “Some of them got hit by a frost and they had to reseed, and when they went to reseed, soil moisture was very poor.” There’s only so much producers can do to combat weather conditions, he said, but advised farmers to look at the hardiness of their seed varieties and plan accordingly.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

U.S. farmers wary of buying new equipment as crop prices stall Tough times for farmers mean tough times for farm machinery manufacturers BY MEREDITH DAVIS Louisville / Reuters

athan Applebee’s family in Seneca, Illinois has farmed using John Deere equipment since the 1930s. The family still owns his great-grandfather’s 1938 Model A, one of the first row-crop tractors. All the equipment down to the lawn mower on the Ap p l e b e e f a r m c o m e s i n Deere & Co.’s signature green. This year, though, he said his loyalty will not translate into any purchases of new Deere equipment. “ I h a v e w h a t I n e e d ,” Applebee, 32, said after checking out a $355,000 Deere 8345 R tractor, with a 34-horsepower engine, and the latest in digital connectivity to enable precision planting. Features include connections to Internet cloud servers, additional display monitors for tractor functions and auto steer. With U.S. farmers bracing for a third year of declining incomes, many have said they cannot afford those upgrades. The Department of Agriculture has estimated U.S. net farm income will be $54.8 billion in 2016, down nearly 55 per cent from 2013. That means tough times for Deere & Co. and rivals AGCO Corp., CNH Industrial NV and Claas KGaA mbH. Deere & Co. cut its fiscal-year sales and profit outlook and reported lower quarterly earn-

People look at Deere equipment as they attend the National Farm Machinery show in Louisville, Kentucky, February 11, 2016. With U.S. farmers bracing for a third year of declining incomes, many have said they cannot afford upgrades. Photo: Reuters

ings on Feb. 19. It said it now expected farming and construction equipment sales to fall 10 per cent in the year ending in October, compared with an earlier forecast of a seven per cent decline. The reasons for the slump were evident last week among farmers at the recent National Fa r m Ma c h i n e r y Sh ow i n Louisville, Kentucky.

Deere’s new tractors are marvels compared to the 1938 Model A that Applebee’s greatgrandfather rode, with its 25-horsepower engine, fourspeed transmission and 14-gallon fuel tank. Deere’s new tractors have inputs for iPads and can be outfitted with receivers to guide global positioning systems (GPS) aiding precise

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placement of seeds, fertilizers or pesticides. The GPS receivers cost from $3,000 to $12,000 or more. Deere and rivals have kept technology investments a priority even as revenue and net income have fallen. But some farmers said the high-tech gear is out of reach. Jon Soeller, 40, bought a new John Deere planter in 2014 for his family farm in Ripon,

Wisconsin. He estimates it would cost him $90,000 to $100,000 to upgrade with a John Deere ExactEmerge retrofit kit that would allow him to plant faster and more precisely. “It is not worth it to me. I don’t think John Deere knows the price of corn is $3,” Soeller said. His father will instead buy a new grain bin to store crops in hopes that prices rise.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

Jordan’s Sigma to launch Egypt’s grain exchange The new commodities exchange would handle grains, gold and oil

WGRF invests $1.9 million into winter wheat breeding The partnership with the University of Manitoba has been renewed WGRF RELEASE

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Jordan-based Sigma Investments will partner with the Egyptian government to launch the region’s first grains exchange by end 2016, the firm’s chief executive said Feb. 14 in an interview. Egypt is the world’s largest importer of wheat, purchasing about 10 million tonnes of the grain each year from global markets. EGYCOMEX, Egyptian Commodities Exchange, with a proposed partnership of 20 per cent government investment and 80 per cent private investment, will trade spot and futures for grains, mainly wheat, as well as gold and oil, Sigma’s Iman Mutlaq told Reuters. “For the past three years, the Egyptian government has been working on the infrastructure for connecting silos and our visibility study showed positive results, especially with the government deciding to become our partner,” Mutlaq said in an interview in Dubai. Mutlaq said most of the Egyptian government’s contract wheat imports — done by state grain buyer GASC — will be done on the exchange, helping to bring about 80 per cent of Egypt’s total grain trading to the exchange. Additionally, Egypt’s farmers, who produce over three million tonnes of wheat annually, will be able to see transparent grain prices and trade grains, even in small quantities. EGYCOMEX prices for grains will be in the Egyptian pound, providing a hedge for local traders against FX fluctuations and dictated by local demand and supply, she said. “It will affect the local Egyptian market a lot when a farmer can sell grains at a better price or use them as collateral for loans,” Mutlaq said, adding that the firm will be working with the government to help farmers improve the quality of grains, better market their harvest and source financing. Although the firm is expecting arbitrage at the launch of the exchange as traders seek to benefit from the difference between local and international prices, the firm will put in place regulations that minimize the risk of bubbles as funds rush in, she said. Sigma, a member of Global Alliance Partners, a Hong Kongbased network of international banks, is currently setting up the legal framework of the exchange with the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority, Mutlaq said.

h e We s t e r n G r a i n s Research Foundation ( WGRF) and the University of Manitoba have re n e we d w h e a t - b re e d i n g partnership. WGRF will invest $1.9 million over five years into Dr. Anita Brûlé-Babel’s winter wheat-breeding program and the fusarium head blight (FHB) nursery. The winter wheat-breeding program will deliver improved varieties of Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) and Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) wheat to producers. The focus of the breeding program is on developing varieties that are disease resistant,

semi-dwarf, high yielding, cold hardy and suited to the higher-moisture regions of the eastern Prairies. In addition, WGRF funds also support a co-ordinated FHB screening nursery. This nursery provides services to wheat-breeding programs across Western Canada and provides both early- and lategeneration testing for cultivar registration. “The release of new general purpose and winter wheat varieties from the U of M, as well as the release of FHBresistant cultivars such as Waskada and Carberry is evidence of the great work being done at the University of Manitoba,” said Dave Sefton, WGRF board chair.

The winter wheatbreeding program will deliver improved varieties of Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) and Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) wheat to producers.

“I congratulate Dr. BrûléBabel on receiving this support,” said Digvir Jayas,

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Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers approve bylaw changes at AGM Directors can no longer be nominated from the floor and resolutions need to be submitted by Dec. 1 to be debated at the annual meeting BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

ominations for director can no longer be made from the floor of the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers Association’s annual meeting. And resolutions to the annual meeting must be made by Dec. 1 — more than two months before the association’s annual meeting held during Crop Connect in February. The changes were included in a bylaw approved during the MPSGA’s annual meeting in Winnipeg Feb. 11. The bylaw also allows the association to officially request provincial regulators change its name to Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers Association, executive director Francois Labelle said in an interview. The association added “soybean” to its name a year ago to reflect soybeans’ prominence. Soybean is Manitoba’s third-largest acreage crop behind canola and wheat. Before the bylaw change, MPSGA members had to submit resolutions 90 days before the annual meeting. Some years harvest was still underway, Labelle said. Lowe Farm-area farmer John Dueck raised a concern about members not being able to move resolutions during the annual meeting. “That would require a bylaw change and would be something for the future board to look at,” Labelle said. Butch Harder, also of Lowe Farm, said having to submit resolutions by Dec. 1 really means the association doesn’t want resolutions. Harder also questioned the nomination process for new directors. “The line that got me was ‘only candidates put forward by the nominating committee shall be eligible to be elected to the board of directors,’” Harder said. “You say that doesn’t mean what it says.” Members wanting to serve on the MPSGA’s board are only required to inform the association nominating committee because its job is to find people to run for office, Labelle said. The decision to get a slate of potential candidates ahead of the MPSGA’s annual meeting was made so members would have time to consider who to vote for, Labelle said. This year’s annual meeting was the last allowing nominations for director from the floor. Five positions were open, but only four people were nominated and subsequently acclaimed. They are as follows: incumbents Jason Voth of Altona and Rick Vaags of Dugald and newcomers Calvin Penner of Elm Creek and John Preun of Selkirk. The board of directors will appoint someone to fill the remaining vacancy at the board table. Last year the MPSGA invested about half its checkoff revenue

from farmers — $1.4 million — into 27 research projects, production specialist Kristen Podolsky told the meeting. Total research spending when ongoing projects are included was $4.2 million. The MPGSA is expanding its on-farm research network, which involves working with farmers and private agronomists to do field-size research into things such as soybean plant population, inoculates, fertilizer and fungicides.

“We are going to see this for three years and it will either validate what we’re doing currently or improve what we are doing, so I am really excited about this project.”

The Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers Association is investing a lot of money in research, including a study on the impact of hail on soybeans. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

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One project is assessing the impact hail damage at different grow stages has on soybean yield, quality and maturity. In 2015, the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) deferred adjusting soybeans hit by hail in July expecting they’d recover, Podolsky said. “It certainly wasn’t the case,” she said. “It was more management cost for the growers… waiting for soybeans to mature or they didn’t mature at all.” MASC is using adjustment practices developed for much warmer areas than Manitoba, Podolsky said. “Crop insurance is on board with this (research),” she said. “They approved the protocols. We are going to see this over three years and it will either validate what we’re doing currently or improve what we are doing, so I am really excited about this project.” Harder, a former MASC director, said when MASC adjusted his hail-damaged soybeans near harvest he received 18 per cent coverage versus five per cent from private hail companies that adjusted soon after the hail struck. “I learned through them and through personal experience if you wait until harvest to do an adjustment you can see a hell of a lot more damage than you can when they are green,” he said. Both MASC and private hail companies use the same adjustment procedures and private companies are aware of the MPSGA’s hail research, Podolsky said. The MPSGA is also working with its Saskatchewan counterpart to avoid duplication, she said. Manitoba is swapping its expertise on soybeans for Saskatchewan’s insights on lentils and field peas, she said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association introducing hybrid voting Farmers will have the option to cast their votes in advance through a mail-in or electronic ballot or in person at the association’s annual meeting BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

here will be three options for voting in Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association (MWBGA) director elections: an advance mail-in ballot, an advance electronic ballot or voting at the association’s annual meeting. Members voted in favour of a bylaw containing the changes Feb. 11 at the MWBGA’s annual meeting in Winnipeg during Crop Connect. “This is a great turnout, but it’s still not 8,000 people,” MWBGA chair Fred Greig said, referring to the number of association members while the bylaw was discussed. “So we’re trying to engage on a cost-effective basis.” The bylaw will add an eighth director and change directors’ terms to four years. Elections will also be staggered. Starting in 2018, four director positions

will be up for election and two years later three and so on. The MWBGA was formed two years ago. To save money and to encourage participation in annual meetings interim directors opted for elections at the MWBGA’s annual meeting. A number of farmers complained that decision limited participation. Directors Dean Harder of Lowe Farm and Grant Dyck of Niverville were asked to find alternatives, which led to the bylaw. The MWBGA will mail a meeting notice to its members who can then request a mailin or electronic ballot by letter, telephone or email, or vote during the annual meeting, Harder said. It will be cheaper than mailing all members a mail-in ballot and help verify the membership, he added. The association will record who received advance ballots to prevent members from vot

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Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association director Dean Harder explained proposed new voting options at the association’s annual meeting during Crop Connect in Winnipeg Feb. 11. The changes, which would allow for advance voting, were part of a bylaw change members approved. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

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The checkoff was introduced by the previous federal government to continue farmer funding for the Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF), Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) and Canadian Malt Barley Technical Institute (CMBTI) that ended with the C a n a d i a n W h e a t B o a r d ’s demise. Farmers will see no difference in the amount checked off, MWBGA director Drew Baker of Beausejour said. The wheat checkoff will remain $1 a tonne — 48 cents for Cigi and research and 52 cents to fund the MWBGA. The barley checkoff stays at $1.06 a tonne — 56 cents for CMBTI and research and 50 cents for the MWBGA. “The changes are going to increase efficiency and effectiveness with no new levy or checkoff,” Baker said. “That’s important to note that there won’t be any more money coming out of your pockets coming to us. It strengthens the producer’s voice through more direct representation. We’re going to have control of that money.” The MWBGA is committed to continuing the same level of funding for Cigi and CMBTI, Greig said, even though Cigi is short of money. “They (Cigi) are getting more creative about their approach,” he said. The MWBGA’s goal is to spend 70 per cent of its checkoff revenue on research, 15 per cent on market development and 15 per cent on administration, Greig said. To save money the MWBGA has hired staff under contract, but expects to hire full-time staff as the workload increases. The MWBGA wants to establish a reserve research fund able to fund one year of research in case a poor crop results in a drop in revenue. The MWBGA will spend $1.6 million on research over the next four years, but has leveraged it through government funding to $12.7 million.

The MWBGA is a member of Cereals Canada and the Barley Council of Canada, which represent the whole value chain, Greig said. “I believe we are receiving great value for our membership and hope all provinces will unite under these organizations,” he said. “Trade missions, railroad level of service are a couple of examples of their work on our behalf.” Farmers and wheat marketers each contribute 37.5 per cent of Cereal Canada’s funding and hold the same percentage of directors’ positions. Six farmers, six grain marketers and four life science company officials make up the board. Three of the farmer representatives are from Alberta, plus one each from Manitoba and Ontario. M W B G A d i re c t o r Ro b e r t Misko of Roblin who sits on the Cereals Canada board said it doesn’t seek out contentious issues, focusing on things that bring value to the whole industry. B e c a u s e p ow e r f u l g r a i n company officials sit on the board, farmers get a chance to influence them, said Mintof a r m e r Da v i d Ro u rk e w h o f o r m e r l y re p re s e n t e d t h e MWBGA on Cereals Canada. A “dissent clause,” allows farmers to disagree with a Cereals Canada position publicly. Ian Robson of Deleau urged caution, noting sometimes farmers and grain buyers have different interests. “We need to be wary of that a little bit,” he said.

New recruits Two new directors and an incumbent were acclaimed at the meeting. The incumbent was chair Fred Greig of Reston. The newcomers were Dylan Wiebe, of Altona and Justin Dutchyshen of Gilbert Plains. Wiebe began his agricultural career at 14 working for Altona Farm Service. He started farming with his uncle and grandfather and earned an agriculture diploma from the University of Manitoba. In 2014 Wiebe started LD Seeds with his uncle. Dutchyshen, a fifth-generation farmer, raises grain and cattle with his parents and wife. He also has a diploma in agriculture and sits on the Pa rk l a n d In d u s t r i a l He m p Growers board. Du t c h y s h e n s a i d i m p o rtant issues for the association include farmers’ right to save seed, grain transportation, research, plant breeding and single-desk marketing. The wheat board is a touchy subject, he said, but most farmers agree they haven’t been properly compensated by the federal government for the disposal of the wheat board’s assets. Ra y A s k i n o f Po r t a g e l a Prairie and Grant Dyck retired from the board. allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

AUCTION SALES Saskatchewan Auctions

AUCTION SALES

BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Roofing

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Parkland

PRICE TO CLEAR!! 75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard 100,000PSI high tensile roofing & siding. 16 colours to choose from.

MEYERS AUCTIONS: MARCH 13, Antiques & Collectibles. March 26, Guns & Ammo. To Consign Call:(204)476-6262. Bradley Meyers Auctioneer www.meyersauctions.com

B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft.2

AUCTION SALES Manitoba Auctions – Interlake

Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft.2

Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft.2

McSherry Auction Service Ltd

Moving & Estate Featuring Vintage Snowmobiles

Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for archrib buildings BEAT THE PRICE INCREASES CALL NOW

MACK AUCTION CO presents a land auction for the Estate of Ron Carriere Thurs., Mar 31st, 2016 7:00pm at the Days Inn Estevan, SK. Up for unreserved auction are 8 quarters sections of farmland in the RM of Benson #35. Some of the will sell w/surface lease oil revenue. Visit www.mackauctioncompany.com for sale bill & photos. (306)421-2928 or (306)487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL 311962.

Sun., Feb. 28th @ 10:00 am Stonewall, MB - #12 Patterson Drive

69 Skidoo Olympic 320 * Fairbanks Stationary Engine * Surveying Transit * 1800’s Neptune Fishing Speer * Brass Steam Whistles * Military * Wildlife * Traps * Bear Skulls * Railway * Antiques * Collectibles * Household * Go to Web!

AUTO & TRANSPORT

BUILDINGS

AUTO & TRANSPORT Trucks

Stuart McSherry

(204) 467-1858 or (204) 886-7027

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AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post frame building company. For estimates and information call 1-888-816-AFAB(2322). Website: www.postframebuilding.com

95 F SERIES SINGLE axles 24-ft. deck, 5.9 Cummins, A/C, hyd brakes, 169,000-mi, good condition, asking $5,900. (204)871-2708 or (204)685-2124

AG EQUIPMENT

Swan River Minitonas Durban

Winnipegosis

Roblin

Dauphin

Grandview

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Riverton Eriksdale

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Gimli

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Virden

Langruth

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Brandon

Carberry

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Melita

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Ashern

Gilbert Plains

Russell

Hamiota

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1975 INTERNATIONAL CAB OVER truck, 13-spd, tandem, 350 Cummins motor; Hay trailer for sale, 10.5x50-ft, farm use. Phone (204)868-5040.

St. Pierre

242

Morris Winkler Morden

Altona

Steinbach

Red River

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BUILDING & RENOVATIONS Doors & Windows

Serving Manitoba, Saskatchewan, NW Ontario & Alberta....Since 1937

FARM CHEMICAL / SEED COMPLAINTS

TANDEM PUP TRAILER W/16X8-FT grain box & hoist w/10.00x20 tires & air brakes. Asking $7,500. Phone (204)736-2609.

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Birch River

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Parkland – North of Hwy 1; west of PR 242, following the west shore of Lake Manitoba and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis. Westman – South of Hwy 1; west of PR 242. Interlake – North of Hwy 1; east of PR 242, following the west shore of Lake Manitoba and east shore of Lake Winnipegosis. Red River – South ofHwy 1; east of PR 242.

The Pas

CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place & finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any floor design. References available. Alexander, MB. 204-752-2069.

REEFER UNIT, COMPLETE W/DSL Isuzu motor, 4-cyl, everything works. Phone (204)868-5040.

DEALS ON THE GO!

2007 D-6-N LGP CRAWLER w/6-way dozer, A/C, cab, canopy, diff-steering, ripper, extra clean, $96,000; 2004 D-6-N LGP crawler, 6-way dozer, A/C, cab, diff-steering, Allied W6D winch, $86,000; 2003 D-7-R, cab, a/c plus bush canopy, 4-barrel multi-ripper w/a dozer & hyd tilt, new engine plus repairs, total work order $137,000 3,000-hrs ago, $105,000 USD; 2008 Hitachi ZX-270-C-3 hyd excavator w/hyd thumb, w/quick attach bucket, 7,190-hrs, $70,000 USD; 2006 Hitachi ZX 270-LC Hyd excavator w/quick attach bucket, 11-ft stick, axillary hyd, 6,382-hrs, $65,000 USD. (2) 2005 Komatsu 320 payloaders w/quick attach buckets, $50,000/each; 2010 CAT 324 excavator w/electronic thumb. Phone:(204)871-0925.

FOUILLARD STEEL SUPPLIES LTD. ST. LAZARE, MB. 1-800-510-3303

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CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

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Back-Track InvesTIgaTIons

Unreserved Public Real Estate Auction

Birch Hills Farmland & Acreage

1-866-882-4779. www.backtrackcanada.com

Birch Hills, SK | Mar 21, 2016 *Selling at the Saskatoon Auction Site

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT 6 QUICK ATTACH EXCAVATOR buckets, some trenching & clean-up buckets, plus 6 excavator rippers, some Cat’s & WBM’s. (204)871-0925, MacGregor MB.

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• 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: kurtis@reimeroverheaddoors.com

Farm Retirement

17 Parcels of Real Estate Proposed Country Residential Acreage & 16 Parcels of Farmland 2460± Title Acres

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Parcel 1– 2971 sq ft, Farmland 3 4 Residential 5 6 7 8 9 2 story, 3 bdrm, 3 bath, 11 10 built in 1944, major 12 2 13 14 1 renovations, addition 15 3 3 16 & electrical wiring 17 redone in 2002, NG, Birch Hills 20 ICF basement 2015, 25 septic pump out, Montreal Lake Candle Lake Minowukaw Beach haul water, kitchen Candle Lake Cookson appliances, 24 ft x 30 Smeaton Witchekan Lake Northside Spiritwood Nipawin Canwood ft double detatched garage, 50 ft x 66 Prince Albert R. chewan Parkside Saskat ft quonset, 26 ft x 30 ft shop, 32 ft x 50 Gronlid Leask Birch Hills Melfort St Louis ft heated shop w/overhead door. Yard Redberry Lake Rosthern Auction Basin Property Lake is well graveled with excellent drainage, Maymont N. Mckague Lenore Sas ka Neuanlage Lake mature tree line & beautiful landscaping.tchewan Borden Naicam Arelee Saskatoon Humboldt Well located— 1.75 miles to Hwy 3, 46 km Wimmer Auction Location Delisle Plunkett to Prince Albert & 53 kms to Melfort.

TUESDAY, MARCH 1 | 10AM

2016

Property Features

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Major equipment begins selling at 11AM. Live online bidding available on major equipment. Registration, terms, & details at SteffesGroup.com. Location: From I-29 Exit 8, 4-1/2 miles east on Hwy. 11, 1 mile south on Cty. Rd 81; or from junction of Hwy. 11 & Hwy. 127 in Fairmount, ND, 6 miles west on Hwy. 11, 1 mile south on Cty. Rd. 81

Squaw Rapids

Battle Heights Carrot River Arborfield

Crooked River Chelan

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Parcel 2 to 17– A complete listing of cultivated acres per quarter can be found at rbauction.com/ realestate

Open House Date: March 12 – 1 to 5 pm Visit our website for auction and property details:

rbauction.com/realestate

Parcel 1— 2971 sq ft home

Parcel 1— Proposed Country Residential Acreage

Parcel 10

Parcel 12

AUCTION LOCATION: From BIRCH HILLS, SK, go 6.5 km West on Hwy 3, then go 2 km North on Winton Park Rd. GPS: 53.0047194, -105.3182056

For up-to-date equipment listings, please check our website: rbauction.com

Kelly Braaten: 306.960.1478 Archie Tilford: 306.749.3560 Ritchie Bros. Territory Manager – Darren Teale: 306.278.7373 800.491.4494

TRACTORS 2008 Versatile 535, Cummins QSX15 engine, Cat powershift, 4 hyd., 1,646 hrs., S/N700589 1991 Case-IH 9280, powershift, 4 hyd., 3,698 actual hrs., S/NJCB0027361 1997 Case-IH 9330, Row Crop Special, 4,008 actual hrs., S/NJEE0068370 1997 Case-IH 9330, Row Crop Special, 4 hyd., 3 pt., 7,341 hrs., 250 hrs. on OH, S/NJEE0069606 1981 JD 4640, CAH, quad range, 3 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, 7,440 hrs., S/N4640H020359R JD 2840, Hiniker cab, 6 spd., 2 hyd., 3 pt., quick tach hyd. loader, shows 3,610 hrs., tach not working Case 1210 utility tractor, 2 hyd., 3 pt., GB 888 quick tach hyd. loader, 5,464 hrs. Ford 8N, 3 pt., PTO, 11.2-28 tires COMBINES 2010 JD 9870, STS, Contour-Master, premium cab, 2 spd. PRWD, deluxe controls, ProDrive, 1,210 sep. hrs., 1,908 engine hrs., S/N1H09870SEA0735631 1986 JD 8820 Titan II, turbo hydro, RWD, chopper, AHH, 4,652 hrs., S/NH08820X615403 HEADS 2011 JD 635F flex head, finger reel, fore/aft, low dam 1997 JD 930 flex head, finger reel, fore/aft, AHH 2009 JD 612C chopping corn head, 12x30” 1997 JD 893 corn head, 8x30” GRAIN CARTS Parker 1048 grain cart, 1,000 bu.,

Kelvington Lintlaw Kuroki

UFT grain cart, 500 bu., 15” side auger

AIR DRILL Case-IH ADD4000 air drill, 45’, 10” space PLANTERS 2003 Kinze 3700 planter, 24x30”, front-fold 1998 JD 1710 planter, 12x30”, vertical fold 1997 JD 1770 Conservation planter, 24x30”, front-fold, 2 pt. JD planter, 24x22”, vertical fold, 2 pt. FIELD CULTIVATORS & PACKERS Case-IH Tigermate II field cultivator, 50’ 1998 JD 985 field cultivator, 62’, 6” space JD 1050 field cultivator, 50’, 6” space DMI crumbler, 50’, 5 section hyd. fold Summers coil packer, 50’ JD 1000 field cultivator, 36’, 6” space JD C11 field cultivator, 21’, 3 pt. OTHER TILLAGE EQUIPMENT Sunflower 4530 disc ripper, 19 shank DMI Ecolotiger 730 disc ripper, 7 shank JD 724 mulch finisher, 30’ Degelman 7645 land roller, 45’, 36” drum JD 630 disc, 28’, 21” disks, 9” space JD 610 chisel plow, 41’, tandems across JD 610 chisel plow, 35’, tandems across JD 1600 chisel plow, 17’, single wheels Gates harrow, 60’, 24”x1/2” tines Summers SuperWeeder, 56’, 3 rank IHC 800 plow, 11x18”, pull-type IHC 800 plow, 10x18”, pull-type ROW CROP EQUIPMENT Alloway 2060 row crop cultivator, 12x30” 701.899.3379, or 701.474.5760 Alloway row crop or Corey Trom, 701.799.4613 cultivator, 12x30” Dakon row crop or from Steffes, Brad Olstad, 701.237.9173 or 701.238.0240; cultivator, 12x30”

PAUL & MARSHA TROM

Westgo 2010 row crop cultivator, 12x30” Alloway band sprayer, 12x22”

SLEEPER SEMI TRACTORS 2004 Freightliner Columbia 112, 48” flat to 2004 Freightliner Columbia 112, 48” flat top 1996 Freightliner FLD 112, 48” flat top DAY CAB SEMI TRACTORS 2004 Freightliner Columbia 112, 460 Mercedes 2004 Freightliner Columbia 112 2004 Freightliner Columbia 112, day cab 1999 Freightliner FLD 112, M11 Cummins 1994 Freightliner FLD 112, 60 Series 1993 IHC 9400, N14 Cummins, 9 spd. BOX TRUCKS 1988 IHC 8300 twin screw, L10 Cummins 1973 Chevrolet C65 single axle HOPPER BOTTOM & END DUMP TRAILERS 1998 Timpte tandem axle, 40’x96’’x66’’ 1997 Timpte tandem axle, 40’x96’’x66’’ 1995 Timpte tandem axle, 40’x96’’x66’’ 1980 Timpte tandem axle, 40’x96’’x66’’ 1988 Raven aluminum end dump, 30’x64” 1987 Ti-Brook aluminum frameless end dump, 35’x64” GPS EQUIPMENT, PICKUPS OTHER TRAILERS & EQUIP., SPRAYERS NH3, CHEMICAL & FERTILIZER EQUIPMENT GRAIN HANDLING EQUIPMENT SCRAPERS & LASER EQUIPMENT FUEL TANKS, POLY TANKS, TIRES & PARTS

Tadd Skaurud, 701.237.9173 or 701.729.3644

Steffes Group Inc., 2000 Main Avenue East, West Fargo, ND 58078 | 701.237.9173 | SteffesGroup.com

Brad Olstad ND319, Scott Steffes ND81, Max Steffes ND999

TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer.

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

FARM MACHINERY Fertilizer Equipment

FARM MACHINERY Parts & Accessories

HAYING & HARVESTING Various

TILLAGE & SEEDING Seeding Various

USED DRY FERTILIZER SPREADERS, 4-8 tons, large selection, 18-ft Drillfill, has extra brush auger, $2,900. www.zettlerfarmeuipment.com Phone: (204)857-8403.

The Real Used FaRm PaRTs sUPeRsToRe Over 2700 Units for Salvage • TRACTORS • COMBINES • SWATHERS • DISCERS Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN (306) 946-2222 monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

FOR SALE: 1986 CIH 5000 swather 24.5-ft U2 PU reel, poly skids, hole auger for canola, Dsl motor, 2-spd trans, cab & AC; 1994 CIH 8820 swather 25ft U2 PU reel, double swath, poly skid plates. (204)724-4974.

KINZE 2300, 12/23 ROW, good 15-in bean planter. $17,000CAD. Phone:(204)437-4641.

FARM MACHINERY Grain Augers 10x60 WESTFIELD SWING HOPPER auger. Very good shape. Asking $3,000 OBO. Phone: (204)825-2799.

FARM MACHINERY Grain Dryers WESTERN GRAIN DRYER manufacturers of grain dryers w/fully automatic moisture & drying control systems. Updates for IBEC/Vertec & roof, tiers, burners, auto moisture controller. Used dryer is available. 1-888-288-6857, westerngraindryer.com

Why wait for your ag news? Sign up for daily enews at manitobacooperator.ca FARM MACHINERY Grain Vacuums CURT’S GRAIN VAC SERVICES, parts & repair for all makes & models. Craik SK, (306)734-2228.

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. PARTING OUT AC 7060; White 2-155; Cockshutt 1250, 550, 560, 40; Case 800, 830, 900, 930, 1270; Kubota 120, 135; JD 7700 combine; Soft core balers; NH 116 & 495 haybines; various older Implement tires & rims, hyd components. (204)871-2708 or (204)685-2124

FYFE PARTS

1-800-667-9871 •• Regina 1-800-667-9871 Regina 1-800-667-3095 •• Saskatoon 1-800-667-3095 Saskatoon 1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg 1-800-667-3095 Manitoba 1-800-222-6594 •• Edmonton “For All Your Farm Parts”

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WATROUS SALVAGE WaTRoUs, sK. Fax: 306-946-2444

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Miscellaneous 1999 Agri Fab Great used mixer! This is one of the heaviest mixers we’ve ever seen. Four augers offering a great mix front to back top to bottom. 3/4-in flighting & heavy side walls. New 48-in conveyor. All parts are common & available at any bearing store. $12,999.99 (306)971-9006 ARTSWAY MIXMILL, $1,500; HENKE 30-in. PTO rollermill, $3,500; Peerless 20 rollermill, $2,000; Bearcat grinder, $800; NH LX865 skidsteer, $13,900; New skidsteer 48-in. forks walk through $950; Valmar 1620, $2,500; 3255, $3,500; 2420 trailer type, $5,000; JD 7000 8RN planter, $7,000; REM 2500 HD grain vac, $9,500; Brandt 4000, $8,000; Brandt 4500, $8,500; REM 1026, $4,500; New 10-ft. box scraper, $2,450. (204)857-8403 DOZER BLADE LEON 12-FT, 4 way hyd. to fit 4WD, mechanical front wheel drive, good condition. Could supply mounting hardware for your tractor. Could deliver. $10,800 OBO. Stead, MB. Phone:(204)635-2600.

Combines

FOR SALE: 1985 IHC 7200 hoe press drill ,always shedded, very clean. For more info phone evenings (204)859-2724

COMBINES Accessories

TracTors

AGCO MF CAT flex platforms: In stock Models 500 Gleaner 25-ft. & 30-ft.; Model 8000 30-ft. & 8200 35-ft. MF; Cat FD30 flex; FD40 flex. Reconditioned, ready to go. Delivery in SK, MB, AB. Gary: (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equip, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. www.reimerfarmequipment.com CASE/IH FLEX PLATFORMS: MODELS 1020 25ft. & 30-ft. w/wo sir reel; 2020 30-ft. & 35-ft., 2020 30-ft. w/air reel; 2011 3020 35-ft. Can install new AWS air bar for additional $11,500. Deliver in SK, MB, AB. Gary (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equip, Hwy #12 N, www.reimerfarmequipment.com Steinbach, MB. JD FLEX PLATFORMS: 922, 925, 930, several newer ones w/full finger augers & air reels; 630-635 w/wo air bars. Deliver in SK, MB, AB. Gary (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equipment, Hwy #12 N, Steinbach, MB. www.reimerfarmequipment.com NH FLEX PLATFORMS: In stock Models 973 both 25-30’; 74C 30-ft. w/air reel; 88C 36-ft. flex draper; 94C 25-ft. rigid draper w/trailer. Deliver in SK, MB, AB. Gary (204)326-7000, Reimer Farm Equip, Hwy #12 N, www.reimerfarmequipment.com Steinbach, MB.

MCKEE 7-FT SNOW BLOWER, $1,250; Leon 12-ft blade, $3,500, 10-ft blade, $2,000; Box scraper new 10-ft, $2,450; New Holland LX865 skidsteer, $13,900; Melroe Bobcat 943 skidsteer, $14,900; Grapple bucket for skidsteer new, $1,750; Grain screeners dual screen Hutchinson, $1,500; Up DMC 44, $2,500; Kwik Kleen 5 tube, $5,000, 7 tube, $6,500; Kelly Ryan Feedcart, $2,000; Snowco feeder cart, $1,000. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com Phone:(204)857-8403.

FARM MACHINERY Machinery Wanted FLEX HEADER TO FIT Massey 750 combine. Phone Bill (204)770-4706.

Farm Retirement

TRACTORS John Deere FOR SALE: JD 8440 4WD tractor. In mint shape, always shedded. Phone evenings:(204)745-3009.

TRACTORS Massey Ferguson MF 1085 CAB HEATER 3-PTH, good tires, new hyd pump, FEL avail, $10,850. Consider offers or trades. (204)871-2708 or (204)685-2124

Tillage & Seeding TILLAGE & SEEDING Seeding Various CERTIFIED CONVENTIONAL CM440 GRAZING CORN. Early maturing, leafier for increased grazing yield. No planter required. Swath or stand graze cattle, sheep, bison & for wildlife food plots. Cana-Maize Seed Inc., 1-877-262-4046, www.canamaize.com GLY 1 SOYBEAN SEED. Early, mid, long season available. Top yields. Bulk or bagged. Keep your own seed, with the convenience of glyphosate! No contracts or TUAs. Dealers wanted. Call or text Matt: (204)280-0568 or Nate: (204)280-1202

Location: 9092 8th St SE, Courtenay, ND. From Courtenay, ND, 5 miles north on Hwy. 20, 1 mile west.

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 MASSEY HARRIS 44 TRACTOR w/loader, very good motor, no problem to start at 25 below. Phone Evenings (204)655-3308.

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2016

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IRON & STEEL

TRACTORS 2011 JD 9430, 18/6 powershift, deluxe cab, active seat, 4 hyd., 1000 PTO, integrated auto steer, diff lock, premier lighting pkg., tow cable, rear wheel weights, 620/70R46 duals, 1,934 hrs., S/N1RW9430PVBP025219 1975 JD 4430, quad range, 3 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 540/1000 PTO, diff lock, aux. fuel tank, 18.4-38 press steel duals, 90%, 10,179 hrs., S/NRW4430H034356 1994 JD 4560, powershift, 3 hyd., power beyond, 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, diff lock, 480/80R42 rear duals, 7,513 hrs., S/NRW4560P004854 HARVEST EQUIPMENT 2013 JD S680, Contour-Master, premium cab, deluxe controls, ProDrive w/Harvest Smart, 5 spd. feeder house, integrated auto steer, Y&M, TouchSet, JDLink Ultimate, 22-1/2’ high cap. folding unloading auger, hopper ext., ﬁne cut chopper, custom cutter ext.

wear package, HID lights, round bar and small wire concaves, 650/85R38 duals, 696 sep. hrs., 993 engine hrs., ext. PowerGard warranty until July 17, 2018, S/N1H0S680SKD0756955 2014 JD 635F ﬂex head, 35’, full ﬁnger auger, fore/aft, low dam, stubble lights, poly bottom, 60/70 Series hookups, CWS air system, S/N1H0635FCD0765129 2013 JD 608C chopping corn head, 8x30”, hyd. deck plates, knife rolls, stubble lights, outer gathering ext., (8) stalk stompers, S/N1H00608CCDC757443 1997 Premier 1900 pull-type swather, 25’, auto-fold, bat reel, S/N114445

GRAIN CART & GRAVITY BOX 2012 Unverferth 1310 grain cart, 1,100 bu., 21” front auger Parker gravity box, 200 bu. PLANTER 2010 JD 1770NT planter, CCS, 16x30”, mechanical drive,

pneumatic down pressure, shaft drive, in-furrow liquid fertilizer, John Blue ground drive pump, RowCommand, seed ﬁrmers, (1) spike tooth closer wheel, Yetter trash cleaners, rear hitch,10,000 acres, S/NAO1770P735175

TILLAGE EQUIPMENT 2014 JD 2410 chisel plow, 49’, 12” spacing, single pt. depth 2014 JD 2623VT, 33’7”, rock flex, walking tandems across 2014 JD 2210 field cultivator, 551/2’, 6” spacing, full floating hitch JD 1060 field cultivator, 47-1/2’, 6” spacing, 5-section fold JD 960 field cultivator, 44’, 3-section fold, tandems across 2004 Degelman 7645 land roller, 45’, 36” drum, light pkg., S/N3003 JD 3200 plows, (2) 5x18”, on land, tandem hitch, spring reset TRUCKS 2005 Freightliner Columbia, 60” mid-roof sleeper, C15 Cat Accert, Eaton 18 spd., engine brake

CHUCK & DEB BARTZ 701.320.9945

2000 IHC 8100 single axle service truck, ISM Cummins, 330 hp. 1976 Ford 700 single axle, 391, 5&2 spd., 15-1/2’ Omaha Std. box

TRAILERS 2014 Wilson DWH-551 aluminum hopper bottom, 41’x96”x72” 2013 Wilson DWH-550 aluminum hopper bottom, 41’x96”x66” 1999 Dorsey aluminum/steel ﬂatbed, 45’x96”, air ride, winches 2011 Unverferth AWS36 header trailer, 36’, all wheel steer, lights Shop-built 4-wheel header trailer, 20’ 2004 Load Max deck over trailer, 8’x20’, 5’ beavertail, ﬂip-up ramps Dressen tandem axle car trailer (2) Shop-built single axle trailers PICKUP SEED TENDER & AUGERS SKID STEER LOADER ATTACHMENTS OTHER EQUIPMENT & FARM SUPPORT ITEMS TANKS & AUTOMOBILE

or Tadd Skaurud of Steffes Group, 701.237.9173 or 701.729.3644 Steffes Group Inc., 2000 Main Avenue East, West Fargo, ND 58078 Scott Steffes ND81, Brad Olstad ND319, Bob Steffes ND82, Max Steffes ND999, Ashley Huhn ND843, Eric Gabrielson ND890, Randy Kath ND894 | 701.237.9173 | SteffesGroup.com

every TUESDAY at 9 am March 1st, 15th, 22nd & 29th

Monday, February 29th at 12 pm

Sheep and Goat with Small Animals & Holstein Calves

For on farm appraisal of livestock or for marketing information please call

WWW.GRUNTHALLIVESTOCK.COM

RAVEN CRUIZER 2 W/HELIX antenna, w/warranty until June 9th 2016. Phone (204)585-2106.

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Chuck has retired from production agriculture. Most equipment has been purchased new and has been stored inside with an excellent maintenance program in place. The JD S680 and JD 9430 have had Greenlight inspection, service, and updates completed. Major tillage was purchased new and has very low acres. Major equipment begins selling at 10:30 AM. Live online bidding available on major equipment. Registration, terms, and details at SteffesGroup.com

REGULAR CATTLE SALES

875 VERS. W/ATOM JET & good tires. Nice shape. Ph:(204)325-2416.

GPS

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 | 10AM

GRUNTHAL, MB.

AGENT FOR T.E.A.M. MARKETING

Harold Unrau (Manager) Cell 871 0250 Auction Mart (204) 434-6519

FOR SALE: JD 8970 Cummins 400-HP, 24-spd, 5 remote, 710-38 tires, 7100-hrs, clean, shedded. $68,000. Phone: (204)324-9300

HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES. Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595 charles@arcfab.ca www.arcfab.ca

Hwy #205, Grunthal • (204) 434-6519

TRACTORS Versatile

TRACTORS 4-Wheel Drive

FOR SALE: 37-FT LAURIER land packer; 36-ft IHC #45 cultivator w/harrows; Case 414 plow. All machinery in good shape. Phone:(204)745-2784. GRAVITY WAGONS- NEW 400-BU., $7,400; 600bu., $12,500. Large selection of used gravity wagons 200-750 bu, $2,000 up. Large selection of used grain carts 495-1050 bu. Brent 610, $10,000; UFT 750 hyd dr, $17,500; MW 620-bu. $13,500; Used dry fertilize spreaders 4-8 Ton; Gehl 500-bu. 4 auger feed cart, $10,000; Roorda feeder cart, $2,000; JD 780 spreader hydra push, $10,000; Gehl 1315 slinger, $5,000. (204)857-8403.

TILLAGE & SEEDING Tillage Various

LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

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.

MB. Livestock Dealer #1111

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Angus 55 RED AND BLACK Angus Two-Year Old Bulls Suitable for Heifers and Cows. Private Treaty @ the Ranch Info sheets available. Triple V Ranch Dan (204)665-2448 or (204)522-0092, Matthew (204)264-0706 Website vvvranch.com EDIE CREEK ANGUS HAS 35 Rugged 2-Yr Old Angus Bulls at our 9th Annual Sale, March 12 at Ashern Auction Mart. Meaty, Moderate, Maternal, Easy Calving, Easy Fleshing BREEDING BULLS for Grass Farmers. Developed Entirely for Sale as 2-Year Olds to breed more cows for MORE YEARS! Great Temperaments, many suitable for heifers. WWW.EDIECREEKANGUS.COM or call Jonathan Bouw @ (204)471-4696. F BAR & ASSOCIATES Angus bulls for sale. Choose from 20 two-yr-old and yearling Red and Black Angus bulls. Great genetics, easy-handling, semen-tested, delivery available. Call for sales list. Inquiries and visitors are welcome. We are located in Eddystone, about 20-mi E of Ste. Rose, or 25-mi W of Lake MB Narrows, just off Hwy 68. Call Allen & Merilyn Staheli. Tel: (204)448-2124 Email: amstaheli@inethome.ca HAMCO CATTLE CO. 18th Annual Angus Bull Sale, Sat., March 19, 2016 (1:00pm) at the farm south of Glenboro, MB. Selling approx. 65 yearling & 20) 2-yr old Red Angus & 50 yearling & 15) 2-yr old Black Angus Bulls. Many are AI, Semen tested, free delivery, delayed payment plan. Call for a catalogue or view online at hamcocattleco.com Albert, Glen, Larissa Hamilton (204)827-2358 or (204)526-0705. Dr David Hamilton (204)325-3635 or (204)822-3054 HORNER CATTLE COMPANY HAS for sale approx 50 top quality home-raised angus cross cimmental bred heifers. Exposed to easy calving, red and black angus bulls, from June 15-Sept 15. Heifers are from established herd with proven performance in the progeny and long-standing comprehensive health program. Call Alan (204)867-7117 or (204)867-2087 or horner.ranch@gmail.com.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Black Angus 21ST ANNUAL CATTLEMANS’ CONNECTION Bull Sale, March 4th, 2016, 1:00pm. Heartland Livestock Brandon. Selling 100 Yearling Black Angus Bulls. For Catalogue or more information call Jack Hart, Brookmore Angus (204)476-2607 or email brookmoreangus@gmail.com Barb Airey manager HBH Farms (204)566-2134 email rbairey@hotmail.com Sale management Doug Henderson (403)782-3888 or (403)350-8541. BLACK ANGUS BULLS YEARLINGS & Long Yearlings, some Heifer Bulls, semen tested & performance records avail. Call Don Guilford, Hereford Ranch (204)873-2430, Clearwater. BULL SALE WED., MAR-23RD at the Ranch, 40 select bulls & 30 replacement females 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)220-5006. FORAGE BASED BLACK ANGUS BULLS. Virgin 2 yr olds & herd sires available. Genetics w/maternal & calving ease traits. (204)564-2540 or (204)773-6800 www.nerbasbrosangus.com FOR SALE: 4-YR OLD purebred Black Angus bull, quiet, assured breeder & easy calver; Also 6 used tractor tires, 20.8x42. Phone (204)776-2063 FOR SALE: REGISTERED BLACK Angus yearling bulls, moderate framed, good dispositions, EPD’s available, semen tested & delivered. Bloodlines include Kodiak, KMK Alliance, Pioneer & Brand Name. Also Registered open heifers. Phone Colin at Kembar Angus (204)725-3597, Brandon MB.

LIVESTOCK

OSSAWA ANGUS AT MARQUETTE, MB has for sale: Yearling & 2-yr old bulls. For more info call (204)375-6658, cell (204)383-0703.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Auctions

REGISTERED BLACK ANGUS BULLS for sale. Low birth weights & quiet. Buy now & save, no disappointments! EPD’s & delivery available. Phone evenings:(204)843-2287. Amaranth, MB. STEWART CATTLE CO. & GUESTS BULL SALE Feb 25, 2016 at 1:30PM Neepawa Ag-plex, Neepawa, MB. 50 Black Angus bulls & Simm/Angus bulls. Contact Brent Stewart (204)773-2356 home, (204)773-6392 cell. View catalogue at www.stewartcattle.com. Email: stewartcows@wificountry.ca

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Charolais CHAROLAIS BULLS 1& 2 yr olds. Vaccinated and tested. Steppler and HTA genetics. Call or text (204)381-1240. 2ND ANNUAL ELITE GENETICS Bull Sale. Manitoba’s Largest Hereford Bull Offering. March 12th, 2016, 1:30pm at the Neepawa Ag Grounds. Including Yearling & Two Year Old Bulls, Pens of Hereford Influence Females. Contact: RSK Farms @ (204)573-9529 or Leveldale Polled Herefords @ (204)763-4343. IN PURSUIT OF PERFECTION BULL SALE, March 10th, 1:00PM, at Spring Creek Ranch, Moosomin, SK. Offering 100 Red & Black Simmental, Red & Black Angus, & Black Best of Beef bulls. Volume & loyalty customer discounts. For more info or a catalogue contact Brian McCarthy at (306)435-3590 or T Bar C Cattle Co. (306)220-5006. Watch & bid online at www.liveauctions.tv View catalogue online at www.buyagro.com (PL #116061)

FOR SALE: COMING 2 yr old Charolais bulls, grandsons of Bluegrass. Will be easy calving, good dispositions & guaranteed. K.E.H Charolais phone Keith Hagan (204)748-1024, Virden. PUREBRED CHAROLAIS BULLS, 1 1/2-yr olds & yearlings, White & Red factor, some good for heifers, semen tested in spring, guaranteed & delivered. R&G McDonald Livestock. (204)466-2883, (204)724-2811. PUREBRED CHAROLAIS YEARLINGS & three 2-yr old bulls for sale by private treaty, White & Red factor. Phone Brad (204)523-0062 www.clinecattlecompany.ca 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.

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

Red River Valley Fairgrounds, 1805 West Main Ave, West Fargo, ND. I-94 & Exit 343.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016 | 10AM

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Auctioneers will run multiple rings with live online bidding. There will be no loading assistance until 1:00 PM on sale day. Cars and pickups may enter grounds at 12:00 Noon for self-loading. Equipment removal by March 11, unless other arrangements are made. Hauling and loading are available. Registration, terms, and details at SteffesGroup.com. Contact auctioneers for owner information, new consignments, or changes at 701.237.9173 or 800.726.8609.

Complete Lot Listings & Photos at SteffesGroup.com

TRACK TRACTORS

ready w/integrated 2-function joystick control, cold start pkg., 590 hrs., S/N1L06105RECK746979 2008 JD 8330, MFWD, deluxe cab, buddy seat, active seat, powershift, 4 hyd., 42 gpm pump, 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, integrated auto steer, diff lock, radar, HID lights, 7,720 hrs., S/NRW8330P026815 2008 JD 7130, MFWD, 12F/4R SyncroPlus, 3 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, diff locks, front suitcase weights, approx. 6,000 hrs., tach replaced in Dec. 2015, S/NL07130A596952 2011 Case-IH Puma 160, MFWD, CVT, cab susp., 4 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 540/1000 PTO, Case-IH L760 loader, joystick, 84” bucket, HID lights, 945 hrs. 2009 Case-IH 245 Magnum, MFWD, luxury cab, powershift, 4 hyd., large hyd. pump, power beyond, return flow, 3 pt., quick hitch, Pro 600 with Nav II controller, auto steer, diff lock, radar, 2,552 hrs., S/NZ9RZ01262 2008 Case-IH Magnum 245, deluxe cab, powershift, 5 hyd., high cap. pump, power beyond, 3 pt., quick hitch, (3) PTOs, Pro 600 Nav 2 controller w/receiver, diff lock, 4,400 hrs., S/NZ8RZ02529 2002 JD 8420, MFWD, CAH, powershift, 4 hyd., 3 pt., quick tach, large 1000 PTO, AM/FM stereo, S/NRW8420P005838 2002 Case-IH MX285, MFWD, buddy seat, 3 hyd., power beyond, return flow, 3 pt., Ag Leader auto steer, 7,864 hrs. 1994 JD 7800, MFWD, deluxe cab, powershift, 2 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 540/1000 PTO, diff lock, unknown hrs., S/NRW7800P005880 1984 IHC 5488, MFWD, CAH, 18/6 spd., 4 hyd., 3 pt., 1000 PTO, wired for JD ATU & 2630, 8,116 hrs., S/N34935 1979 JD 4640, quad range, 3 hyd., 4WD TRACTORS power beyond, 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, SatLoc with light bar, 2012 JD 9510R, CommandView cab, powershift, 5 hyd., return flow, diff lock, shows 6,177 hrs., recent turbo & injectors 1000 PTO, integrated auto steer, diff lock, radar, 1,080 hrs., 400 hrs. IHC 300 utility, gas, 12v, hyd. loader, 2,719 hrs., New hyd. pump, on New JD engine by Green Iron S/N17182SJ Equipment, extended warranty, 1952 JD B, narrow front, PTO, S/N1RW9510RCCP004527 running order, S/N295796 2013 JD 9460R, premium CommandView cab, active seat, COMBINES buddy seat, powershift, 5 hyd., 78 gpm pump, return flow, 1000 PTO, 2013 Case-IH 8230, axial flow, integrated auto steer, diff lock, 2,639 luxury cab, leather, deluxe controls, Field Tracker, AFX hrs., S/N1RW9460RLDP008364 2005 Case-IH STX450, powershift, rotor, Pro 700 display, integrated auto steer, Nav II with receiver, buddy seat, 4 hyd., return flow, Power Plus CVT drive, heavy duty Raven auto steer controller less planetary with diff lock, ext. wear receiver & display, 7,930 hrs., rotor, 776 engine hrs., 1,225 sep. S/NJEE0106312 2002 NH TJ450, powershift, 4 hyd., hrs., S/NYCG218205 guidance ready, diff lock, 900R42 2012 Case-IH 8230, axial flow, luxury cab, leather, deluxe controls, metric duals, 3,700 hrs., Field Tracker, AFX rotor, Pro 700 S/NRVS001046 display, S/NYCG217247 1997 Case-IH 9390, CAH, 24 2012 JD S680, STS, Contourspd., 4 hyd., return flow, 640 hrs. since engine OH, 1,200 hrs. since Master, premium cab, deluxe controls, ProDrive, 5 spd. feeder transmission OH, work completed house, integrated auto steer, at Titan Machinery, Y&M, TouchSet, 1,001 sep. hrs., S/NJEE0069597 1992 Case-IH 9280, powershift, 855 1,391 engine hrs., S/N1H0S6680SHC0746532 Cummins, 4 hyd., 3 aux. hyd. 2012 JD S680, premium cab, w/aux. pump, reservoir, cooler, Contour-Master, deluxe controls, case drain & electric SCVs, 1000 PRWD, ProDrive, 5 spd. feeder PTO, wired for JD ATU & 2630, house, 2630 display, 1,115 sep. 8,679 hrs., S/NJCB28441 hrs., 1,835 engine hrs., 1990 Case-IH 9170, CAH, 855 S/N1H0S680SVC0747014 Cummins, 350 hp., powershift, 2013 JD S670, premium cab, 4 hyd., 1000 PTO, 10,152 hrs., Contour-Master, deluxe controls, S/NJCB005113 PRWD, heavy duty variable spd. MFWD & 2WD TRACTORS feeder house, 979 sep. hrs., 1,573 engine hrs., 2013 JD 8335R, MFWD, premium S/N1H0S670SED0757866 CommandView cab, buddy seat, 2013 JD S670, premium cab, IVT, ILS, 7” color touch display, Contour-Master, deluxe controls, JDLink Ultimate, 5 hyd., 60 gpm ProDrive, 5 spd. feeder house, pump, power beyond, return flow, 1,617 sep. hrs., 2,361 engine hrs., integrated auto steer, 3 pt., quick S/N1H0S670SAD0756230 hitch, 1000 PTO, diff lock, radar, 2013 JD S670, premium cab, HID lights, foot speed control, Contour-Master, deluxe controls, Cat 4 heavy duty drawbar, (22) ProDrive, 5 spd. feeder house, front suitcase weights, (2) rear integrated auto steer, Y&M, 26’ 1,400 lb. weights, cold weather high cap. unloading auger, fine cut pkg., premium radio XM satellite, chopper, TouchSet, factory hopper fenders, 1,966 hrs., ext., HID lights, round bar concaves, S/N1RW8335RCDDK073713 760/50R32 singles, 28L-26 rears, 2011 JD 7200R, MFWD, 20/20 1,395 sep. hrs., 2,060 engine hrs., AutoQuad, premium cab, 4 hyd., S/N1H0S670SKD0756366 3 pt., quick hitch, 540/1000 PTO, diff lock, HID lights, JD H480 self- 2012 JD S670, STS, Contour-Master, premium cab, deluxe controls, leveling quick tach loader, 5-tine ProDrive, 5 spd. feeder house, grapple, joystick, 270 actual hrs., 1,058 sep. hrs., 1,517 engine hrs., not used for livestock, loader S/N1P0H480XEBC001593, tractor S/N1H0S670STB0745538 2010 JD 9870, STS, Contour-Master, S/N1RW7200RABA001360 premium cab, deluxe controls, 2013 JD 6105R, MFWD, premium PRWD, ProDrive, 5 spd. feeder cab, 24 spd. AutoQuad, 3 hyd., 3 pt., 540/1000 PTO, diff lock, loader house, 1,301 sep. hrs., 1,876 engine hrs., S/N1H09870SVA0736580

2013 JD 9560RT, deluxe CommandView cab, buddy seat, powershift, 5 hyd., 48 gpm pump, JDLink Ultimate, integrated auto steer, 36” Durabilt 5500 tracks, 1,885 hrs., S/N1RW9560RCDP902947 2015 JD 9520RT, premium Command View cab, powershift, 5 hyd., high flow pump, return flow, integrated auto steer, JDLink Ultimate 3 yr. promotion, Cat 5 drawbar, 6500 Durabilt 36” tracks, 419 hrs., PowerGard warranty expires 7/17/18 or 2,000 hrs., S/N1RW9520RAFP907233 2013 JD 9510RT, deluxe CommandView cab, powershift, 4 hyd., integrated auto steer, touch screen GS3 Command center, JDLink Ultimate 3 yr., right & left hand remote mirrors, 1,101 hrs., PowerGard warranty until 7/16/16 or 2,000 hrs., S/N1RW9510RTDP902886 2012 JD 8360RT, premium cab, IVT RHR, wide stance, 5 hyd., 60 gpm pump, return flow, power beyond, 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, integrated auto steer, 24” tracks, 1,930 hrs. 2001 JD 9400T, deluxe cab, 24 spd., 4 hyd., integrated auto steer, wide swing drawbar, rock box, 36” tracks, 5,570 hrs., S/NRW9400T902116 1998 JD 8100T, deluxe cab, powershift, 4 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, 16” tracks set at 60”, 6,840 hrs., S/NRW8100T902020 2006 Caterpillar 765B, deluxe cab, powershift, 4 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, Trimble guidance, rock box, 16” tracks, 3,700 hrs., S/NAGCMT765JA56152 1998 Caterpillar 95E, Cat 3196, powershift, 4 hyd., return flow, 30” tracks, 40%, cast drivers, 8,776 hrs., S/N6KS00225

DMI TigerMate II field cultivator, 2007 Case-IH 7120, deluxe cab, PRWD, AFX rotor, deluxe controls, 50’, 6” space, 4-1/2” knock-on shovels, single pt. depth Field Tracker, AFS Pro 600 Wil-Rich 17XCWHD field display, 1,163 sep. hrs., 1,638 cultivator, 38’, single fold engine hrs., S/NHAJ200695 1987 JD 8820, Titan II, air foil sieve, DISC RIPPERS factory hopper ext., long unloading auger, original interior, 3,465 hrs. 2000 Case-IH 730B Ecolo-Tiger disc ripper, 7 shank, set at 30” FLEX DRAPER space, hyd. adj. discs, hyd. rear & DRAPER HEADS disc levelers, 16.5L-16 flotation tires, S/NJFH0007209 2012 JD 635FD flex draper head, Case-IH 730B Ecolo-Tiger disc 35’, S/N1H0635FDLC0746238 ripper, 7 shank, 10” points, rear JD 640FD flex draper head, 40’ disc leveler, rock flex disc, 16.5-16 2011 Case-IH 2162 flex draper tires, S/NJFH0006947 head, 35’, S/NYBZN15232 2010 JD 640D draper head, 40’, VERTICAL TILLAGE & S/N1H00640DCA0735936 OTHER TILLAGE EQUIP. 2010 JD 635D draper head, 35’, 2012 Salford 4100 vertical tillage S/N1H00635DKB0740384 tool, 41’, weight kit 2010 JD 635D draper head, 35’, 2007 Salford 570 RTS, 41’, (8) fore/aft, finger reel, wave coulters, hyd. lift, S/N07360 S/N1H00635DJB0740435 2012 Summers harrow packer, PICKUP HEADS 80’, 5-bar harrow, S/NL2112 2013 Case-IH 3016 pickup head, 2013 JD 2625 tandem disc, 33’7”, hyd. leveling, single pt. depth 16’ pickup, wind bar, low acres 2010 Summers DT10 tandem disc, 2009 JD 615P pickup head, 15’, 28’, tandem duals across wind bar, S/NH00615P730620 Taylorway disc, 24’, hyd. wings CORN HEADS Phillips rotary harrow, 45’ 2010 Summers Super Harrow 2012 JD 618C chopping corn Plus, 70’, hyd. pitch adj. head, 18x22”, hyd. deck plates, Gates harrow, 52’, 16” tines S/N1H00618CVCC745340 Rugby harrow, 55’ 2005 Geringhoff RD chopping Flexi-Coil System 95 S-tine corn head, 12x22”, hyd. deck harrow packer, 50’ plates, S/N915951222/B 2013 JD 612C non-chopping corn Summers multiweeder, 50’, hyd Melroe multiweeder, 50’, 3 rank head, 12x30”, hyd. deck plates, Disc, 9’ knife rolls, single pt., S/N755793 Disc, 7’, 3 pt. Clark corn head, 18x20”, 1,500 acres on gathering chains & deck SUGARBEET & plates, configured for Case-IH ROW CROP EQUIPMENT w/adapter plate 2012 Valley beet cart, 35 ton, hyd. GRAIN CARTS fold boom, 900/60R32 tires, New 52” scrub chain 2013 Demco 950 grain cart, 950 Yetter 3546 rotary hoe, 46’, folding bu., corner auger, S/N40009 2009 Brent 1596 grain cart, 1,500 wings, cab guard JD 845 cultivator, 12x30”, flat-fold, bu., roll tarp, S/NB25-970-120 Killbros 1800 grain cart, 1,000 bu., 3 pt., rolling shields 15” front auger, roll tarp, 1000 PTO

AIR DRILLS

1982 GMC Brigadier tandem axle 1980 Chevrolet C65 single axle

OTHER TRUCKS & PICKUPS

2008 Freightliner van truck 1995 Freightliner FL70 fuel truck, 5.8 liter Cummins, 5 spd. 2009 Chevrolet 3500 one ton crew cab dually, 6.6 turbo diesel 2008 Chevrolet 1500 Silverado LT ext. cab, short box, 5.3 liter V8 2008 Chevrolet 1500 Silverado 2006 Ford F150, ext. cab, short box 2003 Ford F250, ext. cab, long box 1975 Chevrolet one ton dually ﬂatbed service truck, 16” tires 1991 Chevrolet, 1/2 ton, std. cab 1993 Ford Ranger, 4.0 V8, 2WD 1985 Ford F150, 5.8 liter HO, 4WD 1984 Ford F250, reg. cab, 8’ box

HOPPER BOTTOM TRAILERS

2013 Maurer steel hopper bottom, 40’x96”x64”, ag hopper, spring ride 2009 Timpte Super Hopper hopper bottom, 40’x96”x72”, ag hopper 2006 Timpte hopper bottom, 40’x96”x66”, ag hopper, roll tarp 2003 Jet hopper bottom, 40’x68”

LIVE BOTTOM & END DUMP TRAILERS

2008 J-Mark tandem axle live bottom trailer, 42’, 51” belt 2013 Loadline tri-axle end dump, 34’ 1997 Mac aluminum end dump, 35’ 1968 Raven-City ﬁxed tri-axle end dump, 30’ aluminum box

PULL-TYPE FERTILIZER SPREADERS

Mobility C400 fertilizer spreader, 12 ton, 409 stainless steel, New Mobility C400 fertilizer spreader, 12 ton, 409 stainless steel, New 2010 BBI tandem axle bumper hitch spreader, 80’, 15 ton

SELF-PROPELLED SPRAYERS & SPREADERS

2013 JD 4940 self-propelled sprayer, deluxe CommandView II cab, Tier 4 engine, No Def, 120’ boom, 1,200 gal. SS tank, 1,030 hrs. 2012 JD 4830 self-propelled sprayer, deluxe cab, 100’ SS boom, 20” space, 5 nozzle body, 1,000 gal. SS tank, 1,230 engine hrs., 524 spray hrs., 77,538 acres, S/N1N04830XPB0018187 1999 Willmar 8400 sprayer, Ag Shield 90’ booms, 1,000 gal. SS tank, S/N8400KB041400 1994 Loral AirMax V spreader, DT466 IHC, 300 hp., Allison automatic, 60’ boom 1994 Ag Chem 1803 Terragator, Cummins, 18 spd., 70’ booms 1991 Loral ﬂoater, automatic, 60’ booms, 3-compartment 1977 Melroe 115 spra-coupe, cab, 50’ boom, 130 gal. tank

SIDE DRESSERS

2012 Blue Jet side dresser, 24x30” Dalton Ag liquid side dresser, 16 row, 1,000 gal. tank, quick ﬁll kit 2013 Sidump’r SDR325 tri-axle Dalton Ag liquid side dresser, 16 trailer, 36’ tub, 42’ frame row, 1,000 gal. tank, quick ﬁll kit 1984 Cook clam dump gravel Side dresser, 18x22”, 2 pt., Jake trailer, 40’wheels, New brake, drums hyd., 500 gal. poly tank 1984 Load King 2027 tri-axle belly HEAVY EQUIPMENT & dump, 42’, spring ride, air gates

SIDE & BELLY DUMP TRAILERS

DROP/STEP DECK & IMPLEMENT TRAILERS

SLEEPER SEMI TRACTORS 2012 Quality drop deck tandem

2007 Volvo VNL780 tandem axle, 77” condo sleeper, D12 Volvo 2011 JD 1890 air drill, 60’, 7-1/2” & 15” space, full run monitor, 2007 Volvo VNL670 tandem axle, condo sleeper, D12 Volvo, 465 hp. JD 1910 tow-behind commodity 2005 Volvo VNL64630, condo, ISX cart, 430 bu., cart Cummins, set to 500 hp., 13 spd. S/N1A81910HJBG740719, drill 2005 Kenworth T600, sleeper, ISX S/N1A81890CCBF740726 Cummins, 450 hp., Rockwell trans. 2010 NH SD440A air seeder, 45’, 10” spacing, 5-section fold, single 2000 Kenworth T600B, Aerocab, sleeper, 12.7 Detroit shoot, full run blockage monitor, 5” rubber press wheels, single bar 1997 Freightliner FLD, mid-roof sleeper, 3406E Cat, 13 spd. harrow, 10” sweeps, NH SD380 1994 Freightliner FLD120, sleeper, tow-behind cart, 118/93/169 bu. 60 Series Detroit, 13 spd., air ride 3-compartment 380 bu. tank, 1994 White GMC, sleeper, VED12cart S/NPNL011514, seeder 370 Volvo, Fuller 10 spd. S/NYBS003493 2004 Case-IH SDX30 air drill, 30’, 1993 Freightliner FLD120, 70” 7-1/2” & 15” spacing, 2-rank, ADX sleeper, M11 Cummins, 350 hp. 2230 tow-behind cart NON-SLEEPER 2000 JD 1900 tow-between SEMI TRACTORS commodity cart, 8 run, vari-rate JD 787 air cart with 730 seeding 2006 IHC 9200I, day cab, C13 Cat 2006 Peterbilt 385, day cab, C13 tool, 44’, tandems across Cat, 10 spd., air ride cab & susp. Case-IH 8600 air drill, 30’, 6” spacing, 115 bu. tank, rubber press 2006 Peterbilt 385, day cab, C13 Cat, 10 spd., power steering, A/C wheels, hyd. loading auger, PTO 2005 Peterbilt 385, day cab, C13 fan pump, monitor, markers Cat, 10 spd., power steering, A/C PLANTERS 2001 Mack CX600 Vision day cab, 2009 Monosem NG4 Plus planter, 460 hp., 10 spd., air ride, sliding 5th, wet kit, twin aluminum tanks 24x22”, center fill, (2) 50 bu. hoppers, (2) Rawson hyd. drives, 1999 Volvo day cab, 11.1 liter, 9 spd., air ride, wet kit, rear hitch 500 gal. fertilizer tank, Trimble 1997 Mack CH613 tandem axle, Field-IQ seed monitor & section day cab, E7 Mack, 450 hp. control, Sunco Sabertooth row cleaners, Copperhead Ag closing 1996 Freightliner FLD120, day cab, cab & chassis, 3406 Cat wheels, liquid fertilizer system 1996 Volvo WG64T tandem axle, 2003 JD 1770NT planter, CCS, factory day cab, N14 Cummins 16x30”, 2 pt., pneumatic down pressure, front-fold, trash whippers 1992 IHC 8200 tandem axle, factory day cab, N14 Cummins, 2003 JD planter, 36x22”, DB bar, 330 hp. ground drive pump, Redball with 1989 IHC 2375, day cab, L10 Totally Tubular in-furrow JD 7300 MaxEmerge vacuum Cummins, 300 hp., Eaton Fuller 9 planter, 18x22”, 3 pt., lift assist, 1.6 spd., wet kit, 12,000 lb. front bu. hoppers w/ext., trash whippers 1986 IHC 9370 tandem axle day cab, Cummins, 9 spd., air ride JD 7300 MaxEmerge planter, 8x30”, 3 pt., 1.6 bu. boxes TRI-DRIVE BOX TRUCK w/ext., liquid fertilizer, Dawn trash 2007 Mack CXN613 tri-drive, 427 whippers, hyd. markers Mack, Eaton 10 spd. Ultrashift, JD 7100 planter, 16x22”, radial engine brake, air ride, 4:33 ratio, bean cups, liquid fertilizer 22’ Frontier LCG box, hoist, combo JD 7000 planter, 6x36”, finger gate w/center section, roll tarp pickups for corn (2) JD pull-type antique corn TENDER TRUCKS planters, 2 row & 1 row 2005 Freightliner Columbia, Series FIELD CULTIVATORS 60 Detroit, 10 spd., air ride cab & susp., 3rd axle, power steering 2012 JD 2210 field cultivator, 64-1/2’, full floating hitch, walking 2005 Freightliner Columbia, Series 60 Detroit, 10 spd., air ride cab & tandems across, 4-bar harrow susp., 3rd axle, power steering JD 985 field cultivator, 55’, 1993 GMC Topkick single axle tandems across, single pt. depth tender truck, 366 V8, 5&2 spd., 1998 Wil-Rich Quad X field spring ride, Haul-All 300 bu. tender cultivator, 50’, 7” spacing, full 1986 IHC tandem axle cabover floating hitch, tandems across

F/S Mfg UTV skid sprayer, 18’ boom, 100 gal. tank Demco Estate sprayer, 17’ folding boom, 65 gal. poly tank

axle trailer, 12’ steel top deck 2013 Trail-Eze tri-axle drop deck, 53’x102”, air ride susp. w/dump 2002 Fontaine step deck, 53’ 1994 Dorsey step deck, 48’x102” 2004 Landoll 318C implement trailer, 48’, hyd. tilt, air ride 2015 PJ tandem axle gooseneck trailer, 40’, Monster ramps, toolbox EZ Haul tri-axle gooseneck trailer, 40’, dovetail w/twin ramps 1974 Trail Eze tandem axle 5th wheel implement trailer, 231/2’x8’, tilt bed, 2’ fold-out tail

HEADER TRAILERS

Elmers single pole header trailer, 25’ Klugman Welding header trailer, 35’ (5) Industrias America 440 header trailers Industrias America 840 header trailer (5) Industrias America 435 header trailers Industrias America 835 header trailer

OTHER TRAILERS

CONSTRUCTION ITEMS

2004 Hyundai 210LC-7 track excavator, CAH, hyd. thumb, 48” bucket w/teeth, 28” tracks, 7,105 hrs., S/N60623602 1997 JD 190E track excavator, cab, heat, quick tach 45” bucket, mechanical thumb, 7-1/2’ dozer blade, 24” tracks, 5,189 hrs., S/NFF190EX011408 1985 Komatsu PC200LC-3 track hoe, 41” tooth bucket, shows 5,890 hrs., New radiator 2 yrs. ago Case 580 tractor loader backhoe, open station ROPS, 2WD, New rear tires, 4,246 hrs., S/N8779973 AC M65 Motor Patrol, cab, 4 spd. gas, 14’ moldboard, S/N75Y00251 SkyTrak 8042 telehandler forklift, ROPS, Cummins diesel, 4WD, all wheel steer, 42’ lift height, 8,000 lb. lift, 13-24 tires, 95%, 4,468 hrs. 2000 Genie S80 boom lift, diesel, 4x4, 80’ reach, rotating platform, extendable axles, 6,755 hrs. Bomag BMP851 sheepsfoot vibratory trench compactor roller, pads foot double drum Advance 386301 ﬂoor sweeper, include 24v charger, S/N511868 Kipor KDE6700T diesel generator, 5 kw, 120/240v, (4) 120v hookups

1990 Trailmobile dry van, 53’x102” SKID STEER LOADERS 1995 Great Dane single axle van 2015 Bobcat S650 skid steer trailer, 32’, spring ride loader, H-51 pkg., 2 spd., block 1981 Fruehauf tandem axle steel heater, 74” low pro material bucket, flatbed, 42’, spring ride 2,516 hrs., S/NALI813982 1998 Towmaster T20 flatbed 2015 Bobcat S650 skid steer trailer, 24’x102”, 5’ beavertail 2009 Titan Challenger tandem axle loader, H-51 pkg., 2 spd., block horse trailer, 16’x7’, electric brakes heater, 74” low pro material bucket, 2,520 hrs., S/NALI814184 2009 PJ tri-axle bumper hitch 2013 JD 333E track skid steer trailer, 21’, ramps loader, deluxe cab, A/C, heat, 2 2007 GWS electric over hyd. spd., Ride Control, power quick tandem axle dump trailer, 14’ tach, joystick control/ISO, rear Single axle trailer, 7’, 1”x6” sides weights, 18” tracks, 84” heavy duty Trailer, 6’x7’, 16” tires construction bucket w/cutting edge, PULL-TYPE SPRAYERS 845 hrs., S/N1T0333EKPDE248027 2013 Top Air TA1600 pull-type sprayer, 1,600 gal. poly tank NH3 EQUIPMENT 2009 Top Air 2400 pull-type HAY & LIVESTOCK sprayer, 132’ boom, 2,400 gal. EQUIPMENT tank, 165 gal. rinse tank 2006 Top Air 1600 pull-type GRAIN HANDLING sprayer, 120’ booms, 1,600 gal. EQUIPMENT tank, triple nozzle bodies Hardi Commander 1200 pull-type SKID STEER LOADER sprayer, 132’ booms, 1,200 gal. ATTACHMENTS tank, triple nozzle bodies Hardi Navigator pull-type sprayer, BLADES & OTHER 90’ boom, 1,000 gal. poly tank EQUIPMENT 1997 Flexi-Coil pull-type sprayer, RECREATION, SUV, & 90’ suspended boom, twin nozzle AUTOMOBILES bodies, 1,000 gal. tank Summers Ultimate sprayer, 90’ LAWN EQUIPMENT F/S sprayer, 90’ booms, 1,000 gal. SHOP EQUIPMENT Blumhardt pickup sprayer, 60’ rear-mount booms, 400 gal. white TANKS, TIRES, & PARTS enamel Pleasure Products poly MISC. & FARM ITEMS baffle tank, Micro-Trak monitor

TERMS: All items sold as is where is. Payment of cash or check must be made sale day before removal of items. Statements made auction day take precedence over all advertising. $35 documentation fee applies to all titled vehicles. Titles will be mailed. ND Sales Tax laws apply. Canadian buyers need a bank letter of credit to facilitate border transfer.

Auctioneers & Clerk: Steffes Group Inc., 2000 Main Avenue East, West Fargo, ND 58078 Scott Steffes ND81, Brad Olstad ND319, Bob Steffes ND82, Max Steffes ND999, Ashley Huhn ND843, Eric Gabrielson ND890, Randy Kath ND894 | 701.237.9173 | 800.726.8609 | SteffesGroup.com

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Hereford

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Simmental

LIVESTOCK Horse Auctions

ANL POLLED HEREFORDS SPRING BULL SALE w/guest Brooks Farms. Sun., Mar. 20th, 2:00pm at the farm at Steelman, SK. Selling 35 yearling & 2 year old bulls & a select group of open baldie heifers. Wintering & delivery available. For a catalogue or info contact Karl (306)487-2670, Jeremy (306)485-8003 or T Bar C Cattle Co. (306)220-5006. View the catalogue or videos online at www.buyagro.com

PUREBRED REGISTERED YEARLING SIMMENTAL bulls, Red & Blacks, Polled, will semen test & deliver, keep until needed. Phone (204)868-5040.

ROCKING W SPRING HORSE sale. Tack sale Fri., Apr. 22. For Sale Sat., Apr. 23. Keystone Centre Brandon, Manitoba. www.rockingw.com Phone: (204)325-7237.

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Limousin POLLED RED & BLACK BULLS: Guaranteed, semen tested, quiet, delivery available. Performance & pedigree info: www.cherwaylimousin.ca Yearling & 2-yr olds. Ph: (204)736-2878 info@cherwaylimousin.ca

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Shorthorn PUREBRED YEARLING BULLS FOR sale, all are polled, thick & easy fleshing w/moderate to low birthweights. We also have 3 bulls at the Douglas Bull Development Centre selling on April 2nd 2016. Call Uphill Shorthorns (204)764-2663, cell (204)365-7155 rgray4@mymts.net

LIVESTOCK Cattle – Simmental PIZZEY SIMMENTALS IS SELLING on the farm yearling Simmental Bulls Red & Black & Traditional, moderate birth weights. Call Calvin (204)847-2055.

FOR SALE: 60 EXCELLENT quality Black & Red Angus 800-900lbs open heifers. Some Simmental influence, very quiet, pail fed, had all shots. $1,800 choice or $1,750 take all. Phone:(204)825-8340, (204)825-2799. Pilot Mound, MB.

1:00pm Tues., March 15 @ Killarney Auction Mart. Red & Black Simmental, Fleckvieh Fullbloods, SimAngus Beef Bulls. Purebred & commercial heifers. For catalogues & videos visit bouchardlivestock.com Sale broadcast live on www.DLMS.ca Visit the farms for your chance to win a $500 bull purchase credit. Gordon Jones Simmentals (204)535-2273 Baldur, MB. Silver Lake Farms (204)825-8012 Cartwright, MB. PROUDLY WESTERN BULL SALE, Sat., Mar. 19th, 1:00p.m. at the Whitewood Auction Barn, Whitewood, SK. Selling 70 yearling & 2-year old Red, Black & Fullblood Simmental bulls. Wintering & delivery available. For a catalogue or more info, Contact T Bar C Cattle Co.:(306)220-5006. View the catalogue online at www.buyagro.com

AUCTION SALES U.S. Auctions

LIVESTOCK Swine Wanted

ORGANIC Organic – Grains

WANTED: BUTCHER HOGS SOWS AND BOARS FOR EXPORT

P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD. 728-7549 Licence No. 1123 LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT

HORNER CATTLE COMPANY HAS for sale group of 25 angus cross cimmental bred cows. Age 3-8yrs. Preg checked to angus and cimmental bulls. Calving in May/June. Call (204)867-2087 or (204)867-7117. horner.ranch@gmail.com.

ALTERNATIVE POWER BY SUNDOG SOLAR, portable/remote solar water pumping for winter/summer. Call for pricing on solar systems, wind generators, aeration. Service & repair on all makes/models. Carl Driedger, (204)556-2346 or (204)851-0145, Virden.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Wanted

AN ASSORTMENT OF CREEP feeders & self feeders on wheels & skids. All Cypress Industries. Phone:(204)325-2416.

Prairie Partners Bull Sale

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

Farm Retirement

KELLN SOLAR SUMMER/WINTER WATERING System, provides water in remote areas, improves water quality, increases pasture productivity, extends dugout life. St. Claude/Portage, 204-379-2763.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE 650 WATT PENCIL BLOCK heaters, also D02 various, new Armatures (older tractors.) Sheep equip, 200 gal. troughs, Ritchie cattle fountain, & rolls A-W Lumex for flock “Night Radios”, one lamb scale & few floating trough heaters. Will build floating trough heaters. Will build lamb creep, special design gate, $100. For Info Ph: (204)822-3649, Morden MB.

MUSICAL VIOLIN $99.95, ELECTRIC MANDOLIN $199.99, Acoustic electric guitar $149.95, Battery & electric amp $88, Electric guitar $99.95. See our new arrivals. Hildebrand Music, Portage La Prairie mall. Phone:(204)857-3172.

AUCTION SALES U.S. Auctions

Location: 14910 7th St SE, Galesburg, ND. From Galesburg, ND, 3 miles north, 2 miles east.

FRIDAY, MARCH 4 | 11AM Location: 14910 7th St SE, Galesburg, ND. From Galesburg, ND, 3 miles north, 2 miles east.

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Most all equipment has been stored inside with an excellent maintenance program in place. Major equipment begins selling at 11:30 AM. Live online bidding available on major equipment. Registration, terms, & details at SteffesGroup.com

TRACTORS, LOADER & PALLET FORKS

2011 JD 9530, powershift, 4 hyd., integrated auto steer, diff lock, HID lights, inside front wheel weights, inside & outside rear weights, 800/70R38 duals, 1,789 hrs., S/N1RW9530PRBP022944 2011 JD 8310R, MFWD, premium cab, active seat, buddy seat, CommandARM, IVT, ILS, 5 hyd., return ﬂow, power beyond, large pump, 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, integrated auto steer, diff lock, HID lights, electric power mirrors, front suitcase weights, rear weight pkg., fenders, 380/80R38 front duals, 380/90R54 press steel duals, 1,660 hrs., S/NRW8310RHBD042290 1997 JD 8100, MFWD, deluxe cab, Field Ofﬁce, powershift, 4 hyd., 3 pt., quick hitch, 1000 PTO, integrated auto steer, diff lock, front weight bracket, rear weights, aux. lights, front fenders, 380/85R34 front tires, 380/90R50 press steel duals, 3,142 hrs., S/NRW8100P012588 JD 840 quick tach loader, 98” high volume bucket, 4-tine grapple, joystick, self-leveling, wide & narrow frame mounts

Pallet forks for JD 840 loader

HARVEST EQUIPMENT

2009 JD 9770, STS, Contour-Master, bullet rotor, 2 spd. PRWD, fixed spd. & variable spd. feeder house, integrated auto steer, Command Center, Y&M less display, 21-1/2’ unloading auger, JD hopper ext., fine cut chopper, Custom Cutter kg., 520/85R42 duals, 1,237 sep. hrs., 1,585 engine hrs., annual Greenlight inspection w/work completed, S/NH09770S730882 2012 JD 635F flex head, 35’, fore/aft, long snouts, full finger auger, poly, low dam, stubble lights, finger reel, AWS 2000 wind bar, 60/70 Series hookup, S/NH00635FCC0746197 2012 JD 612C chopping corn head, 12x20”, AHH, RowSense, (4) stalk stompers, outer gathering ext., stubble lights, 60/70 Series hookups, S/NH00612CJCC746154 JD 212 pickup head, 5-belt pickup head, 00/10 Series hookup

RowCommand, screw adj. trash whippers, pneumatic down pressure, hyd. vari-rate drive, liquid fertilizer in-furrow, JD rate control for liquid fertilizer, hyd. drive pump, 500 gal. poly tank, corn & bean plates, 6,280 acres, New discs Spring 2015, S/N1A01790DCDE750168

TILLAGE EQUIPMENT

2012 JD 2410 chisel plow, 42’, 12” space, 3-section fold, single pt. depth, S/N1N02410XVC0745487 2011 JD 2210 ﬁeld cultivator, 44-1/2’, level lift, walking tandems, 5-section fold, 6” space, JD 7” knock-on sweeps, S/N1N02210LCA0740319 JD 200 pull-type rolling harrow, 45’, S/NN00200X000895 2011 Summers SuperRoller, 50’, 36” drums, 1/2” thick, S/NK1014 2010 Summers Super Coulter Plus, 40’, hyd. leveling hitch, 13-wave blades front & rear, Summers 3-bar harrow, S/NJ0575 2010 Summers disc chisel, 32’, 12” space, walking tandems across, GRAIN CART Frontier GC1107 grain cart, 750 bu., factory rear hitch, S/NJ0085 Summers coil packer, 45’, hyd. fold, 18” corner auger, hyd. adj. spout long pole, 5-section fold PLANTER Diamond spike tooth harrow, 70’ 2013 JD 1790 CCS planter, 24x20”, Phoenix H-17 rotary harrow, 50’ 2 pt., front-fold, Digi-Star scale,

REUBEN & JENNIFER RUD 701.430.1610

Melroe harrow, 40’, hyd. auto-fold

ROW CROP EQUIPMENT

JD 835 cultivator, 12x22”, 3 pt. Yetter 3421 rotary hoe, 22’, cab guard

SEMI TRACTORS & TRUCKS

2010 Kenworth T800, factory day cab 2010 Kenworth T800, factory day cab 1986 White Volvo, integral cab 1977 Mack R686ST twin screw

TRAILERS

2012 Wilson DWH551 aluminum hopper bottom, 41’x96”x66” 1994 Wilson tandem axle hopper bottom, 43’x96”x66” 1980 Alloy ATF20H turntable pup hopper bottom, ag hopper, roll tarp Stud King MD38 single axle header trailer, 38’, torsion susp., lights JD 965 running gear, 4-wheel, 22’ Shop-built tandem axle gooseneck trailer, 13’x102”, spring susp.

SPRAYER

Hardi Commander pull-type sprayer, 90’ hyd. fold boom, 1,200 gal. poly tank, PTO pump, triple nozzle bodies

GPS EQUIPMENT PICKUPS NH3 EQUIPMENT TENDER & CONVEYOR OTHER EQUIPMENT

or Brad Olstad of Steffes Group, 701.237.9173 or 701.238.0240 Steffes Group Inc., 2000 Main Ave E, West Fargo, ND 58078 Brad Olstad ND319, Scott Steffes ND81, Bob Steffes ND82, Max Steffes ND999, Ashley Huhn ND843, Eric Gabrielson ND890, Randy Kath ND894 | 701.237.9173 | SteffesGroup.com

ORGANIC PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION OF MANITOBA CO-OPERATIVE (OPAM). Non-profit members owned organic certification body. Certifying producers, processors & brokers in Western Canada since 1988, Miniota, MB. Contact: (204)567-3745, info@opam-mb.com WANT THE ORGANIC ADVANTAGE? Contact an organic Agrologist at Pro-Cert for information on organic farming: prospects, transition, barriers, benefits, certification & marketing. Call:(306)382-1299, Saskatoon, SK or at info@pro-cert.org

500 BRED HEIFERS. Reds, Blacks, Silvers & Tans. Start calving March 25th, 2016. Had all shots, preg checked, Ivomec, pelvic measured, weigh approx 1250-lbs. Phone:(204)325-2416.

FOR SALE: 40 GOOD Charolais cross cows, bred Charolais, due to start calving March 1st. Phone (204)447-0184 or (204)447-2756.

ORGANIC Organic – Certified

BLACK QUARTER HORSE STALLION, bred mares& open mares, several saddle horses. 1 1/2 Perchon mares& matched Buckskin team of registered quarter horse mares. Phone:(306)435-3634.

LIVESTOCK Cattle Various

COMING 2-YR OLD BEEF Booster MB (Heifer Bull) Black in color, 75-lb birth weight. The Beef Booster MB strain is designed specifically for breeding yearling heifers. Ray Cormier (204)736-2608.

ORGANIC Organic – Certified

LIVESTOCK Horses For Sale

2016

FOR SALE: POLLED HEREFORD Bulls Yearlings & Long Yearlings, semen tested & performance records avail. Call Don Guilford, Hereford Ranch (204)873-2430, Clearwater.

WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT group of polled yearling Simmental bulls. Your bull comes with a full guarantee, is semen tested, fed, insured until delivered (No later than June 1st), and delivered (Within MB.) when you need him, all at our cost. Call Ray Cormier at (204)736-2608 and you can also visit our website at www.riverbankfarms.com All bulls are sold out of the yard by private treaty.

ORGANIC

Organic Producers Association of Manitoba Co-operative Inc.

GROW ORGANIC QUINOA! Total production contracts available. Visit: www.quinoa.com or Phone:(306)933-9525.

PERSONAL

Offering professional organic certification services to customers in Western Canada

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India aims to import GMO-free corn Some are skeptical that 100 per cent non-GMO corn can be had

A farmer sets up a scarecrow in a cornfield outside Ahmedabad in July 2014. India has turned to Ukraine for its first corn imports in 16 years, but insists that the imports be non-GMO. Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave

BY MAYANK BHARDWAJ AND NAVEEN THUKRAL Reuters

s India prepares to import corn for the first time in 16 years, at least one stipulation in its international tender has become much tougher to meet — that shipments of the crop are completely free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Asian country of 1.2 billion people does not allow cultivation of any genetically modified food, and has rules that are supposed to ensure that imports contain no trace of GMOs. But an explosion in the use of GM crops worldwide means that purity grade has become harder to attain and, with a growing risk of the supply chain being contaminated, underlines the vulnerabilities faced by countries trying to stay GM free. Even a shipment containing a handful of genetically altered seeds could cross-pollinate with local varieties and mean that in India’s case farmers end up illegally growing GM crops. “They can buy non-GMO corn, especially out of the Black Sea region, but I doubt anybody can offer shipments with zero presence of GMOs,” James Dunsterville, an agricultural commodities analyst at Geneva-based commodities information platform AgFlow. S o u t h K o r e a’s D a e w o o International won the tender to ship 250,000 tonnes of non-GM

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corn to India from Ukraine, but two international traders in Singapore and an exporter in Kiev said Ukraine could at best guarantee 99.1 per cent non-GM corn. “The biggest risk of accepting anything less than 99, or 100 per cent is that the imported GM corn may eventually get mixed with conventional seeds that farmers sow in India,” said an Indian government scientist. “If, God forbid, any GM seed gets mixed here, it’ll spoil the entire Indian agriculture,” added the scientist, who asked not to be named since he was not authorized to talk to media. Daewoo declined to comment but two sources close to the company said it would be able to meet the requirements and that it was aware of the conditions in last month’s tender issued by Indian state-run firm PEC.

Risks of contamination Shrinking arable land, volatile weather and a world population tipped to top nine billion by 2050 are increasing pressures to plant GM crops to boost yields and protect from pests.

Much of the corn in major producers such as the U.S., Brazil and Argentina is GM, helping production hit record levels in recent years and keeping a lid on food prices. Global corn prices have recovered about 13 per cent after hitting a five-year low in 2014 but are still more than 50 per cent below a record price of US$8.49 a bushel in 2012. Indicating the difficulty of keeping GM free, Greenpeace said that Chinese far me r s we re i l l e g a l l y growing GM corn, despite an official ban on cultivating GM varieties or other staple food crops. The environmental group said almost all samples taken from cornfields in some parts of the northeast, China’s breadbasket, tested positive for GMO. China has not directly commented on the report, though officials have issued warnings to seed dealers and farmers not to use unapproved GM seeds. Some farm economists have said India should speed up efforts to embrace GM foods after China took a step toward this with its bid for Swiss transgenic seed developer Syngenta.

But public and political opposition in India remains strong amid fears they could compromise food safety and biodiversity. GM advocates say such fears are not scientifically proven. “India must reject cargoes from suppliers who promise to provide corn that is only 99.1 per cent free of GM organisms,” said Devinder Sh a r m a , a n i n d e p e n d e n t f o o d and trade policy analyst based in Chandigarh, highlighting a risk of contamination. However, Sharma said that it had become standard global practice for GM-free buyers to settle for crops that were up to 99 per cent GM free. A s o u rc e a t t ra d e r P E C s a i d India’s condition that the imports were non-GM was sacrosanct. PEC received 15 bids from global traders including Daewoo, Noble, Cargill and Agro Corp to supply corn mainly to be used as animal feed for India’s poultry industry. But Singapore-based traders said there could have been more participants in the tender but for the non-GM restriction. Though Ukraine and growers in Europe, such as France, do produce non-GMO corn, suppliers may not be able to guarantee supplies are completely free of genealtered grains because of common bulk handling systems, said a trading manager with an international trading company. “It could be a dirty truck or a dirty conveyor belt. It only takes one seed to get a GMO-positive result.”

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Sinking prices, soaring inventories plague U.S. ethanol Unusually, ethanol has been trading at a premium to gasoline for months BY CHRIS PRENTICE New Orleans / Reuters

.S. ethanol producers and traders are bracing for a bleak spring as sinking prices and record inventories punish margins, forcing some companies to suspend loss-making output and extend maintenance, executives said at a conference Feb. 17. One of the only glimmers of hope is the export market, but conditions will get worse before the summer driving season starts, boosting demand and helping to erode stockpiles and bolster razorthin margins. “ We need the exports to balance this market,” Mark F i s l e r, m a n a g i n g d i r e c tor at Ocean Park Advisors, said at the Renewable Fuels Association conference. He noted that if ethanol producers keep pumping out fuel at the same levels seen in January, production will swell to over 15 billion gallons, about 800 million gallons more than needed. One trader said the market’s “in trouble” without demand from China. Stocks are likely to hit fresh records, executives said, pushing margins to, or below, break-even costs for many producers and forcing some of the majors such as Green Plains Inc. and Archer Daniels Midland to slow output. Inventories reached a record 23 million barrels in the week ended Feb. 5, but could go even higher before plants began to shut down in late March for maintenance and warm weather draws drivers back to the road. A second trader said conditions are worse than last year and predicted producers will extend maintenance this year in order to slow down fresh supplies. Ethanol prices have been under pressure from a plunge in crude oil and gasoline prices, while corn prices remain relatively stable. The biofuel has been tradi n g a t a ra re p re m i u m t o gasoline for months, sparking worry that fuel companies will only use the volumes of ethanol and other renewable fuels required to meet government mandates. One producer said that domestic sales of E85, a fuel comprised mostly of ethanol, have slowed due to cheap gas prices. That puts increasing pressure on producers to move excess supplies offshore. The U.S. Department of Commerce will lead a trade mission to Mexico in a few months. Demand has also been growing in countries in Asia, such as the Philippines. Tr a d e r s s a i d e x p o r t s t o China jumped last month, but since then, business has s l ow e d . Ho p e s o f a j u m p i n e x p o r t s i s “g ra s p i n g a t straws,” said an analyst.

A pump shows the prices for various ethanol blends at a gas station in Nevada, Iowa in May 2015. Rising inventories of ethanol are now likely to push margins to, or below, break-even costs for many U.S. producers. Photo: Reuters/Jim Young

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Asia watches as GMO challenge threatens Philippines’ food supply Philippine government agencies are scrambling to issue new GMO rules BY MANOLO SERAPIO JR. AND ENRICO DELA CRUZ Manila / Reuters

legal challenge to the Philippines’ rules on genetically modified organisms is threatening to spark a food crisis in the country and could cloud the outlook for GM technology around Asia. Government agencies are scrambling to set new regulations on GMOs by Feb. 23 after the Southeast Asian nation’s top court late last year demanded an overhaul of existing rules, halting GM planting and issuance of new GM import permits until that was done. The Supreme Court was acting on a petition by environmental activists led by Greenpeace, with the move likely to be closely watched by governments elsewhere as the Philippines is seen as a trailblazer for GMO. The country was the first in the region to allow planting and commercialization of GM corn, which it did in 2002, and has permitted GM crop imports for more than a decade. “Our framework has served as a model for GMO regulatory policy to other countries like Vietnam, Indonesia and even some Latin American countries,” said Merle Palacpac, chief of the plant quarantine service at the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI). “We have the first functioning regulatory framework in Asia. So I am sure whatever happens here, they are closely watching.” With some current import permits starting to expire from March and corn farmers set to begin sowing in May, five government agencies are pushing to sign new rules by Feb. 23 to avoid disrupting food supply in a year when voters will choose the country’s next leader. “We need (new rules) to be in place as soon as possible. Otherwise there will be chaos,” Palacpac added. Global agribusiness giants Monsanto and Syngenta are major suppliers of transgenic seeds to the Philippines. They did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

T h e S u p r e m e C o u r t ’s December ruling is “anti-nationalistic when you look at it from the perspective of the country’s food security,” said Roger Navarro, president of Philippine Maize Federation. Corn farmers are worried they might not be able to plant in May. “The livelihood of almost one million farmers nationwide will be threatened,” said Romualdo Elvira Jr., a farmer from the northern province of Bicol. Using non-GM seeds, a hectare yields around three tonnes of corn, said Oliver Aldovino, part of a farmer co-operative on the southern island of Mindanao. Aldovino, who switched to GM seven years ago, said output doubled with GM corn. But environmental activists say that after years of allowing GMO cultivation and imports, it is time the country took a step back.

“Since the Philippines began cultivating and commercializing GM corn, there hasn’t been a single review by the government in terms of the effect on the environment and farmers,” said Greenpeace campaigner Leonora Lava. “Our call now is for an impact assessment.” L a va , w h o a l s o o p p o s e s GMO imports, questioned the speedy way in which the new rules are being drafted. The government launched public consultations on the regulations on Jan. 22. Another public hearing was to run Feb. 17. “The concern here is a regulation of national significance. Why the haste?” she said. Greenpeace is yet to decide whether it will launch a fresh legal battle when the new GMO rules are introduced, said Lava.

Locally manufactured corn grits are for sale as feed at a Manila market on Feb. 16. The Philippines was the first country in Asia to allow planting and commercialization of GM corn and has permitted GM crop imports for more than a decade. Photo: Reuters/Erik De Castro

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onsanto will pay US$80 million to settle civil accounting violations after it allegedly misstated its earnings in connection with its top-selling Roundup product, U.S. securities regulators said Feb. 9. T h e U . S . Se c u r i t i e s a n d Exchange Commission (SEC) also said three accounting and sales executives have agreed to settle charges in connection with the case. T h e S E C ’s c a s e a g a i n s t Monsanto revolves around a c o r p o ra t e re b a t e p ro g ra m designed to boost sales of Roundup, a popular weed killer. The rebate program was created to combat rising generic competition which threatened to cut into the company’s profits. The agency said that Monsanto had insufficient internal controls to account for millions of dollars in rebates that it offered to retailers and d i s t r i b u t o r s. It u l t i m a t e l y booked a sizable amount of revenue, but then failed to recognize the costs of the rebate programs on its books. That led the St. Louis-based agriculture company to “materially” misstate its consolidated earnings for a three-year period. In a statement, the company said it fully reserved funds to pay for the penalty in fiscal year 2015. Monsanto added that it is not required to change any of its historical statements because the company already previously in 2011 restated its financial statements for fiscal year 2009 through the third quarter of fiscal year 2011. “Public companies need to have robust systems in place to ensure that all of their transactions are recognized in the correct reporting report,” said Scott Friestad, the SEC’s associate director for the enforcement division. In agreeing to settle, Monsanto neither admitted nor denied the charges, which include fraud. The agency did not charge the company with knowingly committing the violations. Monsanto accounting executives Sara Brunnquell, Anthony Hartke and then sales executive Jonathan Nienas also each agreed to pay penalties. Brunnquell and Hartke will also be temporarily suspended from acting as accountants for public companies. The SEC said it did not uncover any personal misconduct by Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant or former chief financial officer Carl Casale. Grant and Casale previously reimbursed the company for cash bonuses and stock awards they received during the periods the violations occurred.

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

Water management seen halving global food deficit Scientists see potential to boost crop yields through improved water systems BY ASTRID ZWEYNERT London / Thomson Reuters Foundation

nvesting in agricultural water management could substantially reduce hunger while limiting some of the harmful effects of climate change on crop yields, scientists said in a study released Feb. 16. Scientists investigated the potential for producing more food with the same amount of water by optimizing rain use and irrigation. As global warming is expected to worsen droughts and change rainfall patterns, water availability becomes even more crucial in reducing threats to the global food supply. “Smart water use can boost agr icultural production — we’ve in fact been surprised to see such sizable effects at the global level,” said Jonas Jägermeyr from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the study’s lead author. “It turns out that crop water management is a largely underrated approach to reduce undernourishment and increase climate resilience of smallholders,” he said. In the most ambitious scenario, global calorie production could rise by 40 per cent, halving the global food deficit by 2050, even though the world’s population is forecast to reach 9.7 billion people by then, up from 7.3 billion now. Even in less ambitious scenarios, the results show that integrated crop water management could make a crucial contribution to filling the plates of the poor, Jägermeyr said. Using computer simulations, the scientists investigated different water management options, from low-tech solutions such as collecting

rainwater in cisterns to mulching and industrial-scale drip irrigation. The potential for yield increases through crop water management is particularly large in water-scarce regions in China, Australia, the western U.S., Mexico and South Africa, the study found. “Water management is key for tackling the urgent global sustainability challenge,” said Johan Rockström, co-author of the study and director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. But in a business-as-usual scenario — if greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are not reduced at all — water management will clearly not suffice to outweigh the negative effects of climate change, the study said.

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

Manitoba hunters, ranchers seek rural night-hunting ban Better enforcement is wanted against night hunting in farmed and populated areas STAFF

anitoba’s hunter and rancher groups are calling on the province to tighten its enforcement against night hunting and ban the activity among all hunters in the province’s populated rural areas. The call Feb. 16 from the Manitoba Wildlife Federation follows a Sept. 10 near miss in which a couple near Winnipegosis, about 60 km north of Dauphin, was woken at 4 a.m. by a bullet going through their bedroom window frame into a closet wall. “Spotlighting, or night hunting, is an all-too-common

occurrence in rural Manitoba,” Wayne Lytwyn, the couple’s son-in-law, said in an MWF release. “Not only does it pose a significant risk to public safety, the damage done by poachers and night hunters is costly and disturbing.” Manitoba livestock have also been killed or injured by hunters using spotlights at night, the MWF said, in a call backed by groups including Manitoba Beef Producers, the Manitoba Natural Resource Officers’ Association and the Association of Manitoba Municipalities. Manitoba hunting regulations today allow night hunting — usually done with high-powered lights (“spotlighting”) to illumi-

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Getting into the mobile mindset If you’re not sure what your smartphone can do, a 14-year-old can help Try non-ag apps BY JENNIFER PAIGE Co-operator staff / Brandon

ech expert Peter Gredig recommends re-examining the power of your mobile device, as it may be one of the most valuable tools you own. “For the money, that $500 phone that you carry in your pocket probably has the highest rate of return of anything you have on the farm,” said Gredig, a partner in AgNition, a company that specializes in emerging technologies and mobile applications. “I think the biggest challenge is to try and understand all of the things your phone can do. Most of us are using eight, 10, or 12 per cent of what our phones can actually do,” Gredig told Farm Credit Canada’s Ag Outlook here Feb. 7. Gre d i g s a y s b e i n g o p e n minded and willing to try is the first step in harnessing the value that lies in today’s tech devices.

When exploring the app world, Gredig advises keeping in mind that there are a number that would be useful on the farm that aren’t ag specific. “A lot of the technologies that will work for us were not designed for us. I have an app that I use called Sign Easy, and it is a big deal for me when I found it. Every time I sell grain, the elevator sends me an email with a PDF file. Before, I would go home, print off the PDF, sign it, scan it and email it back,” said Gredig. “Now I have this Sign Easy app and I can do all of that on my phone in 15 seconds.” He also suggests looking at Field Manager Pro, which allows you to do field recordkeeping, and Ag Expert for tracking spending. “If you are in Canadian Tire and you make a purchase, you can take a picture of the receipt and it will go to your

“It isn’t about buying something that is cool. It is more about identifying problems and finding what can help solve them.”

cloud and to your desktop. No more spending time in the office doing those tasks,” said Gredig.

Data collection Gredig cautions producers of getting involved in too many devices and creating a data avalanche. “I won’t discourage you from gathering data but I would say, know why you are collecting it and make sure there is a benefit.” He warns of getting caught up in the hype of a product without finding real value in what it provides. “It isn’t about buying something that is cool. It is more about identifying problems and finding what can help solve them,” said Gredig. “It is easy to get caught up in the hype. But, we need to be thinking about where the value is.” jennifer.paige@fbcpublishing.com

Peter Gredig says a smartphone can be one of the most productive tools on the farm. Photos: JENNIFER PAIGE

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“Attitude is everything. It is really about identifying what the problems are that you are trying to solve and then looking for the technology to solve it,” he said. He suggests looking to the younger generation for inspiration when exploring your device. “If there is a 14-year-old kid or grandkid in the family, they are the experts and they can teach us. When you go to buy a phone, I really advocate that you buy them the exact same one,” said Gredig. “They are amazing on these things.” He pointed out a number of basic mobile device features go underutilized on today’s farms and explained that producers could specifically benefit from transitioning from phone calls to video calling. “Something breaks in the field on the cultivator or you have an employee who is encountering something, what do we do? — we call,” he said. “A 14-year-old kid doesn’t call. They Facetime or Skype, where you can hear and see and it’s free. So why aren’t we using this? Why aren’t we doing that with our mechanics, agronomist, veterinarians?”

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

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‘Seeds’ docudrama tells the compelling Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto story Annabel Soutar’s play on now at the Prairie Theatre Exchange is thought provoking, nuanced and entertaining BY ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff

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eeds” playwright Annabel Soutar was surprised where h e r i n ve stigation into the legal battle between convicted canola patent infringer and Bruno, Sask. farmer Percy Schmeiser, and Monsanto Canada, took her. “It intrigued me from the beginning,” Soutar said in a telephone interview Feb. 17, while waiting to catch a flight to Winnipeg where “Seeds,” starring Eric Peterson, is running at the Prairie Theatre Exchange until Feb. 28. “I always hope when I start my documentar y journeys that I’ll be surprised because it means probably then the audience will be surprised as they watch it unfold on stage.” “Seeds” is an investigative docudrama. The characters’ lines come verbatim from interviews and court transcripts of Schmeiser and others, including Monsanto Canada’s feisty spokesperson Trish Jordan.

Invented The only “invented” narrative comes from Soutar’s character, which helps pull the audience through her exhaustive search for the truth. Is Schmeiser a thief or a hero? Is he David and Monsanto Goliath? The 2-1/2-hour play reveals complex issues that are nuanced, not black and white. “Peoples’ words are very much like their fingerprints,” Soutar said. “It reveals a lot about where we’re from and what we think and what we’re trying to do.” In the late 1990s, Schmeiser multiplied some glyphosate(Roundup-) resistant canola seed he discovered on his farm. According to Schmeiser, the seed must have blown onto his land. He denied buying it illegally from another farmer. He argued because the seeds were found on his farm, they belonged to him. Monsanto has a patent on the gene that makes canola resistant to glyphosate. Those who buy the seed signed a technicaluse agreement not to keep the progeny for seed or to sell it as seed. Tests revealed those genes were in Schmeiser’s fields and Monsanto accused him of patent infringement. Two lower courts agreed, as did the Supreme Court of Canada, but it was a five-tofour decision — proof the justices were themselves divided. Monsanto is not the largest multinational genetically modified seed and chemical company, but seems to be the most reviled. Schmeiser’s fight made him into an international folk hero to many. It raised important questions around farmers’ traditional right to save seed and intellec-

tual property laws that entitle developers payment for their innovations. That was Soutar’s starting point. In the first act the playwright builds an alliance with Schmeiser. But Monsanto’s Jordan urges Soutar to dig deeper. And she does. It’s thought provoking and entertaining theatre. Actor Cary Lawrence’s portrayal of the often truculent Jordan, was bang on. The portrayal of several scientists is less accurate, making one out to be supercilious and two others as beer-swilling goofballs.

Complaints Some audience members have complained the play doesn’t give those opposed to genetically modified (GM) crops enough weight, while others argue Monsanto’s perspective is downplayed. “We have to remember the audience comes into the play with expectations and judgments already in their minds and often

Actors Amelia Sargisson and Eric Peterson play playwright Annabel Soutar and Percy Schmeiser in “Seeds.”

PHOTO: HAANITA SEVAL

“I always hope when I start my documentary journeys that I’ll be surprised because it means probably then the audience will be surprised as they watch it unfold on stage.”

Annabel Soutar

that influences how they see the portrayal of the characters,” Soutar said. The play attracts people on both sides of the GM schism and challenges their assumptions. “I like to engage with a diverse audience that has different opinions about things,” she added. “Very often we’ll have organic far mers and people from Monsanto in the same room. We’ll have academics and people directly involved in agriculture in the same room and the conversation that arises between them, I think, can be very dynamic.” In an interview following the production Feb. 16 Jordan said she doesn’t agree with everything in the play, but is pleased Monsanto’s perspective is included. (Monsanto is sponsoring the actors’ accommodation during the play’s Winnipeg run.) “For us it’s an opportunity to have a dialogue around issues that people don’t normally discuss,” she said. “As you know a

Monsanto Canada’s Trish Jordan (l) and actor Carey Lawrence who plays Jordan in “Seeds,” a play about Percy Schmeiser’s battle with Monsanto over patent infringement on at Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange until Feb. 28. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON

lot of people have multiple misconceptions about Monsanto and who we are and what we do and so if this gives the opportunity for people to start talking about it and ask us questions and ask others about it then I think that’s a good thing.”

Thumbs up Organic farmer and inspector Stuart McMillan gave the play a thumbs up during a panel discussion hosted Feb. 18 by the Winnipeg Free Press news café. Jordan, who initially brushed off Soutar’s interview request, is happy she relented. “I think Trish is someone

who is quite skeptical about the media in general and its capacity to tell balanced stories,” Soutar said. “I made the argument… I was going to write this play and if I didn’t have her testimony, or testimony from someone at Monsanto, I wouldn’t be able to achieve the balance that I sought. “I think that argument touched her.” Soutar said her relationship with Jordan has evolved over the last dozen years. “We have our disagreements and she (Trish) knows I’m not there to promote the interests of Monsanto,” Soutar said. “We opened a dialogue for Monsanto

so people can get to know it but also to vent some of the criticism about how it operates.” The scientific consensus around the safety of GM food is stronger now than when the play was written, but the debate is more emotional and divisive than ever, she said. “I think the activists have been more mobilized and that’s why I think companies like Monsanto feel having a forum for discussion like the play is necessary.” allan@fbcpublishing.com

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The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

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Gate to Plate Ramp up your chili recipe and celebrate World Chili Day By Getty Stewart Contributor

your pan, heat your oil, use room temperature meat and avoid stirring your meat until it has been fully seared.

More veggies

ebruary 25 may not be a national holiday, but it is World Chili Day and definitely worthy of celebration. It’s a perfect excuse to enjoy a steamy hot bowl of your favourite chili. It’s also an excellent opportunity to experiment by either tweaking your family recipe or trying a new recipe altogether. To ramp up any chili recipe, here are a few helpful tips and ideas to consider:

Brown your meat Even if using a Crock-Pot, browning your meat will add a depth of flavour that just can’t be beat. To get nice brown bits instead of grey, steamed meat, be sure to preheat

Add extra veggies to get extra nutrients and stretch your chili by a couple of bowls. Sauté aromatic, hardy vegetables such as onions, celery, carrots, mushrooms, peppers or sweet potatoes early in the process and add more tender vegetables such as zucchini, spinach, broccoli, green beans or corn towards the end of the cooking time so they’ll hold their shape and colour.

Heat your spices Heat your spices in the pan before adding liquid ingredients. It just takes a minute or so to release their full aroma and flavour. If you really want to up your flavour game, heat and crush whole spices and chili peppers — you won’t believe the difference.

Simmer long and slow Simmer as long as possible. A long, slow cooking time allows liquid to evaporate, meat to be tenderized and seasonings to be fully absorbed and well distributed. If using a Crock-Pot leave the lid askew for the last hour of cooking to ensure a thick, flavourful chili.

Be daring Experiment. Despite what chili aficionados may claim, there is no right or wrong when it comes to chili. Next time you make a batch, try using different meat or combinations of meat (beef and turkey, pork and bison, chicken and bacon or sausage and beef ). Try a vegetarian version. Or try experimenting with ingredients like cocoa powder, cinnamon, coffee or a bottle of dark beer to create rich, deep colour and flavour. Here are three tasty chili recipes to add to your recipe box. Enjoy!

Classic Beef ’n Beans Chili

Pork and Green Bean Chili

Really Good Veggie Chili

1 tbsp. canola oil

A great tomatoless alternative to traditional chili.

1 medium dark-fleshed sweet potato, peeled and cut into chunks

1 lb. lean ground beef 1 onion, diced

1 tbsp. canola oil

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

2 celery stalks, diced

1 lb. ground pork

1 onion, chopped

1 carrot, diced

1 medium onion, chopped

1 red pepper, seeded and chopped

3 cloves garlic, minced

2 stalks celery, chopped

1 yellow pepper, seeded and chopped

1/2 lb. mushrooms, diced (10-12 mushrooms)

4 cloves garlic, minced

1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced

2 tbsp. chili powder

1/2 tsp. dried basil

3 garlic cloves, crushed

1/2 tbsp. cumin

1/2 tsp. dried oregano

1 bunch cilantro

1 tsp. dried oregano

1/2 tsp. dried marjoram

1 tbsp. chili powder

1 tsp. paprika

2 c. chicken stock

2 tsp. cumin

1 tsp. cayenne pepper

2 tsp. cider vinegar

Pinch cinnamon

2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

2 19-oz. (540-ml) cans beans, such as kidney, black, romano or

1 can (6 oz.) tomato paste 1 c. beef stock 1 can (28 oz.) diced tomatoes 1/2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce 1 can (19 oz.) kidney beans 1 can (14 oz.) navy beans or baked beans

2 tbsp. cornstarch 1 can (15 oz./439 g) dark red kidney beans 2 c. frozen green beans 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. black pepper

Heat pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat for one minute. Add oil to pan and heat for one minute. Add ground beef but don’t stir. Sear one side until golden brown, flip and sear other side. Break up into pieces and cook until no pink remains. Drain off liquid if needed. Add onions, celery and carrots; cook until softened and onions are translucent, about three to four minutes. Add garlic and mushrooms; cook another two to three minutes. Add chili powder, cumin, oregano, paprika and cayenne pepper; cook until fragrant, about one minute. Add tomato paste and mix well. Add beef stock, diced tomatoes and Worcestershire sauce. Mix well and gently simmer on medium to low heat for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add beans; cook for another 15 minutes. Add brown sugar if chili is too acidic. Taste and adjust seasoning as desired. Serve with shredded cheese on top.

Heat pot or Dutch oven over mediumhigh heat for one minute. Add oil to pan and heat for one minute. Add ground pork but don’t stir. Sear one side until golden brown, flip and sear other side. Break up into pieces and cook until no pink remains. Drain off liquid as needed. Add onions and celery; cook until tender, about three to four minutes. Add garlic; cook for another minute. Add basil, oregano and marjoram; sauté until aromatic, about 1 minute. Add soup stock, cider vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. In small, separate bowl, mix cornstarch with 3 tbsp. water until well dissolved. Add cornstarch to pot and bring to boil, stirring frequently as sauce thickens. Reduce heat and bring to low simmer. Add kidney beans and green beans; heat through, about five to eight minutes. Add salt and pepper, taste and adjust seasoning. Serve with rice or simply as is.

Serves: 6 Recipe Source: www.GettyStewart.com

Serves: 4 Recipe Source: www.GettyStewart.com

1/2 tbsp. brown sugar (optional) Salt and pepper to taste

Canola oil, for cooking

chickpeas 2 19-oz (540-ml) cans diced or whole tomatoes, or one of each Crumbled feta, for serving (optional)

Preheat oven to 425 F. Spread sweet potato on baking sheet, drizzle generously with oil and toss around to coat. Sprinkle with salt and pepper; roast for 25-30 minutes, until tender and turning golden. Set a medium pot over medium-high heat, add some oil and sauté onion, peppers and garlic for a few minutes, until soft. Chop and add cilantro stems and about half of the leaves (save the rest to put on top) along with the chili powder and cumin and cook for another few minutes. Add beans, tomatoes and roasted sweet potatoes. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a simmer; cook for 30-45 minutes, until thickened. Serve hot, topped with crumbled feta (or sour cream) and fresh cilantro. Serves 4 Recipe Source: www.DinnerWithJulie.com

About The Author Getty Stewart puts good food on tables and agendas as a professional home economist, speaker and writer. A Prairie girl living in Winnipeg, she is the author of the Prairie Fruit Cookbook, a mom and veggie gardener. She shares recipes and kitchen tips at www.gettystewart.com.

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

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Winter driving fuel economy Cold temperatures are hard on cars. Here’s some tips to help improve fuel efficiency and reduce pollution RRBC release

x t r e m e l y cold temperatures, icy r o a d s , a n d b l ow i n g s n ow c a n m a k e d r i v i n g difficult and be hard on our vehicles in the winter. When the temperature plunges, fuel efficiency can fall 20 per cent or more and air pollution can increase. Hybrids fare even worse — their fuel economy can drop over 30 per cent in cold weather. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (livinggreen365.pca@state. mn.us) offers the following tips to increase your car’s wintertime fuel economy and reduce polluting emissions: 1. Check your tires. Tires lose pressure when the temperature drops. Properly inflated tires improve gas mileage and prolong the life of the tire. Check your tire pressure at least monthly in the winter. 2. M aintain your vehicle. A well-maintained vehicle uses less fuel and pollutes less. According to the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy, fixing a car that is out of tune can improve its gas mileage by an average of four per cent. 3. Don’t idle. It’s not necessary or even advisable to warm vehicle engines more than 30 seconds in the winter. Most cars built in the last couple of decades have electronic engines in place of carburetors and warm faster when they are moving.

Vehicles should also be turned off when stopped for more than 10 seconds. After 10 seconds, it takes more gas to idle than it does to restart the engine. An idling vehicle also creates more pollution than a moving one. 4. C ombine trips. It takes longer in cold weather for your car to reach its most fuel-efficient operating temperature. Combine trips to help keep the engine warm and save on gas. For optimum operating efficiency, make your longest stop your first stop. Consider using a GPS device or your phone to plan your route. 5. R emove junk from the t r u n k a n d c l e a r s n ow and ice. Reducing weight increases your MPG and reduces vehicle pollution. Clear ice and snow, including in the wheel well area, to reduce vehicle weight and tire interference. 6. R emove drag. When not in use, remove roof racks and other accessories that increase wind resistance and decrease MPG. 7. Avoid peak travel times. This is good advice any time of the year, but especially in the winter when icy roads can slow traffic to a crawl. 8. Turn off seat warmers and defrosters. Use seat warmers and defrosters sparingly. You’ll get better MPG when they’re off. 9. P re h e a t t h e c a b i n s o f hybrid and electric vehicles. Preheating the car’s interior while it’s plugged into the charger can extend its range.

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·  T i re c h e c k : C h e c k yo u r tires and reduce pollution, w w w. p c a . s t a t e . m n . u s / fw48fda. · “ The biggest winter energy myth…,” www.washingtonpost.com. ·  “ Which Is Greener: Idle, or Stop and Restart?” http://www.afdc.energy. gov/uploads/publication/ which_is_greener.pdf.

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Grow an epiphyte in a vanda basket An interesting indoor project for the avid gardener By Albert Parsons Freelance contributor

uring the winter we gardeners like to experiment with new gardening techniques or try new plants. One that is quite unique is the epiphyte plant — it does not grow in soil — but in its natural habitat will fasten itself to other plants (mainly trees) and grows without being anchored in the soil. Although they are not anchored in soil, the roots have some covering in the wild such as litter, including leaves that are constantly being shed by the broadleaf evergreen trees of the tropical rainforests from which they originate. To grow this plant indoors, try to mimic its natural environment by attaching it to something and using a bit of sphagnum moss around the roots, which will keep them from becoming desiccated. The plant can be attached to pieces of board or slabs of bark, using strips of pantyhose, thin wire or garden twine. Wrap the roots with a bit of sphagnum moss before the root ball is fastened to one of these plaques. Sometimes epiphytes are purchased that have their roots and some moss enclosed in a porous burlap wrapping.

Instead of mounting the plant on a plaque, a vanda basket can be used. These containers have been developed specifically for growing epiphytes and are often made of cedar slats that are stacked one on top of another, held together by a long bolt in each corner. Vanda baskets are also made from plastic. These are less expensive and are simply slatted plastic containers or sometimes made from a plastic mesh, similar to the baskets used for water plants in a pond. The advantage of using a vanda basket is that the container can sit on a flat surface while the plaque has to be hung. The baskets can also be hung — they usually have eyes in the top corners to which wires can be attached. If a cascading plant is used, the basket can be hung by only one of the eyes so the plant faces outward and hangs down. Staghorn ferns, tillandsia, orchids, and bromeliads are all epiphytic plants that perform well when planted in vanda baskets. The roots are covered with either sphagnum moss or long-hair coconut fibre which is pressed firmly around the roots to securely anchor the plant. The material retains moisture and allows the roots to stay moist without being overly wet, which can spell doom for most epiphytes. Such plants require excellent

Staghorn ferns, tillandsia, orchids, and bromeliads are all epiphytic plants that perform well when planted in vanda baskets.

drainage around their roots. That is why they are rarely planted in soil and must be able to access oxygen from the air. A basket can be taken to the sink and soaked, then allowed to drain completely before being returned to its display location. If it is hung, wait until all dripping has ceased and if it is displayed on a tabletop, the basket should be set on a saucer that will protect the table from water damage. Placing a few stones in the saucer will allow even more aeration and if the plant likes high humidity, use of a pebble tray (ensuring the basket is held well above the water in the tray) will increase the humidity around the plant. Growing an epiphyte in a vanda basket is an interesting indoor project for the avid gardener.

A bromeliad is one epiphyte that can be successfully grown in a vanda basket. PHOTO: ALBERT PARSONS

Albert Parsons writes from Minnedosa, Manitoba

The Manitoba Co-operator | February 25, 2016

COUNTRY CROSSROADS

Shoal Lake Ag Society director recognized by MAAS Sophie Sytnyk awarded an Honorary Life Membership for her 39 years of service and numerous other community contributions By Darrell Nesbitt Freelance contributor

“Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; however, indeed they have the heart.”

hose words truly sum up a Shoal Lake Agricultural Society director who served for nearly 40 years before resigning her post in

2015. Prior to her resignation, Sophie Sytnyk was among the eight elite directors within the province to be recognized and honoured with a Manitoba Association of Agricultural (MAAS) Societies Honorary Life Memberships at the 28th Annual MAAS Conference held in Brandon. Born in Vista in 1923, Sophie eventually married Joseph Sytnyk, and they raised five children on the family farm, south of Shoal Lake. She was a stay-at-home mother and their boys were part of the 4-H Beef Club and the girls participated in the Shoal Lake 4-H Home Economics program. Son Perry continues to operate the farm with his three children and brother Brian who helps when he can. Nominated by the Shoal Lake Agricultural Society, which has been in existence since 1884, Sytnyk has served as a director on the local agricultural society’s board for a total of 39 years. She has been an exhibitor at the Shoal Lake and Hamiota fairs from 1976 to the present. She is also known for her plants and flowers and beautiful yards — on the family farm and presently at her residence in Shoal Lake. Because of her involvement with the Shoal Lake Agricultural Society, as well as numerous other community achievements, Sytnyk was noted as a deserving recipient of an Honorary Life Membership. The 2015 MAAS Conference was her fourth attendance, noting back in 1992 she was awarded first prize in the Poster Competition. Eight years prior, she designed a Centennial Quilt, which was raffled off as a fundraiser for the local society. She was also a 4-H leader for over 19 years, member of the Royal Canadian Legion Auxiliary for 25 years, volunteer with Meals on Wheels for

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Reader’s Photo Sophie Sytnyk was presented with an Honorary Life Membership award by MAAS past president Allan Reid. PHOTO: COURTESY MAAS

six years, and an active member of St. Josaphat’s Ukrainian Catholic Church. At 92, Sytnyk continues to be an inspiration to not only her family, but to all past and present ag society directors, and the community. Along with Shoal Lake’s nominee, Russell (Bud) McKague and wife Frances — lifetime members of the Oak River Agricultural Society were also chosen for the Honorary Life Award. Also honoured were John Holland and Katherine Wilkinson of the Springfield Ag Society, Allen Anderson and Ken Weins of the Opasquia Ag Society, and Doris Fletcher of the McCreary Ag Society. The MAAS Conference in 1992 was the inauguration of the Honorary Life Memberships program. With individual ag societies putting forward nominations to the MAAS board, the Honorary Award is based on member’s contribution to the local agricultural society, the community and the province. MAAS provides the vehicles and opportunities to develop and promote vital rural communities and agricultural societies. It continues to look at new and innovative educational opportunities and partnerships to enhance agricultural education and awareness in Manitoba.

This robin decided to spend the winter in the Erickson, Manitoba area. PHOTO: CINDY MURRAY

Darrell Nesbitt writes from Shoal Lake, Manitoba

This Old Elevator

n the 1950s, there were over 700 grain elevators in Manitoba. Today, there are fewer than 200. You can help to preserve the legacy of these disappearing “Prairie sentinels.” The Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is gathering information about all elevators that ever stood in Manitoba, regardless of their present status. Collaborating with the Manitoba Co-operator it is supplying these images of a grain elevator each week in hopes readers will be able to tell the society more about it, or any other elevator they know of. MHS Gordon Goldsborough webmaster and Journal editor has developed a website to post your replies to a series of questions about elevators. The MHS is interested in all grain elevators that have served the farm community. Your contributions will help gather historical information such as present status of elevators, names of companies, owners and agents, rail lines, year elevators were built — and dates when they were torn down (if applicable). There is room on the website to post personal recollections and stories related to grain elevators. The MHS presently also has only a partial list of all elevators that have been demolished. You can help by updating that list if you know of one not included on that list. Your contributions are greatly appreciated and will help the MHS develop a comprehensive, searchable database to preserve the farm community’s collective knowledge of what was once a vast network of grain elevators across Manitoba. Please contribute to This Old Grain Elevator website at: http://www.mhs.mb.ca/elevators. You will receive a response, by email or phone call, confirming that your submission was received.

A 58,000-bushel grain elevator at the Hubbell Siding in the Municipality of Lorne was built in 1938 and its annex was built in 1953. Owned at one time by Canada West Grain, in July 1948 it was sold to United Grain Growers. It was closed on July 31, 1971 and was later demolished. Photo: UGG Engineering Department (Glenn Dickson)

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"Royal Pride 8B was Reserve Champion Angus at the Junior Heifer Show at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto 2015." - Bellstar Angus

Young Dale Xcaliber 32X Sale Managed By: T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd.

4-3342 Millar Ave., Saskatoon, SK S7K 7G9 info@tbarc.com | www.tbarc.com Chris’ Cell: 306.220.5006 Ted’s Cell: 306.221.2711 Shane’s Cell: 403.363.9973

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March 2016 RED LWNBRG Comprehensive HARVESTOR 103C Bull Western Canada’s

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Buyers Guide

TED HARVESTOR 154A RED CARRIER

BW: 85 205D: 810 365D: 1386

25TH ANNUAL BULL SALE March 15, 2016 1:00 p.m.

BIEBER ROLLIN DEEP Y118 2 SONS SELL

Balog Auction, Lethbridge, AB 3 RESOURCE SONS SELL

10 FUSION SONS SELL

5 UNANIMOUS SONS SELL MRLA FLEX 49Z 6 SONS SELL

RED LWNBRG FUSION 122C Castlerock Marketing Shane Castle 306-741-7485 Devin Warrilow 780-581-4329

RED LWNBRG FUSION 128C

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Contacts: Dennis: 403-308-3003 | Johnny: 403-382-1794 | Jack:403-330-6123 | lbgangus@gmail.com

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31ST ANNUAL

SELLING 52 LIMOUSIN BULLS

BULL SALE

SEMEN TESTED & GUARANTEED YEARLINGS | 2 YEAR OLDS | RED & BLACK | POLLED

MARCH 19, 2016 2:30PM LUNCH 12:30PM WESTLOCK AG BARN WESTLOCK, AB

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LOT 6 DC BRUNO 2B

LOT 8 EXCELS CAPTAIN CANADA 42C

LOT 13 EXCEL POLLED COWBOY CUT 2C

LOT 22 EXCEL POLLED CROSS TOWN 43C

LOT 29 FL PLD PLYMPUS BOND

LOT 37 HILLVIEW CARSON

LOT 41 HILLVIEW CONDUCTOR

LOT 48 HILLVIEW BIG HEART

CATALOG ONLINE 2016 January www.limousinbulls.ca

DC FARMS

Doug & Carolyn Johnson 780-674-4098

EXCEL RANCHES

Ron & Barb Miller 780-349-2135 Cody & Amy Miller 780-349-0644

HILLVIEW FARMS Raymond & Corine Verbeek 780-939-2173

FOUILLARD LIMOUSIN Ed & Debbie Fouillard 780-789-2103 Dan & Pam Fouillard 587-987-8734

HANSEN’S LIMOUSIN Scott & Lesley Hansen 780-727-4557

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Annual Sons sell:

2nd High Selling Yearling at Brooking 2014 Sale

BW 0.8 WW 47 YW 84 MILK 29 TM 53

Spady Bull Sale Wednesday, April 13 th, 2016

Sire: Connealy Stimulus 8419 MGS: SAC 004 Density 4336

Peak dot eliminator 780z

BW 5.6 WW 59 YW 100 MILK 24 TM 54

2nd High Selling Yearling at Peak Dot 2013 Sale

Sire: SAV Eliminator 9105 MGS: SAV 004 Predominant 4438

KBJ PREDO 105A

R ivercrest Valleymere

BW 2.5 WW 38 YW 74 MILK 22 TM 41

Sire: Atlasta Predominacnt 31W MGS: FRL Traveler 416

FV Mandate Man 146y

BW -1.9 WW 60 YW 112 MILK 23 TM 53

High Selling Yearling at Fertile Valley 2012 Sale

Sire: Sydgen Mandate 6079

MGS: FV 20K King 308M

duralta 307r updraft 45a

BW 3.1 WW 73 YW 123 MILK 31 TM 68

Sire: SITZ Upward 307R MGS: KMK Alliance 6595 187

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Visit our websites for more details and online catalogue @ www.rivercrestangus.com and www.valleymereangus.com or give us a call.

On Offer:

120 Black Angus Bulls Sale 1:30pm at the Ranch near Alliance, AB

* All Bulls Semen Tested * Sight Unseen Purchase Guarantee * Volume Buyer Incentive * Delivery or Credit * Pioneers in the Angus business spanning four generations since 1937 * Premium ranch-raised cattle bred for performance and longevity

Craig Spady 403-740-4978 Travis Spady 780-879-2298 Tom Spady 780-879-2180 Brian Spady 780-879-2110

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March 2016 Western Canada’s Comprehensive Bull Buyers Guide Lunch 12 Noon - Sale 1 PM TH

APRIL 13 , 2016

at the farm, Swan River MB

50 TWO YEAR OLD & YEARLING RED AND BLACK ANGUS BULLS

BULLS SIRED BY: WPRA Legacy 314A Red D Bar Dynamo 67Y Red McRaes Mohican 40X Red Geis Premier Plus 72’96 ACC Tiger 3Z ACC Upward 99A Crescent Creek Pacesetter 128Z Crescent Creek Chisum 16Z DMM Creed 75W Kembar Kodiak 10Y Young Dale NoZeka 2Z

View the catalog at

www.andersoncattle.ca or www.buyagro.com

Anderson Cattle Co: 204-734-2073 T Bar C Cattle Co: 306-220-5006

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DIAMOND W CHAROLAIS & RED ANGUS

14th Annual Thursday, March 17, 2016 • 1:30 PM Bull Sale VALLEY LIVESTOCK SALES, MINITONAS, MB

spaRRows Chitek 930w Ivan, Ethel & Orland Walker Box 235, Hudson Bay, SK S0E 0Y0 T 306-865-3953 C 306-865-6539 diamondw@sasktel.net

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45 CHAROLAIS Two Year Olds & Yearlings 15 RED & BLACK ANGUS Two Year Olds & Yearlings Our bulls will work for you: • Big, Solid Bulls that can Cover Pastures • Lots of Hair – Full of Meat • More Bull for Your Dollar • Semen Tested and Ready to Work! • Performance Tested • Good Feet, Structurally Sound, Easy Fleshing

MeRit RoUnd-Up 9508w Commercial Consultants: Clayton Hawreluik, Heartland Livestock, Yorkton, SK, 306-621-3824; Ron Reed Livestock, Lethbridge, AB, 403-625-0233 Valley Livestock Sales: Randy Hart, 204-734-8624

Red CRowfoot Moonshine 8081U SALE MANAGER:

306-584-7937 Helge By 306-536-4261 Candace By 306-536-3374 charolaisbanner@gmail.com

Stop by the farm anytime and have a look • View the bulls online at www.bylivestock.com

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March 2016 Sealin Creek Bar Lad 129A Sealin Creek Eric 5Y Tattoo# PAK 5Y Western Canada’s Comprehensive Bull Buyers Guide

Remington Heads Up 44Y Tattoo # RCC 44Y

Tattoo# PAK 129A

YEARLING BULLS FOR SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY OUT OF THESE SIRES

PRIDE OF THE PRAIRIES BULL SHOW & SALE

S H O W & S A L E D AT E I S M A R C H 6 – 7 • L LO Y D M I N S T E R E X H I B I T I O N G R O U N D S Z-Bar Eric 111B ZBR 111B

Z-Bar Eric 95B ZBR 95B

Dave and Carol Gray Marsden, Sk.

Phone or text: 306-823-3954 email: zbar@mcsnet.ca

www.zbarangus.com • We are a source of the Original Straight Canadian Genetics • We are selling 6 black and 2 red two year olds at the Pride of the Praires Bull Show and Sale in Lloydminster in March

2 YEAR OLD SIMMENTAL BULLS REICH ANGUS & K3 RANCH 2 YEAR OLD BULL SALE

1 PM - MARCH 16, 2016 - CALNASH AG CENTRE - PONOKA AB

25 ANGUS BULLS

12 SIMMENTAL BULLS

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HAROLD AND DOROTHY REICH (780-372-2175) CELL(403-783-0207) • KOLTON KASUR (780-387-8376)

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March 2016

LLB Angus

Bull & FEMAlE SAlE

th AnnuAl Western Canada’s30 Comprehensive Bull Buyers Guide

MARCh 12, 2016

at the farm Erskine AB

Offering over 700 head of Quality Black & Red Angus Cattle

• 100 yearling heifers • 300 commercial heifers • 60 purebred & commercial bred heifers • 150 yearling bulls • 100 two year old bulls

Black & Red two year old Bulls

Black & Red Yearling Bulls

Lee, Laura & Jackie Brown Trish & Tim henderson Phone: 403-742-4226 Fax: 403-742-2962

Box 217, erskine, alberta T0c 1G0 catalogue online www.llbangus.com

South OffView Ranch ering 90+ Red and Black Angus Yearlings

Red SVR Hitch 19C

Red SVR Hitch 21C

Red SVR Hitch 7C

BW: -1.7 WW: 58 YW: 86 Milk: 14

Red SVR Tornado 167C

SVR Top Secret 385C

BW: -2.4 WW: 64 YW: 94 Milk: 12

BW: -1.1 WW: 63 YW: 90 Milk: 10

January 2016

Red SVR Ribeye 54C

BW: -1.5 WW: 57 YW: 85 Milk: 13

BW: -1.5 WW: 56 YW: 79 Milk: 15

Keith & Linda Kaufmann Box 130, Ceylon, SK S0C 0T0 306-454-2730 Fax 454-2643 svr@sasktel.net

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 20 16

BW: 1.5 WW: 42 YW: 75 Milk: 21 Shane & Alexis Kaufmann & Family Box 40, Ceylon, SK S0C 0T0 306-454-2688 sakaufmann.svr@sasktel.net

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BID OFF BULL SALE

Bidding starts March 12, 2016 – 1:00 PM CST Closes Tuesday March 15, 2016 – 2:00 PM CST

40 yearling and 2 yr old bulls, mostly red Details and updates on our websites

43rd Performance Bull Sale 50+ Yearling Bulls

New First on the Farm

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April 12 , 2016 | 1 th

Perlich Bros. Auction Market Lethbridge, Alberta

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Featuring: Open heifers from Matt Slingerland & Hicken Ranches

Shawn: 403.642.2041 (bandkr@live.ca) Mike: 1.877.888.BULL (www.rodgersredangus.com) Perlich Brothers: 403.329.3101 • COMPLIMENTARY LUNCH

• $250 BULL CREDIT

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March 2016 SIMMENTAL FOCUS-75

On Offer:  80 Bulls Breeding Bulls For Grass Farmers  12 FB & PB heifers Western Canada’s Comprehensive Bull Buyers Guide BLACK & RED ANGUS Plus 25-30 9YR OLD WALKING HERDSIRE RUGGED commercial heifers MH TITAN 752

3rd Annual

MARCH 12, 2016 LLOYDMINSTER EXHIBITION GROUNDS 1:00 P.M. MST

O C C GREATPLAINS X O C C HOMER

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SALE MARCH 12TH - ASHERN MB

RWR Boss Hawg 30C

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