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Beef industry
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New report: Canada’s beef
sector is stuck in a rut
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR / OTTAWA
A
decade after rebounding
strongly from the
2003 BSE crisis, Canada’s
beef sector is stuck in a competitive
rut with no clear idea of
how to get out it, says a report
prepared by the Canadian
Agriculture Policy Institute
(CAPI).
The world market for beef
has changed in the last 10
years, says the report, based
on interviews with farmers
and other players in the cattle
industry. The “sector faces
many new challenges, of which
our balance of trade with the
U.S. is a paramount concern.”
See BEEF on page 6 »
Herds get paid to graze
Providing a “browsing service” to contain invasive species may be a lucrative niche
By Daniel Winters
CO-OPERATOR STAFF / NEAR HUMBOLDT, SASK.
Eric Weisbeck had one big problem
on the 17,000-acre community
pasture he manages —
brush was taking over.
Brian Payne had a simple solution —
700 of his goats.
“And then when he told me that I
wouldn’t have to do a whole bunch of
fencing, I was even more in favour of
A flock of goats grazes on the
Wolverine AESB community pasture near
Humboldt, Sask. PHOTO: DANIEL WINTERS
that,” said Weisbeck, pasture manager
of Wolverine AESB, a PFRA pasture
established in 1941.
One summer of goat grazing was
enough to set the wolf willows back
dramatically and there’s hardly a poplar
branch below what a goat can
reach standing on its hind legs. The
best part of all, was that the goats left
the grass more or less alone for the
1,350 cattle owned by 45 local patrons.
“I’m hoping to make this a long-
term thing and hopefully move the
goats to other spots throughout the
pasture,” Weisbeck said at the recent
Multi-Species Grazing Conference.
Payne, who camped out all summer
in a rustic van on a hilltop next to a
picturesque lake, calls it “bare-naked
goating” and a great opportunity to
scale up a flock without spending big
dollars on land.
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The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 3
Feds boost development of plantbased
plastic and straw paper
Prairie Pulp & Paper receives more grist for the mill, as feds announce funding
By Shannon VanRaes
co-operator staff
Manitoba’s Composites
Innovation Centre
is one step closer
to putting plant-based plastic
alternatives into daily life,
after receiving a federal grant
of $860,000.
The centre will use the funding
to further research and
develop plant-fibre mats — like
those used in the automotive
industry — and develop a system
of classifying fibre quality
and availability.
“We’re basically looking
at the properties of the fibre
... that’s how we can ensure
the quality is high, working
with and building the supply
chain,” said Sean McKay,
the centre’s executive director.
That classification system
will also assist in ensuring
the right type of plant fibre
is readily available for industry
as value chains mature, he
said.
Aerospace and transportation
components are considered
a prime market for plantbased
plastics, as are novel
musical instruments, he said.
The funding will come from
the Agricultural Innovation
Program, which is also providing
$385,000 for Prairie Pulp
& Paper Inc., which recently
launched a straw-based printer
paper.
“This moves the marker up
the field a little farther,” said
company chairman Clayton
Manness. “We’ve been struggling
— we’ve never bounced a
cheque, we’ve never been late
— but our cash flow is right
to the dollar. So this helps us
move it along.”
The money will be used for
further research and development
of chlorine-free and sulphur-free
paper, he said.
In the meantime, the company
is gauging the popularity
of its Step Forward Paper in the
hope of launching new products
and eventually building a
manufacturing plant in rural
Manitoba.
“I think we’re six months
minimum, probably 12 months
maximum, out from mak-
By Alex Binkley
co-operator contributor / ottawa
After two years of largely
behind-the-scenes discussion,
Agriculture
Minister Gerry Ritz hopes to
strike this month for a framework
agreement with the provinces
on the next version of
Growing Forward.
In a news release, Ritz said a
wide variety of views has been
heard.
“Canadians have spoken on
the future direction of agriculture
and governments have listened,”
said Ritz.
Prairie Pulp & Paper Inc. chairman, Clayton Manness, holds up samples of the company’s straw-based printer paper. photos: shannon Vanraes
“This moves the marker up
the field a little farther.”
ClAyTON MANNeSS
ing the major decision,” said
Manness.
Staples is the exclusive
Canadian retailer of the paper.
“Without the marketing
component, you’re going to
have a hard time selling it to
investors,” he said.
And investors will be key. The
proposed straw paper plant
would cost about $500 million.
It would employ as many as
300 people, producing 215,000
tonnes of paper each year.
Not so, said Ron Bonnett,
president of the Canadian
Federation of Agriculture.
Governments never formally
engaged farm groups in discussions
about the new programs,
he said.
“That doesn’t mean we don’t
support the government’s desire
for more focus on market development
and innovation,” said
Bonnett. “But farmers still need
to be backstopped through
tough times.”
This summer’s drought in
Ontario and Quebec is the kind
of event that farmers need help
with, just as flooding in Western
Between 300,000 and 400,000
tonnes of straw would also be
needed each year, requiring an
estimated 400 to 500 farmers to
supply straw.
The company wants to up
the content of its paper to
100 per cent straw content.
Currently, 20 per cent of Step
Forward Paper is made from
Forest Stewardship Councilcertified
wood fibre.
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Feds hope for Growing Forward deal this month
Federal agriculture minister wants provincial approval of “framework agreement”
Canada was in previous years,
he said.
A key issue for farmers is
what will trigger payments from
AgriStability and AgriRecovery,
he added. There have been suggestions
payments wouldn’t
be triggered unless a farmer’s
income drops by 30 per cent —
double the current 15 per cent.
The new programs, which
would take effect in March and
run to 2018, aim “to balance
the risk between governments
and producers while ensuring
we are investing strategically to
promote sector competitiveness,”
said Ritz.
Sean McKay, Composites Innovation
Centre’s executive director,
discusses plans for the future after
a funding announcement.
He said during the last two
years, ministers, MPs, and government
officials have met
farmers, processors, distributors’
manufacturers, held public
hearings and listened to ideas
from groups such as the George
Morris Centre and the Canadian
Agri-Food Policy Institute.
Agriculture Canada said governments
have spent $10 billion
since 2007 on business
risk management income supports.
AgriStability accounted
for 32 per cent of spending,
Agri-Insurance 39 per cent, and
AgriRecovery nine per cent.
The cross-country consulta-
MP Joyce Bateman speaks on
behalf of Agriculture Minister
Gerry Ritz during an Agricultural
Innovation Program funding
announcement.
tions generated consistent support
for more investment in
research and development, as
well as on-farm innovation and
commercialization, officials said.
As for the business risk management
programs, some
groups opposed significant
change, but were willing to consider
possible modifications.
There was also support for
Ritz’s goal of improvements in
insurance products, including
private-sector insurance
products for the livestock sector,
which doesn’t get the same
benefit from Agri-Insurance as
crops do, they added.

4 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
OPINION/EDITORIAL
What’s wrong with
this picture?
Every once in a while an idea comes
along that makes so much sense, it’s
crazy.
A case in point is the concept of using
goats to beat back the bush and other
invasive species on pastures. Instead of
paying for pasture land, some goatherds
are being paid up to $1.50 per goat per day
to graze other people’s land. Now that’s
crazy.
Laura Rance
But for the landowners, it’s well worth it.
Editor
In Saskatchewan, where a goat-browsing
service is being used to clean up poplar
and other invasive brush at the AESB Wolverine Community
Pasture for $1 per doe per day, there are some rather
astounding opportunities for revenue emerging.
“So, if I have 1,000 does for 90 days, that’s 90 grand for
camping out all summer,” and that doesn’t include the value
of the fall kid crop, goatherd Brian Payne told a recent Multi-
Species Grazing Conference near Humboldt, Sask.
Goats tend to eat the things cattle don’t, so it’s possible
for the two to coexist to the mutual benefit of both. In fact,
research is showing grazing goats and cattle together can
actually increase the carrying capacity of pastures.
Overlay that against the worsening problem of leafy
spurge in Manitoba.
According to Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives,
the losses in beef production due to lost grazing
capacity alone amount to more than half a million dollars
per year. There is also reduced land values, lost natural habitat,
and effects on water quality and soil.
Surveys have shown that up to 1.2 million acres of Manitoba
is infested already, which is a ninefold increase over
two decades. It’s moving along roadsides and across what
little remains of natural prairie, choking out the native species.
Chemical control is expensive, not terribly effective and
not possible in terrain that can’t be reached by a sprayer.
Burning or tilling it have had limited success and are not
very environmentally friendly. At best, producers are able to
achieve modest control using a combination of herbicides
and cultural methods.
However, grazing spurge with goats and sheep has proven
to be an effective means of controlling its spread and reducing
its dominance so other plant species can compete with it
better. The weed is noxious to cattle, but nutritious for goats
and sheep, who are unaffected by the milky latex it produces.
“Although grazing in itself does not kill the plants, it
will prevent seed production, and if grazed at a sufficient
intensity, will lead to a depletion of root reserves and an
associated decrease in plant vigour,” a MAFRI fact sheet on
controlling leafy spurge says. “This will result in a reduced
ability of the weed to compete against grass species, as well
as withstand effects of herbicides or other control means.”
So we have a well-established and worsening problem
that is sucking millions of dollars out of the province’s
economy. We have a control mechanism that is effective,
economical and environmentally friendly. And it involves a
species of livestock for which market demand is on the rise,
particularly among newcomers to Canada.
Consider this against the backdrop of other animal agriculture
in Manitoba. It’s been well established in the past
few weeks that our hog industry is in crisis, again, because
of high costs and razor-thin margins.
Now a new report from the Canadian Agricultural Policy
Institute is telling us our beef industry is dying a slow death,
stuck in a competitive rut with no clear idea of how to get
out of it. Canada’s cow herd has declined by 20 per cent —
more than a million head — since 2005, making it questionable
whether Canada will retain the critical mass necessary
to meet future market opportunities.
One can envision nomadic goatherds — possibly university
students as either summer employees or entrepreneurs
— roaming the Prairies, rotating from spurge patch
to spurge patch helping landowners get the problem under
control while earning enough to live through the winter
without student loans.
It’s entry-level animal agriculture with no requirement for
multimillion-dollar production complexes or manure storage.
Operators don’t have to buy or lease land; they get paid
to use someone else’s.
Equipment costs would be minimal, perhaps some herding
dogs, and a form of transportation such as a horse or
ATV, and a camper for shelter. With the communications
and Internet capacity of today, they could even stay in touch
with their friends.
A crazy idea? Maybe. But when you read what’s happening
to the rest of animal agriculture in this province these
days, you have to wonder which is worse, being crazy or
depressed.
The only thing wrong with this picture is that no one here
is trying it.
laura@fbcpublishing.com
Hog outlook to get worse
before it gets better
By Gavin Maguire
CHICAGO / REUTERS
The recent slump in nearby hog values
may only mark the beginning of a season
of pain for pork producers.
Already-high feed costs look set to keep
climbing just as hog values enter their traditional
seasonal soft patch, which may place
hog production margins under even more
pressure. To make matters worse, inventories
of pork remain well above average in cold
storage facilities across the U.S.
Although the price of soymeal — a key
ingredient in nearly all hog feed rations
— has been on an upward tear all year,
the values of other key feeds such as corn,
feed-grade wheat and distillers dried grains
(DDGs) largely moved sideways for the first
five months of the year. Indeed, for most of
the first four months of the year lean hog
prices outperformed corn and wheat prices
to give many savvy hog producers plenty
of profit potential. That encouraged hog
farmers to increase production, but rising
output weighed on pork cutout levels — a
measure of the value of the hog’s edible
components.
About turn
Things changed drastically beginning in late
June. Drought slashed corn and soy production,
while prices for DDGs soared more than
25 per cent. Hog producers responded by
bringing their animals to market as early as
possible, which pushed up pork supply.
But much more aggressive herd liquidation
may be needed as the overall U.S. herd size
remains close to multi-year highs. Moreover, a
majority of production capacity is centred on
a few deep-pocketed corporations which can
withstand long periods of negative margins in
order to gain market share.
In addition, there remains a huge overhang
of pork supplies that will need to be chewed
through before there is any realistic hope that
a scarcity of supplies will bring about a sustained
upturn in pork prices.
And all this is occurring at the dawn of the
seasonal softening in lean hog prices, brought
about by a rise in hog weights as pig appetites
recover from heat-stunted summer diets.
This year’s price softness could be exacerbated
by the additional pork brought to market
as a result of the sow slaughter currently
underway that will eventually reduce overall
U.S. pork production capacity but could bring
about a further deterioration in hog market
sentiment over the near term.
So while the recent heavy slump in hog
prices may suggest that this market has
already adjusted to the challenging feed and
pork price outlook, things could actually still
get worse before they get better.
Gavin Maguire is a Reuters market analyst.
OUR HISTORY: September 14, 1947
Our September 14, 1947 issue reported that the North-
West Line Elevator Association had sent a telegram to
Prime Minister Mackenzie King asking him to lift price
ceilings on coarse grains that had been imposed during
the war. The private trade was reported to be advising
farmers to hold back deliveries until they were lifted.
Rural health care was in the news — Manitoba Pool
secretary F.W. Ransom, speaking to the Co-operative
Health Federation of America meeting in Oklahoma,
described proposed enabling legislation that would
allow the federal government to provide 60 per cent
of health insurance costs, with the remainder provided
by provinces. The front page featured a photo of a new
hospital under construction at Boissevain. Manitoba
Pool had donated $3,000 to each hospital being built
under the Manitoba Hospital Plan.
Also reported were impending new tax regulations
which would allow beef and dairy producers to have
their basic herds recognized as capital.
And in a reminder that the effects of the Second World
War were still being felt, we reported that the French government
had reduced the bread ration from 250 grams
(nine ounces) to 200 grams (seven ounces) daily.

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 5
Letters
By Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer
The livestock industry and others
that use corn as key input
are calling on Congress and the
administration to modify or suspend
the ethanol mandate for the 2012
corn crop.
Pressure for modifying the mandate
is also coming from a hunger
community that is fearful that a further
rise in corn prices will trigger
an increase in the number of food
insecure people as it did in 2008 when
over 200 million were added worldwide
to the rolls of the food insecure.
Corn farmers, on the other hand,
are concerned that a change in the
ethanol mandate may collapse prices
just when they are facing a reduced
crop. At this point we have a better
idea of the size of this year’s crop than
we do about how the ethanol mandate
debate is going to shake out.
What we are certain about is how we
got into this pickle.
There are two parts to the story and
they both hinge on the same policy
change.
The export boom of the 1970s
began with a decision by policymakers
in the Soviet Union to import
grain rather than reduce their domestic
grain demand by reducing the
size of their cattle herd. By 1975, U.S.
corn exports had tripled to 1.7 million
bushels. Meanwhile the price of corn
doubled putting pressure on cattle
producers.
Fast-forward to the drought of 2012
where the projection is for the corn
yield to fall for the third year in a row
to 123.4 bu./ac., 16 per cent below
the 2011 yield and 25 per cent below
2009. 2012 farm gate corn prices are
projected to be more than double
their 2009 farm gate average of $3.55.
Now to the second part of the story.
Beginning in 1998, the farm gate price
of corn fell below $2 for only the second
time in the prior 25 years. And
unlike 1985, it stayed there for four
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Support a sustainable,
humane alternative
Laura Rance is correct. There is no
excuse or justification for failing to
provide proper care for farm animals.
But hog industry excuses continue.
Depopulating barns and “euthanizing”
piglets is deemed necessary in
tough market conditions, hence the
recent killing of 1,300 “severely distressed”
piglets. Why aren’t they discussing
the fatal flaws in the vertically
integrated, export-oriented pig market?
years. Even with the emergency payments,
corn farmers were desperate.
They were told that the problem was
overproduction and the solution was
to get involved in non-food-related
demand enhancement.
New products
And so they began to cast about for
uses that did not involve food products.
They looked at converting
cornstarch into clothing fibres. They
funded research into using corn to
make glues. And they looked at ethanol.
That corn could be used to make
ethanol was a no-brainer. Whiskey
makers had been doing it for centuries.
And, unlike the other non-food
products, the production of ethanol
as an automotive fuel oxygenate
could be ramped up very quickly.
Corn farmers began to organize
meetings to set up ethanol plants. To
fund the ethanol plants, we saw farmers
plop down a $10,000 investment
in shares of an ethanol co-op for the
right to sell 10,000 bushels of corn
to the co-op at a two- to five-centsper-bushel
premium over the local
market.
It looked like a fool’s investment,
but, with sub-$2-per-bushel corn,
their backs were up against the wall.
It did not take long for non-farmer
investors to see the money that was to
be made in ethanol production and
soon the use of corn for ethanol production
went from a number close to
zero to five billion bushels a year.
What policy instrument do both
parts of this story have in common?
Grain reserves, well more precisely,
the lack of grain reserves.
For more than three millennia,
people have known that agricultural
production is highly variable from
year to year while the demand for
food is very stable. Ancient Egyptians
and Chinese implemented the use
of government-organized reserves to
buy grain during periods of high pro-
Ron Kostyshyn, minister of Agriculture,
Food and Rural Initiatives,
believes the market will take care of
the sow stall problem as giant buyers
such as McDonald’s are committed
to sourcing pork from sow stall-free
operations because stalls are internationally
regarded to be inhumane. Yet,
he, the industry and his federal counterparts
are seeking to find ways for
the public to once again prop up the
collapsing industry without addressing
the fundamental problems in the
global market that lead to human and
animal welfare, economic and environmental
problems.
Instead of addressing industry-systemic
problems, the Chief Veterinary
Office (CVO), threatened a witness
to the shooting of these piglets, with
criminal charges for video taping the
event. If these piglets were euthanized
humanely, what is the problem
with video documenting it to ease
public concern?
Secrecy and threats breed suspicion.
Temple Grandin has shown how
transparency encourages humane
practices and builds public confidence
in industry and regulations.
Video documentation is good for animal
welfare, secrecy is bad.
Suspicion grows when the public isn’t
told the cause of “severe distress.” If the
CVO deems the suffering endured by
COMMENT/FEEDBACK
Multiple predicaments: One core solution
Corn farmers worry a change in the ethanol mandate may collapse prices on top of a reduced crop
In 2012, like in the early 1970s, we find ourselves
with a drought-reduced corn crop and
no reserves to fill in the gap.
duction and then sell the grain when
crops failed.
Grain reserves
In the U.S., the use of grain reserves
was successfully implemented during
the Depression and used off and on
over the next five decades. By 1961,
corn reserves were 65 per cent of
annual utilization and policy-makers
decided that they had to empty
out the larder. Want to guess when
Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard was
bare?
It was the early 1970s, just when we
needed the grain. By the 1977 crop year,
with prices two-thirds of their recent
levels, reserves were back in favour.
Once again, in the late 1980s
reserves fell out of favour and were
effectively eliminated in the 1996
Farm Bill.
And what happened two years
later? The government lacked the
ability to purchase reserves to stabilize
prices — exports were supposed
to do it — as a result prices plummeted.
The result was an ethanol
industry that developed at a much
faster rate than it would have in the
absence of extremely low corn prices.
In 2012, like in the early 1970s,
we find ourselves with a droughtreduced
corn crop and no reserves to
fill in the gap.
There is more to this story.
In the late 1940s, the U.S. accumulated
significant grain reserves and
policy-makers were looking for ways
to reduce them. But before the government
could get rid of them, there
piglets shot several times before dying
to be humane, this is a serious problem
for farmers, consumers, farm animal
welfare activists and animals.
Rather than further subsidizing
this fatally flawed model, collapsing
under the weight of market forces,
isn’t it time to support a downsized,
sustainable and humane alternative?
Ruth Pryzner
Alexander, Man.
Not much has changed
Basically, not a great deal has
changed in the hog industry from
what occurred three years ago when
reporter Ron Friesen told us, “The
once-booming pork industry hits the
wall and their chickens come home to
roost.” (Co-operator 2 July, 2009)
The hog expansion in Manitoba
led by corporate investors and supported
by the government(s) had no
foundation, no plan and no foresight.
Its only self-commitment, motivation
and strategy was to keep growing and
as such became nothing more than
like a house of cards; remove one or
two cards and the house will begin
to collapse. In 2009, it was too many
hogs. In the most recent scenario, it
was a sharp increase in demand.
Uncle Sam got involved in the Korean
War and needed grain reserves to feed
hungry soldiers.
We had significant yield and production
problems with corn in
1983 and 1988. In 1983, production
dropped by 49 per cent, yet the total
utilization (sum of domestic and
export corn uses) declined by only
eight per cent. Similarly, in 1988, U.S.
corn production declined by 31 per
cent from the previous year, while
total utilization declined by only six
per cent.
In both years, it was the presence
of reserves that made the difference.
In 1983 and 1988, total
beginning stocks brought into the
marketing years exceeded 3.5 billion
bushels with well over half
being non-commercial reserves
stocks. Today — without such
stocks — total utilization must track
production declines nearly bushelfor-bushel.
What about the years ahead? Will
the shortfalls of 2012 reset corn’s
demand base?
Demand destroyed may take time
to reconstruct. In addition, the current
high prices may trigger increases
in production that could result in
extremely low prices in the future.
Daryll E. Ray holds the Blasingame Chair of
Excellence in Agricultural Policy, Institute of
Agriculture, University of Tennessee, and is
the director of UT’s Agricultural Policy Analysis
Center (APAC). Harwood D. Schaffer is a
research assistant professor at APAC.
is the “high cost of grain” to feed their
inventory of hogs.
So, what to do next? Well as Laura
Rance tells us in Part 2, of “What
now?” in the same 2009 edition, a
far better approach would be to take
a hard look at what the industry
must do to win over, not only consumers
but rural neighbours and
Canadian taxpayers as well. Producers
have had significant financial
support from the public sector.
Advance payments alone over the
past three years (2006-09) running
have averaged more than $100,000
per producer.
So, will the hog industry simply
pick up the same deck and just
redeal? If that is their transition
action plan, the game must be played
a lot differently to succeed.
There is a good future for hog producers
in Manitoba, but changes
will be necessary. There must be
an attitude change. There must be
adherence to environment considerations,
and a recognition of the realities
of economics and the marketing
of commodities. There must be an
acceptance of responsibility. And
most importantly, changes to the factory
style of raising hogs are foremost.
John Fefchak
Virden, Man.

6
FROM PAGE ONE
GOATS Continued from page 1
“The opportunity that this
provides all of us is huge,” he
said.
Multi-species grazing essentially
combines the leaf- and
weed-browsing tendencies of
goats with the grass-munching
nature of cattle. It’s a win-win, but
first cowboys need to be educated
about the advantages, said Payne.
Another obstacle is goats’ reputation
for being environmentally
destructive, but that’s where
herding comes in, he said.
“We want to displace that
myth,” said Payne. “You actually
can improve your carrying
capacity by getting rid of the
brush and increase income on
your ranch by adding another
enterprise.”
Another enterprise
Striking a partnership with a
cattle operation or providing a
“browsing service” for municipal
governments could be one way
for young people without deep
pockets to get into agriculture, he
added.
Herding goats could be highly
lucrative — as much as $1 per
doe per day for grazing invasive
species, he said.
“So, if I have 1,000 does for 90
days, that’s 90 grand for camping
out all summer,” and that
doesn’t include the value of the
fall kid crop, he said.
Donna Lindblom, who has
operated Rocky Ridge Vegetation
Control with husband Conrad
for 13 years, has earned that
kind of money grazing reforested
cutblocks in the mountains
of British Columbia.
When a local First Nations
band was concerned about the
effect of aerial spraying on their
blueberry-picking grounds, they
were hired by the logging company
to open up the vegetative
canopy that was hindering tree
growth.
The goats went in like a “horde
of locusts” and ate all the weeds
and woody shrubs, she said.
With a herd of 1,500 goats, a
few good saddle horses, guardian
dogs and riders, they were
BEEF Continued from page 1
The beef industry “needs a
robust, long-term strategy — and
a sustained commitment to execute
the strategy — if it wishes to
secure its place as a competitive
force in domestic and global markets,”
the report adds.
A b o u t 8 5 p e r c e n t o f
Canada’s beef and cattle
exports go to the U.S., it notes.
While that generates $1.8 billion
in total sales for Canadian
beef, Canada needs to increase
the proportion of exports to
recently opened overseas markets,
it suggests.
“Stakeholders are
keen to have a new
dialogue on strategy.
But this discussion
can only occur if
leaders in the sector
are willing to act.”
paid up to $1.50 per head/day.
That lucrative work has dried up
recently because of a slump in
forestry, but the Lindbloms are
branching out into greener pastures,
grazing ski hills, clearing
thistles from city parks and areas
with heavy weed problems such
as gravel pits.
This past July, her outfit has
hired by the city of Kamloops
to graze invasive toadflax in a
city park, and now there is talk
of hiring them on as their “official
herd” for five years to clear
up a neglected 200-acre former
penitentiary site overgrown with
thistle.
“Cities want their own herd of
goats that can first look after all
their weeds within the city, then
do other jobs as well,” she said.
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Among other key points in
the report are:
• Canada is at risk of becoming
a net importer of beef;
• Canada focuses on supplying
the American market even
though the returns are lower
than for beef exports to other
countries and the U.S. benefits
more from the arrangement
than Canada does;
• In 2011, Canada had a net
trade balance in beef of $42
million with the U.S. compared
to a trade balance of
nearly $1.4 billion in 2002,
which suggests the industry
is losing its competitive edge;
• The value of Canada’s exports
to the U.S. is only about
60 per cent of the value of
American imports to Canada
because of the amount of
Canadian beef and cattle
processed in the U.S., which
exports higher-value product
back to Canada;
• While Canada backfills the
U.S. market, that country is
realizing a greater advantage
by significantly expanding
exports beyond Canada.
Since 2005, U.S. beef exports
are up 280 per cent on a
value basis, and 159 per cent
on a tonnage basis. Canada’s
exports beyond the U.S.
have increased by 45 per
cent, in terms of value, and
13 per cent in tonnage of
beef;
• Canada’s cow herd has
declined by one million
head or 20 per cent since
2005 raising questions about
whether Canada has a critical
mass of cattle to meet future
market opportunities.
CAPI says its research indicates
the Canadian beef sector
“is forgoing economic opportunities
and its competitive
position is falling behind.”
Many in the industry think
change is over due, it adds.
“Stakeholders are keen to have
a new dialogue on strategy. But
this discussion can only occur
if leaders in the sector are willing
to act.”
It needs a strategy to take
advantage of the opening of
new foreign markets.
The industry also needs
to pay more attention to the
domestic market, the report
recommends. Beef consumption
has fallen by 10.7 per
cent since 2001 while pork
consumption has declined by
28 per cent and poultry has
increased 3.4 per cent.
“Price is a key determinant.
Beef costs more to produce
than other proteins. Moreover,
despite improvements, more
grain is required per kilo of
beef production than for other
meat proteins.”
This statistic is part of the
charges “that beef’s environmental
footprint is unsustainable
and, for some, a reason not
to consume beef,” the report
says. “There are also concerns
about the perceived healthfulness
of beef and the ethical
treatment of animals.”
CAPI suggests that a longterm
strategy is needed “to
The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
Goats eat different species of weeds than cattle, including the notorious leafy spurge, which makes them complementary grazers. photos: daniel winters
Wolf willow after it has been grazed.
“So, if I have 1,000
does for 90 days,
that’s 90 grand for
camping out all
summer.”
Brian Payne
build the beef brand and to
generate consumer trust in
the product and production
processes.”
Canada has a more advanced
traceability system that can
provide consumers with information
about what they’re
buying.
“While a strategy must be
industry led, government can
support the development of a
robust industry strategy,” the
report urges. “Government
then must align its own policies,
initiatives, funding and
regulation to enable this strategy.
Importantly, government
must also approach market
access negotiations for the
beef industry with a strategic
plan which aligns with
the industry strategy and
positioning.”
As well, the reports call
for the industry to create a
national organization “to articulate
and support an overall
domestic and international
strategy.”

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 7
Farm groups set
objectives for
fall session of
Parliament
By Alex Binkley
CO-OPERATOR COnTRibuTOR / OTTAwA
With the Canadian
Wheat Board
battle in the rearview
mirror, this fall’s parliamentary
session won’t be as
controversial.
But long-promised legislation
to set standards
for railway service levels,
drought aid for Ontario
and Quebec farmers, and
the new Growing Forward
deal — expected to make
farmers more responsible
for their financial well-being
— should generate political
debate.
Legislation to overhaul
the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency has,
so far, been generally well
received, but a devil-in-thedetails
debate may arise
once MPs and senators take
a closer look at it.
Trade talks — on Canada-
Europe free trade, the Trans-
Pacific Pact and bilateral
deals — will also attract
close attention.
“The government will
continue to focus on negotiating
bilateral deals,” said
Ron Bonnett, president of
the Canadian Federation
of Agriculture. “A Canada-
Japan deal would be an
important piece for the
country’s trade expansion.”
Grain Growers of Canada
will be watching the railway
legislation and the future
role of the Canadian Grain
Commission, says president
Stephen Vandervalk.
“Farmers will be responsible
for most of the fees that
will go to fund the operations
of the commission, yet
many of their services do
not add value to our product,”
he said.
“We are concerned that
farmers will not have a significant
say in the ongoing
governance or direction.”
He also welcomed the
continued emphasis on
bilateral trade deals.
“Even a smaller trade deal
with Morocco is important
as they buy about one-third
of all our durum wheat each
year.”
Both farm leaders said
they’re concerned about the
lack of farmer input into the
proposed changes to the
AgriStability program.
“We are concerned that
without sufficient producer
input and direction, any
downturn in prices or a
widespread crop failure will
take us back to the days of
emergency farm aid,” said
Vandervalk.
“We can say with confidence
farmers do not want
to return to aid programs.
We want dependable and
predictable programs to
help us manage risks that
are beyond our control.”
Another item on the to-do
list of Agriculture Minister
Gerry Ritz is gaining international
acceptance of a
plan that would allow crop
shipments to be considered
GM free if they had no
more than 0.1 per cent of
approved genetically modified
material.
Solutions being sought
Rising feed costs continue to drain hog industry
By Shannon VanRaes
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
Manitoba has lost five
per cent of its sow
herd in the last two
months as producers continue
to downsize in the face of rising
feed costs, a senior industry
official says.
“We all understand and agree
there is a problem,” said Rick
Bergmann, vice-chair of the
Manitoba and Canadian Pork
councils. “Now we are looking at
ways to mitigate the significant
loss to producers.”
As a member of a recently
formed federal task force
designed to examine the causes
of rising feed prices, Bergmann
said one of the goals is to build
an industry that is less susceptible
to price fluctuations.
“Producers have good facilities,
they’ve got great manage-
ment, great production, great
genetics and great feed quality,
but then the price of corn
goes up because of drought and
producers are going out of business,”
he said.
The price of feed has gone
up 60 per cent since this spring,
said Bergmann, adding it has
resulted in 17,000 sows being
prematurely shipped to market.
Only two months ago industry
insiders expected the price
of corn to drop to about $5 a
bushel this fall, but instead it
has increased to nearly $9 per
bushel.
At the same time, hog futures
have hit a 20-month low as producers
liquidate their herds.
Pork prices in Manitoba were
also 8.8 per cent lower this
August than the previous year
according to Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada, with other
provinces seeing prices drop by
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same period.
And although it’s farmers who
feel the pinch first, Bergmann
noted the hog industry also provides
many urban jobs as well.
“It supports 45,000 jobs across
Canada,” he said, adding the
industry is worth $9.3 billion
nationwide.
Manitoba Agriculture, Food
and Rural Initiatives Minister
Ron Kostyshyn has also been
discussing the current situation
with producers and industry
representatives.
He didn’t rule out the possibility
of financial assistance, but
didn’t offer any specifics.
“It would definitely have to be
some form of partnership with
the federal and provincial governments,”
said Kostyshyn.
But given the ongoing negotiation
of Growing Forward 2,
Kostyshyn said “it would be
somewhat inappropriate” to
make any further comments on
the possibility.
Still recovering from a 2009
H1N1 swine flu scare, the effects
of U.S. country-of-origin labelling
laws and a strengthening
Canadian loonie, this current
downturn has left producers
examining all options, said
Bergmann.
Producers in Manitoba will
also see the implementation of
a winter manure-spreading ban
this year.
Kostyshyn noted the province
has provided more than $26
million to assist hog producers
in improving manure management
techniques, but said he
hasn’t raised the possibility of
delaying the ban’s implementation
with the province’s minister
of conservation.
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WHAT’S UP
Please forward your agricultural
events to daveb@fbcpublish
ing.com or call 204-944-5762.
Sept. 13: MAFRI beef meeting
(market outlook, humane transport
of animals, nutrition), 7-10
p.m., Grunthal Auction Mart. For
more info call MAFRI in Vita at
204-425-5050.
Sept. 26: Canadian Institute of
Food Science and Technology
(CIFST) Supplier Expo, Victoria Inn,
1808 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg.
Pre-registration required at manito
basection@cifst.ca. For more info
contact Aline Tezcucano at Aline.
Tezcucano@gov.mb.ca or 204-
795-7968.
Sept. 29: ATV health and safety
awareness session for farm workers,
9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Keystone Kat,
250 Sixth St. NE, Altona. For more
info or to register contact Jacquie
Cherewayko by Sept. 21 at 204-
324-2804.
Sept. 29-30: Manitoba Plowing
Association provincial match, two
miles west of Kemnay, 1.5 miles
north of Highway 1. For more info
email mb.plowing@hotmail.ca or
call 204-534-6451.
Oct. 4-6: Canadian Plowing
Championships, two miles west
of Kemnay, 1.5 miles north of
Highway 1. For more info email
mb.plowing@hotmail.ca or call
204-534-6451.
Oct. 17-18: Canadian Swine
Health Forum, location TBA,
Winnipeg. For more info visit
www.swinehealth.ca.
Oct. 23-24: International Wolf and
Carnivore Conference, Riverlodge
Place, Thompson. For more info
visit www.thompsonspiritway.ca.
Oct. 30: Harvest Gala fundraiser
benefiting Red River Exhibition
Association scholarships and
Manitoba Agricultural Hall of
Fame, Viscount Gort Hotel, 1670
Portage Ave., Winnipeg. For tickets
call 204-888-6990.
Oct. 30: Manitoba Turkey
Producers semi-annual meeting,
Victoria Inn, 1808 Wellington Ave.,
Winnipeg. For more info call 204-
489-4635.
Nov. 2-3: Organic Connections
conference and trade show,
Conexus Arts Centre, 200
Lakeshore Dr., Regina. For more
info call 306-543-8732 or email
info@organicconnections.ca.
Nov. 7: Manitoba Pork Council fall
producer meeting, location and
time TBA, Portage la Prairie.
Nov. 8: Manitoba Pork Council fall
producer meeting, location and
time TBA, Niverville.
Nov. 9: Fields on Wheels
Conference: Agribusiness Logistics
in Turbulent Times, Radisson
Hotel, 288 Portage Ave., Winnipeg.
For more info call 204-474-9097
or visit http://umanitoba.ca/facul
ties/management/ti.
Nov. 15: Manitoba Turkey Producers
annual turkey management and
health seminar, Victoria Inn, 1808
Wellington Ave., Winnipeg. For more
info call 204-489-4635.
Dec. 3-4: Manitoba Conservation
Districts Association conference,
Keystone Centre, Brandon.
Keynote speaker: David Suzuki.
For more info visit www.mcda.ca
or call 204-570-0164.
Dec. 10-12: Canadian Forage
and Grassland Association annual
general meeting, Radisson Plaza
Mississauga Toronto Airport, 175
Derry Rd. E., Mississauga, Ont. For
more info visit www.canadianfga.
ca or call 204-726-9393.
Wyoming wolves to lose
Endangered Species Act protection
Unregulated wolf killings will be allowed in most of the state
By Laura Zuckerman
JACKSON, WyO. / REuTERS
Grey wolves in Wyoming,
the last still federally
protected in the northern
Rockies, will lose endangered
species status at the
end of September, opening
them to unregulated killing
in most of the state, the U.S.
government said Aug. 31.
The planned delisting of
Wyoming’s estimated 350
wolves caps a steady progression
of diminishing federal
safeguards for a predator
once hunted, trapped and
poisoned to the brink of
extinction throughout most
of the continental United
States.
Wyoming will officially
regain control over the management
of its wolf popu-
lation on Sept. 30, joining
Montana and Idaho, where
more than 1,500 wolves were
removed from the federal
endangered list in May of
2011.
About 4,000 wolves in the
northern Great Lakes region
— p r i m a r i l y W i s c o n s i n ,
Michigan and Minnesota —
lost their status as endangered
or threatened last
January.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
director Dan Ashe hailed
delisting of the last wolf population
in the northern Rockies
as a victory assured by the
Endangered Species Act and
co-operation among state
and federal partners.
“The return of the wolf to
the Northern Rocky Mountains
is a major success
story,” he said in a statement.
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Conservationists decried
the move, questioning how
an animal could be protected
until Sept. 30 only to be subject
to “open fire” on Oct. 1,
the first day of Wyoming’s
regulated hunting season.
Environmental groups say
they fear ending federal safeguards
could push wolves
back to the brink.
Like Idaho and Montana,
Wyoming i s re q u i re d t o
maintain a statewide population
of at least 150 wolves,
including 15 breeding pairs,
to prevent a relisting.
Wy o m i n g w o l v e s w i l l
remain off limits to hunters
inside national wildlife
refuges and national parks,
including Yellowstone and
Grand Teton national parks,
as well as on the Wind River
Indian Reservation.
But restricted hunting will
be permitted from October
through December within
zones just outside those parks
and refuges in the greater Yellowstone
region of northwestern
Wyoming, where most of
the state’s wolves reside.
For the rest of the state,
wolves would be classified as
predatory animals, subjecting
them to unlicensed, unregulated
killing year round
through methods such as
shooting, trapping and pursuit
on mechanized vehicles.
Wolves were reintroduced
to the northern Rockies
in the mid-1990s, but their
return triggered an emotional
debate that pitted livestock
producers and hunters
against conservationists.
Continued on next page
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From hunter to hunted, wolves will soon be subjected to unregulated
killing. Photo: ReuteRs
Under Endangered Species
act protections, wolf numbers
rebounded in the northern
Rockies, far exceeding the
original recovery goals set by
the federal government.
Efforts in recent years by
the U.S. fish and Wildlife
Service to remove wolves in
Idaho and Montana from the
endangered species list were
reversed by court rulings.
But Idaho and Montana
wolves ultimately were delisted
last year through an
unprecedented act of Congress,
and those states have
since sought to reduce wolf
numbers — mostly through
hunting and trapping — to as
few as 300 from as many as
1,500.
the fish and Wildlife Service’s
latest estimate puts
current numbers in all three
states at more than 1,774
adult wolves.
the grey wolf originally was
classified as an endangered
species across the lower 48
states and Mexico, except in
Minnesota, where the animal
was listed as threatened.
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11,000 wolves roam much of
alaska, but are so abundant
they have never been federally
protected.
More states join call for
end to U.S. ethanol rule
Georgia poultry farmers said to spend extra $1.4 million daily
By Patrick Rucker
ReuteRs
two U.S. states that
depend on the livestock
industry are adding
their voices to a string of states
asking Washington to ease
pressure on corn prices by suspending
rules that send a large
share of the crop to produce
ethanol.
Georgia, the centre of U.S.
poultry production, and New
Mexico, with its large cattle
industry, on aug. 22 asked
federal officials to suspend a
program that encourages converting
corn into ethanol fuel.
Roughly 13 billion gallons of
ethanol are due to be blended
with gasoline this year under a
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energy sources. the rules can
be waived under a formal
appeal from a state to the U.S.
Environmental Protection
agency.
Livestock farmers complain
that demand for ethanol
wrongly diverts a large share
of the feed corn they need
and drives up prices already
inflated by a long dry season.
Poultry farmers in Georgia
are spending about $1.4 million
more in feed costs per day
due to the drought and ethanol
rules, Georgia Governor
Nathan Deal wrote in a letter to
the EPa that seeks a waiver of
the ethanol mandate.
But corn farmers note that
about a third of the ethanoldistilled
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livestock feed and that the
mandate has other built-in
flexibilities that could be tried
before shelving the program.
“Ignoring (these facts) exaggerates
the impact of ethanol
on corn supplies,” said Matt
Hartwig, a spokesman for the
Renewable fuels association.
But livestock industry organizations
are demanding total
relief from the mandate.
the head of the National
Chicken Council, Mike Brown,
said a “full, one-year waiver”
is needed to keep high corn
prices from devastating the
poultry industry.
In recent weeks, six states
have urged the EPa to suspend
the ethanol mandate, although
not all of the states have formally
petitioned the agency.
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Tory caucus shift
Staff / Newly elected Manitoba
Progressive Conservative
Leader Brian Pallister
wasted no time shuffling his
shadow cabinet.
among the changes is
a shift for Lakeside MLa
Ralph Eichler into the
critic’s role for Manitoba
agriculture food and Rural
Initiatives. former ag critic
Midland MLa Blaine Pedersen
becomes the critic
for Local Government.
Larry Maguire, MLa for
arthur-Virden, will serve
as Conservation and Water
Stewardship critic.
Deadline looms for
young speakers
Youth between the ages of
11 and 24 years of age have
until Sept. 30 to enter the
Canadian Young Speakers
for agriculture (CYSa) competition.
this year’s competition
takes place Nov. 3 at the
Royal agricultural Winter
fair in toronto.
“We have an excellent
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Canadian Young Speakers
for agriculture contestants
prepare and deliver a five-
to seven-minute speech, in
English or french, on one
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topics. Cash prizes are
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10 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13 2012
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
Cattle Prices
(Friday to Thursday) Winnipeg September 7, 2012
Slaughter Cattle
Steers & Heifers —
D1, 2 Cows 70.00 - 76.00
D3 Cows 62.00 - 70.00
Bulls 80.00 - 89.25
Feeder Cattle (Price ranges for feeders refer to top-quality animals only)
Steers (901+ lbs.) 110.00 - 130.00
(801-900 lbs.) 120.00 - 137.00
(701-800 lbs.) 123.00 - 142.00
(601-700 lbs.) 125.00 - 146.00
(501-600 lbs.) 130.00 - 152.00
(401-500 lbs.) 135.00 - 155.00
Heifers (901+ lbs.) 100.00 - 117.00
(801-900 lbs.) 105.00 - 122.00
(701-800 lbs.) 110.00 - 126.00
(601-700 lbs.) 115.00 - 133.00
(501-600 lbs.) 120.00 - 135.00
(401-500 lbs.) 135.00 - 145.00
Slaughter Cattle ($/cwt) alberta South Ontario
Grade A Steers (1,000+ lbs.) $ 108.75 - 110.75 $ 94.60 - 116.87
Grade A Heifers (850+ lbs.) 109.00 - 109.00 98.82 - 115.08
D1, 2 Cows 74.00 - 84.00 51.69 - 69.59
D3 Cows 62.00 - 75.00 51.69 - 69.59
Bulls — 70.66 - 87.18
Steers (901+ lbs.) $ 122.00 - 134.00 $ 121.92 - 138.89
(801-900 lbs.) 130.00 - 143.00 128.21 - 145.27
(701-800 lbs.) 135.00 - 148.00 122.94 - 145.68
(601-700 lbs.) 140.00 - 155.00 127.45 - 154.24
(501-600 lbs.) 145.00 - 165.00 134.95 - 164.13
(401-500 lbs.) 155.00 - 182.00 137.21 - 186.18
Heifers (901+ lbs.) $ 115.00 - 128.00 $ 104.26 - 114.90
(801-900 lbs.) 120.00 - 132.00 115.98 - 128.14
(701-800 lbs.) 125.00 - 137.00 107.05 - 126.68
(601-700 lbs.) 133.00 - 144.00 124.66 - 140.93
(501-600 lbs.) 135.00 - 155.00 119.29 - 148.57
(401-500 lbs.) 140.00 - 164.00 130.78 - 155.64
Futures (September 7, 2012) in U.S.
Fed Cattle Close Change Feeder Cattle Close Change
October 2012 126.05 0.55 September 2012 144.62 1.32
December 2012 129.20 0.75 October 2012 146.25 1.35
February 2013 132.72 0.57 November 2012 147.82 1.57
April 2013 136.27 0.30 January 2013 149.82 1.05
June 2013 132.57 -0.23 March 2013 152.40 0.58
August 2013 132.45 -0.40 April 2013 153.40 0.30
Cattle Slaughter Cattle grades (Canada)
Week ending Previous
Week ending Previous
September 1, 2012 Year
September 1, 2012 Year
Canada 52,774 55,680 Prime 424 400
East 12,384 14,734 AAA 23,118 22,849
West 40,390 40,946 AA 21,597 21,202
Manitoba NA NA A 1,497 1,340
U.S. 641,00 663,000 B 1,049 959
D 3,940 5,229
E 502 509
Hog Prices
(Friday to Thursday) ($/100 kg) Source: Manitoba agriculture
MB. ($/hog) Current Week Last Week Last Year (Index 100)
MB. (All wts.) (Fri-Thurs.) 150.00E 163.52 171.47
MB. (Index 100) (Fri-Thurs.) 138.00E 150.20 157.12
ON (Index 100) (Mon.-Thurs.) 135.98 147.57 158.91
P.Q. (Index 100) (Mon.-Fri.) 144.84 156.79 167.81
Futures (September 7, 2012) in U.S.
hOgS Close Change
October 2012 71.75 -2.40
December 2012 70.90 -0.90
February 2013 78.75 -1.15
April 2013 87.20 -1.45
May 2013 96.00 -1.25
Other Market Prices
Sheep and lambs
$/cwt Winnipeg toronto
Sungold
Specialty Meats
Ewes 80.00 - 95.00 76.50 - 110.33 —
Lambs (110+ lb.) 110.00 - 117.00 126.66 - 137.12
(95 - 109 lb.) 115.00 - 126.00 131.45 - 141.44
(80 - 94 lb.) 115.00 - 127.00 130.31 - 149.61
(Under 80 lb.) 117.00 - 137.00 145.87 - 201.96
(New crop) — —
Chickens
Minimum broiler prices as of May 23, 2010
Under 1.2 kg. ................................. $1.5130
1.2 - 1.65 kg ................................... $1.3230
1.65 - 2.1 kg ................................... $1.3830
2.1 - 2.6 kg ..................................... $1.3230
turkeys
Minimum prices as of September 16, 2012
Broiler turkeys
(6.2 kg or under, live weight truck load average)
Grade A ................................... $2.065
Undergrade ............................. $1.975
hen turkeys
(between 6.2 and 8.5 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A ................................... $2.065
Undergrade ............................. $1.965
light tom/heavy hen turkeys
(between 8.5 and 10.8 kg liveweight truck load average)
Grade A ................................... $2.065
Undergrade ............................. $1.965
tom turkeys
(10.8 and 13.3 kg, live weight truck load average)
Grade A .................................... $2.025
Undergrade .............................. $1.940
Prices are quoted f.o.b. farm.
eggs
Minimum prices to producers for ungraded
eggs, f.o.b. egg grading station, set by the
Manitoba Egg Producers Marketing Board
effective June 12, 2011.
New Previous
A Extra Large $1.8500 $1.8200
A Large 1.8500 1.8200
A Medium 1.6700 1.6400
A Small 1.2500 1.2200
A Pee Wee 0.3675 0.3675
Nest Run 24 + 1.7490 1.7210
B 0.45 0.45
C 0.15 0.15
goats
Winnipeg toronto
($/cwt) ($/cwt)
Kids 90.00 - 140.00 79.24 - 214.33
Billys 160.00 - 250.00 —
Mature — 92.73 - 208.14
horses
Winnipeg toronto
($/cwt) ($/cwt)

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 11
column
Canola still pointed higher
despite harvest pressure
A stronger loonie’s good for shoppers, not croppers
Phil Franz-Warkentin
CNSC
Canola futures on the ICE Futures
Canada platform bounced around near
the top end of their recent range during
the week ended Sept. 7, finishing with
modest gains overall, as concerns that the
Canadian crop may not be as large as initial
expectations provided support. Ideas that
canola was underpriced compared to other
oilseed markets, particularly soybeans, were
also supportive.
Canola harvest operations in Manitoba
are nearing completion, while producers in
Saskatchewan and Alberta approach the halfway
point. The influx of newly harvested canola
does have the potential to limit the upside
in the near term. However, the demand is
showing no signs of slowing down either,
with a large export program said to be on the
books this fall.
For three-times-daily market
reports from Commodity News
Service Canada, visit “ICE
Futures Canada updates” at
www.manitobacooperator.ca.
The Canadian dollar climbed to its strongest
level relative to its U.S. counterpart in
over a year during the week. A loonie that’s
worth more than a U.S. dollar bodes well for
any cross-border shopping expeditions in
the works, but the stronger currency cuts into
crush margins here at home and also makes
Canadian commodities less attractive to foreign
buyers — who do all of their pricing in
U.S. currency.
In any case, the general consensus these
days is that harvest pressure could slow the
upward trend in canola over the next month
or two, but the overall outlook remains
pointed higher, given strong demand and the
likelihood of a tight supply/demand balance.
By Rod Nickel
wiNNipeg / reuterS
Western Canadian
farmland is soaring
in value, as farmers
expand their lands and look to
cash in on high crop prices, a
report by real estate organization
RE/MAX said Sept. 10.
The price of high-end
grain-producing land in
southern Saskatchewan has
jumped 20 per cent on average
from last year to a range
of $1,200 to $1,800 per acre,
while the average price in
central Alberta is up 20-25
per cent to between $2,000
Statistics Canada reported canola ending
stocks for the recently finished 2011-12 crop
year at only 788,000 tonnes. That’s well below
the revised 2.2 million tonnes left over from
the previous year. A number below a million
tonnes is generally thought to be very tight
for the canola market these days, and with
actual production this year likely below the
optimistic 15.4 million tonnes predicted by
StatsCan in late August, some end-users may
be forced to ration their demand.
Looking at the charts, the November canola
contract ran into serious resistance at
the $645-per-tonne level during the week.
A break above that could set the stage for a
move towards the $690 level, or beyond, as
far as the technicals are concerned. However,
a corrective move back toward the $600-pertonne
level seems more likely in the near
term, barring a weather scare or other market-moving
news.
Canola can also be expected to continue to
take its cues from the CBOT (Chicago Board
of Trade) soy market, which also traded near
the top end of its recent range during the
week on the back of uncertain yield prospects.
However, the most active soybean contracts
all ran into profit-taking and were down
on the week.
The soy crop is still some time away from
being harvested, and persistent concerns
over hot, dry conditions cutting the yield
potential of the U.S. crop accounted for
some of the buying interest. However, at the
same time, there were also ideas circulating
that the soy crop may not be as bad off as
originally feared, as timely rains later in the
growing season likely helped yields in some
cases.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
releases updated supply/demand data of its
own on Sept. 12, and whatever the numbers
show will likely dictate what happens in the
futures — at least in the short term.
The corn numbers will be watched the closest,
as traders will be looking for confirmation
on just how bad yields were hurt by this year’s
drought.
Wheat futures in the U.S. moved higher
during the week, with most of that strength
tied to production concerns elsewhere in the
world, including the Black Sea region and
Australia.
Phil Franz-Warkentin writes for Commodity News Service
Canada, a Winnipeg company specializing in grain and
commodity market reporting.
and $4,500 per acre of nonirrigated
land.
“(With) the strong pricing
in cereal grains and beef, a lot
of Alberta farmers are looking
to expand and (are) buying
Saskatchewan farmland
— that has really increased
the price,” said Elton Ash,
regional executive vice-president
of RE/MAX in Western
Canada, from Kelowna,
British Columbia.
“And in the rest of Alberta,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the
largest demand is from local
farmers wanting to expand
their own operation.”
Canada is the world’s big-
gest producer of canola
and the sixth-largest wheat
grower.
The average Canadian
farm grew to a record size
in 2011, and the number of
farms shrank to a record low,
according to Canada’s census.
Improving machinery
has made it possible to farm
larger areas, and size also
gives farmers negotiating
power for selling their crops.
Grain prices have touched
historic highs in recent years
on growing demand for food
in developing countries like
China and India, as well as
the usage of corn, wheat and
Export and International Prices
All prices close of business September 6, 2012 Last Week Week Ago Year Ago
WheAt
Chicago wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne) 320.37 321.29 260.58
Minneapolis wheat (nearby future) ($US/tonne) 341.41 338.19 348.85
CoArse GrAins
US corn Gulf ($US) — — —
US barley (PNW) ($US) — — —
Chicago corn (nearby future) ($US/tonne) 313.88 318.40 284.74
Chicago oats (nearby future) ($US/tonne)
oiLseeds
250.29 251.26 229.05
Chicago soybeans (nearby future) ($US/tonne) 640.93 634.59 517.02
Chicago soyoil ($US/tonne) 1,252.00 1,237.45 1,274.93
Special Crops
Report for September 10, 2012 — Bin run delivered plant Saskatchewan
LentiLs (Cdn. cents per pound)
GRAIN MARKETS
Winnipeg Futures
ICE Futures Canada prices at close of business September 7, 2012
Western BArLeY Last Week Week Ago
October 2012 260.00 264.50
December 2012 265.00 269.50
March 2013 268.00 272.50
CAnoLA Last Week Week Ago
November 2012 640.60 633.60
January 2013 644.50 637.20
March 2013 645.50 635.30
spot MArket spot MArket
other ( Cdn. cents per pound unless
otherwise specified)
Large Green 15/64 21.00 - 24.75 Canaryseed 21.00 - 24.00
Laird No. 1 20.00 - 24.75 Oil Sunflower Seed —
Eston No. 2 20.00 - 22.75 Desi Chickpeas 24.20 - 25.50
FieLd peAs (Cdn. $ per bushel) BeAns (Cdn. cents per pound)
Green No. 1 10.00 - 10.50 Fababeans, large —
Medium Yellow No. 1 7.75 - 8.60 Feed beans —
Feed peAs (Cdn. $ per bushel) No. 1 Navy/Pea Beans —
Feed Pea (Rail) 4.80 - 5.00 No. 1 Great Northern —
MustArdseed (Cdn. cents per pound) No. 1 Cranberry Beans —
Yellow No. 1 34.75 - 35.75 No. 1 Light Red Kidney —
Brown No. 1 29.20 - 30.75 No. 1 Dark Red Kidney —
Oriental No. 1 23.50 - 24.75 No. 1 Black Beans —
No. 1 Pinto Beans —
No. 1 Small Red —
Source: StAt Publishing No. 1 Pink —
sunFLoWers Fargo, nd Goodlands, ks
Report for September 7, 2012 in US$ cwt
NuSun (oilseed) 27.95 28.10
Confection
Source: National Sunflower Association
— —
western Canada farmland values soar as growers expand
Average prices in the West have jumped 20 to 25 per cent
oilseeds in production of
biofuels.
This year, severe drought in
the U.S. Midwest has raised
concerns about supplies falling
well short of demand.
As in Western Canada,
farmland values in the United
States have risen sharply over
the past several years, and not
even this year’s drought could
keep prices from climbing in
the second quarter.
Along with farmers scooping
up more land, funds are
steadily amassing large areas
of the western Canadian Crop
Belt, then leasing fields back
to farmers to work.
“Certainly we don’t influence
the price because we’re
not big enough to do that,”
said Doug Emsley, president
of Saskatchewan-based
Assiniboia Capital Corp,
which owns 120,000 acres
of farmland in the province.
“But what does start to move
the dial is when farmers start
to buy land on the basis of
farmer economics.”
Chinese investors are also
buying western Canadian
farmland, Ash said, although
Saskatchewan, the top wheat-
and canola-growing province,
restricts purchases by foreign
interests to 10 acres.

12 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
Deadline approaching to comment
on cosmetic pesticide policy
KAP and CropLife Canada stress only pesticides deemed to be safe are permitted for use in Canada
By Allan Dawson
co-operator staff
Farmers and pesticide
manufacturers are lining
up against a proposed
ban on cosmetic pesticides in
Manitoba as the Oct. 1 deadline
for public comment on
the issue approaches.
Even though agriculture,
forestry and golf courses
would be exempt if the province
proceeds with a ban, Keystone
Agricultural Producers
president Doug Chorney said
restricting cosmetic use would
cause the public to question
the safety of food produced
using the same products.
That question is already
being asked.
“All this talk about residential
bans upsets me because
we use far less then any
farmer,” Rob Menard wrote
last week in response to a
Winnipeg Free Press story on
the proposed ban. “We should
be going after them for their
bad farming practice!!! Its (sic)
their fault for the state of our
lakes!!!!!”
Someone named Striker
added: “And farmers use a
much stronger concentrate that
is not available to consumers.”
Safe
Both KAP and CropLife Canada
stress the Pest Management
Review Agency (PMRA)
only approves the use of
pesticides determined to be
safe.
“Before a pesticide is
allowed to be used or sold
in Canada, it must undergo
a rigorous scientific assessment
process, which provides
reasonable certainty
that no harm, including
chronic effects such as cancer,
will occur when pesticides
are used according to label
directions,” PMRA’s website
states. “Under this pre-market
approval process, results
from more than 200 types
of scientific studies must be
submitted to determine if the
pesticide would cause any
negative effects to people, animals,
birds, insects, plants, as
well as on the soil and in the
water.”
The fact that the Manitoba
government doesn’t intend
to restrict pesticides used for
food production proves a ban
on urban pesticides is political,
according to Pierre Petelle,
CropLife Canada’s vice-president
of chemistry.
“It’s truly not a health issue,”
he said in an interview. “This
is politics at its worst. When
they try to dress it up as a risk
to health or the environment
it falls flat because it doesn’t
correlate to their approach on
other uses.”
Petelle also criticized the
Manitoba government’s consultation
paper on cosmetic
pesticides, saying it borders
on “unprofessional” and is
“biased and misleading.”
“I joke that if you read that
document and still support
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lawn pesticides you must be
crazy,” he said.
Investment chill
Even though cosmetic pesticides
make up only four per
cent of the Canadian pesticide
market, a ban would create an
investment chill, according to
Petelle. At least two new active
ingredients, which he would
not name, have not been
introduced to Canada because
of bans elsewhere in the country.
The discussion document
quotes the Canadian Cancer
Society as supporting a ban.
“While the connection
between pesticides and cancer
isn’t conclusive at the
moment, we are very concerned
about the growing
body of evidence suggesting
pesticides may increase the
risk of several different types
of cancers. We concluded that
since cosmetic use of pesticides
has no known health
benefits and has the potential
to cause harm, we would
advocate for a ban on the use
and sale of pesticides for this
purpose.”
Conservation and Water
Stewardship Minister Gord
Mackintosh was unavailable
to comment at press time, but
said in an interview in February
that many doctors and scientists
agree precautions are
needed.
A Manitoba government
official defended the discussion
document in an email
saying it was prepared using
peer-reviewed data from
nationally recognized sources
including the Canadian Medical
Association, the Canadian
Cancer Society and the Canadian
College of Family Physicians.
“The document is a tool that
allows Minister Mackintosh to
engage Manitobans in discussions
on how best to address
the use of cosmetic pesticides
on lawns and other green
spaces where people may be
exposed to those chemicals,”
the official wrote. “The minister
has been clear that any
proposed regulatory changes
coming out of these consultations
will be specific to cosmetic
lawn pesticides.”
Cosmetic Pesticide Ban
Manitoba, a coalition of health
and environmental groups
and advocates, has an online
news
“It’s truly not a
health issue. This
is politics at its
worst.”
PIERRE PETELLE
petition asking for a cosmetic
pesticide ban.
“By definition, cosmetic
pesticides are unnecessary,”
coalition spokeswoman Anne
Lindsey said in a news release.
“Yet they are linked with a
range of serious health and
environmental problems,
including asthma. It’s time to
get these poisons off the shelf
and out of our environment.”
allan@fbcpublishing.com
Villagers kill cattle thieves
in Madagascar
photo: laura rance
Gangs armed with semi-automatic rifles
descended on three villages
AnTAnAnARIvO / REUTERS / Malagasy villagers killed at
least 67 cattle thieves when they attacked a number of villages
in early September, the gendarmarie of the Indian
Ocean island said on Sept. 4.
General Bruno Razafindrakoto said about 100 cattle
rustlers simultaneously attacked three villages in the
southern region of the world’s fourth-largest island,
prompting villagers to kill the rustlers with spades, spears
and machetes.
“We counted 67 dead on the side of the dahalo (cattle
thieves). People were acting in self-defence to defend
their property,” he told Reuters.
Razafindrakoto said that incident took place in the
Anonsy region, more than 1,000 km south of the capital
Antananarivo. A statement issued after a meeting of
security officials said the rustlers had stolen 180 cows, of
which 176 had been recovered.
Separately, security forces clashed with cattle rustlers in
the nearby southern district of Betroka Sept. 2 resulting in
the deaths of three security forces and at least eight rustlers,
the statement said. The rustlers had stolen about 1,200 cattle,
of which some 800 were recovered during the chase.
Razafindrakoto said police reinforcements had been
sent to the area.
Cattle rustling has traditionally been common among
Madagascar’s southern tribes — in some communities it
is a rite of passage ahead of marriage.
But it has taken on a criminal dimension as gangs
armed with automatic rifles are increasingly involved in
the raids.

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 13
It’s onward and upward as crowds
flock to St. Norbert Farmers’ Market
Popular Winnipeg market planning numerous improvements as its popularity continues to grow
By Lorraine Stevenson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
It’s official: Le Marché St.-
Norbert Farmers’ Market is
one heck of a draw.
The market on Winnipeg’s
southern outskirts drew 10,000
people on a single day in
August.
The huge Saturday crowd
demonstrates why recently
announced renovations and
i m p r ov e m e n t s a re b a d l y
needed, said Marilyn Firth,
the market’s community relations
manager. Those include
upgraded drainage, improved
washroom facilities, better
signage and improved walkways.
Market president and Starbuck
beekeeper Phil Veldhuis
said $250,000 has already been
raised from the province, City
of Winnipeg, the Winnipeg
Foundation and community
supporters. The improvements,
expected to cost several million
dollars, will be phased in over
the next decade as money is
raised.
If past growth is any sign, the
future is bright, said Veldhuis,
who started selling honey at
the market in 1991 to help pay
for university.
“ We’re doing fantastic,
but there’s all sorts of awareness
and energy that could be
tapped into yet,” he said.
The crowds are not only
larger, but sticking around
longer — weeks longer in fact.
“Twenty years ago we would
have thought it was crazy to be
running a market to the end of
October,” said Veldhuis. “Now
it doesn’t seem like such a big
deal.”
Market officials want to
eventually erect permanent
buildings and structures to
extend the market season, but
there are no plans to go year
round as the financial risk
would be too great, he said.
“It would be a huge expense.
We’ve looked at what our
resources could generate and
they would not finance that
large a project,” he said.
Still, it’s been quite a run for
a market, given its humble start
on July 16, 1988 when a dozen
vendors gathered on the grassy
site at the south end of Winnipeg,
said the market’s first
president Bob Rhoele.
Farmers’ markets had been
absent on the Winnipeg scene
for several decades when local
residents began brainstorming
on how to best use a parcel of
land donated to the St. Norbert
Foundation, he recalled.
“The question was: If we
don’t want any more car
washes or hamburger joints
in St. Norbert, what could we
use if for?” said Rhoele. “Some
of us said, ‘Why don’t we do
a farmers’ market?’ Except
nobody knew how to create
one.”
They got help from the farmers’
market association in Saskatchewan
and money from a
Canadian Wheat Board co-op
development fund. Today, the
co-op has more than 150 members,
said Rhoele.
From the beginning, market
days were social events
and Rhoele says he still sees
patrons from the early days.
It’s been wonderful to watch
the market grow and thrive, he
said.
“I usually ask people if
they’ve come to the farmers’
market, and invariably, people
say yes. Some say, ‘Oh,
we come two or three times a
summer,’ or, ‘We go every Saturday.’
In that sense, we’ve put
St. Norbert on the map.”
lorraine@fbcpublishing.com
“We’re doing
fantastic, but
there’s all sorts
of awareness and
energy that could be
tapped into yet.”
PHIL VELDHUIS
President of Le Marché
St. Norbert Farmers’ Market
Eric Stenhouse with Grassroots Prairie Kitchen in Winnipeg dishes out a
saskatoon dessert to Robyn Laurie and Ronnie Sugden of Beausejour.
Laurie and Sugden were among over 250 who attended the Farmers’ Feast
fundraiser at St. Norbert Farmers’ Market September 6. The funds will be
put toward future development of the market site as well as support Food
Matters Manitoba’s Localvore Iron Chef Cook-Off competition for high school
students.
Le Marché St. Norbert Farmers’ Market president and Starbuck beekeeper Phil Veldhuis, pictured here with his daughter
Jayna, sees a strong future for the popular Winnipeg market on the south end of Winnipeg. PHOTOS: LORRAINE STEVENSON
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14 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
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NEWS
India fertilizer
giant eyes
Saskatchewan
potash
WINNIPEG / REUTERS
Western Potash Corp., a
junior mining company
looking to build a potash
mine southeast of
Regina, says it is talking
about a joint venture
with India’s Rashtriya
Chemicals and Fertilizers,
among others.
It hopes to open the
$2.5-billion Milestone
mine by 2016 and eventually
produce 2.8 million
tonnes of potash
annually.
“We have talked
to and are talking to
(Rashtriya),” said company
vice-president
John Costigan. “I would
say right now they’re
one of numerous players.
These big companies
move very slowly,
and we’re proceeding
cautiously too. We don’t
want to get in bed with
the wrong player.”
Rashtriya’s chairman,
R.G. Rajan, said the
state-run company is
considering a possible
$1-billion investment in
Canadian potash mines
to secure long-term
supply of the nutrient.
The world’s two biggest
mining companies,
BHP Billiton and Vale
SA, recently delayed
decisions on building
their own potash mines
in Saskatchewan, home
to more than 40 per
cent of the world’s potash
reserves.
New Zealand
forecasters
predict El Niño
will be short
and weak
WELLINGTON /
REUTERS El Niño
weather conditions will
likely be weak and short
lived, according to New
Zealand scientists.
El Niño is a warming
of sea surface
temperatures in the
tropical Pacific that
occurs every four to 12
years and can have farranging
effects around
the globe, particularly
on food output.
“A weak, short-lived
El Niño is predicted for
the spring and summer
periods,” the National
Institute of Water and
Atmosphere said in its
latest climate outlook.
Sea surface temperatures
have risen
to above accepted El
Niño levels, but other
indicators such as the
strength of trade winds
are still close to normal.
The El Niño would
likely “decay” in the
first quarter of 2013, the
agency predicted.

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 15
2012-13 crop year —
so far, so good
It’s early days but the grain pipeline is working smoothly
in wake of the new open market for wheat and barley
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
So far, so good.
That sums up Western
Canada’s 2012-13 crop year
following the introduction of an
open market for wheat and barley
Aug. 1. But it’s still early days,
say grain company officials.
“It’s really too early to say a
lot on the logistics side,” Ward
Weisensel, CWB’s chief operating
officer, said in an interview
Sept. 6. “We’re pretty comfortable
with where we’re sitting
right now, but we need to see
how this plays out. There’s huge
demand on the West Coast
(export capacity) and there are
going to be challenges. But we’re
comfortable with where we’re
at.”
The grain pipeline has been
running smoothly, said Wade
Sobkowich, executive director
of the Western Canadian Grain
Elevator Association, which represents
the major grain companies
operating in the West.
“Our members say they are
generally pleased with how the
transition has gone,” he said
in an interview Sept. 10. “But
it’s still early and there are still
things to be worked out.”
Although much of Manitoba’s
cereal and canola crop is in the
bin, harvest farther west is just
getting underway. That means
the grain pipeline has yet to be
fully tested.
Much of the grain that’s been
shipped so far is still old crop,
Weisensel said. He expects by
Asia-Pacific
economies
push for open
farm trade
MOSCOW / REUTERS
Asia-Pacific finance ministers
have agreed to
bolster growth to fight
economic headwinds from
Europe and say free trade
should be upheld on global
farm markets as poor harvests
force up grain prices.
The 21-member Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC)
made the appeal to resist protectionist
measures in the agriculture
sector at talks in Russia,
which faces its worst wheat harvest
in nine years, while prolonged
drought has decimated
U.S. crops.
The ministers highlighted
“the need to avoid export
bans,” an apparent reference
to hosts Russia, which imposed
a temporary embargo on grain
exports two years ago after
crops failed.
Russian Finance Minister
Anton Siluanov backed the
joint statement, telling a news
conference that restrictions on
farm trade “would not serve
the general trend towards economic
growth.”
October most of the grain moving
through the system will be
new crop.
Western farmers are expected
to harvest a bigger-than-average
crop, according to Viterra. So far
grain quality and protein have
been excellent and that generally
makes grain handling more
efficient, Sobkowich said.
In 2008, when Australia
introduced an open market for
wheat, grain exports bogged
down due to a combination of
railway problems and exporters,
anxious to secure market
share, overselling the country’s
export handling capacity. But
in an earlier interview CWB
president and CEO, Ian White,
an expatriate Australian, said
Canada’s grain-handling system
is different in that most grain
companies own their own port
facilities.
Different system
Canada’s grain transportation
system still has the same potential
problems as it did before the
Canadian Wheat Board lost its
monopoly over the sale of western
wheat and barley destined
for export or domestic human
consumption.
“Regardless of the system if
there is something that disrupts
it like an avalanche or huge
rainfalls that will bear upon everyone,
as it has in the past,” Weisensel
said.
“We’re going to be focused on
our program as everyone else
will be focused on their pro-
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Our members say they are generally pleased
with how the transition has gone. But it’s
still early and there are still things to be
worked out.”
WADE SOBKOWICH
grams. I’m confident people will
work these things through, but
time will tell.”
There are reports CP Rail
hasn’t been keeping up with car
orders, but Weisensel said it has
more to do with harvest being
further advanced on the southern
Prairies where CP Rail does
most of the grain shipping.
According to the Canadian
Grain Commission’s weekly statistics
as of Sept. 2, there was
slightly more wheat, but 30 per
cent less canola in the system
compared to the same period
last crop year.
Farmer wheat deliveries were
up 42 per cent, while canola
deliveries were down eight per
cent.
It’s too early to read much
into those figures, Weisensel
said. Most of the difference
probably reflects this year’s earlier
harvest.
Spring wheat protein is averaging
around 13.5 per cent,
which is higher than it has been
for several years, Weisensel said.
That’s putting pressure on protein
premiums, with some companies
not paying a premium
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“If it continues to come off
like I’m expecting (in the top
grades) then I would expect
you’d see protein premiums
narrow in from what farmers
have seen in recent years,” he
said. “Through our pools that
differential is still there, but
I think overall when you have
more protein it tends to be less
valuable.”
The CWB is still urging farmers
to sign up for its early delivery
and harvest pools. The
deadlines are Sept. 28 and Oct.
31, respectively.
“Our early delivery pool is a
first come, first served,” Weisensel
said. “One thing that’s true
is capacity is tight; there is not
unlimited capacity for early
delivery into the system. From
our perspective it’s important
that farmers make decisions as
quickly as they can, particularly
to the early delivery pool, but
even the harvest pool may be
limited by what capacity is available.”
allan@fbcpublishing.com
CWB
announces
2012-13
initial
payments
for canola
The supply-demand
balance is expected
to remain tight
CWB will pay farmers
delivering canola into its
Harvest Pool a $475-pertonne
initial payment for No.
1 and $462 per tonne for canola
graded No. 2, the company
announced Sept. 4.
The initial payments, which
are guaranteed by the federal
government, represent a portion
of expected final returns.
The current pool return outlook
for No. 1 canola is $640 per
tonne.
The Harvest Pool sign-up
deadline is October 31, 2012,
with a marketing period that
runs from harvest to June 30,
2013. Pool volume may be
capped depending on farmer
demand and logistical capacity,
CWB says in a release. Farmer
participation in CWB pools is
based on a first-come, firstserved
system.
In its market commentary,
CWB says the canola supplyand-demand
balance is
relatively tight and will remain
strained through 2012-13 due to
strong domestic and off-shore
demand. “The Canadian canola
crop is estimated at 14.7 million
tonnes, somewhat less than
expectations and, given anticipated
demand, there is very
little chance that ending stocks
will increase year on year,” it
said.
Early Delivery Pool
closes before the
end of September
Contact your local CWB
Farm Business Rep.
cwb.ca/fbr or call
1-800-275-4292

16 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
WEATHER VANE
I F T H E L A R K F L I E S H I G H , E X P E C T F A I R W E A T H E R .
Summer weather trying to hang on
Issued: Monday, September 10, 2012 · Covering: September 12 – September 19, 2012
Daniel Bezte
Co-operator
contributor
We are starting to see
a shift in the general
weather pattern across
much of Canada, but I’m not
sure if this is really a fundamental
change in the pattern or the
pattern simply adjusting to the
changing season.
For this forecast period we’ll
see a bit of a battle between
a ridge of high pressure over
western North America and
a trough of low pressure over
east-central North America.
Right now it looks like Manitoba
will be stuck on the dividing
line between these two
features, meaning this could
be a tough forecast to figure
out. Weather models show the
western ridge weakening midweek,
as an area of low pressure
tracks across the northern
Prairies. This will mean cool
conditions on Wednesday and
Thursday along with a mix of
sun and clouds. The western
ridge then looks to rebuild during
the second half of the week
and we should see temperatures
warm back into the low
By Daniel Bezte
CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR
From most people’s perspective
summer is
now over and we are
entering fall. A few locations
in southeastern Manitoba
even saw a touch of
frost over the weekend. That
means it’s time to take a look
ahead to see what the longrange
forecasters predict for
this fall. But before we tackle
that, we need to look back at
both August and the summer
as a whole to see how they
stacked up.
Looking back at August’s
weather across agricultural
Manitoba, we find that once
again, the average monthly
temperature for nearly every
station came in above average.
This makes it the 15th
straight month with aboveaverage
temperatures. This
also continues the record for
warmest 12-month period
ever. The mean temperature
from last September to
the end of August was 6.0
C, which was well above the
previous record of 5.6 C set
back in 1877.
August started off with
fairly average temperatures,
20s by Friday. Saturday should
continue on the warm side
before the central North American
trough deepens, bringing
cooler conditions on Sunday.
This upper trough looks as if it
will be in control for at least the
first half of next week. This will
mean fairly cool temperatures,
with highs only in the mid-teens
and overnight lows in the 3 to
5 C range. It doesn’t look right
now as though there will be any
widespread frost — but if there
is any frost, the best chance will
probably be Tuesday or Wednesday
morning. Most days will
probably start off with plenty of
sunshine, but with cold air aloft
and daytime heating we’ll likely
see afternoon clouds.
The western ridge looks as if
it will rebuild eastward during
the second half of next week.
If this happens we should see
temperatures warm back up
into the low 20s.
Usual temperature range for
this period: Highs, 13 to 24 C;
lows, 1 to 11 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.
with highs on most days in
the mid- to upper 20s. Then
around the middle of the
month, some unseasonable
cool air moved in and it
looked like we might finally
see an end to the aboveaverage
monthly temperatures.
Mother Nature then
decided that summer wasn’t
ready to end and we saw
high pressure build back in
and a return to warm and
even hot conditions. Temperatures
peaked on the
29th when several locations
broke records with highs in
the 35 to 37 C range.
P r e c i p i t a t i o n d u r i n g
August was, with the exception
of the far northwestern
region, below average. The
month started off promising,
with a number of locations
seeing significant rains during
the first week. After that
the showers were few and
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This issue’s map shows the total amount of precipitation that fell across the Prairies during the 30-day period ending on Sept. 6. Rainfall
across much of the Prairies was low during this period, with most regions recording fewer than 30 millimetres. In Manitoba the only
wet spot was the far northwest, where upward of 100 mm of rain were reported. These wet conditions continued across northern
Saskatchewan and into north-central Alberta.
Warm summer, warm fall?
August was unfortunately well below average for precipitation in most areas
far between, and when they
did come they were slight.
By the end of the month
the majority of agricultural
Manitoba had received less
than 60 per cent of what we
usually expect to see during
the month, with a fairly large
area receiving less than 40
per cent of the average.
When we look back at
the summer as a whole it’s
not surprising that we saw
above-average temperatures.
The mean summer
temperature across most
regions came in right around
the 20 C mark, about 1.5 C
warmer than average, but a
full degree cooler than the
record-warm summer of
1988. Precipitation amounts
recorded this summer in
the northern third of agric
u l t u ral Ma n i t o b a were
between 115 and 150 per
cent of average, while west-
The mean summer temperature across most
regions came in right around the 20 C mark.
ern regions saw amounts
right around average. Over
south-central and eastern
regions this summer was
pretty dry, with most spots
only seeing between 60 and
85 per cent of the average,
and some only around 50
per cent.
It would appear the forecast
for a warm and dry
summer was partially true.
Now, it’s time to take a look
ahead and see what the different
forecasters predict for
this fall’s weather. Environment
Canada calls for the
mild weather to continue, as
all of Manitoba is expected
to see above-average temperatures
from September
through to November. Precipitation
is not as well
defined, but overall, EC calls
for near-average amounts
during this time period.
Over at the Old Farmer’s
Almanac they are also calling
for above-average temperatures
in September and
November, with near-average
temperatures in October.
Precipitation, it says, will be
near average this fall. The
Canadian Farmers’ Almanac
sings a little different tune
for this fall. It appears to call
for near- to above-average
temperatures in September
as it mentions fair and
pleasant several times. Temperatures
then look to cool
down to near or even slightly
below average in October
as it mentions fair and
cold a few times. This cooling
trend looks to continue
into November as it seems it
will be a colder-than-average
month with several mentions
of cold or turning colder. Precipitation
this fall according
to the Canadian Farmers’
Almanac will be near average
for September and above
average for October and
November. For November it
mentions snow several times
and calls for heavy snows late
in the month.
Finally, my forecast is for
milder-than-average conditions
to continue well into
the fall. Along with the mild
weather we’ll also see near-
to slightly below-average
amounts of precipitation.
But as I have pointed out
several times in the past, if I,
or anyone else for that matter,
was actually able to reliably
predict the weather this
far in advance, we would be
rich!

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 17
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 A R T O F F A R M I N G
Record-busting winter
wheat crop eyed
Manitoba farmers have set planting records two years in a row,
but this fall’s seeding could far exceed that
By Allan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
Manitoba farmers are getting
pretty fond of winter wheat
and the head of Winter Cereals
Manitoba hopes the romance continues
to build.
Farmers in the province grew a
record 593,906 acres of winter wheat
this year (double the 10-year average)
and conditions are right for even
more to be planted this fall, said Jake
Davidson.
“I’d like to see 725,000 acres of winter
wheat,” said Davidson. “There’s
been a good demand for seed.”
And no wonder. This year’s winter
wheat yields ranged between 50 and
100 bushels an acre, with yields in
total expected to be average (65 bushels
an acre) to above average, said
Pam de Rocquigny, Manitoba Agriculture,
Food and Rural Initiatives’ cereal
specialist.
This year’s winter wheat crop is also
high quality, had very low fusarium
head blight damage, higher-thanaverage
protein, and was harvested
early, with many fields in the central
region combined before the end of
July.
But the icing on the icing was
strong prices, ranging from $7 to $7.50
a bushel.
And things are set up nicely for next
year’s crop. Canola stubble is ideal for
seeding winter wheat into and there’s
plenty of that — a record 3.55 million
acres of canola were grown in
Manitoba this year, and much of it is
already in the bin.
To qualify for crop insurance coverage,
winter wheat has to be seeded
into “eligible stubble” as it is less vulnerable
to winterkill. Manitoba Agricultural
Services Corporation (MASC)
defines that as “stubble from a crop
harvested in the same year that the
winter wheat is seeded, with that
stubble having not been disturbed
by cultivation.” However, if the wheat
survives the winter the corporation
will insure it for the rest of the growing
season.
Other qualifying stubble crops are
tame hay, tall fescue seed, rapeseed,
barley, wheat, oats, mixed grain, triticale,
flax, mustard, fall rye, canaryseed,
ryegrass seed, timothy seed,
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alfalfa seed, hemp grain, sunflowers,
corn, borage, millet, coriander, sorghum,
sudan grass or buckwheat.
The deadline for seeding winter
wheat and getting full crop insurance
coverage is Sept. 15. Farmers can seed
until Sept. 20 but will get 20 per cent
less coverage.
Anything sown later than that isn’t
eligible for crop insurance, even if it
survives the winter, said David Van
Deynze, MASC’s manager of claim
services.
Farmers should burn off weeds
before seeding winter wheat and also
kill any cereals growing in the field,
said de Rocquigny. Living cereals can
host the wheat curl mite, which can
carry wheat streak mosaic that could
infect the crop next year. Wheat streak
mosaic is a virus and isn’t controlled
with fungicides.
Even though soils are dry, de Rocquigny
recommends seeding winter
wheat no deeper than one inch. Seeding
deeper reduces the vigour of the
emerging seedling. Ideally the crop
should be in the three-leaf to tillering
stage by freeze-up.
Aim for a surviving plant population
of 25 to 30 plants per square foot.
That means taking seed germination
and potential seedling mortality into
account.
Farmers should also soil test to
determine how much fertilizer needs
to be applied. Generally 30 to 40
pounds of phosphorus are recom-
mended at seeding time. It helps get
the crop going in the fall and again in
spring.
Winter wheat doesn’t need much
nitrogen in the fall (which can be lost
under wet conditions), but it needs it
early in the spring, said MAFRI’s fertility
specialist John Heard. However,
wet fields can delay or prevent the
application, and spring-applied nitrogen
can also be lost or stranded if it’s
too dry — a dilemma Agriculture Canada
researcher Byron Irvin describes
as being “caught between a rock and a
hard place.”
His research found fall application
can be effective, but during one wet
year at a trial at the Brandon Research
Station, fall-applied nitrogen was lost
and the crop yield was cut 20 per cent.
Farmers in the Red River Valley
are at the highest risk of losing fallapplied
nitrogen because their fields
are so often wet, Irvin said in an interview
last year.
“I don’t have the data to suggest
you should be using one of these protected
nitrogen products there, but if
I was farming there I probably would
just do it because their risk of losing it
is much higher than most of us (in the
drier areas).”
Protected nitrogen fertilizers like
ESN, Super Nitrogen and Agrotain
cost more, but should be considered
under higher-risk conditions, he said.
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CDC Falcon
shifts to
general
purpose
class
Aug. 1, 2014
Accounted for
about 70 per cent
of Manitoba’s
winter wheat
By Alan Dawson
CO-OPERATOR STAFF
CDC Falcon, Manitoba’s
most popular winter
wheat, will be shifted
to the Canada Western
General Purpose wheat
class next August as
long as there’s enough
suitable replacement
seed available.
Moats and Flourish
have performed as well
as CDC Falcon in trials
and meet the quality
standards for the Canada
Western Red Winter
wheat class.
There’s a lot of interest
in another new
winter wheat, W454, as
it’s less susceptible to
fusarium head blight,
although trial results
won’t be published until
after harvest next year.
CDC Falcon has
accounted for about
70 per cent of Manitoba’s
winter wheat
acres, largely because
of its good yield and
short straw. But it failed
to meet the end-use
standards needed to
better compete against
American winter wheat.
The general purpose
class, which has no
end-use quality standards,
is aimed at serving
livestock and ethanol
producers.
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18 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
Western Canada wheat
high in protein,
but supplies plentiful
The hot summer boosted protein levels in Canada as well as the U.S.
By Rod Nickel
WINNIPEG / REUTERS
We s t e r n C a n a d i a n
farmers are harvesting
a spring wheat
crop that looks to be well above
average in protein content, but
they are unlikely to command
much of the usual premium
this autumn due to abundant
supplies, analysts say.
After two years of flooding,
Western Canada is set to
produce its second-biggest
all-wheat crop in 16 years.
Growing conditions have been
mostly favourable, but stress
caused by midsummer heat
helped boost protein content
by shrinking kernels and
reducing their starch production.
“It’s high, and in some cases,
extremely high,” said Jonathon
Driedger, market analyst for
FarmLink Marketing Solutions.
“There’s no shortage of protein.”
The United States is the biggest
importer of Canadian
wheat, but its winter wheat
crop was relatively high in protein
this year, Driedger said,
and the northern Plains’ spring
wheat production this year is
expected to be larger than last
year.
The premium of nearby Minneapolis
spring wheat futures
to Chicago soft red winter
wheat was around 73 cents
per bushel Sept. 4, recovering
somewhat after hitting its lowest
level in late August since
October, 2010.
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A year ago, the Minneapolis
spring wheat premium was
more than three times the current
level.
The loss of traditional premium
levels for high protein
are unlikely to dampen farmers’
mood much, however,
with big crops being harvested
across much of the Prairies and
prices high, due to drought
harming corn in the U.S. Midwest,
and pulling up other crop
prices, said Chuck Penner, analyst
at LeftField Commodity
Research.
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exporter of spring wheat, used
for baking.
Western Canadian spring
wheat averaged protein content
of 13.1 per cent last year
across all milling grades, down
from the previous 10-year average
of 13.7 per cent, according
to the Canadian Grain Commission
(CGC).
This year’s average spring
wheat protein content is 14.2
per cent so far, based on 420
samples of all grades, mostly
from Manitoba where the harvest
is advanced, according to
the CGC.
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extra protein into
money.”
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to the fermentation process
in making bread, said Nancy
Edwards, program manager of
bread wheat research for the
CGC.
Millers often blend lowerand
higher-protein wheats to
achieve an average protein
content specified by a customer.
In contrast to high-protein,
top-grade milling wheat,
demand is stronger than usual
for feed wheat, the lowestpriced
wheat grade, Penner
said. Farmers have used feed
wheat this year as a substitute
for feeding livestock in parts
of the United States because
corn supplies are lower than
expected.
For the most part, Canadian
millers aren’t eager to
buy wheat with higher than
13.5 per cent protein, since
it doesn’t perform any better
above that level, said Doug
Hilderman, vice-president of
western grain merchandising
for Manitoba-based NorAg
Resources. “You can’t turn that
extra protein into money.”
Canada’s two biggest millers
are Archer Daniels Midland Co.
and P&H Milling Group.
Scientists are watching
Ug99 closely
There are fears it could spread farther
By Alister Doyle
OSLO /REUTERS
Wheat experts are
stepping up monitoring
of a crop disease
first found in Africa in
1999 to minimize the spread
of a deadly fungus that is also
a threat in Asia, experts said
Aug. 31.
A “Rust-Tracker,” using
data supplied by farmers and
scientists, could now monitor
the fungus in 27 developing
nations across 42 million
hectares (103 million acres) of
wheat — an area the size of
Iraq or California.
“It’s the most serious wheat
disease,” Ronnie Coffman,
vice-chair of the Borlaug
Global Rust Initiative (BGRI),
told Reuters ahead of a meeting
of wheat experts in Beijing
from Sept. 1 to 4.
“If it gets started... it’s like a
biological firestorm,” he said.
Experts will review progress in
combating the disease, with
fungicides and 20 new resistant
varieties developed in
recent years.
The stem rust disease, forming
reddish patches on plants
like rust on metal, is known
as Ug99 after it was found in
Uganda in 1999. It has since
spread as far as South Africa
and north to Yemen and Iran.
Spreading
The fungus, which can destroy
entire wheat fields, is likely
eventually to be carried worldwide
on the winds. The biggest
threat in coming years is a
spread across Asia to Pakistan,
India and China, the world’s
top producer, Coffman said.
“Effective control often
depends on finding out
what is happening in distant
regions, and the Rust-Tracker
can help scientists assess the
status of stem rust and other
rust diseases,” said Dave Hodson,
the developer of Rust-
Tracker.
About 85 per cent of wheat
now in production worldwide
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to Ug99 and its variants, the
BGRI estimated. Rich nations
are far less vulnerable because
they can afford to switch to
new varieties or deploy fungicides.
Front line
Among developing nations,
Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Ethiopia, Egypt, India, Kenya,
Nepal and Pakistan are on the
front line of deploying rustresistant
varieties.
Coffman said that relatively
minor amounts of wheat output
had been lost so far. “The
only country under immediate
threat of a dramatic loss
of production is Ethiopia,” he
said.
In Kenya, for instance, Ug99
had been brought largely
under control because of
shifts to new varieties. Another
threat was from yellow rust,
which has struck nations from
Morocco to Uzbekistan in
recent years.
The Ug99 fungus is among
threats to food supplies. A
UN panel of scientists says
that heat waves, floods and
droughts — like the one affecting
the United States this year
— are likely to become more
frequent because of manmade
climate change.
Scientists were also studying
ways to limit a woody plant
known as barberry, where the
fungus also lives. Efforts to
eradicate the plant in the 20th
century seem to have reduced
rust.
And the rust had overcome
a genetic resistance
to the disease developed for
wheat in the early 1970s by
Norman Borlaug, the father
of the “Green Revolution”
that introduced higheryielding
crop varieties, Coffman
said.
He said that rust had been
known at least since Roman
times. About 40 per cent of the
U.S. crop was destroyed in the
early 1950s when rust swept
up from Mexico.
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Food crisis strengthens
EU biofuel critics
Non-crop feedstock requires higher investment
By Barbara Lewis and
Ivana Sekularac
BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM / REUTERS
Drought-stricken crops
and record-high grain
prices have strengthened
critics of the European
Union biofuel industry, adding
fears of a food crisis to their
claims that it does not ultimately
reduce carbon dioxide
emissions.
The renewed anxiety adds to
pressure on the EU’s executive
commission to forge a deal this
year to help ensure that EU biofuels
do not clash with food production
or the environment.
Such an agreement would
remove some of the uncertainty
that has hung over the multibillion-euro
bioenergy industry during
years of debate.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture
Organization last month called for
a suspension of U.S. ethanol quotas
as a response to the impact of
the worst U.S. drought in more
than half a century on corn supplies
and prices.
Ahead of a U.S. election, immediate
change is unlikely. But the
polemic highlights concerns that
EU goals also stoke commodity
volatility because they exaggerate
inelasticity of demand.
“The U.S. situation should be a
warning for the EU that our inflexible
biofuel mandate can lead to
food price volatilities, especially
as we are currently converting 65
per cent of our vegetable oils into
biodiesel,” Nusa Urbancic, program
manager at campaign group
Transport and Environment, said.
In the European Union, far
more than in the United States,
the raison d’être of biofuel is to
lower carbon emissions. Urbancic
and many other campaigners
doubt it achieves that.
“Science has also shown that
biodiesel can be worse for the climate
than conventional oil, once
indirect impacts on forests and
peatlands are included,” she said.
Action plans drawn up by EU
member states predict that bioenergy,
including biomass for power
generation and biofuel for transport,
will provide more than 50
per cent of the EU share of renewable
energy as part of 2020 climate
goals.
Use of biodiesel — dominant in
Europe, while ethanol prevails in
the United States — is expected
to double by 2020 to 19.95 million
tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe)
from around 10 mtoe in 2010.
The EU already has enough
refining capacity at more than 22
million tonnes to cope with the
projected doubling in biodiesel
demand, according to Rabobank.
But it faces daunting challenges
in coming up with the investment
and technology needed to
move to feedstock, such as weeds,
grass and waste stems, leaves and
husks, that would take the pressure
off grain supplies for food.
It also needs to find inputs that
would no longer result in the
clearing of environmentally sensitive
forests and wetlands to plant
fuel crops, an issue known as indirect
land use change (ILUC).
The costs of moving to new
feedstocks are hard to specify
because of variables including
volatile commodity prices.
“You can compare it with iPad;
when it first came out, the price
was much higher. But now the
price has come down because
of large-scale production,”
Rabobank analyst Justin Sherrard
said.
Policy conflict
EU sources have said the commission
will attempt to get
agreement before the end of
the year on how to measure
ILUC.
The aim is to clarify the impact
of biofuel policies on displacing
food crops or driving unwelcome
environmental change.
For now, energy commissioner
Guenther Oettinger has opposed
raising a target of deriving 10 per
cent of transport fuel from biofuels,
as part of an overall goal to get
20 per cent of energy from renewables
by 2020.
For an industry keen for investment
certainty, that means such
policy predictability as there is
expires in 2020.
Apart from biofuels, bioenergy
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made up of wood pellets,
for power generation.
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Pancake puzzler:
Maple syrup heist
baffles Quebec
Officials are still trying to determine how much was stolen
By Julie Gordon
toronto / reuters
Thieves in Quebec may
h a ve p u l l e d o f f t h e
sweetest heist of all time,
siphoning off a reservoir of
maple syrup from a warehouse
and cleverly covering up their
caper to evade detection, an
industry group said Aug. 31.
The warehouse in rural
Q u e b e c h e l d m o re t h a n
$30 million worth of maple
syrup, a whopping 10 million
pounds of the amber pancake
topping.
It was not clear exactly
how much of the sweet stuff
was taken in the heist, which
occurred at some point over
the last few days and was
uncovered during a routine
inventory check.
“We don’t know yet how
much is missing — we do
know it is significant,” said
Anne-Marie Granger Godbout,
executive director of the
Federation of Quebec Maple
Syrup Producers.
Numerous barrels in the
warehouse were emptied of
their sticky contents. The
remaining barrels need to be
weighed and tested to ensure
the syrup inside had not been
tampered with.
The robbers “were wise
enough, they tried to hide
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their crime,” said Granger
G o d b o u t . “ We j u s t w a n t
to make sure we know how
much is missing and how
much is still there.”
The warehouse, some 160
kilometres (100 miles) northeast
of Montreal, is one of
many locations where Quebec’s
maple syrup is temporarily
stored ahead of sale and
distribution.
The agency believes the
syrup was taken to be sold
on the black market. Quebec’s
provincial police force is
investigating the robbery.
With Quebec’s 2012 harvest
expected to top 96 million
pounds, the province pro-
Thieves with sticky fingers made off with maple syrup stored in a warehouse
near Montreal. photo: reuters/Mathieu Belanger
duces some 75 per cent of the
global supply of maple syrup,
made from the sap of maple
trees.
All the syrup held by the
Federation of Quebec Maple
Syrup Producers is insured
and the agency maintains a
stockpile of syrup that it likens
to a “global strategic reserve,”
according to a press release.
“I can assure you there
will be no shortage in maple
syrup,” said Granger Godbout.
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and how much is still
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El Niño short
and weak
reuTerS / el Niño
weather conditions have
emerged but will likely be
weak and short lived, New
Zealand scientists said
Sept. 4.
el Niño is a warming of
sea surface temperatures
in the tropical Pacific that
occurs every four to 12
years.
“borderline el Niño
conditions are present in
the tropical Pacific, and a
weak, short-lived el Niño
is predicted for the spring
and summer periods,” the
National Institute of Water
and Atmosphere said in its
latest climate outlook.
Richardson says
it’s keen to use
Churchill port
richardson International
has loaded its first wheat
vessel at Churchill since the
end of the CWb marketing
monopoly.
The MV New Legend
Pearl was loaded with
27,500 tonnes of No. 2
Canadian Western red
Spring wheat on Aug. 25
and set sail for Colombia.
richardson’s vice-president
of export marketing
says the Port of Churchill
has become “more accessible
to us” since CWb lost
its monopoly on wheat and
export barley.
“being headquartered in
Manitoba, we are pleased
to have quickly identified
opportunities to make use
of Manitoba’s port in the
new grain-marketing environment,”
said Terry James.
richardson, which first
shipped from Churchill in
1929, is planning more shipments
of grains and oilseeds
from the port before the
close of the shipping season,
the company said.

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Ethanol
output to
drop 10
per cent
The sector is suffering
from high prices too
By Charles Abbott
WASHINGTON / REUTERS
U.S. ethanol production
will fall by 10 per cent
in the coming year as
rising prices from the drought
cut exports in half, a University
of Missouri think-tank
forecast on Aug. 28.
The Obama administration
is weighing whether to relax
a requirement to use cornbased
ethanol in gasoline as
meat and dairy farmers complain
that demand for cornbased
biofuels is driving up
the cost of food.
But the record-high corn
prices caused by the worst
drought in half a century will
cause a 10 per cent decline in
ethanol production next year,
according to the Food and
Agricultural Policy Research
Institute, or FAPRI.
“Higher ethanol prices contribute
to sharply reduced
ethanol exports and increased
imports, but domestic ethanol
consumption declines by
just two per cent,” said the
newly updated FAPRI forecast.
Ethanol output will fall to
12.4 billion gallons next year
compared to 13.8 billion gallons
this year, according to
the forecast. Exports would
drop to 505 million gallons
from nearly 1.1 billion gallons
this year.
V i r g i n i a G ov e r n o r B o b
McDonnell joined governors
of seven other states — Texas,
Georgia, New Mexico, Arkansas,
North Carolina, Maryland
and Delaware — in asking
the Environmental Protection
Agency for relief from the
so-called ethanol mandate.
They say the Renewable Fuels
Standard is disrupting livestock
production and causing
severe economic harm.
The so-called ethanol mandate
guarantees use of 13.2
billion gallons of ethanol in
2012 and 13.8 billion gallons
in 2013. An ethanol trade
group estimates production
will total 13.4 billion gallons
during 2012, a reduction from
earlier estimates.
“It could be lower than
that depending upon market
conditions through the rest
of the year,” said the Renewable
Fuel Association. The
trade group had no forecast
for 2013.
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Manitoba Hydro proposes to construct a 500kV high-voltage DC hydro transmission line
originating at the site for the proposed Conawapa generating station near the mouth of the
Nelson River. Running along the west side of Manitoba, the proposed line will cross south central
Manitoba and terminate near Winnipeg.
The Manitoba Clean Environment Commission, as requested by the Minister of Conservation
and Water Stewardship, will conduct a public hearing about the potential environmental and
socio-economic impacts of constructing and operating this proposed project.
Public sessions will take place in locations along or near the proposed route, as follows:
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Using the information gathered from this hearing, the Commission will prepare a report for the
minister, with recommendations regarding the issuance of an Environment Act Licence.
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Supercomputers
to replace frogs
in forecasting
monsoon?
Indian crops depend on time
and amount of annual rainy season
By Ross Colvin and Jatindra Dash
new delhi / reuters
Sc i e n t i s t s a i d e d by
supercomputers are
trying to unravel one
of Mother Nature’s biggest
mysteries — the vagaries of
the summer monsoon rains
that bring life, and sometimes
death, to India every
year.
In a f i r s t - o f - i t s - k i n d
project, Indian scientists
aim to build computer models
that would allow them
to make a quantum leap in
predicting the erratic movements
of the monsoon.
If successful, the impact
would be life changing in a
country where 600 million
people depend on farming
for their livelihoods and
where agriculture contributes
15 per cent to the economy.
The monsoon has been
dubbed by some as India’s
“real finance minister.”
“Ultimately it’s all about
water. Everybody needs
water and whatever amount
of water you get here is
mainly through rainfall,”
said Shailesh Nayak, secretary
of the Earth Sciences
Ministry.
India typically receives 75
per cent of its annual rain
from the June-September
monsoon as moisture-laden
winds sweep in from the
southwest of the peninsula.
The importance of the
recently launched fiveyear
“monsoon mission”
has been underscored by
this summer’s patchy and
below-average rains, which
have provoked much anxious
skywatching and fears
of drought in India’s northwest,
even as floods in the
northeast displaced two million
people and killed more
than 100.
A g r i c u l t u r e M i n i s t e r
Sharad Pawar cautioned
that there was no need for
alarm just yet, although he
fretted that the monsoon
was “playing hide-andseek.”
Working with counterparts
in the United States
and Britain, Indian scientists
are trying to crack the monsoon’s
“source code” using
super-fast computers to
build the world’s first shortrange
and long-range computer
models that can give
much more granular information
about the monsoon’s
movements.
This would help India
conserve depleting water
resources and agricultural
output would get a boost
as farmers would be able to
plan their crops better.
Extending short-term forecasts
More than half of the arable
land in India, one of the
world’s biggest producers
“We were able
to guess from
the nature of the
croaking of frogs
if there would be
any rain in the
near future.”
TrILOCHA PrADHAN
Farmer
of cotton, rice, sugar and
wheat, is rain fed. A successful
monsoon means
rural residents have more
money to spend on everything
from motorcycles to
refrigerators.
“ We do feel under a
lot of pressure,” said S.C.
Bhan, senior scientist at
the India Meteorological
Office (IMD), when asked
about the challenges the
IMD faces in trying to correctly
predict the monsoon’s
movements.
The weather office publishes
a forecast in April
p r e d i c t i n g h ow m u c h
rain will fall over the four
months and whether the
monsoon will be “normal.”
It does this by comparing
sea temperatures, wind
speeds and air pressure
with data from the past 50
years.
Despite advances in computer
weather models, the
statistical model remains
the most accurate longrange
forecaster of monsoon
rains, Bhan said.
But only up to a point.
Many of the weather
office’s long-range summer
monsoon predictions last
year were inaccurate. It also
struggled to predict extreme
weather events such as the
drought in 2009 — a year
when it had forecast normal
monsoon rains.
Several farmers in Maharashtra
state, already at
the end of their tether and
deeply in debt after buying
fertilizer and seeds, reportedly
killed themselves in
June after rains abruptly
stopped, farmers’ rights
activist Kishor Tiwari said.
Many farmers ignore the
weather forecasts and rely
instead on Hindu astronomical
almanacs and signs
in nature.
“We were able to guess
from the nature of the
croaking of frogs if there
would be any rain in the
near future,” said Trilocha
Pradhan, 63, who farms
about seven acres of rice
paddy in the mostly agricultural
state of Odisha.
“Such croaking is rare
today,” he added, blaming
the effects of climate
change.

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 23
Collective farm
emblematic of Russia’s
new farm scene
Banner of Lenin collective farm
transforming itself into entrepreneurial force
By Melissa Akin
STAROSHCHERBINOVSKAYA, RUSSIA / REUTERS
This year’s wheat, piled in
steel sheds on the Banner
of Lenin collective
farm, shimmers greyish gold in
the dusty air, a vision of plenty
worthy of a Soviet propaganda
poster.
I n S o v i e t t i m e s , t h e
15,000-hectare farm in Russia’s
Black Sea breadbasket region
of Krasnodar, stuck to growing
wheat, but over the past two
decades has turned itself into
a one-billion-ruble- ($31-million-)
per-year business producing
wheat, fruit, sausages
and sugar. It sells its 45,000 to
50,000 tonnes of high-quality
milling wheat at the farm gate
to be shipped to consumers
such as Turkey.
It is emblematic of a Russian
agriculture industry trying to
establish itself as a global force.
That’s a far cry from the time
of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin,
who launched collectivization
on these lands nearly 80
years ago. The town’s Bible was
seized, its church razed and its
people left to starve.
State quotas still governed
the farm when Yuri Kharaman,
a wiry man in his late 50s with a
permanent sunburn from life in
the fields, took over as the collective’s
chairman.
“We don’t have that pressure
anymore. We can focus on profit
per hectare,” said Kharaman,
who drives a sport utility vehicle
and, like other members of
the collective, owns a five-hectare
share of the farm’s land.
Although hit twice by drought
in the last three years, Russia
is thinking big and aiming for
grain exports of 40 million to 50
million tonnes by 2020.
For the Banner of Lenin farm,
Russia’s re-emergence has
brought modest prosperity and
money for better technology,
including John Deere combines
to replace older models made in
the nearby city of Rostov.
Growth potential
The potential for growth has
not escaped the attention of
Russia’s wealthy businessmen
or the world’s largest agribusiness
companies. Oleg Deripaska,
owner of the world’s
largest aluminum company,
owns an 84,000-hectare farm in
his hometown of Ust-Labinsk
north of the regional capital of
Krasnodar. And along the North
Caucasus Railway, which carries
much of Russia’s export grain
to the Black Sea Port of Novorossiisk,
stand Soviet-built grain
elevators, now owned by Glencore,
Louis Dreyfus, Cargill and
Bunge.
It’s a sharp contrast to the
final decades of the Soviet era,
marked by heavy dependence
on grain imports and a mass
slaughter of livestock in the ’90s
because of feed shortages. That
had another consequence: Russia
met the global commodity
boom with its grain storage and
transport infrastructure configured
for import. It now requires
billions of dollars in investment
to modernize and expand to
match Russia’s export ambitions.
Wealth has been slow to
trickle down to farmers, too.
The collective’s shareholders
receive 720 rubles per month in
profits, plus a share of the farm’s
output, which has expanded to
include fruit, vegetables, flour,
sugar and sausage, all produced
and marketed under the Banner
of Lenin brand. Average
monthly salaries for the 1,100
regular employees are 21,000
rubles, and up to 30,000 ($920)
for machinery operators.
Kharaman is among those
who worry that Russia could
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again ban exports, leaving
his farm to sell at depressed
domestic prices.
“When wheat costs $300 on
the world market, and we get
$150, we can’t buy new combines,
planters or tractors,”
Kharaman said.
The town got its Bible back
after Soviet rule collapsed, and
there are plans to reconstruct
the long-destroyed church.
Kharaman says he hopes the
church will serve as a moral
guide for his people.
“Before, we had Communist
ideology, which had elements of
religion,” Kharaman said. “Now
there is no ideology at all, and
there is a vacuum.”
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24 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
Despite reforms, Cuba is growing
less food than five years ago
The government says working to broaden reforms
By Marc Frank
HAVANA / REUTERS
Cuba is producing less
food than it did five
years ago despite efforts
to increase agriculture production,
the government reported
Aug. 31.
Some export crops and farm
output aimed at substituting
food imports registered minor
gains, but overall output last
year remained below 2007
levels, according to a report
issued by the National Statistics
Office.
The government has also
reported that food prices rose
20 per cent in 2011.
Cuban President Raul Castro
has made increasing food production
a priority since he took
over as president from his ailing
brother, Fidel, in 2008.
The communist country
imports up to 70 per cent of its
food and is investing hundreds
of millions of dollars to boost
production of rice, beans,
coffee and milk and reduce
imports.
Domestic production of
two Cuban food staples has
increased, the government
said. Rice production reached
566,400 tonnes compared
with 439,600 tonnes in 2007,
and farmers produced 133,000
tonnes of beans with 97,200
tonnes in 2007.
To stimulate production, Castro
has decentralized decisionmaking,
opened up more space
for farmers to sell directly to
consumers and raised prices
the state pays for produce. He
has stopped short of allowing
market forces to take hold and
drive production.
Marino Murillo, who is leading
efforts to steer Cuba’s statedominated
economy in a more
market-friendly direction,
announced in July that a government
effort to reduce state
bureaucracy in the agriculture
sector had recently been completed.
Speaking to the National
Assembly, he outlined plans for
separating quasi-co-operatives
from the state and allowing
them to operate like private cooperatives.
These operations,
formed by state-run companies
in the mid-1990s on 30 per cent
of Cuba’s arable land, have performed
poorly.
Murillo also said at that
time that a land-lease program
begun in 2008 involving
some 170,000 farmers would
be expanded to allow up to five
times more land per individual.
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country to call on the state to
pull back further and let market
forces drive the sector.
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Eastern
European maize
a rare bright spot
KIEV / REUTERS / Eastern
European maize crops
have survived a summer
drought, but exporters
are unlikely to benefit as
domestic buyers seek alternatives
to wheat and barley
ravaged by the heat.
Top maize producers
in the Black Sea region —
Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria
and Romania — are likely
to produce a total of 37 million
tonnes of maize this
year, compared to 39.7 million
tonnes in 2011.
However, most is
expected to replace feed
wheat, whose output has
drastically fallen this year
amid soaring temperatures.
Hot, dry weather in some
European Union countries
has severely hit prospects
for this year’s EU maize
harvest, adding pressure
to a world market already
reeling from huge drought
damage in the U.S.
Ukraine may
limit wheat
exports in 2013
Ukraine may limit wheat
exports in early 2013 to
keep a lid on prices after
the wheat harvest declined
this year, traders and analysts
say.
The government has set
2012-13 maximum export
volumes at 19.4 million
tonnes of grain, including
4.0 million of wheat.
The former Soviet
republic has already
exported 1.3 million
tonnes of wheat and may
sell the rest of the agreed
volume in the next two or
three months, followed by
a halt in exports.

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 25
crop report
First frost of the season but no damage to crops
Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives – Report for September 10, 2012
Weekly Provincial Summary
• Hot, dry conditions across
most of Manitoba allowed for
excellent harvest progress.
• In some areas of Manitoba,
frost was reported early Sunday,
Sept. 9 but no reports
of crop damage have been
received.
• Harvest of spring cereals is
95 per cent complete. Canola
harvest ranges from 70 to
100 per cent complete. Flax,
edible beans, soybean and
potato harvest continues.
• Grain, corn and sunflowers
are maturing quickly. Silage
corn harvest has started.
• Seeding of winter wheat continues
across Manitoba.
• Precipitation would be welcomed
to aid in winter wheat
stand establishment, fall field
work and replenishing soil
moisture reserves and dugouts.
Southwest Region
Wheat harvest is 90 per cent
complete and yields are average
with good quality. Barley
is also 90 per cent complete
with below-average yields and
below-average quality. Oats are
90 per cent complete with average
yields and average quality.
Canola is 70 per cent complete
with average to belowaverage
yield with good quality.
Flax is 15 per cent complete and
yields to date are below average.
Sunflowers and corn are starting
to dry down, aided by warm
and dry conditions. Soybeans
are starting to mature.
Producers have started to
seed fall rye and winter wheat.
Fall weed control has begun in
most of the region.
Several pastures are about done
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and some producers are starting
to supplemental feed. Dugouts
are about 50 per cent full with
older dugouts at 30 per cent full.
Northwest Region
Soil moisture conditions are dry
causing poor conditions for fall
tillage operations and causing
delays in planting of fall-seeded
crops. Post-harvest herbicide
applications are being made.
The wheat harvest is 95 per
cent complete with reported
yields averaging 45 bu./acre.
About 75 to 80 per cent of the
canola crop has been harvested
with yields varying between 15
and 50 bu./acre with an average
of 23 bu./acre. Flax has yet to be
harvested; yields are expected
to be lower partly due to the
presence of asters yellow. Silage
corn has matured to the dent
stage of growth. Some soybeans
have just reached R7 stage with
a good yield outlook.
Straw supplies appear to be
adequate throughout the area.
Second-cut hay operations are
winding down with some localized
shortages reported from
areas that had suffered excess
moisture over the growing season.
Pasture growth has nearly
halted because of the continuing
dry fall conditions.
Central Region
The first reports of frost
occurred over the weekend,
with no indication of crop damage.
Most of the region is waiting
for rain to aid in fall field
work and improve seedbed and
germination conditions for fall
cereals.
Quality is generally good,
although canola dockage
is higher than average due
to small seeds. Many of the
reseeded canola fields have
yielded higher than the earlierseeded
fields. Flax has turned
and harvesting has begun, with
yields in the 10 to 20 bu./acre
range.
Edible bean harvest continues.
Yields are respectable,
especially given the dry conditions.
Quality is very good but
dry seed is a concern.
Soybeans are maturing
quickly and harvest continues.
Early harvest reports are in the
20 to 35 bu./acre range, with
some higher yields seen.
Corn is generally denting but
some fields are physiologically
mature. Harvest is imminent for
some of the earliest-maturing
varieties.
Early potato yields and quality
are average to above average.
Winter wheat seeding continues
with increased acres going
in. Majority of seeding is complete
in eastern parts of the
region. Seed supplies for winter
wheat and fall rye are tight due
to increased demand.
Livestock water supplies continue
to decline in most areas
with some pumping occurring
to fill dugouts. Some producers
are cleaning out their dugouts
with low water levels and some
new dugouts are being constructed.
Pasture growth is slow. Those
that are rotationally grazed or
have lower stocking rates are in
better condition, but most pastures
continue to suffer due to
warm, dry conditions. Secondcut
hay is almost complete and
yields are below normal. Hay
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Many of the reseeded canola fields have yielded
higher than the earlier-seeded fields.
supplies are tight and prices are
higher as a result.
Eastern Region
In some areas of the region, a
slight frost early Sunday morning
was noted but no reports of crop
damage have been received.
Canola harvest was completed
last week. Yield reports range
widely from 22 to 35 bu./acre.
Sunflowers are transitioning to
the R9 growth stage. The drydown
and browning of bracts are noted
as producers monitored their
fields for desiccation timing. Soybean
maturity progressed rapidly
with about 60 per cent of the crop
in the R8 to 95 per cent brown pod
growth stage. About 25 per cent
of soybean acres are harvested in
southern districts last week with
average yields of 25 bu./acre. Corn
is transitioning to the R6 growth
stage.
Many producers completed
winter wheat seeding last week.
In regards to winter feed supply
level, hay is rated as 25 to 65 per
cent adequate, straw is 80 to 90
per cent adequate, greenfeed is 70
per cent adequate and feed grains
are 25 to 80 per cent adequate.
The condition of the majority
of pasture lands in the Eastern
Region is rated as poor to
very poor. Availability of livestock
water is rated as 25 to 40 per cent
inadequate.
Interlake Region
A light frost was experienced in
many areas of the North Interlake
on Sunday morning.
Canola yields are below average
in the 25 bu./acre range. There
are local highlights where yields
of individual fields topped 40 bu./
acre. Cereal crop yields are average
on most farms.
Post-harvest herbicide application
is delayed as weed seed and
volunteer emergence is poor due
to dry conditions. A general rain
would improve winter wheat
emergence and soil conditions for
fall tillage.
Alfalfa seed desiccation has
started on many fields and some
harvesting has taken place on very
dry areas.
Third-cut haying operations
continue in eastern parts of the
region. Hay shortages are expected
in the southwest and many other
localized areas around the region.
Corn silage harvest is general in
the South Interlake with average to
above-average yields.
Pasture growth is slow due to dry
conditions. Water supply issues are
arising.
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Before you burn straw, stubble or chaff this fall,
call 1-800-265-1233 or visit manitoba.ca to find out
whether burning is allowed in your area that day.
Burning is permitted only on days when the weather
conditions allow for effective smoke dispersion.
It is essential that you make sure appropriate fireguards
are in place during a burn and you must supervise your
fires at all times.
Consider the alternatives
In most years, crop residue management practices
can reduce or eliminate the need to burn. For more
information, contact your local Manitoba Agriculture,
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or visit manitoba.ca.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
GUN & MILITARIA SHOW
Sunova Centre
West St Paul Rec Centre
48 Holland Rd
Located North of the
North Perimeter Hwy
between McPhillips & Main St
off Kapelus Rd
WINNIPEG, MB.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Adults $4.00 – Women free
Children under 12 accompanied
by an adult free
There will be dealers
from Ontario, Saskatchewan
and Manitoba
Show Sponsored by the MCC of C
ANTIQUES
ANTIQUES
Antiques For Sale
AUCTION SALE SEPT 22ND, 10:00am Miami.
Many antiques including, crocks, lamps, furniture,
pictures, harness, etc. Phone:(204)435-2106.
RED BARN ANTIQUE SALE Sept 24th
3:00pm-7:00pm, Sept 25th to Sept 29th
11:00am-5:00pm. Hwy 59 South to Grande Pointe.
www.theredbarnantiques.blogspot.com
Birch River
AUCTION DISTRICTS
The Pas
Swan River
Minitonas
Durban
Winnipegosis
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.
Roblin
Dauphin
Grandview
Ashern
Gilbert Plains
Fisher Branch
Ste. Rose du Lac
Riverton
Russell
McCreary
Parkland
Eriksdale
Lundar
Arborg
Gimli
Birtle Shoal Lake
Erickson
Minnedosa
Langruth
Gladstone Interlake Lac du Bonnet
Hamiota
Neepawa
Stonewall
Rapid City
Selkirk
Portage
Beausejour
Virden
Austin
Carberry
1 Brandon
Souris
Treherne
Reston
Mariapolis
MelitaWestman
Boissevain
242
Killarney Pilot Mound
Waskada
Elm Creek
Sanford
Carman
Morris
Winkler
Winnipeg
Ste. Anne
Steinbach
St. Pierre
1
Crystal City
Morden Altona
Red River
AUCTION SALES
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
AUCTION SALE FOR Henry & Helena Wieler
Sat., Sept 29th 11:00am. 9-mi South of Gladstone,
MB on Hwy 34 till Rd 74N 3-mi East till Rd 62W
1/4-mi South yard #73129. Tractors Trucks:
1957 820 JD pup start; 18.4x34 single hyds PTO
power steering; 1974 1135 MF 2 hyds PTO 18.4x38
duals; 1966 1100 MF Allied Ldr; 18.4x34 clamp on
Duals 2 hyds PTO 10,600-hrs; 1974 1370 White
4,950-hrs Ldr 3-PTH PTO single hyds; 1985 Ford
F150 6 cyl 4-SPD 209,230-km; 1970 Dodge
300 318 eng 4-SPD box & hoist; Seeding & Tillage:
21-ft. MF 63 Press Drill; 12-ft. JD Press Drill;
10-ft. Glencoe 3-PTH Cult; Single furrow Breaking
Plow; 18-ft. Co-op Deep Tiller; 18-ft. Glencoe Cult;
22-ft. Cockshutt Tandem Disc; 21-ft. Cockshutt
Cult; 15-ft. Glencoe Cult; 14-ft. Ford Deep Tiller; 15-
ft. IHC single Disc; 12-ft. MF single Disc; 5-16 JD
Plow; 4-14 IHC Plow; 18-ft. Pony Harrows; 2 Ring
Co-op Harrows; 4 like new Cranks for Co-op Har-
rows; 56-ft. Vers Sprayer; 7-ft. 3-PTH Blade; 6-ft.
Trailer type brush Mower; 6-ft. 3-PTH Finishing
mower; 6-ft. Buhler 3-PTH Rotovator; 7-ft. Allied
3-PTH Snowblower; Haying & Cattle Equip: 8-ft.
Allied Bucket & Grapple; 486 New Idea Rd Baler;
15-ft. Vers Swather w/PU Reel; Swather Transport;
15-ft. Vers pt Swather; 400 Vers swather for parts;
16-ft. IHC pt swather for parts; MF side delivery
Rake; 15 Bale Stooker; IHC Manure Spreader; 8-
in.x50-ft. Vers PTO Auger; 3 Rd Bale Feeders;
Squeeze Chute; 3-PTH Post hole auger w/6, 9, 12-
in. bits; 3-Ton Truck frame Bale Wagon; Big M farm
Wagon; JD Farm Wagon; Model T Ton truck Chas-
sis (wagon); 2-Ton Trailer w/Box & Hoist; 17-in.
PTO Krushel Hammermill; 8-in. Grain Roller; Calf
Puller; Bale elevator; Misc & Shop Equip: 18.4x38
Duals; Single Row PTO Corn Picker; Baler type
Log Splitter; 1/2-Ton Cattle Rack; Spring Harrow
Teeth; 18-HP Simplicity 44-in Riding Mower;
6.5-HP Garden Tiller; 6.75-HP self propelled Lawn
Mower; 5000W gas Power Plant; Skill Saw; Table
Saw; 45 Husqvarna Chain Saw; elect Cut off Saw;
Wood Lathe; Gas Weed Eater; 250A LKS Welder
w/DC adapter; Hyd Floor Jack; 20-Ton Hyd Jack; 2
RR Jacks; Shop Power Tools; 6-in. bench Vice;
Fencing Tools; assort of Wrenches; measuring
Wheel; 3, 300-gal Fuel Tanks; Platform Scale; 1/2-
Ton Tool Box; 4, P185/65R14 Tires & Rims; RR
Iron; HD Battery Charger; 20-ft. alum ext ladder;
Wheel Barrow; Rope Maker; Garden Seeder; Horse
Drawn Equip; 1 row JD Corn Cult; 1 row Corn Cult;
Hay Rake; Farm Wagon; Steel Wagon Wheels; Antiques
& Collectibles: G JD Grill; 10-gal Red Wing
Crock; 2-gal Red Wing Crock; Chest of Drawers;
27x38-in. Kitchen Table; Kraut Shredder; Galva-
nized Bath Tub w/feet; Barn Lantern; Ford Signs;
Tobacco Tins; School Desk; Household. Website
www.nickelauctions.com Terms Cash or Cheque
w/ID Lunch served. Subject to additions & dele-
tions. Not responsible for any errors in description. GST
& PST will be charged where applicable. Everything
Sells AS IS Where Is All Sales Final Owners & auction
company are not responsible for any accidents on sale
site sale conducted by Nickel Auctions Ltd. Dave Nickel
& Marv Buhler auctioneers Phone (204)637-3393 cell
(204)856-6900 owner (204)385-2096.
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
AUCTION SALE FOR KEITH & KATHY ARTHUR
Sat., Sept 22nd 12:00pm 1-mi West of Gladstone,
MB on Hwy 16 till yard #66028. Yardman 20-HP
46-in. cut Riding Lawn Tractor; 5.5-HP Garden Tiller;
38-in. Lawn Sweep; Elect Garden Tiller; 2000
Polaris Sportsman 500 4x4, 4 Wheeler; independent
shaft drive; 18-ft. Camper; 14-ft. alum & Trailer;
14-ft. Fibre Glass Boat; 55-HP older Merc out
board eng; 18-HP Evinrude outboard eng; Minn
Kota 40-lb thrust foot control trolling motor; 4, 8x8in.
Trailer Tires; Equip & Shop Tools: Milestone
Potatoe Seed Cutter; 36-in. Potatoe Grader; 8x17ft.
Cattle Rack for Trailer; A150C JD DSL construction
Heater; Power Hacksaw; 6-in. Bench Grinder;
1, 500-gal Fuel Tanks & Stand; 1, 500-gal fuel tank
(2 comp); 2, 300-gal Fuel Tanks & Stands; Air
Compressor; elect Simoniz Pressure Washer; 8-in.
Bench Vice; Acetylene welder & Cart; Piston Pressure
pump; elect Pressure Pump; Engine Stand;
12V Power Inverter; elect Power Tools; Tool Boxes;
Pipe Wrenches; Wrenches; Socket Sets; Hyd
Jacks; Hyd Cyl; Bolt Bins; Pintol Hitches; assort of
Conveyor Belting; Shaft RPM Gauge; Poulon Chain
Saw; Port elect Panel Breaker Boxes; Barrels;
Western Saddle (10 yr old); elect Shop Heater;
Plastic wheel Barrow; Household: Cress model
#FX-23P elect Ceramic Kiln; Pet Supplies; Pet Carriers;
Garden Tools. More household than listed.
Antiques & Collectibles: farm style Baker MFG
Co Wind Mill; 2, 5-gal Cream Cans; 4-gal Red Wing
Crock. Plus misc. Website www.nickelauctions.com
Terms Cash or Cheque w I.D. lunch served Subject
to additions & deletions Not responsible for any errors
in description. GST & PST will be charged
where applicable Owners & auction company are
not responsible for any accidents on sale site. Sale
conducted by Nickel Auctions Ltd Dave Nickel &
Marv Buhler Auctioneers Ph (204)637-3393 cell
(204)856-6900.
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
MCSHERRY AUCTION SERVICE LTD Acreage
/Auction Sale Roy & Dorothy Fox Sun., Sept 16th,
11:00am. Inwood 5-mi North on Hwy #17 then East
1/4-mi on Sandridge Rd. Contact: (204)278-3311 or
(204)339-0806. Tractors: JD AR Styled hyd PTO
w/FEL; Ford 8N gas 3-PTH PTO New Rubber; 2)
Ferguson TE20 gas 3-PTH PTO; Equip: Trailer hyd
Wood Splitter; 3-PTH 7-ft Cult; 3-PTH Ferguson
Side Del Rake; 2) 3-PTH 2B Plows; 3-PTH HM
Breaking Plows; 3-PTH V Snowblower; JD 14T Sq
Baler; JD #5 7-ft Sickle Mower; 3 Sec Diamond
Harrows; Saw Mandrel; Bumper Hitch 14-ft Tandem
Flat Deck; Utility Trailer; Cord Wood Trailer; Yard:
Crafts 13.5-HP R Mower; Yardman 8-HP R Mower;
Crafts 5-HP Roto Tiller; Crafts 32cc Roto Tiller; Viking
5-HP Snow Blower; 2 gas Push Mowers; Elec
Chain Saw; Propone BBQ; Patio Table & Chairs;
Hand Yard Tools; Tools: Air Comp; Welder; Accetylene
Torches; Table Saw; Sliding Mitre Saw;
Poulan 38cc Chain Saw; Battery Charger; Bench
Grinder; Many Power Tools; Grinder; Saw; Router;
1/2 Drills; Many Hand Tools; Wrenchs; Socket Sets;
Tap & Die Set; Welding Clamps; Jackal; Hyd Jack;
Floor Jack; Vise; Drill Bits; Drill Bit Sharpeners.
Misc: 81 Ford 1/2-Ton, NR; Ferguson Parts; 3-PTH
Draw Bar; Belt Pulley; Oils; Tow Bar; Auto Tires;
Chain Ratchet; Load Binders; Chains & Hooks; Sft
Harness; Al Step & Ext Ladders; Home Repair
Items; Lumber; Welding Table & Vise; Tiger
Torche; Elec Motors; HD Elec Cords; Wood Heater;
Const Heaters; Some Household; TV Microwave.
Antique Trucks & Equip: 1952 Chev Step Side
1/2-ton; 8-ft Hse Cult on Steel; Saulky Plow; 4) Single
Walking Plows 1) JD; Single 8-ft Disc; Hse
Dump Rake; 2) Scufflers; 2) Hand Corn Planters;
10) Steel Wheels; Champion Forge; Post Drill; Leg
Vise; Threasher Scale; Many Old Tools; Double
Axe; Push Reel Mowers; Sad Irons; Drop Side
Toasters; Crocks; Bicycle License Plate; BA Oil
Can; Coal Scuttle Pail; Cream Cans; Lantern.
Guns: Remington, Model 878, SA, Cal 12 ga;
Ranger, SS Cal 12 ga; 303 British, BA w/Scope;
Savage, LA, Cal 243 win w/adj Scope; Yukon Tradition
50 cal Black Powder. Stuart McSherry
(204)467-1858 or (204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
MCSHERRY AUCTION SERVICE LTD Acreage
Auction Leonard & Gladys Ciszewski Sun., Sept
23rd 10:00am Winnipeg Beach. #8 Hwy & 229 Jct
Go North 3-mi on Hwy # 8 then 1-mi West on Rd
105 then South 50 yards on Rd 18E. Auction Note:
Moving to Town & No Longer Need these Items!
Everything Sells to the Highest Bidder. Contact:
(204)642-5685. Tractor & Equip: Kubota L 4200
MFWA 3PH 540 PTO dual hyd w/Kubota 680 FEL,
HM Cab 741-hrs; Ford 951 3PH 5 Rotary Mower;
Inland 8A-73 3PH Snowblower Hyd Chute; King
Kutter 3PH 6-ft. Blade; 3PH 6-ft. Cult; Yard: Kubota
ZD 18-HP DSL Zero Turn hyd 60-in. Cult; Poulan
11-HP 30-in. Snowblower Elec Start & Cab; Noma
12-HP R Mower nr; HM Yard Sprayer; Grass
Sweep; Gas Weed Eater Redimax; Cordless Pole
Saw; Elec Chain Saw; Back Pack Sprayer; Wheel
Barrow; Hand Yard Tools; Plastic Snow Fence;
Vintage Vehicle & Rec: 75 International Scout II
4x4 106,000-km, Restored Sft; Honda Big Red 3
Wheeler; ATV Trailer; Evinrude 16-HP Outboard;
Mercury 9.8 Outboard; Yamaha EF 3000 Generator;
4-ft. Poly Sleigh; Pedal Bikes; Golf Clubs;
Smoker; Camping & Fishing Items; Guns & Accessories:
Browning, Model 2000, SA, Cal: 12 ga;
Winchester, Model 77, SA, Cal 22; Ranger, SS, Cal
12 ga; Cooey, Model 60, BA, Cal: 22, Tubular Mag;
303 British, BA, No bolt or clip; 303 British, BA,
w/Peep Sight; Connectict Black Powder SS, 1) Barrel
45 cal 1) 32 cal; Browning, SA, Cal 30-06
w/Scope; Rifle Pellet Gun; Various Ammo; Gun
Cleaning Kit; Black Bear Tanned Hide; Black Bear
Skull; Deer Mts; 2) Live Traps; Spotting Scope;
Scope; Metal Double Locker; Tools: “Melmark”
TD5A Metal Lathe 36-in. Bed 10-in. Swing 3 & 4
Jaw Chuck; 3/4-HP Milling Machine w/Power Feed,
Variable Speed, Many Tooling, Boring, Cutters,
Face Cutters, Center Rest, Steady Rest, Face
Plate, Gauge Blocks 10) Calipers; Ind 12-SPD Drill
Press; Metal Band Saw Converted Hyd; LKS
AC/DC 250A Welder; Arbor Press; Air Comp; Battery
Charger; Delta Disc/Ribbon Sander; Table
Saw; Chain Saw; Bench Grinder; Power Tools;
Power Wet Stone Sharpener; Cordless Tools; Air
Tools; Air Regulators; Multi Tester; Sockets 3/4-in.,
1/2-in. 3/8-in., 1/4-in.; Tap & Die Set; Many Hand
Tools; Jackal; Misc: Elec Cement Mixer; Elec
Transfer Pump; Hyd Cyl; 24-ft. Booster Cables; Al
Blding Jacks; Come Along; Elec Motors; Lumber;
Welding Material; Shop Supplies; Work Bench; Antiques:
Oak Desk; Inuit Art “James Martin”; Body
40s? GMC Delivery Van; Household Scale; Radio;
Folding Camera; Cream Separator; Cream Can;
Platform Scale; BA Oil Cans; Oak Tool Box; Peter
Wright 65-lb Anvil; Leg Vise; Post Drills; Saw;
Scythe; Draw Knife; Block Planer; Pioneer Chain
Saw; Pop Crates; Hand Painted Cookie Jar; Toy
Steam Engine; Cast Toy Train; Wood Skis; Local
History Book “Beyond The Gates-St. Andrews”; Encyclopedia
American Steam Engine; Household:
Central Vac System; 26-in. Flat Screen; Stereo;
Wine Rack; Men’s Full Raccoon Jacket. Stuart
McSherry (204)467-1858 or (204)886-7027
www.mcsherryauction.com
MCSHERRY AUCTION SERVICE LTD Manitoba
Largest Annual Fall Gun Auction Sat., Oct. 20th
9:30am Stonewall #12 Patterson Dr. Taking Consignments
Now! World Internet Exposure! Growing
List on Website. Stuart McSherry (204)467-1858 or
(204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com
Round up the cash! Advertise your unwanted equipment
in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds.
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
MCSHERRY AUCTION SERVICE LTD Tractor,
Equip, Construction Auction Sat., Sept 22nd
10:00am. Location: Inwood, MB 1/2-Mile West on
RD 416. Auction Note: Having Received Instruction
from Central Collection Services, Local Consignments
the Following Goods will Sell to the Highest
Bidder! Selling Order: Cattle: 10:00; Equipment:
11:00; Tractors: 12:00. Construction: Kohring
6620 Track Excavator w/4-ft Buckets 30-in Buckets
w/Teeth S#1177085; Int 100 Serious E Power Shift
Crawler w/FEL & Bucket; Bobcat & Attachments:
BobCat S 300 Enclosed Cab Backup Cup Camera
4,300-hrs S#525817324; BobCat Bucket; Lowe Hyd
Post Auger 9-in Bit; Stout Grapple; Stout 72-in
Stone Fork; Pallet Forks; Bale Forks; Manure
Forks; BobCat Quick Attach; 4 Wheel Drive Tractors:
Steiger Super Wild Cat, Cat Turbo 4WD Dual
Hyd 4855-hrs; Coop Bear Cat II, 4WD Cat 3208
Triple hyd S#45162, 3,662-hrs; Belarus 1500 4WD
1000 PTO Dual Hyd; Tractors Modern & Vintage:
JD A Row Crop Hyd 540 PTO S#638352; Cockshutt
550 gas; M Moline 445 Row Crop 540 PTO; M
Moline U 540 PTO S#646068; Ford 2N 3-PTH 540
PTO; Dietz 50 3-cyl DSL 540 PTO Dual Hyd
S#771213459; Dietz D 8005 Dual Hyd 540 PTO
S#7921; McCormick 2230 All Steel; MH 30 gs PTO
Pulley; Case 930 Cab Dual Hyd 540 PTO 18.4x38
dual 4,373-hrs; Fiat DSL MFWA 3-PTH 540 PTO
w/FEL; Fiat DSL HL MFWA 3-PTH 540 PTO
3,542-hrs; NH 35 Mix Mill w/Auto Bale Table; Rome
10-ft 28-in Single Disc; Int. 310 16-in Discer Seeders;
Herman 67-ft Spring Tine Harrows; Landroller
12-ft W 42-in H; Co-op 15-in Tandem Disc; Trucks:
06 Dodge 2500 4x4 Mercedes Benz gas Quad Cab,
Loaded w/Leather Lift Kit & 35-in Rubber,
149,000-km; 1975 Ford 750 gas 5-SPD x2 tag Axle
w/18-ft B&H 47,000-mi; Equip: Shultz Giant 2500
hyd Rock Picker; Case SCX 100 hyd Swing 16-ft;
Mower Cond S#HAS0014096; Bourgault 330 Air
Seeder; Bourgault 2195 40-ft Air Seeder Cart
S#2837; Bourgault 40-ft Chisel Plow; JD 1600 16-ft
Deep Tiller; New 1st Claas Variant 380 RD Baler;
3-PTH RD Bale Spinner; Hyd Drive Winch Style
Item; 2-Wheel Rake. Misc: Granary Aeration Fan;
Stihl 270 Chain Saw; Port Air Comp. Cattle: Herd
of Cattle Limo Anus Sim X; 15 Cow Calf Pairs; 5)
Late Calving Cows; Limo Bull; 5 Open Cows. Local
Consignment: Case 885 3-PTH, 2,600-hrs; 1967
JD 5020 Cab Dual Hyd 1000 PTO Duals; 87 Sokal
GooseNeck 26-ft Flat Deck w/Beaver; NH 35 Mix
Mill w/Auto Bale Table; Rome 10-ft 28-in Single
Disc; Int. 310 16-in Discer Seeders; Herman 67-ft
Spring Tine Harrows; Co-op 15-in Tandem Disc;
Vers. 3000 68-in Sprayer w/Foam Markers; 4-Ton
Dual Speed Fertilizer Wagon; JD 215 15-in Tandem
Disc; Landroller 12-ftW 42-in H; Silver Lake Mfg
Trailer Post Pounder. Stuart McSherry
(204)467-1858 or (204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com
Hit our readers where it counts… in the classifieds.
Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifed
section. 1-800-782-0794.
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Parkland
S & E Puchailo Logging Ltd.
Grandview, MB
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26th
STARTING @ 10 A.M. SHARP!!!
UNRESERVED FORESTRY & CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: CRAWLER TRACTOR • CAT D8K • KOMATSU D65E • MOTORGRADER
• CHAMPION 740 • CHAMPION 740A • HYDRAULIC EXCAVATOR • 1997 KOMATSU PC200LC • KOM-
ATSU PC200LC • SKIDDER • 2003 TIMBERJACK 660D • 1999 TIMBERJACK 660 • 1995 TIMBERJACK
560 • 1995 TIMBERJACK 560 • DELIMBER • 1995 KOMATSU PC200 • 1992 KOMATSU PC200LC • 1990
HITACHI EX200LC • SLASHER • 2003 TIMRICK 2750 • Bush Tag-Along Slasher • TIMRICK Portable Slasher
• FELLER BUNCHER • 1994 TIMBERJACK 618 • 2003 608S • LOG LOADER • 2003 KOMATSU PC20LC7 •
TRUCK TRACTOR • 2006 WESTERN STAR • 2006 WESTERN STAR • 2001 WESTERN STAR •
2000 WESTERN STAR • 1996 KENWORTH T800 • 1986 FREIGHTLINER • TRAILERS • T/A 45 Ft. Flat
Deck • 30 Ft. S/A Dry Van • WILLOCK 40 Ton Jeep • ASPEN Tri-Axle • LOG TRAILER • 1999 DOEPKER Reverse
Super B • 1995 DOEPKER Super B • Shop Built Super B • 1996 DOEPKER Super B • 1994 DOEPKER
Super B • 1995 SUPERIOR T/A (Rear Trailer of Super B) • 1995 SUPERIOR Tri-Axle • ATTACHMENTS •
Prentice Tree-Length Log Grapple • Log Heel & Clam • Hyd. Excavator Ripper Tooth • Quick Attach Delimber •
ROTOBEC Log Clam • GEN SET • DEUTZ • CAMP EQUIP • ATCO 8x24 Ft. T/A • 10x30 Ft. T/A Self-Contained
• 12x40 Bumper Hitch Unit, Self-Contained • MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS • Log Straightener • 16 Ft.
Mull Board • Scare Fry & Blades • Asst’d Truck Tires • Asst’d Propane Basket Heaters • UNUSED, Undercarriage
• Asst’d Bunks for Trailers • TWO, UNUSED, 35.5x32 Firestone Forestry Special Tires w/ Timberjack
Rims • Asst’d Used Skidder Rims & Tires
For More Information or a Complete Listing, Call or View our Website Today!!
1-800-667-2075
hodginsauctioneers.com SK PL # 915407 • AB PL # 180827
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Interlake
UNRESERVED
BANK AUCTION SALE
of
Cat D6H
Machine will be delivered the day of
the auction to Western Storage at
1300 Dugald Road, Winnipeg
for viewing at 11:00 am
Wed., September 19 at 1:00 PM
(Viewing after 11:00 AM Same Day of Sale Only)
AUCTIONEERS NOTE*
Be on time ONLY 1 Item For Sale
Having Received instructions for
the CREDIT UNION we will sell the
following asset:
Cat D6H
Runs Good
TERMS: Cash, Visa, Mastercard or
Debit paid in Full Same Day of Sale.
SUBJECT TO ADDITIONS & DELETIONS
“Everything Sold As Is, Where Is” with
no warranties implied or expressed.
KAYE’S AUCTIONS
(204) 668-0183 (WPG.)
www.kayesauctions.com
AUCTION SALES
Manitoba Auctions – Red River
AUCTION SALE for Cam & Betty Calder & Merv &
Brenda Mihaychuk on Sat., Sept. 15th, 11:00am
held at Carlowrie, MB. Located from Hwy #59 at St
Malo, go Hwy #218 S, 7.6-kms to Carloweie to yard
#21125. JD 420 Crawler/Dozer, gas, running; approx
1953, Model A Car, runs, needs some work;
approx 1930, JD 3140 Tractor, 3-PTH, hi-low shut-
tle shift; JD 9350 20-ft. Press Drill; MF 510 Com-
bine, gas, shedded, used last year; 12-ft. Deep Til-
ler; IHC 24 Run Disc Drill; Rock Picker; Creep
Feeder; Lewis Cattle Oiler; Farm King Auger 7/41
PTO; Westeel Bins 1, 2,900-bus; 3, 1,650;bus. To
View Call (204)427-2703. Lincoln AC225 Welder;
Air Compressor; Construction Heater; Jacks; Car-
penter & Drywall Tools. Misc Shop Items. House-
hold: Bdrm set; Spin Washer; Entertainment centre;
28-in. Colored TV; Computer Desks; Dishes; Plus
More. Antique: Crocks; Clock; Cream Cans; Booker
Stove; Radio’s & Tubes, More. Partial ad. www.harderauctions.ca
In case of rain, auction will be held
inside shed. Owners: Calder (204)427-2781; Mihay-
chuk (204)427-2703; Harder Auctions, W. “Butch”
Harder (204)746-8005; Howard Brown
(204)746-8284.
MCSHERRY AUCTION SERVICE LTD Auction
Sale Joe Yvon Sat., Sept 15th 10:00am St. Labre,
MB. South Side of Village 1/8-mi South of Church.
Auction Note: Joe is moving so Everything Sells to
the Highest Bidder! Contact: (204)429-2146. Crawler
& Tractor: JD 450 DSL Power Shift Crawler
PTO w/8-ft. Angle Dozer; Case 930 Cab 540 PTO
Dual Hyd Sold w/Ezeeon FEL; Ford 9N 3PH PTO;
Equip: Ezeeon 12-ft. HD Breaking Disc; Taylor Mfg
16-ft. Tandem Disc; Delgeman PTO Hyd Stone
Picker; MEL Cam 410 Hyd Stone Picker; 3 Yard 8-
ft.W Scraper; 2) Vers Cult; 1) 18-ft.; 1) 22-ft.; Int 45
18-ft. Cult; 6-ft. Breaking Disc; Case 10-ft. Chisel
Plow; Cockshutt 240 12-ft. Deep Tiller; 15-ft. Crow-
foot Packer; Farm King 3 PH 72-in. Finishing Mow-
er; Trailer 6-ft. HD Rotary Mower; Vehicle & Trailer:
64 GMC 900 w/14-ft. B&H; 45-ft. Freight
Tandem Semi Trailer (Storage); Car Dolly; 11-ft.
Tandem Hyd Tilt Trailer; 1,000-gal 4 Wheel Water
Trailer; 2 Older HD 2 Wheel Trailers 1) used for
crawler; 80 Dodge 1/2-Ton nr; 76 Dodge 200 Ext
Cab nr; Saw Mill, Misc & Bldings: 24x28-ft. Wood
Framed Garage Wired 10-ft. Walls; Started Project
Band Saw Mill 22-ft. Rail Saw Mandrel Blades; Jari
24-in. 5-HP Sickle Mower; Gas Water Pump; Hyd
Cyl, Controls, Hyd Hose; Labronics Hyd Tester;
3PH Draw Bar; Manure Tines; Electric Livestock
Clipper; Welding Material; Elec Motors; Load Strap-
ping; Chains & Hooks; Fifth Wheel Plate; Auto
Tires; Tools: Hobbart 400Amp 6 Cyl gas Port
Welder; Metal Band Saw; 50-Ton hyd Press; 10-
Ton hyd Power Pack; Air Comp; Chain Saws; Pow-
er Tools; 2) Air Jack Hammers; Air Tools; Pipe Vise
& Threader; Wrenches up to 2-in.; Socket Sets up
to 3/4-in.; Lge Amt of Hand Tools; Tap & Die Set;
Ratchet Blding Jack; Hyd Jack; Gear Pullers; Pry
Bar Set; Grease Guns; Chain Ratchet; Come
Along; Vise & Welding Table; Lge Amt of Shop
Supplies; Tool Cabinets; Antiques: Cockshutt
Breaking Plow; JD 10-ft. Double Disc; 3) M Moline
One-Way; 1) 8-ft.; 2) 6-ft.; Horse Dump Rake; Steel
Wheels; Fanning Mill; Hand Cream Separator;
Cream Cans; Lantern; Hay Knife; Blow Torche; Oil
Cans. Stuart McSherry (204)467-1858 or
(204)886-7027 www.mcsherryauction.com
MEYERS AUCTION REMINDER Restaurant
Equipment, Household & Industrial Equipment
10:00am Sat., Sept 15th, 2012. Southport, MB.
Meyers Auctions & Appraisals, Arden, MB. Bradley
Meyers Auctioneer. Phone (204)368-2333 or
(204)476-6262 cell. www.meyersauctions.com
Winkler, MB • 1-204-325-4433
FArmlAnd For sAle
280 acreS more or leSS South ½
off 5-3-7 W in rm of Pembina ½
mile South of Jct 3 and 31 hWyS
darlingford mb
sells At Auction
mondAy, septemBer 24 At 10 Am
at Hitchin post restaurant, Darlingford MB.
Terms 10 % non Refundable on Auction site
Payable to Gilmour law office , balance within
30 days at Closing
See our website
www.billklassen.com
or call 204-325-4433 cell 6230
Bill Klassen Auctioneers
bill@billklassen.com
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28 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
TracTors
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
1972 FORD 1/2-TON TORINA w/cap Intl drill w/end
wheel; farm hand stacker w/hay baskets, steel
tines; Massey 44 for parts; gooseneck hay trailer.
(204)834-3034.
2005 PETERBILT # 386 w/CAT C15, warranty &
saftied, 593-mi, A1, Peter Trucks:(204)487-1347.
Winnipeg, MB.
20-FT 620 MS TANDEM disc w/dual axels; 18.5 IH
cultivator w/harrows; 775 18-ft swather w/MacDon
hay header; 24-ft JD C20 cultivator; Gehl 120 mix
mill w/power bale feeder; quarter turn bale shoot.
Phone:(204)386-2507.
BALERS JD 535, $5,900; JD 530, $3,500; JD 510,
$1,500; JD 336, $3,000; Vermeer Hyd rake, $7,000;
12 wheel rake, $6,000; 10-ft. Landlevellers, $2,150;
12-ft. $2,450; Dics Hutch 25-ft. Rock Cushion,
$9,500; JD 230, $3,000; Bushog 21-ft., $7,500; JD
Dot 16-ft., $4,000; DMI Ripper 5 Shank, $10,900; 7
Shank, $11,900; Valmar 240 Applicator, $1,000;
Woods 15-ft. Batwing Mower HD, $7,000; Woods
10-ft., $4,500; Used Fertilizer Spreaders 4-9T.
Phone (204)857-84043
FOR SALE: 1978 1630 JD 145 loader, always
shedded; could be sold separate 7-ft. snowblower;
5-ft. rotary brush mower, $13,500. (204)471-0571
FOR SALE: 2001 CUSTOM built 32 x 8.5 flat deck,
gooseneck, triple axle checker plate floor, full hydraulic
side tilt. View pictures at www.buyandsellfarmmachinery.com
Shellmouth, MB (204)564-2540
FOR SALE 25-FT CO-OP 204 deep tiller w/mounted
harrows; 36-ft anhydrous applicator on Morris
cultivator frame w/mounted harrows; 54-ft Morris
harrows; 68-ft modernized Great Northern sprayer.
Wilmot Milne (204)385-2486 or cell (204)212-0531,
Gladstone.
FOR SALE: GRAIN CARTS LARGE SELECTION
450-1050 bu hyd & PTO drive. J&M 875-bu.,
$20,000; EZ 475, $7,900; Brent 670, $12,500; New
400-bu. gravity wagons, $6,700; 600-bu., $12,000;
Used gravity wagons 250-750 bu.; Grain Screeners
Kwik Kleen 5 tube, $4,500; 7 Tube $6,500; Hutch
1500, $1,750; Sioux Screener w/Auger, $2,500;
Westfield 10x70 Auger, $2,900; REM 552 Grain
Vac, $3,500; Brandt $4,500-$7,500. Phone
(204)857-8403.
FOR SALE: LEWIS CATTLE Oiler double wick,
grain troughs, coral panels, calf gates, calf pen, cattle
trailer, flat deck trailer complete, 851 NH baler,
853 NH baler. Call Ben:(204)444-2997 or
(204)485-2044 for all prices. Many other items for sale.
HAYBINES: GEHL 2270, $3900; NH 116, $3000;
JD 1209, $3000; NH 144 Swath Turner, $3000; Hay
Conditioners $800 up; NH 9-ft mower 2200; IH 9-ft
$1650; GEHL 12 wheel rake, $6000; Rotary mowers.
JD #1518, $8500; Woods 20-ft batwing, $7500;
10-ft batwing, $3500; 6-ft pull type, $1600; JD 5-ft
pull type, $1000; Woods ditchbank 3-PTH, $1500;
6-ft finishing mower, $1000; Woods 6-ft 3-PTH,
$750; Bush hog 9-ft disc mower, $2000. Phone:
(204)857-8403.
JD 925 FLEX HEADER, $6500; 930, $2500; Case
IH 25-ft flex, $6000; Case IH 30-ft rigid, $5000; IH
820 flex $2000; Case IH #1015 PU, $3000; #810
PU, $1000; Summers 72-ft heavy harrow, $14,000;
Phoenix #17-#14 harrows; 6 yard scraper, $5000;
JD 12YD, $12,000; 4 YD, $4500; Manure spreaders.
Meyers #550 horse/poultry manure spreader,
$11,900; New Idea 3634, $4000; HS 400-bu,
$3000; GEHL scavenger, $3900.
Phone:(204)857-8403.
JD 930 FLEX HEAD, good working condition,
$9500; 855 NH round baler, $1700; Wanted for JD
1600 or 1610 deep tiller, complete shank assembly.
Phone:(204)373-2502, leave msg.
LATE MODEL 875 LOW hrs, VGC; 40-ft. IH 2 row
mulcher harrows, new tines; 40-ft. air seeder
w/floating hitch, 220-bu tank, good condition,
$8,500. (204)864-2953
MACDON 30-FT SELF-PROPELLED SWATHER,
480 cutting hours, PU reel, in excellent cond; 60-ft
Flexi-Coil cultivator, comes w/4 bar harrows & air
kit, in VGC. Phone:(204)522-8640.
MCKEE #400 MANURE SPREADER w/Tandem
axle & dual wheels $8,500. 48-ft Ezee-On tandem
disc, equipped with double bearing w/7-yr warranty,
$37,500. Above equip in good condition.
Phone:(204)746-8851, Morris.
MOVING, MUST SELL! 1086 IH tractor T/A has
been done. Lots of other work too; 3000-gal manure
wagon w/injectors; Houle lagoon pump, ready
to go, 42-ft; Large pig transfer trailer. Call Les
(204)529-2164 or (204)825-0128, Cartwright.
NEW HEAVY DUTY 1250-GAL Equinox LR177
Yellow tank, retails at $874, special $536; New
Equinox LR177 1250-gal black tank, 3 left must sell
$425 special; Used 1 FarmKing 6-ft Mechanical
swath roller, $625 OBO; New 16-ft Beavertail tandem
trailer w/3500-lb axles w/2-in ball, special
$2890 OBO; Used 1998 Ford XL 4x4,
143,720-kms, V6 4.2 engine. Cell (204)823-1559 or
(204)822-1354. This is our close-out sale.
WANTED: V-276 Fiberglas hood nose cap
No.73051 side mount sickle mower for Sears
16-18HP LGT. FOR SALE: White 4-row 36-in row
corn header. Phone:(204)222-6310.
BUILDINGS
AUTO & TRANSPORT
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Auto & Truck Parts
FOR SALE: (BULL BAR / Moose catchers) for
2010-2012 Volvo truck, also 1 for a 95 Freight liner.
We are selling them cheap! Can Deliver.
Phone:(204)868-5040.
BUILDINGS BUILDINGS
STRONGEST POSTS INDUSTRY-WIDE
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Auto & Truck Parts
REMANUFACTURED DSL ENGINES: GM 6.5L
$4,750 installed; Ford/IH 7.3L $4950 installed; GM
Duramax/Ford 6.0L, $8,500 installed; new 6.5L engines
$6500; 24V 5.9L Cummins, $7,500 installed;
other new/used & reman. engines available. Thickett
Engine Rebuilding, 204-532-2187, Binscarth.
8:00am-5:30pm Mon.-Fri.
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Trucks
1993 F250 EXTENDED CAB, 7.3 engine, auto
trans, would make good service truck; 1975 GMC
grain truck, 8x16 box & hoist, safetied. Phone Alfred
(204)745-2784.
2001 FREIGHTLINER 120, C15Cat, 13-spd, good
cond, $12,500 OBO; 1996 30-ft high-boy, $4200
OBO. Will do custom hauling in MB w/32-ft gooseneck
trailer. Phone:(204)252-2266 or
(204)871-1185.
2005 GMC SIERRA 2500 4x4, 180,000-km, NEW
paint, mag wheels, front end, steering box, axle
seals & brakes, camo seat covers, NEWer motor
80,000-km, $10,000. Phone:(204)338-7532.
WANTED: FORD LOUISVILLE OR Sterling grain
truck. Must be clean, rust free & low kms. Phone
(204)222-8785.
AUTO & TRANSPORT
Vehicles Various
OVER 200 VEHICLES LOTS OF DIESELS
www.thoens.com Chrysler Dodge (800)667-4414
Wynyard, Sk.
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
BUILDING & RENOVATIONS
Roofing
PRICE TO CLEAR!!
75 truckloads 29 gauge full hard
100,000PSI high tensile roofing &
siding. 16 colours to choose from.
B-Gr. coloured......................70¢/ft. 2
Multi-coloured millends.........49¢/ft. 2
Ask about our blowout colours...65¢/ft. 2
Also in stock low rib white 29 ga. ideal for
archrib buildings
BEAT THE PRICE
INCREASES CALL NOW
FOUILLARD STEEL
SUPPLIES LTD.
ST. LAZARE, MB.
1-800-510-3303
BUILDINGS
AFAB INDUSTRIES IS YOUR SUPERIOR post
frame building company. For estimates and information
call 1-888-816-AFAB(2322). Website:
www.postframebuilding.com
CONCRETE FLATWORK: Specializing in place &
finish of concrete floors. Can accommodate any
floor design. References available. Alexander, MB.
204-752-2069.
BUSINESS SERVICES
BUSINESS SERVICES
Crop Consulting
FARM CHEMICAL SEED COMPLAINTS
We also specialize in: Crop Insurance appeals;
Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; Custom operator
issues; Equipment malfunction; Yield comparisons,
Plus Private Investigations of any nature. With our
assistance the majority of our clients have received
compensation previously denied. Back-Track
Investigations investigates, documents your loss and
assists in settling your claim.
Licensed Agrologist on Staff.
For more information
Please call 1-866-882-4779
CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
2007 621D CASE WHEEL loader, 3 yd bucket, ride
control, VGC. Call (204)447-0184.
CASE 450 CRAWLER DOZER, 6-way blade,
$17,500. Cat 931 crawler loader, Powershift trans,
pedal steer, good undercarriage, $13,500.
www.waltersequipment.com Phone (204)525-4521.
EARTH SCRAPER FOR SALE, Letourneau-M
scraper, 6 yard stock capacity, VGC, Jack Fehr
hyd. conversion w/sequencing valve, $7,900 OBO.
Phone:(204)427-2261.
HYD PULL SCRAPERS, 6-40-YDS caterpillar
A.C./LePlant, LeTourneau, etc. PT & direct mount
available. Bucyrus Erie, 20-yds, cable, $5000. PT
motor grater $14,900; tires available. Phone:
(204)822-3797. Morden, MB.
FARM MACHINERY
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
BIG BINS & FLOORS at old prices, 20,000-56,000bu.
bins holding prices until spring. NEW MOIS-
TURE CABLES! Call Wall Grain for details
(204)269-7616 or (306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.
Toll Free:1-877-239-0730
www.mcdiarmid.com/farm
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Bins
CUSTOM BIN MOVING Book now! Fert Tanks.
Hopper Bins/flat. Buy/Sell. Call Tim (204)362-7103
or E-mail Requests binmovers@hotmail.com
Sukup Grain Bins - Heavy Duty, hopper or flat bottom,
setup available, good pricing. Call for more info.
(204) 998-9915
Two 19’ Bins - 4700 bushels per
bin Four 21’ Bins - 5900 bushels
per bin (with .094 aeration floors).
ONLY $1500 A PIECE!
Located in the Oakville area
come and get ‘em!
Contact Dave, Blaine or Ron at
Wall Grain at 204-269-7616
for more information.
BUILT RIGHT. ON TIME.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Carts
472 BRENT GRAINCART 500-BU, in excellent
shape, $11,900; 400-Bu UFT graincart, $6500.
Phone:(204)529-2046 or (204)529-2091.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Dryers
NEW SUKUP GRAIN DRYERS On hand & ready for
immediate delivery. Propane/NG, canola screens, 1
or 3 phase. Also some used dryers available. Call for
more info (204)998-9915
NEW MC DRYERS IN STOCK w/canola screens
300-2,000 BPH units. Why buy used, when you get
new fuel efficient & better quality & control w/MC.
Call Wall Grain for details (204)269-7616 or
(306)244-1144 or (403)393-2662.
24’ Continuous Flow NECO Grain
Dryer with 25 HP fan and gen set
(needs some work).
GREAT FOR CORN!
Includes 8 x 3700 bushel bins
with canola floors and unload
augers with u-trough auger on
top of bins.
Contact Dave, Blaine or Ron at
Wall Grain at 204-269-7616
for more information.
$36,000 OBO
BUILT RIGHT. ON TIME.
FARM MACHINERY
Grain Vacuums
1986 WALINGA AGRA VAC for sale.
Phone:(204)488-5030 or (204)782-2846.
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Baling
1999 CASE IH 8370 14-ft haybine, $3900.
www.waltersequipment.com (204)525-4521.
2002 HESTON 856 ROUND baler, megawide pickup,
short crop kit, fully auto, moisture readout,
shedded & field ready. $10,000 OBO.
Phone:(204)325-1383 or (204)362-4874.
535 JD BALER W/MONITOR & kicker, $6500.
Phone:(204)345-8532 evenings.
Go public with an ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifieds.
Phone 1-800-782-0794.
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Baling
FOR SALE: HIGH-LINER MODEL 1400 bale picker,
hauls 14 bales, w/new tires.
Phone:(204)836-2523.
NH BR7090 2009 BALER, endless belts, wide PU,
auto-wrap, big tires, always shedded, less than
7000 bales, used 3 seasons.
Phone:(204)388-4975.
ROUND BALERS IN STOCK. JD 535; NH 648,
650, 664, 688 BR; 780-NI 4565 soft core 5x6. Call
Gary at (204)326-7000 or go to www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Swathers
1990 WESTWARD 3000 30-FT. PT swather,
160-acs on new guards & knife, Haukaas hitch
spring, not used for 7 yrs, shedded, $4,500 OBO.
(204)546-2021, cell (204)638-2513, Grandview,
MB.
1998 PREMIER 1900 PULL-TYPE swather, auto
fold & transport, pick-up reel, Keer-Sheer, always
shedded, very low acres. Phone:(204)325-2416.
2000 PREMIER 2940 SWATHER, 2825-hrs, 30-ft 3
way canvas, PU reel, heater, A/C, Vern swath puller.
Phone:(204)776-2047 cell (204)534-7458, Minto
MB.
2009 M-150 MACDON SWATHER D-60-S, fully
loaded, 35-ft. header, 1,100-hrs, $110,000. Phone
(204)522-5428, Deloraine, MB.
2010 M-150 MACDON SWATHER D-60-S, fully
loaded, 35-ft. header, 1,100-hrs, $115,000. Phone
(204)522-5428, Deloraine, MB.
ESTATE SALE:1984 4400, HYDRO, 22-ft header
w/batreel, big rubber, sliding table, asking $4,100;
1982 20-ft 400 Vers. hydro, asking $1,450 OBO;
1981 20-ft batreel 400 Vers. hydro, sliding table,
asking $1,100. Phone:(204)728-1861 or
(204)724-9497.
FARM MACHINERY
Haying & Harvesting – Various
10X40-FT HEAVY DUTY HAY wagon, hauls 20
round or square bales, 10.00-20 tires, built from
new steel, $4800, delivered. Phone:(204)325-6650.
1997 AGCO/GLEANER MODEL 530, flex head,
PU reel, poly, $13,000. Phone Rob (204)735-2852
or (204)981-0885, Starbuck.
REBUILT ROLLERS FOR CASE-IH 3650 5x6 softcore
round baler, will fit other makes. Drive $510,
Idler $260. Prices include core exchange. Phone
(204)389-4038 or (204)642-3205.
Combines
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Case/IH
1984 IH 1480 COMBINE, specialty rotor, airfoil
sieve, Loewen concaves, $20,000 work order,
shedded, excellent cond, asking $9500. Phone:
(204)529-2046 or (204)529-2091.
1987 CASE IH 1680, 1015 head, Westward 388
PU, 3884 engine hours, grain & bean concaves,
30.5x32 tires, serviced, excellent shape, field ready.
Phone:(204)265-3363.
2005 CASE IH 8010 combine, 4-WD, front tire size
is 1250-45-32, means they are 45-in wide, rear tires
28L-26, means 28-in wide. Apparently will go as far
as a track machine. 4-Spd, hyd trans, straw chopper
& spreaders, pro-600 monitor, bin extensions
w/2052-30-ft dripper header, $165,000.
Phone:(204)871-0925.
2008 CASE-IH 2588 combine w/2015 PU, 476 sep
hrs, 594 engine hrs, Pro 600 monitor, y/m, rice
tires, hopper topper, shedded, heavy soil machine,
$184,000 open to offers. (204)735-2886,
(204)981-5366.
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Ford/New Holland
FORD NH 1998 TR96 971 header, 2,276 engine
hours 1,875 separator hours, good shape, Elmers
25-ft header trailer, $1,500. Phone:(204)745-3773
or (204)745-6321.
FOR SALE: 1979 NH TR70, Ford 6, 2500-hrs, lots
of new parts, always shedded, field ready, VGC,
$2500. Phone:(306)452-3582, or (306)452-7015,
Redvers, SK.
TR-96 NH COMBINE, 1,890 separating hours, new
concaves & rebuilt straw chopper, w/chaff spreader
& rice tires. Asking $27,000; 971 NH 24-ft straight
cut header, for parts, needs new wobble box. Mac-
Don NH TR adapter, to fit 972 MacDon headers,
$5,500 OBO. Phone:(204)488-5030 or
(204)782-2846.
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Gleaner
1, 30-FT. FLEX HEADER; 1, 30-ft. straight cut
header; both w/PU reel used on R72. Phone
(204)745-3773 or (204)745-7654.
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – John Deere
08 JD 635 HYRDA FLEX w/crary air bar, excellent
condition, asking $33,900; 4 wheel trailer avail
$2,900. Phone (204)324-6298, Altona.
1980 8820 COMBINE, 2-SPD cyl drive, good condition,
$13,000; 2-224 rigid heads w/pickup reels,
$3000 each. Phone: cell (204)362-2316, or
(204)822-3189.
1991 JD 9600 914 PU, Sunnybrook cyl, long auger,
new 30.5 R32 tires, 3370 sep hours, well maintained,
very nice condition. Phone:(204)526-7805,
Cypress River.
1997 JD 9600, 4X4, 2,100 thresher hours, loaded
w/options, comes w/930 flex header, very good machine;
JD 8970 tractor, 710x38 tires @ 90%, excellent
tractor. Best Offers. Phone:(204)766-2643.
1998 JOHN DEERE 9610 maximizer, 914 PU chaff
spreader, auto-height control, double-knife chopper,
rice tires, 1980 separating hrs, VGC, asking
$81,500 OBO. Phone Murray (204)372-6051.
2000 JD 9650W 150-HRS since Performax service
at which time new Sunny Brook rasp bars, concave,
clean grain chain, sprockets & bearings & Redekop
MAV chopper rotor were install, complete invoice
$20,000, 2,300 sep hrs, 914 PU, chaff spreader,
hopper topper, auto height sensing, recent new
feeder chain, batteries, HID lights $107,500;
2003 930F header, PU reel, new knife & guards
w/Crary Air System, excellent for beans or dowcrops,
50 series hook up w/header trailer, $24,500;
Firestone 24.5x32 rice tires on 9000 series rims,
excellent condition, $3,000. (204)347-5244 leave
msg.
9600 JD 1994 2,665 sep hrs, 914 PU, chaff spreader,
fine cut chopper, 100-hrs on new bars & concave,
yield & moisture, shedded, one owner,
$57,000 OBO. (204)546-2021, cell (204)638-2513,
Grandview, MB.
‘06 JD 630 FLEX w/Crary air & bar.
Exc. condition, $26,000. Phone:(204)436-2364,
(204)781-3883 or (204)750-1019.
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – John Deere
JD 224 FLEX NEW poly, metal finger PU reel, GC,
$4800; 20-ft JD 100 Flex header, fits 20 series
combine, poly, PU reel, GC, $800.
Phone:(204)635-2600, Stead.
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Massey Ferguson
SUPER 92 MASSEY COMBINE, many refurbs,
hinged chopper, pressurized cab, good sieves.
Phone:(204)822-3649, Morden.
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Various
1964 CASE 600 SELF-PROPELLED, w/straight cut
& PU attachments, add-on cab, always shedded,
used for avg 30-acres per year on small holding, in
working order when last used 3-yrs ago. Gas en-
gine in good shape, uses no oil, original paint still
looks good, for antique collector or small holding.
$1000 OBO. Phone:(807)223-7833.
SALVAGE YOUR WIND BLOWN CANOLA JD 222
header w/20-ft. Sund PU, $11,900; Universal head
w/22-ft. Sund PU, $14,900. Phone (204)324-6298,
Altona.
Seedbed
Preparation
Simplifi ed.
Precision Seeding
starts
here
www.strawchopper.com
1-866-733-3567
Combine ACCessories
FARM MACHINERY
Combine – Accessories
224 JD STRAIGHT CUT flex header, bat reel, fits
7720, $1,600. (204)476-2445, Neepawa.
224 JD STRAIGHT CUT header, bat reel, crop lifters,
PTO shaft drives, for 50 series combine, could
be changed back for 7720, $1,250. (204)476-2445,
Neepawa.
AGCO GLEANER 30-FT HEADER, new reel bats;
AGCO Gleaner 27-ft header both in good condition
& fit N&R series combine. (204)867-0043, Minnedo-
sa, MB.
FLEX PLATFORMS IN STOCK. All makes, models,
sizes. Have over 30 in stock at most times. 94
JD 925 good poly, PU teeth, new sickle $5,950; 97
JD 930 new poly, PU fingers, sickle $11,900; 98 JD
930 new poly, sickle, PU fingers, full finger auger
$13,500; 97 JD 930 good poly, PU teeth, auger, air
reel $13,900; 01 JD 930 new poly, PU teeth, sickle,
full finger auger $16,900; 03 930 good poly, PU
teeth, new sickle, full finger auger $15,900; 07 JD
630 like new, reduced to $24,900; 06 JD 635 AWS
air bar, real nice head $24,900; 96-’04 CIH 1020
25-30 ft. models in stock w/ or w/o air reel; 07 CIH
2020 35-ft., good teeth, auger, poly, ready to go
$22,900; 09 CIH 2020 35-ft. like new, paint still on
auger $24,900. We deliver anywhere in Western
Canada, right to your farm. Call Gary at
(204)326-7000 or www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FOR SALE: 1083 8-ROW 30-in. Case corn head,
$8,000 OBO; Case 30-ft. Model 1010 straight cut
header, $4,500 OBO; 30-ft. JD 930 straight cut
header, $3,500 OBO. Phone (204)745-8334 or
(204)745-8381, Carman, MB.
JD 843 CORNHEAD, oil bath, low tin, recent overhaul,
field ready, $8,500. Call (204)324-9300 or
(204)324-7622.
HEADER TRAILERS & ACCESSORIES.
Arc-Fab Industries. 204-355-9595
charles@arcfab.ca www.arcfab.ca
FARM MACHINERY
Irrigation Equipment
ROTARY DITCHER AVAILABLE TODAY in all sizes,
30-in, 42-in, 60-in & 72-in, works in all soil cond.
wet or dry, spreads soil evenly, no piles. Fast & efficient,
call Gilbert (204)436-2469, Fannystelle.
FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
Harvest Salvage Co. Ltd.
1-866-729-9876
5150 Richmond Ave. East
BRANDON, MB.
www.harvestsalvage.ca
New, Used & Re-man. Parts
Tractors Combines Swathers
Hit our readers where it counts… in the classifieds.
Place your ad in the Manitoba Co-operator classifed
section. 1-800-782-0794.

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FARM MACHINERY
Parts & Accessories
FYFE PARTS
1-800-667-9871 • Regina
1-800-667-3095 • Saskatoon
1-800-387-2768 • Winnipeg
1-800-222-6594 • Edmonton
“For All Your Farm Parts”
www.fyfeparts.com
The Real Used FaRm PaRTs
sUPeRsToRe
Over 2700 Units for Salvage
• TRACTORS • COMBINES
• SWATHERS • DISCERS
Call Joe, leN oR daRWIN
(306) 946-2222
monday-Friday - 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
WATROUS SALVAGE
WaTRoUs, sK.
Fax: 306-946-2444
NEW & USED TRACTOR PARTS
NEW COMBINE PARTS
Large Inventory of
new and remanufactured parts
STEINBACH, MB.
Ph. 326-2443
Toll-Free 1-800-881-7727
Fax (204) 326-5878
Web site: farmparts.ca
E-mail: roy@farmparts.ca
FARM MACHINERY
Salvage
FARM MACHINERY FOR PARTS: COMBINES
IHC 1682, 1482, 1480, 1460, 915, 914, 715, 403,
402, 150, MF 860, 760, 850, 751, 750, 550, 510,
410, 405; JD 7701, 7700,6601, 6600, 630, 96, 65;
WHITE 8900, 8800, 8600, 8650, 7800, 5542, 545,
542, 431; NH TR95, TR85, TR70, 1500, 990, 980;
Coop 9600, 960; Gleaner L2, N6, F, C2; VERS
2000, 42; Case 1600, 1060; FORD 642 BELARUS
1500 Don; SWATHERS VERS 4400, 400, 330,
103, 10; IHC 4000, 230, 210, 175, 201, 75; COOP
550, 500, 601; MF 655, 36, 35; JD 800, 290; NH
1090; WHITE 6200; COCKSHUTT 503 HESSTON
300. We also have parts for tractors, square &
round balers, press drills, cultivators, sprayers, haybines,
& misc machinery. We handle new & rebuilt
parts for tractors & combines. MURPHY SALVAGE
(204)858-2727, toll free 1-877-858-2728.
GOODS USED TRACTOR PARTS: (204)564-2528
or 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB.
PARTING 1985 IH 1480, no motor, lawn augur,
good sieves, also 2 top sieves for an IH 2188.
Phone:(204)546-2508.
Tillage & Seeding
FARM MACHINERY
Silage Equipment
Harvestore Silo 80 x 20
This Silo is in great shape,
was built in 1988, was
only used for 5 years at
most, it’s in immaculate
shape, comes w/ unloader
& feeder(they may need a
bit of work). Offers, you
will have to deal with the
disassembling & moving.
Located 40min. south of
Winnipeg in St-Malo, MB.
Jean-Luc (204) 226-7783 or (403) 363-3483
email- saddleup403@hotmail.com
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Air Drills
CASE IH/CONCORD ATX5010, 10-IN, 50-ft, excellent
condition, w/Case IH/2300 tank, 3 1/2-in
Dutch openers, lots of maintenance done. $34,900.
Phone:(204)391-1011 or Email: pro_terra@hotmail.com
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Tillage
59-FT JD 1650 CHISEL plow w/Degelman 3 row
harrows & rear hitch, $20,000 OBO; 60-ft Delmar
heavy harrows w/new tines, excellent condition,
$25,000. (204)867-0043, Minnedosa, MB.
FARM MACHINERY
Tillage & Seeding – Various
24 ANHYDROUS POD W/HYD shut-off, 24 anhydrous
Dutch knives. Phone:(204)386-2507.
AIR SEEDERS AFTER SEASON Sale. Under
$25,000 Ezee On 30-ft. 5500/2175 tank w/harrows,
packers; Under $15,000 Ezee On 24-ft. 5500/2175
tank w/harrows; Under $9,000 Flexi Coil 1110/CCIL
23-ft. Cultivator. Call Gary at (204)326-7000 or go
to www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Allis/Deutz
1987 DUETZ 7085 FWA, open-station, 85-HP,
5,900-hrs, Allied 794 FEL $17,000. (204)525-4521
www.waltersequipment.com
WD45 AC TRACTOR. PHONE:(204)386-2507
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Case/IH
FOR SALE: 2290 CASE 1982 3,300 original hours,
very good shape. Phone:(204)768-9090.
FOR SALE: 4490 CASE 4WD, 180hp, 3pth, 4hyd.,
PTO, $8,000. Phone:(204)739-3740.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Case/IH
FOR SALE: CASE IH MODEL 1494 tractor mechanical
front wheel assist 75 PTO HP w/model
74L FEL 3-PTH 500-1000 PTO, cab, air, 12 Forward
4 Reverse, Trans, 4 cyl DSL engine
w/3,007-hrs, $25,000. Phone (204)633-3205, Winnipeg,
MB.
LOOKING FOR 1965 CASE Comfort King tractor
w/square fenders & home built cab, left front entry,
wishing to purchase. Kelvin Peters (204)864-2106.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – John Deere
1979 JD 4440, W/148 FEL w/joystick, $19,500.
www.waltersequipment.com (204)525-4521
2008 JD 5225 TRACTOR w/542 Loader, MFWD,
3-PTH, CAH, Radio, Joystick, 200-hrs., $47,900.
Call Gary (204)326-7000 Steinbach, MB.
www.reimerfarmequipment.com
4450 & 4650 MFWA, JD loader 158, 148 & 740.
4240 w/3-PTH & 148 loader; 5300 Mfwa w/540
loader; Ezee-On loader/bale fork. Phone:
(204)828-3460.
FOR SALE: 7810 MFWD, PQ, LHR, 3-pt, new tires,
low hrs; 7710 MFWD, PQ, LHR, 3-pt, new tires, low
hrs; 4455 MFWD, 3-pt, 15-SPD, w/280 FEL; 4450
MFWD, 15-SPD, 3 pt; 4450 3-pt, 3 hyd’s, 15-SPD,
fact duals; 4250 MFWD, 3-pt, 15-SPD; 2755
MFWD, 3-pt, w/245 FEL; 2555 MFWD, 3-pt w/245
FEL. All tractors can be sold w/new or used loaders.
MITCH’S TRACTOR SALES LTD Phone:
(204)828-3628, shop or (204)750-2459, cell. Roseisle.
JD 7320 MFWD, Power Quad, 3-pt., 741 Loader, 7ft.
bucket, grapple, 6,500-hrs $69,900; JD 8560
18.4x38 duals, 7,500-hrs, $37,900; 08 JD 5225
w/542 loader, MFWD, 3-PTH, CAH, Radio, Joystick,
200-hrs, like new, $47,900. JD 2140 2WD,
3-pt., 245 Loader, 7-ft. bucket, 7,500-hrs $16,900;
Call Gary at (204)326-7000 or www.reimerfarmequipment.com
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Versatile
1981 VERSATILE 875, VG 20.8 radial tires,
7200-hrs, $24,500; 1984 Versatile 945, good tires,
replaced 855 Cummins 365-horse, Atom Jet kit,
$28,500. Both tractors in very good working order.
Phone Reg Loewen (204)763-4746, Brandon.
FOR SALE: 1988 846 Vers 4WD, 5,500-hrs, VGC.
Call (204)268-5615, Beasejour.
NEW VERS TRACTOR PARTS: #51416 clutch
pressure plate assy for Series I, II & III for PTO
equipped tractors, $2,495; #48320 PTO gear box
housing, $995; #21370 axle tube for Series I & early
series II tractors, $795; #17920 Radiator (core
measures 30-in. W x31-in.) fits 800, 850 & 900 Series
I, $995; #56688 hyd pump for 800, 850, 835,
855, 875, 895 single pump tractors, $795; #62072
5 spool hyd valve for 1150 & 1156 tractors, $1,295.
Fouillard Implement Ltd, (204)683-2441, St. Lazare,
MB.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – 2 Wheel Drive
STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER specializing in
JD tractors in need of repair or burnt, or will buy for
parts. JD parts available. Phone: 204-466-2927 or
cell: 204-871-5170, Austin.
FARM MACHINERY
Tractors – Various
1955 TD6 IH CRAWLER tractor w/7-ft IH dozer
blade, excellent working condition, asking $4000
OBO. Phone Raymond (204)489-8121.
Big Tractor Parts,
Inc.
STEIGER TRACTOR SPECIALIST
1-800-982-1769
www.bigtractorparts.com
AVAILABLE
Geared For
The Future
RED OR GREEN
1. 10-25% savings on new replacement
parts for your Steiger drive train.
2. We rebuild axles, transmissions
and dropboxes with ONE YEAR
WARRANTY.
3. 50% savings on used parts.
Advertise your unwanted equipment in the Classifieds.
Call our toll-free number and place your ad with our
friendly staff, and don’t forget to ask about our prepayment
bonus. Prepay for 3 weeks and get 2 weeks free!
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FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
EDGE
EQUIPMENT SALES
6 - 1635 Burrows Ave. Winnipeg, MB.
204-837-1660
www.edgeequipmentsales.com
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
Custom Ditching
with the Wolverine Ditcher
equipped with GPS leveling
grade control. Perfect
ditches in 1/2 the time with
no mess
Call for a Quote
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
GRASSHOPPER ®
This mower deck can be
lifted with one finger
The choice IS easy!
Grasshopper
204-853-2075
E-mail: dynamicditchers@mts.net
www.dynamicditchers.com
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Wanted
91 OR 93 MCCORMICK Deering IHC combine,
parts or whole combine. Phone:(204)737-2275 be-
tween 6 & 7 p.m.
WANTED: OFFSET OR BREAKING disc. 8 or 10
or 12-ft. Phone: (204)854-2560.
HEAT & AIR CONDITIONING
The Icynene Insulation
System ®
• Sprayed foam insulation
• Ideal for shops, barns or homes
• Healthier, Quieter, More
Energy Efficient ®
www.penta.ca 1-800-587-4711
IRON & STEEL
FREE STANDING CORRAL PANELS, Feeders &
Alley ways, 30ft or order to size. Oil Field Pipe: 1.3,
1.6, 1.9, 1 7/8, 2-in, 2 3/8, 2 7/8, 3 1/2. Sucker Rod:
3/4, 7/8, 1. Casing Pipes: 4-9inch. Sold by the piece
or semi load lots. For special pricing call Art
(204)685-2628 or cell (204)856-3440.
FULL LINE OF COLORED & galvanized roofing,
siding & accessories, structural steel, tubing, plate,
angles, flats, rounds etc. Phone:1-800-510-3303,
Fouillard Steel Supplies Ltd, St Lazare.
FARMING
IS ENOUGH OF A GAMBLE...
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Co-operator Classifieds,
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FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Auctions
FEEDER/SLAUGHTER SALES
Every Friday 9AM
Special Yearling Sale September 7
Receiving open until
10PM Thursdays
NEXT SHEEP & GOAT SALE
Wednesday, September 5
Gates Open
Mon.-Wed. 8AM-4PM
Thurs. 8AM-10PM
Friday 8AM-6PM
Sat. 8AM-4PM
Starting in September our Sheep and
Goat sales will be the 1 st & 3 rd
WEDNESDAY of the month
For more information call: 204-694-8328
or Jim Christie 204-771-0753
www.winnipeglivestocksales.com
Licence #1122
GRUNTHAL LIVESTOCK
AUCTION MART. LTD.
GRUNTHAL, MB.
Agent for T.E.A.M. Marketing
Regular cattle sales
every Tuesday @ 9 am
Monday, September 24th at 1 PM
a complete holstein dairy heard
dispersal of 80 head including bred
and open heifers.
Call for more info
Mondays, September 10th
& September 24th
Sheep and Goat sale with small
animals @ 12 Noon
Sales Agent for
HIQUAL INDUSTRIES
Livestock Handling Equipment for
info regarding products or
pricing, please call our office.
We also have a line of
Agri-blend all natural products
for your livestock needs.
(protein tubs, blocks, minerals, etc)
For on farm appraisal of livestock or
for marketing information please call
Harold Unrau (Manager)
Cell 871 0250
Auction Mart
(204) 434-6519
www.grunthallivestock.com
MB. Livestock Dealer #1111
A great way to
Buy and Sell
without the ef for t.
Classifieds
FARM MACHINERY
Machinery Miscellaneous
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Black Angus
PRAIRIELANE FARMS LTD
ANGUS DISPERSAL SALE
SAT., OCTOBER 13th, 2012
at 1:00 pm
Heartland livestock yards,
Virden Manitoba
Contact:
Blaine Canning 204-858-2475
Michael Canning 204-858-2457
or visit website & catalogue @
www.prairielaneangus.com
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Red Angus
2) 2 Ω YR old Bulls proven & records, 1- 1 Ω tested,
ready to go. Call Don (204)422-5216.
COMPLETE RED ANGUS FEMALE dispersal by
private treaty: 45 cows, bred heifers & heifer calves,
many are from AI sires, most calves are sired by
“detour” & bred females are bred the same way.
Red Rose Angus, Brian McCarthy Phone:
(306)435-3590 or (306)435-7527. Email:
bmccarthy@rfnow.com.
REGISTERED PB RED ANGUS bulls, 15-17
months old & some w/low birth weights. Phone:
Ren-Ele Red Angus, (204)526-2424, Bruxelles.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Charolais
SELLING: 5, 2 YR old PB Charolais virgin bulls,
$3,000 each. Pasture ready. Mike Neilson, Neilson
Cattle Company, (306)783-0331 Willowbrook, SK
(close to Yorkton).
nutrition
digestion
prevention
99 PRE-CALVING
99 CALVING
99 PRE-BREEDING
99 FREE9DELIVERY
99 LOWEST9COST-TO-FEED
RIOCANADA = 1.888.762.3299
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Hereford
1 QUALITY PB YEARLING horned bull, from a
heavy milking Polled cow, no papers; 1, 4 yr old PB
Herdsire, no papers from 9 yr old Grand Champion
Polled Bull from Lacombe, AB. (204)436-2284,
(204)745-7894.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle – Limousin
TRIPLE R LIMOUSIN, HAS bulls for sale for Fall
breeding. Also pick out your 2013 Herdsire now.
Take delivery next Spring. Red or Black 40+ to pick
from. Plus bred Heifers & 4H projects, steers & heifers.
Your source for quality Limousin genetics. Call
Art (204)685-2628 or (204)856-3440.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Various
10 COW CALF PAIRS 1st calf Hereford X cows
w/Hereford calves. Cow started calving Aug, $1,900
pair firm. (204)795-6823, Springfield.
LIVESTOCK
Cattle Wanted
WANTED: ALL CLASSES OF feeder cattle, yearlings
& calves. Dealer Licence# 1353. Also wanted,
light feed grains: wheat, barley & oats.
Phone:(204)325-2416. Manitou, MB.
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

30 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
LIVESTOCK
Sheep – Katahdin
PUREBRED KATAHDIN RAMS FOR sale.
Phone:(204)322-5364 or leave message, Warren.
LIVESTOCK
Sheep For Sale
FOR SALE: SUFFOLK CROSS, Texel cross, Dorset
cross ewe lamb & yearling cross rams. Phone:
(204)523-7042 or (204)523-0544.
Horses
LIVESTOCK
Horse Auctions
MJ QUARTER HORSES partial Dispersal Sale at
Johnstone Auction Mart, Moosejaw, SK. Sunday,
Sept 30, 2012 @1pm. Selling 25 Brood Mares, 33
Weanlings, Stallion & 17 ylgs. & 2-yr old Geldings &
Fillies. “Home of the Working Horse Captial” Jim/Marguerite
Lussier. Ste Rose Du Lac, MB. (204)447-2328.
Catalogue online mjquartersandpaints.com
LIVESTOCK
Horses – Donkeys
1- MAMMOTH 7.5-YR old Jack, 1 half-Mammoth,
half standard, 2.5-yr old Jack, 1 spring born halfhalf
Jack. The 2 older are gentle, good w/cattle &
halter broken. Call Don (204)422-5216.
Swine
LIVESTOCK
Swine For Sale
LARGE BLACKS, BOARS, SOWS, gilts, weanlings.
Call Neal (204)526-7869.
LIVESTOCK
Swine Wanted
WANTED:
BUTCHER
HOGS
SOWS AND BOARS
FOR EXPORT
P. QUINTAINE & SON LTD.
728-7549
Licence No. 1123
Specialty
LIVESTOCK
Specialty – Goats
2 OPEN CROSS-BRED BOER Nannies & 2 Kids
from Kiko buck, $150 ea or $500 for all 4. Call
(204)981-0055.
LIVESTOCK
Livestock Equipment
HAY BUSTER BIG BITE H1000, new v-belts last
year, 2/3 good sides of hammers left. For more info
Phone:(204)868-5040.
HI-QUAL CLASSIC SQUEEZE CHUTE w/palpation
cage & 30-ft crowding alley w/Inline Gates,
$3500.00. Phone (204)449-2323 or email
ev1953@live.ca , can send pictures.
JD 550 T.A. MANURE spr, $5500; Farmhand 450
manure spr $3800. www.waltersequipment.com
(204)525-4521.
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.
PORTABLE WINDBREAKS, CALF SHELTERS,
free standing rod & pipe panels, fence line & field
silage bunks. Also sell Speed-Rite & 7L Livestock
fence equipment, drill pipe & sucker rod. Phone
(204)827-2104 or (204)827-2551, Glenboro.
WANTED: METAL SELF-FEEDER on wheels.
Minimum 250-bu capacity. Phone:(204)828-3483 or
(204)745-7168.
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR SALE
WESTFIELD MK 10X71 GRAIN auger, VGC,
$3700 OBO; Chaff spreader fits 7720 combine
8020 & 9600, $700 OBO. Phone:(204)746-8721.
LIVESTOCK
Livestock Equipment
Check OTR-Recycling.com for more information
They're still UGLY They're still TOUGH
They're still the best value on the market.
Research proves that providing
clean water for your calves can
add 20 per cent or more to
your weaning weights.
WATER
TROUGHS
for pastures and feedlots
made from mining tires
The UGLY water troughs
800 gallon trough
Beauty fades… ugly lasts forever!
• costs less & lasts longer • virtually indestructible
• guaranteed not to leak • 200-800 gallon capacity
Call a dealer near you today for more information
ARBORG CO-OP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-376-5201
CO-OP FEEDS, BRANDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-727-0571
7-L RANCH, LAKELAND, MB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-445-2102
GILBERT PLAINS CO-OP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-548-2099
TWIN VALLEY CO-OP, MINIOTA, MB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204-567-3664
TJ O'Sullivan
204-768-0600
sales@otr-recycling.com
MUSICAL
FLUTE $189; CLARINET $250; Digital piano $599;
Violins $69.95-$1295; Mandolins $195-$599; Student
guitars $59.95-$199; Amps $59.95-$1200;
Harmonicas $8.98-$180; Music stand $15; Mic
stand $25; Music books 20% off; Q-chord $350;
Drums $349. Hildebrand Music, Portage La Prairie
Mall. (204)857-3172.
ORGANIC
ORGANIC
Organic – Grains
R.W. Organic Ltd. Currently Buying all grades of
wheat, durum, rye, barley & peas. Immediate pickup.
Offering fall contracts. Mossbank, SK. (306)354-2660
PERSONAL
HI: I AM A mid 50’s single white male. 6-ft, 185lbs.
I’m looking for a single lady who likes to dance,
travel & have quiet times in the country. Reply to
Ad# 1020, c/o MB Co-operator, Box 9800, Station
Main, Winnipeg, MB R3C 3K7
LOOKING, HOPING? ...For a best friend, a romantic
happy relationship. CANDLELIGHT MATCH-
MAKERS can help make it all happen! Confidential,
Photos & Profiles to selected matches. Affordable,
local, 2 recent summer Weddings! Serving MB, SK,
NW Ontario. Call/Write for info: Box 212, Roland,
MB, R0G 1T0, (204)343-2475.
PETS
PETS & SUPPLIES
PB BLUE & RED Heeler puppies for sale, excellent
farm & cattle dogs. Call (204)447-2756 or
(204)447-0184.
REGISTERED BORDER COLLIE PUPS of top imported
breeding. Parents working cattle & sheep,
ready to go Oct 1st, $300. Phone Martin Penfold
(204)722-2036 (Virden/Moosomin area)
REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE
Vacation Property
DOUBLE WIDE MOBILE HOME, Weslaco Texas,
gated community, pics. avail. rwheh@hotmail.com
REAL ESTATE
Motels & Hotels
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
EXCELLENT HOBBY FARM OF 158-ac. Very nice
upgraded 4 level split home w/5 bedrooms. Beautifully
sheltered yard only 1-mi from pavement. Approx.
110-ac of cultivated land. Phone:
(204)761-0511. www.farmsofcanada.ca HomeLife
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REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Manitoba
FARM SPECIALIST: COUNT ON GRANT TWEED,
informed, professional assistance for sellers & buyers.
www.granttweed.com Call (204)761-6884 anytime.
Service with integrity.
FOR SALE: SW 1/4 21-2-12. 75-ac pasture
w/creek, 85-ac arable. Large older barn. House
w/fridge, deep freezer, stove, washer/dryer, microwave,
electric furnace. Small steel shed. Price:
$150,000. Phone:(204)242-2452.
GOOD FARM OF APPROX. 635-ac only 20-mins
from Brandon. The property is all fenced & is currently
run as a dairy operation, though it could easily
be converted to a mixed operation. 450-ac can
be cultivated w/the remainder in pasture. Bungalow
home in good condition, machine shed, cattle
sheds, hay sheds, dairy bran, etc. Quota & cows
are not included in the price. Phone:(204)761-0511.
www.farmsofcanada.ca HomeLife Home Professional
Realty Inc.
ORGANIC FARMLAND W/HOUSE. BEAUTIFUL
treed large front yard, 1320-sq-ft house w/attached
garage. NOTRE Farm yard DAME has 2 sheds USED & 7 granaries, OIL includes
all & farm FILTER equipment, DEPOT
always shedded, hay,
grasses, forage, cereals, oil seeds as produced.
240-acres • Buy Used owned, Oil w/rental • Buy property Batteries is 500-acre operation,
all land is certified organic. Call Norm, cell
• Collect Used Filters • Collect Oil Containers
(204)990-8752 or home (204)755-3333.
Southern and Western Manitoba
VERY TIDY FARM OF 160-ac only 11-mi from Killarney,
would lend Tel: itself 204-248-2110
to a mixed or dairy operation.
Approx. 110-ac cultivated. Large hay shed &
lean-to, built in 2005. Commodity shed 42-ft x 16-ft.
Small workshop w/generator. 3 cattle sheds. 4 hopper
bottom bins. Good split level house. Phone:
(204)761-0511. www.farmsofcanada.ca HomeLife
Home Professional Realty Inc.
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Pastureland
OVERSEAS INVESTORS SEEKING FARMS &
farm land. Contact Cindy Grenier at St. Pierre Realty
for qualified buyers. Phone:(204)330-2567.
REAL ESTATE
Farms & Ranches – Wanted
REQUIRE FARMS FOR LOCAL & European buyers
grain land with or without bldgs, sheep farms,
cattle ranches, suburban properties, or just open
land, acreages, houses, cottages. Call Harold
(204)253-7373 Delta R.E. www.manitobafarms.ca
REAL ESTATE
Land For Sale
MACK AUCTION CO PRESENTS a land auction.
TAMMY GREER Thurs., Dec. 6th, 2012 7:00pm
TAYLORTON ROOM, DAYS INN, ESTEVAN, SK.
3 Quarters of Land Located in the RM of Benson
No. 35 SW 4-5-8 W2 (C/W Surface Oil Lease); NE
28-4-8 W2; NW 10-5-8 W2. Call (306)421-2928 or
(306)487-7815 www.mackacutioncompany.com
Mack Auction Co. Pl311962
THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE LAND (NE +
SE-32-21-06W, NW 28-21-06W, NE 20-21-06W) is
being offered for sale. The following crown lands
have been approved by Manitoba Agriculture Food
& Rural Initiatives for transfer to the purchaser of
the private lands listed as these lands are part of
the ranch unit held by Allen M. Lamb of Eriksdale,
MB. If you wish to purchase the private land & apply
for the unit transfer, contact the lessee at PO
Box 248 Eriksdale, MB R0C 0W0, or Phone:
(204)739-3082. If you wish to comment on or object
to this unit transfer write: Director, MAFRI Agricultural
Crown Lands, PO Box 1286, Minnedosa, MB
R0J 1E0 or email RobertFleming@gov.mb.ca
FARM LAND FOR SALE BY TENDER
N 1/2 22-2-10 WPM, exc Public Road Plan
611 MLTO
Tenders close 2:00pm on Oct 5th, 2012
For details contact:
SELBY LAW OFFICE
Phone (204)242-2801
Fax (204)242-2723
Email: selbylaw@mts.net
Trusted. Innovative. Professional.
MLS #1118851, Winnipegosis,
Manitoba, $349,000 - This is a very
productive ranching operation, including
929.84 acres of deeded land, a 1200 sq.
ft. house, a 2880 sq. ft. pole machine
shed and several outbuildings, grain bins,
and corrals, bordering Lake Winnipegosis.
There are also 4 quarters of Crown Land
approval. Also available is a second
spacious modern house outbuildings,
a yard site on 113.3 acres of lake front
property connected to the parcel.
Contact us for all of your
real estate needs -
Commercial, Residential, Agricultural
Ernie Tucker
(204) 447-7192
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contact
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126 Main St. N., Russell, MB
GENERAL & AUTO INSURANCE • FINANCIAL SERVICES
TRAVEL • REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE
Land For Rent
WANTED: LOOKING FOR CROPLAND in Argyle,
Stonewall, Warren, Balmoral, Grosse Isle & surrounding
area. Please call Deric (204)513-0332,
leave msg.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
All Terrain Vehicles
ATV 250 BAJA 4X2 5-spd, 114-kms, like new
$2,800 OBO. Also 18-ft brand new Selkirk chimney.
Phone:(204)452-2844. Wpg.
BRAND NEW ATVS, DIRTBIKES & go-carts;
110cc $699; 125cc $899; 150cc $1,375; 250cc
$1575; 300cc $2495; W/6 mth warranty.
Phone:(204)727-1712.
NOTRE
DAME
USED
OIL &
FILTER
DEPOT
RECYCLING
• Buy Used Oil
• Buy Batteries
• Collect Used Filters
• Collect
• Collect
Oil
Oil
Containers
Containers
• Antifreeze
Southern, Southern Eastern,
Western
and
Manitoba
Western
Manitoba
Tel: 204-248-2110
PEDIGREED SEED
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Wheat
WINTER WHEAT, CERTIFIED FALCON sunrise
new generation ptarmigan. For Secan members
only foundation & registered flourish. For more information
call Fraser Seeds (204)776-2047 or cells
(204)534-7458 (204)534-7722, Minto MB.
PEDIGREED SEED
Cereal – Various
FOR SALE: CERTI FALCON winter wheat. Call Elias
Seeds:(204)745-3301. Carman, MB.
FOR SALE: CERTIFIED FALCON Winter Wheat.
Phone James Farms Ltd, (204)222-8785 or Toll
Free 1-866-283-8785.
WINTER CEREALS: CERTIFIED FALCON & Buteo
Winter Wheat. General purpose Winter Wheat
& Fall Rye also avail. Wheat City Seeds Ltd
(204)727-3337 Brandon, MB.
PEDIGREED SEED
Oilseed – Various
NOW BUYING
Old & New Crop
Confection & Oil Sunflowers
Licensed & Bonded
0% Shrink
Farm Pick-Up Available
Planting Seed Available
Call For Pricing
Phone (204)747-2904
Toll Free 1-888-835-6351
Deloraine, Manitoba
SEED / FEED / GRAIN
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Feed Grain
JAMES FARMS LTD: good quality feed oats for
sale. Phone (204)222-8785 or 1-866-283-8785
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Hay & Straw
200 FIRST CUT ALFALFA 5x6 soft core round
bales, 80 bales 5x6 soft core alfalfa grass,
round&small square oat straw bales, small square
alfalfa bales. Phone: (204)265-3143 or
(204)479-0116.
2012 CROP MILLET STRAW, excellent feed
quality at a cheap price, also round wheat & barley
straw bales. Phone:(204)325-1383 or
(204)362-4874.
5X6 ROUND & 3X3X8 square wheat straw, good,
solid, dry bales. Phone:(204)325-1383 or
(204)362-4874.
DAIRY, BEEF & HORSE hay for sale, large
squares. Phone: (204)526-7139 (day) or
(204)827-2629 (evenings).
FOR SALE APPROX 250 oat-straw bales, net
wrapped w/some green, Will load.
Phone:(204)837-9750 or (204)799-8130.
ROUND STRAW BALES FOR SALE: 1,200 wheat
straw bales. FOB Skylake, hayMB
$20/bale OBO.
Phone (204)746-4550.
Hay Tarps
All Tie Downs Included
10 Available Sizes
Call Mark @ Haybusters:
(800) 371-7928
haybusters.com
Dealer inquiries welcome
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Hay & Feed Wanted
WANTED: DAIRY, BEEF, GRASS & Straw bales in
large square bales. Phone Mark 1-800-371-7928,
Winnipeg.
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Grain Wanted
WE BUY OATS
Call us today for pricing
Box 424, Emerson, MB R0A 0L0
204-373-2328
SEED/FEED MISCELLANEOUS
Grain Wanted
BUYING:
HEATED & GREEN
CANOLA
• Competitive Prices
• Prompt Movement
• Spring Thrashed
“ON FARM PICK UP”
1-877-250-5252
Vanderveen
Commodity
Services Ltd.
Licensed and Bonded Grain Brokers
37 4th Ave. NE Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Ph. (204) 745-6444
Email: vscltd@mts.net
Andy Vanderveen · Brett Vanderveen
Jesse Vanderveen
A Season to Grow… Only Days to Pay!
CANOLA WANTED
Heated, Green, Damaged
Buying all levels of
damaged canola.
Excellent Market Prices.
Bonded, Insured.
CALL 1-866-388-6284
www.milliganbiotech.com
INC.
Box 144, Medora, MB. R0M 1K0
Ph: 204-665-2384
RYE GRAIN WANTED
Also Buying
Brown & Yellow Flax & Field Peas
Farm Pickup Available
CGC Licensed and Bonded
Call Cal Vandaele
the “Rye Guy” Today!
We are buyers of farm grains.
• Vomi wheat • Vomi barley
• Feed wheat • Feed barley
• Feed oats • Corn
• Screenings • Peas
• Light Weight Barley
You can deliver or we can
arrange for farm pickup.
Winnipeg 233-8418
Brandon 728-0231
Grunthal 434-6881
“Ask for grain buyer.”
FARMERS, RANCHERS,
SEED PROCESSORS
BUYING ALL FEED GRAINS
Heated/Spring Threshed
Lightweight/Green/Tough,
Mixed Grain - Barley, Oats, Rye,
Flax, Wheat, Durum, Lentils, Peas,
Canola, Chickpeas, Triticale,
Sunflowers, Screenings, Organics
and By-Products
√ ON-FARM PICKUP
√ PROMPT PAYMENT
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SASKATOON, LLOYDMINSTER,
LETHBRIDGE, VANCOUVER,
MINNEDOSA
1-204-724-6741
TIRES
FEDERATION TIRE: 1100X12, 2000X20, used aircraft.
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TRAILERS
Livestock Trailers
EXISS ALUMINUM LIVESTOCK TRAILERS. NEW
STOCK. 10-yr Warranty. Prices starting at $15,100.
Leasing available. Available at Sokal Industries Ltd.
Phone: (204)334-6596 e-mail: sokalind@mymts.net
TRAILERS
Trailers Miscellaneous
BRANDON TRAILER SALES “You will like our
prices!” “It’s that Simple!” “Let’s compare quality &
price!” “Certainly worth the call!” Phone
(204)724-4529. Dealer #4383
FOR SALE: HAY TRAILER, 52-ft, built new in
2003, strong frame. Phone:(204)768-9090.
FOR SALE: HEAVY DUTY gooseneck flat deck
trailer w/beaver tails. Wooden deck length is 22-ft
w/4-ft beaver tails making 26-ft usable space. 2,
7000-lb axles. Made by Moulson’s Welding. Phone
(204)842-5386.
FOR SALE OR RENT 53-ft. vans for storage or
highway, several to choose from. For sale: Hi-boy
flat decks 45-ft., 48-ft. & Super B. Andersons
(204)385-2685 or (204)857-1777, Gladstone.
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32 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
WORLD NEWS
F A R M I N G N E W S F R O M A B R O A D
Even as war wages
around them, Syrian
farmers keep country fed
Prices are higher, but there remains enough food grown within
the war-ravaged country to stave off food shortages
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi
AL DANA, NORTHERN SYRIA / REUTERS
For the past six months,
farmer Hisham al-Zeir’s
wife and daughters have
been up before sunset each
day when it’s still cool, baking
traditional tanoor bread in a
century-old clay oven in their
home in Syria’s rich agricultural
province of Idlib.
Rather than selling all his
wheat to the state as he usually
does, Zeir decided this
year to keep almost a third of
it to ensure his wife and six
children have enough food to
survive on as the conflict in
the country spreads.
“I am putting it aside to eat
from until Allah eases on his
people and things become
clearer,” Zeir said at his modest
farm in Idlib, a region of
gently rolling hills and olive
groves that supplies a large
proportion of Syria’s fruit.
Zeir is not alone. Many
farmers are hunkering down
as the 17-month uprising
against President Bashar
al-Assad’s rule — which has
killed at least 18,000 people —
drags on.
“People’s ability to live off
their land has helped in this
crisis unlike urban dwellers,”
said Samir Seifan, a prominent
Syrian economist.
The current crisis is actually
reversing a decade-long exodus
of rural residents to cities
like Damascus and Aleppo,
as those fleeing violence in
the cities return to villages.
The conflict is never far away,
however.
“A mortar has hit and
killed two of my sheep and
destroyed our yard,” said
Omar al-Natour, a day after
army shelling at his house in
the town of Al-Sahara in Idlib.
The 45-year-old former factory
worker now supplements
his meagre income by rearing
cattle and other livestock.
Food aid
Food production has been
rising in Syria in recent years
despite sharp fluctuations in
harvests and bouts of drought.
That has helped diversify the
economy, and in the present
conflict, staved off significant
food shortages in the countryside
so far, residents and
Damascus-based economists
said.
They contradict the United
Nations’ Food and Agriculture
Organization and the World
Food Program, which estimated
this month about 1.5
A villager tends to his herd in a field near Azaz, some 30 km (18 miles) northwest of Aleppo, Aug. 26. The rural
economy has been less affected by the ongoing turmoil in the country. PHOTO: REUTERS/ZAIN KARAM
million people in Syria need
immediate food aid.
Across the country, agricultural
production continues,
despite a shortage of seasonal
labourers who once flocked
to work in the fields during
the harvest period. This has
secured an adequate supply of
vegetables such as tomatoes
and cucumbers, staples of the
Syrian diet, as well as grains,
even though the high cost of
tractor fuel and a lack of fertilizer
has reduced the amount
of cultivable land.
This is allowing people to
survive during a time when
many shop owners have not
replenished their stocks for
over a year.
“People are managing with
the minimum. Don’t forget,
some people are just barely
surviving,” said grocer Farouq
al-Masous from Hazanoh,
a town known for its olive
groves.
As the fighting in Syria
shows no sign of abating, the
populations of some rural
towns in Idlib have surged,
and across rural Syria, a new
breed of private trader has
emerged, supplying foodstuffs
to now isolated communities.
“The rural resident is not
able to get his goods from
the city so he is relying on
new traders who are buying
directly from farmers and
selling in local villages,” said
Saleh al-Shawaf, a former
electrician. He now works as
“People’s ability to live off their land has
helped in this crisis unlike urban dwellers.”
SAMIR SEIFAN
A prominent Syrian economist
a vegetable trader, frequently
dodging army checkpoints to
go to Aleppo’s bigger markets
to buy goods he can sell in the
villages.
City dwellers have reduced
their food consumption much
more than rural residents,
said Taher al-Guraibi a former
housing contractor who has
gone back to his family’s
hometown of Binish after fleeing
Aleppo.
“You used to eat fruit daily,
now it’s every two days,” he
said. “Consumption of goods
has in general gone down... If
you used to buy a kilo of meat
every week now you buy half
a kilo.”
Higher prices
In Darat Azah’s bustling marketplace,
traders offer a range
of local produce including
cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelons
and peaches. People
consistently complain about
higher prices, not shortages,
traders say.
Nearby, a butcher hangs up
a piece of mutton, which has
almost doubled in price in the
past year.
“There are lower quantities
of food but no food shortages
in Syria... there are people
who are supplying food. As
you know, in every crisis,
there are those who profit,”
said a senior Syrian official at
the state wheat procurement
agency.
State bakeries remain open
even in rebel-held areas and
officials say no village in Syria
has been deprived of bread.
At a private bakery near
the rebel-controlled town
of Sahara, baker Abu Adnan
is surrounded by dozens of
men and women jostling to
get bread that has just arrived
from a bakery in a nearby
town that now serves several
villages.
“For God’s sake... everyone,
just one loaf,” Adnan shouts.
Despite long bread queues,
prices have barely gone up for
a loaf of Arabic bread, on sale
for a heavily subsidized 15
Syrian pounds (about 22 cents
Cdn).
In a tacit agreement with
the government, rebels have
not sought to take control of
36 state-owned silos spread
across the country that
remain in government hands.
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greatly increase the suffering
of the world’s poor,
says Oxfam.
More frequent extreme
weather events will create
shortages, destabilize
markets, and cause price
spikes on top of projected
structural price rises of
about 100 per cent for
staples such as maize
over the next 20 years, the
charity said in a report.
“For vulnerable people,
sudden and extreme price
hikes can be more devastating
than gradual long-term
rises to which they may
have more chance of adjusting,”
the report states.
“Though the price spike
and coping strategies may
be short term, the impacts
are often felt across generations.
An increase in
malnutrition can cause
stunting and reduce
developmental potential
in young children.”
UN says world
food prices have
stabilized but
action needed
ROME / REUTERS
World food prices stabilized
in August at levels
close to those reached in
the food crisis of 2008,
but global grain stocks are
likely to shrink this year
as cereal crop output falls
short of what is needed,
says the United Nations
food agency.
The FAO Food Price
Index, which measures
monthly price changes for
a food basket of cereals,
oilseeds, dairy, meat and
sugar, averaged 213 points
in August, unchanged from
July, when prices surged six
per cent.
The index is below a peak
of 238 points hit in February
2011, when high food
prices helped drive the Arab
Spring uprisings. But it is
still close to levels during
the food price crisis in 2008.
“Although we should
remain vigilant, current
prices do not justify talk of
a world food crisis. But the
international community
can and should move to
calm markets further,” said
FAO director general Jose
Graziano da Silva.
“We are reassured that
the drought problems in
the U.S. will not pull us into
a similar situation that we
had in 2008.”
The agency says there are
still upside risks for food
prices, such as the potential
for speculative capital to
return to markets.

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 33
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 a r t O F F a r M i n G
Gord Schroeder, a longtime sheep producer who is now executive director of
the Saskatchewan Sheep Development Board, says fear of predation is one of
the biggest obstacles to growth in the sheep and goat industry. photo: daniel Winters
“There’s no one tool
that you can use to
eliminate coyote
problems. You’re
going to have to
combine a number of
different ones.”
GOrd schrOeder
By Daniel Winters
co-operator staff / humboldt, sask.
demand for sheep and goats is sky
high and growing — so why aren’t
more farmers raising them?
the most common reason is fear of
coyotes, said Gord schroeder, executive
director of the saskatchewan sheep
development board.
“i’m tired of people saying that coyotes
are a problem and that’s why we can’t
go ahead,” said schroeder, in a presentation
at a recent Multi-species Grazing
conference hosted by the saskatchewan
Ministry of agriculture.
“as goat and sheep producers, we’re
going to learn to manage the problem.
We’re going to grow in spite of coyotes
and in spite of predation.”
totally eliminating predator losses
is impossible, but successful livestock
operators have figured out ways to manage
risk and prevent losses, he said.
When schroeder ran a 450-ewe operation
near drake, sask., he said he often
spotted coyotes running through his
flock and within a quarter-mile of his
house.
Not all bad
he generally left them alone because in
his experience, not all coyotes are livestock
killers, and a chorus of spine-tingling
coyote howls in the evening did not
always herald the appearance of mass
carnage in the morning.
indiscriminate killing opens up a territorial
vacuum that will be filled by
new, and potentially worse, coyotes, he
added.
Practices such as night penning, socalled
coyote-proof fencing, and noise
and light deterrents may offer shortterm,
temporary relief from the fourlegged,
furry terrorists.
“coyotes will adapt to anything that
you throw at them,” he said.
in one Ontario project he was involved
in, a fence was built at enormous cost
that was buried two feet in the ground
and rose eight feet high, but coyotes still
managed to get inside.
“there’s no one tool that you can use
to eliminate coyote problems. you’re
going to have to combine a number of
different ones,” said schroeder.
No one tool
First, check stock regularly. that means
taking extra steps as soon as a problem
appears. Keep weak or sick animals
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Coyotes no
excuse for
staying out of the
booming sheep
and goat sectors
Gord Schroeder says predation losses can’t be
totally eliminated, but good management
can keep them to a minimum
closer to the house for protection.
coyotes survive the winter mainly by
feeding on carrion, so keeping deadstock
out of reach by composting it
or burying it in a specially built vessel
avoids lending them a helping hand.
calling and shooting is one of the
best ways to get rid of bad actors in the
coyote population because the most
aggressive, opportunistic predators are
the first to respond to the sounds of an
animal in distress. but don’t bungle the
shot, because they won’t fall for it a second
time, he said.
coyotes are lazy by nature. their
currency is food energy, and they are
always looking for ways to conserve it
by opting for the cheapest, easiest kills.
that means they generally use the same
paths, night after night. setting a power
snare on a trail beaten in the grass under
the fence will often catch the culprit.
a good guardian dog is the best of all
predation control methods, said schroeder.
different breeds have different characteristics.
Great Pyrenees tend to stay
close to the flock, while akbash dogs
tend to roam farther, noisily patrolling
the perimeter. anatolian shepherds are
a more aggressive breed that won’t hesitate
to pursue attackers, and may get
into trouble with neighbours.
schroeder used three dogs of different
breeds with his flock to provide overlapping
layers of security.
Getting a dog to work requires
patience, especially during the critical
bonding period. a balance between the
need to provide grooming and worming
care must be struck to avoid turning a
pup into a “useless” pet.
dogs provide round-the-clock protection
from predators, and the sound
of barking at night provides peace of
mind because it means they are working
hard.
Many shepherds and goatherds are
reluctant to pasture their flocks on
remote or bushy areas due to fears of
predation, but a “good working dog will
open all that land up for you,” he said.
schroeder has heard from some
producers that losses of up to 15 per
cent per year due to predation must be
accepted as the cost of doing business.
“but that’s your cream, your profit. you
need to capture that,” he said. “Guardian
dogs may not eliminate everything, but
they sure will help.”
daniel.winters@fbcpublishing.com

34 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012
column
Variable creep feed intake confounds trial results
Recent research by the Prairie Swine Centre found litters fed creep did not have a higher daily gain
Bernie Peet
Peet on Pigs
The benefits of creep feeding
are notoriously variable,
with some research
trials showing a positive benefit
and others showing no advantage.
Even taking into account
factors such as weaning age,
length of the creep-feeding
period, and type of diet fed, it is
somewhat of a mystery why the
outcomes are not more consistent.
So what’s the latest on this
topic?
Work published last year by
the Prairie Swine Centre (PSC)
found no benefit. Pigs provided
with creep feed for seven days
prior to weaning were not heavier
at weaning and, perhaps
surprisingly, this was true for
both the heaviest and the lightest
pigs in the litter.
“Moreover, this data showed
that piglets from litters offered
creep were less inclined to
visit the feeder in the nursery
immediately post-weaning,”
said researcher Denise Beaulieu.
“This implies that there
were no behavioural benefits
from the early introduction of
solid feed.”
This latest research indicates
variability in results is likely due
to differences in feed intake
between individual pigs. A
recent trial involving 100 litters
used creep feed containing a
non-toxic dye so individual pigs
that ate creep could be identified
by taking anal swabs. Similar
to the previous work, on
average, litters fed creep did not
have a higher daily gain from 21
days of age, when creep feeding
commenced, until weaning.
Nor did they show improved
growth rate during the early
nursery stage. However, results
for individual pigs had some
differences.
“Approximately 37 per cent
of piglets offered creep showed
evidence of consumption after
five days,” said Beaulieu.
“Within the creep ‘eaters,’ 45
per cent had evidence of consuming
the Phase 1 diet when
swabs were taken 48 hours after
weaning. Within the creep ‘noneaters,’
this figure was 55 per
cent.” This, she said, corroborates
a previous experiment
where video tape observations
showed piglets from litters
offered creep had fewer “feeder
approaches” during the first 24
hours post-weaning. Growth
rate during the first three days
post-weaning, of piglets classified
as “creep and nursery
eaters” was improved relative
to other groups. Moreover,
according to Beaulieu, there
is evidence this improvement
was maintained throughout the
nursery period.
“Creep feeding improves
weaning and nursery exit
weights for those piglets which
actually consume feed,” she
said. “Further work is required
to determine why not all piglets
consume the creep feed and
whether these piglets will show
improvements in growth if they
can be encouraged to consume
the creep feed.”
Can we feed according
to growth potential?
During the grow-finish period,
variability in the response
of individual pigs and groups
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of pigs makes defining their
nutritional requirements a
challenge. Even when pigs are
penned according to size, and
diets fed according to weight,
variability is still high. In practice,
we tend to feed a betterquality
diet than we need to,
in order to meet the needs of
the smaller and slower-growing
pigs. But what if we could categorize
pigs according to their
growth potential and feed them
accordingly? A PSC trial looked
at whether early growth rate is
predictive of the efficiency of
energy utilization later in life.
Sixty barrows were assigned
to either a slow, average or fast
potential growth rate (PGR)
group on the basis of their
growth from birth to 30 kilograms,
then fed either a low- or
a high-energy diet.
“The slow-growing pigs were
about 98 days of age, almost
four weeks older than the fastest-growing
pigs, which reached
30 kilograms at only 71 days of
age,” said Beaulieu. “The average
PGR group was 78 days of
age.”
Despite the differences in
growth rate to 30 kilograms,
daily gain from 30 to 60 kilograms
was only slightly higher
for the fast PGR pigs. Also,
energy concentration of the diet
had no effect on growth rate —
feed intake was reduced on the
high-energy diet, therefore feed
efficiency was improved for pigs
fed this diet.
“The pigs were slaughtered
when they reached 60
kilograms, then the carcasses
ground and analyzed for nutrient
content,” said Beaulieu.
“Comparing the data with a
group of pigs slaughtered at
Creep feeding improves weaning and nursery exit weights, for those piglets
which actually consume feed, according to the latest research from PSC.
the beginning of each experiment
allows the calculation of
nutrient retention within each
growth period.”
The efficiency of utilization
of energy for growth, protein or
lipid deposition was numerically
lower for the fast-growing
pigs relative to the average or
slower-growing pigs, however,
this difference was not significant.
“The efficiency of energy
utilization for protein or lipid
deposition was improved with
the low-energy diet,” said Beaulieu.
“Also, pigs fed the diet at
85 per cent of ad libitum intake
utilized energy more efficiently
relative to those allowed 100
per cent intake, regardless of
PGR or dietary energy concentration.
The ad libitum fed pigs
news
Iowa testing milk
for aflatoxin
CHICAGo / REuTERS / Iowa,
the No. 1 corn producer in the
united States, began requiring
the state’s dairy processors
to test all milk received
in the state for aflatoxin Aug.
31, the toxic byproduct of a
mould that tends to spread in
drought-stressed corn.
The Iowa Department of
Agriculture said the required
aflatoxin screening of all milk
will continue indefinitely.
The order requires milk
processors to screen all Grade
A and Grade B farm bulk milk
pickup tankers and farm
can milk loads for aflatoxin
on a weekly basis. Cows that
eat corn infected with aflatoxin
can pass the substance
through to their milk.
The department said it was
also instituting a state-wide
corn-sampling program.
“We were well aware that
aflatoxin could be an issue this
year due to the historic drought
conditions,” Iowa Secretary of
Agriculture Bill Northey said in
a statement this week.
“Now that farmers are starting
to harvest silage, and corn
in some cases, it is appropriate
to begin this screening process
took fewer days to reach 60 kilograms,
grew faster, ate more
and had improved feed efficiency.
However, the efficiency
of energy utilized for protein or
lipid deposition was improved
with the lower intake.
“The efficiency of the utilization
of dietary energy for
growth was comparable among
pigs selected for high or low
potential growth rate,” concluded
Beaulieu.
This implies that segregating
pigs and feeding based on their
potential growth rate is not a
tool that will improve our ability
to match feed to requirements.
Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain
Consulting of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor
of Western Hog Journal.
to make sure our milk supply
remains safe,” Northey said.
The u.S. grain, dairy and
crop insurance industries
have been on high alert for
outbreaks of aflatoxin in the
u.S. corn harvest following the
worst Midwestern drought in
half a century.
Aflatoxin is the byproduct
of a powdery, greenish mould
that has emerged in cornfields
across much of the Corn Belt
and is harmful or even fatal to
livestock. The presence of the
mould does not necessarily
lead to aflatoxin.
under guidelines from the
u.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), certain types of
animal feed can contain an aflatoxin
concentration of up to 300
parts per billion (ppb). Human
foods must contain less than
20 ppb, while the threshold for
milk is even lower, at 0.5 ppb.
Aflatoxin can cause liver
disease and is considered carcinogenic.
Human exposure to high
amounts of aflatoxin is rare,
but aflatoxin contamination
prompted a series of pet food
and livestock food recalls last
December, including products
produced at Cargill’s
Lecompte, Louisiana plant and
Procter & Gamble Co. plant in
Henderson, North Carolina.

The Manitoba Co-operator | September 13, 2012 35
Activists turn investors in
a bid to change farm practices
The Humane Society said it plans to introduce shareholder proposals next year promoting alternatives to sow stalls
By P.J. Huffstutter
CHICAGO / REUTERS
The Humane Society of the
United States has bought
shares in four major
financial services companies in
a bid to use shareholder pressure
to force two of the nation’s
largest pork producers to stop
housing pregnant sows in gestation
stalls.
The animal rights group said
Aug. 31 that its investment —
a relatively small $3,000 or so
worth of stock in each company,
but large enough to
introduce proposals during
shareholder meetings — was
targeted at investors in Tyson
Foods Inc. and Seaboard Foods,
a unit of Seaboard Corp.
The group has successfully
used such shareholder advo-
Swine
workshop
slated for
Red Deer
NIR technology
could reduce
feed costs
Near infrared (NIR)
technology, mana
g e m e n t a n d
stockmanship will be on
the agenda at the 2012
Red Deer Swine Technology
Workshop on Oct. 31.
Mar y Lou Swift of
Alberta Agriculture and
Rural Development will
discuss how using NIR
technology to analyze
grain samples can lead
to significant feed cost
savings. The system will
be demonstrated during
the breaks and producers
may bring grain samples
for analysis, a process
that literally takes seconds.
Using technology to
optimize the pig’s environment
and solve ventilation
problems will
be discussed by Mario
Ramirez of Gowans Feed
Consulting. Other topics
include management
of the gilt up to first farrowing,
optimizing herd
parity structure and the
impact of stockmanship
on individual pig care.
The workshop will be
held at the exhibition
hall at the Sheraton Hotel
(formerly the Capri Centre)
in Red Deer. Registration
costs $75, with a
special “5 for the price
of 4” package available
for $300. For further
information or to register,
contact Bernie Peet
at Pork Chain Consulting
Ltd. at (403) 782-3776 or
(403) 392-3104 or email
bjpeet@telusplanet.net.
cacy in the past to pressure food
and agriculture companies to
change corporate buying habits
and production practices.
Now, the Humane Society
is taking a new strategy:
tell investors in the livestock
industry it’s a bad financial
move for farmers to use this
equipment.
The Humane Society said it
plans to introduce shareholder
proposals next year that, among
other things, will point out that
dozens of food retailers have
vowed to eventually only buy
pork from farmers and other
sources that don’t use gestation
stalls. By not changing
over to alternative animal housing,
claims the group, Tyson
and Seaboard are putting their
lucrative contracts with these
customers at risk.
McDonald’s, the nation’s
top hamburger chain by sales,
vowed in May that its U.S. business
would only buy pork from
farmers and other sources that
do not use gestation stalls for
housing their pregnant sows by
2022.
“We’ve tried talking with
(Tyson and Seaboard) and they
refuse to make any progress,”
said Humane Society food policy
director Matthew Prescott.
So the Humane Society
decided to put the pressure on
in a less direct route and press
its case with Tyson investors: JP
Morgan Chase, the biggest U.S.
commercial and investment
bank by assets; BlackRock, the
world’s biggest asset manager;
Jennison Associates, a subsidiary
of Prudential Financial, the
second-largest U.S. life insurer;
“We’re optimistic. We’re producing more and
better products and seeing a positive result.
I think the future
is going to be great.”
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and Ameriprise Financial, a
financial services company.
BlackRock also is a leading
investor in Seaboard, Prescott
said.
Tyson Foods told Reuters in
an email that it is committed to
humane animal treatment at all
stages of food production, and
expects the same from those
farmers who supply products
to it.
“We buys hogs from thousands
of family farms, many of
whom use gestation stalls for
mother pigs and some of whom
have group or pen housing.
Experts believe both housing
systems are humane for mother
pigs when managed properly,”
the company said in its statement.
Seaboard Foods, the nation’s
third-largest pork producer,
– Sabrina Caron, Quebec
could not be reached for comment.
A spokesman for JP
Morgan Chase declined to comment.
None of the other financial
services firms could be
reached for comment.
The Humane Society and
other activists say their goal is
to pull back the curtain on the
nation’s food supply, and are
using undercover videos shot at
farms, social media campaigns
and shareholder activism to
prompt the food and agricultural
industries to change.
The campaign has been
increasingly successful in
recent years: Earlier this month,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture
temporarily shut down a
California slaughterhouse after
undercover video showed cows
being mistreated during the
slaughtering process.
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AND FOOD ANIMAL MEDICATIONS
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medications between October 23-25, 2012.
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Reston Viterra
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Feeder Steers Sep-05 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-04 Sep-05 n/a Sep-06 Sep-07 Nov-18
No. on offer 221 257 239 290 379 n/a 318 633 1,320
Over 1,000 lbs. n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 110.00-122.00 105.00-116.00
900-1,000 125.00-128.00 115.00-123.25 115.00-128.00 n/a 122.00-133.00 n/a 120.00-129.00 120.00-131.00 122.5
800-900 120.00-139.00 124.00-134.25 125.00-134.00 125.00-134.00 128.00-138.00 n/a 130.00-137.00 128.00-137.00 125.00-138.50
700-800 118.00-142.50 125.00-141.75 130.00-140.00 132.00-149.75 135.00-147.50 n/a 135.00-145.75 130.00-145.00 130.00-141.00
600-700 132.00-144.75 120.00-148.50 132.00-143.50 140.00-154.25 139.00-151.00 n/a 140.00-151.00 135.00-152.00 138.00-154.00
500-600 n/a 125.00-151.00 138.00-147.50 145.00-162.00 144.00-156.00 n/a 130.00-152.50 140.00-155.00 145.00-169.00
400-500 n/a 130.00-158.50 145.00-159.00 155.00-173.00 150.00-164.00 n/a 150.00-185.00 145.00-172.00 150.00-189.00
300-400 n/a n/a 150.00-182.00 n/a 159.00-173.00 n/a n/a 150.00-182.00 160.00-198.00
Feeder heifers
900-1,000 lbs. n/a 105.00-114.50 n/a 110.00-122.00 109.00-119.00 n/a 118.00-127.25 100.00-118.00 108
800-900 n/a 114.00-123.25 113.00-122.50 115.00-125.25 117.00-126.00 n/a 122.00-135.00 105.00-125.00 114
700-800 100.00-132.25 116.00-130.50 117.00-127.00 120.00-133.00 122.00-133.00 n/a 125.00-139.50 110.00-133.00 110.00-120.00
600-700 128.00-135.00 119.00-138.50 122.00-133.50 125.00-142.00 126.00-138.00 n/a 135.00-144.00 118.00-135.00 122.00-130.00
500-600 n/a 120.00-141.00 128.00-138.00 128.00-142.50 130.00-143.00 n/a 140.00-161.00 120.00-138.00 130.00-147.00
400-500 n/a 125.00-134.00 130.00-155.00 130.00-145.50 135.00-148.00 n/a n/a 125.00-147.50 135.00-151.00
300-400
Slaughter Market
n/a 138.00-143.00 140.00-174.00 135.00-155.00 n/a n/a n/a 130.00-155.00 n/a
No. on offer 174 n/a n/a 135 n/a n/a 177 168 320
D1-D2 Cows 62.00-68.00 n/a n/a 73.00-79.50 70.00-75.00 n/a 71.00-78.00 68.00-76.00 54.00-59.00
D3-D5 Cows 52.00-61.00 n/a n/a 65.00-72.00 60.00-70.00 n/a 62.00-70.00 63.00-70.00 n/a
Age Verifi ed 70.00-74.25 30.00-79.00 n/a n/a 72.00-77.00 n/a n/a n/a 47.00-62.00
Good Bulls 80.00-91.00 60.00-90.00 84.00-88.50 82.00-87.50 80.00-92.50 n/a 87.00-95.00 83.00-90.50 65.00-77.50
Butcher Steers n/a n/a n/a n/a 101.00-105.00 n/a n/a n/a n/a
Butcher Heifers n/a n/a n/a n/a 98.00-102.75 n/a n/a n/a n/a
Feeder Cows n/a 30.00-74.00 70.00-77.00 80.00-91.00 72.00-82.00 n/a 78.00-84.00 74.00-82.00 n/a
Fleshy Export Cows n/a n/a 67.00-71.00 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 50.00-62.00
Lean Export Cows
* includes slaughter market
n/a n/a 60.00-66.00 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 44.00-50.00
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BRIEFS
U.S. hog market
“a wreck”
CHICAGO / REUTERS /
Record-high feed costs
caused by the worst
drought in half a century
are forcing U.S. farmers
to slaughter more of their
hogs, with the number
reaching 9.9 million head
in August.
With the pace of
slaughter set to increase
seasonally in the fourth
quarter, the country could
be awash with pork. That
would push prices of
hog futures, already near
20-month lows, even
lower.
“If we continue to go
seasonally higher (slaughter)
from here, as we
normally do in the fourth
quarter, this is going to
be a much larger number
than anticipated and we’ve
got a wreck on our hands,”
said Jim Robb of the Livestock
Marketing Information
Center in Denver.
“Feedstuff costs are high
and hog prices are headed
lower.”

The Manitoba Co-Operator | September 13, 2012
New food
products head
to school
NuEats brand part of
Manitoba Agri-Health
Research Network’s
effort to promote
functional foods made
from Manitoba-grown
ingredients
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff
Barley waffles and tortilla chips, a
yogurt-granola bar, and sundaes
topped with saskatoons and
oatmeal are some of the made-in-
Manitoba foods headed to university
this month — for a taste test.
if they pass, they’ll be launched
under the “Nueats” brand, and
put on the menu at University of
Manitoba cafeterias and eateries.
on any given day up to 25,000
people are on campus, so it’s a
great test market, said Lee anne
Murphy, executive director of the
Manitoba agri-Health research
Network. the hope is the healthy
products will catch on with students
— and catch the interest of food
manufacturers, she said.
“We wanted to give these really
interesting products a chance to
shine,” said Murphy. “if they’re commercially
viable, we want someone
else to take it to market.”
the Nueats program is a partnership
with the U of M’s faculty of
food science to “micro-commercialize”
new and natural products using
healthy local ingredients.
there are six products in all. three
were tested by the Manitoba agri-
Health research Network’s cluster
— which includes the richardson
centre for functional foods, the
food Development centre, and
centre for agri-food research in
Health and Medicine.
one was the prairieBerry sundae,
made in small batches at the
little dairy in the agriculture and
food sciences building. the sundae,
made with saskatoons and
oatmeal, was a hit, so it’s been
accepted for the Nueats brand. a
buckwheat snack also passed muster
and is also ready to be launched.
it’s hoped the initiative will get
students in food sciences and
human nutritional sciences programs
interested in developing food
products, said Murphy.
already a group of recent graduates
asked Nueats organizers for
help with their prototype product,
she said.
“these are kids with jobs and
coming back on their own time to
figure out how to get this going,”
she said.
“so we’ve got engaged students,
some cool products and maybe
some commercial successes too.”
to be eligible to carry the Nueats
brand, products must contain
ingredients with some connection
to Manitoba agri-Health research
Network. people with products that
don’t fit that criteria should contact
Growing opportunities (Go) staff
at Manitoba agriculture, food and
rural initiatives, she said.
lorraine@fbcpublishing.com
COUNTRY CROSSROADS
C O N N E C T I N G R U R A L F A M I L I E S
Members of the Cypress River Resource Centre board are thrilled to be welcoming 25 licensed practical nurse trainees into the former Cypress River Consolidated
School, which closed in 2009. Pictured are board members Linda Truelove (l to r), Pam Griffin, Jim Cassels, Lisa Clousten, Jeannie Christie, chair
of the board and Georgette Hutlet. pHoto: LorraiNe steveNsoN
Former elementary school
opens as nurse training facility
Cypress River residents look forward to welcoming 25 LPN trainees
who will study in the small town’s former elementary school
By Lorraine Stevenson
co-operator staff / cypress river
When local residents put up $100
to buy their four-classroom
school back from the Prairie
Spirit School Division last year, they
weren’t sure what they were going to do
with it.
But they weren’t prepared to stand by
and watch the 7,000-square-foot school
closed in 2009 fall into disrepair, so they
took a leap of faith that it would find new
purpose.
They were right. Soon after they took
possession, they opened Encore!, a second-hand
store now doing a brisk trade
in one of the classrooms. Then in June the
community hosted an inaugural Prairie
Wind Music Festival.
“That’s going to grow in the future and
we think it will be one of our major fundraisers,”
said Georgette Hutlet, one of
the board members for the Cypress River
Resource Centre.
But their real coup came from learning
about Assiniboine Community
College’s rotating LPN training program,
which has been offered in other underused
spaces across rural Manitoba since
2000.
CRRC immediately approached ACC
to see if their little school might be
considered.
They learned late last month they’d
been been chosen as the site for the ACC’s
22-month program starting in 2013.
The school will be outfitted with hospital
beds and other training equipment
for the 25 students scheduled to start
classes in the new year. Encore! will stay
open in the school’s gymnasium.
“We’re very excited,” Hutlet said. “It’s
something brand new for us.”
“We want to bring
educational opportunities as
close to home as possible.
That’s one of our mandates.”
GeorGette Hutlet
The LPN program will provide a secure
tenant for the next 22 months and a
chance to build on the mandate their
board gave the facility when they acquired
it — giving their school a new lease on life.
This wasn’t done for sentiment for an
old school either.
Needs are evolving across rural
Manitoba, said Hutlet. The business plan
they put together for a new use for this
school aims to meet them.
“We want to bring educational opportunities
as close to home as possible,” said
Hutlet. “That’s one of our mandates.”
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They’re now looking forward to 25
new faces around town. Some from farther
away will rent accommodations
in Cypress River and nearby Glenboro.
Cypress River is planning a community
supper to welcome them when they
arrive.
They hope other towns with a closed
school, or a closure looming might take
heart from what they’re doing too, she
added.
“As much as it’s a sad day when a school
closes you need to look for other options,”
said Hutlet. “You can make it something
that your community will still be proud
of.”
ACC offers this localized training
after surveys done across the
province’s RHAs to determine where
demands for LPN training is highest,
said Kirk Joyce, chair of health programs
at ACC.
Over the years, they’ve had training
programs set up in other towns’ closed
churches and even empty stores.
There are many advantages to bringing
training to where the students are,
said Joyce, including reducing the need
for students to travel or relocate while
they study. Students trained locally
regularly land a job locally afterwards.
LPNs are in high demand and have
excellent job prospects, he added.
lorraine@fbcpublishing.com

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
RecipeSwap
Follow
your nose
Along the Cinnamon Bun Trail
Lorraine Stevenson
Crossroads Recipe Swap
The warm spice, fresh-baked bread combo
of a newly baked cinnamon bun is, in a
word, irresistible. Who hasn’t been lured
into Mom’s kitchen, or a hometown bakery,
when they’ve picked up the scent of them.
That’s the idea behind the new “Cinnamon
Bun Trail” a map and guide to help you follow
your nose to all the best cinnamon buns baked
in rural Manitoba.
The idea came to co-ordinators of this province’s
rural tourism associations after a trip to
southern Ontario where they were charmed by
all the small cafés and roadside stands that make
up that province’s Butter Tart Trail.
“We said we’ve gotta do this at home,” said
Georgette Hutlet, marketing co-ordinator of
the Central Plains Tourism Network. Cinnamon
buns, she and her colleagues agreed, were
pure Prairie, and with Kathy Swann at Parkland
Tourism Association leading the charge, the
search for the sweet treats was on.
The Cinnamon Bun Trail — In Search of Sweet
Treats in Rural Manitoba is a map that lists 35
different cafés, stores and bakeries across the
entire province.
The ooey-gooey treats you’ll get when you
arrive are the real McCoy too. They must be
made from scratch and fresh to be on the trail.
This sounds like fun. Austin’s Bake and Coffee
Shop claims theirs are “the best in the West,”
while, according to the guide, at St. Claude’s
Mama Lou’s, the guide says, “Colleen must be
in the mood to knead the old-school yeast and
Claude must soak the raisins.”
The buns at St. Pierre Bakery’s are made with
a “generations old secret recipe.” I can personally
vouch for Grandview’s Friendly Corner Bake
Shop’s “exceptional buns.” I’ve sampled a few.
Who knows, cinnamon buns might be a bit
like made-in-Manitoba sausages, each slightly
different from those down the road. Pick up a
guide and have fun figuring that out for yourself.
Where to find the map
The Cinnamon Bun
Trail map and guide is
produced by Parkland
Tourism Association,
Tourism North
Manitoba, Interlake
Tourism Association,
Eastern Manitoba
Tourism Association and
Central Plains Tourism
Network.
Right now you can
find the downloadable
brochure at www.cen
tralplainsmanitoba.ca
or call 877-856-5002 for
help locating one.
You probably have your own favourite handed
down through the family, but here’s a couple of
cinnamon bun recipes to add to your collection.
Both recipes courtesy of ACH Food Companies,
Inc. www.achfood.ca.
Grandma’s Best
Cinnamon Rolls
Oatmeal Dough:
2-1/4 to 2-3/4 c. all-purpose flour
1/3 c. quick oats
1/4 c. granulated sugar
1 pkg. Fleischmann’s Traditional or QuickRise Yeast
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 c. (1/2 stick) butter or margarine, cut up
1/4 c. milk
1/4 c. water
1 egg
Filling:
2 tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
1/2 c. packed brown sugar
1-1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 c. raisins (optional)
Honey Butter Icing:
1/3 c. sifted powdered sugar
2 tbsp. butter or margarine, softened
2 tbsp. honey
In large bowl, combine 3/4 cup flour, oats, granulated
sugar, undissolved yeast and salt. Heat 1/4
cup butter, milk and water until very warm (120
F to 130 F.) Gradually add to dry ingredients; beat
two minutes at medium speed of electric mixer,
scraping bowl occasionally. Add egg and 1/2 cup
flour; beat two minutes at high speed. With spoon,
stir in enough remaining flour to make soft dough.
Knead on lightly floured surface until smooth,
about five minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning
to grease top. Cover; let rise in warm, draft-free
place 45 to 60 minutes or until doubled. Punch
down dough. (When using QuickRise Yeast, cover
kneaded dough and let rest 10 minutes. Proceed
with recipe.) On lightly floured surface, roll dough
to 18x8 inches; brush with melted butter. Sprinkle
with brown sugar, cinnamon and raisins, if
desired, to within 1/2 inch of edges. Roll up tightly
from long side, pinching seam to seal; cut into
nine equal pieces. Place, cut sides up, in greased
8x8-inch pan. Cover; let rise in warm place 45 to 60
minutes or until doubled. Bake at 350 F for 25 to 30
minutes or until done. Remove from pan; cool on
wire rack.
In small bowl, mix powdered sugar and softened
butter with fork until blended; stir in honey until
smooth. Drizzle or spread on rolls.
BREAD MACHINE VARIATION (all-size machines):
Measure dough ingredients into bread machine
pan as suggested by manufacturer; use 2-1/3
cups all-purpose flour and 1-1/2 teaspoons
Fleischmann’s Bread Machine Yeast. Process on
dough/manual cycle. When complete, remove
dough to floured surface; knead in additional
flour to make dough easy to handle, if necessary.
Roll out dough and proceed as directed.
The Manitoba Co-Operator | September 13, 2012
Send your recipes or recipe request to:
Manitoba Co-operator
Recipe Swap
Box 1794,
Carman, Man. ROG OJO
or email: lorraine@fbcpublishing.com
Apple Cinnamon Rolls
5 to 5-1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. sugar
2 pkgs. Fleischmann’s QuickRise Yeast
1 tsp. salt
1/2 c. water
1/2 c. milk
1/4 c. butter or margarine
3 large eggs
In large bowl, combine 1 cup flour, sugar, undissolved
yeast and salt. Heat water, milk and butter
until very warm (120 F to 130 F). Gradually add
to dry ingredients. Beat two minutes at medium
speed of electric mixer, scraping bowl occasionally.
Add eggs and 1 cup flour; beat two minutes
at high speed, scraping bowl occasionally. Stir in
enough remaining flour to make a soft dough.
Knead on lightly floured surface until smooth
and elastic, about eight to 10 minutes. Cover; let
rest 10 minutes.
Divide dough into two equal portions. Roll each
portion into 12x8-inch rectangle. Spread Apple
Filling evenly. Beginning at long end of each, roll
up tightly as for jelly roll. Pinch seams to seal.
Cut each roll into 12 equal pieces. Place, cut
sides up, in greased nine-inch round pans. Cover,
let rise in warm, draft-free place until doubled in
size, about 45 minutes. Sprinkle with Cinnamon-
Sugar Topping.
Bake at 375 F for 25 to 30 minutes or until done.
Remove from pans. Serve warm.
TO MAKE APPLE FILLING: Combine 2 large cooking
apples, chopped; 2 tablespoons all-purpose
flour, 3/4 cup sugar, and 1/4 cup butter or margarine
in medium saucepan; bring to a boil over
medium-high heat. Cook three minutes. Reduce
heat to medium low; cook 10 minutes, stirring
constantly until thick. Stir in 1 teaspoon ground
cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg. Cool completely.
Cinnamon-Sugar Topping: Combine 3/4
cup sugar, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 1/2
teaspoon nutmeg. Stir until well blended.
Recipe Swap…
I’m always happy to hear from readers with your
recipes and suggestions for columns! Write to:
Manitoba Co-operator Recipe Swap
Box 1794, Carman, Man. ROG OJO
Or email: lorraine@fbcpublishing.com
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The Manitoba Co-Operator | September 13, 2012 39
By Julie Garden-Robinson
NDSU ExtENSioN SErvicE
The other day, I was admiring
our prolific apple
tree through my kitchen
window and pondering how I
should use and share all of the
rosy red fruit. Last year, I made
jelly, pies, dried apples and
apple juice.
Apples are members of the
rose family, and according to
archeologists, we humans have
been consuming them since
6500 BC.
Throughout history, many
health benefits have been associated
with apples, ranging from
relief of stomach problems and
nervous conditions to serving
as beauty aids. While not all
of these apple anecdotes have
withstood the test of science,
researchers continue to study
the health benefits associated
with apples.
Apples provide soluble fibre
(pectin), vitamin C and natural
antioxidants. Eat the peel
whenever possible as many
cancer-fighting phytochemicals
(plant chemicals) are concentrated
there. Cornell University
researchers reported that about
three ounces of unpeeled fresh
apple provides the antioxidant
activity of 1,500 milligrams of
vitamin C.
Most of us have heard the
expression that begins with “an
apple a day.” Is there any truth
to deterring physician visits by
munching on a daily apple?
Researchers have reported
that regularly eating apples can
help lower blood cholesterol,
which in turn can reduce the risk
of heart disease and stroke.
University of California-Davis
researchers reported that eating
two apples or drinking
12 ounces of apple juice a day
protected arteries from plaque
buildup.
If you make your own apple
juice, be sure to heat the juice
to 71.1 C (160 F) to kill harmful
bacteria that might be present.
After heating it, place it in a
pitcher or other container and
store it in your refrigerator.
When you select apples at
the grocery store, farmers’ market
or your backyard, look for
firm apples free of blemishes
COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Couple protects property through NCC
Land will be managed as a long-term stewardship
By Candy Irwin
For NatUrE coNSErvaNcy caNaDa
The “privacy” signs on the gates
belie the friendly and welcoming
couple whose acreage is
just south of Stuart Lake in the Rural
Municipality of Park. Fred and Karen
Crivea live on their 39-acre hobby
farm surrounded by their horses, kittens,
rabbits and dogs.
Like many of us who live rurally,
the Criveas cherish the nature around
their peaceful home. The small
lake alongside their house is host
to a plethora of water birds, some
of whom are just passing through,
like the pelicans, but others, like
the Canada geese, felt safe enough
to parade their fuzzy hatchlings on
the Criveas’ clipped lawn. A bald
eagle regularly surveys their yard
from a towering snag, and if it does
hunt, Fred accepts it as, “Well, that’s
nature.”
Both Fred and Karen take great
delight in observing nature, and
they are mindful of how they use
their land. Dead trees are left standing
for cavity nesters, like buffleheads,
and barn swallow nests are
left undisturbed. There is a sense that
if the forest and wildlife flourish, the
Criveas will as well. “We share our
lives with the nature around us and
we are the richer for it,” said Fred.
Fred is an experienced horseman
who used to round up and move
cattle on horseback on his family’s
northern Interlake farm. He used to
hunt, too, but he doesn’t anymore.
Now, both Fred and Karen watch
with amusement as coyotes visit their
yard to feast on crabapples and berries
in the winter.
Karen is a homemaker and Fred
travels a great deal with his job —
work that has taken him all around
the world. Soon he will travel
to Papua, New Guinea in South
America for an extended period of
time, where he will perform exploration
drilling for precious metals. “I
feel like I’ve seen it all,” said Fred,
“but believe me, there’s no place
An apple a day…
So is there any truth to that old expression?
Fred and Karen Crivea have protected some of their land through NCC. PHoto: caNDy irWiN
more special than Manitoba!”
About a year ago, Fred and Karen
went to an open house held by the
Nature Conservancy of Canada
(NCC). Sometime later, after a chance
meeting with securement representative,
Jean Rosset (in the grocery
store!), the couple began to think
about protecting the 107 acres they
also own, 17 acres of which are along
the shore of Stuart Lake. “Everything
the NCC stands for fit with our thinking
perfectly,” said Fred.
The NCC has recently purchased
the land, which is comprised of
sloughs, small lakes and steep
ravines, not very amenable to farming,
although they still retain the
right to take some hay off it for their
horses. It is indeed, valuable riparian
habitat, but what is particularly
special is that it links Stuart Lake
with a tract of land owned by Ducks
Unlimited, making a long, protective
corridor for all things natural and
wild.
“Some things are more important
than money,” said Fred. “You can’t
take it with you when you go, but
meanwhile, Karen and I can enjoy the
satisfaction of having preserved 107
acres of habitat to be managed as a
long-term stewardship by the NCC.”
People are still welcome to walk on
the land and enjoy it as the Criveas
do. Research students might also
find that the land provides data to
support their studies, but the Nature
Conservancy asks that the findings be
shared with them, compiling a body
of knowledge to benefit us all.
S i n c e 1 9 6 2 , t h e N a t u r e
Conservancy of Canada, a private,
charitable organization, has protected
over 2.6 million acres across
Canada. It works hard to preserve
and cuts to the skin. Colour
isn’t always an indication of
quality. According to horticulture
experts, the reddest apple
isn’t necessarily the best-tasting
apple.
When picking an apple from a
tree, try to avoid pulling. Instead,
lift the fruit toward the sky to
release the stem from the tree.
This helps avoid damaging the
apple tissue and can lengthen
the apple’s storage life.
Although whole apples
are safe to keep at room temperature
for several days, their
crunchy texture and flavour may
change. For best quality, store
apples in the crisper drawer of
your refrigerator separate from
other produce.
Be sure to rinse apples thor-
some of the last cover that still exists,
for our benefit and for the benefit
of future generations. By doing so,
conservation organizations like the
NCC “ensure that there are homes for
wildlife, a haven for recreation and a
vital resource that cleans the air we
breathe and the water we drink.”
The conservancy has protected
46,206 acres of ecologically significant
land in Manitoba. To read about some
of the work that has already been
done within the Riding Mountain
Biosphere Reserve go to www.natureconservancy.ca
and follow the links
to “Manitoba,” then to “Our Work”
and to the “Riding Mountain Aspen
Parkland Natural Area.”
Contact the Nature Conservancy of
Canada, Manitoba Regional Office,
toll free at 1-866-683-6934.
Candy Irwin writes from Lake Audy, Manitoba
oughly with plenty of running
water. Do not use detergents or
soaps to clean apples because
these cleaning agents can leave
residues on the fruit.
If you have an abundance of
apples, consider freezing, drying
or canning them.
You can learn more about preserving
apples, as well as many
other types of fruits and vegetables,
by visiting the NDSU
Extension Service food preservation
materials at http://www.
ag.ndsu.edu/food.
Julie Garden-Robinson, PhD, R.D., L.R.D.,
is a North Dakota State University
Extension Service food and nutrition
specialist and associate professor in
the department of health, nutrition and
exercise sciences.

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COUNTRY CROSSROADS
Ideas for that unused attic
An attic space could make the perfect bedroom/office area
Connie Oliver
Around the House
Attic or loft spaces are fun rooms to
decorate, with their angled ceilings
and unique layout. These same
attributes, however, can also prove to be
challenging when it comes to furniture
placement and hanging art.
The room in the photograph is a light
and airy attic bedroom with a small office
area. This would be a great space for a
student because it provides a study area
with lots of natural light and functional
storage for books and supplies.
Loft spaces often have lots of large
windows but because these rooms are
above the main level of a house they can
get quite warm during the summer. If you
don’t have central air it’s a good idea to
install a window air conditioner. Using
window treatments that can block out
the sun but also allow light into the room
is also a good idea. Room-darkening
shades/blinds under simple window
treatments is a good solution.
You may have varying window sizes in
your attic room. Our loft bedroom, for
instance, has four windows all of different
sizes. As well, each window may have its
own special requirements. For instance,
the treatment over the built-in desk area
needs special attention because of where
the bottom of the curtains or blinds will
land. You don’t want curtains or blinds in
the way of the small work surface. Other
windows in the room may allow floor-toceiling
window treatments. To keep some
flow to the room, try to co-ordinate the
window treatments by way of colour then
have fun with each individual treatment
style.
The built-in cabinets and desk are a
great way to create a work area. Custom
built-ins will allow for optimum space
By Alma Barkman
FREELANCE CONTRIBUTOR
After coming home from a
camping trip, my husband
and I discovered a stowaway
had concealed his presence by hiding
in some blankets our grandkids
used in their tent. He didn’t let out
a peep until darkness fell, and then
just when overnight visitors were
bedded down in the rec room, someone
exclaimed, “There’s a cricket
down here!”
“No way! Are you sure it isn’t near
the open window?”
“We’re sure! We think it’s in the furnace
room, or in the closet, or maybe
under the chest freezer. It’s really
loud, too.”
Not only was he loud (only males
chirp) but this guy was a veritable
ventriloquist. Try as we might,
nobody could determine just
where the sound was coming from,
although the consensus of opinion
zeroed in on the freezer.
Good, I thought. There’s nothing
under there to eat so he’ll die of
malnutrition. Well, maybe not. One
day, two, three… he was still chirping
away, long and loudly, except
when I’d approach the freezer. I
began sneaking down the stairs in
my slippers in hopes I’d catch sight
usage and storage. Because loft rooms
have angled ceilings, it’s often hard to
include a full-size dresser with mirror in
the mix because there isn’t a lot of flat
wall height. Built-in cabinetry can provide
storage solutions to suit your specific
space and needs. The attic room in the
photograph has dresser drawers recessed
right into the wall, utilizing the actual
One noisy hitchhiker
Country cricket decides to try life in the city
of him — not a chance! Maybe if I
banged around some frozen stuff in
the freezer — no dice. He was one
sneaky cricket.
How was this guy surviving, let
alone chirping? Research explained
both. They live on decaying plant
material and fungi. (Which led to a
guilt trip: Just what was under my
freezer besides dust bunnies?) As for
the sound, a cricket has a large, serrated
vein along the bottom of each
wing. Running the top of one wing
along the “teeth” at the bottom of
the other wing creates the familiar
sound, while the membranes in the
wings provide the acoustics.
On day five, the thought struck
me: What if that cricket goes exploring,
finds my pile of new patchwork
quilts and decides the cotton is
edible?
I’d had enough. Grabbing the yardstick,
I raced down the stairs, and on
the second sweep under the freezer,
out popped Mr. Cricket, and I nailed
him before he could chirp one more
time.
In Barbados, they believe a loud
cricket in the house means money is
coming in.
I guess I won’t be richer any time
soon.
Alma Barkman writes from Winnipeg
attic space behind the wall. Having these
recessed drawers keeps the floor space
open but provides lots of storage.
Before you haul furniture up into the
space, work out a layout on paper. Be sure
to include the height measurements and
requirements for all pieces, and you’ll
also want to make sure the furniture will
fit up the stairwell before you start.
Reader’s Photo
PHOTO: COURTESY DULUX
Just checking the canola. PHOTO: LILLIAN DEEDMAN
The Manitoba Co-Operator | September 13, 2012
Depending upon the layout of the
space, placing large furniture groupings
might be a challenge. Again, the angled
ceiling and unusual wall space is not
conducive to overscaled furniture. You
may have to remove the headboard and
footboard on the bed to make it fit, for
example. Another option is to purchase
a platform bed that will work well in
the space because of its low visual and
physical profile. You may also have to
either remove the attached mirror from a
dresser or purchase a low-profile cabinet
instead, or hang a wall mirror over the
dresser. If you have to alter every piece
in your current furniture set to make it
fit, you might want to use a mix of items
that will fit and forgo the matching set.
The centre of the room is where you’re
going to have the most ceiling height so
you may be able to place the bed in the
centre of the room on an angle if you
have a tall, four-poster bed. A low-profile
dresser or trunk sitting at the foot of the
bed can provide storage and/or seating.
You have to get creative in attic rooms.
Perhaps a teen or young adult would
enjoy a hanging bed, suspended from
the ceiling. Think outside the box.
Hanging artwork is a bit of a challenge
in a loft space because of the
limited and often low-height wall space.
Placing artwork on a ledge, as in the
photograph, is one option but this can
take up valuable workspace so choose
your pieces carefully. One or two may
be all you need. You can also group a
collection of paintings or prints on the
floor leaning against a low wall. Some
attic spaces have ceilings that extend
to a very low-profile wall that is about
two or three feet. This space is good for
storage but can also be used to display
art. Don’t overdo it though. A great wall
colour will be more effective than a lot of
knick-knacks.
Connie Oliver is an interior designer from Winnipeg
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