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New directors to the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission say the concept of a producer-funded, farmer-controlled wheat breeding program deserves serious consideration. “We want to invest producers’ money the most efficient way we can to maximize their profitability (and) … we’re going to explore all avenues to do that,” said Glenn Tait, a farmer from Meota, Sask., who was elected to the SWDC board last month. “Farmers are just a small cog in the wheel..… They have very little discretionary power with respect to breeding programs …” SEE BREEDING PROGRAM, PAGE 2

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There has been a seismic shift in agronomic philosophy at the Canola Council of Canada. A group that once preached sticking to longer rotations now suggests that growing canola once every two years might not be a bad idea. “Our best wisdom is changing, and growers are leading the way,” the council said in a document outlining the science behind its new target of producing 26 million tonnes per year of the oilseed by 2025. “Growers have taught us that more intensive rotations can be managed sustainably and profitably in many soil zones and regions of the Prairies.” It is a significant departure for an association that in the past has warned growers against tightening their rotations.

“It is a bit of a surprise to me,” said Faye Dokken-Bouchard, a plant disease specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture. “It sounds like a bit of a shift.” She believes growers should be sticking with the previous recommendation of a one-in-four year rotation. “We still know the longer the rotation the better, just from a biological point of view,” said Dokken-Bouchard. “Definitely from a disease perspective, I still recommend that growers put the breaks in there as long as they can.” Alberta Agriculture crop specialist Harry Brook thinks the council may be resigned to the fact that growers have gone to a canola-wheat rotation regardless of what the experts tell them. “They’re probably bowing to the inevitability of human nature,” he said. Saskatchewan Agriculture data shows growers in northeastern crop

districts seed half of their arable land to canola every year, which indicates they have embraced a one-in-twoyear rotation. “What’s the point of recommending something that is basically being ignored,” said Brook. However, he takes issue with the claim that a one-in-two year rotation is sustainable. “When it comes to blackleg, one of the worst things you can do is have a two-year rotation because it’s the second year after canola that the crop residue has the highest spore load for further infection,” said Brook. If clubroot is in the area, the minimum rotation should be one canola crop every four years. Sclerotinia can also become a bigger problem for growers pushing rotations. Crop insurance data shows that consistently growing canola back-toback results in a 20 percent yield loss

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in the second year. Patti Miller, president of the canola council, said canola-on-canola is a bad idea, but the break between crops may not have to be as long as once thought. “The latest farm reported results indicate there is recovery of yield potential with just a one year break between canola crops,” she said. “A break of two years gives you higher yield, but the difference in that rotation is quite marginal.” She said the council no longer advocates a one-in-four rotation or any set rotation. The new strategy is to help individual growers make decisions on their farms based on factors such as environment, soil type, risk tolerance and willingness to adopt new technologies. SEE NEW RECOMMENDATIONS, PAGE 2

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New recommendations “There’s no one global recommendation. It’s about what’s right for an individual farmer,” said Miller. The council said intensive management practices can help growers mitigate the increased disease and insect pressure associated with tighter rotations. Brook said a canola-wheat rotation

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may be sustainable in the short term, but it is risky for the long-term health of the agriculture industry. “Is it sustainable into the future? Maybe, if you’re lucky for a little while. But I still think in the long term it is not a sustainable rotation,” he said.

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He said farmers must retain control of the research and the products that their money funds. “From what I understand of the candidates (that were elected), myself included, we favour public research … we favour farm-saved seed and we don’t want all of our production to go back to a contract,” said Danielson. “I think it’s fair to say that we wouldn’t mind having a look at that (a farmer controlled breeding program).” He said the federal government’s elimination of single-desk marketing has diminished farmer influence. He said the first slate of SWDC directors will help growers recapture some of that influence. “I really think that to some extent, government hasn’t really listened to farmers very well, and I am hoping that I can be part of a change in that,” he said. Other directors elected to the commission’s board of directors include former CWB director Rod Flaman of Edenwold, Sask., single desk supporter Bill Gehl of Regina, Ken Rosaasen of Saskatoon, Laura Reiter of Radisson, Sask., and Bill Rosher of Kindersley, Sask.

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“I hope to bring farmers into a greater position of power through their check-off money.” Tait was one of seven elected SWDC board members who took office after the commission’s inaugural annual general meeting Jan. 13 at CropSphere, held as part of Crop Production Week, which runs Jan. 11 - 18 in Saskatoon. “(A farmer controlled wheat breeding program) is absolutely possible,” he said. “If we can retain the value of farmers’ research, that would be great.” Beginning this year, the SWDC will be in charge of managing producer checkoff revenues collected on all spring wheat produced in the province. Producer levies of 52 cents per tonne are expected to generate $4 to $5 million per year. The money will be used to support wheat research that benefits Saskatchewan growers, including the development of new varieties. Dan Danielson, a Saskatoon producer who has been growing cereals for 30 years, said it is imperative that farmers’ investments benefit farmers and not big business.

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CROP WEEK | CANARYSEED

Seed later, lose yields with canaryseed New research | Canaryseed reacts differently to temperature changes than wheat, oats BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

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Preliminary research on canaryseed plant development indicates what researchers have long suspected: it responds differently to its environment than other cereal crops. “We want to understand how canaryseed grows because there is no benchmark data, period, anywhere,” said University of Saskatchewan Crop Development Centre breeder Pierre Hucl. He has suspected for some time that canaryseed responds to spring temperature, daylight hours and seeding date differently than wheat and oats. “The preliminary results do indicate that canaryseed does respond differently, particularly to seeding date,” said Hucl. Yield trials in Saskatoon in 2010 found a significant difference between seeding canaryseed during the first and last weeks of May. Average yields dropped 40 percent for the later seeded material compared to 18 percent for spring wheat. “In essence, over that 20-day period, roughly speaking, you’re losing two percent per day by delaying the seeding date,” said Hucl. “The plant probably wants to stay more vegetative than it should.” Growers tend to delay seeding canaryseed because it can tolerate more abuse at harvest time than most competing crops and still retain the grain.

However, the early results on the phenology research suggest that may not be a good strategy. A new line of glabrous, or hairless, canaryseed was registered this past November. CDC Calvi is a brownseeded variety that yields 28 percent higher than CDC Maria, the first line of hairless canola released in 2001. It is about 10 to 15 percent higher yielding that CDC Bastia and CDC Togo, two of the better hairless lines in the marketplace. It averaged 850 kilograms per acre over five sites in registration trials last year. Two other potential future varieties are C05041, a yellow-seeded hairless line, and C10022, a brown-seeded hairless line. Hucl told producers attending the canaryseed portion of Crop Development Week that breeder seed of C05041 was produced in 2009, but the variety has been shelved until North American approval is granted for human consumption of canaryseed. The variety yields 22 percent higher than CDC Maria. The third year of testing has been completed for C10022, and that variety is yielding 44 percent more than CDC Maria. “In order to achieve that yield, we’re letting maturity drift back a bit,” said Hucl. The average maturity was 93.8 days, which is nearly four days more than CDC Maria.

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Organic wheat commands premium prices over conventional BY MARY MACARTHUR CAMROSE BUREAU

Organic wheat is selling for 500 percent higher than conventional wheat and there is no indication it will drop soon. Jay Crandall, a grain commodity merchant with Wetaskiwin Co-op, said the little organic wheat that is available is selling into the milling market for $20 a bushel, or $735 per tonne. This year, organic feed wheat is selling for $16.50 per bu., or $610 a tonne, if it is available, compared to $585 a tonne last year. At the same time, conventional feed wheat is selling for $4 per bu., or $147 per tonne last year. “The spread is very extreme this year,” said Crandall, who finds organic wheat for his customers.

“The wheat market is very short.” Wheat is the main feed in organic poultry rations. Crandall said increases in organic oat and barley prices are not as extreme but show no sign of following conventional prices’ downward slide. Organic barley is selling for $8.50 per bu., or $390 per tonne, compared to $2.70 per bu., or $124 per tonne, for conventional barley. Organic oats are $6.50 per bu., or $420 per tonne, compared to $2.50 per bu., or $162 per tonne for conventional oats. “There are very extreme price differences this year,” said Crandall. The price of organic soybeans imported from the United States hasn’t dropped from last year, nor has organic flax cake. Crandall expects barley prices to

soften over the next few months when farmers start to sell their grain, but he believes wheat prices will stay high. He attributes the high price of wheat to two main factors: • Last year’s cold, wet spring made it almost impossible for organic farmers to plant wheat, forcing them to switch to shorter season crops. • Many farmers who still have wheat in their bins were reluctant to sell it before the end of the year because they want to spread out their income after high grain prices last year. Wade Hoculak, an organic farmer from Star, Alta., and president of the Alberta Organic Producers Association (AOPA), said he was ready to seed 300 to 400 acres of wheat last year, but the wet spring forced him to change his plans. Organic farmers missed their seeding window because they

needed to till their fields several times to control weeds, he added. “Not all organic producers are reaping the rewards,” he said. “$20 a bu. wheat is an anomaly. That typically isn’t going to last.” Hoculak added that the dwindling number of organic farmers will affect the amount of organic grain available in Alberta. AOPA has 90 to 95 members. “A lot of organic farmers are retiring,” he said. Crandall said organic wheat producers won’t sell him grain for $12 to $13 per bu., a price he thinks is fair. “No one is willing to sell at those prices.” Ron Hamilton of Sunworks Farms raises organic beef, chicken, pigs and laying hens near Armena. He is concerned what the high cost of feed will mean for his bottom line.

“It’s good for grain farmers,” said Hamilton, who paid $660 per tonne for 10 percent protein wheat for his last load of organic feed wheat. “The feed costs are almost to 50 percent of the cost of raising the animals.” Recent high prices for conventional grain enticed many organic producers to return to growing conventional crops with fewer rules and regulations. He said he has started to work with conventional farmers to grow organic grain on one or two quarters. He also works with conventional farmers to switch hay fields into organic grain production. Grain from that land can be sold as organic if the field has not had added fertilizer or pesticide for three years and the conventional farmer is mentored by an organic farmer.

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Ken Munro doesn’t believe central Alberta has more snow than normal this year. He thinks it’s a combination of early, frozen and wet snow that is collapsing barns like dominoes in that part of the province. The roofs of dairy barns, machinery sheds, grocery stores, cabins, airplane hangars, feed mills, horse shelters and wildlife sanctuaries have all collapsed under the weight of this winter’s snow. At Munro’s farm near Innisfail, Alta., two combines, a tandem truck and a swather are covered in a tangled mess of snow and broken roof trusses from his machinery shed, which was built in 1980. “It was in very good shape,” said Munro of his 48-foot clear span shed with two 20 foot lean-tos on either side. He believes the first wet snowfall of the season froze the snow to the roof, and no snow was able to slide off. Munro will hire a picker truck when the snow melts to pick pieces of the collapsed roof off his machinery. Then he will be able to assess the damage to the machinery underneath.

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“We’ve got a huge clean-up problem.” Munro said he thought about trying to remove some of the snow before the roof collapsed, but he was concerned about climbing on the building without the proper safety equipment. The machinery in the shed is covered by insurance, but the building is not. His insurance covers perils, except snow load. Munro believes snow damage is the same as last year’s floods in southern Alberta, and natural disaster assistance should be available. “It’s a natural disaster we thought we were covered for,” said Munro. Alberta agriculture minister Verlyn Olson said he doesn’t believe disaster assistance will be available, especially if insurance was an option. “In terms of disaster assistance, I really feel that would be a huge stretch,

certainly from the point of view of damage to buildings,” he said. “There is insurance for damage to buildings.” The roof of a full hog feeder barn at Wayne Sargeant’s farm near Rimbey collapsed in November and the roof of a machinery shed collapsed in January, all from too much snow. No animals were injured and only half the building is now being used. Sargeant said the snow didn’t seem greater than previous years, but the wind swirled the snow and the way it settled on the roof is what caused the problem. The machine shed contained his combine, swather, holiday trailer and other small items. Insurance covered the hog barn, which is now only half full and was built in 1994. Mostly the collapsed buildings mean extra work cleaning up and dealing with insurance companies. “We do have a lot of snow,” Sargeant said. “It’s good for snowmobiling, so I guess that’s a plus.” John Harms, chief executive officer of Westerner Park in Red Deer, said staff have been frantically clearing snow from around the buildings after a large fabric covered building partially collapsed from snow. Harms said the sheen on the eight-

year-old canvas became rough, and the snow couldn’t slide off easily. The piles of snow at the bottom of the building blocked other snow from sliding off. “The tents are all clear now.” Lacombe dair y farmer Albert Kamps had his fingers crossed against barn collapse as he waited for a professional roofing crew to remove the snow Jan. 14. “Farmers tend not to be good at a lot of things, but that doesn’t stop them from trying,” said Kamps of his roof clearing. “Sixteen feet (five metres) up is a long way if you were to fall.” The north side of his barns have about 10 centimetres of snow because of the wind whipping the snow around, while the south side has two to two and a half metres of snow. “It’s not a balanced load,” he said. It’s estimated that a dozen dairy barns in the region have collapsed over the past two months. Jan Slomp said he is watching the snow load carefully after his dairy barn collapsed three years ago. “It’s on my mind all the time. A lot of farmers out there, it is very worrisome.” Slomp cleaned off the snow during Christmas, and his dog now walks up the snow piles onto the roof.

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Seed treatments not an alternative to proper rotations BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, MAN. — Producers shouldn’t think they can cut corners on good agronomy by using fancy seed treatments, says a Manitoba soybean specialist. “Relying on the seed treatment is not (enough,)” Manitoba Agriculture’s Dennis Lange said in an interview at St. Jean Farm Days. “It has to be an all-encompassing

approach. If you have been growing soybeans every year for the last 10 years and you decide to use a seed treatment now to help protect against phytophthora in the spring, it’s probably not going to give you the results you are looking for.” Phytophthora root rot is a common soybean disease that doesn’t tend to affect canola. Prairie farmers aren’t too accustomed to dealing with the disease but are accustomed to hearing about seed treatments that can

protect soybean plants against it. However, Lange said that’s not an excuse to get sloppy with rotations and use a seed treatment as a magic bullet. They will help soybeans fend off phytophthora and other problems but won’t make plants immune to chronic situations. “Soybeans on soybeans on soybeans will make that problem worse,” said Lange, noting the upsurge in Manitoba soybean acreage that has pushed production to more than

one million acres. Lange said he knows about farmers who had pushed their rotations and thought they could buy themselves safety by using a seed treatment, which they hadn’t previously done. It didn’t work out. “They were surprised because it was the first year they treated and the first year they saw phytophthora root rot show up,” said Lange. Nothing replaces basic agronomic discipline, he added.

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ST. JE AN BAP TISTE, MAN. — “Shoot, shovel and shut up” is just as bad an approach for dealing with clubroot suspicions as it is with livestock deaths, says a Manitoba Agriculture canola production specialist. Farmers need to know the truth about what’s in their fields if they want to have a chance to fend off an Albertalike fate, Anastasia Kubinec told the recent St. Jean Farm Days meeting. “It may be out there. We need to start looking for it, identify it and then work with management.” Little clubroot has appeared in Manitoba, other than a handful of cases in 2005, 2011, 2012 and 2013 in canola crops. It has been sporadically seen for a century in the province, with incidents in the 1920s in rutabagas and in the 1980s in market gardens. However, the widespread outbreak in Alberta has alarmed farmers, who fear it could have a devastating impact on canola production. Environmental conditions suggest the dread disease could thrive in Manitoba conditions. Kubinec said Manitoba Agriculture extension workers will confidentially submit farmers’ suspicious crop samples to the free provincial laboratory that investigates disease, pest and weed samples. She said it’s important to quickly spot a clubroot problem because otherwise it can spread throughout a field. “When in doubt, bag and tag and send it in,” said Kubinec. Kubinec said farmers can do many things to minimize or eliminate the disease if they find it in their fields, from lengthening rotations to growing resistant varieties. However, that’s possible only if farmers know what they are dealing with.

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Slow grain movement continues to vex farmers More tonnes shipped than in 2012 | Railway performance and terminal efficiency are under scrutiny BY BRIAN CROSS SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Last fall’s record-breaking crop continues to cause transportation headaches for western Canadian farmers. Mark Dyck, director of logistics with CWB, said as much as seven million tonnes of wheat and durum produced in Western Canada will not make it to market this year because of supply chain constraints. “Basically, we think that carryout on all wheat is going to go up from five million tonnes to 12 million tonnes year over year,” Dyck said. “In other words, there’s seven million tonnes of wheat and durum that we will not be able to export because the system … can’t (handle) it. I think the grain companies could sell it. It’s just that I don’t think we can get it through the system.” CWB estimates that Canadian farmers grew 73 million tonnes of the six major crops plus peas and lentils in 2013-14, up from 53 million tonnes a year earlier.

A Canadian National Railway official says it is impossible to move the biggest grain crop in history in three months. | FILE PHOTO That means demand for rail capacity among Canada’s agricultural shippers has never been higher in Western Canada. Farmers have been critical of railway performance, but Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corp., said railway performance, at least in terms of grain car unloads on the West Coast,

is roughly on par with last year. Hemmes said grain volumes transported to west coast ports through the first 21 weeks of the 2013-14 crop year are actually up one percent from the same time last year. However, total grain and oilseed exports are down three percent from the same time last year, largely

because of a significant reduction in grain traffic through Thunder Bay. “Right now, everybody wants to move grain through the West Coast,” said Hemmes, whose company serves as the prairie grain transportation monitor. “Everybody is arbitraging freight, so it really puts the seaway route at a

significant disadvantage,” he said. “But on the West Coast, total car unloads are roughly where they were last year at this time.… Is that good or bad? I’m not going to say.” Many farmers are pointing to poor railway performance, suggesting they are doing a poor job of spotting rail cars, especially at facilities on less efficient branch lines. Dyck and Hemmes said railways are only one element. Efficiency at terminal facilities is also facing increased scrutiny. Dyck said the industry needs to look at upgrading loading systems so grain can be loaded onto ocean vessels more efficiently. He said the number of ships anchored on the West Coast waiting to be loaded with grain is unusually high. C a n a d i a n Na t i o n a l R a i l w a y spokesperson Mark Hallman said in an email that this year’s large crop and, more recently, extreme winter weather, has put pressure on all parts of the grain handling system. “The challenge of moving the crop is not a rail car capacity issue,” he said. “The issue is that western Canadian farmers have grown the biggest grain crop in history, and the supply chain, including country elevators, rail, and port terminals, cannot move a whole year’s crop in three months,” Hallman said.

WEYBURN INLAND TERMINAL | SALE PROCESS

Info wanted on WIT deal BY BRIAN CROSS SASKATOON NEWSROOM

The potential sale of Weyburn Inland Terminal has sparked concern among producers and shareholders who say the process aimed at selling the farmer-controlled grain handling facility is flawed. The group is demanding that the Weyburn, Sask., terminal’s board of directors hold a shareholder information meeting before WIT’s annual general meeting to offer details of the potential sale and explain the reasons behind it. It says shareholders and farmer customers who deliver grain to the terminal have been offered little information about the sale, which has fueled speculation. WIT said in a Dec. 13 news release that the company’s board of directors had decided to “pursue expressions of interest regarding the potential sale of some or all of the company.” The same day, WIT announced that two of its board members — Allan Richards and Dale Mainil — had resigned from the board, citing fundamental disagreement with the board’s decision to explore a potential sale. A letter was also circulated to WIT shareholders informing them of the potential sale, but concerned shareholders say it contained no information about reasons for the sale. “We think a sale is a huge mistake,” said a committee of concerned producers and investors. “We feel that there should be a conversation to discuss the how and why of a potential sale.”

According to its news release, WIT has received several nonbinding expressions of interest from parties interested in buying the company. The board has since decided to investigate opportunities to sell all or part of the company, whose assets include a 105,000 tonne grain terminal, crop input retail operations, a specialty crop processing company near Sedley, Sask., and a Weyburn based ethanol plant, NorAmera BioEnergy Corp. WIT officials said they are negotiating a potential deal but there is no firm timetable for an agreement. Company officials have said some shareholders have expressed concerns about their shares’ lack of liquidity on the over-the-counter market. The company has 5.5 million shares outstanding. WIT shares were trading recently at about $13, giving the company a market capitalization of $70 million. In the nine months ending Sept. 30, 2013, WIT posted earnings of $1.6 million, compared with $1.14 million for the same period last year. Dale Cugnet, a Weyburn area farmer who is part of the concerned shareholders group, said the ethanol plant has been a drain on the company’s bottom line and on shareholders’ equity. “(But) there are better ways to address that problem than to just sell the whole company and take the money and run,” he said. “The ethanol plant investment was a huge mistake, but if WIT sorts this out and returns and sticks to its core businesses, we feel its best days are still to come.”

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Huge new goals set for Cinderella crop 26 million tonnes by 2025 | Production goals might be easy compared to market and transportation issues BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

The Canola Council of Canada says the industry faces a “formidable” challenge meeting its new production target, but others consider the goal attainable. The council’s new objective is to produce 26 million tonnes of canola by 2025, up from 18 million tonnes in 2013. “That’s a bold target, no doubt about it,” said council chair Terry Youzwa. “But we believe it can be done and it can be done responsibly and sustainably.” The new target is expected to be met primarily by boosting yields. The “Keep It Coming” strategy calls for an average yield of 52 bushels per acre, up from 40 in 2013. “As a canola grower myself I’m convinced we can achieve 52 bushels per acre and that’s the key, it’s a yield target,” said Youzwa. Maurice Delage, a farmer from Indian Head, Sask., and one of the people responsible for developing Liberty Link canola, said few believed the canola industry could meet its 2015 objective of 15 million tonnes of production when it was announced in 2007. That target was met two years ahead of schedule with 2013’s bumper crop. Delage isn’t as skeptical about meeting the 2025 target of 52 bu. per acre. “It’s certainly achievable and I wouldn’t be surprised if we exceed that,” he said. He predicts top growers will consistently produce 70 to 80 bu. an acre crops in 10 to 20 years. “That’s where the genetics will be,” he said. Those yields will be on the most productive land but a countrywide average of 52 bu. per acre is feasible, he said. Saskatchewan oilseed specialist Venkata Vakulabharanam said the target meshes with the province’s

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2020 goals for agriculture. “We are in line with what they are thinking and we see that is possible with the genetics that we have,” he said. A couple of hours after the targets were announced, the council sent its Canola Watch email publication that appeared to suggest the 52 bu. per acre target may be conservative. “Genetic gain alone could contribute 10 bu. per acre to the current 40 bu. per acre average achieved in 2013. Agronomy and management practices could contribute another 10 bu. per acre,” said the publication. Council president Patti Miller said the exact target is not as important as the broader message. “That’s not the real message. The

message is we’re talking about a significant increase,” she said. The yield increase is expected to be necessary to meet rising global demand for vegetable oil. The council commissioned a report that predicts global demand for vegetable oil will rise to 250 million tonnes by 2025, up from 150 million tonnes in 2015. “The world is telling Canada’s canola industry to keep it coming,” said Youzwa. “We know that if we don’t rise to the occasion in a responsible, sustainable manner our competitors will.” The forecast increase in vegetable oil demand is 66 percent, compared to the council’s prediction for a 44 percent increase in canola production.

While that might suggest supply won’t keep pace with demand, that is not the case. Canadian canola doesn’t compete in many world vegetable oil markets, such as South America, Africa and portions of Russia and the Middle East, said Bruce Jowett, vice-president of market development with the council. The goal is to increase canola’s market share by one percent per year through 2025 in the four key markets China, Japan, Mexico and the United States, he said. Those four markets consume 94 percent of Canada’s seed, meal and oil exports. Another goal is to decrease the reliance on those four markets by growing demand in secondary markets to 20 percent of the

overall pie. Other targets include 12 million tonnes of seed exports, 14 million tonnes of domestic crush and onethird of total acres devoted to high oleic and other specialty oil varieties. Larry Weber, an analyst with Weber Commodities, said a goal for increasing exports by 3.5 million tonnes must also include a transportation plan for how that crop is going to make it to the West Coast. “If you can’t get it there, why grow it? All we’re doing is shooting ourself in the foot,” he said. He also wonders how reasonable it is to expect an additional 6.5 million tonnes of seed will be crushed by 2025. “We can’t even process what we’ve got now. Crushers this week are running at 78 percent capacity and they’re running 12 percent below where they were last year with a bigger crop,” said Weber. He was also annoyed by talk about the health benefits of canola at a time when canola oil is trading at significant discount to soybean oil. Weber wonders how growers are benefitting from canola’s healthy attributes. The council is forecasting 22 million acres of canola by 2025, up 10 percent from last year’s 20 million acres. Weber questions where those acres will come from given the surging popularity of soybeans in Western Canada. Seed technology companies expect up to 10 million acres of corn and several million acres of soybeans will be grown in Western Canada by 2025. Miller said markets will dictate what crops get planted. “We figure we’re going to continue to be a profitable choice for farmers,” she said. No goals were set for oil content. The 2015 goal was for 45 percent content. That target was achieved in 2013. “When you start getting much beyond 45 you’re going to start to trade off some challenges with managing the crop,” said Miller.

CROPS | MARKETING

Crop prices falling back in line with other commodities BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, Man. — Farmers should get ready to take any good price they see this year, says Brad Magnusson, who advises credit unions in Manitoba. The global underpinnings for strong commodity prices are vanish-

ing, he said in an interview during St. Jean Farm Days Jan. 8. “That trend (of weak prices) isn’t just in grain commodities,” he said. “We have ended the 10 year (bullish commodity) cycle, and we’ve started to come down the backside of the cycle.” Magnusson said ample supplies in the Northern Hemisphere and the

prospect of large South American harvest crops are pushing down crop prices. However, supply isn’t the only factor behind the crop price weakness. He said the 2012 drought in the U.S. Midwest broke crop prices away from the rest of the commodity complex which was already weakening. As the crop shortages disappeared

with the 2013 harvest, crop commodities realigned with the rest of the commodity sector. If other parts of the commodity sector weaken further, it should be reflected in crop prices. Magnusson said he wouldn’t be surprised to see oil prices in the mid-$70s per barrel this year, which won’t help oilseed or cereal grain prices, both of which are

partially valued as energy crops. The big commodity rally in the mid2000s was partly triggered by investors fleeing the faltering stock markets as the financial crisis took hold. “People looked to opportunities in commodities, and that raised the commodities,” said Magnusson. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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MARKETING | FUTURES PRICES

Shortages seen despite bumper crop Railway congestion | Extreme price spreads are the result of supply and demand challenges BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

For once, outrageous basis levels are nailing farmers and grain companies at the same time. Prairie farmers are paying big negative basis levels when they deliver grain to elevators, but some of those companies are having to pay huge positive basis levels to buy spring wheat for customers that they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t supply. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy,â&#x20AC;? Austin Damiani, a trader with Frontier Futures in Minneapolis, said about plus basis levels in the Minneapolis area, which at time have reached $4 per bushel recently. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re big, big premiums.â&#x20AC;? Farmers are used to receiving a discount to futures prices when they sell to an elevator, but not by the amount they are today. Millers also have to pay basis to futures to get crop where they want it, usually paying plus basis of a few dozen cents on most purchases.

However, the spreads have now shot wide in both directions because of the clogged railway system. Grain companies canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deliver wheat so are being forced to pay millers whatever it takes to buy the needed supply in the millersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; local U.S. cash market, sometimes taking the price to more than $10 per bushel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The logistical backlog on the CP (Canadian Pacific Railway) and the BN (Burlington Northern) has reached such an extreme that the grain elevators in the country that forward sold wheat to millers here in the U.S., theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been essentially unable to get the rail cars to ship that wheat, so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in default of their contracts and the millers have to cover it at the shipperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expense in the spot market,â&#x20AC;? said Damiani. Bruce Burnett of CWB said the situation is a stark example of the overburdened state of the grain handling system. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing some mills having to purchase wheat $2 to $4 a bushel over

a very high protein spring wheat (futures contract price) because they just quite frankly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have it nearby,â&#x20AC;? said Burnett. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Probably itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sitting on a rail track somewhere in western North Dakota.â&#x20AC;? Burnett and Damiani said grain companies that made the forward sales assumed they could comfortably meet their obligations because they had the crop on the Prairies and arrangements for rail service. However, they were caught short when the railways couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide enough cars. These sorts of basis extremes and spreads happen when there is a block between the supplies and demand of a crop. Farmers have already seen U.S. Midwest oat prices soar above the prairie cash market prices because ample supplies of prairie oats canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reach the demand. Damiani said the situation has worsened because of the revolutionary growth of the oil industry in places such as North Dakota, which

Rail car shortages are creating extreme basis at opposite ends of supply chain. | FILE PHOTO

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GRAIN | STOCKS

USDA corn estimate catches market off guard WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; U.S. corn stocks were below expectations in December, and 2013-14 carryout will be smaller than expected, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Jan. 10. The news rallied corn futures. The USDA expects that 1.631 billion bushels of corn will remain on hand when the new U.S. crop is ready for harvest by late summer, roughly double the drought-affected level of a year ago but down from 1.792 billion bu. projected in December. The report caught many traders leaning the wrong way after the market set contract lows just one day earlier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The big buffer, the big cushion that we had, is not as big as we had previously thought,â&#x20AC;? said Don Roose, an analyst at U.S. Commodities. The report trimmed the size of the

is using badly needed rail capacity in the heart of prairie farm country. Now that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big Canadian crop to move as well as lots of oil traffic, the system is over-stretched. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen a huge investment by the rail companies in the oil industry and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had relatively low grain supplies in the last five years, and now we have big crops and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re finding there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t capacity to ship this stuff,â&#x20AC;? said Damiani. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re competing with an oil industry that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there five years ago.â&#x20AC;?

CORN YIELDS WERE DOWN FROM NOVEMBER ESTIMATE AT

158.8 BU. PER ACRE U.S. corn crop, confounding the marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent expectation that big crops only get bigger. Corn yields of 158.8 bu. per acre were down from 160.4 bu. estimated in November and also lower than the trade forecast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whisper going in here was the USDA could come up with a 163 to 164 (bu. per acre corn yield). The fact that it went down was particularly surprising to a lot of the traders,â&#x20AC;? said

Jim Gerlach of A/C Trading. Following the report, Chicago corn futures closed up almost five percent, advancing two percent on the week. Soybeans pared gains to rise .6 percent and wheat was down almost three percent at new contract lows as traders focused on rising U.S. and world stockpiles. The USDA also found that recent falling prices discouraged U.S. farmers from planting wheat. Total winter wheat seeded area for 2014 was down three percent from a year ago at 41.9 million acres, with seedings of hard red winter wheat up and soft red winter wheat down sharply. USDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s battery of reports carried few surprises for soybeans, where projected 2013-14 U.S. ending stocks was unchanged. However, Brazilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crop was raised again.

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COMMODITY VALUES WEAKENING

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now the U.S., and to a small degree Europe, are coming out of that and that money is going back, coming out of the big commodities and into things like real estate and stocks.â&#x20AC;? Given general commodity weakness, farmers need to diligently price and hedge their old and new crops this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be in an excess supply situation, we need to be taking every opportunity to look at markets on a daily basis and really look for small opportunities whenever prices rally to make some sales and price into next year,â&#x20AC;? said Magnusson. Farmers also need to be more careful with the other side of the profitability equation, which wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as big a concern in the bull market. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Watch your costs,â&#x20AC;? said Magnusson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We expect this (bearish) trend to continue for the foreseeable future, one, two, three years. Those

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PRICE OUTLOOK | BASIS LEVELS

High grain ending stocks will keep basis wide BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, Man. — Farmers who are waiting for poor prairie basis levels to make significant improvements might be waiting a long time, says CWB analyst Bruce Burnett. Gaping basis levels might last through 2014-15 because the crop surplus isn’t going away any time soon. “If we produce an average or reasonable-sized crop (in 2014), we’re still going to be dealing with some fairly high inventory levels,” Burnett told St. Jean Farm Days Jan. 9. “We produced a crop-and-a-half that was approximately 20 million tonnes higher and we’re going to bite

into it from an export side by about three million tonnes.” Burnett said 2013-14 ending stocks will be the largest since 1978-79 and 2014-15 ending stocks could be the second largest if anything like a normal crop is produced this year. It would force the logistics system to move much more than it’s designed for, with no need for elevators to entice grain sales from farmers. Burnett said the prairie grain handling system from the start of the crop year until Christmas moved 1.2 million tonnes more than it did in the same period last year. If that pace continues, by the end of the crop year the system is expected to exceed last year’s movement by three to 3.5 million tonnes. That won’t put much of a dent in the

extra 20 million tonnes that were produced, so ending stocks will soar and will have to be transported in 2014-15. It’s why he recommends farmers lock in 2014-15 delivery opportunities, even with terrible basis levels. “Some of the things you’re used to … are going to change dramatically. Especially if you have winter wheat and you think it’s going to be hauled directly off the combine this year. Unless you have it booked already, you’re probably not going to have that happen,” said Burnett. “Start getting some logistics capacity by booking some slots out there. You might not like the prices, but generally, unless we get a weather event happening here that’s going to hurt some production somewhere, that’s where we’re headed.”

Grain movement is up a little from last crop year but not enough to prevent a huge increase in ending stocks and wide basis levels continuing into 2014-15. | FILE PHOTO

CANADIAN CURRENCY | EXPECTATIONS

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he days of the Canadian dollar at par w ith the Amer ican greenback are over for now. Many banks forecast a loonie in the low 90 cents US for this year. It is not a bad thing for the exportoriented part of Canada’s agricultural sector because a weak loonie can stimulate exports and support onfarm prices for grain and livestock. However, the positive effect of the weak loonie is mostly lost with the grain transportation system apparently at capacity and falling well short of demand this year. Why did the loonie depreciate by 6.6 percent against the U.S. dollar last year? Canada’s economy outperformed its competitors in the Group of Eight when the recession hit in 2008. However, it is now struggling compared to the U.S., which appears set for solid economic gains this year. The struggle was amply illustrated last week when Statistics Canada reported that the economy shed almost 46,000 jobs in December instead of posting a modest gain of 14,000 as analysts had expected. Canada’s trade deficit data released last week also showed weaker than expected performance. As well, inflation remains well below the Bank of Canada’s target. This adds to the expectation that the central bank will keep its interest rate at one percent, where it has been since 2010. A few observers even speculate that the bank may be forced to lower its interest rate if economic statistics get worse. This is in stark contrast to the United States, where improving economic measurements caused the Federal Reserve to begin trimming its stimulus program, although a disappoint-

ing December jobs report also creates questions about how quickly the U.S. central bank will act. As interest bearing investments start to pay more in the United States than in Canada, the loonie will weaken against the greenback. This situation is widespread, with the euro, yen, pound and Australian dollar weakening as the U.S. economy gathers strength. Another factor working against the Canadian dollar is falling crude oil prices and America’s move toward energy self sufficiency. Fewer American dollars will flow into Canada to pay for our oil, which hurts the trade balance and weakens the loonie. The major Canadian commercial banks expect hard times for the loonie this year.

MOST BANKS SEE THE LOONIE IN THE LOW 90s THIS YEAR BMO expects the dollar to inch toward 90 cents. ScotiaBank sees the Canadian dollar trading at 92.5 to 93.5 cents through 2014 and holding around 93.5 cents in 2015. CIBC sees the loonie falling to about 90 cents early this year but then staging a modest recovery. The Royal Bank has the most negative outlook of the major banks. It sees the loonie losing ground through this year to 91.7 cents US by the fourth quarter and further deterioration in 2015, falling to 87 cents by the fourth quarter. Most analysts believe the weaker loonie and the strengthening U.S. economy will stimulate job creation and exports here, eventually pulling Canada’s economy out of its funk. However, Ontario’s battered manufacturing sector might take a long time to heal. With more robust Canadian growth in 2015, the loonie should climb back into the mid 90s in 2015. Follow D’Arce McMillan on Twitter @darcemcmillan.

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CANFAX REPORT NEW FED RECORDS More price records for fed cattle and beef fell last week as the extreme tight supply pushed markets higher. Fed steers averaged $133.64 per hundredweight, up $3.08. Heifers averaged $132.50. Dressed prices were around $227 per cwt. late in the week. Longer fed cattle available for immediate delivery fetched premium prices. Weighted average steer prices were a little more than $17 per cwt. higher than the same week last year. Weekly sales volume rose 33 percent to 9,189 head, but that was down 23 percent from the same time last year.The Alberta cash-to-futures basis was steady at -$14.37. Weekly western Canadian fed slaughter for the week ending Jan. 4 rose 16 percent to 20,490 head.

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Weekly fed cattle exports in the holiday week to Dec. 28 were 3,544 head, down 42 percent from the previous week. Feedlots marketed cattle early and the cold weather slowed weight gain. Record high live cattle prices have pressured retail beef prices higher and consumers might head to cheaper competing meats. Fed cattle prices typically rise during the first quarter.

ing through auction forced Canadian packers to push bids higher. Cow prices were up $6-$7 on a live basis compared to late December. D1, D2 cows ranged $70-$85 to average $79.50, and D3s ranged $65$76 to average $70.83. Rail grade cows ranged $157-$162. Non-fed prices have tended to rise into mid-February in recent years.

COW PRICES RECOVER

The feeder cattle market was lightly tested, but demand was brisk for all classes of cattle. Steers strengthened $3-$9 while heifers climbed $1-$5, compared to the last week in December. Demand for bunk replacements remains especially strong as 800 pound and heavier steers established new record highs last week.

Packers worked through most of their holiday inventory. Western Canadian D1, D2 cow prices were at a $16 discount to U.S. utility cows just before the holidays, the largest discount since February 2009. Last week, firm U.S. demand and light volumes of non-fed cattle trad-

HEAVY STEERS POST RECORD

Western Canadian feeder cattle prices could not be established last week because volumes were too light. The weekly Alberta auction volume was 6,498 head, down 40 percent from the same week last year. Canadian feeder exports to the United States for the year to Dec. 28 totalled 315,628 head, up 134 percent from 2012. The Canadian dollar is trading at the lowest level since September 2009 and feeder cattle futures are trading near contract highs, which could result in some pricing opportunity. Producers might consider looking at forward contracting, Cattle Price Insurance Program coverage or option markets. Short keep feeders are trading at or near record highs, so look for calf and light stocker prices to rise. Bred cows ranged $1,000-$1,350.

BEEF SETS RECORDS U.S. Choice rose $11.50 to a record $212.05 US per cwt. and Select was up $13 at $209.05. Select is now $13.05 above the last peak of $196 seen in March 2013. Weekly Canadian cut-out values to Dec. 27 rose with AAA up $3.83 Cdn per cwt. and AA up $1.64. Last year’s AAA cutout averaged four percent higher than 2012 at $195.16 per cwt., while the AA cutout was up three percent at $188.88. This cattle market information is selected from the weekly report from Canfax, a division of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association. More market information, analysis and statistics are available by becoming a Canfax subscriber by calling 403275-5110 or at www.canfax.ca.

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HOGS STEADY Bitter cold early last week interrupted hog transport, but packers were not ready to raise bids because of poor profit margins. Iowa-southern Minnesota hogs delivered were $59 US per hundredweight Jan. 10, steady with Jan. 3. The average live weight of barrows and gilts in Iowa-Minnesota was 282.9 pounds, up .6 lb. from a week earlier and up 6.6 lb. from a year ago. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s January report predicted that the U.S. will produce 1.7 percent more pork, three percent more chicken and 5.4 percent less beef this year than last year. The estimated pork cut-out value was $84.05 Jan. 10, up from $82.79 Jan. 3. Estimated weekly U.S. slaughter to Jan. 11 was 2.1 million, up from 1.99 million in the previous week. Slaughter was 2.27 million last year in the same week.

BISON STEADY The Canadian Bison Association said Grade A bulls in the desirable weight range reached as high as $3.70 Cdn per pound hot hanging weight. Grade A heifers sold for up to $3.55. Animals outside the desirable buyer specifications may be discounted.

SHEEP Beaver Hill Auction in Tofield, Alta., reported 294 sheep and 18 goats sold Jan. 6. Wool lambs lighter than 70 lb. were $125-$164 per cwt., 70-85 lb. were $140-$159, 86-105 lb. were $139-$152 and 106 lb. and heavier were $130$138. Wool rams were $65-$85 per cwt. Cull ewes were $47-$95. Hair lambs lighter than 70 lb. were $115-$149 per cwt., 70-85 lb. were $130-$155, 86-105 lb. were $128-$146 and 106 lb. and heavier were $128$135. Hair rams were $60-$80 per cwt. Cull ewes were $45-$75. Good kid goats lighter than 50 lb. were $160-$205. Those heavier than 50 lb. were $177.50-$227.50 per cwt. Nannies were $45-$65 per cwt. Billies were $85-$110. Ontario Stockyards Inc. reported 1,568 sheep and lambs and 12 goats traded Jan. 6. All classes of lambs sold actively with prices $10-$15 cwt. higher. Sheep and mature goats sold steady. No kid goats on offer.

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CRAIG’S VIEW

Monitoring effectiveness of food inspection essential

his country’s cattle industry should be in an upbeat mood and ready to expand, considering lower feed grain prices, a small cattle herd, record strong beef prices, a falling Canadian dollar and new trade agreements. However, that is not the case yet, and although economics will ultimately determine the path of Canada’s beef industry, government can help by providing the right policy environment and efficient and effective inspection services. The Canadian breeding cow herd is already the smallest since the early 1990s. The cow cull rate was 15 percent last year, indicating continued liquidation. The key reason for lagging herd rebuilding optimism is the country-of-origin labelling law in the United States, which limits access to Canadian fed cattle. This makes Canadian cattle prices lower than what they should be relative to American prices. However, Canadian cow-calf producers might also be exhausted and perhaps a bit depressed, which is a factor that is harder to quantify. The industry had once ridden a wave of optimism and herd expansion sparked by the end of the Crow Benefit and a weak Canadian dollar, but it has since been staggered by a series of punches. First, BSE closed access to world markets, and then COOL limited access to the U.S., high feed costs sapped profits, the loonie rose to parity and last year a major food safety issue occurred at a major Alberta packing plant. The result is not only a smaller herd but also a producer population that is older than the norm in agriculture, has faced financial hardship and might need time and mounting profitability to build confidence and begin expansion. However, producers and other industry players are examining their strengths and weaknesses to reorient for success. The recently released Straw Man Feed Industry Strategy was “based on the belief that there is a window of opportunity to propel the beef industry in Canada to a new era of prosperity if the industry is pre-

pared to work together to seize it.” It is on the right track with its focus on marshaling and co-ordinating information, performance measurements, research, marketing and communications within the industry to meet the needs and desires of consumers. However, two key issues are outside the direct control of the industry — COOL and the Canadian food inspection system. Here the federal government takes the lead position. It has shown a commitment to persuading the U.S. government to end COOL. The tools it has through the World Trade Agreement are frustratingly slow, but it has posted progress. The joint government-industry effort to illuminate how bad COOL is for the U.S. is also showing results as more American groups formerly in favour of the law now shift against it. Less praiseworthy is the government’s recent record on meat inspection and food safety. An independent panel and the federal auditor general investigated the former XL Foods E. coli contamination incident, which sickened 18 people, and found weaknesses in Canada’s food inspection system. An American audit released last week gave the Canadian Food Inspection Agency an uninspiring “adequate” rating, the minimum grade that still allows a country to export to the U.S. To address shortcomings, the federal government late last year transferred responsibility for the CFIA to health from agriculture. It also announced initiatives to improve oversight and penalize safety violations. The government must closely monitor these changes to ensure they provide the desired result. Canada’s beef producers will eventually cast off their funk and start rebuilding. However, they rely on their government to uphold its role in delivering a beef product that consumers at home and abroad can trust for safety. Bruce Dyck, Terry Fries, Barb Glen, D’Arce McMillan and Joanne Paulson collaborate in the writing of Western Producer editorials.

ST. JEAN FARM DAYS | ADVICE

We expect this (bearish) trend to continue for the foreseeable future, one, two, three years. Those cost structures are going to be very important. How much are we paying for land? How much are we paying for fertilizer?... These are all going to be key components to being successful over the next few years.

We have to start making decisions based on longer-term averages…. I really want to get people using planning and evaluation tools to make planned decisions, not just paying what they think is fair market value. We call (the going market price) fair market value for land, but fair market value is basically whoever pays the most.

BRAD MAGNUSSON

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DAIRY INDUSTRY | CANADIAN PROTECTIONS

Dairy needs national rules to show ag sector’s international commitment NATIONAL VIEW

BARRY WILSON

nce upon a time — well, not so long ago actually — buttercoloured margarine was contraband in Eastern Canada. When Newfoundland negotiated its way into Canada in 1949, a key clause was that it be able to continue creating butter-coloured margarine. The province had a small dairy industry and only the rich could afford to import butter. In the rest of

Canada, the dairy lobby had convinced governments that buttercoloured margarine should be banned. Newfoundland would not become the 10th province without a margarine exemption. “It was a big question,” Jack Pickersgill, chief negotiator of Newfoundland’s entry into Canada, once said. “There would have been no union unless they were given a sort of distinct society on margarine.” Of course, with one province able to produce oil-based dairy substitutes, there were illegal importers and nefarious ways to get oil-based products into dair y monopoly country. There were stories of margarine in hub caps and … well, we all know how smuggled goods pass

through customs. Fast-forward to 2014. While not as draconian, those forms of dairyprotectionist policies still exist. Last week, Saskatchewan and other western oilseed-producing provinces were at a federal-provincial trade tribunal in Quebec City arguing that Quebec’s ban on dairy-vegetable mixes are illegal. Several years ago, it won the case against Ontario rules restricting “dairy substitutes.” “I expect we will win this as well, but it remains a barrier,” said Vegetable Oil Industry of Canada president Sean McPhee. “It really is a throwback to a time when the dairy industry was much more powerful.” If the Quebec barriers fall, then only New Brunswick will retain rules

against “dairy substitutes.” Back in the day — the 1960s actually — margarine was sold as a block of white lard with a yellow bulb that could be worked into the lard to make it look like butter. Since then, there have been upgrades, improvements and health studies on the benefits of vegetable oil products. “There really are some outliers on this issue,” said McPhee. “The health evidence is in. The issue really is the dairy lobby and its political power.” Presumably, the judgment from the trade tribunal, promised by the end of March, will support consumer choice. In fact, the Quebec argument last week was less about defence of the dairy industry and more about label-

ling and consumer choice. Really though, it is about one of the last redoubts in defence of ultimate dairy protectionism. Liberal and Conservatives governments have been resolute in defending the dairy industry from international challenge. Defending a province from the threat of dairy products mixed with healthy oil is another issue. “This really is about protecting the protected,” said McPhee. “If we are to compete internationally, we need to have a national market.” He said the Quebec market is not a significant new market for oilseed producers. “But we need to show the world that we have a national market if we want access to theirs.” That sounds reasonable.

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TOUGHING IT OUT | FLU, WEATHER

Wheat: part of our past, key to our future

Dealing with the shivers, inside and out

BY STEPHEN MORGAN JONES

heat has been getting a lot of media coverage these days, and rightly so. Woven into the fabric of our nation’s history, the crop generates $6 billion in export sales and $6 billion in farmgate receipts. As part of a comprehensive grain modernization agenda, the federal government has been creating the conditions to unlock wheat’s potential through marketing freedom, reforms to the Canadian Grain Commission and variety registration. As well, it recently introduced Bill C-18, which will bring plant breeders’ rights legislation in line with that of our competitors and foster increased innovation in the industry. There’s a perception I’ve seen in the media that our commitment to wheat innovation is slipping. Nothing could be further from the truth. Government remains by far the biggest player in wheat research, contributing 75 percent of financial and human resources. Agriculture Canada’s commitment to wheat breeding research remains strong while it brings in involvement and investment from other partners. Under Growing Forward 2, we’ve increased our investment in the wheat research cluster from $8 million to $12 million for a total of $25 million with industry investment. Led by industry, the wheat cluster will develop varieties in all classes that have higher yield and quality so

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JOANNE PAULSON, EDITOR

An Agriculture Canada official says the government has increased funding in wheat breeding research and has formed collaborative initiatives with industry players to stay competitive. | FILE PHOTO that growers can capture premium value on markets both at home and around the world. Another excellent collaborative initiative is the $97 million Canadian Wheat Strategic Alliance, which b r i n g s t o g e t h e r t h e Na t i o n a l Research Council, Agriculture Canada, the University of Saskatchewan and the province of Saskatchewan. Ensuring that farmers continue to have the latest tools at their disposal will take greater emphasis on publicprivate collaboration and value chain partnerships. Our competitors are well on their way; we need to get out of the gate. The collaborative approach allows the public and private sectors to play to their strengths, with the private

sector focusing on near-market trait and variety development, testing, evaluation and accelerated variety release. Agriculture Canada will continue to do variety research and develop germplasm, focusing on long-term research with broader applicability for the sector in areas such as disease and pest resistance. A good example is the recent discovery by our scientists of three genes resistant to Ug99, a potentially devastating wheat stem rust. Discoveries coming out of a $13 million investment boost in 2009 will protect farmers’ livelihoods and food security, and an additional $1.26 million under Growing Forward 2 will build on this work.

A revitalized wheat industry, as part of government’s overall modernization of the Canadian grain sector, will yield a rich harvest for Canada’s economy and global food security. It will help our industry meet global demand, it will make wheat more than just a rotational crop, it will secure long-term sustainability of the sector and it will propel jobs and growth through new value-added investments. Wheat is an integral part of our past, and it will help drive a bright future for Canadian agriculture. Stephen Morgan Jones is director general prairie/boreal plain ecozone, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

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AGRICULTURE OUTLOOK | CROP INSURANCE, EQUIPMENT SALES

Grain price drop will have many consequences HURSH ON AG

KEVIN HURSH

oftening grain prices and prospects for a massive carryover will have wide-ranging ramifications, some of which are not yet obvious. Crop insurance coverage will be down dramatically when details of this year’s programs are announced in the weeks ahead. Governments sometimes like to take credit for improving per acre coverage levels, even when it’s actually due to higher insured prices based on what’s happening in the marketplace. Expect governments to make it clear that dropping coverage levels are not their fault. Per bushel crop insurance price

levels in Saskatchewan last year had feed barley at $4.25, canola at $12.36, field peas at $7.43 and hard red spring wheat at $6.80. Expect 2014 insured prices to be down 20 to 30 percent on most of the major crops, which will drop coverage levels by a corresponding amount. Fortunately, premiums will also be down. Sales of new farm equipment will take a hit this year and not just because of lower grain prices. A number of factors are at play. For one thing, sales have been amazingly strong for the past several years, so much of the pent up demand has been satisfied. As well, new equipment is going to be more expensive. The cost of equipment increases by a corresponding amount as the Canadian dollars fades toward the 90 cent level. On top of that, interim Tier 4 emission standards and now the final Tier 4 emission standards have added significant costs to new non-road diesel engines. New equipment sales will slow, but

ell, so much for full protection from the flu shot. I behaved myself, looking into a busy winter season, and hustled down to my doctor’s office for a flu shot in early November. Until last week, I was merrily sailing through the polar vortex in the arrogant thinking that I would not get sick. So there. Wham. I looked in the mirror at work on Wednesday morning and did not recognize myself. Puffy bloodshot eyes, grey skin and the whole ugly scene was gently whirling around. What on earth was the matter with me? The answer came the following day, when the fever hit. I was shaking so hard it was difficult to drink from a glass. I wore pajamas, a sweatshirt, an extremely thick fleece robe and socks, covered up with two thick blankets, and was still freezing. How sick would I be if I didn’t get that shot? Horrible to contemplate. This flu is nasty, and considering how widespread it is, it makes you wonder if it has mutated a bit from the original strain. (Is that a medically intelligent comment?) Take care out there.

don’t expect the same trend on new grain bins and grain bagging equipment. Millions of tonnes of grain will remain on western Canadian farms w h e n t h i s y e a r ’s ha r v e s t ro l l s around. It will create demand for additional storage, even if prices fail to improve. However, producers will be less inclined to experiment with new crop inputs this year. There may not be much of a cut in nitrogen and phosphate use, but expect fewer micronutrients and fungicide applications. Many producers are looking for cropping alternatives. It’s hard to get excited about growing more of the same crops that you’ve been unable or unwilling to move. Unfortunately, the search for something more profitable raises the risk of overproduction in many of the minor acreage crops. There’s no guarantee that comparatively good prices for green peas or yellow mustard will remain that way in the fall. Contracting some of the expected production at a price you’re happy

with can help mitigate the risk, but remember that the price on the noncontracted portion might still be disappointing. What will happen with cash rental rates and with the price of land? Both are ultimately linked to grain prices and farm income levels, but there tends to be a time lag, particularly with land prices. Producers have been hungry to rent and buy more land. Many farms have had their best years ever and have strong cash reserves. Land prices may start to plateau this year, but don’t expect any widespread softening in the foreseeable future. On the other hand, it may not take long before signs of financial distress start to appear. Some highly leveraged operations could be forced to downsize or even leave the industry. Not all of the aggressive expansion plans included a contingency for canola under $9, wheat under $5 and limited sales opportunities. Kevin Hursh is an agricultural journalist, consultant and farmer. He can be reached by e-mail at kevin@hursh.ca.

Misery loves company, as the saying goes. While Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and to a briefer extent Alberta, were enduring endless days of brutally cold weather, our neighbours to the south, who are much less accustomed to it, were also struggling with the details of working and living in freezing conditions. So, Kathleen Phillips, who as executive secretary basically runs the North American Agricultural Journalists group, sent out an email asking, how cold is cold? “How about y’all? Are you able to get out and cover agriculture? Are you using technology to cover agriculture while sitting by a fire?” she asked. A plethora of ag journalists from across the continent weighed in, from Saskatchewan (me and Lisa Guenther) and Manitoba (Ed White) all the way to Texas. Jim Massey, editor of The Country Today in the United States, seized upon the opportunity to share everyone’s thoughts in a column. See it at http://bit.ly/cold-weather. I admit to being chuffed that he included my emailed comments, as well as Ed’s. Check it out. It’s a cool and sometimes amusing peek into how ag journalists are perceiving the weather and doing their jobs in extreme conditions.

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Re: Letter to editor (WP Dec. 5) by Gerry Ritz, agriculture minister, entitled “Ag future bright.” I am a cow-calf producer from southeast Saskatchewan and wish to challenge the minister on his submission. In 1964, I purchased by first new vehicle, a 1965 Ford Mustang car with black leather interior, 289 motor with four barrel carburetor, four speed stick shift. What an excellent and useful car this was — total cost $2,850. At this same time I was investing in

the Continental cattle breeds that were coming from Europe. In those days, a grade range cow with a Continental calf at foot and rebred back were selling for $1,500 to $1,800 at auction sales throughout Canada. I attended a bred cow sale this November with over 300 animals consigned. Some were cow-calf units. Not one lot sold over the $1,400 mark, and many were below $1,000. The irony I want to point out is that agriculture’s research and development was cut in 2013, and Ford Canada received one quarter of $1 billion for research and development. Go figure.

By the way, a Mustang car is listed at $28,000-plus today. A recommended remedy is to regulate the greedy corporations that have a monopoly and create competition with more players. George C. McNeely, Wawota, Sask.

LEGISLATED THEFT To the Editor: In December of 2011, the (prime minister Stephen) Harper government repealed the Canadian Wheat Board Act of 1998. In doing so, the

Conservatives ripped up a partnership agreement that the act had created between the farmers of Western Canada and the government. The rights and responsibilities of each party were set out in the 1998 act, and the farmers took their responsibilities seriously by electing the board of directors that would control the $6 billion organization. In 2011, the government did not follow the existing laws, which set out the process for farmers to vote on the future of the CWB. At the same time, the government confiscated hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets paid for by farmers out of the grain pooling accounts, without any compensation for these assets. These assets include rail hopper cars, the office building in downtown Winnipeg, grain-carrying lakers and cash that was previously set aside as a self-insurance program to cover marketing risks. These assets are now being used to bankroll some future private company, which farmers will never again control. The disorderly marketing that the Harper government has imposed on farmers has driven wheat prices into the $4.50 per bushel range and caused Canadian prices to be much lower than U.S. prices. Perhaps with all the scandals and cover-ups in Ottawa, the Harper government has lost track of what is right and what is wrong. But farmers haven’t, and the legislated theft without compensation of hundreds of millions of dollars of farmer-paid wheat board assets is wrong. Period. Stewart Wells, Swift Current, Sask.

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Re: Board resignations — Weyburn Inland Terminal (WIT). I am not surprised with the news that two members have resigned from the WIT board of directors which, I am led to believe, is currently looking into the possible selling of this farmer owned facility. WIT was created by a group of innovative and progressive farmers and built for farmers. Over the years it has developed into a very successful business — why now do they wish to sell it? This certainly was not the initial intent of the builders and investors. Over the years, management and some board members were brainwashed into thinking that the Canadian Wheat Board was the only way to market most of their grains. Now that farmers have marketing choice, the management is lost without direction and leadership in mar-

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OPINION keting and now using their “strategic review process” as a way of getting themselves out of a mess that they themselves created. Changes, yes; wholesale dispersal, no. Don Olah, shareholder and founding director of WIT, Weyburn, Sask.

THEY WILL DECIDE To the Editor: Re: WP, Dec. 12. Comments in regard to plant breeders’ rights rules. The federal government is planning to load research costs to the farmers. Who will pay to develop it and pay to use it? What a great deal. As it happened with canola seed, so it will be with the cereals. (Agricul-

ture minister) Mr. (Gerry) Ritz and the nationals will decide what’s good for everyone. What else is new? O. Yanishewski, Spirit River, Alta.

SHIPPING CONTAINERS

I realize not every farm has cleaning and loading facilities, but we do have prairie seed cleaning plants that can offer this service. Loading containers would be a great service to grain farmers and a lot less capital cost over owning grain storage. Robert Snider, New Norway, Alta.

ous. Most people have no idea that you cannot dispose of these in household garbage, let alone the danger in your home if you break one. In my own mind I was confident that only a fool or a madman would authorize such a threat, so dangerous to humans and to the environment. I was “right” on both counts.

A DARK DAY

John Fefchak, Virden, Man

To the Editor: Perhaps the Canadian Wheat Board could look into the loading of high quality grains into empty containers going back to Asia. We have found it very simple to load containers on the farm. The grain is cleaned to quality standards, loaded into containers with a 60-foot conveyor and sealed. The container truck takes it to the rail loading site for shipment to Vancouver and loaded onto ships.

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To the Editor:

JOB LOSS CONTRADICTION

It’s the end of the incandescent bulb as of Jan. 1, a sad day for the environment as we will be forced to use CFL (compact fluorescent bulbs) instead. I just cannot understand, in a democracy, how our government can force us to use something so danger-

To the Editor: Re: Regina Leader Post, Dec. 6. (Saskatchewan) premier (Brad) Wall has his dander up. He is not pleased there will be job losses at PotashCorp.

I agree with the premier on that point: every worker needs a decent paycheque. But the premier is contradicting himself. Is it true, Mr. Premier, your government has announced the plan for privatizing health care laundry services in Saskatchewan? Why would we allow a bunch of dedicated public service employees — in this case mostly women — to be booted out the door and Saskatchewan taxpayer dollars to be shipped to Alberta? Premier Wall and his government seem to want to go to war with some of the workers in our province, while publicly supporting others. Come clean, Mr. Premier, tell the people exactly what is your plan for the public service in Saskatchewan. Henry Neufeld, Waldeck, Sask.

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think of “feeding the flock” on a cold, windy, snowy Sunday and offer a prayer for all those rural pastors who break trail so they can feed their flocks. The roads may be icy but someone has turned up the heat at the tiny church. Everyone is thankful for the cushions that cover cold pews. Things became more casual for me over the years as far as dress was concerned. In later years I could wear slacks, keep my snow boots on and not have to climb into a satin-lined gown brought in from a cold car. The hungry flock were brave souls who did their best to get to church. They appreciated the warm fellowship, found comfort in the music and listened for the Word of God that came in many forms. Sometimes the preacher truly felt that his/her offering served its purpose, and sometimes, inadequate though it seemed to be, the time together offered its own blessing. I will never forget one five-year-old who lived with her aunt because of abuse in her home. The smile she greeted me with as she came through the door was like a beautiful sunrise that warmed my soul. The importance of feeding the flock was a concept I learned from my father, who worked all year to care for the feeder cattle that supplemented our income. Despite the harshness of the winter, Dad’s first thought was getting out to care for his livestock. It was from him we learned the true meaning of stewardship. I understand how privileged we are when we can commit ourselves to the tasks the Almighty would have us do, no matter where we are called to feed our communities and despite the times when the work is more than challenging.

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LABOUR | AGRICULTURE

FOREIGN WORKERS | REGULATIONS

Big decline in farm workers: Stats Can BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU

Statistics Canada is reporting a sharp drop in agricultural employment, even as the industry frets about a significant gap in workers available for unfilled positions. The federal agency reported Jan. 10 that employment in agriculture declined by 14,000 workers last year to fewer than 300,000. It was one of the largest reasons for an unexpected loss of 44,000 jobs in the Canadian economy in December, driving the unemployment rate sharply higher to 7.3 percent. Ray Bollman, a retired senior agriculture and rural researcher with Statistics Canada now affiliated with

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the University of Saskatchewan and Brandon University, said the latest numbers raise “more questions than answers.” However, he noted that in the midst of the reported decline in farm workers, there was an increase in the number of Alberta males 55 and older claiming agriculture as their primary occupation.

One possible explanation is that higher farm prices and incomes mean that more farmers are returning from off-farm jobs. It also could reflect the fact that farmers are aging and deciding to stay on the farm longer while prices and incomes are positive. Bollman said farm self-employment numbers have been increasing in the past two years. However, the Canadian Agricultural Human Resources Council continues to project that tens of thousands of farm jobs remain unfilled, hurting agricultural and food industry competitiveness. Tens of thousands of food processing sector jobs were lost last year or are projected to be lost this year.

Gov’t regulations, red tape hinder hiring of foreign workers Approval to hire a worker can take up to three months BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU

Federal regulations aimed at ensuring that Canadian employers don’t exploit temporary foreign workers are a cost and bureaucratic burden for farmers, says an agricul-

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tural labour specialist. Mark Chambers of Sunterra Farms in Acme, Alta., represented the Canadian Agricultural Human Resources Council on a labour task force that examined industry worker issues, including a chronic worker shortage. He said the biggest problem for primary producers is a rule implemented last year that requires farmers to pay temporary foreign workers a “medium wage” based on a government survey of industry wages. “In order to get a temporary farm worker, you have to hire them at the medium wage and that often is higher than we would start Canadians at, so it becomes a problem,” he said. “You hire a Canadian to work for $14 an hour and then you are forced to hire a temporary foreign worker at $16 or $17 or $18 an hour and it discriminates against Canadians.” The result is that the already difficult job of finding workers for a farm operation becomes more difficult, and wage offers must be raised. “All of a sudden, the cost of production goes up and you become uncompetitive for international markets.” He said the pressure for higher foreign worker wages comes from labour groups that argue there is no need to bring in temporary foreign workers when unemployment levels are high. “But we advertise, and the reality is that it is tough to get people to work in agriculture, to work in rural Alberta,” said Chambers. “So this adds costs to hiring temporary foreign workers and that raises the cost of production and makes it more difficult to hire Canadians, which seems to go against the point of the program.” Employers applying to hire temporary foreign workers must submit a labour market opinion form that indicates they have tried and failed to find local workers to fill vacant spots. It can take up to three months to get the application approved. “In this industry, that can be a long time, and while we see new rules put in place, nothing gets improved for us,” said Chambers. “It just gets more and more onerous. There’s a need for temporary foreign workers because Canadians often don’t want the jobs, but if costs get raised, it hurts the business. We need to be competitive and if we aren’t, we’ll be in a shrinking industry.” The new rules that Ottawa implemented at the beginning of the year include more surveillance and auditing of employers who use the temporary foreign worker program. “I welcome that, and I will speak and advocate for producers who do things to the best of their ability and best of their knowledge to follow the rules,” Chambers said. “But there are some bad apples out there and the problem is that if bad apples are found, they change the rules for everyone. Overwhelmingly, farmers play by the rules.”

NEWS TRADE | INDIA

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POLITICS | NEW ROLE

Alta. talks trade Former MP faces lobby restrictions with Indian state Ted Menzies must work under conflict of interest guidelines as CropLife president BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU

Deal with Meghalaya | Memorandum of understanding to develop opportunities for ag BY MARY MACARTHUR CAMROSE BUREAU

Alberta premier Alison Redford signed an agricultural memorandum of understanding during her trade mission to India. The MOU with the northeastern state of Meghalaya, which borders Bangladesh, will help develop opportunities for Alberta agriculture. Alberta agriculture minister Verlyn Olson said provincial government staff and industry have worked in the area for several years, and this is another step in improving agricultural export opportunities. “They are very interested in having greater access to protein,” Olson said. “ They have a growing middle class.…. Pork is a protein they have identified something they want more of and they don’t produce enough of it themselves and they are interested in what we produce and are also interested in our genetics to grow their own industry to supply themselves.” In a news release, Alberta pork genetic exporter Alfred Wahl of Polar Genetics Canada said the co-operation between levels of government allows great opportunities to work with Indian officials. Olson said the MOU helps formalize the working relationship between Alberta and the Indian state. “I would say maybe one of the more significant things that is in the agreement is the commitment to form a working group between officials on both sides so they can both identify opportunities as well as barriers that are in the way of us being able to access that market.” Meghalaya is not the only area of the country where trade officials are working, but Redford was able to sign an agreement during her trade mission. “One of the reasons we make all these trips is to seek out opportunities, and we’re not picky about what part of the country we’re from. It’s whoever is willing to work with us and where there is a need and an opportunity.” Olson said the MOU is “an acknowledgement we have common interests and a commitment to work together to flesh out the details. It wasn’t like a big decision on a big detail item that brought the matter to a head.” Leanne Fischbuch, executive director of Alberta Pulse, hadn’t heard of the MOU before the announcement but said any discussions between Canada and India are important. “Anytime there is help to further develop the export market, that is always a benefit,” said Fischbuch. Seventy percent of Alberta’s field peas are exported to India. Bruce Jowett, vice-president of marketing with the Canola Council of Canada, said the organization has been spending “modest energy” developing markets for canola oil in the major centres of Delhi and Mumbai. “As a council, we are looking at India.”

A limited amount of canola oil is sold to India, he added. Darcy Fitzgerald, executive director with Alberta Pork, said any trade opportunities in India are good, even though only a small number of Alberta producers are involved in genetic exports. “This is progress that gets you moving forward.”

Former Alberta MP and federal cabinet minister Ted Menzies began his new job as president of CropLife Canada last week with one lobbying hand tied behind his back. When Parliament resumes Jan. 27, the key agricultural legislation facing MPs will be Bill C-18, an omnibus agricultural bill that will increase plant breeders’ rights protections. For members of the industry lobby group CropLife Canada, representing seed developers as well as input sellers, it is hugely important legisla-

tion that will strengthen intellectual property rights. But Menzies will be missing in action when the legislation is at committee or being debated in Parliament. As a former member of Parliament and cabinet minister, Menzies is prohibited from lobbying former colleagues. “I can’t go talk to the minister responsible for this legislation,” he said in an interview. “That is part of the code of conduct from the ethics commissioner.” But Menzies said his support of the legislation will not go unnoticed. “I can’t go speak to the minister but

we have very capable people here who can go and talk to the opposition, to the public officials, public servants who are carrying this file,” he said. “I can impart my ideas to them. He cannot register as a lobbyist in Ottawa as his predecessor and former Saskatchewan agriculture minister Lorne Hepworth did. “I am not a lobbyist,” said Menzies. “I cannot talk to public officer holders for five years. The CropLife board understood that.” However, his ideas can be conveyed and he can lobby provincial governments and meet university researchers to promote industry goals.

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U.S. FOOD SAFETY AUDIT | CANADIAN EXPORTS

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Meat plants pass U.S. safety audit but receive only ‘adequate’ rating

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From 2012 | Many concerns related to the XL Foods recall BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH CALGARY BUREAU

A U.S. audit rated Canadian meat plants as only “adequate” but did not affect trade patterns or border inspections. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released its report of a food safety review it conducted between Oct. 22 and Nov. 2, 2012. It was part of a routine auditing process, said Richard Arsenault, director of meat programs at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Canadian auditors did a similar review of American meat plants in January 2013, and their report is expected soon. “The audit report we will have coming out from the U.S. will point to some areas that probably can be done better as well,” Arsenault said. The Canadian Meat Council, which represents federally inspected facilities, said in an email that international audits are common among trading partners. South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Honduras and Costa Rica also audited and approved Canadian plants in 2013. The U.S. audit of Canadian plants

The audit report we will have coming out from the U.S. will point to some areas that probably can be done better as well. RICHARD ARSENAULT CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY

was planned well in advance of the problems at XL Foods in Brooks, Alta., which were noted in the report, said Arsenault. “The audit wasn’t precipitated as a result of that. It was a coincidence,” he said. However, the added check helped the agency verify the changes that were made to bring the plant back into production. Problems with E. coli contamination led to the Brooks plant closure from September to December 2012. The problems caused the largest beef recall in Canadian history. The plant has since been purchased by JBS Canada. The audits and recommendations from a federal review panel on the XL Foods crisis prompted the CFIA

to launch super visor training schools as well as an inspection verification office to act as an independent overview to verify that work is being properly done. In addition, the federal government has passed new legislation under the Safe Food for Canadians Act that requires greater controls for E. coli and bacterial testing and more inspections of Canadian meat processing facilities. The most recent U.S. audit evaluated two red meat slaughter establishments, four plants producing ready-to-eat meat and one egg processing facility. Food safety inspection service staff also visited five government offices, CFIA headquarters and two private laboratories conducting microbiological and chemical residue testing. The final report said Canada’s performance was adequate but there is need for improvement in oversight of plant hazard analysis critical control point plans, sanitation and humane animal handling. Most of the concerns stemmed from observations at the former XL plant, where there were concerns over sanitation as well as equipment and building maintenance.

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The selfie craze has arrived on Canadian farms. Farmers across the country have taken to Twitter recently to post pictures of themselves with their livestock and farm equipment or at work on their farms. The resulting pictures — selfies taken by farmers, hence #felfies — have been retweeted worldwide, led to websites devoted to felfies and generally made people smile. There are farmers snuggling Holsteins, coping with the weather and posing with their dogs. Katey Darr, tweeting from Manitoba, said felfies are a great way to show farmers’ daily lives. Dara Calon at Michichi, Alta., took The Western Producer up on an offer just before Christmas to post farmer selfies and sent in a photo of herself wearing a Keep Calm and Combine On cap posed in front of an overfull combine hopper, and the comment #oops. Selfie was the Oxford Dictionary word of the year for 2013, and even U.S. president Barack Obama and Pope Francis got in on the craze. As a result, it’s not too surprising that farmers and ranchers began using their smartphones to do the same. The recent trend began when the Irish Farmers Journal held a “selfie on the farm” competition in December. The paper asked its Facebook fans to

“My horse and I out in the pasture in Broadview, Sask.” | JANINA KEMP PHOTO

send in their funniest selfies. A panel of judges selected 10 finalists, and Facebook voters chose the best. The winner was P.J. Ryan of Newport, County Tipperary, thumbs up and smoking a pipe in front of his Salers. However, in the meantime the idea and entries went viral, leading farmers around the world to start tweeting and posting pictures of their own. Michael Wollman, who farms near Saskatoon, said he loves the idea. “Helping consumers connect with producers #faceforag,” he tweeted. A word of caution if searching for a felfie: it can also be a term for people who post pictures of their feet.

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Alberta takes up fight against late blight Profits melt away | There’s no recovering from late blight once you get it, warns pathologist BY BARB GLEN LETHBRIDGE BUREAU

A concerted effort has begun in Alberta to raise awareness about the nastiness of late blight in tomatoes and potatoes. Once an occasional problem in Alberta fields and gardens, late blight infestation has occurred at some level over the last several years, raising concerns among crop specialists and vegetable producers. “We used to see the disease once in a blue moon, so to speak,” said Alberta Agriculture plant pathologist Michael Harding. “Every once in awhile the conditions would be conducive, and some inoculum would end up causing some local problems. But we’ve never really had three or four years in a row, like we have recently, where we’ve had significant late blight issues.” Jeremy Carter, technical director with Potato Growers of Alberta, said he and executive director Terence Hochstein calculated that late blight cost producers $12.5 million in extra chemical applications last year. The inoculum can also wreak havoc on stored potatoes because it favours humid conditions. “You’ve spent all that money to get that crop in the shed and now it’s melting in the shed. And it really melts. They (potatoes) pour out the door. It’s not pretty,” he said. “It’s a major disease for potatoes,

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and we’ve got it here now. We’re wanting to get on top of it.” PGA is planning grower sessions on late blight this winter. Details will be released later this month. As well, Harding has held a webinar to educate the public about the disease because anyone who plants tomatoes or potatoes or grows a garden can play a role in controlling late blight. “It’s designed to let people know that if they have tomatoes, potatoes and even some ornamentals in their gardens, whether they have market gardens or just backyard home gardens … there are some things that all Albertans can do to help us prevent or eradicate this problem,” Harding said. Late blight spreads by spores on the wind called sporangia, so gardens can infect fields and vice versa. Harding said evidence indicates transplanted tomatoes are part of the problem. The key is to select diseasefree plants and cull any plant that shows late blight symptoms. “There’s no recovering from late blight once you get it,” said Harding.

Alberta Agriculture is educating farmers and gardeners about controlling late blight in tomatoes and potatoes to prevent its spread. | USDA PHOTO “A lot of backyard gardens were lost last year to late blight and in 2010 it was even worse.” Symptoms include dark brown or black lesions on leaves that are not bound by the leaf veins. Under humid conditions, infected plant leaves will also develop fuzzy white growth on the undersides. Plants with those symptoms should be pulled, kept in a black garbage bag in the sun for several days and then disposed with other garbage. All plants should be desiccated and buried if large areas are involved. The

spores cannot live long in soil, nor can they live through prairie winters. Infection of even a few plants can generate thousands of spores, which can travel far on the wind. “It’s the aerial infections and the airborne sporangia that are really the reason that the epidemics get going ferociously,” Harding said. Alberta has become known as a clean potato producing region for both processing potatoes and seed. Late blight awareness and control is important to maintaining that reputation, he added.

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FOOD PROCESSORS | ONTARIO INDUSTRY DECLINING

Food processing sector takes big hit in Ontario George Morris Centre calls for change | Saskatchewan passes Ontario as Canada’s largest agricultural province BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU

Ontario’s food processing industry continues to shed plants and jobs, despite a call from the government for a doubling of the province’s agriculture and food production value. Ontario, traditionally Canada’s largest agricultural province, has lost that position during the past two years to Saskatchewan. Meanwhile, Ontario farmers are finding fewer local processing market for their produce.

Late last year, Kellogg Co. announced it will close a cereal plant in London. Ont., this year, eliminating 550 jobs. The 89-year-old London food-processing icon sits on Kellogg Lane in the southwestern Ontario city. Meanwhile, H.J. Heinz announced the closing of a Leamington plant that was the major buyer for area tomato producers. More than 700 jobs will be lost and farmer markets destroyed. The two historic sites are among many food processing plants that will

be shuttered soon, part of a year that saw more than 30,000 Ontario processing jobs lost. A Kraft Foods Group Ontario plant could be closed this year as well as other smaller plants. The G eorge Mor r is Centre in Guelph, Ont., argued in a recent report that Ontario’s multibilliondollar food processing industry should not be written off, but government and the private sector will have to make changes if it is to remain healthy. “The demise of Canada’s food

manufacturing sector is not a ‘done deal,’ ” wrote Bob Seguin, the centre’s executive director. “This industry can fulfill the many public and private sector ambitions for it, but key changes have to be made, new investments won, far greater competitiveness in public policy as well as in private markets are required.” Seguin said many of the problems faced by aging plants flow from public tax policy and investment incentives as well as corporate decisions to concentrate production in lower-

cost jurisdictions. He warned that changes needed to revive the industry will not be painless. “It cannot be expected that the significant transitions within the industry will be costless or easily accepted.” He said a key requirement is changes to foreign worker rules to make more skilled workers available. “The industry’s past successes using traditional sources in rural and urban Canada are not sustainable,” wrote Seguin.

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Low food prices and competition from discount American chains is putting Canada’s food retailers under pressure, says a University of Guelph food chain expert. “In food prices, we really are seeing almost no increases and in some cases, food price deflation,” said Sylvain Charlebois, associate dean and professor of food distribution and policy. “I think we may well see more casualties, perhaps takeovers, in the food retail business this year.” Last year, Canada’s second-largest food retailer, Sobeys, gobbled up the fourth-largest retailer, Safeway, while Loblaw, the country’s largest food retailer, bought Shoppers Drug Mart to expand its consumer reach. Consumer choices diminish. Charlebois said much of the competition comes from the introduction of retail powerhouses Costco, Walmart and Target into the Canadian market. “Of course, it is the competition, and these are low margin companies, so it really has affected profitability,” he said. “Several staple products this past year have become loss leaders for food vendors, and that is usually a bad sign for industry.” He said grocery stores have been discounting mainstream products, including dairy, pasta, coffee and spices, and food prices are expected to increase of only .5 percent this year. That is good for consumers, but Charlebois said it makes the food retail sector less profitable and leads to pressure for consolidation and reduced choice. “To reflect the true cost of distribution, food inflation’s sweet spot would be anywhere between 1.5 percent and 2.5 percent right now,” he wrote in a commentary about the high cost of low prices in food. “Such a threshold would flush the industry with more resources to innovate while building a case for consumers that food is not inconsequential.” Still, food prices are already not “inconsequential” for many consumers on low-income budgets.

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FARMLIVING

THROWING POTS ON THE PRAIRIE Duval, Sask., artist Jeffrey Taylor draws inspiration from the natural world for his artwork. | Page 21

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LEFT: Michael and Silke Hentschel bought the Lougheed Hotel five years ago and turned it into a destination for “schnitzel tourists.” TOP: Jagerschnitzel, made using Canadian pork and canola oil, is one variety that draws busloads to the Alberta village. ABOVE: The couple displays Guinness World Record awards. | MARY MACARTHUR PHOTOS

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German flavours draw diners to Lougheed Guinness World Record holders | Entrepreneurs offer 347 kinds of fresh pork schnitzel to Alberta foodies BY MARY MACARTHUR CAMROSE BUREAU

LOUGHEED, Alta. — From the outside, the Lougheed Hotel looks like thousands of other hotels dotted across the Prairies — a place that may be better to drive past rather than risk the weak coffee and cardboard hamburgers. But inside, Michael and Silke Hentschel have transformed the hotel from a dark, smelly bar and café to a high-end restaurant that attracts customers from hundreds of kilometres away for its homemade schnitzel. The switch from a typical small town hotel to a destination restaurant has taken five years and plenty of work. “It takes a lot of time and a lot of work, especially when you serve food that people don’t know,” said Michael. Convincing customers to switch from hamburgers and steak to schnitzel wasn’t easy. Silke finally told customers they wouldn’t have to pay for the schnit-

zel if they didn’t like it, and she knew she had converted a customer when the plates came back empty. The couple knew they would have to create a niche market if they were going to make their restaurant stand out and convince customers to drive from Calgary and Edmonton to the small community of Lougheed. “You can get steak everywhere,” Michael said. “We wanted to create a restaurant with one of a kind food.” In 2009, a group of local seniors came for dinner and all 40 ordered steaks. The next time they came the seniors all ordered schnitzel. Busloads of “schnitzel tourists” now descend on the central Alberta restaurant, especially Germans who still remember the schnitzel that their mothers and grandmothers made. During Oktoberfest, long benches replace the chairs to turn the restaurant into an old-fashioned German beer hall.

“It’s a huge party,” said Michael. The couple didn’t have an elaborate plan to move from Germany to small town Alberta and open a restaurant. Instead, it was an off chance remark in an email that led them to Lougheed. In Germany, Michael sold and collected vintage Zippo lighters on the internet. He happened to mention to an American customer that he was looking for a job, and two days later the American offered to sell him the Lougheed hotel, one of three businesses he owned. Silke said she was shocked by the hotel’s poor condition when she flew to Canada to check it out. “Five years ago, this was a stinky old hotel. It was totally dirty,” she said. When Michael finally saw it, he wanted to get back on the plane and return to Germany. However, he eventually realized turning the rundown hotel into an upscale restaurant would be his last, big challenge.

The walls of the old dining room were painted purple and the plastic garden chairs were cracked white. Oil in the deep fryer was still there from when it had last been used five years earlier. “It was a mess,” said Michael. With no bank loans available, the couple renovated the more than 100-year-old hotel one step at a time as money and time allowed. One of the biggest changes was to amalgamate the restaurant and bar into a family restaurant. “We lost 13 bar customers but gained 300 families,” said Silke. The restaurant now offers 347 kinds of fresh, pan-fried schnitzel, a record recognized by Guinness World Record officials and the World Record Academy. The original German holder of the record uses frozen schnitzel, but the Hentschels say their schnitzel is fresh Canadian pork. “We have fresh, pan fried schnitzel,”

said Michael. He said he uses fresh Maple Leaf Foods pork loins bought from the local Killam Co-op, which he cuts and make fresh with every meal. After five years of establishing the restaurant and making friends, the couple isn’t interested in moving to a bigger city, as do other immigrants. “We want to prove there is more on the Prairies than cows, grain and coyotes,” said Michael, referring to a comment that an American restaurant rating agency made when the Hentschels applied for an AAA rating at their restaurant. They were told Lougheed was too isolated to consider. Five years after opening the restaurant, the couple received the Small Business Award from Flagstaff County, which Silke said means more to her than a world record. “People always talk about the American dream,” Michael said. “It has happened to us. We started with nothing.”

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SEAFOOD | CHOWDER

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hen we travelled through Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick last fall, enjoying seafood chowders was almost a daily delight. Freshly caught fish was the main ingredient in the chowders from cod in Newfoundland and scallops in the Annapolis Valley area of Nova Scotia to clams from the Acadian region of New Brunswick. Most chowders contained two or three types of fish. Chowders originated in making use of what food was locally available. The French and English fishermen who came to Newfoundland to catch cod 400 years ago would be at sea for months at a time so they travelled with salted beef, pork and fish and hard tack. Not to waste limited cooking fuel, the softened bread and cod were heated together to produce chowder. Salted pork was cubed, fried and added for flavour to the fish and bread. In Newfoundland, this dish is known as fish ’n brewis (pronounced broos). As settlements were established, gardens provided onions, potatoes,

carrots and corn that could be used and cows or goats provided milk. I discovered one chowder was as thick as pudding with a hearty portion of cream while others were thin and watery made with a broth and a light addition of milk. The most interesting one had a thin broth that contained potatoes, halibut and a variety of shellfish. The mussels were still in their shell and floated in the soup broth. Chowders provide a great opportunity for creativity and personal taste. Start with a basic recipe and develop your own unique chowder recipe. Chowders are a quick meal to prepare as the seafood only takes minutes to cook. The vegetables are prepared and cooked first and then the fish chunks are added and cooked until they flake. The milk is added and slowly heated, but never boiled. Seasonings for chowders can be as basic as salt and pepper or as varied as Tabasco sauce or medium-hot curry paste. Onion, garlic, and/or leeks complement the potatoes and fish flavours. In Newfoundland, summer savory is a common seasoning. For added flavour or as a garnish, add parsley, chives, cilantro, dill, lemon zest or chopped cooked bacon. For richness and flavour, butter and cream are added, but calories can be reduced by using lower fat milk. Serve chowder with crusty bread, buns or biscuits or in a large hollowed out bun as a bread bowl.

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butter 30 mL onion, diced 75 mL potatoes, diced 500 mL water 750 mL salt 10 mL dash of sugar dash of pepper 1 lb. fresh or frozen 500 g cod, cut into chunks 1 c. evaporated milk 250 mL

Combine butter, onion, potatoes, water, salt, sugar and pepper. Boil gently for about 15 minutes. Once potatoes are cooked, add fish and simmer gently until cooked, about 10 minutes. Add milk and heat slowly, do not boil. Serve hot with crusty bread. This is a basic chowder recipe from Fat-Back and Molasses, A Collection of Favourite Old Recipes from Newfoundland and Labrador. Any variety or combination of fish can be used.

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Seafood chowder served with crusty bread makes a hearty winter meal. | BETTY ANN DEOBALD PHOTO 2 medium onions, diced 2-3 tbsp. butter 15 - 30 mL 1 can evaporated milk 385 mL light cream or whole milk 2 bay leaves salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste 2 tbsp. chopped parsley, 30 mL or to taste cayenne pepper and chopped parsley Prepare seafood, remove meat from lobster and cut into bite-sized pieces. Leave scallops whole. Peel raw shrimp. Wipe haddock, if using, and cut into bite-sized pieces. Place clams and mussels in water to soak, and remove beards from mussels. Place all seafood in refrigerator until needed. In a stockpot, cook potatoes and onions in enough water to keep them from sticking for about 12 to 15 minutes. They should be just barely cooked and still crunchy. Remove from heat and lay haddock on top. Cover and set aside. Using half of the butter, gently saute lobster over low heat until a reddish

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sauce is formed. Do not overcook or the lobster will be tough. Add scallops and shrimp and saute for one minute more. Remove from heat and keep warm. Drain potato mixture. Add evaporated milk and enough milk or cream to make desired thickness. Gently stir in seafood and butter sauce. Add more milk to the saute pan, scrape and add to pot. Add bay leaves, gently simmer until potatoes are fully cooked and flavours blend. Add remaining butter and stir when melted. Season to taste with salt and pepper, then stir in parsley. Just before serving, steam clams and mussels until shells open, about three minutes. Remove bay leaves. Ladle chowder into a serving dish or individual bowls and sprinkle with chopped parsley and cayenne. Arrange shellfish (in shell) around edge of bowl on top of chowder. Serve with crusty bread. Makes four servings Source: www.saltscapes.com. Betty Ann Deobald is a home economist from Rosetown, Sask., and a member of Team Resources. Contact: team@producer.com.

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ARTIST | RURAL ENTREPRENEUR

Transforming clay makes potter’s day Career takes shape | Bowls, cups, plates and decor take on a unique prairie flair BY KRISTEN MCEWEN FREELANCE WRITER

After 13 years, pottery artist Jeffrey Taylor plans to give up his part-time job as a bus driver. He took on the job to earn extra cash after he began working out of the 85-year-old schoolhouseturned-studio in Duval, Sask. “I can’t make pottery for eight hours a day and driving bus at 3 p.m. breaks up my day. “It gives me a good built-in schedule,” he said. “(But) the pottery is at the point where I can’t (drive anymore).” Taylor enjoys making unique pieces. “I try not to repeat the exact same pattern on everything. They’re something that people that can enjoy and gift,” he said. “That encourages me that I’m doing something worthwhile and has meaning.” Taylor is usually in the studio by 9 a.m. where he begins the project of the day. He prepares the clay and makes and trims as many as 40 bowls in two days, but it takes a week and a half to finish all of them. Taylor is influenced by the prairie landscape. “It’s a subconscious thing I guess. It echoes the prairie.” He began his career in pottery in his teens by taking some ceramics courses in Caronport, Sask. After attending art school in Red Deer, Taylor moved to Vancouver, then later sought inexpensive property to set up his own studio. Friends in Duval suggested the old schoolhouse, which was sitting empty. “I’ve always enjoyed old character

ABOVE: Jeffrey Taylor has given up his part-time job to focus on his art career as well as mentoring students. RIGHT: Taylor makes unique pieces from his studio in Duval, Sask. | BRENDA CARDIFF PHOTOS

buildings … and I was looking for something like that, (the) school was perfect for that,” he said. Jeffrey and his wife, Nadia, host two open houses each year at the schoolhouse, which doubles as the family home. Taylor sells his work from the home studio, Traditions Handcraft Gallery in Regina, Handmade House and SaskMade Marketplace in Saskatoon and Art Concepts Custom Framing in Estevan, Sask. Theresa Fuhr, owner of Art Concepts, noted the high quality of his glazing and called the pieces in his canola rust and autumn harvest series unique but related by colour. “They’re very earthy,” she said. Fuhr said many are purchased by women as gifts for other women, citing the popularity of dip plates. “It’s something they’d not buy for themselves,” she said. “It’s special.” As part of Canadian Artists Representation/le front des artistes canadiens (Saskatchewan), Taylor is mentoring a potter-artist. Edie Marshall, program co-ordinator for CARFAC in Regina, said the group provides funding to guide and help emerging artists perfect their skills. “(Taylor’s) quality is excellent, his work is great,” she said of the reasons a juried panel chose him to mentor. “We felt Jeffrey had something to offer and could help her.” The program requires spending seven hours a month with a group of eight other mentors and nine students, said Taylor. “It was humbling just to think, to realize that I’m at that point in my career that I do have a lot to offer. Hopefully, I have a lot to learn from the experience as well,” he said.

Taylor says his creations and earthy colours used for glazes are influenced by the prairie landscape.

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Management key in farming, on-farm business Father, son work together | Management skills, equipment manufacturing sustain 10,000 acre farm BY BRIAN CROSS SASKATOON NEWSROOM

ELROSE, Sask. — It was love of agriculture that convinced Linden Hartman to get into farming at the age of 22. But it was a combination of factors including opportune timing, family support and good management skills

that helped to make it a stable, lifelong career. “I’ve always loved it,” said Linden, 29, who started farming seven years ago with help and encouragement from his father, Kim. “When I first started, there were no young guys farming, but he really portrayed a positive picture of the whole situation…. That makes it a lot

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easier, when you know that you have support and backing when you come in.” Linden said more prairie kids are beginning to view farming as a viable, long-term career. For years, agricultural statistics have suggested that the average age of Canada’s farmers is rising. However, Linden said young farmers are becoming much more common in the Elrose area than a decade ago. For him, the allure of farming began at a young age. He had to use phone books and pillows to improve his view from the tractor seat when he first started helping on the family farm. By 22, he was renting his own land and sharing machinery with Kim, who had taken over the farm from his father in the early 1980s. Linden started his own farming company about four years ago. Together, he and his father farm 10,000 acres of owned and rented land. The decision to put down roots in rural Saskatchewan could not have come at a better time for Linden, the third generation of Hartman boys to grow crops near Elrose. When he got into farming, Linden was renting land for $3,000 to $4,000 per quarter section and lentils were selling for 40 cents a pound. “The year that I started was the year that it all started to boom,” he said. “It all worked out pretty good.” Commodity prices are less attractive today, and cash rent in the Elrose area has at least doubled and in some cases tripled. Nonetheless, the Hartman farm is on solid financial ground, thanks to the Hartmans’ strong managerial skills and to a lucrative sideline in equipment manufacturing. K-Hart Industries, founded by Kim, has produced a variety of farm implements over the years. The K-Hart double disc air drill is the biggest item in their product line.

Kim and Linden Hartman say the company’s farm-based manufacturing business, K-Hart Industries, keeps full-time employees busy during the off-season. Diversification is important in a business like farming, where commodity prices and economic conditions vary from year to year. | BRIAN CROSS PHOTO

The company produces and sells 20 to 25 units a year for farmers in Saskatchewan, Alberta, the United States and Australia. “I’ve just always liked manufacturing, and it was also a way of keeping full-time employees on the farm (during winter),” said Kim. Unlike the old double disc drills that were used decades ago, the K-Hart drill is a low maintenance machine that uses new disc technology

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GAIL WARTMAN, B.A., J.D.

he lawyer-client relationship is a complicated one. There is a common misconception that lawyers are hired to do as the clients instruct, without fail. Lawyers owe duties to several sometimes competing interests. They owe a duty to their client and must keep their confidence, act in their best interest and be their zealous advocate. The legal profession in Canada is self-regulating. Each province has a law society that licenses, regulates and disciplines the members of the profession. Lawyers are bound by their province’s code of conduct and owe a duty to the profession and administration of justice and the courts. When instructions from clients run counter to a lawyer’s duties, ethical decisions must be made. The Canadian Bar Association has produced a draft code of conduct, which has largely been adopted with some tailoring by the provincial law societies. Most codes specify when a lawyer is obligated to withdraw from representing a client. If a client insists on providing instructions to a lawyer that are inconsistent with the lawyer’s duty to the court, a lawyer must withdraw. If a client is guilty of dishonourable conduct in proceedings or is taking a position solely to harass or maliciously injure another party, the lawyer must withdraw. Most codes give the option to withdraw if clients refuse to take reasonable advice from their lawyer. In litigation settings, clients are sometimes displeased when their

lawyer engages in polite conversation with opposing counsel. Litigation is often an emotional experience, often resulting in negative feelings. It is only natural that clients would expect their lawyer to share their feelings. On the contrary, the CBA code states that any ill feelings between the parties should never be allowed to influence the lawyer’s conduct or demeanour. Personal animosity between lawyers only serves to cloud judgment and could hinder the proper resolution of the matter. In addition, lawyers will often have to work with opposing counsel in the future. Lawyers with good professional relationships often resolve matters faster and at less expense.

If a client enjoys the benefit of such a relationship, he owes that to his lawyer for not burning bridges on behalf of past clients. A lawyer has a duty to advise his clients and take his instructions, be respectful of all parties and uphold the administration justice. If a client is being unreasonable or malicious, the lawyer is under no obligation to act as a hired gun. Brayden Gulka-Tiechko, an associate lawyer in McDougall Gauley’s Moose Jaw office, helped research and draft this article. This article is presented for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The views expressed are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to McDougall Gauley LLP. Contact: gwartman@ producer.com.

Celebrate family literacy Family Literacy Day is slated for Jan. 27. The initiative was created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999 to raise awareness about reading and literacy-related activities. This year, the organization is encouraging families to take 15 minutes a day to learn together. Here are some ways to get started:

• Write a joke book together. • Read a bedtime story to the grown-up putting children to bed. • Create a new recipe together and post it online. • Organize a book swap at a school or create a book club. • Play a game of Scrabble.

• Write riddles and share them with friends. • Surf the internet and learn about animals. • Make up a song to sing at dinnertime. • Write messages to your family on sticky notes and post them around the house. • Create a story about what your family is doing for Family Literacy Day.

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GUNNY KNIFE | QUALITY

Bark River knife valuable as companion piece OUTDOOR PURSUITS

KIM QUINTIN

he Bark River Gunny is a civilian sporting and military knife manufactured in the United States. It is 8.4 inches long with a 3.8 inch blade in either CPM 3V or A-2 carbon steel and weighs 0.4 pounds. This versatile belt knife was origi-

nally designed for search and rescue and military use and is well suited for civilians in bush crafting, camping and hunting tasks. The test knife had green canvas micarta handle material, but Bark River offers a wide variety of handle materials, such as G-10, impala horn and natural wood. The handle design fits the hand well. The convex bevel and cutting edge was paper-shaving sharp out of the box. The Gunny has a full tang design for overall tool strength. Both the CPM 3V and A-2 are quality knife steels, though the latter is no longer offered. The thumb ramp along the spine

near the handle was a problem for us with our test knife because it was not comfortable for all hand sizes and grip styles. Fortunately, Bark River accepts orders without the thumb ramp. The supplied leather sheath had good knife retention, but its fit and finish were noticeably imperfect in places. Leather sheaths are also difficult to keep dry and sanitary during extended outdoor use. In tests, the Gunny’s bevel seemed a bit thick and created friction when cutting red meat. The problem was minimized by good belly geometry, blade length and a sharp edge but was noticeable when paying close attention.

It is possible to order a full height bevel grind from Bark River to reduce friction, but the tradeoff is less overall tool strength. The cutting edge performed and retained exceptionally well without chipping or rolling and was easy to re-sharpen. The stock Gunny design makes for a good all-purpose knife. Owners who intend to do a lot of field dressing should order a full height grind. We recommend going without a thumb ramp. The Bark River Gunny would make an excellent cornerstone for a knife collection, which could be supplemented with special purpose blades as required.

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Although somewhat expensive, this knife has shown it is worth the money. Kim Quintin is a Saskatoon outdoor enthusiast and knife maker. He can be reached for column content suggestions at kim.quintin@producer.com.

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A doctoral candidate at the University of Calgary’s department of veterinary medicine is attending the International Livestock Congress in Denver, courtesy of the International Stockmen’s Educational Foundation. Christy Goldhawk of Airdrie, Alta., was one of 12 post-secondary students from six countries to receive the travel fellowship. She and other recipients are attending the four-day event held at the same time as the National Western Stock Show, which runs Jan. 11-26. Recipients of the fellowship had to apply and were selected by a multinational committee that assessed scholastic achievement, leadership and professional references. Goldhawk has been working with Dr. Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein of Agriculture Canada in Lethbridge on cattle transport studies. She said she planned to use the Denver trip to network with others in the cattle industry while participating in ranch tours and professional development sessions. “What I really pushed in my application was if I can do one thing that makes the beef industry a nicer place for people or animals or consumers or our international relations, then that’s kind of what I want to take away from it,” said Goldhawk. Also chosen for the fellowship was Faustin Joy of India, who is studying ruminant nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan. The other 10 recipients are from the United States, Australia, Brazil and Argentina. The foundation’s provision of the trip is in keeping with its mission “to serve as a catalyst for exchange among present and future industry thought leaders by creating opportunities surrounding international livestock industry and meat supply chain perspectives and development of educational initiatives on critical issues impacting the industry.”

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PULSES | INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

Pulse sector hopes to capitalize on year in spotlight UN designates 2016 as year for pulses BY SEAN PRATT SASKATOON NEWSROOM

Pulse crops will soon be placed under the global spotlight. The General Assembly of the United Nations has voted to declare 2016 the International Year of Pulses. “This is an extraordinary opportunity for the global pulse industry,” Pulse Canada chief executive officer Gordon Bacon said in a release. “Having a UN dedicated year will raise the level of awareness of pulses and the important role they can play in health and nutrition, food security and environmental sustainability.” Hakan Bahceci, president of the International Pulse Trade and Industries Confederation, agreed. “This is the greatest opportunity in a century to give pulses the attention they deserve,” he said. “Pulses can help to increase food security for those with shortages and to tackle the increase of diseases linked to lifestyles such as obesity and diabetes. Plus, they improve cropping systems and are good for farmers.” Bahceci, who came up with the idea, received support from Turkey and Pakistan in lobbying the UN, which has in the past granted similar designations to co-operatives, family farms and soil. “The International Year of Pulses will give pulses additional research attention and nutritional programming, which will lead to dietary uptake,” said Bahceci. Bacon said in an interview that the publicity will be nice, but it’s more important that the pulse industry uses the international attention to make progress on tangible projects. One example will be to use the international spotlight to push forward much-needed reforms at the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a UN body that sets maximum residue limits (MRLs) for pesticides in countries that can’t afford to develop their own guidelines. Codex is grossly underfunded, swamped with applications and bogged down by lengthy reviews. It results in outdated MRLs and the potential for trade disruptions in key pulse markets such as India, Pakistan, Brazil and Colombia. The International Pulse Trade and Industries Confederation has budgeted $1.1 million to fund activities in 2016. Bacon said the UN may contribute additional funding through d o n a t i o n s f ro m g ov e r n m e n t s around the world. The pulse industry will meet with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization to determine the initiative’s total budget and what activities to focus on. Bacon said pulse crops can further many of the UN’s priorities, such as food security, nutrition, sustainability and reducing non-communicable diseases. He doesn’t expect an immediate increase in pulse demand in 2016, but the year in the limelight should elevate the awareness of the nutritional benefits of pulses, one of the world’s cheapest sources of protein. That should have a lasting impact on long-term demand for crops such as peas, lentils, chickpeas and beans.

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“It’s a trend line, and what we want to do is change the slope of the trend line,” said Bacon.“Our goal is that 2016 accelerates the interest in pulses and that we see that trend line in all markets moving in a positive direction.”

Pulse Canada hopes that designating 2016 as International Year of Pulses will spotlight the health benefits and spark additional research and increase attention to hurdles that cause trade disruptions. | FILE PHOTO

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FOOD PRICES | STARTING TO DROP

Global food prices steady in Dec., down in ’13 Situation likely to persist | The Food and Agriculture Organization says crop prices have dropped because of large supplies, while beef and dairy prices have reached record highs (Reuters) — Global food prices rose slightly in December after staying flat the previous month, says the Food and Agriculture Organization. Ho w e v e r, p r i c e s o n av e ra g e declined 1.6 percent in 2013 from the previous year, according to the United Nations’ agency. The FAO’s price index, which measures monthly price changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar, averaged 206.7 points in December, a mar-

ginal rise from a revised 206.4 in November. T h e FAO s a i d l a r g e s u p p l i e s pushed down international prices of oil, sugar and cereals except for rice. However, the decrease in prices in those markets was balanced by an opposite trend in meat and dairy, which hit records last year, according to the FAO. FAO senior economist Adores Abbassian said ample supply and good opportunities for rebuilding

inventories are likely to continue weighing on cereals prices for the next few months. “This situation is likely to keep some downward pressure on the grain sector for still some months to come,” Abbassian said. However, demand-driven increases in meat and dairy prices could taper off. “Considering how high they are ... perhaps the scope for stronger increases in the next few months are much less than in the last few

months,” Abbassian said. Record harvests reduced cereals prices last year, particularly wheat and corn, and the average cereals price index for December was 1 9 1 . 5 p o i n t s, i t s l o w e s t s i n c e August 2010. Meanwhile, the dairy price index averaged 243 in 2013, its highest annual average ever, the FAO said. Demand from Japan and China drove up beef in particular, and the meat index was at historically high levels in 2013.

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A hundred years ago or more, town hall opera houses were erected as beacons of pride and success and were seen as status symbols designed to attract new people and enterprises to fledgling prairie communities. They often became recognized as the most impressive structures in town. PhD candidate Ian McWilliams says it was a time of boundless promise, when everything was new and anything could happen. McWilliams, whose thesis is called Saskatchewan Town Hall Opera Houses and Community Performance, circa 1883 to 1913, said change was in the air. Prince Albert had a chance to become the capital of the North West Territories and later the province of Saskatchewan. Qu’Appelle had the potential to grow to city size as an important railway hub. Community boosters in Hanley reckoned they could give that sleepy college town to the north a run for its money. Towns vied for position and for settlers. It was always possible that an impressive town hall opera house

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that will include an elevator. The town hall opera house at Qu’Appelle, now a municipal heritage property, still serves as a town hall. The fire department remained in the building until 1959, and the office of the town constable until 1968. Halls at Wolseley and Arcola have also been designated heritage properties. The hall at Wolseley is still used as a community hall and hosts weddings and other events, while the one in Arcola houses a restaurant and bar. At Craik, the main floor is used for the regional library and local history room while the opera house is used in the summer for performances and functions.

the small town opera house could tip the balance. “Building something like a town hall is an important step for a community,” said McWilliams. “It very rarely has anything to do with whether the community can afford it or not. It has more to do with what the community wants to say about itself, or how confident they are in who they are as a community or how they want to portray themselves as a community.” Some towns used local stone to build their opera houses, while others used brick, often locally made. There were several brick works in Saskatchewan at that time. “There was certainly a lot of sandstone in some of the more monumental buildings,” said McWilliams. “Some are made of timber frame and faced with brick while others were made solely from timber.” The opera houses were generally on the top floor because of the potential for higher ceilings. Council chambers and town offices were usually located on the main floor, and some had space that stores and businesses could lease. Police departments were usually in the basement, and fire departments were sometimes incorporated into the design. The Qu’Appelle town hall opera house had a fire hall at one time with access on either side of the building. Horse drawn fire engines could come in one side and go out the other. The hall at Wolseley had an extra tower that was used to dry the fire hoses. A plan for a small town hall opera house, published in the Western Municipal News in 1910, included

The Prairies generally, and Saskatchewan specifically, was part of the last wave of town hall opera house building in North America. IAN MCWILLIAMS RESEARCHER

rooms in the basement that later were used for the telephone exchange. “The Prairies generally, and Saskatchewan specifically, was part of the last wave of town hall opera house building in North America,” said McWilliams. “After World War One, Canadian town halls were built with a greater focus on administrative functions, with other functions (police, fire protection, theatre space) being moved out into their own, separate buildings.” Travelling opera companies operated in that era and their performances were well attended, but many other performers, both touring and local, also tread the boards in those opera houses. McWilliams said the opera house at Qu’Appelle was just one example. “After harvest in the fall till Lent started in the spring, there was at least one event a week and sometimes, around Christmas, you’d be having trouble booking space,” he said. “Behind every place and every space there’s usually a story about

people that’s worth remembering and finding out more about. When you find out about these places, you find out more about your community and who you are.” In the era that he is studying, Amy Blanche Pott and her husband were poultry farmers in the Qu’Appelle area. Pott was also a prolific writer and director of musical extravaganzas, at least one per year, with casts of up to 50. Lilyan Ramsey is also remembered for producing shows. “One of the biggest frustrations of my research is finding hints of these wonderful, locally produced shows but not having a script that survived to read what exactly they did,” McWilliams said. “But you can glean a lot from the reviews and the descriptions of what they put on, and it’s amazing.” Angelica and John Francis Guerin arrived in Canada from England around 1888. She was a student of acting and elocution, while he had amateur theatrical experience and was also a dental surgeon. They made Whitewood their base and toured the northwest putting on plays popular in England. In his research, McWilliams repeatedly found newspaper advertisements for their performances in opera halls that included the notation: “Tooth extraction before performance.” A few of those original town hall opera houses are still standing in Saskatchewan. Interest is growing to restore them, but the challenge is to bring them up to modern day building codes. Battleford is working on a restoration

The town hall opera house in Prince Albert is an arts centre. How successful were the town hall opera houses in helping ambitious young settlements to realize that goal? “They preceded an era of growth,” said McWilliams. “Sometimes they were at the whim of other forces. If the railroad decided you wouldn’t be a main stop or the line would divert around your town, that had a lot more to say about how big your town would grow (than anything else). If you were close to a city which grew very quickly, your town may have been overshadowed by it. I won’t say they didn’t have an impact, but there were definitely other factors.”

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NEWS DEVON CATTLE | PRODUCTION

Producer looks to Devon to build grass-fed herd New Zealand origins | Ontario farmer says the Devon breed is known for its ability to produce tender beef on grass alone BY JEFFREY CARTER FREELANCE WRITER

Devons are recognized for milk production with higher levels of solids and fat. | JEFFREY CARTER PHOTOS

GLENCOE, Ont. — An old cattle breed could become the foundation for a new agricultural industry in North America: grass-fed beef. At least that’s how people who have invested in Devon cattle hope things play out. “The Devon breed has features that are not present in any other breed I am aware of and they need to be kept pure and treasured for what they are,” says Arizona cattle consultant Gearald Fry. Fry went to New Zealand in 2002 to look for cattle with the desired genetics for grass-fed production. He found Angus, Murray Grey and Devon herds with what he considered to be the right body type. The New Zealand Angus cattle were viewed as a non-starter, given the proliferation of feedlot Angus in North America. Some Murray Grey cattle were imported, but it was the Devon herd developed by Ken McDowell over 30

What’s happening today is they’re putting ordinary cattle on grass and calling it grass-fed beef. All that does is make the meat tough. If you want good grass-fed beef, you need to do it with the genetics as well as management. GEARALD FRY, ARIZONA CATTLE CONSULTANT

years that has captured the imagination of grass-fed enthusiasts. Fry said there are now 17 purebred herds with McDowell’s Rotokawa bloodline in the United States and Canada and perhaps 500 to 700 purebreds in total. With 25 pureblood and crossed animals, Stewart Simpson of Ontario may have the largest Devon herd in Canada. He said Devon cattle, traditionally known as the butcher’s breed, are renowned for their ability to produce quality beef on grass alone. “What’s happening today is they’re putting ordinary cattle on grass and calling it grass-fed beef,” he said.

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Old River Farm owner Stewart Simpson of Glencoe, Ont., is four years into a 10 year plan to re-introduce the Devon breed to Canada. “Their front legs are wide apart. That means they have a good heart. They’re able to pump their blood and so they’re better able to digest grass.” Greg Trimble of Rockin J Ranch in Arkansas, who provided Vanderpol with his genetics, said the Devon’s reputation is deserved but there are limits. “There is an issue on how to finish these cattle that’s important,” he said. “You can finish them on grass, but you need high quality grass. You need grass with a lot of starch.” Trimble said the challenge is to

develop a sufficient level of back fat, which goes hand in hand with the intramuscular fat that is important to flavour and tenderness. The ultimate test, of course, is the barbecue, and Trimble has considerable experience with the DevonAngus cross cattle he has finished. “In my opinion, the meat is outstanding. I’ve cooked inch-and-a-half sirloin steaks on the grill and when I’ve taken them off they’ve been falling apart, they’re that tender.” He said the reports and studies he’s read have convinced him that

grass-fed beef is a healthier choice with a better fatty acid profile and a higher level of antioxidants. Simpson’s plan is to build his purebred numbers by placing embryos from purebred cows in recipient cows. He will use either Devon-crossed animals or select candidates from other breeds able to foster their calves with an adequate supply of quality milk. “Devon milk is higher in butterfat and solids. That’s just how they bred them all those many years ago.” Fry said McDowell’s breed selec-

tions are focused on confirmation and multiple traits. He said the proper grass-fed regimen is to wean after 10 months instead of the seven months used for feedlot calves, or when the mother finally pushes its calf away. This allows the calf to reach its full performance potential. “That is monumental to people who want to survive in the grass-fed business,” he said. “The feedlots will not want a calf to be too efficient because the feedlot business is about selling you a ration,

not producing prime beef.” Devon cattle are likely descended from bos lonqifrons, a smaller type of aboriginal cattle in Britain. It developed in southwestern England, largely in the counties of Devon and Somerset. While originally known as a dual-purpose breed, today’s Devons, which should not be confused with the larger and lighter coloured South Devon, are primarily used for beef production. Typical mature cows weigh approximately 1,300 pounds, while typical bulls weigh more than 2,000 lb.

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SOIL CONSERVATION | CARBON FOOTPRINT RATING

Implement maker receives carbon certification Carbon Trust | Certification from British company allows Seed Hawk to apply carbon footprint decals on its equipment BY RON LYSENG WINNIPEG BUREAU

A Saskatchewan Research Council audit has determined that use of Seed Hawk machines merits Carbon Trust certification because of the company’s small carbon footprint. Carbon Trust is an independent company in the United Kingdom that assesses the carbon footprint by all types of activities. With the certification, Seed Hawk can apply a footprint decal logo to

its 45 and XL series tool bars, with and without sectional control. The 30 series will also receive the big footprint logo, which signifies certification. The Carbon Trust endorsement does not relate to the buying and selling of carbon credits, said Seed Hawk founder Pat Beaujot. He said carbon credits farmers might earn through zero till relates to soil management and not to the specific seeding equipment used on the land. “This Carbon Trust certification is intended to be used as a communi-

cations tool to help farmers tell mainstream society about their notill environmental initiatives,” he said. “For us, this is the first step in our overall plan to help no-till farmers inform society that their initiatives are friendly to the environment. Society is asking, the consumer is asking, about the carbon footprint of a loaf of bread or any other food product they buy. “Well, no-till farmers have a very positive response for mainstream society. I wanted to help farmers tell

that story. That’s what this Carbon Trust logo is all about for us.” He said Seed Hawk is next planning to help no-till farmers figure out how much carbon they sequester on their farms. “We need to document carbon sequestering, but we also need to document the reduction in fuel used in no-till farming. That’s another carbon footprint aspect of no-till farming society needs to understand.” There was a cost involved in contracting with SRC to study the Seed

Hawk operation. Although the documentation pertained specifically to their Langbank factory, Beaujot concedes the end result of the Carbon Trust certification will benefit all zero-till farmers, regardless of which brand of drill they have. And, it will also benefit all manufacturers of zero-till seeding equipment. “You know, I can live with that. This whole certification is somewhat of a goodwill gesture. It’s not going to put a lot of money in the bank for us, but it says what our company is all about.”

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Saskatchewan Research Council lead researcher Monique Wismer said her team looks at two different components when it studies carbon footprints. “First we look at the manufacturing of the farm implement. We study the energy and the materials that go into building an implement. “Then we look at the actual use of that implement on the soil over a 20 year life span.” She said the criteria requires a thorough footprint audit starting with the raw steel at the mill and extending through every step until the implement arrives at the farmgate. “We didn’t compare Seed Hawk to any of the other manufacturers. But we do know that Seed Hawk has sectional control technology.” She said that should have a positive effect on farmers’ carbon footprint documentation because it reduces the number of passes over each specific piece of ground. Wismer said the Seed Hawk exercise was the first Carbon Trust eco-label the SRC has obtained for a client. At the end of the 12 month study, Seed Hawk rated a star and a big carbon footprint logo from Carbon Trust, an independent company in the United Kingdom that rates the environmental impact of various activities. Seed Hawk is the first farm implement manufacturer in the world to get its certification from the Carbon Trust rating system, said Seed Hawk founder Pat Beaujot.

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IMPORTS | CHICKEN PRODUCTS

Importers circumvent tariff rules Duties Relief Program | Imports improperly sold in Canada as chicken products BY BARRY WILSON OTTAWA BUREAU

Importers have found ingenious ways to skirt triple-digit tariffs for chicken products coming into Canada’s protected supply managed system, government documents show. Some of the imported product improperly finds its way into the domestic market and costs Canada’s poultry industry tens of millions of dollars in lost market share. And according to an exchange of letters between senior Canadian Border Services Agency and Finance Canada officials in 2012, Canadian taxpayers could potentially be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in tariff rebates to companies suspected of breaking the rules. “To provide you with some context, one application that we recently received estimates that the company’s average monthly duties (on imported chicken) to be remitted will be $2.36 million, or $28.3 million annually,” CBSA tariff, origin and valuation division director Anne Kline complained to Finance Canada international trade policy official Patrick Halley. “On average, the CBSA currently relieves just $155 million annually for all 260 participants in the Duties Relief Program.” Chicken Farmers of Canada execu-

tive director Mike Dungate said the federal government may recognize the problem, but chicken imports are still getting into the Canadian market around protective tariffs. “We have been told they are working on this and something will be done,” he said. “We’re still hopeful, but we haven’t seen it yet and it still is impacting industry revenues and the bottom line.” Ottawa researcher Ken Rubin used access to information laws to obtain the emails and letters outlining details of the internal government debate over the issue. It is a complicated story that involves two federal programs created to deal with product importers. The Import for Re-Export Program allows importers to bring in goods tariff-free if they are to be used in a product that will be quickly exported. The program is administered by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. The Duties Relief Program, operated by the CBSA, pays back import duty costs to eligible companies importing parts to be included in export products. In her letter to finance department officials, Kline said there is evidence that some companies using the import to re-export program have been adding water and weight as a chicken substitute in export products

so they can divert imported chicken into the more lucrative domestic market. “(Foreign affairs) has also suspended multiple companies from the IREP for fraudulent activities and then have recommended to the suspended clients that they apply for the Duties Relief Program without any notification to the CBSA,” she wrote. “Therefore, we are extremely concerned that (foreign affairs) is shifting their IREP issues to the CBSA.” She complained that the agency’s duty relief program was not created to deal with products covered by supply management import restrictions. Increased duty rebates as well as the need to increase monitoring of companies using the program will increase costs and could lead to a budget increase request, she suggested. Chicken Farmers of Canada has been complaining for years about imports improperly sold in Canada as chicken products. CFC used last year’s federal-provincial agriculture ministers’ meeting in Halifax to highlight the growing issue of spent fowl from the United States being improperly sold as a fresh chicken product after it crosses the border tariff-free. Dungate said misuse of the importto-re-export program has been a problem for years.

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RESEARCH | SWATH GRAZING

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LACOMBE, Alta. — The heavy snow fall in Western Canada may make it difficult for pregnant beef cows to graze cereal crop swaths. In some cases, producers may have to use a tractor and blade to remove snow beside the swaths so cows can gain access. It’s one option researchers have been studying at Agriculture Canada’s research centre in Lacombe. “This fall, ‘bunker’ triticale was swathed into windrows as large as possible,” said Vern Baron, a forage and grazing scientist at the centre. “This helped consolidate the crop into big swaths so that the cows could easily access them under the snow.” He said researchers have also used portable electric fences at right angles across swaths to limit access to about three days worth of feed, which forced cows to clean up the area before the fence was moved. “If cows have access to a whole quarter section, then they will concentrate on eating all the grain heads at the start of the grazing season and be left with stems and leaves for the remainder of the winter,” he said. “This can lead to energy deficiencies, especially in sub zero weather. In addition, by using the electric

fence, cows are basically checked every two to three days during extreme weather conditions.” In the winter of 2010-11, cows had to graze under conditions of higher than average snow depth and cold conditions, which resulted in thinner than desirable cows across the Prairies. “You don’t want to let them get below a body condition score of 2.5 to 2.8 on a system where really fat cows score five,” he said. “This winter, the snow conditions are worse: deeper and with layers of crust, ice and soft snow. It takes at least 20 percent more energy to maintain weight under winter grazing conditions compared to feeding in confinement. This winter it could be more.” Baron said larger herd sizes and increased grazing intensity can help cows gain swath access and save energy, but it means moving the electric wire more often. As well, he said higher forage quality is better than lower quality under these snow and weather conditions, as long as producers control grazing with an electric wire. “We found that cows that graze corn (with a digestibility of 68 percent ) maintain body weight better than cows that graze triticale (with a digestibility of 62 percent) during cold winters,” he said. “The cows need to be able to con-

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sume more triticale than corn each day to maintain the same body weight. Cows need to consume more feed daily as they get closer to calving.” He said the centre’s 1,500 pound cows need 12 megacalories of energy per day to maintain weight in November and 15 Mcal at calving in late March. Dry matter (DM) intake is restricted because of fetal growth, which means the cows’ average intake may allow only an average consumption of 13 Mcal of energy during late winter grazing. “This is between 22 to 28 lb of feed DM intake each day for each cow

depending on forage quality, not including wastage, which is hard to get below 20 percent, especially during heavy snow fall years,” he said. He added that it is hard for cows not to lose weight and quality forage can enable them to remain on the inexpensive winter swaths longer. These daily requirements come with a margin of error because of cow age, size, stage of pregnancy, weather conditions and the fact that weathering deteriorates forage quality throughout the winter. A three year study at Lacombe is designed to assess forage quality losses among swathed and standing species that can be used for winter grazing. Previous research at the centre has shown that it is beneficial to provide bedding for cows on swath grazing. Cow that were not bedded lay on the swaths, where they defecated. As well, cows that weren’t bedded started to graze before sunrise, while cows in bedded areas remained on the bedding long after sunrise and defecated in that area rather than on the swaths. Defecation by non-bedded cows resulted in 20 to 25 percent more swath waste. As well, bedded cows ate the straw fines and chaff in the bedding for added nutrition. Lacombe researchers also stressed that producers should provide a windbreak shelter and a well balanced free choice mineral ration to cows that are swath grazing. “We looked at the number of acres of each crop required to winter 100 pregnant beef cows for 100 days and found it required 111 acres of grass, 39 acres of barley, 34 acres of oats, 29 acres of corn or 22 acres of spring triticale,” he said. “All of these options were still significantly more economical than hauling stored feed to a feeding area as a winter feeding strategy.

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WILL CANADA DEVELOP CANOLA BIODIESEL? A federal mandate in 2011 required two percent of all fuel sold to contain renewable fuels. What is in store for the biofuel industry and what impact will it have on agriculture? | BY SEAN PRATT, SASKATOON NEWSROOM

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CANOLA OIL TRIED IN DIESEL ENGINES EDMONTON (Staff ) —The main obstacle to the widespread use of vegetable oils as a motor fuel is the cost, the Canadian Society of Agricultural Engineers has been told. A scientific paper presented at the society’s annual meeting here detailed experiments done with canola oil. Three researchers, R.C. Strayer and R. G. Chopiuk of the University of Saskatchewan, and E.E. Coxworth of the Saskatchewan Research Council, exper imented w ith degummed canola oil in two diesel engines. The oil was used in a 50-50 mix with diesel oil and alone in a small stationary engine and in a John Deere diesel engine.

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estern Canada’s stagnant biodiesel industry finally shifted into gear in 2013 with the commissioning of two large-scale plants in Alberta. Kyoto Fuels Corp. was the first off the starting line, firing up the plant Sept. 28. It is a 66 million litre multifeedstock facility. Then came the big daddy. Archer Daniels Midland opened its 265 million litre canola biodiesel plant later in the year in Lloydminster, Alta. “ It h a s b e e n a g re a t y e a r f o r biodiesel in Western Canada,” said Ian Thomson, president of the Western Canada Biodiesel Association. “We now finally have a really good

production base. B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan all have viable production of biodiesel, and that’s great news for an industry that has been years in the making.” Until this year, the biggest operation on the Prairies was Milligan Biofuels Inc.’s 20 million litre plant in Foam Lake, Sask. Western Canada had a paltry 42 million litres of production to meet its 330 million litre share of Canada’s 600 million litre mandate. The federal government’s two percent mandate implemented July 1, 2011, was being met largely through States. It was not what the Canola Council of Canada envisioned when it threw its considerable weight be-

hind the industry. In 2007, the council established a series of goals to meet by 2015. Many of those goals, such as 15 million tonnes of canola production and 45 percent oil average oil content in the seed, have been met well ahead of schedule. However, the goal for the biodiesel industry to use 2.5 million tonnes of canola a year appears tough to attain. The two new Alberta plants would use an estimated 680,000 tonnes of canola if they were running flat out and canola was the only feedstock. However, Kyoto intends to also use animal tallow and alternative crops such as carinata and camelina, so consumption would be smaller than that. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Rick White, president of the Canadian Canola Growers Association, said the 2.5 million tonne target was based on what appears to be a false assumption. “Our projections were predicated on having a five percent national mandate here in Canada, which we were hoping would further spur investment and the build-out of biodiesel production.” Excess production capacity in the U.S. at the same time that Canadian projects were hoping to attract investment didn’t help. Thomson said the biodiesel industry has had its share of struggles. “Despite the mandates being in place, the financial markets have been challenging since 2008,” he said. “It has just taken a number of projects longer than they had anticipated to get the full financing and to actually get the plants operational.” There has also been disappointment with federal incentive programs. Kyoto, Milligan and Speedway International Inc. were the only successful prairie-based biodiesel applicants in the ecoEnergy for Biofuels program. A fire shut down the

Speedway plant in Winnipeg in 2012. Kyoto president Kelsey Prenevost said his plant was also delayed by the quality demands of Canadian biodiesel buyers. They wanted a fuel that was superior in quality to the industry standard ASTM fuel, which caused engineering delays in construction. “It was an extra level of fun,” he said. Prenevost is proud that the plant is finally up and running and helping meet Canada’s federal and provincial mandates. “We wish there would have been other players involved, but there’s the two of us and we’re able to satisfy our western portion (of the federal mandate), so I think we’re doing pretty good,” he said.

The company is already contemplating raising another $40 million to build a second plant adjacent to the first one. J.P. Montalvo, manager of the ADM facility, said the plant will consume oil produced from 600,000 acres of canola. “It does open up another market for western Canadian canola growers to be able to move their product into,” he said. Montalvo said it is a substantive and stable market in the heartland of Canadian canola production and one that is not subject to the whims and costs of international trade. He said the plant will be global in scale and compete in export markets as well as meeting provincial and

federal mandates in Canada. “The capacity is actually greater than what the Prairies will consume, so we do have an opportunity to be an exporter as well,” said Montalvo. Thomson said Western Canada’s biodiesel industry is built out as much as it needs to be right now. “We are talking with provincial governments about how to create a larger market for biodiesel made in Western Canada,” he said. There doesn’t appear to be much of an appetite for a five percent mandate at the federal level, based on recent comments by federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz. He recently told reporters the government has invested all it is going to

in the biofuel sector and that the industry is as large as it’s going to get. Ritz expressed his disappointment over the lack of farmer investment in biofuel plants and said there is little desire in Ottawa for increasing mandates. White hasn’t given up hope. The canola and biodiesel industries are in discussions with the western provinces and Ontario about boosting their provincial mandates. “That’s how the two percent came to be. It was driven by the provincial governments (implementing) the mandates ahead of the federal government,” he said. “We’re hoping they will lead the way forward to the five percent as well.”

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WORLD IN BRIEF FOOD SAFETY

New food scandal plagues China SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) — China has held seven people in southern Guangdong province for injecting dirty pond water into lamb meat to swell its weight and raise its price. It is the latest food scandal to hit the world’s second largest economy. The suspects slaughtered up to 100 sheep per day at an illegal warehouse, pumping bacteria-ridden water into the meat before it was sold at markets, food stalls and restaurants in major cities such as Guangzhou and Foshan, reported China Central Television. China has recently been hit by food safety scandals such as deadly chemi-

cal-laced dairy products and recycled “gutter oil” used for cooking. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, recently apologized after a Chinese supplier of donkey meat snacks was found to have mixed fox meat into the product. Authorities raided the illegal lamb meat abattoir in Guangdong at the end of December, finding 30 carcasses injected with water, 335 live sheep, forged inspection stamps and equipment to inject water into the meat, the report showed. Each sheep was pumped with up to six kilograms of water just after being slaughtered to add extra weight. Close to 40 percent of Chinese consumers think food safety is a “very big problem,” the Pew Research Centre said in a 2013 report. This has weighed on Chinese firms from milk powder makers to

meat producers and boosted international rivals. Late in December, China said it would tighten milk powder rules in a move to boost confidence in domestic producers and allay longstanding fears around food safety in its $12.4 billion infant formula market. KFC parent Yum Brands Inc., McDonald’s Corp., French grocery chain Carrefour SA and other global firms have been caught up in food safety scares in China. INSECTICIDE RESEARCH

Neonics linked to brain development problems LONDON, U.K. (Reuters) — European health authorities have warned that two insecticides may

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Chinese corn import estimate cut 30 percent BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s corn imports in the year to September are expected to fall 30 percent short of a previous estimate. The forecast followed Beijing’s rejection of U.S. cargoes because of the presence of an unapproved genetically modified strain. Lower overseas purchases by the world’s second largest consumer of the grain could further drag on Chicago Board of Trade corn prices, which plunged almost 40 percent in 2013. China is expected to import 4.4 million tonnes of corn in the current marketing year, down from last month’s estimate of 6.6 million, said the Shanghai JC Intelligence Co. Ltd., an influential private consulting firm. China, which imported 2.7 million tonnes of corn in the previous marketing year, has rejected 600,000 tonnes of the U.S. grain since November. The rejection has prompted traders to either cancel or delay shipments bound to China. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has pegged China’s 2013-14 corn imports at a record seven million tonnes. However, the lack of resolution on MIR 162, a GM variety developed by Syngenta AG but not approved for import by China’s agriculture ministry, suggested imports could be considerably smaller. The United States supplies nearly all of China’s imported corn.

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Herbicide sales boost Monsanto’s bottom line (Reuters) — Monsanto has reported better-than-expected firstquarter earnings as higher herbicide sales offset a decline in its corn business. Analysts lauded the company’s performance, saying it had a good balance of the high-margin herbicide business and advancements in its seed business. “The ag productivity segment carried the day this quarter in terms of where most of the earnings growth came from,” said Edward Jones analyst Matt Arnold. “But the seed business did fine. We definitely applaud them. They are intelligently focusing on where they can win.” Monsanto said it was seeing strong early seed orders for spring planting in the United States. “The first quarter demonstrated that our business performance is squarely on track with several key milestones, and that we have the right growth strategy in place,” said Monsanto chair Hugh Grant. The company confirmed its earnings guidance for the 2014 fiscal year, saying it expects to earn $5 to $5.20 a share. Full-year earnings, on an as-reported basis, is expected to be $5.02 to $5.22 per share. Monsanto officials reaffirmed free cash flow in the range of $600 to $800 million for 2014.

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RESEARCH | GMO

GM wheat moving closer to market: Monsanto Roundup Ready variety expected to be first | Company is also researching drought hardiness and pest resistance (Reuters) — Monsanto says it is making good progress developing a herbicide-tolerant wheat variety. The company has long tried to bring to market a genetically modified wheat variety that tolerates glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. “The grain industry and the wheat industry ... have remained very interested and supportive of biotech advances,” said Robb Fraley, Monsanto’s chief technology officer. “A wheat farmer is also generally a corn and soybean farmer and they understand the benefits of the technology.” Fraley said Monsanto is still “several years away” from a GM wheat product launch. GM wheat is not commercially available despite several companies having researched it for a number of years. Monsanto shelved an earlier version of an experimental herbicidetolerant wheat in 2004 amid widespread market concern that foreign buyers would boycott U.S. wheat if it were genetically modified similar to corn and soybeans. Controversy erupted again in May when the U.S. Department of Agriculture said an Oregon farmer had

found the Roundup Ready wheat growing in his field, despite the fact the experimental grain should have been destroyed or stored away. South Korea and Japan temporarily halted purchases of U.S. wheat after the announcement because of fears the unapproved GM wheat might have contaminated U.S. wheat supplies. Farmers sued Monsanto, accusing it of failing to protect the U.S. wheat market from contamination by its unauthorized grain. The USDA said it determined the Oregon discovery

was an isolated situation. Monsanto has acknowledged continuing market hurdles but said attitudes were changing. Officials said the herbicide-tolerant wheat performed well enough in field testing to move from the “proof of concept” phase to early development work. The project is one of 29 that Monsanto said made “phase advancements” across many research and development platforms. The company said it is also progressing on work to make crops more

drought hardy and more pest and disease resistant. It is also working on a new combination of GM crops and herbicide chemistry to control weeds that have become resistant to its Roundup herbicide. That new Xtend herbicide-tolerant cropping system incorporates a chemistry combination of glyphosate and dicamba. Monsanto said it sees a global market opportunity of more than 100 million acres for its Xtend system. It is racing against its rivals to roll out

systems that encourage farmers to use herbicide-tolerant crops with specific herbicides. The company said it is also advancing research on improved tomatoes, lettuce and peppers. As well, it is pushing ahead on what it calls biologicals, which uses microbials in ways that can make plants more resistant to disease and insects and improve yields. Monsanto sees its work in biologicals helping improve the health of bees, which are crucial to the pollination of many crops.

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GENETIC MODIFICATION | EUROPE

U.K. farm minister wants EU to approve GM corn European Union members to vote this month | Countries sharply divided over the production of genetically modified crops OXFORD, U.K. (Reuters) — Britain’s farm minister wants the European Union to approve a strain of genetically modified corn later this month, saying such a move was supported by scientific evidence. “If approval is granted ... then it will be the first GM food crop authorized for planting by the EU for 15 years,” Owen Paterson told the Oxford Farming Conference. “Europe risks becoming the Museum of World Farming as innovative companies make decisions to invest and develop new technologies in

other markets.” The proposal covers an insectresistant corn variety developed jointly by DuPont and Dow Chemical. If approved, it would be the second GM crop to be grown in the EU after Monsanto won approval for an insect-resistant corn variety in 1998. By comparison, GM crops are grown widely in North and South America and parts of Asia. “Whether or not this vote heralds a breakthrough in the EU’s regulation of GM crops remains to be seen,” Paterson said.

“Delays and blockages have been politically motivated rather than based on evidence.” The European Commission said it was duty bound to propose a vote after Europe’s second-highest court censured the EU executive in September for lengthy delays in the approval process, first launched in 2001. Senior EU diplomats from the bloc’s 28 member countries will put the proposal to a vote sometime before the end of the month. A weighted majority would be needed

for approval. France, Austria and Italy are among c o u nt r i e s e x p e c t e d t o o p p o s e approval, while supporters are likely to include Britain, Sweden and Spain. “Let me be clear, there are other tools in the toolbox. GM is not a panacea,” Paterson said. “But the longer that Europe continues to close its doors to GM, the greater the risk that the rest of the world will bypass us altogether.” In one example, BASF decided two years ago to move its BASF Plant Sci-

ence headquarters from Germany to the United States and stop the development of GM varieties for commercialization in Europe. Europe’s second-highest court last month overturned a decision by the EC to allow the cultivation and sale of a GM potato developed by BASF. It is no longer grown in Europe after BASF withdrew it in 2012. “The ruling underscores that it was the right decision in January 2012 to focus our plant biotechnology activities on markets with future relevance,” BASF said last month.

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(Reuters) — The U.S. government will fund more than $450,000 in research projects to reduce the use of pesticides that may harm honeybees. A total of $459,264 will be divided among Louisiana State University, Penn State University and the University of Vermont to develop practices that reduce the use of potentially harmful pesticides, the Environmental Protection Agency said. Bee populations have been dying over the past few years at a rate the U.S. government says is unsustainable. Honeybees pollinate plants that produce about a quarter of the food consumed by Americans. Some scientists, consumer groups and beekeepers say the devastating rate of bee deaths is the result of the growing use of pesticides designed to boost yields of staple crops such as corn. However, the companies that make the chemicals argue that the bees are being killed by other factors, such as mites. The Louisiana State University project is focused on minimizing the impact of insecticides used for mosquito control. The University of Vermont project focuses on reducing pesticide use and improving pest control while increasing crop yields on 75 acres of hops in the Northeast. The project’s goal is to reduce herbicide and fungicide applications by 50 percent while decreasing downy mildew, a plant disease. The Pennsylvania State University project is exploring the benefits of growing crops without relying on neonicotinoid pesticide seed treatments, which are a chief suspect in honeybee deaths.

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Owners of planned horse slaughter plant to sue for slander New Mexico state attorney general ‘defamed industry’ (Reuters) — Owners of a planned horse slaughterhouse in New Mexico have filed notice of their plan to sue the state attorney general for slander over his efforts to block the plant from opening. The proposed plant would be the first such facility to operate in the United States in years. Last month, state attorney general Gary King sued and secured a temporary restraining order against Valley Meat Co., which had planned to convert its cattle slaughterhouse in Roswell to one processing horse meat beginning Jan. 1. Characterizing King’s lawsuit as a libelous act of political grandstanding, an attorney for Valley Meat said the company would likely seek several million dollars in damages in a suit it plans to file next month. The lawsuit will claim slander, harassment and malicious abuse of process, according to the letter of intent. “He defamed a whole product and a whole industry,” said lawyer A. Blair Dunn. “My clients are not horrible environmental actors like he’s trying to claim.” The move is the latest in an ongoing legal battle that has pitted opponents of horse slaughter against an industry fighting to regain a foothold in the United States. A spokesperson for King dismissed the lawsuit as frivolous and insisted it would not sway his boss from fighting to keep the facility from opening. “We’ve taken a very strong stand against horse slaughter in New Mexico and this lawsuit appears to be an attempt to intimidate,” said Phil Sisneros. “We’re not giving up.” King’s lawsuit said Valley Meat had a long history of violating state environmental rules, including leaving piles of cattle carcasses to rot. It also asserts that many horses are administered scores of drugs while alive, and their meat is likely unsuitable for human consumption and in violation of state food safety laws. Dunn counters that the horses, whose meat would be sold as zoo animal feed in the United States and for human consumption in parts of Europe and Asia, would be taken off drugs before slaughter and given time to flush the substances from their system. The piles of rotting cattle described in the suit comprised at least 80 percent manure and were in fact compost piles, he added. Dunn said the Valley Meat facility would be equipped to slaughter 120 horses a day. The company would buy unwanted horses at auction and from the stock of free-roaming horses of domestic ancestry on Native American tribal lands. Congress effectively banned horse slaughter in 2006 by barring the U.S. Department of Agriculture from spending money to inspect the plants. The ban had been extended a year at a time as part of USDA funding bills, but the language was omitted in 2011. A federal appeals court in Colorado

last month vacated a temporary ban on USDA inspections at slaughterhouse facilities, ruling against animal protection groups seeking to block aspiring horse slaughter facilities from opening. The restraining order the attorney general secured against Valley Meat in a New Mexico court remains in effect.

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AG NOTES WATER PROJECTS FUNDED New program funding of $2.4 million a year will help farmers and food processors upgrade their water infrastructure and prepare for events in which water storage will directly affect their businesses. The partnership is between the federal and Manitoba governments over the next five years. The Growing Adaptation Program will finance water infrastructure projects and studies on water management. Examples include: • Helping an expanding food processing facility receive access to a main-line pipeline or increase local potable water storage. • Assisting a municipality build a well and provide non-potable water for producers during a drought.

• Helping municipalities study how best to ensure enough water is available for livestock producers. Project proposals must show how they will directly increase or sustain agriculture development or agriproduct processing. They will be assessed on the amount of water provided to agricultural users, the number of users effected, estimated value of agricultural products sustained and economic gauges such as the number of new or maintained rural jobs. CANADA AGRICULTURAL REVIEW TRIBUNAL CHAIR REAPPOINTED Donald Buckingham was recently reappointed to a three year term as chair of the Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal. CART helps Canadians request reviews of certain administrative decisions or penalties imposed under

agricultural legislation. It helps ensure that the administrative monetary penalty system is fair and efficient. Buckingham is accountable for CART’s daily operations, reporting to Parliament through the agriculture minister.

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The Canadian Agri-Business Education Foundation has announced that one its founding board members, Jennifer Christie, has been selected as a recipient of the Women’s Executive Network’s 2013 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards. In addition to being a co-founder of the Canadian Agri-Business Education Foundation, Christie is establishing a women’s agri-business network in southern Ontario and is a director of 4-H Canada. She was recently elected to mentor a board of

The Awards of Distinction for Equine Welfare are scheduled to be presented during the Saskatchewan Equine Expo in Saskatoon Feb. 15. They are sponsored by the Farm Animal Council of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Horse Federation. There are four nomination categories: • Equine welfare innovation • Equine welfare young steward of the future • Equine welfare leadership • Equine welfare communication and education

OPPORTUNITIES INCREASED FOR SOYBEAN EXPORTS Federal funding will help create export market opportunities for the soybean industry in Canada, particularly in Ontario. The $100,000 contribution will be used to create opportunities for Canadian soybeans in specialty markets by attending trade missions, conferences and trade shows. The European Union and Asia are areas of export growth. Canada exports more than $1 billion worth of soybeans a year to these regions. FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS STRENGTHENED Recent federal funding aims to enhance Canada’s food safety oversight system with increased consistency. The Canadian Supply Chain Food Coalition will use the $173,000 in funding to increase standard auditor competencies and qualifications so they are consistent with private and global levels of quality. The coalition will bring stakeholders together to develop a consistent approach to food safety auditing and certification.

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Fertilizer Equipment.................... 4112 Grain Augers ................................ 4115 Grain Bags/Equipment ................ 4116 Grain Carts ................................... 4118 Grain Cleaners ............................. 4121 Grain Dryers ................................. 4124 Grain Elevators ............................ 4127 Grain Testers ................................4130 Grain Vacuums............................. 4133 Harvesting & Haying Baling Equipment ......................4139 Mower Conditioners .................. 4142 Swathers ....................................4145 Swather Accessories .................4148 H&H Various .............................. 4151 Combines Belarus ....................................... 4157 Case/IH ..................................... 4160 CI ................................................4163 Caterpillar Lexion ......................4166 Deutz ..........................................4169 Ford/NH ..................................... 4172 Gleaner ...................................... 4175 John Deere ................................. 4178 Massey Ferguson ....................... 4181 Python........................................4184 Versatile ..................................... 4187 White..........................................4190 Various ....................................... 4193 Combine Accessories Combine Headers ......................4199 Combine Pickups .......................4202 Misc. Accessories ......................4205 Hydraulics ................................... 4208 Parts & Accessories ..................... 4211 Salvage....................................... 4214 Potato & Row Crop Equipment ................................. 4217 Repairs .........................................4220 Rockpickers ................................. 4223 Shop Equipment .......................... 4225 Snowblowers & Snowplows.................................4226 Silage Equipment ........................4229 Special Equipment ...................... 4232 Spraying Equipment PT Sprayers ................................4238 SP Sprayers................................ 4241 Spraying Various .......................4244 Tillage & Seeding Air Drills .....................................4250 Air Seeders ................................4253 Harrows & Packers ....................4256 Seeding Various.........................4259 Tillage Equipment .....................4262 Tillage & Seeding Various.....................................4265 Tractors Agco Agco ......................................... 4274 Allis/Deutz ............................... 4277 White ...................................... 4280 Belarus .......................................4283 Case/IH ..................................... 4286 Steiger......................................4289 Caterpillar ..................................4292 John Deere .................................4295 Kubota....................................... 4298 Massey Ferguson .......................4301 New Holland ............................. 4304 Ford ..........................................4307 Versatile...................................4310 Universal.................................... 4313 Zetor...........................................4316 Various Tractors ........................4319 Loaders & Dozers ......................... 4322 Miscellaneous ..............................4325 Wanted .........................................4328 Fencing ...........................................4400 Financing/Leasing ......................... 4450 Firewood .........................................4475 Fish & Fish Farming...... ................. 4500 Food Products .................................4525 Forestry / Logging Equipment ....... 4550 Fork Lifts & Pallet Trucks ...............4600 Fruit / Fruit Processing .................. 4605 Fur Farming .....................................4675 Generators ...................................... 4725 GPS .................................................4730 Green Energy................................... 4775 Health Care .................................... 4810 Health Foods ...................................4825 Heating & Air Conditioning ........... 4850 Hides, Furs, & Leathers ................. 4880 Hobbies & Handicrafts .................. 4885

Household Items............................ 4890 Iron & Steel .................................... 4960 Irrigation Equipment ..................... 4980 LANDSCAPING Greenhouses ............................... 4985 Lawn & Garden ........................... 4988 Nursery & Gardening Supplies .................. 4990 LIVESTOCK Bison/Buffalo Auction Sales ............................5000 Bison/Buffalo............................ 5001 Cattle Auction Sales ............................ 5005 Black Angus .............................. 5010 Red Angus ..................................5015 Belgian Blue.............................. 5030 Blonde d’Aquitaine ....................5035 Brahman ................................... 5040 Brangus ......................................5042 Braunvieh ..................................5047 Brown Swiss ............................. 5049 BueLingo ....................................5052 Charolais ....................................5055 Dexter........................................ 5065 Excellerator................................5067 Galloway ................................... 5070 Gelbvieh.....................................5075 Guernsey ................................... 5080 Hereford ....................................5090 Highland ................................... 5095 Holstein......................................5100 Jersey .........................................5105 Limousin .....................................5115 Lowline ...................................... 5118 Luing .......................................... 5120 Maine-Anjou .............................. 5125 Miniature ...................................5130 Murray Grey ............................... 5135 Piedmontese ..............................5160 Pinzgauer ................................... 5165 Red Poll .......................................5175 Salers ......................................... 5185 Santa Gertrudis .........................5188 Shaver Beefblend ...................... 5195 Shorthorn.................................. 5200 Simmental..................................5205 South Devon .............................. 5210 Speckle Park .............................. 5215 Tarentaise ..................................5220 Texas Longhorn .......................... 5225 Wagyu ........................................5230 Welsh Black................................ 5235 Cattle Various ............................5240 Cattle Wanted ............................5245 Cattle Events & Seminars .................................. 5247 Horses Auction Sales .............................5305 American Saddlebred ................5310 Appaloosa .................................. 5315 Arabian ......................................5320 Belgian ....................................... 5325 Canadian .................................... 5327 Clydesdale .................................5330 Donkeys ..................................... 5335 Haflinger ....................................5345 Holsteiner .................................. 5355 Miniature ...................................5365 Morgan ....................................... 5375 Mules......................................... 5380 Norwegian Fjord ........................5385 Paint.......................................... 5390 Palomino ....................................5395 Percheron ................................. 5400 Peruvian.................................... 5405 Ponies ....................................... 5408 Quarter Horse ............................ 5415 Shetland.....................................5420 Sport Horses ..............................5424 Standardbred............................ 5430 Tennessee Walker ......................5445 Thoroughbred ........................... 5450 Welsh .........................................5455 Horses Various.......................... 5460 Horses Wanted ..........................5465 Horse Events, Seminars.................. 5467 Horse Hauling ........................... 5469 Harness & Vehicles ....................5470 Saddles ...................................... 5475 Sheep Auction Sales .............................5505 Arcott .........................................5510 Columbia....................................5520

Dorper ........................................ 5527 Dorset ........................................5530 Katahdin.....................................5550 Lincoln ....................................... 5553 Suffolk....................................... 5580 Texel Sheep ................................5582 Sheep Various........................... 5590 Sheep Wanted............................5595 Sheep Events, Seminars................... 5597 Sheep Service, Supplies ...................................5598 Swine Auction Sales ............................ 5605 Wild Boars .................................5662 Swine Various ............................5670 Swine Wanted ............................ 5675 Swine Events, Seminars ..................5677 Poultry Baby Chicks ...............................5710 Ducks & Geese ...........................5720 Turkeys.......................................5730 Birds Various ............................. 5732 Poultry Various ..........................5740 Poultry Equipment..................... 5741 Specialty Alpacas ...................................... 5753 Deer............................................ 5757 Elk ..............................................5760 Goats .......................................... 5765 Llama .........................................5770 Rabbits....................................... 5773 Ratite: Emu, Ostrich, Rhea .................... 5775 Yaks ............................................5780 Events & Seminars..................... 5781 Specialty Livestock Equipment. ................................ 5783 Livestock Various ........................5785 Livestock Equipment .................. 5790 Livestock Services & Vet Supplies ..................................... 5792 Lost and Found .............................. 5800 Miscellaneous Articles................... 5850 Misc Articles Wanted ......................5855 Musical ............................................5910 Notices ............................................5925 Oilfield Equipment..........................5935 ORGANIC Certification Services ..................5943 Food .............................................5945 Grains...........................................5947 Livestock ..................................... 5948 Personal (prepaid) ......................... 5950 Personal Various (prepaid)................ 5952 Pest Control ................................... 5960 PETS Registered ....................................5970 Non Registered ............................ 5971 Working Dogs ...............................5973 Pets & Dog Events ........................ 5975 Photography .................................. 5980 Propane ..........................................6000 Pumps ............................................ 6010 Radio, TV & Satellites ....................6040 REAL ESTATE B.C. Properties .............................6110 Commercial Buildings/Land .......................... 6115 Condos/Townhouses ...................6120 Cottages & Lots ............................ 6125 Houses & Lots ..............................6126 Mobile Homes .............................. 6127 Ready To Move ............................. 6128 Resorts .........................................6129 Recreational Property .................6130 Farms & Ranches British Columbia........................ 6131 Alberta ....................................... 6132 Saskatchewan ............................ 6133 Manitoba ....................................6134 Pastures .....................................6136 Wanted .......................................6138 Acreages ....................................6139 Miscellaneous ........................... 6140 RECREATIONAL VEHICLES All Terrain Vehicles ...................... 6161 Boats & Watercraft ...................... 6162 Campers & Trailers ......................6164 Golf Cars ......................................6165 Motor Homes ...............................6166 Motorcycles ................................. 6167 Snowmobiles ...............................6168 Refrigeration .................................. 6180

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RENTALS & ACCOMMODATIONS Apartments & Houses ..................6210 Vacation Accommodations .......................6245 Restaurant Supplies .......................6320 Sausage Equipment ....................... 6340 Sawmills......................................... 6360 Scales ............................................. 6380 PEDIGREED SEED Cereal Seeds Barley ........................................ 6404 Corn...........................................6406 Durum ....................................... 6407 Oats ........................................... 6410 Rye .............................................6413 Triticale ......................................6416 Wheat .........................................6419 Forage Seeds Alfalfa.........................................6425 Annual Forage ........................... 6428 Clover .........................................6431 Grass Seeds .............................. 6434 Oilseeds Canola ...................................... 6440 Flax ........................................... 6443 Pulse Crops Beans ........................................ 6449 Chickpeas ..................................6452 Lentil ..........................................6455 Peas........................................... 6458 Specialty Crops Canary Seeds ............................ 6464 Mustard ......................................6467 Potatoes .................................... 6470 Sunflower...................................6473 Other Specialty Crops................. 6476 COMMON SEED Cereal Seeds ............................... 6482 Forage Seeds............................... 6485 Grass Seeds ................................ 6488 Oilseeds .......................................6491 Pulse Crops ................................. 6494 Various .........................................6497 Organic Seed ................. See Class 5947 FEED MISCELLANEOUS Feed Grain................................... 6505 Hay & Straw .................................6510 Pellets & Concentrates ................ 6515 Fertilizer...................................... 6530 Feed Wanted ............................... 6540 Seed Wanted ................................6542 Sewing Machines ............................6710 Sharpening Services ....................... 6725 Sporting Goods ...............................6825 Outfitters .....................................6827 Stamps & Coins .............................. 6850 Swap................................................6875 Tanks ...............................................6925 Tarpaulins .......................................6975 Tenders............................................7025 Tickets .............................................7027 Tires ............................................... 7050 Tools ............................................... 7070 Travel...............................................7095 Water Pumps...................................7150 Water Treatment ............................ 7200 Welding ...........................................7250 Well Drilling ................................... 7300 Winches.......................................... 7400 CAREERS Career Training .............................. 8001 Child Care....................................... 8002 Construction ..................................8004 Domestic Services .........................8008 Farm / Ranch .................................. 8016 Forestry / Logging .......................... 8018 Help Wanted .................................. 8024 Management ...................................8025 Mining .............................................8027 Oilfield ........................................... 8030 Professional ....................................8032 Sales / Marketing ...........................8040 Trades / Technical .......................... 8044 Truck Drivers .................................. 8046 Employment Wanted (prepaid) ..................................... 8050

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CESSNA 414, 9046 AFTT, engines Ram Series VI, 1048/482 TSO, 1057/471 TSO, S-Tec autopilot; PIPER Aztec C, 4280 AFTT, engines 1245/409 hrs. TSO, props 269/269 TSO, new paint and int. 2007; 3 TRAVEL AIRs, 1964, 1966 and 1968, former flight school aircraft, IFR cert.; BEAVER, 1959, converted from US military L-20A Model, 8184 AFTT, eng. 274 hrs. TSO, overhauled by Covington aircraft eng. 2007; PIPER Navajo, 8859 AFTT, Cleveland wheels and brakes, cargo door, Kannad ELT. 403-637-2250, Water Valley, AB.

Bonnie Ditto 1965 ~ 2013

April 3, 1965 – December 16, 2013 Bonnie passed away after a courageous battle with ALS. She is survived by her husband Rick, daughter Randi and son Eric; parents Arnold and Loretta Friesen; sister Cheryl (Steve) Bacon; grandmother Verna Twordik; father and mother-in-law Ken and Elsie Ditto; and special family friend Debbie Leier. Mass of Christian Burial took place on Thursday, December 19th at St. Patrick Parish Centre, Saskatoon, SK.

Donations to a charity of your choice. Arrangements were in care of Mourning Glory Funeral Services in Saskatoon, SK. 306-978-5200; www.mourningglory.ca Bonnie worked for The Western Producer for 29 years starting in a temporary steno position in the advertising department and most recently in the position of Publishing Systems Analyst. Starting in 2006, Bonnie took numerous evening classes through the University of Saskatchewan and proudly acquired a Business Administration Certificate in 2012, shortly after she was diagnosed with ALS.

JD 830, 820, H, A, AR, 3010 gas, Hart Parr FEDERAL 1850 SKIS, excellent, w/rigging, 1836, Cockshutt, IHC, Massey, Case, Ford. asking $1250. Call 306-247-4808, Unity, Model A chassis, T28 Chev, IHC motors, SK. IHC trucks. 306-627-3445, Blumenhof, SK. LYCOMING 0-290-D, 135 HP, 1100 SMOH, FWF c/w mount and exhaust, exc. 1939 9N FORD tractor, S/N 9N6508, 3 cond. Lethbridge, AB., 403-327-4582, spd. w/high-low, good paint/rubber, good running cond. 403-742-6592, Stettler, AB. 403-308-0062.

1959 CESSNA 172A, TTSN 1312.4, new dual channel radio w/dual intercom, transponder Mode C, new GPS mapping, clean inside and out, 8/10. 306-838-2131 or O L D M O T O R C Y C L E S O R PA R T S 306-460-8530, Kindersley, SK. WANTED, any condition, size or make. 1979 or older. Will pickup, pay cash. Call PERKINS POWERED DSL. airplane, tugger Wes 403-936-5572 anytime, all enquiries rated for 12.4 tonnes towing capacity, 274 answered. Calgary, AB. hrs., $10,500. 306-668-2020, Saskatoon, www.northtownmotors.com DL #908171. WANTED: 1958 PONTIAC or Chev 2 door 1977 CESSNA 182Q, 3246 TT, 430 SMOH, WIRELESS DRIVEWAY ALARMS, calving hardtop in restorable condition. Call Edo 2960s, Sportsman STOL, wing ext. barn cameras, backup cameras for RVs, 204-223-0923, Winnipeg, MB. 306-230-9258 or lcsharp@sasktel.net trucks and combines, etc. Home and shop Saskatoon, SK. video surveillance. View from any computer or Smart phone. Free shipping. Call 1973 S2R-600 THRUSH 8498 TT, geared 403-616-6610, Calgary, AB. WANTED: TRACTOR MANUALS, sales broengine with albatross prop., 804 SPOH, chures, tractor catalogs. 306-373-8012, 910 SMOH Covington, fresh annual, AC, Saskatoon, SK. metal tail, cool seat, Satloc 99, VGs, radio and more. Morden, MB., ph 204-362-0406, pembina.air@gmail.com WHEELOCK (NEW YORK Pianola) upright piano, refinished, good condition. Contact LYCOMING 0-320, 150/160 HP, excel306-735-7250, Whitewood, SK. lent condition, 2200 hours. 403-327-4582, 1948 JD D, complete, running, shedded, 403-308-0062, Lethbridge, AB. $2500 OBO. Located in Regina, SK. Email ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES, Piapot jackseitz@mac.com Phone 832-799-9008. Lions Club 15th Annual Show and Sale at 1991 RANS S-10 Sakota, midwing two place aerobatic taildragger, 304 TTAF, 583 BRITISH DORMAN DIESEL engine, 130 HP, Maple Creek Armories, Maple Creek, SK. Rotax, 90 HP, 110 MPH, inverted capa- used 18 hrs., early 1950’s, stored inside, Feb. 1, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Feb. 2, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Call 306-558-4802. bility, affordable aerobatics, $24,000 OBO. $7500. 306-854-2030, Elbow, SK. Call 306-625-3922, Ponteix, SK. ADRIAN’S MAGNETO SERVICE Guaran- O N E PA I R O F C r o c ke t t s p u r s . C a l l 150 HP FRANKLIN engine, 1146.32 hrs., teed repairs on mags and ignitors. Repairs. 403-901-1625, 403-325-0025 cell, Mosscomplete running, firewall forward, $1500 Parts. Sales. 204-326-6497. Box 21232, leigh, AB. Steinbach, MB. R5G 1S5. OBO. Call 780-812-1813, Bonnyville, AB.

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BORDER CITY COLLECTOR SHOW, Lloydminster Stockade Convention Centre, SK-AB, Sat. Mar. 8, 9AM to 6PM, Sun. Mar. 9, 10AM to 4PM, 2014. Featuring antiques, farm toys, coins and more! Mark your calendar now. Special this year, large model train display courtesy of the Edmonton Model Train Club. Must be seen. Brad: 780-846-2977, or Don: 306-825-3584.

CHOICE OF 2 ice resurfacers: Zamboni or Olympia, x-government, $17,500 - natural gas, $20,500 - propane. Call 306-668-2020 www.northtownmotors.com DL #908171.

22nd ANNUAL WINTER AUCTION, Sat., Jan. 25th, 2014, 9 AM. Nelson’s Auction Centre at Meacham, SK. Trucks: 2006 Ford F350. SUV’s: 2006 Pontiac Montana, 2001 GMC Yukon SLT. Cars: 2006 Chev Impala LS; 2006 Ford 500 SE; 1998 Chev Cavalier. Tools: Shop, yard, garden. House and yard furniture. Antiques and much, much, more. Consign now: 306-944-4320 or www.nelsonsauction.com PL #911669. Spring 2014 Upcoming Auctions: Sat., February 22: Antique and Collectibles Auction; Sat., April 19: 22nd Annual Spring Auction; Sat. May 3: Exotic Bird and Animal Auction.

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WRECKING LATE MODEL TRUCKS: 1/2 tons, 3/4 tons, 1 tons, 4x4’s, vans, SUV’s. Also large selection of Cummins diesel motors, Chevs and Fords as well. Phone Edmonton- 1-800-294-4784, or Calgary1-800-294-0687. We ship anywhere. We have everything, almost. 290 HP GM performance crate engine, 3 year 100,000 km. warranty, 5500 kms on engine, asking $1750; 4L60 transmission, 2 year 100,000 km warranty, 2500 kms on trans., $1250; Raider Low-rider fiberglass topper for Chevy shortbox stepside, $250. Call Brett 306-690-9844, Tuxford, SK. WRECKING VOLVO TRUCKS: Misc. axles and parts. Also tandem trailer suspension axles. 306-539-4642, Regina, SK. TRUCK BONEYARD INC. Specializing in obsolete parts, all makes. Trucks bought for wrecking. 306-771-2295, Balgonie, SK. ONE OF SASK’s largest inventory of used heavy truck parts. 3 ton tandem diesel motors and transmissions and differentials for all makes! Can Am Truck Export Ltd., 1-800-938-3323. DIESEL AND GAS ENGINES - Medium Duty. Cummins 5.9; Cat 3116; Ford 6.6- 6 cyl. w/auto. trans. Gas: IH 304, 345; Ford 370; GM 366TBI. Call Phoenix Auto, Lucky Lake, SK., 1-877-585-2300. H E AV Y D U T Y PA R T S o n s p e c i a l at www.Maximinc.Com/parts or call Maxim Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946. VS TRUCK WORKS Inc. Parting out GM 1/2 and 1 ton trucks. Call 403-972-3879, Gordon or Joanne, Alsask, SK. www.vstruckworks.com WRECKING SEMI-TRUCKS, lots of parts. Call Yellowhead Traders. 306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK.

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2012 LODE-KING PRESTIGE Super B bulkers, 24.5 steel wheels, 180 degree fenders, white with black slopes, $68,000. Call 306-460-7284, Kindersley, SK.

SLEEPERS AND DAYCABS. New and used. Huge inventory across Western Canada at 2- 2007 PRESTIGE LODE-KING Super B’s. www.Maximinc.Com or call Maxim Truck & One with new: paint, half round fenders, tarps, tires, safetied, $55,000; 2nd has flat Trailer, 1-888-986-2946. fenders, air ride, pup has some rust, safeC H E C K OUT OUR parts specials at: tied, $38,000. 403-952-0098, Burdett, AB. www.Maximinc.Com/parts or call Maxim 2011 PRECISION (DAKOTA), 48’ tri-axle Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946. grain trailer, 2 hopper, air ride, $32,000 SOUTHSIDE AUTO WRECKERS located OBO. 306-831-8757, Elrose, SK. Weyburn, SK., 306-842-2641. Used car CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used parts, light truck to semi-truck parts. We highway tractors, view information at buy scrap iron and non-ferrous metals. www.titantrucksales.com

MIDLAND CLAM GRAVEL trailer, 3 axle, spring ride, near new brakes, drums, tires, alum. rims, vg cond., $25,000. Can deliver. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. BEHNKE DROP DECK semi style and pintle hitch sprayer trailers. Air ride, tandem and tridems. Contact SK: 306-398-8000; AB: 403-350-0336. C H E C K OUT OUR parts specials at: www.Maximinc.Com/parts or call Maxim Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946.

2005 and 2003 ADVANCE TC406 alum. tankers, 34,000 liters, air ride VIPK, safetied, $38,500. 306-752-4909, Melfort, SK.

WRECKING TRUCKS: All makes all models. Need parts? Call 306-821-0260 or email: junkman.2010@hotmail.com Wrecking Dodge, Chev, GMC, Ford and others. Lots of 4x4 stuff, 1/2 ton - 3 ton, buses etc. and some cars. We ship by bus, MANY TRAILERS TO CHOOSE FROM. 2005 Doepker tri-axle, $34,000; 2007 mail, Loomis, Purolator. Lloydminster, SK. Doepker tri-axle, $36,000; 1995 Doepker SASKATOON TRUCK PARTS CENTRE tandem 31’, $11,000; 2014 new PLG tanLtd. North Corman Industrial Park. dem grain end dump 32’, $34,000. Fresh New and used parts available for 3 ton arrivals Neville trailers fully Loaded with highway tractors including custom built options. 36’ tandem, $34,900; 38.5’ tantandem converters and wet kits. All truck dem, $35,300; 45’ tri-axle, $45,000; 45’ makes/models bought and sold. Shop ser- tri-axle, elec. tarp and traps, $49,750. Corvice available. Specializing in repair and ner Equipment 204-483-2774, Carroll, MB. custom rebuilding for transmissions and 2000 LODE-KING SUPER B grain trailers, differentials. Now offering driveshaft closed end, exc., air ride, 22.5 tires at 50%, repair and assembly from passenger tarps very good, flat fenders, very little vehicles to heavy trucks. For more info rust, paint vg, farm used, lower mileage, call 306-668-5675 or 1-877-362-9465. $41,000. Ph Lloyd Sproule, Pincher Creek, www.saskatoontruckparts.ca DL #914394 AB., 403-627-2764 or 403-627-7363.

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NORMS SANDBLASTING & PAINT, 40 years body and paint experience. We do metal and fiberglass repairs and integral to daycab conversions. Sandblasting and paint to trailers, trucks and heavy equip. Endura primers and topcoats. A one stop shop. Norm 306-272-4407, Foam Lake SK. SANDBLAST AND PAINT your grain trailers, boxes, flatdecks and more. We use industrial undercoat and paint. Can zinc coat for added rust protection. Quality workmanship guaranteed. Prairie Sandblasting and Painting, 306-744-7930, Saltcoats, SK. ALL ALUMINUM TANDEMS, tridems and Super B Timpte grain trailers. Call Maxim Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946 or see: www.Maximinc.Com 2002 LODE-KING closed end tri-axle, air ride, 3 hopper, with Michel’s augers, $27,000. 780-842-4088 or 780-806-3439, Wainwright, AB. 1996 LODE-KING SUPER B grain trailers closed end, exc., spring ride, 24.5 tires at 50%, tarps vg, round fenders, very little rust, paint vg. Farm used, lower mileage, $37,000. Lloyd Sproule, 403-627-2764 or 403-627-7363, Pincher Creek, AB. NEW WILSON SUPER B in stock, tridem, one 2 hopper, two 3 hoppers, also tandem; 2012 Doepker Super B, alum. rims; 2008 Lode-King alum. open end Super B, alum. rims, air ride, also 2009 w/lift axles; 1995 Castleton tridem, air ride; 17’ A-train pup, very clean, certified. 306-356-4550, Dodsland SK. DL #905231. www.rbisk.ca

2006 MUVALL MACHINERY trailer, 53’ triaxle, hyd. beavertail and winch, aluminum pullouts to 14’, $50,000. 780-305-3547, Neerlandia, AB. 2 LODE-KING DROPDECK 48’ sprayer trailers, w/cradles, 3250 gal. tank, 3” pump and handler. Call 306-397-2678, Edam, SK.

2011 DOEPKER RGN machinery trailer, 53’ tri-axle, c/w alum. pullouts, rear strobes, and pullout lights, side winches, alum rims $60,000. 780-305-3547, Neerlandia, AB.

1995 BEELINE TRI-AXLE LOG TRAILER, 12x22.5 tires, extra bunks, air ride, safetied, winter use only, not used in last 6 years, good and straight. Phone Ken 306-468-7909, Canwood, SK. 1991 STAINLESS TANKER, Tremcar Super B insulated tankers, 4500 Imp. gal. per tank, Spring Ride Reyco susp., recent safety, 22.5 Dayton wheels. Set up to transport liquid fertilizer, water, etc. Comes with Honda motor w/John Blue pump, $35,000. 1997 DOPEKER SUPER B grain trailers, Call 306-861-5911, Weyburn, SK. closed end, 24.5 tires, spring ride, $22,000 TOPGUN TRAILER SALES “For those who Call 306-424-2690 eves. Montmartre, SK. demand the best.” PRECISION AND AGASSIZ TRAILERS (flatdecks, end dumps, enclosed cargo). 1-855-255-0199, Moose Jaw, SK. www.topguntrailersales.ca 1991 JC TRAILERS, double drop lowbed, w/hyd removable gooseneck. Tandem axle spring ride, 28’ in the well. Flip over front ramps, 80% LowPro 22.5 rubber, w/2 new mounted spares, 9 swingouts and 10 lashing rings per side, recent AB. safety, nice straight trailer, $19,000. Email pictures available. Jeff 403-638-3934, Sundre, AB. TWO NEW COMPLETE pairs OF 8” alum. hopper augers, c/w wireless remote to fit NEW PRODUCT!! BEHNKE 53’ air ride 2013 30’ Lode-King AHV. Call Dan at: s p r a y e r t r a i l e r o n l y $ 4 2 , 5 0 0 . C a l l 1-888-435-2626 or visit your local Flaman 403-533-2205, Rockyford, AB. location. www.flaman.com for more info. REMOTE CONTROL TRAILER CHUTE openers can save you time, energy and SNOWMOBILE TRAILERS are in stock at keep you safe this seeding season. FM re- Flaman. Check out the 2 place enclosed mote controls provide maximum range S u m m i t S e r i e s s t a r t i n g at $ 8 , 9 9 5 . and instant response while high torque www.flaman.com/trailers drives operate the toughest of chutes. 24’ GOOSENECK tridem 21,000 lbs, $7890; Easy installation. Brehon Agrisystems Bumper pull tandem lowboy: 18’, 14,000 call 306-933-2655 or visit us online at: lbs., $3975; 16’, 10,000 lbs., $3090; 16’, www.brehonag.com Saskatoon, SK. 7000 lbs., $2650. Factory direct. 2004 LODE-KING SUPER B open end grain 888-792-6283. www.monarchtrailers.com trailers, 11x22.5 tires 70%, air ride, safe- DECKS, DRY VANS, reefers, storage trailtied, good condition, asking $32,500. ers at: www.Maximinc.Com or call Maxim Phone 204-857-1700, Gladstone, MB. Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946. 2009 CANCADE TRIDEM pup trailer, 20’ alum. box, 68” sides, air ride, low miles, $34,500. 306-743-2862, Langenburg, SK.

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NEW AND USED MERRITT aluminum stock trailers. Darin 204-526-7407 Cypress River MB www.merrittgoosenecks.com DL 4143 NEW BLUEHILLS GOOSENECK stock, 20’, $13,900; 18’, $11,900. Call 306-445-5562, Delmas, SK. 2007 WILSON cattle/hog trailer, $52,000; 2007 MERRITT cattle/hog trailer, $52,000. 403-625-4658, Claresholm, AB. WILSON ALUMINUM STOCK trailer, like new cond., just over 8’ wide, 32’ floor, 8’ on the neck. Winter kit and decking to haul smaller livestock, $27,000. 780-812-8733, Ardmore, AB.

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2006 HONDA RIDGELINE 4x4, dark green, Stk# SK-S2590A, 93,000 kms, $16,995. DL #914077. Call 1-866-980-0260 or www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca 2007 DODGE 2500 crewcab, 4x4, 5.7 HEMI eng., auto. trans., PW, 269,000 kms, $10,900. Phoenix Auto, Lucky Lake, SK., 1-877-585-2300, DL #320074. 2007 FORD F150 Lariat, 4x4, leather, red, 5.4L 90,347 kms, Stock #SK-U0460, $26,495. Call 1-866-980-0260. DL #914077. www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca 2009 GM SIERRA ext. cab 4x4, 54,000 kms, $16,500. Phone: 250-782-8233 leave m s g . , D aw s o n C r e e k , B C . o r e m a i l : old_rifleman@yahoo.ca 2012 WHITE DODGE Ram, 4x4 Quad Cab, 4.7 V8, fully equipped, running boards and rails, 10,000 kms, lots of warranty $26,000 no taxes. 306-384-2428, Saskatoon, SK.

2008, 2- 2007, 2005, T800 KWs, 500 Cat, 18 spd., 46 diffs, 4-way locks w/Roobar bumpers; 378 and 379 Pete, 4- 2006s, 2005, 2004, 2003, Cat, 18 spd., 4-way locks, all w/Roobar bumpers; 2006 W900 KW daycab, Cat, 18 spd; 2007 T800 KW, Cat C15, 13 spd. UltraShift; 2003 Freightliner Classic, Cat, 18 spd, new rubber; 1999 9300 IH, dual stacks, dual breathers, 60 Detroit, 13 spd; 1996 T800 KW 500 Cat, recent work orders. 306-356-4550, Dods2006 FREIGHTLINER Columbia, Mercedes land, SK. DL #905231 www.rbisk.ca 460 HP, 12 spd. AutoShift, new 20’ Berg’s grain box w/remote chute/hoist, good rubber, full lockers, complete pintle plate, good clean truck. Contact Henry for price at 204-324-7593, Altona, MB.

CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used highway tractors, view information at www.titantrucksales.com DIESEL 2006 JEEP Liberty Sport, 115,000 kms, 4x4, auto., mint cond., $14,900; 2013 Lincoln MKX AWD SUV, black, 32,000 kms, heated/cool seats, balance of warranty, $38,900. K&L Equipment, Regina/Ituna, SK. 306-795-7779, 306-537-2027 or email ladimer@sasktel.net DL #910885. NEW INTERNATIONAL TERRASTAR 3 ton 4x4 at: www.Maximinc.Com or call Maxim Truck & Trailer, 1-888-986-2946. RING IN THE New Year with a great truck from Greenlight Auto & Truck. A huge selection of 2013 leather GM DuraMax’s. Saskatoon, SK. www.GreenlightAuto.ca

2011 PROSTAR IHC 500 HP Maxxforge 15 engine, 18 spd. trans., 46,000 rears, 236 WB, 3-way lockers, only 137,000 kms, Webasto engine and bunk heater, alum. rims, 11R22.5 Michelin tires at 90%, full rear Cain rack w/doors, moose bumper, 73” 2007 AND 2010 KENWORTH T800 trucks, bunk, gear ratio 3.73 GVW 52,000, AUTOSHIFT, 10 spd., new B&H, ISX Cum- $94,000. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB mins, very clean. Also trucks available with no box. 2010 trucks have Cat engine. Call 2013 KENWORTH W900, 27,000 kms, 18 spd. Eaton auto., wet kit, Webasto heater, 204-673-2382, Melita, MB. DL #4525. like new, $149,900. Pro Ag Sales anytime ATTENTION FARMERS: Very large selec- 306-441-2030, North Battleford, SK. tion of tandem grain trucks, AutoShifts and standards, Cancade and Neu Star box- CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used es. Call Yellowhead Sales 306-783-2899, highway tractors, view information at Yorkton, SK. DL #916328. www.titantrucksales.com AUTOMATIC AUTOMATIC 2010 IH Prostar premium, Cummins, new 20’ B&H, roll HODGINS HEAVY TRUCK CENTRE: 2010 Kenworth T800, Cummins 485HP, 10 tarp $72,000. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. spd., $64,500; 2007 Peterbilt 378, Cat AUTOSHIFT TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Boxed 475HP, 18 spd., 46 rears, $56,500; 2005 tandems and tractor units. Contact David Western Star 4964SB, Detroit 500HP, 18 306-887-2094, 306-864-7055, Kinistino, spd., 46 rears, $39,500; 2006 InternationSK. DL #327784. www.davidstrucks.com a l 9 9 0 0 i , C u m m i n s 4 7 5 H P, 1 3 s p d . , $34,500; 2005 Mack CX613, Mack 460HP, 18 spd., 46 rears, 4-way, $35,500; 2003 Mack CX613, Mack 460HP rebuilt, 18 spd., 46 rears, $29,500; 2006 Peterbilt 379L, Cummins 475HP, 13 spd., $45,500; 2002 Peterbilt 379L, Cat 475HP, 18 spd., 46 rears, wet kit, $38,000; 2003 International 9900i, Detroit 500HP rebuilt, 13 spd., $27,500; 2010 International Prostar, Cummins 450HP, 10 spd. Autoshift, $38,500; 2006 International 9400, Cummins 475HP, BERG’S GRAIN BODIES: When value and 13 spd., $31,500; 2003 Peterbilt 379L, Cat durability matter, ph. Berg’s Prep and Paint 475HP, 13 spd., $34,500; 2002 International 9200i, Cummins 400HP, 13 spd., for details 204-325-5677, Winkler, MB. $16,500; 2001 Kenworth W900L, Cat CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used 475HP, 13 spd., $31,500; 2006 Internahighway tractors, view information at tional 9900i, Cummins 525HP, 18 spd., www.titantrucksales.com $32,500; 2001 Peterbilt 378, Detroit , 18 spd., 46 rears, wet kit, $27,500. COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL MFG. for 500HP Davidson, SK. DL #312974, grain box pkgs., decks, gravel boxes, HD 306-567-7262, www.hodginshtc.com combination grain and silage boxes, pup trailers, frame alterations, custom paint, complete service. Visit our plant at Hum- LIVING QUARTERS/ truck storage, 2400 sq. ft., 2006 built. West of Saskatoon 10 boldt, SK or call 306-682-2505 for prices. m i n s . 2 a c r e s u b fe n c e d l o t . M L S REMOTE CONTROL ENDGATE AND $479,000. Coldwell Banker Rescom Realty, hoist systems can save you time, energy Tom Neufeld 306-260-7838. and keep you safe this harvest season. Give Brehon Agrisystems a call at 3 0 6 - 9 3 3 - 2 6 5 5 o r v i s i t u s o n l i n e at www.brehonag.com Saskatoon, SK. WANTED: 3 TON GRAIN TRUCK, GM or Ford, in good shape, 1980’s-1990’s. Brian 306-873-2437, 306-873-7067, Tisdale, SK.

53’ AND 48’ tridem and tandem stepdecks, w/wo sprayer cradles; Two 48’ tandem 10’ wide, beavertail, flip ramps, air ride, low kms; 1991 Trail King machinery trailer, hyd. tail; 53’, 48’, 28’ tridem and tandem highboys, all steel and combos. SUPER B HIGHBOYS; A-train tanker will separate water or fert.; Tandem and S/A converter with drop hitch; 53’-28’ van trailers; B-train salvage trailers; Tandem lowboy, 9’ wide; High clearance sprayer trailer w/tanks and chem handlers. 306-356-4550, www.rbisk.ca DL # 905231. Trucks, Trailers, Truck Bodies, “The right choice, is AUTOMATIC!” WWW.TITANTRUCKSALES.COM to view information and to check out our inventory of quality used highway tractors! RING IN THE New Year with a great truck from Greenlight Auto & Truck. A huge selection of 2013 leather GM DuraMax’s. Saskatoon, SK. www.GreenlightAuto.ca CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used highway tractors, view information at www.titantrucksales.com 2013 GMC SIERRA 2500 SLT, leather, sunroof, 6.6L dsl., 29,000 kms, from $53,995. Greenlight Truck & Auto, Saskatoon. www.GreenlightAuto.ca DL#311430 2013 FORD F150 XTR, eco boost. Choose from 2, 3.5L, 4x4, 21,000 kms, $32,995. Greenlight Truck & Auto, Saskatoon, SK. DL #311430. www.GreenlightAuto.ca 2012 DODGE RAM 3500 Laramie, mega cab, 4x4, 6.7L, 34,000 kms, $55,995. Greenlight Truck & Auto, Saskatoon, SK. DL #311430. www.GreenlightAuto.ca 2012 DODGE RAM 3500, Laramie, mega cab, diesel, sunroof, 48,000 kms, $54,995. Greenlight Truck & Auto, Saskatoon, SK. DL #311430. www.GreenlightAuto.ca 2011 FORD F350 XLT, flat deck, loaded 4x4, 6.2L, 50,000 kms, $33,995. PST paid. Greenlight Truck & Auto, Saskatoon, SK. DL #311430. www.GreenlightAuto.ca 2010 FORD F150 FX4, 5.4L, 4x4, 129,000 kms, fully loaded, leather, $26,995 PST paid. Greenlight Truck & Auto, Saskatoon, SK. DL #311430. www.GreenlightAuto.ca 2009 NISSAN TITAN, 5.6L, silver, 40,409 kms, SK-U0721, $24,995. DL #914077. Call 1-888-240-2415 or visit our website: www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca 2009 CHEV AVALANCHE LTZ, 4x4, leather, sunroof, loaded, 58,000 kms, $29,995. PST paid. Greenlight Truck & Auto, Saskatoon, SK. DL #311430. www.GreenlightAuto.ca 2008 GMC SIERRA 1500 SLT, AC, CC, CD, leather, black, auto., 73,249 kms, Stk# SK-U0705, $28,995. 1-888-240-2415 or www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077. 2008 GMC SIERRA 1500 Denali, AWD, 6.0L, 4x4, fully loaded, $24,995 PST paid. Greenlight Truck & Auto, Saskatoon, SK. DL #311430. www.GreenlightAuto.ca 2006 FORD F350 V8, white, 224,555 kms, SK-U01140A, $18,995. Call for details 1-888-240-2415 or visit our website: www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

Specializing in top quality, affordablypriced, work-ready trucks with boxes or as tractors, mostly 10-speed Autoshift or Ultrashift transmissions. Most trucks are from large American fleets: very little rust, strictly maintained, and all highway miles. Also a dealer for Cancade, truck bodies and trailers. Grain Trucks, Silage Trucks, Bale Trucks, Highway Tractors

Hwy. 3, Seven Persons, AB (Medicine Hat, AB)

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1985 CHEVY 7000 3 ton, 8.2L diesel, 2 speed automatic w/hoist. New tires, runs and starts great, $13,000 OBO. 306-287-3785, Watson, SK. 1987 FORD F700, 16x8.5’ B&H, seed tank, vg 370 gas engine, vg radial tires, 5 spd., $8900. Phoenix Auto, Lucky Lake, SK. 1-877-585-2300. DL #320074. 1997 T800 KENWORTH, N14 Cummins, 13 spd., new tires, will have new B&H. Boissevain, MB. 204-534-7911 or 204-534-7747. 2001 FREIGHTLINER FL80, 300 HP, 9 spd. trans., new 16’ ultracell BH&T package, exc. cond., no rust, only $37,500. Call for details, 306-946-8522, Saskatoon, SK. 2004 FREIGHTLINER M2 tandem, Cat dsl., Allison auto, new 20’ CIM box pkg, w/ tarp, safetied, no rust California truck, only $59,500. 306-946-8522, Saskatoon SK 2004 IHC 4400 new body style, 466 Allison auto., C&C, will take 20’ box, low low miles, $39,900; 2001 IHC 4900, 466 Allison auto., 18’ BH&T, 130,000 miles, $44,900; 2003 IHC 8100, C&C, 370 HP Cummins, 6 spd. Allison auto., will fit 18-20’ box, $29,900. K&L Equipment, Regina/Ituna, SK. DL #910885. 306-795-7779 or 306-537-2027, or email ladimer@sasktel.net

2005 STERLING TANDEM dump truck new BH&T, hitch, C13 Cat, 10 spd., black/black, $44,000. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK. 2006 and 2007 IHC 9200, both have new 16’ Cancade gravel box and tarp. Phone Yellowhead Sales 306-783-2899, Yorkton, SK. DL #916328. TANDEM AXLE Gravel trucks in inventory. New and used, large inventory across Western Canada at www.Maximinc.Com or call Maxim Truck & Trailer 1-888-986-2946

1995 VOLVO BIG Shack, wet kit, alum. budd rims, 12/22.5 rubber, good running order, needs body work; 1998 S-Can trailer 48’-53’, safety expired end of October, excellent condition. Will part out or as sell as unit 306-466-2261, Leask, SK. 2000 IHC 9200, C12 Cat, 430 HP, 10 spd. AutoShift w/clutch petal, 3-way locks, 51” flattop sleeper, 60% rubber, new rear brakes, cold AC, new AB safety, $15,000. Email pics avail. 403-638-3934, Sundre AB 2005 KENWORTH W900B tractor, 530 Cummins, 18 spd., 46 rears, 4-way locks, new bearing roll, oil pump and clutch, Beacons, headache rack and chain hangers, 60% rubber, new AB. safety, $51,000. Call Jeff 403-638-3934, Sundre, AB. 2005 PETERBILT 379L, 63” bunk, C-15, 1,245,000 kms., 24.5 rubber, 13 spd. trans., good cond.; 2007 Peterbilt 378 daycab, heavy spec. truck, C-15, 411,000 kms., full lockers, wet kit, 14,000 front, 46 rears, 22.5 rubber, 18 spd. trans., good condition. Call 204-638-1068, Sifton, MB. 2007 IHC 9200 Eagle, C13 Cat, 625,000 kms. 2006 IHC 9200 daycab, ISX Cummins, 650,000 kms. Both w/13 spd. Eaton UltraShifts and fresh SK safeties. Phone 306-270-6399, www.78truxsales.com at Saskatoon, SK. DL 316542. 2007 PETERBUILT 379L Super B spec., ISX 525, 700,000 kms, full locks, 54” midrise, excellent rubber, leather guts, fresh safety, shedded, premium truck, $70,000; Also 2001 aluminum Lode King super B, new virgin caps, shedded, real nice, $35,000. 403-823-1987, Standard, AB. 2007 WESTERN STAR, daycab, 550 Cat, 18 spd., 720,000 kms, 46 rears, wet kit. Call 780-990-8412, Edmonton, AB.

2005 FREIGHTLINER, 300 HP Cat, 10 spd., new 20’ B&H, elec. tarp, $59,900; 1970 GMC 2 ton, B&H, $3800; 1995 Ford E350, diesel, new auto. retired ambulance, $6500. Call Pro Ag Sales 306-441-2030 anytime, North Battleford, SK. 2005 IH 9200 AutoShift and 2007 T800 KW, elec. tarp, pintle hitch, 13 spd. UltraShift, Cat C15, new 20’ BH&T; 1976 GMC 6500, 366, 5&2, 16’ wood box. 2002 GMC Z71 4X4 227,000 kms., winter 306-356-4550, Dodsland, SK. DL #905231 tires, new water pump and battery, vg www.rbisk.ca 2011 WESTERN STAR, small sleeper, 18 shape, no rust or dents, tool box and line-x spd. trans., 46 rears, 400,000 kms, Detroit box liner, full synthetic oil, $6750 OBO. 2006 MACK, 460 HP, 10 spd. Eaton Auto- 15, 550 HP, new safety, exc. cond. Call Shift; 2006 IHC 9200 Eagle, ISX Cum- 780-871-4743, Lloydminster, AB. Call Doug, 403-650-8351, Red Deer, AB. mins, 12 spd. Meritor auto. Both w/new 2004 FORD F-350, diesel, 6 spd., 4x4, 11’ 20’x65” B&H and fresh SK. safeties. 3- INT. 8600’s, S/A, 10 spd., Cat and Cumflatdeck, 5th wheel trailer hitch, safetied, 306-270-6399, www.78truxsales.com Sas- m i n s p owe r. C a l l Ye l l ow h e a d S a l e s great farm truck, $8000. 1-866-938-8537. 306-783-2899, Yorkton, SK. DL #916328. katoon, SK. DL# 316542. 1999 GMC 7500, 3 tonne w/24’ box. $3700 recent work done, works great. $16,500 OBO. 519-983-2484, Osler, SK. 1969 CHEV 1/2 ton, 327 V8 motor, runs good, needs body work. Contact 306-735-7250, Whitewood, SK.

2012 K EN W ORTH W 9 00, IS X 550 h.p ., 18 s p d ., s u p er 40’s , lo ckers , 8 b a g a ir rid e, 11R22.5 tires a b o u t40% , 405,000 km s , fin a n ce rep o , As kin g. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9 8 ,000 a s is (Offers ) 2010 V o lvo 78 0, 77” Co n d o s leep er, Cu m m in s IS X 400 h.p . tha tca n b e u p gra d ed . E xten d ed w a rra n ties o n en gin e, in jecto rs a n d tu rb o . Un d er 690,000 km s . 2010 M a ck CX U6 13, M P8 485 h.p ., 18 s p d , ca b a n d en gin e hea ter, 3 w a y lo ck u p s , 608,390 km s . 2009 IHC 9 9 00i Ea gle, 72” M id ro o f s leep er, IS X 525, 18 s p d ., 4 w a y lo ckers , 11R24.5 tires , 780,000 km s . 2009 IHC 9 9 00i, 72” high ris e s leep er, 12,000 fro n t, 46,000 rea r, fu ll lo ckers , en gin e a n d ca b w eb a s to s , 11R24.5 tires n ew d rives , 780,000 km s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . As kin g $6 9 ,9 00 2008 IHC 9 9 00i, Da y ca b , Cu m m in s IS X 435 h.p ., 13 s p d . fu ller, 12&40’s , 509,000 km s . 2008 IHC 9 200i, Da y ca b , IS X 435 h.p ., 13 s p d ., 12&40’s , 11R22.5 tires , 510,000 km s . 2008 M a ck CX U6 13, M P8 480 h.p ., 18 s p d ., 12,000 fro n t, 40,000 60’ M id ro o fs leep er, 804,000 km s . 2007 V o lvo 6 30, 61” m id ro o f, NO DPF , NO S CR, D12 465 h.p ., 13 s p d ., 12&40’s , 1,035,700 km s , n ew co m p o n en ts . 2005 V N L 6 4T 6 30, D12 465 h.p ., 12 ZF , 12&40’s , fu ll lo ckers , 1,180,000 km s , As kin g. . . . . . . . . . . . $29 ,000 V HD Gra vel Tru ck , Ju s to ffs ho rtterm lea s e, 2013 VHD gra vel, D13 425 h.p ., I-s hifta u to m a ted , 12&40’s , 16’ gra vel b o x, p in tle hitch fo r p u p , lo ckers , o n ly 10,600 km s . V HD Gra vel Tru ck , Ju s to ffs ho rtterm lea s e, D13 425 h.p ., I-s hifta u to m a ted , 12&40’s , fu ll lo ckers , 16’ gra vel b o x, 6,500 km s .

2004 HONDA CR-V AWD, new studded winter tires, leather, heated seats, power everything, A/T/C, sunroof, command start, only 155,000 kms, Mostly highway, $12,500. 306-497-2710, Blaine Lake, SK.

1997 FORD F250 Supercab, 4x4, 7.3 diesel, 5 spd, A/T/C, service truck, w/wo equip- 2000 FREIGHTLINER FL80 with 24’ flatdeck, 300 HP diesel 9 spd., safetied, vg ment, $7,000. 306-861-1680, Griffin, SK. cond., no rust, $19,500. Call for details, 1981 INTERNATIONAL DIESEL single axle 306-946-8522, Saskatoon, SK. livestock truck w/aluminum body, 400,000 2005 IH 4300, 24’ van truck, Allison auto., kms. $9000. 780-305-3547 Neerlandia, AB. 466 eng., 3000 lb. lift gate, premium California truck, no rust, 118,000 miles, only Western Star Bale Truck $24,500. 306-946-8522, Saskatoon, SK.

· 2005 Western Star, 460 HP Mercedes, Allison auto, 4 way lockers, air ride suspension

rawlyn@automatictruck.com 1976 CHEVY GRAIN truck w/hoist, C60, 350 Motor, 4 spd., 19,526 miles, $8700 +GST. Perfect for acreage owner (hauling water) or roofing contractor. Call Jan at 306-374-2733, Saskatoon, SK. 1976 DODGE 500, 14’ B&H, rebuilt motor. Runs good, power steering hose leaks. Used for second truck, bought a bigger one, $2000 OBO. 780-336-6378, Irma, AB. 1982 CHEV TANDEM grain truck, gas, 58,000 kms, with steel B&H, $11,000. 403-577-2479, Consort, AB.

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or 306-740-7771 Located at Medicine Hat, AB

1975 FORD F-700 FIRE TRUCK. 361 V8 gas engine, 5 spd. manual trans. with 2 spd. axle, 4322 miles, 500 GPM Barton American fire pump, 700 gal. water tank, front mount pump with: 2- 2.5” inlet valves, 2- 2.5” discharge valves, 2- 2.5” rear discharge valves. Currently used by the Indian Head Fire Department, ULC Label 995C, Updated Emergency Lighting on Truck. Truck is not available until mid January. For more info contact Tim at 306-695-7473 or Brian at 306-695-7815, Indian Head, SK.

2002 FORD F350, 12 passenger van, 7.3 diesel, 282,000 kms, good heater/AC, no rust, excellent condition, private owned. 403-393-0219, 403-833-2190.

AUSTRALIAN PACKAGE BEES, mite free. April delivery. Australian and US queens available. Morley at 306-534-2014, 306-534-4462, Spy Hill, SK. STRONG SINGLE HIVES OR NUCS for sale. Andy Loewen 204-326-1500, email: andyloewen@hotmail.ca Steinbach, MB. HONEY RANCH! Turnkey honey operation comes fully equipped with everything required for beekeeping and 2 residences. Sellers willing to train. Val Marie, SK. MLS® ID#481220. Real Estate Centre, www.farmrealestate.com or phone 1989 INT S-1900, Allison auto, 502 Harsh, 1-866-345-3414. rebuilt, painted, good condition. Contact Wayne 306-297-2095, 306-297-7996 cell, Shaunavon, SK. SELLING LEAFCUTTER BEE incubation 3 MANURE SPREADER TRUCKS 2011 trays wood and poly units, 200 of ea, good IHC 7600 tandems, 350 HP, auto. trans., cond. FOB in Shell Lake, SK. 306-477-1021 air ride, full lockers, w/two McKee 800 manure spreaders, full hyd., one w/Burley WANTING TO PURCHASE Leafcutter bees. Ironworks 20’ full hyd. swing out beaters. Will consider all live count and parasite Approx. 3000 hrs. on units. $145,000/ea. numbers, but will pay a premium over Trucks and boxes can be sold separately; market price for good quality bees. Phone: Hyundai 757 loader, skidder tires, 3000 306-287-7800, Watson, SK., or email to: percyeggerman@hotmail.com or email to: hrs. Dennis 403-308-1400, Taber, AB. jordoneggerman@hotmail.com SPECIALTY TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Fire/ emergency trucks, garbage, bucket, deck WILL DO STYROBLOCK cocoon harvesting; and dump trucks. See us at our new loca- Wanted: plastic shelters. Call Maurice tion on Cory Rd., Saskatoon, SK. Summer Wildeman 306-365-4395, 306-365-7802, Lanigan, SK. of 2013. 306-668-2020. DL #90871 MOBILE STEAMER/PRESSURE WASHER, very clean unit, 2002 FL80 Freightliner, SA, 280 HP Mercedes Benz, air susp., air brakes, new clutch, new 10 spd. trans, rebuilt 20’ van body, 1260 gal. water tanks, 880,000 BTU burner w/new coil, 650 Cat pump, 3 cyl. Isuzu dsl. eng., extra hoses, BEAUTIFUL RECLAIMED OAK DOORS with tooled and ready to work. Serious inquiries hardware and frames. Old growth timbers. only. 780-524-2179, Valleyview, AB. 587-439-7840, Edmonton, AB. 24’ FLATDECK off 2006, steel deck, with sliding winches, $3950. K&L Equipment Regina, SK. DL# 910885, 306-795-7779, CONTINUOUS METAL ROOFING, no ex306-537-2027. Email ladimer@sasktel.net posed screws to leak or metal overlaps. Ideal for lower slope roofs, rinks, churches, pig barns, commercial, arch rib building and residential roofing; also available in Snap Lock. 306-435-8008, Wapella, SK.

RECLAIMED, CLEAN, HIGH quality carpet tile. Theatre seats. Metal office shelving. 587-439-7840, Edmonton, AB. STEEL BUILDING BARGAINS. Allocated discounts. We do deals, 30x40, 50x60, 100x100 and more. Total construction and 2005 FREIGHTLINER M2 Business class blueprints available. Ph. 1-800-964-8335, single axle truck w/24’ Barett livestock www.gosteelbuildings.com Source #18X box, moveable divider, hog lock, 356,000 kms, 320 HP Mercedes dsl., Fuller 8 spd., A/T/C, PW, air ride cab, susp., brakes, full lock-up. Call 403-556-0795, Innisfail, AB. F U T U R E S T E E L B U I L D I N G approx. CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used 30’x30’x14’. No front or back walls. Cert. highway tractors, view information at engineered drawings and manuals for SK. www.titantrucksales.com Complete assembly instructions. Stock #C8957465T. CSA A660-04. Cert. gauge X-GOVERNMENT AND fleet trucks, single AAAA steel. Delivered, never assembled, axle, Detroit dsl., power pumper truck, ex- t o o b i g fo r o u r y a r d ! $ 9 0 0 0 fi r m . tra cab, telesquirter, auto train, $17,500; 306-352-3052, Regina, SK. 1997 Ford F450 4x4 pumper truck from British helicopter base at Suffield, 7.3 dsl. eng., auto, low kms; X-SaskPower digger and bucket trucks, service trucks, tandem axle picker trucks; F450 Haul-All, side load/end dump, 7.3 dsl. eng., auto; 2006 Freightliner M2 with Mercedes diesel eng., $34,500. 306-668-2020, Saskatoon, SK. www.northtownmotors.com DL #908171. HAND CRAFTED, STURDY solid pine pole/ storage sheds, can be built to suit your needs. Metal exterior roof, color options available. Call 780-645-4455, ext. 241, St. Paul, AB, or check out our website at: www.bqlogcabins.com for more info. or to request a quote.

2002 PETERBILT FUEL AND LUBE Truck, Cat C15, 475 HP, 102,000 kms, 6 spd. Allison, 46,000 rears, 20,000 fronts, 200 gal. fuel tank, 7 oil tanks w/air operated pumps and hose reels. Open to trades and offers. 780-679-7062, Camrose, AB.

PRIVE BUILDING MOVERS Ltd.! Bonded, licensed for SK. and AB. Fully insured. Moving all types and sizes of buildings. Call Andy 306-625-3827, Ponteix, SK. www.privebuildingmovers.com

HAULING COMPANY: 3 2013’s, 1 2006 truck w/pumps to haul oil. Shop and living quarters all on same lot, c/w client base $900,000. Pat 306-460-6024, Conquest SK

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1993 INTERNATIONAL w/Wilmar fertilizer BOWSMAN HOTEL, PRICED below protender, 3406 Cat eng., 15 spd., $18,000 fessionally appraised value. Call Mac OBO. 403-894-0435, Lethbridge, AB. 204-238-4949 for info. Bowsman, MB.

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WANTED: GAS BARS/ CONVENIENCE Stores. Bill Nesteroff, Re/Max Saskatoon, 306-497-2668, billnesteroff@sasktel.net THRIVING APPLIANCE STORE FOR SALE in beautiful Kelowna, BC. Specializing in used appliances, parts and a full service department. Est. 1978, owner retiring. Call 250-765-3769 or 250-765-1511. WELL ESTABLISHED 3456 sq. ft. Autobody Repair business located in the heart of potash country in East Central SK. Excellent Clientele, large area to draw from with unlimited potential. 72x146’ lot with adjacent 80x146’ lot, next to Yellowhead Hwy at major intersection. 306-621-7722, 306-399-7723, Churchbridge, SK.

MEAT PROCESSING PLANT - Abattoir. 11,600 sq ft building (2007) located on 7.3 industrial acres in Vegreville, AB. Business is showing positive growth with excellent returns. Please do not approach business directly. Craig Stenersen, 780-233-9939, Realty Executives Devonshire (the park), craig@working4u.ca

DEBTS, BILLS AND charge accounts too high? Need to resolve prior to spring? Call us to develop a professional mediation plan, resolution plan or restructuring plan. Call toll free 1-888-577-2020. NEED A LOAN? Own farmland? Bank says no? If yes to above three, call 1-866-405-1228, Calgary, AB. FARM/CORPORATE PROJECTS. Call A.L. Management Group for all your borrowing and lease requirements. 306-790-2020, Regina, SK.

FARM CHEMICAL/ SEED COMPLAINTS We also specialize in: Crop insurance appeals; Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; Custom operator issues; Equipment malfunction. Qualified Agrologist on staff. Call Back-Track Investigations for assistance regarding compensation, 1-866-882-4779.

FARM ACCOUNTING/ UTILITIES Software. It’s totally new and better than ever. Farmtool - Farm Accounting Software; Farmtool Companion - Field, Service, Inventory records and more. WilTech Software Ltd. Burstall, SK. Ph/fax 306-679-2299, email: wiltech@sasktel.net www.wil-techsoftware.com

LOWDERMILK TRANSPORT IS providing one call service for all Equipment/Hay hauling. Very experienced, multiple trucks serving AB., SK., and MAN. 780-872-0107, 306-252-1001, Kenaston, SK.

KIR-ASH CONTRACTING LTD. Hauling farm equipment of all types, throughout BC., AB., SK. Call us to book today, 780-978-2945, Grande Prairie, AB. ROUND BALE PICKING and hauling, small or large loads. Travel anywhere. Also hay for sale. 306-382-0785, Vanscoy, SK.

2010 LUXURY BY DESIGN, 4 to 8 people, living quarters, exc. cond., forced air heating, AC, 5 pull-outs, 2 washrooms, 2 showers, cooking area, 54’, $37,000. Can deliver. 204-526-0321, Cypress River, MB.

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MASTER STONE MASONRY. Custom fireplaces and stone masonry. Specialize in fieldstone and restorations. Willing to travel for work in rural areas. WETT Certified Inspections. Call 306-280-1845, Saskatoon, SK. E-mail: adam_kent@live.com BUSH CLEARING AND DUGOUTS. Trackhoe and dozer combo works great. Providing the services of yard site clean up, bush clearing, basements, dugouts, rock piles, building demolition, well hook ups, septic systems, sewer and water lines, gravel and dirt hauling, directional drilling. Serving South East Sask. 306-529-1875, Sedley, SK. vosindustries@gmail.com MULCHING - TREES, BRUSH, stumps, caraganas, etc. 12 years of enviro friendly mulching. Call today! 306-933-2950. Visit: www.maverickconstruction.ca

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SK., www.cwenterprises.ca Westlock, AB., 780-983-0936. 2006 HITACHI ZX270, LC-3, hydraulic excavator, c/w hyd. thumb, multi function aux. hydraulics, WB quick attach, 2 buckets, catwalks, ROPS, Proheat, positive air shutdown, 6720 hrs., AC. 587-991-6605, Edmonton, AB. 1993 CASE 621B wheel loader, CAH, hyd. Q/A, 2.75 yd. Q/A bucket, 20.5-25 tires, excellent condition! $39,500. Jordan, anytime 403-627-9300, Pincher Creek, AB. G R AV E L S C R E E N E R - c o nve y o r b e l t , 16”x30’L, screener 28”x8’L. 306-654-4802, 1981 D7G CAT c/w enclosed cab, twin tilt Prud’Homme, SK. angle blade, UC 90%, rebuilt trans., final BOBCAT MT52 WALK behind loader, dsl., drives, about 500 hrs. on rebuilt eng., comes with bucket, 935 hours, $12,995. canopy, job ready, $85,000. Warranty. 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14’Hopper 8 leg H/Duty .................2,285 15’Hopper 8 leg S/Duty ..................$2,6 00 15’-10” Hopper 10 leg H/Duty .........$2,9 9 0 18’Hopper 12 leg M/Duty ...............$4 ,09 5 19’Hopper 12 leg M/Duty ...............$4 ,535 21’& 24’Hopper Cones...................$P.O .R. $

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(403) 78 4-3518 INVITATION TO TENDER: Sealed tenders are invited by Saskatoon Co-op Agro Center for a bin construction crew for the 2014 bin building season. The contract involves construction and/or repair of approx. 130 new and/or existing galvanized grain bins in various locations around Saskatoon. Tender package and details available by calling Saskatoon Co-op Agro 306-933-3834 or in person at 1327 North Service Road, Hwy #16 West, Saskatoon, SK. Deadline for tenders is 12:00 noon, Friday February 14, 2014. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

BUILD YOUR OWN conveyors, 6”, 7”, 8” and 10” end units available; Transfer conveyors and bag conveyors or will custom build. Call for prices. Master Industries Inc. www.masterindustries.ca Phone 1-866-567-3101, Loreburn, SK. BATCO CONVEYORS, new and used, grain augers and SP kits. Delivery and leasing available. 1-866-746-2666.

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2010 4520 AutoSteer, 1100 hrs., 70’ booms, $223,000; 2008 CASE 4520, 3 bin system, 70’ booms, AutoSteer, 2780 hrs., $180,000; 2006 Case 4510, AutoSteer, FlexAir 70’ booms, 7400 hrs., $114,000; 2005 Case 4520 w/70’ flex air, 4000 hrs., $129,000; 2005 Case, 3000 hrs., $138,000; 2005 Case 4010 w/3020 G4 New leader bed, $93,000; 2004 Loral AirM a x 1 0 0 0 , 7 0 ’ b o o m s , i m m a c u l at e , $93,000; 2002 Case 4260 w/1100 gal. tank, 80’ booms, $96,000; 2004 AgChem Rogator, w/air bed, $66,000; 2003 Sterling spreader w/AgForce spinner spreader, $75,000; 2002 Dempster w/spin spreader, 2300 hrs., $58,000; 1999 Loral, w/AirMax 5 bed, 5700 hrs, $51,000; 1999 AgChem, 70’ booms, $64,000; 1997 AgChem, 70’ booms, $38,000; 2008 Adams Semi tender, self contained, $39,500; 25 ton Wilmar tender w/spread axles, $39,500; 1987 Ford w/22 ton Raymond tender w/vertical auger, $44,000; 8 ton Doyle vertical blender with scale, 40 HP, new auger, $18,500; 5 ton Tyler blender, 40 HP, $7500; 2000 Skidsteer Wrangler loader, w/quick detach bucket, $18,500; 1993 Wrangler loader, $14,500; 10 propane trucks in test date with 2800-3000 gal. tanks, w/hose reels, pumps and meters from $16,000 to $33,000. Northwest’s largest used selection of fertilizer equipment. 406-466-5356, Choteau, MT. For more equipment and photos view website www.fertilizerequipment.net FOR ALL YOUR

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TORMASTER NH3 WAGON, with 2- 1750 gal. tanks, 21.5L-16.1SL front, 900/60R32 20’ AND 40’ SEA CONTAINERS, for sale KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD Aeration Sales rear, new safety, $50,000. 306-486-4826, and Service. R.J. Electric, Avonlea, SK. Call Frobisher, SK. in Calgary, AB. Phone 403-226-1722, 306-868-2199 or cell: 306-868-7738. 1-866-517-8335. www.magnatesteel.com FERTILIZER STORAGE TANKS- 8300 Imp. gal. tanks available. Contact your nearest s a les @ jtlin d u s tries .ca N eilb u rg S K Flaman store or call 1-888-435-2626 or 1-306 -8 23-48 8 8 visit www.flaman.com S tettler AB 1-78 0-8 72-49 43 1000 GAL. NH3 tanks on an offset w w w.jtlin d u s tries .ca “ The Pea ce Co u n try” 1-78 0-8 72-49 43 TWIN axle, Wadena steel trailer, rear fill, W in d tho rs tS K 1-306 -224-208 8 $21,500. 306-873-7349, Tisdale, SK. N E IL BU RG, S AS K ATCH E W AN

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HI LINE FARM EQUIPMENT LTD. Wetaskiwin, AB 780-352-9244, 1-888-644-5463 ROCKY MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT Falher, AB 780-837-4691, 1-866-837-4691 Grimshaw, AB 780-332-4691, 1-800-746-4691 KASH FARM SUPPLIES LTD. Eckville, AB 403-746-2211, 1-800-567-4394 E. BOURASSA & SONS: Assiniboia 1-877-474-2456 Estevan 1-877-474-2495 Pangman 1-877-474-2471 Radville 1-877-474-2450 Weyburn 1-877-474-2491 RAYMORE NEW HOLLAND Raymore, SK 306-746-2911 WATROUS NEW HOLLAND Watrous, SK 306-946-3301 YORKTON NEW HOLLAND Yorkton, SK 306-782-8511

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LOOKING FOR A floater or tender? Call me first. 34 years experience. Loral parts, new and used. Call 403-650-7967, Calgary, AB.

N E W 4 0 0 B U. G R AV I T Y WAG O N S , $7,100; 600 bu., $12,000. Large selection used gravity wagons, 250-750 bu. Used grain carts, 450-1050 bu. 1-866-938-8537. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com BRENT AVALANCHE 1594 grain cart, TA, floater tires, auto. scale, tarp, mint cond., used 2 seasons. Call Ron 204-626-3283 or 1-855-272-5070, Sperling, MB.

JOHNSON NH3 WAGON, with 2- 1250 gal. tanks, 19L-16.1 tires, cert. July 2012, $21,000. 306-486-4826, Frobisher, SK. POLYWEST 3400 LIQUID fertilizer caddie, 6.5 Honda fill pump, high volume, John Blue ground drive pump, $26,000. Call 306-536-8606, Rouleau, SK. ARE YOU LOOKING for a pressurized, pump-assisted anhydrous ammonia fertilizer application system? I have several on hand, including some good-used systems. I am very familiar with NH3 application systems, as I have developed two of the pump-assisted systems for sale in Western Canada. I am one of Western Canada’s largest independent MaxQuip dealers and have new and some used traditional and Pump NH3 systems and used ammonia tanks as well. Contact Double HH Ag. Sales n Services at 780-777-8700 or email me at: doublehhag@shaw.ca Fort Sask., AB.

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2005 PRAIRIE STAR 4940, MacDon 972 25’ Draper header, orig. owner, 1543 header hrs., 2114 eng. hrs. Very clean and well maintained, field ready, $68.000. Enchant, AB., 403-634-3593. www.stampseeds.com Email: nathan@stampseeds.com 2012 MACDON M155, 1013 engine hrs, GRAIN VACS: REM 552, $3000; REM 600-65R28 drive tires, HID, hyd. center 2500 HD, $9500; Brandt 4000, $7000; link, c/w MacDon 35’ D60 header w/new 2011 BRENT 1594 grain cart, OEM, 36” HD Brandt 4500, $7500; Weigh wagon with canvas, slow spd. transport pkg., $105,000 tracks, like new condition; tarp, hyd. door, digital scale, $3500. 1-866-938-8537. OBO. Call 306-861-1046, Weyburn, SK. scale, 22” auger, $105,000. two to choose f r o m . C a n d e l i v e r. C a l l a n y t i m e , CONEYAIR GRAIN VACS, parts, accesso- 2012 MACDON M155, 35’, 380 engine 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB. ries. Call Bill 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB. hours, 317 header hours, single knife drive, $125,000. Phone: 780-933-2585, www.starlinesales.com 780-876-2667, Debolt, AB. 2001 TURB-O-K VAC 990, super deluxe, 2012 MF WR9740, 30’, fully loaded w/PU excellent shape. Contact 306-488-4683, FOREVER 48” grain cleaner, dual air, lots reel and free form roller, GPS, $104,500 of screens; Carter #3 indent cleaner, ex- Penzance, SK. OBO. 306-641-9851, Yorkton, SK. tra tubes; Forever Grain elevator, 15’ discharge; Canola spirals; Cancade blanket cleaner. Call 306-233-5722, Wakaw, SK. OPI TEMPERATURE and moisture cables accurately monitor grain in the bin. Integris system monitors from your computer. Start $265/bin. Flamans 1-888-435-2626.

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FERTILIZER SPREADERS: 4- 8 ton. Large selection. 204-857-8403, Portage la Prairie, MB. www.zettlerfarmequipment.com REMOTE CONTROL SWING AUGER movers, trailer chute openers, endgate and hoist systems, wireless full bin alarms, digital wireless tractorCam, the Simpler NEW 10x51 WHEATHEART auger, comes Sampler portable combine. All shipped diwith 38 HP motor and mover kit. Get rectly to you. Doing it right, keeping you more capacity! Call your nearest Flaman safe, by remote control. Phone Brehon Agrisystems at 306-933-2655 or visit us Sales store or call 1-888-435-2626. at www.brehonag.com Saskatoon, SK. AUGERS: NEW and USED: Wheatheart, Westfield, Westeel, Sakundiak augers; AuREPLACEMENT ger SP kits; Batco conveyors; Wheatheart post pounders. Good prices, leasing FLIGHTING FOR available. Call 1-866-746-2666. augers, seed cleaning plants, grain cleaners, combine USED AUGER SPECIAL. 2009 BH 8x51 bubble-up augers. Wheatheart w/30 HP, Kohler, mover and clutch, $8500; 2012 R 8x41, Wheatheart, Rosetown Flighting Supply slightly used w/29 EFI Kohler, mover, 1-866-882-2243, Rosetown, SK clutch and light kit, $10,900; new 8x41 www.flightingsupply.com Westeel w/25 HP Kohler and mover, $8995. 306-648-3321, Gravelbourg, SK. NEW SAKUNDIAK AUGERS in Stock: WHEATHEART 8”x51’, no engine, very Used: Brandt 10”x60’ S/A, $6500. In stock: good condition, $1900. 306-867-3424, New Convey-All TCSNH-1045 hydraulic Outlook, SK. drive, c/w mover kit, and 38 HP Kohler S A K U N D I A K A U G E R S I N S TO C K : diesel, list $38,900. Leasing available. Call swings, truck loading, Hawes Agro SP D a l e at M a i n w ay F a r m E q u i p m e n t , movers. Contact Hoffart Services Inc. 306-567-3285 or 306-567-7299. Davidson, SK. View www.mainwayfarmequipment.ca Odessa, SK, 306-957-2033.

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2008 JD 9770 STS, 1100 sep. hrs, w/615 and 963D PU headers, c/w new feeder chain, gone through shop, field ready, mint, always shedded, $230,000. Three Hills, AB. 403-443-2162 or 403-443-9495. 2005 9660 STS, 2350 eng. hrs., 1750 threshing, duals, high cap. unload auger, 1500 Precision header w/Rake-Up pickup. Howard concaves, hopper cover, shedded, Greenlighted every year, JD AutoSteer ready, $130,000 OBO. 306-843-7070, 306-658-2122, Wilkie, SK. 2008 JD 9870 STS, c/w 615 PU, gone through shop, shedded, 1 owner, $175,000 OBO. 306-231-8969, Humboldt, SK. 2011 JD 9770, 990 sep. hours, 520x42 duals, 28Lx26 rears, 26’ high cap. unload auger, Contour-Master, HD var. spd feeder house, Y&M, GreenStar ready, $205,000. 204-362-1337, 204-325-8019, Winkler, MB 1997 9600 BIG engine, 260 HP, 2617 sep. hrs., all options, shedded, excellent condition, $50,000. 306-587-7477, Abbey, SK.

2006 JD 9760 STS, 1800/2300 hrs., BALE SPEAR ATTACHMENTS for all 2003 CX 840, 1950 eng./1500 threshing Greenlighted yearly, new injectors, conloaders and skidsteers, excellent pricing. hours, Rake-Up, very good shape, $95,000 cave, feeder house, Y&M, vg cond., Call now 1-866-443-7444. $145,000. 306-230-2736, Assiniboia, SK. OBO. 403-652-7980, High River, AB.

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3PT SNOWBLOWERS: AGRO Trend, made in Ontario. All oil bath gearboxes, 48”, 72”, 78”, 84”, 96”, 102”, 120”. In stock, limited quantities. Call Cam-Don Motors Ltd. 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK. PARTIAL LIST ONLY. Snowblowers and attachments: JD Spitfire snowmobile, $999; NEW Cub Cadet 54” snowblowers, $599; NEW 8’, 2-stage, 3 PTH, PTO snowblower, $2999; 8’, 3PH, PTO snowblower; 2- walk behind snowblowers, Toro and Airens; NEW 5’ front drive 3PH snowblower; Trackless 4WD diesel w/5’ blower; 6- Sicard and Oshkosh trucks w/blowers; Holder 4WD diesel w/5’ blower; snow blades for trucks and loaders; snow buckets from 1 to 10 yard; snow buckets for skidsteers; 10- fire engines, many types; parting out 18- graders. Attachments of all types, hundreds of items on 2 yards, over 50 acres. Over 75 sets of pallet forks in stock; several Crawler loaders; large stock of construction tires; over 25 forklifts, man lifts and scissor lifts; 12- loaders from 1.5 to 9 yard. Over 50 Gensets from 3.5 to 193 KW. 12- sets of forks for loaders and dozers. New replacement parts. Central Canada’s largest wreckers of construction equipment. Cambrian Equipment Sales Ltd. 204-667-2867, fax: 204-667-2932. SCHULTE AND FARM KING snowblowers, In stock at Flaman. Call today to book yours 1-888-435-2626. www.flaman.com V SNOWPLOWS, 8’ cut to fit 100 HP to 180 H P F WA t r a c t o r s , $ 6 8 5 O B O . C a l l 780-855-2286, New Norway, AB. SCHULTE 8’ FRONT mount snowblower, model 800, fits Case 2294 or 7110, 1000 RPM or 540 RPM, good condition, $8500. 306-272-7878, 306-593-7644, Margo, SK. SCHULTE RDX110 SNOWBLOWER excellent condition. Heenan Agri Ltd. Call Dale 306-539-8590, Regina, SK. 9’ ERSKINE INDUSTRIAL universal front mount blower, 540 RPM, good condition, $8500. 306-268-7400 or 306-268-7550, Bengough, SK. RICHARDSON 666 ROTARY snowplow, 6’10” cut, 540 PTO, was mounted on JD 4020 and JD 4440. Has not been used for years. Offers. Macklin, SK. 306-753-2620, or cell 306-753-7974. USED 12’ LEON dozer blade/snowplow, $4995. Call Roy 780-955-8042, Leduc, AB.

‘11 40’ MD FD70 Flex Draper Header Split reel, transport, hyd. tilt, adapter to fit CAT, JD, or CNH included. $62,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

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COMB-TRAC SALVAGE. We sell new and used parts for most makes of tractors, combines, balers, mixmills and swathers. Phone 306-997-2209, 1-877-318-2221, Borden, SK. www.comb-tracsalvage.com We buy machinery.

2011 MACDON PW7 PU head, JD 60/70 hookup, under 1000 acres, like new, $19,500. 306-230-2736, Assiniboia, SK.

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SPRAY-AIR 120’ 3600, 1300 gallon tank, good condition, $20,000 CDN. Located just south of Coronach, SK. Contact Charlie at 406-783-5510. cahillseeds@nemont.net 1993 FLEXI-COIL 65 100’ high profile wheeled, 800 gal. windscreens w/endcaps, chem tank, dual nozzles, foam markers, clean water tank, adj. axles, lug tires, 2 seasons on pump, 1 season on solonoids, $7500. 403-878-6985 cell, Richmound, SK. 2006 TOP AIR TA2400 suspended boom sprayer, 120’ booms, duals, $44,500. 306-981-5489, Prince Albert, SK. 2002 FLEXI-COIL 67XL suspended boom, 90’ booms, 1200 gal. tank, induction tank, clean water tank, foam markers, triple nozzles, mint cond., $19,000. 306-487-2712 or 306-487-7966, Lampman, SK.

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‘13 40’ MD D65 Header Split reel, hyd. tilt, dbl knife drive w/ JD adapter. $59,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

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RECONDITIONED rigid and flex, most makes and sizes; also header transports. Ed Lorenz, 306-344-4811, Paradise Hill, SK. www.straightcutheaders.com TRAILTECH 30’ HEADER transport, like new, $1600. 306-867-3424, Outlook, SK. WANT TO SELL 30’ Honeybee adapter, as new, for Int. 2388 combine, $700 OBO. Call 306-939-4509, Earl Grey, SK.

‘09 35’ IH 2142/MD D50 Header w/ transport, new knife, header in good condition. $42,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

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2009 CIH 3185 high clearance, 90’, 2 sets of tires, AIM command, inspected, 1452 hrs., $148,000. 306-738-4603, Gray, SK. 2005 PREDATOR 2010, 103’ conventional and AirBoom, 1000 gal tank, 3-way nozzle bodies, AutoBoom shut-off, GPS EZ-Steer 500, crop dividers, 2 sets tires, 1800 hrs, $110,000. 780-307-5023, Neerlandia, AB.

Tractors Combines Swathers GOODS USED TRACTOR parts (always buying tractors) David or Curtis, Roblin, MB., 204-564-2528, 1-877-564-8734. G.S. TRACTOR SALVAGE, JD tractors only. 306-497-3535, Blaine Lake, SK. AGRA PARTS PLUS, parting older tractors, tillage, seeding, haying, along w/other Ag equipment. 3 miles NW of Battleford, SK. off #16 Hwy. Ph: 306-445-6769. SMITH’S TRACTOR WRECKING. Huge inventory new and used tractor parts. 1-888-676-4847. TRIPLE B WRECKING, wrecking tractors, combines, cults., drills, swathers, mixmills. etc. We buy equipment. 306-246-4260, 306-441-0655, Richard, SK. NEW SALVAGE TRACTORS, Volvo 810, 650; IH 885; MF 165, S90; JD 7800; Ford 7600, 3600, Super Major; County; Nuffield. www.britishtractorwreckers 306-228-3011 Unity, SK. MEDICINE HAT TRACTOR Salvage Inc. Specializing in new, used, and rebuilt agricultural and construction parts. Buying ag and construction equipment for dismantling. Call today 1-877-527-7278, www.mhtractor.ca Medicine Hat, AB.

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2011 NH SP275F high clearance sprayer 1400 gal. tank, 120’ boom, UltraGlide boom height, AccuBoom sectional control, ViperPro monitor, 2 sets of tires, 500 eng. hrs., very nice, just going to a smaller one. $270,000 OBO. 780-645-9630, Glendon AB 1999 APACHE 790, 2600 hrs., all new tires, new solution pump, new hydraulic pump, EZ-Steer GPS, always shedded, excellent condition, $70,000. Call 306-642-5632 or 306-536-9811 cell, Assiniboia, SK. NEW 2013 MILLER CONDOR SPRAYER, 120’ booms, 1200 gal. SS tank, 4WD, Raven GPS and boom levelers, loaded, new sprayer at used price, $299,000. Call 208-267-1973, Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

YOUNG’S EQUIPMENT INC. For all your silage equipment needs call Kevin or Ron toll free 1-800-803-8346, Regina, SK. NH FR9080 forage harvester, c/w 8 row corn head, 15’ pickup head, 900 hrs. 403-394-4401, Lethbridge, AB.

LOEFFELHOLZ TRACTOR AND COMBINE Salvage, Cudworth, SK., 306-256-7107. We sell new, used and remanufactured parts for most farm tractors and combines. NEED PICKUP HEADERS? 914 $3,500 & up; JD/Precision - $3,000 & up; 212/214/971 NH - $500 & up. Trades welcome. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

2007 APACHE 1010, 1275 hrs., 103’, Raven Envisio Pro monitor w/hyd. SmarTrax steering, Phoenix 200 receiver, Raven AccuBoom and Raven AutoBoom, sharp shooter nozzle control, five nozzle body, shedded, well maintained $162,500 OBO. Lumsden, SK. Call Jim 306-530-8433 or email: info@LLseeds.ca for photos 1996 WILLMAR 6400, skinny and fat tires, triple nozzle body, 80’ GPS crop dividers, 20,000 lb. trailer pintle hitch, 2400 hrs., $42,000. 306-696-7574, Broadview, SK. 2008 MILLER A75, full load, 103’ Spray-Air boom, hypro nozzles, 1000 gal., crop dividers, AutoSteer, AutoBoom, AccuBoom, $145,000. 780-674-7944, Barrhead, AB. 2009 JD 4830, 1000 gal., $199,000; 2009 CIH SRX160, 120’, 1600 gallon, $39,900; 2010 CIH 3230, $219,000; 2000 RoGator 1254, 1200 gallon, $89,900; Brandt 4000, 100’, 1600 gal., $29,900; 2013 CIH 4430, loaded, $375,000; BG 1450, 100’, 1200 gallon, $5,900; 2004 RoGator 1064, 1000 gal., $117,500; BG 850, 112’, $4,900. Call Hergott Farm Equipment 306-682-2592, Humboldt, SK.

JD 4920, 2005, 1600 hrs, 120’ boom, 1200 gal. SS tank, Autotrac, swath control, Norac, 710/70R42 Michelin and 380/105R50 Firestone tires, $169,900. 519-949-2351, Hensall, ON. 1998 WILLMAR 785 Special Edition, 5.9L Cummins engine, 600 gal. SS tank, 90’ booms, c/w Trimble AutoSteer crop divders, 2 sets of tires, 3600 hrs., farmer o w n e d s i n c e n ew. A s k i n g $ 4 7 , 5 0 0 . 306-874-7474, Naicam, SK. 2009 1286 ROGATOR, 1540 hrs., 1280 gal. tank, 100’ boom, chem. inductor, floodlight kit, Raven Viper Pro, AccuBoom, Smart-Trax, 2 sets of tires, recent dealer winter service, field ready, $210,000. Call 306-722-3894, 306-861-3268, Fillmore, SK 2007 JD 4830, 1000 gal. SS tank, 100’, 2 sets tires, GPS: 2600 SF1, auto-sect. shutoff, exc. cond., 3200 hrs, 2nd owner, loaded, $157,000. 204-355-8305 Ste Anne, MB 2009 4730, 100’, fully loaded, two sets of tires, $179,000. 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK. 2012 JD 4940, 622/246 engine/spray hrs, fully loaded. 2nd set of wheels and tires (710’s) avail. 403-892-3303 Carmangay AB

TRIDEKON CROP SAVER, crop dividers. Reduce trampling losses by 80% to 90%. Call Great West Agro, 306-398-8000, Cut Knife, SK.

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MORI-SEIKI SL 80F CNC lathe, 8.5” spindle bore, 25” air chuck, Fanuc controls, $59,000; Hitachi-Seiki CNC lathe, model 50G, 6.25” spindle bore, $31,000; Standard-Modern lathe, 20x120, $10,500; Kent 12x24 fully automatic surface grinder, $9000; Acer milling marching, $4000. Call 403-850-8876, Calgary, AB.

HY-TRUX HIGH clearance sprayer, under 1991 Dodge Ram 250 w/Cummins dsl., 80’ booms, 400 gal. tank, triple nozzle, crop dividers, some work req’d, $10,000. Lampman. SK. 306-487-2712 or 306-487-7966.

’97 AG Shield P/T sprayer, 1,250 gallon tank, 100’ boom. $8,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

2006 JD 4920, 120’, loaded, exc., hi-flow, eductor, Trac control, Raven powerglide, ultra-glide, 5-Ways, 380s, 15” spacing, $139,500. 204-242-4074, Manitou, MB. 2013 CASE 4430, loaded, Aim command, 2 sets tires, 361 hrs., $340,000. 306-967-2534, Eatonia, SK.

TRAILTECH SPRAYER TRAILER, pintle hitch, new paint and tires, $9,000. Call 306-874-7474, Naicam, SK. BEHNKE DROP DECK semi style and pintle hitch sprayer trailers. Air ride, tandem and tridems. Contact SK: 306-398-8000; AB: 403-350-0336.

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2001 BOURGAULT 54’ 5710 Series II, 9.8” spacing w/newer 3.5” steel packers and MRB’s, NH3 tip, all new main frame tires, 1997 BOURGAULT 5710, 60’, 7” spacing, c/w 2002 L-5350 Bourgault tank, DS, tank SS, speed lock adapters, 3/4” carbide always shedded, $130,000. 306-231-8229, knives, 3” steel packers w/mud scrapers, Watson, SK. granular kit, 2004 5350 TBH tank, center 2011 SEED HAWK, 60-10, semi-pneumattank metering, DS, 2 fans, rear tow hitch, ic packers c/w 2010 6700 Bourgault tank, $85,000. 306-264-3721, Mankota, SK. D S, c o nveyo r, l ow a c r e s , $ 3 2 5 , 0 0 0 . 204-522-5189, Waskada, MB. 8800 BOURGAULT 40’ air drill, poly packers, harrows, 8” space, 3225 TBH cart, $32,000. Call 204-825-8121, Morden, MB. 66’ SEEDMASTER, 2009, slim fold, tire in tire, lift hitch, smart hitch, dual caster on wings and main frame, big floatation tire on main frame, tips are at 50%, with TBH 2010 BOURGAULT 5710, 74’, 9.8” spacing, 430 JD cart. Cart has duals, conveyor, rear 3.5 steel packers, Dutch paired row knives, hitch. Call Martin at 780-220-8144, Legal, with 6700 air tank, done 14,000 acres, AB. or email for pics: at cyrmr@telus.net shedded, $210,000. Millhouse Farms Inc., 306-398-4079, Cut Knife, SK. WANTED: ATOM-JET C-shank single shoot openers (cb15) or 3/4” Bourgault knockon openers. 306-629-3811, Ernfold, SK.

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70’ FLEXI-COIL 7500, DS dry c/w 3450 TBT tank, $55,000; 5300 Bourgault air cart TBH, $28,000. 306-247-4818, Scott, SK. 2005 JD 1820 10” spacing, 4” steel packers, double shoot, w/Bourgault opener, 1920 JD air cart, 430 bu. triple tank, conveyor, TBH, very clean, $78,000. Call 780-841-1496, Fort Vermilion, AB. 2005 52’ SEED HAWK, 10” spacing, 1000 gal. on board, newer knives/packers, 2009 3315 Ezee-On TBT cart, var. rate, 315 bu., $85,000. Stockton, MB. 204-526-5017. WANTED: MONITORS FOR Flexi-Coil 2320 air tank. Phone: 306-222-6665, Saskatoon, SK. 2010 64’ 5710 Bourgault air drill, MRBII, 9.8” spacing, dual castor wheels, 3/4” tips, 6550 ST tank, 591 monitor and deluxe auger, exc. cond., field ready, $220,000 OBO. Ph. 780-753-4406, Provost, AB.

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See us at the MANITOBA “The Air Bubble Jet 90% AG DAYS FARM SHOW consistently produces droplets LESS DRIFT, Jan. 21-23, 2014 that are 200-550 microns LESS RUN OFF, in size. Too big to drift KEYSTONE CENTRE, SUPERIOR $ 25 - too small to run off.” BRANDON, MB 11 COVERAGE

Drift occurs when droplets are smaller than 200 microns. Standard sprayer nozzles drift because they produce droplets that are 50-300 micron in size with a large percentage under 200. With a droplet range of 200-550 microns, the Air Bubble Jet has 90% less drift than standard nozzles.

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2003 MORRIS NEVER PIN 34’, 7180, 3 comp. air cart, 10” spacing, side band, low acres, $38,000.780-685-2042 Cleardale AB 2011 AMITY SD50, no till disc drill, MRBs, weight kit, 350 bu. cart, 10” fill auger, liquid fert. var. rate distribution kit. 50’. Used 2 seasons $170,000 OBO. Plentywood, MT. BG 2155H, $2500; BG 2195H, $7900; BG 54’ 5710 w/5350, $85,000; BG 5710 74’, $89,900; BG poly packers, $6900; CIH PH800 60’ w/3430 TBT, $189,000; BG 65’ 3310 w/6700ST, $329,000; BG 4350, PDM auger, $27,500; BG 5710 64’ w/5440, $110,000; 2013 BG 3320 76’ w/6700ST, loaded, $415,000; Morris Contour w/8370, 47’, $135,000. Ph Hergott Farm Equipment 306-682-2592, Humboldt, SK. WANTED: FLEXI-COIL 6000, 30’ tool bar, prefer 7.5” spacing, SS, in good working condition. 780-205-3322, Lloydminster, SK BOURGAULT PARA-LINK AIR drills, large selection of good late model units. Other makes and models avail. Will deliver. Gord 403-308-1135, Lethbridge, AB. WANTED: 5-1/2” RUBBER packers for Flexi-Coil 5000, 9” spacing. Will trade 4-1/2” steel. 403-793-1705, Brooks, AB. 2010 65’ 3310 Bourgault paralink, 12” spacing, mid row shank banding, DS, rear hitch, $157,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment Ltd. 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 55’ MORRIS MAXIM, 10” spacing, blockage monitor, Atom-Jet openers, 7300 TBT tank, exc. cond. Phone: 306-291-9395, or 306-283-4747, Langham, SK.

1999 FLEXI-COIL 2320, double shoot, TBH, excellent condition, $14,900 OBO. 306-563-8482, 306-782-2586, Yorkton, SK

Air Bubble jet nozzles operate at 30-45 psi and have an overall range of 20-90 psi.They can be used to apply fungicides, insecticides and herbicides to any crop including potatoes and pulse crops. Ag Canada tested.

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2002 FLEXI-COIL 3450 TBH, 10” auger w/air seeder hopper, very good condition, double shoot, mechanical drive, rear hitch, $37,000. Call 780-221-3980, Leduc, AB. 2013 JD 1870 Conserva Pak, 57’, c/w full run blockage monitor and 430 JD TBT cart, seeded only 3000 acres, $225,000 OBO. Ph. 780-778-0796, Mayerthorpe, AB. 1999 BOURGAULT 5710, 64’, single shoot, 3” rubber packers, w/2003 5350 tank, 3 comp., double fans, hitch for liquid cart, $55,000. 306-243-4242, Macrorie, SK

2010 40’ Case Precision disk air drill w/ matching 3430 tank & liquid fertilizer kit. Field ready w/ warranty. Trades welcome, transportation available. $138,800.00. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

New Twin Air Bubble Jet. With the twin cap, you can use 2-5 gallon nozzles rather than 1-10 gallon nozzles. The advantage is you get over twice as many droplets per square inch for superior coverage.

2013 BOURGAULT 3320 76’ XTC drill with 7950 cart. 4.5” V-style packer, double shoot air kit for mid row shanks, liquid kit for side band with 1” knife, full blockage seed and fert. ISO adapter, X30 monitor, 12” auger and bag lift. Call 306-746-7638 for info., Raymore, SK. 2010 P1050 NH 380 bu. air tank, TBH, SS, dual fans, bin level, velocity. Intelliview II monitor, hitch, hoses, shedded; 2002 Case/IH 32-12 Edge-on spring shanks w/Farmland boots, disc closers, shedded. Call 204-734-2526, Swan River, MB. 1999 FLEXI-COIL 2340 TBH cart w/3rd tank, variable rate, semi hopper, $24,000. 306-587-2764, 306-587-7729, Cabri, SK.

BOURGAULT 64’ 5710, MRB’s and 6350 2008 DEGELMAN 7000, 82’, full hyd., 5/8 Bourgault air cart w/in-cab controls. tines, $35,000 OBO. Call 306-563-8482, 306-277-4503, Gronlid, SK. 306-782-2586, Yorkton, SK. BOURGAULT 5350 air tank, dual fans, 3 BRANDT 7000 HEAVY harrow, 70’, hydraultanks, Rice tires, 491 HP monitor, 2008 NH ic tilt, mint condition. Call 306-277-4503, ST830 tillage tool, 50’, 12” spacing, 530 Gronlid, SK. trip, w/Technotill seeding system, unit 2000 BRANDT COMMANDER 5000 50’ shedded, sold as unit. Contact Gregoire h e a v y h a r r o w, l i k e n e w. C o n t a c t S e e d F a r m s L t d . , 3 0 6 - 4 4 5 - 5 5 1 6 o r 306-488-4683, Penzance, SK. 306-441-7005, North Battleford, SK. 2009 DEGELMAN LR8080 landroller, 80’, 1999 BOURGAULT 5710 Stk# B21677D, new condition, used only 6000 acres, 54’, 9.8” spacing, 3” carbide tips, MRBs, $55,000. 306-533-4891, Gray, SK. u p d at e d w i d e p i vo t , $ 3 8 , 5 0 0 C a s h . 1-888-442-6084 or www.farmworld.ca 1995 BOURGAULT 3195 Stk# HR3113B; trailing mechanical drive, single fan, RTH, CASE/IH 3580 TBH tank, 2013, dual $13,300. Call 1-888-446-9572 or visit our shoot, Deluxe auger c/w remote, 3 tank var. rate, Ultrasonic bin level sensors, air website: www.farmworld.ca velocity meter, rear folding ladder, 3 40’ FLEXI-COIL 400 cultivator, 9” spacing, c o a r s e r o l l e r s , 1 e x t r a fi n e r o l l e r, knock-on shovels, c/w 1110 air cart, 800/65R32 front tires, 650/75R32 rear $7500 OBO. 306-297-7624, Shaunavon, SK duals. Gord 403-308-1135, Lethbridge, AB. 2009 JD 1830 40’ c/w 1910 350 bu. cart, JD 7200 PLANTER Alpine fertilizer kit, 16 only 6500 acres, like new cond., 3.5’’ split row, 30” spacing, all runs have been tested row Dutch openers, Pattison liquid kit, and maintain 99% accuracy, 1.75 bu. hopper, 3 PTH pull. 306-436-7566, Regina, SK. $105,000. 204-574-6401, Brandon, MB. 2011 BOURGAULT 9400 60’ deep tillage FLEXI-COIL 1720 SEED cart, 18.4x26 cultivator, heavy trips, rear hitch, $78,000. rears, 16.5x16.1 fronts. 306-622-2069, A . E . C h i c o i n e F a r m E q u i p m e n t L t d . Gull Lake, SK. area. 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. 2 4 0 VA L M A R G R A N U L A R ap p l i c at o r, $1700. Phone 306-395-2668 or 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK.

MORRIS MAXIM II, 34.5’ air drill, double shoot, carbide tips, 7180 tank, excellent shape w/low acres, asking $39,000. 403-647-7827, Foremost, AB. 2012 SEED HAWK, 80-12 w/sectional control, conveyor, blockage, 800 bu. triple tank, shedded, low acres, $335,000. Call 306-483-7829, Oxbow, SK. 36’ JD 730 double disc with 1900 TBT cart, $34,000; JD 787 TBT cart, $12,500. Can deliver. 204-856-6119, 204-685-2896, MacGregor, MB. 2006 K-HART DRILL and 2006 ADX 3430 FLEXI-COIL 85 HEAVY harrows, 70’, exceltank (Flexi-Coil), 60’, 10” spacing. New and lent condition. 403-321-2105, Blackie, AB. rebuilt parts, some new tires for drill also included, $100,000 OBO. 306-463-9229 or 306-460-7426, Eatonia, SK.

2002 MORRIS NEVERPIN 34’, 10” spacing, NH3 mid row banders, w/rear hitch, vg cond., w/wo 6180 TBT tank, w/320 gal. liquid tank and kit, $21,000 drill, $30,000 complete. 780-518-7645, Sexsmith, AB.

Run off occurs with big droplets - 600 microns and over. Depending on the manufacturer, other low drift nozzles produce droplets that range in size from 250-1000 microns. That is why run off can be a problem. With a droplet size of 200-550 microns, your chemical stays on the plant when applied with the Air Bubble Jet.

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2013 K-HART AIR Drill 66’, 560 bu., SS w/4612 openers, 10” spacing, deluxe packers, 560 bu. Salford w/variable rate, ISO controller and scales. Selling because we a g o i n g t o K - H a r t w i t h M R B ’ s . 306-378-7709 or 306-378-7759, Elrose, SK 2012 BOURGAULT 3320 PHD, 60’, 10” spacing, 4.5” V-Style packers, MRB-III, 6550ST tank, X20 monitor, var. rate, 491 drill control, like new! $339,000. Jordan, anytime 403-627-9300, Pincher Creek, AB. 2007 72’ SEEDMASTER, 12” spacing, semipneumatic tires on shank w/Bourgault 6700 ST cart, dual wheels, conveyor, $230,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equip. Ltd. 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK. MOON HEAVY HAUL pulling air drills/ air seeders, packer bars, Alberta and Sask. 30 years experience. Call Bob Davidson, Drumheller, AB. 403-823-0746.

2 0 1 1 B O U R G A U LT 3 3 1 0 P H D, S t k # PB2965, DS, MRB II’s, rear duals, couple walking casters, rear drop hitch, $355,000 cash. 1-888-462-3816, www.farmworld.ca 2012 Bourgault 3320QDA Stk# B21999A, single shoot, rear duals, liquid knife, liquid VR kit, Edge-on frnt knife holder, $198,000 Cash. 1-888-442-6084, www.farmworld.ca 2004 JOHN DEERE 1820 41’, single shoot w/1910 270 bu. cart, 25,000 acres. 306-784-2903, Main Center, SK. BOURGAULT 4350 CART, $29,000. Rama, SK. Call 306-563-8482 or 306-782-2586.

HARROWS AND MORE HARROWS: 72’ H H B o u r g a u l t 1 9 9 9 7 2 0 0 Va l m a r, $25,500; 84’ HH Bourgault 7200 2005 and ‘97 JD 1900 Air Tank 350 bushels, 2007 choice, $26,500; 84’ HH Bourgault new auger, re-done metering system 7200 2004, $25,000; 84’ HH Bourgault & agitators, good condition w/ warranty. $24,800. Trades welcome. 7200 2004, $25,000; 72’ HH Degelman Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. 7000 2004, $24,500; 72’ HH Delmar HH, www.combineworld.com $16,500; 60’ gates HH new, $30,000; 72’ gates HH new, $34,500; 84’ gates HH demo, $37,500; Bergen 72’ HH, $10,000; Delmar mid harrow with air kit, $16,500. Selection can’t be beat. Corner Equipment KELLO-BILT 8’ to 20’ offset discs w/24” 204-483-2774, Carroll, MB. to 36” notched blades; Kello-Bilt 24’ to 38’ wing discs w/26” and 28” notched 55’ LAURIER HARROW packer bar, P20 tandem and oil bath bearings. Red Deer, AB. packers, $3500 OBO. Call 306-297-7624, blades www.kelloughs.com 1-888-500-2646. Shaunavon, SK. KELLO-BILT DISC PARTS: Blades and DEGELMAN 80’ LANDROLLER, $54,500; bearings. Parts to fit most makes and 2010 Degelman 82’ heavy harrow, Valmar, models. 1-888-500-2646, Red Deer, AB. $ 4 8 , 5 0 0 ; B r a n d t 7 0 ’ h e av y h a r r ow, www.kelloughs.com $24,900; 2011 BG 7200 72’ heavy harrow, $38,900. Call Hergott Farm Equipment 2002 30’ WISHEK DISC, good condition, $52,000 OBO. Call Mike 780-777-5364, 306-682-2592, Humboldt, SK. Leduc, AB. mike.ohlmann@gmail.com NEW AGRI-TECH 45’ land roller, $36,000. C a l l f o r d e t a i l s 4 0 3 - 3 3 0 - 7 9 8 2 o r 24’ KELLO-BILT DISCER, $18,000 OBO. 780-888-2245, or 780-888-1217, Hardisty, 403-824-3737, Nobleford, AB. AB. WANTED: SYSTEM 82 Flexi-Coil or any harrow bar w/4”x6” frame. 204-655-3458 CIH 5500, 37’ deep tillage w/harrows, 2” spikes, trade for JD 1610 29’ no harrows. or 204-648-7215, Sifton, MB. Call 306-229-8638, 306-383-2546 leave DEGELMAN STRAWMASTER 7000 harrow message, Rose Valley, SK. drawbar, 50’, $22,000. Gerard Zdunich RT-300 JOKER! 2011, 30’ wide, approx. 306-252-2910, 306-241-2839 Kenaston SK 3500 acres, asking $69,500. Please Contact James 403-312-0776, Calgary, AB. MORRIS CONCEPT 2000 DEEP TILLER. New, arrived late. 0 acres. 42’, 12” spacing, 755LH auto trips, 4 bar harrow. Less than new price. 204-825-4465, Crystal City, MB. LEMKEN RUBIN 8 meter 26’ disc, demo model, as new, $95,000. 204-574-6401, Brandon, MB. WINTER DISCOUNTS on new and used rollers, all sizes. Machinery Dave, Bow Island, AB., 403-545-6340, 403-580-6889. FLEXI-COIL SYSTEM 95 harrow packer drawbar, 80’, 5-bar tine harrows, P20 packers, $10,000. Rouleau, SK., phone 306-776-2394, 306-537-0615.

WANTED: 49 - 2” shank mount packers; Selling JD 737 air drill, 31’, SS, 7.5” spacing w/787 TBH cart 160 bu., $16,500, just cart $10,000. 306-867-8477, Outlook, SK. 2009 DEGELMAN 82’ harrows with Valmar, BOOK YOUR RITEWAY landroller for spring 5/8” tine, 26” length, new hoses, great delivery. Be ready for seeding. Call Flaman shape, $48,000. 306-533-4891, Gray, SK. today- 1-888-435-2626. www.flaman.com

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2004 JD 1820 air drill w/2004 JD 1910 cart, 60’, 430 bu., DS, Flexi-Coil Stealth paired row openers, 3” steel packers, single run blockage, duals front and rear on air cart, 13.5 tires on implement, drill exc. cond, $75,000. 780-322-2574, Nampa, AB.

High - Speed Versatile Tillage 2010 CASE/IH PH800, c/w TBT 3430 air tank, 70’, double shoot dry, var. rate, like new, low acres, $159,900. 306-749-7731, Birch Hills, SK. fhagmann@sasktel.net

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The Joker tillage system is versatile and able to handle any type of crop residue in wet, dry, rocky, or extremely saturated soils. No other tillage system gives you the speed, durability, moisture conservation and finishing capabilities that the Joker does. No matter what cropping conditions are dealt, you will never be outmatched with a Joker in your hand. Call Glenmor today, or visit www.horschanderson.com/joker.html

2012 SEEDMASTER 32’ 140 bu. seed tank 1600 gallon fert. tank fully loaded with sectional control/variable rate. Low acres. Reason for selling going to a bigger drill. $150,000 OBO. 780-645-9630 Glendon, AB 2001 39’ FLEXI-COIL 5000, 12” spacing, 2340 TBT tank, var. seed rate, var. flow anhydrous. 306-747-3635, Shellbrook, SK. 2008 SEEDMASTER TOOLBAR, 64’ on 12” spacing, c/w Flexi-Coil 3450 var. rate cart, brand new fert. knives, asking $150,000. 306-421-1086, 306-634-9330, Macoun SK

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30’ JD 9350 hoe drills w/transport, $2000; 48’ Leon rod wheeler w/harrows, $850; 35’ Morris cultivator w/harrows, $1200. 306-395-2668, 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. COMPLETE SHANK ASSEMBLIES: JD 1610, $135; JD 610, black, $180; JD 1600, $90; Morris 7-series, $135. 306-946-7923, 306-946-4923, Young, SK.

1981 JD 8440 4WD, 7457 hrs, power quad trans, 1000 PTO, 3 remotes, 18.4x38 duals 65%. Completely rebuilt motor, new injection pump and injectors, new clutch and brakes, shedded! $29,900. Jordan, anytime 403-627-9300, Pincher Creek, AB. 2012 JD 9410R, 1300 hrs., 18 spd., powershift with efficiency manager, 710x70R42 tires, PTO, warranty. 306-752-3777 or 306-921-6697, Melfort, SK.

2010 JD DB60 PLANTER, 24/47 row, Precision air force, E-sets, 20/20 monitor, row command, row cleaners, Keaton seed firmers, liquid kit. Call 306-456-2749, 306-861-2013, Oungre, SK.

2006 AGCO RT135 FWD w/ 1080 loader, CVT transmission, front axle and cab suspension, 3140 hours, $70,500 OBO. 780-603-7833, Vegreville, AB. 2007 CHALLENGER MT865B, 525 HP, Cat C18, 3953 hrs., exc. cond., HD tracks 80%, PTO, big pump, 6 SCVs, RTK GPS and much more. 780-206-1234, Barrhead, AB.

‘09 NH TV6070 Tractor 105hp, new tires, loader w/ new bucket, 3,812 hrs., runs & operates well! $59,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

‘09 JD 9530 Tractor 475hp, 7,740 hrs., Powershift, 710/70r42 tires w/ JD Green Light Dec 2013. $158,800. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

JD 7810; JD 7710; JD 7410. All MFWD 2010 FENDT 712, 900 hrs., 580/42 rear, and low hours, can be equipped with load540/26 front, 3 PTH, exc. shape, fast, ers. Call 204-522-6333, Melita, MB. great on fuel, $95,000. Call 403-652-7980, JD 3140 w/sound guard cab, AC, quad High River, AB. range, dual hyds., 540/1000 PTO, $15,000 OBO. 306-743-7622, Langenburg, SK. DIGITAL HOUR METER repair and proDUETZ 9170 MFWD, 5900 hrs., good con- gramming on heavy equip. and farm tracdition and good rubber, $24,000. Call tors. 403-809-3903 Prospeedo Calgary, AB 780-305-3547, Neerlandia, AB. 1997 JD 9400, 4WD, 7265 hrs., 24 spd., weight package, new 710 tires, Universal AutoSteer, $105,000; 16’ Degelman doz1986 CASE/IH 4894, 7100 hrs., asking er blade fits 9000 series JD 4WD, hyd. $25,000. 306-287-4243 or 306-287-7573, angle, snow extensions, used for snow only, $17,000. 306-421-1110, Torquay, SK. Watson, SK. CASE/IH STEIGER built, 4 WD/Quads; 2004 JD 9420, mint cond., 3150 hrs. Plus other makes and models. Call the showing, weight pkg., shedded, Greenstar, Tractor Man! Trades welcome. We deliver. GPS ready, bought new, orig. owner. 306-229-7149, Osler, SK. Gord 403-308-1135, Lethbridge, AB. LIZARD CREEK REPAIR and Tractor. We 1998 JOHN DEERE 9400 4 WD, 4370 hrs., buy 90 and 94 Series Case, 2 WD, FWA 12 spd, weight pkg, 750x65x38 Treleborg tractors for parts and rebuilding. Also have dual tires, $109,000 OBO. 403-529-7134, r e b u i l t t r a c t o r s a n d p a r t s fo r s a l e . Medicine Hat, AB. 306-784-7841, Herbert, SK. 2010 CIH 485, 800 duals, PTO, $269,000; 2010 CIH 435 Quad, PTO, $269,000; 2011 CIH 450, 800 duals, $263,000; 2009 CIH 535 Quad, 36” tracks, $283,900; 2012 JD 9460R, PTO, $279,000; NH Boomer 3045 w/FEL, $31,900; CIH Magnum 210, 3 PTH, $139,000; CIH Magnum 235, low hrs, $165,000; 2003 JD 9520, PS, $169,000; 1986 CIH 4494, $23,900; 2012 CIH 550Q, 2005 JD 6420 MFWD, w/640SL loader, 3 PTO, $359,000; 2011 CIH Maxxum 125 PTH, 2991 hrs, 95 HP, 540/1000 PTO, 3 w/FEL, $97,500; 2004 NH TJ500, PS, hyds, good rubber, shedded, nice tractor. $175,000; 2009 CIH 535 Quad, 36” tracks, Ph or text 403-741-2099, Stettler, AB. $296,000. Call Hergott Farm Equipment STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER looking 306-682-2592, Humboldt, SK. for JD tractors to rebuild, Series 20s, 30s, 2003 CASE STX 450, PTO, 16 spd. power- 40s or 50s, or for parts. Will pay top dollar. shift, weights, GPS, 710-42’s, 3600 hrs., Now selling JD parts. 204-466-2927, $158,000. 403-443-1207, Trochu, AB. 204-871-5170, Austin, MB. WANTED IHC TRACTORS: 1206, 1026, JD 7810 MFD, 3 PTH, 740 loader, 5600 1456, 826, 4 WD’s 4166, 4100, 4156, hrs., mint. Call 780-990-8412, Cherhill, AB. 4186. Must have 3 PTH and PTO, running 2007 JD 7520, IVT trans., 741 loader, deor not. Call 204-665-2461, Melita, MB. tachable grapple fork, FWD, 3 PTH, 4400 2002 STX 450 quad, power shift, PTO, hrs, $85,000. 780-853-7205 Vermilion, AB. 7500 hrs., $125,000. 306-831-8963, 2000 JD 8100, FWA, 20.8x42 duals, 6000 Rosetown, SK. hrs., mint, $63,900. Phone 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK. 1992 CASE/IH 7110 Magnum, 1285 original hrs., 18.4x38 duals, 3 hyd., 18 spd. power shift, premium condition. Phone: 306-291-9395, 306-283-4747 Langham SK CASE 2594, 3600 hrs., 24 spd., IHC 684 c/w FEL, 3 PTH, 2400 hrs., 403-394-4401, Lethbridge, AB. WANTED: 1026, 1456 or 826 IH tractors any condition. Call 701-240-5737, Minot, North Dakota. WANTED: CASE/IH 2294 FWA. Also older Case and JD tractors in need of repair. 306-395-2668, 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. 2000 CASE/IH 9370 powershift, 4534 hrs., 710 metrics (80% plus), N14 Cummins, 400 HP, 60 GPM hyd. MaxFlo, well maintained, many new parts, $95,000 OBO. Clifford 780-632-2975, Vegreville, AB 1983 CASE 2294, 2WD, 10,300 hrs., c/w 10’ blade, good condition for it’s age, $14,000. Call 403-740-6316, Castor, AB. 2013 CASE/IH 550 HD wheeled tractor, 1280 hrs., warranty until Spring 2015, $292,000. Call Terry at 204-746-4131, Rosenort, MB. equipmentpeople.com 1992 CASE/IH 7120 Magnum, 7147 hrs, original owner, 20.8x38 singles, 3 hyd., 18 spd. power shift, exc. cond. 306-291-9395, 306-283-4747 Langham SK 2011 CASE MG340, 1350 hrs., loaded, duals front/rear, exc. cond. Tractor will do almost anything you would like! $180,000 OBO. 403-652-7980, High River, AB.

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WANTED: JOHN DEERE 4020 with front e n d l o a d e r a n d s i d e e n t r a n c e c a b. 780-672-3755, Camrose, AB. 8420T, 2005, 3325 hrs., 24” tracks, GPS ready, 4 remotes, powershift, vg cond. 780-954-2005, 780-283-2005,Westlock AB 2013 JD 9560 RT TRAC, 660 hrs, idler weights, AJ hitch, 5 hyds, 78 GPM, PTO, HID lighting, warranty to 2018, mint cond. Call 306-526-8888, Regina, SK. 9630T JOHN DEERE, premium cab and lighting pkg., 530 HP, 3500 hrs., tracks at 8 0 % , g r e at s h ap e , a l w ay s s h e d d e d . $208,000. Ron 204-941-0045, Rosser, MB. 1986 JD 4450, approx. 6200 hrs., factory duals, quad range. 306-726-2151, Southey, SK. FOR SALE BY TENDER: 1998 JD 7410 selflevelling loader, 10,500 hrs., 3 hyds., all new tires May 2012. Equipment sold as is. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Tenders close February 11, 2014. Send tenders to: RM of Auvergne #76, Box 60, Ponteix, SK. S0N 1Z0. For more info ph John 306-625-7152 or Dale 306-625-7797. 1976 4630, 6100 original hrs., duals, all new rubber, immaculate. 306-744-8113, Saltcoats, SK. JD 4640, 8965 hrs., quad shift, 20.8x38 duals, 8 front weights, excellent condition. 306-283-4747, 306-291-9395 Langham SK LOOKING FOR: 4230, 4430, 4240 or 4440, in reasonable condition. 306-446-0164, North Battleford, SK.

LOOKING FOR: JD 30, 40, 50 Series tractor in good cond. with mechanical issues. 1997 CAT 75D, 36” tracks, 4396 hrs., nice Call 306-621-7170, Yorkton, SK. condition, $60,000. Call 204-825-8121, 1976 JD 4430 quad, 3 hyds., 85% rubber, Morden, MB. excellent. Call 306-744-8113, Yorkton, SK. 1980 CATERPILLAR D7G Crawler tractor. Eng. recently overhauled, UC redone 2 yrs. ago, tracks redone, showing 4965 hrs., all bills of service avail. Reason for selling: WANTED: MASSEY 698 tractor, running Upgrading, $65,000. Call Gilbert for more or not w/wo loader. Phone 780-635-2232, Glendon, AB. info., 204-745-8029, Somerset, MB. WRECKING FOR PARTS: Massey 2675, very good engine, 18.4x38 tires, excellent sheet metal. 1-877-564-8734, Roblin, MB. 2006 JD 7520 Stk# HN3108A, 5801 hrs., 150 HP, 2 WD, 3 PTH, powershift trans., 3 hyd. outlets, air seats, $75,000. Call 1-888-446-9572 or www.farmworld.ca 2012 T9.560, Stk# PN2993A, 440 hrs., 2007 7420 Stk# HN3300A, 6000 hrs, 135 500 HP, 4 WD, 16 spd trans, 6 hyd outlets, HP, MFWD, 3 hyd. 3 PTH, dual PTO, c/w luxury cab, cold weather start, $347,500. 741 JD loader, bucket, grapple, $69,000. 1-888-462-3816 or www.farmworld.ca 1-888-446-9572 or www.farmworld.ca 2011 NH T9050, 1215 hrs, 485 HP, 4 WD, 2005 JD 9520, 3700 hrs., powershift, powershift, IntelliVeiw II Plus, HID’s, full PTO, 800 duals, weights, serviced, mint, IntelliSteer Omnistar unlocked, $238,000. $179,500. 204-574-6401, Wawanesa, MB. 1-888-442-6084 or www.farmworld.ca

2001 TR99 Combine w/ $50,000 work order, 1757 sep. hrs...$69,800. Financing available. Trades welcome. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com 2011 NH T7060, 210 HP, FWA tractor, 3 PTH, 20.8x42 duals, front fenders, 18 spd. p owe r s h i f t t r a n s , S u p e r S t e e r, f r o n t weights, cab susp., sidewinder console, 4 elec. hyd. remotes, Outback AutoSteer, 1183 hrs., exc. cond., $109,500. Reason for selling: buying 4 WD tractor. Somerset MB, 204-825-7160, 204-825-8078.

10 YARD LATOURNEAU scraper, converted to hyd., good condition. 403-393-0219, 403-833-2190. WE SPECIALIZE in manufacturing all kinds of buckets including large snow buckets to fit any loader. Call Reimco Industries, 403-312-4202, Linden, AB. EZEE-ON LOADER to fit 1100 or 1105 MF t r a c t o r. N o b u c k e t , $ 1 5 0 0 O B O . 306-395-2668, 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. STILL OVER 25 2 WD and 4 WD loaders and crawlers in stock. We have dismantled many units for parts. Large stock of new and used parts. 2 locations, over 60 years in business. Cambrian Equipment Sales, phone 204-667-2867, fax 204-667-2932, Winnipeg, MB. 2008 DEGELMAN 6600, 16’, fits 9030 Series JD 4WD. Manual angle, $15,000 OBO. Rama, SK. 306-563-8482, 306-782-2586. 10’ REM DOZER with hoses and hydraulic cylinders, off a JD 4440, $1000. Gerald 306-962-4505 or 306-460-8780, Eston, SK 84” UNUSED SNOWBEAR quick attach snow blade, electric winch, manual angle, $2500. Call 780-922-3960, Ardrossan, AB.

SUNFLOWER HARVEST SYSTEMS. Call for literature. 1-800-735-5848. Lucke Mfg., www.luckemanufacturing.com ESTATE SALE: 8-row Monosem corn planter c/w liquid fert. kit, $10,000; New Idea power unit w/4-row SP corn harvester, $15,000; 2-row SP corn harvester, $5000. Dennis 403-308-1400, Taber, AB. NH 358 MIXMILL w/Forrester auger attachment, not rusted out, excellent shape. 306-291-9395, 306-283-4747 Langham SK

BLOCKED AND SPLIT seasoned Spruce TRIMBLE EZ-BOOM SECTIONAL control, firewood. Call V&R Sawing, 306-232-5488, works only with Trimble 500 display, Rosthern, SK. $1000 OBO. 306-424-7312, Candiac, SK. BLOCKED SEASONED JACK Pine firewood NEW AND USED Outback STS, S3 mapping and wood chips for sale. Lehner Wood Pre- units. Baseline, AutoSteer and VSI units. servers Ltd., 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, Trades welcome. 306-397-2678, Edam, SK SK. Will deliver. Self-unloading trailer. F I R E W O O D : C u t a n d s p l i t , d e l i ve r y available. 306-862-7831, 306-862-3086, Nipawin, SK. BIRCH FIREWOOD, Sold in bags of approx. 1/2 cord, split and seasoned, $200; Pine also avail. in same quantity, $120. 306-763-1943, Prince Albert, SK.

BEV’S FISH & SEAFOOD LTD., buy direct, fresh fish: Pickerel, Northern Pike, Whitefish and Lake Trout. Seafood also DRILL STEM PIPE: 2-7/8” $35 each, available. Phone toll free 1-877-434-7477, 2-3/8” $37 ea. 30’ pieces. Sucker rod also. 306-763-8277, Prince Albert, SK. Call Justin 306-621-0487, Yorkton, SK. H EAVY DU TY

FORKLIFTS FOR RENT/SALE: JCB 940, 8000 lbs; JCB 930, 6000 lbs, RT 4x4. Ph. Conquest Equip., 306-483-2500, Oxbow SK OVER 20 FORKLIFTS in stock, many parted out. Over 75 sets of pallet forks from small to large. Cambrian Equipment Sales, phone 204-667-2867, fax 204-667-2932, Winnipeg, MB.

2012 T9.670, Stk# HN3227A, 450 hrs., ODESSA ROCKPICKER SALES: New De670 HP, 4 WD, diff. lock, 6 hyd. outlets, gelman equipment, land rollers, Strawhigh cap. drawbar, lux cab, $345,000. master, rockpickers, rock rakes, dozer blades. Phone 306-957-4403, cell 1-888-442-3816 or www.farmworld.ca 306-536-5097, Odessa, SK.

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2008 GRADALL/JLG TELEHANDLER 534D9 DSL, 4WD, 9000 lbs, c/w heated cab, 45’ reach w/auxiliary hydraulic lines to articulating swing carriage c/w adjustable HD forks, full block heater, hydraulic tank heater, 1800 hrs, $89,000. 403-580-0649, Medicine Hat, AB.

1993 Ford 9880 4WD Tractor 400HP, 7,886 hrs., $48,800.00 as is, or $59,800 with duals + 8 new radial tires. Sold w/ warranty. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

1981 835 VERSATILE, 7100 hrs., asking $20,000. 306-287-4243 or 306-287-7573, Watson, SK. 2010 BUHLER VERSATILE 485, 900-42 duals, 1940 hrs, 4 SCV, 12 spd., $170,000. Call 204-825-8121, Morden, MB. 2002 BUHLER VERSATILE 2270, 4 WD, GPS, 3100 hrs., vg cond., $78,000 OBO. 306-445-5551, North Battleford, SK. VERSATILE 2525, 525 HP, 2 track, air ride, 1400 hrs., $75,000. Call 204-822-3797, Morden, MB. 2006 VERSATILE 435, 4700 hours, 800 rubber, $129,000 OBO. 306-563-8482, 306-782-2586, Winnipeg, MB.

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PHIL’S IRRIGATION SALES: Reinke pivots, lateral and minigators, pump and used mainline travelers and pivots. 22 years experience. 306-858-7351, Lucky Lake, SK. www.philsirrigation.ca

RAIN MAKER IRRIGATION Zimmatic by Lindsay pivots/Greenfield mini pivots, KLine towable irrigation, spare parts/accessories, new and used equipment. 33 years in business. www.rainmaker-irrigation.com Call 306-867-9606, Outlook, SK.

’00 LULL 644D34 TELEHANDLER, 6,000 lbs., 34’ reach, w/ cab, well maintained, good shape. $26,800. Trades welcome, financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com.

SANCTUARY LANDSCAPE CONSULTATION Services. Shelterbelt design, yard/acreage tree planning, 35 years experience. Phone 306-695-2019, Indian Head, SK.

1999 CUMMINS LTA10-G1 Standby gen plant, 280 hrs, 250 KW, single and/or 3 phase, 120/240 volt, c/w 1000 amp, 3 phase robonic transfer switch, very nice shape! $16,000. Call Jordan anytime 403-627-9300, Pincher Creek, AB. LOWEST PRICES IN CANADA on new, high quality generator systems. Quality diesel generators, Winpower PTO tractor driven alternators, automatic/ manual switch gear, and commercial duty Sommers Powermaster and Sommers/ Winco portable generators and home standby packages. 75+ years of reliable service. Contact Sommers Motor Generator Sales for all your generator requirements at 1-800-690-2396 sales@sommersgen.com SPRUCE FOR SALE! Beautiful locally Online: www.sommersgen.com grown trees. Plan ahead and renew your or landscape a new yardsite, NEW AND USED generators, all sizes from shelterbelt get the year round protection you need. WANTED: LATE MODEL 30’ tandem disc, 5 kw to 3000 kw, gas, LPG or diesel. Phone We sell on farm near Didsbury, AB. or de36” blade. Have to swap Bourgault 16 bale for availability and prices. Many used in liver anywhere in western Canada. Details hauler and Vermeer baler, 2 yrs. old. stock. 204-643-5441, Fraserwood, MB. phone 403-586-8733 or check out our 306-395-2617, Chaplin, SK. website at www.didsburysprucefarms.com WANTED: GRANULAR TANK for air seeder, can be any make. 306-795-2708, Hubbard, SK. WANTED: MF #36 DISCERS, all sizes, prompt pick-up. Phone 306-259-4923, 306-946-9669, 306-946-7923, Young, SK. D5H CAT, CAB, winch, 6 way dozer; Steel quonset, in crate, 52’x35’x18’; Ford 5000 dsl w/loader. 306-236-8023, Goodsoil, SK. WANTED: TWO SETS 4’ Flexi-Coil mounted packers, 12” spacing. 204-662-4432, or 204-264-0693, Sinclair, MB WANTED: 160 to 200 HP 2 WD tractor, in good condition. 306-210-8901, Unity, SK. WANTED: MASSEY 698 tractor, running or not w/wo loader. Phone 780-635-2232, Glendon, AB. WANTED: USED, BURNT, old or ugly tractors. Newer models too! Smith’s Tractor Wrecking, 1-888-676-4847.

GUARANTEED PRESSURE TREATED fence posts, lumber slabs and rails. Call Lehner Wo o d P r e s e r ve r s L t d . , a s k fo r R o n 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK.

MULCHING - TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. 946 VERSATILE, 24.5x32 duals, Atom Jet Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: hyds., Outback Guidance, $53,500 OBO. www.maverickconstruction.ca 403-823-1894, 403-772-2156, Drumheller. SOLIDLOCK AND TREE ISLAND game wire and all accessories for installation. Heights from 26” to 120”. Ideal for elk, deer, bison, sheep, swine, cattle, etc. Tom Jensen BIG BUD 360/30 powershift, new paint, ph/fax 306-426-2305, Smeaton, SK. cab upholstery and 8 new tires. Call 403-504-0468, Medicine Hat, AB. HEAVY HITTER POST POUNDER used, shape, $8500 OBO. Serious inquires GRATTON COULEE AGRI PARTS LTD. Your good #1 place to purchase late model combine only. 587-877-7711, Bowden, AB. and tractor parts. Used, new and rebuilt. www.gcparts.com Toll free 888-327-6767. MF 2675, like new tires; MF 1505, $2500; MF 255, 3 PTH; Versatile 800 Series II, $8500. 403-394-4401, Lethbridge, AB.

EZEE-ON #125 FEL, high lift, 8’ bucket, mounts and controls included, as new, $5000. 250-567-2607, Vanderhoof, BC. 18” EXTENSIONS FOR Ezee-On bucket; 224.5x32 rims fit high clearance NH PT, 306-463-4866, Kindersley, SK. WANTED: USED CASE L655 self-levelling loader, to fit MX120. Call 780-967-3634, Onoway, AB.

C OM P LETE W ITH : Chim n ey, F ro n tDo o r & Ven tin g. W ire m es h flo o r a p p ro x. 2 ft fro m the b o tto m . S ep a ra te d o o r a t b o tto m fo r ea s y a s h rem o va l. Ho o ks fo r ea s y u n lo a d in g. Ap p ro x. 5-6 ftta ll. W eight: a p p ro x. 1600 lb s ea ch.

IRRIGATION EQUIPMENT or move water? 6”-10” pipe, 4 cyl. motor and pump on cart, $4500. 403-308-1400, Taber, AB.

DEGLEMAN LAND ROLLER, 51’, excellent s h ap e . H e e n a n A g r i L t d . , C a l l D a l e 306-539-8590, Regina, SK.

SOYBEAN SEED TREATER, USC LP2000 portable seed treater, c/w seed wheel, peat, liquid applicator, spare conveyor belts, great cond, used last season, shedded. 2000 lbs per min. treating speed, can be used to treat all crops/seed, asking 1998 FORD/NH 9682, 710 rubber, 12 $55,000. Call 204-746-0391, Arnaud, MB. speed, low hours, excellent condition. 306-277-4503, Gronlid, SK. 1979 FORD FW60, Stock # C22221, 5405 hrs., 335 HP, 4 WD, new starter, 20 spd., WANTED: NH BALE WAGON 1037, 1033, duals, $25,500. 1-888-442-6084, or 1036, 1032, JD 7810 tractor, MFWD, FEL, 3 PTH. 403-394-4401, Lethbridge, AB. www.farmworld.ca

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WHOLE HOUSE INSTANT on demand water heater, approved for Canada, only $689, 4.3 GPM, propane or natural gas. Replace your hot water tank, 780-952-4884, Edmonton, AB. Visit our website: www.shop.firepitfundamentals.ca

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DISPERSALS, BRED HEIFERS and more Saturday, January 25 1:00PM at Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK. Two dispersals: Bred heifers and other bred cows. 250+ head expected. 306-693-4715. PL#914447. Pictures and details at: BISON WANTED - Canadian Prairie Bison www.johnstoneauction.ca is looking to contract grain finished bison for growing markets. Roger Provencher at MJT Cattle Co. Ltd. 306-468-2316. roger@cdnbison.com BISON CALVES FOR sale, mixed; Also bred cows for sale. Clairside Bison, 306-383-4094, Clair, SK. FOR SALE: One 3 yr. old bull; three cows; two spring calves; one 2 yr. old heifer. Make an offer. 306-672-7618, Hazlet, SK. 30 HEAD PREMIUM breeding stock, $1500 to $2000/head. Dr. Marshall Patterson, 306-475-2232, Moose Jaw, SK. 12- MATURE PURE PLAINS bred bison cows, $1300 each. MFL Ranches, 403-747-2500, Alix, AB. 60- 2011 WOOD cross bison heifers. Exposed to Wood cross bison bulls purchased at 2012 MGM Grand Genetics Sale. $2500. Derrick 306-441-5209, Meota, SK. 15- 2011 BRED Plains Bison heifers, pasture raised, preg checked Oct. 22, 2013, $2200/ea. 250-782-0124, Tomslake, BC. HERD DISPERSAL, 40 exposed cows, 30 two and three year old heifers, 35 calves, 3 bulls. Call 250-785-4674 , Fort St John, BC 150 HEAD 2011 bred heifers. Contact Bruce 403-651-7972, Youngstown, AB. NILSSON BROS. INC. buying finished bison on the rail at Lacombe, AB for Feb delivery and beyond. Fair, competitive and assured payment. Richard Bintner 306-873-3184. FOUR MATURE TROPHY BISON BULLS, 2013 Bison calves. Call Bob at 780-836-2689 for more info, Manning, AB. 2013 BISON CALVES wanted. Call Ryan at: 306-646-7742 cell, 306-646-4974 home, Fairlight, SK. WANTED TO PURCHASE cull bison bulls and cows for slaughter. Oak Ridge Meats 204-835-2365 204-476-0147 McCreary MB LOOKING TO BUY 2013 calves. Also, would buy other ages. Phone Kevin at 306-429-2029, Glenavon, SK. ELK VALLEY RANCHES, buying all ages of feeder bison. Call Frank 780-846-2980, Kitscoty, AB. or elkvalley@xplornet.com

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MADER RANCHES, Pearson Simmentals and Diamond T Cattle Co. 25th Annual Bull Power Sale, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, On the Farm. 1 PM Sale Time. 90 Polled, Red and Black Simmental, Salers, and Angus bulls. Also 10 Simmental heifers. Easy calving bulls for heifers, high performance bulls for cows, 85 lb. average birthweight, gaining almost 4 lbs per day. Free wintering until April 1st, delivery assistance, 2/3 down option. You can watch and bid online at: www.liveauctions.tv Free catalogue or view at: www.maderranches.com Ryley 403-337-4014, Carstairs, AB.

L unch served . CallM ick anytim e at 780-755-2224 or 780-842-8835 Em ail:m ick@m jt.ca Catalogue online:buyagro.com Selling 35- 2 yr old H orned H ereford Bulls and Polled 80- 2 yr old Black Angus Bulls 3 yearling Black Bulls Bulls delivered Free to CentralPoints

HERD REDUCTION: 25 One Iron commercial Black Angus cows; 25 Reg. Black Angus cows, start calving mid March. Preg checked, Ivomec, vaccinated, asking $1400; 20 Reg. Black Angus 2 yr. old bulls. Come pick them, we will winter till April, semen test. Kindersley, SK. For more info call: 306-460-8520 or 306-460-7620.

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BRED HEIFERS: Bred to easy calving Angus bulls. Start calving April 1st. 306-287-3900 or 306-287-8006, Engelfeld, SK.

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20 TOP BRED Black Angus heifers for sale. Spruce Acres, 306-272-3997, Foam Lake, SK. 43 BLACK ANGUS cross one iron bred heifers, calving April/May, $1300. 39 Black Angus cross one iron breeding heifers, $900. 204-981-6953, Oak Bluff, MB. SELLING: BLACK ANGUS bulls. Wayside Angus, Henry and Bernie Jungwirth, 306-256-3607, Cudworth, SK. WARD’S RED ANGUS AND GUESTS Bull Sale Sat. March 1, 2:00 PM, Saskatoon Livestock Sales. Selling 50 pasture two year olds, super long yearlings and top cut yearlings. As well as 50 open commercial heifers. Wintering and volume discounts available. For a catalogue or info. contact Clarke 306-931-3824 or T Bar C Cattle Co 306-220-5006. View the Catalogue online at www.buyagro.com PL #116061.

90 YEARLING AND 2 year old Red Angus bulls. Guaranteed semen tested and delivered in spring. Bob Jensen 306-967-2770, NORDAL LIMOUSIN AND ANGUS Bull Leader, SK. Sale, Thursday Feb. 20, Saskatoon Live- 2 YEAR OLD RED ANGUS BULLS. Easy stock Sales: 30 polled Red and Black 2 yr. calving, high performance and structurally old Limousin; Also 45 Red and Black An- sound. Semen tested and guaranteed. Degus. Rob Garner, 306-946-7946, Simpson, livery available and can keep until spring. SK. Visit: www.nordallimousin.com Prices $3500 and up. Bulls are ranch raised and come from a working cowherd. Call Rock Creek Ranching, Jordan Newhouse 306-276-2025, White Fox, SK.

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BISON AUCTIONS- Kramer Auctions Ltd will be having our New Year’s Bison Auction on Jan. 29 and Sweetheart Bison Auction on Feb. 13, 2014. See under Auctions fo r m o r e d e t a i l s c a l l o r v i s i t u s at www.kramerauction.com 1-800-529-9958. LAZY S BULL POWER 2014, January 25, at the ranch, Mayerthorpe, AB. 200 plus polled red and black Simmental, Angus and Beefmaker (Sim/Angus) bulls. Call 780-785-3136, text 780-674-1048. Video online in January www.lazysranch.ca

JOHNSTON/FERTILE VALLEY Black Angus Bull Sale, Friday, April 11 at 1:00 PM, C.S.T. at Saskatoon Livestock Sales. 90 thick, easy fleshing bulls, sired by the leading AI sires in the industry including: Special Focus, Excitement, Imprint, Consensus, Hoover Dam, EXAR 263C, SAV Mustang, Impression, SAV Brand Name and Stiz Upward. Many of these bulls are suitable for heifers. All bulls are semen tested with complete performance and carcass information available. Deferred payment program with 60% sale day, 40% interest free, due Dec. 01, 2014. Dennis and David Johnston, 306-856-4726, or T Bar C Cattle Co. 306-933-4200. Call for a catalogue or view on our website at: www.johnstonfertilevalley.com

BISON AUCTIONS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29 - NEW YEAR’S BISON AUCTION Be sure to attend! We have over 330 head of bison consigned from some top quality producers sUp for bids are a good selection of Wood X & Plains calves, yearlings, bred heifers, exposed cows, young bulls and butcher stock s

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12 - SWEETHEART BISON AUCTION Mark this date on your calendar! Over 350 head of bison already consigned sThis auction will feature top notch genetics of Registered Canadian Wood Bison from the LIVING LEGENDS Consignors: BEAVER CREEK WOOD BISON RANCH, PROVIDENCE WOOD BISON, RIOELTA BISON RANCH sAuction also includes +/-175 head of bison from ELK ISLAND NATIONAL PARK sWe have many other producers also included in this auction with excellent Wood X and Plains Bison

BRED HEIFERS, PB Black Angus, calving April/May, papers available. Call Everblack Angus, Ernest Gibson, Vermilion, AB. 780-853-2422. BLACK ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, semen tested, guaranteed breeders, delivery available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. skinnerfarmsangus.com YOU ARE INVITED to Carlrams 5th Annual Bull Sale, Friday, Feb. 7th 5 miles North of Cut Knife, SK. Come for dinner. Sales start at 2:00 PM. 14 Super Angus Bulls, from RNR Flicek. Bred right and fed right Call Rick or Ruby 306-823-3933, or Larry 306-823-3957. Bid or watch on dlms.ca Catalogues online at: buyagro.com

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R uss & C indy Sibbald Ph:306.859.2244 • C ell:306.859.7726 B ox 329, B eechy, SK S0L 0C 0 Em ail:lazyrcranch@ xplornet.ca W ebsite:w w w .lazyrcranch.com DOUBLE BAR D FARMS BEST OF BOTH Worlds Annual Bull and Female Sale, Saturday, February 15 at the farm, 1:00 PM, Grenfell, SK. Offering 200 head of Simmental and Red Angus bulls and females. Ken 306-697-7204, 306-697-2474, Brian 306-451-7205. View catalogue at www.doublebardfarms.com

30 PUREBRED RED Angus bred heifers for sale. RSL Red Angus, Battleford, SK. 306-937-2880 or 306-441-5010 anytime.

DAVIDSON GELBVIEH/ LONESOME DOVE RANCH 25th Anniversary Bull Sale Saturday March 1, 2014 at Our Bull Yards (heated facility), Ponteix, SK. Dinner at 11:00 AM, Sale at 1:00 PM. Selling 85+ stout, semen and performance tested, easy fleshing purebred bulls both Red and Black. View the bull sale video at our websites or for online bidding access, register 2 days prior to the sale at www.DLMS.ca Presale viewing all day Friday, Feb. 28th. Call us anytime for catalogue or further info Davidson Gelbvieh Vernon and Eileen Davidson 306-625-3755, 306-625-7863, 306-625-7864 www.davidsongelbvieh.com or email davidsongelbvieh@sasktel.net Lonesome Dove Ranch Ross and Tara Davidson and Family, phone 306-625-3513, 306-625-7045, 306-625-7345. Website: www.davidsonlonesomedoveranch.com lonesomedoveranch@sasktel.net REG. AND COMMERCIAL Gelbvieh cows, vet checked, safe in calf. Chad at McCoy Cattle Co., Milestone, SK. 306-436-2086. SASKATOON GELBVIEH BULL and Female SALE: March 22, 2013, Saskatoon, S K . To r e q u e s t a c a t a l o g u e c a l l 306-865-2929, www.gelbviehworld.com PUREBRED GELBVIEH HERD dispersal. Will sell whole herd or packages. All dark red in color. Due to start calving Feb. 18th, 2014. Hanna, AB. 403-854-2474 for more info. For pics: www.whiskeycreekranches.com

YOU ARE INVITED to Carlrams 5th Annual Bull Sale, Friday, Feb. 7th 5 miles North of Cut Knife, SK. Come for dinner. Sales start at 2 PM. 35 Hereford bulls from Carl and Cal Ramsay and Robin and Randy Flicek. Big thick bulls, lots of hair, not over fed and guaranteed. Carl 306-398-7879, R a n dy o r R o b i n 3 0 6 - 8 2 3 - 3 9 1 2 , C a l 306-398-7343. Sale on dlms.ca Catalogues online at: buyagro.com

COMPLETE DISPERSAL: Reg. females, many polled and red factor, bull out June 1, ultra-sound, preg tested; 2 yr. old and yearling bulls. Over 40 yrs. of continuous breeding. Call 306-882-3163, Crossman Charolais, Rosetown, SK.

CREEK’S EDGE LAND and Cattle Purebred Charolais Bulls for sale off farm. Our largest selection yet. 20 two year olds and 40 yearlings. Thick, hairy, good feet, and quiet. Call Stephen 306-279-2033, cell 306-279-7709, Yellow Creek, SK. Website BRED HEIFERS: Bred to easy calving Angus www.creeksedgecharolais.ca to learn bulls. Start calving April 1st. 306-287-3900 more about our program. or 306-287-8006, Engelfeld, SK. REG. CHAROLAIS BULLS, 2 year olds and 17 REGISTERED RED Angus open heifers, yearlings, polled and horned, some red, excellent brood cow prospects. Call Little quiet, hand fed. 40 plus bulls available at de Ranch, 306-845-2406, Turtleford, SK. the ranch. Call Wilf, Cougar Hill Ranch, 306-728-2800, 306-730-8722, Melville, SK KENRAY RANCH OPEN HOUSE, Feb. 22 on offer 35 yearling and 5 two year old 12 REGISTERED WHITE CHAROLAIS Red Angus bulls. Sheldon 306-452-7545, heifers bred to easy calving Kaboom Son Redvers, SK. www.kenrayranch.com for sale. Call 306-492-4634, Dundurn, SK.

SELECT NOW. Get later. Superior quality. For sale. DKF Red and Black Angus bulls at: DKF RANCH, Anytime, Gladmar, SK. Agent for: Solar and Wind Water Systems and Allen Leigh Calving Cameras. Dwayne or Scott Fettes, 306-969-4506.

GENUINE GENETICS GALLOWAY Internet Bull Sale, March 6 - 10th, 2014. Contact Russell at 403-749-2780. Visit website: www.bigdealgalloways.com

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SOUTH VIEW RANCH has Red and Black RED ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, seAngus coming 2 yr. old bulls. Shane at: men tested, guaranteed breeders, delivery 306-869-8074, 306-454-2688, Ceylon, SK. available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. skinnerfarmsangus.com 20 TOP BRED RED Angus heifers for sale. Spruce Acres, 306-272-3997, Foam Lake, SK. 50 PUREBRED CHAROLAIS cows, white and red factor; also yearling and 2 yr. old Charolais bulls. Creedence Charolais Ranch, Ervin Zayak, Derwent, AB. 780-741-3868 or cell, 780-853-0708.

RANCH READY BULL SALE on March 20, 1:00 PM at Heartland, Swift Current, SK. 23 tanky 2 yr. old Angus bulls from Bar CR Angus and 30 Hereford bulls from Braun Ranch. Catalogue at www.braunranch.com Contact Linda Froehlich 306-221-4088, caledonian@sasktel.net

OLE FARMS 9TH Annual Family Day Sale: 170 top Red and Black Angus 2 yr. old bulls, 180 commercial Black Angus bred heifers. Monday, February 17, 2014, 1:00 PM at the farm. Athabasca, AB. Phone: 780-675-4664. www.olefarms.com

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SASKOTA NATURAL is looking for finished bison and cull cows. COD, paying market prices. “Producers working with Producers.” 306-231-9110, Quill Lake, SK.

NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for over 15 years, is looking for finished Bison, grain or grass fed. “If you have them, we want them.” Make your final call with Northfork for pricing! Guaranteed prompt payment! 514-643-4447, Winnipeg, MB.

ISLA BANK ANGUS CONSIGNING TO Ward’s Red Angus and Guests Bull Sale, Sat. March 1, 2:00 PM, Saskatoon Livestock Sales. Selling 50 pasture two year olds, super long yearlings and top cut yearlings. As well as 50 open commercial heifers. Wintering and volume discounts available. For a catalogue or info. contact Iain 306-280-4840 or T Bar C Cattle Co 306-220-5006. View the Catalogue online at www.buyagro.com PL #116061.

SQUARE D BULLS for sale: over 60 to choose from, spring and fall yearlings and two year-olds, performance and semen tested, halter broke and quiet, kept until June 1. Delivered. 306-538-4556, Langbank, SK. View videos and pictures at: www.square-dpolledherefords.com

MISTY VALLEY FARMS 38th Annual Production Sale of Horned Herefords, Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 at the ranch, 1:00 PM MST. On offer: 50 coming 2 yr. old bulls; 35 bred registered heifers; 60 bred commercial Hereford heifers; 8 open heifer calves. Bulls semen tested. Heifers preg. tested. Misty Valley Farms, RR #1, Maidstone, SK., S0M 1M0. Harold Oddan 306-893-2783; Maurice Oddan CHAROLAIS BULLS for sale, yearlings 306-893-2737. and 2 year olds. Wintering available. BANNERLANE HORNED HEREFORDS 780-582-2254, Forestburg, AB. Annual Sale, Tues., Feb. 4, 2014, 2:00 PM CST (1 PM MST) at the farm, Livelong, SK. On offer: 60 head: 26 coming 2 yr. old PUREBRED DEXTER HERD: Selling herd of bulls, semen tested; 18 bred commercial approx. 20 Dexter cows and heifers. Ex- heifers; 5 bred reg. heifers, preg checked; posed to Reg. Polled bull, due to calf early 1 reg. heifer calf; 10 BBF open heifers. spring. Ages range from 1-9 yrs. old. Ask- Lunch at noon. Central point free delivery. ing $775 OBO for bred horned; $875 OBO bannerlane@littleloon.ca Rob Bannerman, for Polled; 3 year old Reg. polled bull 306-845-2764. View at: www.hereford.ca $1800 OBO; 2 non Reg. 2 yr. old polled 4 REGISTERED HEREFORD heifers, 1 black bulls $1400/ea. OBO. Would consider baldy, pick for $1550, all 5, $7250. Pasture package deal. 306-287-3181, Watson, SK. bred Hereford, start calving March 1st. Call DEXTER/ ANGUS CROSS calves for sale. Duncan or Jeff Lees 306-455-2619, Three heifers, two steers, one steer is pure 306-577-1375, Arcola, SK. Dexter, asking $2500 for all. Call for info. 306-236-1937, Meadow Lake, SK.

40 OLDER COWS bred Angus/Shorthorn; 2 YEAR OLD and yearling Red Angus Bulls, 30 2nd/3rd calvers bred Dexter; 25 heifers calving ease, semen tested. Little de bred Dexter; Dexter bull and heifer calves. Ranch, 306-845-2406, Turtleford, SK. 403-845-5763, Rocky Mountain House, AB.

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RANCH READY BULL SALE on March 20, 1:00 PM, Heartland, Swift Current, SK. 30 soggy, stout, Hereford bulls from Braun Ranch and 23 Elite 2 yr. old Angus bulls from Bar CR Angus. Catalogue online at www.braunranch.com Contact Craig Braun at 306-297-2132. 15TH ANNUAL MID-WEST Horned Hereford Sale, Thursday, Feb 6, 2014. Lloydminster Exhibition Grounds, Lloydminster, SK, at 1:00 PM MST. On offer: 41 two yr. old bulls; 2 purebred heifers; 25 bred commercial heifers; 5 Black Baldy heifer calves. For catalogues or more info: Lanni Bristow 7 8 0 - 9 4 3 - 2 2 3 6 , o r To d d B y g r o v e 3 0 6 - 8 2 5 - 3 5 7 7 , o r D av i d M i t c h e l l 306-893-2838.

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FRESH AND SPRINGING heifers for sale. PUREBRED WAGYU AND F1 cattle, bull Cows and quota needed. We buy all class- prospects. Call 587-877-2649, Red Deer, es of slaughter cattle-beef and dairy. R&F AB. E-mail: aherron@ualberta.ca Livestock Inc. Bryce Fisher, Warman, SK. Phone 306-239-2298, cell 306-221-2620.

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All NORDAL LIMOUSIN AND ANGUS Bull Sale, Thursday Feb. 20, Saskatoon Live- HERD DISPERSAL: 85 young Charolais classes of horses accepted. 306-693-4715. stock Sales: 30 polled Red and Black 2 yr. cross cows bred Char and red Simm, www.johnstoneauction.ca PL #914447. old Limousin; Also 45 Red and Black An- $1350. 15 tan bred heifers bred red Gelbgus. Rob Garner, 306-946-7946, Simpson, vieh, $1450. All start calving March 5. Full herd health, like to sell as complete lot. SK. Visit: www.nordallimousin.com 306-231-9755, Viscount, SK. 2 0 0 YO U N G A N G U S b r e d c o w s . 306-773-1049, Swift Current, SK. BIG ISLAND LOWLINES Premier Breeder. 30 BRED HEIFERS Black Angus Simmental Selling custom designed packages. Name cross, bred Black Angus. Choice $1400 or your price and we will put a package to- all $1250. 306-698-7787, Wolseley, SK. QUALITY MAMMOTH DONKEYS for sale. gether for you. Fullblood/percentage LowView: www.bigearsdonkeyranch.ca or call line, embryos, semen. Black/Red carrier. BRED HEIFERS: 8 Red and 53 Black Angus 204-535-2141, 204-825-0113, Baldur, MB. and Angus cross, full health program, bred Darrell 780-486-7553, Edmonton, AB. to proven easy calving bulls, exposed 60 days max. starting June 14. Choice $1550 or all $1500. St. Lazare, MB. 204-683-2208 BRED MARES, 1 and 2 year old fillies, or 306-434-6980 cell. geldings and weanlings. 306-355-2399, CANADIAN MAINE-ANJOU ASSOCIATION. Power, performance and profit. For info on 150 QUALITY RANCH raised Red and Black Parkbeg, SK www.doubledminiatures.com Maine-Anjou genetics. Call 403-291-7077, Angus heifers, bred to the same bull out May 20th. You pick $1450, gate, $1400. Calgary, AB., or www.maine-anjou.ca 403-308-4200, Arrowwood, AB. 2 PERCHERON MARES, 2 year olds. Call 204-625-5221, Sandy Lake, SK. POLLED POLLED POLLED- Salers bulls SELL OUT: 11 spotted draft mares, two for sale. Call Spruce Grove Salers, Yorkton, stallions. All are black/white, 16.2-18 HH, SK, 306-782-9554 or 306-621-1060. 1700-2200 lbs. Ph. Kevin at 306-429-2029, Glenavon, SK. REG. PB RED or Black Salers bulls, bred heifers and replacement heifers. Elderberry Farm Salers, 306-747-3302 Parkside, SK PLEASURE DRIVING MARE 14.3 HH, sorrel w/star, asking $4000 OBO, or part 120 DIAGRAMS OF new corral plans and trade. 306-643-2117, Rocanville, SK. SHORTHORNS FOR ALL the right reasons. ideas that save on labour and corrals WWW.ELLIOTTCUTTINGHORSES.COM Check out why and who at website costs- free look! OneManCorrals.com 35 plus years of training, showing, sales, www.saskshorthorns.com Secretary 200 GOOD BLACK Angus Bred Heifers. clinics, lessons. Clifford and Sandra Elliott, 306-577-4664, Carlyle, SK. All one herd, home raised, preg. checked, Paynton, SK. Phone 306-895-2107. calving in May and Ivomeced, $1400. Call TRIM BOSS: The Power Hoof Trimmer. Bernard 306-984-7272, Spiritwood, SK. Take the work out of hoof trimming. 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Ear protection for newborn Brian 306-451-7205. View catalogue at calves! Ph. 306-577-4664, Carlyle, SK. www.doublebardfarms.com gerrybettywyatt@gmail.com 80 SIMMENTAL and Simmental Red Angus cross, start calving March 1, bred Simm. or SPECKLE PARK AND Polled Hereford year- Red Angus. Will keep until February 15. ling and two year old bulls, low BW, high Call 306-762-4723, Odessa, SK. performance, semen tested, delivered. 12 BRED COMMERCIAL cows, due to calf Johner Stock Farm, David: 306-893-2714, e a r l y s p r i n g , b r e d B l a c k A n g u s ; or Justin: 306-893-2667, Maidstone, SK. 306-222-7709, Saskatoon, SK. COMPLETE DISPERSAL of 25 Lowline Angus cross cows bred Red Angus. Very efficient and hardy cattle. Bull out March 20th. $800-$1100 your pick. Call 306-322-7789, Spalding, SK. COMPLETE HERD DISPERSAL: 220 bred cows and 30 fancy bred heifers. Char/Red Angus influence closed herd, hardy and moderate sized. Bred to easy calving Char and Red Angus bulls, start calving 3rd week of April. Full vaccination program, Ivomeced and preg checked. Approx 85 red mix, 80 tan mix, 35 white and 20 black or gray. Truckloads preferred. Call: 306-728-3488, Melville, SK. or email: zlranch@yourlink.ca 185 CHAROLAIS CROSS and Simmental Red Angus cross cows. 40 2nd calvers, 50 3rd and 4th calvers, bred to Simmental bulls. Start calving Feb. 25. 2nd to 4th calvers, $1500. Mature cows $1400. 306-834-2809, 306-834-7252 Kerrobert SK 85 BLACK ANGUS cross Simmental heifers, bred to small birthweight Black Angus bulls. All one herdm home raised, herd health program. Calving start date March 20th, for 42 days and bulls polled. 780-645-0022, Vilna, AB.

RANCH ROPING CLINIC with Canadian Champion Scott Sapergia, Feb. 8 and 9th. Email beavercreekranch.ca@gmail.com or call 306-731-2943, Lumsden, SK.

NEW BUGGY, WAGON, sleigh, cutterwood and metal parts. Wooden wheel manufacture and restoration. Wolfe Wagons, Saskatoon, SK. Phone 306-933-4763 after 6 PM weekdays. Email rwolfe@sasktel.net THE LIVERY STABLE, for harness sales and repairs. Call 306-283-4580, 306-262-4580, Hwy #16 Borden Bridge, SK. REBUILT MASSEY BOBSLEIGH w/caboose, 10’x5’; Single 2-horse covered cutter for two people. 780-398-2098, Redwater, AB.

FREESTANDING PANELS: 30’ windbreak panels; 6-bar 24’ and 30’ panels; 10’, 20’ and 30’ feed troughs; Bale shredder bunks; Silage bunks; Feeder panels; HD bale feeders; All metal 16’ and 24’ calf shelters. Will custom build. 306-424-2094, Kendal, SK. IF YOU HAVE sheep that need shorn, call FREESTANDING WINDBREAK PANELS, up R o d o r B r y c e a t 4 0 3 - 5 7 9 - 2 5 2 0 o r to 30’ (2-3/8” oilfield pipe); Square bale 403-863-8937, Byemoor, AB. Will travel. feeders, any size; Can build other things. Elkhorn, MB. 204-851-6423, leave msg. SHEEP DEVELOPMENT BOARD offers extension, marketing services and a full line of sheep and goat supplies. 306-933-5200, Saskatoon, SK.

BUYING WILD BOAR pigs/swine for 20 years, all sizes. 1-877-226-1395. Highest $$$. www.canadianheritagemeats.com

BERKSHIRE BOARS AND Gilts; Also Tamsworth. Delivery avail at cost. Troy Collingridge, 204-828-3317, St. Claude, MB. BUYING: PIGS/SWINE, raised outside, all sizes. Highest $$$. 1-877-226-1395. www.canadianheritagemeats.com

ATTENTION ELK PRODUCERS: If you have elk to supply to market give AWAPCO a call today. No marketing fees. Non-members welcome. info@wapitiriver.com or phone 780-980-7589.

ALBERTA ELK RANCHERS Production Sale. Live Video Auction- Online bidding available Feb. 14, 2014, 7 PM Nisku Inn, Nisku, AB. Watch www.gwacountry.com for updates and online catalogue or call Gateway Auction Services 1-866-304-4664

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CATCH THE HABIT, eat Sask. rabbit. For sale: oven ready meat, breeding stock, and furs, colored and white. Call Joy at 306-744-2508, Saltcoats, SK.

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JIFFY BALE SHREDDER, good condition, $5800. 780-305-3547, Neerlandia, AB. 12 NORTH COUNTRY Cheviot ewe lambs 950 JIFFY BALE shredder, $7000 OBO. and 5 Suffolk ewe lambs. To lamb mid Phone 306-342-4447 or 306-441-1410, April. 306-648-3568, Gravelbourg, SK. Glaslyn, SK. SUNGOLD SPECIALTY MEATS. We want PORTABLE PANELS 30’ freestanding 3your lambs. Have you got finished (fat) bar windbreak frames, 5-bar, 4-bar panels lambs or feeder lambs for sale? Call w/wo double hinge gates and more. On Dwayne at: 403-894-4388 or Cathy at: farm welding. Oxbow, SK., 306-485-8559, 1-800-363-6602 for terms and pricing. 306-483-2199. www.sungoldmeats.com FOR SALE: ROLLER mill, 5 HP electric mo6 0 0 S H E E P, 3 0 0 R a m b i o u l l e t ewe s , tor. Phone 306-845-2665, Turtleford, SK. $225/ea. Award winning wool. 300 Rambioullet/Suffolk lambs, $130/ea. Average- TRAILER TYPE PTO drive hydraulic post weight 75-80 lbs. 250-457-1199, Clinton, pounder, $1750. Phone 306-395-2668 or 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK. BC. www.outlawmeats.com

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2 - J B S 2 4 ’ W I D E B O DY m a n u r e spreaders c/w vertical beaters, rear axle steering, 700/40R22.5 rubber, silage endgate and ext. , $78,000/ea. Serious inquir- AQUA THERM A pasture proven trough. ies only. Call 780-777-7765, Calmar, AB. Winter water problems? Solved! No elecARROW FARMQUIP LIVESTOCK handling tricity required. 3 sizes - 100, 200 and 525 solutions: Portable windbreaks. Custom ga l l o n . Ke l l n S o l a r, L u m s d e n , S K . built panels and gates. 1-866-354-7655, 1-888-731-8882, www.kellnsolar.com Mossbank, SK. GREG’S WELDING: Free standing corral 250 JIFFY BUNK feeder with scale, 1000 panels, windbreak panels, calf shelters, PTO, good shape, $6500. 780-853-2275, belting troughs, etc. Many different styles Vermilion, AB. to choose from. Call for pricing, delivery available. 306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK. 14’ SUDENGA 3 compartment feed box, w/top unloading auger, very good for fill- FREE STANDING CORRAL panels and ing tall bins. 204-871-4365, Oakville, MB. windbreak frame for cattle, horse, bison and sheep. Large variety of length, height 2007 HIGHLINE 8000 bale processor, big and bar spacings. Sample price: 21’x6 bar, tires, PTO update, $9500. 306-883-2935, 5’HLW, $199; 21’x5 bar, 5’H, very sturdy, Spiritwood, SK. $239; 24’x5 bar, 5’H, med. duty, $239; FROSTFREE NOSEPUMPS: Energy free 21’x7 bar, 6’H bison, $299; 30’ windbreak solution to livestock watering. No power frames $399 less boards; New mount to required to heat or pump. Prevents con- post continuous corral panels, 24’x5 bar, tamination. Grants avail. 1-866-843-6744. $169. Haysaver horse feeders, feed troughs, bunk feeder panels and RB feedwww.frostfreenosepumps.com ers. Call Jack Taylor 1-866-500-2276. FOR SALE: SLIDE IN 40 bushel hopper www.affordablebarns.com fe e d e r fo r p e l l e t s o r g r a i n . P h o n e 403-627-2601, Pincher Creek, AB. 6600 HIGHLINE BALE shredder, upgraded to 6800 w/new PTO, good shape, $5000. Pictures available. Phone 306-463-3132, 306-460-7837, Kindersley, SK.

www.morandindustries.com SADDLE & HARNESS MAKING SCHOOL Phone: 780-576-2756, Newbrook, AB. COMPLETE CALVING CAMERA package www.rodssaddlemakingschool.com with two wireless cameras, cables and controller, used two seasons, $2750. 306-456-2596, 306-861-6849, Tribune, SK

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PAYSEN LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT INC. We manufacture an extensive line of cattle handling and feeding equipment including squeeze chutes, adj. width alleys, crowding tubs, calf tip tables, maternity pens, gates and panels, bale feeders, Bison equipment, Texas gates, steel water troughs, rodeo equipment and garbage incinerators. Distributors for El-Toro electric branders and twine cutters. Our squeeze chutes and headgates are now avail. with a neck extender. Ph. 306-796-4508, email: ple@sasktel.net Web: www.paysen.com

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WITH 24 YEARS experience, Alberta Organic Producers Association (AOPA). Is Alberta’s only organic member driven orROUND BALE FEEDERS, custom made ganization. Serving producers and procespanels, windbreaks and easy roll wire roll- s o r s . To g e t c e r t i fi e d c a l l K at hy at ers. Call 306-984-7861, Mistatim, SK. 780-939-5808 for a free consultation or NH 358 MIXMILL w/Forrester auger at- visit: www.albertaorganicproducers.org tachment, not rusted out, excellent shape. 306-291-9395, 306-283-4747 Langham SK USED JIFFY SLIDE-IN round bale handler, WANTED: BUYING ORGANIC GRAINS. in good condition. Phone 403-627-2601, FOB farm or delivered, Loreburn, SK. Call Pincher Creek, AB. F.W. Cobs Company ph. 1-888-531-4888.

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WARMAN HOMES RTM homes ready to go! Mt. Robson, 1443 sq. ft. was $161,715. Sale price $155,943. Call 1-866-933-9595, www.warmanhomes.ca PASTURE FOR SALE, 4 quarters deeded, 3 leased, Section 16-83-2-W6, NW-, NE- and SE-17-83-02-W6. Some logging, round-up corrals, hunting, quading, $375,000. MEDALLION HOMES 1-800-249-3969 780-596-0000, Peace Country, AB. Immediate delivery: New 16’ and 20’ modular homes; Also used 14’ and 16’ 1421 Acre s For Sa le REG. GERMAN SHEPHERD pups, health homes. Now available: Lake homes. N e a r R o ckyfo rd , AB. and hip guaranteed, working bloodlines, Medallion Homes, 306-764-2121, Prince Albert, SK. H igh pro d ucin g cultiva te d fa rm la n d . ready. 306-236-4678, Meadow Lake, SK. G re a tre ve n ue po te n tia l fro m WANTED: OLDER MOBILE HOME 12’, 14’, re n t& o il/ga s righ ts . or 16’ wide, to be moved, suitable for lake c o t t a g e . 3 0 6 - 6 2 7 - 3 3 1 2 l e ave m s g . , P le a s e ca ll fo r m o re gre a td e ta ils . GERMAN SHEPHERD MALE pup for sale, 306-648-7516, Swift Current, SK. C ra ig Bra s s a rd - R e a lto r 4 mos. old, sable, vet checked, has had 403 .3 6 1.0143 shots, $500. 306-264-3834, Kincaid, SK. Em a il: cb ra s s a rd @ cirre a lty.ca ARE YOU LOOKING for an intelligent, lov- MARVIN HOMES, BUILDING RTM’S since ing, well behaved house trained Sharpei 1976: 1320 sq.ft., 3 bdrm, $75,000 and a puppy (wrinkle dog), dewormed w/1st 1520 sq.ft, 3 bdrm., $90,000. Call Marvin shots, 12 wks old, need good homes, only Homes 204-326-1493 or 204-355-8484, 3 left. 403-487-3221, Medicine Hat, AB Steinbach, MB. www.marvinhomes.ca GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS, ready to go. Phone Ed 306-272-3848, leave message if not in. Foam Lake, SK. ON THE GREENS COTTONWOOD, AZ. Gated 55 plus manufactured home golf LOOKING FOR CULTIVATED acres to course community located in the heart of rent: In Leduc, Wetaskiwin and Panoka TRUE BLUE HEELERS have pups off good Verde Valley just 20 mins south of Sedona, county’s for hay production. Willing to pay proven working Blue Heeler parents, ready 1 hr from Phoenix, Prescott and Flagstaff. up to $100/acre for minimum 5 year confor early Feb. $300 with first shots and de- All homes come complete with garage, tract. Call 780-991-3616. wormed. References avail. Delivery can be covered deck and landscaping. Land lease arranged. 306-492-2447, 306-290-3339, fees include $1 million clubhouse, large in- A GREAT INVESTMENT Recreational door lap pool, hot tub and complete gym. Quarter West of Red Deer. Log home, 2 Clavet, SK. Also includes water, sewer, trash pickup year-round cabins, log shop, large pole KUVASZ/PYRENEES PUPS, farm raised, and reduced golf fees. For information call barn and corrals, Clearwater River frontborn Sept./Oct., 7 males and 6 females. 1-800-871-8187 or 928-634-7003. age, 2 creeks with fish. Surface leases, Call 403-502-9470, Medicine Hat, AB. large gravel deposit; Large grain and ranch property west of Edmonton. Exclusive. KARELIAN BEAR DOG/ Pyrenees pups, Other ranches and pasture properties. I b o r n N o v. 2 n d , $ 3 5 0 e a c h . C a l l specialize in agricultural properties. Don 306-467-4704, Duck Lake, SK. J a r r e t t , R e a l t y E xe c u t i ve s L e a d i n g , 780-991-1180, Spruce Grove, AB. PB AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD PUPS from working parents, tails docked, ready to go, $300. 780-853-2783, Vermilion, AB. AGRICULTURAL LAND FOR SALE, 2880 acres on Hwy. #23, beautiful mountain LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ. REAL ESTATE! view, lots of water (3 artesian wells and Inexpensive warm winter homes. Dave large creek). Private sale, brokers welChambers, 928-846-1443, Re/Max Pres- come. Call Don 403-558-2345, Brant, AB. suzannedepaoli@yahoo.com tige Properties, findlakehavasuhomes.com

BEST COOKING PULSES accepting samples of organic and conventional green/yellow peas for 2013/2014 crop year. Matt 306-586-7111, Rowatt, SK TURNKEY LOG FURNITURE BUSINESS. 3000 sq. ft. heated shop w/all tools. 2 homes. On 6 fenced lots. Trailers for hauling logs. 24’ custom built trailer for moving furniture. No shortage of wood or WANTED CERTIFIED ORGANIC grass fed work. Best steelhead fishing in the world. slaughter beef. Peter Lundgard, Nature’s Lots of mountain life, mountains and rivWay Farm, 780-338-2934, Grimshaw, AB. ers. Selling for health reasons. Hazelton, BC. 250-842-0005, 250-842-8996.

COSTA RICA PACIFIC coast beach property, zoned commercial hotel, permits in place to rebuild w/liquor license. For sale/trade. Approx. value, $650,000. Phone: 306-267-4552. WARMAN HOMES CUSTOM built commercial buildings, to your plan or ours. Call 1-866-933-9595 or www.warmanhomes.ca

GWM RANCH HAND 54, non-smoker, seeks same in East Central, AB. Please reply to: Box 2004, c/o The Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK. S7K 2C4. CLASSY COUNTRY GAL, 60 going on 50, 5’2”, 140 lbs, active, NS, SD, widowed, enjoy horses, travel, dancing. Looking for strong man with spunk, between 58 and 65, 5’9” plus, into horses, friends first, with recent photo please. Edmonton, AB. area. Reply to: Box 2008, c/o The Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK. S7K 2C4. GENTLEMAN WOULD LIKE to meet an attractive lady between 50 and 60, NS, who would like to travel. Send photo and phone number. Box 2007, c/o The Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 2C4.

LOOKING FOR Commercial or Investment Property. Specializing in Buyer Agency Services. Key Dyck, Broker, Mountain View Realty, Dauphin, MB., 204-638-0057. WELL ESTABLISHED 3456 sq. ft. Autobody Repair business located in the heart of potash country in East Central SK. Excellent Clientele, large area to draw from with unlimited potential. 72x146’ lot with adjacent 80x146’ lot, next to Yellowhead Hwy at major intersection. 306-621-7722, 306-399-7723, Churchbridge, SK.

LAC DES ISLES- 5 acre treed lake lot, $295,000. 2 acre lot, $125,000 near boat launch. Adjacent to Meadow Lake Prov. Park area. $10,000 down, remainder due Jan 1. 306-373-4808, loiselh@msn.com

298 ACRES CULT. farmland 2.5 miles east of Tofield, AB. on 626. Good #2 soil, no bush, no stones, very flat, annual surface lease revenue $3200. MLS MH0026833 S o u t h l a n d R e a l t y, c a l l L e n R e m p e l 3800 + 14,000 ACRES: Cattle, bison and 306-741-6358, Medicine Hat, AB. elk operations, fenced and cross fenced, Wabumun Lake, west of Edmonton, AB. NW-7-22-26-W4, 30 minutes east of 780-915-1735, roperrealtyltd@aol.com Calgary, AB. 53 acres, located beside hardnear light industrial, in County of 3300 ACRES OF pasture for rent. 800 top, asking $550,000. Great terms. cow/calf pair capacity, multiple pastures, Wheatland, Wes 403-936-5572. Prime investment plot handling facilities, Hwy 16 access, $35 per beside Agrium Industries. Sale pending. acre. 403-819-2000, Niton Junction, AB.

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TO BE MOVED: 1440 sq. ft. bungalow, QUALITY BACHELORS and Bachelorettes very well built, open floor plan, 10’ walls, wanted. Ladies free. Don’t be lonely for oak kitchen, make excellent cabin or Christmas! Call Cheryl at 1-877-247-4399. home. 306-281-8398, Saskatoon, SK.

FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER. Approx. 774 acres, RM North Qu’Appelle #187. NE-15-21-13-W2, Ext. 1, 105.07 acres; NW-15-21-13-W2, Ext. 0, 159.98 acres; SW-15-21-13-W2, Ext. 1, 26.10 acres; NW-22-21-13-W2, Ext. 0, 160.24 acres; SE-22-21-13-W2, Ext. 0, 160.32 acres; SW-22-21-13-W2, Ext 0, 162.04 acres. Bids must be for ALL lands, individual parcels will not be considered. Bids must include: Full legal name, mailing address and phone number; Purchase price for all above lands with signature and date; Cert. cheque, money order or bank draft payable to McKercher LLP for 10% of total bidthe Deposit. Send bid in sealed envelope with Deposit addressed to: McKercher LLP, Barristers and Solicitors, 500- 2220 12th Ave., Regina, SK., S4P 0M8. Attn: Daniel P. Kwochka. All bids must be received no later than 5:00 PM, Friday, January 31, 2014. Highest or any bid will not necessarily be accepted. If bidder does not complete the sale within 30 days of notification by signing an unconditional Agreement for Sale the Deposit will be forfeited. Seller will deliver clear title to the lands to the successful bidder subject only to existing registrations respecting utility and similar easements. Bidder will be entitled to sign revenue after April 30, 2014. Deposits of unsuccessful bidders will be returned. For i n f o c o n t a c t M r. D a n i e l K w o c h k a 306-565-6528, fax: 306-565-6565, FARMLAND FOR SALE in Cypress County. d.kwochka@mckercher.ca Two quarters of cultivated farmland and option for long term lease of adjacent 80 acres. Includes grain bins and surface lease on NE quarter, except 11 acre homestead subdivision on NE quarter. NE/SE 04-07-11-W4. Call 780-460-0313 for info. O ver25,000 acres forsale Submit written bids to: 206, 51 Inglewood throu ghou tS ask. Drive, St Albert, AB. T8N 4E7.

ALBERTA LAND. #1710- COALDALE: Modern 325 sow farrow to finish operation isolated from close neighbours, new hog finishing barn, new feedmill, permit to expand to 500 sows, 1762 sq. ft. home and shop. #1953- Pincher Creek: 193 acres riverfront along the Oldman River east of Pincher Creek, complete with cattle setup, full set of buildings, corrals, grazing land, and recreation area. Ideal ranch/cattle feeder operation. #1977- Lethbridge: 449 acres of beautiful riverfront property located along the Oldman River Valley East of Lethbridge. 1 mile of river frontage with beautiful building spots. Large home, breathtaking views, 50x80 shop, horse barn. ID#100116- Taber: approx. 320 acre irrigated crop farm with extensive set of buildings, feedlot (older), 2 homes, surface revenue. ID#100137 and ID#100138 Hays: 3 parcels together totaling 370 acres, very productive farm land with 360 acres BRID water rights. Beautiful mature treed yard with 1400 sq. ft. bungalow. $39,405 surface lease revenue. ID#100157- Brooks: Crop farm with approx. 300 acres, nice irrigated land with #1 soil. Home is 1550 sq. ft. under construction. Grain bins, corrals, barn, fenced and cross fenced, 6 surface leases with over $20,000 annual revenue. Real Estate Centre 1-866-345-3414 www.farmrealestate.com

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FOR SALE IN RM PRAIRIE ROSE: 150 cultivated acres, NW-31-33-18-W2, near BHP Potash mine. Assessment at $50,200. Easy access off Hwy 6. Make an offer. Call 306-287-3785, Watson, SK. RM 45: APPROX. 4160 acre ranch. 2 yard sites. Full set of buildings. 306-773-7379, John or Joel Cave, Edge Realty Ltd., Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com

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QUARTER SW-34-35-32-W1, 16 miles NE of Norquay, SK. 115 cultivated, 45 forest/creek, assess. $59,900. 306-781-4988, FOR SALE OR RENT in RM of Milton 292, 306-537-3772 cell, Pilot Butte, SK. SE-21-30-28-W3, NW-27-30-28-W3. 290 acres cultivated. Gas revenue $4300/year. TIM HAMMOND REALTY Johnston Farm Submit written tenders to PO Box 277, located by Grenfell, RM #155. 1829 acres Medicine Hat, AB. T1A 7G1. Closing date cultivated and 635 acres hay as per SAMA. Feb. 15, 2014. Highest or any tender not Great livestock operation, corral system, necessarily accepted. Info. 403-580-1053. 34x60 barn, excellent water supply. Yard includes 1356 sq. ft. home (1945), 4 beds, RM BAYNE, 2 adjoining quarters, NW2 baths, asking $3,495,000. MLS#478193. and SW-12-38-26-W2. Submit sealed tenCall G u y S h e p h e rd , 306-434-8857, der to: Box 74, Bruno, SK, S0K 0S0 or http://Johnston.FarmsofCanada.com email rbendig@sasktel.net by 1:00 PM, January 30, 2014. For more info call RM OF LOREBURN, SK, taking offers until 306-369-2835. Highest or any tender not Feb. 28th on Section 21-26-5-W3. Total necessarily accepted. assesement 307,100. Approx. 635 cult. acres. Phone: 306-867-3716. RM 139: 6720 acre ranch, good set of buildings. Call 306-773-7379, John Cave, WANTED: GRAIN LAND TO RENT, 25 Edge Realty Ltd. www.farmsask.com mile radius of Rouleau, SK. Call 306-776-2600 or kraussacres@sasktel.net MINERAL RIGHTS. We will purchase and or lease your mineral rights. FARMLAND FOR SALE: RM of Lajord. 1-877-269-9990. cndfree@telusplanet.net NE-27-13-18-2 ext 0, NW-27-13-18-2 ext 0. January, 2014 possession. Canola stub- RM 126: Approx 640 acres pasture, full set ble, no storage, well farmed. $700,000 of buildings. John or Joel Cave. Edge RealOBO. Contact 306-536-6611, Regina, SK. ty Ltd. 306-773-7379, www.farmsask.com

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WARMAN HOMES RTM homes ready to go! Mt. Blanchard, 1296 sq. ft. was $191,285. Sale price $175,000. Call 1-866-933-9595, www.warmanhomes.ca TO BE MOVED: 1963 bungalow with 2 car attached garage, 1300 sq. ft., main floor fully renovated, 2/3 hardwood floor. Selling with stove, fridge, furnace, water treatment system, hot water heater and sewage pump, asking $80,000. Call 306-338-7114, Clair, SK. SINGLE? WINTER IS the perfect time to fall in love and hibernate with someone! Meet the Matchmaker! In-person interviews January 28th and 29th in Regina and Saskatoon. 19 years successful matchmaking. Call to book your appointment: Camelot Introductions, 204-888-1529 www.camelotintroductions.com

FARM FOR SALE OR RENT: Bindloss, AB., all in 2-22-W4th. Family farm for 100 years. Owner retiring. Located on oiled Hwy. 555 and 15 kms west of Hwy. 41. 19 quarters, approx. 3000 acres deeded in 1 block. 3 quarters are native grass and yard. Balance is farmland seeded to tame grass. 2 residences. Central air and heating. 2 garages. Excellent purebred and seed grain operation. 2 large calving barns. Steel corrals. 3 excellent water wells. Great hunting and fishing area. Adjacent to large government community pasture. 50,000 bu. grain storage. 40x78 heated workshop. 520 acres water rights from Red Deer River. 30 acres flood irrigation. 3 stock dams. Mineral surface leases. Call 403-528-5425, 403-548-1299.

ITUNA, SK. Move in ready 1946 era 530 sq. ft. totally renovated 2 bdrm. home with cindercrete block (“dry as a bone”) basement- ready for development. Room for expansion to upstairs with staircase. Upgrades: laminate floors. New: paint, doors, fixtures, built-in AC, fridge, stove, water heater, furnace, etc. Backyard with lovely view of trees. All amenities, K-12, doctor. 30 min. to Melville, 40 to Yorkton. $17,000 OBO. Serious calls only. Ph. 306-545-5382. Email: zamboo12345@icloud.com

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RM LEASK #464: 4499 acres all but one quarter in a block. Has approx. 3164 acres tame hay cultivated pasture mix. Mainly fenced with 3 and 4 wire fencing and treated post. 36x51 straight wall shop, with attached 20x36 ranch hand living quarters, heated with nat. gas in-floor heat. Power, sewer system and good well. With talk of community pasture closing and higher beef prices, this may be the p r o p e r t y fo r yo u . Wat e r i s l o c at e d throughout the pasture and mainly stone free. Good bluffs of bush for shelter. MLS ®468365. For viewing call Lloyd Ledinski, Re/Max of the Battlefords, and take control of your own pasture needs. North Battleford, SK 306-446-8800, 306-441-0512.

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RM OF REFORD: 327 acres: 80 verified to have gravel, possibly more; 188 acres cultivated w/60 planted to wheat, remaining cultivated acres seeded to tame grass, balance is partly fenced native pasture. 2300 SALE OF FARMLAND BY TENDER. The fol- sq. ft. bungalow built 1985. MLS®470122. lowing land will be offered for sale by ten- Call Wally Lorenz, Re/Max of the Battle- FARM CHEMICAL/ SEED COMPLAINTS der under the direction of Scott Phelps & fords, 306-446-8800, North Battleford, SK. We also specialize in: Crop insurance appeals; Chemical drift; Residual herbicide; M a s o n , B a r r i s t e r s & S o l i c i t o r s : www.remaxbattlefords.com Custom operator issues; Equipment malSE-12-45-25-W2 (Surface) (R.M. of LAND FOR SALE: RM OF Grandview function. Qualified Agrologist on staff. Call St. Louis #431). 1. All bids must be in SE-23-35-18-W3, 2013 Assessment 67,500 Back-Track Investigations for assistance writing and submitted by registered mail or delivered personally in a sealed enve- SW-23-35-18-W3rd, 2013 Assessment regarding compensation, 1-866-882-4779. 70,000. Please contact Stuart at Busse Law lope at the address below by 5:00 PM on GRAINLAND SW24-03-09-W2nd in RM of January 31, 2014. 2. Each bid shall be ac- Professional Corp. prior to January 31, Estevan. Seven miles west of Estevan, off companied by a certified cheque or solici- 2 0 1 4 . P h o n e 3 0 6 - 9 4 8 - 3 3 4 6 . F a x : Hwy. #39, $200,000. 306-634-7949. tor’s trust cheque in the amount of 10% of 306-948-3366. busselaw@sasktel.net the bid. If the bid is not successful, the RM 49: APPROX. 640 acres irrigation and RM of LOREBURN #254: NW35-26-4-W3 deposit will be returned to the bidder. dry land with buildings. 306-773-7379, 2013 assess 76,600; SW6-27-4-W3, 2013 3. Possession shall be April 1, 2014 at John Cave, Edge Realty Ltd, Swift Current, assess 79,900; SE6-27-4-W3, 2013 assess which time the successful bidder shall pro- SK. www.farmsask.com 84,100. All adjacent to Hwy. #44 truck vide either: a) the balance of the purchase route (Skudesnes Road) SE6 has yardsite price; or b) payment of the sum equal to RM OF BATTLE RIVER: 2 quarters within w/natural gas. Water line and power the difference between the balance of the the town of Battleford limits. Unlimited de- available. For more info. contact Ken purchase price and any mortgage financ- velopment potential, beautiful rolling hills. 250-837-4572 or email kjb01@sasktel.net ing, together with an unconditional and For more information on MLS® 474403 Taking written offers until Feb. 28th, 2014. unequivocal letter of commitment from a call Dorothy Lehman, Re/Max of the Bat- Ken and Jan Brown, 1757 Piotrowski Rd, recognized financial institution to the tlefords, 306-446-8800 or 306-441-7782. Revelstoke BC V0E 2S1. mortgagee to finance the successful bidder’s purchase of the land for the price RM OF KINDERSLEY: All of Section ESTABLISHED YOUNG FARMER LOOKING stated in the bid, with the mortgage fi- 26-30-23-W3rd, total assessment 232,900. for grainland to purchase or rent in RM nancing to be paid within 7 days after reg- Oil revenue approx. $8400 annually, asking 345, 346, 315 in Vanscoy/Delisle, area. istration in the land registry. 4. If the suc- $1,288,400. Brad Edgerton 306-463-7357, Box 5593, c/o The Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4 cessful bidder does not complete the Edge Realty Ltd., Kindersley, SK. purchase on the terms and within the time FARM/RANCH/RECREATION, buying or specified, the deposit will be forfeited. DWEIN TRASK REALTY INC. RM of Rudy selling. Call Tom Neufeld 306-260-7838, 5. Purchaser shall be responsible for 2014 #284, all of Sec-36-30-06-W3, West of Coldwell Banker ResCom Realty. property taxes and GST. 6. The highest or Hanley, SK. Approx. 590 acres cult., C.I. any bid may not necessarily be accepted. soil, Class L and M, FMV 255,000. Level RM 184: Approx. 160 acres farm land. 7. Further information may be obtained and stone-free with renter available, Phone 306-773-7379. John or Joel Cave, Edge Realty Ltd., www.farmsask.com from: Scott Phelps & Mason, #400, 135 - $785,900. Call Dwein today 306-221-1035. 21st Street East, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 0B4. FOR SALE BY TENDER: RM of Orkney A t t e n t i o n : D e n i s e W o o d . P h o n e LAND FOR SALE in RM 250 Last Mountain No. 244: NW- and SW-13-26-6-W2nd and Valley, NE-1/4-13-26-22-W2 approx. 90 306-343-4839, fax 306-244-2420. cultivated acres. FMV 55,900. For more SE- 24-26-6-W2nd, with 3- 2000 bu. WestF O R S A L E B Y T E N D E R : R M # 2 6 0 , info. ph. 306-484-4443 or 306-725-7413. eel Rosco steel bins. Conditions of Offers: NE-16-27-24-W3. Highest or any tender All offers mailed to Sheila Wilde, 38 Searle All offers to be submitted in writing on or will not necessarily accepted. Closing date Bay, Regina, SK. S4R 7L9. Highest or any before January 31, 2014. Highest or any offer not necessarily accepted. Mineral Jan. 29, 2014. Please forward bids to: offer not necessarily accepted. rights not included. No offers will be conColin Craney, Edge Realty Ltd., Box 1324, sidered which are subject to financing. 12 QUARTERS GRAINLAND FOR RENT/ Kindersley, SK., S0L 1S0. MLS# 484114. Sale in RM of Livingston #331, can be Please forward all bids and enquiries to: RM #194 LAND for Sale by Tender: Sec- rented or purchased in smaller parcels. Beaty Beaubier, Q.C. at Stevenson Hood tion 18-19-4-W3. Call Donna at Anderson Contact Robin Liu: 306-690-6786, Saska- Thornton Beaubier LLP, 500- 123- 2nd & C o m p a ny L aw O f fi c e fo r d e t a i l s toon, SK. robingliu@hotmail.com For land Ave. South, Saskatoon, SK., S7K 7E6. 306-244-0132, bbeaubier@shtb-law.com 306-773-2891, Swift Current, SK. details visit: www.JustinYin.com RM OF MERVIN- 2 quarters of farmland for tender, 1 deeded, other Crown lease, Approx. 240 cultivated acres total. Fenced perimeter. Excellent forage crop potential or use as tame pasture. Adjacent 60 acres We Are Pleased To Announce The Following Recent Sales also available under cash lease. Details at: SOLD ! www.cloverhilltender.ca Tender closes Feb. 11, 2014. Phone Vern McClelland, KELVINGTON 319 acres - owned by Frederich John & Carol Lowndes Re/Max Lloydminster, 306-821-0611. ST. GREGOR 157 acres - owned by Ron & Laurie, Bud & Linda Michel WANTED: 200 - 300 head cow/calf ranch BIRSAY 159.22 acres - owned by Gordon & Valarie Lowe included in SK or BC. Can start with partial purchase and work with someone wanting to retire. superior yard site and buildings with complete line of machinery. No agents please. Box 2005, c/o The LIPTON 213 acres - owned by Browny Jaremicki Western Producer, Saskatoon, SK S7K 2C4 LUCKY LAKE 158 acres - owned by Rod Kempa & Harold McNally TWO QUARTERS OF good farmland in RM CUPAR 637 acres - owned by Kathy & Stan Weisbrod Rudy for sale: NW/SW-16-30-06-W3, along Hwy 219. Bins on site. Highest or TO IN C LU D E YO U R P R O P ER TY FO R S H O W IN G S any offer not necessarily accepted. Written tenders will be received until Feb. 15 by: C A L L U S TO D A Y! B. Larson at 502 A.E. Adams, Saskatoon, SK. S7K 5N2. THREE QUARTERS Jedburgh SK, grid road, 2 fenced, 1 in grass, corrals, shed, good Sa s ka tch e w a n ’s Fa rm & Ra n ch Sp e cia lis ts ™ well. Offers. 306-627-3445, Blumenhof, SK

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3 QUARTERS in the RM of Parkdale. 370 acres cultivated, includes 900 sq. ft. home, 14,000 bu. grain storage and 2 small shops. Mike Janostin Realty Executives at: 306-481-5574, www.mikejanostin.com Email mikejanostin@realtyexecutives.com RM CANWOOD #494, 4 quarters, grain, pasture and hay, lots of water, 400 acres cultivated. On school bus route. Power on 2 sites. House, 2 large garages, grain storage on home quarter. Close to lakes and Parkland. 306-747-2775, Shellbrook, SK.

MACK AUCTION COMPANY presents a land auction for the Estate of Mea Petterson Thursday evening, 7:00PM, Jan. 23rd, Taylorton Room, Days Inn, Estevan, SK. 2 parcels of hard to find grass and hay land in Southeast, Sask. One parcel over looking scenic Boundary Dam Lake. This property would be great for recreation, residential or agriculture. RM of Estevan #5 SE-09-01-08-W2 and NW-05-01-08-W2. Visit: www.mackauctioncompany.com for full listing, details and video or call 306-634-9512. PL #311962.

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RM OF MERVIN 499, quarter of land SE-04-54-21-W3, 155 acres broke, asking $175,000. 6 miles East of St. Walburg, SK. and 5 miles West of Brightsand Lake. Call Joe Helperl 306-862-6880, 306-862-5127.

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JDT PROPERTIES - WHITEWOOD, SK Saturday, February 15, 2014 - 1:30 p.m. WhiteWood Legion hall Sale features 9 deeded quarters and 1 leased quarter of produc-tive farm land in the R.M. of Willowdale and R.M. of Silverwood TO BE SOLD BY MULTI PARCEL BIDDING SYSTEM • Parcels # 1 thru #5 will be offered in separate auction • Parcels # 6 thru #9 will be offered in separate auction • All quarters are fenced • 6 quarters are sown to tame hay and pasture • 3 quarters are summerfallow • Lease quarter is native grass R.M. OF WILLOWDALE Parcel # 1 NW ¼ 3-16-3-2 Parcel # 2 SW ¼ 6-16-3-2 • Includes yard site with 2 storey house, barn and heated shop Parcel # 3 SE ¼ 6-16-3-2 R.M. OF SILVERWOOD Parcel # 4 NW ¼ 31-15-3-2 • Sells with right to lease SW ¼ 29-15-3-2 Parcel # 5 NE ¼ 31-15-3-2 Parcel # 6 SW ¼ 31-15-3-2 Parcel # 7 SE ¼ 31-15-3-2 Parcel # 8 NW ¼ 30-15-3-2 Parcel # 9 NE ¼ 30-15-3-2 FOR INFORMATION OR TO VIEW CALL JACK 403-888-0045 OR 204-264-1301

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RM SPIRITWOOD #496 and RM Meeting Lake #466. This amazing 2988 acre ranch does have approx. 802 acres of cult. tame pasture. The balance is natural and bush pasture, mainly fenced with 4 wires, 2 sets of corrals, power, well, older house. There is a good supply of pasture water. The RM road runs through the centre of the property with pasture on each side and very easy to move cattle. Also an amazing big game hunting area. For info on this EXCL Listing 188, call Lloyd Ledinski. I am in need of grain land in most of my trading a r e a s . R e / M a x o f t h e B at t l e fo r d s , 306-446-8800 or 306-441-0512, North Battleford, SK. “PIVOT IRRIGATION”: APPROX. 218 acres of grain land. Phone 306-773-7379, John or Joel Cave, Edge Realty Ltd., Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com

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LOCATED NORTH OF TREHERNE, MB. on Assiniboine River, 300 acres cultivated land w/8 tower pivot and buried pipe to river. Christianson Soils Ltd. 204-239-6086 MIXED FARM FOR SALE- retiring, The Pas, MB. Clean, well maintained, all in one piece, no rocks. 1470 deeded acres, 900 cultivated; 2640 acres long term Crown rental, 500 cult. acres. 2 houses- 5 bdrm. house, wheelchair accessible and 1 bdrm. house. Heated shop, machine shed, hay shed, pole barn, Hi-Hog chute system, 40,000+ bu. grain storage, large 30,000 sq. ft. insulated tinned barn, machinery and cattle available. Call 204-623-5029.

HANLEY/ KENASTON, SK. PASTURE, Dwein Trask Realty Inc. E-1/2-36-30-29 W2 and W-1/2-31-30-28 W2. Full section very good pasture with “community pasture”, quality fencing and lots of water for stock. Not over used, $399,900. 1/2 mile west is E-1/2-35-30-29-W2 w/same pasture, water and fence, $199,900. Prefer to sell in package. Call Dwein 306-221-1035. SOLD!!! DELISLE/ DONOVAN, SK. PAST U R E , D w e i n Tr a s k R e a l t y I n c . SE-30-32-07-W3 and NW-30-32-07-W3. 320 acres good pasture with smooth high tensile electric fencing, catch corral, water well and access agreement to neighbor’s power. Located between O’malley Rd and Donovan, $229,900. Dwein 306-221-1035 RM OF CARON #162, pasture for rent SW-01-T16-R29-W2. Interested parties call 306-631-4782, Moose Jaw, SK. MULCHING - TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: www.maverickconstruction.ca AVAILABLE FOR THE 2014 Season: 12-1/2 quarters of tame pasture and one quarter farmland for rent near Melville, SK. All quarters are adjoining, individually fenced with good barbed wire and have deep dugouts. Approx 400 - 450 cow/calf capacity. Working corrals and a solar water system are also available. Call 306-728-3488 or email: zlranch@yourlink.ca

WANTED: 1) IRRIGATED or dry land Outlook/ Hanley area. 2). Land in RM of Hoodoo. 3). Bushland. 4) Natural pasture. Bill Nesteroff 306-497-2668 Re/Max Saskatoon, email: billnesteroff@sasktel.net

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RM OF 442 Manitou Lake SE-03-46-26-W3 farmland, canola last crop, 145 cultivated acres. 306-821-7541, Neilburg, SK.

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IRRIGATION LAND FOR RENT: 2 irrigated farms for rent- RM #284 near Outlook, SK. RM #224- near Elbow, SK. Ph Harry Sheppard at 306-530-8035, Sutton GroupResults Realty, harry@sheppardrealty.ca www.sheppardrealty.ca Regina, SK.

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RM 241 CALDER, CATTLE OPERATION by owner. Nine quarters deeded in grass and hay. Full cattle facilities, calving barn, shelters, Morand handling system, etc. Will handle 200 plus cows. 3 bdrm. 1-1/2 storey house, exc. water, $1,100,000. Near Wroxton SK. 306-786-2121, 306-621-8551

FOR SALE RM OF KELVINGTON #366, NE-18-38-12-W2. Cert. Organic 159 acres, 120 open. Submit offers by Feb. 15, 2014. Highest or any offer not necessarily accepted. Clearly state any buyer conditions. Send signed offer to Brian/Brenda Finch, Box 566, Kelvington, SK., S0A 1W0. Fax 306-327-4379.

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S hire Fa rm n ea r M oos om in (RM 92 W a lp ole). Excellen t m ixed fa rm op era tion w ith 1280 a cs fea tu rin g 610 cu lt. a cs & 625 ha y/ p a s tu re a cs ., G ra s s ca rries 100 p a ir (300 a cs cou ld be crop p ed ), Ya rd in cl: 1180 s q . ft. bu n g a low (1983), 4 bed , 2 ba th. 12,850 bu . s teel bin s tora g e. Excellen t w a ter & ca ttle fa cilities . A s k in g $1,240,000 M LS 462168 http:/ / S hire.Fa rm s o fCa n a d a .co m Ca ll Alex M o rro w 306-434-8780

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RM 137. APPROX. 40 acres w/2 houses, quonset, adjoins City of Swift Current on Hwy #4 South. 306-773-7379, John or Joel Cave, Edge Realty Ltd., Swift Current, SK. www.farmsask.com APPROX. 12 ACRES on LaSalle River and #3 Hwy. near Sanford, MB. Town water and sewer available. Ideal for large house and large garden. $185,000. Call 204-736-4465 or leave message. 8.9 ACRES, 1-1/2 storey home handyman special, foundation good, stone veranda, 45x50’ shop w/20x14’ door, well treed, well graveled, no high water issues, Craigmyle, AB. area. 2 miles off #9 Hwy, good neighbours, beautiful setting in the Handhills, 15 minutes to Hanna, 45 from Drumheller. Please call for photos and more info 403-358-8933, nelsontruckandtractor.com 20 ACRE YARD next to 40 hunting Crownland quarters. House, barn with hayloft. Good water. 204-858-2555, Hartney, MB.

RM THREE LAKES #400: 295 cult. acres. NW-35-40-24-W2 assess (72,900) and NW 23-40-24-W2, assessment (68,700). Well maintained farmland. Asking $320,000. Call Kelly at 306-220-2750, Saskatoon, SK. 2005 YUKON XL Denali, 7 passenger, fully or email kjfarms@baudoux.ca loaded. Please call John at 403-382-1963 APPROX. 5400 ACRES prime SW Sask. Fort Macleod, AB. farmland, includes buildings, bins and 2 yardsites. Call Laural Hunt 306-630-3910, ARGO’S: 2011 8 wheel, tracks, winch, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate canopy, 169 kms, $17,500; 2009 8 wheel, winch, 600 kms, $9500. 306-563-8765. Signature Service.

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NEW 2013 POLARIS Sportsman 500 ATV’s, with 2500 lb. winch installed, $5999. plus taxes while inventory lasts. Call Corey at Montgomery & Son Sales, 306-672-3395 or 306-672-3617, Gull Lake, SK.

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CERT. AC METCALFE and CDC Meredith FDN., REG., CERT. AC Morgan. Terre barley, excellent germ. and disease. B o n n e S e e d F a r m 3 0 6 - 9 2 1 - 8 5 9 4 , 306-741-0475, Pambrun, SK. 306-752-4810, Melfort, SK. CERTIFIED AC MEREDITH, AC Metcalfe, CDC Copeland malt barley. Conlon, CERTIFIED CDC ORRIN. Berscheid Bros. Sundre feed barley. Order early for max Seeds, 306-368-2602, Lake Lenore, SK. discounts. Visa/MC. www.llseeds.ca 306-530-8433, Lumsden, SK

NEW 2014 CROSSROADS 5th wheel, 28’, 3 slides, now only $34,500. Several other models in stock. 1-800-735-5846 Minot, North Dakota. www.swensonrv.com

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2014 TUSCANY 42WX Class A diesel pusher, 43’.2” long, 450 HP ISL Cummins turbo diesel engine, 3 slide-outs, full hi-gloss porcelain tile throughout. Stk# 6426. $264,000 CND. Call 1-866-346-3148 or shop online 24/7 at: allandale.com

CERTIFIED CDC MEREDITH, Newdale, AC Metcalfe, CDC Copeland, Legacy, CDC McGwire, CDC Cowboy, CDC Austenson. Va n B u rc k S e e d s , S t a r C i t y, S K ., 306-863-4377.

WANTED: TOWABLE RV vehicle, SUV or car. 780-663-2201, Ryley, AB.

2014 PALAZZO 33.2 Class A diesel pusher 34’.8” long, 300 HP Cummins ISB dsl. eng., 2 slide-outs, dream booth dinette, sideaisle bathroom with oversized shower Stk# 7962, $149,900. 1-866-346-3148 or shop online 24/7 at: allandale.com

SORGARD SEEDS, Feed Barleys: Cowboy and Conlon. 306-896-2236, Churchbridge, SK. seeds@sorgardseeds.com CERT. #1 AC Metcalfe, CDC Meredith, CDC PolarStar. Wiens Seed Farm, call Brennan 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK. H I G H Q UA L I T Y C E RT I F I E D B a r l ey Seed: CDC Copeland, Newdale and CDC Meredith. High germination with low disease levels. Call Wilfing Farms Ltd. 306-236-7797 or 306-236-6811. Meadow Lake, SK. E-mail: rjwilfing@sasktel.net

2010 WOODMIZER LT40 hyd. bandsaw sawmill, can be seen working, c/w sharpener and tooth setter, $18,000 OBO. Phone 403-638-6536, Caroline, AB. WOOD-MIZER PORTABLE SAWMILLS, eight models, options and accessories. 1-877-866-0667. www.woodmizer.ca SAWMILLS from only $4897 - Make Money and Save Money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock, ready to ship. Free info. and DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/168 or call 1-800-566-6899 ext. 168.

2008 DUTCH STAR 4304 Class A diesel pusher, 43’ long, 4 slides, beautiful cabinetry, rear bath and bedroom, washer and dryer, island king bed, mint! Stk# 4416 $182,500. Call 1-866-346-3148 or shop online 24/7 at: allandale.com

2014 TUSCANY 36MQ Class A dsl. pusher 37’.9” long, 360 HP ISB, Cummins turbo dsl. eng., 4 slide-outs, king bed, fireplace, lar ge over-size shower. Stk# 8418. $192,000 CND. Call 1-866-346-3148 or shop online 24/7 at: allandale.com

CERT. CONVENTIONAL AND ROUNDUP ready grazing corn. Early maturing, leafier for increased grazing yield. For ruminant livestock including cattle, sheep, bison and wildlife food plots. CanaMaize Seed Inc., 1-877-262-4046, www.canamaize.com CORN SEED THUNDER SEED has grazing and silage corn varieties for SK. TH2146, TH8781, TH3378, TH3382, TH4574RR for grain (2075 CHU). Call Thunder Seeds at 888-274-9243 or 306-744-2332 for local retails. www.thunderseed.ca Saltcoats, SK

FOUNDATION AND/OR CERTIFIED CDC Utmost VB and Lillian Wheat. Call Craswell Seeds, Strasbourg, SK., 306-725-3236. CERTIFIED SADASH WHEAT for sale. Phone Antelope Creek Ent. Ltd., 306-395-2652, Chaplin, SK. CERTIFIED AND REGISTERED Utmost VB, Harvest, Andrew, Conquer VB. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. CERT. CDC UTMOST, Carberry, Cardale, AC Splendor, Pasteur, AC Enchant. Van Burck Seeds, Star City, SK., 306-863-4377. CERTIFIED SHAW, 98% germ. Hansen Seeds, Yellow Grass, SK., 306-465-2525 or 306-861-5679. Email jsh2@sasktel.net

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Ca ll yo u r lo ca l S e e d G ro w e r Re ta ile r: M A N ITO BA C O U R T S EED S Plum as,M B....................204-386-2354 S A S K ATC H EW A N M cC A R TH Y S EED FA R M L TD . C orning,SK...................306-224-4848 S M ITH S EED S Lim erick,SK..................306-263-4944

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H I G H Q UA L I T Y C E RT I F I E D W h e a t Seed: CWRS, CPSR and CWSW. Harvest, CDC Utmost VB, AC Shaw VB, Alvena, AC Enchant VB, AC Crystal, AC Foremost and AC Sadash. Call Wilfing Farms Ltd. 306-236-7797 or 306-236-6811, Meadow Lake, SK. E-mail: rjwilfing@sasktel.net

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Licen s ed & bon d ed 1- 800- 2 58- 7434 ro ger@ seed - ex.co m KELOWNA, BC. CONDO WINTER rental. Furnished dishes, towels, bedding. 2 bdm, 2 bath. 55 plus bldg. Walking distance to groceries, restaurants, doctor and pharm. $1450/month. Nice bldg./neighbourhood with free undgrd. parking. Call Gene 403-826-5636, gsarmaga@gmail.com

REGISTERED CERTIFIED MEREDITH, germ 99%, vigour 96%; Certified Copeland, high germ and vigour. Redman Seed Farm, 306-324-4235, 306-272-7878, Margo, SK. WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Cert. CDC Meredith, CDC Copeland, AC Metcalfe, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK.

S A S K ATC H EW A N S O R G A R D S EED S C hurchbridge,SK......306-896-2236 M cC A R TH Y S EED FA R M L TD . C orning,SK..................306-224-4848 VA N BU R C K S EED S StarC ity,SK..................306-863-4377 S M ITH S EED S Lim erick,SK..................306-263-4944 H ER L E S EED FA R M W ilkie,SK......................306-843-2934 C AY S EED S L TD . Kinistino,SK.................306-864-3696 R O L O FA R M S L TD . Regina,SK.....................306-543-5052

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CERTIFIED #1 CDC Impower, CDC Greenland. Wiens Seed Farm, Brennan, 306-377-2002, Herschel, SK. CERT. CDC MAXIM CL, CDC Impower CL Clearfield lentils. Order early for max d i s c o u n t s . V i s a / M C w w w. l l s e e d s . c a 306-530-8433, Lumsden, SK. CERTIFIED CDC DAZIL., CDC Impower, Ace Crop Care Ltd., 306-831-8963, Rosetown, SK. CERT. CDC IMPOWER CL large green; New CDC Scarlet reds. High germ. Fast Seed Farm, 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK.

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LENTILS, CANARY AND CHICK PEAS. Call GrainEx International Ltd. for current pricing at 306-885-2288, Sedley SK. Visit us on our website at: www.grainex.net

TOP QUALITY CERTIFIED alfalfa and grass CERT. CDC PATRICK, CDC MEADOW. seed. Call Gary or Janice Waterhouse Order early for max discounts. Visa/MC 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK. www.llseeds.ca 306-530-8433Lumsden SK NEW CERTIFIED CDC Saffron, high germ. and vigor. Volume discounts. Fast Seed Farm, 306-463-3626, Kindersley, SK. CERTIFIED MEADOW. Call Greenshields HYBRID AND OPEN-POLLINATED Canola Seeds Ltd., 306-524-2155, 306-524-4339, varieties at great prices. Cert. #1 Synergy Semans, SK. (Polish). Call Fenton Seeds, Tisdale, SK. H I G H Q UA L I T Y C E RT I F I E D Ye l l ow 306-873-5438. Peas: CDC Meadow, CDC Treasure, CDC CERTIFIED FOREMOST CONVENTIONAL, Saffron and Abarth. High Germination with Rugby Round-up Ready, Canterra canola low disease levels. Call Wilfing Farms Ltd. va r i e t i e s . G r e e n s h i e l d s S e e d s L t d . , 306-236-7797 or 306-236-6811, Meadow Lake, SK. Email: rjwilfing@sasktel.net 306-524-2155, 306-524-4339, Semans, SK REG., CERT. CDC MEADOW, CDC Treasure. Ardell Seeds, Vanscoy, SK, 306-668-4415.

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FDN, REG, CERT, CDC Hornet, CDC Patrick (green), CDC Limerick (green). Ace Crop Care Ltd. 306-831-8963, Rosetown, SK. CERTIFIED CDC MEADOW, and 40-10, CDC Leroy silage peas. Va n B u rc k Seeds, Star City, SK., 306-863-4377. FOUNDATION, REGISTERED and/or Cert. CDC Meadow and CDC Saffron peas. Ph. Berscheid Bros Seeds, Lake Lenore, SK. 306-368-2602. SORGARD SEEDS: CDC Meadow yellow peas. 306-896-2236, Churchbridge, SK. Email: seeds@sorgardseeds.com

REGISTERED AND CERTIFIED #1 CDC Meadow. Fenton Seed Farm Ltd., Tisdale, FDN, REG. AND Certified #1 Reconstituted SK. 306-873-5438. CDC Sorrel, Fdn and Reg. AAC Bravo. Call Fenton Seeds, Tisdale, SK. 306-873-5438. AC EARLYSTAR NEW YELLOW PEA. High germination. Contact 306-843-2934, WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Cert. Recon Wilkie, SK. www.herle.ca CDC Bethune, CDC Sorrel flax. 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. M&M SEEDS LTD. Has Certified No. 1 RECON., REG. AND CERT. CDC Sorrel, CDC CDC Treasure and Meadow. Cash and volB e t h u n e . Te r r e B o n n e S e e d F a r m ume discounts. 306-258-2219 St.Denis, SK 306-921-8594, 306-752-4810, Melfort, SK. REG., CERTIFIED RECONSTITUTED CDC Sorrel (2014) flax. Order early for max. discounts. Visa/MC. www.llseeds.ca 306-530-8433, Lumsden, SK.

BUYING BROWN FLAX farm pickup. Call FOUNDATION, REGISTERED, CERTIFIED, 1-877-752-4115, Naber Specialty Grains AC Muchmore, AC Shaw VB. Ace Crop Ltd. Email: nsgl@sasktel.net Care Ltd., 306-831-8963, Rosetown, SK. CERTIFIED PRAIRIE SAPPHIRE and ReCa ll yo u r lo ca l S e e d G ro w e r Re ta ile r: constituted CDC Bethune flax. Pambrun, FDN, REG. AND CERTIFIED #1 Vesper VB, SK., 306-741-0475. foc@sasktel.net S O R G A R D S EED S VB, CDC Utmost VB. Fenton Seed C hu rchbridge, SK .....306-896-2236 Goodeve Farm Ltd., Tisdale, SK. 306-873-5438. CERTIFIED TAURUS. Van Burck Seeds, Star City, SK., 306-863-4377. 1-877-791-1045 WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Cert HRS. CDC SORGARD SEEDS, Prairie Sapphire Utmost VB, Carberry, Shaw VB, Harvest. w w w .fp gen etics .ca Churchbridge, SK. Phone 306-896-2236, 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. Email: seeds@sorgardseeds.com WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Cert. SWW CERTIFIED PRAIRIE GRANDE flax. Ph. Sadash, GP Pasteur and CPS Crystal, En- Greenshields Seeds Ltd., 306-524-2155, WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Certified CDC chant VB. 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. 306-524-4339, Semans, SK. Meadow yellow peas. Call 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. SORGARD SEEDS, WHEAT: Carberry, FOUNDATION, REGISTERED and/or CertiGlenn, AC Vesper, CDC Utmost, Cardale, fied CDC Sorrel reconstituted flax. BersCPS Conquer and Pasteur. Churchbridge, cheid Bros Seeds, Lake Lenore, SK. S K . P h o n e 3 0 6 - 8 9 6 - 2 2 3 6 , E - m a i l : 306-368-2602. O ffe rs e xce p tio na l yie ld s, seeds@sorgardseeds.com a co m p re he nsive d ise a se p a cka ge a nd go o d nu tritio na l q u a litie s. FDN., REG., CERT. CDC Utmost VB, AC Ca ll yo u rlo ca l S e e d G ro w e rRe ta ile r: Shaw VB, AC Vesper VB, AC Carberry, Cardale, Conquer VB (CPS red). Ardell Seeds, VA N BU R C K S EED S StarC ity,SK...................306-863-4377 Vanscoy, SK, 306-668-4415. S OY B E A N S F O R S A S K AT C H E WA N FOUNDATION, REGISTERED and/or Certi- TH29002, TH33003R2Y and TH32004R2Y. 1-877-791-1045 fied: AC Vesper VB, AC Unity VB; CDC Ut- Grown in SK. Call Thunder Seeds at w w w .fp gen etics .ca most VB, Certified Andrew and Sadash. 888-274-9243 or 306-744-2332 for a reBerscheid Bros Seeds, Lake Lenore, SK. tailer near you. We know it. We grow it. 306-368-2602. www.thunderseed.ca Saltcoats, SK. WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Cert. AC Mor- CERTIFIED #1 AC Vesper VB, AC Shaw gan, Souris, Triactor, milling oats; CDC VB. Wiens Seed Farm 306-377-2002, Baler forage oats 306-752-4060 Melfort SK Herschel, SK. CDC ORION kabuli chickpea, registered. CERTIFIED AC MORGAN and CDC SO-1 Sean Miller, Avonlea, SK., 306-868-7822. Oats: High germination and low disease. Call Wilfing Farms Ltd. 306-236-6811 or 306-236-7797, Meadow Lake, SK. E-mail: Be st fo r yie ld ,d ise a se a nd e nd -u se . rjwilfing@sasktel.net CERTIFIED CDC DAZIL, CDC Maxim, CDC Ca ll yo u rlo ca l S e e d G ro w e rRe ta ile r: Impower, CDC Greenland lentils. Pambrun FOUNDATION, CERTIFIED Leggett, Souris. SK., 306-741-0475, foc@sasktel.net Ardell Seeds, Vanscoy, SK, 306-668-4415. M cC A R TH Y S EED FA R M L TD . C orning,SK..................306-224-4848 FOUNDATION, REGISTERED, CERTIFIED SORGARD SEEDS, Leggett, Souris, CDC Redcliff and CDC Maxim CL. Craswell S M ITH S EED S CDC Baler feed oats. Call 306-896-2236, E-mail: s e e d s @ s o rg a rd s e e d s . c o m Lim erick,SK .................306-263-4944 Seeds, Strasbourg, SK., 306-725-3236. Churchbridge, SK. CERTIFIED IMPOWER, INVINCIBLE, New R O L O FA R M S L TD . Regina,SK.....................306-543-5052 CDC Scarlet Lentils, high germ, low disCERTIFIED SEABISCUIT. Greenshields ease. Phone Antelope Creek Ent. Ltd., Seeds, Semans, SK., 306-524-2155, 1-877-791-1045 306-395-2652, Chaplin, SK. 306-524-4339. w w w .fp gen etics .ca CERTIFIED AND REG. Metcalfe, Copeland, CERTIFIED CDC DAZIL, CDC Imax, CDC Newdale, Meredith barley. Frederick Impower. Hansen Seeds, Yellow Grass, Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. SK., 306-465-2525, 306-861-5679. V e ry high yie ld ing w hite m illing o a t w ith cro w n ru st re sista nce .

PARTS FOR VINTAGE snowmobiles, 1990 and older. Call Don at 780-755-2258, Wainwright, AB. doncole@telus.net

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CERTIFIED #1 UNITY, Waskada, Lillian. S h ew c h u k S e e d s , B l a i n e L a ke , S K . 306-290-7816, or 306-497-2800.

FOUNDATION, REGISTERED, CERTIFIED Transcend Durum. Call Craswell Seeds, LARGE QUANTITY OF Certified Harvest ELIAS SCALES MFG., several different Strasbourg, SK., 306-725-3236. wheat, wholesale pricing, selling in truck ways to weigh bales and livestock; Platload lots only; Also, Certified Newdale 2form scales for industrial use as well, non- CERTIFIED #1 AC STRONGFIELD. Wiens row malt barley. Phone 204-683-2316, electric, no balances or cables (no weigh Seed Farm, call Brennan at 306-377-2002, Inland Seed Corp., Binscarth, MB. like it). Shipping arranged. 306-445-2111, Herschel, SK. North Battleford, SK. www.eliasscales.com CERT. STRONGFIELD, AAC Current, CERTIFIED UNITY WASKADA and Carberry CDC Verona durum. Order early for max wheat, exc. germ. and disease. Pambrun, discounts. Visa/MC. www.llseeds.ca SK., 306-741-0475. Email foc@sasktel.net 306-530-8433, Lumsden, SK. FOUNDATION, REGISTERED, CERTIFIED, M&M SEEDS LTD. has Certified No. 1 AC AC Transcend Durum. Ace Crop Care Ltd., Goodeve VB, CDC Utmost VB and AC Shaw VB. Cash and volume discounts. 306-831-8963, Rosetown, SK. 306-258-2219, St. Denis, SK. CERT. #1 CDC Verona and Strongfield Durum. Call Shawn Fraser 306-741-0475, CERTIFIED SHAW-AC DOMAIN MTW, Pambrun, SK. Email: foc@sasktel.net AC Unity-Waskada MTW, AC Andrew high yielding wheat. Order early for max discounts. Visa/MC. www.llseeds.ca 306-530-8433, Lumsden, SK. FDN, REG. AND CERTIFIED #1 CDC Orrin, Leggett. Fenton Seed Farm Ltd., Tisdale, CERTIFIED VESPER/ WASCADA midge resistant, Stettler, Carberry. Greenshields SK. 306-873-5438. Seeds Ltd., Semans, SK., 306-524-2155, CERTIFIED AND REG. Souris, Leggett. 306-524-4339. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK. REG., CERT. AC Shaw VB, AC Vesper VB, C D C O s l e r. Te r r e B o n n e S e e d F a r m 306-921-8594, 306-752-4810, Melfort, SK.

2009 DISCOVERY 40X Class A dsl. pusher, 40’ long, 350 HP Cummins diesel engine, 3 slide-outs, sleep number queen island bed, solar panels, satellite system. Stk# 2951. WWW.TRAWINSEEDS.CA Certified CDC $139,900. Call 1-866-346-3148 or shop Austenson highest yielding feed barley. online 24/7 at: allandale.com 306-752-4060, Melfort, SK. CERTIFIED METCALFE and Meredith. Call Greenshields Seeds Ltd., 306-524-2155, 2003 HARLEY DAVIDSON Ultra Classic An- 306-524-4339, Semans, SK. niversary, mint, has reverse gear, asking CERTIFIED #1 AC Newdale (2R), Legacy $12,500. 306-247-4808, Unity, SK. (6R). Call Fenton Seed Farm Ltd., Tisdale, SK. 306-873-5438. FDN., REG., CERT., CDC Austenson, CDC 9-1/2’ GILBERT TRAIL groomer/leveller Cowboy, CDC Copeland, AC Ranger. Ph. pull type, $2500. Call 306-960-3000, St. Ardell Seeds, Vanscoy, SK, 306-668-4415. Louis, SK. FOUNDATION, REGISTERED and/or CertiCDC Copeland; AC Metcalfe, CDC 1975 JOHNSTON GOLDEN ghost, 30 HP, fied: CDC Kindersley, Legacy. Berselectric start, 20” track, 1100 orig. miles, Meredith, cheid Bros Seeds, Lake Lenore, SK. mint cond. 306-747-2862, Holbein, SK. 306-368-2602. PARTING OUT Polaris snowmobiles, 1985 REG., CERT. CDC MEREDITH, AC Metcalfe, to 2005. Edfield Motors Ltd., phone: 9 9 % g e r m . Te r r e B o n n e S e e d F a r m 306-272-3832, Foam Lake, SK. 306-921-8594, 306-752-4810, Melfort, SK.

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BUYING CANARY SEED, farm pickup. Call 1-877-752-4115, Naber Specialty Grains Ltd. Email: nsgl@sasktel.net CERTIFIED CANTATE, highest yielding variety. Hansen Seeds, Yellow Grass, SK., 306-465-2525, 306-861-5679.

C E RT I F I E D ANDANTE YELLOW. Call Greenshields Seeds Ltd., 306-524-2155, 306-524-4339, Semans, SK.

Schluter & Maack NOW BUYING BROWN & YELLOW MUSTARD All grades of Green Peas Laird & Richlea Lentils Yellow Peas

1-306-771-4987 BESCO GRAIN LTD. Buyer of all varieties of mustard. Call for competitive pricing. Call 204-736-3570, Brunkild, MB. MUSTARD SEED: We carry a full line of high quality cert. mustard seed. Bare, treated, large or small bags. Can arrange delivery anywhere. Great pricing!! (Looking for low grade mustard). Call Ackerman Ag Services 306-638-2282, Chamberlain, SK.

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BORAGE WANTED. Dandilee Spice Corp. is buying Borage seed for prompt delivery. Very attractive prices. Also offering 2014 Production Contracts with early season movement and Act of God clause. Contact Jack Valleau, Ridgedale, SK. 306-277-4208 or Dandilee Spice Corp. 306-585-9080.

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GREEN PEA SEED, new variety, 99% germ. WANTED: FEED/ OFF-GRADE Pulses and P h o n e A n t e l o p e C r e e k E n t . L t d . , tough, heated green oilseeds and also 306-395-2652, Chaplin, SK. cereals. Prairie Wide Grain, Saskatoon, SK., 306-230-8101, 306-716-2297. BUYING YELLOW AND GREEN PEAS, all grades, farm pickup. Naber Specialty TOP PRICES Grains Ltd., 1-877-752-4115, Melfort, SK. email: nsgl@sasktel.net

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WANTED HEATED CANOLA. No broker involved. Sell direct to crushing plant. Also limited amount of #1 canola. Cash on delivery or pickup. 306-228-7306 or 306-228-1502, Unity, SK.

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WHY NOT KEEP MARKETING SIMPLE? You are selling feed grains. We are buying feed grains. Fast payment, with prompt pickup, true price discovery. Call Gerald Snip, Jim Beusekom, Allen Pirness, David Lea, or Vera Buziak at Market Place FABA BEANS, zero tanin variety, $10/bu. Commodities Ltd., Lethbridge, AB. Email: for sale at the bin. Contact 780-909-6108, info@marketplacecommodities.com or Calmar, AB. phone: 1-866-512-1711.

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GOOD QUALITY HAY, AB, big rounds. C a l l f o r d e l i v e r y p r i c e s . P h o n e : TARPCO, SHUR-LOK, MICHELâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S sales, service, installations, repairs. Canadian 403-758-3041, Magrath, AB. company. We carry aeration socks. We 2ND CUT ALFALFA round bales, approx. now carry electric chute openers for grain 1800 lbs, no rain, hard core. Feed analysis trailer hoppers. 1-866-663-0000. available upon request, $100/bale, 35 SHUR-LOK TRUCK TARPS and replacement bales. Elbow, SK. Phone 780-982-6295. tarps for all makes of trucks. Alan, 1500 LB. BROME/ALFALFA hay bales, $55 306-723-4967, 306-726-7808, Cupar, SK. a bale at Weyburn and Halbrite, SK. Ph. 306-842-7082 or 306-861-7092. APPROX. 400 ROUND hay bales, 1300 lbs., exc. horse hay, no rain, $70/bale in yard. 8- 24.5X32 TAKE-OFF tractor tires, 20-40% tread, 403-393-0219, 403-833-2190. Can deliver. 306-466-2261, Leask, SK. WANTED: ALFALFA/GRASS, large round REDUCED TO CLEAR: Over 1500 new and bales and feed barley. We are interested in used tires. About 300 for farm applicaall quantities of hay and feed grain deliv- tions, balance industrial construction type, ered to the ranch. Call 306-734-9001, many sizes up to very very large. Cambrian Equipment Sales. Phone 204-667-2867, Brownlee, SK. fax 204-667-2932, Winnipeg, MB. WANTED: HAY AND STRAW round bales for feed. Phone Mike 306-469-7741, Big River, SK. 15,000 SQUARE ALFALFA and alfalfa/grass mix bales, 3x4x8, no rain, feed test done. Phone 306-648-7540, Gravelbourg, SK. WA N T E D : A L FA L FA / G R A S S lar ge round bales. We are interested in all qualities of hay delivered to the ranch. Call 306-638-3051, Bethune, SK. WHEAT STRAW LARGE ROUND BALES, $20 each. 780-258-0095, Smoky Lake, AB. LARGE ROUND JD bales, alfalfa/grass, $45 each OBO. 306-537-4465, Estevan, SK. 500 ORGANIC GOOD quality heavy hard core grass hay round bales, .03Â˘ per lb. Call 306-768-3174, Carrot River, SK.

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COMBINE DUAL KITS IN STOCK, JD 94009600/10/CTS/CTSII kit w/o tires starts from $9,850; JD STS dual kit w/ new 20.8x38 tires, $15,046; CIH 1680-2588 kit w/ new 20.838 tires, $13,900. Trade in your singles for duals. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com CHECK OUT OUR inventory of quality used highway tractors, view information at www.titantrucksales.com

SCRAPER AND LOADER TIRES available. NEW SRS CRISAFULLI PTO water pumps. All sizes. Quick Drain Sales, Muenster, SK. Available in 8â&#x20AC;?, 12â&#x20AC;?, 16â&#x20AC;? and 24â&#x20AC;?, PTO, elec. Ph: 306-682-4520, 306-231-7318. or engine driven available. These pumps can move up to 18,000 GPM. We have 16â&#x20AC;? PTO 15,000 GPM in stock, ready to deliver. For more information call your SK dealer T.J. Markusson Agro Ltd. Foam Lake, SK. WANTED: ONE LOAD of Hemp seed, clean 306-272-4545 or 306-272-7225 See and of good quality. Immediate payment www.crisafullipumps.com in full. Ph: 204-218-7425, Sifton, MB. WANTED LARGE YELLOW peas and Triticale. Call Norbert at Saskcan Parent 204-737-3002, St. Joseph, MB.

BUYING WILD FURS, coyote, fox, coon, beaver, etc. in the whole or finished. Fur license or treaty number required. DL#5971. Call 306-889-2070 or cell 306-852-8802, madtrapper@hotmail.ca Mistatim, SK. GUNS, GUNS, GUNS! Bud Haynes and Wardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gun Auction, Sat., February 8th. New time 10 AM, New location!! 11802 -145 Street, Edmonton, AB. Nice selection: Rifles, shotguns, handguns, including Win. Commemorative Collectors guns incl. Volcanic #1 by New Haven Arms; Cased pair of high grade c.a. 1835 muff pistols; Frank Wesson 1870 pocket rifle; Pair of french Flintlock pistols w/access; Colt 45 auto Browning commemorative pistol w/wooden case; Cased Alexander Henry shotgun w/access.; Cased Browning Medalist 22 semi auto.; Collection: Antique swords, daggers, watches, etc. Check website for more info: www.budhaynesauctions.com or www.WardsAuctions.com To consign phone 403-597-1095. 403-347-5855 or 780-451-4549.

1-877-250-5252 PASKAL CATTLE FEEDLOT Company in Lethbridge area, looking for feed barley. BULK FUEL TANK Clearance Sale at Call Roxanne at 1-800-710-8803. Saskatoon Co-op Agro Center. Single wall and double wall bulk fuel storage tanks, LACKAWANNA PRODUCTS CORP. Buy- brand new but older models, some have ers and sellers of all types of feed grain slight cosmetic damage. From 500-7500 and grain by-products. Call 306-862-2723, gal. in stock and ready to go. Pumps and Nipawin, SK. accessories available. Call 306-933-3834 or 306-385-3434 for details and prices. POLY TANKS: 15 to 10,000 gallons; Bladder tanks from 220 to 88,000 gal; Water SOLID CORE ROUND alfalfa, alfalfa grass, and liquid fertilizer; Fuel tanks, single and green feed, grass and straw. Delivered. double wall; Truck and storage, gas or dsl. Call 306-237-4582, Perdue, SK. Wilke Sales, 306-586-5711, Regina, SK. LARGE SQUARE DURUM/STRAW bales, 3x4, $16/each. Delivery available. Call 306-631-8854, Moose Jaw, SK. LARGE ROUND ALFALFA brome mixed hay. Call 306-764-6372, Prince Albert, SK. RM #369, FIRST cut alfalfa, no rain, 1500 lb. bales, net wrapped, 123 RFV. Call: â&#x20AC;˘ U P TO 1 000 GAL L O N 306-682-1704, Humboldt, SK. CUSTOM BALE HAULING with 2 trucks and â&#x20AC;˘ ISO 9001 :2008 Appro ved t r a i l e r s , 3 4 b a l e s p e r t r a i l e r. C a l l 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK. â&#x20AC;˘ SINGL E W AL L SQ U AR E TANK FLAX STRAW 3x4 square bales. Delivery â&#x20AC;˘ TR ANSP O R T CANAD A AP P R O V ED available. 403-793-1705, Brooks, AB. Available at Magnum Fabricating & our dealers LARGE HARD CORE, certified organic, oat w w w .m a g n u m fa brica tin g .com straw bales $20./each. Located at junction Hwy 20 & 41, 306-279-4325, Tarnopol, SK.

WAT E R T R E AT M E N T for the whole house to commercial units, hot tubs and pools. Over 50 years experience. No salt, chemicals or chlorine. 99% pure, 100% satisfaction or your money back. Also offering WWQ ionizers and portable ultra-sonic 2- 7.10/70R38 used tires, 60% tread, $550 flow meters. Contact Bob 403-620-4038, each. Call 306-395-2668, 306-681-7610, Prairies Water, High River, AB. Chaplin, SK. GOOD USED TRUCK TIRES: 700/8.25/ NEW TO CANADA, Ecosmarte/Advanced 900/1000/1100x20s; 11R22.5/11R24.5; pure water. Guarantee 99% pure, no salts, 9R17.5, matched sets available. Pricing chemicals, or chlorine. Good for residenfrom $90. K&L Equipment and Auto. tial, farm and town systems, hot tubs and Phone Ladimer at: 306-795-7779, Ituna, swimming pools. Phone 306-867-9461, Outlook, SK. Dealer inquiries. SK., or Chris at: 306-537-2027, Regina, SK. CLAMP ON DUALS 20.8 x 38 Titans in very good condâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;n, adapts to 30.5x32 inside rims, w/ adapters & hardware. $5,250. Trades welcome. Financing available. 1-800-667-4515. www.combineworld.com

STAUBER DRILLING INC. Water well drilling and servicing, Geotechnical, Environmental, Geothermal. Professional service since 1959. Call the experts at 1-800-919-9211 info@stauberdrilling.com NEW 20.8-38 12 PLY $765; 16.9-30 12 ply, $595; 18.4-38 12 ply, $789; 24.5- 32 14 ply, $1,495; 14.9-24 12 ply, $486; 16.9-28 12 ply, $558. Factory direct. More sizes available, new and used. 1-800-667-4515, www.combineworld.com

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U-DRIVE TRACTOR TRAILER Training, 25 years experience. Day, 1 and 2 week upgrading programs for Class 1A, 3A and air brakes. One on one driving instructions. FAMILY RUN GRAIN farm in Lipton, SK area, is hiring for a full-time position. 306-786-6600, Yorkton, SK. Wanted, an experienced individual with 1A license and farming background. Must be able to work with large, modern equipment. Housing available. Wage based on ONE STOP SERVICES, an Employment and experience. Start date: April 2014. Call Immigration company, looks for a Crush- 306-675-5703 or email tltlutz@sasktel.net ing Foreman for MOCON. Full-time, 2 yrs. at $28.07/hr. High school grad, 5 years FARM HELP WANTED: Two positions experience as Crushing Foreman in gravel available for general farm work, Alsask, industry, supervising work of crushers, SK. Class 1 license needed, training posheavy equipment operators and mechan- sible. Wages negotiable depending on exics, improving work productivity, honest, perience. Call 403-664-9878 or send your accountable. Involves camp work, physi- resume to: heathermundt@gmail.com cally fit, good English, own transportation. Fax resume to 306-649-2553, Martensville, CATTLE RANCH LABOURERS wanted for SK. or annie@onestopltd.ca Tyvan, SK. Temporary, full time. Duties include: feeding and tending to livestock; operating and maintaining farm equipment; cleaning stables and pens and detecting disease and health problems in SENIOR GENTLEMAN, WIDOWED, country livestock. Experience and qualifications reman, semi retired has beautiful home in quired. 3 vacancies at $16.60/hr. All appliRed Deer. Desires to locate a lady to keep cations to: youngslandc@gmail.com house, yard, cook, be friendly, neat and be a companion. All expenses paid to an hon- LARGE GRAIN FARM hiring experienced est, sincere and trustworthy person. Be in- staff for equipment operation and mainteterested to travel. Describe your past his- nance; to assist in seeding, spraying, hartory and future desires. Send return phone vesting and handling of crops. Class 1 lino. and hand written letter to: Gentleman, cense preferred. $20/hour based on Box 28083 Highland Green, Red Deer, AB., experience. Offering housing and benefit T4N 7C8. program, suitable for individual, couple or family. Fax resume, references and driver’s abstract to Nobbs farm at 780-353-2885 or biggrainfarm@gmail.com Bonanza, AB. FULL-TIME AND SEASONAL help needed in operating a large modern grain farm. Pref- MARDELL FARMS LTD., a large, modern erence given to experience as a Mechanic’s grain farm operation, located at Snowden, helper and Class 1 driver’s license an as- Hoey, Aberdeen and Colonsay SK, is curset. Wages based on experience, range rently seeking Seasonal Farm Labour$12-20/hr. but not limited to. Housing ers/Equipment Operators for the 2014 available. Galvin Farms Ltd., Virden, MB., cropping season. Duties may include: O p eration and maintenance of equipment; 204-748-8332, john@galvinfarms.com Regular maintenance of farm yards, buildGUEST RANCH ASST. Manager required, ings, etc; Construction of farm buildings; MB. Need credentials, experience skills in General day to day tasks for operations of web marketing, organizing and conducting the farm and farm camp; Other duties as horse tours into RMNP, First Aid, horse they arise. Requirements: Excellent compacking and trail guiding. Demonstrated munication skills; Extensive farm experiskills in horse training, feed resource man- ence with modern machinery; Mechanicalagement, fence, field, gear and vehicle ly inclined; Energetic; Self-motivated; maintenance, computer records. Bilingual Work independently and/or in a team atan asset. Wages negotiable. Email resume mosphere; Willing to work long hours when necessary; Valid driver’s license to: ashuster@frontiersd.mb.ca mandatory w/clean driver’s abstract; Class WANTED FULL-TIME FARM worker for 1A an asset. Employment Details: Room large semi-remote NE BC ranch. Must be and board avail.; Salary $3200-$5000/mo. able to work flexible hours under various based on experience; Work commences weather and environmental conditions. April 1 - October 31, 2014. Seeding and/or Strong mechanical aptitude is required for harvest only positions also available. Email operating equipment, repair and mainte- detailed resumes to Mardel Farms Ltd at: nance. Wages are $15.50/hr. and housing mardellfarmsltd@sasktel.net is available. For more information, or to CERTIFIED ORGANIC MIXED FARM in apply, email: cfl@pris.ca Fort St. John, BC. the north Okanagan, with beef, sheep, and FARM HELP REQUIRED for grain farm in dairy, hay, irrigation looking for experiEatonia, SK. area. Must be able to operate enced farm help. Duties in all areas of the all types of equipment and work indepen- farm. $40,000 per year. Housing available. dently. 1A and high clearance sprayer ex- Meat allowance. Apply with references to: perience preferred. Email resume and ref- valefarms@telus.net Fax 250-547-6080, erences to gguidinger@hotmail.com or call 250-547-2382, Lumby, BC. fax Greg at 306-967-2380. THE PATRICIA GRAZING Association, PaPINHORN GRAZING ASSOCIATION re- tricia, AB. now accepting applications for a quires a full-time rider/manager for the Lease Rider for the 2014 season and be2014 season. To begin immediately. For yond. Please send resumes before Feb 1, info. call 403-647-2284 or 403-867-3166, 2014 to Nanette, at: nanettew@telus.net Call 403-378-4855 for more information. Manyberries, AB, area.

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WANTED: FARM LABOURERS able to run farm equipment on cattle/grain farm. F u l l - t i m e wo r k ava i l a b l e . C a l l M i ke 306-469-7741, Big River, SK. MACHINERY OPERATOR NEEDED for our farm, full or part-time. Must have some operator and basic mechanical skills. Wages dependant upon level of experience. Phone 306-642-5806, Assiniboia, SK.

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HICK O RY CO RN ER FARM S Hicko ry Co rn erFa rm sisa fo u rth gen era tio n m ixed fa m ily fa rm . O u rphilo so phy isto co m bin e o u r stro n g w o rk ethic,ed u ca tio n a n d experien ce fro m bo th reta ila n d resea rch levelsto m a xim ize o n the la test o ppo rtu n itiesin techn o lo gy a n d pro d u cts.W e a re d ed ica ted to the gro w th o fo u rfa rm bu sin ess a n d o u rpeo ple to en su re lo n gterm su ccess.

Gen era lFa rm La bou rer W e a re cu rren tly recru itin g fo ra Fu llTim e Fa rm La bo u rer.The su ccessfu lca n d id a te w illbe in vo lved in a llfa rm in g pra ctices fro m seed in g a n d ha rvestin g to eq u ipm en t m a in ten a n ce w ith em pha siso n ha u lin g gra in a n d ca ttle.Cla ss1A licen se ispreferred , bu t n o t req u ired a slo n g a syo u w o u ld be in terested in o bta in in g o n e.Ifin terested plea se feelfree to ca llTylerto d iscu sssa la ry a n d ben efits. Plea se su bm it you rresu m e or requ est a n Em ploym en t Applica tion : Tyler Ha n la n Bo x 264,Briercrest,S K ,S 0H 0K 0 Em a il: hicko ryco rn erfa rm s@ sa sktel.n et Pho n e:(306)799-2006, Fa x(306)799-2060 GRAIN FARM SUPERVISOR required on Hartman Farms, Elrose SK. Send resume with 3 references to: Box 568, Elrose, SK, S0L 0Z0. Email sales@khartindustries.com Full-time experienced. Co-ordinating workers, grain operations, production records, work schedules. 75% duties: planting, harvesting, spraying and equip. maintenance. 25% at K- Hart Industries in winter. Duties: basic welding, fabrication and assembly. Work hours: 8 hrs/day, 40 hrs/week, Cdn $22-$24/hr. See www.khartindustries.com

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vis it: w w w .a b e rh a rtfa rm s .ca LARGE MIXED FARM near Chauvin, AB. w/newer equipment, looking for full-time farm workers. Must have proof of valid driver’s license. Housing is available. Email resume: schopferfarms@gmail.com or call 780-842-8330 for more info. HELP WANTED ON MIXED FARM: Some cattle experience an asset. New shop for anyone mechanically inclined. Driver’s licence a must, 1A an asset. Must be willing to do manual labour and operate and maintain equipment. Paynton, SK. Send resume to: buggfarms@hotmail.com Ph/fax 306-895-4601. BEEKEEPER’S HELPERS (5), for the 2014 season May to Oct, $12-$15/hr depending on experience. Contact Ron Althouse, 306-278-2747, Porcupine Plain, SK. PERSON REQUIRED TO work with farm management on an irrigation farm located in the east Saskatoon, SK. area. Operating knowledge of seeding and harvesting equipment mandatory, 1A an asset, fulltime year round employment available. Reply to timmermanj@yahoo.com SWINE HERDSPERSON, full-time permanent position at Sunderland Hog Farms Partnership. Duties: supervise breeding programs, perform farm duties, formulate feeding program, recognize and treat certain hog’s health problems, supervise farm operations, develop work schedules and establish procedures, maintain quality control and production records, maintain hog performance records, train workers. Benefits: clothing for inside work at our barns and boots. Requirements: Grade 12. 3 yrs. experience or post secondary certificate. Extended work hours as needed, evening/early mornings or weekend. $14.68 to $17/hr, 40 hrs/week. Send resume to Sunderland Hog Farm Partnership c/o Dale Sunderland, Box 160, Paradise Valley, AB., T0B 3R0. Fax 780-745-2888, email dale.sunderland@hotmail.com

HELP WANTED FOR 1800 acre grain farm, CUSTOM HARVEST HELP wanted for 2014 April 15 to Oct. 31. $12-$18/hr, depending USA harvest. Combine and truck drivers on experience. 306-335-2777, Abernethy. needed as well as grain cart operators. Must have clean driving record. Full room and board provided plus wages. Fill out application www.carlsonharvesting.com Goodridge, MN. FEED LO T FARM MANAGERS/ SUPERVISORS with post secondary diploma or university equivalent (NOC Code 8251). Three fulltime permanent positions on larger grain farm, Terrador Farms Inc., near Oxbow, SK Duties include: planting, fertilizing, spraying and harvesting crops as well operating, maintaining all farm machinery, supervising and training farm employees. Wages $3600/mos. Fax resumes: 306-483-2776. Mail: Box 368, Oxbow, SK. S0C 2B0. Email: terrador.farms@sasktel.net Call Gerry at 306-483-7829 for more info. HELP NEEDED TO calve 130 cows, starting March 1st, room and board available. 403-652-7253, High River, AB. WANTED YEAR AROUND experienced Farm Ranch Help. Class 1 license an asset. Must be non-smoker. Living accommodations provided. Aden, AB. Call Gary 403-647-7853 or Bill 403-647-4761. 800 HEAD RANCH immediately requires Cowboys with calving experience, also for range riding in summer. Farm Laborers in spring for irrigation and machine operation. Drivers license preferred. Housing available for both. References required. Email: fordpj5@xplornet.ca or phone/fax: 250-453-2550, Ashcroft, BC.

P ERS O N N EL REQ UIRED Rid ers , Pro ces s o rs , Feed Crew , M a in ten a n ce/Equ ipm en t Crew Opera tio n n ea r Acm e, AB. Ba ck g rou n d in beefca ttle & k n ow led g e ofva ccin es p referred a lthou g h w illin g to tra in . Com p etitive W a g es & Ben efits . S u b m itresu m e w ith referen ces to resu m es@ highw ay21grou p .com F ax 403 546- 3709

FARM FOREMAN: ONE full time permanent position available at K5 River Ranch in Canora, SK. Must be able to carry out all operations and procedures for mixed grain and cattle farm. Organize and carry out maintenance schedules, general farm duties, operate equipment and supervise workers. 1-2 yrs related experience required. Class A1 licence an asset. Wages $15.50 to $25.00/hour, depending on experience. E-mail cover letter and resume to: kraynickfarms@hotmail.com or fax to: 306-563-4220. FARM MANAGER/ LABOURER for our 4000 acre contemporary grain farm with current equipment. We are looking for a self-motivated experienced person to run our farm. Experienced in all farm activities including seeding, spraying, harvesting, etc., as required. Mechanical aptitude and welding skills considered assets. Applicant should have good communication skills and be able to manage one or more employees. Valid driver’s license is required. Nine hour days, except variations dictated by season, and weather, or job timeliness. Weekends off except when the farm work dictates otherwise. Position can be full-time or seasonal, negotiable. Wages $20-$30/hr. We would consider, for the right employee, help in getting started farming or a co-farming arrangement. Contact Stan or Donna Yaskiw, Birtle, MB., 204-796-1400 or 204-842-5252.

PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT Opportunity on large family owned grain farm with large modern equipment. Duties include all aspects of farming. Experience and Class 1A an asset or willing to obtain. Separate yard with house, company vehicle, benefits and competitive salary. Families welcome. Call 306-293-2714 or fax 306-293-2715, kaliciakfarms@sasktel.net Bracken, SK. KEJA FARMS IS looking for individual or family interested in relocating to work on large South Sask farm with small fabricating business. You will be operating red and blue new line of equipment w/ a big new shop to work in. We have brand new housing on-site for year round employees. Wages will vary upon experience. Call Jason 306-642-3315, Assiniboia, SK.

ALL CANADIAN GRAIN, INC. Lafleche, SK. is seeking a full-time equipment operator in South West Sask. Duties include organizing and performing maintenance tasks, hauling inventory, and all tasks relevant to seeding, spraying, and harvest operations. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated team player capable of working independently. A valid driver’s license is required, a Class 1A license is an asset. Training will be provided along with medical benefits and holiday time. Starting FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER HELP. wage $20/hr. Email resume and referencApplicants should have previous farm ex- es to: shawn@allcanadiangrain.com perience and mechanical ability. Duties incl. operation of machinery, including 4 CONSTRUCTION LABOURERS needed. tractors, truck driving and other farm Full-time year round work. Position startequipment, as well as general farm laborer ing April 1, 2014, $16-$20/per hour. Some duties. $12-$18/hr. depending on experi- experience as construction labourer, e n c e . C o n t a c t W a d e F e l a n d a t ability to speak Greek is an asset. Must be able to provide clean drug and alcohol test 701-263-1300, Antler, North Dakota. results, must be bondable and not afraid AARTS ACRES, 2500 sow barn near Sols- of heights. Apply at Royal Exteriors Inc., girth, MB is seeking experienced Breeding 103-202 Reindeer Road, Saskatoon, SK. and Farrowing Technicians. The successful S7K 4W8, or fax 306-974-4943, or email applicant must possess necessary skills, an royal_exteriors@mail.com aptitude for the care and handling of animals, good communication skills and FULL-TIME SALES POSITION: ACE is lookability to work as part of a highly producing for individuals interested in selling and tive team. Fax resume to: 204-842-3273. managing vegetation control projects for or call 204-842-3231 for application form. our clients across western Canada. Assets include: strong interpersonal skills, sense FULL-TIME PERMANENT FOREMAN posi- of humour and ability to communicate. tion on 10,000 acre grain farm in Lamp- Service is key to this position. Email your man, SK. Must be willing to work long hrs resume to: acemail@acevegetation.com during seeding, spraying and harvesting or fax: 780-955-9426, Nisku, AB. seasons. Successful applicant should have: Class 1A license w/clean abstract; Farm LINCOLN GARDENS SEASONAL vegetable management education including basic farm located in Lumsden, SK. is seeking 8 Agronomy and Farm Apprenticeship train- seasonal field labourers starting May 1, ing; Experience operating modern JD 2014. Must have valid drivers license, be equipment w/ability to program and oper- reliable and physically fit. Duties include: ate John Deere’s AMS technology. Other Planting, weeding and harvesting vegetaduties include: Hiring, training and manag- ble crops. Sort, wash, weigh and pack ing farm employees; Maintenance of all vegetables. Hand move irrigation pipes. 50 farm equipment; All crop spraying opera- to 60 hrs/week, must be available weektions and coordinating swathing and har- ends. Starting wage is $10.08/hr. Send revest operations, $3600/month. Phone Ole sume with references to: Lincoln Gardens, Michaelsen at 306-487-7816 or fax: Box 750, Lumsden, SK., S0G 3C0. 306-487-2770, Michaelsen Farms Ltd., Box 291, Lampman, SK., S0P 1N0. CAMPGROUND STAFF NEEDED for April 15, 2014. Best suits couples for general LARGE CATTLE RANCH in Southern Alberta campground duties. For job description requires a full-time year round hand. visit www.dicksonleisuregrounds.com or Must be experienced at moving cattle on call 403-227-2941, Red Deer, AB. horseback and able to work with others. Requires own tack and horses. The job en- DAIRY, BEEF, CROP, hog and sheep farms tails feeding cattle in the winter, haying in in Europe, United Kingdom, Australia, New the summer and riding horses to move Zealand, and Japan are looking for help! cattle the rest of the year. Resume and AgriVenture arranges host/employer, work references required. Call 403-344-2205 or permit, insurance, airfare and support. 403-344-4333, Milk River, AB. or contact Young adults 18-30 with interests in agrimilkrivercattle@rossranch.ca culture/horticulture are urged to apply. www.agriventure.com 1-888-598-4415. GENERAL FARM LABOURER for our 4000 acre contemporary grain farm BEAR TRAP FEEDERS, Nanton, AB. is curw/current equipment. We are looking for rently looking for a part-time feed truck a self-motivated experienced Farm Labour- driver and full-time feedlot worker. er. Experience in all farm activities includ- Please email resume with references to: ing driving trucks, tractors and using farm btrapfeeders@platinum.ca equipment an asset. Other duties would be: machinery and building maintenance, GC JENSEN ACRES INC. seeking multiple yard and farm work. Must be able to work general farm workers to assist with seedwith limited supervision. Would be willing ing and harvest operations near Milden, to train. Valid drivers license is required. SK. Duties include: operating machinery, Position can be full-time or seasonal, ne- maintenance, yardwork. Minimum hours gotiable. 8 hours a day unless dictated by 8AM - 5PM, Monday - Friday, April - Oct. the season or weather. Some weekend Starting $15/hr. plus accomm. Must be work is required. Wages $17-$21/hr. de- able to work well and communicate with pending on experience and ability. Contact others. Farm experience an asset. Call S t a n o r D o n n a Ya s k i w, B i r t l e , M B . 306-935-4523, fax resume: 306-935-2201, 204-796-1400, 204-842-5252. Box 10, Milden, SK. S0L 2L0.

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FULL-TIME BOOKKEEPER. Bookkeeping duties including accounts payable and receivables, payroll and general journal monthly entries. Experience with Microsoft Office and familiar with Sage 50 Accounting. Experience in agriculture an asset. Salary depending on qualifications and experience. Accommodations provided. Fax resume to: 250-459-2624, Attn Larry, email: admin@gangranch.infosathse.com Gang Ranch, BC.

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PARTS PERSO N . Agricu ltu ra lBa ckgro u n d a n d Co m pu terExperien ce W o u ld Be An Asset. Fu ll-Tim e Po sitio n , $15 to $20 per ho u r.Ben efits,(a fter6 m o n th perio d ).

Plea se Fo rw a rd Resu m es to M a rc a t G ra tto n Co u lee Agri Pa rts Ltd ., B o x 4 1,Irm a ,AB T0B 2H 0 o r S en d Fa x to 780-75 4 -2333.

DIDSBURY SPRUCE FARMS: Seeking two full-time permanent farm supervisors. Near Disbury, AB. Must have experience in agriculture and horticulture. Must be able to operate and service equipment. Capable of supervising and working well with others. Required to have experience in tree care tree harvesting and landscaping. Will be required to perform all general farm duties. Wages $13.50/hr. For inquiries contact Brett at: 403-586-8733, fax: 403-335-4423, RR #2, Site 11, Box 2, D i d s b u r y, A B . T 0 M 0 W 0 . e m a i l : brett@didsbury sprucefarms.com

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10 PERMANENT FULL-TIME POSITIONS available at County Fresh Farms Greenhouses in Cypress County, AB. Job includes daily picking and pruning of vegetable plants. Work is in a greenhouse environment with some lifting required. $10.03/hr. for 40-50 hrs./wk., may vary according to crop cycles, no experience required, must have transportation. Email: countyfreshfarms@hotmail.com GENERAL LABOURERS. The RM of Longlaketon No. 219 invites applications for the position of seasonal full-time general labourers for the 2014 season. The successful applicant(s) must hold a valid driver’s license. Duties include but are not limited to: mowing, road maintenance, equipment repairs, installing culverts and signs, shop work and other duties. Submit resume stating experience, expected salary and 2 references to: RM of Longlaketon No. 219, Box 100, Earl Grey, SK., S0G 1J0. Email rm219@sasktel.net by January 31, 2014. BEEKEEPERS WANTED for 2014 season. 2 positions available, experience necessary, $11.35/hr. Fax 306-937-2095 or email Stuart, Stuhoney@yahoo.com Battleford. 6 PERMANENT FULL-TIME Positions available at Rolling Acres Greenhouses in Medicine Hat, AB. Job includes daily picking and pruning of vegetable plants. Work is in a greenhouse environment with some lifting required. $10.03/hour, 40-50 hrs/ week, may vary according to crop cycles. No experience required. Must have transportation. acramer@canopycanada.net

ASSISTANT PARTS MANAGER wanted for multi-store New Holland dealer. Journeyman preferred, but experience will also be considered. Benefits, RRSP package, moving allowance, and signing bonus. $22 t o $ 2 8 p e r h o u r. E m a i l r e s u m e t o parts.triag@telus.net Wainwright, AB.

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NELSON MOTORS & EQUIPMENT LTD. 2 full-time Heavy Equipment Ag Mechanics required. Duties: repair, overhaul, troubleshoot and maintain JD heavy duty agricultural equipment; Use testing equipment to diagnose malfunctions and determine extent of repair required; Test repaired equipment to ensure compliance with JD specifications. Salary: $27-$29/hr. Education: Completion of Secondary School; Experience: Minimum 4 years of experience. Qualified candidates would be assigned to one of the branches listed: Estevan, Redvers, Oxbow, Avonlea, Radville. To apply send resume by email, fax or mail to: P.O. Box 300, Avonlea, SK. S0H 0C0. Contact Ken at fax: 306-868-4840 or by email to: service@nelsonmotors.com

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P&K FARM TRUCKING requires company drivers and lease operators to pull Super B grain trailers. Competitive wages and benefits. Send resume and drivers abstract to pkstrucking@gmail.com Fax: 306-957-0003. 306-537-8457, Odessa, SK RWB RANCH IS LOOKING for full-time Class 1 Drivers and Lease Operators to haul livestock and hogs to and from SK, MB, AB, BC and USA. Year-round work. Experience required, paying top wages, new equipment, benefits and safety bonuses. 403-625-4658, Claresholm, AB.

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AUTOMOTIVE MECHANIC WANTED, permanent full-time position. Located in Carnduff, SK. Journeyman, second or third year apprentice. Offer competitive wages. For info call Lee 306-482-3827, or email HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC, experienced in resume to goertzfarms@sasktel.net hydraulics, diesel engines, prime movers, tracked vehicles, as well as spray equipment. This is an opportunity for field and shop work. Please send resume by email to: acemail@acevegetation.com or by fax: 780-955-9426 or send by mail to: ACE, 2001- 8 St. Nisku, AB. T9E 7Z1.

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Lloydminster, AB Requires 5 Service Rig Derrick Hands @ $29.50/hr – 40 hrs/wk and 12 Service Rig Floor Hands @ $27.00/hr – 40 hrs/wk, for work in the Lloydminster area.

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2 - FEED SALE REPRESENTATIVES 1 - Based out of Saskatoon, SK. 1 - Based out of Red Deer, AB. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: • Maintain current business, while prospecting and developing new opportunities through the marketing of our products to the livestock industry. • Work closely with producers providing information that will assist them in increasing the proﬁtability of their businesses. • Build, promote and maintain positive customer relations.

Super-B Bulk Drivers We are currently looking for COMPANY DRIVERS & OWNER OPERATORS. Working in our Ray’s Transport Fleet, these drivers will be hauling grain, fertilizer and livestock feed throughout the Sask, Manitoba and Alberta. This position offers a very busy, year-round employment opportunity! All applicants must have a valid Class 1A license with a clean driver abstract. All applicants must also have at least 2 years driving experience with past SuperB grain / fertilizer being a definite asset. If you are interested in these opportunities, you can contact Eddy at 306-651-4837 for more information OR Apply by sending resume (along with references) to: hr@qlinetrucking.com or fax 306-242-9470 CAL GAS IS seeking full-time or seasonal drivers for propane delivery and a picker operator in the oilfield, Kerrobert, SK. area. Prefer 1A license, will consider Class 3A. All oilfield tickets, H2S, First Aid, Dangerous Good etc. are also required. We offer competitive wages and comprehensive health plan. Send resume to: Gerald Heimbecker at: gheimbecker@calgasinc.com fax 306-834-5501, phone 306-834-7793.

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SCOOP LAKE OUTFITTERS is hiring Sheep/Elk Guides for our season. We operate in NE BC in Region 751/52. Applicant must be comfortable in a remote location (100 air miles from town) for 3 months. Must have guiding experience for Please fax resume to sheep and elk. Horse experience an asset. 780-871-6908 Successful applicant should have experior email: ence with international clients, outdoor royalwel@telus.net cooking skills and wilderness living. Good communication skills and working as a team essential. Wages are based on experience and meet current industry standards. Due to our remote location room and board is supplied. Please email resume to info@scooplake.com Watson AGGRESSIVE SALES PERSON required immediately. AGSI Dekoda has an exceptionLake, YT. al sales opportunity for a person who is looking for a long term sales role in South Eastern Alberta, operating a satellite location focused on seed, chemical, and fertilizer sales. Existing operation is running well and has phenomenal growth posIs a pro gre s s ive , e xpa n d in g sibilities thus we are looking for the right person to work with existing partners and a gric u ltu ra l s a lva ge pa rts capitalize on these obvious growth opporc o m pa n y s pe c ia lizin g in la te tunities. Option to purchase part of the m o d e l tra c to r a n d c o m b in e pa rts business in the near future is a strong possibility for the successful candidate. This a n d lo c a te d a tIrm a , Alb e rta . role is full time. Skills needed: Driven by passion to meet or exceed customer reW e a re looking for quirements to provide profitable solutions; ambitious to obtain new clientele and expand established business relationships; knowledgeable in dry and liquid fertilizer and crop protection products; experience with sale of seed, seed nutrients and seed cleaning procedures will be beneficial. (4 va ca n cies ) During peak periods will be required to asPerm a n en t, fu ll tim e p o s itio n s -44 hrs sist operational staff at the location. Thrive p er w eek. S a la ry $19.25 to $20.00/hr. in a fast paced environment and respond to change as it takes place. Experience: Va lid d rivers licen s e. 2-5 years sales experience in the agricultuPrevio u s exp erien ce a n a s s et. ral industry. Proven ability to provide sound agronomic advice and solutions. To a pply fo r a po s itio n w ith u s , Competitive wages and benefit package plea s e e-m a il res u m e to : available. Dekoda, AB. Submit resume to: humanresources@agsiag.com m a rc@ gcpa rts .co m o r s en d

LONG HAUL SEMI Drivers and Owner Operators required to haul RVs and general freight. Drivers paid 40¢/running mile and pick/drop/border. Owner Operators paid 85% of gross revenue. Benefits, company fuel cards and subsidized insurance. Must have valid passport and ability to cross border. Call Jeremy at 1-800-867-6233, Saskatoon, SK. www.roadexservices.com

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SASKATOON HOTSHOT TRANSPORTER is hiring power units w/wo stepdecks 3/4 and 1 tons, for RV and Freight hauling throughout Canada and the U.S. Year round work, lots of miles and home time, fuel subsidies, benefits, excellent earnings. 306-653-8675, Saskatoon, SK. Website www.saskatoonhotshot.com

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The Manitoba Pulse Growers Association Inc. (MPGA) is seeking an energetic, self-motivated, organized individual for a twelve (12) month Director of Communications & Member Relations term position based in Carman, MB. Major job areas and responsibilities include initiating, developing and executing all communication and member relation activities, with a focus on showing MPGA members value through print materials, events, website, market development opportunities and more.

PARKLAND (ALBERTA) COMMODITIES is a growing grain export company looking for someone to fill a full time labourer position at its Bashaw/Warden locations. Duties will include but not limited to shipping/receiving of product. If interested forward resume by fax to 780-372-4190 or by email Attn: Rob, robm@wagrain.ca or Travis, bashawpro@xplornet.com

ABOVE AVERAGE WAGE opportunity to operate you own business. Be your own boss representing, Lifetime Cookware, kitchen products. Consider a rewarding and exciting commission based career with Lifetime (Since 1909). Complete training will be provided. Serious persons only apply please. Mail resume to: Brian Kakuk, PO Box 2378, Drumheller, AB. T0J 0Y0. Or e-mail to: bmkakuk@hotmail.com Contact Brian for additional information 403-820-2789.

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter; possess strong communication, creative and interpersonal skills; and have the ability to incorporate brand imaging across an array of projects. Knowledge of agriculture and the pulse industry is an asset.

PRIME MOVER/MULCHER Operators Ace Vegetation is hiring Mulcher, HydroAx and Posi-Track operators. Class 1 license an asset. For details 780-955-8980. Send resume to: ACE at 2001 - 8th St., Nisku, AB., T9E 7Z1, fax: 780-955-9426 or email: acemail@acevegetation.com

MANITOBA CASE IH DEALER HIRING: Ag Equipment Sales Reps: Elie/Portage la Prairie; GPS Representative: Portage la Prairie; Ag/Heavy Duty Techs: Neepawa/Steinbach. Full details at: www.chabotimplements.ca/careers

For a more detailed job description, further information or to submit a resume, contact Sandy Robinson at (204) 745-6488, fax (204) 745-6213 or e-mail sandy@manitobapulse.ca. Application deadline is January 31, 2014.

CO M P AN Y D RIV ERS S W AM P ERS O W N ER O P ERATO RS Q u alifications requ ired: • Drivers m u s tp os s es s a va lid Cla s s 1 or3 licen s e w ith a iren d ors em en t • S w a m p ers m u s tp os s es s a va lid Cla s s 5 licen s e • 2+ yea rs d rivin g exp erien ce • O ilfield exp erien ce is a n a s s et G ibs on En erg y ULC offers a com p etitive com p en s a tion p a ck a g e. In teres ted ca n d id a tes a re a s k ed to fa x res u m es to: 306- 48 6- 2 02 2 , orem a il to: d frob is her@gib s ons .com w w w.gib s ons .com

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It’s unlikely that more Canadian grain will be exported through the United States this year, says a grain transportation expert. Growers are frustrated with the lack of grain movement off their farms, and some have suggested in online agriculture discussion forums that Canadian shippers should be using U.S. rail lines and export terminals to get grain to market. Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corp., the government appointed monitor of Canada’s prairie grain handling and transportation system, said a miniscule” amount of Canadian grain is shipped through the U.S., and that is unlikely to change. “First and foremost is logistically it costs more,” he said. The grain has to be shipped to the U.S. by a Canadian railway and then transferred to a U.S. railway to get to a port in the Pacific Northwest. As a result, grain has to travel on two railways instead of one and has further to go to reach port. There are also additional ocean vessel costs. For instance, a ship picking up grain at the Port of Portland, Oregon, has to first be piloted down the Columbia River. “Now you’ve got a day and a half worth of pilotage as opposed to three hours in Vancouver,” said Hemmes. Vessel loading times at Vancouver are slightly better than those at Portland, but rail car unloading can be more efficient in the U.S. Four of the grain terminals that operate in the Pacific Northwest feature a rail loop track unloading system, which allows for simultaneous unloading of four or five rail cars at once. Most terminals in Vancouver can unload only two cars at a time. The U.S. terminals can unload a train in about eight hours compared to 12 hours in Vancouver. However, Hemmes said overall it’s not even a close competition. “From an economics point of view and an efficiency point of view, the first choice is always going to be to move it to a Canadian port,” he said. “This is not national pride or anything, it is statistically proven that we’ve got a better system.” Quorum doesn’t track how much Canadian grain moves south for export, but Hemmes estimates it is maybe one train a week compared to the 40 or 50 that arrive every week at Canada’s three main ports. There has been lots of talk about the increasing role of shuttle trains south of the border. They are trains of 75 or more cars that move quickly back and forth from elevator to port. They cycle 2.5 to three times for every cycle of a non-shuttle train car. The percentage of rail-hauled grain

and oilseeds moved by shuttle trains increased to 49.5 percent in 2011 from 12.9 percent in 1994, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “The efficiency of shuttle trains benefits both the railroad and agricultural producers fortunate enough to be near shuttle-loading elevators,” said the USDA in an August 2013 report on shuttle train movement. Hemmes said shuttle trains are referred to as unit trains in Canada, where the same trends are occurring. Seventy-seven percent of the grain that moves by rail in Canada is

shipped in units of 50 or more cars. The average turnaround time for a rail car has fallen to less than 15 days from 22 days when Quorum first started tracking statistics in 1999-2000. “We’ve seen really good improvement in the efficiencies of the railways,” he said. Farmers have not necessarily been the beneficiaries of those efficiencies. Railways have decreased capital investments because more efficient car use means fewer are required. Some Canadian farmers look with envy at the U.S. grain handling sys-

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tem, but Hemmes is reluctant to compare the two because they are different markets. “In Canada you have seen a lot of investment in on-farm storage, and in most market conditions it really provides an advantage to the producer,” he said. This is not one of those years because grain prices are falling and elevators aren’t buying grain because the system is plugged. CWB had a big influence on Canada’s grain handling system when it operated under the single desk,

while the U.S. system was shaped in the 1940s and 1950s by government incentives that encouraged grain companies to build plenty of storage, buy grain from farmers and then hold it and hedge it. Another major difference is that Canada exports far more of its grain than does the U.S. “ There’s so many differences between those markets that to compare one to the other and say that it makes more sense to follow the U.S. model, I wouldn’t subscribe to that,” said Hemmes.

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The City of Medicine Hat and LGX Oil and Gas Inc. are challenging a federal emergency order designed to preserve Alberta and Saskatchewan’s dwindling sage grouse population. An application was filed Jan. 3 that seeks judicial review of the order, which would restrict activity, noise and building in a 1,700 sq. kilometre region of southeastern Alberta where as few as 50 sage grouse live. The matter appears to be developing as a classic case of energy development in conflict with environmental concerns. “The main reason behind it is to buy some time so that we can talk to the federal government,” said Medicine Hat councillor Bill Cocks, who chairs the city’s energy committee. “The order was imposed without any consultation with the city or LGX Oil and Gas, who is our partner in the lawsuit. We’ve been operating this oil field for about two years now.” Cocks said the emergency order, which was announced late last year and will go into effect Feb. 18, caught the city off guard. The city has been working with Alberta Environment to mitigate effects on sage grouse, he added, but the federal emergency order includes “very drastic measures” that would prohibit operation of oil wells at certain times of year. Oil revenues are part of the city’s budget. “It left us in an almost impossible situation,” Cocks said. “We’re not here to operate this oil field come hell or high water. We want to work with the department of environment to try and protect the species. If their advice simply is, ‘you can’t operate at all,’ … which we’re saying it is the effect of their order, then we’re going to be looking to some sor t of compensation because we’ve got a big investment here and we’re counting on certain income stream to come from this oil field.” Cliff Wallis, vice-president of the Alberta Wilderness Association, said the city and LGX should have expected changes. “They should have been clear-eyed in their purchase,” he said. “Both companies have purchased their assets in the last couple of years and the problem with sage grouse and many other species at risk has been known for decades, so to think that there wouldn’t be any further restrictions shows that they didn’t do their due diligence.” The emergenc y order affects ranchland in the region. Though it imposes few restrictions on fencing and structures, it does call for reduced grazing on federal and provincial crown land. “The ranching is not the problem,” said Wallis. “There may be some tweaking that we can do with the ranchers and we’re exploring those kinds of possibilities.” Wallis said most but not all ranchers in the region approve of the emergency order, a comment supported by Cocks and Western Stock Growers Association president Aaron Brower. “That’s kind of a conflicted little

A federal order to protect sage grouse populations in Alberta and Saskatchewan has been challenged in court by the oil and gas industry. | FILE PHOTO issue,” Brower said of the order and the application for implementation delay. “I think the next thing endangered on the list might be the landowner and the rancher.” Brower said the order is likely to harm some ranching operations and reduce economic activity in the region. He suggested it is a harbinger of greater restrictions. “Once they put an order in on the crown land, it’s just going to be a matter of time before they do everything else. I don’t think it’s a good thing.” Brower said sage grouse are still hunted in some U.S. states, and southeastern Alberta is the northern tip of their range. Ranching and energy extraction are not the only pressures affecting bird numbers, he added. “The sage grouse, they come and go,” he said. “When the numbers down across the line get lots, then they move up here, and when things down there get a little thinned out, then they move back home.” He said ranching benefits many species, including sage grouse. Cocks said a rancher told him that an increase in coyotes, cougars and raptors in the region is a major factor in reduced sage grouse numbers, possibly more significant than oil extraction activities. He said the city and LGX have followed advice from Alberta Environment to protect the grouse by curtailing activities on some well sites and minimizing surface disturbance of native plants. However, Wallis said the emergency order is essential so that sage grouse protection can proceed after years of decline. “We’ve known about the problem with sage grouse for decades and working on recovery planning and that for at least the last 10 years,” he said. “We have plans, but we didn’t have any teeth behind those plans, or any resourcing. So that’s why groups like ours took the government of Canada to court and got the emergency order.”

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SOIL PRODUCTIVITY | TESTING

Micro-organisms key ingredient in healthy soil Biological activity | Bacteria produce mucus that glues particles together BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU

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MINOT, N.D. — Speakers usually grab their audience’s attention by telling a joke, but soil scientist Jon Stika likes to open his speeches with a lump of dirt. Stika began his presentation at the

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fine, sandy loam from North Dakota. One sample came from a highly disturbed site with lots of tillage, no cover and nothing growing on it. “The other has been in sod and a diverse mixture of perennial plants, always covered … a wonderful place to live if you’re a soil microbe.” To illustrate the difference between the samples, Stika had audience volunteers drop the aggregates into separate tubes of water with steel mesh near the top to keep the lump in place. After only seconds in the water, soil from the disturbed site broke apart and the soil particles seemingly dissolved, turning the water brown. The other aggregate remained intact, with only a few particles breaking off and sinking to the bottom. Stika said the demonstration shows that micro-organisms are a key factor in soil health. An aggregate that remains whole when immersed in water indicates that the soil has a high level of biological activity. Stika said soil bacteria produce mucus, while soil fungi grow as long filaments. The outside of the filament is coated with a sticky substance. “In the process of them exploring the soil, they leave the sticky substance behind. Those are the real basic sticky substances that glue the sand, silt and clay particles together,” he said. “It’s the biology that makes the glues that holds aggregates together.” Stika said a high level of biological activity is key for healthy soil because micro-organisms cycle nutrients and establish pores that permit water infiltration. Kris Nichols, a USDA soil microbiologist in Mandan, N.D., agreed, noting the symbiotic relationship between soil organisms and plants. “It’s sometimes talked about as microbial engineering,” she said. “The microbes have engineered an environment that’s advantageous to themselves … but (also) advantageous to the plant.” Dropping a lump of soil into water is obviously less formal than a laboratory test in which scientists record

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tions,” he said. Stika also recommended another informal test to measure a key soil function: water infiltration. He said producers can start by driving a six inch tall, six-inch diameter pipe three inches into the ground. They should then take a few sips from a half litre water bottle until the water drops to the shoulder of the bottle. “What’s left is around 444 millilitres,” Stika said. “That is amount of water that will produce an inch in that six inch (pipe). You can time it. OK, it took a half hour for that inch to go down. So that’s a rate of two inches per hour…. That’s easy to do. You can do it with stuff you have laying around the farm.” By repeating the experiment, a grower can determine if the soil is becoming more permeable or not. Another simple way to measure

biological activity is to count the number of earthworms in a cubic foot of soil. “If you want to dig a cubic foot of soil, we usually say that 10 (earthworms)… that’s pretty good soil health,” Stika said. “If there’s less than that, there’s room to improve.” The smell test is another option. An earthy, sweet smell is a sign of healthy soil, while a smell like a kitchen cleanser might mean bacteria is the dominant life form in the soil. If there is no smell, the soil is either exceptionally dry or has a small population of micro-organisms. It is an effective assessment tool, but Stika said developing a nose for soil is a skill. “You almost need to have somebody who knows what they’re smelling, to say, ‘here, smell this.’ ”

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MINOT, N.D. — Jon Stika, a soil scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, says there is a bar in New Zealand where the following is written on a wall: “If we’re very nice to Mother Nature, she’ll make us some beer.” Interpreting that phrase for farmers attending the Manitoba-North Dakota Zero Tillage workshop in Minot, Stika said making beer is a biological process, and so is making healthy soil. “Both processes are totally dependent on biology. If you are going to make beer, you have to prepare a solution of sugar, water, the right of amount of oxygen … the right temperature. All these things to make a perfect habitat for the yeast … so the yeast can make beer out of it,” said Stika, who’s passionate about brewing beer. “As a brewer, we do everything to make those microbes happy…. Soil is the same way. Ninety percent of what you expect the soil to do is biological.” He said farmers and ranchers need to realize they have a responsibility for the health of the organisms in their soil. In other words, take care of the micro-organisms and they will take care of you. “You’ve got to feed them if you expect your soil to function.”

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MINOT, N.D. — There is a more scientific way to assess soil’s biological activity for growers who aren’t comfortable smelling their soil or dropping an aggregate into a jar of water. The Solvita test measures the amount of carbon dioxide that a soil sample releases. A high level of carbon dioxide respiration indicates the soil has a healthy community of micro-organisms. “It’s giving at idea of how much biological activity is there,” said Kris Nichols, a U.S. Department of Agriculture soil microbiologist in Man-

dan, North Dakota. “You’re measuring your livestock.” Nichols compared it to a room full of people, which will have more carbon dioxide than a half filled room. As a result, the carbon dioxide level measures the amount of biological activity in the room. Nichols said Solvita is similar to a litmus test. A strip of porous material, with a mix of chemicals inside, is placed in the soil. The chemicals react to the level of carbon dioxide and the colour of the strip changes. The test is colour coded, in which certain colours represent an amount of CO2 in the soil. For more information, see solvita. com/soil.

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PUBLIC HEALTH | FLU

H1N1 presence intensifies this year’s flu season Provinces running out of vaccine | Health officials didn’t know until December that H1N1 was the circulating strain BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU

Influenza is sweeping through the Prairies at what health officials say is actually normal rates. The difference this year is that H1N1 is the predominant strain, and that is causing concern. Alberta reported eight deaths associated with H1N1 as of last week, while Saskatchewan had seven and Manitoba one. This doesn’t mean H1N1 caused the deaths, but the people who died had the virus. There are also hundreds of laboratory-confirmed cases and hospitalizations in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Demand for vaccine has been making headlines, and officials have had to target recipients or close clinics because of a lack of supply. The provinces order their yearly supply six months to a year ahead of influenza season. Dr. Louise Werker, Saskatchewan’s deputy chief medical health officer, said it wasn’t until late December that it became apparent H1N1 was the circulating strain. The news put pressure on vaccine supply as people rushed to be immunized.

Werker said Jan. 10 that the province will target remaining vaccine at children younger than five, who would have no immunity, pregnant women and women who are four weeks post partum. She said 25 percent of the province’s population had been immunized, which is a normal rate, and 12,000 doses of the nasal mist vaccine, suitable for children aged two to five, were expected to arrive from Quebec this week. Others in the target group are not able to use the spray because it contains a live vaccine.

Saskatchewan also announced Jan. 13 that it had secured 9,000 more doses of vaccine injections. “We are still on the steep part of the curve from what we can tell, and we want to get people who are most at risk vaccinated as soon as possible,” she said. In Alberta, vaccine supplies ran out in all regions by Jan. 11, although some doses have been kept for children to receive boosters. Officials said that a record number of one million people had been vaccinated. Dr. James Talbot, the province’s

chief medical health officer, said all but three provinces have asked for more vaccine. “We always have vaccine left over at the end of the season, including 60,000 doses that went unused last flu season,” he said in a release. “This will be the first year that demand has been greater than supply.” Saskatchewan also typically has 30,000 doses left each year, but that has been used up. Manitoba was just beginning to see H1N1 take hold late last week, with a reported outbreak on a northern

First Nation. Werker said young children are most at risk because they have never seen the virus and have no immunity. People who have had H1N1 might have some immunity but that is highly variable, she added. H1N1 has been included in the seasonal flu vaccine since the pandemic of 2009. Officials say the best way to prevent influenza is to cover mouths and noses when coughing or sneezing, wash hands thoroughly and often, and stay home when sick.

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Ottawa is spending more than $400,000 to fund a research project that will examine gluten quality in Ontario winter wheat. Pierre Lemieux, parliamentary secretary for agriculture minister Gerry Ritz, made the funding announcement Jan. 7 in Guelph, Ont. The government is committing $422,000 to the project, which will be conducted by the Ontario Cereal Industry Research Council (OCIRC). Lemieux said the research will benefit the Ontario wheat industry by identifying traits associated with enhanced milling properties. It could open up new markets for Ontario winter wheat by identifying new products and increasing use of the crop by processors and food manufacturers. It’s also hoped that the research will spur the development of new, locally adapted winter wheat varieties that can meet buyers’ changing preferences. A new winter wheat initiative is also being launched in Western Canada, aimed at boosting production and supporting prairie farmers who want to grow the crop. Bayer CropScience, Ducks Unlimited and Richardson International set up the Western Winter Wheat Initiative on the premise that winter wheat is a valuable crop for Western Canada. The launch of the new organization was scheduled to take place Jan. 31 at the Saskatchewan Winter Cereals Development Commissions’ annual general meeting in Saskatoon.

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Seeking solutions to top layer compaction Vertical tillage, sub-soiler debated | Zero-till farmer says the Smart-Till penetrates the soil and fractures it sideways BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU

MINOT, N.D. — Dustin Williams sat down recently during the Manitoba-North Dakota Zero Tillage Farmers Association’s annual meeting to talk about a topic usually forbidden at zero till conferences. Williams, a former president of the association, bought a Smart-Till vertical tillage implement in 2012 to break up compacted soil on his farm. “I have compaction in the six inch to 10 inch (soil depth) on most of my land,” said Williams, who farms 4,200 acres near Souris, Man. “My roots are moving sideways when they get to it. In some cases, I can’t even get a sunflower root down through it. It’s pretty heavy compaction…. At a zero till conference to talk about tillage of any type is sacrilegious, to say the least, but losing money is no fun, either.” Williams said he would rather not till his land because his family has been practicing conservation tillage for more than two decades. Still, lacking solutions to his compacted soil problem, Williams felt compelled to try vertical tillage. “The problem with having a name like zero till farmers association, it kind of (corners you) into never (tilling) again,” Williams said. “How do you fix a compaction zone from six to 10 inches?” Marla Riekman, a Manitoba Agriculture land management specialist, said the Smart-Till is slightly different than other vertical tillage equipment because it cuts deeper and almost acts like a soil aerator. However, she said that while vertical tillage implements are suited for crop residue management, they will not break up compacted soil. With the exception of anecdotal evidence, she added, there is no proof that vertical till equipment will alleviate compacted soil problems. “No, nothing that I’ve seen, and nothing that a lot of researchers I’ve talked to have seen,” said Riekman, who spoke at the zero tillage workshop held in Minot Jan. 6-8. Riekman said manufacturers of vertical tillage equipment often say the implements will crack and rupture the soil below the depth of the steel, but she remains skeptical. “Because you’re cutting that two inches, that’s the fracturing I think they were originally talking about,” she said. “But it gets turned into (that) it will fracture the soil below the coulter. Say if you run it at two inches, it will fracture down to four… because it bounces along as it’s pulled through the soil and will crack it below. Is that what they are referring to?”

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Riekman said vertical tillage equipment such as coulters are better residue management tools than soil management tools. Instead of using a cultivator to break up straw, growers who want to move toward conservation tillage could use vertical tillage for that task. “Maybe it has a benefit to do a light residue management … without doing a lot of damage to the soil below it,” she said. Les Hill, program director for agricultural and bioresources with the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute, said a variety of vertical tillage implements are available, and it’s difficult to generalize. “But if they’re talking about that top layer (of soil), that’s not going to have much effect on compaction.” Hill said farmers need implements to smooth out the soil surface when the land becomes rutted from sprayer tracks and other equipment during wet years. “Last year we found the fields, after seeding when there was pretty reasonable moisture in the spring, then late in the summer there were virtually no heavy rains … the ridges were just like cement. So the top was very, very hard,” he said. “Farmers are saying they don’t want to go back to tillage, but they

More research is needed to establish the effects of vertical tillage on soil. want to level that top layer off. That’s where some of these vertical tillage machines are being advertised as vertical tillage, but they’re more like a surface prep.” Williams conducted strip trials with a sub-soiler before buying his SmartTill implement and found that it boosted canola yields by five bushels per acre. However, he said the sub-soiler used too much fuel and didn’t make

sense for his farm. Instead, he decided to go with the Smart-Till. “It reminds you of a roto-tiller, with straight tines on it,” he said. “As it rolls along it penetrates the ground with the spike and fractures it sideways a little bit, then follows behind with rolling harrows…. This was a cheaper alternative than subsoiling.” Williams said soil compaction is a significant and perhaps unrecognized problem for many growers in Manitoba. He would like to see more research on vertical tillage so that producers have more information on what it can and cannot do. “Before every farmer goes out and buys a $100,000 vertical till machine, we need to know whether it’s going to help us,” he said. Hill said PAMI isn’t researching the efficacy of vertical tillage equipment on soil compaction, but it might consider doing so if growers are interested. Riekman said Manitoba Agriculture has initiated a couple of projects on vertical tillage, but researchers are playing catch-up. “We’re getting a lot of questions (from growers),” she said. “It’s almost like we’re getting behind the times because farmers are going out and buying the equipment.” Riekman said producers who own a vertical tiller shouldn’t use it on the entire field. Instead, they should manage part of a field with vertical tillage and the other part without and then compare the results.

Tracks or tires: which causes more soil compaction? BY ROBERT ARNASON BRANDON BUREAU

“How many people believe that tracks are actually better than tires for soil compaction?” Marla Riekman, Manitoba Agriculture land’s management specialist, recently asked farmers at the ManitobaNorth Dakota Zero Tillage Farmers Association workshop in Minot, North Dakota. Riekman said Ohio State University research indicates that tires cause the same amount of damage as tracks if tires are properly inflated. “When you’re running your tires at their rated pressures, it’s the same. In some cases, even better,” she said. Riekman said OSU research has found that properly inflated duals actually compacted the soil less than a 24 or 36 inch track. Over-inflated duals caused more compaction than tracks and duals at rated pressures. Randall Reeder, a retired agricultural engineer at Ohio State, has said over-inflated tires reduce the tire footprint, which increases the amount of compaction.

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MACHINERY | TRACTORS

World’s biggest Honey Bees created buzz in their day Rear-wheel drive | A more economical way to push power to the ground? BY RON LYSENG WINNIPEG BUREAU

Who says tractors absolutely need centre articulated 4 x 4 to handle big power? It probably wasn’t Greg Honey of Honey Bee Manufacturing. In fact, Honey would more than likely explain that the basic old design of the conventional two wheel drive tractor can safely and economically pump 500 or more horsepower to the ground. It would require a lot of tire at the back, but Honey and his brother, Glen, have already built and operated such a tractor on their farm near Frontier, Sask., so he knows it’s possible. Most farmers assumed the era of two-wheel drive tractors died when Case and John Deere ceased production of their last 200 h.p. tractors in the early 1980s. Centre articulated 4 x 4 had already been around for nearly two decades, and nearly everyone was convinced this was the only way to go in the evolution of farm tractors. As well, a lot of producers were growing nervous about putting 200 or more h.p. through only the rear tires. The Honeys saw the handwriting on the wall for two-wheel drive tractors in 1979, but they weren’t convinced that they needed front-drive tires to help pull cultivators over their half and half summerfallow land. As well, the latest 4 x 4 tractors were becoming too pricey for their budget. That’s when they decided to build their own conventional two-wheel drive tractors, although with 500 h.p. in mind, they did step somewhat outside of conventional thinking. Honey Bee 1 was completed and in the field in 1979 for about $40,000. The price included the 800 h.p. VTA1710 Cummins engine, tuned down to 500 h.p. with smaller injectors. Honey Bee 2 was in the field by 1980, also with a price tag of about $40,000. It was powered by a KTA 1100 Cummins, set at 450 h.p., which

They were very easy to drive. The handling was excellent. We didn’t even need the wheel brakes for turning. GREG HONEY HONEY BEE MANUFACTURING

was replaced by a 425 h.p. 3406B Cat engine 10 years later. “They were very easy to drive. The handling was excellent. We didn’t even need the wheel brakes for turning,” Honey said. “We built the frames ourselves with basic shop tools. Most of the components were off the shelf, except for buying new transmissions. Later we found some new rear axles, so we bought those and installed them.” Glen’s son, Corbin, started summerfallowing with the tractors when he was eight years old, according to his post on Combine Forum. He said the family put 8,000 hours on each tractor before they were retired. “Still the nicest tractors I have driven. They ride really well, shape of the cab keeps the sun out, the seats swivel both ways a lot, hydraulically controlled drawbar,” he wrote. “Dad and Uncle Greg had hardly any tools to work with. They built their own band saw and hydraulic press for bending steel. My Grandma Helen painted the bee and the words Honey Bee onto the sides by hand.” Greg Honey is coy about the future for simple, high-powered two-wheel drive tractors. “I guess I wouldn’t rule it out,” he said. “The biggest limitation we had back then was no ag tires big enough to handle the power and weight. They’ve got some big ag tires available, but now there’s Tier 4 emissions and safety criteria to meet. My brother is talking about re-furbishing one of these, putting in a new axle and putting it back to work.” One of the big tractors is already

stripped down, sandblasted and ready for paint. “We had one of the tractors at Farm Progress in 1980. I’d like to bring it back there again. But now it’s an antique instead of a new invention,” he said. “Yes, I think you can build one economically today. It’s just dead simple, really.” For anyone thinking about buying the original tractors, the answer is no. “Honey Bee 1 and 2 are not for sale.”

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MACHINERY | DEF

Diesel exhaust fluid different It’s expensive, temperamental and can void your warranty BY RON LYSENG WINNIPEG BUREAU

WHY DEF MATTERS Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) is sensitive to chemical impurities and its shelf life is dependent on ambient temperature. Companies use DEF to improve engine emissions and demand that the product complies with ISO 22241 standards of purity. Impurity amounts that will render a 5,000 gallon (18,927 litre) tank non-compliant under ISO purity standards (in teaspoons): Copper Zinc Chromium Nickel Iron Aluminum

0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.7

Phosphorus Calcium Magnesium Sodium Potassium

1.1 1.3 1.2 2.1 2.3

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As of this month, all new diesel engines from 175 to 750 horsepower must be Tier 4 compliant, which means diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) will be required to meet the criteria. From now on, every new implement will need DEF to function. Unlike previous emissions systems since the 1990s, there is no way to circumvent Tier 4 technology. There are no aftermarket chips or underthe-counter controllers to free an engine of the DEF requirement. Another significant change from previous fuel systems is that DEF has virtually zero tolerance for contaminants. The ISO standard 22241 sets out the criteria for DEF purity. It takes only 0.1 teaspoon of copper, zinc, chromium or nickel to turn a 5,000 gallon DEF tanker into 5,000 gallons of worthless liquid. At the higher end of the contamination continuum, a mere 2.3 teaspoons of potassium will ruin 5,000 gallons of DEF. There is no leeway for contamination. Farmers who already operate DEF equipment have learned that cleanliness really is next to godliness when it comes to handling this temperamental additive. Sensors feeding into the engine control unit detect any glitches in the DEF system, and the ECU begins to shut the engine down if the DEF flow falls below a certain point. Dealers say there is no way to fool the sensors. Five things can happen if the purity of the liquid is compromised: • Consumption of the expensive liquid escalates.

• The engine shuts down in the field. • Contamination causes the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) process to malfunction. • The SCR and other systems can be severely damaged. • The engine manufacturer can void the warranty. “We’ve already seen a number of situations where the engine manufacturer has voided a warranty because of contaminated DEF,” said Lorne Van Wyk, head of research and development at Thunder Creek Equipment in Iowa. Thunder Creek specializes in service trailers for farmers and construction. Because its trailers supply diesel to these clients, the company began developing ISO 22241 compliant DEF handling systems long before the 2014 mandate went into effect. “This is a serious matter. It’s a whole new ballgame and we can’t take it lightly. DEF must be kept chemically pure because of the way it splits molecules,” Van Wyk said. “If DEF is contaminated, it just does not work. It can plug the DEF injection. Not only does that impact the emissions into the atmosphere, it also disables and possibly ruins the system. Now, put yourself in the place of the engine manufacturer. If the technician comes out to your disabled model 2014 tractor and finds that the system needs replacement because of contaminated DEF, the manufacturer is not going to replace it under warranty. It’s $4,000 or $5,000 out of your pocket.” Thunder Creek’s R & D department does a lot of work directly with farmers. For example, Van Wyk said it had

a classic case of a plugged injector on a brand new tractor this spring. “The tractor would run fine for about an hour and a half, then it would go into the safety mode and drop down to 1500 rpm,” he said. “The operator would shut it down and wait for an hour, start it up again and work for another 90 minutes or so. This went on over and over and the dealer couldn’t figure it out. I finally figured out that small bits of plastic had been left in the tractor’s DEF tank from the factory. When the engine ran, it would suck the bits up to the filter and plug it up enough to throw the engine into the safety mode. When you shut the engine down, the injection pump automatically does a backwash. That backwash would send the plastic bits back down into the DEF tank. Once we removed the tank and cleaned it out, the problem was solved, and it’s been fine since.” Van Wyk said no DEF component leaves the Thunder Creek factory until it’s been thoroughly cleansed with de-ionized water, which is the main component of DEF. The goal is to ensure that no implement experiences down time because one of the company’s trailers contaminated a DEF system. “Farmers only operate their equipment when they have a small window of opportunity. That applies to seeding, spraying, swathing, combining, manure application and everything else,” he said. “Every one of those operations has a bushel impact and a dollar impact. An engine shutdown can have a seriously detrimental impact on the bottom line for the year. Everything we do is aimed at eliminating DEF from the list of possible things that can go wrong.” Van Wyk said Thunder Creek has developed an air-tight closed loop circuit for transferring DEF from one container to another. It is most commonly used to transfer from a DEF tote in the field to the implement. It is completely isolated from the atmosphere, which eliminates virtually all chances of contamination during pumping operations. The closed system also prevents evaporation of the fluid, which is comprised mainly of water. The two-way pump is an important component within this closed loop. Once the implement DEF tank is filled, the same pump is reversed to do a back wash, which flushes residual DEF from the nozzle and hose back into the tote. The urea in DEF has a much higher purity than the urea in agricultural fertilizer. Because of the highly corrosive nature of DEF, Thunder Creek uses 304 grade stainless steel and ethylene propylene domineer steel where corrosion might be a factor. The high water content makes DEF susceptible to freezing, which can cause a container to burst open. Thunder Creek’s response was to offer optional tank heaters for its containers. It also manufactures all tanks with sloped sides so the ice will push up instead of out if it should happen to freeze, thus preventing the container from splitting open. For more information, contact Lorne Van Wyk at 866-535-7667 or visit www. thundercreekequipment.com.

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MACHINERY | TILLAGE

High speed discing goes deep The Rubin 12 sandwiches soil between left and right hand discs BY RON LYSENG WINNIPEG BUREAU

The new Lemken Rubin 12 compact disc harrow works soil up to eight inches deep at speeds up to 10 m.p.h. with 29 inch discs. “Those 29 inch discs are the largest of any compact disc machine,” said Waldemar Heidebrecht, a Lemken distributor in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. “Maybe the old Wishak tandem disc was bigger, but for compact discs, our 29 inch diameter discs on the Rubin 12 are the biggest.” The new machine is designed mainly for producers who grow corn on corn and need to do serious destruction to B.t. root balls and stalks. Heidebrecht said the new Rubin 12, like the earlier Rubin 9, will also find a home with winter wheat growers. “We have winter wheat growers who have been dealing with straw cover up to five inches deep with their Rubin 9,” he said. “We say it’s good at 10 m.p.h. I have guys who go a lot faster. We don’t like to see that, but they do it anyway.” He said the improved model 12 is unique in its ability to pull straight whether the front or back rows are set deeper. This is because of the symmetrical positioning of the concave discs, he added. “ E v e r y b o d y ’s c o m p a c t d i s c machine sold today is designed so the front row of discs pull to the right hand side. The back row always pulls to the left hand side,” he said. “That’s good as long as the machine is set level, but you often need more pressure front or rear. If you tilt the machine a little deeper at the front to be a little more aggressive, then the whole machine pulls off centre to the right. If you go deeper with the back row and put more pressure on the back, the machine will drift a little bit to the left. It’s difficult for the operator to get the machine all the time running straight.” Heidebrecht said extra pressure front or back doesn’t affect the Rubin 12. The new symmetrical positioning of the concave discs prevents sidepulling, thus letting the Rubin 12 pull straight behind the tractor. “The discs are divided in the centre. On the front row, some go left and an equal number go right. Same at the back. Equal numbers pull left and right,” he said. “So the operator sets the front or the back as deep as he needs for the conditions, and the machine always pulls straight behind the tractor.” Heidebrecht said the Rubin 12 has also eliminated the centre strip problem typically associated with old tandem disc machines. “There was always that strip down the middle where there was no cultivation. Farmers never liked that,” he said. “This compact disc is different. They designed special arms for those discs so the centre is always cultivated the same as the rest of the machine width.” Many farmers are leery of deeper disc tillage, but Lemken product manager Ralf Bornemann, who supervised development of the Rubin 12, said it is necessary in B.t. corn.

“By going deeper, you can do a better job of mixing soil and residue than a shank cultivator while still operating at high working speeds of six to 10 m.p.h. for greater acreage performance,” he said. According to Lemken, the new machine is intended to work deep to deliver intensive, uniform mixing and crumbling in one pass, even in heavy soil. The company said this trait makes it an ideal primary tillage tool for corn growers in the fall. The penetration depth and large disc diameter are also ideal for breaking pastureland, it added.

Lemken said convenience is critical in helping operators get the most work from their machine. The central hydraulic depth adjustment saves time because it lets the operator set the working depth of the discs from the cab. A self-locking device maintains consistent depth without manual spacers or pins. The new machine allows multiple tillage functions in a single pass. An impact harrow behind the front row of discs is followed by a levelling harrow and depth guiding rollers to pack and level the soil. Lemken said the big discs are individually mounted to the frame with

The Rubin 12 compact harrow has 29 inch discs. | pre-tensioned springs so they ride over stones. The double angular ball disc bearings require no manual adjustments or greasing. The cutting action and angle of the discs are expected to deliver better fuel efficiency. Six Rubin 12 models will be available, according to a Lemken news release, with delivery beginning in July in widths from 10 to 20 feet.

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CLUB CALVES | SHOW CIRCUIT

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Calves with the show factor | Prize money in the U.S. can exceed

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BY MARY MACARTHUR CAMROSE BUREAU

Just like a beauty pageant, calf shows are only for the most beautiful animals. Known as club calves, they may not have the best feed conversion efficiency or make the best herd sires but they do win show competitions. “The whole purpose of breeding these is for shows,” said Raymond Gonnet of Iowa. “They’re cardboard cutout cattle. They’re not practical cattle. They’re powerful and over the top. It’s all based on appearance. They have big bones, are really super thick and yet are still real attractive.” Gonnet, who is originally from Canada, raises, shows, sells and promotes club calves. He started showing cattle in his local 4-H club in 1998 before he had seen the beauty queen calves. What he saw intrigued him, and by 2004, he and Dustin Lamb of Balzac, Alta., had teamed up to raise them. “They’re not just an F1 cross. It has taken years to perfect their traits,” said Gonnet, who originally bred 150 cows solely for club calves. “They’re designed to get you interested in showing cattle. A plain Jane calf out of your neighbour’s pasture is not as exciting as the named calves.” Club cattle have become a breed of their own. They are big boned, medium-framed calves with plenty of hair to shape and sculpt. Named calves come from club calf sires and can make bull owners millions of dollars. The winner of last year’s Calgary Stampede, Canada’s biggest jackpot purse, was from the bull Eye Candy. All the steers at the jackpot steer show in Medicine Hat were calves from named club calf sires. “They’re more than just a cross bred calf. They are a super breed for shows,” said Gonnet. A popular club calf bull can easily sell 10,000 to 20,000 straws of semen at $25 to $250 a straw. “You’re making bankroll,” said Gonnet. Ryan Clark of Melville, Sask., whose family runs Clark Club Calves near Kipling, Sask., said the cattle are bred for phenotype. “They have to have the show factor,” he said. Club calves can be a mix of Maine Anjou, Chianina, Shorthorn, Angus, Galloway and Gelbvieh with no particular colour. Calves with lots of long, thick hair are almost always a club calf feature, which allows fitters to clip and shape hair to perfection. “It’s a game of who can make cattle look so much more perfect than they should,” said Gonnet. Clark said raising club calves is a

A group of heifers from Trausch Farms near Carroll, Iowa, show the traits cultivated in club calves. The bloodlines of these heifers are the same ones that topped the show at the 2013 Calgary Stampede. | PHOTOS COURTESY OF RAY GONNET

ABOVE: A steer bred from a bull called Eye Candy will be on the circuit this fall. LEFT: This steer, from Man Among Boys and Doctor Who, sold for $40,000 last year.

way for his family to add a little extra money to their cattle operation. The former 4-H member’s calves are almost exclusively sold to 4-H members in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. “In our operation, we focus on 4-H kids,” said Clark, whose family has shown cattle since his great-grandfather’s day. 4-H members who hope to win local or regional shows, such as a regional 4-H show in nearby Weyburn, Sask., that is supported by the local oil industr y, need a steer designed for the show circuit. “To win that show means quite a bit of money,” said Clark, who has sold club calves since 2007. “If you want to be in the top, you’ve got to have a club calf.” Gonnet has sold 500 pound club calf steers for $30,000 in the United States, but he has seen similarly sized calves sell for up to $80,000 to people who hope to win lucrative calf shows where prize money

It’s a game of who can make cattle look so much more perfect than they should. RAYMOND GONNET CLUB CALF PRODUCER

reaches $100,000 or more. “It’s so competitive,” he said. “The only way to win is to have a really, really good calf.” Lamb said 200 of the cows in his herd are bred to club calf bulls with the hope of getting a $500 to $1,000 premium for the calves. The ones he doesn’t sell for show go into the family feedlot. “The premiums have been good at times.” He said club calves are required to win in the Canadian show ring. “That’s what’s winning. The shows are dominated by clubby cattle,” said Lamb. “It’s just about always a clubby

that is grand or reserve.” Gonnet said it’s not uncommon for families to spend $10,000 or more to buy a club calf show steer to give them a chance of winning a local or state fair. “There are a lot of competitive show families. Some families buy boats and campers, others buy $30,000 show steers,” said Gonnet. “There is a lot of money being tossed around. A lot of $10,000 cattle might not win their class. There’s a lot of gambling involved. People do it for the glory of winning and the title and success.” In Canada, the richest steer show is Calgary Stampede’s $10,000 pot. Roland Schumaker, editor of The Show Circuit, a magazine dedicated to the cattle showing business, said lots of children and their families travel to shows every weekend during show season. “The bigger the prize money, the tougher the competition.” The Midwest states have a lot of

shows, but Texas is still tops in the number of shows and prize money, with some shows offering $300,000 in prize and scholarship money. Schumaker said many of the families involved come from a farm, but a growing number are families that live on a small acreage with enough land for a barn and a couple of show calves. “In general, a lot of kids have ag backgrounds, but not all, by any means.” Gonnet said the popularity of calf shows in the U.S. has always been large, but it is becoming more popular in Canada, especially for young people who enjoy travelling to cattle shows. He travels to cattle shows every weekend helping trim and fit the calves he has sold to clients. “It’s huge down here, enormous.” He estimates that the club calf business in the U.S. is twice as large as the entire Canadian purebred industry.

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BULL SALE | FINANCIAL ISSUES

Regina Bull Sale cancelled; new sale planned Loss of consignors make cost prohibitive BY KAREN BRIERE REGINA BUREAU

The spring tradition of the Regina Bull Sale has ended after 108 years. The committee in charge of the event cancelled this year’s sale after only 60 bulls were entered. It’s far below the hundreds that used to make the sale a marquee event. However, consignors who used the Regina sale as a main marketplace have planned a new sale for March 15 in Moose Jaw, Sask. Canada’s Red, White and Black Bull Sale could become an annual event, depending on how this year goes, said purebred Hereford breeder and organizer Rob O’Connor. “Dec. 30 was a terrible day for a lot of people,” he said, which was when consignors were told the Regina sale had been cancelled. However, he said breeders agreed they still needed a place to sell bulls. “A lot of guys don’t have 30 or 40 bulls to create their own sale,” he said. “I have 10, a few other guys have four or six or two. We’ve invested a lot of money to keep these animals and try to promote our farms and breeding programs, and to have no place to sell them, well, that couldn’t happen.” Scott Fettes, chair of the Regina Bull Sale committee, said the decision

wasn’t made lightly. The committee had planned changes after last year’s event to try to make the economics work. One change was a move into the commercial barn to keep costs in line. The cost of renting facilities at Evraz Place has always been a concern. The cost structure of the sale was based on hundreds of bulls rather than 60. However, Fettes said the loss of consignors was the biggest factor. A significant number of dispersal sales have been held over the last few years, and some producers have either decided to sell their animals in other venues or begin their own sales. “It wasn’t hard in the end when we didn’t have the numbers,” he said of the decision to cancel. He expects this is the end of the Regina Bull Sale tradition, although it is possible it could be resurrected in the future. There is a small bank account but also bills to clean up, he said. O’Connor said three new consignors have committed to the new sale, which includes 16 breeders of Hereford, Limousin, Angus and Charolais. Consignors Curtis and Kerry Gaillard are handling social media for the sale. A website, canadaredwhiteblackbullsale.weebly.com, has been established, and information posted. There is also a Facebook page.

The annual bull sale used to attract hundreds of entries but numbers have dwindled in recent years. | “We’re just a group of consignors trying to make decisions,” O’Connor said. A show isn’t planned ahead of the sale, but registered bidders will receive ballots to vote for their favourite bulls and pens of three. O’Connor said voting for the people’s choice awards will help determine sale order. Consignors are paying an entry fee to help cover the upfront costs. O’Connor’s contact information is

on the website for anyone who is interested. Meanwhile, the Regina Spring Steer and Heifer Show that has run for years at the same time as the bull sale will continue at Evraz Place. Past organizer Reed Andrew said the show for junior exhibitors has been expanding and gaining popularity. “We were looking for a little bigger footprint anyway,” he said. The show will be faced with more

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costs because it had shared some bills with the bull sale. Andrew said last year’s addition of show coaches and the ability to add more educational components to the event might make it more attractive to sponsors. “It will be different, but it will be good,” he said, citing the ability to have more time in the arena and be more flexible with scheduling. The show will run March 7-9 in the Canada Centre at Evraz Place.

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PINKEYE | TREATMENT

Cause of pinkeye still not certain ANIMAL HEALTH

JAMIE ROTHENBURGER, DVM

few squinty, tearful cattle during the summer are likely the start of a pinkeye outbreak. Also going by the name infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, it is the most common eye disease in cattle. Affected cattle exhibit the red or

pink discoloration of the eye, excessive tear production, squinting, whitening of the cornea and sometimes deeper wounds to the cornea. In rare cases, severely affected eyes can completely rupture, resulting in blindness. Scars form on the surface of the eye as the ulcers heal, leaving a permanent record of past infection. Cases of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) can also cause eyes to look red, so it is important to distinguish between the two. Pinkeye does not lead to pneumonia or respiratory signs. Controversy exists over what causes pinkeye, but it is generally thought to be associated with the

bacteria moraxella bovis. Experimental infections with a different, closely related bacteria, moraxella bovoculi, failed to cause pinkeye. Moraxella bovis have little fingerlike projections that permit adhesion to the surface of the eye. Once attached, the bacteria produces toxins that damage the cornea. Various environmental and management factors can increase the risk of pinkeye, including flies, sunlight, stress and dusty or windy conditions. As with many diseases, asymptomatic carriers can maintain the bacteria in their nasal cavities and serve as a source of infection for future outbreaks. Cattle of any age can become in-

find An antibiotic injection in tissue around the eye is sometimes used to treat pinkeye. | FILE PHOTO fected, but calves are particularly susceptible. An outbreak of pinkeye can be managed through isolating affected individuals, fly control, provision of shaded areas and/or antibiotic treat-

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ment, depending on the particular circumstances and the advice of the treating veterinarian. Most cattle make a complete recovery so the effects of pinkeye tend to be related to production and growth. Reduced appetite or ability to locate feeders results in weight loss and failure to gain. Genetic susceptibility to pinkeye is in the early stages of discovery. For example, Herefords are known to have increased risk of pinkeye, but the mechanism for this susceptibility remains elusive. A few genes have been linked to increased susceptibility, but preliminary results indicate that heritability is low for disease resistance. Breeding specific individuals for their resistance to pinkeye remains a future possibility once the genetics of this disease are more clearly understood. Copper deficiency has been linked to increased susceptibility to the disease. It is an important mineral for the immune system, which means too little copper can have widespread effects on disease resistance through its impact on the immune system. Bench-top laboratory research has shown that the bacteria that causes pinkeye is capable of forming biofilms. Familiar, everyday biofilms include the slimy ring near the taps in a bathroom or plaque on teeth. They are a microscopic community of bacteria that produce their own adhesive meshwork, making them resistant to cleaning, the immune system and antibiotics. Further research is necessary to establish the presence of morexalla bovis biofilms in clinical cases, but if this bacteria were a biofilm producer, it would help explain the rapid clinic progression and resistance to treatment. It might also lead to novel treatment methods. The economic impacts from the reduced weight gain are substantial, with one estimate in the United States pegged at $150 million a year. These production losses occur not o n l y f ro m d e c re a s e d w e a n i n g weights but also from the time and expense of treatment. Recent research found that production losses associated with pinkeye persisted far beyond the weaning period into the yearling stage. Calves with pinkeye are not able to catch up compared to their unaffected herd mates. Effective vaccination remains the holy grail of pinkeye prevention. A small study using intranasal vaccination found increased antibodies in tears of vaccinated cattle, and it may be the way of the future. However, much work remains to be done to prove its effectiveness. Dr. Jamie Rothenburger is a veterinary pathology resident at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan.

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MEMORIES | MEANING OF CHRISTMAS

HOGS | PED OUTBREAK

Memorable Christmas Day filled with warmth and smiles

Fatal pig virus spreads to 22 U.S. states: USDA

COWBOY LOGIC

RYAN TAYLOR

Time with family the best gift money can’t buy

e had a pretty good Christmas here at the Taylor Ranch. When calves are $2 a pound, it sure helps make the holidays jolly. We put the money right back into circulation and bought a few nice Christmas presents for family, young and old. I’ve tried to remember the most memorable Christmas presents I received as a kid, and I can recall a few. I remember my Jensen model steam engine, my ricochet racer car launcher and a few others. And I try to remember the Christmas Days that stand out in my mind. Growing up, they were all pleasant, with family, food and gifts. I remember a couple times when I was sure I had heard Santa’s sleigh bells and saw reindeer tracks in the snow along our driveway. I remember the first Christmas with the family of the woman who would become my wife, and the crystal candlesticks I gave her that still light our table today on special occasions. It was that Christmas when I found the lucky almond in my bowl of Norwegian rømmegrøt and won her family’s Christmas bell traditionally given to the person who discovers the almond. But a Christmas that really sticks in my mind is one where I was not

home, or with extended family, or found myself giving or receiving some material gift. It was five years ago this Christmas, and it started with my then four-yearold son and I boarding the east bound Empire Builder train at our quaint old brick train depot in Rugby, North Dakota. We would travel and sleep through Christmas Eve night to get to St. Paul, Minnesota. There we borrowed a car and drove to Rochester Methodist Hospital, part of the Mayo Clinic system in Rochester, Minn. We walked into that hospital on Christmas Day 2008, and went to the intensive care unit to wish my mother a Merry Christmas, or as merry a one as it could be in that place, on that day, under those conditions. Mom knew I was coming to spend Christmas Day with her as she went from the ICU to her hospital room recovering from surgery and complications as doctors worked to rid her of a Stage 4 ovarian cancer. She knew I was coming on the train but she didn’t know her four-yearold grandson would be on that train, too. He walked through her hospital room door with all his four-yearold energy and earnestness and exclaimed, “merr y Christmas, Grandma.” First he gave her a hug and then the gift he’d been carrying since we left the ranch. He thought the gift was for Grandma, but it turned out to be the K’Nex building set he had wanted. Grandma handed it to him after she began to open it. I can still hear him running down the hall with that box of K’Nex rattling in his hands as we moved Grandma from the ICU. I can see him playing with it on the floor by Grandma’s bed, and I can see the smile on her face as he recited his part in the Sunday School

pageant for her. She proudly had him recite it again for the nurse when she came in making her rounds. It was a quick trip. We spent Christmas Day with Mom, drove back to St. Paul and got back on the Empire Builder, now westbound, to return to the ranch. But it will always be one of my most memorable Christmas Days — despite the fact that we weren’t at home, we didn’t have a big meal and we didn’t have a Christmas tree or stacks of gifts in that hospital room. However, the three of us had the gift of each other’s company, and Mom had the gift of a grandson’s smile to brighten her day. And because of that Christmas Day five years ago, I learned that life’s best presents don’t come from a store wrapped in paper and bows. Sometimes they come on trains and are wrapped in footed pajamas. Ryan Taylor is a rancher, writer and senator in the state legislature from Towner, North Dakota.

First discovered in April | Analyst estimates at least one million hogs have died from the virus (Reuters) — California and Wyoming are the latest U.S. states to report confirmed cases of a deadly pig virus, bringing the number of states affected to 22. Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus, which causes diarrhea, vomiting and severe dehydration in hogs, has spread quickly across the U.S. hog belt since its discovery in the United States last April. PED is not harmful to humans and is not transmissible through pork. It has occurred in Europe and Asia, but this is the first year that it has been seen in the U.S. The virus has not been seen in Canada. “An outbreak in a sow farm can destroy four to six weeks of pigs before the animals develop an immune response,” said Rodney Baker, a swine veterinarian at Iowa State University. “Producers can easily lose at least a 12th of their annual revenue.”

The number of new cases increased by 134 for the week of Dec. 29, bringing total reported cases to 2,084, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Animal Health Laboratory Network. As defined by the USDA, each diagnostic case could represent multiple animals at either a single farm site or several locations. The department released its latest PED data Jan. 9. As of Dec. 1, California and Wyoming ranked 28 and 29 in terms of total hog inventory with 95,000 head and 90,000 head, respectively. The virus, which is transmitted orally and through pig feces, has left the U.S. hog industry scrambling to curb its spread and has fueled concerns U.S. hog supplies will slump in the spring and summer. No official figures are available for pigs lost to the disease, but U.S. hog industry analysts estimate one to four million have died.

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Community Pasture Program – Pasture Riders Seasonal vacancies are anticipated in several locations in Saskatchewan and Manitoba (community pastures within the districts of Rosetown, North Battleford, Watrous, Weyburn, Maple Creek, Foam Lake, Swift Current, Dauphin and Brandon). Pasture riders are required to check, treat and move cattle on horseback, monitor range conditions, monitor stock water and repair or rebuild fences.

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Salary starts at $21.87/hour (pursuant to the Operational Services collective agreement between the Treasury Board of Canada and the Public Service Alliance of Canada, and other public service beneﬁts). Pasture riders are eligible for an annual horse allowance of up to $1,750 based on 135 days of employment.

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The Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA) is a provincial crown corporation reporting to the Minister of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, and governed by an independent Board of Directors. Two board member opportunities are available for candidates with a demonstrated interest and passion for building a strong, vibrant livestock and meat industry. Ideally, your background includes extensive senior leadership experience in a related ﬁeld and a sound understanding of industry trends and issues. You have experience with board structure and governance processes and are recognized for your advanced strategic, business, communication and interpersonal skills. Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated expertise in the beef production sector (cow/calf or feedlot) or in approaches to risk mitigation, inclusive of food system sustainability. Candidates serve as trusted supporters and advocates of the beneﬁts of industry mentorship. Job ID #1021221

- Proficiency in English is essential - Experience in checking, treating and moving cattle on horseback - Must supply a minimum of two (2) fully fit, sound, trained working horses and related tack and equipment Open to persons residing in Canada and Canadian citizens residing abroad. For more information on these positions, please contact: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Programs Branch, Community Pasture Program, at 306-523-6817 or email at community.pastures@agr.gc.ca An ongoing inventory will be established from resumes received for the 2014 season. Interested individuals should submit resumes by mail, fax or email to: AAFC – Programs Branch 300, 2010 12th Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 0M3 Attention: Community Pasture Program Fax: 306-780-7166 Email: community.pastures@agr.gc.ca Applications received before March 3, 2014 will be given first consideration for the 2014 season.

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Think long-term on land prices

Weak December job reports in Canada and the U.S. raised the notion that central banks still need to support the economy. For the week the Toronto Stock Exchange jumped 1.5 percent. The Dow dipped 0.2 percent, the Nasdaq rose one percent and the S&P 500 climbed 0.6 percent. Cdn. exchanges in $Cdn. U.S. exchanges in $U.S.

Determining land values | Prices should not be based on recent high profits

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BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU

AVERAGE CROP PRICES DRIVE FARMLAND VALUES

St. JEAN BAPTISTE, Man. — The difference between last year’s and this year’s crop prices reveals the danger of basing land prices on short-term returns, says a Manitoba Agriculture farm profitability expert. As well, he said if farmers don’t adopt a longer-term view, they’ll be vulnerable to repeated errors in making farmland purchase decisions. “Last year (at this time) I could justify $4,000 to $5,000 per acre based on (crop return prospects), absolutely,” said Dan Caron in a presentation at Farm Days in St. Jean Baptiste Jan. 8. But with 2014 crop returns likely to be less than the cost of production including fixed costs, farmland values would seem to justify only about half that amount, he said. “We have to start making decisions based on longer-term averages, not looking at the year before,” said Caron. “What happens if we look to the year before? Well, we end up with $4,000 per acre land and $9 canola.” Caron said farmers in the Red River Valley have recently had super profitable years based on high crop prices and high yields. Even now farmers are doing well with the 2013-14 crop, with average canola yields of 51 bushels per acre and prices of about

Farmland prices should be based on long-term returns for crops, not last year’s profits, says Dan Caron of Manitoba Agriculture. A 10- or five-year average would justify much lower prices than has recently been paid for farmland in the Red River Valley and elsewhere, Caron says.

DAN CARON FARM PROFITABILITY EXPERT

$10.68 per bu. for elevator sales since harvest, and better for earlier priced crops. But producers shouldn’t assume those yields and prices for the long term. Land debt and payments must be assessed for long-term sustainability because they are long-term liabilities. Caron said a long-term average return on land over operating costs is a little less than $130 per acre. The recent five-year average is $170. That means that land interest payments of $133 per acre, based on present interest rates, and a 10 percent down payment, will provide a marginal return on land bought at $3,000 per acre. Recent land sale prices reflecting the stellar returns of the past few years could soon seem unsustainable, Caron said. “Not every year is going to be like last year. Things are starting to look pretty ugly on paper.” Caron said the long-term, breakeven price for land appears to be about $2,800 per acre in the central Red River Valley. Lingering low prices could drop that to $2,500. Caron acknowledged that it is diffi-

Canola returns in Manitoba, 2002-2013: average price yields gross revenuesoperating net returns ($/bu.) (bu./acre) ($/acre) costs ($/acre) ($/acre) 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2002-13 avg.

$8.30 8.02 6.32 5.67 7.60 11.72 9.62 8.81 11.98 12.80 13.88 10.68 $9.62

35.0 37.8 33.3 4.4 28.0 24.3 40.2 38.2 30.4 22.7 32.1 51.0 31.5

$290 303 210 25 213 285 387 336 364 290 445 545 $308

$143 159 147 151 175 176 192 210 195 232 226 262 $189

$147 144 63 -41 38 109 195 126 169 58 219 283 $126

Source: Manitoba Agriculture | MICHELLE HOULDEN GRAPHIC | FILE PHOTO

cult to figure out an affordable price for land. Some farmers might regret not buying land a few years ago because they thought it was too expensive, but since then, returns have been exceptional and land values have soared. As well, some farmers in Iowa have made massive profits in recent years even after paying $15,000 per acre for land. Caron said farmers should look

at long-term averages for yields, prices, returns and other measurements. “I really want to get people using planning and evaluation tools to make planned decisions, not just paying what they think is fair market value,” said Caron. “We call (the going market price) fair market value for land, but fair market value is basically whoever pays the most.”

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Crusher finds cash Legumex Walker Inc.’s Pacific Coast Canola subsidiary has new agreements with Macquarie Bank to provide the capital and liquidity needed to help the canola crusher with operations and marketing. The agreement covers a total of $45 million US. “PCC is adding new customers weekly and these new $45 million facilities significantly expand our ability to leverage our production capacity and capitalize on the high demand for both our canola oil and canola meal,” said Joel Horn, president of Legumex Walker Inc., in a statement.

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FARM BUSINESS | IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITY

AGRIBUSINESS | CARGILL QUARTERLY RESULTS

Electronic scarecrow idea not for the birds

Cargill earnings rise on big U.S. harvest

THE BOTTOM LINE

Second quarter results | Profits up 35 percent

GLENN CHEATER

ruce Blacklock vividly remembers announcing his new enterprise to a group of fellow farmers in 1990. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a barbecue at the farm, there were about 40 people and I demonstrated this device and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to build these and sell them,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? recalls Blacklock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They all laughed and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re nuts.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? But, he adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say that anymore.â&#x20AC;? The device was an â&#x20AC;&#x153;electronic scarecrow,â&#x20AC;? to which Blacklock, then a sheep farmer in Cape John, N.S., had just bought the rights. Today, about 2,500 bird deterrent systems made by Phoenix Agritech are used in more than 60 countries. Airports wanting to keep birds off their runways are major customers, but the machines are also used to keep birds away from vineyards, fruit and berry operations, electrical substations, tailing ponds and towns. Many upgrades have been made, but the potential was obvious from the start. The question is why Blacklock saw it and his friends didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. The answer holds a lesson for anyone seeking opportunity for their farm business. Blacklock bought his system in desperation after coyotes began ravaging his flock. Every measure he took, from guard donkeys to fencing and trapping, proved ineffective. He came across the system, originally designed to keep rabbits out of vegetable fields, on a trip to his native Britain and modified it by adding a flashing light. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It made all sorts of horrible electronic sounds, like a video arcade times 10,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The coyotes wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come anywhere near it.â&#x20AC;? He was negotiating North American distribution rights when the manufacturer went into receivership. Blacklock wound up buying the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intellectual property rights and paltr y inventor y for $1,250. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I was suddenly the proud owner of a couple of cardboard boxes of circuit boards and a few half-finished systems,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew nothing about electronics, but I kind of figured it out.â&#x20AC;? He built some devices with the help of son Graham and sold a few to livestock producers with coyote problems. However, his British Columbia distributor then discovered a huge interest from berry growers plagued by nuisance birds, and Blacklock, an ardent birder since boyhood, replaced the cacophony of electronic noise with bird cries. Within five years, business was so brisk he had to quit full-time sheep farming. Today, Wailers, which sell for $2,000 and up, and the economy Squawker version, which start at

Bruce Blacklock demonstrates a Wailer bird deterrent system destined for the Bali Airport in Indonesia. | PHOENIX AGRITECH PHOTO $1,300, emit a carefully chosen selection of bird noises drawn from more than 400 bird calls in Phoenix Agritechâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s audio library. Most are either some sort of bird distress or alarm call, or the cries of hawks, eagles and other avian predators. The result is a lot of jumpy birds, which soon decide that life would be a lot less nerve-wracking somewhere else. Blacklock custom-designs each system. So, for example, when Bahrain airport officials called about their gull problem, he advised them on a system designed to drive away the species from that part of the Persian Gulf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expecting to do this; I thought Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be farming all my life,â&#x20AC;? says Blacklock, who still raises sheep on his 50-acre hobby farm, a sixminute drive from his companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office in Debert, N.S. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I saw this thing seemed to work and there was more of a market for birds than coyotes, and I thought Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just try to develop it.â&#x20AC;? Give it a try and see where it goes. It sounds deceptively simple, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anything but. Like most farmers, Blacklock says his friends would think nothing of re-engineering a piece of equipment, but fiddling with electronics somehow seemed a whole lot more complicated than welding, and so they laughed off his idea. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are opportunities all the time,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But most people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recognize an opportunity when they trip over it.â&#x20AC;? As Blacklockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friends discovered, asking if something might work is not as nutty as it looks. Archived columns from this series can be found at www.fcc-fac.ca/learning. Farm Credit Canada enables business management skill development through resources such as this column, and information and learning events available across Canada.

CHICAGO (Reuters) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Cargill reported a 36 percent increase in quarterly profits, supported by a bigger U.S. harvest last year that led to increased exports and improved meat profit margins. The company had net earnings of $556 million for the second quarter ended Nov. 30, up from $409 million a year ago. Revenues totalled $32.9 billion, down seven percent from a year ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Earnings improved in three of our four segments,â&#x20AC;? said new Cargill chief executive officer David MacLennan, who took over to lead the multinational after Greg Page stepped down on Dec. 1. The bigger harvest this crop year boosted handling, export prospects and grain processing volumes and also improved profits in its meat and ethanol businesses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The impact on supply and demand caused prices for agricultural commodities to come down from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highs, providing relief to Cargillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s animal nutrition and protein segment,â&#x20AC;? the company said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Larger export volumes and increased operating efficiencies also contributed to stronger results, espe-

cially in beef processing.â&#x20AC;? Last fiscal year the small U.S. cattle herd and high cattle prices hurt Cargillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meat business. Cargill, one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest privately held corporations, had revenue of $136.7 billion for fiscal 2013, which would have placed it No. 10 on the Fortune 500 list of publicly held companies. While Cargillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quarterly results rose in three of its four business segments, its animal protein group showed the most improvement and its food ingredients and applications sector was the largest contributor to the quarter. A pick up in demand for specific products, like cocoa powder and corn-based ethanol, added to earnings, the company said. Cargillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agricultural services division, which includes its grain sourcing, handling and processing, was the only sector with earnings below a year ago despite an improvement from North American operations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In certain markets, Argentina in particular, there has been a build up across the industry in oilseed crush capacity. So that was a negative affect on crush volumes,â&#x20AC;? said Cargill spokesperson Lisa Clemens.

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GRAINS Slaughter Cattle ($/cwt)

Steers 600-700 lb. (average $/cwt)

Grade A

Alberta

Live Jan. 3-9

Previous Dec. 27-Jan. 2

$160

Steers Alta. Ont. Sask. Man. Heifers Alta. Ont. Sask. Man.

$155

*Live f.o.b. feedlot, rail f.o.b. plant.

$170 $165 $160 $155

n/a n/a $150 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

1/13

Saskatchewan $165

$150

n/a

$145 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

$165 $160 $155

n/a

$150 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

n/a 1/13

Heifers 500-600 lb. (average $/cwt) Alberta $155

Steers 900-1000 800-900 700-800 600-700 500-600 400-500 Heifers 800-900 700-800 600-700 500-600 400-500 300-400

116.50 120.16 n/a n/a

220.00-225.75 218.00-229.00 n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a n/a

n/a 122.57-137.31 n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a n/a

115.68 121.21 n/a n/a

221.50-225.75 217.00-228.00 n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a n/a Canfax

Man.

Alta.

B.C.

Report not available -

133-150 138-156 148-168 150-174 158-185 170-190

Report not available -

128-142 135-145 135-153 140-161 150-166 152-180

Report not available Canfax

$150

Average Carcass Weight

$140

n/a

$135 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

1/13

Dec. 28/13 847 786 652 851

Canfax

Steers Heifers Cows Bulls

Saskatchewan $150 $145 $140

Dec. 29/12 882 821 665 1048

YTD 13 875 813 673 886

YTD 12 879 820 677 1026

U.S. Cash cattle ($US/cwt)

$135

n/a n/a $130 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

n/a 1/13

Manitoba $155 $150 $145 $140

n/a n/a $135 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

n/a 1/13

Slaughter cattle (35-65% choice) National Kansas Nebraska Nebraska (dressed)

Heifers 139.26 138.98 140.00 221.17

Feeders No. 1 (800-900 lb) Steers South Dakota 158-169 Billings 160.75-163.25 Dodge City 160.50-163

Trend steady steady steady USDA

Basis Cattle / Beef Trade

Cash Futures Alta-Neb Sask-Neb Ont-Neb

-17.74 n/a -13.85

-14.37 n/a -11.09

Canadian Beef Production million lb. YTD % change Fed 1810.7 -3 Non-fed 311.3 +6 Total beef 2122.0 -2 Canfax

Exports % from 2012 727,804 (1) +8.3 313,842 (1) +132.8 183,207 (3) -1.6 257,902 (3) +1.3 Imports % from 2012 n/a (2) n/a 55,634 (2) +8.4 171,760 (4) -2.4 218,456 (4) -3.6

Sltr. cattle to U.S. (head) Feeder C&C to U.S. (head) Total beef to U.S. (tonnes) Total beef, all nations (tonnes) Sltr. cattle from U.S. (head) Feeder C&C from U.S. (head) Total beef from U.S. (tonnes) Total beef, all nations (tonnes)

To Dec. 28 Fed. inspections only Canada U.S. To date 2013 2,585,690 31,796,855 To date 2012 2,611,153 32,336,888 % Change 13/12 -1.0 -1.7

(1) to Dec. 21/13 (2) to Nov. 30/13 (3) to Nov. 30/13 (4) to Dec. 28/13

Close Jan. 10 Live Cattle Feb 136.70 Apr 136.98 Jun 130.25 Aug 128.30 Oct 131.90 Feeder Cattle Jan 168.65 Mar 167.65 Apr 168.55 May 168.90 Aug 170.68

136.30 136.58 130.05 128.15 131.33

+0.40 +0.40 +0.20 +0.15 +0.57

130.60 134.55 129.70 129.78 133.50

167.63 168.10 168.95 169.70 171.00

+1.02 -0.45 -0.40 -0.80 -0.32

149.88 151.45 153.38 155.15 160.18

Index 100 Hog Price Trends ($/ckg) Alberta $160 $155 $150 $145

n/a n/a $140 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

n/a 1/13

Feb 02-Feb 15 Feb 16-Mar 01 Mar 02-Mar 15 Mar 16-Mar 29 Mar 30-Apr 12 Apr 13-Apr 26 Apr 27-May 10 May 11-May 24 May 25-Jun 07 Jun 08-Jun 21

Sheep ($/lb.) & Goats ($/head) Jan. 3 Base rail (index 100) 2.48 Range 0.06-0.17 Feeder lambs 1.20-1.30 Sheep (live) 0.25

Previous 2.48 0.06-0.18 1.20-1.30 0.25

Jan. 6 1.70-2.60 1.90-2.15 1.80-2.10 1.80-2.05 1.70-1.95 1.30-1.50 0.80-0.95 0.80-1.00 n/a

New lambs 65-80 lb 80-95 lb > 95 lb > 110 lb Feeder lambs Sheep Rams Kids

Ontario Stockyards Inc.

Jan. 13 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a

Wool lambs >80 lb Wool lambs <80 lb Hair lambs >95 lb Hair lambs <95 lb Fed sheep

Sask. Sheep Dev. Bd.

Sltr. hogs to/fm U.S. (head) Total pork to/fm U.S. (tonnes) Total pork, all nations (tonnes)

$160 $155 $150 $145 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

(1) to Dec. 21/13

(2) to Nov. 30/13

Canada 19,971,074 20,303,323 -1.6

To date 2013 To date 2012 % change 13/12

Fed. inspections only U.S. 110,780,235 111,899,075 -1.0 Agriculture Canada

$160 $155 $150 1/13

Feb Apr May Jun

Close Jan. 10 85.83 91.00 98.88 100.90

Close Jan. 3 86.68 91.58 98.70 101.00

n/a 153.87

Man. Que.

155.00 157.62 *incl. wt. premiums

-0.85 -0.58 +0.18 -0.10

Year ago 84.20 87.13 94.80 96.50

% from 2012 -7.2 +13.9 -1.3

Import n/a 204,807 (3) 219,011 (3)

% from 2012 n/a -3.2 -1.5 Agriculture Canada

Jul Aug Oct Dec

EXCHANGE RATE: JAN. 13 $1 Cdn. = $0.9160 U.S.. $1 U.S. = $1.0917 Cdn.

$255 $250 $245 $235 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

1/13

Milling Wheat (March) $210 $200

$170 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

1/13

Close Jan. 10 99.65 97.95 84.25 80.00

Trend -0.10 +0.32 +0.10 +0.30

Year ago 96.28 95.85 85.68 82.60

Jan. 13 19.50-22.00 13.75-17.50 16.50-19.00 16.75-18.00 12.75-15.00 17.75-20.00 14.50-18.00 10.30-11.00 9.30-9.50 5.65-6.25 5.55-5.80 11.25-12.50 5.00-5.50 34.00-35.75 33.00-34.75 27.30-28.75 19.25-23.50 20.90-22.00 19.00-20.00 13.30-14.00 14.00-20.00

Avg. 20.63 15.54 18.10 17.41 13.65 19.25 16.25 10.56 9.46 5.83 5.71 11.96 5.15 35.17 34.31 28.27 21.14 21.63 19.40 13.88 16.00

Jan. 6 20.50 15.04 17.60 17.41 14.10 18.96 16.25 10.06 9.96 5.93 5.71 12.29 5.15 36.25 35.31 28.27 22.46 21.63 19.40 13.88 16.00

Cash Prices

Canola (cash - March)

Jan. 8 Jan. 1 Year Ago No. 3 Oats Saskatoon ($/tonne) 138.89 135.01 177.87 Snflwr NuSun Enderlin ND (¢/lb) 19.40 19.40 22.05

$480 $450 $420 $390 $360 12/6 12/13 12/20 12/26 1/3

U.S. Grain Cash Prices ($US/bu.) 1/10

Canola (basis - March) $-20

$-50 $-60 12/6 12/13 12/20 12/26 1/3

1/10

Feed Wheat (Lethbridge) $220 $200 $180 $160 $140 12/6 12/13 12/20 12/26 1/3

1/10

$550 $500 $450 $400 $350 12/6 12/13 12/20 12/26 1/3

1/10

Barley (cash - March) $220 $200

Basis: $19

$180 $160 $140 12/6 12/13 12/20 12/26 1/3

1/10

Canola and barley are basis par region. Feed wheat basis Lethbridge. Basis is best bid.

Corn (March) $440 $435 $430 $425 $420 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

1/13

$1340 $1320 $1300 $1280 1/13

Oats (March) $420 $400 $380

1/13

Minneapolis Nearby Futures ($US/100bu.) Spring Wheat (March) $680 $660 $640 $620 $600 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

Jan. 10 6.28 5.68 6.85 4.56 3.12

USDA

No. 1 DNS (14%) Montana elevator No. 1 DNS (13%) Montana elevator No. 1 Durum (13%) Montana elevator No. 1 Malt Barley Montana elevator No. 2 Feed Barley Montana elevator

Grain Futures Jan. 13 Jan. 6 Trend Wpg ICE Canola ($/tonne) Jan 416.90 433.20 -16.30 Mar 425.90 442.10 -16.20 May 435.00 450.70 -15.70 Jul 443.50 458.60 -15.10 Wpg ICE Milling Wheat ($/tonne) Mar 182.00 183.00 -1.00 May 188.00 191.00 -3.00 Jul 190.00 195.00 -5.00 Wpg ICE Durum Wheat ($/tonne) Mar 243.00 242.00 +1.00 May 247.00 246.00 +1.00 Wpg ICE Barley ($/tonne) Mar 136.50 146.00 -9.50 May 138.50 148.00 -9.50 Chicago Wheat ($US/bu.) Mar 5.7350 6.0575 -0.3225 May 5.8050 6.1125 -0.3075 Jul 5.8725 6.1425 -0.2700 Sep 5.9675 6.2375 -0.2700 Chicago Oats ($US/bu.) Mar 3.9300 3.5075 +0.4225 May 3.4600 3.2325 +0.2275 Jul 3.2425 3.1525 +0.0900 Chicago Soybeans ($US/bu.) Jan 13.2675 12.9675 +0.3000 Mar 12.9425 12.7675 +0.1750 May 12.7425 12.6150 +0.1275 Jul 12.6075 12.5100 +0.0975 Chicago Soy Oil (¢US/lb.) Jan 37.57 37.87 -0.30 Mar 37.84 38.12 -0.28 May 38.18 38.48 -0.30 Chicago Soy Meal ($US/short ton) Jan 446.9 428.8 +18.1 Mar 421.9 413.8 +8.1 May 408.7 405.3 +3.4 Chicago Corn ($US/bu.) Mar 4.3450 4.2775 +0.0675 May 4.4250 4.3575 +0.0675 Jul 4.4925 4.4250 +0.0675 Sep 4.5375 4.4875 +0.0500 Minneapolis Wheat ($US/bu.) Mar 6.1775 6.3050 -0.1275 May 6.2150 6.4000 -0.1850 Jul 6.2900 6.5050 -0.2150 Sep 6.3725 6.5900 -0.2175 Kansas City Wheat ($US/bu.) Mar 6.1975 6.4400 -0.2425 May 6.1875 6.4550 -0.2675 Jul 6.1825 6.4450 -0.2625

Year ago n/a 594.90 586.70 581.40 290.50 293.50 295.50 312.40 316.40 242.90 243.90 7.6700 7.7350 7.7700 7.8475 3.5400 3.5975 3.6475 14.5975 14.1800 14.0525 13.9875 50.17 50.45 50.82 417.9 417.5 411.8 7.2400 7.2300 7.1400 6.1000 8.5275 8.6225 8.7150 8.7125 8.2350 8.3350 8.4075

Canadian Exports & Crush

$360 $340 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

Close Jan. 3 99.75 97.63 84.15 79.70

Laird lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) Laird lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) Richlea lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) Eston lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) Eston lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) Sm. Red lentils, No. 2 (¢/lb) Sm. Red lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) Peas, green No. 1 ($/bu) Peas, green 10% bleach ($/bu) Peas, med. yellow No. 1 ($/bu) Peas, sm. yellow No. 2 ($/bu) Maple peas ($/bu) Feed peas ($/bu) Mustard, yellow, No. 1 (¢/lb) Mustard, brown, No. 1 (¢/lb) Mustard, Oriental, No. 1 (¢/lb) Canaryseed (¢/lb) Desi chickpeas (¢/lb) Kabuli, 8mm, No. 1 (¢/lb) Kabuli, 7mm, No. 1 (¢/lb) B-90 ckpeas, No. 1 (¢/lb)

Cash Prices

$1260 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

(3) to Dec. 28/13

Trend

Durum (March)

Soybeans (March)

Index 100 hogs $/ckg

Chicago Hogs Lean ($US/cwt)

$165

1/13

Chicago Nearby Futures ($US/100 bu.)

1/13

Manitoba

$145 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

To Dec. 28

Export 819,986 (1) 334,049 (2) 1,085,989 (2)

$165

$130 12/9 12/16 12/23 12/27 1/6

Flax (elevator bid- S’toon) n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a

Hogs / Pork Trade

Saskatchewan

$140

SunGold Meats

Hog Slaughter

Alta. Sask.

$150

$-40

This wk Last wk Yr. ago n/a n/a 213-215 Canfax

Fixed contract $/ckg Maple Leaf Thunder Sig 3 Creek Pork Jan. 10 Jan. 10 164.32-164.32 161.47-164.48 165.32-168.02 152.19-168.74 169.52-171.52 165.76-167.12 168.02-170.52 165.04-168.63 170.30-171.30 168.19-171.21 173.81-176.82 172.79-181.81 185.64-189.14 186.95-190.07 192.65-196.66 188.53-193.31 191.65-193.15 192.87-194.33 194.65-195.66 196.41-197.93

$160

$-30

Est. Beef Wholesale ($/cwt)

HOGS (Hams Marketing)

$170

$180

Close Trend Year Jan. 3 ago

Agriculture Canada

Due to wide reporting and collection methods, it is misleading to compare hog prices between provinces.

Source: STAT Publishing, which solicits bids from Maviga N.A., Legumex Walker, CGF Brokerage, Parrish & Heimbecker, Simpson Seeds and Alliance Grain Traders. Prices paid for dressed product at plant.

Barley (March)

$190

Chicago Futures ($US/cwt)

Montreal

Steers 139.55 138.99 140.46 221.54

Pulse and Special Crops

ICE Futures Canada

$240

Cattle Slaughter

Sask.

$145

Previous Dec. 27-Jan. 2

n/a n/a n/a n/a

Feeder Cattle ($/cwt)

1/13

$170

Rail Jan. 3-9

133.00-134.50 127.96-144.17 n/a n/a

n/a

Manitoba

Year ago

1/13

To (1,000 MT) Jan. 5 Wheat 272.48 Durum 114.87 Oats 13.6 Barley 3.49 Flax 18.16 Canola 106.4 Peas 26.29 Lentils 0.49 (1,000 MT) Jan. 8 Canola crush 134.0

To Dec. 31 106.07 54.81 12.7 51.51 0.02 68.68 28.64 n/a Jan. 1 133.5

Total Last to date year 6802.40 5719.3 1876.91 1987.4 445.92 578.9 463.22 707.7 149.39 125.7 3156.83 3649.1 929.16 840.9 148.75 n/a to date Last year 2953.5 3187.2

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Precipitation last week since Nov. 1 mm mm %

5.3 3.5 3.8 4.2 3.8 7.9 -3.7 -5.5 -4.4 -3.8 -4.1 4.2 4.7 -0.3 5.2 8.3 2.1 2.8

1.1 0.4 0.5 2.1 2.8 0.5 4.4 4.5 9.2 1.1 12.6 0.9 0.4 1.6 0.6 1.7 1.0 2.1

-34.4 -38.0 -30.6 -35.2 -34.8 -30.1 -37.3 -34.4 -37.4 -36.6 -39.3 -36.6 -31.2 -36.8 -31.2 -32.3 -35.3 -34.7

26.1 44.6 30.7 54.8 58.3 41.8 56.4 55.0 73.5 71.5 96.5 43.0 37.5 58.7 31.5 52.1 40.3 52.0

76 90 68 117 191 100 126 137 164 185 224 113 104 163 88 156 81 121

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6.8 7.8 -5.1 4.5 -0.9 2.8 -12.2 8.0 -3.6 7.7 8.7 -4.9 6.1 5.0 4.6 -1.5

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Precipitation last week since Nov. 1 mm mm %

0.2 2.8 13.4 3.0 4.2 9.0 6.6 0.3 1.3 0.0 0.6 4.5 0.0 3.0 3.8 0.3

41.7 95.1 105.2 43.3 113.0 201.3 42.5 28.3 59.1 48.1 34.5 111.3 59.5 138.3 58.6 53.1

136 314 240 134 268 338 73 78 143 136 81 204 92 357 137 138

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Brandon Dauphin Gimli Melita Morden Portage La Prairie Swan River Winnipeg

2.5 2.7 1.1 4.1 4.5 4.1 -2.7 0.3

Precipitation last week since Nov. 1 mm mm %

-33.8 -32.0 -32.4 -34.2 -32.2 -32.6 -33.6 -33.5

0.1 1.1 0.0 0.4 0.5 0.0 3.1 0.1

63.0 27.8 36.6 31.4 30.2 30.4 36.0 31.8

126 56 66 61 51 50 64 55

-16.6 -23.7 -9.4 -10.4 -13.6

19.0 13.8 15.3 10.9 20.1

90.0 222.3 84.7 90.9 159.9

82 350 119 96 128

BRITISH COLUMBIA Cranbrook Fort St. John Kamloops Kelowna Prince George

6.0 0.9 10.6 9.4 1.0

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