Sask. commodity groups denounce drainage bill

BY SEAN PRATTSASKATOON NEWSROOM

All of Saskatchewan’s major crop organizations passed a resolution at CropSphere last week calling on the province to rescind or delay implementation of Bill 44.

The bill supports the province’s new agricultural water manage-ment strategy and regulations that were implemented in October 2015.

Franck Groeneweg, director of the Saskatchewan Farm Steward-ship Association, was running between meeting rooms at Crop-Sphere presenting the resolution.

He said the new policy requires farmers to get permits for all the drainage works on their property, with few exceptions.

“All these little ditches and what-ever are now illegal,” Groeneweg told flax growers.

He estimates there is non-per-mitted drainage on 150,000 quar-ters of land throughout the prov-ince.

Groeneweg is also concerned about the loss of the Water Appeal Board.

“It gives a very heavy hand to the Water Security Agency,” he said.

He said the Quill Lakes area is the

canary in the coal mine. Last year, the Water Security Agency ordered the closure of all unapproved drainage ditches in the two million acre basin and imposed a morato-rium on any new projects.

“When we see what Water Secu-rity could do to these farmers, I do not trust them to be in charge of the water policy for the rest of the prov-ince,” he told pulse growers.

Jeff Pylatuik farms within the Quill Lakes basin, which has r e c e i v e d m o r e t h a n 5 , 1 0 0 millimetres of rain in the last 10 years.

He said the province’s new water

management policy will take 20 to 25 percent of his acres out of pro-duction.

“That would put me in the posi-tion of complete loss of profit,” said Pylatuik.

“It would destroy my farm.”He said the Quill Lakes are over-

flowing due to the unprecedented rainfall. It has nothing to do with farm drainage.

Pylatuik argued that the crops he grows consume more water per acre than is stored in the many sloughs scattered across his land.

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Annual general meetings at CropSphere are usually quiet affairs, so it was unusual to see some fireworks at this year’s Sask-Pulse meeting.

The fuse was lit when Tim Wiens, chair of Saskatchewan Pulse Grow-ers, reported during the annual Saskatoon farm show on what action was taken on last year’s reso-lution calling on the board to make the levy refundable.

He said the board conducted broad consultations with growers, including an Insightrix Research poll of 739 farmers, which deter-mined that 50 percent support the existing non-refundable levy, 44 percent want it to be refundable and six percent were indifferent.

The $30,000 survey also revealed that 90 percent of growers say they receive fair to excellent value for their levy dollars but that 46 per-cent would request a refund if the levy was made refundable.

“After all the factors were consid-ered, the board did not feel that there was a clear case that growers wanted to move away from the

non-refundable pulse levy,” said Wiens.

The decision raised the ire of many farmers at the meeting.

“Rather than proceeding with steps to make the levy refundable, you had a survey conducted, wast-ing more of our money,” said Gwen Wensley, a grower from Wiseton, Sask. “It’s all just trying to circum-vent the resolution.”

She said making the levy refund-able allows growers to express their dissatisfaction with association decisions by demanding a refund.

“That’s the only way we’ve got to sort of jerk your chain,” said Wens-ley.

Former SPG chair Lyle Minogue defended the board’s decision. He said policy can’t be set by a small group of farmers with an agenda who attend the annual meeting.

“It’s important that the board has a chance to use their judgment and decide what the bulk of the mem-bers want,” he said.

Minogue grew up in a small town where volunteers ran the local rink. There was one guy who refused to volunteer or contribute money to the rink.

“The first guy there with a kid in

one hand to skate and his curling broom in the other was him.”

He believes the same thing will happen if the association switched to a refundable levy.

“We’ll have a whole bunch of people in this province taking a free ride, and I don’t think we should go that route,” he said.

Wiens said the fairness issue fac-tored into the board’s decision. Much of the levy is spent on variety development at the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Develop-ment Centre, and those varieties are made available royalty free to all of the province’s pulse growers.

One farmer who didn’t identify himself said making decisions

based on polls is dangerous, point-ing to all the polls that predicted Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would be the next presi-dent of the United States.

“The people who cared showed up here last year and passed that resolution and you guys ignored it. That’s wrong,” he said.

Another farmer was also skepti-cal about relying on polls.

“You guys spend all this money doing all this other stuff. Why don’t you have a real vote?” he said. “Whatever you did means nothing.”

Retired University of Saskatche-wan agricultural economist Ken Rosaasen said farmers can effect change by voting in directors who reflect their views.

“If you really want to change the levy, do it through the democratic process,” he said.

Wensley also expressed anger with the board’s decision to only temporarily reduce the levy to .67 percent from one percent for one year starting Aug. 1, 2016. She doesn’t think the levy should have ever been doubled to one percent in the first place.

“If people left it alone, we wouldn’t be near as ticked off as we are now,”

she said.That is one area where Minogue

agreed with Wensley.“I think they should have cut the

levy back quicker than they did, and I think they should continue cutting back,” he said.

“We don’t want them out buying property and spending money to use it up. You’re exactly right, we’ve got to be lean and mean and effi-cient.”

The association collected $22 million in levies in 2016, which was $4.4 million more than it had bud-geted. Levy revenue has taken a big jump the last couple of years because of strong pea and lentil prices and plentiful acres.

Wiens said the board has until the end of the current fiscal year to determine what the levy will be going forward. And he had the last word on the contentious refund-able levy debate.

“I realize that there may be a feel-ing that we’re not listening to what you are saying, but we’re trying to determine what all producers are saying to the board and that’s what we used to make our decision.”

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Root rot is rampant in Saskatche-wan pea and lentil fields.

The disease was found in 80 to 90 percent of the fields sampled in 2016, and 40 to 50 percent of them had moderate to severe symptoms.

A p h a n o m y c e s i s t h e m o s t destructive form of root rot. It was found in 70 percent of the lentil fields and 60 to 70 percent of the pea fields.

Pea fields often had either no signs of the disease or 75 to 100 percent infection levels. Lentils tended to have less of the extremes and more fields where there was 25 to 50 percent positive samples, indicating infestation had started but had not yet spread over the entire field.

The other big players in the root rot complex are two species of fusarium — avenaceum and solani — which were found in 80 to 90

percent of the fields. They are dif-ferent pathogens than fusarium graminearum, which causes head blight in wheat and barley.

Agriculture Canada plant pathol-ogist Syama Chatterton told farm-ers attending her CropSphere pre-sentation in Saskatoon last week that there is compelling evidence to suggest aphanomyces and fusarium have a synergistic rela-tionship.

In a greenhouse setting it takes 750 oospores of aphanomyces per gram of sterile soil from the brown soil zone to get a disease severity of three, which is a moderate infec-tion.

The threshold level fell to 100 oospores per gram of brown soil when researchers used raw soil that had not been sterilized.

“This just drives home the mes-sage that the presence of other micro-organisms, particularly fusarium, is really impacting the disease progression,” she said.

Another finding is that dark brown soils are most conducive to harboring the disease, l ikely because of the high clay content. Aphanomyces is a water mould that requires moisture to thrive.

Ethaboxam, which is sold as Intego Solo, is the only product registered for controlling aphano-myces in pulses. It has to be applied in conjunction with another seed treatment.

Chatterton said the product works well in the early stages of crop development, but by flower-ing and pod fill there was not much difference in disease severity com-pared to untreated fields.

Phostrol, which is not registered on pulse crops, has shown good efficacy against water mould pathogens. However, it does not provide full-season protection.

In-crop fungicides are useless

because the chemical does not reach the roots.

The only effective method of con-trol when aphanomyces is present is to take a six to eight year break from growing peas and lentils on that field, allowing the oospores to degrade and decay.

Chatterton’s lab is working on a variety of root rot research projects. The most important one is to develop a method for quantifying how much inoculum is in a field.

Current tests reveal whether aphanomyces is present or not, but not at what level. A more robust test would help producers decide whether they want to risk planting peas and lentils.

Other research projects include studying the effect of soil amend-ments such as lime and calcium and using brassica cover crops to sup-press the disease, but all of those control methods are fraught with practical challenges.

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BY ROBERT ARNASONBRANDON BUREAU

MINOT, N.D. — Nearly every farmer has seen the photos from the 1930s, in which a massive dust storm is about to strike a small town or a drift of soil is almost cov-ering a house.

What North American farmers may not know is that soil in the air or in a drift contains more than just particles of dirt.

It also contains a massive amount of nutrients.

Dave Franzen, a soil scientist with North Dakota State University, has spent several years reviewing soil survey records for the state. What he found was startling and trou-bling: an incredible amount of nitrogen and phosphate has blown or washed away over the last 75 to 125 years because topsoil loss equals nutrient loss.

“Topsoil contains a (lot) of phos-phate and we lost an additional six inches (15 centimetres) of topsoil from 20 million crop acres since 1940. I think that’s conservative,” said Franzen, who spoke at the Northern Prairies Ag Innovation Alliance (NPAIA) conference held Jan. 10-11 in Minot.

“We would have lost an addition-al 12.5 million tons of phosphate and 40 million tons of nitrogen. That is the equivalent of 75 years of N and P application at present rates.”

Franzen presented the topsoil loss estimates at the Minot confer-ence to remind farmers why zero tillage is critical for sustainable crop production.

He was likely speaking to the con-verted because the NPAIA was for-merly known as the Manitoba-North Dakota Zero Tillage Farmers Association.

Franzen didn’t look at historical soil surveys for Saskatchewan, but it’s possible that Western Canada has lost similar amounts of topsoil.

“I can’t imagine that it didn’t hap-pen there, too,” he said. “If you look at the old soil record, and I would challenge somebody to do that, then look at what’s left there today. I think you would see a big differ-ence.”

He did look at soil surveys for Divide County in the northwestern corner of the state, immediately south of Estevan, Sask.

According to soil records for the county:• Surveyors in 1900 found 40 cm of

very black topsoil in the county.• As of 2017, the area had no black

topsoil. It has light gray topsoil.• Franzen estimated the loss of

topsoil at 30 cm.He discovered comparable losses

in other parts of North Dakota.

“I was completely shocked. I knew we lost some soil across the state, but I didn’t think it was all that much,” he said.

“When I started to look at it and realizing how much it was and how (many) nutrients were in it, it was just amazing.”

The NPAIA conference also fea-tured a demonstration of wind ero-sion.

Chris Augustin, an NDSU exten-sion agent and soil health special-ist, hooked up a leaf blower and used a tray of soil to simulate how much soil can be blown off a field in a short period of time.

“When we have these open win-ters, we see a lot of sediment sitting in the ditches,” he said.

“With a loamy soil, an 80 acre field under conventionally tilled soy-beans, the erosion would be some-where around 25 to 30 tons per year. Five tons would be some-where around the thickness of a dime.”

Franzen showed modern day photos of soil accumulating in a ditch next to a field. He said the amount in the ditch is a fraction of the total loss because most of it would have blown for tens or hun-dreds of kilometres.

“Every time you see that (soil in the ditch), multiply it by about 10.”

Franzen’s historical numbers for soil loss are estimates, but Augustin thinks the figures are low.

“I honestly think he’s being pretty conservative,” he said.

“We’ve degraded our soils. With adoption of no till, minimal till, cover crops … we’re starting to swing that pendulum.”

Growers in Manitoba’s Red River Valley and other parts of the Prai-ries with heavier soil often say zero tillage is impossible in their region.

Franzen has heard the same argument in North Dakota, but he doesn’t buy it.

“I don’t hammer them on the head and tell them, ‘you’re wrong, you’re wrong,’ but there are people that have been successful … even through these wet years at making it work,” he said. “It’s mostly a fear. We have examples of success.”

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Survey reveals ‘amazing’ soil loss in Great Plains region

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BY ED WHITEWINNIPEG BUREAU

ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, Man. — The top 10 list of weeds in Mani-toba has undergone radical changes in the last 20 years.

Green foxtail remains the big-gest crop pest, but barnyard grass, volunteer canola and yel-low foxtail have joined it in the upper rankings of most-seen weeds, r ising from relative obscurity in 1997.

But for every rise there must be a fall, and formerly vexa-tious weeds, such as Canada thistle, redroot pigweed and wild mustard, have fallen down the rankings.

Quackgrass, once a great men-ace, has fallen from 10th to 38th place.

“These are big shifts,” Ingrid Kristjanson, a Manitoba Agricul-ture crop production adviser in Morris, said during St Jean Farm Days, held Jan. 4-5.

Every 10 years, Manitoba Agri-culture surveys fields to see what is growing within crops. Results are affected by moisture, variable growing conditions and random occurrences inherent in any test, so the list won’t hold true for every field in every situation.

However, real changes are being seen.

Volunteer canola is wide-spread now, following heavy rotations and shifts in herbicide use, while wild oats and Canada thistle have also been affected by products and practices.

Dandelions were only the 20th most common weed in 1997, but today are up to seventh.

Each crop has its own list of problem weeds, with today’s spring wheat facing (in order of severity) green foxtail, wild buckwheat, wild oats and volun-teer canola. Oats confront green foxtail, barnyard grass, yellow foxtail and wild buckwheat. Canola struggles with green fox-tail, wild buckwheat, volunteer wheat and yellow foxtail.

Soybeans combat volunteer

canola, wild buckwheat, barn-yard grass and dandelions.

The biggest gainer among the weeds has been biennial worm-wood, which now functions as an annual, Kristjanson said. It moved 30 places higher on the list.

Glyphosate has helped hammer down some old problems like quackgrass, but could eventually create another group of rising problems as resistance spreads.

“Be on the lookout for oddball things,” said Kristjanson.

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MANITOBA’S WORST OFFENDERSThe last 20 years have seen big shifts in weed populations in Manitoba fields. Barnyard grass and volunteer canola have sharply risen, while quackgrass and Canada thistle have fallen.Manitoba’s ranking of weed species, based on relative abundance: 1997 2002 2016Green foxtail 1 1 1Wild buckwheat 3 3 2Barnyard grass 12 4 3Wild oat 2 2 4Volunteer canola 19 10 5Yellow foxtail 27 30 6Dandelion 20 9 7Redroot pigweed 5 6 8Volunteer wheat 22 12 9Round-leaved mallow 21 16 10Smartweed (pale) 7 8 12Canada thistle 4 5 13Lamb’s quarters 9 7 14Perennial sow thistle 8 20 19Wild mustard 6 11 23Quackgrass 10 13 38

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Saskatchewan Environment Min-ister Scott Moe said the organiza-tions that passed the resolution were all consulted when the new regula-tions were being drafted in 2012.

He said he plans to reach out to the organizations soon because there seems to be confusion about Bill 44 and the regulations it will enforce.

The goal of the new policy is to control and organize water flow into the province’s streams and creeks. The old strategy imple-mented in 1986 was a complaints-based system.

“We tried to streamline this sys-tem and change it from that com-plaints-based system to a permit-based system,” said Moe.

That explains why the province is getting rid of the appeal board.

“The appeal board has become somewhat redundant with a system that is based on permits as opposed to in-depth complaints,” he said.

He said he has also heard that some farmers are concerned that all drainage ditches created before 1981 will need to be permitted. They were exempt under the old rules.

“The reasoning behind that is that a works that is moving water will move exactly the same amount of water whether it was built pre-1981 or post-1981,” said the minister.

Lastly, there was plenty of con-sternation about fines for non-compliance increasing from a maximum of $10,000 to $1 million.

Moe said that was init iated because the fines will now be enforced through the Environmen-tal Management and Protection Act, the same act that governs land-fills and shorelines.

The fines are no longer adminis-tered by the Water Security Agency and will be administered by a judge through court action. Moe said he can’t recall a fine that has ever been close to $1 million.

Myles Thorpe, president of the Saskatchewan Farm Stewardship Association, said water manage-ment policy has massive financial implications.

The difference between managed and unmanaged fields on his farm near Spy Hill, Sask., is $85 per acre. He figures $1.9 billion would be lost to the Saskatchewan economy if farmers weren’t allowed to prop-erly drain water from their land.

Thorpe said a lot of unanswered questions remain about the new regulations and the bill that will enforce them, such as what defines an adequate outlet and whether farmers are allowed to infill.

Another area of concern is that the balance of power is shifting to the Water Security Agency.

“The landowner doesn’t have a lot of power left when you read the bill,” he said.

Part of the reason the association drafted the resolution that made the rounds at CropSphere was to create awareness about the water management rule changes.

“A lot of people didn’t know there was any changes happening,” said Thorpe.

The bill is heading for a second reading this spring and then will be debated in the legislature.

“We’re hoping to make amend-ments to this bill and we need chang-es to the overall policy too,” he said.

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BY ED WHITEWINNIPEG BUREAU

ST. JEAN BAPTISTE, Man. — Marginal gains are the best hope for most Red River Valley farmers when it comes to soil compaction.

The deck is loaded against growers who operate in heavy, wet soils.

“A lot of this is not within our control,” said soil management specialist Marla Riekman during St Jean Farm Days held Jan. 4-5.

“There is a little bit within our control. We need to figure out exactly what it is.”

Riekman said tilling soil when it is dry or saturated carries low risk for compaction.

Unfortunately, most valley farmers have to work their soils when they are moist or wet, exac-erbating the problem.

Soil gets compacted by the weight of machinery that squeez-es out the air pockets between particles of soil.

When soil is very dry it doesn’t stick together, and when it is satu-rated the water keeps the air pockets intact.

Farmers can improve their situ-ation with compaction by being careful where they drive, how much their tires are inflated and how they till.

C o m p a c t i o n i s a p ro b l e m because it limits root space, eliminates room for moisture and eliminates air pockets — essential for certain beneficial

chemical and other processes to occur efficiently.

Farmers have a number of tools and practices to minimize com-paction, including track and tire choices, tillage methods and tim-ing.

But many times in the Red River valley, such as during the recent wet years, not much can be done that doesn’t exacerbate the prob-lem or offers only slight relief.

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AGRONOMY

Soil compaction plagues Red River Valley farmers

Department of Agriculture has started to wind back its ending stocks forecast.

Statistics Canada says Canada produced 18.4 million tonnes of canola this year, the second largest crop ever. The trade thinks it is closer to 19 million tonnes, but that matters little because demand is record strong and the ending stocks should still be manageable.

“I’m not bearish canola,” Jubin-ville said.

He thinks the next month or so could see some weakness, but

prices should then turn higher at winter’s end.

“We’ll likely see it in basis im-provement at first, and then a grinding improvement in the futures in the April, May, start of June period.”

He said he would start to sell new crop if a combination of November futures and basis created a net fall delivery price of about $485 a tonne or $11 a bu.

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BY D’ARCE MCMILLANSASKATOON NEWSROOM

Crop market analyst Mike Jubin-ville could have taken a different spin on the famous opening line of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.

That’s because Jubinville, head of ProFarmer Canada, thinks crop markets in 2017 will be character-ized as neither the best of times nor the worst of times.

He could have also noted that Dickens’ book was about the French Revolution and today we have another upending of the nor-mal order with the election of Don-ald Trump as U.S. president, who promised to renegotiate trade pacts and spend billions on infra-structure.

Jubinville thinks crop market trends in 2017 will likely continue 2016’s range-bound trade with prices toward the bottom when the trade focuses on large global pro-duction but rallying to the upper end of the range when focus turns to robust trade.

“We are not in a bull market nor a bear market in the big picture. We are in a sideways market,” Jubin-ville told a crowd at CropSphere last week.

“We have to recognize sideways trends and incrementally market some when we get into the upper end of the trading range.”

However, the market this year faces uncertainty outside of the usual supply and demand consid-erations.

Trump is the biggest wild card.For example, Jubinville said

Trump vowed to name China a cur-rency manipulator in his first 100 days in office. During the campaign he said his administration would bring cases against the Asian coun-try for what he said was unfair trade behaviour.

A trade war with China would be troubling for American agriculture and for crop and livestock markets globally.

The United States has already launched a complaint with the World Trade Organization alleging that China subsidizes its wheat production.

China has ruled that American exports of dried distillers grain, a byproduct of ethanol production, are subsidized and last week increased import duties on the product.

“Already the saber rattling is hap-pening,” Jubinville said.

It is impossible to predict what Trump will do, but the stakes are high. China buys almost 60 percent of U.S. soybean exports.

China could start to manipulate its soybean imports to remind the U.S. of its importance.

“They can’t stop taking U.S. soy-beans because they need them, but they will probably start to diversify their supply as best they can,” Jubinville said.

If so, China could try to buy more South American soybeans, and there might also be potential for increased imports of Canadian soybeans and canola.

Trump policies could also affect the value of the American dollar.

The value of the greenback against a basket of other world cur-rencies is near record high.

The relative strength of the American economy has its central bank raising interest rates, which has encouraged an inflow of capi-tal into the U.S. dollar, lifting its value.

A strong American dollar nor-mally discourages exports of American agricultural products and other commodities because it makes them more expensive for those with weak currencies.

As well, if weak U.S. crop exports lead to rising year end stocks, then

crop prices on the big U.S. futures exchanges fall.

The impact for Canadian farmers could be moderated if the loonie is weak. However, Trump has also promised $1 trillion in infrastruc-ture investment with incentives for massive private investment in areas such as bridges, roads and airports. The lower taxes he prom-ises could also spur business expansion.

This would likely fuel inflation and spur demand for commodities generally, which could lift crop prices and the Canadian dollar at the same time, he said.

“The best canola prices we had, $12, $13, $14 a bushel, came when we are at par or better to the U.S. dollar,” he said.

“Conversely, some of the worst prices I remember, $6 a bushel back in 1999-2000, was when we had a 65 cent dollar.”

OILSEEDS

Oilseed prices in 2016 were sup-ported by a disappointing soybean harvest in Brazil and palm oil pro-duction problems in Indonesia and Malaysia because of El Nino dryness.

Rain has returned to palm pro-ducing regions, and production is expected to bounce back. Brazil is forecasting a record crop, but Argentina has a problem with excess rain.

The U.S. produced a record soy-bean crop, and its year end stocks were forecast to grow considerably. However, export demand is top-ping expectations, and the U.S.

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(China) can’t stop taking U.S. soybeans because they need them, but they will probably start to diversify their supply as best they can.

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Like any portfolio of invest-ments, a farmer’s crop mix is a combination of risk-ver-

sus-reward decisions.But that’s not something every

farmer thinks about when consid-ering their cropping choices. Most of the attention and interest goes into the projected bottom line profit or loss generated by harvest-ing average yields, not what hap-pens if there is a market or produc-tion disaster.

Realizing the risk is less fun to ponder but the most important part of hedging.

It’s one thing to swing free acres into a crop that promises a good return, but different crops bring different possible financial risks, and the likely most-profitable crops aren’t necessarily the safest f rom loss i f something goes wrong.

That’s a reality the folks at Mani-

toba Agriculture’s farm manage-ment branch have tried to address in their annual analysis of likely costs and profitability of crops.

Their Guidelines for Estimating Crop Production Costs 2017 con-tains useful measures of likely yields over break-even yields, and AgriInsurance coverage over operating costs.

They are useful calculations and good reminders that insurance coverage plays an important and often-neglected factor in assess-ing a crop’s risk.

If somebody is new to a crop like corn and is unsure about what yield they can reasonably expect while easing into it, understand-ing how well their production costs are insured is valuable.

The analysis also offers a profit-ability scenario if prices dropped 10 percent and yields dropped five percent. Those are pretty modest downside assumptions.

Every farmer has different costs, likely yields and crop-growing abilities, so profitability scenarios will be different for every farm. But looking at relative risk versus potential reward is always a good idea.

Farmers can (and do) come up with lots of their own calculations of outcomes for various scenarios.

What happens if prices drop by 50 percent? What if they get cut off from crucial markets and can’t deliver for months. (Think of BSE and the 2013-14 grain transporta-tion crisis.)

What happens when interest rates surge?

Inside the Manitoba crop pro-duction costs and profitability report, the “what if?” scenario with lower yield and prices is described as a “sensitivity analysis,” — a common way of describing vari-ous scenarios in financial analy-ses.

Yo u m i g h t r e m e m b e r t h e “stress tests” placed on Ameri-can and European banks after the 2008 financial meltdown, in which banks had to prove they could survive various scenarios to avoid heavy financial burdens being placed upon them by regu-lators.

Average yields and today’s for-ward prices might provide the main bottom line projections most farmers are looking at now, but it’s well worth a farmer’s time to analyze several scenarios and see how attractive those crops would be if things got really bad or really good.

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WHEAT

Global wheat stocks at the end of the current crop year are expected to be record large, but a big part of that is held in China and will likely never reach world trade.

Even so, world stocks are ample, and the U.S. is carrying a larger amount than usual. Its stocks-to-use ratio will rise to a burdensome 50 percent.

Farmers there have slashed win-ter wheat acres by 10 percent, so 2017 production should drop. However, the big carry-in will mean the U.S. will likely still have ample supply.

Quality is an issue, and this is reflected in a stronger than usual premium of Minneapolis hard red spring wheat over Kansas and Chi-cago winter wheat. March Minne-apolis recently hit the highest level since July 2015.

There are technical chart signs that maybe US$6 a bu. is possible.

“I don’t think that is where we are going unless there are produc-tion problems materializing in the winter wheat crops,” Jubinville said.

Growers in the Black Sea region and Europe have not cut winter wheat acres, he said. Also, demand could take a hit if the spread between high protein quality wheat and lower protein product becomes so wide that millers alter their process to use lower quality grain.

FLAX

With a small crop in Canada, the price has rallied with a few adver-tised old crop bids at $12.50 with flash bids to $13 a bu.

He has sold 40 percent of his flax and is holding off on future sales. Canadian sales to Europe have suffered ever since the Triffid issue, and Black Sea product has taken its place.

However, the Russians might now have trouble meeting a new European maximum residue limit on the herbicide haloxyfop. Cana-da does not use the herbicide and so might be able to take advantage with sales to Europe.

“The risk-reward to me suggests upside,” Jubinville said.

“How far? I have no idea.”

PEAS

Even with the big Canadian har-vest, peas rallied this fall to provide growers with a happy surprise.

Looking ahead, Indian growers have seeded what might be a record crop. Weather in India is better than last year, but a region in the centre of the country has become a bit dry.

“The market isn’t necessarily responding to this issue yet, but another month of drier than nor-

mal conditions might start to get some trade attention,” he said.

However, a potential negative for the market is the approaching deadline for India to extend its waiver for its fumigation policy, which allows Canadian product to come in without being fumigated. If the waiver were not extended, that would hurt prices.

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Winter wheat acreage in the U.S. is down 10 per-cent from last year and is

the smallest area since 1909.That information from the U.S.

Department of Agriculture Jan. 12 supported wheat prices last week, but gains were limited as the department also raised its outlook for 2016-17 domestic and world wheat ending stocks.

The USDA pegged winter wheat seeding at 32.38 million acres, down 3.76 million acres.

Minneapolis hard red spring wheat futures, already supported by somewhat tight stocks of high-p ro t e i n , q u a l i t y w h e at, ro s e to more than US$5.82 a bushel

Jan. 13, the strongest level since July 2015.

U.S. markets were closed Jan. 16 for Martin Luther King Day as this column was written, but there was potential for wheat futures to fall when trading resumed following the weekend storm that brought moisture to dry parts of the Ameri-can southern Plains.

On the other hand, European traders were closely watching a cold snap spread west this week. The cold was already in Germany, but snow protected winter wheat. However, there were exposed fields in France that could be hurt i f t h e t e m p e ra t u re w a s c o l d enough.

Soybean prices also rallied on the USDA report as the department lowered its estimate of the 2016 American crop to 4.307 billion bu., down about 60 million bu.

It cut the forecast for year-end soy stocks by a similar amount to 420 million bu.

Further year-end stock cuts are possible once the USDA increases its export forecast to reflect the

exceptionally strong movement so far this crop year.

Offsetting the price-positive effect of the stocks cut was a two million tonne increase in the fore-cast for Brazil’s soybean crop.

The department left its Argentina forecast steady at 57 mil l ion tonnes, even though that country’s farmers are struggling with excess rain.

More heavy rain this weekend added to the flooding problems, and more rain is expected Jan. 20-24.

The Rosario grains exchange said last week that 30 percent of the 48.4 million acres slated for soybeans in Argentina this season are under “red alert” conditions due to excess moisture, Reuters reported.

The USDA slightly trimmed its estimate of the U.S. corn harvest and the forecast for year-end stocks but not enough to lift futures sig-nificantly for that crop.

ACREAGE, STOCKS

Wheat hits 18 month high on USDA

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Depending on who you believe, canaryseed prices could either see a modest increase in 2017 or a modest decrease.

Either way, it could be a long time before growers see a return to the glorious days of 40 cent per pound canaryseed.

“We’ve had a situation where we’ve had fairly stable supplies and fairly steady demand, so we’re kind of in a market that’s been quiet and prices have been going sideways,” said Chuck Penner, a market ana-lyst with LeftField Commodity Research.

“I think in the next year, we could see a little bit of a dip in acreage … a l o n g w i t h a l i t t l e b i t b e t t e r demand, so I think we could see a little bit firmer prices.”

Penner, who spoke at the Canary-seed Development Commission of Saskatchewan’s annual general meeting, said it’s unlikely that growers will see a huge bump in canaryseed prices any time soon.

He said prices in the 25 cent per lb. range are possible, but anything beyond that is probably not in the cards. Canadian canaryseed sup-plies are keeping markets in check.

Current bids have been consis-tently in the 21 to 22 cent per lb. range.

Penner said he expects Canadian production to drop slightly this year, based on slightly lower acre-age, but some growers who attend-ed the meeting were not so sure.

Prairie farmers planted 265,000 acres of the crop last year and they had exceptional yields, at least on fields that were harvested.

By some estimates, 10 to 15 per-cent of the 2016 crop —25,000 to 40,000 acres — wasn’t harvested

last fall.Canaryseed winters well and can

be harvested the following spring with small yield losses.

It means Canadian growers could harvest another 20,000 tonnes in the spring, adding to already ade-quate supplies.

David Nobbs, a canar yseed grower and trader, said canaryseed stocks need to be drawn down before there is any hope of a rally.

He suggested that prices are more likely to dip below the 20 cent per lb. mark before they show any signs of strengthening.

Nobbs said Canadian production of 180,000 tonnes last year and carry-over stocks of 50,000 tonnes have pushed supplies to the 230,000 tonne range.

Canadian exports are projected to be in the range of 150,000 tonnes.

Canadian exports could also be affected by Argentine production.

Producers in Argentina are

expected to produce 45,000 tonnes based on average yields and increased plantings.

That could provide additional competition for Canadian product, particularly in South America.

Unlike Penner, Nobbs suggested that Canada’s canaryseed acreage could increase this year, despite already burdensome supplies.

“My view is that acreage will go up this year, not down,” he said, noting durum acres might go into canary-seed.

“A lot of people who had record canaryseed yields last year also had commercial salvage durum that they’re trying to dump into feed markets for $2 or $3 a bushel.

“Unfortunately, I don’t think it will take much to push the market below 20 cents…. In the demand environment that we’re in, it’s not going to take a lot of extra product.”

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How many bushels of quality oats are in Canadian farmers’ bins?

That is a top of mind question for oat users and one that will deter-mine pricing for the rest of the crop year.

Worries about supply appear to be causing users to issue special short-term premium offers to get supply without sparking a general rally.

Mike Jubinville, head of Pro Mar-ket Canada, told a crowd at Crop-Sphere in Saskatoon last week that posted bids for old crop are $2.70 to $2.80, but there are also flash bids.

“I keep hearing of these isolated opportunities, not advertised. Just contact the growers,” he said, with offers in southern Saskatchewan of $3 or more and in southern Manitoba of $3.40-$3.50.

“They are there for a couple of days. They get supply and then it’s back down, and they lay in the weeds.”

He advised growers with oats to present price offers to buyers that can be triggered when these flash contracts become available.

Kenric Exner, merchandising manager with Viterra, also said the unknown supply of quality product is the key factor in the market.

He told the crowd at the Sask-Oats annual meeting at Crop-Sphere that western Canadian farmers cut oat plantings by about 500,000 acres, or 15 per-cent, last spring because of weak prices.

And then bad weather damaged a large part of the crop.

“About 600,000 acres were hit by adverse weather,” he said.

“The question is how much of that can go into milling and the

(high quality U.S.) horse feed markets.”

Not everything that was snowed on in October was wrecked.

“In certain pockets we had spe-cific damage, but other areas we’ve been able to get a milling grade,” he said.

“I don’t know if we know when we will run out of milling quality, but I’m sure we will find out in April, May June, July. If it is as dire as some think, then we will see a rally, either in the basis or the futures.”

However, both doubted that the tighter supply would generate exceptional new crop bids.

Exner expects new crop bids will be $2.75 to $3 in southern Sas-katchewan and $3.25 to $3.50 in southern Manitoba.

Jubinville thinks that given the tight supply situation, buyers might be motivated to offer the top end of Exner’s range.

“Most of the product carried over into next year is likely going to be of lesser quality. The amount of milling quality oats has got to be a concern for the Cheerios makers,” he said.

“I think $3 a bu. buys new crop oats all day long in Saskatchewan, so I’d look at that as a potential target.”

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HOGS RALLY

Stronger pork prices helped to lift hog cash prices. Packer operat-ing profits remain very attractive, as the gap between the cut-out value and the cash hog price is wide.

The U.S. national live price aver-age for barrows and gilts was US$46.92 per cwt. Jan. 13, up from $42.30 Jan. 6.

U.S. hogs averaged $61.63 on a carcass basis Jan. 13, up from $55.21 Jan. 6. The U.S. pork cutout

was $80.54 per cwt. Jan. 13, up from $79.01 Jan. 6.

T h e e s t i m a t e d U. S. w e e k l y slaughter for the week to Jan. 13 was 2.402 million, up from 2.088 million the previous week.

Slaughter was 2.297 million last year at the same time.

In Canada, the Jan. 13 Signature Five price was C$143.18 per 100 kilograms, up from $136.98 the previous week.

The price was $64.95 on a per hundredweight basis, up from $62.13 the previous week.

BISON STEADY

The Canadian Bison Association said Grade A bulls in the desirable weight range sold at prices up to C$6.25-$6.40 per pound hot hang-ing weight. U.S. buyers are offering US$4.60 with returns dependent on exchange rates, quality and export costs.

Grade A heifers sold up to C$6-$6.20. U.S. buyers are offering US$4.40. Animals outside the desirable buyer specifications may be discounted.

LAMBS STRONGER

Ontario Stockyards Inc. reported that 654 sheep and lambs and 15 goats traded Jan. 9.

All lambs sold steady to stronger. Lean sheep sold steady with thick-er and fatter types under pressure. Goats sold steady.

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FED CATTLE STRONGER

The fed steer weighted average was $160.31 per hundredweight, up 84 cents, and heifers were $159.77, up $1.53.

Dressed sales were steady to $4 per cwt. higher with most of the dressed trade at $268-$270 delivered.

The cash-to-futures basis weak-ened to +$4.73 but remained sea-sonally strong.

Weekly western Canadian fed slaughter to Jan. 7 was up seven per-cent at 23,497 head.

Positive feeding margins are pull-ing market supplies forward. In the week to Jan. 7, western Canadian steer carcass weights were 33 pounds less than the same week last year.

Weekly exports to Dec. 31 were modest at 1,913 head. Fed exports for 2016 totalled 315,115 head, up 46 percent from 2015.

Market-ready supplies are expect-ed to increase moderately as warm-er weather allows an opportunity to catch up on weight sorts.

However, reduced packer margins could slow slaughter until cut-out values can be revived.

The market is a long way from the highs of 2015, but prices are still strong, creating profit opportuni-ties.

However, increasing meat sup-plies and uncertain global demand might push the market lower through the next couple of years of this cycle.

This recent rally is likely not a full trend change in prices but points to some market stability.

COWS FIRM

D1, D2 cows ranged $90-$104 to average $97.75 per cwt., up 25 cents from the previous week.

D3 cows ranged $80-$95 to aver-age $86.50. Rail grade cows ranged $185-$190.

Alberta D1, D2 cows have a strong $20 per cwt. premium over U.S. utility cows.

The price spread between cows and bulls is seasonally narrowing.

The narrowest cow-bull spread in 2015 and 2016 was in January and widened in the spring.

With fewer cows on feed, cow slaughter volumes will likely trend below year ago levels.

Alberta prices are strong relative to the U.S. and Ontario markets, but there still is the potential for more seasonal price strength.

FEEDER STEERS FIRM

Prices for heifers heavier than 800 lb. appeared slightly softer than the last week of 2016, while 500-650 lb. steers were stronger.

Short keep steers were also stron-ger.

Ontario steers heavier than 900 lb. are the strongest since late March, while Alberta steers are the strongest since early September.

Ontario steers 800 lb. and heavier are at a $12-$15 premium to the Alberta market.

There is no premium for February delivery over the cash market, but basis levels remain historically strong.

Steers 825-910 lb. for February delivery ranged from $169.25-$171.25.

Traditionally feeder exports pick up in the first quarter, but this year strong basis levels should keep more cattle in Canada.

Bred cows ranged $1,200 to $1,700.

U.S. BEEF LOWER

Following a seasonal trend, U.S. boxed beef prices to Jan. 12 were sharply lower with Choice at US$189.10, down $12.42 per cwt., and Select at $186.55, down $6.84 per cwt. Weekly Canadian cutout to Dec. 25 saw AAA at C$257.64, up $6.37 per cwt. and AA at $243.80, up $4 per cwt.

Even with the week-over-week increase, the Canadian cutouts were eight to nine percent lower than the same week last year.

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For our final edition of 2016, The West-ern Producer published 28 stories on innovation in agriculture that dem-

onstrated just how science and technology will propel the extraordinary promise of agriculture.

How far can we go? There is a sense that we can go as far as is needed to feed an esti-mated population of 9.7 billion people by 2050. To that end, global demand for food will rise by 60 percent.

It is worth highlighting a few of the promising research efforts that have the potential to play major roles in changing agriculture.

At its new breeding facility near Pike Lake, Sask., Bayer is looking to generate new hybrid wheat varieties that could boost crop yields, even under unstable growing conditions, by up to 10 percent.

And perennial wheat also offers a host of possibilities. One estimate put the devel-opment about 15 years away, but if it hap-pens, it could serve human consumption and animal forage, without reseeding the next year.

So-called manufactured meats, which use a plant-based protein to replicate the texture and taste of animal meat, could be a game-changer.

It’s not likely a danger to the demand for livestock meat in the near future. It may be a generational issue, and as developing countries grow economically, the demand for real meat will still increase.

Still, if veggie-meat is a significant part of the future, it will affect the demand for crops, as well as possibly mitigate the envi-ronmental effects of a higher demand for meat-like products.

Nutritionally, the food industry is on the verge of a revolution. Customers using the Saskatchewan Food Industry Develop-ment Centre in Saskatoon are incorporat-ing pulse proteins into snacks and foods that will also boost fibre content.

Over at POS Bio-Sciences, research includes splitting proteins into different

types to create new ingredients and enhance nutrition.

Out on the fields, driverless robotic trac-tors have captured the imagination of farmers, and they are already on the mar-ket. It’s thought that robotics will be able to help with seeding and spraying, as well as harvesting.

However, all this is dependent on how regulators react to this high-powered answer to labour shortages.

Aquaponics is showing promise. Fish provide nutrients for micro-organisms that convert the organic fish waste and toxic compounds into soluble nutrients for plants that use them for growth while puri-fying the water for fish production.

If that sounds like a mouthful, it could well be. It’s thought this “closed loop” in food production could work well in north-ern climes, providing vegetables and fish year round, thus enhancing nutrition and health.

Then of course there is CRISPR-Cas9, which allows researchers to delete or insert genes in a plant’s DNA. If it’s not subject to regulatory approval, the longer-lasting mushroom that has already been devel-oped could be the first in a flood of changes to crops that will see widespread appeal.

A Canadian-led international study seeks to document information about dairy cows to create a database that could validate genomic predictions.

The bottom line is to breed animals that could reduce feed costs by more than $100 per cow per year and decrease methane emissions by up to 26 percent. Profitability with environmental payoffs is the ultimate win-win.

The investment in science and technol-ogy — if they’re truly given a chance — is the promise of feeding a nine-billion per-son world.

OPTIMISTIC FUTURE

Exciting opportunities seenin agriculture’s crystal ball

CRAIG’S VIEW

Bruce Dyck, Barb Glen, Brian MacLeod, D’Arce McMillan and Michael Raine collaborate in the writing of Western Producer editorials.

Rather than proceeding with steps to make the levy refundable, you had a survey conducted, wasting more of our money. It’s all just trying to circumvent the resolution.

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Donald Trump doesn’t offi-cially become the United States’ 45th president until

Jan. 20, but his pending move into the oval office is already causing a ripple effect north of the border.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has shaken up his cabinet, a move widely believed was done to better position Ottawa’s front bench with the emerging cabinet south of the border.

International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, whose back-ground in agriculture had made her a key contact for many farm groups, is now Canada’s foreign

affairs minister. A former business reporter in the U.S., pundits have said they expect Freeland was picked because of her connections in Washington and beyond.

She replaces former Liberal leader Stephan Dion, who was not given another cabinet post. Dion has said he will “deploy my efforts outside active politics.” He has not said what he plans to do.

François-Philippe Champagne, formerly the parliamentary secre-tary for Finance Minister Bill Mor-neau, takes over for Freeland in the international trade file, although he will not be responsible for Can-ada-U.S. trade. That prestigious file, which includes the North American Free Trade Agreement, remains under Freeland’s watchful eye.

Champagne is an international lawyer who has worked in several high profile business positions before entering politics in 2015, winning the rural Quebec riding of Saint-Maurice-Champlain. He is now responsible for Ottawa’s trade

ambitions with countries such as China, Japan, and Britain.

To divide up the international trade file between ministers is not a typical move. Trade is usually left under one ministry.

The decision to keep the U.S. file with Freeland has most in Otta-wa’s inner network expecting Canada’s relationship with the U.S. to be one closely watched by the prime minister’s office and other key financial advisers.

Dominic Barton, who chairs Marceau’s economic growth com-mittee, has cautioned that Ottawa will need to keep a close eye on Washington, warning that the pres-ident-elect’s position on trade and taxes may result in Ottawa needing to act and respond quickly.

Barton has repeatedly urged Ottawa to consider agriculture as a key sector for Canadian economic growth going forward.

Ottawa’s shake-up also has impli-cations closer to home. Winnipeg MP MaryAnn Mihychuk, who had been Canada’s employment minis-

ter, was booted from cabinet. Her removal was somewhat expected after she was relieved of most of her internal cabinet responsibilities last summer.

Status of Women Minister Patti Hadju will now take over the employment file, which includes Canada’s beleaguered Temporary Foreign Worker Program, a key file for Canada’s agriculture industry.

The cabinet will gather in Cal-gary for a retreat Jan. 23, which is a week before Parliament resumes in Ottawa. Politicians come back Jan. 30.

The prime minister’s office has said it also expects to soon shuffle its parliamentary secretaries, whose terms are up this month.

The cabinet shake-up isn’t the only recent shuffle in Ottawa: Agri-culture Canada has a new associate deputy minister.

Tom Rosser, formerly from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, has taken over for former Agriculture Canada assistant dep-uty minister Greg Meredith.

Meredith left Agriculture Cana-da in December to head Ontario’s agriculture and rural affairs min-istry.

Prior to his appointment, he had been Ottawa’s lead bureaucrat in the ongoing negotiations of the next agriculture policy framework. Rosser will now head those discus-sions.

Meanwhile, south of the border, all eyes are on the still vacant U.S. agriculture secretary position. Outgoing U.S. Agriculture Secre-tary Tom Vilsack resigned Jan. 13, leaving America’s top farm posi-tion vacant.

As of press time Jan. 16, there was still no word on who would fill the position.

The agriculture secretary is a key point of contact for Canadian offi-cials, including Agriculture Minis-ter Lawrence MacAulay, whenever there are disputes or concerns on Canadian-U.S. agriculture files.

CABINET SHUFFLE

Prime minister prepares for Trump reign with new faces, portfolios

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KELSEY JOHNSON

Kelsey Johnson is a reporter with iPolitics, www.ipolitics.ca.

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BY PAUL HAGERMAN

On the dusty back roads of Kenya, farmers with one or two acres of land talked

about some of the difficulties they face — a disease in cassava, inade-quate fodder for their animals, degraded soils and moulds in maize.

And in two world-class research centres nearby, scientists from the Consultative Group on Interna-tional Agricultural Research ( C G I A R ) t a l k e d a b o u t t h e i r research into these very problems.

It should be no surprise. CGIAR, which aims to “innovate on behalf of poor people in developing coun-tries,” conducts much of the agri-cultural research that drives prog-ress in developing countries.

The organization is made up of 15 research centres, each specializing in a central aspect of developing country agriculture, encompass-ing commodities such as rice, maize, wheat, fish, potatoes, forests and livestock, agro-ecosystems such as tropical agriculture, semi-arid tropics and agroforestry, and cross-cutting agricultural issues such as climate change, food policy and gender equity.

This past summer I visited two of these centres in Kenya: the Inter-national Livestock Research Insti-tute (ILRI) and the World Agrofor-estry Centre. I also met with other organizations and hundreds of small-scale farmers who are direct beneficiaries of such agricultural research and development work.

The World Agroforestry Centre has identified trees that improve the crops with which they are planted.

For example, faidherbia leafs out

in the dry season, which reduces evaporation from crops, and sheds its leaves in the wet season, which contributes mulch and fertility to the crops.

Similarly, ILRI is tackling live-stock-related problems faced by small-scale farmers in Kenya and elsewhere and finding sustainable solutions to poverty and hunger.

For example, its scientists are researching livestock disease vac-cines and fodder crops as ways to improve animal and fodder tech-nologies, species and farming sys-tems that will work for small-scale farms raising a few animals.

ILRI is home to the Biosciences east and central Africa (BecA)-ILRI Hub, a high-tech facility where scientists from about 40 countries work in state-of-the-art laborato-ries doing research that provides a

foundation for eventual applica-tion in the field.

Among the many BecA-ILRI Hub topics are those looking for maize varieties and storage systems that m i n i m i z e c o nt a m i nat i o n by moulds and techniques for identi-fying moulds before infected maize can make people or animals sick.

A key goal of the BecA-ILRI Hub is to build the capacity of African sci-entists to solve African agricultural problems.

O ve r t h e p a s t 1 5 y e a r s, t h e BecA-ILRI Hub has trained almost 300 African scientists, at least one-third of whom are women, and worked with more than 50 partner organizations on the continent.

Amidst the lab coats, pipettes and autoclaves, I found scientists work-ing on cassava and banana breed-ing, milk production and process-

ing, and insurance systems to enable small crop and livestock farmers to withstand climate shocks.

With a strong agricultural sector at home, Canada has long recog-nized the importance of agricul-tural research in achieving devel-opment goals and has been a sig-nificant donor to CGIAR. In fact, it was a major contribution from Canada that enabled the establish-ment of the BecA-ILRI Hub in the early 2000s.

One of the current projects that Canada supports at ILRI seeks to improve the livelihoods of 135,000 smallholder households in Ethio-pia. This project focuses on im-proving the production and mar-keting of livestock products (every-thing from bees to beef ) and irri-gated crops.

Farm couples are trained togeth-er to encourage gender-equitable wealth creation.

Global Affairs Canada has indi-cated it plans to re-focus its inter-national assistance on the poorest and most vulnerable people, espe-cially women and girls, and to seek clean economic growth while deal-ing with the realities of climate change.

A significant new investment in small-scale agriculture would be an excellent way to achieve these goals with support for agricultural research through groups such as CGIAR and ILRI as a key compo-nent.

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SMALL FARMS AND INNOVATION

How ag research can reduce poverty

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research aims to help small farmers, such as these in Kenya. | FILE PHOTO

Paul Hagerman is director of public policy at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. He led a tour of 11 Canadians to Kenya in July to learn about food security issues.

One of the goals of The West-ern Producer is of course to talk to farmers, but also to

talk to people that farmers would like to talk to if they had the oppor-tunity. (It is one of Managing Editor Michael Raine’s many mantras.)

To that end, this time of the year is when our journalists are dispersed to various parts of the country — indeed the continent — to chat with experts in various fields, as it were. Just after the harvest, our reporters fan out in earnest to bring the latest ag news to readers.

Last week kept us busy. Livestock editor Barb Glen covered the Banff Pork Seminar, while in Saskatoon the big shows were CropSphere and Crop Production Week — look for reports from Robin Booker, Michael Raine, Sean Pratt, D’Arce McMillan and Brian Cross.

As well, Calgary-based reporter Barb Duckworth was in Denver, Colorado, for the National Western Stock Show. Look for coverage in this week’s Livestock section.

Also, this week Barbara is at the Alberta Federation of Agriculture meeting in Camrose, and back there next week for the Canadian Bull Congress, before heading off to Nashville, Tennessee, for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Associa-tion convention and then onto the Dairy Farmers of Canada policy conference in Ottawa. (If you saw Barbara’s travel agenda for the next two months, you’d take a deep breath before contemplating such a schedule.)

Next week, look for coverage online and in print (the following week) from Brandon of the 40th Manitoba Ag Days show by Rob-ert Arnason, Ed White and Ron Lyseng.

This week on page 60 you’ll also see a report on sustainable farming from Arnason, who attended the Northern Prairies Ag Innovation Alliance, which held its conference last week in Minot, North Dakota.

Also next month, reporter Sean Pratt is off to the annual Commod-ity Classic in San Antonio, Texas. This is one of the busiest and big-gest shows and conferences of the year in North America, so you can expect to look for good coverage in the Producer both in print and online.

Later in February, Karen Briere from our Regina bureau is off to Ottawa for the Canadian Federa-tion of Agriculture’s annual meet-ing, where she’ll cover the key top-ics of the meeting: globalization, natural resources and strategies for growth.

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Calf prices have bounced upward in the past couple months, but prices during

the fall calf run were a huge disap-pointment. Any thoughts of a meaningful increase in the Cana-dian cattle herd have evaporated.

If you go back to 2013, calf prices were dismal throughout the year with prices for 500 to 600 pound steers in the range of $160 to $170 per hundredweight during the fall run.

Calf prices took off in 2014 with a steady upward trajectory through the year. They were $270 to $290 per cwt. for most of the fall run, and it was happy days and good profits for

producers. Analysts believed the good times would continue to roll.

It sure looked like that through the first eight months of 2015 with prices often in the $320 range. However, prices slipped dramati-cally as the fall run approached. Most calves sold that fall for prices similar to the previous year at $270 to $290. It was still a great price, but not the level expected early in the year.

The decline that started in the second half of 2015 continued until late 2016. Last fall, most 500 to 600 lb. calves sold in the $170 to $190 per cwt. range, only marginally bet-ter than the dismal year of 2013.

Calves were worth $1,500 to $1,600 each in 2014 and 2015, but that dropped to about $1,000 last year. Good times were short lived. Efficient producers are still making money, but it isn’t an easy way to make a living.

At $1,000 for steers and with heif-ers worth a bit less, a producer would need to sell more than 250 calves in the fall to achieve a gross

return of $250,000. That suggests a herd of around 300 cows, which is far higher than the average size.

By comparison, with average yields of wheat and canola at the prices prevailing after harvest, a grain producer could hit a gross return of $250,000 with only about 800 acres.

What’s more, the net return on the grain farm would probably be higher.

A cow herd of 300 is a significant operation. A grain farm with 800 acres is considered tiny.

A gross of $250,000 a year is the starting size for making a family living from the farm. A gross return of $500,000 is still a small grain farm — 1,600 acres — but a cow herd of 600 is far bigger than most.

Grain prices and returns won’t stay strong indefinitely, but grow-ing crops looks far more enticing than raising calves.

The Manitoba government has a stated objective of increasing the provincial beef herd. Good luck with that.

There was no appreciable in-crease in the herd when calf prices were lucrative in 2014 and 2015. Yes, breeding stock prices were sky high, but that’s to be expected when an industry is profitable.

Bred cows and replacement heif-ers are much cheaper now. It might be a good time to invest if you have faith that calf prices will improve. Instead, the precipitous drop in 2015 and much of 2016 has proba-bly shaken confidence.

Labour is another issue. A 1,600-acre grain farm can get by

with labour from a couple of family members. A cow herd of 600 is likely to require more people, who are also willing to do more manual work. And it’s a lot easier for grain farmers to have an off-farm winter job or to take a winter vacation.

As a grain producer, I admire my cattle farming neighbours, but I wouldn’t change places with them.

HURSH ON AG

KEVIN HURSH

Kevin Hursh is an agricultural journalist, consultant and farmer. He can be reached by e-mail at [email protected].

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EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK

BRIAN MACLEODEDITOR


CARBON TAX AND GLOBAL WARMING

To the Editor:

Billions of taxation dollars are being squandered by debatable claims of global warming. Careful taxation levy must be reconsidered in view of Canada’s responsibility for less than two percent of all car-bon gasses generated by more then 192 countries. Carbon tax will do the most harm on Canadian econ-omy and least benefit on foul emis-sions.

Understandably, public scorn, related to debatable global warm-ing by carbon gas claimants, must be re-examined. Nature’s positive

workings with timely climatic con-ditions will accommodate plant and animal life on planet Earth, far into the distant future.

The human race must base any complaint on production inability entirely if there is visible decline in plant and animal production with less taxation exploration.

Humans must begin to study and understand nature’s complicated warning systems, especially thun-der, lightning, earthquakes, in addition to forest fires and carbon spewing volcanoes.

Reliable, reproduction cycles by nature include timely planting dur-ing early spring and humans must seriously review and compare her provisions with its regular plant and animal reproductive ability.

Secondly, closely examine the age of planet Earth with its centu-ries of gas emissions and methods of disaster, just to mention a few, volcanoes, forest fires, thunder and lightning.

Reducing carbon contamination from volcanic eruptions would be difficult to control by only the use of carbon taxation.

On the Canadian Prairies and the central Great Plains of America, planting has been conducted whenever nature permits freedom from known elements, but are richly blessed with nature’s pro-duction of vital ingredients.

Reaping commences at the will of nature during the stage of maturity through dry, warm climatic condi-tions.

To avoid the disaster of produc-tion bankruptcy at the expense of further discriminating against the local economy, cash conscious debatable, scientific, global warm-ing editorials must discontinue.

Reduction of carbon gas is possi-ble but not probable. Who will will-ingly separate their lucrative life-style and return to horse and buggy transportation or retrieve ash from a wood-burning furnace while an unlimited, cheap supply of natural gas remain located on our back doorstep?

In addition, one must consider the unbearable taxation increase on Canada’s debt load.

John SeierstadTisdale, Sask.

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CANNABIS USE

To the Editor:

With the recent recommenda-tions concerning cannabis in this country, I sure hope our biased provincial government takes note and takes the recommendation for storefront dispensaries to operate safely in this province. Do not con-done corporate greed over human need.

It is a crime against humanity to continue on with these prohibi-tionist ways.

It will be appalling if this provin-cial government lags behind the rest of the country as it is an urgent public health issue that needs to be resolved in a feasible manner.

Jackie SmithBroadview, Sask.

TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL

To the Editor:

Regarding the TB problem in southern Alberta, it’s a dirty shame they have to destroy the whole herd, with today’s technology. It’s a mys-tery they don’t have a better way to deal with the problem. When I was a kid in England in the 1940s, they had a program for TB-free herds, where they tested the entire herd and only killed the animals that tested posi-tive. If I remember right, if you had no positives for two years you were considered TB-free. If it worked then, why not now? There has to be a better way.

Alex Broadbent,Lac La Biche, Alta

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Flax commission attempts expansion in Mexican marketSaskFlax sees potential in livestock feed to boost omega-3 in meat and eggs

A doe mule deer seeks shelter from the cold wind among straw bales north of Gleichen, Alta. | KEVIN LINK PHOTO

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on expanding sales.“We see huge potential in Mexi-

co,” executive director Wayne Thompson told delegates attend-ing the SaskFlax annual general meeting at CropSphere.

SaskFlax has been part of three trade missions to Mexico in the last three years and is planning to attend another this year.

The initial one organized by the Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership emphasized the health benefits of various crops grown in the province, including flax.

“ T h e c o n s u m e r i n Me x i c o, they’re receptive to it,” Thompson said in an interview following his presentation.

“They’re looking for that product. They’re looking for that informa-tion.”

China, Western Europe and the United States accounted for 93 per-cent of Canada’s flax exports in 2015-16.

SaskFlax would like to expand that core group to include Mexico, which bought 2,279 tonnes of Cana-dian flax that year compared to the 351,392 tonnes shipped to China.

Thompson said one of the most appealing things about Mexico is its proximity.

It is easier to develop and service a new market in North America than it is to do the same halfway around the world, especially with the limited levy dollars to fund such market development activi-ties.

The group wants to use Saskatch-ewan Agriculture’s market knowl-edge and contacts to figure out the best way to build consumer aware-ness in the Mexican market about the health benefits of flax.

Thompson said it makes sense to work with an agency that knows the market.

“Let’s take advantage of that infor-mation instead of farmers trying to do their own thing on their own and trying to recreate the wheel.”

Mexicans are struggling with the same health issues as the rest of North America, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, so there is an opportunity to boost sales by informing the public about the health benefits of consuming flax.

However, Mexican consumers eat different foods, have a different level of income and even shop dif-ferently than other flax customers, so it is essential to devise a market-ing plan that meets the needs of that market.

There is also a big opportunity in teaching Mexicans how feeding flax to livestock boosts the omega-3 levels in meat and eggs.

“There’s huge egg production in Mexico,” he said.

The plan is to start small by focus-ing the initial marketing plan on Mexico. The initiative will be ex-panded to include other regions of the world if that proves successful.

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Europe’s tweaking of a maximum residue limit for a herbicide has fundamentally altered flax markets for years to come, says the presi-dent of the Flax Council of Canada.

In the summer of 2016, the Euro-pean Commission tightened its tolerance level for haloxyfop to .01 parts per million from .1 parts per million.

Haloxyfop is a Dow grass herbi-

cide that is used extensively on flax crops in Russia and Kazakhstan but is not registered in Canada.

The policy change is allowing Canada to regain some of the mar-ket share it has lost to Black Sea flax

in the European Union.“There have been around 100,000

tonnes of exports into Europe from Kazakhstan and Russia that have been rejected so far,” Don Kerr told delegates attending the Saskatch-

ewan Flax Development Commis-sion’s annual general meeting held during CropSphere.

That rejected flax is being rerout-ed to other markets. Oil World esti-mates China will buy 120,000

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tonnes of Black Sea flax in 2016-17, up from 71,000 tonnes the previous year.

It forecasts that Turkey will buy 170,000 tonnes of Black Sea flax, up from 81,000 tonnes.

Oil World is forecasting a slight uptick in Canadian exports to the EU of 160,000 tonnes, up from 147,000 tonnes a year ago. Kerr thinks the export program will be higher than that with about 50,000 additional tonnes heading to the EU.

He believes there are sales on the books that will materialize when the St. Lawrence Seaway reopens for business in the spring.

As well, he does not believe Rus-sia and Kazakhstan will be able to sort out the problem by next year because growers in the region have relied so heavily on haloxyfop.

“This issue is probably not going to go away, not in the near term,” Kerr said in an interview following his presentation.

The incident has opened the door for Canada to ship more flax to a market that buys about 700,000 tonnes of the crop a year.

“There is a huge potential for increase there,” he said.

Canada may lose some Chinese sales to Russia, but Kerr does not expect too big of a dent in that busi-ness because there is huge demand for flax in China, and an extra 50,000 tonnes of discounted Rus-sian flax can easily be absorbed.

“Overall it is a net benefit to Cana-da because the European market is a much higher priced market,” he said. “It could prove to be very ben-eficial to prices going forward.”

That is especially true in a year like this when Canadian produc-tion is down 39 percent and there are quality problems with the crop.

“With better prices for flax, we might see acres come back a little bit next year,” said Kerr.

He is forecasting a 20 to 25 per-cent increase in flax plantings, which would be a partial recovery from the 50 percent decline last year.

The intriguing thing is what hap-pens with Turkey. Is it a stopgap market or an emerging new outlet for flax?

“We don’t really know what is happening to that seed,” Kerr said.

“We think it is being crushed and the oil is being exported into China.”

He said market research is need-ed on why Turkey is suddenly buy-ing so much flax and whether that will last.

It reminds him of how the Chi-nese market opened up to Canadi-an flax in the wake of the Triffid incident, in which an unapproved line of genetically modified flax was found in Canadian shipments to Europe.

Flax prices plummeted as a result of the incident, and China sud-denly entered the market because the price was right. It has since become Canada’s top export mar-ket by a long shot.

“ Turkey in the future could become a much bigger market for flax,” said Kerr.

That would be good for global flax demand, although Canada wouldn’t be able to compete with Black Sea flax in that market.

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Canadian flax exports to the European Union could increase by 13,000 tonnes, says an analyst. | FILE PHOTO

BLACK ANGUS GRAND CHAMPION Canadian Western Agribition - Regina, SK

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EF TITAN 545 Exhibited By: Enright Farms - Renfrew, ON

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2016 RBC BEEF SUPREME CHALLENGE CHAMPION FEMALE

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Olds Fall Classic - Olds, AB

DMM BLACKBIRD 105A, Calf: DMM INTERNATIONAL 54D

Exhibited By: Miller Wilson Angus - Bashaw, AB

RED ANGUS GRAND CHAMPION Olds Fall Classic - Olds, AB

RED LAZY MC GLITTERBUG 165B, Calf: RED LAZY MC GLITTERBUG 112D

Exhibited By: Lazy MC Angus - Bassano, AB Additional Owner: Laurie Morasch

BLACK ANGUS GRAND CHAMPION Farmfair International - Edmonton, AB

SC MICH ROSE 30X, Calf: SC MICH ROSE 613D Exhibited By: Serhienko Cattle Co. - Maymont, SK

Additional Owners: Michelson Land & Cattle, Wheatland Cattle Co.

RED ANGUS GRAND CHAMPION Farmfair International - Edmonton, AB

RED WILDMAN MISS STOCKY 420B, Calf: RED WILDMAN CIMARRON 605D

Exhibited By: Blairs.Ag Cattle Co. - Lanigan, SK

GELBVIEH GRAND CHAMPION Farmfair International - Edmonton, AB

VV WIND ZONG 45Z, Calf: STON DON JUAN 26D Exhibited By: Stone Gate Farm - Vermilion, AB

SIMMENTAL GRAND CHAMPION Farmfair International - Edmonton, AB

LFE BS VIOLET 641A, Calf: MADER/CS/RUST CRUZ 3D Exhibited By: Mader Ranches - Carstairs, AB

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Lloydminster Stockade Round-Up - Lloydminster, SK Manitoba Ag Ex - Brandon, MB

Prince Albert Exhibition (Supreme Champion Female) - Prince Albert, SK

ROYAL S PRIDE 42B, Calf: TWST SHE’S A HEARTBREAKER 66D Exhibited By: Twisted Sisters Livestock - Lloydminster, AB Additional Owners: Meghan Hoffman, Brianna Kimmel

CHAROLAIS GRAND CHAMPION Canadian Western Agribition - Regina, SK

Farmfair International - Edmonton, AB Lloydminster Stockade Round-Up - Lloydminster, SK

SVY STARSTRUCK 409B, Calf: SVY STARSTRUCK 617D Exhibited By: Serhienko Cattle Co. - Maymont, SK

POLLED HEREFORD GRAND CHAMPION Canadian Western Agribition - Regina, SK

Farmfair International - Edmonton, AB Olds Fall Classic - Olds, AB

RVP 51X ABLAZE 7A, Calf: HARVIE RSK MS AUTUMN 32D Exhibited By: Harvie Ranching - Olds, AB

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LIMOUSIN GRAND CHAMPION Canadian Western Agribition - Regina, SK

Farmfair International - Edmonton, AB Lloydminster Stockade Round-Up - Lloydminster, SK

Manitoba Ag Ex - Brandon, MB GREENWOOD PLD ZOOM BLOOM, Calf: GREENWOOD DAISY

PYN 42D Exhibited By: Greenwood - Lloydminster, SK

Additional Owner: Boss Lake Genetics

2016 BULL FINALISTSCHAROLAIS GRAND CHAMPION

Olds Fall Classic - Olds, AB HRJ CROWD FAVOURITE 515C

Exhibited By: Johnson Charolais - Barrhead, AB

BLACK ANGUS GRAND CHAMPION Manitoba Ag Ex - Brandon, MB

YOUNG DALE HIGH DEFINITION 185B Exhibited By: Young Dale Angus - Carievale, SK

RED ANGUS GRAND CHAMPION Lloydminster Stockade Round-Up - Lloydminster, SK

RED TER-RON HOT SHOT 10B Exhibited By: Ter-Ron Farms - Forestburg, AB Additional Owner: Wood Coulee Red Angus

POLLED HEREFORD GRAND CHAMPION Lloydminster Stockade Round-Up - Lloydminster, SK

K-COW BRIER 280B Exhibited By: K-Cow Ranch - Elk Point, AB

CHAROLAIS GRAND CHAMPION The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair - Toronto, ON

SOS CHUCKWAGON 54C Exhibited By: Springside Farms - Ardrie, AB

Additional Owners: McKeary Charolais, Big Johnson Charolais

SIMMENTAL GRAND CHAMPION Farmfair International - Edmonton, AB

Olds Fall Classic - Olds, AB HARVIE RED SUMMIT 54B

Exhibited By: Harvie Ranching - Olds, AB

CHAROLAIS GRAND CHAMPION Canadian Western Agribition - Regina, SK

Farmfair International - Edmonton, AB PCC ROME 437B

Exhibited By: Prairie Cove Charolais - Bowden, AB Additional Owner: Cederlea Farms

HORNED HEREFORD GRAND CHAMPION Canadian Western Agribition - Regina, SK

TRIPLE-A 2059 BAM BAM ET 11B Exhibited By: Triple A Herefords - Moose Jaw, SK

SIMMENTAL GRAND CHAMPION Canadian Western Agribition - Regina, SK

WHEATLAND ROYAL FLUSH 435 Exhibited By: Wheatland Cattle Co. - Bienfait, SK

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MINOT, N.D. — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has often been accused over the last 18 months of going too far with his off-colour tweets and abrasive language.

Myron Blumenthal has a different opinion: Trump doesn’t go far enough.

“I have been a big Trump sup-porter … mainly because of his rhetoric. I think he should turn it up,” said Blumenthal, who attend-ed the Northern Prairies Ag Inno-vation Alliance conference, which was held in Minot Jan. 10-11.

Blumenthal, a grain farmer from

Drake, North Dakota, agreed with Trump when it comes to U.S. trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.

“In my opinion, every trade agree-ment the United States has been involved in, we say ‘what do you want?’ And we just accept whatever somebody else wants and we get the short end of the stick.”

With Trump threatening to rip up or renegotiate NAFTA, companies and farmer associations in Canada are worried about disruptions to agri-food exports to America.

Blumenthal isn’t convinced Trump will crack down on imports of Canadian grains, oilseeds or livestock, but he believes that

AGRICULTURAL TRADE

Many U.S. farmers oppose Canadian import competition

Canadian producers have an unfair advantage.

He said growers north of the bor-der use pesticides and other prod-ucts that Americans cannot.

“The Canadian (farmers) don’t have the same rules and require-ments as the United States does,” he said. “The regulations for our chemicals are much stricter on what we can use.”

Besides regulations, Blumenthal said imports from Canada depress grain prices in North Dakota.

“As a producer, I need the best price I can possibly get for my product. Any competition is detri-mental.”

Jarrod Stubbe, who farms near Devils Lake, N.D., said producers in his region have concerns about imports of Canadian wheat.

However, if Trump proposes a tax on Canadian grain, livestock or meat, it could start an agricultural trade war.

“(It’s) kind of a double edged sword,” Stubbe said. “Because it could turn around (on us).”

Other producers at the Minot event agreed with Stubbe, particu-larly those who farm close to the Canadian border.

Greg Busch, who farms three kilometres from Saskatchewan in Columbus, N.D., said he was upset about wheat imports in the past, particularly when the Canadian Wheat Board was accused of dump-ing durum into the U.S. market.

However, trade now goes both ways, and North Dakota farmers sell grain to Canadian elevators.

“I sent probably 50 percent of last year’s wheat crop north,” Busch said.

“We’ve always sent our pulses up to processors in Saskatchewan.”

Lance Glasoe doesn’t fret about imports of Canadian grain and oilseeds. He said Canadian pro-duction is built into the broader market price, so U.S. farmers shouldn’t worry.

As well, he said Trump’s tough talk on NAFTA is mostly strategic.

“He’s a businessman and a nego-tiator, and he’s building a position of strength to negotiate from,” Gla-soe said.

“He’s got everybody (panicking).”North Dakota farmers at the

Minot conference had a range of opinions on Canadian imports, but they agreed on one thing: country-of-origin labelling.

Nearly every producer supported COOL for beef, pork and other meat in the United States.

“I think the Canadians could label their product down here,” Glasoe said.

“I don’t see where that would be a liability for the Canadians.”

The Canadian government and most of the country’s farmers have a different opinion. The federal government, along with the beef and pork industries, fought the U.S. for nearly a decade over COOL.

Canada took the U.S. to the World Trade Organization, arguing the labelling law unfairly discriminat-ed against Canadian products and violated international trade rules.

The WTO agreed with Canada several times, and the U.S. Con-gress repealed COOL legislation in December 2015.

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Grains-oilseedsWheat: $596 million

Soybeans: $250 million

Barley: $153 million

Oats: $42 million

Canola seed: $270 million

Canola oil: $1.8 billion

Canola meal: $1.3 billion

Livestock-meat

Live cattle: $1.66 billionWeanling pigs: $243 million

Feeder pigs: $213 million

Beef: $1.5 billion (approximately)

Pork: $1.45 billion (2014 data)

Canada-U.S. agri-food tradeU.S to Canada: $25 billion

Canada to U.S: $22 billion

Top U.S. agri-food exports to Canada

Fruit and nuts: $3.5 billion

Vegetables: $2.7 billion

Prepared vegetables, fruits and nuts: $1.9 billion

Meat: $1.6 billion

Beverages: $1 billion

CANADIAN EXPORTS TO UNITED STATES (2015)

Sources: Agriculture Canada, Statistics Canada, Canadian Pork Council, Canadian Meat Council

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FAR LEFT: There were 100 cupcakes to mark 100 years of 4-H in Alberta during a Jan. 7 celebration among 4-H clubs in Lethbridge. Ruth Sprague of the Brooks and Area 4-H Multi Club stands behind the treats.

ABOVE: Southern Alberta 4-H members participate in a game designed to help kids introduce themselves and meet others.

LEFT: Artwork made from seeds was one of many displays at the event.| BARB GLEN PHOTOS

BY BARB GLENLETHBRIDGE BUREAU

Catt le, cupcakes and camp games converged Jan. 7 at the 4-H 100th anniversary celebrations in southern Alberta.

About 30 4-H clubs from across the province south of Calgary had trade show booths to show the diversity of 4-H.

“There’s an image that 4-H is just agriculture, or more specifically cows and cooking maybe, but as

you can see walking around (look-ing at) all the different displays, there’s a ton of different things that you can do in 4-H for a project,” said Andy Pittman, Alberta 4-H’s south-ern region celebration committee chair.

“And the project is more sort of the carrot that gets the kids in.”

He said organizing a project, whether it’s learning photography, auto mechanics or quilting, is only part of the 4-H experience.

Once in a club, members learn

life skills, including public speak-ing, community service and book-keeping.

Marie Logan has been involved in 4-H for about 50 years as a member and as a leader.

Now in Alberta’s 4-H Hall of Fame, she continues to be involved with the 30-member Lomond 4-H Club.

“It really doesn’t matter what your project is. Any project will be fine. It’s all the other skills you learn, about being a team player,

about meetings, public speaking, and community service. There’s a huge volunteer component too that we try to teach the kids.”

One pavilion at Exhibition Park in Lethbridge was dedicated to the event, which included displays of seed art, photo albums of livestock raised and sold, various craft, sew-ing and photography projects and games and quiz challenges to intrigue visitors.

There are nearly 1,000 4-H mem-bers in southern Alberta, guided by

about 300 leaders. Last week’s event was the begin-

ning of Alberta 4-H’s 100th year celebrations that will include 4-H Fever in Olds, Alta., this summer and a major leaders conference planned for Edmonton in March.

“There is more planned, but I wouldn’t say this is a kickoff. Each region has the ability to do their own event, to cater to their region,” said Pittman.

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Alberta 4-H celebrates 100th yearEvent kicks off celebrations across the province, with a leaders conference planned in March in Edmonton

BY KAREN BRIEREREGINA BUREAU

The move to a single provincial health authority should improve emergency services in rural areas, says the president of the Saskatch-ewan Emergency Medical Services Association.

Kyle Sereda said the association supports a more effective and effi-cient EMS system. SEMSA repre-

sents 75 of 104 services that re-spond to about 90 percent of the ground ambulance calls. EMS ser-vices are provided by a mix of pub-lic, private, non-profit, volunteer and First Nations operators.

The panel that examined the health system structure said con-solidating EMS planning, dispatch and delivery would address gaps in the system.

Sereda said SEMSA has advocated

for better co-ordination to reduce variations in service delivery.

“Right now, you phone 911 in community X, it’s going to be differ-

ent than community Y,” he said. “It probably shouldn’t be. There

should be an expectation that an ambulance will come (and) here’s

the level that will come.”A map included in the advisory

panel report shows that large areas of rural Saskatchewan are served by EMS sites with only basic life support service. Panel member Dr. Dennis Kendel said centralized dispatch would help standardize patient care by dispatching the closest, appropriate vehicle.

EMERGENCY SERVICES

Rural Sask. may benefit from move to single health authority

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It would be more logical to have that distribution of expertise based on the needs of citizens.

DENNIS KENDEL, HEALTH SYSTEM REVIEW MEMBER

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Each day is a new beginning and an opportunity to write your own happy ending.

When we moved into our home, the first thing that I placed in the kitchen was

a mug with this saying. Seeing it each morning through

sleepy eyes gives me a reminder to make each day a refreshing new start.

This year I resolved not to make resolutions. I do not need a certain time of year to make changes, but rather I need commitment to mak-ing healthy choices. Since it seems that I am in charge of the kitchen at our house, I thought that I would focus on that.

First I started with giving the place a good cleaning. Clear off the counter tops, clean out the refrig-erator and freezer and empty the pantry of dated dry goods or items that are unhealthy or that you are never going to use.

When we renovated our kitchen, I packed everything up and lived out of storage containers for a few months. I only used about one-half of the kitchen contents that I was keeping in cupboards and drawers.

I turned to reducing and recy-cling until the kitchen was clutter free, efficient and filled with only things that I love to look at, use and eat.

I decided to store food in glass containers when possible and got rid of any plastic that was not labelled BPA free.

I believe you are not as inspired to cook nutritious meals and take pride in them if you walk into a

kitchen that is crowded, disorga-nized, unclean and unsightly.

Cooking, for me, must be simple with ingredients that are easy to find and to clean up. One dish entrees are a staple as we settle into the winter schedule.

They are easy to keep warm when everyone cannot eat at the same time and tasty even when reheated.

Be sure to add fresh fruits and vegetables to your menus, either incorporated or as sides. Consume protein such as lean meat, eggs, nuts or Greek yogurt at each meal or snack and aim for as many colours as possible.

Consume healthy fats such as flax seed, avocados, hemp seeds and healthy oils with your menus for aiding in digestion and skin and hair health.

Use produce that is in season or that can be stored such as purple cabbage or apples.

Finely chopped cabbage in a green salad also offers an interest-ing twist to your usual greens.

STIR FRY GREEN SALAD

1 c. converted brown 250 mL or white rice, uncooked 1 tbsp. oil 15 mL 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips 3 c. assorted chopped 750 mL vegetables (broccoli, red

pepper, carrots and snow peas)

4 c. loose salad greens 1 L 1/2 c. zesty Italian 125 mL dressing 2 tbsp. soy sauce 30 mL

Cook rice as directed on package. Heat oil in large non-stick skillet.

Add chicken, cook and stir five min-utes or until cooked through. Add vegetables, cook an additional two minutes or until vegetables are ten-der crisp. Place rice in large bowl. Add chicken mixture, salad greens, dressing and soy sauce. Toss to coat. Serves four.

Source: Kraft Canada

ONE DISH CHICKEN

1 can cream of 284 mL mushroom soup 1 1/4 c. water 300 mL 1 c. uncooked white 250 mL rice (I use converted) 1/4 tsp. paprika 1 mL 1/4 tsp. ground black 1 mL pepper dash of cayenne pepper seasoning salt to taste 1 1/2 c. peppers cut into 375 mL strips 1/2 c. diced onion 125 mL 6 chicken breasts

Preheat oven to 350 F (180 C).Mix soup, water, rice, paprika,

pepper and seasoning in two-quart shallow baking dish. Top with pep-per strips and diced onion. Place the chicken, then season with additional paprika and ground peppers. Cover.

Bake the chicken for approxi-mately one hour and fifteen minutes until the sauce is bubbling and the chicken is lightly browned.

Note: You could also prepare this dish in the slow cooker on high for about four hours or on low for seven hours. Serve with a green salad and avocado slices.

Source: www.allrecipes.com.

GLUTEN-FREE PEANUT BUTTER OATMEAL COOKIES

The oats and peanut butter give these gluten-free cookies some stay-ing power since they offer protein and fibre.

3/4 c. butter, softened 175 mL 1 tsp. vanilla extract 5 mL 1 c. peanut butter 250 mL 1 1/2 c. packed brown sugar 375 mL 3 eggs 4 1/2 c. rolled oats 1.12 L 1 tsp. baking soda 5 ml 1 c. semi-sweet or 250 mL dark chocolate chips dash of salt for taste

Preheat oven to 350 F (180 C). In a large mixing bowl, mix the butter,

vanilla, peanut butter and brown sugar together. Add eggs and beat.

Add oats, soda, chocolate chips and a dash of salt. Mix. Roll dough into balls (1 inch) and place on an ungreased cookie sheet, then flatten slightly with a fork. Bake 300 F (150 C) for 12 minutes. The cookies look moist when coming out but flatten and dry as they cool.

BERRY TOPPED HOT FUDGE CAKE

Aside from a warm apple crisp, this chocolate indulgence is fre-quently requested at our house. It’s so delicious and the preparation is so easy that it’s often a special Sunday dessert. You can mix the ingredients in the baking dish.

Enjoy this dessert topped with berries to add vitamin C and fibre. Serve warm and top with a dollop of whipped or ice cream.

1 c. flour 250 mL 3/4 c. sugar 175 mL 6 tbsp. cocoa, divided 90 mL

2 tsp. baking powder 10 mL 1/4 tsp. salt 1 mL 1/2 c. milk 125 mL 2 tbsp. oil 30 mL 1 tsp. vanilla 5 mL 1 c. brown sugar 250 mL 1 3/4 c. hot water 425 mL

Mix the flour, sugar, two table-spoons (30 mL) cocoa, baking powder and salt together in an ungreased nine x nine inch (22 cm) square baking dish or casserole of approximately the same size. Stir in the milk, oil and vanilla until smooth (it will be quite thick). Spread out onto the bottom of the baking pan.

Combine the brown sugar and remaining cocoa, then sprinkle on top of the batter. Pour the hot water over the top, but do not mix. Bake at 350 F (180 C) for 40 minutes.

Serves up to nine depending on serving size. Source: My Mom’s Best Meal from Taste of Home.

A rainbow of healthy eating includes purple cabbage and avocados.| JODIE MIROSOVSKY PHOTO

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New, healthy recipes to start 2017

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JODIE MIROSOVSKY, BSHEc

Jodie Mirosovsky is a home economist from Rosetown, Sask., and a member of Team Resources. Contact: [email protected].

BY KAREN MORRISONSASKATOON NEWSROOM

Starting a conversation with con-sumers about agriculture can be as easy as showing farm photos to a seat mate on an airplane.

Adrienne Ivey, who spoke at the Saskatchewan Young Ag Entrepre-neurs conference in Saskatoon Jan. 5, uses those opportunities along with her blog, View From the Ranch, to influence public opinion and correct misleading information.

The rancher from Ituna, Sask., who received the Saskatchewan Outstanding Young Farmers award in 2014 with her husband, Aaron, cited the latest advertising cam-paign by Hunt’s purporting not to use genetically modified tomatoes in its products.

“There are no commercially pro-duced GM tomatoes anywhere in

the world,” she said. In another ad from People for the

Ethical Treatment of Animals, a ma n h o l d s a b l o o d i e d l a m b, something she says does not accu-rately reflect the process of sheep shearing.

“Where are (consumers) getting the other side?” said Ivey. “They are targeting us. Until we start taking control back and telling our own story … then that’s all they see.”

Ivey advised reaching past farm

families to begin sharing tales of farm life. For her, that is the mini-van squad of soccer moms like her.

She compiles images each year of her farm’s progress, saying such snapshots tell her own story.

“A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video is worth a thou-sand pictures,” said Ivey.

She uses social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Insta-gram and takes her messages to children through Agriculture in the

Classroom. Ivey also recommend-ed establishing links about farm-ing with politicians and policy-makers.

She said groups such as Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan and Ag More than Ever help educate the general public about modern agri-cultural practices and food pro-duction.

“We need as an industry to stop arguing about the right and wrong ways of farming and start working together as a community to move ourselves forward,” said Ivey.

“When we bash each other, we’re pushing us backwards.”

Ivey avoids challenging extreme viewpoints, calling it a waste of time.

“Arguing with extremists online just brings attention to them and allows them a platform, and you’re not going to change their mind,” she said.

Chris Vancaeseele, a SYA director and agrologist from Preeceville, Sask., said incorrect or bad infor-mation needs to be challenged.

“You can’t let them get away with it as it will hurt us in the end,” he said.

Farmers prefer working in their fields and are uncomfortable with public speaking about their world, he added.

“Our silence isn’t helping us. We need to step up and talk about it.”

Vancaeseele used a recent road trip in the United States to share information about his world, how he is improving the soil every year and his passion for agriculture.

“Once you sit down and show them the positives, they are very willing and open-minded and can see why we do things the way we do,” he said.

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Farmers, industry need to take control of ag storyRancher shares information and photos about farm life and writes a blog to correct misleading information on agriculture

A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video is worth a thousand pictures.

ADRIENNE IVEYSASKATCHEWAN RANCHER

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Going to school doesn’t im-mediately spring to mind when thinking about vaca-

tions, but hitting the books turned out to be a highlight of recent trav-els to Antigua, Guatemala.

We took Spanish language classes at Proyecto Linguistico Francisco Marroquin (PLFM), a non-profit foundation specializing in teach-ing Spanish and local Mayan lan-guages. It was a return to the same school we attended more than 30 years ago at the beginning of an extended trip through Central and South America.

We thought that it was time for a refresher.

Students can attend half or full days for as many weeks as they like. We opted for the full seven-hour day, which can be quite intensive with one teacher per student. While students spend most of the school day in the classroom, there is a lot of flexibility.

If you feel like getting outside, you and your teacher could walk to a nearby colonial church and discuss its history or architecture or talk about food in the local market.

Our fellow students ranged in age from teens to retirees and came mostly from the United States and Canada, with a surprising number of Europeans and Asians as well.

A few were there for school credit or because they need Spanish in their work, but most were just like us, simply wanting to improve their Spanish for travel. We met a couple from Manitoba who have come here for several winters to take classes for a week or two before travelling.

Class time is only part of the edu-cation. Like most students, we opt-ed to stay with a local family where we ate our meals. We were fortu-nate that our host, Elvira, loved to cook and was fond of showing off Guatemalan dishes.

If host families know any English (most don’t), they are not sup-posed to let on, so mealtime con-versations can be as good a work-out as speaking in class.

CLASSROOM WITH CULTURE

Heading back to school in Antigua, Guatemala

Arlene and Robin Karpan are well-travelled writers based in Saskatoon. Contact: [email protected].

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ARLENE & ROBIN KARPAN

At the end of the day, we were mentally exhausted and ready for bed but there was usually home-work as well.

Antigua has dozens of such schools, making it the top place in the world for one-on-one Spanish lessons.

Part of the reason is the low cost of living in Guatemala. Tuition is US$200 for a week of full time study, and another $110 for the home-stay. Some schools cost even less.

A big draw is that Antigua is such a pleasant place. You can also get to most places on foot.

Antigua means old, in this case referring to the old capital city. In the Spanish colonial era, it was the capital of much of Central America.

After a devastating earthquake in 1773, the capital was moved to Guatemala City, leaving Antigua as a time capsule from an earlier age.

Today, the entire town centre is a UNESCO World Heritage site, with cobblestone streets and some of the best preserved colonial archi-tecture in the Americas.

Nestled in a scenic highland val-ley and surrounded by volcano peaks, Antigua’s slogan is “the land of eternal spring,” where it never gets too hot or too cold.

Another plus is the fascinating mix of cultures, with a large Mayan

TOP: Masks, bags and scarves in a rainbow of colours are for sale in the Antigua market.

ABOVE: A Mayan woman weaves on a traditional back-strap loom.

LEFT: La Merced is one of many colonial churches in the city.| ARLENE & ROBIN KARPAN PHOTOS

population where women contin-ue to wear colourful traditional outfits as everyday dress.

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“If you look at the map, there’s no logic right now to the division between basic life support and advanced life support,” Kendel said. “It just depends whether a private operator decides to upgrade their service. It would be more logical to have that distribution of expertise based on the needs of citizens.”

Sereda said the existing 12 health regions have different priorities and resources. Geographic and demographic challenges are also at play when operators decide which services they can provide.

“An ambulance should be an ambulance should be an ambu-lance wherever you are in Saskatch-ewan,” he said.

Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities president Ray Orb said RMs are concerned about future rural health delivery.

“We want to make sure the gov-ernment isn’t going to cut back any of the services,” he said. “In some parts of the province right now, it’s not all that good.”

The executive will meet with health minister Jim Reiter and Rural and Remote Health Minister Greg Ottenbreit in February and ask for rural representation on the board.

“It would be somebody with expertise in health care, naturally, but somebody that has a rural per-spective,” Orb said.

He expects health changes will be top of mind at the organization’s annual convention.

“I’m sure we’re going to hear about it at the March convention during the bear pit,” he said, refer-ring to the question-and-answer session with provincial cabinet ministers. “Sometimes with those bear pits, we get more questions on health care than anything else.”

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Q: I am a healthy 45-year-old male farmer but I have had

diarrhea for three weeks. I am starting to lose weight, so I am con-cerned about it.

I am making sure to drink plenty of fl uids, so I don’t think I am get-ting dehydrated.

The doctor is not sure what is wrong. He hasn’t found any reason for it so far.

A: Even though you are careful to keep your fluid levels up,

you are running the risk of deplet-ing your body of minerals and other important nutrients such as vitamins that your body needs. Most will go straight through without being absorbed into the bloodstream.

Most cases of acute diarrhea last less than two weeks so in your case it would be considered persistent.

Common causes of short-term diarrhea are food poisoning and viruses such as the norovirus.

The latter is notoriously associat-ed with outbreaks of illness on cruise ships and tends to be sea-sonal, occurring mainly in winter.

Persistent diarrhea is usually caused by bacteria or parasites, including giardia, cryptosporidi-um and cyclospora. There are a few others that are less common.

These parasites can enter the body through food, water or from other people. They are often picked up while travelling. Laboratory testing involves culturing bacteria from a stool sample and examining it for isolated bacteria.

Parasites can be seen under a microscope, and for three of the parasites, enzyme immunoassays are sometimes performed.

However, these methods are only able to identify a small number of parasites, and the results often

come back as clear, showing no evidence of any pathogens.

This could be because it is a rare type of parasite or simply because nothing was found in the sample of feces provided.

I suggest that you ask your doctor to give you a course of antibiotics or anti-parasitic pills, even if your results show nothing wrong.

Chronic or long-lasting diarrhea may also be a symptom of other bowel disorders such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease, but I think you would have other symp-toms such as blood and mucous in the stool, abdominal pain and fever.

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Q: I have a plastic ring (pessary) in my vagina to prevent pro-

lapse. How often should I take it out and wash it? It gives me a discharge if I leave it in too long.

A: Some people like to remove it about once a week, while

others may go for a month or more. Some patients may not be able to remove it themselves and need a doctor or gynecologist to do this for them, so it may not be practical to do this more often than once every one or two months.

If you get a heavy discharge, this might be a bacterial infection that requires antibiotics.

You may need to remove the pes-sary for at least a week until it has been treated.

BACTERIA, PARASITES

Chronic diarrhea may require treatment with antibiotics

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Clare Rowson is a retired medical doctor in Belleville, Ont. Contact: [email protected].

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ARGYLE, Man. — During a winter in Manitoba’s Interlake, there are days when eye and ear protection is essential. Jan. 5 was one of those days.

Sunglasses were needed because the sky was clear and the sun gleamed off snow-covered fields, making it impossible to look to the south. A tuque was also necessary because the air temperature was -25 C, cold enough to freeze the hardiest of ears.

There are two ways to view such a day: one, focus on the brightness and the clean, refreshing air. Two, go on the internet and look for warm weather vacation deals.

Cal Penner definitely falls into the first category. He was smiling, cheerful and didn’t mention the frigid weather while greeting a visi-tor to his home.

He and his wife, Cathy, draw on that same positive outlook when it comes to their farm. The glasses in their house are half-full.

“We never focused on the nega-tive part,” Cal said. “We just focused on what it took to make it work.”

The Penners run a mixed farm near Argyle, Man., with 1,200 acres of grain land and a 550 sow farrow-to-finish operation.

Cal’s parents, Vern and Martha, moved to the area from Steinbach in 1970.

Cal grew up on the farm and knew at an early age that he wanted to be a producer. After graduating from high school in Stonewall, Man., Cal

earned an agriculture diploma from the University of Manitoba, farmed with his dad and eventually took over the operation.

But Vern, who helped found Key-stone Agricultural Producers and is now in his late 70s, is still involved.

“He comes out every day to the shop. Works and tinkers,” Cal said.

Cathy grew up on an acreage near Stonewall and met Cal when she was in Grade 12. She is also active on the farm, caring for the piglets and managing the books for the operation.

The Penners are a rarity in Mani-toba because family-run hog farms have nearly disappeared. There are about 50 independent hog farmers in Manitoba, a province that had hundreds of independent produc-ers in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Now two companies, Maple Leaf Foods and Hylife, along with Hutterite colonies, operate the majority of hog barns.

Low prices and costly govern-ment regulations pushed most independents out of business. The Penners persisted but there were times when they thought about quitting.

“Absolutely. The period from 2007 to 2013 was pretty rough for the Canadian hog industry,” said Cal.

The Penners’ positive outlook helped them persevere but returns from grain production also made a difference.

“We think our strength is being diversified,” Cal said, adding they apply hog manure to 700 acres of cropland, which dramatically reduces the fertilizer bill.

Another critical factor is market-ing. Cal uses hog futures, feedgrain futures, forward contracting and other marketing tools to reduce price risk in pig production.

“At the very least, you can make it break even,” Cathy said.

Off the farm, Cal has been in-volved in the hog industry for two decades.

He now sits on the board for the Manitoba Pork Council and volun-teered his time at Hams, a market-ing service for pork producers.

The Penners’ commitment to agriculture was recognized in 2016, when the Red River Exhibition Association recognized them as

the farm family of the year.Cal also developed an interest in

flying and earned his pilot licence and flew at the nearby airport in St. Andrew’s for many years. They also attended many air shows.

His passion made an impact on their 19-year-old daughter, Nikki.

She works for WestJet in Winni-peg and plans to become a pilot. She already has a pilot’s licence but hasn’t decided if she will enter the military to become a commercial pilot or take training through a fly-ing school.

Cal and Cathy’s son, Eric, is still in high school and hasn’t settled on a career.

When asked if they would ever take over the family farm, Eric and Nikki shrugged and smiled.

“I think I’ll work here (on the farm) for a year and maybe two after high school and figure things out. (But) as it sits right now, not really,” said Eric.

If his kids don’t want to farm, it’s not an issue for Cal.

“Whether (the farm) carries on for a third or fourth generation, that doesn’t matter to me,” he said. “What’s important is whatever direction they go … to give it a 110 percent.”

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The Penner family of Argyle, Man., try to stay optimistic, even on frigid January days. The Penners, Cal and Cathy, with Nikki and Eric, run a 550 hog operation and have 1,200 acres of cropland. In 2016, they were recognized as the Red River Exhibition Association farm family of the year. | ROBERT ARNASON PHOTO

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THE PENNER FAMILYArgyle, Man.

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Diversification keeps family seeing rainbowsDespite low prices and Manitoba government hog sector regulations, the Penner family has a positive attitude

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Merle Good has been named the 2016 recipient of the Wilson Loree Award during Farm Management Canada’s Agricultural Excellence Conference in Calgary.

The annual award honours individuals or groups who have made extraordinary contributions to advancing agricultural business management practices in Canada.

Good operates a private farm management consulting business, which helps farmers with business structures and succession plan-ning. He also speaks at conferences and meetings.

He worked for Alberta Agricul-ture from 1977-2014.

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Good is the driving force behind the annual tax update for professionals in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

COMMUNITY PROJECTSSPONSORED

Richardson International has donated $1.45 million to 72 community projects across Canada.

Funding for community projects and local initiatives include new splash parks, playgrounds, upgraded emergency rescue equipment and town halls.

The company said it plans to donate more than $1 million each year to support a variety of community projects and organizations that enhance the quality of life in the communities in which the company operates.

Richardson works with local groups by donating extra funds to help make local projects more viable.

Proposals are reviewed by the board of trustees of the Richardson Foundation, which meets three times a year.

AGRIBITION WRANGLESFOR STARS

Canadian Western Agribition recently presented STARS Air Ambulance with $6,000. The money was raised at two different Agribition events Nov. 23.

It hosted a fundraiser auction during the Chamber of Commerce Luncheon Series, which was held in partnership with the Ramada Plaza and the Regina Chamber of Commerce.

The auction included various CWA items, including artwork, a CWA belt buckle and photo opportunities with a goat and a heifer. This event raised $2,000.

CWA also hosted the Winners Circle Auctioneers Competition presented by Ritchie Bros Auctioneers.

The event featured four auctioneers from across North America, selling 13 various items. The event raised $4,000.

INPUT SOUGHT ONBISON CODE OF PRACTICE

The online comment period for the draft code of practice for the care and handling of bison ends Jan. 19.

It was launched for public comment by the Canadian Bison Association and the National Farm Animal Care Council Nov. 21.

The aim is to have the new bison code completed in 2017.

A scientific committee report summarizing research on priority welfare topics for bison can be found online alongside the draft code.

It is one of four codes of practice currently under revision as part of a multi-year NFACC project.

Codes of practice serve to further the understanding of animal care requirements and recommended practices.

It covers housing, feed and water, handling, euthanasia, transportation and other important management practices.

Revisions to the bison code began in 2015.

The draft code can be viewed and submissions made through NFACC’s website at nfacc.ca/codes-of-practice/bison.


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R e s e a rc h i n t o t h e h u m a n e treatment of pigs received a fund-ing boost Jan. 10 when the feder-al government earmarked $1.8 million for the pork research cluster.

Sow housing and improved living conditions for sows and piglets were specifically mentioned in an

Agriculture Canada news release as areas of further study.

“This investment in research in animal health and welfare helps respond to the interests of consum-ers and will help put more money in the pockets of our producers,” federal Agriculture Minister Law-rence MacAulay said in a news release.

The additional money brings

total federal investment in the research cluster to $14.8 million over a five-year period ending in 2018.

Stewart Cressman, chair of Swine Innovation Porc, which is the non-profit organization that manages the pork research cluster, said ani-mal health issues and feed cost reduction are also among the research initiatives.

“Enhancing the competitiveness and the sustainability of the Cana-dian pork industry is Swine Inno-vation Porc’s primary goal and focus,” said Cressman.

“This additional investment in research will further the out-comes of this program and ensure that emerging issues facing the pork sector will continue to be addressed. “

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EDMONTON — Precision agri-culture is coming to the chicken barn.

Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a precision feeding system for broiler-breeder chickens that could result in more uniform and productive birds.

P o u l t r y re s e a rc h e r Ma r t i n Zuidhof has helped develop a sys-tem that feeds birds throughout the day while measuring how much each one consumes and gains.

“What has been really gratifying with precision feeding has been the interest. It is so revolutionary. It changes the way we think about feeding broiler-breeders,” he said.

“There is no system like it any-where in the world for collecting data on free run individuals.”

Birds at the poultry research cen-tre in Edmonton are tagged with a radio frequency identifier on the wing and neck when they are about two weeks old.

Their feeding activities are then monitored.

Zuidhof has learned that the metabolism of birds that are fed once a day is adjusted so feed is stored differently in the body.

“When you feed just in time, those birds don’t have to store and mobilize nutrients,” he said.

“If they can grow and maintain themselves and produce eggs when they are getting feed at just the right time, they are quite a bit more efficient.”

The research team has also moni-tored water intake, but did not see a big difference.

Birds that are precision fed have less fat, but breeding birds need a certain level of body fat. As a result, they may receive a different diet when they start reproducing.

These birds are the parents of broilers, so allowing them to feed more frequently would likely help them produce healthier chicks.

Precision feeding could also pro-duce more uniform-sized birds with wide ranges in weight.

“Some birds would be as little as 1,200 grams and some birds would be over three kilos,” he said.

“Having a uniform flock allows all the birds to do their personal best.”

Smaller birds do not lay as many eggs, and the larger ones may not be as fertile or may have difficulty mating.

Birds that are not fit and do not mate well produce fewer chicks, while those that get too much feed could produce too many yolks or eggs with soft shells.

Researchers in Colombia have attempted a more hands-on man-agement approach following the same feeding principles. Working with the same strain of birds, they achieve higher yields with 146 chicks per hen compared to 117 in Canada.

“That is a good 25 percent more,

so we are 25 percent below the reproductive potential,” Zuidhof said.

“One of the ways we are hoping to achieve some of that potential is with precision feeding.”

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EDMONTON — There are more than 2,000 heritage chickens at the University of Alberta’s Poultry Research Centre.

Birds of old lineages with colour-ful plumage and varying levels of production are maintained for research, but the program can be expensive.

The cost of the program led to a relationship with Peavey Mart to sell chicks to the public. About 100 chicks were offered for sale in 2014, and the program was such a success that 5,000 chicks were put up for sale in 2015 and 7,000 last

year. Pilot projects also started in Kamloops, B.C., and Regina.

People can sign up for their chicks, and the research centre hatches what is needed for distri-bution.

Many end up in backyard flocks for those who want to keep a few chickens.

“We are also aware there are risks with that,” said university re-searcher Martin Zuidhof. “The biosecurity of small flocks tends to be not very high, and they are a potential source of risk to the industry. We are also providing information about how do you raise these birds and keep them healthy.”

The Adopt a Hen program is another fundraising idea for the university.

The public is encouraged to adopt a hen for $150, and in exchange the supporter receives the egg produc-tion from a hen, which is a dozen every two weeks.

The university also sells spent heritage birds as stewing hens to those in the adoption group.

“The opportunity for us to teach people about where their food comes from has been fantastic,” Zuidhof said.

For more information, visit www.heritagechickens.ca.

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BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) — A planned European Union-Cana-da free trade deal received backing from a committee of the European Parliament and Germany’s top court Jan. 12, increasing its chances of entering force later this year.

The EU and Canada signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement in October but only after opposition from a region of Belgium and hesitation in Aus-tria and other countries.

CETA , along with the larger planned EU-U.S. Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), has proved contentious and drawn criticism from trade unions and environmental and other groups.

More than two years since the negotiations concluded, CETA still needs approval from the European Parliament. It is expected to give its verdict in February.

Parliament’s environment, public health and food safety committee voted 40 to 24 in favor of a motion that advised the 751-seat Parlia-ment to back the deal.

Parliament’s trade committee is the lead body responsible for CETA, but before it holds a vote later this month, other commit-tees are allowed to offer their opin-ions.

The employment committee rec-ommended in December that the deal be rejected, saying it risked job losses and increased inequality.

Even after the European Parlia-ment vote, CETA would come into effect only provisionally, most likely in the form of import tariff removal, because it also needs approval from the parliaments of the EU’s 28 member states and Bel-gium’s regions.

Supporters say CETA will increase Canadian-EU trade by 20 percent and boost the EU economy by $16.7 billion a year and Canada’s by $12 billion.

Germany’s Constitutional Court rejected emergency attempts by activists to stop Berlin endorsing the accord before ratification by the national parliaments.

In October, the court had given the government the green light to approve CETA, but activists argued that the government had not met the court’s requirements.

“With the decision published today, the Second Senate of the Constitutional Court has estab-lished that the German government has implemented the requirements set by the court before endorsing the agreements on the signing and ini-tial implementation of CETA,” the court said.

The main focus of protests against CETA is the system to protect a for-eign company’s investments against state intervention.

Critics say its arbitration panels to rule on disputes allow multina-tional companies to dictate public policy, such as on environmental standards.

Campaign group Transport & Environment said lawmakers had missed a vital opportunity to red-flag CETA over a flawed investment tribunal system and toothless envi-ronmental provisions.

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NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) — T h e I n d i a n s t a t e o f Ma d hy a Pradesh aims to raise production of pulses by 60 percent in the next three years to help Prime Minister Narendra Modi achieve his goal of making the country self-sufficient in the staple, the state’s chief minis-ter said.

India, the world’s biggest con-sumer of pulses, faces an acute shortage of the protein-rich food, forcing the country to fork out about US$2.65 billion a year to import the scarce commodity from countries such as Canada, Austria, and Ethiopia.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked me to help achieve his objective of making India self-reli-ant in pulses by raising production in Madhya Pradesh,” Chief Minis-ter Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.

Madhya Pradesh, a top producer of pulses, could raise its output of crops such as chickpeas, pigeon peas and black gram to eight or 8.5 million tonnes in the next three years from about five million tonnes now, Chouhan said.

Stung by spiralling prices for pulses, New Delhi last year signed a long-term deal with Mozambique to import the commodities and has also been looking to import pulses from Myanmar.

Pulses, mostly consumed in cur-ries, are the primary source of pro-tein, especially for the poor. Any spike in pulse prices stokes anger

against the government.“We have started encouraging

farmers to grow more pulses by giv-ing them a lot of help and support and expect the trend to continue u nt i l w e o bv i at e o u r i m p o r t requirements,” Chouhan said.

India imported a record 5.8 mil-lion tonnes of pulses in 2015-16 after domestic prices more than doubled.

Pulse production totalled 16.47 million tonnes, lower than annual demand of 22 million tonnes, which is steadily increasing because of robust economic growth. Modi aims to make India self-reliant in pulses by 2020.

“The target of the state govern-ment is definitely plausible, but it depends a lot on the amount of rainfall the state is going to receive over the next few years,” said Pukaraj Chopra, a leading trader of pulses.

Under Chouhan’s watch, wheat output in Madhya Pradesh raced ahead of the northern states of Punjab and Haryana, India’s tradi-tional grain basket.

“Wheat production has reached the optimum level, so we’re not that keen to raise it further,” he said.

“Other than pulses, we also aim to raise basmati rice production by doubling the area under the crop.”

New wells and a focus on micro-irrigation has seen farm growth of 18 percent annually in Madhya Pradesh, compared to four percent nationally.

OXFORD, U.K. (Reuters) — Brit-ain’s farmers say their main con-cerns as the nation prepares to leave the European Union are how much access they will have to the EU’s single market and its skilled farm workers.

Meurig Raymond, president of the National Farmers Union, said tariff-free access to the single mar-ket “has got to be the top priority.”

“The number two priority is access to competent labour for seasonal and permanent work on farms,” he said.

The EU represents the most important export market for many agricultural commodities.

For example, Britain exported 2.86 million tonnes of wheat in 2015-16 season, of which 80 per-cent was shipped to the EU.

Farming and Environment Minis-ter Andrea Leadsom sought to reas-sure the industry: “It is our absolute and clear intention to maintain as

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low tariffs as possible, zero tariffs where we can, and we will be nego-tiating the best possible deal for U.K. farmers and food producers.”

Leadsom also said she knew how important seasonal labour from the EU was to farm businesses in Britain.

“Access of labour is very much part, an important part, of our cur-rent discussions, and we’re com-mitted to working with you to make sure you have the right people with the right skills,” she said.

Leadsom said there was scope to increase agricultural exports to countries outside the EU, including China, India and the United Arab Emirates.

“Our core strength is our world-leading position in animal welfare, food safety and food traceability.”

Leadsom said leaving the EU would make it possible to develop an agricultural policy designed specifically for Britain rather than the entire EU.

“In leaving the EU, we’ve been handed a once in a generation opportunity to take Britain forward; a real opportunity to thrive,” she said. “We can design, from first prin-ciples, an agricultural system that works for us.”

Leadsom said she would be launching a major consultation on future U.K. agricultural policy in the near future.

Added Raymond: “We’ve got this great opportunity to pull together a policy which is fit for purpose in the U.K. That is a challenge for all of us.”

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Alberta’s Open Farm Days, which were held last Aug. 20-21, have been deemed a record-breaking success by the Alberta govern-ment.

The event offers the general pub-lic an opportunity to visit partici-pating farms and ranches.

The province reported that last year’s event drew 18,000 visits to

92 farms and ranches. On-farm sales during the two

days totalled $134,280, which was 35 percent more than the previ-ous year.

“With Canada set to begin cele-brating its 150th anniversary, work has already begun for an even big-ger and better Open Farms Days 2017,” Culture and Tourism Minis-ter Ricardo Miranda said in a news release.

Provincial Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier said the event show-cases the diversity of the province’s agriculture sector.

Open Farm Days is a collabora-tion between the provincial gov-ernment, Ag For Li fe, Travel Alberta and the Alberta Associa-tion of Agricultural Societies, as well as the participating farmers and ranchers.

Twenty more farms participated

in the event last year than in 2015. As well, there were 26 culinary events compared to 18 the previous year.

Actual visits were up 75 percent over 2015, according to govern-ment statistics.

The 2016 event was the fourth time Open Farm Days have been held in Alberta.

The event is scheduled for Aug. 19-20 this year.

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BY MICHAEL RAINESASKATOON NEWSROOM

Central Alberta farmer Steve Larocque has tried to walk through 200 bushel per acre barley fields.

“You could walk across the top more easily,” he said about the experience.

Larocque first encountered the world down under during his Nuff-ield scholarship experiences and continues to be fascinated with the potential from spring crops that is exploited in New Zealand and else-where.

He told a packed room of farmers attending CropSphere during Crop Week in Saskatoon that his experi-ence around that barley led him on a quest to improve what is being done at home.

After securing funding from the Alberta Barley Commission and the Alberta Crop Industry Devel-opment Fund, he and a group of agronomists, co-operating farmers and advisers started experiment-ing with some very lofty goals.

The Barley 180 project was aimed at bringing prairie yields more in line with New Zealand and Euro-pean crop production.

“One-hundred-and-eighty might have been a bit of reach, but it had been done,” the farmer and consul-tant told producers.

Westco grew 188 bu. plots at Beiseker, Alta., in 1990 on 295 millimetres of rain.

That research showed that after throwing everything they could at the crop, 73 percent of the yield gains were made from improved nitrogen fertility programming.

However, it didn’t happen in iso-lation. The Virden six-row barley was seeded at 96 pounds per acre, the seed was treated and it got 216-0-0-21 as a pre-plant application, a fertility package that included boron, copper, iron, zinc and man-ganese and an additional shot of 0-54-54-0 with half in the side band. It was also treated with Tilt.

“The problem, as we all know, is that when you push the N at the bar-ley, it falls down,” said Larocque,

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who also runs a farm business called Beyond Agronomy.

In 1989, researchers grew 190 bu. of Harrington barley at Vauxhall, Alta., but that was under irrigation. Banded fertilizer and a complete fertility package was put into the ground. That time a plant growth regulator was used to keep the crop upright. Two passes of Tilt kept it from disease losses.

By 2011, Larocque and his col-leagues had garnered $110 per acre to add to their standard barley reci-pes.

Gains were modest, but indicated that there was potential to grow yields with improved investments in the crop.

“We all threw the kitchen sink at it,” he said.

With co-operating farmers at Airdrie, Olds, Crossfield, Carbon, Morrin and Three Hills, the risk and experience was spread around geographically.

Barley in the program saw in-creases of about 20 bu. per acre with Metcalfe, Champion and Xena varieties.

A year later, the trials were hit with drought and hail, heavily skewing the results.

In 2013, too much rain fell. Again, 20 bu. increases were common in both older and newer varieties.

To reach 180 bu. per acre, the pro-ducers needed to yield 3.93 tones per acre in yield.

In 2011, despite putting 170 pounds of nitrogen on the crop, protein stayed in the low 10 percent area. The numbers of kernels per head moved from 20 or 22 to 26.

AC Champion was one of the win-ning varieties when it came to yield and standability, but PGRs were key to keeping the height of the crop under control.

Larocque found that 140 bu. yields were more l ikely to be achieved, and that instead of tar-geting 180 bu. with the inputs nec-essary to achieve that goal, a prairie reality might be 40 bu. less and put more margin in growers’ pockets.

In addition, the research found that it is likely that on 12 inch seed row spacing, seeding rates can get too high, resulting in lower yields.

“The sweet spot is 25 to 30 plants per sq. foot,” he said.

“You would have trouble getting 31 seeds per foot without clumping with an air seeder. That is more singulated planters or a narrowing row spacing to get that right.”

Returns on investment varied through the 2014 research, but $30 per acre as common, depending on the field and the year.

In New Zealand, control of dis-ease is a large issue for growers, as

well the use of PGRs. PGRs also reduce the distance between the head and the flag leaf. Neck break tends to occur at the flag leaf on the plant, so anything that shortens that distance reduces the potential of heads laying on the ground.

In Canada, the fungicide ProLine is commonly applied in canola, but in New Zealand it is applied to bar-ley for blotch and scald control.

Staging of applications of fertiliz-er was found to not have a positive effect.

“You aren’t looking to apply N to increase protein later on the crop, and yield is set so early in barley you need all that fertilizer there with the crop 12 days after emer-gence,” he said.

It also means fertilizer products that slow release are not helpful in

barley production. The Alberta research found that banding the fertilizer ahead or during seeding would allow the plants to make yield decisions at the right point.

“It’s not wheat. It flowers differ-ently, it does many things differ-ently than other cereals, and grow-ers need to think about all of those things,” he said.

At 140 bu. per acre, malting barley prices make the crop very attrac-tive, but at $3 per bu., feed isn’t out of the question for many regions of the Prairies.

Larocque said no one part of a barley strategy can be relied upon to carry a big crop.

“It’s synergistic,” he said.“You need to do it all.”

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BY ROBIN BOOKERSASKATOON BUREAU

There are benefits to seeding a cover crop after combining in the fall, then chemical burning and direct seeding into it in the spring.

Cover crops can reduce erosion, increase the concentration of potassium at the soil surface, tie up nitrogen in the spring that may become available to the following crop, provide biomass and sup-press problem weeds.

Yet it remains difficult for some growers to swallow the extra expense and time around harvest to seed a crop that may not provide an immediate financial return.

To help reduce the cost of seeding cover crops, Drago Indiana, a short-line equipment dealer near Indianapolis, Indiana, has come up with a solution that could help growers use more cover crops.

The company installed a Horsch Partner on the back of its Claas combine and can now combine and seed a winter cereal at the same time.

“We mounted it behind and up above the chopper on the back of the combine. We’re blowing cover crop seed to the corn head. So it’s got one big hose going up to the corn head and then from there it distributes out and has smaller hoses that go out, basically right at the snouts. So before the stock rolls or anything touches it, we’re blow-ing that seed out on potentially bare soil,” said Brent Michael, who works at Drago Indiana.

The combine then threshes out

the crop and blows crop residue over the seeded field.

This was the first year the com-bine seeder was used, but Michael said rye cover crop has come up nicely.

“I would say not all of it emerged this fall, but definitely by next spring we will get a full picture of everything that emerged under-neath the trash and whatnot,” he said.

The structure of the back of the combine was reinforced by one of the company’s welders, who tied into the main lifting points of the combine that are used to move it around the factory when it’s manu-factured.

The Partner was plumbed into the combine’s hydraulic system to power its fan, and its control box was installed in the cab.

The Horsch Partner is sold in Europe and is most often used for fertilizer. It attached to tractors by a three-point hitch, and opera-tors pull various til lage tools behind it.

“The seeder is no wider than what the box of the combine is, and is shorter than what the auger sticks out,” Michael said. “You can’t feel extra weight on the back, can’t tell the difference between full or empty.”

Michael said the Partner holds about 80 bushels of rye seed, so he only has to fill it up twice a day when combining.

“Our Lexion, all it does is corn acres, so we used this on 3,000 acres of corn last year. We used a Drago folding 12 row, so we didn’t have to hook or unhook any seed tubes or anything,” Michael said.

The modification proved to be a big time saver, and it won’t take long for it to pay for itself because it saves a pass across the field during a busy time of year.

“It saves a tractor, a tool and an operator, and fuel. It took no extra fuel to run this,” Michael said.

“Under our normal conditions, if

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Why plant cover crops after harvest when you can plant them at harvest? The Horsch Partner seed spreader was tested for the first time this year, planting rye as a cover crop.| DRAGO INDIANA PHOTO

you’re at 15 bucks an acre for plant-ing a cover crop, it’s going to pay for itself in a year.”

Michael said the Horsch Partner

cost about US$35,000 and another $7,500 to mount it on the combine. He said he thinks most combines could be fit with the Partner.

“I can’t see that it couldn’t be fit on any combine, one way or another.”

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Modern technologies open an exciting challenge for today’s farmers.

Data is being collected across every acre for every operation. Using your data and committing to SMART goals now can result in increased profits.

I wrote a couple of columns last year around this time about plan-ning for last year’s crop. They involved preparing a cost of pro-duction spreadsheet and planning your inputs. Hopefully you did this and kept up with the real inputs as the year progressed.

This exercise will allow you to calculate your real costs of produc-tion for various fields and crops.

I also discussed the opportunities to collect data from last year’s crop. Now is the time to use this data.

What I would like you to do is to implement SMART goals for your 2017 cropping plans. I have seen several, slightly different variations for the acronym SMART, which can be used to provide a focus for goal setting.

These include:S — specific, significant, stretch-

ingM —measurable, meaningful,

motivationalA —agreed upon, attainable,

achievable, acceptable, action-oriented

R —realistic, relevant, reason-able, rewarding, results-oriented

T —time-based, time-bound, timely, tangible, trackable

For this exercise, let’s use:• specific• measurable• attainable• realistic• time-based

The agronomic data you collect-ed last year is perfect for imple-menting SMART goals for your crop production in 2017 when it comes to being time-based. The quality of your data allows you to make specific goals based on field or crop information.

Because this is your real data, your goals will be based on your farm and should be realistic. With the technology available to you, they will also be measurable and should be attainable.

So, let’s take a few moments to think about what a SMART goal might be for 2017.

For example, your overall yield average for your canola was 60 bushels per acre.

However, now is the time to look at your yield maps and cost of pro-duction spreadsheet.

Here is what a table that summa-rizes 2016 yield by management zone and by nitrogen efficiency might look like.

This is actual data from a client. I have discarded zone data from Zones 1 and 6.

My initial comments about the 2016 results are:• These are great numbers. Even

in Zone 2 you beat the nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) number that I usually use for canola, which is 2.8. You are getting great results from the nitrogen you applied.

• Your yields were about 12 per-cent higher than 2015, so was it something you did very right or was Mother Nature responsible? I suspect it probably means you are getting more nitrogen min-eralized from your organic mat-ter than average — some due to your long-term minimum-till practices and some due to the weather.

A 2017 SMART goal might be to increase your NUE by one-tenth of a pound while at the same time maintaining your yield levels. That’s a goal that is very specific, measurable and time-based.

However, is it realistic? That trans-lates into lowering total applied nitrogen by six lb. per acre while maintaining high yields.

The reductions in the zones would be 2.5 lb. for Zone 2, 8.6 lb. for Zone 3, 6.5 lb. for Zone 4 and seven lb. for Zone 5.

What if we added a 20 percent blend of ESN into the urea blend? It might increase the NUE to where we want it, but will this be cost effective?

When your agronomist looks at aggregated data from growers with similar yield in your area, the rang-es are from 2.2 to 2.8 lb. of nitrogen per bushel. You’re already more efficient than some, but the data also tells you that setting a SMART goal of two lb. of nitrogen per bu. is realistic.

What are the economics? At 50 cents per lb. of nitrogen, hitting your SMART goal saves more than $3 per acre. Is the reward high enough for the risk? At the same time, can that $3 be reinvested into ESN and the reward evaluated at

the end of the year?Here are other examples of how

you might use your data to set SMART goals for 2017:

• Increasing seed efficiency

How can you manage your seed-ing rate? Has your agronomist been tracking your emergence and cal-culating your survival rates? Simi-lar to being more efficient with nitrogen, can you use your vari-able-rate planting capabilities to be more efficient with your seed investment?

Start with your data. If you aver-aged 60 bu. per acre and planted five lb. per acre across your entire operation, your seed efficiency is 12 bu. per lb. On average, you had a 50 percent survival rate.

If you can increase the survival rate by 10 percent to 55 percent, this would mean you could reduce your seeding rate and save $5.50 per acre. Your efficiency would increase to 13.33 bu. per lb.

Now, taking this one step for-ward, was there a difference in survival rates in different zones? Which zones have the best emer-gence and could be tweaked?

• Increasing acres seededor planted per day

If you are currently at 300 acres per day per drill, is 330 acres per day a realistic SMART goal? What would you have to change to make it happen? Could you stretch your day by getting someone to run the drills from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.? How many hours would it take you to do the headlands and around pot-holes so the operator won’t get stuck?

On average, you lose 1.5 to two percent of yield for every day you delay seeding.

• Reducing the cost per acre of fungicide application in

canola from $32 to $29 without reducing the yield

This could be accomplished by using satellite imagery and reduc-ing the acres that you are treating. Again, this goal is specific, measur-able and time-based.

More and more data is being pro-duced that shows that it is realistic, depending on your topography and the weather.

• Lower your cost per bushel by 15 cents on wheat and 30 cents on canola

I recently crunched some num-bers with a grower on his cost of production spreadsheet. It showed his operating cost of production for wheat to be $210 per acre.

He grew a 63 bu. average, so his costs were $3.33 per bu. The oper-ating cost of production for his canola was $315 for a cost of $5.75 per bu.

The 15 cents per bu. on wheat and 30 cents per bu. on canola signify about a five percent increase in production efficiency. These num-bers are across the entire farm.

Are there ways to drill this down to fields? How about by zone? This SMART goal would really need a lot of monitoring. If you aren’t collect-ing your cost of production num-bers now, maybe it needs to wait until you can do so.

Once you have identified one or more SMART goals, you can focus your entire operation on what’s most important to your farming business. Sit down with your staff and family and communicate what the goals are.

This is also a great time to issue a challenge and reward folks when you achieve a goal.

2017 CROPPING PLANS

Put your data to work by identifying SMART goals

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Thom Weir is an agronomist with Farmer’s Edge. He can be reached by emailing [email protected].

Farmers who identify SMART goals, such as improving fertilizer applications, can then focus their entire operation on what’s important for the business. | FILE PHOTO

2016 data analysis Yield bu./ac. lb. N/bu.Zone 2 25 2.6Zone 3 40 2.25Zone 4 63 1.9Zone 5 74 1.15Farm average 60 2.1

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BY RON LYSENGWINNIPEG BUREAU

Land levelling contractors and tile drainage installers often expe-rience 25 percent downtime due to weak or lost RTK signals. That equates to 75 percent uptime, which is unacceptable by anyone’s standard.

Jarette Lawfield, a land levelling contractor in Catron, Missouri, runs six units as many hours per day as possible.

Some of that equipment sits idle five or six hours a day in the sum-mer because he doesn’t have the necessary vertical GPS accuracy needed to complete finish passes.

“Sometimes all we need is the fin-ish pass, but we have to stop and wait. I can’t get onto the next job since I’m waiting for the vertical accuracy to do finishing passes,” Lawfield said.

“GPS is good enough for bulk hauling the dirt, but you’ve got to be more accurate for the finishing work. That’s where the GPS really failed us. You waste a lot of money just sitting and waiting for the signal.

“Good vertical accuracy makes the whole project more efficient, from bulk hauling to finishing passes. The more accurate bulk hauling is, the less work to be done while finishing.”

Lawfield installed prototype ver-sions of Trimble’s new Vertical-Point RTK on three of his rigs in June. Trimble claims the new sys-tem can increase uptime to approx-imately 95 percent. Plus, this increase holds true even in the most challenging months of the year.

Lawfield said it seems like a valid claim.

“With the new system, we set up one base station and two supple-mental rovers helping correct the signal to the machine controllers on your equipment. They have the geometry to provide accurate verti-cal information,” he said.

“We have mainly small fields here. Some are 40 acres. You can get by with just one rover on those, and you’ll still get some benefit. But mainly they’re 80 acres. That’s a half-mile by a quarter-mile. They set up pretty quickly.

“If I leave the tripods in place over-night, and just take away the RTK, I can set it up the next morning and it’s ready to get to work in two or three minutes. That’s all it takes for the rovers to re-converge.”

T r i m b l e s a y s t h a t i n s o m e instances contractors even need to rework bulk hauling components that were incorrectly levelled before the vertical signal inconsis-tency was discovered.

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Saskatchewan Agriculture has announced $7.7 million in funding for 46 crop-related research proj-ects.

The announcement was made by Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart during a luncheon at the sold-out CropSphere show in Saskatoon.

“We won’t know the results of these projects tomorrow but make no mistake, the work will have an impact,” he said.

The projects include creating a test for DON toxins resulting from fusarium infection in wheat, opti-mizing loss-sensing technology on combines and developing a pulse-based replacement for shortening.

“They illustrate just how diverse the 46 projects are,” said Stewart.

The money is part of the federal-provincial Growing Forward 2 program. The province’s Agricul-ture Development Fund advisory committee vetted the 46 projects.

The government funding lever-aged another $3.7 million in indus-try funding from the Western Grains Research Foundation and crop commodity groups.

Pulse projects are the biggest beneficiary, receiving $2.4 million of the government money followed by oilseeds at $1.7 million and cere-als at $1.6 million. Alternative crops and miscellaneous crop projects accounted for the rest.

“Among the funded projects are ones looking to address key priority areas for pulse growers such as weed control and pest manage-ment in pulse crops,” Carl Potts, executive director of Saskatche-wan Pulse Growers, said in a news release.

The University of Saskatchewan was the top organizational recipi-ent, receiving $3.7 million of the government money, followed by Agriculture Canada with $1.6 mil-lion and the National Research Council at $696,997. Seven other agencies also received money.

Stewart said the U of S’s Crop Development Centre is a shining example of how research benefits producers.

It has released more than 450 crop varieties since its inception. Ninety-six percent of the lentils grown in the province are CDC varieties.

He said a recent study shows that every dollar spent on research at the CDC returns $7 in benefits to Saskatchewan farmers. That return jumps to $29 for ever y dollar invested in lentil research.

“This is money well spent,” Stew-art told reporters. “We’re insistent that we’re going to try and hold up our end in this, even in tough times. We know there’s a huge return to industry, and it keeps us competi-tive in world markets.”

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Growers across Western Canada, who planted Pioneer® brand soybean, canola and corn products in 2016, weighed in to compete for the title of Western Canada’s 2016 DuPont Pioneer Yield Hero. The coveted title comes with a trip to the final weekend of the 2017 Tim Hortons Brier in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

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Florian Hagmann Birch Hills SK 45H33 RR 90.2

Cadrain Farms Inc. Leask SK 45M35 RR 83.4

Wourms Genetics Inc. St. Walburg SK 45CS40 RR 82.0

Chamulka Farms Nisku AB 45CS40 RR 81.8

Elmer Enns Rosthern SK 46H75 CL 80.9

Tim Devereaux Milestone SK 46M34 RR 74.3

Michael Hrabarchuk Benito MB 45S56 RR 72.2

Sun Tan Farm Ltd. Grand Coulee SK 45H33 RR 71.8

Kevin Love Vulcan AB 46M34 RR 66.4

Bridgeview Farms Ltd. Willingdon AB 45H33 RR 63.6

Donald Thiessen Wanham AB 45H33 RR 62.9

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Foam Lake SK 45H29 RR 61.5

Hespler Farms Ltd. Winkler MB P8387AM™ 229.5

Plateau Sands Roseisle MB P7958AM™ 226.6

Triple P Farms Steinbach MB P8387AM™ 219.4

Harwest Farms Ltd. Brandon MB P7958AM™ 204.4

Duane & Neta Fehr Darlingford MB P006T46R 67.3

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The Western Producer takes a weekly look at some of the stories that made headlines in issues of the paper from 75, 50, 25 and 10 years ago.

75 YEARS AGO: JAN. 15, 1942

Burning rubber tires became a crime in Canada with fines of up to

$5,000, five years in prison or both.

The Saskatchewan Liberal Coun-cil asked for an amendment to the Canadian Wheat Board Act to increase advance payments to farmers. The council’s resolution also urged that any additional assistance to farmers be adjusted so that small producers received the maximum benefit.


Prairie farmers learned they would receive a record final pay-ment averaging 48 cents a bushel for all wheat grades other than durum. The payment brought the total price for No. 1 Northern, basis the Lake-head, to $1.99 a bu. for 1965-66.

The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool wrote a letter to federal Transport Minister J.W. Pickersgill opposing toll increases on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Welland Canal. He said utilities such as the seaway served the public and should be financed by the public rather than farmers.


Federal grains minister Charlie Mayer said the wheat board’s unprecedented $743.5 million deficit in the previous year was a deliberate decision by the govern-ment to continue exporting grain despite collapsing prices. “We knew what the situation was, and we (the cabinet) made a decision

not to back away from the market,” he said. “We took a deliberate deci-sion that the board should stay in the market.”

Farm Credit Canada expected to lose money in 1992 because of its move to Regina from Ottawa. The move, which was planned for the summer, was expected to cost $15 to $20 million.


Corn prices surged after the U.S. Department of Agriculture report-ed much lower supplies than the market expected. Demand from soaring ethanol production was said to be the reason. The higher prices were thrilling growers, but

livestock producers were worried. Fears that higher corn prices might take spring acreage away from wheat and soybeans lifted prices for wheat, barley, corn and soy-beans.

A report on market risk manage-ment tools for green lentils included a proposal to establish a marketing board for the crop.

The suggestion, which Marlene Boersch, managing partner with Mercantile Consulting Venture Inc., made during Pulse Days 2007, came as the federal government was taking steps to eliminate the wheat board’s single desk market-ing power.

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ONE OF SASK’s largest inventory of used heavy truck parts. 3 ton tandem diesel mo-tors and transmissions and differentials for all makes! Can-Am Truck Export Ltd., 1-800-938-3323.

SASKATOON TRUCK PARTS CENTRE Ltd. North Corman Industrial Park. New and used parts available for 3 ton trucks all the way up to highway tractors, for every make and model, no part too big or small. Our shop specializes in custom rebuilt differentials/transmissions and clutch installations. Engines are available, both gas and diesel. Re-sale units are on the lot ready to go. We buy wrecks for parts, and sell for wrecks! For more info. call 306-668-5675 or 1-800-667-3023. www.saskatoontruckparts.ca DL #914394

TRUCK BONEYARD INC. Specializing in obsolete parts, all makes. Trucks bought for wrecking. 306-771-2295, Balgonie, SK.

WRECKING SEMI-TRUCKS, lots of parts. Call Yellowhead Traders. 306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK.

WRECKING TRUCKS: All makes all models. Need parts? Call 306-821-0260 or email: [email protected] 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, mail, Loomis, Purolator. Lloydminster, SK.

SOUTHSIDE AUTO WRECKERS located in Weyburn, SK. 306-842-2641. Used car parts, light truck to semi-truck parts. We buy scrap iron and non-ferrous metals.

WRECKING VOLVO TRUCKS: Misc. axles and parts. Also tandem trailer suspension axles. Call 306-539-4642, Regina, SK.

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TRUCK PARTS: 1/2 to 3 ton, new and used. We ship anywhere. Contact Phoenix Auto, 1-877-585-2300, Lucky Lake, SK.

VS TRUCK WORKS Inc. Parting out GM 1/2 and 1 ton trucks. Call 403-972-3879, Alsask, SK. www.vstruckworks.com

SCHOOL BUSES: 20 to 66 passenger, 1991 to 2007, $2300 and up. 16 buses in stock! Call Phoenix Auto, Lucky Lake, SK. 1-877-585-2300. DL #320074.

2016 SUBARU IMPREZA consumer reports as best small call starting at $23,360! Call fo r best pr ice ! ! 1 -877-373-2662 or www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

SPECIAL PURCHASE OF new and near-new 2014-2015 Crosstek XVs. Save up to $5000. Come in quickly!! 1-877-373-2662. www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

2014 LODE-KING SUPER B, alum. grain trai ler, new tarps, new rubber 22.5, $87,000. 306-677-7617, Hodgeville, SK.

EISSES GRAIN TRAILER Rental & Sales. Super B grain trailers for rent by the day, we e k o r m o n t h . C o n t a c t H e n r y at 403-782-3333, Lacombe, AB.

NEW BERG’S 24’ end dump, w/Berg’s Sig-nature quality finish. Call for winter pricing specials and 30 day trials, 204-325-5677, Winkler, MB.

NEW 2017 40’ Wilson Pacesetter tandem axle grain trailer, 11-24.5 tires, alum. wheels, elec. tarp. 2017 45’ Timpte, 2 hop-per tridem grain trailer, alum. wheels, 11-24-5 tires. Recent trade: 2015 Emerald 2 hopper steel tridem grain trailer, good condition. Neil 306-231-8300 Humboldt

NEW NEW 2018 tri-axle 45’, air ride, 78” sides, Canadian made, $52,000 low price. Buy now! Call 306-563-8765, Canora, SK.

2010 DOEPKER TRIDEM Grain Trailer in very good condition. Call 780-221-3980, Leduc, AB.

REMOTE CONTROL TRAILER CHUTE openers can save you time, energy and keep you safe this seeding season. FM re-mote controls provide maximum range and instant response while high torque drives operate the toughest of chutes. Easy installation. Kramble Industries, call 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or visit us online at: www.kramble.net

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.

PRAIRIE SANDBLASTING & PAINTING. Trailer overhauls and repairs, alum. slopes and trailer repairs, tarps, insurance claims, and trailer sales. Epoxy paint. Agriculture and commercial. Satisfaction guaranteed. 306-744-7930, Saltcoats, SK.

EISSES GRAIN TRAILER Rental & Sales. Super B grain trailers for rent by the day, we e k o r m o n t h . C o n t a c t H e n r y at 403-782-3333, Lacombe, AB.

2015 AHV LODE-KING aluminum Super B hoppers, extra light pkg., round stainless fenders, current safety, excellent 11Rx22.5 tires w/alum. wheels, exc. cond., no air lift or elec. tarps. 8 sets avail., $90,000 OBO each. 1-866-236-4028, Calgary, AB.

2 0 1 7 F E AT H E R L I T E 8 1 1 7 - 6 7 2 0 , #HC144168, 1 center gate, 6.5’ tall, spare tire, $19,900. Call 1-866-346-3148 or shop online 24/7 at: Allandale.com

GRASSLAND TRA ILERS QUAL ITY PRODUCTS AT WHOLESALE PRICES. 20’ steel stock, starting at $13,550 up to 8’ width available; 25’ Duralite alum. at $25,250; Krogerman bale bed at $11,000. Glen 306-640-8034, 306-266-2016, Wood Mountain, SK. or email [email protected]

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24’ GOOSENECK 3-8,000 lb. axles, $7890; Bumper pull tandem lowboys: 18’, 16,000 lbs., $4750; 16’, 10,000 lbs., $3390; 16’, 7000 lbs., $2975, 8000 lb Skidsteer, $1990 F a c t o r y d i r e c t . 1 - 8 8 8 - 7 9 2 - 6 2 8 3 . www.monarchtrailers.com

2015 GERMANIC 31’ tridem end dump, lift axles, $42,000; 2005 Trailtech 27’ 5th wheel trailer, 20,000 axles w/loading ramps and self contained 545 Ferrari crane unit, $17,000; 1980 Muv-All 48’ equipment trailer, winch, hyd. beavertail, 25 ton ca-pacity, $24,000; 1998 Loadline 28’ end dump, tandem, spring ride, $22,000; 1998 Loadline 29’ end dump, tandem, air ride, $25,000. Can-Am Truck Export Ltd. , 1-800-938-3323, Delisle, SK. DL#910420.

NORBERT 24’ GOOSENECK trailer, 2- 7000 lbs. axles, 2 hitches, good shape, $7750. 403-597-2006, Sylvan Lake, AB.

KRAMER TRAILER SALES- Your Norbert’s and Duralite stock trailer headquarters. For i nve n t o r y a n d p r i c e s , p l e a s e v i s i t www.kramerauction.com 306-445-5000.

BEHNKE DROP DECK semi style and pintle hitch sprayer trailers. Air ride, t a n d e m a n d t r i d e m s . C o n t a c t S K : 306-398-8000; AB: 403-350-0336.

1997 LODE-KING 48’ Hi-boy flat deck, al-um. combo, air ride, 12 winches on each side, $6000. 204-325-8019, Winkler, MB.

TOPGUN TRAILER SALES “For those who demand the best.” PRECISION AND AGASSIZ TRAILERS ( f latdecks, end dumps, enclosed cargo). 1-855-255-0199, Moose Jaw, SK. www.topguntrailersales.ca

100 MISC. SEMI TRAILER FLATDECKS/ stepdecks, $2,500 to $30,000. 20 heavy lowbeds, $10,000 to $70,000. Tankers, end dumps. 306-222-2413, Saskatoon, SK. www.trailerguy.caPRECISION TRAILERS: Gooseneck and bumper hitch. You’ve seen the rest, now own the best. Hoffart Services, Odessa, SK. 306-957-2033 www.precisiontrailers.ca

2015 DAKOTA ALUM. seed tender with SS conveyer system, self-contained w/remote controls, or can be run off truck wet kit, exc. cond., fresh MB safety. 45’Lx102”W, loaded trailer, air ride, alum. outside rims, 11R24.5, $107,000. Located at Kamsack, SK. Call 204-526-0748 or 204-526-0321.

2005 FORD F150, FX4, 4x4, Supercrew, shortbox, 4 dr., 5.4L engine, auto trans, fully loaded, middle consol, 250,000 kms, excellent, all highway kms, SK registered, $5600 OBO. 306-238-7969, Goodsoil, SK.

2016 FORD F150 SuperCrew 3.5L, 2050kms, fully loaded, $43,000 or leasetakeover, $319 bi-weekly. 306-537-7867.

2006 CHEV 2500 Silverado 4x4, reg. cab, 8.1 V8, 6 spd. std. trans, ready to work, only 100,000 kms, new clutch, some hail but cows and trailer won’t care, $11,900. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212.

1976 HEAVY 6500 GMC with 400 bu. box and roll tarp, new hoist, asking $12,000 OBO. 306-778-3749, Swift Current, SK.

1998 KENWORTH T800, new grain box, Detroit engine, 60 Series, 10 spd. trans., $48,000. 204-325-5677, Winkler, MB.

2002 IH 2600 w/IH 320 HP eng., 10 spd., 221,000 kms, new 20’ BH&T, exc. rubber, vg, $49,500; 2009 Mack CH613, MP8 Mack eng., 430 HP, 10 spd., AutoShift, 463,000 kms, exc. shape, new 20’ box, A/T/C, $73,500; 2009 IH Transtar 8600 w/Cummins eng. 10 spd., AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, 742,000 kms, exc. tires, real good shape, $69,500; 2007 IH 9200, ISX Cummins , 430 HP, AutoShi f t , a lum. wheels, new 20’ BH&T, ful ly loaded, 1,000,000 kms, real nice, $67,500; 2009 Mack CH613, 430 HP Mack, 10 spd., Au-toShift, new 20’ BH&T, alum. wheels, 1.4 million kms, has bearing roll done, nice shape, $69,500; 2007 Kenworth T600, C13 Cat, 425 HP, 13 spd., AutoShift, new 20’ BH&T, alum. wheels, new paint, 1.0 million kms, exc. truck, $71,500; 1996 Midland 24’ tandem pup grain trailer, stiff pole, completely rebuilt, new paint and brakes, exc. shape, $18,500; 1985 Ford L9000, Cummins, 10 spd., 20’ BH&T that’s been totally rebuilt, new paint, exc. tires, $28,500; 1999 IH 4700 S/A w/17’ steel flatdeck, 230,000 kms, IH dsl., 10 spd., good tires, $19,500; 1998 Freightliner tractor, C60 Detroit, 430 HP, 13 spd., al-um. whee l s , s l eeper, good rubber, $17,500; 2005 IH 9200 tractor, ISX Cum-mins, 430 HP, 13 spd., alum wheels, flat-top sleeper, good rubber, $22,500. All trucks Sask safetied. Trades considered. All reasonable offers considered. Call Merv at 306-276-7518 res., 306-767-2616, cell, Arborfield SK. DL #906768.

2002 KENWORTH T800 w/new grain box, rebuilt engine and turbo with warran-ty. $68,000. 204-325-5677, Winkler, MB.

2004 PETERBILT 330, tandem axle, C&C, long WB, Cat dsl., 10 spd trans, AC, low miles, alum. wheels, $26,900, w/new B&H $48,900. K&L Equipment and Auto. Ph Ladimer, 306-795-7779 Ituna. DL#910885

2007 WESTERN STAR 4900SA tri-drive, C15 Cat, 550 HP, 18 spd., full lockers, new 24’ CIM B&H. 306-270-6399, Saskatoon, SK. www.78truxsales.com DL #316542.

3- 2007 MACKS, 10 speed Eaton auto., new 20’ CIM B&H, fresh Sask. safeties. Call 3 0 6 - 2 7 0 - 6 3 9 9 , S a s k a t o o n , S K . www.78truxsales.com DL #316542.

AUTOSHIFT TRUCKS AVAILABLE: Boxed tandems and tractor units. Contact David 306-887-2094, 306-864-7055, Kinistino, SK. DL #327784. www.davidstrucks.com

REMOTE CONTROL ENDGATE AND hoist systems can save you time, energy and keep you safe this seeding season. Give Kramble Industr ies a ca l l at 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or visit us online at: www.kramble.net

2000 VOLVO WG64F, 14’ gravel box, Volvo VED12 345 HP, 10 spd, 18,500 frts, 46 rears , 4-way lock up, 495,000 kms, $19,900. Norm 204-761-7797 Brandon MB

2012 IHC TRANSSTAR, low pro, Max 300 HP diesel Allison auto trans, single axle, loaded cab, 13’ Armstrong landscape dump, $39,900.; 2003 GMC C8500 tan-dem, automatic, with 15’ box, low miles, $34,900. K&L Equipment and Auto. La-dimer, 306-795-7779, Ituna DL#910885

1980 GMC ASTRO, cabover, 8V-92 Detroit,13 spd, runs well, $4000 OBO. Camrose, AB.780-878-1550. [email protected]

1989 IH EAGLE, 425 CAT, 3406 engine, 5th wheel, 24.5 alum. budds, white, $16,500. 306-960-3000, St. Louis, SK.

2005 PETE 378, pre-emission, C15 Cat, 18 spd., full lockups, flat-top, winch, safe-tied, $37,500. 306-563-8765, Canora, SK.

2006 FREIGHTLINER tandem axle, daycab, Mercedez power, auto trans, nice clean safetied tractor, $19,500. 780-983-0936, Clyde, AB.


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2000 FL70 S/A, 300 HP Cat, 3 pedal Auto-Shift. Sask Safety, air ride, only 200,000 miles, $22,900. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

2006 FREIGHTLINER, tandem axle daycab, auto trans, Mercedez engine, 900,000 kms, beautiful clean truck, $17,500 OBO. Call 780-307-5235, Clyde, AB.

2009 VOLVO VNL430, No DEF, Volvo D16, 535 HP, 18 spd., 4-way locks, 290,000 kms, mint condit ion, farmer owned. $72,900. Westlock, AB. 780-206-1234.

2012 MACK PINNACLE CXU613, 34” flat- top sleeper, removable roof fairing, Mack MP8, 455 HP, Eaton 13 spd trans, safetied, $49,900. Norm 204-761-7797 Brandon MB

2012 PETE 388, 70” sleeper, “Crate Drop In” ISX 565 HP at 750,000 kms, 18 spd., 12 fronts, 40 rears, 3.70, lots of chrome, $77,900. Norm 204-761-7797 Brandon MB

ONLINE ONLY UNRESERVED AUCTION: Jan 25- 31, 2017. www.championassets.ca 2008 Peterbilt 367, 550 ISX, 18 spd, 46 rears, 880,000K . 306-865-7660. #334832

2013 PROSTAR IH day cab truck with in-dash GPS, 500 HP Maxx force 18 spd., 46,000 rears, 3.91 ratio, 228” WB, approx. 129,000 kms, 11R22.5 tires, c/w wet kit fo r on ly $65 ,000 . New MB. sa fe ty. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

2013 VOLVO 630 D13, I-shift automatic, warranty, heavy spec, full lockers, new head and injectors, engine & cab heaters, PTO fluid pump w/remote, $85,000 OBO. 306-515-1461, Lemberg, SK.

2005 GMC C7500 van truck, Cat engine, 24’ van body, good condition, S/A, nice cab, $8500. 1-888-278-4905 or view www.combineworld.com

MUNICIPAL ROADSIDE SPRAY TRUCK 2004 Ford F550 XLT 4x4 6.0L powerstroke diesel with 200,584 kms. Includes deck mounted sprayer system w/hyd. boom; Also available Raven SCS 750 controller w/injection system and spare parts skid. Full details about the truck, spray system and parts skid can be found on our website at: www.mdwainwright.ca or you can call 780-842-4454, Wainwright, AB.

FULLY LOADED 2009 GMC 3500 4x4 pick-up and new DewEze bale handler. Phone Dave 403-627-2601, Pincher Creek, AB.

2007 CHEV C6500, 2 WD, Duramax dsl., 7 spd. trans, 20’ flatdeck w/winches, only 152,000 kms, $21,900. 2008 Dodge 3500, 2 WD, Hemi gas engine, auto trans, 16’ flatdeck, 178,000 kms, $16,900 OBO. 2001 STERLING 9500, tandem water truck, 4500 gal. tank, C12 Cat, 13 spd., Bowie pump, $22,900; 1998 FREIGH-TLINER FL80, tandem water truck, Allison trans, 3200 gal. water tank w/Honda GX160 pump, 293,000 kms, $21,900. Trades considered. K&L Equipment and Auto. Ph. Ladimer, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK. DL#910885.

IICHUCK TREE MOVER, new, never used, hydraulic, $2480. www.combineworld.com 1-888-278-4905.

2014 INTERNATIONAL TERRA STAR 4WD, 105,370 kms, Hiab 7400 lb. crane, 7’ flat deck w/5th wheel, tool locker, hyd. o u t r i g g e r s , f r e s h s a fe t y, $ 4 6 , 8 0 0 . www.combineworld.com 1-888-278-4905.

2009 FORD EXPLORER LTD., V8, AWD, loaded, 4 leather buckets, new winter tires, very good condition, 219,000 kms, $14,900. Photos. 306-843-2934, Wilkie SK

2016 SUBARU FORESTER name top pick for 2016. Starting from $29,360. Great se-lection to choose from!! 1-877-373-2662, www.subaruofsaskatoon.ca DL #914077.

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CAN-AM TRUCK EXPORT LTD., Delisle, SK, 1-800-938-3323. 2012 KW w/900 IXS, 18 spd., 46,000 rears, 4-way locks, 60” sleep-er, 580,000 kms, 40,000 kms since over-haul, $85,000; 1998 Loadline 29’ gravel trailer, air ride, $25,000; 1998 Loadline 28’ gravel trailer, spring ride, $22,000; 2012 Western Star DD15 Detroit 18 spd., 40 rears, w/4-way lock, APU unit, $60,000; 1997 Sterling single axle tractor, 3126 Cat, 10 spd., 23,000 rears, $8500; 2007 IHC 4400, DT466, 6 spd., air ride, w/24’ van, 325,000 kms, $16,000; 2005 Western Star, C15 Cat, 18 spd., 46,000 rears, locks, 36” sleeper, low kms, clean truck, $45,000; 400 KW to 800 KW gensets, low hours; 2002 Pete 320, 3126 Cat, auto w/side load garbage unit, $30,000; 2014 Freightliner daycab, DD15, 13 spd., 40 rears, 4-way locks, 240,000 kms, new safety, warranty to 800,000 kms or 2019, $75,000; 2008 Kenworth 800 daycab, C15 Cat, 18 spd., 46 rears, 4-way locks, 700,000 kms, $68,000; 2003 Freightliner Columbia, Detroit 60 Se-ries, 13 spd., 40 rears, $23,000; 2000 Western Star, Detroit 60 Series, 13 spd., 40 rears, $21,000; 2001 Freightliner FL80, Cat 3126, auto, 15’ Midland, $38,000; 2003 Pete 379, 6NZ Cat, 6100 hrs. since overhaul, 18 - 46,000 full locks, 48” sleep-er, $48,000; 2005 Trailtech 27’ 5th wheel trailer, 20,000 axles w/loading ramps and self contained 545 Ferrari crane unit, $17,000. Gensets available. Financing available, OAC. www.can-amtruck.com DL#910420.

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WANTED: 1967-1979 F100/F150 Ford, reg. cab, shortbox, would prefer in good cond. 780-918-6816, Edmonton, AB.

STRONG SINGLE HIVES or nucs for sale. Call Andy, Steinbach, MB., 204-381-7993, 204-346-9701. [email protected]

WILL DO STYROBLOCK cocoon harvesting and custom poll ination. Call Maurice Wildeman, 306-365-7802, Lanigan, SK.

WANTED: LEAFCUTTER BEES, loose sell or in foam blocks. Call Mike at 403-501-1565, Brooks, AB.

1x6x8 AND 1x8x8 2nd cut wind shelter boards, $385/1000 bf. One bundle covers 74’ of fence. $197.12. Ph. 306-469-7817, Big River, SK. www.christiansenlumber.ca

ROUGH LUMBER: 2x6, 2x8, 2x10, 1” boards, windbreak slabs, 4x4, 6x6, 8x8, all in stock. Custom sizes and log siding on order. Call V&R Sawing 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK.

CONTINUOUS METAL ROOFING, no ex-posed screws to leak or metal overlaps. Ideal for lower slope roofs, rinks, church-es, pig barns, commercial, arch rib build-ing and residential roofing; also available in Snap Lock. 306-435-8008, Wapella, SK.

TRUSSES: 35’ step hip trusses, 20 pcs., 6/12, under tarp, paid $16,000 sacrifice 1/2 price $7999 OBO; 1 set of 20’ mono s teps , 40 pcs . , 4/12 , $2999 OBO. 306-668-0199, Martensville, SK.

www.windandweathershelters.com COMMERCIAL GRADE Wind and weather shelter buildings available in widths from 20’ to 90’. Prices starting at $2495. If you have bought an auction building and need to upgrade to more durable material or parts we can help. Located in Yorkton. Contact Paul at 306-641-5464 or Ladimer 306-795-7779.

RESTAURANT FOR LEASE ready for imme-diate business. Experience will be an asset,but not totally a must. For more info.,please contact 306-893-2242 or306-893-7161, Maidstone, SK. Email:[email protected]

CANADIAN MONUMENT COMPANY, ex-panding in Western Canada, seeking seri-ous minded individuals, who want to earn better than average income and own their own business. Interested parties must be well respected in their community, have exceptional listening skills and be sympa-thetic to the sensitive nature of the busi-ness. This is not a multi-level marketing scheme, it is an individually owned dis-tr ibutorship. Ser ious inquir ies only. 1-866-878-4583.

SANDBLASTING, PAINTING, INSULATINGCompany for Sale. Well established, diver-sified in Ag., Oilfield, Commercial, Industri-al. Good equipment- foam, fireproofing,sandblasting, painting, coatings. Long termcustomers in SW SK. and SE AB. Ownerretiring. Training and financing available,$650,000. 306-526-9382.

MANUFACTURING BUSINESS. Welding, light fabricating. one-of-a-kind product. Mainly Ag. Peak sales Sept - March. Owned 30 years, room for growth. Relocatable. $195,000. plus inventory; 50’x70’ shop, $325,000. 306-446-4462, North Battleford, SK. [email protected]

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.

FARM/CORPORATE PROJECTS. Call A.L. Management Group for all your borrowing and lease requirements. 306-790-2020, Regina, SK.

FARMTOOL FARM ACCOUNTING SoftwareSimple single-entry accounting. Track GST/PST, online help, auto backups, flexiblefiscal year, upgrade pricing. 306-400-1313www.wil-techsoftware.com

ANDRES TRUCKING. Hauling equipment, bins, livestock, towing. Canada/USA. Call or text 306-736-3454, South East, SK.

LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom hay hauling. Call 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK.

CUSTOM BALE HAULING. Will haul large squares or round. Phone 306-567-7199, Kenaston, SK.

EQUIPMENT HAULING. Serving Western Canada and Northwest USA. Call Harvey at 1-877-824-3010 or cell 403-795-1872. Vandenberg Hay Farms Ltd., Nobleford AB. Email: [email protected]

LARRY’S EQUIPMENT HAULING: Farm machinery and construction equipment. Serving Western Canada. 780-720-4304.

EQUIPMENT TOWING/ HAULING. Rea-sonable rates. Contact G H Wells Services and Trucking, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK.

JIM’S TUB GRINDING, H-1100 Haybuster with 400 HP, serving Saskatchewan. Call 306-334-2232, 306-332-7332, Balcarres.

NORTHWEST TUB GRINDING: Mobile truck mounted 1150 Haybuster tub grinder for your hay and straw grinding needs. Call for rates and bookings, Ron 306-883-7124, Email: [email protected] Leoville, SK.

BRUSH MULCHING. The fast, effective way to clear land. Four season service, competitive rates, 275 HP unit, also avail. trackhoe with thumb, multiple bucket at-tachments. Bury rock and brush piles and fence line clearing. Borysiuk Contracting Inc., www.bcisk.ca Prince Albert, SK., 306-960-3804.

REGULATION DUGOUTS: 120x60x14’, $2000; 160x60x14’, $2950; 180x60x14’, $3450; 200x60x14’, $3950; Larger sizes available. Travel incl. in Sask. Gov’t grants available. 306-222-8054, Saskatoon, SK.

LOOKING FOR CUSTOM FARM WORK, seeding, spraying and combining. Call for pricing and to book spring acres. Call Mike 306-469-7741, Big River, SK.

NEUFELD ENT . CORRAL CLEANING , payloader, Bobcat with rubber tracks and ve r t i c a l b e a t e r s p r e a d e r s . P h o n e 306-220-5013, 306-467-5013, Hague, SK.

CUSTOM LIQUID MANURE hauling, 3 tanks available. Contact George in Hague, SK. 306-227-5757.

MULCHING- TREES, BRUSH, Stumps. Call today 306-933-2950. Visit us at: www.maverickconstruction.ca

2017 CUSTOM FARMING Services available.We offer complete custom farming pack-ages including seeding, spraying, swathingand harvesting for any size of operation. Upto date and reliable equip. w/experiencedoperators, fully insured with all supportequipment. Contact Joe for rates and tobook your 2017 Custom Farming Services.306-331-9393, Fort Qu 'Appelle, [email protected] www.mfiag.com

2004 CAT D6N LGP crawler, 6-way dozer, AC, canopy, diff. steer, cargo winch, new undercarriage, 10,800 hrs., $82,000; 2007 Komatsu PC200 LC-8 hyd. excavator w/QA cleanup bucket, 9’6” stick, aux. hyds., 12,582 hrs., new UC $60,000; Also all kinds of buckets, various shapes and sizes 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB.

ANGLE DOZER w/TILT for a D7G; Also straight dozer w/tilt; Brush rake to fit D6R, D6N and JD 850. 306-238-4411, Goodsoil.

CATERPILLAR 14D GRADER, 1964, good shape. Call for price 204-267-2292 or 204-226-3612, Oakville, MB.

HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS 10 to 25 yds., exc. cond.; Loader and scraper tires, custom conversions available. Looking for Cat cable scrapers. Quick Drain Sales Ltd., 306-231-7318, 306-682-4520 Muenster SK

CASE 590 BACKHOE, 4x4, extendahoe; JD 772BH grader, w/snow wing; Gas or pro-pane powerplant G25UHIS, 205 hrs. 306-238-4411, Goodsoil, SK.

RECLAMATION CONTRACTORS: Bigham 3 and 4 leg mechanical trip 3 pt. hitch Paratills in stock; parts for Bigham and Tye Paratills. Call Kelloughs: 1-888-500-2646.

1974 CAT D7F, 14’ angle dozer, 26” pads, 3306 eng., 60% UC, vg cond., $42,000 OBO. 204-467-2109, Stonewall, MB.

2006 D61 PX-15, 2405 orig. hrs., 6-way blade, 34” pads, near new UC, 155 HP, exc. working cond., S/N #B41323, $68,000. Can deliver. 204-743-2324, Cypress River.

2010 JD 624J wheel loader, 5000 hours, excellent condition, QA. 780-983-0936, Westlock, AB.

TWO VOLVO A-30D Articulated trucks, 23.5x25 tires, 2003 and 2004, $85,000 each. 204-795-9192, Plum Coulee, MB.

HYDRAULIC SCRAPERS: LEVER 60, 70, 80, and 435, 4 to 30 yd. available. Rebuilt for years of trouble-free service. Lever Holdings Inc. 306-682-3332 Muenster, SK.

KOMATSU D85 P-21 dozer, rebuilt motor, trans., torque, steering, final drives, 85% UC, 36” pads like new, 16’ twin tilt angle blade, AC, heat, warranty, $98,000. Can deliver. 204-743-2324 any time Cypress River, MB.

SANDBLASTING AND PAINTING. We do welding, patching, repairs, re-wiring of trucks, trailers, heavy equipment, etc. We use Epoxy primers and Endura topcoats. Competitive rates. Contact Agrimex at 306-331-7443, Dysart, SK.

1972 CAT D7F, bush equipped, good cond. Phone 306-342-7509 or 306-342-4866, Medstead, SK.

NEW 8’, 3 PTH, PTO snowblower; 3- old trucks w/snowblowers; 4- truck snow blades; 2- V-plows for graders; Side wings for graders; Bombardier w/broom; 2- 4x4 holder w/snowblower; 4x4 trackless with broom; 4x4 trackless w/blade; 12- load-ers, dozers and excavators; IH TD9-92 w/loader, $5900; Cat D2-5U w/loader, $4900; 20- Graders being parted out; 7- work ready graders; Over 400 buckets for loaders and backhoes; Over 300 construc-tion tires, new and used; Hundreds of hyd. cylinders; Over 70 sets of forklift forks; 52’ scissor lift; 15- Running forklifts from 2 to 9 ton, 1988 Clark 668 grapple skidder; 1989 TJ 380B line skidder; IH 3964 feller buncher; Case 125B delimber; JD 190D ex-cavator; Sawmill and other bush equip.; 1998 EX270 excavator; Over 50 genera-tors, 3 to 193 KW; Over 1000 new and used UC rollers; 2- 811 Bobcat backhoe at-tachments; New/used parts of all types; Hundreds of misc. attachments. Central Canada’s largest wreckers of construction equipment. 2 yards, over 50 acres. Call Cambrian Equipment Sales Ltd., Winnipeg, MB. Ph. 204-667-2867, fax 204-667-2932.

2012 DEERE 250G LC Excavator, 5866 hrs, 32” shoes, 11’ 10” arm, 64” bucket, other attachments available, good cond., $ 1 1 4 , 0 0 0 . w w w. c o m b i n ewo r l d . c o m 1-888-278-4905.

SKIDSTEER: 2008 CASE 465 Series III, cab, heat, new tires, 2700 hrs., $21,000. Call 306-940-6835, Prince Albert, SK.

ROAD GRADERS CONVERTED to pull behind large 4 WD tractors, 14’ and 16’ blade widths avail. 306-682-3367, CWK Ent. Humboldt, SK. www.cwenterprises.ca

WANTED: 14x24 grader tires at 50%+; Also air cleaner assembly for Champion 740. Call 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

2004 CAT D7R-XR Series II angle dozer, full canopy and ripper. 780-983-0936, Westlock, AB.

ONLINE ONLY UNRESERVED AUCTION:Jan. 25-31, 2017. www.championassets.ca 1996 Champion 726A IV VHP, 8.3 Cum-mins powershi f t , Espar heater. Ca l l 306-865-7660. DL #334832.

PORTABLE TOILET SALES: Selling Five Peaks Technologies new portable toilets and accessories. Phone 403-680-0752 for details. Visit on-line: 5peaksdistributors.ca

KELLO DISC BLADES and bearings: 22” to 42” notched. Parts: oilbath and greaseable bearings to service all makes of heavy con-struction discs. Call: 1-888-500-2646, Red Deer, AB. www.kelloughs.com

2010 CAT 950H WHEEL LOADER, 27,417 hrs., w/Cat quick coupler bucket, 3-3/4 cu. yards, 23.5x25 tires, F.O.B. $75,000. 204-795-9192, Plum Coulee, MB

USED PORTABLE TOILETS, mostly poly John, some good, some not so good, $300 each, take choice. 403-680-0752.

LOG GRAPPLE TO FIT Komatsu 500 size loader. Danny Spence, 306-246-4632, Speers, SK.

2 MACK TANDEM trucks w/dump boxes, $7700 ea; IH 366 dsl., 34,000 kms and 16’ van body. Few other trucks in stock; 100’ ladder truck; 2 Cat scrapers 463, $23,000 for pair; New 24’ garbage box. Salvage of all types. Call Cambrian Equipment Sales Ltd., 494 Panet Road, Winnipeg, MB., 204-667-2867 fax 204-667-2932.

CAT HYDRAULIC PULL SCRAPERS: 463, 435, 80 and 70, all vg condition, new conversion. Also new and used scraper tires. Can deliver. 204-793-0098, Stony Mountain, MB.

CAT 463 PULL SCRAPER, hydraulic ma-chine, 21 yard capacity, very nice shape, $50,000 OBO. 204-669-9626 Winnipeg MB

2007 ELRUS 2442 jaw crusher, $152,000; Ford F700 tow truck, fully equipped, $24,900. Pro Ag Sales, 306-441-2030, any-time. North Battleford, SK.

2004 JD 3800 telehandler, 4900 hrs., available with: bucket and grapple and pal-let fork. 204-522-6333, Melita, MB.

SKIDSTEER ATTACHMENTS: Buckets, rock buckets, grapples, weld-on plates, hyd. au-gers, brush cutters and more large stock. Top quality equipment, quality welding and sales. Call Darcy at 306-731-3009, 306-731-8195, Craven, SK.

1979 CAT D8K, hyd. straight tilt dozer or angle available, winch, 90% UC remaining, $46,000. More items avail. Robert Harris, 204-642-9959, 204-470-5493, Gimli, MB. View: www.Robertharrisequipment.com

PIONEER 2436 Primary jaw crusher with vibratory feeder, dsl. or electric, $95,000 OBO. 204-372-6832, Broad Valley, MB.

GARWOOD IND. 12 yd. pull scraper, hyd. control, 9’ cut width, hydraulic unload assist, $16,900. 1-888-278-4905 or view www.combineworld.com .

2003 VOLVO G740B tandem drive, snow wing Volvo D10 (219-243 HP), 8400 direct drive powershift (8 fwd, 4 reverse), Articu-lated frame, 14’ moldboard, 12,056 hrs., $39,900. Norm 204-761-7797 Brandon MB

2011 HITACHI ZX270 LC-3 hyd. thumb excavator, 6950 hrs., 12’ 6” stick, c/w Q/A bucket, very good shape, $119,000. Call 204-325-8019, 204-362-1091, Winkler, MB

EXCELLENT FARM CATS for sale come with warranty: Komatsu, Cat, Fiat Allis. Call for more info excellent working condition. Most newer UC, rebuilt engine, and trans bush, guarded. Call for price. Can deliver. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

2003 270C JD excavator, 10,300 hrs, Q/A, wrist and dig buckets, hyd. thumb, $62,500. Call 204-746-4131 or view web-site: www.equipmentpeople.com

19.5L-24 TOP TRUST new industrial t i r e s , 1 2 p l y , t u b e l e s s , $ 5 9 9 . 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com

11R24.5 SKYHAWK new industrial tires, 16 ply, tubeless, $359. 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com

2016 MSIB, 12x60 office skid shack, brand new, never used, $47,500. Call 780-307-5235, Clyde, AB.

2006 LINK-BELT 210 EXCAVATOR , $33,000 work order, 6000 hours, no thumb, $60,000. 780-307-5235, Clyde, AB.

1990 FIAT ALLIS FD 14E dozer, 24 pads, full guarded canopy with enclosed cab, 10.6 wide tilt blade, 350 hrs. on new UC warranty, $49,000. Can deliver. Call any time, 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

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DIESEL ENGINES, OVERHAUL k its and parts for most makes. Cat, CIH, Cummins, Detroit, Mack. M&M Equipment Ltd., Parts and Service phone: 306-543-8377, fax: 306-543-2111, Regina, SK.

USED, REBUILT or NEW engines. Spe-cializing in Cummins, have all makes, large inventory of parts, re-powering is our spe-cialty. 1-877-557-3797, Ponoka, AB.

3406B, N14, SERIES 60, running engines and parts . Ca l l Yel lowhead Traders , 306-896-2882, Churchbridge, SK.

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WINTER BOOKING DISCOUNTS ON STEEL farm buildings. Order your steel farm building now before prices increase, and do not pay until spring. Factory di-rect steel buildings built to suit your op-eration. Call Prairie Steel now to lock in your price for winter fabrication - we offer all sizes and opt ions. Leasing opt ions available. Contact us at 1-888-398-7150 or email [email protected]

BEHLEN STEEL BUILDINGS, quonsets, convex and rigid frame straight walls, grain tanks, metal cladding, farm- com-mercial. Construction and concrete crews. Guaranteed workmanship. Call your Saska-toon and Northwest Behlen Distributor, Janzen Steel Buildings, 306-242-7767, Osler, SK.

STRAIGHT WALL BUILDING packages or bui l t on site. For early book ing cal l 1-800-667-4990 or v isit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com

TIM’S CUSTOM BIN MOVING and Haul-ing Inc. Up to 22’ diameter. 204-362-7103 [email protected]

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WESTEEL AND LODE-KING, grain/fertilizerhopper bins: Westeel approx. 2400 bu.,triple skids w/twin air high output dryingsystem, 5 HP Denouden fan, $9000 OBO; 4Lode-King, approx 2000 bu, dbl skids, somew/air, $6000/ea. Good cond., $32,000 OBOtakes all. 306-842-2775, 306-861-2450,Weyburn, SK. Email: [email protected]

BROCK (BUTLER) GRAIN BIN PARTS and accessories available at Rosler Con-struction. 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK.

LIFETIME LID OPENERS. We are a stock-ing dealer for Boundary Trail Lifetime Lid Openers, 18” to 39”. Rosler Construction 2000 Inc., 306-933-0033, Saskatoon, SK.

GRAIN BIN INSTALLATION. Large diame-ter bin setup, concrete, repairs. Quadra Development Corp., 1-800-249-2708.

FOR ALL YOUR grain storage, hopper cone and steel floor requirements contact: Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipawin, SK. Toll free: 1-888-304-2837.

CHIEF WESTLAND AND CARADON BIN extensions, sheets, stiffeners, etc. Now available. Call Bill, 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB. www.starlinesales.com

REDUCED! 2300 bu. Westeel hopper bin, like new, double skids and ladder, only $5000. 306-260-6132, Hanley, SK.

BOOK NOW, TAKE DELIVERY, DON’T PAY UNTIL NOVEMBER, 2017 . Top quality MERIDIAN bins. All prices include: skid, ladders to ground, manhole, set-up and delivery within set radius. Meridian Hopper combos: 3500 bushel, $10,450. SPECIAL: 5000 bu., $13,990. We manu-factor superior quality hoppers and steel floors for all makes and sizes. Know what you are investing in. Call and find out why our product quality and price well exceeds the competition. We also stock replace-ment lids for all makes and models of bins. Leasing available. Hoffart Services Inc., 306-957-2033, Odessa, SK.

CUSTOM GRAIN BIN MOVING, all types up to 22’ diameter. 10% spring discount. Accurate estimates. Sheldon’s Hauling, 306-961-9699, Prince Albert, SK.

10,000 BU. HOPPER BINS- Winter booking prices in effect. We guarantee delivery and set up. Start planning for next year, see you r nea re s t F l aman s to re o r ca l l 1-888-435-2626 for more information.

MERIDIAN AND WESTEEL fertilizer bins. on sale now. See your nearest Flaman store of call 1-888-435-2626.

BIN SENSE- Protect your livelihood. Check moisture and grain temperature right from y o u r sm a r t p h o n e . C a l l F l am a n 1-888-435-2626.

BIN MOVING, all sizes up to 19’ diameter, w/wo floors; Also move liquid fert. tanks. 306-629-3324, 306-741-9059, Morse, SK.

POLY GRAIN BINS, 40 to 150 bu. for grain cleaning, feed, fertilizer and left over treat-ed seed . 306-258-4422, Vonda, SK. www.buffervalley.com

CUSTOM BUILT HOPPER BOTTOMS for all bins, large and small. Magnum Fabricating, 30 6 - 6 6 2 - 2 1 9 8 , M ap l e C r e e k , SK . www.magnumfabricating.com

20’ AND 40’ SEA CONTAINERS, for sale in Calgary, AB . Phone 403-226-1722, 1-866-517-8335. www.magnatesteel.com

SHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR SALE. 20’- 53’, delivery/ rental/ storage available. For inventory and prices call: 306-262-2899, Saskatoon, SK. www.thecontainerguy.ca

CONTAINERS FOR SALE OR RENT: All sizes. Now in stock: 50 used, 53’ steel and insulated SS. 306-861-1102, Radville, SK.

20’ and 40’ SHIPPING CONTAINERS, and storage trailers. Large Sask. inventory. Phone 1-800-843-3984 or 306-781-2600.


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HORNOI LEASING NEW and used 20’ and 40 ’ sea cans for sa le or rent . Ca l l 306-757-2828, Regina, SK.

BEAVER CONTAINER SYSTEMS, new and used sea conta iners , a l l s i zes . 306-220-1278, Saskatoon and Regina, SK.

BOND SEA CONTAINERS. New, used and modified sea containers. All sizes avail. Buy, rent or lease. Cal l Bond today 306-373-2236, [email protected] or visit www.bondind.com

20’ TO 53’ CONTAINERS. New, used and modified. Available Winnipeg, MB; Regina and Saskatoon, SK. www.g-airservices.ca 306-933-0436.

KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD/ OPI STORMAX. For sales and service east central SK. and MB., call Gerald Shymko, Calder, SK., 306-742-4445 or toll free 1-888-674-5346.

KEHO/ GRAIN GUARD Aeration Sales and Service. R.J. Electric, Avonlea, SK. Call 306-868-2199 or cell 306-868-7738.

BUILD YOUR OWN conveyors, 6”, 7”, 8” and 10” end units available; Transfer con-veyors and bag conveyors or will custom build. Call for prices. Master Industries Inc . www.masterindustr ies.ca Phone 1-866-567-3101, Loreburn, SK.

NEW CONVEY-ALL DRIVE OVER belt conveyor w/electric drive 20 HP motor. Retail $15,000. Special year end price, $12,900. 306-222-6173, Saskatoon, SK.

BATCO CONVEYORS , new and used, grain augers and SP kits. Delivery and leasing available. 1-866-746-2666.

NEW BATCO 2075 w/electric drive kit. Retail $36,500. Blow-out Special, $28,500. 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK.

FERTILIZER STORAGE TANKS- 5,000 US gal., $3,000; 6,000 US gal., $3600- pickup at factory. Ph 306-253-4343 while supplies last. www.hold-onindustries.com

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2012 VALMAR 5500, scales, foam marker, elec. 1/2 width disconnect, 550 tires. 604-854-0668, Abbotsford, BC.

2009 TERRAGATOR 8204, Cat, TerraShift, Airmax Precision 2, twin bin, SmarTrax, 4530 hrs., $73,500; 2008 4 WD Ag-Chem 8244, airflow bed, 70’ booms, $69,500; 2006 8204 twin bin, 5600 hrs., $56,000. USD prices. 406-466-5356, Choteau, MT. View www.fertilizerequipment.net

MAXQUIP NH3, LIKE new, reconditionedMaxquip system. Precision/VR tool, high/low N rates, $9990. Ph. 306-530-4944,Regina, SK. [email protected]

2011 4520 1-bin, 70’ booms, $145,000; 2- 2010 Case 4520’s, 70’ booms: 3-bin, 3100 hrs., $168,000; SPECIAL- 2010 Case 4520, 1-bin, 5100 hrs., $93,500; 2- 2007 Case 4520’s, 3-bin, 70’ booms, 3300 hrs., AutoSteer, $134,000 and $98,000; 2006 Case 4510, AutoSteer, FlexAir 70’ booms, 7400 hrs., $77,000; 2005 Case 4520 w/70’ FlexAir, 4000 hrs., $78,000; 2004 Case 4010, 80’ SPRAYER, 7000 hrs., $58,000; 2- 2004 Loral AirMax 1000s, 70’ booms, immaculate, $76,000 and $93,000; 2006 2-bin AgChem, 70’ booms, $58,000; 2002 KBH Semi tender, self-contained, $32,000; 2009 and 2012 Merritt semi belt tender, sel f contained, $32,000 and $42,000; 2- 24 ton Wilmar tender beds, $17,500 ea; 2012 Wilmar Rangler 4560, 780 hrs., $28,500; 2009 Rangler, 2400 hrs, $23,500; 1974 10,000 gal. NH3 transport, $38,500; 18,000 gal. NH3 holding tank, $34,500. USD prices. 406-466-5356, Cho-teau, MT. www.fertilizerequipment.net

2012 TENDER TRAILER: 30 MT Convey-All trailer, tri-axle, 5 hoppers, self con-tained hyd. drive powered by Subaru gas motor 36 HP, exc. cond., field ready, $85,000. Bill 780-210-0800, Andrew, AB.

2005 PETERBILT STAHLY, Cummins, Al-lison auto., New Leader L3020 G4, moni-tor, New Leader controller, Starlink GPS 4145 hours, $78,000; 2004 Peterbilt, Cummins, Allison auto, 1800 gal stainless, 80’ boom, Raven controller, Raven Auto-Steer, Raven section shutoff, 4270 hours $65,000. USD prices. 406-466-5356, Cho-teau, MT. www.fertilizerequipment.net

FERTILIZER SPREADERS, 4-8 ton, 10 ton Willmar Tender. Call 204-857-8403, Port-age La Prairie, MB.

FERTILIZER STORAGE TANKS. 11,000 US gal., $6500 pick up at factory or $7000 free freight to farm. 1-800-383-2228 www.hold-onindustries.com 306-253-4343

AUGERS: NEW and USED: Wheatheart, Westfield, Westeel augers; Auger SP kits; Batco conveyors; Wheatheart post pound-ers. Good prices, leasing available. Call 1-866-746-2666.

MERIDIAN GRAIN AUGERS available with self-propelled mover kits and bin sweeps. Call Kevin’s Custom Ag in Nipaw-in, SK. Toll free 1-888-304-2837.

2016 FARM KING 13x85 Winter Clearance, 1 o n l y ! C a m - D o n M o t o r s L t d . , 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

MERIDIAN AUGERS IN STOCK: swings, truck loading, Meridian SP movers. Call Hof far t Serv ices Inc . , Odessa , SK . , 306-957-2033.

MERIDIAN AUGERS in stock at Flaman. Call 1-888-435-2626. or visit your nearest Flaman location.

2012 CONVEY-ALL TCHSS 1045 con-veyor, 10”x45’, stainless steel w/Flave con-veyor and skid mount wet kit, $19,800. www.combineworld.com 1-888-278-4905

NEW 2016 BRANDT swing away augers, 13110HP+, 4 to choose from. 2 electric and 1 hyd. swing away, 13,000 bu. per/hr. 3 augers, M13X110 HP, 1 auger, 10”x80’ $33,000 ea. Call any time, 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

Y E A R E N D C L E A R A N C E : L o a d e d HD8-39/ HD8-46/ TL 10-39 plus SLMD12 - 72 and SLMD12 - 95 plus. Used Augers: 2012 TL 10-39; 2012 SLMD 12-72 with winch and swing mover; Brandt 10x60 S/A: Wheatheart 8x51’ c/w mover. Also dealer for Convey-All Conveyors. Leasing available! Call Dale, Mainway Farm Equip., 306-567-3285, 306-567-7299, Davidson, SK. www.mainwayfarmeguipment.caNEW MERIDIAN AUGERS: TL12-39 w/37HP,EFI Vanguard eng., c/w mover, HD clutch, reversing gearbox and lights. Retai l $24,200, cash pr ice $19,500. 306-648-3622, Gravelbourg, SK.

2008 SPRAY-AIR, ELEC winch, new Kramblemover, can be sold without mover. Size:13x70, good condition, $11,000 OBO.780-878-1550, Camrose, AB.

BRANDT 8x50, BLUE, hyd. mover, winch, bin sweep, good cond. Ed 306-272-3848, 306-269-7745, Foam Lake, SK.

REMOTE CONTROL SWING AUGER movers, trailer chute openers, endgate and hoist systems, wireless full bin alarms, swing belt movers, wireless TractorCams, motorized utility carts. All shipped directly to you. Safety, convenience, reliability. Kramble Industries at 306-933-2655, Saskatoon, SK. or www.kramble.net

GRAIN BAG EXTRACTOR, 2013 Loftness, 10'extractor, has done about 40 bags, goodcondition, $28,000 OBO. 780-878-1550,Camrose, AB.

GRAVITY WAGONS: New 400 bu, $7,400; 600 bu., $12,500; 750 bu., $18,250. Large selection of used gravity wagons, 250-750 bu. Used grain carts, 450 to 1110 bushel. View at: www.zettlerfarmequipment.com 1-866-938-8537, Portage la Prairie, MB.

DON’T FORGET TO visit southcountry.ca. South Country Equipment, 306-692-2371, Moose Jaw, SK.

GRAIN CLEANER ACCESSORIES. Ware-house Clearance. 4 new #3 Indent shells,Two #10, and two #32, $300 ea.; New 233sheets 3 'x10' screen material, all sizes,$3.50 sq. ft. selling as one lot only. Newscreen on frame for Clipper air screen, 22-54x34" and 22- 54x26", $2200 for the lot,set up for cereals. Call 204-782-6937,Headingly, MB. [email protected]

SEED CLEANERS SALE: 2015 Orion screen machine, many upgrades - better than new. Good selection of screens; 1995 Kamas Westrup air/screen machine, UB1500 4 variable pitch decks. Excellent selection of screens; 2015 Mercury in-dents, easy change nickel plated non-stick shells; 1995 Carter day indents; 1994 14M Forsberg Gravity, new shaker arms and your selection of new deck screen; 1995 Damas indent, extra shells; 6 pairs of spi-ral separators. Call Warren 204-730-0430 or Simon 204-720-9155, El l is Seeds, Wawanesa, MB.

USED LMC GRAVITY SEPARATORS, 400 BPH and 300 BPH units available. Call LMC Canada 1-800-667-6924.

CUSTOM COLOR SORTING chickpeas to mustard. Cert. organic and conventional. 306-741-3177, Swift Current, SK.

DUAL STAGE ROTARY SCREENERS and Kwik Kleen 5-7 tube. Call 204-857-8403, Portage la Prairie, MB. or visit online: www.zettlerfarmequipment.com

CARTER-DAY INDENT SHELLS , size 6-1/2,4&3 works great for cleaning Timothy,Trefoil and smaller Clovers, $500 ea. OBO.Call 204-648-7856, Gilbert Plains, [email protected]

WESTERN GRAIN DRYER, mfg. of grain dryers w/auto. drying/moisture control. Updates to Vertec roof, tiers, moisture control. Economic designed dryers avail. 1-888-288-6857. westerngraindryer.com

SAFE PORTABLE GRAIN DRYING-Multiple locations in Western Canada.Economical, efficient, fume-free, flamelessgrain drying units that have the ability todry multiple grain bins simultaneously atyour site. No operator required. Phone 1-855-573-4328. [email protected] orwww.conleymax.com

CT1100 VERTEC GRAIN DRYER w/new roof, $25,000. 2 overhead garage doors, 24x18’, $2,000 ea. 204-274-2502 ext. 225.

VERTEC, 8 TIERS, single phase motors, new style natural gas, new 7” auger wet fi l l , new 6” auger unload, $50,000. 780-853-7205, Vermilion, AB.

“Order”a A-B Drier 1000 b/hBefore Dec 31/16 $265,000

After Jan 01/17 $275,000 2017 Orders 10% deposit

Free delivery in AB-SK-MB if bought before Dec 31/16 CSA fully auto, to run 24/7

N/Gas & Propane, 277/480 3ph

12 SA lease pay oac $ 24,500

Customer gas & power hookup

Twin it later for 2000 b/h

Ross Equip. Ltd800-661-7401780-864-3731

[email protected]@rossequip.ca

2008 GSI 1226, 3 PH NG/LPG, 10.5 million BTU, batch or continuous, 3640 BPH. Portable, needs nothing, still in operation, $99,000. 780-206-1234, Barrhead, AB.

AERATION FANS, rockets ductwork, temp monitoring equipment and more. Visit your nearest Flaman store to see selection or call 1-888-435-2626.

FARM FAN 180 auto batch grain dryer, very good, $6000; Farm Fan CMS-14E continuous multi stage grain dryer, $4000. 204-325-8019, 204-362-1091, Winkler, MB

1997 IBEC 24’, 9 tier, dual fuel, PLC and M2 micro processor with preheat tier and dual direction discharge, $70,000. Call 780-990-8198, Fort Saskatchewan, AB.

FOR SALE: BUCKET elevators; Dust collec-tion system; and Concrete scale pads.Phone 780-247-0101, High Level, AB.Email: [email protected]

BUCKET ELEVATOR BUCKETS. WarehouseClearance, over 15,000 CCHD Tapco, MaxiLift, CC Swift poly buckets. 204-782-6937,Headingly, MB. [email protected]

RIDGEMAR GRAIN SYSTEMS 204-372-8769 Cell 204-739-8004

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RIDGEMAR GRAIN LEG SYSTEM

• Site visit to access needs.• Heavy duty long lasting construction.

CONVEYAIR GRAIN VACS, parts, acces-sories. Call Bill 780-986-5548, Leduc, AB. www.starlinesales.com

2000 HESSTON 856A baler, 11,000 bales, 540 PTO, bale kicker, gauge wheels, hyd. PU, 14l-16.1 tires, $11,970. South Country Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

2013 CLAAS 3300 RC Quadrant 3x4 square baler, approx. 7000 bales made, vg cond., $110,000. Can del iver. Cal l anyt ime 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

BALE SPEAR ATTACHMENTS for all loaders and skidsteers, excellent pricing. Call now 1-866-443-7444.

BALE SPEARS , high quality imported from Italy, 27” and 49”, free shipping, ex-ce l l en t p r i c ing . Ca l l now to l l f r ee 1-866-443-7444, Stonewall, MB.

DON’T FORGET TO visit southcountry.ca. South Country Equipment, 306-354-2411, Mossbank, SK.

PICKUP REEL PARTS WAREHOUSE: MacDon, UII, JD, Hart Carter, CNH, AGCO. We distribute parts for all PU reels. Call 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com

MORRIS 14 BALE hay hiker, good condi-tion. Call 306-290-8806, Dundurn, SK.

CIH 2388 4WD KIT, comes with tires, rims, axle, wheel motors, hyrdaulics etc, $15,000. Call 1-888-278-4905 or view www.combineworld.com

2007 7010 Case/IH, dual wheels, w/2016 header, $170,000. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

2000 CASE/IH 2388 w/1015 header, $65,000; 2004 2388 w/2015 PU header, $115,000; 2006 2388 w/2015 PU header, $130,000; 2009 7088 w/2016 PU header, $180,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

2011 CLAAS LEXION 760, 700 sep. hrs., fully loaded, $265,000 CAD OBO; 2010 Lexion 590, fully loaded, 500 sep. hrs., $220,000 CAD OBO. All exc. cond., used only in small grains; 2000 Lexion 480, $27,000 CAD OBO. Call 218-779-1710, Bottineau, ND.

CAT COMBINE PARTS Salvaging 670, 590, 580R, 485, 480, 470, 460R. New addi-tions regularly. Call 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com

LEXION 580R 4WD KIT, c/w tires, rims, axles, wheel motors, hydraul ics etc , $18,000. Call 1-888-278-4905 or view www.combineworld.com

2009 NH 9070, 1793/1474 hrs, Intelli-View II display, Y&M, remote sieve adjust, elec. stonetrap, duals, diff. lock, long au-ger, PSD, deluxe chopper, chaff spreader, c/w 76-C 14’ Swathmaster PU plus 2003 NH 94-C 36’ draper header, fore/aft, split PU reel, single knife drive, gauge wheels, transport, all stored inside, $200,000 OBO. Call 780-608-9290, Strome, AB.

WANTED: NICE R72 Gleaner w/Cummins engine. Call 701-340-5061, Minot, ND.

DON’T FORGET TO visit southcountry.ca. South Country Equipment, 306-746-2110, Raymore, SK.

JOHN DEERE 9600, well maintained, al-ways shedded. Phone 403-823-1894, Drumheller, AB.

2010 JD 9870 STS, loaded, 4 WD, only 480 sep./ 600 eng. hrs, $269,000 CAD OBO. 218-779-1710, Bottineau, ND.

2010 9870, ProDrive, Harvest Smart, self-level shoe, Rice dual tires, 615 PU, exc., c/w 2010 JD 635D d raper header, $249,000. Henry 403-588-0958, Alix, AB.


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GRAIN DRYINGPortable, Stacked,

Tower & Process DryersGSI Grain Dryers are available in several styles and models

for all your grain quality and capacity requirements.

FOR SIMPLE OPERATION, EASY MAINTENANCE AND QUALITY RESULTS, THINK GSI.

250 to 2000 BPH Delivery and set-up across Western Canada.

Farm machinery trades considered.

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5000 US GalReg. $4,000

Sale $3,600 free freight to farm

or $3,000

pick up at factory

11,000 US GalReg $8,500

Sale $7,000free freight to farm

or $6,500

pick up at factory

6000 US GalReg. $4,800

Sale $4,100free freight to farm

or $3,600

pick up at factory

Reg.$2,200Sale

$1,695

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306-354-2411

Raymore, SK (RM)

306-746-2110

Emerald Park/Regina, SK (R)

306-721-5050

Southey, SK (S)

306-726-2155

Weyburn, SK (W)

306-842-4686

2013 SeedMaster74-12TXBw/2014 JD 1910- 550 bu cart, JD towers with JD blockage, all run seed & primary fert blockage, wide M fold, 8 run double shoot, GreenStar.St #SM13944A

Reg. $269,500

SPECIAL $232,050 2015 John Deere R40451117 hours, 120’ boom, 20” nozzle spacing, AutoTrac, JDLink, JD Section Com-mand, CommandView cab,

gard warranty till Apr/18. St #0006767A

Reg. $533,800

SPECIAL $501,800

2007 SeedMaster 80-14w/2011 Bourgault 6550 tank, smart hitch, double shoot, all run block seed only, plumbed for NH3, 3 tank metering, 591 monitor.St #0SM7194A

Reg. $221,700

SPECIAL $191,000 1994 Flexi-Coil 5000 - 57’12”, steel capped press wheels,single shoot air pac, new hoses & new rear hinges for the lift w/Flexi-Coil 2320 TBH cart, new Stealth openers, new bush.St #P059900A

Reg, $32.,800

SPECIAL $28,250

2012 SeedMaster 66-12 TXBRaven Cruizer II in cab mon-itor, Matrix hyd block, Pat-tison liquid kit, Bourgault hitch, 40 bu rear mounted Ultra Pro canola tank, tire in tire packers.St #0013878A

Reg. $177,700

SPECIAL $153,000 1995 RoGator854 Sprayer4115 hrs, 90’ boom, 800 gal poly tank, EZ boom section

sets skinnies, 320/90R46 - good.St #8511265A

Reg. $45,500

SPECIAL $39,200

2010 SeedMaster70-12TXBw/2010 JD 1910 - 430 bu cart 750/65R26 large rear tires, 8 run double shoot, primary blockage on seed &

St #SM10488B

Reg. $221,800

SPECIAL $191,000 1998 John Deere 182061’, 10” spacing, double shoot, new primary hoses, new bushings & pins on lift cylinders, w/1998 JD 1910

ing & new hopper.St #0675325A

Reg. $41,000

SPECIAL $35,300

2006 SeedMaster 66-12ATCw/2006 JD 1910 - 430 bu TBH, smart hitch, JD towers - new, 4 rollers, 8 run double shoot, variable seed/fert rate control, one season on Valmar.St #0SM6110A

Reg. $183,300

SPECIAL $159,550 2008 SeedMaster 64-12TXBDual castors, castoring rear outer wing wheel, lift kit.St #SM08277A

Reg. $107,500

SPECIAL $92,600

2006 SeedMaster 66-12Double shoot/JD air pack, pneumatic packers, had a JD 1910 cart on it, single caster wheels on wings.St #0SM6106A

Reg. $116,900

SPECIAL $100,650 2000 Hesston 856A Baler11,000 bales, 540 PTO, bale kicker, gauge wheels, hyd pickup, 14L-16.1 tires.St #0025261A

Reg. $13,900

SPECIAL $11,970

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$28,995

3.5L V-6 cyl., 5 spd auto, 76,330 km

2013 HONDA RIDGELINE VP

STK# SK-U02224

$28,995


2012 CHEV SILVERADO 1500 LT

STK# SK-U01931A

$40,995

5.0L V-8 cyl, 6 spd auto, 21,762 km, SK tax paid

2014 FORD F-150 FX4STK# SK-S3939A

$34,995

5.0L V-8 cyl., 6 spd. auto, 35,674 km,SK tax paid

2014 FORD F-150 XLTSTK# SK-S4359A

$26,995


2012 DODGE RAM 1500 SLT 4X4STK# SK-U01834

$35,995


2012 GMC SIERRA 1500 SLT

STK# SK-S3761A

$22,995

5.0L, auto, leather, 57,542 km

2007 FORD F-150 LARIAT 4X4

STK# SK-SU0443

$33,495

5.7L V-8 cyl., 8 spd. auto, 37,614 km

2014 DODGE RAM OUTDOORSMAN

STK# SK-S3976A


800907

WATROUS, SK306-946-3362

144 Hrs, IF800/70R38 Michelin DualsHi-Flow Hydraulics, 6 SCV, PTO, AutoTrac

$509,900

800896

STETTLER, AB403-742-4427

2870 Hrs, Michelin 800 R38’s, High FlowDual Hydraulic Pumps, Pre-Urea Engine

$265,000

815700

RIMBEY, AB403-843-3700

4600 hrs, 4WD, Powershift, 3 Point Hitch, no front mount, Not Exactly as Illustrated.

$69,900

745854

NORTHBATTLEFORD, SK306-445-2427

12” spacing, dual shoot, 8370 tow between, poly openers

$165,000

791001

OLDS, AB1-888-495-2026

16.9X30 Front Tires, 4x Rear Remotes, 520/85R42 Rear Tires Michelin, 540E/1000 PTO

$175,900

814693

TABER, AB403-223-1550

4WD, 76 hp, High Flow, AC, Tele Boom, full option, Skid steer or your own QA (JCB, Manitou etc.)

$115,000

762104

LLOYDMINSTER, AB780-875-8010

50’ 12” spacing, c/w 2013 6350 Bourgault cart & LFC liquid cart

$189,000

812489

NORTHBATTLEFORD, SK306-445-8010

Precision Hoe Drill

$98,000

815689

TABER, AB403-223-8928

Demo Unit. Only 187 hours. Must See!

$165,900

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2011 MD D60-D, 45’, DKD, AHHC, hyd tilt, transport....$34,8002011 MD D60-D, 45’, rigid draper, DKD, AHHC, hyd tilt, transport, JD, CNH, AGCO, Lexion conversions available....$39,8002011 MD D60-D 40’, DKD, transport, new knife & guards, nice header..$46,8002008 IH 2152 40’, DKD, AHHC, hyd. tilt...$39,8002012 MD D60, 40’, swather head, DKD, transport, for MD built swathers...$24,800


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2007 JD 1770NT 16 row 30” planter,c/w 2 pt. hitch, liquid fertilizer kit, 600 gallon liquid fert. tank, 240 gal. liquid fert. tank, MaxEmerge XP, not used last 2 years, monitor and controller included, $60,000. 204-871-0925, MacGregor, MB.

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1989 INDUSTRIAL VOHL Snow Blower 4x4,Extremely low hrs, well maintained. 4 cyldsl eng runs the drive system and hydswhile a 6 cyl turbo charged JD 280HP engruns the snow blower. Perfect for MunicipalSnow Removal, Oil Field Lease Roads orPrivate Snow Removal. Snow augers havehard surfacing for wear retention and sheerpins for safety. Adjustable 180 degree chutew/4' height variance.Can load an end dumpin 45 seconds. New batteries, recentlyserviced, $49,500. 780-722-8685, Blackie,AB. [email protected]

NEW FARMKING SNOWBLOWERS, 50” to 96”. Call KMK Sales Ltd. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK.

DON’T FORGET TO visit southcountry.ca. South Country Equipment, 306-842-4686, Weyburn, SK.

SCHULTE SNOWBLOWERS 84” - 117” 3 point hitch units available for front model units. Top quality Saskatchewan made. See your nearest Flaman location or call 1-888-435-2626.

AGED INVENTORY SALE! New Artsway snowblowers made in Ontario, 72” manual turner $2750; 78” hyd. turner, $3550; 96” hyd., $5400; 102” hyd., $6950; 108” hyd., $7200; 102 and 120” hyd. contractors, $7790 + $9100 faded paint. Limited quan-tities. One used 84” hyd., $2700; One used 102” single auger hyd., $4500. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

NH SF115, 130’, 1200 Imperial gal. tank, 2 r inse tanks , wheel boom sprayer, $19,000 OBO. 306-327-7198 Kelvington SK

BRANDT 2500 SPRAYER, 100’ c/w 1200 gallon tank, OutBack monitor, good cond. Call 403-580-0155, Medicine Hat, AB.

2008 CASE/IH 4420, 1 owner, 100’, Aim Control, 5 nozzle body, full load, leather seats, ViperPro monitors, AutoSteer, auto-rate, AutoBoom, 2501 hrs, 1200 gal. SS tank, crop dividers, all updates, 2 sets of Michelins, very well maintained w/service records, stored inside heated shop, mint condition, field ready, $195,000 OBO. 306-421-9909, Estevan, SK.

2015 JD R4045, 1117 hrs., 120’ boom, 20” nozzle spacing, AutoTrac, JDLink, float 800/55R46R1, $501,800. South Country Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

2007 JD 4720, 800 gal., 1070 spray hrs.,90', 3 ' ' fill, sec. control, 2 sets tires, cropdividers, GreenStar display, Starfire 3000,$175,000. 780-307-1148, Dapp, AB.

HEAVY DUTY WHEEL DOLLY. Change your sprayer tires in less than an hour! Over 100 units sold last 12 months. Perfect tool for safely and quickly moving or changing large wheels/tires, $1,499. 403-892-3303, Carmangay, AB.

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1995 ROGATOR 854, 4115 hrs., 90’ boom, 800 gal. poly tank, EZ-Boom and Steer, floats, 320/90R46, $39,200. South Coun-try Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

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FLOATER TIRES: Factory rims and tires: JD 4930/4940, R4045; 800/55R46 Good-year tire and rim; 710/60R46 Goodyear LSW; Case 650/65R38 Michelins, $13,500. D u a l s a v a i l a b l e f o r c o m b i n e s . 306-697-2856, Grenfell, SK.

BOURGAULT 5710 64’, 9.8” space, steel packers, MRB’s, 2005 Bourgault 6350 air cart, DS, in-cab controls. Will separate. Best offer. 306-277-4503, Gronlid, SK.

1998 FLEXI-COIL 5000 air drill, 3.5" pack-ers, single shoot, $27,000. 306-476-2150,306-476-7553, Killdeer, SK.

2010 BOURGAULT 5710 w/6450 tank, lessthan 15,000 acres, double shoot w/MRB's,10" spacing, 3 tanks metering, deluxeauger, bag lift, 591 monitor, shedded,$135,000. 306-421-5217, Benson, SK.

2003 FLEXI-COIL 2340, TBH, vg mech., $ 1 4 , 9 0 0 . C a m - D o n M o t o r s L t d . , 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

2003 BOURGAULT 5710 29’ air drill, DS, Stealth paired row openers, 9.8” spacing, 4300 tank, $60,000 OBO. 780-771-2155, 780-404-1212, Wandering River, AB.

2015 BOURGAULT 3320 XTC, 76’, side band, 10”, 6550 cart, $265,000 OBO. Can arrange delivery 306-563-8482 Yorkton SK

2013 SEEDMASTER 6012, seed brakes and other options: Nova 560-8-D, load cells, 40 bu. rear tank, sect. control, flow sensors, $234,000. 780-754-2361 Irma AB

2011 MORRIS CONTOUR drill 61’, 12” space, paired row w/Morris 8650 TBH var. rate cart, 5000 acres on new Morris open-ers, $189,000. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

2005 FLEXI-COIL 5000, 57’, 10” spacing, steel packers, double shoot, 3450 tank, 3 comp., mechanical drive cart, vg shape, $60,000 OBO. 403-317-4976, Burdett, AB.

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4710 CONCORD and 3000 air cart, 47’, 10” spacing, 300 bu., disc levelers, 3” Dutch openers, 4 rank, 5 plex, Agtron blockage, $14,000 OBO. 306-463-7420 Kindersley SK

2001 JOHN DEERE 1860 disc drill with cart,42', 7.5" spacing, completely rebuilt withNeedham ag parts, $79,990 OBO.780-709-4090, Vermilion, AB.

SALFORD 40’ 522, on 7-1/2” spacing, mid row banders, liquid kit, new discs last year, Salford 3505 air cart, 3 tank, 800x32 tires, dual fans, double shoot, $140,000 OBO. 780-621-4656, Evansburg, AB.

2006 EZEE-ON 7550 40' air drill, 10" spac-ing, 5" packers, 4" carbide tip openers, 3115tank, $35,000. 306-452-7004, Parkman, SK.E-mail: [email protected]

2009 BOURGAULT 3310, 75’, w/6550 tank, 1 year on new tips and discs, very accurate dr i l l and tank , $205,000 OBO. Ca l l 306-867-7165, Loreburn, SK.

VW MFG. Carbide Drill Points and Open-ers for air drills. New super slim paired row opener VW32RPR. Full orders qualify for near ly Free , or FREE sh ipp ing . www.vwmfg.com Phone 403-528-3350.

2013 BOURGAULT 3320 XTC 66’, 10” space, MRB, DS, Bourgault updates done, blockage and X20 monitors c/w 6700 cart, 2 fans, 4 metering tanks, conveyor, duals, whole unit always shedded, exc. cond., $320,000. 780-872-3262, Lashburn, SK.

2010 65’ 3310 BOURGAULT Paralink, 12” spacing, mid row shank banding, double shoot, rear hitch, tandem axles, low acres, $145,000. 2002 49’ Morris Maxim air drill, 12” spacing, w/7240 Morris grain cart, $52,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

5010 CONCORD with 3400 tank, 50’ 10” spacing, edge-on shank, 4” openers, full Agtron Blockage, $35,000 OBO. Ogema, SK. 306-459-7519, 306-459-7539.

JD 1820, 61’ air drill, 10” spacing Atom Jet paired row boots, 4” pneumatic packers, NH3 Raven control ler, sect ional , JD 1910 430 cart, variable rate, 3 meters, $49,000. 306-743-7622, Langenburg, SK.

2014 SEEDMASTER , 60-12 single shootwith anhydrous, tire in tire, dual front cast-er, done 2800 acres, 380 TBT NH tank vari-able rate w/cameras. May split, $175,000.306-849-4732, Sheho, SK. [email protected]

2010 MORRIS 8370, 3 tank, variable rate, TBT, 440 bu., $69,900. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, 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.

1997 CONCORD 4812, DS dry with NH3, Dutch openers, 2000 JD 1900 seed cart, 270 bu, $25,000. 306-452-3233, Antler, SK

CASE/IH 4012 ATX drill, Edge-On shanks, Farmland boots, low disturbance sweeps, disc closers every shank, $18,000 OBO. 403-820-0145, Drumheller, AB.

FLEXI-COIL 300B c/w Barton openers, 38’, 12” spacing, $8900. Cam-Don Motors Ltd., 306-237-4212, Perdue, SK.

1994 FLEXI-COIL 5000 57’, 12”, single shoot air pac, w/Flexi-Coil 2320 TBH cart, 28 ,250 . South Count ry Equ ipment , 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

2006 SEEDMASTER 66-12ATD with 2006 JD 1910 430 bu. TBH Smart Hitch, JD tow-ers, 8-run DS, $159,550 South Country Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.


2006 SEEDMASTER 66-12, double shoot/ JD air pack, pneumatic packers, had a JD 1910 cart on it, $100,650. South Country Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

2002 BOURGAULT 8810 52’, packers, 8” sp. $36,000; 1996 Bourgault 40’ 8800/3195, $16,000. 306-563-8482, Rama, SK.

2012 SEEDMASTER 66-12 TXB, Raven Cruizer II, in-cab monitor, Matrix hyd. block, Pattison kit, $153,000. South Coun-try Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

2008 SEEDMASTER 64-12TXB, dual cas-tors, castoring rear outer wing wheel, lift kit, $92,600. South Country Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

2007 SEEDMASTER 80-14, w/2011 Bourgault 6550 tank, Smart Hitch, double shoot, $191,000. Call South Country Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

1998 JD 1820, 61’, 10” spacing, double shoot, with 1998 JD 1910 cart, $35,300. South Country Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

MORRIS CONCEPT 2000 34’ air seeder, c/w 10” spacing 1720 Flexi-Coil grain tank. 403-580-0155, Medicine Hat, AB.

2013 SEEDMASTER 74-12TXB, w/2014 JD 1910- 550 bu. cart, 8 run double shoot, GreenStar, $232,050. South Country Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

2010 SEEDMASTER 70-12TXB, w/2010 JD 1910-430 bu. cart, 750/65R26 large rear tires, 8-run DS, $191,000. South Country Equipment, 306-721-5050, Regina, SK.

2011 CASE/IH 3430 Precision Air cart, 3comp., 430 bu. (15,153 liters), TBH hitchtype, dual fan, hyd. drive, fan and fan drivevar. drive, meter drive 10" (25.4 cm) steelflighting w/cupped dual 21.5Lx16.1 lugwheels and tires, std. rear tracking width120" (3.05 cm) centers, 30.5x32 lug wheelsand tires, $50,000. 306-640-8112,306-263-4600, 306-263-4640 Assiniboia SK

2002 DEGELMAN SM7000 heavy harrow, 50’ 5/8 tines, 22.5” long, vg cond, $27,500 OBO. 780-826-2992, Bonnyville, AB.

FOR SALE BY TENDER: 42’ Rite-Way land roller, S/N 051034. Tenders close Feb. 10, 2017. Submit tenders to McMahon Co-op, Box 6, McMahon, SK., S0N 1M0. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Call Gordon 306-627-3434.

2001 DEGELMAN 70’, original tines at 24” manual adjust, one owner, $25,800 OBO. 306-563-8482, Rama, SK.

FLEXI-COIL 60’ HARROW packer draw bar, very good condit ion. 306-560-7679, 306-576-2171 leave message, Wishart, SK

WINTER DISCOUNTS on new and used rollers, all sizes. Leasing and delivery available. 403-580-6889, Bow Island, AB.

COMBINE WORLD IS now wrecking seeding equipment! Bourgault 5350, Bour-gault 2155, Flexi-Coil 3450, JD 1820. Call for pricing and avai labi l ity on parts! 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com

IHC 6200 PRESS DRILL, 2 - 8’ steel press, new tires, always shedded, mint cond., $2000. 204-526-2424, Bruxelles MB

DEGELMAN 45’ LAND ROLLER, $34,900; Flexi-Coil 30’ 6000 disc drill, $16,900 and 57’ 5000, $17,900; Wishek 38’ disc, $104,900. Pro Ag Sales, 306-441-2030, anytime. North Battleford, SK.

JD 7200 PLANTERS IN STOCK, 8 to 16 row, any planter makes available. Call Reimer Farm Equipment, Gary Reimer, 204-326-7000, Hwy #12, Steinbach, MB.

WANTED: MORRIS SEED-RITE M1100, 33’ or 44’ with transport wheels. Call 306-842-6360, Griffin, SK.

CASE/IH 5600 HD chisel plow, 29’ with Degelman 3 bar harrows, $6500 OBO. 403-820-0145, Drumheller, AB.

2015 ELMERS HT30, unused, 30’ trans-port, 2 saddles, $2980. 1-888-278-4905. www.combineworld.com .

2016 JOHN DEERE 2410, 63’ deep tillage cultivator, 12” spacing, 550 trips, JD 3 bar harrows. 306-231-8060, Englefeld, SK.

WANTED MODEL 8810 Bourgault air seed-er or 9400 Bourgault cult ivator 40’ . 306-560-7679, 306-576-2171 Wishart, SK.

1992 37’ CASE/IH 5600 HD cultivator, w/Degelman mounted 4-row harrows, $25,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

WANTED: MF 820 tandem disc, complete or for parts. Call Bernie 306-422-8407, St. Louis, SK.

COMPACTED SUBSOIL ISSUES? Avoid “band-aid” solutions. Since 1984. Call Rick 403-350-6088, anytime.

KELLO-BILT 8’ to 20’ offset discs w/24” to 36” notched blades; Kello-Bilt 24’ to 38’ tandem wing discs w/26” and 28” notched blades and oilbath bearings. Red Deer, AB. www.kelloughs.com Call: 1-888-500-2646.

BREAKING DISCS: KEWANEE, 14’ and 12’; Rome 16’ and 9’; Wishek 14’ and 30’. 2- DMI 7 shank rippers. 1-866-938-8537.

WANTED TO BUY: 72-06 Deutz tractor with good engine for parts. 306-395-2668, or 306-681-7610, Chaplin, SK.

LIZARD CREEK REPAIR and Tractor. We buy 90 and 94 Series Case, 2 WD, FWA tractors for parts and rebuilding. Also have rebui l t t ractors and par ts for sa le . 306-784-7841, Herbert, SK.

2013 IH Farmall 140A, 773 hrs, 540/1000 PTO, rear duals, LH rev, shuttleshift....$79,900


CASE/IH 9150, powershift, new tires 2 yrs. ago, 8250 hrs., return line, no PTO, $48,000 OBO. 780-608-9024, Tofield, AB.

ONLINE ONLY UNRESERVED AUCTION:Jan. 25-31, 2017. www.championassets.ca Case 4490, 4 WD with 12’ Degelman dozer blade. 306-865-7660. DL #334832.

2008 CASE/IH 535 quadtrac, 6 hyds., GPS, 30” track, 3475 hrs., nice cond., $225,000. 780-853-7205, Vermilion, AB.

2008 CASE/IH PUMA 165, MFWD, withloader and grapple, good condition,$65,000. 306-547-5430, Endeavour, SK.

2008 IH Magnum 275 MFWD 3168 hrs, PTO, LH rev, powershift, weights, rear duals.....$118,800


1995 CASE 5240, 3900 hrs. , can be equipped w/loader; 1999 Case MX170, 4000 hrs., c/w loader. Call 204-522-6333, Melita, MB.

2013 140A FARMALL Case/IH w/loader, 1800 hrs., $82,000. A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

1980 CASE 4490, 4WD, singles, new motor (100 hrs), 175 HP, asking $8000 OBO. Call 306-778-3749, Swift Current, SK.

WANTED: 2294 FWA, in good running or-der; and 1370, 2290 Case w/weak engines 306-395-2668, 306-681-7610. Chaplin, SK.

2008 IH 485QT, 485 HP, 4229 hrs, pwr shift, front weights, good overall cond... $159,800


STEIGER TRACTOR PARTS . New and used, from radiator to drawpin, 1969 to 1999. Give us a call 1-800-982-1769 or www.bigtractorparts.com

DON’T FORGET TO visit southcountry.ca. South Country Equipment, 306-424-2212, Montmartre, SK.

2014 CATERPILLAR CHMT 945C, 4 WD,only 95 hrs., premium cab, Michelin 800/70R38, 3 PTH, high flow hydraulics, fullGPS, excellent condition. Call for price.Phone 226-402-1431, London, [email protected]

2004 JD 9420, 4 WD, 425 HP, 4701 hrs., 18spd., powershift, 710/70R42 Michelin- 75%,diff. lock, 48 GPM, hyd. pump, 4 SCV, radar,Xeon lighting, instructor seat, fully weight-ed, GreenStar ready, exc. cond. inside/out,Greenlighted 2016, always kept inside whennot used, $166,000 OBO. 780-818-9001,Devon, AB.

NICE 2010 JD 9630, 4 WD, orig. owner, 2500 hrs., fully loaded, big hyd. pump, 5 remotes, 800 duals, all updates done, best offer. Don 306-948-6059, Biggar, SK.

WRECKING FOR PARTS: JD 2750, 3 PTH, vg sheet metal; 4430 JD, vg run eng., good sheet metal; 4440 JD, complete OH eng., vg sheet metal and cab, vg 18.4x38 tires and rims. 1-877-564-8734, Roblin MB

STEVE’S TRACTOR REBUILDER special-izing in rebuilding JD tractors. Want Series 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 7000s to rebuild or for parts. pay top $$. Now selling JD parts. 204-466-2927, 204-871-5170, Austin, MB.

WANTED: CASE 8630 w/orig. 30 Series engine. Call 701-340-5061, Minot, ND.

2012 9510R, 960 hrs, PS, 17’ 6-way blade, prem. cab, 9030 lb. cast, no PTO, ext. war-ranty, too many extras to list, $370,000 OBO. 780-808-3141, Lloydminster, AB.

JOHN DEERE 8630, PTO, tires like new, ex-cellent condition, $19,500. 306-861-4592, Fillmore, SK.

2000 JD 7710, 4900 hrs; 2006 JD 7720, 4600 hrs; 1998 JD 7810, 5900 hrs; 1997 7710, 5500 hrs. All are MFWD and can be equipped w/loaders. 204-522-6333, Melita

1995 JD 8770, 4 WD, 9400 hrs., 300 HP,PTO, 24 spd., 4 remotes, runs exc., tires30%, vg cond., $35,000 OBO. 780-878-1550Camrose, AB. [email protected]

9420 JD, bought new in 2003, shedded summer/winter, 710x42 tires, used on 40’ cult. on small farm, 2800 hrs., mint cond., $155,000. 306-752-4336, 306-921-7683, Melfort, SK.

JD 4630, loader, cab; Case 2870, 4x4, De-gelman dozer; Cockshutt 550 gas; 1991 GMC 17’ B&H. 306-238-4411, Goodsoil, SK

1997 JD 7610 MFWD, 740 loader and grapple, 19 spd. powershift trans., good rubber, 2 hyds. , 8449 hrs. , $60,000. 403-485-8085, Vulcan, AB.

DON’T FORGET TO visit southcountry.ca. South Country Equipment, 306-642-3366, Assiniboia, SK.

JD 8440, PTO , 5800 orig. hrs., quad trans, premium condition. 403-823-1894, Drumheller, AB.

1984 MASSEY FERGUSON 4800, 4 WD,4800 hrs., PTO, decent rubber, very niceshape, but using coolant, good cond.,$6000 OBO. 780-878-1550, Camrose, AB.

2004 NH TV145 Bi-Di, loader, bucket, balespear incl., front mount discbine available,$69,900 OBO. 780-709-4090, Vermilion, AB.

2006 NEW HOLLAND TG255 FWA Super-Steer c/w front and rear duals, good tires, front and rear weights, 3PTH, 4 remotes, 1000 PTO. Field ready. Excellent cart trac-tor. 306-595-2180, Pelly, SK.

2004 NH TV145, FEL w/ grapple, 3PH, PTO, 6658 hrs... $54,800


1993 FORD 846, 4 WD, 7884 hrs., pumpopened. 275 HP, new injectors and bearingroll done at 7000 hrs., 18.4/38 tires- goodcondition, w/wo 14' Degelman blade, std.trans., 4 remotes, plumbed return line.$39,000 w/o blade, vg condition, $45,500OBO. 306-648-8144, Gravelbourg, SK.

1993 FORD 846, 7792 hrs., 230 HP, 4 WD, 18.4R38 duals, PTO, 4 hyds., diff lock, cab, AC, heat, 14 spd. std. trans., $46,000 OBO. Call 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

VERSATILE 375, 400, 435, 550 used; 450, 500 and 550DT new. Call KMK Sales Ltd. 306-682-0738, Humboldt, SK.

VERSATILE 700 with Leon 12’ angle blade, big singles, approx. 6200 hrs., extra heater in cab for winter use, $9750; Vers. 825, 18.4x38 duals, approx. 8200 hrs., good running cond., $11,750. 403-597-2006, Sylvan Lake, AB.

DON’T FORGET TO visit southcountry.ca. South Country Equipment, 306-726-2155, Southey, SK.

2010 CLAAS XERION, 2040 hrs., CVT 50 kms/hr., front hitch, 800R38, $187,000; 2012 MF 8690, 3500 hrs, CVT, 50 kms/hr., $125,000; 2014 Deere 8360R, 1960 hrs, IVT, 50 kms/hr, $190,000; 2014 Case 370 CVT, 220 hrs., 50 kms/hr, front hitch, 900/R42, $225,500; 2014 Fendt 718 Profi, 750 hrs., front hitch, 50 kms/hr., 710R42, $165,000; (3) 2016 Fendt 936’s, 400 hrs., loaded, call for price; 2015 Fendt 939, 1050 hrs., front PTO, $250,000; 2011 Fendt 939, 830 hrs., 65kms/hr., $237,000; 2011 Fendt 939, 3400 hrs., 65 kms/hr., front PTO, $180,000; 2005 Fendt 930, 10,000 hrs., new 900 tires, $79,000. Many more in stock! Phone 519-955-1331, www.rozendaalclinton.comGRATTON COULEE AGRI PARTS LTD. Your #1 place to purchase late model combine and tractor parts. Used, new and rebuilt. www.gcparts.com Toll free 888-327-6767.

2013 LS P7040C, MFWD, 97 HP, 525 hrs.,with LL 7101 FEL, 40 gear shuttle shifttrans., PTO, 78" 3 PTH, QA bucket, like newcondition, $54,000 OBO. Call 780-482-5273Edmonton, AB. [email protected]

DEGELMAN 1038 10’ box blade, exc. $5000; Degelman 4600 blade, 4-way, mounts for JD 6430 tractor, exc., $9500; Degelman 6900 2-way, mounts for JD 9320. 780-352-3012, Wetaskiwin, AB.

12’ DEGELMAN 46/5700 4-Way dozer blade, QA, $15,000; HLA snow wing dozer blade, trip cutting edge, $17,000. Wander-ing River AB 780-771-2155, 780-404-1212

2015 LEON 16' pull scraper, n/a hrs., hardlyused, 6-way blade, flip down ends, steeringaxle, excellent condition, $16,000 OBO.780-878-1550, Camrose, AB.

2013 CIH L785 FEL w/grapple and bucket. Fits on Case Puma 200, $18,000; Also have some rear weights as well, $1.75/lb. 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

2004 DEERE 325 skidsteer loader, new eng., c/w bucket, vg working condition. $25 ,000 . Can de l i ver. Ca l l anyt ime 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

LEONS 775Q , Q/A, 6-way hyd. front mount blade, $13,500; Allied Farm King 960, 3 PTH snowblower, hyd. spout, $3,500; JD 158 FEL, bucket, joystick, mounting kit to fit JD 4240, 4440 & 4230 tractors, $5,500; Leons 707 push blade 8’ front mount blade, $1,200. Lamont Farm Centre Ltd., 780-895-7338, Lamont, AB.

CRAIG SNOW WING, 12’, c/w frame, mounts and hyd. block off of a 1997 Champion 730A-VHP Series V Grader, $4900. View www.combineworld.com 1-888-278-4905.

2006 CAT D8T SU dozer, single shank rip-per, cab air, 11,000 hours, work ready, $150,000. 204-795-9192 Plum Coulee, MB

2012 BOBCAT S 205 skidsteer loader, 1650 hrs., c/w bucket, vg working condition, $28 ,000 . Can de l i ver. Ca l l anyt ime 204-743-2324, Cypress River, MB.

2009 JOHN DEERE 524K wheel loader. 3200hrs., hydraulic Q/A, 3rd valve emergencysteering, good rubber, Heated seat, exc.cond., $110,000 OBO. 250-755-9359,Parksville, BC. [email protected]

12’ DEGELMAN DOZER and frame, manual angle, new cutting edge, fits most 2WD & FWA, $5900. 306-948-7223, Biggar, SK.

2013 DEGELMAN 5700 blade, 12’, mounts for JD 6150R; 2013 Degelman 5700 blade, 12’, mounts for NH T7.185, $9,500 ea. 780-679-7795, Camrose, AB.

ODESSA ROCKPICKER SALES: New De-gelman equipment, land rollers, Straw-master, rockpickers, protill, dozer blades. 306-957-4403, 306-536-5097, Odessa, SK.

BOBCAT 943 SKIDSTEER, $14,900; NH LX865 skidsteer, $12,900; McKee 7’ snow-blower, $1,000; Lorenz 8’ HD snowblower, $1,500; Gehl 500 cu. ft., 4 auger feed cart, $10,000; Knight 3 auger feed cart, $5,000. 1-866-938-8537.

RICHARDSON GRADER, good condition, $2100. 306-460-9027, 306-463-3480. Flaxcombe, SK.

SUNFLOWER HARVEST SYSTEMS. Call for literature. 1-800-735-5848. Lucke Mfg., www.luckemanufacturing.com

GPS OUTBACK EZ-DRIVE TC with S2 Display, hyd. steering control. Will fit all ATX Case/IH 4 WD tractors and other makes, $3300. Call A.E. Chicoine Farm Equipment, 306-449-2255, Storthoaks, SK.

1984 CHEV 3T, B&H, $9000 OBO; Forklift stonepicker, $500; Zamboni style Badger shop sweeper, $6000 OBO; CIH 2388 con-caves, $200 ea.; Karcher hot water washer, $700 OBO. 306-272-7038, Foam Lake, SK.

WANTED: USED 10’ grain bagger. Call Eric 306-272-7038, Foam Lake, SK.

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MF #36 DISCERS. Will pay top dollar and pick from anywhere. Phone Mike 306-723-4875, Cupar, SK.

WANTED: Older and newer tractors, in running condition or for parts. Goods Used Tractor Parts, 1-877-564-8734.

WANTED: USED, BURNT, old or ugly trac-tors. Newer models too! Smith’s Tractor Wrecking, 1-888-676-4847.

GUARANTEED PRESSURE TREATED fence posts, lumber slabs and rails. Call Lehner Wood Preservers L td . , ask fo r Ron 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK.

16’ PEELED RAILS, 2-3” $7.50 ea., 125 per bundle; 3-4” $9.25 ea., 100 per bundle; 4-5” $11 each, 75 per bundle. Vermette Wood Preservers, 1-800-667-0094, Spruce Home, SK [email protected]


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 ph/fax: 306-426-2305, Smeaton, SK.

NEW 220’ ROLL FORM steel fence, shrink wrapped, stored indoors, includes: 5’6” boards, screws, stringers, capping, $5,000. 306-915-7061, Macklin, SK.

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BLOCKED AND SEASONED FIREWOOD: $180 per 160 ft.≥ cord; bags $80 (includes refundable deposit for bag). Bundles of 4’-5’ or 6.5’ also available. Vermette Wood Preservers 1-800-667-0094, Spruce Home.

BLOCKED SEASONED JACK Pine firewood and wood chips for sale. Lehner Wood Pre-servers Ltd., 306-763-4232, Prince Albert, SK. Will deliver. Self-unloading trailer.

SEASONED SPRUCE SLAB firewood, one cord bundles, $99, half cord bundles, $65. Volume discounts. Cal l V&R Sawing, 306-232-5488, Rosthern, SK.

SEASONED JACK PINE firewood: Available in bulk bags or 4’ lengths, split. Also green or dry in log lengths . Can de l i ver. 306-277-4660 or 306-921-6939, Ridgedale

BEV’S FISH & SEAFOOD LTD., buy di-rect, fresh fish: Pickerel, Northern Pike, Whitefish and Lake Trout. Seafood also available. Phone toll free 1-877-434-7477, 306-763-8277, Prince Albert, SK.

NEW AND USED generators, all sizes from 5 kw to 3000 kw, gas, LPG or diesel. Phone for availability and prices. Many used in stock. 204-643-5441, Fraserwood, MB.

NEW AND USED PTO generators. Diesel and natural gas sets available as well. Call 1-888-300-3535, Airdrie, AB.

EX-GOVERNMENT STAND-BY UNITS: 12V92 w/400 KW, 600 volts, 388 hrs, $25,000; 12V92 w/400 KW, 600 volts, 419 hrs, $25,000; 12V92 w/400 KW, 600 volts, 638 hrs, $25,000; 16V92 w/500 KW, 600 volts, 700 hrs, $25,000; 16V92 w/800 KW, 600 volts, 700 hrs, $30,000; KT450 Cum-mins w/250 KW, $15,000. Can-Am Truck Export Ltd, 1-800-938-3323, Delisle, SK.

DIESEL GENSET SALES AND SERVICE, 12 to 300 KWs, lots of units in stock. Used and new: Perkins, John Deere and Deutz. We also build custom Gensets. We cur-rently have special pricing on new John Deere units. Call for pricing 204-792-7471.

NEW AND USED GENERATORS, Multiquip, Perkins, Cummins, Magnum, Honda, new cond., in stock. 250-554-6661, Kamloops, BC. Email: [email protected] www.bcdieselgenerators.com

Diesel and Natural Gas

Generator Sets for your farm available with low

monthly payments. Free help with sizing.

Call 800-687-6879 and use discount code WESTERN

WWW.NOUTILITYBILLS.COM - Indoor & outdoor - coal, grain, multi-fuel, gas, oil, pellet, propane and wood fired boilers, cook stoves, fireplaces, furnaces, heaters and stoves. Athabasca, AB, 780-628-4835.

NEW 36” AND 42” STEEL PIPE. Great for landrollers. Located at Camrose, AB. 306-955-3091 for more info.

NEW YELLOW JACKET STEEL PIPE, 2.375” O.D. x .125WT, .69¢/ft. and 4.500” x .125/.188WT. at $1.49’/$1.80’. Located in Camrose, AB. 306-955-3091 for info.

DRILL STEM: 200 3-1/2”, $45 each; 400 2-7/8”, $32 each; 400 2-3/8”, $33 each. 306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK.

USED 3-1/2” OILFIELD tubing for sale, $34 per joint, loaded. 780-205-7856, 306-248-7376, Lloydminster, SK.

BLUE WATER IRRIGATION DEV. LTD.Reinke pivots, lateral, minigators, pump and used mainline, new Bauer travelers dealer. 22 yrs. experience. 306-858-7351, Lucky Lake, SK. www.philsirrigation.ca

2 T-L 2006 pivots, 1285’; 2 T-L 1986 1285’ pivots. Call for info., 306-858-7351, Lucky Lake, SK.

DON’T FORGET TO visit southcountry.ca. South Country Equipment, 306-642-3366, Assiniboia, SK.

SPRUCE FOR SALE!! Beautiful locally grown trees. Plan ahead and renew your shelterbelt or landscape a new yardsite, get the year round protection you need. We sell on farm near Didsbury, AB. or de-liver anywhere in Western Canada. 6 - 12’ spruce available. Now taking spring orders while supplies last. Phone 403-586-8733 or visit: www.didsburysprucefarms.com

HARMONY NATURAL BISON buying fin-ished up to $6.25/lb HHW; Culls up to $5.25/lb HHW; Feeders up to $4.75/lb LW. Call/text 306-736-3454, SE Sask.

QUILL CREEK BISON is looking for fin-ished, and all other types of bison. COD, paying market prices. “Producers working with Producers.” Delivery points in SK. and MB. Call 306-231-9110, Quill Lake, SK.

NEBRASKA BISON BUYING all classes Calves, yearlings, adults, finished bison. Call Randy Miller 402-430-7058 or email: [email protected]

BISON WANTED - Canadian Prairie Bison is looking to contract grain finished bison, as well as calves and yearlings for growing markets. Contact Roger Provencher at 306-468-2316, [email protected]

WANTED: ALL KINDS of bison from year-lings to old bulls. Also cow/calf pairs. Ph Kevin at 306-429-2029, Glenavon, SK.

FIFTEEN 2015 BISON HEIFERS, $3000/ea. Call Larry 780-745-2119, Kitscoty, AB.

8 2015 CHOICE yearling bison heifers, $3200/ea. 780-689-8630, Athabasca, AB.

NILSSON BROS INC. buying finished bison on the rail, also cull cows at Lacombe, AB. For winter delivery and beyond. Smaller groups welcome. Fair, competitive and as-sured payment. Contact Richard Bintner 306-873-3184.

NEW AD! 40 bred Plains heifers, bred to Plains bulls, $5200/ea. Call 306-944-4925, Plunkett, SK.

WANTED ALL CLASSES of bison: calves, yearlings, cows, bulls. Willing to purchase any amount. [email protected] 605-391-4646.

WANT TO PURCHASE cull bison bulls and cows, $5/lb. HHW. Finished beef steers and heifers for slaughter. We are also buy-ing compromised cattle that can’t make a long trip. Oak Ridge Meats, McCreary, 204-835-2365, 204-476-0147.

BUYING: CULL COWS, herdsire bulls, yearlings and calves. Phone Elk Valley Ranches, 780-846-2980, Kitscoty, AB.

PAYING TOP DOLLAR for finished bulls and heifers. Also buying mature cows and long yearlings. Call Tara 403-843-2231.

IRISH CREEK BISON is selling 50 premiumheifers, born in 2015. All over 800 lbs. offgrass. 780-709-4090, Vermilion, AB.

BISON CALVES, bulls and heifers, $2300 each. Call Frank 306-662-4163, Maple Creek, 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.

LAZY S BULL POWER 2017, January 28th, at the ranch, Mayerthorpe, AB. 225 polled red and black Simmental, Angus and Beef-maker (Sim Angus) bulls. 780-785-3136. Video online www.lazysranch.ca

STEWART CATTLE CO. & Guests Bull Sale: February 23rd, 2017, 1:30 PM, Neepawa Ag-Plex, Neepawa, MB. 50 Black Angus bulls; Simmental cross Angus b u l l s . C o n t a c t B r e n t S t e w a r t 204-773-2356, 204-773-6392. View our catalogue online: www.stewartcattle.com Email: [email protected]

SELLING: BLACK ANGUS BULLS. Wayside Angus, Henry and Bernie Jungwirth, 306-256-3607, Cudworth, SK.

BLACK ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, se-men tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca

WAVENY ANGUS FARM Two year old andyearling bulls available. Semen tested,ready to go. Correct and growthy. Call MikeChase 780-853-3384, 780-853-2275,Vermilion, AB.

BRED HEIFERS, 60 Black/BWF, bred Blackto calve April 1. Fully vaccinated, $2000/head. Call 306-435-9520, Wawota, [email protected]

22nd ANNUAL Cattleman’s Connection Bull Sale, March 3, 2017, 1:00 PM at Heartland Livestock, Brandon, MB. Selling 100 yearling Black Angus bulls. For catalog or more info call Derrick Pilatic, Brook-more Angus 204-841-5466, Barb Hart 204-476-2607; Barb Airey, Manager HBH Farms, 204-566-2134, Raymond Airey 204-734-3600, [email protected]. Sales Management, Doug Henderson, 403-782-3888 or 403-350-8541.

CARLRAMS RANCHING BULL SALE with Guests RNRFlicek Black Angus and Flicek Hereford Ranch. Thursday February 9th, 2017. 2:00 PM, please join us for lunch at 12:00, 5 miles North of Cut Knife, SK. on Hwy 674. On offer: (14) Black Angus bulls; (51) 2 year old horned Here-ford bulls, (5) 2 year old polled Hereford bulls. For information contact Carlrams Ranching: Cal Ramsay,306-398-7343 or Carl Ramsay, 306-398-7879. RNRFlicek Black Angus: Rick Flicek, 306-823-7266. Flicek Hereford Ranch: Randy Flicek 306-823-7091. View catalogue on-line at: www.carlramsranching.com

SOUTH VIEW RANCH has Black and Red Angus 2 year old bulls. Ceylon, SK. Call Shane 306-869-8074, Keith 306-454-2730.

BLACK ANGUS YEARLING and 2 year old bulls on moderate growing ration, perfor-mance info. available. Adrian or Brian and Elaine Edwards, Valleyhills Angus, Glaslyn, SK. call 306-441-0946, 306-342-4407. www.valleyhillsangus.com

PUREBRED BLACK ANGUS long yearling bulls, replacement heifers, AI service. Meadow Ridge Enterprises, 306-373-9140 or 306-270-6628, Saskatoon, SK.

NORDAL LIMOUSIN And ANGUS Bull Sale,Thursday, Feb. 16th, 1:00 PM, Saskatoon Livestock Sales, Saskatoon, SK. Offering 2 year old polled, red, and black Limousin bulls. For more info. contact Rob Garner at 306-946-7946, Simpson, SK. Catalogue online at: nordallimousin.com

90- TWO YR. OLD and yearling Red Angus bulls. Guaranteed, semen tested, and de-l i ve red in the spr ing . Bob Jensen , 306-967-2770, Leader, SK.

REG. RED ANGUS bulls born Feb./Mar. 2016, calving ease, good growth. Little de Ranch, 306-845-2406, Turtleford, SK.

SOUTH VIEW RANCH has Red and BlackAngus 2 year old bulls. Ceylon, SK. Call Shane 306-869-8074, Keith 306-454-2730.

RED ANGUS PUREBRED 2 year old bulls. Open heifers also available. Contact DBM Angus Farms at Hol land, MB. , Br ian 204-526-0942 or David 204-723-0288.

RED ANGUS YEARLING and 2 year old bulls on moderate growing ration, perfor-mance info. available. Adrian or Brian and Elaine Edwards, Valleyhills Angus, Glaslyn, SK. call 306-441-0946, 306-342-4407. www.valleyhillsangus.com

NORDAL LIMOUSIN And ANGUS Bull Sale,Thursday, Feb. 16, 1:00 PM, Saskatoon Livestock Sales, Saskatoon, SK. Offering 2 year old Red and Black Angus bulls. For m o r e i n fo . c o n t a c t R o b G a r n e r at 306-946-7946, Simpson, SK. Catalogue online at: nordallimousin.com

RED ANGUS BULLS, two year olds, se-men tested, guaranteed breeders. Delivery available. 306-287-3900, 306-287-8006, Englefeld, SK. www.skinnerfarms.ca

COMING 3 YR. old Red Angus herdsire, used on PB herd. Call Little de Ranch, 306-845-2406, Turtleford, SK.

COMING 2 YR. old polled PB Charolais bulls, come red factor. Call Kings Polled Charolais, 306-435-7116, Rocanville, SK.

CHAROLAIS BULLS, YEARLING and 2 year olds. Contact LVV Ranch, 780-582-2254, Forestburg, AB.

REGISTERED PB CHAROLAIS yearling and 2 yr. old bulls by private treaty. Semen t e s t e d a n d g u a r a n t e e d . C a l l B r a d 204-537-2367, 204-523-0062, Belmont, MB. www.clinecattlecompany.ca

POLLED PB YEARLING CHAROLAIS bulls, performance and semen tested. Will keep until April, $3000-$4000. Charrow C h a r o l a i s , B i l l 3 0 6 - 3 8 7 - 8 0 1 1 , 780-872-1966, Marshall, SK.

YEARLING & 2 YEAR old Charolais bulls, Creedence Charolais Ranch, Ervin Zayak, 780-741-3868, 780-853-0708 Derwent, AB

15 PUREBRED CHAROLAIS bred heifers and 15 second calvers bred Charolais. Creedence Charolais Ranch, Ervin Zayak, 780-741-3868, 780-853-0708 Derwent, AB

REGISTERED CHAROLAIS BULLS, 2 year olds and yearlings. Polled, horned, some red. Quiet hand fed, hairy bulls. 40+ head avai lable. Wil f at Cougar Hi l l Ranch 306-728-2800, 306-730-8722, Melville, SK

DAVIDSON GELBVIEH & LONESOME DOVE RANCH, 28th Annual Bull Sale,Saturday, March 4, 2017, 1:00 PM at their bull yards, Ponteix, SK. Complimentary lunch at 11:00 AM. Pre-sale viewing and hospitality, Friday, March 3rd. Selling 100+ PB yearling bulls, Red or Black. Per-formance and semen tested. Contact Ver-non and Eileen 306-625-3755, Ross and Tara 306-625-3513, Ponteix, SK. View cata log and v ideo on our websi tes: w w w. l o n e s o m e d o v e r a n c h . c a o r www.davidsongelbvieh.com

GELBVIEH STOCK EXCHANGE BULL SALE, March 7, 2017 at 1:00 PM, at the Medicine Hat Feeding Co., Medicine Hat, AB. On offer: Red and Black Purebred year-ling bulls. For more information or for a catalogue call Don at Jen-Ty Gelbviehs, 403-378-4898 or cell 403-793-4549. View on-line: jentygelbviehs.com

TWIN BRIDGE FARMS 6th Gelbvieh Bull Sale, Monday, March 13, 2017, 1:00 PM at the Silver Sage Community Corral, Brooks, AB. Selling 45 yearling Gelbvieh Bull. Red and black genetics on offer. Guest Consignor Keriness Cattle Co. For info. contact: Ron and Carol Birch and Family, 403-792-2123 or 403-485-5518 or Don Savage Auctions 403-948-3520. Catalogue at www.donsavageauctions.com Sale will be broadcast on Live Auctions.tv

RANCH READY HORNED Hereford Bull Sale, March 10th, 1:00 PM at the ranch, Simmie, SK. 15 two year old bulls, 30 year-ling bulls, 6 purebred open heifers, 20 commercial open heifers. View catalogue and sale videos: www.braunranch.com Contact Craig Braun at 306-297-2132.

BANNERLANE HORNED HEREFORDSAnnual Sale, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2:00 PM CST (1:00 PM MST) at the farm, Livelong, SK. 30 coming 2 year old bulls, semen tested; 34 bred Hereford cross heifers, preg checked; 4 feature bred heifers. Dinner at noon. Central point free delivery. Email: [email protected] or phone Rob Bannerman, 306-845-2764, 306-248-1214. Catalogue online at: www.hereford.ca

CARLRAMS RANCHING BULL SALE with Guests RNRFlicek Black Angus and Flicek Hereford Ranch. Thursday February 9th, 2017. 2:00 PM, please join us for lunch at 12:00, 5 miles North of Cut Knife, SK. on Hwy 674. On offer: (14) Black Angus bulls; (51) 2 year old horned Here-ford bulls, (5) 2 year old polled Hereford bulls. For information contact Carlrams Ranching: Cal Ramsay,306-398-7343 or Carl Ramsay, 306-398-7879. RNRFlicek Black Angus: Rick Flicek, 306-823-7266. Flicek Hereford Ranch: Randy Flicek 306-823-7091. View catalogue on-line at: www.carlramsranching.com

MISTY VALLEY FARMS 41st Annual Production Sale of Horned Herefords, Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 at the ranch, 1:00 PM MST. On offer: 70 long yearling bulls including Lanni Bristow’s sale group; 45 bred registered heifers; 55 bred commercial Hereford heifers; 15 open heifer calves from Mark Law. Bulls semen tested. Heifers pregnancy tested. Misty Valley Farms, RR #1, Maidstone, SK. Harold Oddan 306-893-2783; Maurice Oddan 306-893-2737; Lanni Br istow 780-943-2236; Mark Law 204-743-2049.

SQUARE D HEREFORDS: Hereford femalesbred Hereford, registration papers avail-able. Herd bull prospects, 2 yr. old, fall bornyearlings and bull calves. Quiet, perfor-mance tested. Delivery can be arranged.Jim Duke 306-538-4556, 306-736-7921,Langbank, SK. [email protected]

FRESH AND SPRINGING heifers for sale. Cows and quota needed. We buy all class-es of slaughter cattle-beef and dairy. R&F Livestock Inc. Bryce Fisher, Warman, SK. Phone 306-239-2298, cell 306-221-2620.

NORDAL LIMOUSIN And ANGUS Bull Sale,Thursday, Feb. 16th, 1:00 PM, Saskatoon Livestock Sales, Saskatoon, SK. Offering 2 year old polled, red, and black Limousin bulls. For more info. contact Rob Garner at 306-946-7946, Simpson, SK. Catalogue online at: nordallimousin.com

BIG ISLAND LOWLINES Premier Breeder. Selling custom designed packages. Name your price and we will put a package to-gether for you. Fullblood/percentage Low-line, embryos, semen. Black/Red carrier. Darrell 780-486-7553, Edmonton, AB.

SHORTHORN BRED HEIFERS and young cows, most are polled, 30 available. Bred to polled Shorthorn bulls. 780-777-7350 or 780-939-3070, Morinville, AB.

RED AND BLACK Purebred and commercial Simmental replacement heifers. Bill or Vir-ginia Peters, 306-237-9506, Perdue, SK.

DIAMOND M RANCH, 6th Annual BullSale, February 12, 2017, 1:30 PM at theranch, Estevan, SK. 55 two year old Red andBlack Simmental and Simm/Angus bulls.Jordan 306-421-1915, Estevan, SK. Videoonline at: www.dlms.ca

2 YR. OLD black bulls- yearling Red, Black and full-blood bulls. Moderate BW. Bill or Virginia Peters, 306-237-9506, Perdue, SK.

3RD ANNUAL JEANS AND GENETICS Simmental Bull Sale, Tuesday, February 14, 1 PM at the Ponoka Ag Events Centre in Ponoka, AB. Offering 68 Red, Black full-blood and Fleckvieh Simmental bulls. For a catalogue or more info., contact T Bar C Cattle Co, 306-220-5006. To view the catalogue online, visit: www.buyagro.com

ALBERTA TEXAS LONGHORN Association 780-387-4874, Leduc, AB. For more info. www.albertatexaslonghorn.com

WELSH BLACK- The Brood Cow Advantage. Check www.canadianwelshblackcattle.com Canadian Welsh Black Soc. 403-442-4372.

600 TOP QUALITY bred heifers, start calv-ing April 1. All heifers preg checked, pelt measured and full live vaccination pro-gram going to breed. Bred to Red and Black Angus heifer bulls. Calved 400 out of same bulls last year with zero cesaerians. 204-325-2416, Manitou, MB.

125 BRED RED ANGUS cross heifers, bred to Red Angus bulls. Bulls out July 1st for 60 days. Call 306-355-2700, Mortlach, SK.

CUSTOM CATTLE GRAZING on former PFRA community pastures in the Interlake. Contact Terence Caumartin 204-278-3515.

H. S. KNILL TRANSPORT, est. 1933, spe-cializing in purebred livestock transporta-tion. Providing weekly pick up and delivery service across Canada/USA and Mexico. Gooseneck service available in Ontario, Quebec and USA. US and Canada customs bonded carrier. Call 1-877-442-3106, fax 519-442-1122, hskni l [email protected] or www.hsknilltransport.com 155 King Ed-ward St., Paris, ON. N3L 0A1.

GOOD QUALITY BRED HEIFERS. Red Angus, Red Angus cross Hereford and Red Angus cross Simmental. Bred Red Angus. Ferguson Stock Farm Ltd., 306-895-4825, Paynton, SK.

75 SECOND AND THIRD Black and Red An-gus young bred cows. Call 306-773-1049 or 306-741-6513, Swift Current, SK.


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Saturday, January 28, 2017 12 noon MSTLloydminster, AB Ex. Grounds

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75 Red Angus(Two’s)

80 Red Super Baldies (Two’s)

80 Black Angus(Two’s)

70 Black Super Baldies(Two’s & Yearlings)

30 Super Guppies(Two’s)

60 Charolais(Two’s)

20 Dehorned Herefords(Two’s)

30 H-2’s(Two’s)

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BRED HEIFERS: Approx. 200 big, strong top of the line, one iron Simmental and Simmental Red Angus cross, bred Red or Black Angus. Exposed May 24th, 2016. Full vaccination program plus Ivomec. Contact 3J Simmental Farms, 306-325-4622 or 306-327-8005, Lintlaw, SK.

BRED HEIFERS: 75 Red and Black Angus; 25 Hereford. Exc. ranch raised females. Bred to top quality bulls. Call Dean at 780-855-2580, New Norway, AB.

CALVES WANTED. OWNER Operator willbackground calves till grass. Could pasturealso. For details call 306-360-7000,Guernsey, SK. [email protected]

BRED COW HERD REDUCTION, by half. 150 head. Bred Charolais, to calve first week of April. 306-432-4803, Lipton, SK.

BRED COWS: 130 bred cows 2nd, 3rd, and4th calvers, Simmental/Angus cross.Exceptional bunch of cows. Take your pickout of 165 head. Bred back to Simmentaland Angus bulls for April 1 calving, $2400.Call 780-212-2217, Plamondon, [email protected]

WANTED: CULL COWS and bulls. For book-ings call Kelly at Drake Meat Processors, 306-363-2117 ext. 111, Drake, SK.

HORSE SALE, JOHNSTONE AUCTION MART, Moose Jaw, SK. Thursday, Feb, 2 2017. Tack sells at 2:00 PM. Horses sell at 4:30 PM. All classes of horses accepted. Next Regular Horse Sale, April 6, 2017. 306-693-4715. www.johnstoneauction.ca PL #914447.

LAKELAND COLLEGE WORKING CowboyHorse Sale. Open for consignments of brokehorses or well started prospects. Ranch,rope, barrel, penning or pleasure horses.Sale is April 22. Consignments due byFebruary 13. Maximum 45 horses total.Contact Ron Hoffman at 780-853-8598 orcall 780-853-0399, Vermilion, AB. Email:[email protected]

DRAFT HORSE EQUIPMENT. New Ideamanure spreader on rubber; Show cart;Fore cart w/shafts and tongue; Trainingsled; Nylon work harness and show harnessand supplies. 204-567-3720, 204-851-2411Miniota, MB.

NEW 2” CAST SHOEING bobs le igh. . 306-329-4695, Grandora, SK.

HORSE COLLARS, all sizes, steel and alu-minum horseshoes. We ship anywhere. Keddie’s, 1-800-390-6924 or keddies.com

SUNGOLD SPECIALTY MEATS. We want your lambs. Have you got finished (fat) lambs or feeder lambs for sale? Call Rick a t : 4 0 3 - 8 9 4 - 9 4 4 9 o r C a t h y a t : 1-800-363-6602 for terms and pricing. www.sungoldmeats.com

SELLING LAMBS AND GOATS? Why take one price from one buyer? Expose your lambs and goats to a competitive market. Beaver Hill Auctions, Tofield, AB. Sales every Monday, trucks hauling from SK, BC, AB. www.beaverhillauctions.com Call: 780-662-9384.

WESTERN SHEEP MARKETING LTD.

a division ofSOUTHERN ALBERTA

LIVESTOCK EXCHANGEBuying all classes of sheep,

lambs and goats. Contact Darren Shaw 403-601-5165Same Day Trade Payment. Farm Pickup.

Competitive [email protected]

SASK. SHEEP DEV. BOARD sole dis-tributor of sheep ID tags in Sask., offers programs, marketing services and sheep/ goat supplies. 306-933-5200, Saskatoon, SK. www.sksheep.com

APPROX. 125 FOODCRAFT poultry crates, with modules, good shape. 780-918-6816, Edmonton, AB.

ALBERTA ELK RANCHERS Production Sale 6th Annual. Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, 7:00 PM, Nisku Inn, Nisku, AB. Gateway Auction Services Ltd., ph. 1-866-304-4664. Details go to: www.gwacountry.com

BUYING ELK for local and international meat markets. Call us for competitive pric-ing and easy marketing. Phone Ian at 204-848-2498 or 204-867-0085.

NORTHFORK- INDUSTRY LEADER for over 15 years, is looking for Elk. “If you have them, we want them.” Make your fi-nal call with Northfork for pricing! Guaran-teed prompt payment! 514-643-4447, Winnipeg, MB.

WANTED: ELK BULLS , various ages. 306-845-7518, 306-845-244, Turtleford SK

BUTCHER MEAT GOAT KIDS, butcher lambs, bred boer nannies. 306-466-2068, Shellbrook, SK.

SUPER SAVER EAR muffs for calves. Warm Wind and moisture proof. Adjustable hal-ters. Call 204-436-2535, Elm Creek, MB.

2014 HIGHLINE BALE PRO CFR651, with chopper and grain tank, processed 1000 bales, asking $27,000. Call 306-397-2653, 306-441-2663, Edam, SK.

FFS- FUCHS FARM SUPPLY is your partner in agriculture stocking mixer, cutter, feed wagons and bale shredders and in-dustry leading Rol-Oyl cattle oilers. 306-762-2125, Vibank, SK. www.fuchs.ca

STEEL VIEW MFG. Self-standing panels, windbreaks, silage/hay bunks, feeder pan-els, sucker rod fence posts. Custom or-ders. Call Shane 306-493-2300, Delisle, SK. www.steelviewmfg.com

PAYSEN LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT INC.We manufacture an extensive line of cattle handling and feeding equipment including squeeze chutes, adj. width alleys, crowd-ing tubs, calf tip tables, maternity pens, gates and panels, bale feeders, Bison equipment, Texas gates, steel water troughs, rodeo equipment and garbage in-cinerators. 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: [email protected] Web: www.paysen.com

CATTLE SHELTER PACKAGES or built on s i t e . F o r e a r l y b o o k i n g c a l l 1-800-667-4990 or visit our website: www.warmanhomecentre.com

H I - H O G C AT T L E SQ U E E Z E . C a l l 306-773-1049 or 306-741-6513, Swift Current, SK.

GREG’S WELDING: Freestanding 30’ 5 bar panels, all 2-7/8” drill stem construction, $470; 24’x5.5’ panels, 2-7/8” pipe with 5- 1” sucker rods, $350; 24’x6’ panels, 2-7/8” pipe with 6- 1” rods, $375; 30’ 2 or 3 bar windbreak panels c/w lumber. Gates and double hinges avail. on all panels. Belting troughs for grain or silage. Calf shelters. Del. avail. 306-768-8555, Carrot River, SK.

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 feed-ers; All metal 16’ and 24’ calf shelters. Will custom build. 306-424-2094, Kendal, SK.

USED JIFFY SLIDE-IN round bale handler, in good condition. Phone 403-627-2601, Pincher Creek, AB.

13 SILAGE TROUGHS, 30’L, steel framed w/planks, $600 ea; Jiffy 250 feed wagon, $3500. Ph 306-837-7818, Loon Lake, SK.

SVEN ROLLER MILLS. Built for over 40 years. PTO/elec. drive, 40 to 1000 bu./hr. Example: 300 bu./hr. unit costs $1/hr. to run. Rolls peas and all grains. We regroove and repair all makes of mills. Call Apollo Machine 306-242-9884, 1-877-255-0187. www.apollomachineandproducts.com

FROSTFREE NOSEPUMPS: Fully sus-tainable livestock watering. No power re-quired to heat or pump. Prevents contami-nation. Grants available. 1-866-843-6744. www.frostfreenosepumps.com

2002 521DXT CASE payloader w/grapple fork. Call 306-773-1049 or 306-741-6513, Swift Current, SK.

USED PORTABLE TOILETS, mostly poly John, some good, some not so good, $300 each, take choice. 403-680-0752.

PORTABLE TOILET SALES: Selling Five Peaks Technologies new portable toilets and accessories. Phone 403-680-0752 for details. Visit on-line: 5peaksdistributors.ca

WANT THE ORGANIC ADVANTAGE? Contact an organic Agrologist at Pro-Cert for information on organic farming: pros-pects, transition, barriers, benefits, certifi-cation and marketing. Call 306-382-1299, Saskatoon, SK. or [email protected]

WANTED: ORGANIC, HEATED or FEED QUALITY FLAX and feed peas. Call: 204-379-2451, St. Claude, MB.

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WANTED: ORGANIC LENTILS, peas and chickpeas. Stonehenge Organics, Assini-boia, SK., 306-640-8600, 306-640-8437.

SWM, 47, 6’ tall, cattle farmer, loves out-doors, never been married. Looking for single lady who loves the farm. Reply to Box 5591, c/o The Western Producer, Box 2500, Saskatoon, SK. S7K 2C4

DO YOU KNOW an amazing single guywho shouldn’t be? Camelot Introduc-tions has been successfully matching peo-ple for over 22 years. In-person interviews by Intuitive Matchmaker in MB and SK. www.camelotintroductions.com or phone 306-978-LOVE (5683).

1 FEMALE BLUE HEELER pup, ready now. Excellent working dog. 306-492-2447, 306-290-3339, Clavet, SK.

BORDER COLLIE PUPS red and white, from working parents, ready to go, $500. 306-587-7169, Success, SK.

COWICHAN BAY, VANCOUVER Island, BCfarm:14.5 acre hay farm w/cozy uniquelyquiet brick home. 3 bdm 2 bth, oak kitchencabinets, granite propane f/p, sunroom.Potential for visitors suite in basement. Siton the deck and watch your horses grazingthe cleared mountain view. 3-stall barn w/shelter and tack room plus 3 solid builtclean sheds. Only mins. to fishing and shop-ping. 30 mins. to Victoria, $980,000 +GST.MLS 416977. Sutton West Coast Realty,250-715-6400. www.marvinwoodsold.comE-mail: [email protected]

NW BC GOLD Lease- Cassiar. Ancient river bed, 1895 Chinese “hand mine” claim, ap-prox. 105 acres and some equip. for sale or trade. Email: [email protected]

LOG HOMES AND CABINS, sidings, pan-eling, decking. Fir and Hemlock flooring, timbers, special orders. Phone Rouck Bros., Lumby, BC. 1-800-960-3388 . www.rouckbros.com

TIMBER FRAMES, LOG STRUCTURESand Vertical Log Cabins. Log home refin-ishing and chinking. Certified Log Builder with 38 years experience. Log & Timber Works, Delisle, SK., 306-717-5161, Email [email protected] Website at www.logandtimberworks.comLOG AND TIMBER HOMES, Saskatoon, SK. Visit www.backcountryloghomes.ca or call 306-222-6558.

DOUBLE RV LOT for sale, Yuma, AZ. With RV support building - washer/dryer, toilet, shower etc. 403-871-2441, 928-503-5344.

YUMA, AZ. HOME for sale: 3 bdrm, 2 baths, w/solar system, pool, att. garage and RV garage, fully furnished. For more info. call 403-871-2441 or 928-503-5344.

1975 HOUSE, 1500 sq. ft., 3 bdrm, 2 bath.Cedar siding/shakes. Renovated in 2000and 2015. To be moved by purchaser May 1.Call Brad, 403-575-0698, Consort, AB.

DWEIN TRASK REALTY INC. Quality homes in small towns currently available within 45 minutes of Saskatoon. Ideal for retirement, fixed income or seasonal living situations. Health services, shopping, schools and sport facilities are in these towns or very close commute. For more info. go to www.traskrealty.com or please call Dwein 306-221-1035, Amanda 306-221-5675 or Victoria 306-270-9740.

MEDALLION HOMES 1-800-249-3969Immediate delivery: New 16’ and 20’ modular homes; Also used 14’ and 16’ homes. Now available: Lake homes.Medallion Homes, 306-764-2121, Prince Albert, SK.

RTMS AND SITE bu i l t homes . Ca l l 1-866-933-9595, or go online for pictures and pricing at: www.warmanhomes.ca

MESA AZ. For sale fully furnished 2 bdrm. m o b i l e h o m e . F o r m o r e i n fo c a l l 306-317-2740.

HALF SECTION OF open farmland for sale. Fort St. John, BC. area. Cultivated. Good productive soil. Sloped North to South. Lots of wildlife. Each quarter is titled. Oth-er land is also available to purchase. Phone 250-781-3586, e-mail: [email protected]

178 ACRE RANCH, beautiful view of the Seven Sisters mountains, exc. land and water, house, barn, shop, hay shed and outbuildings, on Hwy #16 between Smith-ers and Terrace, $650,000. 250-849-8411.

SUBDIVIDABLE, TIMBER, WATER- Shuswap,37.5 acres, $549.000. http://landquest.com/detailmain.aspx?propid=16200 CallJohn, LandQuest Realty, 250-307-2100.

ONE QUARTER GRAINLAND for sale, East of B indloss, AB. For more info. cal l 403-379-2521.

RAINIER: 278.24 ACRES of pivot irrigated land. About 5 miles North of Scandia or 1 mile South of Rainier located on the East side of Hwy 36. Incl. a 5 year old Zimmatic Pivot, covers about 230 acres. Includes underground mainline. ID#1100545 . VAUXHALL: Prime irrigated land 6 miles North of town. Total of 160 acres with 147.6 acres permanent BRID water rights. Incl. a Reinke Pivot 2014 with corner arm and 150 acres under irrigation with GPS controlled corner. A 25 HP electric pump-ing unit with a 10” on the ground mainline. ID#1100543 . Real Estate Centre, 1-866-345-3414. For all our listings view www.farmrealestate.com

QUARTER SECTION CULTIVATED land for sale between Holden and Bruce, AB. SW-3-49-15-W4. Hwy #14 and main CN railway divide land into 2 parcels of ap-prox. 100 and 40 acres. Two titles, both with hwy access. $4500 surface and pi-pline revenue. Can be bought as a pkg. or separately. Contact 403-782-7374.

FARMLAND FOR SALE. SE-22-82-21-W5, SW-22-82-21-W5, NE-22-82-21-W5, SE-34-82-21-W5. 159 acres ea. Approx. 250 cult. acres, trees and muskeg. Nampa and Peace River area. Call 780-919-3489.


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HOMESITE AND FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER: Located in the County of St. Paul, Alberta. Tenders are invited for the sale of the following farmland and improvements: SE-20-56-08 W4 (156.97 titled acres); NW-21-56-08 W4 (159.00 titled acres); NE-21-56-08 W4 (137.98 titled acres); NW-16-56-08 W4 (136.21 titled acres); NE-16-56-08 W4 (135.20 titled acres); N1/2 of SE-31-55-08 W 4 ( 7 5 . 4 2 t i t l e d a c r e s ) ; S 1 / 2 o f SE-31-55-08 W4 (80 acres); Portion of NE-21-56-08 W4. House (1919 sq. ft. on main plus 1909 sq. ft) on SE 20-56-04. Main floor layout: Entry, kitchen, living room, Master BR + 2BR + BR/office, 2 full BR, laundry/garage entry, pantry. Walkout basement c/w in-floor heat, rec room, 2 BR, 4 pc. bathroom, storage rooms, mechanical/laundry room. 3 vehi-cle finished garage w/in-floor heat and oversized doors. Parcel #1 - SE-20-56-08 W4 (Arable: 97.63/pasture: 56.34) in-cludes house and 40x60’ shop w/concrete floors, 3 overhead doors (16’, 14’ and 12’) and metal roof. Grain and fertilizer storage consisting of (12) 5000 bu., (3) 3300 bu., (3) 2100 bu. and (1) 49 ton fertilizer bin and (1) 89 ton fertilizer bin. All hopper bottom (sold separately or as part of the package), steel buffalo corral. Garden shed not included in sale. Perimeter fenced. Parcel #2 - NW 21-56-08 W4: (Arable: 104/pasture : 90 .90) . No bu i ld ings . Fenced. Parcel #3 - NE-21-56-08 W4: (Arable: 96.22/pasture: 41.79). No build-ings. Natural water source. 2 subdivisions existing. Parcel #4 - NW 16-56-08 W4: (Arable: 95.22/pasture: 40.99). No build-ings. Water water source. 1 subdivision of 19.77 acres. Parcel #5 - NE 16-56-08 W4: (Arable: 80.00/pasture: 55.20). No buildings and consisting of 135.20 acres. Parcel #6 - N 1/2 of SE -31-55-08 W4, (Arable: 51.94/pasture: 22.01/waste: 1.47). No buildings. There is a 3.76 acre subdivision removed from the east side of the parcel. Parcel #7 - S 1/2 of SE 31-55-08 W4: (Arable: 62.22/pasture: 17.78). No buildings. Fenced. Parcel #8 - Part of NE 21-56-08 W4: 18.09 acres zoned for Country Residential use. Addi-tional information and photos con-cerning the farmlands along with a recent buildings inspection report of the home complete with photos is available by contacting the under-signed below. Terms of Sale: Sealed tenders may be submitted on all of the Parcels, a combination of some of the par-cels or each Parcel separately. Interested parties are advised to submit their bid on a Tender Form available room Robertson Moskal Sarsons. All tenders must be in wr i t ing accompanied by a cer t i f ied cheque/bank draft for 10% of the bid price, as a deposit, payable to: “Robertson Moskal Sarsons in trust” placed inside a sealed envelope marked on the outside “Henderson Tender File 66023.16095 CJS” and delivered to our office address below either in person, by courier or mail. Bidders are reminded to include all of their contact information. Sealed tenders to purchase Parcel(s) shall be accepted by the undersigned until 5:00 PM (MST) on Tuesday February 28, 2017. All tenders not accepted shall have their deposit returned by regular mail on March 7, 2017. Balance of cash to close to be paid no later than 35 days after receipt of notice of acceptance by the successful tenderer/bidder or else deposit is forfeited as liquidated damages. Buyer is respon-sible for 2017 property taxes and the Sell-er shall be responsible for all property tax-es up to and including December 31, 2016. Buyer shall pay GST or provide an under-taking to self-assess and indemnify the Seller. Time to be of the essence in all matters. The Buyer relies entirely on their knowledge and inspection of the property independent of any representations/war-ranties made by or on behalf of the Seller. Vacant possession of the home and farm-lands available on closing. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. In the event your tender/bid is ac-cepted, the successful bidder will be notified in writing on or before 14 days following the close of tenders. If the tender is accepted your deposit shall become a non-refundable de-posit and should the bidder fail to complete the transaction the deposit shall be retained by the Seller as liq-uidated damages. Interested parties should make inquiries as they see fit. Submit sealed tenders, inquiries and re-quests for inspection to: Robertson Moskal Sarsons, Barristers & Solici-tors, A - 3801 - 51 Ave (PO Box 1680), Lloydminster SK/AB. S9V 1K6. Email: [email protected] Phone 780-875-7671, Fax 780-875-9485. Attention Mr. Christopher J. Sarsons.

QUARTER FARMLAND for Sale by Tender. 134 acres, NE-13-44-04-W3, RM Rosthern. Highest or any tender not necessarily ac-cepted. Please submit tenders to: Robert Baynton, Box 1191, Rosthern, SK, S0K 3R0. Call for more information 306-467-4898.

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FARMLAND FOR SALE in RM of Kinistino, 6 quarters: NE 35-46-22 W2; NW 35-46-22 W2; NE 36-46-22 W2; NW 36;-46-22 W2; SE 36-46-22 W2; SW 36-46-22 W2. Taking offers until February 17, 2017. Contact: 306-931-2058 or [email protected]

FARMLAND FOR SALE BY TENDER, RM #341: NW-04-36-26-W2; SE-04-36-26-W2;NW-21-35-26-W2; NE-21-35-26-W2. Call306-203-1912, [email protected]

RM OF WINSLOW #319- For sale one quarter, NE-32-31-21-W3, 144 cult. acres. Call Barry 306-382-8140, Saskatoon, SK.

DWEIN TRASK REALTY INC., Delisle, SK. Cash renter tenders being accepted for one year lease on N1/2 and SE1/4 of 25-33-09-W3. For further information please call Dwein 306-221-1035.

DWEIN TRASK REALTY INC. Perdue SW-01-35-12-W3, includes steel bins, Zip-perlock shed, plus treed yardsite. On main grid. FMV = 51,400. $127,500; Dundurn RM 313, N1/2 07-33-02-W3 and RM 314 N1/2 12-33-03-W3 Total FMV = 211,900. $634,900. Call Dwein 306-221-1035.

4 QUARTERS, 15 miles SE of Raymore, SK. 2016 crop canola and barley. Grain storage. Call 306-746-7205.

RM #369, 160 acres: 130 farmland, 20 grassland, 10 yardsite. Incl. 3 bdrm house, 3 ca r ga rage , quonse t and sheds . 306-872-4500, 306-874-7778, Spalding SK

RM HILLSDALE. For sale by tender with bids closing Feb. 7, 2017. 6 quarters of some of the highest assessed farmland in the region. Paved access. Details at: www.cayfordtender.ca or contact Vern M c C l e l l a n d , R E / M A X L l oy d m i n s t e r 306-821-0611, Lloydminster, AB.

RM RODGERS 133. Wanted grain land torent/lease or purchase in the RM ofRodgers 133 and surrounding RM's.306-631-5302, [email protected]

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KAMSACK: 1838 ACRES of this ranch land is located in one block and is bordered by water front, Crown land & community pas-ture. Many possible uses: ranching, outfit-ting, executive camps, bed & breakfast, re-treats, Eco Tourism, stables or subdivision. MLS®. ID#1100488. 1-866-345-3414, Real Estate Centre. For all our listings visit www.farmrealestate.comCUPAR, SK. FARM FOR LEASE. Cupar farm consists of approx. 863 acres of crop-land located north of Regina in the RM of Cupar. Area is well suited for canola and cereal crops. Bonnefield plans to negotiate with excellent farmers to form long term lease arrangements to ensure this land is maintained profitably and sustainably for the long term. For additional info please email [email protected]

FOR SALE: 8400 ACRES cultivated highly assessed farmland in Luseland, SK area. Call 306-834-7619.

WE CAN HELP YOU SELL YOUR LAND!Homelife Prairies Realty Inc. Over a hun-dred years of combined agricultural expe-rience. Can sell big or small packages. Can evaluate your property and work with you to get you the best price! Look after the details and your best interest! For an evaluation or a cup of coffee contact: Tim Graham, 306-526-8196 or Robert Young, 306-586-0099, Emerald Park, SK.

R M O F B L U C H E R 3 4 3 : 2 q u a r t e r s . SW-29-35-01-W3M, NW-29-35-01-W3M, 310 acres cult. 3 hopper bins totaling 17,000 bus. Taking offers to February 28, 2017. Call Bob 306-717-1987.

FARMLAND NE SK(Clemenceau) 4 quarters plus 36 acre riverside parcel w/5 bdrm. home. Featuring: bins on concrete with di-rect hit on railroad cars, 40 acres of mostly mature spruce timber, 2 farmyards- 1 bor-dering Etomami River and 50 miles of pro-vincial forest, excellent elk hunting and other big game and goose. 580 acres cult. Full line of farm equipment and sawmill also available Reg Hertz, 306-865-7469.

LAND AUCTION for Val Veroba, Kelly Fleck, Dallas Fleck & Sherry Moffat, on Thursday, March 23, 2017, Days Inn, Estevan, SK., 7:00 PM. Please join Mack Auction Company on March 23rd for your chance to own 12 quarter sections of prime farmland in RM of Browning #34. Over $60,000 of Surface Lease Revenue being sold with the land located in the center of the Lampman/Steelman gas and oil fields! NW-19-04-06-W2; NE-19-04- 06-W2, $13,350 SLR; SW-19-04-06-W2, $3600 SLR; SE-19-04-06-W2, $10,000 SLR (Sub-divided yardsite does not sell); SE-29-04-06-W2, existing Surface Leases not incl. in sale (Sub-divided yardsite does not sell); SW-29-04-05-W2, $2725 SLR; SE-29-04-05-W2, $3050 SLR; NE-28-04- 05-W2, $5775 SLR; SE-28-04-05-W2, $7175 SLR; SE-18-04-05-W2, $8450 SLR (Sub-divided yardsite does not sell); SW-17-04-05-W2, $6650 SLR; SE-06-04- 05-W2. For sale bil l and photos visit www.mackauctioncompany.com Join us on Facebook and Twitter. 306-421-2928 or 306-487-7815 Mack Auction Co. PL311962

FARMLAND FOR SALE in the Kipling, SK. area, RM 124. 7 quarters with 1000 cult. acres, 1200 sq. ft. w/double att. garage, nat. gas heat, built in 1995, heated shop, quonset, seed cleaning complex incl. weigh scale and apple grain storage. 306-736-2850, 306-735-7575.

GRAIN LAND TO RENT, 35 mile radius of Rouleau, SK. Call 306-776-2600 or email: [email protected]

8 QUARTERS GRAINLAND for RENT in RM Kellross 247. 5 miles North of Leross, SK. 306-736-3223 or [email protected]

FOR RENT: 3000 acre ranch. Includes hay meadows, pasture, possible farm site, 2 barns, house and quonset. Preferably young energetic couple. Mail replies to: Box 386, Glaslyn, SK. S0M 0Y0.

FARM/ RANCH LAND for sale. RM 73, 9adjoining quarters of which 5 are currentlyin hay but could be put back to grain. 4quarters grain land leased until 2018. 3more quarters available for rent. Homequarter with modern yard may also beavailable for purchase. Evening calls only.306-642-3442, Assiniboia, SK.

CASH RENT: 6 quarters in 1 block, RM Kingsley #124, Kipling/Whitewood area. One quarter 7 miles from home residence may consider selling. 306-696-2957.

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2 QUARTERS FARMLAND, RM Spalding, E1/2-17-38-16-W2, for Sale by Tender. Highest or any tender not necessarily ac-cepted. Submit tenders to: Greg Harcourt, Box 40, Quill Lake, SK. S0A 3E0 or email [email protected] by Feb. 25, 2017. For more info call 306-383-7119.

LAND FOR RENT by tender, 25 1/4 quaters for cash rent at Leader, SK. Tenders close Jan. 31, 2017. [email protected] or call Ervin Ausmus 306-628-7918.

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HammondRealty.caLAND TENDER: 560 acres of Louac Farm-land for Sale by Bids. Written confidential bids are being accepted for the sale of all, or any portion of, or any combination of, parcels of farmland in the RM of Laird. Land locations are as follows: Portion of SW-25-40-5 W3, 80 title acres, 75 SAMA c u l t . a c r e s , a s s e s s m e n t 5 3 , 5 0 0 ; NW-25-40-5 W3, 160 title acres, 159 SAMA cult acres, assessment 101,900; SW-36-40-5 W3. 160 title acres, 154 SAMA cult acres, assessment 105,100; SE-35-40-5 W3, 160 title acres, 158 SAMA cult acres, assessment 99,000. Total pack-age consists of 560 titled acres or 546 SAMA cult acres. All acres were seeded to HRSW in 2016. Written/signed bids ac-cepted until January 20, 2017. Bids must be accompanied by a 10% deposit, made out to Louac Farms Ltd. All applicants will be notified by January 27, 2017 and suc-cessful bidders identified and unsuccessful bidders cheques returned. Closing date for transaction will be March 31, 2017. Taxes for 2017 are the responsibility of the pur-chaser. The highest or any bid will not necessarily be accepted. There is no Right of First Refusal on this land. Send sealed bids to: Land Tenders c/o Louac Farms Ltd. Unit 702-922 Broadway Ave. Saska-toon, SK. S7N 1B7. For more info. email: [email protected] 306-227-0103.

RM RUSSELL. 3400 acres. For more details check out our website www.hciventures.ca Regina, SK. Realtors/Brokers welcome.

NEAR DUCK MOUNTAIN, river nearby, very scenic. 459 acres, 265 cultivated, 60 acres fenced pasture. 1550 sq. ft. bungalow with attached garage, 30x42’ heated workshop plus much more. Florence Komarniski Real Estate, 204-638-3055, Dauphin, MB., or Grant Tweed, Century 21, 204-761-6884.

160 ACRES NW-5-21-26WPM, approx. 115 cult. acres, RM of Riding Mountain West near Angusville, MB. Bidders must rely on their own land inspection. Bids accepted until January 31, 2017. Submit written bids to Box 735, Arborg, MB. R0C 0A0. Highest of any bid not necessarily accept-ed. For more info. call 204-376-2971.

EXCELLENT L IVESTOCK FARMS: 1) 1732 deeded acres w/4425 acres of Crown land, fenced, small bungalow, very good buildings and metal corral system, can carry 350 cow/calf pairs. 2) Excellent horse ranch in Erickson, MB., Riding Arena and buildings in fantastic condition. 3) 640 acres mixed farm within 15 min. of Bran-don. 4) 800 acre cattle farm, Rorketon, MB., 1500 sq.ft. home, heated shop. Jim McLachlan 204-724-7753, HomeLife Home Professional Realty Inc, Brandon, MB., www.homelifepro.com Visit us at AgDays!

WANTED PASTURE FOR 100 cow/calf pairs for summer grazing 2017 season. 403-485-6869, Vulcan AB.


CUSTOM CATTLE GRAZING on former PFRA community pastures in Manitoba. Call Zane Fredbjornson 306-534-0000.

LOOKING TO RENT farmland in central orsouth central Alberta. Would prefer cashrent. [email protected]

52.8 ACRES, $255,000. Only 15 min. from Saskatoon. Rolling hills. Excellent potential for walk-out development w/gas, power, ph. and public water line. Ron Thompson, Royal LePage, Saskatoon 306-221-8112.

ACREAGE: BETWEEN 12 and 13 acres, ap-prox. 3500 sq. ft. house w/2 car garage, 50x100’ heated shop w/in-floor heat, 60’x200’ cold storage shed and other sheds on yard. $650,000. 20 min. NE Neepawa, MB. Call 204-243-2453 or 204-871-4509.

DWEIN TRASK REALTY INC. Very good selection of acreage building sites current-ly available within 5 min. to 45 minutes of Saskatoon. Sizes range from 10 acres to 160 acres and most have reasonably close utilities. Resale acreages are available as well. Call Dwein 306-221-1035, Amanda 306-221-5675 or Victoria 306-270-9740. Pics and details at www.traskrealty.com

32 ACRES 2 homes, outbuildings, and muchmore. $1,250,000. 403-703-5548, Calgary,AB. Email [email protected] orview www.gerardchiasson.com

1974 BOLER TRAILER, new radial tires, sleeps 4, furnace, always shedded and covered. 306-696-2957, Whitewood, SK.

2007 OKANAGAN ECLIPSE 28.5’ 5th wheel, bunk beds, big shower, winter pkg., low mileage, Mumby hitch, $22,000. Call 780-221-3980, Leduc, AB.

ICE FISHING HUT SALE. Reg. $2200, sale $ 1 6 9 5 . W h i l e s u p p l i e s l a s t . C a l l 306-253-4343, toll free 1-800-383-2228. www.hold-onindustries.com

2 0 1 6 S I E S TA 2 4 S R , # F 9 6 0 2 9 0 7 , $129,900. Diesel Genset. Full body paint. Mercedes Sprinter chassis. AMVIC Lic. Dlr. Call 1-866-346-3148 or shop online 24/7 at: Allandale.com

1993 GRAND TOURING Ski-Doo, front cov-er, stored inside, used very little by elderly couple. 306-696-2957, Whitewood, SK.

PARTS FOR VINTAGE snowmobiles, 1990 and older. Call Don at 780-755-2258, Wainwright, AB. [email protected]

SNOWBIRDS GETAWAY! Palm Springs, CA. Beaut i fu l RV park . Contact V iv 916-508-7975. [email protected]

FAST FOOD CAFE for sale. Full line cafeequip., can be bought as a running busi-ness, $30,000 complete, or will part out.Walk-in cooler, gas grill, flat grill, sandwichtable cooler, air exchanger, hood, freezers,tables, chairs, pop, coolers, dishes, every-thing to go, exc. cond. Walk in, take overClark's Kafe, 306-821-0260, Lloydminster,SK. [email protected]

WOOD-MIZER PORTABLE SAWMILLS, eight models, options and accessories. 1-877-866-0667. www.woodmizer.ca


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ELIAS SCALES MFG., several different ways to weigh bales and livestock; Plat-form scales for industrial use as well, non-electric, no balances or cables (no weigh like it). Shipping arranged. 306-445-2111, North Battleford, SK. www.eliasscales.com

CERT., REG. CDC Copeland. Volume and cash discounts. Please text or call Jeff at Sopatyk Seed Farms, 306-227-7867, Aberdeen, SK. [email protected]

TOP QUALITY CERT. #1 CDC Copeland, AC Metcalfe, Newdale. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK.

CERT. #1 CDC Copeland, CDC Metcalfe, AAC Synergy, CDC Maverick, CDC Austen-son. Ardell Seeds, 306-668-4415, Vanscoy.

FDN, REG. AND/OR CERT. AC Metcalfe, CDCCopeland, AAC Synergy and CDC Kinders-ley. Berscheid Bros. Seeds, 306-368-2602,Lake Lenore, SK. [email protected]

CERTIFIED: CDC COPELAND and CDCAustenson. Dutton Farms Ltd. Paynton, SK.Text or call: 306-441-6699, 306-441-9299

CERT. CDC COPELAND. Labrecque Seed Farms, 306-222-5757, Saskatoon, SK.

CERT. #1 COPELAND, 95% germ., 94% vigor, 0 fus., 47. Sandercock Seed Farm, 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK.

CERTIFIED CDC MAVERICK, 96% germ., no disease. Call Hickseeds 306-354-7998 (Barry), 306-229-9517 (Dale) Mossbank SK

CERT. CDC COPELAND Malt barley seed.99% germ., 98% vigor, 50g tkw and lowdisease. LaForge Farms Ltd. 306-773-0924,Swift Current, SK.

REG., CERT. CDC COPELAND, AC Metcalfe. Call for early order and bulk discount pric-ing. Visa, MC, FCC financing. Custom t r e a t i n g av a i l a b l e . L L S E E D S . C A , 306-530-8433, Lumsden, SK.

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CDC COPELAND BARLEY, reg. and cert., top quality seed. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516. [email protected]

CERTIFIED #1 LEGACY (6R). Call Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

CERT. #1 AAC Synergy, CDC Copeland, excellent quality. Northland Seeds Inc., 306-324-4315, Margo, SK.

AAC SYNERGY BARLEY, AC Metcalfe, CDCCopeland. All >95% germ. 306-741-0475,Pambrun, SK. Email: [email protected]

DE DELL SEEDS INC. high yielding grain corn, high yielding silage corn, proven in the prairies. The leaders in non-GMO tech-nology. Prairie dealer. Beausejour, MB. Free delivery. Call 519-203-2676.

CERTIFIED CONVENTIONAL CM440grazing corn. Early maturing, leafier for in-creased grazing yield. No planter required. Swath or stand graze cattle, sheep, bison and for wildlife food plots. CanaMaize S e e d I n c . , c a l l 1 - 8 7 7 - 2 6 2 - 4 0 4 6 . www.canamaize.com

CERTIFIED TRANSCEND, AAC Spitfire,AAC Marchwell, Eurostar, AAC Current,All 80-90% germ., low fusarium. Pambrun,SK. 306-741-0475, [email protected]

CERTIFIED TRANSCEND DURUM. Call Craswell Seeds Ltd., Strasbourg, SK., 306-725-3236.

CERTIFIED #1 CDC RUFFIAN, AC Leggett, C D C O r r i n . C a l l F e n t o n S e e d s , 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

CERT. #1 SUMMIT, CDC Haymaker (for-age), excellent quality. Ardell Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK.

EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1 CS Camden, Summit, CDC Minstrel, CDC Ruf-f i a n , C D C O r r i n . F r e d e r i c k S e e d s , 306-287-3977, Watson, SK.

CERT. #1 CS CAMDEN, Triactor, Souris. excellent quality. Northland Seeds Inc., 306-324-4315, Margo, SK.

CERTIFIED AAC PREVAIL, AAC Foray and AAC Pasture. Volume and cash discounts. Please text or call Jeff at Sopatyk Seed Farms, 306-227-7867, Aberdeen, SK. Email: [email protected]

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Plentiful, Cardale, Elgin ND, Goodeve VB, Vesper VB. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

AAC JATHARIA VB, certified #1, midge tolerant, high yielding. Stoll’s Seed Barn Ltd., Delisle, SK. 306-493-7409.

CERTIFIED #1 AAC Brandon HRS, high germ., low fusarium gram. Seed Source, 306-323-4402, Archerwill, SK.

REGISTERED AAC FORAY wheat, 0% fusari-um. Please call 403-485-6708, Vulcan, [email protected]

STAND-ABILITY, YIELD AND grade arenever far apart. Certified AC Andrew, AACBrandon, Carberry, AC Stettler. DuttonFarms Ltd., Paynton, SK., 306-441-6699.

REGISTERED CERTIFIED CDC Plentifulspring wheat, 0% fusarium. 403-485-6708,Vulcan, AB. [email protected]

AAC ELIE, CERT., sister to AAC Brandon, top quality seed. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516. [email protected]

CERTIFIED AAC BRANDON, AAC Jatharia Grant, Greenshields Seeds, 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, Semans, SK.

EXCELLENT QUALITY CERTIFIED #1Cardale, CDC Utmost, CDC Plentiful , Muchmore, AAC Elie, AAC Connery, AAC Brandon, Elgin ND. Frederick Seeds, 306-287-3977, Watson, SK.

CERT. #1 CDC Utmost, AAC Jatharia, AAC Brandon, Cardale, AAC Spitfire durum. Call Ardell Seeds, 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK.

CERTIFIED CDC UTMOST wheat, 0% fusari-um. Phone 403-485-6708, Vulcan, [email protected]

FDN, REG. AND/OR CERT. AAC Brandon andAAC Cameron VB. Berscheid Bros. SeedsCall 306-368-2602, Lake Lenore, [email protected]

CERTIFIED CDC Plentiful, CDC Utmost VB. Craswell Seeds Ltd., Strasbourg, SK., 306-725-3236.

AAC BRANDON , reg. and cert . , top quality seed. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516. [email protected]

TOP QUALITY CERTIFIED alfalfa and grass seed. Call Gary or Janice Waterhouse 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK.

HYBRID AND OPEN-POLLINATED canola varieties. Certified #1 Synergy (Polish), Dekalb, Rugby. Phone Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

CERTIFIED NO. 1 CDC Glas flax, quantitydiscounts and financing available. Call/text: 306-290-7816, Blaine Lake, SK.

CDC GLAS FLAX , reg. and cert., top quality seed. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516. [email protected]

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Sorrel, AAC Bravo. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

CERTIFIED CDC SANCTUARY, CDC Bethune,CDC Sorrel, AAC Bravo. Call 306-741-0475,Pambrun, SK. Email: [email protected]

REG. AND CERT. #1 Bethune flax, 98% germ., Triffied free. Sandercock Seed Farm, 306-334-2958, Balcarres, SK.

REG., CERT. MCLEOD R2Y soybean, early season, high y ie ld. Custom treat ing available. Call for early order and bulk dis-count pricing. Visa, MC, FCC financing. LLSEEDS.CA, 306-530-8433, Lumsden, SK.

CERT CDC Blackstrap (early); CDC Super-jet; CDC Jet. High germs. Martens Charo-lais & Seed, 204-534-8370, Boissevain, MB

CERT. REG. FDN. CDC Impulse and CDC Proclaim red lentil seed. Higher yielding than Maxim. Volume and cash discounts. Please text or call Jeff at Sopatyk Seed Farms, 306-227-7867, Aberdeen, SK. Email: [email protected]

REGISTERED, CERTIFIED CDC Greenstar,CDC Proclaim, CDC Impulse, CDC MaximAll excellent germ. Call 306-741-0475,Pambrun, SK. Email: [email protected]

CERT. CDC PROCLAIM, 99% germination. 306-395-2652, 306-796-7484, Chaplin, SK.

CERTIFIED CDC MARBLE, dark speckled lentils. Call Grant, Greenshields Seeds, 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, Semans, SK

CERTIFIED CDC IMPULSE red lentils. Call Labrecque Seed Farms, 306-222-5757, Saskatoon, SK.

CERT. CDC MAXIM CL. Craswell Seeds Ltd., Strasbourg, SK., 306-725-3236.

PRAIRIE PULSE INC.700 Campbell Dr., Vanscoy, SK S0L 3J0

LENTIL BIDS delivered Vanscoy, SK as of January 12, 2017

Prices subject sample approval, 1% elevation and change without notice.* 2017 Crop with Act of God clause.

www.prairiepulse.com

CY Product (Dry) Gde $/mt ¢/lb

16 Large Green 1C 1,425 64.64 2C 1,215 55.11 X3C 925 41.96 3C 815 36.9716 Medium Green 1C 1,190 53.98 2C 1,145 51.94 X3C 880 39.92 3C 795 36.0616 Small Green 1C 1,375 62.37 2C 1,215 55.11 X3C 925 41.96 3C 770 34.93 16 Extra Small Red 2C 680 30.84 X3C 590 26.76 3C 440 19.9616 Small Red 2C 680 30.84 X3C 590 26.76 3C 440 19.96*17 Small Red 2C 640 29.03

Our bids are “DAP Vanscoy, SK” (ie: DAP = delivered). Though freight costs are for the grower’s account, we often arrange for on farm pickup, pay the trucker, and deduct the freight from the final settlement.

CERTIFIED CDC GREENSTAR LG Lentil, 92%germ., 88% vigor, 72.55g tkw, low disease.LaForge Farms Ltd., 306-773-0924, SwiftCurrent, SK.

GrainEx International Ltd. GrainEx International Ltd. LENTILS &

CANARYSEED 30 years experience

working with FARMERS FOR FARMERS License & Bonded with CGC

For current pricing call 306-885-2288

or visit us on the web www.grainex.net

CERT. #1 CDC Proclaim (small red), CDC Marble (French green). Call Ardell Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK.

CERT. #1 CDC IMPULSE CL red lentil. Highest yielding Clearfield red lentil Call 306-465-2525, 306-861-5679 Hansen Seeds, Yellow Grass SK. [email protected]

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Impala (small red) Clearfield. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

CERTIFIED CDC AMARILLO. Volume and cash discounts. Please text or call Jeff at Sopatyk Seed Farms, 306-227-7867, Aberdeen, SK. [email protected]

CERTIFIED CDC AMARILLO yellow peas. Labrecque Seed Farms, 306-222-5757, Saskatoon, SK.

CERTIFIED: CDC AMARILLO, CDC Limerick,CDC Raeser, CDC Tetris, CDC Greenwater,CDC Dakota Dunn and common maplespeas. Call/text: 306-441-6699, Paynton, SK

FDN CDC INCA, CERT: CDC Amarillo, CDCGreenwater, CDC Limerick and CDC Raezer.Berscheid Bros. Seeds, 306-368-2602, LakeLenore, SK. [email protected]

REGISTERED, CERTIFIED CDC Greenwaterpeas, 94% germ. 306-741-0475, Pamrbun,SK. Email: [email protected]

CERTIFIED ARDILL PEAS, 93% germ., no disease. Call Hickseeds 306-354-7998 (Barry), 306-229-9517 (Dale) Mossbank SK

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Amarillo, high germ. and quality. Seed Source, 306-323-4402, Archerwill, SK.

CERT. #1 CDC Amarillo, CDC Meadow, AAC Ardill, CDC Limerick (green). Ardell Seeds Ltd., 306-668-4415, Vanscoy, SK.

CERT.#1 CDC Limerick and Cooper, excellent quality. Northland Seeds Inc., 306-324-4315, Margo, SK.

REGISTERED CERTIFIED CDC Greenwater; Certified CDC Striker. Martens Charolais and Seed, 204-534-8370, Boissevain, MB.

CERTIFIED #1 CDC Amarillo and CDC Meadow. Fenton Seeds, 306-873-5438, Tisdale, SK.

GREEN PEAS: CDC Raezer, CDC Limerick, CDC Greenwater, Fdn., Reg. and Cert. on all, top quality seed. Gregoire Seed Farms Ltd, North Battleford, SK., 306-441-7851, 306-445-5516. [email protected]

CERTIFIED CDC AMARILLO, CDC Lime-rick, CDC Greenwater, CDC Mosaic. Call Grant, Greenshields Seeds, 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, Semans, SK

CERTIFIED CDC CALVI. Phone Grant at Greensh ie lds Seeds , 306-746-7336, 306-524-4339, Semans, SK

CERT. CANTATE CANARY SEED. High-est yielding available variety. Hansen Seeds, 306-465-2525 or 306-861-5679, Yellow Grass, SK. [email protected]

REG. AND CERT. CDC Ca lvi , great standability, excellent quality. Northland Seeds Inc., 306-324-4315, Margo, SK.

BESCO GRAIN LTD. Buying all varieties of mustard. Also canary and some other spe-cialty crops. 204-745-3662, Brunkild, MB

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TOP QUALITY ALFALFA, variety of grasses and custom blends, farmer to farmer. Gary Waterhouse 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK.

BUYING: ALFALFA SEED and all types of grass seed. Cal l Gary at Waterhouse Seeds, 306-874-5684, Naicam, SK.

$28/ACRE, CATT CORN, open pollinated corn seed. Lower cost alternative for graz-ing and silage. 7-9’ tall leafy plants, 8-10” cobs, early maturing 2150 CHUs. Seed produced in MB. for over 10 yrs. High nu-tritional value and palatability. Delivery available. 204-723-2831, Check us out on facebook at: Catt Corn

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EQUIPMENTREPAIR

COMBINES - TRACTORS - REELS - DETAILING - HEADERS

• 10% off posted labour rates• 10% + off parts• Guaranteed repair & completion dates

Currently booking starting October!

Call: 1-888-606-6362Email: [email protected]

Be proactive. Save time and money!

LOOKING FOR OLD and new crop soybeans FOB Western Canada. Licence and bonded grain company. Call, email, text Now for competitive pricing at the farm! Market Place Commodities Ltd, accurate real time marketing. 403-394-1711, 403-315-3930. [email protected]

NORCAN restores grain farm profitability. Buy from Norcan and keep your own Gly-phosphate 1 soybean seed. Norcan farm-ers have reported yields over 60 bu./acre. Call/text Nate, 204-280-1202 or Norcan Seeds 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch, MB.

GLY SOYBEAN SEED, early, mid, and long season avai lable. Top y ie ld, bulk or bagged. Keep your own seeds with the convenience of Glyphosate! No contracts or TUA’s. Dealers wanted. Call/text Nate, 2 0 4 - 2 8 0 - 1 2 0 2 o r N o r c a n S e e d s 204-372-6552, Fisher Branch, MB.

Now offering 2017 Crop Edible Bean ContractsFor info call, text or email

Dustin Unger [email protected]

WANTED HEATED CANOLA. No broker involved. Sell direct to crushing plant. Cash on delivery or pickup. 306-228-7306 or 306-228-7325, Unity, SK.

NUVISION COMMODITIES is currently purchasing feed barley, wheat, peas and milling oats. 204-758-3401, St. Jean, MB.

Green and/or heated Canola/Flax, Wheat,

Barley, Oats, Peas, etc.

WE BUY DAMAGED

GRAIN

BOW V AL L EY TRADIN G L TD.

1-877-6 41-2798 1-877-6 41-2798VAN RAAY PASKAL Farms in Iron Springs area is looking for Feed Barley. Put more $$$ in your pocket and sell direct to us with no brokerage fee. Call 403-732-5641.

LACKAWANNA PRODUCTS CORP. Buy-ers and sellers of all types of feed grain and grain by-products. Contact Bill Hajt or Chr i s topher Lent at 306-862-2723. [email protected] [email protected]

EAGLE COM M ODITIES S OARIN G TO N EW HEIGHTS

Bu yers o f co n ven tio n a l a n d o rga n ic gra d es o f len tils , pea s ,

m u s ta rd , w hea t, b a rley, o a ts , rye, ca n o la , fla x, etc. C a ll for your on fa rm b id .

As h le y La za r 403-894-4110 M ike D yck 403-929-407 0 D o ug Jo rd a n 306-5 5 4-87 15 D a rre n G uid in ge r 403-308-5 284

Ea gle To ll Fre e n um b e r 1-888-328-919 1

Le th b ridge , AB.WANTED: FEED GRAIN, barley, wheat, peas, green or damaged canola. Phone Gary 306-823-4493, Neilburg, SK.

WANT TO BUY all grades of oats and feed barley and wheat. Mail samples to: Green Prairie, RR 8, Site 30, Comp 11, Leth-bridge, AB. T1J 4P4. Call 1-877-667-3993.

Your full service grain & feed ingredient merchandising, logistics, distribution & administration partner.

CGC licensed & bonded merchandiser specializing in:

- Feed Barley - Feed Wheat

- Milling Durum and Wheat - Feed Pellets

- Off Grade Pulses & Oilseeds - Pulse and Wheat Screenings

www.jglgrain.comToll Free 1-877-907-1517

Saskatoon, SK 1-306-374-1517Moose Jaw, SK 1-306-624-2378

Email [email protected]

HEATED CANOLA WANTED • GREEN • HEATED • SPRING THRASHED

LIGHT/TOUGH FEEDGRAINS

WESTCAN FEED & GRAIN 1-877-250-5252

Westcanfeedandgrain.com

• OATS • WHEAT • BARLEY • PEAS

DAMAGED FLAX/PEAS • HEATED • DISEASED

“ON FARM PICKUP”

GREEN CANOLA

• FROZEN • HAILED

TOP PRICES PAID FOR FEED BARLEY, W HEAT, OATS, RYE, TRITICALE, PEAS, LENTILS,

HEATED OIL SEEDS, SOYBEANS

Priced at your bin.

PEARM AN GRAIN LTD. 306-374-1968

WHY NOT KEEP MARKETING SIMPLE? You are selling feed grains. We are buying feed grains. Also buying chick-peas, lentils and golden flax. Fast pay-ment, with prompt pickup, true price dis-covery. Call Jim Beusekom, Allen Pirness, David Lea, Vera Buziak or Matt Beusekom at Market Place Commodities Ltd., Leth-bridge, AB. Phone 1-866-512-1711. Email [email protected] or

WANTED: FEED BARLEY Buffalo Plains Cattle Company is looking to purchase barley. For pricing and delivery dates, call Kristen 306-624-2381, Bethune, SK.

WANTED: OFF-GRADE PULSES, oil seeds and cereals. All organic cereals and spe-cialty crops. Prairie Wide Grain, Saskatoon, SK., 306-230-8101, 306-716-2297.

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ROUND ALFALFA/ALFALFA GRASS solid core greenfeed 5x6 JD hay bales for sale. Call 306-237-4582, Perdue, SK.

ROUND WHEAT STRAW bales and green-feed oat bales, all netwrapped. Phone/text 306-291-9395, Langham, SK.

TOP QUALITY HORSE HAY in sma l l squares, $4-$6; Also good heavy feed oats for sale. 204-734-5139, Swan River, MB.

HAY VERN HAY Farms. Hay sales delivered!V-plow on loader available and hay trans-port. Serving 3 Prairie Provinces.204-729-7297, Brandon, MB.

190 BARLEY BALES, netwrapped, 2090 lbs., $75 each or 30 or more for $70 each. 306-397-2677, 306-441-0677. Edam, SK.

350 EXCELLENT 2nd cut, Alfalfa/Brome mix, 1500 lbs., 4.5¢/lbs. 306-834-7204, Kerrobert, SK.

ALFALFA BROME PUBESCENT 3x3x8 bales, 1st and 2nd cut. Feed analysis available Call 306-773-2503, 306-741-9784, Swift Current, SK

APPROX. 350 FIRST cut large round alfalfa mixed bales, average weight 1400 lbs., $50/bale. 780-352-8858, Bittern Lake, AB.

GOOD QUALITY HAY put up dry without ra in . 400 b ig square ba les , 3x4x8. , 306-320-1041, Leroy, SK.

LARGE ROUND HAY bales for sale, 1st cut,good quality. 500 near Melville and 500near Dubuc. Call 306-263-3232, Tyvan, SK.

2ND CUT ALFALFA bales, forage tested,dairy quality, 1400 lbs., 5.5x5', $100/baleOBO. 306-526-8318, Qu'Appelle, SK.

1000 ROUND 5x6 bales. Grass/legume grass, unthreshed barley and straw. Excel-lent to average quality. Priced accordingly. Contact Ed 306-563-6261, Gorlitz, SK.

LONG LAKE TRUCKING, two units, custom hay hauling. Call 306-567-7100, Imperial, SK.

200 BIG ROUND organic oat straw bales, $18 each. 306-722-3225, Fillmore, SK.

CONVENTIONAL WHEAT STRAW round bales and pea straw round bales. Ph/text Troy 306-867-7719, Glenside, SK.

400 BROME/ALFALFA HAY bales, put up ingood, dry condition, weigh 1400-1500 lbs.,$60 per bale. 306-834-8689, Kerrobert, SK.

ROUND ALFALFA/GRASS MIXED hard core, 5x6, average 1450 lbs., 3.5¢/lb. 306-736-2445, 306-577-7351, Kipling, SK.

2nd Generation Alfalfa Producers

All Qualities of Alfalfa BalesBig Square 4 by 4 by 8Competitive pricing

Delivery available in AB and SKAlfalfa specialists with over

40 years experience

www.mundtsoperationsinc.com

Phone Brenton at 403-664-9734

HORSE QUALITY HAY bales rounds and small square, grass or alfalfa. Call 306-290-8806, Dundurn, SK.

HAY BALES ROUND mixed 5x5, hard core, no rain, net wrapped, horse quality, $100/bale. Near Regina, SK 306-539-6123

HAY FOR SALE OR trade for bred cows, or will custom feed cows. $55 a bale. Call Mitch 306-561-7576, Kenaston, SK.

190 - 2ND CUT ALFALFA bales. Baled with no rain. Feed analysis done. Can deliver. 306-567-7199, Kenaston, SK.

LARGE ROUND ALFALFA brome mixed hay. Call 306-764-6372, Prince Albert, SK.

SELLINGALL TYPES OF HAY AND STRAW

www.vandenberghay.caHenk: 403-795-1347 (cell)[email protected]

Harry: 403-382-1082 (cell)[email protected]: 1-403-824-3010

Fax: 1-403-824-3040No Sunday Calls Please

NOBLEFORD, AB TOLL FREE: 1-877-824-3010

Fast, Friendly, Reliable Service for Over 30 Years.

We sell and truck all types and quantities of hay and straw.

VANDENBERG HAY FARMS LTD.

2ND CUT ALFALFA, 3x4x8’ squares, 200 tons. Also big square flax straw bales. 403-501-1837, Tilley, AB.

QUALITY HAY 1st, 2nd and 3rd cut dairy and beef hay, 3x4 square bales, shedded; Triticale greenfeed with delivery available. 403-633-3777, 403-363-3318, Tilley, AB.

SHAVINGS: Cattle Feedlot/horse/poultry bedd ing . Bu lk p r i c ing and de l i ve ry available. Vermette Wood Preservers, Spruce Home, SK. 1-800-667-0094. Email [email protected] View www.vwpltd.com

ROUND HAY BALES, Cicer Milk Vetch/ b r o m e m i x , 2 0 1 6 $ 4 5 , 2 0 1 5 $ 4 0 . 306-742-5900 leave msg, Calder, SK.

TOP QUALITY GRASS HAY for sale, shedded, can deliver, 306-501-9204 ask for Paul. Belle Plain Colony, Belle Plain, SK.

ROUND BALE PICKING and hauling, small or large loads. Travel anywhere. Also hay for sale. 306-291-9658, Vanscoy, SK.

ALFALFA CUBES, LIVESTOCK PELLETS, bedding and grass seed. Cubes: $250, 500 kg tote; $12.70, 20 kg bag; Bulk available. Bulk livestock pellets. Bedding shavings. Grass seed dealer. Delivery available. 780-201-2044, Bonnyville, AB. Email: [email protected]

CUSTOM BALE HAULING. Will haul large squares or round. Phone 306-567-7199, Kenaston, SK.

ALFALFA 3x4 SQUARES, 2nd and 3rd cut; Feed tests avail; Triticale greenfeed bales. 403-501-9307, 403-362-6682, Tilley, AB.

SHEDDED DAIRY AND FEEDER HAY, 3x4x8 square bales; Greenfeed and straw. Tests available. 403-633-8835, Tilley, AB.

400 BROME/ALFALFA 6x6 round hay bales, 4¢/lb., no rain. Contact 306-634-7920, 306-421-1753, Estevan, SK.

FISH FERTILIZERS

Promotes bigger crops and higher yieldsRejuvenates soil (breaks down trash)Provides an abundance of natural nutrientsNo nozzle tip cloggingReduces insect infestationHelps release polyphosphates

SEEKING DISTRIBUTORS

WANTED: HEATED CANOLA, Looking to buyheated or damaged canola. Call for pricing.780-717-0007.

TRI-AG MARKETING SOLUTIONS. Buy-ers of all classes of wheat, barley, oats, and canola. Will buy tough and damp grain. Trucking available. Prompt payment. Can also provide full marketing strategies. Call Matt 306-469-7660, Big River, SK.

SLEIGHS- ICE FISHING and trapping sleighs, starting at only $55. Call or visit y o u r n e a r e s t F l a m a n l o c a t i o n , 1-888-435-2626.

ICE SHACKS- NEW heated and insulated structural metal ECO shacks. Wood stove, extra storage, removable benches, 14”x66” floor opening. See your nearest Flaman lo-cation 1-888-435-2626.

ICE SHACKS- INSULATED shacks now on for $2399. Accessories avail., rod holders, slush buckets, hole sleeves, catch covers, stoves and more. See your nearest Flaman location 1-888-435-2626.

FLY-IN FISHING: HASKINS BAY on FlorenceLake. 25 miles north of Flin Flon, MB.Picturesque, comfortable, affordable, lighthousekeeping, great Walleye fishing. Bookyour trip now! Call 306-220-6122. Email:[email protected] Visit us on-line:www.haskinsbay.com

3 - 1000 GALLON PROPANE tanks. 2 are c/w trailers; and 1 - 500 gal. propane tank. Call for details 306-287-8062, Watson, SK.

FERTILIZER STORAGE TANKS- 5,000 US gal., $3,000; 6,000 US gal., $3600- pickup at factory. Ph 306-253-4343 while supplies last. www.hold-onindustries.com

MAGNUM FABRICATING LTD. For all your fuel tank needs ULC certified for Canada and USA and Transport Canada DOT certified fuel tanks. Your No. 1 fuel safe solution. 306-662-2198, Maple Creek, SK. www.magnumfabricating.com

POLY TANKS: 15 to 10,000 gal.; Bladder tanks from 220 to 88,000 gallon; Water and liquid fertilizer; Fuel tanks, single and double wall; Truck and storage, gas or dsl. Wilke Sales, 306-586-5711, Regina, SK.

FERTILIZER STORAGE TANKS. 11,000 US gal., $6500 pick up at factory or $7000 free freight to farm. 1-800-383-2228 www.hold-onindustries.com 306-253-4343

TARPCO, SHUR-LOK, MICHEL’S sales, service, installations, repairs. Canadian company. We carry aeration socks. We carry grain bags. We now carry electric chute openers for grain trailer hoppers. 1-866-663-0000.

TWO 20.8x38 T-RAIL duals w/rims, quick attach, $5000; 16.9R28 T-Rail duals and rims, quick attach, $4500. 780-771-2155, 780-404-1212, Wandering River, AB.

TIRES TIRES TIRES! Radial, bias, new, used. 20.8x42, 18.4x42, 20.8x38, 18.4x38, 20.8R34, 18.4x34, 900/60R32, 800/65R 32, 24.5x32, 18.4x30, 23.1x30, 16.9x28, 28Lx26, 18.4x26, 19.5Lx24. Semis, skid steers. Best price and value guaranteed! www.combineworld.com 1-888-278-4905

MR. TIRE CORP. For all your semi and half ton tire needs call Mylo 306-921-6555 Serving all of Saskatchewan.

GLEANER S77 DUALS, complete factory kit w/tires, rims, platform extension and hardware. Firestone radials 85%, $16,900.www.combineworld.com 1-888-278-4905.

RIMS FOR SALE! We are clearing out our excess rims! Get all standard size combine rims for 50% off our reg. price. Excludes duals and specialty size rims. Offer ends May 30th, 2017. 1-888-278-4905 or viewwww.combineworld.com

2- NEW 20.5Rx25 Michelin 1* XTLA G2 L2 tubeless loader tires, $1775 ea.; 4- new LT245/75R/17 BFG Rugged Trail, $175 ea; New P205/70R/15 BFG Long Trail trailer tire, $80. All stored inside. 306-915-7061.

SEMI TIRES. We stock a full line of tires for all your trucking needs. Drives starting at $285, trailers starting at $270. Full war-ranty on all tires. Call 306-714-0121,Shellbrook, SK. www.triplejayceetire.com

GOOD USED TRUCK TIRES: 700/8.25/ 900/1000/1100x20s; 11R22.5/11R24.5; 9R17.5, matched sets available. Pricing from $90. K&L Equipment and Auto. Ph Ladimer, 306-795-7779, Ituna, SK; Chris at 306-537-2027, Regina, SK.

AGRICULTURAL TOURS V ietn a m /Ca m b o d ia /Tha ila n d

~ M ar 2017 Ro m a n ia /Hu n ga ry ~ June 2017

Icela n d & Green la n d ~ June 2017 S w itzerla n d L a n d /Cru is e

~ M ultiple Dates Ea s tern Ca n a d a / N ew fo u n d la n d

~ June/July 2017 N o rthw es t Territo ries /Yu k o n /

Ala s k a ~ June/July 2017 Ro ck y M o u n ta in eer Ra il ~ June to September 2017

Alb erta Fa rm To u r a n d Ca n a d ia n Ro ck ies ~ July 2017

Au s tra lia / N ew Zea la n d ~ Jan/Feb 2018

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KORNUM WELL DRILLING, farm, cottage and acreage wells, test holes, well rehabili-tation, witching. PVC/SS construction, ex-pert workmanship and fair pricing. 50% government grant now available. Indian Head, SK., 306-541-7210 or 306-695-2061

U-DRIVE TRACTOR TRAILER Training,30 years experience. Day, 1 and 2 week upgrading programs for Class 1A, 3A and air brakes. One on one driving instructions. 306-786-6600, Yorkton, SK.

RM PRAIRIE ROSE #309 requires a full-time Municipal Maintenance Foreman. Jobduties at: www.jansen.ca/rmemploymentQualified applicants are invited to submit acover letter, including salary expectationsand resume with references by email [email protected]

EXPERIENCED LIVE-IN Care giver with 12 yrs exp., is looking to care for a senior lady. Please call 306-551-7300.

FARM WORKER MIXED farm near Calgary.Assets: cow/calf experience, (300 cows),mechanics, Class 1, large equip. exp. forgrain farm. Equipped shop, housing, goodwages, overtime pay. Fax resumes to403-335-0086 or [email protected]

CODE CUSTOM FARMING Ltd., Ponoka AB.is looking for Agriculture Crop HarvestingService Superviser, permanent, full-time.Duties: Develop planning and work sched-ules and establish procedures; Coordinateand supervise the work of general farmworkers and harvesting labourers; Provideagricultural crop services such as plowing,irrigating, cultivating, spraying or harvest-ing; Negotiate the terms of services to beprovided; Hire and train workers; Maintainfinancial and operational records; Mainte-nance of machinery and equipment andsmall repairs; Have at least 3 years experi-ence as supervisor agriculture custom workand post-secondary diploma. Wage $25 perhour. Phone 403-872-9147, Ponoka, [email protected]

RANCH LABOURER: CATTLE experiencerequired. 700 head, spring calving, back-ground own calves. Daily feeding, herdhealth, fencing, silaging, baling, mainte-nance & repair of machinery among other.Traits: critical thinking skills, honesty,strength and ability to correctly completetasks. 306-739-2529, [email protected]

PASTURE RIDER WANTED , Dundurn Grazing Association, Dundurn, SK., for the 2017 season. Must have own working horses and equipment. Accommodations provided. Any questions call Stan Logan 780-834-7327. Send resume with 2 refer-ences to: Dundurn Grazing Association, General Delivery, Dundurn, SK. S0K 1K0.

FARM WORKER WANTED on small feedlot near Edmonton, AB. Full-time. Must have Class 1 license. Job entails 60% trucking, 30% working with cattle and 10% running other equipment. Wage is $25-$30/hr., benefit package, WCB, 2 weeks holidays after one year. Housing available. E-mail resume to: [email protected]

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FULL-TIME FARM LABOURER HELP. Applicants should have previous farm ex-perience and mechanical ability. Duties in-clude operation of machinery, including tractors and other farm equip., as well as general farm laborer duties. $25/hour de-pending on experience. Must be able to cross US border. Locat ion: P ierson, MB/Gainsborough, SK. Feland Bros. Farms, Greg Feland and Wade Feland, Box 284, Pierson, MB. R0M 1S0. 701-756-6954.

2 SEASONAL FARM MACHINERY operators required. Must be able to operate grain cart, tandem grain truck, FWA tractor w/rockpicker, 4WD tractor for harrowing. Also manual labour for upkeep of leafcut-ter bees and general servicing of equip-ment. May 1 to October 31. $15-$18/hr. 101008187 SK Ltd., 303 Frontier Trail, Box 3 7 2 , Wa d e n a , S K . , S 0 A 4 J 0 . F a x : 306-338-3733, phone: 306-338-7561 or email: [email protected]

NOW ACCEPTING TENDERS for theFairview Pasture Corporation - PastureRider position. Duties will include but arenot limited to all aspects of care and super-vision of 750 cow/calf pairs between May1st and October 31st of each year. Sendtenders to: Box 623, Eston, SK, SOL 1A0.Contact 306-962-7481 or 306-219-8081

EXPERIENCED FULL-TIME HELP for mixed farm, Class 1 an asset. Competitive wages. Call 306-537-6435, Odessa, SK.

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FULL-TIME FARM/RANCH EMPLOYEErequired to operate farm equipment, cattlehandling and general farm work. Driverslicense abstract available upon request.Single or family accommodations includingutilities. Call 306-662-7205, 306-669-2078.


CLEANING PLANT TRAINEE/OPERA-TOR, full-time to Operate grain cleaning equipment at Hickseeds Ltd. in Mossbank, SK. Should have: Knowledge of grain and seed industry; Ability to manage time and meet deadlines; Good communication skills; Record keeping capabilities for bin samples, quality control etc; Be able to fol-low specific directions, protocol and pro-cedures. Duties will include: Provide sup-port to site manager to ensure work flows in a safe and efficient manner; Load-ing/unloading trucks; May be required to assist with farm duties at times. Must be flexible with work hours during peak sea-son, be able to work independently and have own transportation. Wages based on experience. Call Barry Hicks 306-354-7998 or e-mail: [email protected]

PASTURE RIDER CONTRACT POSITION available at Masefield Grazing Ltd for the 2017 grazing season, May 1 to Nov. 15. Applicant must supply own horses and have knowledge of herd health, handling and treatment of cattle from horseback and will also be responsible for other gen-eral pasture duties including fencing. The successful applicant will be supervised by the Pasture Manager and must possess a good work attitude. Wage will range from $22 to $25/hr. depending on experience. Housing available. Employment may lead to future full-time management position. Apply with references by March 1, to Masefield Grazing Ltd, Box 276, Val Marie, SK., S0N 2T0 or to Stan Day, Manager, Box 1 4 9 , V a l M a r i e , S K . , S 0 N 2 T 0 . 306-298-4417.

LARGE COW/CALF RANCH in NE Sask. seeks energetic Ranch Hand. Bunkhouse accommodation provided. Email resume: [email protected] Fax 306-428-2192.

PASTURE MANAGER: PEMBINA GrazingReserve is looking for a Pasture Manager tomanage and maintain the grazing reserve.This is a full time position from May 1st toOctober 31st. For those interested, pleaseemail: [email protected] to obtain acopy of the Terms of Reference.

FARM LABOURERS. LINCOLN Gardens is aseasonal vegetable farm located at Lums-den, SK. Seeking 8 seasonal field labourersstarting April 15, 2017. Must have validdrivers license, be reliable and physicallyfit. Duties include: Planting, weeding andharvesting of vegetable crops. Sort, wash,weigh and pack vegetables. Hand move irri-gation pipes. 50 to 60 hrs./week. Must beavailable weekends. Starting wage is$10.75/hour. Send resume with referencesto: Lincoln Gardens, Box 750, Lumsden, SK.S0G 3C0. Phone 306-731-7781.

TWO FULL-TIME GENERAL Farm Workers wanted on a mixed farm near Ponteix, SK. Duties: Operating and maintaining farm equipment and general farm labor tasks. Should have: General mechanical skills, 1-2 years farm experience, be reliable, self motivated and understand long working hours during peak seasons. Wage $18/hr. E-mail resume to: [email protected] Ph. 306-588-2627, D&E Evans Farm Ltd, Box 698, Ponteix, SK. S0N 1Z0.

CLAYTON AIR SERVICE LTD is seeking 4 Professional Turbine Ag Pilots for the 2017 Spray Season. Air Tractor 502B. Require-ments: Two of 4 positions from May 5 thru to Oct. 5. Two of 4 positions from June 1 to Sept. 30. Provincial pesticide licenses required. 1000 hours + aerial application experience preferred. Updated medical. Strong ability to adapt to changing situa-tions and maintain a positive attitude with customers, co-workers, and supervisors. Strong communication and problem solv-ing abilities, with quality service delivery as the utmost priority. Proficiency in Eng-lish reading and writing. Capable of oper-ating GPS guidance systems. Must be in-surable. Accommodations and vehicle prov ided dur ing employment . Wage $60/hr. 40 hour week. Bonuses based on performance. Contact Clayton Rempel phone 306-497-7401, email resume to: [email protected]

THE RM of SENLAC No 411 requires a full-time Municipal Maintenance Foreman to oversee the maintenance/transporta-tion staff and work closely with the Coun-cil and Administrator. A complete job de-scription is available from the RM office. Applicants are invited to submit a cover letter and resume including: 1) Past and present work experience 2) Education skills 3) Years of experience 4) Current drivers abstract 5) Criminal records check 6) Three work related references and 7) Salary expectations. Applications will be accepted until 4:00 PM on February 1st, 2017. RM of Senlac No. 411, Box 130, Sen-lac, SK. S0L 2Y0. Ph. 306-228-3339, Fax: 306-228-2264, Email: [email protected]

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DENVER, Colo. — Every year, Rodney and Tanya Hollman make the 21-hour trip from their ranch at Innisfail, Alta., to Denver, Colora-do, to enter the National Western Stock Show.

This year paid off when their bull, RWG Right Combination 5506, was named grand champion Gelbvieh Jan. 9.

“It is worth it every year, but it was extra worth it this year,” said Tanya.

The couple owns Royal Western Gelbvieh and places well every year, but they have missed the brass ring in the championship drive.

This year they also won reserve intermediate champion bull and

reserve two-year-old female. “We had a good week. We have

been in the hunt. His sire was champion senior bull in 2015,” Rodney said about RWG Right Combination 5506.

The bull, which is co-owned with Fladeland Livestock of Gladmar, Sask., was also grand champion Gelbvieh at last year’s Canadian Western Agribition in Regina.

It will go into stud at Bow Valley Genetics, and decisions will be made later as to whether it will be shown again.

The Hollman’s next big show is the Canadian Bull Congress at Camrose, Alta., Jan. 27-28.

However, there will be little time to rest on their laurels once they return home. Both have off-farm

jobs and need to be back at work immediately.

“We go home Wednesday and I will be back in the shop on Thurs-day,” Rodney said.

Tanya is a nurse at the Innisfail hospital and will be back at work soon.

“When everybody else has sum-mer vacation, I take it in winter to show cattle,” she said.

Another Canadian, Scott Severt-son of Innisfail, won the reserve champion two-year-old Balancer bull and had the two-year-old champion purebred bull plus sev-eral class winners.

The National Western Stock Show runs from Jan. 7-22.

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DENVER, Colo. — Entering a major livestock show is a good pro-motional tool for breeders looking to buy and sell new cattle genetics.

The icing on the cake is winning the big prizes in a circle of tough competitors.

This year, Blairs.Ag Cattle Co. of Lanigan, Sask., and its partners won the grand champion bull dur-ing the Red Angus show held Jan. 9 at the National Western Stock Show in Denver.

The bull, Damar Trump C512, is owned by Blairs.Ag, Yackley Red Angus of South Dakota, Rust Mountain Ranch of North Dakota and Thomas Ranch of South Dako-ta and lives in the United States.

The show judge described the bull, which was born in 2015, as a “really nice, stout calf.”

Blairs also won three division champions, two reserve division champions and premier exhibitor.

The reserve champion bull went to Howard Schneider of Northline Angus of Ardrosson, Alta., with a bull named Red NL GFA Crush 16B.

It is owned with Goad Family Angus of Clandonald, Alta., and Collier Diamond C Cattle Co. of Stephenville, Texas.

It was also grand champion bull at Fa r m f a i r Int e r nat i o na l i n Edmonton in 2015, the Fort Worth Stock Show in 2016 and Houston Stock Show in 2016.

Northline also won intermediate champion with Red Northline Revival 122C. It was the champion

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Sask. Red Angus in the winner’s circle

Damar Trump C512, owned by Blairs. Ag Cattle Co. of Lanigan, Sask., took grand champion in the Red Angus show at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado. | BARBARA DUCKWORTH PHOTOS

Rodney and Tanya Hollman and their son, Wacey, won the grand champion Gelbvieh bull award at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado, Jan. 10. The bull, which was born in May 2015, is owned with Fladeland Livestock of Gladmar, Sask.

yearling junior bull at Farmfair in 2016.

The Schneiders show at numer-ous events to promote their Red and Black Angus cattle to breeders looking for new genetics.

“People can see how your cattle are doing,” Schneider said at the Denver show.

He has successfully shown and sold cattle in Texas, where there is a strong Brahman influence. People

are looking for new Angus cattle to create the Brangus, he said.

Rebuilding that business after years of border closures due to BSE constraints has taken years, he said, but the markets have recovered, and the deals look more attractive to Americans now that the Canadian dollar is sitting at 75 cents.

He is back to selling live cattle, embryos and semen across Cana-da, the United States and Mexico.

Many people may shy away from the winter shows because of calv-ing in January and February, but the Northline calves are born in May and June.

The cattle catch up in size, and Schneider believes it is better for the cows to calve on grass.

“It makes more sense than calv-ing in the cold,” he said.

“There is less work, and you have healthier calves.”

Fewer Canadians exhibited at the Denver show compared to other years, but all had respectable results.

The two-year-old bull class went to Six Mile Angus of Fir Mountain, Sask., with Six Mile Signature 295B. It went on to be reserve senior champion, standing next to North-line.

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BANFF, Alta. — Driving a Prius and eating one hamburger a week has the same carbon footprint as driving a Hummer?

Frank Mitloehner scoffs at an advertisement that makes this claim, which is likely based on a comment once made by author Michael Pollen that he has since retracted.

But Mitloehner, an air quality specialist and professor of animal science at the University of Califor-nia, said public perception of live-stock as big greenhouse gas emit-ters persists, even though facts say otherwise. Livestock producers can’t afford to ignore that.

“I don’t really have to go into depth here with respect to whether or not the topic of livestock and cli-mate change is a big one for the industry. It clearly is,” he told those at the Banff Pork Seminar Jan. 11.

“I know many of the people in this room here are critical of this dis-cussion and say, ‘we don’t really believe in climate change and we definitely don’t believe that live-stock has anything to do with it.’

“I think that this is a point that you really have to revisit because if this issue is so pressing to your con-sumers … and you said, ‘we don’t believe in it, leave us alone with it,’ then you have a problem. Then you have a major problem.”

Figures accepted by the U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agency show livestock production is re-sponsible for 4.2 percent of green-house gas emissions in the United States.

Energy production and use are responsible for 30 percent and transportation generates 27 per-cent.

However, mainstream media persists in repeating that livestock are responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gases, an erroneous number that once appeared in a 2006 Food and Agriculture report, Mitloehner said. The FAO itself has agreed the figure was wrong and that livestock’s contribution is much lower.

Among livestock, beef and dairy cattle are the main emitters of greenhouse gas, said Mitloehner, but in North America, improve-ments in reproductive efficiency, veterinary care, genetics and ener-gy dense feeds have lowered the environmental impact relative to what these cattle produce.

Ninety million cattle now pro-duce the same amount of beef that in 1970 required 140 million cattle. As well, there are 16 million fewer dairy cows in the U.S. than there were in 1950, but they produce 60

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Air quality expert refutes livestock sector’s bad rapImprovements in livestock production have reduced greenhouse gas emissions but the media continues to report outdated or erroneous numbers

percent more milk.Mitloehner said the carbon foot-

print of a glass of milk in North America is two-thirds smaller today than it was 70 years ago.

“Production intensity and emis-sion intensity are inversely related. That is one of the most important key messages, something that the public is totally unaware of,” he said.

“This is a relationship that is totally unknown to the people buy-ing your products. They think the opposite is true. They think high producing animals are bad for environment.”

Similarly, pork producers have

reduced their number of animals but increased meat production.

“You’re definitely not getting the credit for it” in the eyes of consum-ers, said Mitloehner.

He speculated about why the Humane Society of the United States, well known for its campaign against animal agriculture and its effect on climate change, doesn’t turn its focus on horses.

He said there are more horses than dairy cows in the U.S. today. Horses produce manure and methane, as do dairy cows, but they do not con-tribute to human nutrition.

Agricultural production will have to intensify to feed a growing

world population, said Mitloehner, which has implications for the environment.

As an example, it takes 20 cows in India to produce as much milk as one North American cow, meaning

ever y Indian cow has a much higher carbon footprint.

As for pigs, he said China has 50 million sows that produce about one billion piglets annually. Of those piglets, 40 percent die before weaning, and that means 400 mil-lion pigs never make it to market.

Future food supplies will depend on improving production in less developed countries, said Mit-loehner.

“We have to intensify throughout the world in ways that we have done this in North America. We must. We have no choice.”

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OTTAWA — Own use imports of specific veterinary drugs will not be allowed under new rules being proposed by Health Canada.

Mary Jane Ireland, director gen-eral of the department’s Veterinary Drugs Directorate, said that change and others to food and drug regula-tions are designed to protect the effectiveness of existing antimicro-bial drugs for humans and live-stock. They also aim to limit the threat of antimicrobial resistant bacteria.

Speaking to the December meet-

ing of the National Farmed Animal Health and Welfare Council, Ire-land said there was general sup-port for the plan to eliminate anti-microbial drugs from the OUI program.

At present, the program allows livestock producers to import cer-tain drugs for their own use on their own animals.

Dr. Joyce Van Donkersgoed, a feedlot veterinarian and livestock industr y consultant, said the changes won’t affect the beef busi-ness because most own use im-ports consist of ivermectins and implants, which will still be allowed after the rules change.

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New rules will ban own use veterinary drug importsHealth Canada changes will make certain livestock feed additives and injectable drugs available by prescription only

“Under the current regulations, prescription drugs are not allowed either, but there’s been rumours … that some producers were bringing prescription drugs across the bor-der, but currently under the law it’s not allowed,” said Van Donkers-goed.

Rule changes will make certain livestock feed additives and inject-able drugs available only by pre-scription.

“It’s long overdue because right now anybody can go pick up a bot-tle of those drugs and give it to whatever,” said Van Donkersgoed.

“There’s no monitoring, there’s no training, there’s no oversight, there’s nothing, so there’s no way you can justify to a consuming public that you’re using these products.”

New rules would list the drugs allowed under OUI, and that list will not include medically impor-tant antimicrobials or any drugs that contain them.

“So, closing (OUI) but opening it in a meaningful and guarded way when we don’t have a concern for public or food safety,” said Ireland.

Proposed changes as posted on Canada Gazette said they would “prohibit the importation of a drug for the purpose of administering it to an animal that produces food or an animal that is intended for con-sumption, if its sale would contra-

vene the Food and Drugs Act or regulations,” unless the drug was on the list of allowed drugs estab-lished by Health Canada.

Proposals also call for greater oversight of all antimicrobials imported for veterinary use and restrictions on who can import those considered medically im-portant, Ireland said.

Mandatory reporting of antimi-crobial sales volume is also part of the proposal with manufacturers and importers required to report volumes annually.

Along with restrictions will come a “new pathway” for import and sale of veterinary health products that are low risk for food safety or human health impacts, said Ire-land.

Other proposals involve increas-ing veterinary oversight of all medi-cally important antimicrobials. Changing them to prescription sta-

tus will affect about 300 products.Growth promotion claims can no

longer be made on any antimicro-bial drugs deemed medically important. Older product may still bear that claim, but no new ones will have it, Ireland said.

Sixty-four products are affected by the label change, and labels will be altered over time. Those that list growth promotion as a sole pur-pose can be considered for relabel-ling if they can prove another ben-eficial effect.

“The livestock industry has a responsibility to the consuming public, and they’re fully aware of that, and the commodity groups are actually very supportive of the regulatory changes,” said Van Donkersgoed, who has participat-ed in several meetings about the proposed changes.

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It is tempting to dismiss a little extra fat on a horse as nothing to worry about. Many horses and

ponies these days are overweight.The same holds true for cats and

dogs. It is my experience that ani-ma l s o f n o r ma l w e i g ht hav e become so infrequent that many people worry the animals are too thin. Our society has become so accustomed to overweight animals that obesity is the new normal.

However, excess fat is harmful. Plump ponies and roly-poly horses are prone to serious health issues.

Unlike the workhorses of the past, modern horses are typically not required to put in consistent, heavy work. Confined to box stalls and small paddocks, the lifestyle of many pleasure horses mimics that of people. Both consume high-energy diets that far exceed nutri-tional requirements.

Restricting them to stalls or small paddocks is like plunking them in front of the television for the night. The burst of activity that comes with an intensive workout does not fully combat the problems that arise when individuals are other-wise sedentary.

Another contributing factor is nutrition. Modern pastures have been optimized to achieve weight gain in grazing cattle and sheep. But nature designed horses to spend most of their time grazing low-quality grasses. The hay and grain diets we feed the modern horse are the equine equivalent of a burger and fries.

Then there is the issue of equating food with love. Feeding a hot bran mash or bucket of grain because the horse likes it, even though it doesn’t need it from a nutritional standpoint, is likely to add excess weight.

Trainers who use positive rein-forcement techniques involving food rewards consider treats in the context of the horse’s nutritional requirements.

Obvious problems associated with excess fat include poor perfor-mance and reduced endurance.

Obesity is also associated with reproductive issues. Obese mares may have abnormal cycles and trouble delivering foals. There is also evidence to suggest that over-weight mares give birth to larger foals, which may compound birth-ing troubles.

One of the most serious effects of horse obesity is abnormal insulin metabolism, which can lead to future health conditions.

The most notorious condition associated with obesity and insulin dysregulation is laminitis (also called founder). When all three con-ditions occur in the same horse, it is called equine metabolic syndrome. In addition to founder, affected horses develop abnormal fat depos-its on the neck, creating a “cresty neck.” Laminitis is difficult to man-age and can lead to euthanasia.

Overweight horses are prone to developing benign fat tumours

(called lipomas) in the tissue that supports the intestines. If these lipomas are suspended on a long stalk, they can wrap around por-tions of the gut, leading to severe colic that requires surgery.

Given the heath concerns, it is important for owners to recognize when their animals are overweight.

Scales, although not always avail-able, provide an accurate assess-ment of body condition.

Weight tapes are useful to estimate weight.

Another popular approach is body condition scoring, which uses an objective scale to assess body fat deposits along the neck, withers, ribs, back and tail head. There are excellent charts available online that can help you evaluate

where your horses are on this scale. Achieving optimum weight and

body condition will require an honest look at your horse’s nutri-tional requirements and activity level. Decreasing high energy feeds, providing lower energy hay and increasing exercise will help with weight loss.

The unnecessary feed and the cost to treat these serous health conditions make obesity an expen-sive situation.

And because what we feed horses is under our control, management strategies to reduce obesity are also attainable goals.

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Dan Mazier thinks it’s high time that rural digital infrastructure be treated as an essential service, much like landline telephone service.

“It’s a mandatory utility and it’s no different than water, it’s no dif-ferent than electricity. It’s one of those utilities that we now need to function as a Canadian,” said the president of Keystone Agricul-tural Producers in Manitoba.

“Let’s provide that to rural Cana-dians and let’s get on with the plan.”

Mazier was part of an agricul-tural panel that met with a federal finance committee last fall about sustaining rural communities. He and other farm leaders advocated for more rural electronic infra-structure that is fast, reliable and accessible.

“Everyone says it will cost mil-lions and millions of dollars. I say so what? They did it with the tele-phone lines before. They did it with electricity. They’ve done it in Sask-atchewan and Alberta with (natu-ral gas) pipelines. Why can’t we do it with digital infrastructure?” he said.

“If we had taken the same ap-proach with our electricity or with our water, rural Canada would look a lot different,” he said.

Lack of access to reliable high speed internet service is hurting economic growth in rural and remote areas, which creates a have-not situation in terms of the ability to attract business.

Frustrated farmers, rural busi-nesses and homeowners have said they have inadequate and expen-sive internet service. Being digitally connected is now considered an essential service in towns and vil-lages for commerce and quality of life, Mazier said.

The adoption of precision agri-culture telemetry systems has left some farmers stranded in their fields in areas with a weak signal or no signal at all. And for some pro-ducers without reliable data, the age of autonomous machines is stalled.

However, that could soon change with recent announcements of internet infrastructure and up-grades.

In December, the federal govern-ment said it would include $500 million in its 2016-17 budget to improve rural internet service across Canada.

“By increasing access to high-speed internet, the Connect to Innovate program enhances our rural and remote communities’ ability to innovate, participate in the digital economy and create jobs for middle-class families,” Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains said in a news release.

The five-year investment is ear-marked to improve service in 300 rural and remote communities.

The money will be used to build what the government calls high capacity “backbone” networks to

transport digital information or upgrade existing networks.

Bains said rural residents and institutions will see a dramatic change in internet speeds when the networks are installed.

“Backbone networks are the digi-tal highways that move data in and out of communities,” he said.

Coming on the heels of the feder-al government’s funding an-nouncement, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunica-t i o n s C o m m i s s i o n d e c l a re d broadband internet access a basic service for all Canadians, just like landline telephone service.

“Access to broadband internet service is vital and a basic telecom-munication service all Canadians are entitled to receive,” CRTC chair Jean-Pieere Blais said in a news release.

The CRTC said the aim is to ensure internet service providers offer services at speeds of at least 50 megabits per second for down-loading data and 10 Mbps for uploads.

It said about 82 percent of house-holds and businesses currently receive that level of service, but it wants that increased to 90 percent by 2021 and 100 percent within 15 years.

However, Lynn Jacobson, presi-dent of Alberta Federation of Agriculture, said these numbers do not accurately reflect the rural reality.

“It might average out to that with the urban, but when you’re talking rural, no we don’t get that,” he said.

“They might not be using the right comparisons and be lumping in our smaller population with the larger population, which doesn’t give a true picture of what’s hap-pening in rural Canada.”

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Farmers argue that lack of access to reliable high speed internet service is hurting economic growth in rural and remote areas. | FILE PHOTO

Everyone says it will cost millions and millions of dollars. I say so what? They did it with the telephone lines before. They did it with electricity. They’ve done it in Saskatchewan and Alberta with (natural gas) pipelines. Why can’t we do it with digital infrastructure?.

DAN MAZIERKEYSTONE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS OF MANITOBA

LYNN JACOBSONALBERTA FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURE

Farm groups argue that internet servicein the country should be considered as important as electricity and water


Rural internet providers go to great lengths to offer service to farmers, such as the equipment installed on this seed cleaning plant in Alberta’s Beaver County in 2009.

Some rural areas have good wi-fi, but the internet speed for those on a VHF (very high frequency) system with a radio tower have less than half the speed of a wired system. | FILE PHOTOS

The CRTC said internet service providers will also be required to offer unlimited data options for fixed broadband services.

Mobile wireless service should also be made available to all house-holds and businesses throughout Canada, as well as along all major Canadian roads.

However, the CRTC said that ensuring everyone in the country has broadband service will cost bil-lions of dollars.

The gap between urban and rural internet services and fees rang loud and clear for Ron Bonnett, presi-dent of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. He farms near the community of Bruce Mines, Ont.

Bonnett’s grandchildren from Barry, Ont., visited him for a week last summer, and they connected to his wireless internet over the phone with his limited data plan to stream movies and play games.

“Our bil l went from $110 to almost $600 for that week that they were here,” he said.

“That was an expensive educa-tion. That’s one of the problems that you learn between the rural and urban communities. We don’t have the ability to get an unlimited data plan.

“I can’t blame the kids. They just took it for granted. They do it at home (in Barry) all the time. It’s just part of life for them.”

“I think a number of people in urban communities wouldn’t real-ize how much that is actually used now in agriculture.”

Jacobson agreed that rural Cana-dians tend to pay more for internet services.

He farms near Enchant, Alta., and said some rural areas have good wi-fi, but the internet speed for those on a VHF (very high frequen-cy) system with a radio tower have

less than half the speed of a wired system.

“You’re barely above streaming capacity. If something happens on your system a little bit, then you’re down and you’re waiting again. It’s not as bad as the old dial-up but it’s not great,” he said.

He said a decreasing rural popu-lation translates into less competi-tion between service providers.

“In Lethbridge, it will cost you $30 to have wi-fi. To get the same ser-vice out in the country will cost you $95 to $100,” he said.

“We’re paying a minimum dou-ble of what they’re paying in the city for the same service.”

Mazier said it’s also an issue of synchronization of responsibilities between governments and service providers. He said in Manitoba, fibre optic cable is provided only to rural municipalities, schools, hos-pitals and other essential services.

“They would not allow any of the rural residents. If it went by your door you weren’t hooking on.”

As part of the federal funding decision, telecommunication firms will have access to a $750 mil-lion, industry-sponsored fund over the next five years to invest in broadband infrastructure.

The first $100 million will come from a fund that subsidizes tele-phone services in isolated regions, but telecommunications compa-nies will have to guarantee a set price for service. However, there is no cap on what internet service providers can charge for basic broadband internet.

Blais said industry and govern-ments will have to take part in fill-ing the service gaps that exist across the country, which impacts about two million people.

The CRTC also ruled that internet service providers have six months to provide customers with con-tracts that outline the services being provided, usage limits, mini-mum monthly charges and the full cost of data coverage.

“I think it’s a start but what might make more impact even is the CRTC coming out and basically saying Canadian households have to be connected because they have some teeth that they can mandate some of the providers,” said Bonnett.

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BY BRIAN CROSSSASKATOON NEWSROOM

Another shipping season is in the books at the Port of Thunder Bay, and according to port officials, it was a good one.

Thunder Bay’s 2016 shipping concluded Jan. 10 with the last incoming vessel, MV Frontenac, delivering a load of road salt.

Tim Heney, chief executive offi-cer with the Thunder Bay Port Authority, said shipping volumes in 2016 were above average, with total cargoes of roughly 8.8 million tonnes.

As usual, grain and oilseed ship-ments from Western Canada accounted for the vast majority of the port’s business.

Total grain shipments through the northern Ontario port were in the neighbourhood of 7.5 million tonnes.

That was down slightly from the eight million tonnes of grain and oilseeds that were handled in 2015 but well above the port’s 10-year average of 6.4 million tonnes.

The port’s grain carry-out from the 2015 season as small, so early season grain shipments got off to a slow start, Heney said.

However, grain volumes were strong through the latter part of the year, and December grain volumes were the port’s largest in nearly 18 years.

“Grain ended up at about 7.5 mil-lion tonnes, which is down a bit from the last year, but that was mostly due to a slow start in the season,” said Heney.

“December was quite strong — 1.3 million tonnes for the month — … so things were really hum-ming along near the end of the season, but it wasn’t enough to make up for the slow start.”

Canola shipments through the port have increased noticeably over the past few years.

Total canola shipments were close to 1.8 million tonnes last year, which was up from 750,000 tonnes in 2009 and 500,000 tonnes higher than 2015.

Last year’s canola volumes were an all-time record for the port.

“There’s been some ups and downs over the years, but it’s been mostly up since 2009,” Heney said.

“It makes up a fairly significant part of our total grain shipments.”

Thunder Bay’s grain business was also bolstered by the opening of the MobilEx Terminal, which is owned by pulse processor and export company AGT Food and Ingredients.

The MobilEx facility came online

in late 2016 and loaded a number of ocean-sized vessels with pulse crops, primarily lentils.

MobilEx is a loop-track, direct-load facility with no on-site storage.

2016 was the port’s third consec-utive season of stronger than nor-mal grain shipments.

“It’s been 2014, ’15 and ’16, now that we’ve been operating a level that is probably a million and a half tonnes higher than we had been in grain, so it seems to be sticking,” he said. “I think we’ll probably see a

bigger carryover this year as well, so we should start out a little bit stronger than we did last season, but it also seems like these bigger harvests are probably here to stay, at least we’re hoping.”

Heney said the delayed and pro-longed prairie harvest may have affected the port’s grain business.

Shipping at the port normally opens in late March and concludes in early January.

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Premises identification is now mandatory for Saskatchewan live-stock producers.

After several years of voluntary registration, the hog, poultry and sheep sectors are at or near 100 percent compliance, said agricul-ture minister Lyle Stewart.

However, only 20 percent of the province’s 14,500 beef producers have registered.

Less than 3,000 producers, veteri-

narians, feedlots and other com-mingling sites are enrolled, lead-ing the provincial government to pass regulations making premises identification a requirement to participate in livestock programs such as the provincial pasture pro-gram.

“The federal government has stated that they’re going to make this mandatory across the coun-try in 2017, so it’s time for our cattle producers to enroll,” Stew-art said.

The Canadian Food Inspection

Agency said the proposed amend-ments to the Health of Animals Regulations will be posted in the Canada Gazette this winter, and a 75-day comment period will fol-low.

Two national consultations have already been held.

A premises ID number will be required to market cattle, Stewart said, and he encouraged producers to register as soon as possible.

The Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association has long called for mandatory premises ID.

President Ryan Beierbach said the regulations were necessary to bring producers into compliance.

“We have seen with the recent situation of bovine tuberculosis that knowing where animals are and how they have moved is very important to the traceability pro-cess,” he said in a statement.

Premises ID is one of the three pillars of traceability; animal ID and animal movement are the other two.

Stewart said Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia all have

mandatory premises ID.“It’s not a hard process,” he said

about registering online or phon-ing the Ag Knowledge Centre.

He said the independent nature of cattle producers could be why they have been slow to sign up.

“We don’t like to be told what to do,” he said. “That’s one of our qualities as well as one of our short-comings.”

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(Reuters) — Cargill’s second quarter adjusted profit jumped 80 percent to US$1.03 billion, up from $574 million in the same quarter last year.

The animal nutrition and protein segment was the largest contribu-tor as low feed costs helped boost livestock and poultry production and processing efficiency efforts lifted margins.

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MINOT, N.D. — Large corpora-tions love to talk about sustainable farming.

Unilever has committed to source all of its food sustainably by 2020. PepsiCo has made a similar promise. By 2020 it plans to buy all its ingredients from producers that satisfy its Sustainable Farming Ini-tiative.

Many other huge companies, including Walmart, General Mills and Kellogg’s, are also running sustainable agriculture programs.

Despite the corporate push, a strange thing is happening in West-ern Canada: organizations that support sustainable farming are either dead or dying.

The Northern Prairies Ag Innova-tion Alliance (NPAIA), formerly the Manitoba-North Dakota Zero Till-age Farmers Association, held its annual conference in Minot in January. The event attracted about 175 producers, but only 20 to 25 were from Manitoba and Saskatch-ewan.

Alberta Reduced Tillage Linkages, which had a mandate to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of farming, died sev-eral years ago and the Saskatche-wan Soil Conservation Association is “struggling” to survive, said Paul Thoroughgood, Soil Conservation Council of Canada chair.

Adam Gurr, who farms near Rap-id City, Man., and one of the few Canadians at the Minot event, came to the conference to learn about soil health and cover crops.

Those topics aren’t discussed at the local coffee shop, at least in his region of Manitoba.

“There aren’t a lot of guys you can get together … that are even inter-ested in talking about those sorts of things.”

Gurr said it’s unfortunate that there isn’t a group leading the charge on alternative practices because someone should be test-ing concepts like cover crops.

“I know as a producer I want to see that stuff translated into a field scale,” he said,

“Prove it on field scale with com-mercial equipment.”

Brooks White, NPAIA board member, said there are many con-versations on social media about soil organic matter, cover crops and building soil health. But many of those people aren’t members of NPAIA.

“I think that’s one of the chal-lenges we have right now is keeping these events going and how do we improve attendance or generate more interest,” said White, a grain and bison producer near Pierson, Man.

BEYOND ZERO-TILL

Sustainability in jeopardy? Large corporations are promoting sustainability but farm groups promoting sustainable farming are dwindling

Leaders of the Ag Innovation Alli-ance would like to do more out-reach, but that’s difficult with lim-ited funds.

About a dozen organizations and companies had booths at the Minot conference. However, most corporations promoting sustain-able agriculture were absent.

NPAIA did contact a number of companies for support but the response was minimal. General Mills had a rep at the event and ADM had a booth.

“I think if we could work together with some of those big companies and develop programs … maybe that’s where to start,” White said.

That’s a possibility, but if a sus-tainable farming organization has a small membership, companies aren’t likely to partner with it.

The decline of groups promoting innovative or progressive farming is part of a broader trend in Western Canada, Thoroughood said.

Commodity groups that rely on checkoffs are thriving, while asso-ciations that rely on voluntary memberships are waning.

Grassroots organizations pro-moting sustainable agriculture should be booming because the agri-food industry is clearly head-ed in that direction.

“Just about every large food pro-ducer … like Nestle, or retailers like Walmart and Loblaws, they’re all going towards some model (where) they just don’t want to buy a com-modity on weight and protein,” Thoroughgood said.

“(They) want to know something about the consequences of its pro-duction.”

The larger question is whether these companies will be able to affect genuine change in Western Canada and get producers to adopt and embrace more sustainable farming practices.

If farmers don’t believe in the concept, a top-down approach may be doomed for failure. The zero tillage movement was suc-cessful in Western Canada, partly because it was led by farmers.

White is a member of NPAIA

because he likes the grassroots feel, where farmers share their stories about innovative farming.

“I learn a lot sitting around the tables … and getting ideas from other producers (on) what’s work-ing for them.”

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sales and about 11,500 stores worldwide, Walmart has considerable influence over its suppliers.

• The world’s largest grocer is committed to several sustainable food initiatives, including reductions in fertilizer use and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

• Walmart is “developing relationships” for its fertilizer optimization program. It plans to have 14 million acres of food production in the program to reduce GHG emissions by seven million tonnes.

• The retailer also plans to double sales of locally grown produce by 2025.

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I think that’s one of the challenges we have right now is keeping these events going and how do we improve attendance or generate more interest.

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Determining who collects and remits the tax on the sale of real property tends

to be confusing and depends on the GST/HST registration of both the seller and the buyer.

The situation of each sale and the parties involved can vary, so it is important to gather as much infor-mation as possible regarding both the buyer and seller.

Who are the parties involved? Are they individuals, partnerships or corporations? Who is registered for GST/HST?

How was the property used before the sale? How will the prop-erty be used by the new owners?

These factors will affect whether the property is taxable and who is liable to pay and remit the tax if it is.

In our practice, we often have cli-ents who own farmland but are not registered for GST/HST. What hap-pens if they sell taxable farmland to another non-registrant?

In a scenario where neither the buyer nor seller are registrants for G ST / H S T p u r p o s e s, i t i s t h e responsibility of the seller to collect GST/HST on the sale of taxable real property.

Regardless of whether the farm-

land is taxable, a sale of real prop-er ty should general ly not be included when determining the “small supplier” threshold as defined under the GST regulations. We would not advise the farmer in this case to register for GST/HST and then sell the farmland to remit the tax.

In this circumstance, the vendor will complete a form GST 62 to report GST/HST on the sale of tax-able real property.

The due date for filing is the last day of the month following the month of sale. For example, if the sale occurs on any day in Novem-ber, the return and payment of GST/HST are due Dec. 31.

As well, farmers who paid GST/HST on the original purchase of the property and collected GST on the

current sale of the farmland may be eligible to apply for a rebate to recover the basic tax content.

It is important to note that if a principal residence on the farm-land is included in the sale, the p o r t i o n o f t h e p ro p e r t y t hat includes the house plus the “land that is necessary for the use and enjoyment of the house” would be considered exempt from GST/HST. The remaining property would be taxable.

The Canada Revenue Agency provides specific guidelines for the wording, so this must be reviewed to ensure compliance with the leg-islation.

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Angela Chang, CPA, CGA, is with MNP. For more information contact her at 604-685-8408 or [email protected].

F R A N K F U R T , G e r m a n y (Reuters) — Bayer, which will need regulatory approval for its US $66 billion deal to buy American seed giant Monsanto, said the compa-ny’s chief executive officers had a productive meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump talked to Bayer CEO Wer-ner Baumann, Monsanto head Hugh Grant and some of their advisers in New York, his transition team said Jan. 12, eight days before Trump’s inauguration.

“It was a productive meeting about the future of agriculture and the need for innovation,” a Bayer spokesperson said.

The fate of major proposed merg-ers, not just Bayer-Monsanto but also Dow Chemical and DuPont, which plan to spin off their com-bined agriculture businesses, will be decided by Trump’s nominees to lead antitrust enforcement at the justice department and the Federal Trade Commission.

Antitrust and industry experts see the regulatory hurdles to a deal as manageable because Bayer’s main business in agriculture is pes-ticides while Monsanto’s focus is on genetically modified seeds.

Under such a scenario, Bayer could at worst be asked to divest soybean, cotton and canola seed assets as well as LibertyLink-brand-ed crops that are resistant to its glu-fosinate herbicide, an important alternative to Monsanto’s Round-up Ready seeds.

However, uncertainty remains over what regulators will make of the merged group’s grip of the overall agriculture market with a combined market share in seeds and pesticides of 28 percent.

Critics argue this dominant mar-ket position will allow it to crimp research and development efforts, but Bayer has said much needed innovation will come from com-bined seed-chemical offerings. It also says that it needs to merge to compete against other integrated suppliers such as the future Dow-DuPont.

The meeting took place on the day of Trump’s first news confer-ence as president-elect, which also saw him slam drug companies as “getting away with murder” in what they charge the government for medicines.

Bayer, the inventor of aspirin, is among the world’s top 20 pharma-ceutical groups.

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Seed and fertilizer metered into high velocity air streams and sent down distribution tubes to manifolds that split into separate, smaller tubes of varying length to deliver the product to ground openers on toolbars up to 90 feet wide. What could go wrong with that? Plenty, as farmers, agronomists and some air cart manufacturers are finding out.

“When we started running high-yield wheat trials with seeding rates up to 160 pounds per acre, we really started to see variations between openers. It was all over the map,” says agronomist and farmer Steve Larocque at Three Hills, Alberta.

A few years ago, Larocque ran a basic tube-sock test on five different air distribution systems, using some of his customers’ existing air drills. He zip-tied socks on one long and one short hose coming off the same manifold on the left wing, right wing and centre section (six socks in total). While not conducted with scientific rigour, the demonstration showed that the variance between hoses ranged from a low 29% on one drill to a high of 98% on the worst drill. Larocque says the worst drill was probably an outlier, and the high variation could have been reduced with some adjustments. The other three drills had variances of 33%, 41%, and 45%.

“Visually, that variance isn’t easy to see in the field unless you are measuring plant stand densities across each row. I think that’s why product variance hasn’t been on people’s radar,” says Larocque. “I think it’s high time for the industry to play catch-up and start matching the accuracy of distribution to the accuracy of their metering.

“If we truly want to elevate yields, increase standability and reduce maturity, I believe that air drills should be delivering that same amount of seed and fertilizer into each and every furrow.”

At SeedMaster, Research Farm Manager Owen Kinch looked at different manifolds to see what kind of variation exists. He tested six different models of manifold towers from different manufacturers to see how product distribution varied from hose

to hose after it left the manifold. Overall, the average variation of all towers was 20%.

“Industry has known about this problem, but most haven’t wanted to do much about it,” says Kinch.

At PAMI, in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Program Manager Nathan Gregg says the variance is caused by a multitude of factors, including manifold type, number of manifolds, hose length, hose curvature, and even the metering system. He isn’t aware of any recent research that has measured variation over an entire metering and distribution system. However with the development of more accurate seed row blockage monitors, farmers are now seeing variation between sections and even down to individual seed rows.

“In the past it was hard to diagnose and so it was easy to ignore. I think farmers are now becoming more aware of the limitations of the systems,” says Gregg.

Trent Meyer, Executive Vice President at SeedMaster, says SeedMaster has historically worked hard to reduce the variation on their bulk distribution system with the Nova™ air cart. As much as possible, distribution hoses are kept the same length, hose curvature is designed to allow product to flow smoothly around corners, metal pipe is used to reduce friction, and manifold design is aimed to provide the most uniform product splitting.

“We’ve worked to reduce the issue as much as possible, but we have seen very little from other manufacturers in this regard. They aren’t doing their customers or the industry any favours,” says Meyer.

For 2017, Meyer says SeedMaster is going one step further with their new Tunable Tower™ manifold system to further reduce variance. The tower features a centre-cone adjustment that allows product and airflow to be balanced for each run, reducing the deviation between lines. The Tunable Towers are integrated with the XeedSystem monitor to continuously display product flow for each run in real time to guide adjustment to balance product distribution.

“In limited testing we’ve found that industry manifolds have a variance of 20–23%. With the addition of Tunable Towers, we’ve been able to balance product distribution across the toolbar and get absolute variance down to as low as 10%. That’s 5% below or 5% above the target rate,” says Meyer.

For farmers who prefer to use an air cart for both seed and fertilizers, Meyer says the Nova air cart with Tunable Towers will set the new industry standard for bulk product metering accuracy. That will pay off in better agronomics: more uniform emergence, better access to crop nutrients, uniform maturity, less wasted seed and fertilizer, and improved yield. Research at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) found that uniform plant stands increased canola yields by up to 32% at low-yielding sites and by up to 20% at high-yielding sites compared to non-uniform plant stands.

For the ultimate in seed and fertilizer distribution and placement, the new UltraPro™ II on-frame tank and distribution system from SeedMaster provides even more accurate seed row distribution of product with near seed singulation. SeedMaster research has shown the UltraPro metering system can reduce absolute variation to about 3% (1.5% about or below target rate). This metering variation can be accounted for by seed-size variation.

“The UltraPro has allowed farmers to cut canola seeding rates with confidence, and that saves them a lot on input costs. Cutting back just one pound per acre of canola seed can easily save them $10 to $13 per acre, while still achieving good stand establishment and maximum yield,” says Meyer. “That’s the value of reducing variance in seed and fertilizer distribution systems.”

Huge Variation Found in Air Bulk Metering SystemsThe Secret is Out—Average Variation of 20% in Product Distribution

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$135

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$325

$320

$315

$310

$30512/5 12/12 12/19 12/29 1/9 1/16

Durum (Mar)

$250

$245

$240

$235

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$520.0

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$495

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$280

$260

$240

$220

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$1000

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$540

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Canadian Exports & Crush

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To To Total Last(1,000 MT) Jan 8 Jan 1 to date year

ELEVATOR SHIPMENTS

Grade A Live Previous Year Rail Previous Jan 6 - Jan 12 Dec 30 -Jan 5 ago Jan 6 - Jan 12 Dec 30 -Jan 5 SteersAlta. 159.00-159.50 161.00 179.11 262.50-270.00 263.50-266.50Ont. 138.78-150.74 129.69-149.98 171.43 250.00-252.00 246.00-252.00

HeifersAlta. n/a n/a 178.35 262.50-270.00 263.50-266.50Ont. 131.02-151.79 135.74-152.81 171.91 249.00-255.00 245.00-255.00*Live f.o.b. feedlot, rail f.o.b. plant. Canfax

Sask. Man. Alta. B.C.Steers900-1000 no sales no sales 165-177 no sales800-900 168-178 no sales 165-179 no sales700-800 171-184 no sales 171-183 no sales600-700 181-194 no sales 181-199 no sales500-600 190-211 180-212 196-214 no sales400-500 207-233 no sales 215-234 no salesHeifers800-900 142-157 no sales 150-160 no sales700-800 145-160 no sales 152-168 no sales600-700 152-169 150-165 159-174 no sales500-600 159-181 150-173 167-185 no sales400-500 170-195 168-195 175-195 no sales300-400 184-190 no sales 180-205 no sales

Canfax

Canfax Jan 7/17 Jan 9/16 YTD 17 YTD 16Steers 918 942 918 942Heifers 825 862 825 862Cows 723 770 723 770Bulls 1,033 1,121 1,033 1,121

Slaughter cattle (35-65% choice) Steers HeifersNational 118.86 118.98Kansas 119.06 119.00Nebraska 118.50 n/aNebraska (dressed) 190.00 n/a Feeders No. 1 (800-900 lb) Steers TrendSouth Dakota n/a n/aBillings 121.00-127.50 n/aDodge City 131.00-132.00 firm/+4

USDA

Exports % from 2015Sltr. cattle to U.S. (head) 574,766 (1) +11.0Feeder C&C to U.S. (head) 179,045 (1) -37.9Total beef to U.S. (tonnes) 250,152 (3) +17.2Total beef, all nations (tonnes) 330,615(3) +12.1 Imports % changeSltr. cattle from U.S. (head) n/a (2) n/aFeeder C&C from U.S. (head) 24,210 (2) -24.9Total beef from U.S. (tonnes) 1,914 (4) +4.1Total beef, all nations (tonnes) 2,310 (4) -47.8(1) to Dec 31/16 (2) to Nov 30/16 (3) to Nov 30/16 (4) to Jan 7/17

Agriculture Canada

million lb. YTD % changeFed 27.8 -19Non-fed 6.0 -12Total beef 33.8 -17

Canfax

Dec 19 Dec 12Wool sheep55-69 lb 1.96-2.40 1.96-2.40 70-85 lb 1.86-2.26 1.86-2.1686-105 lb 1.80-2.13 1.80-1.97> 106 lb 1.70-1.90 1.70-1.85 Beaver Hill Auction Services Ltd. Jan 9 Jan 2New lambs 2.75-3.21 2.95-3.2065-80 lb 2.68-3.10 2.47-2.6280-95 lb 1.82-2.55 2.07-2.35> 95 lb 2.17-2.27 2.04-2.12> 110 lb 1.95-2.21 1.85-2.10Feeder lambs n/a 1.60-2.10Sheep 1.10-1.25 1.25-1.35Rams 1.25-1.40 1.25-1.40Kids 75-160 75-165 Ontario Stockyards Inc.

Shipping JanuaryWool lambs <80 lb 1.95Wool lambs 81-95 lb 1.85Wool lambs 96-115 lb 1.85Hair lambs <95 lb 1.80

Sask. Sheep Dev. Bd.

Jan 12 Jan 5 Yr. agoUS Choice (US$) 189.10 201.52 235.16 Dec 23 Dec 16 Yr. agoCdn AAA (C$) 257.64 251.27 281.17

Close Close Trend Year Jan 13 Jan 5 agoLive CattleFeb 118.53 114.83 +3.70 127.55Apr 117.93 114.20 +3.73 128.50Jun 108.03 103.98 +4.05 119.75Aug 103.68 100.23 +3.45 116.33Oct 103.33 100.10 +3.23 117.38Feeder CattleJan 130.45 128.33 +2.12 154.30Mar 129.30 123.80 +5.50 150.28Apr 128.85 123.70 +5.15 150.85May 127.38 122.98 +4.40 150.70Aug 128.38 123.35 +5.03 152.68

To Jan 7 Fed. inspections only Canada U.S.To date 2017 39,757 537,000To date 2016 46,086 552,495% Change 17/16 -13.7 -2.8

(Hams Maple Leaf ThunderMarketing) Sig 5 Creek PorkWeek ending Jan 13 Jan 13Feb 11 -Feb 18 145.07-145.31 148.29-150.66Feb 25-Mar 04 145.31-145.38 144.43-145.97Mar 11-Mar 18 145.38-145.97 142.35-144.05Mar 25-Apr 01 147.63-149.57 149.24-152.82Apr 08-Apr 15 152.99-157.49 153.65-154.58Apr 22-Apr 29 158.87-161.47 154.39-154.86May 06-May 13 160.93-165.78 160.57-168.44May 20-May 27 171.19-175.97 168.75-171.33Jun 03-Jun 10 172.54-174.15 171.64-173.15Jun 17-Jun 24 177.82-181.66 178.29-178.53

To Jan 7 Fed. inspections only Canada U.S.To date 2017 359,503 2,088,000To date 2016 440,162 2,375,065% change -18.3 -12.1 17/16

Agriculture Canada

Alta. Index 100 139.80Sask. Sig. 5 144.68

Man. Index 100 153.00Que. Index 100 137.00

*incl. wt. premiums

Export % from 2015 Import % from 2016Sltr. hogs to/fm U.S. (head) 956,631 (1) -17.8 n/a n/aTotal pork to/fm U.S. (tonnes) 369,692 (2) -9.1 880 (3) -12.1Total pork, all nations (tonnes) 1,136,096 (2) +6.2 2,694 (3) -17.4(1) to Dec 31/16 (2) to Nov 30/16 (3) to Jan 7/17 Agriculture Canada

Close Close Trend Year Jan 13 Jan 5 agoFeb 65.60 63.98 +1.62 62.03Apr 69.63 68.20 +1.43 67.45May 74.48 73.00 +1.48 74.40Jun 78.60 77.20 +1.40 78.38

Close Close Trend Year Jan 13 Jan 5 agoJul 77.85 76.83 +1.02 78.30Aug 77.28 75.93 +1.35 78.23Oct 66.28 65.18 +1.10 67.55Dec 61.93 61.58 +0.35 63.23

(000 tonnes) Jan 8 Jan 1 YTD Year Ago Alta. 271.8 455.2 6,330.3 6,137.6Sask. 326.3 712.4 10,216.3 10,562.9Man. 126.2 240.2 3,842.6 3,819.8

Jan 13 Jan 6 Dec 16Laird lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) 69.00 69.00 68.00Laird lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) 52.00 52.00 51.00Richlea lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) 60.00 60.00 56.00Eston lentils, No. 1 (¢/lb) 66.00 66.00 68.00Eston lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) 50.00 50.00 49.00Sm. Red lentils, No. 2 (¢/lb) 30.00 30.00 32.50Sm. Red lentils, Xtra 3 (¢/lb) 28.00 28.00 29.00Peas, green No. 1 ($/bu) 9.25 9.25 9.50Peas, large. yellow No. 1 ($/bu) 9.00 9.00 9.00Peas, sm. yellow No. 2 ($/bu) 9.00 9.00 9.00Feed peas ($/bu) 6.85 6.85 6.85Maple peas ($/bu) 15.00 15.00 15.00Mustard, yellow, No. 1 (¢/lb) 31.00 31.00 31.00Mustard, Oriental, No. 1 (¢/lb) 31.00 31.00 31.00Mustard, Brown, No. 1 (¢/lb) 34.00 34.00 33.00Canaryseed (¢/lb) 23.50 23.50 25.00Desi chickpeas (¢/lb) 35.00 35.00 35.00Kabuli, 8mm, No. 1 ($/mt) 1,433.00 1,433.00 1,433.00Kabuli, 7mm, No. 1 ($/mt) 1,234.60 1,234.60 925.90B-90 ckpeas, No. 1 ($/mt) 1,278.70 1,278.70 992.10

Jan 11 Jan 4 Year AgoNo. 3 Oats Saskatoon ($/tonne) 180.60 186.82 144.15Snflwr NuSun Enderlin ND (¢/lb) 15.45 15.35 16.40

USDA Jan 13No. 1 DNS (14%) Montana elevator 5.16No. 1 DNS (13%) Montana elevator 4.76No. 1 Durum (13%) Montana elevator 6.28No. 1 Malt barley Montana elevator 2.88No. 2 Feed barley Montana elevator 2.04

Jan 16 Jan 9 Trend Year agoWpg ICE Canola ($/tonne)Mar 504.10 499.20 +4.90 486.70May 510.80 505.90 +4.90 494.30Jul 514.30 510.30 +4.00 498.00Nov 495.60 489.90 +5.70 495.80Wpg ICE Milling Wheat ($/tonne)Mar 242.00 240.00 +2.00 246.00May 245.00 242.00 +3.00 248.00Jul 244.00 241.00 +3.00 252.00Wpg ICE Durum Wheat ($/tonne)Mar 315.00 317.00 -2.00 334.00May 318.00 320.00 -2.00 342.00Wpg ICE Barley ($/tonne)Mar 139.00 142.00 -3.00 183.00May 141.00 144.00 -3.00 188.00 Jan 13 Jan 9 Trend Year agoChicago Wheat ($US/bu.)Mar 4.2600 4.2725 -0.0125 4.7375May 4.3975 4.4000 -0.0025 4.7850Jul 4.5475 4.5400 +0.0075 4.8450Sep 4.6950 4.6675 +0.0275 4.9300Chicago Oats ($US/bu.)Mar 2.4250 2.2550 +0.1700 1.9875May 2.3675 2.2500 +0.1175 1.9875Jul 2.3825 2.2500 +0.1325 2.0400Chicago Soybeans ($US/bu.)Mar 10.4625 10.0525 +0.4100 8.7900May 10.5550 10.1425 +0.4125 8.7875Jul 10.6150 10.2175 +0.3975 8.8375Aug 10.5725 10.2025 +0.3700 8.8550Chicago Soy Oil (¢US/lb.)Mar 35.60 35.49 +0.11 29.65May 35.86 35.74 +0.12 29.86Jul 36.09 35.96 +0.13 30.10Chicago Soy Meal ($US/short ton)Mar 333.9 313.9 +20.0 270.7May 336.4 316.7 +19.7 273.6Jul 337.8 319.4 +18.4 276.7Chicago Corn ($US/bu.)Mar 3.5850 3.6000 -0.0150 3.6325May 3.6550 3.6700 -0.0150 3.6750Jul 3.7250 3.7400 -0.0150 3.7275Sep 3.7950 3.8025 -0.0075 3.7750Minneapolis Wheat ($US/bu.)Mar 5.8275 5.5975 +0.2300 4.9725May 5.6575 5.5350 +0.1225 5.0350Jul 5.5925 5.5075 +0.0850 5.1050Sep 5.6150 5.5325 +0.0825 5.2075Kansas City Wheat ($US/bu.)Mar 4.4900 4.3850 +0.1050 4.7400May 4.6100 4.5025 +0.0175 4.8400Jul 4.7275 4.6175 +0.1100 4.9350

Wheat 383.2 214.5 6,193.1 7,624.8Durum 172.2 58.1 1,779.9 1,895.4Oats 31.3 66.2 605.3 483.5Barley 0.6 3.1 425.6 457.9Flax 2.8 23.4 142.7 172.9Canola 177.2 98.6 4,326.3 4,361.0Peas 50.8 56.0 1,935.2 1,433.5Lentils 39.5 0.1 549.7 535.2

Canola crush 171.5 200.3 4,168.3 3,644.4

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Assiniboia -3.0 -30.4 2.2 22.3 62Broadview -4.9 -35.1 5.0 35.3 67Eastend -8.0 -32.5 2.7 33.7 70Estevan -8.9 -32.4 1.9 60.2 122Kindersley -2.1 -34.9 1.9 18.8 58Maple Creek 3.3 -32.4 5.6 20.5 47Meadow Lake 2.6 -38.1 4.2 19.1 41Melfort -1.7 -32.7 3.2 26.7 65Nipawin 0.6 -36.9 2.6 25.7 56North Battleford 1.8 -35.6 6.3 27.5 68Prince Albert 2.6 -36.3 4.4 35.3 80Regina -4.2 -35.0 1.7 15.4 38Rockglen -2.6 -30.1 4.1 29.3 76Saskatoon -2.2 -35.9 1.6 21.3 56Swift Current -1.7 -30.3 3.3 11.8 31Val Marie -6.2 -34.9 3.4 18.3 51Yorkton -1.1 -32.0 3.4 21.3 40Wynyard 0.1 -32.6 1.8 22.7 50

Brooks 2.8 -32.8 4.8 19.6 62Calgary 6.2 -25.5 4.5 29.9 96Cold Lake 3.5 -34.7 3.3 26.3 57Coronation 4.1 -33.5 2.3 17.4 50Edmonton 1.7 -32.7 4.5 36.0 79Grande Prairie 4.7 -27.2 2.7 51.7 83High Level 2.1 -36.0 1.3 15.1 25Lethbridge 1.2 -30.8 1.3 15.0 39Lloydminster 2.1 -33.5 5.0 18.0 41Medicine Hat 1.8 -31.7 5.4 19.5 53Milk River 3.5 -32.6 3.7 31.2 69Peace River 4.8 -33.4 1.7 27.1 48Pincher Creek 0.4 -31.7 5.4 47.7 70Red Deer 2.2 -27.4 3.4 35.0 85Stavely 6.7 -24.5 4.7 39.3 88Vegreville 5.8 -34.8 3.0 20.2 50

Brandon -8.8 -34.5 4.4 71.1 135Dauphin 3.7 -33.1 1.7 32.9 61Gimli -4.6 -35.3 3.2 66.4 118Melita -7.4 -34.3 1.7 39.8 74Morden -4.3 -32.8 2.6 83.8 136Portage la Prairie -3.0 -31.0 1.9 59.1 95Swan River -1.4 -34.4 4.7 25.6 43Winnipeg -6.5 -32.7 3.0 54.3 91

Cranbrook -5.0 -30.3 6.4 86.0 76Fort St. John 4.4 -23.5 0.7 61.5 93Kamloops -4.8 -25.0 2.3 58.8 80Kelowna 0.0 -24.8 1.5 64.5 66Prince George -0.5 -31.2 4.2 77.2 59

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