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Not only are drones be-ing used to monitor crop health but there will soon be predator drones de-signed to hunt down and attack crop pests and dis-eases. As that approach is

-ings in the more precise use of pesticides and in im-proved yields. That’s also good for the environment.

There are already pri-vate companies in Canada that are offering growers services that will monitor the health of their crops in real time. They can pro-vide instant reports and graphs that will give grow-ers timely information to deal with any outbreaks at early stages. Private opera-tors can offer such precise information because the

advanced computerized sensors that can detect even the slightest change in color or texture of any diseased plants. Even more amazing, computer recognition technology can identify and count the presence of crop-destroy-ing bugs. They are able to do this as they can hover as low as 25 feet above the crop. By locating any out-break or pest presence with GPS, a predator drone can be sent out to spray only the affected areas.

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What has bogged down drone agricultural use in the U.S. has been regulato-ry roadblocks. The Ameri-cans have not yet nailed down their regulations governing the non-mili-tary use of drone monitor-ing technology. It has to do with overarching legisla-tion that involves privacy

issues. Clearly if drone monitoring technology ex-ists to locate the smallest of bugs it can be used to spy on industrial activities and even your neighbor’s backyard. There seems to be less concern with those issues in Canada, but per-mits are required to oper-ate commercial drones in this country.

Drone technology is also being used or inves-tigated for other sectors of the economy. Drone moni-toring would be ideal in searching and locating for-

a squadron of unmanned

monitors and GPS guid-

hours a day over vast ar-eas. Discovering a forest

early could have a very dramatic control outcome. Another area that will see drone technology use is in search and rescue opera-tions. Drones with a bat-tery of infrared and other sensors could quickly cov-er large search areas look-

ing for missing persons.However, deployment

of monitoring drones in those sectors may be slow-er as they involve govern-ment responsibilities with

its long-established bu-reaucratic procedures in place. It could also see a reduction in existing em-ployment, that’s never an incentive for progress in government activities.

At present, outside of military use, the applica-tion of drone technology is most advanced in the agri-culture industry. That’s no surprise as agriculture is

the production economy

to adopt new technology because it is intensely mar-ket driven and producers are constantly striving to

stay in business. That’s just another reason consumers in North America enjoy the cheapest, safest and most plentiful food supply in the world.

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Good yields, but lower quality for farmers this yearBY JULIA DIMA

Farmers throughout Southeast Saskatchewan and Southwest Manitoba say this year’s harvest has not been the worst they’ve seen, but it has been far from the best. Late spring

-sive moisture, and a har-vest that is about two to three weeks behind have created a number of issues for farmers, and resulted in lower quality and grade for the crops.

“I think farmers would like to get this year put behind them. I don’t think they are very happy with the way things have gone weather-wise, and price-wise,” says Chris Thomas at the Parrish and Heim-becker Terminal in Mooso-min.

Typically, by mid to late September, many farmers

Thomas says in the Moo-somin region, he’s heard reports of some farmers being about 40 per cent complete to some who only began harvest last Monday.

“Days are so short, so they can’t get as many acres covered in a day now, and that gets worse as we go forward. But I think most crops are past the stage where frost will cause

-ing soybeans and corn, but those are not large acreages in this community,” Thom-as adds.

The other issue he’s seen facing farmers in the region is the saturated ground.

“Everybody has got a tractor and a big rope on

pull out the combine, be-cause they’re getting stuck like crazy this year—it’s just a nasty fall for the farmers.”

While Thomas says last

things were progressing at the terminal, what he has seen come in is average quality, but good yield.

“We really thought the wheat was going to be a bumper crop this year, but that really hasn’t turned out, and the canola, we thought wasn’t going to do so well has actually turned out pretty good,” he says. “This year, we’re looking at pretty much number two as the best grade, and quite a few threes due to mildew. The twos are due to fusarium or mildew.”

Farmers in the region have the consensus that

grade two may be the best it will get this year. Kyran Foy farms near Mooso-min, and was about one third complete harvest last week. He says his wheat is downgraded because of

show some signs of mil-dew. His canola yields are below average, and he has been one of those farmers Thomas mentions, getting stuck a few times on over-

“It has been a challenge, to say the least. Today is our third full day of com-bining since we started, and we started at the very end of August,” Foy says.

Ron Dietrich farms just southwest of Moosomin, and has also been getting

“We’ve got nice weather now, but we are facing

mud issues, a lot of getting stuck, and towing out, and all that sort of thing—for this week, that is the big-gest challenge,” he says. Dietrich, a cattle producer, grows barley, corn, and al-falfa, and says the quality is substantially reduced be-cause of moisture and hail damage from earlier this summer.

“Price lowering for low-er grades is substantial—

-ity was in question anyway because of the low prices, to have a quality down-grade just adds to the mis-ery. We’re just trying hard to put all our effort into getting through this year,” he says.

South of Moosomin near

-ished harvesting last week.

The week of dry weather was a breath of fresh air, he says, after the wet weather and saturated soil.

“In our barley ground, we got stuck every 50 acres,” he says. Hebert farms winter wheat, bar-ley, and canola, and says the barley was about 15 per cent below average, but his canola is an average to above average quality.

they have the potential to be slightly above average,

-erage, it just depends on what the drown-out was

wheat got some hail. My barley went worse than I

Hebert says.John Van Eaton, who

was 35 per cent completed his harvest early last week, and like others in the re-gion, found the toughest challenge to be getting onto

stuck in the mud. He says his peas and barley both

moisture, and thinks both the quality and yield are far below average. But that is something he, and many

see.“We hoped there would

be a surprise once we got out there, but I don’t think too many people are sur-prised about the condi-tions. We always try to be optimistic, but it’s been a struggle,” Van Eaton says.

South of Van Eaton in the Redvers region, Dustin Thoms says the heavy rain

brought his wheat, canola and barley all down in quality and yield in some places.

“It’s what we predict-ed—there was way too much stress from the wa-

out acres from that big rain

close to 20 per cent was

into yield.” Near Wapella, Dwayne

-vest last week. He says his wheat is likely going to be a grade two, his soybeans were hit by frost, and his canola was a better quality

“It has been better than

we had issues—I think it will be an average year,” Wolf says.

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Continued from page 4Near Wawota, farmer

Neil Weatherald was 30 per cent completed harvest, and says his wheat looks to be a lower quality, but his canola is a grade one, though the

sive moisture.“A lot of acres are gone—

cause a lot got drowned out. Where the crop is good, it’s good, but there’s a lot of bad

cent of the wheat too,” he says.

South of Whitewood, Rob Raiwet, who farms about

ished his harvest last week, and says while moisture was an issue with quality, he

age as well.“The moisture has

dropped a couple grades on the wheat, but bushel wise, I think it’s still going to be okay,” Raiwet says.

fered from the hail. If there was no hail, it would have

ing, but now it’s a bit below average.”

In the Whitewood area, quality has been reduced by mildew, fusarium, and frost in some crops, but there are still high yields, and canola looks better than farmers were expecting. Moisture is the biggest degrading factor on crops coming in to the

nal in Whitewood.“It is the rains at harvest

ity, but also the earlier rains

um levels are because of the moisture all year—but now the mildew is due to the rain

son Pioneer. “Overall, with yield, farmers have been pretty happy, but it’s the other challenges that are not good—now the prices are

lenge of getting it off.”Despite that, Krupski says

farmers he’s talked to are staying positive.

“Farmers seem to be staying fairly positive, but

ing. You can hardly get out

ping combines and trucks, it’s kind of a very stressful experience, even being out

Near Rocanville, farmers are feeling better about what

ished his harvest last week,

He says he was expecting worse than what he is taking off the ground.

“Things look surprisingly good—way better than we

ing better, and the canola we’ve done is yielding pretty good, and that was our poorest canola, so we’re happy. I think it is going to be a good average crop—not a bumper crop like last year, but not a poor crop either,” he says.

Kurt Walz says his wheat has likely dropped to a grade two, and his canola yield suffered because of the moisture.

“But for the weather we’ve had this summer, I

pected,” Walz says.

Darryl Williamson, also close to Rocanville, was

harvest last week, and says his grain and canola are both average yields, but thinks overall this year’s crop will be slightly below average.

“It’s been a long harvest .

get it done,” Williamson says.

eration that is about 40,000 acres near Gerald, and says his yields are average, but that is better than he was expecting with the excessive rains.

ber two, and about 13.5 to

the weather,” Hruska says.

ing better than we might have been prepared for. The yields, we thought, might be a little lower—but you

cause you don’t want to be let down.”

Despite things looking better than he’d thought,

itable year to be a farmer.“Unfortunately, you don’t

make a lot of money on an average crop anymore—you’re always waiting for that bigger one. “

er farmer who is surprised by his crop this year.

meters north of St. Lazare, and last week, only have 5 per cent of his crop left to harvest.

“The wheat is number two, but the canola is pretty good . . . I was surprised by the canola yield, on average it’s going to be around 40

bushels per acre. It’s not as good as last year, last year was obviously exceptional,

ter than we thought. With

thought our yields would be way down,” Fouillard says.

horn, Ron Canart was 40 per cent completed his harvest last week.

“We mostly have wheat done, but we have some canola as well. The wheat varies a lot, this is red spring, and it will probably make a two,” he says. “We have one

33 bushels per acre—I think what we haven’t got off will do a little more than that.”

gest frustration is getting stuck on the oversaturated ground.

“We’ve been stuck a few times with the combine, and we ended up swathing the wheat because it won’t hold a combine with a head—we are making a certain amount

evator between Elkhorn and Virden, wheat coming in is a grade two, three, or feed

sarium. Canola, however, is doing well, with 99 per cent

egory, according to Darrell Barker. But farmers spirits are not high.

“Farmers are feeling lower than a snake’s belly to the ground—they’re not happy,” Barker says. “The yield is there, the acres are down because of what was drowned out, but what is there has been half decent—but it’s getting to it that’s the issue. Guys are getting stuck

one is kind of down in the dumps.”

Barker says the discounts for grade three and feed

anywhere from 60 cents to a dollar per bushel, and that is also a very dismaying factor for farmers.

ers, and for the people at the terminal.

“It’s frustrating when you’ve got to downgrade grain on account of the quality—these farmers are our livelihood, so you want to treat them as good as you can, but it has to go

through inspectors, so that is the toughest part, having to downgrade the wheat to threes and feed wheat,” Thomas says.

Last week was hot and

portunity to catch up, since most of them were at least two weeks behind harvest.

“If it had smartened up a month ago, when things were ready to harvest, and we wouldn’t have had that rain, it would have been

longed and prolonged, and with the moisture, nothing can get dry. Spirits are not very high right now,” says Barker.


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previous record set in 2009 of 165 bushels per acre.

Record yields will be set in 18 states, the USDA said, and 10 states including Il-linois, Iowa, and Nebraska, the top three producers, have the highest number of ears per corn stalk ever.

A massive harvest has been expected this year as adequate rain and cool tem-peratures made for favor-able growing conditions. The expectations have driven corn and soybean

but that isn’t expected to make much of a short-time difference in consumer food prices. However, since the grains are staples in livestock feed, lower prices could eventually lead to a decline in the cost of beef, pork, chicken and milk.

The soybean harvest es-timate also moved upward to a record of 3.9 billion bushels. The previous re-cord was 3.4 billion bushels in 2009. The per-acre yield is now estimated at record 46.6 bushels per acre, beat-ing the 2009 record of 44 bushels per acre.

After meeting all current demands for corn—includ-ing exports and use for ani-

mal feed, ethanol and food ingredients—the USDA estimated 2 billion bush-els of corn would remain in stock. That’s the highest ending stock in a decade.

The report estimated ending soybean stocks at 475 million bushels, the highest since 2006.

Another positive of the USDA report is that it also predicts record demand for corn and soybeans, said Chad Hart, an agriculture economist with Iowa State University.

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Despite the strong fore-cast, concerns have grown in recent days that early cold weather is creeping into the upper Midwest too soon as some crops are maturing later this year be-cause a wet spring delayed planting in northern states.

“It’s a huge concern,’’ said Ryan Buck, who grows corn and soybeans on about 1,000 acres near Red Wing in southeast Minne-sota. “We need all of three weeks yet of warm weath-er. If we can string together some good weather here

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The majority of consumers have become disconnected from the reality of modern day agriculture. The picture they have in mind as the “right” way to do it seems to come out of the 1930s. Farming practices from that era are seen by many as idyllic, pure and healthy. Converse-ly, farms that don’t conform to this image are viewed as somehow unhealthy or unsustainable.

This view is inaccurate, but an opinion does not have to

know this, and the skewed view of what agriculture is, and what some think it should be, is a big driver behind many of the food fads we see today.

Urban consumers in our cities (or even our small towns) don’t see the economic powerhouse that agriculture has become. They don’t realize that modern agriculture is on the cutting edge of science and technology. They don’t un-

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We need to do a much better job of telling agriculture’s

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Part of telling our story is having the facts to back things up. People are bombarded with “facts” today—but many of these facts are not all that factual. Consumers can’t be blamed for asking us to prove our claims of environmental sustainability and food safety. Ronald Reagan made the phrase “trust but verify” famous. While we are not talking about nuclear disarmament, we do need to honor the trust our customers have placed in us and be prepared to dem-onstrate why Canadian agriculture has a well-deserved reputation for safe food sustainably produced.

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Warm and relatively dry weather allowed harvest to

week, according to Sas-katchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report.

Forty-three per cent of the crop is now in the bin and 37 per cent is swathed or ready to straight-cut. The

is 58 per cent combined

ready to straight-cut.The southwestern re-

gion is the most advanced, where 54 per cent of the crop is now combined. Forty-seven per cent is combined in the north-western region; 46 per cent in the west-central region;

45 per cent in the north-eastern region; 41 per cent in the southeastern region;

central region. While overall yields are

reported to be about aver-age, they vary from region to region depending on

received throughout the year. Average hard red spring wheat yields are reported as 39 bushels per acre, durum 37 bushels per acre, barley 58 bushels per

els per acre.Quality remains a con-

cern for many producers as moisture, disease and frost have damaged crops.

Strong winds and water-fowl also caused some damage this week.

Rainfall this week ranged from nil to 18 mm. Topsoil moisture conditions on cropland are rated as 14

cent adequate and four per cent short. Hay land and pasture topsoil moisture is rated as seven per cent sur-plus, 87 per cent adequate and six per cent short.

Pasture conditions across the province are rat-

64 per cent good, 14 per cent fair and two per cent poor. Ninety-six per cent of livestock producers have indicated that they have adequate supplies of water for their livestock.

Farmers are busy with harvest operations, aerat-ing tough grain and haul-ing bales.

Warm weather helped harvest

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BY ANDREA JAENENIt was 1940—and a very different world—when

Before that, Burke would come home from school and change out a team of horses for the harvest crew, but 1940 was the year he actually got to be part of the

Burke says there were usually eight or nine people

He says sometimes at harvest his mother would hire another woman to give her a hand—usually a girl who

Farmers would also bring in extra help for the har-

the transportation of men from Ontario to help with the

would be a man there who would disperse them to dif-

Burke says everything changed when they got their

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realize it in this part of the world but we really do feed

Burke says the social aspect of farming has changed

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about a half mile from the nearest store, so we could

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or three hours before going back to what I was doing—

Burke says harvest has changed over the yearsThe Burke outfit harvesting in the 1950s.

Harvesting equipment from the 1950s from the Burke farm south of Moosomin.

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Taylor has just launched a new website, onlylocal-food.com.

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years hopes to be across the west.

A list of products is available on the website, along with the price, the producer, whether they deliver, and how to con-tact them.

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“Through my research, I’ve found that there are virtually no websites like it. There are several simi-lar websites, but they have different business models, so we designed our busi-ness model because we didn’t see those websites as meeting the needs of the producers or consum-ers the way we thought it would be done,” said Tay-lor.

“I think there’s a need in all areas for people to buy more locally,” Taylor continued. “I have an eco-nomics degree, so that’s where I come from, and there is no arguing that economically it’s better to spend your money at local businesses. More money

stays in your community when you buy locally, less money goes outside, there’s more reinvestment, more jobs created, plus you can get to know your producer and understand where your food comes from.”

“We grow up, and when you’re in school you’re told that Saskatchewan is the bread basket of the world, we create more food here than anywhere else, but then you go out into your community and

much easier just to go to the grocery store and get what you need without knowing where it’s com-ing from. It’s always go-

local stuff, there’s going to be more inconvenience re-lated to it, but that’s where the website came from. It’s far too inconvenient to buy locally so we’re try-ing to break some of those barriers down. There’s all sorts of stuff right around here but you have to know

“The reactions have been really good so far,” Taylor said. “We’ve got-ten a lot of good feedback, people see the need for it, they want to buy more lo-cally.”

Onlylocalfood.com cur-rently has six providers and offers about 105 items. Taylor is offering provid-ers a free month on the website to test it out.

Website aims to make local food more available

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Moosomin’s Harvest of Hope harvested 8,032 bushels of canola at the harvest day Sept. 16, which brought in $74,397 at the P&H Terminal in Moosomin.

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Julia Dima photos. Middle photo courtesy of Benjamin Dietrich

“I feel for myself that I would doubt if this was the right thing for me to do if I did not go out and try something else before. I’ve had a lot of off-farm jobs, but this is the one that makes me happiest, and I’m satisfied in saying that now.”

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tinia. There is no fuzzy rot or white-grey tissue on the plant or sclerotia which is indicative of this disease. Instead you see a blackish gnarled woody “canker” appearance at the stem base. This is a sure sign the diseased plant is infected with blackleg.

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Right now is a great time to do a bit of blackleg re-search on your farm. The best time to assess disease severity is a week or two

prior to swathing or a few days after swathing. Any longer after swathing and natural decay can look like blackleg and confuse the diagnosis.

The chart included in

this article from the Canola Council of Canada shows how the disease is rated. Pull up 20 random plants and clip the stem just be-low ground level. Look

for black discoloration of the cross section. A rating of “0” means no blackleg stem discoloration. A rat-ing of “5” means the stem is completely discolored

and blackleg has killed the plant.

A wedge of black that covers 26 to 50 per cent of the cross section is con-sidered a “2” on the se-verity scale. Varieties that are an “R” rating should have a low level of infec-tion. If “R” rated varieties are showing more than a “2” on the infection scale, the blackleg population is

that variety no longer has resistance to the blackleg

The Canola Council of Canada has created an ex-cellent video, called “Black-leg Disease and Resistance Management” (posted at www.youtube.com/cano-lacouncil). This video is a

more about the disease and the management practices you as a producer can do to help control the disease.

Blackleg on the rise in canola stands

Above: The above chart shows how Blackleg is rated.

Right: Example of cross section of blackleg infected plants.

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Grazing of crop residue and stockpiled forages can be supplemental feeding options in addition to swath graz-ing annuals, grazing corn, or bale grazing. As with other extensive fall and winter feeding options, there are po-tential economic advantages of reduced feed and yardage costs along with potential environmental advantages of recycling more nutrients back into the soil compared to

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justify the investment cost of the bunching equipment. Perimeter fencing and availability of windbreaks will also need to be considered as a potential infrastructure invest-ment.

For more details on crop residue grazing, please visit www.agricultrue.gov.sk.ca and search for the Factsheet on Crop Residue Collection for Field Grazing. The factsheet also contains a link to a crop residue calculator which will provide an estimation of grazing days available based on the crop type and amount harvested.

Stockpiled Forage GrazingTame pasture which was grazed earlier in the season

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Karl Kynoch says the requirement for hog barns to install costly anaerobic digestion systems has essentially capped the industry.

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‘Interesting’ year for hog feedHog producers in Manitoba are being

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Manitoba Pork says this year’s rain, along with poor drying conditions and high hu-midity, have created huge harvesting chal-lenges.

Chair Karl Kynoch says barley crops have been sprouting while still standing, and some of the barley that was swathed in late August and early September is now growing through the swaths.

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Fundraising with vegetablesManitoba students will once again be fun-

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the Farm 2 School Manitoba Healthy Choice Fundraiser.

Students will be raising money by selling locally grown potatoes, carrots, onions, pars-nips, and cabbage in $10 or $20 bundles.

The program is in collaboration with the Manitoba government, the Manitoba As-sociation of Home Economists, Peak of the Market and Buy Manitoba.

Last year more than 317,000 kilograms of vegetables were sold, raising more than $375,000 for participating schools and day-cares across the province.

Management program beneficialA survey of graduates of the Canadian To-

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U.S. cattle marketings stay lowThe U.S. Department of Agriculture says

total cattle marketings hit 1.69 million in Au-gust—10 per cent below 2013—and the low-est number for August since the series began in 1996.

Total number of cattle and calves on feed for slaughter in the U.S. on September 1 was 9.8 million head—that’s one per cent lower than a year ago.

And the number of placements in U.S. feedlots in August was down three per cent from last year at 1.72 million head.

CP taking legal action

action against the federal government over the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act.

CP Rail alleges in court documents the government made four errors of law regard-ing changes to interswitching.

CP Rail claims those changes will cost the company $13-million per year and will make

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says com-petition will be increased by extending the interswitching limit from 30 kilometres to 160 kilometres.

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Chief executive Claude Mongeau told in-vestors Wednesday that demand for hopper cars has fallen so low in the past few weeks that it won’t be able to meet the federal gov-ernment’s delivery thresholds.

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Mongeau says there is ample storage room for farmers to deliver prairie grain since ele-

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It has been argued for many years now that short-cir-cuit distribution models in agriculture greatly reduce the Canadian rural-urban divide. As such, it allows for farm-ers’ markets to be “naturally” linked to produce, fruits, and a range of fresh farm products that consumers seek

-ic farming for urbanites. In essence, farmers’ markets are not just about generating economic growth for local econ-omies; they are also, most importantly, about education. Getting consumers in close proximity to primary produc-tion increases the collective knowledge of food systems. As such, and hopefully, it may become less feasible for the political establishment and lobby groups to use distorted

-cultural policies. Beyond economics, farmers’ markets are essentially powerful engines of democracy.

But with success comes a variety of challenges. As the movement grows, the authentic nature of farmers’ mar-kets needs to be preserved. We are already seeing the presence of kiosks selling products that are a questionable

and limitations in terms of choices are also affecting the overall quality of offerings.

Obviously, greater regulation is undesirable; instead, improved managerial skills, discipline and leadership from those occupying administrative roles can make a

can safeguard the future of farmers’ markets through innovation and allowing consumers to enjoy the full ex-

perience. As with many sectors, growth means greater competition, and the overall value of visiting a market

-door cooking lessons with reputable chefs for young and old, for example, would make the visit that much more valuable.

Ultimately, consumers are yearning for an agrarian con-

willing to pay more for it; this is good news for farmers markets. Enough consumers have arrived at the conclu-sion that what is offered by traditional food retail stores is no longer enough, or desired. As a result, farmers markets

Sylvain Charlebois is a professor of food distribution and policy at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

The future looks bright for farmers’ markets

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A Salute to agriculture Producers

I am pleased to extend my thanks to our agricultural community for the

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The issue of too much water and farming is one that just won’t go away.

The reason it persists is simple enough to understand, there is just not an easy solution to the core questions at play.

From a single farmer perspective there is generally a belief that if they own a piece of land they should be

pursuit of making an honest living.With that as a central belief, the idea of draining a

slough to capture more acres for planting, or digging a trench to channel run off away from their land would seem to be well within the realm of managing one’s land.

However, when water is drained and rerouted it ends up going somewhere else, and too often that means a farmer downstream gets hit by more water, and ends up

If that farmer in turn trenches water away, the prob-lem compounds downstream.

It is a recipe for hard feelings and lawsuits as farmers

islation to limit his ability to drain and trench because it leaves acres under water that he feels he could turn productive by diverting water.

And while the farmers downstream might be protect-

farmer some level of compensation for being prevented from bringing additional acres into production.

Ultimately, the water grows in volume and ends up impacting communities downstream.

Nowhere is that better illustrated than the Assiniboine River system where Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg of-

Saskatchewan and western Manitoba.The situation has led to millions upon millions of dol-

lars spent over the decades to mitigate the problem.In some cases the efforts—such as with Lake of the

Prairies—have worked as they were supposed to, with limited negative impact.

In other cases efforts by government agencies have

to save urban housing, housing which in reality is al-

voters than on the remaining scattered farms of rural Manitoba, so one knows who government will look to

So the affair of water and farming rages. With the issues so twisted with related ideas ranging from the right to farm, to the politics of re-election, answers seem all but impossible to realize.

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Manitoba farmers still without 2011 compensation

In 2011, both Fred Neil (left) and Pete Penner watched their farms become lakes. Both applied for disaster assistance, and received almost nothing. Both would like to leave their farms to their children and grandchildren, and fear that with financial loss, and uncertainty of future flooding disasters, they will have nothing to offer their families.


Continued from page C26“You do what you have to do and hope it gets better. My son is interested in this game, he is trying to get into farming. When we looked out over the farm on June 29, I should have told him to run far away that day—but, he’s hopefully in it for the long haul.”

Penner has the same worries for his son and grandson.

“They want to farm, and this is what I have to offer to them now, it’s pathetic. We had a very good viable operation, but when you lose four sections of it, it sucks. Your income is cut pretty bad. The farm can’t keep losing 2,500 acres a year and still survive,” Penner says.

“If we can get a better drainage system, that would solve some of these issues—get the water moving. This has been talk-ed to death, we go round and round with the government on it, and it’s time to act,” Edwards says.

There is a solution for the farmers around Whitewater Lake, according to the farmers, and RMs of Morton and Win-chester that surround the lake.

“Fifteen creeks go into Whitewater Lake, and it makes its way out to Souris only through Medora Creek. Basically,

every farmer around the lake entirely,” says RM of Morton Reeve Bob McCallum. “We have to get this water out of the lake so that these people can get their lives back.”

Farmers in the area would like better management of that creek, including gates and a channel so that it can be controlled. Edwards says there is a road allowance that can be turned into a controlled ditch for Medora Creek. He believes that this would have saved a large percentage of his farm.

“These people just want to farm their land. If the lake is going to run, let’s put it into a channel that when it does get to its peak level, it’s let go in a controlled way,” says RM of Winchester Acting Reeve Gord Weidenhamer. They are hoping that the provincial government and Ducks Unlim-ited will work with the RM on construct-ing a controlled ditch.

“We need a real solution to this, to get the water down,” adds Penner.

In the Assiniboine Valley near Virden, farmers have been trying to work on a vi-

-vincial government since 2007.

Keith Pearn and Stan Cochrane of the Assiniboine Valley Producers Association say that a government program that was

in the Assiniboine Valley, the Shellmouth Dam Act.

The ShellmouthDam near the Saskatch-ewan and Manitoba Border, and controls

the Assiniboine River. Since the mid-2000s, if the dam was full, and any heavy

the Assiniboine Valley.“We told Premier Doer at that time, he

has to see what’s happening in the Assini-boine Valley below the dam,” says Keith Pearn. “He acknowledged the issues and said ‘we have to help you guys.’ “

Pearn, Cochrane, and other producers worked with the Ministry of Agriculture on developing a program that would pro-

-tion for holding water. Under the adhoc program developed, the farmers received small payouts in 2005, 2007, and 2010. The Shellmouth Dam Act was passed in 2008, and received royal assent in February, 2011, after which point, management of the act was transferred from the Ministry of Agriculture to MIT.

“At no time did we have any say about the rules and regulations of the act,” says Pearn. “The government decided every-thing that happened with it. Basically, it’s not working . . . As we sit here today, we have not had one nickel spent between here and Brandon to a landowner that has lost his crop.”

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pened. The issue, Pearn says, is that the

the producers impacted.“They’re saying most of the time it’s

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spillover if the province worked with Sas-katchewan on managing drainage.

Pearn says that high water levels at the

2012, and this year.

I think the dam was a big part of that,”

they wanted it for their summer level be-fore they started doing any releases—but by then it was too late, they couldn’t re-lease enough to keep the dam from going over the spillway. We feel that if the dam hadn’t been so high, we wouldn’t have been in that predicament.”

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convoluted and that is preventing the farmers from being compensated.

“They made the act so complicated that it is hard to make it work. The key issue

-ral, it’s a combination of the water table and man-made drainage,” Cochrane says.

been prevented by managing dam better, I believe.”

The dam, Cochrane says, is kept full for irrigation, and it is important to Portage

keep happening because the province

“They get it up to or above summer lev-el early in the spring, and if a rain comes

-trol, and that is what happened in those two years. Even this spring—Keith and I had meetings in the spring, and the province said snow water would not be an issue. In the spring, they kept closing conduit on the dam, because they were concerned about not having enough wa-ter. A few weeks later, it was going over the spillway and dam was out of control.

feet over the spillway.”Cochrane and Pearn would like to see

spot loss insurance, or a similar program

don’t believe the Shellmouth Dam Act will ever provide them with compensa-tion. They say each year, it gets harder to be viable producers in the valley, and like

the frustrations will discourage their sons from staying on the farm.

“Our family does things differently to compensate for the losses. We’re in the construction business now, my son is hauling gravel, and we are doing that to compensate for our losses. My boys are just almost saying, let’s forget about it, and go into the construction business,” Cochrane says.

Pearn says he wants to help his sons stay hopeful, but it is hard.

“They’re very frustrated, very disap-pointed in what’s taking place. In the same hand, they do realize we are going through wet years, and they are hope-ful this will straighten out at some point, and we’re also hopeful we’re going to get some help to keep things rolling smoothly until this cycle does end, or some prob-lems get solved,” he says. “But we can-not continue farming this 40,000 acres between Shellmouth Dam and Brandon with this kind of uncertainty. If I am go-ing to plant a crop and spend money put-ting in the crop each spring, not knowing if I’ve got something to protect me, might as well forget about it.”

Farmers want their situations solved, but more than that in many cases, they

programs that work effectively.Piwniuk says Manitoba needs to start

thinking long-term and big picture about the plights of these farmers.

“The big thing that has to happen—and it is starting to—the Assiniboine Basin Commission is being developed. That in-cludes working with federal government, the provincial governments in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and also the governor

says. “We can have all these small solu-tions, but we need to look at the big pic-ture, and have something like the Red River Basin over here. We need to get everyone on board. The government has failed to work with Saskatchewan.”

Both Pearn and Cochrane feel that un-checked drainage in Saskatchewan is a big

the Assiniboine, and the provincial gov-ernment in Manitoba is not doing enough to work with Saskatchewan on drainage concerns.

“Minister Ashton acknowledged that there is too much illegal drainage in Sas-katchewan, and it’s a problem. My ques-tion is, if he knows that the drainage hap-pening in Saskatchewan is an issue, how

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Pearn adds that he feels the provincial government used disaster assistance pro-

long-term solutions.“Government has been using it as a

just say, ‘Oh, you can use DFA.’ But, it’s obviously not working.”

Piwniuk agrees, and he says that since 90 per cent of disaster funding is allocated by the federal government, that they need

no longer be the solution, and encourage mitigation.

“This is a chance, I think for the federal government to say, ‘Look, we can’t keep giving you guys money’. Often with DFA, they require us to put everything back to its original condition to get reimbursed.

is doing the same thing over and over and

what is happening here. This is the op-portunity for the federal government, and our MPs to get a better solution started.”

Despite their stress and frustrations with the failure of the Shellmouth Dam Act, and the inaction of the government, Pearn and Cochrane say they are in the

“These bureaucrats know they’ve got a problem, and as long as we keep pushing, this is a thorn in their side,” Pearn says. “I think they want it to go away some day, and they’re either going to have to deal with it by changing the legislation, or coming up with something that will work for farmers.”

Jack Edward’s fields have become an extension of Whitewater Lake, because the creek that carries water away from the lake, Medora Creek, is not sufficiently managed for flood runoff.

Left: Edwards stands by Medora Creek. He believes properly channelling the water, and creating a channelling ditch from the lake would have helped prevent the spillover onto his land.

Below: Kelly Belhumeur hoped the dyke he created would save his parents’ home near St. Lazare in 2011. The dyke failed, and the house was irreparably damaged.


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