The Past Comes Alive in Coyote Flats During Harvest Days It Began with a Small Group Restoring Old Farm Equipment, but Today the Pioneer Village Is Much, Much More
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SAVE BIG ON AG EQUIPMENT & SERVICES! GROWTH PROMOTER CONTROVERSY » PAGE 12 UFA.com Prices in effect from August 12 to September 14, 2013 Publications Mail Agreement # 40069240 VOLUME 10, NUMBER 17 AUGUST 19, 2013 The past comes alive in Coyote Flats during Harvest Days It began with a small group restoring old farm equipment, but today the pioneer village is much, much more BY HELEN MCMENAMIN AF CONTRIBUTOR | PICTURE BUTTE lthough best known as the heart of Feedlot A Alley, Picture Butte is also home to the Prairie Trac- tor and Engine Museum. The collection of tractors and farm equipment in the pioneer village of Coyote Flats is quite spectacular. And during the annual Harvest Days event, some get to strut their stuff again as volunteers drive the old trac- tors and threshing equipment around the village in what’s dubbed the Parade of Power. Some of the equipment is nearly a century old but is put to use in threshing or tractor pulls. The tractor pull is one of the most popular events and the focus is on operator skills as the tractor weight and horsepower are combined with the weight pulled to choose the winner. For those who prefer quieter horse- power and a different skill, there are horse-pulling events. Some of the equipment arrived at the museum in run- ning condition — such as the 1918 Case 2040 that the donors drove off a trailer last month. Driving into Coyote Flats you pass the new visitor centre with a half-track Farmall 127 tractor and turn onto the main street. PHOTO: HELEN MCMENAMIN COYOTE } page 6 WORLD WEATHER COOL HERE, BUT SWELTERING ELSEWHERE } PAGE 16 Guts. Glory. Go. You could WIN a truck that works as hard as you do. ™ With every 2,000L purchase of agricultural marked fuel* between August 12 – September 14, 2013, you will automatically be entered to win. You could drive away with a shiny new Ram 2500, Canada’s best selling heavy duty pick-up†. 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All rights reserved. 07/13-20445 UFA.com 20445 UFA_FuelUp_BannerAd_AF_10.25x3.indd 1 8/6/13 6:52 AM 2 news » inside this week AUGUST 19, 2013 • alBerTaFarmexPress.Ca inside » livestock crops columnists feedlot New varieties PuttiNg Daniel Bezte sector rocked for swath the hyPe Cool Prairies are The exCeption 16 Tyson drops Zilmax graziNg to the test growth promoter 12 BrenDa SChoepp BriTish Farmers Battle TB-inFected Badgers 13 harvest your woodlot Carol Shwetz Funds available to TreaTing laminiTis develop a wood business seeking later-seeded ultimate Canola Challenge 7 barley that still yields 11 evaluates new products 17 and Founder 15 France’s food prestige fails flailing exports Grizzly weighs five tons, The crown of world’s best cheese but isn’t too dangerous maker has been won by a Japanese Sculpture joins array of distinctive, rural Alberta icons woman paris / reuters By Johnnie Bachusky af contributor | innisfail rance can no longer rely on the famed he once-extinct plains grizzly bear fcachet of its gastron- in central alberta has made a big omy to reverse a fall to the Tsplash in the region. and while the fifth rank of world food legendary bruin now thrilling guests at exporters, its food minister innisfail’s Discovery Wildlife Park may said on June 12. not be the typical menacing-looking “We must not rest on our beast locked up in a zoo enclosure, the laurels in terms of exports of giant creature is still destined like no french products,” Guillaume other bear to become a must-see attrac- Garot told food and wine tion for tourists. the new pride of innis- producers at an exporters’ fail is a mechanical creation 14 years in meeting. “We have a lot on the making by park owner Doug bos, who our plates if we want to meet established the local 90-acre zoo in 2002 the export challenge.” after a 12-year stint in clive. food, wine and spirits bos originally came up with the idea of have been major drivers having a huge, animated creature — one of france’s trade balance in constant motion to catch the eyes of and, including hefty grain tourists, but not necessarily a grizzly. exports, showed an 11.9-bil- “the original design was going to be lion euros (uS$15.70-billion) a giraffe, and then it became a bear,” surplus in 2011, making it bos said. the second-largest sector surplus after aeronautics. the crown of world’s best cheese maker has been won “We are going to dub Innisfail by a Japanese woman and france no longer has the as the bear capital of the world. lead in the best wine som- Nobody else is claiming that title meliers — both signs of the times, said cecile bassot so we may as well.” head of export marketing group Sopexa. in 2011 france fell to fifth DouG Bos among the world’s largest agri-food exporters after the united States, the nether- lands, Germany and brazil, with “china on its heels,” she His brother bert was the driving force said. in designing the animated, steel grizzly, “if we continue like this which stands 23 feet when fully erect we risk not being a food and 12 feet at the shoulder when low- power anymore,” bassot ered. “So bert designed a bear to work said. on this oilfield pumpjack and made a french products still scale model of it. it turned out incred- benefit from a good qual- ible,” said bos. ity image abroad, but food bos had Gerald Graham from Lacombe makers warned that it was construct the bear before it was moved to Doug Bos with his 23-foot grizzly bear sculpture at Innisfail park. PhoTo: Johnnie BaChusky losing momentum with innisfail. Hauling the 10,500-lb. grizzly, heavy competition from which cost an estimated $50,000 to build, other European countries from Lacombe to innisfail was an obvi- thing people can see from the highway, Glendon’s Giant Pyrogy, the World’s like italy. ous problem, but andy’s oilfield Hauling and very attractive for this wildlife park.” Largest bee in falher and the Giant Sau- for wine, france’s luxury immediately seized the opportunity. that is exactly what bos has in mind for sage replica in Mundare. image has even been a “i think it was unique for me to do this. the grizzly; a lot of social media promo- bos’s museum already has three “live” drawback. it is something i have never done before, tion, giving the Guinness World records grizzlies that have been featured in a “a french study suggested lifting a mechanical bear in place,” said a call for having the planet’s biggest, ani- score of movies and commercials. He about 15 years ago that drink- Don Stubbe, a senior crane operator mated bear, and having it listed as the sincerely believes his bear will quickly ing a little wine was good for with the company. “it is part of the oil- province’s 35th icon with the alberta put innisfail on the map as a priority health but it benefited mostly patch too because it is a pumpjack and community icon program. if success- must-see place for tourists to visit in the our competitors, which we do a lot of pumpjacks, and this was ful, bos’s big, animated grizzly will join summer. “We are going to dub innisfail started producing affordable a unique one. such notable icons as barrhead’s Great as the bear capital of the world. nobody wines,” said franck crouzet, “it is a big bear and i think it is going to blue Heron, Edson’s Eddie the Squirrel, else is claiming that title so we may as head of communication at be an icon,” he said. “it’s going to be some- beaverlodge’s Giant beaver sculpture, well,” he said. wine group castel. 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