Nine Grizzlies in One Day Scare Beaver Mines Family
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Jacques File Name: Page Position: Earlug Project Name: Beef BTH campaign Live Area: CMYK PMS ART DIR CREATIVE CLIENT MAC ARTIST V1 Docket Number: 110299820 Trim size: 3.08 x 1.83” . 10/26/12 STUDIO AD#: Bleed: PMS PMS COPYWRITER ACCT MGR SPELLCHECK STUDIO MGR PROOF # VOLUME 9, NUMBER 24 NOVEMBER 19, 2012 Complaints Nine grizzlies in one day about delivering scare Beaver Mines family CWB grain TOO MANY BEARS A rancher in the southwest corner of the province GROWING PAINS is applying to carry a handgun for his own protection CWB vice-president says the system can be made to work BY ALLAN DAWSON STAFF ome grain handlers are refusing to accept CWB Sgrain deliveries and promis- ing better grades to farmers who bypass the new voluntary board, farmers said during a recent con- ference call with CWB officials Oct. 17. During the conference-call meeting with more than 3,200 farmers, an Alberta producer (who identified himself only as John) said elevator employees in Medicine Hat, Stettler and Oyen told him they would not be accepting CWB grain. “I’d like to deliver my grain through the Canadian Wheat Board but if I can’t deliver it, I don’t have any choice,” said John. “They’re all saying the same thing: ‘We’ve got lots of sales for our own grain so why would we take wheat board grain in when we don’t have rail cars for it right now?’” Dual-market skeptics predicted these kinds of issues would sur- face when the new company relies on competitors to handle its grain. A Saskatchewan farmer named Carl said be went to a Viterra and A grizzly bear pops its head out of a granary, seemingly unconcerned by the trap. PHOTO: COURTESY MCCLELLAND FAMILY Pioneer elevator and was told they couldn’t accept CWB grain because the CWB hadn’t set a has a long history in the hills of Beaver that the first bear was a large male. But basis. Gord Flaten, the CWB’s BY SHERI MONK Mines, the grizzly bear chapter is a rela- that wasn’t all — he found another eight vice-president of grain procure- AF STAFF / PINCHER CREEK tively new one. of the beasts exploring his property, one ment, responded that grain com- “Until maybe five or eight years ago, a of which had already broken into the panies, not the CWB, set eleva- yan McClelland likes bears, but grizzly bear was a strange thing to see,” family’s business, McClelland’s Meat tion and freight charges. he doesn’t want to end up in the McClelland said. He rarely sees black Processors, a small meat-packing shop. In a later interview, Flaten said Rbelly of one. bears any longer, whereas they used to The big boar breached the door to the he had previously heard similar “I don’t leave the house anymore be seen regularly. meat shop to snack on a quarter of beef. complaints, and acknowledged without packing a gun with me,” he In the early-morning hours of Oct. Meanwhile, a sow with three cubs had that, in some cases, companies said. He lives near Beaver Mines, a small 21, McClelland was awoken by his dog broken into a granary, and a second sow are favouring their own grain. hamlet southwest of Pincher Creek, barking and what he found astounded with two cubs had destroyed her way “We recognize there’s an issue with his wife Jessica and their three chil- him. into a second granary. “Everybody is out there at a number of eleva- dren. McClelland is the fourth genera- “There was a grizzly at the garage, tors, but I also don’t want to blow tion on the ranch, and while the family right outside the house,” he said, adding SEE GRIZZLIES page 6 it out of proportion either,” he SEE CWB GRAIN page 6 HEMP: EVALUATING THE VARIETIES AND THE MARKETS PAGE 26-28 2 news » inside this week NOVEMBer 19, 2012 • alBERTAFARMEXPRESS.CA inside » livestock crops columnists reAlizing hemP’s ABP meeting heAt-dAmAged roy lewIs PotentiAl wAnts inquiry cAnolA croP common errors In handlIng vaccInes 16 Promoters want to develop a value chain 26 brenda schoepp In PerU, farmIng Is hard British BreAd and PrecarIoUs 18 dilemmA U.K. bakers looking danIel bezte for high protein Beef industry couldn’t yields are down, and don’t like the forecast? 13 tell its story on Xl 14 so is the oil content 25 maKe yoUr own 22 U.S. Thanksgiving turkey dinner to be easy on the wallet Irish bull takes world record, Hedged } Many retailers locked in turkey costs but not for before drought drove up feed prices performance THANKSgIVINg DINNER COST some producers to secure bank guinness World records By P.J. Huffstutter loans. has recognized archie, a chicago / reuters John Burkel, a turkey grower 29-month-old Dexter from and processor in Minnesota, said county antrim, Northern mericans will be able to the rising grain prices can make it ireland, as the shortest bull enjoy relatively cheap difficult to obtain bank financing. in the world. Athanksgiving turkeys this “i used to feed a turkey for 22 he measures just 76.2 cm year, thanks to many retailers cents a lb., now it costs 45-50 (30 in.) from the hoof to the locking in their costs before a cents,” Burkel said. “When you go withers, 15 inches shorter drought this year drove up u.s. to the bank and say, ‘i need a line than other bulls of his breed. feed prices. of credit that’s twice what i typi- guinness says that and retailers are determined cally have,’ they look at you and 15-year-old student and to keep prices for the traditional say, ‘are you out of your mind? farmer ryan Lavery bought thanksgiving main course as low how are you getting that back?’” archie at five months old as possible, even though sky-high in 2011, the united states pro- and says that if it wasn’t for corn prices have nearly doubled duced 5.79 billion lbs. of turkey his small size, the bull’s fate the cost of producing a pound of — a 7.4 per cent drop from the would have been very dif- turkey meat this year. 6.25 billion lbs. produced in 2008, ferent. “When we bought offering attractive prices for according to USDa data. archie, he was destined for turkey can help retailers such as the nation consumed about Wal-Mart stores inc. and super- beef. however, by christ- every year the american farm Bureau federation releases an 5.02 billion lbs. of turkey in 2011 mastime, he still hadn’t valu inc. lure customers into their informal price survey of classic items found on the american — 6.6 per cent less than the 5.37 grown and because we had stores for other thanksgiving thanksgiving dinner table. It says the cost of this year’s meal for billion lbs. in 2008. become so fond of him we staples such as turkey stuffing, 10 is $49.48, a 28-cent price increase from last year’s average industrywide, farmers and pro- decided to keep him. his size cranberries and sweet potatoes, of $49.20. the shopping list includes turkey, bread stuffing, cessors say they have scaled back saved his life and now he’s industry sources said. sweet potatoes, rolls with butter, peas, cranberries, a relish their flocks, and further produc- going to live out the rest of “Like the rest of the industry, tray of carrots and celery, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, and tion cuts are expected as grain his life as a pet.” we’re seeing an increase in the beverages of coffee and milk. AFBf prices remain high. september’s ryan says archie may be prices on turkeys,” said Mike sie- egg set placements fell six per cent small, but that hasn’t dimin- mienas, spokesman for supervalu from a year earlier, according to ished his “bullish” tempera- inc, the third-largest u.s. grocery producers’ contractual prices supermarkets that did not lock in USDa data. ment. store operator. “We continue to with retailers were set this spring pre-drought prices. Jim hertel, managing partner “archie doesn’t realize work with suppliers to ensure when feed was far cheaper as a manager at Paulina Market of illinois-based food retail con- that he’s so short. he thinks we’re getting the best price pos- u.s. farmers began planting what in chicago said the meat market sultancy Willard Bishop, cau- he’s the biggest in the herd sible for our customers.” looked like would be a record corn recently increased the price of tioned that even if turkey whole- and he’ll grunt and roar at retail prices for frozen turkeys crop. their fresh turkeys by about 50 sale prices continue to rise savvy the rest of them. he’s gener- have barely moved in recent the expectations for a bumper cents a lb. to $3.75 a lb. retailers will eat as much of the ally oK around the other weeks. Whole frozen turkeys were autumn harvest evaporated as at casey’s Market in a chicago difference as possible. farm animals like horses and selling for $1.62 a lb. in septem- the worst drought in half a cen- suburb, owner David casey said “smart retailers will be looking goats, but if something agi- ber, up from $1.57 a lb.