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Ag Days Holds the Course on Exhibitor Numbers PEmR mIu S TPP CRITICAL DROPPINg FOR cattle MASC says crop insurance will The Canadian Cattlemen’s cost less on average in 2018 » PG 3 Association says a deal is needed » PG 24 January 25, 2018 SerVinG manitoba FarmerS Since 1925 | Vol. 76, no. 4 | $1.75 manitobacooperator.ca Was Viterra planning to leave the canola council too? Ag Days holds the course Richardson’s decision to leave doesn’t on exhibitor numbers endanger the council, This year’s Ag Days lines up with previous years in terms of size says its president BY ALLAN DAWSON BY ALEXIS STOCKFORD Co-operator staff Co-operator staff ichardson Inter– t wasn’t a milestone anniversary year national’s decision not for Manitoba Ag Days, but the 2018 R to renew its Canola Ishow matched numbers from last Council of Canada member- year’s 40th anniversary expansion. ship Dec. 31, was a shocker, Last year, the show added both foot- but it could have been even age and exhibitor slots after opening up worse. the over-19,000-square-foot Brandon According to several reli- Curling Club for booths. This year, the able sources, Viterra, Canada’s show once again topped 540,000 square second-biggest grain com- feet and over 800 booths. “One unique thing about Ag Days See CANOLA COUNCIL on page 6 » is we are free admission, free parking, you don’t have to register and the semi- nars are free to attend,” Kristin Phillips, show manager, said. “Not many shows in the country will do that and so, I think that is why we are Canada’s larg- est indoor farm show and we’ve been so successful.” Phillips expects curling club space to stay open for the next five years after signing an agreement with the club. The hockey ice at Brandon’s Keystone Centre was replaced with ag company booths during the 2018 Young farmers Manitoba Ag Days Jan. 16-18. Photo: Alexis Stockford It is the “Year of the Young Farmer,” according to the Ag Days theme, some- A young farmers’ lounge was added Brett McRae, whose purebred cat- thing that set a new tone from last to the floor plan, while a selfie social tle and grain farm lies just outside year’s 40th anniversary show, Phillips media contest promised a 10-day Brandon, was one of many young pro- said. Cuban farm tour. ducers to attend. “We wanted to really focus on agri- “They’ll actually go and see what McRae was both exhibitor and culture and agronomy and economics agriculture is like over there and then speaker. The driving force behind and that next generation. By definition, part of the reporting requirement for McRae Land and Livestock, a busi- a young farmer is someone between the them is they have to come back and ness he runs in tandem with his par- ages of 18 and 40 and we really wanted write at 2,500-word essay on the experi- ents’ Mar Mac farms, he split his time to take that generation and promote ence and what they’ve learned about between the show’s seminar lineup them and show them what options are agriculture in that other country,” out there for them,” she said. Phillips said. See AG DAYS on page 9 » Publication Mail Agreement 40069240 FREE* WIREWORM PROTECTION INCLUDED ALL-IN-ONE CEREAL SEED TREATMENT, FUNGICIDE + INSECTICIDE Ask your local retailer for more information. *Compared to 2018 SRP/bu on leading wheat seed treatment brands. Always read and follow label directions. NIpsIt™ is a trademark of Valent U.S.A. LLC 57932-1217 57932_NFC_2017_NipsItSUITEPrint_10-25x3_a4.indd 1 2017-12-14 9:58 AM 2 The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018 INE SiD Di D you know? L iVESToCk How flowers won Silage Flowering plants conquered the world, opportunities now scientists think they know why An Ag Days speaker makes his case for wider use of silage 12 CRoPS Conventional wisdom Standard practices win out in the annual Soybean Challenge 17 Flowering plants are the largest, most important and newest type of plants. PHOTO: THINKSTOCK plants have small cells when flowering plants around the FEATuRE STAFF they’re stacked up against world. “The flowering plants other plant types, something are the most important group t’s a problem that puzzled that’s made possible by a sim- of plants on earth, and now Under fire even geneticist Charles ilarly smaller genome. we finally know why they I Darwin so much he called It makes it possible to have been so successful,” it the “abominable mystery” build more and more com- they wrote. Organic growers not — how did flowering plants plex cells in the same space, Although this research happy with MASC’s take over the world? and makes the cells created answers a major question, organic program 22 They’re relative newcomers, more efficient at tasks like it opens the door to many yet they dominate most land- photosynthesis. Additionally, more. Why were the flower- scapes, are incredibly diverse, by shrinking the size of each ing plants able to shrink their form the basis of our food cell, water and nutrient genomes more than other system and drive the animal delivery can be made more plant groups? What innova- diversity we see all around us. efficient. tions in genome structure CRoSSRoADS A recent paper in the open- C o m p a r i n g h u n d re d s and packing have the flow- access journal PLOS Biology of species, the researchers ering plants exploited? How suggests it’s all about the found that genome down- have the ferns and conifers cell size. Researchers from sizing began about 140 mil- managed to elude extinction Growing San Francisco State and Yale lion years ago and coincided despite their large genomes project universities found flowering with the spread of the earliest and cells? 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The Manitoba Co-operator | January 25, 2018 3 Small crop insurance Lower premiums for payout in 2017 As a result $150 million crop insurance in 2018 has been added to the The unpopular pre-harvest deductible on corn and soybeans is gone, program’s reserve fund there’s coverage for novel crops and hail coverage options have been raised BY ALLAN DAWSON “A lot of it was around budget pres- Co-operator staff BY ALLAN DAWSON sures as well,” Van Deynze said. “We had Co-operator staff / Brandon to find ways to have a smaller budget The final tally isn’t in but total Manitoba crop and try to impact producers the least insurance payouts in 2017 are currently esti- nsuring soybeans in Manitoba will be possible, and this was a compromise we mated at around $60 million. a lot cheaper this year, with premiums tried to come to for it.” That shouldn’t be a surprise given col- Idropping an average of 17 per cent. It was the wrong approach given agri- lectively farmers enjoyed above-average That’s the biggest move in an across- culture’s contribution to Manitoba’s yields for many crops, even setting some new the-board premium drop that sees an economy, Krahn said.
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