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Beef Data Lets You Follow the Money Trade Focus: GMO CETA LABELLING Last in a series » Top U.S. companies PG 33 to 38 make a move » PG 21 March 31, 2016 SerVinG Manitoba FarMerS Since 1925 | Vol. 74, no. 13 | $1.75 Manitobacooperator.ca Canadian 2014-15 wheat exports exceed U.S. Beef data lets you for first time in years A repeat is forecast this follow the money year thanks to the low A study of carcass data shows cattle from an elite breeding program Canadian dollar, but were worth more than $200 a head than the average calf Cam Dahl says it’s a trend not an anomaly By ALLAN DAWSON Co-operator staff anada is exporting more wheat than the U.S. for Cthe first time since Benny Goodman was topping the pop charts and Adolf Hitler was pre- paring for war. After decades of playing sec- ond fiddle to its southern neigh- bour, the low Canadian dol- lar and other factors have this country’s exports edging ahead as in what some industry ob- servers consider a new trend. Last crop year, Canada export- ed 23.9 million tonnes of wheat, including durum, narrowly sur- passing the U.S. with exports of 22.3 million tonnes, according to International Grains Council figures. Canada is forecast to export 21.9 million tonnes of wheat in the current crop year (2015-16), compared to 20.5 million tonnes from the U.S. The ability to link quality through the beef value chain is improving but work still needs to be done to ensure some of the reward goes back to the producer. File photo See wheat exports on page 6 » The Calgary company has been “The more information you have on By ALEXIS KIENLEN using production data since 1970 to how well your cattle do, the more that FBC Staff breed superior bulls, but this data adds to you being able to make better gave it an exact dollar figure on the decisions.” he data shows someone is mak- quality of carcasses of cattle sired by However, there is a major hitch — as ing more money on the calves its bulls versus average cattle. it stands right now, cow-calf producers T produced by superior bulls “We can take carcass information don’t get paid more for producing cattle in the beef value chain, but it isn’t and say that there’s value between that grade higher. always the producer. the different breeds and the different “That’s always going to be a problem,” McDonald’s Canada, Beefbooster, bulls,” said Jennifer Stewart-Smith, said Stewart-Smith. “That’s part of the and BIXSco — the company now chief executive officer of Beefbooster. reason they don’t want you to know any- running the Beef InfoXchange “You will know whether your cattle thing. Their model is based on us (cow- System — recently collaborated are grading or yielding well, just by calf producers) not knowing how well with Livestock Gentec to analyze looking at (the data). If you wanted the cattle are doing. two million records of carcass data. to dive deeper into it, then you could “Now that we know and this is out The analysis found calves sired by start making breeding decisions there, and we know the potential of the Beefbooster Terminal Cross bulls based on that information, if you cattle that are making more money, were worth $219 more than the aver- wanted to refine the animals that are there’s a better chance of being able to age value of calves processed by producing more of those types of car- packing plants from 2012 to 2014. casses for you. See Beef data on page 6 » Glyphosate: More questions raised » P aGe 18 Publication Mail Agreement 40069240 2 The Manitoba Co-operator | March 31, 2016 INE SiD Di D you know? L iVESToCk Older hummingbirds Taking biosecurity better prepared home Lengthy annual migration reveals profound differences between Avian flu experts say protocols reach into young birds and the more experienced ones the homes of workers 12 Staff he small, but mighty ruby-throated hum- CRoPS mingbird flies 2,000 km on its migratory T journeys without a break, researchers report in the journal The Auk: Ornithological Keeping Advances. New research provides some of the first nutrients details of the hummingbird’s annual fall jour- ney from the eastern United States to Central out of water America. It shows that their fall migration peaks A ruby-throated hummingbird is handled by a Buffer strips may be in September and that older birds travel ahead of researcher prior to being released. photo: B. Dossman less effective than younger ones. first believed 17 The more experienced birds leave earlier and nets at Alabama’s Bon Secour National Wildlife in better condition. They can fly farther and arrive Refuge during the fall migrations of 2010-14, sooner at their wintering grounds. banding and recording data on 2,729 individual “Patterns we previously had hints of from hummingbirds. small, anecdotal observations are documented Using a computer program to estimate flight FEATuRE here with a very large sample size. It’s interesting range based on birds’ mass and wingspan, they that the young of the year migrate after adults estimated that the average hummingbird has a Temporary rail and are quite different in their stopover phenol- flight range of around 2,200 kilometres. Older ogy. This suggests there are substantial differ- birds and males were predicted to be able to regulations ences between flying south for the first time, as travel farther at a time than younger birds and opposed to flying somewhere again as an adult,” females. They discovered the migration passes The federal said University of California-Riverside’s Chris through the area between late August and late transport minister Clark, an expert on hummingbird behaviour. “I October. considering whether 27 think that further research on how young hum- Whether ruby-throated hummingbirds they are still needed mingbirds migrate, and the decisions they make, migrate across the Gulf of Mexico or around it would be really interesting.” is still unknown, but the flight ranges research- While examining the birds’ annual fall jour- ers calculated mean that most of them would be ney from the eastern United States to Central able to make it across if weather conditions were America, the researchers also found fall migration favourable. CRoSSRoADS peaks in September and that many of the birds “The most interesting thing, in my opinion, is are capable of flying more than 2,000 kms with- how some of these birds effectively double their out a stop. body mass during migration and are still able to The stories old Theodore Zenzal of the University of perform migratory flights, especially given some Southern Mississippi and his colleagues cap- of the heftier birds seem to barely make it to a bones can tell tured ruby-throated hummingbirds with mist nearby branch after being released,” said Zenzal. Fossils found in southern Manitoba yield new clues to life 28 long, long ago READER’S PHOTO Editorials 4 Grain Markets 11 Comments 5 Weather Vane 16 What’s Up 8 Classifieds 39 Livestock Markets 10 Sudoku 47 ONn Li E & MoBiLE Visit www.manitobacooperator.ca for daily news and features and our digital edition. (Click on “Digital Edition” in the top right corner.) 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