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Bull Sale Ranchers Flock to up Until the Sale Day in Early Early in Day Sale April FARM GROUPS KOCHIA MAKE THE CALL CONFIRMED For railway running rights » Pg 3 Glyphosate-resistant weed in Manitoba » Pg 18 APRIL 17, 2014 SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | VOL. 72, NO. 16 | $1.75 MANITOBACOOPERATOR.CA COOL not going away Ranchers flock to Supporters will move quickly to replace if it is struck down By Shannon VanRaes ‘no-bull’ bull sale CO-OPERATOR STAFF / WASHINGTON, D.C. Douglas Bull Test Station’s annual all-breed bull sale passes 50-year milestone ven if Canada wins its bat- tle against country-of-ori- Egin labelling at the World Trade Organization (WTO) this By Daniel Winters summer, Canadian livestock CO-OPERATOR STAFF / DOUGLAS producers could still lose the war. here do you go when Congressman Collin Peterson, you want a bull, but no the ranking member of the U.S. WB.S.? house committee on agriculture, For 50 years now, ranch- told reporters here last week ers have been boosting their there are groups in the U.S. that operations’ bullpower at the support COOL regulations and annual spring sale hosted by the want to see them maintained. Manitoba Bull Test Station at “If it gets struck down com- Douglas, Man. pletely, the people that want Owned and operated by ‘born, raised and slaughtered’ the Manitoba Beef Cattle Performance Association Inc., it See COOL on page 6 » is one of the largest non-profit organizations dedicated to pro- ducing superior bulls and heif- ers for commercial and pure- bred producers. Manager Ivan Ahntholz, who also works as a rodeo announcer in the summer, said that the bulls arrive in early October, and get their first weigh-in a month later. All are fed a ration formu- lated to put 2.5 to three pounds per day on the average animal, and weights are recorded every 28 days until late February. A week-long open house period beginning in late March allows buyers to view the animals right up until the sale day in early April. Pen riders load bulls onto a trailer after the 50th annual spring bull sale at the Manitoba Bull Test Station. PHOTO: DANIEL WINTERS See NO BULL on page 7 » LIVESTOCK: PRICE INSURANCE PLAN IN PLACE: » PAGE 9 Publication Mail Agreement 40069240 Avadex® is a registered trademark used under license by Gowan Company, L.L.C. Company, Gowan Avadex® by used under license trademark is a registered PMRA Reg. No. is 25112. Always read and follow label directions. 12002 09.12 label directions. and follow read is 25112. Always No. Reg. PMRA Un-sow your Wild For more information call: Cory Bourdeaud’hui 1.204.390.2340 Javan Davis 1.306.590.8600 Jim Vancha 1.306.951.7008 Gowan 1.800.883.1844 Oats www.gowanco.com 2 The Manitoba Co-operator | April 17, 2014 INE SiD Di D you know? L iVESToCk Odds slim to none that Stretching it out global warming natural Making feed supplies It doesn’t matter how you cut the numbers, last through a long winter and slow spring 12 human activity is behind it McGill University release n analysis of tempera- CRoPS ture data since 1500 all A but rules out the possi- bility that global warming in Protect your the industrial era is just a natu- ral fluctuation in the Earth’s cli- assets mate, according to a new study by McGill University physics Grain in temporary professor, Shaun Lovejoy. storage deteriorates The study, published online rapidly come 17 April 6 in the journal Climate spring thaw Dynamics, represents a new approach to the question of PHOTO : thinkStock whether global warming in the industrial era has been caused this analysis, or simply do not from non-linear geophysics. The largely by man-made emis- apply to it.” climate reconstructions take FEATuRE sions from the burning of fossil Lovejoy’s study applies sta- into account a variety of gauges fuels. Rather than using com- tistical methodology to deter- found in nature, such as tree Blending was plex computer models to esti- mine the probability that global rings, ice cores, and lake sedi- mate the effects of greenhouse warming since 1880 is due ments. And the fluctuation-anal- a bad word gas emissions, Lovejoy examines to natural variability. His con- ysis techniques make it possible historical data to assess the com- clusion: the natural-warming to understand the temperature Early governments peting hypothesis: that warm- hypothesis may be ruled out variations over wide ranges took a dim view of ing over the past century is due “with confidence levels greater of time scales. a common industry 33 to natural long-term variations than 99 per cent, and most likely For the industrial era, practice in temperature. greater than 99.9 per cent.” Lovejoy’s analysis uses carbon “This study will be a blow to To assess the natural variabil- dioxide from the burning of fos- any remaining climate change ity before much human inter- sil fuels as a proxy for all man- deniers,” Lovejoy says. “Their ference, the new study uses made climate influences. two most convincing arguments “multi-proxy climate reconstruc- Although Lovejoy used a dif- CRoSSRoADS — that the warming is natural tions” developed by scientists ferent methodology, he said his in origin, and that the com- in recent years to estimate his- findings effectively complement puter models are wrong — are torical temperatures, as well as those of the International Panel The hub of either directly contradicted by fluctuation-analysis techniques on Climate Change (IPCC). 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KAP delegates passed a resolution April 11 Staff at KAP’s general council meeting to lobby the federal government to force CN and CP Rail An employee at the Cargill terminal on the CP near Nesbitt, Man. walks with the aid of a tether along the Manitoba Co-operator to allow competing rail companies to use their top of grain cars being loaded. PHOTO: LAURA RANCE reporter Shannon VanRaes tracks. was named Agricultural In a letter to Prime Minister Stephen provisions the federal government has intro- KAP delegates from across the province Journalist of the Year at the Harper, the Western Canadian Wheat duced in Bill C-30 would lead to U.S. railroads reported mostly poor rail service this winter recent North American Growers Association (WCWGA) is calling for “poaching” business away from CN and CP.
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