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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 | VOL. 72, NO. 39 | $1.75 MANITOBACOOPERATOR.CA CWB annual report: notes but no numbers GRAIN SHIPPERS: Worried about a The Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board repeat of poor railway performance suspects the report is too The railways say there hasn’t been enough grain to move to politically sensitive to be meet their government-mandated thresholds made public By Allan Dawson By Allan Dawson CO-OPERATOR STAFF CO-OPERATOR STAFF ttawa has ordered the rail- ow well did CWB, the ways to move at least 526,250 g o v e r n m e n t g r a i n Otonnes of grain a week and H company formed after there’s a smaller crop so there should Ottawa ended the Canadian be no worries about getting this Wheat Board’s sales monopoly year’s crop to market, right? July 31, 2012, do during its first Wrong. year in an open market? “Yes, we’re nervous about it,” Wade We may never know. Sobkowich, executive director of the Agriculture Minister Gerry Western Grain Elevator Association Ritz tabled CWB’s 2012-13 (WGEA), said in an interview Sept. annual report, including its 19. audited financial statement, in “As we’ve seen, CN isn’t meeting the volumes and we suspect CP also See CWB on page 7 » isn’t meeting the volumes.” Officials from CN and CP Rail say they are ready to move this year’s crop. But one grain company official, who asked not to be named, said his car orders are six weeks behind. Another industry official estimated there was a 25,000-car shortfall, including 13,000 unfilled orders car- ried over from last crop year. But CN Rail said in a statement its shortfall is 4,000 at most “or the equivalent of only four or five days of movement.” This year’s crop is expected to be slightly above the five-year average, well under last year’s record 76 mil- lion tonnes. But grain quality has been reduced by poor weather. “That adds more shipping chal- lenges,” Sobkowich said. Grain companies are also worried changes to the car ordering system will mask car demand. Some believe If you thought grain-shipping woes were solved, think again, warn grain shippers and flour it was the huge car shortfall last crop millers. PHOTO: ALLAN DAWSON See GRAIN SHIPPERS on page 6 » Publication Mail Agreement 40069240 WRITING A NEW CHAPTER FOR SOYBEAN PERFORMANCE When it comes to trait technology, you’re looking for leadership and innovation. Hyland™ is powered by Dow AgroSciences outstanding research and development. Balance that with exemplary customer service and you have a combination of performance and profitability that is worthy of an encore. Farming Forward. hylandseeds.com ®™Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow 09/14-37905-2R MC 2 The Manitoba Co-operator | September 25, 2014 INE SiD Di D you know? L iVESToCk Even just a little dairy is Fighting for forage’s future good for you: researchers Canada’s largest Taiwanese who eat no dairy crop is its most 12 have higher blood pressure neglected than those who do Staff CRoPS little dairy food daily, even for those who haven’t traditionally consumed A it, may reduce the risk of heart dis- ease or stroke, say researchers at Australia’s Fighting diabetes Monash University. A study of nearly 4,000 Taiwanese was led the natural way by Professor Mark Wahlqvist. Manitoba-grown “In a dominantly Chinese food culture, crops may delay or unaccustomed to dairy foods, consuming prevent onset 17 them up to seven times a week does not increase mortality and may have favour- able effects on stroke,” Wahlqvist said in a release on the study, which was published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. FEATuRE Cancer and cardiovascular disease are the leading causes of death among Dealing Taiwanese. When Wahlqvist’s study began in 1993, there was little apparent concern with equine about dairy foods, in contrast to a current belief that they may be harmful to health emergencies and in particular raise the risk of cancer. photo: thinkStock When to call the vet, The study showed such fears to be and what do do unfounded. “A little is beneficial and a lot is unneces- while waiting 13 “We observed that increased dairy con- sary,” Professor Wahlqvist said. sumption meant lower risks of mortality “Those who ate no dairy had higher from cardiovascular disease, especially blood pressure, higher body mass index stroke, but found no significant association and greater body fatness generally than with the risk of cancer,” Wahlqvist said. other groups. But Taiwanese who included CRoSSRoADS According to the study findings, people dairy food in their diet only three to seven only need to eat small amounts to gain the times a week were more likely to survive benefits. than those who ate none.” Urban and rural folks converge Clearwater’s Harvest Moon Festival 32 sells out again READER’S PHOTO Editorials 4 Grain Markets 11 Comments 5 Weather Vane 16 What’s Up 9 Classifieds 22 Livestock Markets 10 Sudoku 26 ONn Li E Visit www.manitobacooperator.ca for daily news and features and our digital edition. (Click on “Digital Edition” in the top right corner.) At our sister site, AGCanada.com, you can use the “Search the AGCanada.com Network” function at top right to find recent Co-operator articles. 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And now the deliberate ALLAN CAMPBELL poisoning of hundreds of thousands of bees at multi- ple locations in the Rural destroyed colonies, and said aware that this was a deliber- Municipality of Elton has left he is also out between $15,000 ate act. apiarists and the RCMP look- and $20,000 in lost honey rev- “It is starting a conversa- ing for answers. enue. The frames and boxes tion, though,” he added, not- “We came to the first yard will also likely need to be ing that beekeeping is an and there were just piles of replaced. industry unlike any other. dead bees all over on the “Now we’ll just take care of “Bees are pretty unique in ground, we had been going Piles of dead bees were reportedly two inches thick in front of the affected the remaining hives, and we’ll that they are livestock on the there to pick up honey, but hives, with others spread over the whole bee yard. PHOTO: SUBMITTED probably have to buy more one hand, but on the other the honey boxes were com- in the spring,” said the bee- hand they’re not fenced or pletely empty except for going to have to identify ened to burn the hives, keeper, adding he is also con- caged, and they do have a more dead bees,” said Jason what was the causing agent,” because I guess he thought we sidering installing some secu- tendency to go out and they Loewen, operator of the Lafreniere said.