Drought cuts production Pigeon breeding comes home to roost Pigeons leave the wrong impression about local breeding » PaGe 36 But it also affects demand » PaGe 5 august 16, 2012 SERVING MANITOBA FARMERS SINCE 1925 Vol. 33 manitobacooperator.ca $1.75 Bale grazing may require rethink, say researchers “Green” practice of in-field winter feeding may not make the Beneficial Management Practice list By Daniel Winters co-operator staff / Whitewood W Dena McMartin and Dave Barrett, researchers from the University of Regina, explain the results of water quality testing from a bale grazing site on the Pipestone Creek watershed. Photo: Daniel Winters inter feeding cattle on pasture has long been pitched to ranchers as one of the best things they can do to help the environment and their own bottom line. But new research on the Pipestone Creek watershed in Saskatchewan shows that it may not be as green as earlier suggested. “It’s controversial only because you have to be very careful where you do it,” said Barbara Cade-Menun, an environmental scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and SPARC. Cade-Menun, the lead researcher at the Pipestone Creek Watershed Evaluation of Beneficial Management Practices (WEBs) project in the “knob-and-kettle” pothole country south of Whitewood, Sask., said that analysis of run-off water from bale grazing sites has found extremely high concentrations of nutrients and harmful bacteria.
“When we set this up, there were a lot of people who were hard-core believers that this was a great practice,” she said, as she guided a tour group through the WEBs site’s various research points that were installed on three area farms in 2008. See BALE GRAZING on page 6 » Buyers down south “desperate” for hay Hay production this summer varies from farm to farm, region to region By Daniel Winters co-operator staff Publication Mail Agreement 40069240 D emand for hay from drought-stricken livestock farmers south of the border may drive up the value of this year’s crop, exporters say. Landon Friesen, who along with his father Phil and brother Derek run Southman Alfalfa Producers near Crystal City, said that severe drought in the Midwest has sent U.S. Customers scrambling for hay. “We’ve had guys come up from South Dakota and Wisconsin who looked at our hay and said they wanted the whole shed,” said Friesen.
“It’s unbelievable right now.” He recently sold some highquality dairy hay with a relative feed value score of 207 for $260 per short ton in their yard, well above last year’s price of $180$200/ton. “We’re looking at about $1.20 per RFV point right now,” he added. His contacts in Saskatchewan have said that farmers there are “baling everything and sending it south,” and he expects that local beef cattle operations will try to hold on to whatever hay they’ve been able to put up. Beef hay buyers looking for alfalfa to grind with rations don’t typically start sniffing around the market until later in the season, he added. Ninety-nine per cent of Southman’s sales are going south where many buyers are “desperate” for hay, said Friesen. Apart from the drought, record-high commodity prices have exacerbated the dwindling supply situation as more forage growers on both sides of the border tear up alfalfa to seed corn and beans. Last year, they hayed 2,000 acres, but this year they have only 1,000.
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First and second cuts yielded well, and the third cut looks good, too. “It’s been pretty ideal,” he said. Darren Chapman of Chapman Farms near Virden, said that he has been getting a few more calls than normal for this year’s hay production, which has been “average” so far.
“A lot of the guys in the centre of the drought in the Midwest have told all their customers in the dairy or horse hay market that they aren’t going to be able to supply them like they usually See HAY on page 6 » 2 The Manitoba Co-operator August 16, 2012 INSIDE on the lighter side LIVESTOCK Grass-fed genetics Forage-based herds start with the stock 33 CROPS Diseasekilling rays Scientists test microwaves for seed-borne diseases 17 FEATURE Cashing in on high prices A Siberian cow went to great heights to escape courtship Is this year Manitoba’s turn? Cow which was not in the mood ambled to the top storey of a Siberian apartment building to escape a courting bull, and had to be led back down by firefighters, authorities said. The cow was discovered bellowing on the top of a stairwell in the five-storey building in the village of Lesogorsk last month, with the probable cause of the Reuters 24 CROSSROADS Readers’ view How Co-operator readers see harvest 4 5 8 10 Editorials Comments What’s Up Livestock Markets Or was she just playing hard to get? A cow’s distress an amorous bull at the bottom. “The bull was very loving and had paid excessive attention to the cow during the summer grazing,” the Irkutsk regional branch o f R u s s i a’s E m e r g e n c y Situations Ministry said in a statement.
“Trying to escape from him, the cow ran into the building and climbed up to the fifth storey,” it said. It took firefighters about three minutes to get the cow downstairs by roping its horns and pulling, according to the statement, which suggested members of the crowd that gathered should have done the job themselves. “When we arrived there were dozens of people outside the building. There were members of the local administration, police and many bystanders,” it quoted fire station shift chief Yevgeny Smirnov as saying. “In principle, they could have done without us.” 12 Grain Markets Weather Vane Classifieds Sudoku 11 16 26?? READER’S PHOTO ONLINE Visit www.manitobacooperator.ca for daily news and features and our digital edition.
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