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Winning With Team PlayThe Southeast Saskatchewan Farm Family of the Year this year was the team from Ross L-7 Ranch who were joined on stage by Estevan MLA Doreen Eagles (left) and Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud (right) for this group photo: From the left: Eagles, Crystal, Jeremy, Chad, Cassidy, Carol, Carlee, Helen, Rosalie and Brian accepting the Farm Family Award plaque from Bjornerud.

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If you want an effi cient analysis of the world’s ag-ricultural situation, call on J.P. Gervais at Farm Credit Canada.

Gervais was the guest presenter at the annual Farmers’ Appreciation Night sponsored by the Es-tevan and District Chamber of Commerce and the Este-van Exhibition Association March 8.

A senior economist with FCC and a former economics professor in North Carolina and Iowa State, Gervais took the 300 or more guests attending the annual salute to produc-ers down a rapid road of agricultural and economic global forecasts illustrating how the impending good and bad fortunes will im-pact Canadian producers.

“Growth forecasts are higher for less advanced countries,” he told his audi-ence during the power point presentation.

“You have to look

FCC senior economist provides a good look into the futurereally hard to fi nd where things are improving in the United States,” he added.

But when the popula-tions in poor countries have to spend over 60 per cent of their incomes on food, it’s imperative that North American produce to deal with this emerging market.

Between the next two years, it will be important for everyone to keep their attention fi nely tuned to the world economy, he advised, just to see if it can grow.

“Greece, Italy, France ... we haven’t heard the end of it. A signifi cant slow-down in Europe and with the Euro and we’ll feel it. It may not be tied directly to sales, but will be tied to prices,” Gervais said.

He added that he felt that if the European coun-tries who are tied into the European Union don’t stand up for the euro, “they’ll kick them out.”

On the North American front, Gervais said the U.S. markets remain sluggish because 70 per cent of their economy depends on the

consumer, so “they’re not out of the woods yet. It’s hard to fi nd the good news in America in spite of what the media is saying. Real estate is still down and will remain down until 2014 or even 2015.”

On the production side, he noted that their corn sup-ply is tight and at an all-time low. Their wheat supply has rebounded.

Gervais said that in North America, the canola and soybean supply is tight and a lot of that has to do with the biofuel business even when ethanol margins are negative. “The U.S. biofuels markets support the ethanol market so there should be a continuing strong demand for corn.”

The economist added that crop prices overall are projected to remain above historical averages and taken in total over 10 years, should remain that way, but he admitted that he hesitated to make that bold prediction because he knew that over that stretch of time, prices were bound

to dip from current high levels but should remain above historical levels.

“Livestock pr ices should also remain high because there is now a strong fl owing demand in traditional as well as new markets,” Gervais added.

“Strong crop receipts and low interest rates are pushing up farmland val-ues,” he said.

In the world of other re-sources, Gervais suggested that global demand for oil might rise as much as 15 per cent by 2035, with China providing a huge potential for the resource which will impact the Canadian dollar.

On another front, the former professor noted that input costs on farm land are going up in con-cert with consumer prices while interest rates are staying “right where they are, although I expect our interest rates will go up a bit in Canada, even if the U.S. rates don’t until 2014 as their government said they won’t.

“Oil prices will go up with the value of the Cana-dian dollar, but keep in mind that if problems continue in the Middle East, global investors will move to the U.S. dollar which will put downward pressure on our dollar,” Gervais said.

Market access for Ca-nadian agricultural prod-ucts will change over the

years. Recently signed deals with Colombia and South Korea for Canadian beef are signals of that hap-pening. He said he expects more trans-Pacifi c partner-ships with India and Japan over the next few years and a free trade deal is worked out with India.

The question marks with which he left his au-dience, were such things as: Will emerging markets be able to lift western economies? Will global economic risks prevent our economy from reaching full potential?

Will farm input costs continue to rise and will market volatility slow down?

Gervais was intro-duced and thanked by the evening’s emcee Alf Tide who also acknowledged the dedicated work of long-time volunteer Lyle Hall who was resigning from the local Farmers’ Appre-ciation committee after 20 years of service.

J. P. Gervais, a senior economist with Farm Credit Canada, out-lined some of the glob-al challenges that will affect Saskatchewan producers.


By Norm Parkfor Agri-news

It’s a team effort when it comes to operating the Ross L-7 Ranch which sprawls for several thou-sand acres just above the United States border in southeast Saskatchewan. The fact that most of the team members are fam-ily members, makes it that much more enriching.

Brian Ross, speaking on behalf of the family, accepted the Farm Family of the Year Award which is presented annually to a de-serving family of producers in this part of the country. The award is made pos-sible through the Estevan and District Chamber of Commerce and the Estevan Exhibition Association who combined forces to provide an annual salute to produc-ers, entitled the Farmers’ Appreciation Night.

As in the past, the event attracted over 300 people in the Days Inn Plaza to hear words of wisdom from J.P. Gervais, farm economist/analyst from Farm Credit Canada, and to also hear some prize winning speech-es delivered by a quartet of 4-H club members.

This year’s event in-cluded an address from Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud and a lot of belly laughs deliv-ered by the Mad Trapper.

But the eyes were fo-cused on the Ross family for a good portion of the evening as they gathered in nearly full force to enjoy their moment in the spot-light after being recognized as the 2012 Farm Family of the Year.

“Our only regret is that my dad, Cyril isn’t there to share it, but Mom (Helen) is certainly excited,” said son Brian who now heads up the family enterprise that includes between 600 and 700 head of cows and their calves.

All Ross family mem-bers are familiar with the ranching life, including the daughters-in-law “who came into the family op-eration with boots, jeans and fencing pliers,” said Brian during the acceptance speech.

In fact, Brian’s wife Rosalie is the only one who wasn’t that familiar with horses and cows before she met and married him, but she did have a solid farming background in her pedigree, so that counted.

“I was not a ranch girl, but I was a farm girl, right around the Fargo area of North Dakota when I met Brian at North Dakota State University,” she said. “And it was a blind date, arranged by a cattle producer friend,” she added with a laugh.

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The Ross L-7 Ranch has 3,000 acres they call their own and they lease another 8,000 or more acres in an area that can reach from Torquay to Frobisher, which means a lot of horse riding, roping and herding every spring and fall and in between and that accounts for the family’s other pas-sion, horses.

“I’d hate to have to sort cattle without horses and we’re pretty proud of them. We like to think we have good quality working horses and they’re well trained. We also like to ride them for pleasure and in roping and penning com-petitions in the off hours.”

“We work on horses and we play on horses,” said his son Chad in an earlier conversation. Chad and his wife Crystal are integral pieces of the opera-tion, taking on a lot of the management tasks while other sons Jeremy and wife Carol own and operate a lo-cal veterinary clinic as well as help out on the farm when time and season demands their presence. Son Michael and wife Zoe also operate a veterinary clinic in Daw-son Creek, B.C. and often make trips home to enjoy a whole raft of family ranch-ing experiences. Now their offspring are getting fully involved. Cassidy and Car-lee, daughters for Chad and Crystal and Jaycee, Sydney and Hugh, who are Jeremy and Carol’s children, are more than comfortable in the saddles and are already experts at the corral gates, rings and pens as well as on the plains of Saskatchewan.

“The cattle business is just now getting back on its feet following the BSE crisis,” said Brian, referring to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease). That was nearly 10 years ago, yet only now are international markets once again opening up for Canadian bred cattle and beef products.

“We’ve had a good and easy winter, not like last year’s,” he added.

That is more good news for producers like the

Rosses who engage in open pasture winter bale grazing practices for their herds.

“As long as the cows have a good windbreak and water, they’re fi ne, even in a tough winter like last year. We didn’t lose any until that freak May snowstorm last year when we were just starting our calving sea-son,” said Brian. Because of the bale grazing practice, the family has found that a later calving season is the most effi cient use of cattle and their resources.

“Of course we’re from Saskatchewan, so when we see so many good things coming together at the same time, we have to wonder where the next wreck is coming from,” Brian added with a chuckle.

When they aren’t herd-ing or processing cattle, the Rosses will no doubt be up on one of their horses, doing a little fun stuff. Brian notes that when it comes to hard work, a cowboy requires two horses, but because they like horses so much, some of them have more than two. He admits to owning fi ve himself.

The Ross L-7 Ranch began humbly enough when Brian’s grandfather, Lester George Ross, and his two brothers arrived in southeast Saskatchewan from southwest Minnesota in 1905. The newly branded province became their home when they found the land suitable for mixed farming and inexpensive enough to begin a serious agricultural business. His fi rst job was breaking horses for the RCMP as well as for other early producers in the area. He met his future bride Nel-lie and the family compact began.

“When Dad took over the farm, he continued the mixed farming opera-tion. He pretty well had to because the government programs of the day encour-aged wheat farming and even the marginal land was put into crops. Of course we realize today that was probably a mistake because the land would lose what quality there was, but he fed off the wheat for awhile and slowly grew in strength on the cattle side,” said Brian “Dad’s heart was in cattle

and as he got a bit older, he started the switch. He started the fi rst artifi cial in-semination business around here and he was among the fi rst to bring in purebreds from Europe. He worked with Simmentals for years.”

Brian said that as they moved along with the pure-bred business, it became ob-vious that it was very labour intensive and as his kids got older, he knew he had to get into more commercial op-erations and expand the herd and horizons to achieve the numbers that were required to keep the family ranch/business viable. Other la-bour-saving practices such as the winter bale grazing and later calving season have been implemented over the years. A good side benefi t to the more loosely based grazing regime is the fact the soil becomes more enriched as the cattle make their way around the land throughout the winter as well as during the warm seasons. That makes seed-ing grass and all the other tasks more effi cient.

“We’re excited about the business now. We’re one of the lowest cost producers in the business in the world now, right here in Saskatch-ewan, even with the climate challenges,” said Brian. “We’re starting to compete with the traditional low cost producers in places like Brazil and Argentina. That’s because ranchers now can attain good grass utilization and adapt new management techniques. I believe over the next 20 years, the Western Canadian cattle population will go up because of the growing export potential now that borders are opening again.”

Brian hasn’t been qui-

etly sitting in the back-ground either. He got in-volved in “cowboy politics” well over 10 years ago now, gaining the presidency of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association in 2004 through 2006. He was also chairman of the Canada Beef Implementation Com-mittee that helped merge the Beef Information Centre and the Canadian Beef Ex-port Federation. Once these two bodies found common ground, they’re saving the industry over $1 million a year as a singular-minded Canada Beef Inc. “For awhile I was as popular as a skunk in a hen house, but if we can save that kind of money in beef promotion costs, I was willing to do it.” Brian added.

“But I’m out of the politics side now, happy to stay at home and do some penning and roping and this year Rosalie and I went south for a whole week and I got to squeeze some sand between my toes for the fi rst time ever.”

As the next generation begins, Brian proudly notes that their children are taking over and taking on a number of leadership roles with Chad and Crystal becoming leaders with the Outram-Madigan 4-H Club as well as working the ranch.

“It looks like we’ll have at least one more genera-tion of Rosses running the ranch,” Brian said proudly. When it comes to cattle drives and “bringing them home ... we get everyone involved.”

As he noted in a poem recited during the accep-tance of the award, there is a tradition in the business and if you love cattle you pass it on.

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Plan*Farm*Safety* is the theme of the three-year Canadian Agricultural Safety campaign.

This year the emphasis is on safety including as-sessment, improvement and further development of safety

Three-year safety campaign in fi nal phase this year

systems. Last year, the focus was

on the farm, including imple-mentation, documentation and training. In the fi rst year of the campaign, in 2010, the campaign promoted planning which featured walkabouts

and planning for safety. The yearl-ong safety

campaign was launched with the kickoff of Canadian Ag-ricultural Safety Week from March 11 to 17.

Canadian Agricultural Safety Week is delivered

by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) and the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) in partnership with Farm Credit Canada (FCC) and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Be safe out there farmers!


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Proud to recognize Agriculture Safety Week

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Saskatchewan's Farm & Ranch Specialists™PH: 306-569-3380 EMAIL: [email protected]

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(306) [email protected]

and STRAPS

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