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For as long as farmers have grown crops, they’ve needed to put water on the soil.
In ancient Egypt and Mesopota-mia, agriculture depended on regu-
lar and seasonal floods. Several millennia lat-er and on a different continent, it’s not so easy.
Early in the 20th century farming pioneers in the Thompson Region built elaborate
flumes to get water to
parched In-terior soils. The most famous ex-ample is at Walhachin,
where gen-tlemen British
farmers built wood flumes to
transport water by gravity from an upland lake.
The incredible effort and skill of the new-comers was undone by frequent breaks and the intervention of the First World War, which took the farmers to the trenches of Europe, from where few returned.
The rich history of Walhachin can be easily spotted along the Trans-Canada Highway, where flumes remain visible on the hillside.
A few kilometres farther west and nearly 100 years later, modern-day irrigation can be seen spraying water on alfalfa fields.
When Dick Ford started Highlands Irrigation Ltd. in the early 1970s in Williams Lake, some farmers in the Cariboo were still using ditch-ing to irrigate land. Eventually wheel lines and hand lines were employed to water soils.
But demand for the latest centre-pivot sys-tems, examples of which can be seen at Tobiano and in the Ray-
leigh area, is driven by costs.
Even in a difficult econ-omy, Ford said farmers and ranchers
are looking to cut the labour-intensive pro-cess of moving of irrigation lines by hand. Centre-pivot systems are powerful and auto-mated.
“The main input is labour,” Ford said of old-er systems. “Centre pivots give operators a chance to get rid of labour.”
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enterpriseSECTION BWednesday, April 6, 2011
Back in 1998, a movie came out called Sliding Doors. It
was about a woman whose life direction was to be determined, unknown to her, by whether she boarded, or did not board, a cer-tain subway train. The movie goes on to show us both outcomes.
Today’s markets appear to be standing on the platform. Get on the train or not?
Let’s make the world really simple. There are the developed countries (U.S., Japan, England, Germany, etc.) and the emerging markets. There is employment or unemployment. There are inter-est rates and the money supply. Lastly, there are commodities — let’s call them oil.
Obviously there are many out-comes that could come to pass with the variables above (try reading about quantum mechan-ics and parallel universes) but we are going to pick two at ei-ther end of the spectrum. You can choose where on the spec-trum you think we could end up.u See STRONGER DEMAND /B2
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LES CONSENHEIM
MONEY WATCH
HOW WILL MARKET
MOVIE WIND UP?
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HigHlands irrigation Ltd. owner Dick Ford and his son Chris, who is sales and service manager, stand in front of Irrifrance hose reels outside their Kamloops office on Tagish
Road. The elder Ford started the business selling agricultural irrigation equipment in the early 1970s, operating out of the company’s head office in Williams Lake.
There will be a new place to eat in Kam-loops as of Monday,
April 11. That’s when the first Cora restaurant in B.C. opens at 1285 Trans- Canada Highway. Stephan Bisson, marketing director for Cora Franchise Group, said the Kamloops open-ing is part of a nationwide expansion. More openings are scheduled in coming months. The Cora chain specializes in all-day breakfasts. The Kamloops franchise, operated by Jennifer and Shaun Clark, will be one of more than 100 across the country. It will be open Mondays to Saturdays from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
VODA Computer Sys-tems Ltd. in Kamloops and Kelowna has
merged with Calgary-based Graycon Group Ltd. Graycon was founded by president Douglas Gray in 1989, serv-ing Alberta and Saskatch-ewan. VODA was launched 10 years ago. “The merger will allow VODA/Graycon to provide professionally managed IT service and project solutions through-out Western Canada.” The merged company will have six locations. “The integra-tion of both companies will take place over the year,” said Gray.
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By CAM FORTEMS I Daily News Staff Reporter
New company takes root in Kamloops touting the latest in centre-pivot irrigation
Highlands irrigation owner dick Ford holds a nelson 100 big-gun sprinkler, just one of the products being sold through a new company office in Kamloops.
AGE-OLD PROBLEM
B2 The Daily News, Kamloops Wednesday, april 6, 2011 YourNewsNow.ca
u Continued from Page B1Happy ending. The developed
countries get their debt under control and grow their economies to the point where the tax base can actually begin to reduce their national debt. They also stop be-ing corrupt.
Due to the growth in the econo-my, they also begin to recover all the jobs lost in the recession. In-terest rates go up but very slowly to keep the economic engine purring nicely. The emerging economies continue to grow but somehow don’t really grow their consumption of oil. They are also happy to continue to hold massive amounts of U.S. dollars.
Not so happy ending. Debt con-tinues to spiral upward, consum-ing a larger and larger part of the developed countries’ income. Spending on health care, educa-tion and pensions is cut back to support debt costs. The system stays corrupt. Jobs continue to falter and unemployment grows past its current unpublished level of around 20 per cent. Housing prices continue to fall. Interest rates go up in certain countries to attract foreigners to hold their debt. This takes up more of the national income. The emerging markets continue to grow, but their increasing demand for oil drives prices much higher making it difficult for the developed econ-omies to compete. Emerging economies dump U.S. dollars.
In our happy-ending scenario, the stock markets continue to grow from their current highs and everyone is happy. Go, index-ers, go! In our not so happy end-ing, the markets continue down their volatile road with large swings, falling rapidly as cata-lysts present themselves and climbing on the crumbs of some good news but really going no-where.
Through my door, I see a place where U.S. debt levels are going to be difficult to deal with no mat-ter what. Interest rates are even-tually going up. Emerging econo-mies are going to consume a greater and greater amount of the world’s resources. Say hello to a floor for oil of $100. You can take it from there.
Les Consenheim is a financial adviser with Raymond James Ltd - Independent Financial Services and can be reached
at 250-372-8117 or [email protected]. Raymond James Ltd. is a
member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund. This article is for general information purposes only. The views of
the author do not necessarily reflect those of Raymond James. Individuals should
seek professional advice prior to acting on any information referred to herein.
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Business Briefing
Stronger demand will push oil price higher
u Continued from Page B1Ford expanded Highlands Irrigation to a
small office in Kelowna about five years ago. Last month the family owned business opened the doors to a Kamloops office in Mount Paul, where it competes with other firms, including Delta Irrigation as well as others based in Alberta.
A lot of work for Highlands Irrigation al-ready existed in this region, with Dick’s son, Chris, running the operation out of a home office.
Now the new office is open with a staff of
three — a vote of confidence in the Interior economy and in agriculture. Ford said his firm will make customer service a key com-ponent.
The small firm will add to the city’s agricul-tural sector, which includes ranches, equip-ment dealers and a service industry.
Ford acknowledged the beef industry in particular has seen many operations change hands or simply sell off herds. But he believes it has seen bottom and is now in a rebuilding stage.
There is also growth in new vegetable crop
operations in the Interior, corn in the North Okanagan and purchase of land by Coastal dairy operations being pushed out by neig-bourhood concerns and high property values.
Those dairy operations require a steady diet of hay, which is driving the need for irrigation. Irrigation is needed for many sectors within agriculture, providing a diversity for High-lands Irrigation and opportunities for growth.
“We’ve got a lot of faith in Kamloops as an area. There’s good soils. We’re seeing interest east of Kamloops with vegetable growers.”
New office vote of confidence for Interiordick Ford, left, and his son Chris, right, talk with Kelowna office man-ager and certified irrigation designer Collin Sandager about their selec-
tion of deep well submersible pumps, which are used on dairy farms throughout the Okanagan.
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