
Russian drones on Wednesday hit a Ukrainian port city along the border with Romania, causing significant damage and a huge fire at facilities that are key to Ukrainian grain exports. The attacks followed the end of a deal with Russia that had allowed Ukrainian shipments to world markets from the Black Sea port of Odesa. […]
Saskatchewan’s agriculture industry has posted a third consecutive year of record agri-food exports. Agriculture minister David Marit says the total value of agri-food exports in 2022 reached 18.4 billion dollars. The leading agri-food export commodities last year were canola oil, wheat, canola seed, lentils, durum and dry peas. The top 5 international market destinations were […]
Saskatchewan farmers are hoping for a speedy recovery to grain exports through the West Coast. Rail crews have been working around the clock and have made progress in clearing mudslides on tracks in southern B.C. leading to the Port of Vancouver. CP Rail plans to reopen its railway between Kamloops and Vancouver Tuesday. Thirty locations […]
CN Rail says there was good grain movement in May but no new monthly record. It breaks the trend of over a year of consecutive months of new records for prairie grain shipments. CN Rail executive vice president Sean Finn says over 27 million tons of grain have been moved so far this crop year. […]
The latest statistics from the Ag Transport Coalition show a decline in service levels during shipping week 27, which ran from January 31st to February 6th. The Ag Transport Coalition monitors railway performance on behalf of a number of groups that includes farmers and grain companies. It says CN met only 63 percent of car […]
Western Canadian Wheat Growers applaud the railways for record January grain shipments but worry about the impact from the current frigid weather. Wheat Growers chair Daryl Fransoo says bitterly cold weather in the past has slowed grain shipments and he fears a repeat this month. He expects there may be some reduced movement but he […]
The Port of Thunder Bay had its busiest shipping season in 23 years. The last vessel of the year left last Tuesday. Annual cargo reached 10.2 million tonnes, which includes 9.2 million tonnes of grain. Overseas demand saw over 150 foreign salt walter vessels loaded with grain during this shipping season. (with files from […]
Canadian grain shipments to port are booming this spring. CP Rail set a best-ever monthly total in April, with 2.8-million tons of grain going to market, beating last November’s record by over 100,000 tons. The executive director of the Western Grain Elevators Association, Wade Sobkowich, says the COVID-19 outbreak has reduced rail shipments of other […]
Canola farmers in Canada are concerned about recent rail shipping disruptions and the impact on farm income. Police in Ontario have removed a blockade in eastern Canada and rail disruptions to the West Coast have been removed. The president and CEO of the Canadian Canola Growers Association, Rick White, says it will take months to […]