grain exports

Grain exports high ahead of Thursday’s rail work stoppage

Grain exports high ahead of Thursday’s rail work stoppage

Aug 20, 2024 | 4:03pm
Canadian grain exports for the new crop year are off to a good start, but it’s likely aided by anticipation of a rail strike or lockout. Numbers from the SaskWheat Market Outlook for the week of August 19 show Canada exported 528 thousand tonnes of wheat in week one of the 2024-25 crop year and […]

Sask posts third year of record exports of agricultural products

Feb 8, 2023 | 1:35pm

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 […]

Sask. farmers hope for speedy recovery to grain exports through Vancouver

Nov 24, 2021 | 6:15am

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 reports good grain movement in May but no record

Jun 25, 2021 | 5:18am

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. […]

Rail movement of export grain slows with cold weather

Feb 18, 2021 | 1:27pm

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 […]

Wheat Growers fear cold weather will hamper grain exports

Feb 11, 2021 | 1:57pm

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 […]

Grain exports through the Lakehead reach high point in 23 years

Jan 18, 2021 | 11:40am

  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 […]

Prairie grain shipments booming to foreign markets

May 6, 2020 | 5:35am

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 […]

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