grain movement

The grain industry is gearing up for meetings and submissions on rail transportation. SaskAgToday.com Chief Agricultural Editor Kevin Hursh says it’s a wide-ranging review of grain transportation policy by Transport Canada, from extended inter-switching to maximum revenue entitlement. Transport Canada wants feedback from the Ag Transport Coalition, Western Grain Elevator Association, Canadian Federation of Agriculture, railway companies, among […]

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. […]

A potential strike of B.C. port workers is looming. Yesterday (Wed), members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union voted in favour of strike action and could walk off the job on Saturday, if a deal can’t be reached with the B.C. Maritime Employers Association. The potential strike would affect about 7,400 workers and 49 […]

Increase rail competition and lowering costs of hauling farm commodities are the goals of provisions included in a federal bill to extend interswitching on railways. Ian Boxall, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) noted some provisions to Bill C-47 include ensuring the rates are fair for interswitching and making sure it’s done […]

The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association wants the federal government to find a resolution to the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) strike as quickly as possible. President Gunter Jochum, who farms west of Winnipeg, is calling on Ottawa to ensure Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) employees within the PSAC Union return to work immediately. Jochum […]

A grain movement analyst says January was a month of ups and downs in grain shipping by rail. Milt Poirier with QGI Consulting says grain movement was poor at Christmas, saw some recovery in early January, but fell far behind later in the month. Poirier says rail car order fulfillment at the end of January […]

  CN Rail says it is well prepared to move this falls larger prairie crop to market. The assistant vice president of grain at CN, David Prezednowek says the winter rail plan shows 57 new locomotives, 850 more people, and another 500 high capacity hopper cars for increased grain shipments in coming months. He says […]

  Saskatchewan farmers are disappointed with the latest grain movement numbers. The Ag Transport Coalition says CN Rail only supplied 24 to 30 percent of the hopper cars ordered in the last half of January for prairie grain movement. The vice chair of SaskWheat, Jake Leguee of Weyburn, says the figures are stunningly bad. Leguee […]

CN Rail is reporting record grain movement for the crop year ending August 1st. Sales and marketing director David Przednowek says CN moved more than 31 million metric tons of grain to market last crop year, up from the 29.4 million ton record set the previous year. “In spite of all the challenges, CN moved […]

CN Rail has outlined plans to spend 120 million dollars in Saskatchewan this year to improve rail shipments for grain and other products. CN Director of Sales and Marketing, David Przednowek says highlights include replacing 48 miles of rail, 155,000 ties and rebuilding 31 road crossings. “So, CN’s been on record pace for grain movement […]