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The grain industry is hoping new legislation will finally turn the page on recurring grain shipping problems that stretch back decades.
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Historic transport bill passes Parliament

But some industry officials won’t fully celebrate until they see it’s working

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Western grain shippers are counting on better rail service after the Transportation Modernization Act (Bill C-49) became law May 23 to the delight of grain companies and farmers. During a news conference at Richardson-Pioneer’s South Lakes elevator both groups lauded federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay, Transport Minister Marc Garneau and the Senate transport committee for
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Transportation fight as old as western grain growing

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The Transportation Modernization Act has been a long time coming. “For more than a decade the members of the WGEA (Western Grain Elevator Association) have worked alongside farmers and the full grain value chain to build a consensus around long-term solutions to the chronic capacity and performance efficiencies of the rail freight system,” WGEA executive
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CN Rail ordered 1,000 hopper cars

The new cars will hold more grain and replace older cars

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CN Rail has ordered 1,000 new-generation high-cube grain hopper cars over the next two years to rejuvenate the aging equipment needed to serve increasing annual crop yields. “This substantial investment in higher-capacity payload hopper cars, with up to 10 per cent more capacity than the older generation, demonstrates our commitment to safely, efficiently and reliably
The grain shipping backlog is mostly gone partly because railways have picked up the pace, but also because some unfulfilled sales made earlier this year, have disappeared, says Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association.
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Grain backlog no longer a problem

The railways are filling more car orders, but also unfilled earlier sales were lost

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This year’s grain shipping backlog is mostly gone. “Members (of the Western Grain Elevators Association) are fairly current right now after having to defer sales, and not make new sales, and make adjustments to their sales books to reduce the amount they can sell during peak price periods,” WGEA executive director Wade Sobkowich told reporters
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CWB class action suit takes step forward

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A proposed class action lawsuit against the federal government and G3, alleging farmers’ money helped privatize the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), is another step closer, says Anders Bruun, one of the lawyers working on the suit. In a written ruling released Monday, Master Shayne Berthaudin of the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench ruled against the
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Strikes called off as unions, CP reach tentative deals

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Labour peace arrives Thursday morning at Canadian Pacific Railway, as the company and the unions for its conductors, engineers and signal maintainers have reached tentative deals. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Council No. 11, which represents about 360 CP signal maintenance staff, announced a tentative three-year deal with Calgary-based CP Tuesday evening. The
Chinese geneticists have mapped the subgenome in wheat that was contributed by einkorn wheat, seen here.
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Genetic road map

Chinese researchers have just added significantly to what 
we know about the wheat genome

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Few crops are more important and more genetically complex than bread wheat. It feeds more than a third of the human population and is adaptable to a wide range of climates. It’s also a complex ‘hexaploid’ that contains three subgenomes (dubbed A, B and D) from parent plants, making its genetic package larger, more complex

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