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Harvested wheat being poured from a truck into a grain elevator.
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P&H’s Glossop elevator to close

The elevator in western Manitoba shuts its doors at the end of the month

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Producers around Strathclair will be losing one of their elevators at the end of the month. Canadian-owned grain buyer Parrish & Heimbecker Limited has said it’s closing its Glossop location, set between Strathclair and Newdale on the Yellowhead Highway, as of Jan. 31. P&H’s crop input operations on the site, however, will continue unchanged, the
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Viterra workers suspend strike to vote on new offer

Workers will be working to rule during the voting period

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Today, Grain and General Services Union workers employed by Viterra in Saskatchewan said they will vote on the grain handling company's latest final offer over the next two weeks. Locals 1 and 2, representing country operations and head office staff, respectively, were set to walk out at 2 p.m. today if a deal had not been reached.
Signage on Viterra’s office building in Regina. (Dave Bedard photo)

Sask. union serves Viterra strike notice

Grain handling giant says its committed to negotiation, but has contingency plans in place

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Yesterday, the union issued Viterra a 72-hour notice that they intend to strike as early as 2:00 pm on Jan. 5. GSU members from Viterra Country Operations and Maintenance and Viterra's Regina head office have been negotiating for "fair wages, improved work-life balance, and workplace respect," for more than a year, the union said.
A vessel is seen arriving at Odesa in southern Ukraine under the Black Sea Grain Initiative on April 12, 2023.
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Insurers, Ukraine launch war-risk ship insurance

Program announced in effort to cut grain costs

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Reuters – Insurance broker Marsh, Lloyd’s of London insurers and Ukrainian state banks have launched a program to cut the cost of claims for damage to ships and crew transporting grain through the Black Sea corridor, Marsh said Nov. 15. Kyiv launched a “humanitarian corridor” in August for ships bound for Africa and Asia to
File photo of an Alberta wheat field. (ImagineGolf/E+/Getty Images)
Weather

Coalition seeks farmers, ranchers to join climate change forum

Farmers for Climate Solutions aims to gather diverse viewpoints

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A farmer-led group is hoping to cut through the politics surrounding climate issues by bringing together a diverse group of Prairie farmers and ranchers for discussions around sustainability. “There’s a number of loud voices that tend to dominate the conversations,” says Ian McCreary, a grain and cattle farmer from Bladworth, Sask. McCreary is co-leading the
File photo of a desk in Canada’s Senate. (Dougall_Photography/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

Internal dispute over privilege, bullying allegations ties up C-234

New amendment to farm fuel bill now under debate

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A proposed amendment, and a dispute over senatorial behaviour, further geared down progress Tuesday of a federal private member’s bill to carve out a carbon tax exemption for grain drying and heating of barns and greenhouses. Bill C-234, which passed the House of Commons in late March, remained on the Senate’s order paper for debate
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, pictured here at a Remembrance Day event in 2023. Photo: Supplied/X.

Premiers urge senate to pass Bill C-234

The bill, which would see farm propane and natural gas exempted from the carbon price has been in the Senate since March

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The premiers of Ontario and Alberta are urging Senate to pass a bill that would see fuels for grain drying and barn and greenhouse heating exempted from the carbon price.
File photo of a desk in Canada’s Senate. (Dougall_Photography/iStock/Getty Images)

Senate votes down C-234 amendments

Changes would have pulled barn and greenhouse heating from carbon price exemptions

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The Senate voted today to reject amendments that would have seen barn and greenhouse heating removed from Bill C-234. In a sitting on the afternoon of Nov. 7, senators voted no to the adoption of amendments made by the committee for agriculture and forestry. Twenty-eight voted yes, and four abstained. The Senate then voted to
Today’s bins can hold more than 10 times the volume of structures a generation ago, but with this capacity comes challenges to keep grain in good condition.
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Storage strategies change with bigger bins

As storage systems have grown, more attention is needed to keep crops safe

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In the 1970s, a standard bin was 14 feet in diameter with a capacity of 1,350 bushels. High rollers might add an extra ring to stretch that another 300 bu. There were bins 19 feet in diameter, with a 2,700 bu. capacity, but few farmers bought them because they were hard to shovel out and
File photo of laker vessels navigating the Welland Canal. (JonathanNicholls/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Seaway strike backs up Ontario grain

Prairie grain may follow suit if strike backs up traffic via Thunder Bay, GFO warns

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The nature of eastern Canadian grain logistics, and a strike by St. Lawrence Seaway workers who operate the system’s canals, will see cascading impacts across the system if the situation isn’t resolved quickly, according to Crosby Devitt, CEO of Grain Farmers of Ontario. Unifor workers in both Ontario and Quebec walked off the job Sunday

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