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“Shortly after I started as an assistant grain inspector at the CGC, and I saw how things worked, I said to myself, ‘someday I would really like the opportunity to be the chief.’” – Derek Bunkowsky.
Farmit Manitoba

Canada’s chief grain inspector knows the grain industry

Derek Bunkowsky says having been a farmer and grain buyer helps him do his job at the Canadian Grain Commission

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Derek Bunkowsky, chief grain inspector for Canada, is committed to fulfilling his statutory duties. After all, it’s his signature that is on the Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) Certificate Final guaranteeing the grade of every bulk export of Canadian grain leaving the country by ship. “I take that very seriously,” Bunkowsky said in an interview Dec.
Keefer Terminal (foreground) at the Port of Thunder Bay. (PortOfThunderBay.ca)
Crops, Other

Thunder Bay shipping season wraps up

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MarketsFarm — The last vessel of the shipping season will depart the Port of Thunder Bay on Friday. Grain handling volumes were down on the year, but increases in other categories helped limit the overall reduction in movement through the northern Lake Superior port. The 2021 navigation season will come to a close with the
Sea surface temperature anomalies over the equatorial Pacific Ocean for the week centred on Jan. 5, 2022. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)
Other, Weather

La Niña likely to continue into spring, U.S. forecaster says

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Reuters — La Nina conditions are likely to continue during the Northern Hemisphere spring, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday. The La Niña weather pattern, characterized by unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, has a 67 per cent chance of persisting from March through May this year, the National Weather Service’s
The Federal Beaufort loads grain at Richardson terminal at the Port of Hamilton in June 2021.
News

Grain shipments not contributing to seaway volume increase

General cargo through St. Lawrence Seaway rose 70 per cent in 2021, but grain was down

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Shipping is up through the St. Lawrence Seaway — but grain isn’t contributing to that volume. General cargo shipments through the St. Lawrence Seaway were up about 70 per cent from the same period last year, the Chamber of Marine Commerce said in a mid-December report.  That figure includes steel, aluminum, oversized machinery and other
David Derwin of PI Financial discussed how farmers can capture high grain prices while avoiding risk in the Between the Rows podcast episode, ‘Foodgrains Bank boosters, capitalizing on your commodities’ which aired on Dec. 9, 2021.
Grain Markets, Markets

How to market grain in our current environment

A conversation from the Between The Rows podcast can give you some insight

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Looking for some current insights into marketing your grain? Here’s a transcript of a recent discussion between journalist Ed White and myself on Between The Rows the podcast of Glacier FarmMedia. I think it can give you some good information for the coming year. Ed White: 2021 has been a great year for crop prices.
Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies in degrees Celsius for the week centred on Dec. 29, 2021. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)
Other, Weather

La Niña introduces itself with Prairie cold snap

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MarketsFarm — The frigid conditions which had enveloped the Prairie provinces in recent weeks is a sign La Niña has come again, according to a Kansas-based meteorologist. Since mid-December, the Prairies have been in a deep freeze beginning with temperatures at least 10 C below-normal. Since the holiday season, many towns and cities in the
Environment Canada’s forecast probabilities of precipitation for the January-through-March period. (Weather.gc.ca)
Crops, Livestock, Other, Weather

Colder-than-normal Prairie winter forecast

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MarketsFarm — Colder-than-normal temperatures are in the long-range forecast across Western Canada over the next three months, while much of Eastern Canada should be warmer. The latest seasonal forecast from Environment Canada, released Friday, calls for a 50 to 90 per cent chance of below-normal temperatures from January through March for the four western provinces.
(File photo by Dave Bedard)
Crops

CN over, CP well under 2020-21 grain revenue caps

Railways moved record-level volume during year, CTA says

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Coming off a record-level Prairie grain handle, Canadian National Railway’s $1.042 billion in 2020-21 Prairie grain revenue is set to be trimmed by about $2.52 million. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Wednesday released its determination that CN’s 2021-21 Prairie grain revenue of $1,044,909,345 came in $2,399,676 above its maximum revenue entitlement (MRE) for the year.
Editor’s Take: Getting with the times
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Getting with the times

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I have many memories, when I was a kid, of trips to the elevator. We’d roll up the driveway and earthen ramp, into the building and over the pit. The man on duty that day — and back then it was always a man — would greet my father as we stepped off the scale.
A Shanghai container terminal. (
News, Other

Container crunch coalition calls for government action

TRANSPORT | Shippers say market has ceased to function and Port of Vancouver has become container storage yard

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Canada’s shipping container crunch is hurting not just farmers but the entire economy. So says a cross-commodity coalition urging the Canadian government to take the lead in fixing it. “It’s not a normal functioning market,” Greg Northey, Pulse Canada’s vice-president of corporate affairs, said in an interview Dec. 15. Pulse Canada and several farm groups

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