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Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Rubber, meet road

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In recent years the country’s two major railways have all but dislocated their metaphorical shoulders patting themselves on the back. They’re rightly very proud of record grain movement year after year, and have pointed to major investments in infrastructure, equipment and personnel as key to that success. And to be clear, both CN and CP
Shippers say they’ll be watching CN’s performance closely following staff cuts.
News

Turmoil at CN making Canadian grain shippers nervous

Hedge fund is threatening to oust the railway’s senior management

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Canadian grain shippers are worried CN Rail’s plan to boost profits and avoid a shakeup in the executive suite could result in poorer service. “Even though (grain shipping) demand is a bit down (due to a smaller crop) they (CN) started rationing last week and their order fulfilment, especially out of Alberta is dropping,” Greg
An eastward-facing view from the north edge of the crossing at Mile 98.14 of CN’s Ashcroft subdivision, where BCWS suspected the Lytton fire began. (TSB photo)
Crops, Weather

No evidence trains sparked Lytton fire, TSB says

Transportation Safety Board now stepping out of ongoing fire probe

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There’s no proof the fire that largely destroyed a British Columbia village, damaged a key rail bridge and led to cuts in rail speed limits in high-risk areas was sparked by train traffic, the federal Transportation Safety Board says. The TSB on Thursday said its investigation, launched in early July, “has not revealed any evidence
Screengrab from a Wheelman autosteer installation video. (HandsFreeFarm.com)
Crops

Kubota to buy autosteer maker AgJunction

All-cash deal worth about $91 million

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Autosteer and ag equipment guidance system maker AgJunction is poised to sell itself to farm equipment maker Kubota Corp. in a $91 million all-cash deal. Publicly-traded AgJunction, which is registered in Calgary but based at Scottsdale, Ariz., said Thursday its board has unanimously approved Kubota’s 75-cents-per-share proposal and recommended shareholders vote in favour. AgJunction would
Farmers arrive with blankets and mattresses for others at the site of a protest against farm laws at Ghaziabad, India on Jan. 29, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)
Crops

Son of India government minister arrested, accused of killing farmers

Junior home minister's son was 'not co-operating' in probe

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Lucknow | Reuters — Ashish Mishra, son of junior home minister Ajay Mishra Teni, has been arrested on accusations he ran over and killed four protesting farmers last week, a senior police official said. The farmers, killed on Oct. 3 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, were part of India’s longest-running agricultural protest, opposing
(GFM file photo)
Crops, Markets

Cargill, ADM sell GrainBridge to ag software firm Bushel

'Network effect' expected in grains sector

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An online service farmers use to manage grain sales with ADM’s elevators and processing plants across Canada — along with Cargill and ADM elevators in the U.S. — is under new ownership. ADM and Cargill, the two major U.S.-based agribusinesses that set up GrainBridge in 2019, announced Tuesday they’ve sold it to Bushel, a Fargo,
(Photo courtesy Port of Los Angeles)
Crops, Markets, Other

‘Containergeddon’: Supply crisis drives Walmart, rivals to hire own ships

Bulk grain ships pressed into container service

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Los Angeles | Reuters — The Flying Buttress once glided across the oceans carrying vital commodities such as grain to all corners of the world. Now it bears a different treasure: Paw Patrol Movie Towers, Batmobile Transformers and Baby Alive Lulu Achoo dolls. The dry bulk cargo ship has been drafted into the service of
Wheat being loaded onto a cargo ship in Vancouver in 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)
Crops, Markets

Exports tumble as supplies simply not there

'There's very little to sell'

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MarketsFarm — Cereal and oilseed exports out of Canada nosedived in August just as the 2021-22 marketing began, according to the monthly export report from the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC). At about 2.24 million tonnes, total grain exports were down 38.5 per cent overall compared to those in August 2020. “There’s very little to sell.

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