(Resource News International) — A January strike at West Coast ports remains a possibility after negotiations over the weekend by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association and two federally-appointed mediators failed to result in a new labour contract. About 425 ship and dock foremen from ports in British Columbia’s
B.C. port strike still looms after talks tank
Possible strike looms over West Coast ports
(Resource News International) — Workers at Canada’s West Coast ports have threatened to ring in the new year with a strike that could bring activity at the country’s busiest ports grinding to a halt. According to reports, workers at ports in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and Prince Rupert have threatened to strike beginning
Canada seeks details on Russian export supports
(Resource News International) — Reports about possible Russian grain export support measures have attracted the attention of the Canadian Wheat Board and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, who say they are waiting for more information about program details. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) reports that Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov
Grain rerouted around CPR mainline derailment
(Resource News International) — Grain and oilseed rail shipments travelling on Canadian Pacific Railway’s main line were rerouted following a train derailment near Grand Coulee, Sask., about 17 km west of Regina. The derailment, involving 30 potash cars and one locomotive, happened around 8:30 p.m. Thursday. “Grain and oilseed shipments continue unaffected as we were
Low fall fertilizer sales spur 2009 supply concerns
(Resource News International) — Reduced demand in Canada for fertilizer this fall has sparked concerns about supply shortages in 2009. “Farmers are trying to wait as long as they can to see if prices will keep coming down and yet, on the other side of the coin, there is the concern about whether or not
Consistency in distillers’ grains earns premiums
(Resource News International) — Not all distillers’ grains are created equally — and the buyers who use the co-product of ethanol in animal feed are willing to price accordingly. Because ethanol production is not an exact science and ethanol plants are not uniformly constructed, nutrient and quality variation in distillers’ grains is always a concern
Plans to open Saskatchewan slaughter plant in 2009 still in place
“COOL just makes our plant that much more attractive.” – Jim Ramsay The chairman of the Saskatchewan Slaughter Plant Initiative says the group continues to move ahead with plans to construct a one-million-head-per-year hog slaughter plant to open by next fall. “We know that the best time to start production is the fall, to open
Sask. pork plant plans still proceeding
(Resource News International) — The chairman of the Saskatchewan Slaughter Plant Initiative says the group continues to move ahead with plans to construct a one million-head-per-year hog slaughter plant to open by next fall “We know that the best time to start production is the fall, to open when the prices are right, so we’re
StatsCan seen confirming record canola crop
(Resource News International) — Trade sources expect the next Statistics Canada 2008-09 crop production report, to be released Dec. 4, to confirm ideas that Prairie producers harvested a record amount of canola this fall. “The trade is generally thinking 12 million tonnes. Whether the amount is a couple hundred thousand tons above or below that
Canada a growing market for U. S. distillers grains
Since the boom in the U. S. biofuel industry, U. S. supplies of dried distiller grains, ethanol’s co-product, have grown significantly and U. S. exporters have been looking North to a large and growing market for their feed alternative. At the recent United States Grain Council’s, or USGC, International Distillers Grains Conference & Trade Show
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