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Viterra signs service deals with railways

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Viterra Inc., has signed service agreements with Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway which will help increase efficiency for grain movement in Western Canada, the company announced in two separate press releases December 19. The agreement with CN will see Viterra work with the railway to review supply chain key performance indicators, co-operate on
Cereals, News

CTA issues revenue cap report

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Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) exceeded what it’s allowed to earn hauling western Canadian grain to port by $1.25 million last crop year (2010-11), while Canadian National (CN), was $913,447 under. The results didn’t surprise Ian McCreary, a former Canadian Wheat Board elected director and farmer at Bladworth, Sask. “Rail competition just isn’t there,” he said
Cereals, Crops, News

CWB Sees More Wheat And Durum This Year

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The Canadian Wheat Board raised its 2011-12 outlook for wheat and barley on Friday, as a warm, dry summer looks to produce bigger harvests than a year ago. Spring floods left an estimated six million acres unplanted across the Prairies, but a hot summer with timely rains has helped crops in Alberta and most of
Cereals, News

Will Producers Still Be Viable In An Open Market?

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Short-line railway companies are asking the federal government what impact the end of the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) single desk will have on the viability of producer cars, producer car-loading facilities and ultimately short-line railways. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says farmers will still have access to producer cars, but CWB chair Allen Oberg predicts it
Cereals, Opinion

Paying More Won’t Help

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Canada’s newly reappointed agriculture minister believes he knows where the answer lies to squeezing better service out of the railways. It’s in your wallet. While doing some post-election musing about the government’s priorities for agriculture over the next several years, Gerry Ritz suggested farmers would be willing to pay more to move their grain to
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

It’s Wet Across The West

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Snow is still piled deep on Humphrey Banack’s Camrose, Alberta grain farm at a time when he’s usually tuning up his tractor for planting. The wettest fields before planting since the 1970s look to frustrate Canadian farmers’ zeal to sow their fields on time this spring and cash in on wheat and canola prices that
Cereals, News

CP Delays Mean Demurrage Bills At West Coast

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Holland The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), and ultimately farmers, face a big demurrage bill from parked ships on the West Coast waiting for grain because of poor Canadian Pacific Railway service. “We are working as hard as we can and meeting with the highest levels of CP to try to improve their service because if
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Get Moving On Railway Service Review

The Grain Growers of Canada is calling on the federal government to release the final report of the Rail Freight Service Review and a plan for fixing railway delivery problems. “The immediate release of the Rail Service Review is needed as soon as possible,” GGC president Stephen Vandervalk said in a statement March 4. “The
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CP Working To Improve Grain-Shipping Service

Canadian Pacific Railway says avalanches and more orders to move grain than were forecasted are why its service is slow. “We are working to understand capacity needs and we are focused on implementing service reliability initiatives,” CP spokesperson Breanne Feigel said last week in response to complaints from the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA). “We
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Poor CP Service Blasted By WGEA

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CP Rail’s grain-shipping service has never been worse in living memory, according to the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), prompting it to renew calls for federal legislation to improve it. “We expected the upcoming release of the Rail Service Report to result in improved service by the railways in an attempt to counter the serious

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