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Canada Grain Farmers Sue Railways

A small group of Western Canada farmers is suing the country’s two big railways, alleging they have been charged at least $1 billion too much for grain shipments since 1983. The five grain producers filed the class-action lawsuit against Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. in a Saskatchewan court on Oct. 15,
Cereals, News

CWB Boosts Churchill Volumes

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The Canadian Wheat Board this year shipped its second-highest volume of wheat in 32 years through the Port of Churchill, Manitoba, the grain marketer said Oct. 29. The board shipped 529,000 tonnes of wheat and durum through the northern Canadian port, up from 425,000 tonnes a year earlier, and the second-highest tonnage since 1977. The
Cereals, News

Producer Cars Have Been A Farmer Right Since 1902

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Legislation giving farmers the right to load their own grain into rail cars was introduced in May 1902 as an amendment to the Manitoba Grain Act of 1900, after it became apparent elevator companies and the railways conspired to prevent farmers loading cars themselves. The amendment introduced the “Car Order Book” – allocating cars on
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Ghost Of The Crow

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Afew years ago CBC’s “As it Happens” radio show host introduced a political panel on federal-provincial equalization with the question “Now that the Crowsnest rate is no longer an issue, is equalization destined to take its place as a synonym for ‘bore you to death?’” For those who participated in the
Crops

Rathwell-Nesbitt Short Line Being Explored

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Around 1 0 0 people attended a meeting in Holland Aug. 6, to explore purchasing part of the Glenboro subdivision from the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to set up a short line railway. Meeting organizers Bob Wheeler, a business development specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives and Carman MLA Blaine Pedersen, said they
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Manitoba’s Ag Museum Opens Rural Transportation Display

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Agriculture built modern Manitoba, but it was transportation – moving settlers in and their grain out – that allowed it to happen. That part of the province’s history is now on display at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum through a new exhibit that explores the evolution of transportation and its economic, social and political impact on
Cereals, News

CPR’s Revenue Cap Overage Reduced Due To Court Ruling

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Although the WGRF regrets the loss of any revenue, it knows overages it collects from the railways is farmers’ money. Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) didn’t overcharge western farmers for hauling their grain during the 2007-08 crop year by quite as much as first determined by the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA). As a result, the Western
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The Little Engine That Could

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The Boundary Trails Railway Company (BTRC) has made history. Now it has to make money. BTRC is Manitoba’s first farmer-owned short line railway and proud new owner of 23 miles of track running from Morden to Binney Corner, three miles west of Manitou formally owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway. The final piece of financing
Cereals, Crops

Grain Freight Charges Should Drop Next Crop… In Theory

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Western farmers, on average, should pay 7.4 per cent less to move their grain to export in the 2009-10 crop year that starts Aug. 1 due mainly to lower railway fuel costs, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) announced April 30. Assuming normal grain-shipping volumes, farmers collectively should, on average, pay $28.41 a tonne to ship
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Flooding Reroutes Trains

The risk of flooding along the Red River has forced Canadian Pacific Railway to reroute shipments, including grain, that normally flow from Canada into North Dakota. Starting April 3, CPR was rerouting trains from Winnipeg west to Saskatchewan and into North Dakota, said Mike LoVecchio, spokesman for the railway. The change adds “a large detour”

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