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CTA Ruling Helps Maintain Rail Competition Near Winnipeg

February 19, 2009

Paterson Grain has won its fight to continue being served directly by the American-based BNSF Railway Company (BN) at its Lilyfield elevator near Winnipeg. Feb. 9 the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) ruled against Canadian National Railway Company’s (CN) efforts to block BN’s access via a rail car interchange with CN. “This upholds the rights we

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In Brief… – for Feb. 5, 2009

February 5, 2009

Smaller Alta. beet crop costs Rogers: Shrinking sugar beet acreage helped bite deep into Rogers Sugar’s bottom line for the company’s first quarter. The Montreal income trust posted profit of $73,000 on $138.4 million in revenues for Q1 ending Dec. 31, down from $18.5 million on $173 million in the year-earlier period. Its gross margin

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Lack of co-operation hurts world’s best grain system

By Allan Dawson January 29, 2009

Western Canada has the best grain handling and transportation system in the world, but it breaks down because its participants don’t get along, according to Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corporation, which monitors the system’s performance for the federal government. “We probably have, without a doubt, the best country elevator system anywhere,” Hemmes told the

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Farmers urged to lobby for rail costing review

By Allan Dawson January 15, 2009

The millions of dollars the railways are reported to have overcharged western grain farmers underscores the need to review railway costs – and to update the formula used to determine how much the railways can earn hauling grain. So said Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) spokeswoman Maureen Fitzhenry in an interview last week: “We need to

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Canadian railroads exceed caps on grain revenue

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 8, 2009

Canada’s two national railways generated too much revenue from western grain hauling in the last crop year and will have to pay fines, a federal agency ruled on Dec. 30. Canadian National Railway exceeded its $409 million cap by nearly $26 million while Canadian Pacific Railway was nearly $34 million over its $374 million cap,

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Millions in freight savings

By Allan Dawson December 4, 2008

Western grain shippers will save $2.59 a tonne or $72 million per year after a Federal Court ruled against Canada’s two major railways in a battle over how much maintaining hopper cars should cost. The Federal Court of Appeal rejected the railways’ argument that the Canadian Transportation Agency erred in the way it retroactively cut

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Farmers not well served by grain transportation reforms

By Allan Dawson November 27, 2008

“We have a first-class system. I don’t think there’s anybody who beats us. When you talk to buyers around the world they say, ‘You’ve got all of this and you still screw it up.’” – MARK HEMMES From the farmer’s point of view, reforms made eight years ago to Western Canada’s grain transportation system have

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CTA Ruling Helps Maintain Rail Competition Near Winnipeg

In Brief… – for Feb. 5, 2009

Lack of co-operation hurts world’s best grain system

Farmers urged to lobby for rail costing review

Canadian railroads exceed caps on grain revenue

Millions in freight savings

Farmers not well served by grain transportation reforms

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