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"I understand from talking to Manitoba producers that in some areas grain shipping is as bad as 2013-14." – Dan Mazier
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KAP alleges poor rail service in southwest Manitoba

However, the grain monitor says on the whole grain movement this crop year has been decent

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Rail service for grain in southwestern Manitoba has been bad in recent months, Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier said during the farm group’s advisory council here April 20. “I understand from talking to Manitoba producers that in some areas grain shipping is as bad as 2013-14,” Mazier said in his opening address. “Some
Railway in fog
Comment, Crops

False premises don’t help rail discussion

The real solution will involve commercial partnerships, not central planning by government

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Gord Gilmour’s recent editorial (‘Playing with trains,’ February 16, 2017) makes some valid points related to Canada’s grain supply chain. We agree that canola crush has been good for farmers, and the supply chain has been resilient this winter. Unfortunately, Gilmour also perpetuates unhelpful fallacies, and he advocates policies that would hinder the performance of
An Alberta farmer says plenty of grain is moving through Western Canada — but too much of it is U.S. grain.
Cereals, News

Is U.S. grain eating up Canadian rail capacity?

Not according to CP Rail, which on average moves two trains of American grain through Western Canada daily

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An Alberta farmer alleges Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) isn’t moving Canadian grain in a timely way because it’s preoccupied shipping American grain through Western Canada — an allegation CP denies. The Carstairs-area farmer asked not to be identified fearing it might reveal his source. The farmer said according to his source every day CP brings
Western grain is moving relatively well despite bad weather and a big crop, but shippers complain CP Rail could do better. CP Rail says it’s moving almost as much grain as it did last crop year, which was a record.
Cereals, News

Western grain shipping relatively smooth so far

Although concerns have been raised about CP Rail’s performance, a big crop and cold weather haven’t derailed grain exports

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Western Canadian grain has been moving fairly well this crop year despite a 76-million-tonne crop and bitterly cold weather, which in 2013-14 was blamed for a huge and expensive grain-shipping backlog. “All things considered things are going pretty good,” Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corporation, the firm hired by the federal government to monitor Western
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Crops

CP to chart weekly grain handling performance online

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Canadian Pacific Railway plans to launch a new weekly “supply chain scorecard” next week, to chart its own performance handling Prairie grain. The Calgary company announced the new program Friday for an online launch Wednesday (Oct. 19), noting the scorecard “will include, when necessary, detailed information on any internal or external factors affecting grain movement” as
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops

U.S. activist investor Ackman leaves CP board

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Bill Ackman, the U.S. activist investor who usurped the leadership of Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, is leaving the Calgary company’s board after his hedge fund sold off its remaining stake last month. Ackman, who heads New York-based Pershing Square Capital Management, joined CP’s board in 2012 and served on its finance and corporate governance
CP Rail says it’s ready to move this year’s expected bumper crop.
Crops, News

CP Rail raring to move expected bumper crop

A company executive says the grain-handling and transportation system learned lessons from the 2013-14 shipping backlog

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Canadian Pacific Railway is ready to move Western Canada’s bumper 2016 crop, but is disappointed surplus system capacity isn’t being used now. “We have been idle in terms of cars in service really since about May,” John Brooks, CP’s vice-president of sales and marketing for intermodal and grain said in an interview Aug. 11. “So
CP railway engine and grain cars
Cereals, News

CP CEO says company ready for bumper crop, shippers skeptical

Company says new investments will increase ability to move a big crop

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The CPR says it’s ready to move a bumper crop, but agriculture industry observers remain somewhat skeptical. CP CEO Hunter Harrison said, in a recent letter to Transport Minister Marc Garneau, the company is aware a big crop is on the horizon and is prepared for it. “I think it is good news that CP
(CPR.ca)
Crops

CP, Teamsters dispute railway’s staffing obligations

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Canadian Pacific Railway is refuting claims from one of its employees’ unions that the company is in “violation of the law” over layoffs of track maintenance staff. Calgary-based CP last month announced temporary layoffs effective June 30 affecting about 500 maintenance-of-way crew positions. On Tuesday it cited “business ebbs and flows associated with global markets
Farmers, grain companies warn railways be ready to move a big crop
Crops, News

Farmers, grain companies warn railways be ready to move a big crop

Western production could exceed the 
five-year average

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The prospects of another bumper crop this year have western Canadian grain companies and farm leaders warning the railways to be ready. They want to avoid a repeat of the colossal and costly backlog of 2013-14 when crop production set a new record by a large margin. “We know it’s going to be a big

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