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CP lays off 500 workers, cites softening demand

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus June 29, 2016

CNS Canada — Select maintenance workers at Canadian Pacific Railway will be laid off effective Thursday as the railway’s revenue is expected to plummet in the second quarter. Lower volumes are one reason given for declining profits, though grain movement this crop year is ahead of average. Earlier this month, 500 CP maintenance workers were

Grain shippers say the now-extended temporary measures have stimulated competition within the system where before none existed.

Cereals, News

Grain-shipping measures extended one year

Grain companies and farm group welcome the move and vow to keep the pressure on Ottawa for a permanent solution

By Allan Dawson June 27, 2016

Pleased and relieved. That’s how western Canadian grain farmers and elevator companies are reacting to a one-year extension of emergency grain-shipping measures first implemented by the former Conservative government in 2014 to address a backlog in grain shipping. The four key provisions, which came into effect under the Fair Rail for Farmers Act, were set

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Easy to say, not easy to do

By Laura Rance-Unger March 10, 2016

Most would agree that the so-called revenue cap on Canada’s two national railways is an imperfect solution to a complicated problem. Officially called the Maximum Revenue Entitlement (MRE), it was implemented as part of a major reform of grain transportation policy by Justice Willard Estey in 2000. It was an alternative to his proposal to

MPSG executive director Francois Labelle.

Cereals, News

Grain shippers want emergency rules extended

Key clauses expire Aug. 1

By Allan Dawson February 18, 2016

Grain companies and farm groups want the federal government to extend regulations brought to deal with the grain transportation crisis of 2013-14 before they expire Aug. 1. The legislation formally known as Bill C-30 made several changes to the Canada Transportation Act, including expanding interswitching within 160 km of an interchange, instead of 30. It’s

Crops

CP cuts raise worry over potential slowdown

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News January 28, 2016

CNS Canada –– Canadian Pacific Railway’s decision to cut 1,000 jobs has caught the attention of two Prairie farm leaders. Norm Hall, president of Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, worries the move is short-sighted and may catch up with the railway in months and years to come, when commodity prices catch fire again. “You dump

Crops, News

Weekly, not yearly rail performance key to grain shippers: WGEA

The Ag Transport Coalition’s second weekly report on rail service  shows the railways aren’t meeting demand

By Allan Dawson February 13, 2015

Canada’s railways say they are moving more grain than a year ago, but still aren’t meeting grain shippers’ demands, according to the latest weekly railway performance report prepared by QGI Consulting for the Ag Transport Coalition. And there’s the rub, says Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), which represents Western

Crops, Markets

Another union serves CP with strike notice

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 12, 2015

Barring last-minute deals or back-to-work legislation, staff handling locomotive and rail car inspection, maintenance and repair at Canadian Pacific Railway may join the company’s engineers and conductors on strike Sunday. Unifor, which represents about 1,800 CP employees, announced Thursday it served CP late Wednesday night with strike notice for 12:01 a.m. Sunday (Feb. 15), following

Crops

CN Rail over, CP under 2013-14 Maximum Revenue Entitlement

The railways moved 38.76 million tonnes of western grain to export ports — the most ever since 2000-01 

By Allan Dawson January 9, 2015

It cost western Canadian grain farmers, on average, $33.69 a tonne to ship grain by rail during the 2013-14 crop year, down 30 cents a tonne from the crop year before. And, as was the case in 2012-13, one railway was slightly over and the other slightly under the statutory Maximum Revenue Entitlement (MRE), also

Local news

The little railway that could

Boundary Trails Railway Co. had a record year in a year of epic railway snags

By Allan Dawson January 8, 2015

Southern Manitoba’s Boundary Trails Railway Company (BTRC) had geography on its side last year, more than tripling the number of cars it handled. The 38-km short line, which runs from Morden to Binney Corner just west of Manitou, handled 619 grain cars in the 2013-14 shipping year. The company is owned by 90 shareholders, mostly

If you thought grain-shipping woes were solved, think again, warn grain shippers and flour millers. photo: allan dawson

Cereals, Crops, News

Grain shippers: Worried about a repeat of poor railway performance

The railways say there hasn’t been enough grain to move to  meet their government-mandated thresholds

By Allan Dawson September 25, 2014

Ottawa has ordered the railways to move at least 526,250 tonnes of grain a week and there’s a smaller crop so there should be no worries about getting this year’s crop to market, right? Wrong. “Yes, we’re nervous about it,” Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA), said in an interview

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy futures dip as traders await China sales; corn, wheat sag

Seeds Canada announces Dan Wright as new CEO

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