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Farm groups chided MPs over rail service at a recent hearing of the Commons agriculture committee.
Crops, News, Other

Western farmers want rail headaches fixed for the future

Presentations to Commons agriculture committee all noted the need for a long-lasting fix to this problem

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It’s too close to spring and planting time for a special order to the railways to move more grain to achieve much, Prairie farmers have told the Commons agriculture committee. Rural roads will soon be impassable for grain trucks and farmers will be focused on planting this year’s crop rather than hauling grain to terminals,
Proposed changes to rail shipping legislation could be deregulation by stealth, the NFU worries.
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NFU worried C-49 will help railways, hurt farmers

Terry Boehm believes the new legislation gives the railways too much wiggle room on grain service

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The National Farmers Union (NFU) fears Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, will further deregulate the railways, resulting in poorer service for western Canadian grain farmers, not better. The opposite view is held by most farm groups, grain companies and even the railways, all of whom want the legislation to revise the Canada Transportation Act
Cereals, Opinion, Other

Bill C-49: Helping the railways farm the farmers

This legislation is flawed and will deregulate railways by stealth

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Here we go again! Some Prairie farmers cannot ship their grain. Grain companies and their friends are blaming the railways for not getting the grain to port. After months of railway lobbying, the federal government is pushing new transportation legislation, claiming Bill C-49 will punish the railways for neglecting grain shipments. Yet this legislation effectively
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Calls grow for passage of transport bill to amend and quickly pass Transportation Modernization bill

As grain movement grinds slower shippers are calling for action on the transport file

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Calls for quick passage of C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act are increasing, as are requests for interim relief for farmers who can’t move grain because of poor rail service. And several groups want C-49 amended so a similar backlog doesn’t happen again. The Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission (Sask Wheat), the Saskatchewan Barley Development Commission and the Agricultural Producers Association
CN trains in Vancouver. (CN.ca)
Crops

CN, CP roll over revenue caps for 2016-17

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Canada’s big two railways have both overshot the maximum revenue they’re allowed to keep for ferrying the 2016-17 grain crop off the Prairies. The Canadian Transportation Agency on Thursday issued its annual determination of how much, if any, revenue Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) made over their maximum grain revenue entitlements
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C-49 Transportation Modernization Act off to Senate

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Bill C-49, the Grain Modernization Act, has passed third reading in the House of Commons and now goes to the Senate for debate. Farmers and grain companies hope if it becomes law the railways will be obliged to sign level-of-service contracts backed by financial penalties. Read more: Mixed reactions from farm groups to Bill C-49
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Calls for a review of railway costs

Some farm groups suspect producers are paying more than was originally intended under the maximum revenue entitlement

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When the railways start replacing hopper cars as expected if the Transportation Modernization Act becomes law, western farmers will pay more, in total, to ship grain to export. That’s because the maximum revenue entitlement (MRE) will be adjusted to pass on the purchase costs to shippers and ultimately farmers. Most farm and shipper groups agree
Farm groups hope the legislation will continue to allow interswitching, 
the ability of railways to use each other’s tracks.
News

New transport bill expected this week

Prairie grain shippers are counting on amendments to the Canada Transportation Act to improve rail service

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The federal government’s long-awaited proposals for improving railway shipping of western grain were expected this week in proposed amendments to the Canada Transportation Act. “An act to amend the Canada Transportation Act and other acts respecting transportation and to make related and consequential amendments to other acts,” was added to the House of Commons notice
Cereals, News

Transportation bill to be ambitious package

Despite a tight timeline the transport minister is still promising action before the summer recess

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While offering no details, Transport Minister Marc Garneau says seven key issues for the grain sector will be included in a bill on rail service to be introduced in Parliament this spring. In a letter to the Commons transport committee, Garneau said, “I look forward to presenting this legislation, which will support a more transparent,
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Playing with trains

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With spring just around the corner, it’s becoming clear a big wreck in grain shipping is unlikely this winter. Despite a 76-million-tonne crop to move, big blizzards and those infamous periods of frigid winter temperatures, the system has held together. Mark Hemmes of grain monitor firm Quorum said in a recent article in the Co-operator

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