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Data collection and infrastructure are the next big priorities for the  grain-handling and transportation system, says Western Grain Elevator Association executive director Wade Sobkowich.

New grain system priorities: data collection, infrastructure

By Allan Dawson August 31, 2017

The next two big priorities concerning grain movement are data collection and infrastructure, says Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA). “Any time you have a supply chain you have a bottleneck somewhere,” he said in an interview Aug. 23. WGEA members welcome the longer trains CN and CP Rail are

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CN Rail set grain-shipping records September to April

Longer manifest trains and increased rail and shipper efficiency are paying off, CN says

By Allan Dawson June 8, 2017

[Updated: June 8, 2017] It’s been a record-breaking year for grain movement on CN Rail during the 2016-17 crop year, even with a slow start in August. “Once we hit September it was full blast,” David Przednowek, CN’s director of grain marketing, said in an interview May 17. “Each individual month from September all the

Crops, News

Room for improvement, says railway report card

Data collected for the Ag Transport Coalition says the railways deliver most of the cars grain shippers order but many arrive late

By Allan Dawson September 8, 2015

Railway service for Western Canada’s grain shippers was “highly variable and timeliness of delivery was an issue,” in the 2014-15 crop year that ended July 31, the Ag Transport Coalition (ATC) said in a news release Aug. 15. Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CP) supplied shippers with 69 and 43

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Three decades earlier saw major concern of high interest rates

Our History: March 1980

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 26, 2015

This Prasco SuperSeeder advertised in our March 20, 1980 issue was one of the early entrants in the air seeder market, but unfortunately the company later went into receivership. High interest rates were a major concern, and we reported that Premier Sterling Lyon was concerned about the Bank of Canada’s new floating interest rate policy.

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How are the railways doing? Depends on whom you ask

Grain companies deny the railway allegation  of ordering ‘phantom’ cars

By Allan Dawson March 23, 2015

The railways are moving more grain than during the same period a year ago, but whether shippers’ needs are being met depends on whom you talk to. “Contrary to claims recently made by the new Ag Transport Coalition (ATC) that CN is somehow failing to meet demand, we know we’re responding very efficiently to all

Our History

An ag-minister’s advice goes wrong

Our History: January 2001

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 3, 2015

The advice may have been good, but the timing was wrong. As reported in our Jan. 25, 2001 issue, Agriculture Minister Rosann Wowchuk speaking at Ag Days unveiled a 70-page report touting Manitoba’s advantages in beef production, saying the province had all the resources to double its cow herd. On the other hand, a report

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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

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CN Rail chief defends grain service, blames grain companies

But Canada’s grain  monitor says the railways are mostly to blame  for the backlog

By Allan Dawson April 9, 2014

CN Rail boss Claude Mongeau testily defended his company’s grain service record before MPs last week, but was often contradicted by Canada’s grain monitor, Mark Hemmes of Quorum Corporation. Hemmes, when pushed to identify who was to blame for the unprecedented grain backlog said, “I think the railways carry the brunt of it… (but) it’s

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Railways accused of trying to swamp West Coast, Thunder Bay

The WGEA says it can handle 11,000 cars a week, but in all shipping corridors

By Allan Dawson March 25, 2014

Faced with meeting performance targets, Canada’s railways are now flooding the West Coast and Thunder Bay terminals with grain, the Western Grain Elevators Association says. Western grain elevator companies can handle the 11,000 cars a week the federal government has ordered the railways to move, but some of those cars need to go to the

Field-by-field mapping could improve yield, productivity predictions

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

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Field-by-field mapping could improve yield, productivity predictions

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

Tag Archives CN Rail — page 4

New grain system priorities: data collection, infrastructure

CN Rail set grain-shipping records September to April

Room for improvement, says railway report card

Three decades earlier saw major concern of high interest rates

How are the railways doing? Depends on whom you ask

An ag-minister’s advice goes wrong

The little railway that could

CN Rail chief defends grain service, blames grain companies

Railways accused of trying to swamp West Coast, Thunder Bay

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