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Producer car shippers bypass plugged elevators
Cereals, News

Producer car shippers bypass plugged elevators

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A12-car train jerks to a steady rhythm every few seconds as part-time engineer Travis Long ever so slowly “stretches” the newly connected cars, while a roaring hum fills the locomotive’s cab. It’s the satisfying sound of grain moving to market via producer cars on the Boundary Trail Railway Company’s (BTRC) short line — 23 miles
Wheat is transferred from the train cars via a conveyor belt to the cargo ship in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadian Grain Commission fees for inspecting outgoing cargoes will rise sharply this year.  photo: REUTERS/Ben Nelms
Opinion

A closer look at Canadian Grain Commission user fees

There is an inherent conflict of interest when a regulatory agency operates on a complete cost recovery basis

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The Canada Grain Act was enacted in 1912. The last set of significant amendments was made in the early 1970s. Since then, there have been vast changes in farm operations, grain handling, marketing, exporting and the global marketplace. The time is exactly right to modernize the Canada Grain Act. The federal government passed Bill C-45,
Cereals, Crops, Weather

Move grain out before water moves in

Province will consider lifting spring weight restrictions on Manitoba roads if 
producers need to move grain or livestock out of flood-affected areas

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When the flood waters come, grain stops moving — and that means farmers better hurry if they want to empty some bins and recharge their bank account this spring, industry officials say. And unlike past floods, the Canadian Wheat Board won’t be overseeing grain movement to ensure there’s plenty of elevator space for those needing
Crops, News

Shippers suggest amendments to beef up Fair Rail Freight Service Act

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The worst rail service in three years prompted shippers to propose amendments to toughen Bill C-52, the Fair Rail Freight Service Act, to help balance their relationship with the railways, says Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA). “Service is very poor on both railroads,” he said in an interview March
News, Opinion

Our history: A bird’s-eye view of Austin

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The storage archives of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum hold a number of items that the museum cannot display due to lack of proper display facilities. One of the pieces is the promotional booklet Austin, Manitoba The Sort of Home You’ve been Looking for printed by the Austin Board of Trade circa 1912. A photo in
Crops, News

Grain-handling history available online

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A train rushes across the Prairies, taking rail cars of grain from country elevators to terminal elevators at Thunder Bay, Ontario. It’s a scene that could be from any year. But this train is a steam engine and the year is 1955, as seen in the documentary “Grain Handling in Canada” which is available for
Cereals, Crops

Near-Record Producer-Car Use

Western Canadian farmers’ use of producer cars for transporting wheat was the second highest in history in 2010-11, the Canadian Wheat Board says in a release. Farmers loaded 12,784 producer cars in the past crop year, just below the record of 12,934 set two years ago. Producer-car use has increased dramatically over the past 15
Cereals, Country Crossroads

Producer Cars In The Horse-Powered Era

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It’s a showpiece of Prairie ingenuity – and proof that farmers’ interest in producer cars dates back more than a century. While going through a circa 1906 edition of the Canadian Thresherman and Farmermagazine, Manitoba Agricultural Museum director Alex Campbell found an ad for a “portable elevator” built by the Carberry Wood and Iron Works

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