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Bin Sensors

POINT LEVEL PROBES Probes are inserted through bin walls and sensors to detect fill levels in a bin, tank, silo or other container. Display units outside the bins allow you to read the fill level from the outside, and the stainless steel probes come in a variety of lengths up to 68 inches (or up
Cereals, Opinion

Time To Stop Embracing Change

The good old days weren’t always so good if you were an elevator manager, or especially an elevator manager’s assistant. You had to be pretty handy with a shovel when you were loading a boxcar. Then you had to “cooper” those cars before shipment, sealing the doors with kraft paper and wooden or metal “grain
Cereals, News

Producer Car History

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Farmers gained the right to load their own grain in May 1902 through an amendment to the Manitoba Grain Act, after it became apparent elevator companies and the railways conspired to prevent farmers loading cars themselves. The amendment introduced the “Car Order Book” – allocating cars on a first-come, first-served basis. The Canadian Pacific Railway
Opinion

This Is Efficiency?

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We’ve all heard tales of the inefficiencies that have plagued centrally planned economies in far off places. The compounding effects – sluggish supply chains, lower productivity, missed delivery targets and people who could be working standing around with nothing to do – eventually drag the economy so deeply into an abyss, it takes a revolution
Opinion

Middlemen Win, Farmers Lose

Ten years ago, I was billed about $8 per ton at my local wooden elevator. The wood-ens have now been replaced with efficient high-throughput concrete elevators with 100-car load-outs. You will be better off, I was told; it will be more efficient. Now I pay $14 per ton at the concretes. Ten years ago, a
Cereals, News

CWB To Hustle Grain Out Of Red River Valley

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With overland flooding again expected in the southern portion of Manitoba’s Red River Valley, the Canadian Wheat Board plans to make room at area elevators for affected farmers to bring in their accepted grain now. The CWB said March 12 it would put a program in place to help farmers who may have grain at
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Zero Shrinkage Proposed For Process Elevators

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Some farmers called it “tookage” – the deduction primary elevators used to take from farmers to cover grain lost during handling known as “shrinkage.” The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) set the shrinkage deduction at terminal elevators at zero in 1990 and did the same at primary elevators in 2003. Now it’s proposing the same for
Cereals, News

Floyd Farms Drops Processing Elevator Licence

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Floyd Farms of Arborg has decided not to renew its licence as a process elevator effective Oct. 1. The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) has no reason to suspect any farmers are owed money for grain delivered to Floyd Farms, CGC spokesman Remi Gosselin said. If there are any, they should contact the CGC, he added.
Cereals, News

Producer Cars Have Been A Farmer Right Since 1902

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Legislation giving farmers the right to load their own grain into rail cars was introduced in May 1902 as an amendment to the Manitoba Grain Act of 1900, after it became apparent elevator companies and the railways conspired to prevent farmers loading cars themselves. The amendment introduced the “Car Order Book” – allocating cars on
Opinion

Viterra Strategy Short-Sighted

We sympathize with the community of Arborg and commend its attempt to save that great facility, the grain elevator. From every angle its demolition is a shame. For what benefits the farmer usually has a ripple effect right back up to the top, in this case Viterra. Fortunately not all multinationals

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