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CN’s Q4 grain handle down in ‘challenging conditions’

U.S. income tax reform more than offset “challenging” conditions, including reduced grain handle, in Canadian National Railway’s fourth fiscal quarter. Montreal-based CN on Tuesday reported net income of $2.611 billion on total revenues of $3.285 billion for its fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, up from $1.018 billion on $3.217 billion in the year-earlier Q4. The

CMC’s booth at the GEAPS 2017 show in Kansas City. (CMCiel.com)

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AGI buys bin sensor, fertilizer blending system makers

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 17, 2018

Best known as the parent for several Canadian and U.S. manufacturers of grain handling and storage equipment, Ag Growth International is expanding its tech portfolio. Winnipeg-based AGI announced Wednesday it has bought Burnaby, B.C.-based CMC Industrial Electronics and Iowa-based Junge Control (JCI) for undisclosed sums. CMC, which formed in 1997 and has facilities at Burnaby

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Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News January 5, 2018

CNS Canada – Farmers shouldn’t be too concerned yet that the recent Agrium, Potash Corp of Saskatchewan merger will cause an increase in the price of fertilizer, at least according to the president of one provincial producer group. “(The merger is) a hard one to find a whole bunch of negatives or positives about it.

Sulphur piles in North Vancouver on Dec. 18, 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

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Price spike in sulphur leaves farmers, fertilizer makers sour

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel December 19, 2017

Winnipeg | Reuters — Phosphate fertilizer producers such as Mosaic Co. and PotashCorp are paying the highest prices in two years for sulphur, a key ingredient in their farm products, but farmers are the ones absorbing the extra cost. Higher sulphur costs, the result of tight global supplies and strong Chinese demand, come as fertilizer

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Dreyfus to sell Australian fertilizer unit to Agrium

By GFM Network News, Reuters December 12, 2017

Paris/Winnipeg | Reuters — Global commodity trader Louis Dreyfus has agreed to sell its fertilizer business to Canada’s Agrium as it continues an overhaul in response to tough agricultural markets. Louis Dreyfus is to sell Macrofertil Australia, which has annual sales of around US$120 million, to Agrium’s Australian unit Landmark Operations in a deal expected

A worker checks mining equipment at the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan’s Lanigan mine.

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Merged fertilizer firm Nutrien eyes U.S. farm suppliers

Regulatory-driven divestitures are creating a sizable war chest for acquisitions

By Rod Nickel December 5, 2017

Nutrien, the company to be formed from the merger of Agrium and PotashCorp of Saskatchewan, plans to expand its U.S. farm supply network and return cash to shareholders, Chuck Magro, Agrium CEO, said Nov. 15, as it leverages unusually flush coffers during an agriculture slump. Regulators in China and India require Potash to divest minority

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P+H plans new east-central Alberta elevator

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 21, 2017

Winnipeg grain and agrifood firm Parrish and Heimbecker is set to reinforce its recent arrival in the east-central Alberta retail market with a new grain elevator. Privately-held P+H announced Tuesday it will build a new 46,000-tonne capacity grain elevator and crop input centre at Viking, about 120 km southeast of Edmonton. The Viking site will

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Agrico buys stake in Alberta input retail chain

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 14, 2017

The wholesale crop input arm of Quebec’s La Coop federee has expanded its retail reach further west on the Prairies with a stake in a central Alberta input retailer group. Agrico Canada, part of the Quebec federation of ag co-ops since 2011, last week announced a deal to buy a 50 per cent interest in

Bridgeland, a UFA/CHS joint venture, operates this fertilizer plant at the RedTail Business Park south of Sexsmith, Alta. (Video screengrab from Bridgeland.ag)

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CHS sells stake in Bridgeland input venture to UFA

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 31, 2017

On the heels of its move to sell its wholly-owned crop input stores in Alberta and Saskatchewan, U.S. ag co-operative CHS is selling its remaining Alberta ag retail asset. Alberta farmer co-op UFA (United Farmers of Alberta) announced Tuesday it’s buying CHS’s interest in the two firms’ joint ag retail venture, Bridgeland Limited Partnership, for

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CHS to shed Prairie crop input retail sites

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 31, 2017

U.S. farm co-operative CHS is stepping back from Canada’s Prairie crop input retail sector with a deal to sell its 10 retail locations to Richardson International. Winnipeg-based Richardson on Tuesday announced it would buy CHS’s Alberta retail sites at Alix, Beiseker, Bow Island, Carseland, Craddock, Lacombe, Rolling Hills, Standard and Vauxhall, and the co-op’s lone

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CN’s Q4 grain handle down in ‘challenging conditions’

AGI buys bin sensor, fertilizer blending system makers

Agrium, Potash Corp merger shouldn’t have much of an impact yet

Price spike in sulphur leaves farmers, fertilizer makers sour

Dreyfus to sell Australian fertilizer unit to Agrium

Merged fertilizer firm Nutrien eyes U.S. farm suppliers

P+H plans new east-central Alberta elevator

Agrico buys stake in Alberta input retail chain

CHS sells stake in Bridgeland input venture to UFA

CHS to shed Prairie crop input retail sites

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