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CASA calls out The Amazing Race Canada for agricultural stunt
Opinion: Defence of Bunge-Viterra merger has holes
Opinion: The Bunge-Viterra merger dangerously decreases grain transportation competition in Canadian agriculture.
Editorial: Grain business consolidation and concentration
Press releases are often notable because of what they don’t say. Then again, sometimes they unintentionally speak volumes. For example, consider the official statements coming from the Glencore team related to their role in the continuing consolidation and concentration of the grain handling business in Canada. In 2012, when Glencore announced it was acquiring Viterra,
Railways weather winter woes
Grain shipments on track despite January cold blast
At the midway point of the 2023–24 transportation year, grain shipments are moving at a good clip. “In the last 12–18 months, we’ve seen some really good performance from both of the railroads,” said Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corporation, Canada’s grain monitor, at the Feb. 15 CropConnect conference in Winnipeg. “The exception was the
P&H plans Hamilton site expansion
After doubling capacity in 2020, the company is adding a third flour mill
P&H will construct a third flour mill and expand facilities at its Hamilton, Ont., site, it announced today.
P&H’s Glossop elevator to close
The elevator in western Manitoba shuts its doors at the end of the month
Producers around Strathclair will be losing one of their elevators at the end of the month. Canadian-owned grain buyer Parrish & Heimbecker Limited has said it’s closing its Glossop location, set between Strathclair and Newdale on the Yellowhead Highway, as of Jan. 31. P&H’s crop input operations on the site, however, will continue unchanged, the
Sask. union serves Viterra strike notice
Grain handling giant says its committed to negotiation, but has contingency plans in place
Yesterday, the union issued Viterra a 72-hour notice that they intend to strike as early as 2:00 pm on Jan. 5.
GSU members from Viterra Country Operations and Maintenance and Viterra's Regina head office have been negotiating for "fair wages, improved work-life balance, and workplace respect," for more than a year, the union said.
Seaway strike backs up Ontario grain
Prairie grain may follow suit if strike backs up traffic via Thunder Bay, GFO warns
The nature of eastern Canadian grain logistics, and a strike by St. Lawrence Seaway workers who operate the system’s canals, will see cascading impacts across the system if the situation isn’t resolved quickly, according to Crosby Devitt, CEO of Grain Farmers of Ontario. Unifor workers in both Ontario and Quebec walked off the job Sunday
Interswitching resurgence puts railways, grain industries on collision course
Both sides say a pilot to test a bigger interswitching radius is a bad move, but for opposite reasons and to opposite effect
Recent federal legislation has raised the stakes in a decade-long battle between the railways and Canadian grain shippers. The battle is over the interswitching radius. Interswitching is a regulation to ensure that shippers located where only a single railway operates can access points that are not served by that railway. The regulation kicks in when
A decade of interswitching debate
Rail bottlenecks, federal reports and renewed life for extended interswitching
Interswitching has been regulated since 1904 in Canada but in 2013 an exceptional harvest led to record-breaking grain production in Western Canada. The increased supply, combined with challenging weather conditions, overwhelmed the railways and led to significant delays in moving grain to export terminals. In 2014, the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act reached Parliament
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