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Editorial: Long-term fix needed

By Gord Gilmour March 15, 2018

Canada’s grain handling and transportation system has descended into one of its periodic episodes of chaos and uncertainty. A big crop and some cold weather have met railways cut to the bone in search of profit, observers say, leading to the predictable outcome of grain movement grinding to a near halt. The last time was

Crops

Prairie grain movement not perfect, but not in crisis

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 22, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadian grain exports are moving out of the country at a similar pace as they were a year ago, but there are still some challenges along the logistical chain. “Right now we’re looking at the second largest supply of grain that we’ve ever had to move,” said Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum

Gerry Ritz won’t be coming back to the House of Commons in September. (Manitoba Co-operator photo by Shannon VanRaes)

Ex-agriculture minister Gerry Ritz quits Commons

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

Gerry Ritz, the federal minister for agriculture and agri-food for nine years in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, is done with federal politics. The MP for the western Saskatchewan riding of Battlefords-Lloydminster since 1997, Ritz announced via Twitter Thursday morning that he “will not be returning to my seat in the House of Commons this fall.”

Crops

New record set for Prairie grain throughput in 2016-17

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News August 22, 2017

Western Canada’s grain industry moved a record volume of grain in the 2016-17 crop year that ended July 31 and is gearing up to ship this year’s crop, expected to be the smallest in four years. Export terminals at Vancouver, Prince Rupert and Thunder Bay put through 35.945 million tonnes of grain last crop year,

Crops

Extensions sought for interim grain freight measures

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 13, 2017

Not expecting federal grain transport reforms to take effect until this fall at the earliest, several Prairie grain grower groups want to see an extension of the previous government’s interim rules and penalties for railways in the meantime. A proposed “Transportation 2030” package of rail reforms, pledged last November by Transport Minister Marc Garneau, is

Crops

G3 to build two more Saskatchewan elevators

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 28, 2017

The grain company formerly known as CWB has picked sites and plans to start construction next month on two new grain elevators in Saskatchewan. G3 Canada on Tuesday announced it will build primary elevators about five km north of Melville on Highway 10 and seven km west of Saskatoon on Highway 14, to be ready

Cereals, Opinion

Opinion: Wheat growers support free trade

By Jason Scott, Levi Wood February 28, 2017

Since the end of the Canadian Wheat Board’s government monopoly control over the marketing of western Canadian wheat, there has been a great deal of change in the Canadian wheat industry and positive modernization of many regulations. One of the most significant changes to come from marketing freedom for wheat farmers has been the growth

The Canadian Grain Commission building on Main Street in Winnipeg. (File photo)

Crops

Canola Council chief to lead Grain Commission

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 3, 2017

The point person for Canada’s canola industry will become the chief executive of Canada’s grain handling regulator starting in mid-February. Patti Miller, the president of the Canola Council of Canada since 2012, will start a six-year term as chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission on Feb. 13, federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay announced Tuesday.

The Andersons’ ethanol plant at Denison, Iowa. (AndersonsEthanol.com)

Crops

U.S. holding company offers to buy grain handler Andersons

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek May 17, 2016

Reuters — HC2 Holdings Inc., a company run by former hedge fund manager Philip Falcone, said on Tuesday it has made a bid to buy U.S. grain handler Andersons Inc for about US$1 billion in cash. Andersons is not looking to be acquired, the company’s new CEO told Reuters a day earlier. “As a public

Beef cattle, Crops, Markets

Cargill books higher profits, warns of tough markets

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume April 7, 2016

Reuters — U.S. agricultural commodities trader Cargill on Thursday reported a rise in third-quarter profit on stronger results in food ingredients and grain handling, but warned about headwinds from oversupplied grain markets and low commodity prices. The privately-held company is exiting lower-margin operations, including its U.S. pork business, and expanding deeper into food ingredients and

Daily Network News

Women who fed a nation

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U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

Tag Archives grain handling

Editorial: Long-term fix needed

Prairie grain movement not perfect, but not in crisis

Ex-agriculture minister Gerry Ritz quits Commons

New record set for Prairie grain throughput in 2016-17

Extensions sought for interim grain freight measures

G3 to build two more Saskatchewan elevators

Opinion: Wheat growers support free trade

Canola Council chief to lead Grain Commission

U.S. holding company offers to buy grain handler Andersons

Cargill books higher profits, warns of tough markets

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