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Cargill Q1 profit jumps despite commodities slump

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume October 7, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Global commodities trader Cargill Inc. effectively navigated tumbling commodities markets and volatile currencies to turn in a 20 per cent gain in first-quarter profit, the privately held company said Wednesday. The Minnesota-based company’s grain and oilseed supply chain and energy businesses were standouts in the quarter ended Aug. 31, in stark

Reg Dyck, chair of KAP’s transportation committee, says most of the savings gained from a more efficient grain-handling and transportation system have gone to the railways, not farmers.

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KAP seeks regulations to spur rail competition

The Manitoba farm organization submits 13 recommendations to the rail review panel

By Allan Dawson October 5, 2015

Thirty years of reforms to Western Canada’s grain-handling and transportation system (GHTS) have seen rail profits increase while farmers pay more to ship grain and get poorer service, Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) has told the Canada Transportation Act Review panel. KAP blames a lack of competition between the two main rail firms, Canadian National Railway

Crops, Markets

Grain freight minimums beneficial, but not seen as best solution

By GFM Network News, Terryn Shiells December 1, 2014

CNS Canada –– The Canadian government’s decision to extend its order-in-council requiring a minimum tonnage of grain shipped by the two major railways each week will benefit the ag industry — but it’s not the best solution out there, according to some participants. “Extending the minimum volume requirements through the coming winter and spring season

Crops, Weather

Mandatory minimum grain handle extended

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 30, 2014

A new order-in-council will extend the federal government’s mandatory minimum weekly grain handle for Canada’s big two railways through March, just as the previous order expires. Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Saturday announced the mandatory minimums, which expired Saturday, are extended until March 28, 2015. The new order, however, adjusts the

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U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

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

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Cargill Q1 profit jumps despite commodities slump

KAP seeks regulations to spur rail competition

Grain freight minimums beneficial, but not seen as best solution

Mandatory minimum grain handle extended

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