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Western farmers want rail headaches fixed for the future

Presentations to Commons agriculture committee all noted the need for a long-lasting fix to this problem

By Alex Binkley March 29, 2018

It’s too close to spring and planting time for a special order to the railways to move more grain to achieve much, Prairie farmers have told the Commons agriculture committee. Rural roads will soon be impassable for grain trucks and farmers will be focused on planting this year’s crop rather than hauling grain to terminals,

Proposed changes to rail shipping legislation could be deregulation by stealth, the NFU worries.

News, Other

NFU worried C-49 will help railways, hurt farmers

Terry Boehm believes the new legislation gives the railways too much wiggle room on grain service

By Allan Dawson March 29, 2018

The National Farmers Union (NFU) fears Bill C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, will further deregulate the railways, resulting in poorer service for western Canadian grain farmers, not better. The opposite view is held by most farm groups, grain companies and even the railways, all of whom want the legislation to revise the Canada Transportation Act

News

NFU has plan to bolster producer cars

Producer cars are in decline and according to the National Farmers Union it is by design

By Allan Dawson March 29, 2018

What good is a statutory right to a producer car that can’t be loaded or unloaded? That’s the question former National Farmers Union (NFU) president Terry Boehm wants answered. It’s also why the NFU wants C-49, the Transportation Modernization Act, amended to protect and enhance farmers’ access to producer cars — rail cars farmers load

News

Shippers squabble over grain transportation issues

It was a unified message that resulted in shipper-friendly legislation now under consideration.  Now that unity appears threatened

By Alex Binkley March 28, 2018

Infighting is at risk of derailing a grand coalition of shippers that resulted in a shipper-friendly transportation modernization bill known as C-49. While seven industry associations have stuck to script and asked Transport Minister Marc Garneau to make two key amendments to the government’s transportation modernization bill, those proposals were overshadowed by shots at the

Our History

Interest rates rise on farm supply accounts

Our History: March 1980

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 28, 2018

That’s 1.75 per cent per month, not per year, if you had overdue accounts with Manitoba Pool in March 1980. In a speech in Washington, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland blamed current low grain prices on high interest rates rather than on a reduction in exports due to the embargo on grain exports to

Differential tariffs: Some countries such as Japan have tariffs which give preference to raw seed over oil.
Canola Council of Canada

Crops, News

Poor rail service hitting canola crushers too

Some plants have had to shut down for a couple of days because trains have been delayed

By Allan Dawson March 20, 2018

Poor rail service is hurting value-added agriculture too. Some of Canada’s canola-crushing plants have had to shut down from one to three days because the railways are failing to move oil and meal fast enough, with the biggest disruptions in the West and on CN Rail lines. The crushers say that is costing millions of

Crops, News

Lenders, government, railways all promise action on grain movement

With big expenses on the horizon some farmers are experiencing a difficult cash crunch because grain isn’t moving to market

By Alex Binkley March 20, 2018

Lenders are lining up to help western grain farmers who are experiencing a cash crunch due to poor rail service and the looming costs of putting in this year’s crop. Both Farm Credit Canada and the Bank of Montreal issued statements last week saying they would stand by their customers as they suffer from a

Opinion

Opinion: Flawed Bill C-49 won’t aid farmers

By Cam Goff March 15, 2018

The Senate is now studying Bill C-49, a bill to amend Canada’s Transportation Act and other related acts, which the House of Commons passed in November. The National Farmers Union (NFU) is one of many groups urging the Senate’s Transportation and Communications Committee to amend the bill before it goes back to the Senate for

Editorial, Opinion

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

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Alone again, naturally

By Gord Gilmour March 8, 2018

For a brief and shining moment, Canadian agriculture truly was “this year’s model,” to quote singer-songwriter Elvis Costello. Just a year ago, the sector was the belle of the ball during the federal government’s annual budget, having for the first time in living memory, captured the imaginations of the nation’s policy-makers. At that point the

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