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Grain elevator companies set COVID-19 protocols

Goal is to keep people safe and grain flowing

By Allan Dawson March 23, 2020

If there ever was a sector that could operate during a pandemic, it’s grain. The Prairies are famous for wide open spaces, so with some planning and forethought farmers, truckers, grain companies, railways and terminal operators can keep moving Canadian grain to market, safely, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. “We don’t anticipate any issues to be

News, Other

Grain keeps moving despite virus

COVID-19: For now the coronavirus hasn’t affected the supply chain

By Allan Dawson March 23, 2020

As Canadians increasingly hunker down at home hoping to slow the spread of COVID-19, Prairie grains and oilseeds continue to move from farms to markets, at home, to export terminals and the United States. “Our members are going to do their best to keep the supply chain moving,” Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western

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Elevators implement COVID-19 protocols to keep grain moving

By Allan Dawson March 20, 2020

Canada’s grain companies are still moving grain to market, but have implemented measures to protect staff and customers from COVID-19. Richardson-Pioneer, Viterra, G3, Cargill and Parrish and Heimbecker are all taking farmers’ grain but are restricting contact between staff and farmers and moving it to market, while using social distancing. “We remain open for business,

News, Other

Derailed: Protests cause grain shipping turmoil

The many moving parts of Canada’s rail network mean it will be weeks or months before normalcy returns

By Gord Gilmour February 27, 2020

The head of Canada’s grain transportation monitor didn’t mince words during a recent conversation following a spate of protests that have disrupted rail service on the national level. “I’m really glad I don’t work for a railway this week,” Mark Hemmes of Quorum Corp. said by telephone Feb. 19 from his Edmonton office. “This has

Crops, Weather

Carbon tax an eight per cent hit on net income, APAS says

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff February 6, 2020

The average Saskatchewan farmer can expect to lose about eight per cent of his or her annual net farm income to the federal carbon tax to 2020 — and 12 per cent in 2022, the province’s general ag group says. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan on Monday released new estimates on the financial impacts

CP Rail says closer collaboration with shippers helps it manage the challenging winter season while moving more grain than ever before.

News

CP Rail sets back-to-back grain-shipping records

That’s good news because there’s an above-normal amount of grain to move  despite harvest delays

By Allan Dawson December 13, 2019

CP Rail moved a record amount of grain in November, beating its previous record set in October. Meanwhile, CN Rail is gearing up its grain shipping after an eight-day strike resulted in delivering just 2,015 of the 5,409 cars elevator companies ordered for week 16 (Nov. 17 to 23) of the current crop year. The

Railway performance didn’t change much in 2018-19 compared to the previous crop year, says Mark Hemmes, Canada’s grain monitor. Nevertheless the railways shipped a record volume of grain.

News, Other

Another year, another round of broken grain transport records

Western grain movement, export records set in 2018-19 crop year

By Allan Dawson November 14, 2019

The 2018-19 crop year, ended July 31, was record setting for Western Canada’s grain-handling and transportation system. While industry officials are pleased, they agree the system needs to move even more because farmers keep producing more. “At the rate we are going today… by the time we get to 2030 we’re going to be looking

Manitoba shipped 3.9 million tonnes of grain through the Port of Thunder Bay this crop year.

News

Manitoba Thunder Bay grain shipments set modern record

By Allan Dawson November 14, 2019

For the first time in 20 years, Manitoba shipped more grain through the Port of Thunder Bay than Saskatchewan. “Historically, Manitoba grain has accounted for about a third of the grain shipments through Thunder Bay,” Chris Heikkinen, the port’s communications and research co-ordinator, said in an email Nov. 5. “This has changed over the past

CN and CP’s financial and operating results for the second quarter both made records.

News

CN and CP quietly posted strong results

Grain and intermodal were among strong sectors as the railways enhanced their networks

By Alex Binkley October 4, 2019

Canada’s two major railways have quietly gone about their business in the past year, turning in strong financial performances and building up their networks, even as economic storm clouds gather. They overcame wicked winter weather to record a record grain haul for the crop year ending July 31. As of September, they were still enjoying

Other

Crop year ends with grain export record

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 2, 2019

Both major railways have announced record grain shipments, and with a more than a week left in the crop year, total Canadian grain exports had already topped last year’s record. The Canadian Grain Commission reports that as of July 21, with 10 days left in the 2018-19 crop year, total exports of Canadian grain had

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Grain elevator companies set COVID-19 protocols

Grain keeps moving despite virus

Elevators implement COVID-19 protocols to keep grain moving

Derailed: Protests cause grain shipping turmoil

Carbon tax an eight per cent hit on net income, APAS says

CP Rail sets back-to-back grain-shipping records

Another year, another round of broken grain transport records

Manitoba Thunder Bay grain shipments set modern record

CN and CP quietly posted strong results

Crop year ends with grain export record

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