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Railways Don’t Want More Regulation

By Alex Binkley June 24, 2010

The rebounding North American economy is boosting the rail sector as can be seen in the first-quarter profits most railways posted this year but the carriers still have a long way to roll before they reach their potential, industry representatives say. “The indicators for 2010 are optimistic,” says John Gray, vice-president of policy and economics

Grain Markets

EU To Overhaul GM Crop System

June 10, 2010

BRUSSELS/REUTERS The European Union is to radically overhaul its approval system for genetically modified (GM) crops from next month, opening the way to large-scale GM cultivation in Europe, draft proposals showed. With most Europeans showing no appetite for GM produce in food, EU politicians have approved just two varieties for growing in 12 years, compared

Country Crossroads, Other livestock

Sulky Plowing At The Threshermen’s Reunion

June 10, 2010

MANITOBA AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM RELEASE A new attraction during the annual Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede is the people cart attached behind the horse-drawn sulky plow. The cart seats two people and allows them to watch the sulky plow closely while working. The carts are attracting people for a variety of reasons. The major one is people’s

Opinion

This Is Efficiency?

By Laura Rance-Unger May 20, 2010

We’ve all heard tales of the inefficiencies that have plagued centrally planned economies in far off places. The compounding effects – sluggish supply chains, lower productivity, missed delivery targets and people who could be working standing around with nothing to do – eventually drag the economy so deeply into an abyss, it takes a revolution

Cereals, Crops

Seaway Shipments Up Sharply

May 20, 2010

Cargo shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting North America’s Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean, rose 18 per cent in the first four months of the year from the year-before period, signalling a rebound in the manufacturing sector, seaway officials said May 11. Total cargo shipments rose to nearly 3.7 million tonnes, with iron

Cereals, News

More Balanced Railway-Customer Relationship Sought

By Alex Binkley May 13, 2010

“It is not reasonable to expect any operation to function competitively when vital transportation fails to arrive one in five times.” – WESTERN CANADIAN SHIPPERS’ COALITION The federal rail freight review panel made it clear last fall that it wanted final submissions from the railways and shippers to contain solutions and not just rehash old

News

Federal Officials Watching Container Capacity Issue

By Alex Binkley May 6, 2010

The Canadian Transportation Agency is monitoring container ship capacity for export cargoes, but can’t take any action until someone complains about a lack of capacity, or rate increases. Alex Robertson, a CTA spokesman, said in an interview the agency has been made aware of the problem “and is monitoring the situation.” But it can’t take

Country Crossroads, Other livestock

The Clegg Collection Will Live On

By Brenda Hunter April 22, 2010

Perhaps one of Rollie’s favourite and most valuable pieces in the collection, is the horse-drawn First World War ambulance. It was while restoring the buggy his wife Gladys had driven shortly after they married in the 1940s that rekindled Roland Clegg’s interest in horse-drawn vehicles. He took on that project for his granddaughter in 1975.

Crops

Agri-Food Exporters Caught In Ocean Shipping Shortage

By Alex Binkley April 1, 2010

Agri-food exporters are among the groups caught in a shortage of ocean shipping capacity that threatens Canada’s economic recovery, warns a Montreal freight forwarder. The dearth of export container capacity from Canadian ports “is more harmful to the recovery of our economy than the high value of the loonie,” says Jean-Paul Gobeil, director of international

Livestock

Railways Ripped Over Handling Of Longer Trains

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 25, 2010

“Not only are trains involved in main-track derailments heavier than ever, they are longer, too.” – TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD OF CANADA Canadian railways’ handling and marshalling of “longer, heavier” trains is among the most critical safety issues in the country’s transportation system. That’s according to the new “Watchlist” released March 16 by the Transportation Safety

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder contracts surge, hogs rise

U.S. grains: Soybeans climb as soyoil futures surge

New Syngenta fungicide targets anthracnose, white mould, Ascochyta blight

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