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Space is at premium at the Port of Vancouver and expensive.
News, Oilseeds

Lack of meal capacity could be costing canola growers

One global analyst says meal sales are being lost, but the domestic industry 
says so far the system has kept up

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Insufficient export capacity is costing western Canadian canola growers money in lost canola meal sales and farmers should be complaining loudly, says Thomas Mielke. Meilke is executive director of the widely read food oil publication Oil World, based in Hamburg, Germany. “You could do more, but the logistics are not in place,” Mielke said here
The Alberta Wheat Commission wants wheat grading to be less subjective and more objective.
Cereals, Crops

Wheat Commission asks CGC for changes to wheat grading

The AWC says instrument-measured falling number and DON levels should replace 
visual proxies based on sprouting and fusarium-damaged kernels, respectively

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The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) says it will look into the merits of including falling number and DON measurements as part of official western Canadian wheat grades, as requested by the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) last week. “Our GRL (Grain Research Laboratory) and Industry services officials will establish a team to look at implementing changes
CN Rail vice-president of bulk commodities, Doug MacDonald, met with a group of farmers representing the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and Keystone Agricultural Producers at the Port of Vancouver last week to discuss ways to improve the grain-handling and transportation system.
News

Prairie farm leaders meet CN Rail in Vancouver

It was an attempt to build bridges and ultimately improve grain shipping, but farmers remain unclear about the impact the MRE is having on car replacements

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Prairie farm leaders praised CN Rail for agreeing to meet here last week to discuss ways to improve Western Canada’s grain-handling and transportation system. “I was impressed with the openness of CN,” Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Dan Mazier said in an interview (watch a video interview further down). “I think they were genuine today.”
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: The kids are alright

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As a slightly curmudgeonly older father, raised in the free-range parenting heyday of the 1970s, I will admit that it’s not uncommon to find myself rolling my eyes at kids today. With their “everyone gets a medal” and “safe spaces,” I’ve found myself wondering just how prepared these kids will be for the real world.
Grain shippers of all types are heralding promised changes to the transportation regulatory environment announced Nov. 3 by Transport Minister Marc Garneau.
News

Grain sector hails transport reform

But some farm groups worry about the future of the maximum revenue entitlement

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Farm groups, grain shippers, crop processors and supply chain organizations are all praising Transport Minister Marc Garneau’s plan to make Canada’s grain transportation system more competitive. But some farm groups are uneasy about the future of the maximum revenue entitlement (MRE). Speaking to the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal Nov. 3 Garneau announced legislation
Scrapping maximum revenue entitlement will double farmers’ freight bill
News

Scrapping maximum revenue entitlement will double farmers’ freight bill

Agricultural economist Derek Brewin concludes the MRE works for farmers 
and the railways and has resulted in a more efficient system

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Western Canadian farmers will pay the railways at least double what they do now to ship grain if the maximum revenue entitlement (MRE) is phased out as recommended in the Emerson Report. “The increase is somewhere between 100 and 150 per cent in real rates if we remove the MRE,” University of Manitoba agricultural economist
railcars at grain elevator
Crops, News

Railways say they’re ready to move grain

A late start to the shipping season, big crop and the forecast for a 
harsh winter are combining to challenge the railway

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Canada’s railways are still ready to move Western Canada’s grain crop despite forecasts for a harsh winter. Poor weather has delayed harvest in parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta, resulting in a slow start to the 2016-17 shipping season, but grain companies and the railways are still expecting farmers will harvest in the low- to mid-70-million-tonne
University of Manitoba agricultural economist Derek Brewin suspects grain companies captured $3.5 billion that should’ve gone to western Canadian wheat farmers due to a wider-than-normal export basis.
News

Wide basis cost farmers billions

The University of Manitoba’s Derek Brewin suspects 
grain companies got the money instead

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Who grabbed more than $3.5 billion in revenue from the Prairie grain trade over two recent crop years? Many have asked that question and now a University of Manitoba agriculture economist has weighed into the debate. Derek Brewin says it was likely captured by the various grain companies that pocketed the difference in the 2013-14
The 2015-16 crop year was another banner year for Canada’s grain-handling and transportation system with grain movement almost matching last year’s record.
Crops, News

Grain system pulled out all the stops for 2015-16

Grain monitor Mark Hemmes says this could be the new normal

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Canada’s grain-handling and transportation system showed just what it’s capable of in the past crop year. “It was kind of like a logistical utopia,” Mark Hemmes, president of Quorum Corporation, the firm hired by the federal government to track grain-handling and transportation statistics, said in an interview Aug. 31. “The whole system worked really well
CP Rail says it’s ready to move this year’s expected bumper crop.
Crops, News

CP Rail raring to move expected bumper crop

A company executive says the grain-handling and transportation system learned lessons from the 2013-14 shipping backlog

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Canadian Pacific Railway is ready to move Western Canada’s bumper 2016 crop, but is disappointed surplus system capacity isn’t being used now. “We have been idle in terms of cars in service really since about May,” John Brooks, CP’s vice-president of sales and marketing for intermodal and grain said in an interview Aug. 11. “So

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