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Sask. truck weight updates seen as farmers’ gain

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatchewan’s move to streamline allowable truck weights for certain roads, effective April 1, is expected to benefit the province’s ag and resource sectors. For one, “the increase in weight for tridem drive B-train combinations on secondary-weight highways will help get product coming out of rural areas to market more efficiently,” Dave Marit, president of the […] Read more
Cliff Jamieson of DTN addresses grain summit delegates in Saskatoon on March 26. (Lisa Guenther photo)
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Guenther: Farmers’ cash flow concerns feeding wide basis

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Saskatoon | Grainews — Prairie farmers have been feeling the pain of a basis wide as the Saskatchewan sky, and the situation isn’t likely to improve any time soon. “We need to get rail movement to tighten supplies and improve these basis levels,” Cliff Jamieson, grains analyst with DTN, told delegates at the Grain Handling […] Read more
Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz speak to reporters March 27 in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)
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More grain cars roll as eastern passage nears opening

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian National Railway (CN) reports it’s nearing the federal government’s mandated goal of moving 5,500 grain cars per week, just as the Great Lakes grain shipping corridor is set to open for the season. CN on Monday reported having spotted 5,102 hopper cars for loading at country grain elevators in Western Canada during crop Week […] Read more
Farmers and ag industry representatives listen to GWU president Gerry Gault at Wednesday’s Grain Handling and Transportation Summit in Saskatoon. (Lisa Guenther photo)
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Guenther: West Coast’s grain capacity a question mark

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Saskatoon | Grainews –– Western Canada’s rail network isn’t the only piece of the grain logistics puzzle that needs attention, farmers heard here at Wednesday’s Grain Handling and Transportation Summit. “If we did solve the rail problem, we have another large problem, and that’s West Coast terminal capacity,” said Richard Gray, a University of Saskatchewan […] Read more
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Alta. to lift some spring load limits for grain

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Alberta government plans to allow grain trucks to run at 100 per cent of their axle weights on certain provincial highways otherwise restricted during the spring thaw period. The provincial government on Friday announced it will issue permits “at no cost” for grain trucks to travel at fully-loaded weights on roads otherwise subject to […] Read more
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Guenther: Gears grinding on grain freight co-ordination

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Saskatoon | Grainews — The Prairie grain industry and railways are likely to behave like the House of Commons as they try to fix logistics problems plaguing the industry, Perry Pellerin told delegates here at the Grain Handling and Transportation Summit. “There’s going to be a lot of finger-pointing. A lot of badgering. Maybe even […] Read more
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Sask. to bend spring load limit rules for grain

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Grain growers in Saskatchewan will be able to apply for permits allowing them to truck grain at “heavier-than-published” weights on provincial roads during the spring thaw period. “While we will continue to protect our investment in highways during the spring thaw, we will allow for some exceptions to spring road bans to facilitate farmers’ urgent […] Read more
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Vancouver truckers reach agreement, return to work

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Reading Time: 3 minutes A back-to-work rule making its way through the British Columbia legislature will be scrapped after container truckers serving Port Metro Vancouver reached an agreement Wednesday to end their work stoppage. Unionized truckers, represented by Unifor, and non-union members of the United Truckers Association are to resume “full operations” at PMV on Thursday, the province said […] Read more
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CN rips feds’ planned rail interswitching expansion

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Mandatory extension of rail car interswitching and tighter grain freight regulations may “placate a vocal constituency” but will do little to move more grain and may harm Canadian businesses, Canadian National Railway (CN) warns. The federal government on Wednesday introduced a package of legislative amendments promising increased regulatory oversight for rail grain freight and new […] Read more
More grain elevators on the Prairies will be able to take advantage of federal interswitching regulations in a package of amendments announced Wednesday. (Dave Bedard photo)
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Ottawa tightens rail service agreements, boosts rail switching range

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Federal legislation tightening the terms of grain freight service agreements between shippers and railways — and allowing some captive shippers a wider radius in which to shift cars to another railway — is now on the table. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Transport Minister Lisa Raitt introduced what’s dubbed the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers […] Read more

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