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Manitoba eases spring load limits for grain trucks

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Grain will be an “essential commodity” this year during Manitoba’s spring thaw, for the purposes of trucking grain on the province’s minor highways. The provincial government on Monday announced a “special one-time amendment” to its spring weight restrictions on provincial roads, so as to “enable farmers to be nimble and react quickly to changes in […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Grain firms warn railways swamping ports with grain

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s big two railways, under mandatory federal performance targets for grain freight, are now flooding the West Coast and Thunder Bay with grain, the Western Grain Elevator Association warns. Prairie grain elevator companies can handle the 11,000 cars a week the federal government has ordered the railways to move — but some of those cars […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets

B.C. introduces back-to-work law for port truckers

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Legislation to buy Port Metro Vancouver 90 days of labour peace with its unionized container truckers has gone through first reading in British Columbia’s legislature. Provincial Labour Minister Shirley Bond on Monday introduced Bill 25, the Port Metro Vancouver Container Trucking Services Continuation Act, imposing a 90-day “cooling-off” period for 250 striking container truckers represented […] Read more
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Get ready to “make hay” with new offerings of mowers and windrowers

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Reading Time: 3 minutes If the number of product launches is any indication, there’s a sense of anticipation in forages this year. In this edition of Machinery Guide, you’ll see that mower conditions and self-propelled windrowers make up an exciting segment of offerings from manufacturers wanting to “make hay” in 2014. Check out these descriptions, first, then get ready […] Read more
Teamster-represented engineers last walked the picket line at CN in 2009. (File photo by Dave Bedard)
Crops, Machinery, Markets

CN conductors again reject tentative labour deal

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian National Railway (CN) wants binding arbitration after its unionized conductors and yardmen narrowly voted to reject a second tentative labour agreement. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), representing about 3,000 CN conductors, trainpersons, yardpersons and traffic co-ordinators working in Canada, reported Thursday its members had voted down the deal, reached Feb. 5, by a […] Read more
Unionized container truckers serving port terminals at Vancouver warn a negotiated settlement, not back-to-work legislation, will be the “only sustainable solution” to the current work stoppage. (Photo courtesy Port Metro Vancouver)
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Vancouver truckers to be ordered back to work

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The British Columbia government is set to legislate unionized container truckers serving Port Metro Vancouver back into the cab. The province said Wednesday it would introduce back-to-work legislation as early as Monday (March 24), with a 90-day cooling-off period, for 250 truckers represented by Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers Association. The work stoppage at the port involves […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters, Weather

CN CEO sees grain backlog extending into 2015

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Toronto | Reuters — A record-shattering Canadian harvest, combined with one of the most frigid winters in decades, has created a grain-handling backlog that will not be cleared until next year, the head of Canadian National Railway (CN) said Wednesday. “It will take more than the summer, continue into fall, into next year,” Claude Mongeau, […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets, Weather

Heavy ice to keep eastbound grain landlocked for now

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Even under federal government pressure to get more Prairie grain moving by rail to Vancouver and Thunder Bay, crops that make it to the latter port aren’t going anywhere this week, shipowners warn. The Canadian Shipowners Association, the Ottawa-based group for Canadian companies with domestically-flagged vessels, warned in a release Tuesday the Great Lakes and […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

Railways report progress on easing grain logjam

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian grain shipments by rail have picked up since earlier this month when Ottawa ordered Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (CN, CP) to improve service, CN and a grain-handling group said Tuesday. Transportation bottlenecks have left crops landlocked after a record-smashing harvest and frigid winter in Canada, the world’s […] Read more

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