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Reorganizing grain service paid off, CP says

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian Pacific’s gauges of service to grain shippers show visible gains so far in 2011 after a retooling of the railway’s grain operations, the company reports. Empty order fulfillment, a metric that highlights rail car availability, is up 19 per cent, or 11,000 units, in the crop year-to-date compared to the year-earlier period, the Calgary […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Biodiesel plants seen as boon for Alberta

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s biodiesel industry is about to get a boost with two new plants scheduled to be built in Alberta, and that’s seen as translating to good news for farmers seeking to diversify their revenue. Lynn Jacobson, vice-president of Alberta’s Wild Rose Agricultural Producers (WRAP), said the announcement of Michigan-based The Power Alternative (TPA) and a […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery

RFID best kept separate from cattle auctions’ software

Reading Time: 2 minutes A study of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems at cattle auction markets has found them best kept separate from other management software used at the auction sites. The Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA) on Friday released results from the second phase of its research project, aimed at evaluating the impact of fully-integrated RFID at 13 […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

CP plans even longer trains in 2012, 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minute Longer rail sidings in several "key regions" of its network are expected to help Canadian Pacific Railway boost the length of its trains by over 10 per cent by the end of 2013. CP already operates intermodal trains up to 12,000 feet long, which it said is an increase of 40 per cent from 2008. […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Winter weights now allowed on S. Sask. highways

Reading Time: < 1 minute A short delay in the opening of southwestern Saskatchewan’s secondary highways to trucks bearing full winter weights is now over. The provincial highways ministry on Monday said winter weights are in effect "immediately" on all designated highways south of the Trans-Canada and west of Highway 39, which runs southeast from Moose Jaw through Weyburn to […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Fuel relief for farmers, truckers seen coming soon

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Production increases and the re-opening of the Suncor refinery plant in Edmonton may soon provide relief from the headaches Western Canada’s diesel shortage have given farmers and truckers in recent weeks. Ted Stoner, vice-president of the western Canadian division of the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute, said problems with western Canadian diesel supply started in October. […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

P.E.I. agency backed for beet ethanol plant

Reading Time: 2 minutes A company set up to develop a commercially viable way of using Prince Edward Island beets as an ethanol feedstock has been backed to build a demonstration-scale processing plant. Atlantec BioEnergy Corp., which for years has spearheaded a beet ethanol plan, on Friday was confirmed as receiving $340,512 from the federal Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Clarke buys N.S. produce trucking business

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Nova Scotia trucking firm specializing in fruit and other refrigerated produce has been bought up by an expansion-minded neighbour. Clarke Road Transport, the full-load trucking arm of Halifax investment firm Clarke Inc., announced Thursday it had bought Select Transport Inc. of Windsor, N.S. from J.W. Mason and Sons for an undisclosed sum. Mason’s, a […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery, Weather

Ontario names new deputy ag minister

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Ontario civil servant soon to become the province’s top bureaucrat for agriculture is already running a review of a program that contracts farmers and others to help feed the hydro grid. Fareed Amin will replace John Burke as Ontario’s deputy minister for agriculture, food and rural affairs starting Dec. 12, the province said Wednesday. […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Trackage deal extends CP’s reach in Iowa

Reading Time: < 1 minute Customers shipping grains by rail with Canadian Pacific may now cross northeastern Iowa on a family-owned shortline serving two corn ethanol facilities. CP on Thursday announced a trackage rights agreement with Iowa Northern Railway (IANR), a Cedar Rapids-based company whose lines connect Cedar Rapids with Cedar Falls and Mason City. Its lines outside Mason City […] Read more

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