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Saskatchewan presses for rail interswitching, revenue cap

By Country Guide Staff October 20, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Farm stakeholder groups and Prairie provincial agriculture ministers got their chance Thursday to bring their concerns about grain transportation by rail to the federal minister responsible. Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay held a roundtable meeting with grain sector representatives Thursday in Saskatoon, and met also with the Prairies’ agriculture ministers. […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Railways urge Ottawa to loosen grain hauling rules

By Rod Nickel October 14, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s big railways are pressing Ottawa to loosen rules around hauling the country’s crops — changes they say would improve efficiency but that farmers fear would weaken their bargaining power. A February report recommended that Ottawa institutes transportation system changes, including phasing out a 16-year-old cap on revenue that Canadian National […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Post-CWB review flags grain trade ‘inefficiency’

By Country Guide Staff April 13, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute WITHDRAWN, April 15, 2016: A historian’s review of the Prairie grain trade, commissioned by supporters of the former single marketing desk for wheat and barley, suggests history is repeating itself at grain growers’ expense — but the data on which the review is based is now being questioned. The Canadian Wheat Board Alliance on Wednesday released a […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Debate: Sask. ag leaders seek rail response

By Lisa Guenther March 23, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes If there’s one thing all Saskatchewan’s political parties can agree on, it’s that the current rail system isn’t working for grain producers — but there’s less consensus on the solutions. Transportation is the single most important issue facing grain growers in Saskatchewan right now, said Cathy Sproule, the provincial New Democrats’ ag critic, during an […] Read more

Crops

Does Western Canada still need a grain transportation co-ordinator?

The answer may be no, but there’s still a need for improved logistics between railways and grain companies

By Richard Kamchen December 3, 2015

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s been two years since the start of the infamous grain transportation backlog of 2013-14, but there’s still debate about whether a new organization should take over the former Canadian Wheat Board’s role as a transportation co-ordinator. “Most people like to focus on ’13-14 and say, ‘Look at the problems we created without the single […] Read more

A mature wheat field in Australia nears harvest.

Cereals, Guide Business, Opinion

How Australia plans to beat Canadian farmers

A must read from Down Under for coming out on top

By Gerald Pilger August 11, 2015

Reading Time: 6 minutes You have to admit that for an economic study, this one has a great title: “The Puck Stops Here!: Canada challenges Australia’s grain supply chains.” The new study is by the Australian Export Grains Innovation Center (AEGIC), and it looks into Western Canada’s export grain supply chain. In fact, it looks at our grain system […] Read more

Crops, Guide Business

CORRECTION, June 22, 2015

By Country Guide Staff June 22, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Due to an editing error, incorrect information appeared in the article “Spreading the blame” (Country Guide, May/June 2015, western edition, pgs. 26-28), an investigation by Richard Kamchen into the growing recognition that the railways aren’t the only ones who deserve their share of the blame for last year’s grain transportation fiasco across the West. Grain […] Read more

Cereals, Guide Business

Plenty of blame to go around for grain shipping debacle

A year into the great grain fiasco, it’s no longer only about the railways

By Richard Kamchen June 11, 2015

Reading Time: 6 minutes UPDATED, June 21, 2015: The 2013 harvest should have been a time of wild celebration. Prairie farmers had produced a bin-busting crop with a record-smashing 76 million tonnes, and with good crop prices, the entire West should have struck up the music and started to dance. Instead, logistics turned the dream into a nightmare, and […] Read more

Cereals, Opinion

Editor’s Desk: Getting rail back on the political agenda

By Tom Button June 5, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes John Diefenbaker was no longer Prime Minister when I got to shake his hand. Still, there was an election in the air, and my father, who distrusted Liberals every bit as much Dief (especially when they were led by Pierre Trudeau) had hauled his four boys to the high school auditorium to hear the great […] Read more

Cereals, Guide Business

The Journey: A quick history of shipping grain to port by rail

From Prairie farm to ocean port, our rail lines still shock the imagination with their engineering and bravado

By Gord Leathers June 4, 2015

Reading Time: 9 minutes It’s a trip that is so formidable, it weakened the knees of generations of politicians, entrepreneurs and engineers alike. Everybody could tell the northern Great Plains would be an ideal place for growing cereal crops, and they knew too that the world would love to eat what we grow, but getting those crops to port […] Read more

Daily Network News

Canadian Agricultural HR Council gets federal funds for workforce development tools

Farm groups call on agriculture minister to pause federal research cuts

Feed grains weekly: Prices bump up

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