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CP, grain handlers plan for face time

By Lisa Guenther May 13, 2014

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and players in the Prairie grain industry are ready to sit down at the same table and discuss logistics issues, representatives from both industries said. In a media release last week, CP CEO Hunter Harrison said the railway has contacted customers and stakeholders such as the Western Grain Elevator Association (WGEA). […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Probe into alleged CN pricing strategy halted

May 11, 2014

Reuters — Canada’s Competition Bureau said Friday it has halted a probe into alleged unfair pricing practices by Canadian National Railway (CN) due to insufficient evidence. The watchdog investigated allegations that CN had implemented a rail pricing strategy that would lessen or prevent competition in a Vancouver facility for transloading lumber shipped by rail. “It […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

CNH Industrial sees profit rising to $3.4B in 2018

May 9, 2014

Detroit | Reuters — Tractor and trucks maker CNH Industrial expects operating profit of its industrial activities to rise by more than 1.6 times to US$3.4 billion in 2018, boosted by new product launches and expansion in emerging markets. In a presentation of its 2014-18 industrial plan, the company said it would invest $11.7 billion […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

Feds’ grain freight legislation heads to Senate

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff May 6, 2014

UPDATED, May 30, 2014: The federal government’s legislative package to tighten the terms of grain freight service agreements between shippers and railways has cleared the House of Commons. Bill C-30, the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act, was delayed last Thursday due to an amendment which Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer ruled out of order. [Related […] Read more

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Commons’ speaker rejects grain bill amendment on railway payment

By Rod Nickel May 1, 2014

Reuters — The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons rejected on Thursday a bill amendment that would allow the government to force railway companies to compensate shippers for expenses incurred because of railways’ failure to deliver service. The amendment was part of Bill C-30, a broader Conservative legislative package by which the government would set […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

Diesel, exchange rate to boost cost index for Prairie grain freight

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 28, 2014

A price index on which the math is based for how much revenue Canada’s big two railways get to keep from handling Prairie grain will see an above-average raise for the coming crop year. The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) on Monday pegged the volume-related composite price index (VRCPI) for the 2014-15 crop year at 1.3219, up […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Corn, Crops, Machinery, Soybeans

Pearce: Confusion remains surrounding new Fluency Agent

By Ralph Pearce April 24, 2014

Many in the seed and seed treatment sectors hoped, as the 2013 growing season came to a close, that development of a new fluency agent would be the beginning of the end of controversy between beekeepers and the crops sector. At issue was the use of neonicotinoid-based insecticidal seed treatments and alleged ties to bee […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

CP, CN book higher Q1 grain revenue, smaller grain handle

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 23, 2014

First-quarter revenue from grain handling is up at both Canadian Pacific (CP) and Canadian National (CN) Railways as the two companies both reported higher overall quarterly profit. CP on Tuesday booked overall first-quarter net income of $254 million on revenues of $1.509 billion for the period ending March 31 — the company’s best-ever Q1 result, […] Read more

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OAC’s Kemptville campus funded for skills training

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 22, 2014

The Ontario government has put up $2 million to extend skills training programs at the Ontario Agricultural College’s (OAC) soon-to-be-shuttered Kemptville campus for the coming academic year. The province announced the funding Tuesday for the campus to continue to host skills training programs that “support the agricultural sector in eastern Ontario,” including the agricultural equipment […] Read more

The snow covering this field of corn stubble on Tuesday (April 15) is now mostly gone. (Ralph Pearce photo)

Crops, Machinery, Weather

Pearce: Weather not the only story in Ont. fields

By Ralph Pearce April 17, 2014

The planting season always seems that much closer when the first meeting of extension staff with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and local retailers and advisers is held. It provides a first glimpse of the region’s wheat crop as it comes out of dormancy, and an assessment of local field activity, including planting […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

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CP, grain handlers plan for face time

Probe into alleged CN pricing strategy halted

CNH Industrial sees profit rising to $3.4B in 2018

Feds’ grain freight legislation heads to Senate

Commons’ speaker rejects grain bill amendment on railway payment

Diesel, exchange rate to boost cost index for Prairie grain freight

Pearce: Confusion remains surrounding new Fluency Agent

CP, CN book higher Q1 grain revenue, smaller grain handle

OAC’s Kemptville campus funded for skills training

Pearce: Weather not the only story in Ont. fields

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