Machinery

An expansion-minded grain and feed handling equipment maker is set to build one new plant in southwestern Ontario to replace its two smaller facilities in the region. Lambton Conveyor, now based at Florence, Ont., about 60 km southeast of Sarnia, with a second plant at nearby Bothwell, announced it will renovate a former auto parts […] Read more

Work is underway at Cargill’s grain elevator at Kindersley in western Saskatchewan to boost its rail loop capacity to 100 cars. "By improving Kindersley’s rail infrastructure, we are addressing the challenges we’ve been seeing regarding restrictions on deliveries due to limited capacity," Len Penner, president of Cargill’s Canadian arm in Winnipeg, said in a release […] Read more

Winnipeg grain handling equipment maker Ag Growth International and seed and ag chem firm Bayer CropScience are working together on a new on-farm seed treater for North American farmers. The two companies’ development and co-marketing agreement, announced Wednesday, would see Ag Growth work with Bayer’s proprietary SeedGrowth technology for precision application of seed treatments in […] Read more

Canada’s two main railways have both come in less than 0.1 per cent over their nine-figure limits on the annual revenue they’re allowed to keep from hauling Prairie farmers’ grain. The Canadian Transportation Agency, which has set the railways’ revenue caps on domestic grain handling revenue since the end of the Crow Rate freight subsidy […] Read more

Canada’s federal government will unveil long-awaited legislation on rail freight service on Tuesday in Winnipeg, the heart of the country’s grain sector. The legislation, as an amendment to Canada’s Transportation Act, has pitted shippers like grain handlers, miners and movers of commercial goods, against railways Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway. The shippers want […] Read more