Machinery

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

The import duties Canadian food processors pay to get apple juice concentrate are to be axed by the federal government. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Sunday announced shipments of apple juice concentrate from foreign suppliers are on a list of 70 items for which the tariffs will now be eliminated, to the benefit of Canadian […] Read more

Saskatchewan’s highways department will hold off as long as possible on allowing heavier truck weights to travel the province’s secondary highways. The province can open applicable highways to heavier winter weights starting any day between Nov. 16 and Dec. 1, but due to the mild fall, the roads’ structures aren’t yet cold enough to allow […] Read more

Revised, Nov. 15 — Agrifood giant Archer Daniels Midland has stopped studying and started moving on plans for a biodiesel production plant next door to its canola crushing plant at Lloydminster, Alta. ADM on Monday confirmed it will build a 265 million-litre capacity plant at the Alberta/Saskatchewan border city, having studied the idea since April […] Read more