Real Agriculture

JULY 6, 2023

While bulk grain shipments are continuing to flow, fertilizer exports from the West Coast have been interrupted by the ongoing port worker strike.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 20, 2024

Just ahead of both CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City rail locking out employees and/or unionized employees walking off the job Thursday, several industry voices are getting louder, calling on the Minister of Labour to use section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to avoid the strike entirely. “The Canadian Meat Council (CMC) and the.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 16, 2024

With an unprecedented rail strike involving both CPKC and CN Rail possible as early as August 22, 2024, Canadian farmers are bracing for a major disruption in grain, fertilizer, and fuel movement unlike anything ever seen before. Eighty per.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Maritime Employers Association served its employees with a lockout notice, effective November 5th, 8 am Pacific, after the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 served its own 72-hour strike notice late last week. The last contract between the employers and union members expired in March, 2023.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 26, 2023

An estimated $20 million per day of grain isn’t moving through the St. An estimated $20 million per day of grain isn’t moving through the St. Lawrence Seaway after members of UNIFOR went on. Read More Unlike some other North American ports, the St. Lawrence Seaway after members of UNIFOR went on. Read More

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NASDA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

More than twice as many Americans are manufacturing agricultural products as are manufacturing cars and trucks, and millions of food scientists, production workers, logistics experts, truck drivers, and engineers work in more than 200,000 food manufacturing, processing, and storage facilities. While our two million U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.” He’s especially proud of the fact that because of his self-sustaining system that produces natural fertilizers for his crops, he hasn’t purchased a pound of nitrogen since 1982. That is just absolutely unheard of,” he says.

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