Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Transport Canada is launching consultations regarding some of its rail policies, including the maximum revenue entitlement for grain shipments, extended interswitching, shortlines, and other regulations that fundamentally affect grain transportation.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Port of Johnstown will receive $2 million towards the purchase and installation of a new grain dryer with heat capture and air recycling features that will minimize fuel consumption by roughly 20 to 40 percent. The reduction in fuel use will result in an estimated 344 metric tonnes of CO2e, annually. Funded through the. Read More

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 2, 2023

Both of Canada’s major railways — Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) — have published their annual grain transportation plans, coinciding with the start of 2023-24 crop year on August 1. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JULY 27, 2023

A new face to agriculture, but certainly not a new face on Parliament Hill, Kyle Larkin has stepped up to lead the Grain Growers of Canada. Read More A new face to agriculture, but certainly not a new face on Parliament Hill, Kyle Larkin has stepped up to lead the Grain Growers of Canada.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 3, 2023

Both CN and CPKC have published their 2023-24 grain plans to mark the start of the 2023-24 crop. Both CN and CPKC have published their 2023-24 grain plans to mark the start of the 2023-24 crop. Read More

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 26, 2024

In the early hours of Tuesday, March 26th, the cargo vessel Dali collided with a support post of the Francis Scott Key Bridge at Baltimore, Maryland, causing the bridge to collapse. Reports are that the Singapore-owned ship reported a power loss and inability to steer the ship before the collision. While the rescue and recovery.

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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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Real Agriculture

APRIL 26, 2024

The possibility of both CN Rail and CPKC striking in the next month could leave farmers sitting on grain contracted for delivery this spring. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), the union representing more than nine thousand CN and CPKC railway workers, organized an electronic strike vote beginning on April 8th to give members the.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 5, 2023

On this show, host Shaun Haney is joined by: Steve Pratte, senior manager, transportation and biofuel policy with the Canadian Canola Growers Association, on Transport Canada’s upcoming railway policy review; Erin Gowriluk, president of Canada Grains Council, on the importance of science-based policy; and, Alanna Koch, Read More It’s time (..)

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 7, 2023

rail network, serving the upper Midwest agricultural and industrial markets, including biofuels and grain. Iowa Northern operates approximately 275 track miles in Iowa connecting to CN’s U.S. “This transaction represents a meaningful opportunity to support the growth of local. Read More

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Real Agriculture

MAY 29, 2023

American grain giant Bunge and Viterra, owned by Switzerland’s Glencore, are reportedly in talks to become one super grain company. In a reversal of a few years ago, this time it appears it is Bunge setting out to take on Viterra to create a company that would have extensive assets in nearly every grain type. Read More

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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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ProAg

JULY 21, 2023

Collin Waters, Illinois Corn director of exports and logistics, says the latest rule adjustment is disappointing, although not surprising. The ban could see a significant disruption in the movement of grain into Mexico. Read more on the ongoing U.S.-Mexico-Candada Mexico-Candada Agreement trade dispute here.

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 15, 2023

GROWMARK is an agricultural cooperative serving almost 400,000 customers across North America, providing agronomy, energy, facility engineering and construction, and logistics products and services, as well as grain marketing and risk management services.

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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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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 27, 0002

In the early hours of Tuesday, March 26th, the cargo vessel Dali collided with a support post of the Francis Scott Key Bridge at Baltimore, Maryland, causing the bridge to collapse. Reports are that the Singapore-owned ship reported a power loss and inability to steer the ship before the collision. While the rescue and recovery.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 30, 2024

Bunge’s proposed acquisition of Viterra could result in more than $700 million in annual economic losses to farmers, according to a new report authored by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan. The study, conducted by Drs.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 26, 2023

Richardson International has announced plans to upgrade eight elevators located on Canadian Pacific Kansas City rail lines in Western Canada. The work will allow these sites to load longer trains under CPKC’s 8,500-foot high efficiency product (HEP) model.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

If Zander can grow hundreds of acres of a variety of salt-tolerant grasses, he’ll be able to provide the plants that farmers growing grains and vegetables need to create barriers between the encroaching saltwater and their crops. “We’re

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.” All retailers look to shift burdens to their suppliers for promotions, for stocking, for logistics. But Walmart’s business model appears otherwise unchanged, and its suppliers say the company’s foundational obsession with cost hasn’t waned.

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