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Grain firms warn railways swamping ports with grain

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 25, 2014

Canada’s big two railways, under mandatory federal performance targets for grain freight, are now flooding the West Coast and Thunder Bay with grain, the Western Grain Elevator Association warns. Prairie grain elevator companies can handle the 11,000 cars a week the federal government has ordered the railways to move — but some of those cars […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

B.C. introduces back-to-work law for port truckers

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 25, 2014

Legislation to buy Port Metro Vancouver 90 days of labour peace with its unionized container truckers has gone through first reading in British Columbia’s legislature. Provincial Labour Minister Shirley Bond on Monday introduced Bill 25, the Port Metro Vancouver Container Trucking Services Continuation Act, imposing a 90-day “cooling-off” period for 250 striking container truckers represented […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets

CN, conductors agree to talks, possible arbitration

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 24, 2014

Having voted down two negotiated deals in the past six months, unionized conductors, trainmen and yardmen with Canadian National Railway (CN) have agreed to go to binding arbitration with the company if need be. CN on Saturday said the workers have agreed to a “last chance” offer to enter negotiations for a contract settlement, “on […] Read more

Overhauling the brakes on our Jeep restoration project meant replacing all the steel brake lines. We fabricated replacements in the farm shop.

Machinery

How to fabricate steel brake lines

Our project Jeep needs a complete brake overhaul, that means  making our own replacement steel brake lines

By Scott Garvey March 21, 2014

The brakes on our ongoing Jeep restoration, Project CJ3A, were a complete disaster. Virtually every part in the system needed replacement, including the steel lines. We could have purchased those lines already preformed, but the cost would have been much higher than buying the basic materials and fabricating our own. So, we spent extra time […] Read more

File photo of a Teamster-represented engineers’ picket at CN in 2009. (File photo by Dave Bedard)

Crops, Machinery, Markets

CN conductors again reject tentative labour deal

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 21, 2014

Canadian National Railway (CN) wants binding arbitration after its unionized conductors and yardmen narrowly voted to reject a second tentative labour agreement. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), representing about 3,000 CN conductors, trainpersons, yardpersons and traffic co-ordinators working in Canada, reported Thursday its members had voted down the deal, reached Feb. 5, by a […] Read more

Unionized container truckers serving port terminals at Vancouver warn a negotiated settlement, not back-to-work legislation, will be the “only sustainable solution” to the current work stoppage. (Photo courtesy Port Metro Vancouver)

Crops, Machinery, Markets

Vancouver truckers to be ordered back to work

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 19, 2014

The British Columbia government is set to legislate unionized container truckers serving Port Metro Vancouver back into the cab. The province said Wednesday it would introduce back-to-work legislation as early as Monday (March 24), with a 90-day cooling-off period, for 250 truckers represented by Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers Association. The work stoppage at the port involves […] Read more

Machinery

Lemken introduces the Rubin 12 compact disc harrow

Designed to work as deep as eight inches and at high speeds, it includes 29-inch disc blades

By Scott Garvey March 19, 2014

Germany-based Lemken has just announced the introduction of the Rubin 12, a new compact disc harrow designed to work soil at depths from five to eight inches. Six models will be available in Canada with delivery beginning in July 2014. Farmers can opt for one in working widths of 10 to 20 feet. “The Rubin […] Read more

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CN CEO sees grain backlog extending into 2015

By GFM Network News March 19, 2014

Toronto | Reuters — A record-shattering Canadian harvest, combined with one of the most frigid winters in decades, has created a grain-handling backlog that will not be cleared until next year, the head of Canadian National Railway (CN) said Wednesday. “It will take more than the summer, continue into fall, into next year,” Claude Mongeau, […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Weather

Heavy ice to keep eastbound grain landlocked for now

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 18, 2014

Even under federal government pressure to get more Prairie grain moving by rail to Vancouver and Thunder Bay, crops that make it to the latter port aren’t going anywhere this week, shipowners warn. The Canadian Shipowners Association, the Ottawa-based group for Canadian companies with domestically-flagged vessels, warned in a release Tuesday the Great Lakes and […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

Railways report progress on easing grain logjam

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News March 18, 2014

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian grain shipments by rail have picked up since earlier this month when Ottawa ordered Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (CN, CP) to improve service, CN and a grain-handling group said Tuesday. Transportation bottlenecks have left crops landlocked after a record-smashing harvest and frigid winter in Canada, the world’s […] Read more

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Grain firms warn railways swamping ports with grain

B.C. introduces back-to-work law for port truckers

CN, conductors agree to talks, possible arbitration

How to fabricate steel brake lines

CN conductors again reject tentative labour deal

Vancouver truckers to be ordered back to work

Lemken introduces the Rubin 12 compact disc harrow

CN CEO sees grain backlog extending into 2015

Heavy ice to keep eastbound grain landlocked for now

Railways report progress on easing grain logjam

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