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CP conductors, engineers ratify four-year deal

By GFM Network News July 29, 2018

Conductors and engineers for Canadian Pacific Railway have voted for labour peace following a 33-hour strike in late May. CP’s 3,100-odd conductors and engineers, represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), announced July 20 they have voted to ratify a four-year agreement. Almost 63 per cent of eligible employees cast electronic ballots in the […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

CP conductors, engineers to get nine per cent raise over four years

By GFM Network News June 6, 2018

Montreal | Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway conductors and locomotive engineers will get a nine per cent salary hike over four years as part of a tentative agreement reached last week with the Teamsters, spokesmen from both the union and CP said on Wednesday. The agreement, which must first be ratified by members to go […] Read more

The Port of Churchill in 2015. (CNS Canada photo by Jade Markus)

Crops, Machinery

Deal in principle announced for Churchill railway, port

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 30, 2018

The federal government has announced an “agreement in principle” which will see a new partnership fix up northern Manitoba’s washed-out Hudson Bay Railway and take over the mothballed Port of Churchill. Details of the agreement were slim at best in the government’s announcement Wednesday, except to say the buying group slated to take over the […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Churchill possibly to return to shipping grain

By GFM Network News May 4, 2018

CNS Canada — Grain could once again be shipped out of northern Manitoba’s Port of Churchill if all goes according to plan for a new potential ownership group. “The port has got all of the grain handling equipment and simply said, the first thing we want to do is resume that commercial activity,” said Louis […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Grain handle down in CP’s ‘best-ever’ fourth quarter

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 19, 2018

U.S. income tax reform and significant increases in non-grain traffic more than offset a dip in Canadian Pacific Railway’s grain handle in its fourth quarter of 2017. Calgary-based CP on Thursday reported net income of $984 million on $1.713 billion in gross revenues in what it described as its “best-ever” fourth quarter, up from $384 […] Read more

A freight train at Manchac, La., about 75 km east of Baton Rouge. (CN.ca)

General, Markets, Reuters

Canadian companies struggle to plan for post-NAFTA world

By GFM Network News January 11, 2018

Toronto | Reuters — Canadian industries that would be most acutely impacted by the death of the North American Free Trade Agreement are unable to meaningfully plan for a possible post-NAFTA world given the uncertainty of what could replace it, analysts and executives said. With three quarters of Canadian exports landing in the U.S., the […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters, Weather

Harvey’s floods scatter cattle in Texas, swamp cotton fields

By GFM Network News August 29, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — South Texas ranchers are scrambling to relocate cattle from massive flooding spawned by Tropical Storm Harvey, with many hauling livestock up to the north of the state while others rush to move the animals to higher ground nearby. About 1.2 million cattle are located in a 54-county disaster area drenched by […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Deal reached to avert CN strike, union head says

By GFM Network News May 29, 2017

Montreal/Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian National Railway and a union representing 3,000 conductors on Monday reached an agreement in principle ahead of a looming strike deadline at Canada’s largest railroad, said a top union official. The union had set a strike deadline of Tuesday at 4 a.m. ET after the railroad announced new work rules […] Read more

Torch River’s million-dollar loading facility has been running since June 2014. There are four bins, holding 14,000 bushels each.

Crops, Features, News

Torch River facility up and running

Starting short-line railways and local grain handling facilities is hard work, with a good pay-off

By Lisa Guenther July 22, 2015

Setting up a short-line railway takes a good deal of patience and determination, but Saskatchewan farmers are finding it’s a worthwhile endeavour. “I think at the end of the day this is definitely going to be well worth it to our farmers,” said Wayne Bacon, farmer and president of Northern Lights Rail. Northern Lights Rail […] Read more

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

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CP conductors, engineers ratify four-year deal

CP conductors, engineers to get nine per cent raise over four years

Deal in principle announced for Churchill railway, port

Churchill possibly to return to shipping grain

Grain handle down in CP’s ‘best-ever’ fourth quarter

Canadian companies struggle to plan for post-NAFTA world

Harvey’s floods scatter cattle in Texas, swamp cotton fields

Deal reached to avert CN strike, union head says

Torch River facility up and running

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