Numbers newly crunched by a clutch of Canadian grain shippers paint a picture of a gap that’s wide, and getting wider, between the numbers of rail cars they say they need and what they say they’re getting. The Ag Transport Coalition — which so far includes eight Canadian grain-handling and crop commodity groups, working with […] Read more
Grain shippers’ data show ongoing rail supply/demand gap
Latest rail bill highlights the need for change, says farm leader
The $1.3-billion tab for moving last year’s crop shows ‘there will never be an open market,’ says Alberta Wheat chair
Reading Time: 4 minutes The final tally is in and Prairie farmers spent more than $1.3 billion on rail transportation in the last crop year. The average bill was $33.69 a tonne for the 2013-14 crop year (a drop of 30 cents per tonne from the previous year) and the total cost was almost exactly what’s allowed under federal […] Read more
There’s a mountain of grain to move
A big carry-over means there’s a whopping 73 million tonnes of grain to move
Reading Time: 3 minutes This year’s grain crop might not be as big as last year’s bin-buster, but there’s still going to be “heavy demands” on the rail transportation system this winter. “The initial projections from Stats Canada for the 2014 crop are 57 million tonnes in western Canada — still a very large crop,” said Bruce McFadden, director […] Read more
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