Will farmers share in Dreyfus win over railway?
(February 4, 2019) A couple of weeks ago there was a small news story about Louis Dreyfus successfully suing CN rail for failing to provide enough grain cars to its elevators. CN trotted out the usual excuses for being tardy: it gets cold in the winter, there was a lot of grain to ship, and they have other customers. It must be easy being a railway lawyer when it is just cut and paste from...
Read MoreRailways want farmers to put the free in their enterprise – again
(November 26, 2016) The latest news is the railways want somebody, anybody, to give them new grain hopper cars. Prairie farmers with unimpaired memories may be forgiven for having a sense of been there, done that. In recent days Cargill has been touring some western farmers around its Vancouver terminal. They’ve been fed a steady drip of anxiety about how old the hopper car fleet is and...
Read MoreSaskatchewan government peddling fairy dust – again
(August 11, 2016) With prospects of another bumper crop, the Saskatchewan government is laying the groundwork for a “blame the railways narrative” with its recent news release titled “Joint Efforts Ensure Grain Transportation System Is Prepared to Move Harvest.” The Saskatchewan Government is pretending that setting up talking shops with no regulatory power will somehow move the giant...
Read MoreWestern Grain a SNAFU in more ways than one
(July 29/15) The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) along with Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission and Saskatchewan Barley Development Commission hosted the “Farmers Forum on Grain Transportation, Getting on Track: Solutions for the future” in Regina on July 20, 2015. From the perspective of grain farmers, the results could be characterized with the old military...
Read MoreGrain Companies take $13 million from farmers
by admin on Feb 18, 2015 in News Release
Grain Companies take $13 million Valentine’s gift from farmers (Pelly, Sk., February 18, 2015) “Farmers are justifiably angry over the on-going grain robbery by the private grain trade” said Kyle Korneychuk, spokesperson for the Canadian Wheat Board Alliance (CWBA), an independent prairie-wide farm group. “Using newly revealed figures we know that farmers had $13.7 million dollars taken...
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