grain transportation

Railways 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...