Production increases and the re-opening of the Suncor refinery plant in Edmonton may soon provide relief from the headaches Western Canada’s diesel shortage have given farmers and truckers in recent […] Read more
Machinery
Fuel relief for farmers, truckers seen coming soon
P.E.I. agency backed for beet ethanol plant
A company set up to develop a commercially viable way of using Prince Edward Island beets as an ethanol feedstock has been backed to build a demonstration-scale processing plant. Atlantec […] Read more
Clarke buys N.S. produce trucking business
A Nova Scotia trucking firm specializing in fruit and other refrigerated produce has been bought up by an expansion-minded neighbour. Clarke Road Transport, the full-load trucking arm of Halifax investment […] Read more
Ontario names new deputy ag minister
The Ontario civil servant soon to become the province’s top bureaucrat for agriculture is already running a review of a program that contracts farmers and others to help feed the […] Read more
Trackage deal extends CP’s reach in Iowa
Customers shipping grains by rail with Canadian Pacific may now cross northeastern Iowa on a family-owned shortline serving two corn ethanol facilities. CP on Thursday announced a trackage rights agreement […] Read more
S. Sask. roads not cold enough for heavy trucks
Truckers using secondary highways in a "large portion" of southern Saskatchewan won’t be allowed to load up to full winter weights yet. The province is usually able to open its […] Read more
Canada chops tariffs for apple juice concentrate
The import duties Canadian food processors pay to get apple juice concentrate are to be axed by the federal government. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Sunday announced shipments of apple […] Read more
CWB directors fire parting shot over contingency fund
In what they described as likely meeting for the "last time before being fired," the Canadian Wheat Board is demanding Ottawa compensate Prairie farmers for assets it’s claimed they’re about […] Read more
N.Y. rules could halt St. Lawrence traffic: Feds
Grain and other freight hauled on the St. Lawrence Seaway could be forced to a halt starting in 2013 under New York state’s planned standards for treatment of ships’ ballast […] Read more
We’re at the world’s biggest ag machinery show
Grainews’ machinery editor Scott Garvey is blogging this week from the largest exhibition of new farm machinery on the planet. Reporting from AgriTechnica at Hanover in northern Germany, Garvey notes […] Read more
