Local farmers and businesspeople plan to build a new grain terminal near Biggar, Sask. The group, known as the Community Terminal Committee, has held two public meetings that have attracted almost 200 farmers and others interested in finding out more and maybe investing in the project. Kent Dubreuil, economic development officer for the West Central […] Read more
Stories by Adrian Ewins
University establishes food safety chair – for Apr. 21, 2011
McGill University in Montreal has established a chair in food safety, the first in Canada. The Ian and Jayne Munro Chair in Food Safety is being created with help from a donation from leading food scientist and former McGill professor Ian Munro and his wife, Jayne. Munro is now a vice-president and senior scientific consultant […] Read more
Potash rail car facility planned for Sask.
Canpotex, the marketing arm of PotashCorp., Mosaic and Agrium, plans to build a $55 million rail car maintenance facility by the second half of next year. It will build the plant near Lanigan, Sask., about 135 kilometres from Saskatoon, with an eye to boosting the amount of potash the company can transport. The announcement is […] Read more
Viterra leases Montreal grain terminal
The Montreal Port Authority has agreed to allow Viterra to lease and operate its grain terminal. The Montreal terminal is a federally licensed 262,000 tonne facility based in the deepest inland seaport in North America, with direct access to both major rail networks and access to various shipping destinations in Canada, the United States and […] Read more
Successful season, challenges on agenda at port association annual meeting
The Hudson Bay Route Association is hoping for a crowd of 150 at its April 15-16 annual meeting in Virden, Man. That’s if the roads, many of which are being washed away with rising flood waters, allow people to travel through western Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan. The association promotes the use of the Port of […] Read more
Durum on wheat board’s wanted list
ty durum to sell, the Canadian Wheat Board wants it. This week is the deadline to sign up for a guaranteed CWB delivery contract designed to draw in as much quality durum as possible, as quickly as possible. The deadline to sign a GDC for top quality durum is April 15. No. 1 durum that […] Read more
Some oppose CWB canola marketing proposal
The Manitoba Canola Growers Association is hearing from two other farm groups that take exception to its bid to include canola under the Canadian Wheat Board’s marketing regime. The Saskatchewan Canola Growers Association and the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association have made it clear they don’t want Manitoba growers to sell their canola through the […] Read more
Slow progress of lawsuit frustrates Sask. lawyer
Saskatchewan farmer Bill Wallace’s class action lawsuit against the two national railways and the Canadian Transportation Agency continues to slowly make its way through the court system. Lawyer Joel Hesje of the McKercher law firm in Saskatoon said there’s no way to predict when the provincial Court of Appeal will issue a decision on the […] Read more
Viterra moves head office jobs to Calgary
Viterra has transferred an estimated 21 jobs from its longtime head office in Regina and from Winnipeg to its offices in Calgary. Viterra president Mayo Schmidt, who along with a number of other senior executives has worked in Calgar y for a couple of years, sent a notice to staff this week informing them of […] Read more
Grain terminals call for support of CGC services
Grain terminals in Western Canada are calling on government and opposition parties to pledge financial support for Canadian Grain Commission services. The 11 members of the Inland Terminal Association of Canada, each of which is at least 50 percent owned by farmers and together represent about 5,000 shareholders, say the funds required to ensure the […] Read more
