It’s a short growing season for most producers. To top it off, harvest will be a challenge, with the prospect of large loads of tough grain that will need attention. Some farmers already know how they’re going to handle high-moisture grain this year. The first part of the solution is enough bin capacity to allow […] Read more
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Consider power demands when system expands
Single phase power won’t do much to power a modern grain-handling system but the cost to bring three-phase to the bin yard ranges from $200,000 to $1 million. It might make sense to buy a used three-phase genset from the oilpatch. The most common is a 440-volt three-phase unit delivering 100 kW up to 300 […] Read more
First ship of the season arrives in Thunder Bay
Officials at the Port of Thunder Bay welcomed the first incoming vessels of the year yesterday, marking the beginning of the 2022 navigation season. Two domestic laker vessels arrived at the northern Ontario port in the early morning hours of March 30, port officials confirmed in an email. The MV Michipicoten arrived at the port […] Read more
Federal mediators hope to avert CP strike
Government mediators were expected to resume meetings today with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and Canadian Pacific Railway in hopes of averting a looming strike. TCRC, which represents more than 3,000 locomotive engineers, conductors, trainpersons and railyard workers at CP, announced March 4 that TCRC members could go on strike as early as March 16. […] Read more
Thunder Bay ships less grain
Year-to-date grain shipments through Ontario’s Port of Thunder Bay are sharply lower than they were a year ago, the port authority said last week. Thunder Bay’s total grain shipments from Jan. 1, 2021, to the end of August were just a shade more than four million tonnes, the port authority said in a news release. […] Read more
Container crisis may run into 2022
A truck pulls up to a yard to pick up empty containers to ship Canadian soybeans to Asia. But the shipping company refuses to allow the trucker into the yard. It prefers to ship the containers back empty to Asia. Thousands of bushels of identity-preserved soybeans, in this real-life situation of the past year, stayed […] Read more
G3’s new facilities expected to boost grain-handling speed
Canadian grain export company G3 has added two more pieces to its state-of-the-art grain handling network in Western Canada. This week, the company announced the official opening of two new high-throughput elevators in Alberta. G3 Morinville, north of Edmonton, and G3 Carmangay, about 150 kilometres south of Calgary, will feature the same high-efficiency infrastructure as […] Read more
Concerns mount about grain flow
Frigid winter temperatures on the Prairies combined with rain-related loading delays on the West Coast are contributing to growing vessel lineups at Canada’s busiest marine port. As of early February, the number of ships waiting to be loaded with grain at the Port of Vancouver was around 30, according to Canada’s Grain Monitoring Program (GMP). […] Read more
Shipping efficiency key goal
Faster, taller, shorter, longer, fewer and bigger. Those are the attributes of the future western Canadian grain logistics system, transportation system players told the Grain World conference. “The role of our primary elevator system has completely changed and has to focus on shifting velocity,” said Karl Gerrand, the president of G3 Canada. A number of […] Read more
Retention of advisory group draws praise
The Crop Logistics Working Group allows industry players to discuss transportation issues without the politics, says official
An industry group that has been advising Ottawa on issues related to grain transportation since 2011 will remain in place for now. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay announced May 16 that the Crop Logistics Working Group (CLWG) would be re-established for a fourth mandate. The CLWG consists of representatives from across the grain industry. It […] Read more
