Category Archives: CKRM Agriculture

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The federal government's plan to get Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Canadian National Railway (CN Rail) workers back to work could go off the rails. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC...

Producers continue to make progress with harvest despite scattered storms throughout the province over the past week. A few areas received severe storms producing heavy rain and hail causing some crop...

The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) is expressing serious concern over the recent rail network disruptions that pose a severe threat to the province's grain producers. The di...

The "Stop the Strike" coalition held a news conference Wednesday morning, calling on CN Rail and CPKC Rail to resolve their labour dispute with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. However, the deadl...

Harvest continues in winter cereals, spring cereals, and peas. Over the past week, harvest has started in canola.Yield reports are preliminary at this stage but range from 40-110 bu/acre for fall rye ...

Price prospects for canola, durum, soybeans, corn and flax declined in the just-released August Outlook for Principal Field Crops published by the Market Analysis Group of Agriculture and Agri-Food Ca...

Three organizations representing rural municipalities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are calling on Federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon to use binding arbitration "if the railways and uni...

Canadian grain exports for the new crop year are off to a good start, but it's likely aided by anticipation of a rail strike or lockout. Numbers from the SaskWheat Market Outlook for the week of Augus...

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 72% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 1, a notable decline from the 81% order fulfillment performance seen in week 53.  In supplying 66% of cars ordered by...