Insights and Stories on Fire

Alberta fairs, auctions offer space for evacuated livestock

May. 11, 2023 at 7:24 pm CDT

Alberta’s ag societies and livestock auction marts are offering up pen space for producers forced to evacuate animals away from dozens of wildfires in the province’s northern and west-central regions. As of early Thursday evening, the province was tracking 76 active wildfires, of which 22 were listed as “out of […]

U.S. livestock: CME hogs hit six-month lows

Sep. 14, 2021 at 5:40 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME cattle drop as fire closes JBS plant

Sep. 13, 2021 at 6:27 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

JBS plans to reopen Nebraska beef plant damaged in fire

Sep. 13, 2021 at 6:14 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Lytton bridge re-opened but grain movement ‘hit and miss’

Jul. 15, 2021 at 4:31 pm CDT

By Allan Dawson

‘Lightning siege’ sparks wildfires across California wine country

Aug. 19, 2020 at 7:43 pm CDT

Vacaville, California | Reuters — Lightning strikes sparked dozens of wildfires in northern California’s wine country on Wednesday, burning dozens of structures and forcing thousands to flee their homes. California was hit by nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours, sparking 367 fires, nearly two dozen of them major, as […]

By Steven Lam

Canada to cut speed limits for trains hauling dangerous goods

Feb. 6, 2020 at 4:20 pm CST

Ottawa/Winnipeg | Reuters — The federal government said Thursday it would impose temporary speed limits on trains hauling dangerous goods after a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) crude oil train derailed and caught fire. The accident, which happened in the early hours of Thursday near Guernsey, Sask., about 40 km south […]

By David Ljunggren Rod Nickel

Ford recalls Super Duty pickups on post-crash fire risk

Dec. 13, 2019 at 8:16 pm CST

Reuters — Ford Motor Co. said Friday it would recall 547,538 of its Ford Super Duty pickup trucks across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, citing the risk of a post-crash interior fire. The second-largest U.S. automaker said the recall covers certain models between the years 2017 and 2019 with carpet […]

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures limit down again on Tyson fire

Aug. 13, 2019 at 4:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures plunged to multiyear lows on Tuesday, with some contract months for both live cattle and fed cattle ending at their daily trading limits for the second day in a row. Traders said the market continued to weigh the impact of […]

By Mark Weinraub

B.C. grants late AgriStability enrolment for 2018

Mar. 13, 2019 at 7:18 pm CDT

Fire, flooding and a drop in raspberry prices in 2018 have spurred the federal and British Columbia governments to trigger the AgriStability late-participation mechanism. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and her provincial counterpart Lana Popham, at an event Monday in Vernon, B.C., invoked the new late-participation rule for the 2018 AgriStability […]

By GFM Staff

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Insights and Stories on Fire

Alberta fairs, auctions offer space for evacuated livestock

U.S. livestock: CME hogs hit six-month lows

U.S. livestock: CME cattle drop as fire closes JBS plant

JBS plans to reopen Nebraska beef plant damaged in fire

Lytton bridge re-opened but grain movement ‘hit and miss’

‘Lightning siege’ sparks wildfires across California wine country

Canada to cut speed limits for trains hauling dangerous goods

Ford recalls Super Duty pickups on post-crash fire risk

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures limit down again on Tyson fire

B.C. grants late AgriStability enrolment for 2018

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