Insights and Stories on Grain Drying

Ottawa roundup: Carbon tax, Grain Act review, Horticultural Council AGM

Mar. 16, 2020 at 1:54 am CDT

Despite much of the world’s focus being on slumping stock markets and a global pandemic, there are several recent developments out of Ottawa related to agriculture: Canada Grain Act Canada’s Treasury Board has identified the Canada Grain Act as a piece of legislation in need of regulatory reform. This has […]

Carbon tax an eight per cent hit on net income, APAS says

Feb. 6, 2020 at 6:25 am CST

By GFM Staff

Green Party backs grain drying exemption from carbon tax

Jan. 20, 2020 at 3:29 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Fraser: The case against carbon pricing for farmers

Jan. 9, 2020 at 10:35 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

Prairie provinces react to Bibeau’s questions on carbon price impact

Jan. 9, 2020 at 12:50 pm CST

By D.C. Fraser

Manitoba gathering data to press case for exempting grain drying from federal carbon tax

Dec. 24, 2019 at 12:16 pm CST

The Manitoba government is gathering data to make the case for exempting grain drying fuels from the federal government’s carbon tax. “So we’ll get the numbers together and then to (federal agriculture) Minister (Marie-Claude) Bibeau and we’ll continue to lobby on behalf of our ag producers,” Manitoba’s Agriculture and Resource […]

By Allan Dawson

Grain groups seek ‘essential service’ status for rail

Nov. 26, 2019 at 8:29 pm CST

With Canadian National Railway’s conductors and yard workers headed back to work, several Canadian grain groups now want to head off any future job action in the rail sector. CN and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference announced separately Tuesday they had reached a tentative agreement ending an eight-day strike by […]

By Dave Bedard

Propane-starved East’s grain growers seek end to CN strike

Nov. 20, 2019 at 4:17 pm CST

Farmers fighting through a soggy harvest in Eastern Canada have joined their western counterparts’ call for an end to the strike by Canadian National Railway workers — not to get grain out, but to get propane in. Restoring the supply of propane for Quebec’s farm businesses, in the wake of […]

By GFM Staff

U.S. states declare emergencies to help farmers in propane shortage

Nov. 18, 2019 at 2:08 pm CST

Reuters — Regional shortages of propane, which is used for heating homes and barns and by farmers to dry their crops, have led to emergency declarations covering nine U.S. Midwest states amid late harvests of soggy grains. Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin declared state emergencies beginning in late October, […]

By Reuters

U.S. propane bottlenecks not affecting Canada

Nov. 15, 2019 at 7:04 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Despite ongoing shortfalls of propane in some areas of the U.S. Midwest, the situation doesn’t appear to be adversely affecting Canada, according to the Canadian Propane Association. The late harvest in the Midwest has been further hampered by wet conditions, forcing farmers to dry their grain before putting […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

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