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Increase rail competition and lowering costs of hauling farm commodities are the goals of provisions included in a federal bill to extend interswitching on railways.

Retail sales of combines in both Canada and the U.S. showed a marked increase in April this year while the market for sub-compact tractors continues to soften.

Producer deliveries of major grains last month were up nearly 40 per cent when compared to April 2022, according to Statistics Canada. In April 2023, more than 3.44 million tonnes of grain were delivered, versus 2.46 million a year ago.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba are providing up to $65 million in grant funding under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) to support the development of agricultural knowledge and skills and improve the competit

Quebec provincial police say a two-year-old girl has died after falling into a grain mixer on a farm north of Montreal. They say the accident occurred Friday at a family farm aboutt 85 kilometres from the city. Sgt.

A deal allowing the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizer from Ukrainian Black Sea ports has not yet resumed full operations, having come to a halt before Russia’s decision last week to extend it.

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 95% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 42, a decline from the previous week's 99% order fulfillment performance.

An entrepreneur from Yorkton says he collected more than 1.8 million kilograms of used grain bags over the past few years, helping his neighbours deal with their mounting plastic problem.

Grain markets this week were trending downward. Future Commodity Advisor with P.I. Financial Adam Pukalo says the trend with the July Canola contract is lower overall, while the November contract is sitting around the $650 per metric ton level.

Police in Saskatchewan are investigating a situation involving a farm tractor and water. Over the last two weeks, Biggar RCMP say a Case IH 620Q tractor on the Golden View Hutterite Colony, had water purposely put into its diesel tank.