News - Railway

All four farm leaders from the West have confirmed poor rail service is hindering the bumper crop produced this year from getting to market.

Vic Toews, Member of Parliament for Provencher, announced that the Government of Canada is providing up to $735,655 in new funding to improve safety at six railway crossings in the riding of Provencher.

Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) welcomes the formation of the Crop Logistics Working Group (CLWG) announced by Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz earlier this week.

The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association is pleased with the action the federal government intends to take to improve rail service in the hauling of grain and other commodities.

The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association has proposed ten recommendations to improve rail service in western Canada. The recommendations are contained in the Wheat Grower submission to the Rail Freight Service Review Panel.

Western Canadian farmers loaded a record number of producer cars with CWB grain in 2008-09, continuing a decade-long trend in increased producer-car use.

The province is contributing $615,000 to the Boundary Trails Railway Company (BTRC) to establish a short‑line freight railway between Manitou and Morden, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk announced.

The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association has written to the federal government asking that the excess rail freight charged in the 2007/08 crop year be returned to farmers.

Farmers deserve to get back almost $60 million in railway revenue earned above the Western Grain Revenue Cap for the 2007-08 crop year, the CWB’s president and CEO said recently.