May 2008

Rail network facing congestion ‘calamity’ (The Galesburg Register-Mail)

Railway executive Matthew Rose stood before fellow industry leaders, pointing to a map meant to tell the future of the U.S. rail freight network. It was drenched in red — east to west, north to south. The blotches illustrated areas where, by 2035, traffic jams could be so severe trains would grind to a halt for days with nowhere to go.

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Rail network facing congestion ‘calamity’

Double-stacked cars can’t carry heavy, densely packed commodities, like coal, wheat and liquid chemicals, because of weight limits on tracks and because the heavy loads would make the trains dangerously unstable.

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New Wheat Pricing Option - Discover Moose Jaw

New Wheat Pricing Option
Discover Moose Jaw,  Canada - 42 minutes ago
Controlled by western Canadian farmers, the CWB is the largest wheat and barley marketer in the world. One of Canada’s biggest exporters, the Winnipeg-based

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Feeding frenzy (The Globe and Mail)

LARNED, KAN. — Tom Giessel rubs the heel of his palm against his forehead, exhales a moment, and then begins again, trying to make sense of how the global food market has suddenly descended into chaos.

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Feeding frenzy - ReportonBusiness.com

Feeding frenzy
ReportonBusiness.com, Canada - 57 minutes ago
Those efforts led to the formation of the Canadian Wheat Board in 1935. Even today, North American farmers view speculators as gamblers, exchanging pieces

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Resource issues fuel TSX trading as Dow edges downward (Toronto Star)

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index pushed almost 1 per cent higher yesterday, riding the strength of resource issues, which benefited from firm commodity prices.

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Resource issues fuel TSX trading - Toronto Star

Resource issues fuel TSX trading
Toronto Star,  Canada - 23 minutes ago
Wheat for July delivery rose 18 cents to $7.615 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade, after earlier rising to $7.65 a bushel. Soybeans for July delivery

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Treats! Well, it would be for me anyway.

I particularly love the ‘Last Saskatchewan Pirate’, it’s just silly (and another protest song, down with the Canadian Wheat Board!). And anyone familiar with the CFB probably has seen that weird little Logdriver’s Waltz short,

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Research Issues Coordinator ~ Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing …

Ontario Wheat Producers’ Marketing Board (OWPM.

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Who is responsible for the global food crisis? (The Globe and Mail)

Tom Giessel rubs the heel of his palm against his forehead, exhales a moment, and then begins again, trying to make sense of how the global food market has suddenly descended into chaos.

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