Featured

Insurance claims have been made over the past week following storms that brought hail, causing varying degrees of crop damage. Ag Direct Hail Insurance is one of those companies that have been busy. Executive Vice President of Ag Direct Bruce Lowe says they’ve received about 150 claims over the last week – over 100 come […]

After a series of twists and turns, Canadian rail service is back on track Monday morning. The Canada Industrial Relations Board issued a ruling late Saturday afternoon, indicating it could not go against a request from the federal labor minister to impose binding arbitration and end a three-day old disruption in rail service. This was […]

CN and CPKC Rail supplied a combined 73% of hopper cars ordered in grain week 2, a very modest improvement from the 72% order fulfillment performance seen in week 1.  In supplying 84% of cars ordered by shippers in week 2, CN performance improved significantly from the 66% order fulfillment performance seen the prior week.  […]