Thanks for tuning in to this Tuesday edition of RealAg Radio! Shaun Haney is joined by: David Przednowek with CN Rail on the rail performance; Paul Laronde and Lyle Miller with Canadian Cattle Identification Association on their Retention Matters Campaign; Hear a spotlight interview with Annemarie Van Wely for Bayer on Delaro Complete Fungicide; and,… Read More

When the fulfillment stats come in as poorly as they did for railcar numbers from February, it’s understandable that grain farmers and grain companies were not terribly pleased with rail performance. However, fulfillment numbers don’t tell the whole story, says David Przednowek, assistant vice president of grain movement for CN Rail. Przednowek says that a prolonged… Read More

Thanks for tuning in to this episode of RealAg on the Weekend! On today’s show, host Shaun Haney discusses the week that was, including Trump’s “Liberation Day” and being one step closer to Fortress North America. Haney is then joined by: David Przednowek with CN Rail on grain movement heading into spring; Chris Procyk with… Read More

Unifor, the union representing approximately 3,300 employees at CN in Canada, and CN Rail have announced a tentative, four-year collective agreement. Unifor members provide mechanical, clerical, and intermodal functions for the railway. No details of the tentative agreement will be released publicly until the agreement is ratified. The current collective agreement with Unifor expires on… Read More

An adult male from the Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, area has died as a result of a collision between the tractor he was driving and a CN Rail train near the Village of Gerald, approximately 10 miles east of Esterhazy. About 20 cars and one locomotive derailed in the collision on Wednesday. According to RCMP, no dangerous… Read More

More than nine thousand railway workers at both of Canada’s main railways — Canadian National Railway (CP) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway (CPKC) — are returning to work after the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) decided to uphold the federal labour minister’s order to impose final and binding arbitration to reach new collective bargaining… Read More

Update, as of 11:30am eastern, August 23: After announcing early Friday morning that CN Rail workers were taking down picket lines and returning to work, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference has served 72-hour strike notice to CN, as of 10am, Friday, August 23. This means around 6,500 CN workers, who were locked out on August… Read More

The trains are parked and picket lines are set up at railway yards, as the Canadian railway system has been shutdown by an unprecedented work stoppage. As of Thursday, August 22 at 00:01 Eastern time, both national railways — CN and CPKC — have locked out over nine thousand employees represented by the Teamsters Canada… Read More