Port of Vancouver clears its grain backlog after a three-week rail repair
Twenty-nine vessels were waiting at anchor at the peak. The last of them loads this week.
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Canola contracts move early as growers watch a dry June
Elevators north of the river are signing at levels last seen in 2023, and nobody wants to be the last one to price.
Early harvest across the southwest, and the first yield reports beat the gloom
Durum is coming off two weeks ahead of normal, and the early weighed loads are running above the July estimates that had the trade braced.
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Canola comes off two weeks early, and the elevators adjust on the fly
A dry July moved the whole county's timeline up. The crop is lighter than hoped, drier than feared, and moving fast.
Churchill loads its first grain of the season three weeks early
An early ice-out on Hudson Bay opened the port in the first week of August, and the railway says the line held through spring melt for a…