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20 Mar 2022
By Mary Kennedy, DTN Basis Analyst, and Cliff Jamieson, DTN Canadian Grains Analyst Shortly after midnight on March 20, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) announced the Canadian Pacific Railway locked the union workers out. Early March 19, the Canadian Pacific (CP) informed customers that, while it would continue to bargain in good faith w...
18 Mar 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- With fertilizer prices and supplies raising global worries, more than 80 members of Congress have joined in a bipartisan, bicameral letter to the International Trade Commission to eliminate duties on phosphate from Morocco and suspend any process that could impose new import duties on urea ammonium from Trinidad and Tobago. "One of t...
18 Mar 2022
Outside of a couple of stretches of better rainfall in South America since spring, southern Brazil and Argentina have been very dry and crop conditions have suffered. The fate has been sealed on first-crop corn and soybeans in Brazil, and early planted corn and soybeans in Argentina. The soybean harvest in southern Brazil has passed the 68% mark an...
17 Mar 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- More than 1,000 U.S. farmers and other biofuel supporters, in a letter delivered to the White House by the Renewable Fuels Association on Thursday, asked the Biden administration to turn to biofuels with rising gasoline prices and White House efforts to secure additional crude oil supplies from other nations to replace Russia...
17 Mar 2022
The union Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) reported on their website March 16 that Canadian Pacific (CP) has served them with notice of lockout. In the event there is not a negotiated settlement between the parties, TCRC said CP stated it will lockout the union on Sunday, March 20, 2022, at 00:01 a.m. ET. Canadian Pacific and TCRC began meet...