Delayed harvest slows grain movement

Source: Brian Cross, Producer.com, September 25, 2019 

Slow harvest progress in Western Canada is delaying the movement of grain to prairie elevators and export terminals on the West Coast and at Thunder Bay.

John Brooks, executive vice-president with Canadian Pacific Railway, told investors in Montreal that the western Canadian harvest is as much as 30 percent behind normal this year.

Poor harvest weather and late maturing crops have affected CP’s grain volumes in September and will put pressure on the railway to move more grain later in the shipping year, he said.

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