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CP Rail Sets Record For First Quarter Grain Movement

CP Rail set a record during this year's first quarter for movement of Canadian grain and grain products, with more than 6.35 million metric tonnes moved.
 
The 2020 result broke the company's previous first-quarter record, set in 2016, by 300,000 metric tonnes.
 
CP's investment in high-capacity hopper cars will see 5,900 new cars added to the railway's grain shipping fleet. The new hopper cars can carry 10 percent more volume and 15 percent more weight compared to the older cars they are replacing.
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Finally We Are On The Fields Planting Corn!

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It seems like it was a long-time coming but we are finally on the fields planting corn. Cold, wet weather has made working the land and planting the first of our crops and difficult proposition but today we got at least one corn field done. Join us at Ewetopia Farms as we use old methods to get corn planted. This corn will feed our sheep for another year and heat our home!