# Grain Shipments May be Impacted by CP Rail Strike | Red River Farm Network

> Canadian Pacific union workers were scheduled to strike, which would be the third CP strike in six years. CP planned to run trains with management staff, but service would be hampered. The Grain Growers of Canada asked the prime minister to intervene.

- Date: 2018-05-29 · published 2018-05-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region Canada · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/65033-grain-shipments-may-be-impacted-by-cp-rail-strike-red-river-farm-network
- Commodities: [Canola Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CANMEAL.md), [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

Reduced rail service threatens grain movement out of western Canada, raising delivery risk and freight costs that can lift Canadian feed grain and canola meal prices.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bullish ▲
- CANMEAL: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2022-10-12 | [Possible Rail Strike Complicates Northern Plains Grain Movement \| Red River Farm Network](https://feedsoft.ai/events/39149-possible-rail-strike-complicates-northern-plains-grain-movement-red-river-farm.md) | +3.6% | +4.6% |
| WHEAT | 2020-10-02 | [CN Rail Workers Strike \| Feed & Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50667-cn-rail-workers-strike-feed-and-grain.md) | +1.9% | +3.6% |
| WHEAT | 2018-02-26 | [Grain growers, railways clash over slow pace of shipments - The Globe and Mail](https://feedsoft.ai/events/66510-grain-growers-railways-clash-over-slow-pace-of-shipments-the-globe-and-mail.md) | +1.4% | +1.3% |
| WHEAT | 2019-11-19 | [Grain shippers worried as CN Rail workers strike  \| Globalnews.ca](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56081-grain-shippers-worried-as-cn-rail-workers-strike-globalnews-ca.md) | +1.1% | -0.2% |
| WHEAT | 2018-03-07 | [Western ports clogged on slowdown in crop shipments by rail - The Globe and Mail](https://feedsoft.ai/events/66013-western-ports-clogged-on-slowdown-in-crop-shipments-by-rail-the-globe-and-mail.md) | -0.2% | -0.3% |

## Sources

- rrfn.com: https://www.rrfn.com/2018/05/29/grain-shipments-may-be-impacted-by-cp-rail-strike/

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