CP honors three grain elevators' efforts during past crop year

Canadian Pacific yesterday announced Paterson Flagstaff, G3 Carmangay and Elbow Lake Co-op Grain as the winners of its Elevator of the Year Award for the 2021-22 crop year.

CP presents the award annually to grain elevators that achieve high volumes from a single loading point while consistently demonstrating efficient rail-car loading and a strong commitment to safety.

The Class I also issued special recognition to G3 Canada Ltd.'s Carmangay elevator for handling significant amounts of inbound corn as livestock feed during the crop year, and to Parrish & Heimbecker Weyburn and Wheaton Dumont Co-op Elevator Tenney as award runners-up.

Paterson Flagstaff in Daysland, Alberta, is a first-time winner. As a leading 8,500-foot High Efficiency Product (HEP) train-capable facility, the elevator has implemented efficient and safe practices with each unit train loaded at the site, CP officials said in a press release.

Meanwhile, G3 Carmangay in Carmangay, Alberta, which features an 8,500-foot HEP-train-capable loop track that opened in 2020, in the last crop year was able to become an important source of meeting surging demand for cattle feed in western Canada, they said.

Elbow Lake Co-op Grain in Elbow Lake, Minnesota — another first-time winner — also helped sustain western Canadian cattle by shipping almost 200,000 metric tons of corn to Canada as a portion of their strong shipping program, CP officials said.

"These elevators are leaders in their field and are helping farmers in Canada and the United States supply the world with high-quality products," said Joan Hardy, the Class I’s vice president of sales and marketing for grain and fertilizers. "They helped find innovative solutions when the western Canadian grain crop was the smallest in over a decade due to severe drought throughout the prairies."